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Exhibit 10.12
AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION
RIGHTS AGREEMENT
among
LCE Holdings, Inc.
LCE Intermediate Holdings,
Inc.
LCE Holdco LLC
Loews Cineplex Entertainment
Corporation
and
Certain Stockholders of LCE
Holdings, Inc. and LCE Intermediate Holdings, Inc.
Dated as of January 12,
2005
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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EFFECTIVENESS; DEFINITIONS
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1.1.
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Effectiveness
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1.2.
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Definitions
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2.
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REGISTRATION RIGHTS
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2.1.
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Demand Registration Rights for Investor
Registrable Securities
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2.1.1.
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General
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2.1.2.
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Form
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2.1.3.
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Payment of Expenses
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2.1.4.
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Additional Procedures
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2.1.5.
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Suspension of Registration
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2.2.
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Piggyback Registration Rights
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2.2.1.
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Piggyback Registration
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2.2.2.
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Payment of Expenses
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2.2.3.
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Additional Procedures
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2.2.4.
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Registration Statement Form
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2.3.
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Certain Other Provisions
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2.3.1.
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Underwriter’s Cutback
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2.3.2.
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Registration Procedures
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2.3.3.
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Selection of Underwriters and Counsel
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2.3.4.
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Company Lock-Up
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2.3.5.
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Holders Lock-Up
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2.3.6.
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Other Agreements
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2.3.7.
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Initial Public Offering and Subsequent Public
Offering
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2.4.
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Indemnification and Contribution
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2.4.1.
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Indemnities of the Company
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2.4.2.
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Indemnities to the Company
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2.4.3.
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Contribution
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2.4.4.
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Limitation on Liability of Holders of Registrable
Securities
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2.4.5.
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Indemnification Procedures
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3.
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REMEDIES
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3.1.
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Generally
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4.
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PERMITTED TRANSFERS
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4.1.
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Transfers by Investors
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4.2.
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Transfers by Managers
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4.3.
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Permitted Registration Rights
Assignees
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AMENDMENT, TERMINATION, ETC.
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5.1.
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Oral Modifications
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5.2.
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Written Modifications
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5.3.
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Withdrawal from Agreement
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5.4.
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Effect of Termination
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DEFINITIONS
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6.1.
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Certain Matters of Construction
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6.2.
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Definitions
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7.
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MISCELLANEOUS
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7.1.
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Authority: Effect
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7.2.
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Notices
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7.3.
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Binding Effect, Etc.
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7.4.
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Descriptive Heading
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7.5.
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Counterparts
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7.6.
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Severability
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7.7.
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No Recourse
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7.8.
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Aggregation of Shares
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7.9.
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Obligations of Company, Midco, Holdco and
AcquisitionCo.
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8.
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GOVERNING LAW
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8.1.
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Governing Law
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8.2.
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Consent to Jurisdiction
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8.3.
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WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
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8.4.
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Exercise of Rights and Remedies
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REGISTRATION RIGHTS
AGREEMENT
This Amended and Restated Registration Rights
Agreement (the " Agreement ") is made as of January
, 2005 by and among:
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(i)
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LCE Holdings, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (together with its successors and permitted assigns,
the " Company ");
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(ii)
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LCE Intermediate Holdings, Inc., a
Delaware corporation (together with its successors and permitted
assigns, " Midco ");
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(iii)
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LCE Holdco LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company (together with its successors and permitted
assigns, " Holdco ");
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(iv)
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Loews Cineplex Entertainment
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (together with its successors
and permitted assigns, " Loews ");
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(v)
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each Person executing this Agreement
and listed as an Investor on the signature pages hereto
(collectively with their Permitted Transferees, the "
Investors ");
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(vi)
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each Person executing this Agreement
and listed as a Manager on the signature pages hereto and such
other persons, if any, that from time to time become party hereto
as managers (collectively, with their Permitted Transferees, the "
Managers " and, together with the Investors, the "
Stockholders "); and
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such other Persons, if any, that
from time to time become party hereto as holders of Other Holder
Shares (as defined below) pursuant to Section 4.3 solely in the
capacity of permitted assignees with respect to certain
registration rights hereunder (collectively, the " Other
Holders ").
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RECITALS
1. The Company has been formed for the purpose of
acquiring (the " Acquisition "), indirectly through one or
more subsidiaries, pursuant to a Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as
of June 18, 2004 (the " Acquisition Agreement "), among the
Company, Loews and the other persons identified therein, all
outstanding shares of Loews. Immediately after the Closing (as
defined below), LCE Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation
(" AcquisitionCo "), merged with and into Loews.
2. As of the date hereof, the Common Stock (as
defined below) of the Company and the common stock and the
Preferred Stock (as defined below) of Midco will be held as set
forth on Schedule I hereto.
3. In connection with the purchase of such
securities, the Company, Midco, Holdco, AcquisitionCo and the
Investors have entered into a stockholders agreement dated July 30,
2004 (the " Stockholders Agreement "). In connection with
the issuance and sale of shares of Common Stock and Preferred Stock
to the Managers, the Company, Midco, Holdco, AcquisitionCo
and
the Stockholders entered into a management
stockholders agreement, dated as of the date hereof (the "
Management Stockholders Agreement ").
4. In connection with the purchase of such
securities by the Investors, the Company, Midco, Holdco,
AcquisitionCo and the Investors have entered into a registration
rights agreement (the " Original Registration Rights
Agreement "), dated as of July 30, 2004.
5. The Company, Midco, Holdco, AcquisitionCo and
the Stockholders desire to amend and restate the Original
Registration Rights Agreement in its entirety.
AGREEMENT
Therefore, the parties hereto hereby agree to
amend and restate the Original Registration Rights Agreement in its
entirety and agree as follows:
1. EFFECTIVENESS; DEFINITIONS.
1.1. Effectiveness . This Agreement shall
be effective as of the date hereof.
1.2. Definitions . Certain terms are used
in this Agreement as specifically defined herein. These definitions
are set forth or referred to in Section 6 hereof.
2. REGISTRATION RIGHTS. The Company
will perform and comply, and cause each of its subsidiaries to
perform and comply, with such of the following provisions as are
applicable to it. Each Holder will perform and comply with such of
the following provisions as are applicable to such Holder.
2.1. Demand Registration Rights for Investor
Registrable Securities .
2.1.1. General . Subject to Section 2.3.7,
one or more members of an Investor Group or direct or indirect
Permitted Registration Rights Assignees of Investors (the "
Initiating Investors "), by notice to the Company specifying
the intended method or methods of disposition, may request that the
Company effect the registration under the Securities Act for a
Public Offering of all or a specified part of the Registrable
Securities held by such Initiating Investors; provided ,
however , that the value of Registrable Securities that the
Initiating Investors propose to sell in such Public Offering is at
least fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) or such lower amount as
agreed by a majority of Investor Groups. The Company will then use
its best efforts to (i) effect the registration under the
Securities Act (including by means of a shelf registration pursuant
to Rule 415 under the Securities Act if so requested by a majority
of the Investor Groups and if the Company is then eligible to use
such registration) of the Registrable Securities which the Company
has been requested to register by such Initiating Investors
together with all other Registrable Securities which the Company
has been requested to register pursuant to Section 2.2 by other
Holders, all to the extent requisite to permit the disposition (in
accordance with the intended methods thereof as aforesaid and as
otherwise specified by the Principal Participating Holders) of the
Registrable Securities which the Company has been so requested to
register, and (ii) if
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requested by the Principal Participating Holders,
obtain acceleration of the effective date of the registration
statement relating to such registration; provided ,
however , that the Company shall not be obligated to take
any action to effect any such registration pursuant to this Section
2.1.1:
(a) during the effectiveness of any Principal
Lock-Up Agreement entered into in connection with any registration
statement pertaining to an underwritten public offering of
securities of the Company for its own account (other than a Rule
145 Transaction, or a registration relating solely to employee
benefit plans);
(b) upon the request of Initiating Investors that
are or were members of an Investor Group on any form other than
Form S-3 (or any successor form) if the Company has previously
effected a number of registrations of Registrable Securities under
this Section 2.1.1 upon the request of Initiating Investors that
are or were members of such Investor Group on any form other than
Form S-3 (or any successor form) equaling or exceeding three (3)
with respect to such Investor Group; provided ,
however , that any registration of Registrable Securities
(i) which does not become and remain effective for at least 270
days in accordance with the provisions of this Section 2 or (ii)
pursuant to which the Initiating Investors and all other holders of
Registrable Securities joining therein are not able to include at
least 90% of the Registrable Securities which they desired to
include shall not be included in the calculation of the numbers of
registrations contemplated by this clause (b); or
(c) if a registration statement requested under
this Section 2.1.1 became effective within the preceding 90
days.
2.1.2. Form . Except as otherwise provided
above or required by law, each registration requested pursuant to
Section 2.1.1 shall be effected by the filing of a registration
statement on Form S-3 (or any other form which includes
substantially the same information as would be required to be
included in a registration statement on such form as currently
constituted); provided that if any registration requested
pursuant to this Section 2.1 is proposed to be effected on Form S-3
(or any successor or similar short form registration statement) and
is in connection with an underwritten offering, and if the managing
underwriter shall advise the Company in writing that, in its
opinion, it is of material importance to the success of such
proposed offering to file a registration statement on Form S-1 (or
any successor or similar registration statement) or to include in
such registration statement information not required to be included
pursuant to Form S-3 (or any successor or similar short form
registration statement), then the Company will file a registration
statement on Form S-1 or supplement Form S-3 (or any successor or
similar short form registration statement) as reasonably requested
by such managing underwriter.
2.1.3. Payment of Expenses . The Company
shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with
registrations of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section
2.1, including all reasonable expenses (other than fees and
disbursements of counsel that do
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not constitute Registration Expenses) that any
Holder incurs in connection with each registration of Registrable
Securities requested pursuant to this Section 2.1.
2.1.4. Additional Procedures . In the case
of a registration pursuant to Section 2.1 hereof, whenever the
Principal Participating Holders shall request that such
registration shall be effected pursuant to an underwritten
offering, the Company shall include such information in the written
notices to Holders referred to in Section 2.2. In such event, the
right of any Holder to have securities owned by such Holder
included in such registration pursuant to Section 2.1 shall be
conditioned upon such Holder’s participation in such
underwriting and the inclusion of such Holder’s Registrable
Securities in the underwriting (unless otherwise mutually agreed
upon by the Principal Participating Holders and such Holder). If
requested by the Principal Participating Holders, the Company
together with the Holders proposing to distribute their securities
through the underwriting will enter into an underwriting agreement
with the underwriters for such offering containing such
representations and warranties by the Company and such Holders and
such other terms and provisions as are customarily contained in
underwriting agreements with respect to secondary distributions,
including customary indemnity and contribution provisions (subject,
in each case, to the limitations on such liabilities set forth in
this Agreement).
2.1.5. Suspension of Registration . If the
filing, initial effectiveness or continued use of a registration
statement, including a shelf registration statement pursuant to
Rule 415 under the Securities Act, in respect of a registration
pursuant to this Section 2.1 at any time would require the Company
to make a public disclosure of material non-public information,
which disclosure in the good faith judgment of the Board (including
the consent of the directors elected by a majority of the Principal
Investor Classes, if any) (after consultation with external legal
counsel) (i) would be required to be made in any registration
statement so that such registration statement would not be
materially misleading, (ii) would not be required to be made at
such time but for the filing, effectiveness or continued use of
such registration statement and (iii) would have a material adverse
effect on the Company or its business or on the Company’s
ability to effect a material proposed acquisition, disposition,
financing, reorganization, recapitalization or similar transaction,
then the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such
action to the Holders participating in such registration, delay the
filing or initial effectiveness of, or suspend use of, such
registration statement; provided , that the Company shall
not be permitted to do so (i) more than two times during any 12
month period, (ii) for a period exceeding 30 days on any one
occasion or (iii) for a period exceeding 60 days in any 12 month
period. In the event the Company exercises its rights under the
preceding sentence, such Holders agree to suspend, promptly upon
their receipt of the notice referred to above, their use of any
prospectus relating to such registration in connection with any
sale or offer to sell Registrable Securities. The Company shall
promptly notify such Holders of the expiration of any period during
which it exercised its rights under this Section 2.1.5. The Company
agrees that, in the event it exercises its rights under this
Section 2.1.5, it shall, within 30 days following such
Holders’ receipt of the notice of suspension, update the
suspended registration statement as may be necessary to permit the
Holders to resume use thereof
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in connection with the offer and sale of their
Registrable Securities in accordance with applicable
law.
2.2. Piggyback Registration Rights
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2.2.1. Piggyback Registration .
(a) General . Each time the Company
proposes to register any shares of Common Stock under the
Securities Act on a form which would permit registration of
Registrable Securities for sale to the public, for its own account
and/or for the account of any other Person (pursuant to Section 2.1
or otherwise) for sale in a Public Offering, the Company will give
notice to all Holders of its intention to do so. Any Holder may, by
written response delivered to the Company within 20 days after the
date of delivery of such notice, request that all or a specified
part of such Holder’s Registrable Securities be included in
such registration. The Company thereupon will use its best efforts
to cause to be included in such registration under the Securities
Act all Registrable Securities which the Company has been so
requested to register by such Holders, to the extent required to
permit the disposition (in accordance with the methods to be used
by the Company or, pursuant to Section 2.1, other Holders in such
Public Offering) of the Registrable Securities to be so registered;
provided that (i) if, at any time after giving written
notice of its intention to register any securities, the Company
shall determine for any reason not to proceed with the proposed
registration of the securities to be sold by it, the Company may,
at its election, give written notice of such determination to each
Holder and, thereupon, shall be relieved of its obligation to
register any Registrable Securities in connection with such
registration (but not from its obligation to pay the Registration
Expenses in connection therewith), and (ii) if such registration
involves an underwritten offering, all Holders requesting to be
included in the Company’s registration must sell their
Registrable Securities to the underwriters selected by the Company
on the same terms and conditions as apply to the Company (with such
differences as may be customary or appropriate in combined primary
and secondary offerings) or, in the case of a registration
initiated pursuant to Section 2.1.1, the Principal Participating
Holders. No registration of Registrable Securities effected under
this Section 2.2 shall relieve the Company of any of its
obligations to effect registrations of Registrable Securities
pursuant to Section 2.1 hereof.
(b) Excluded Transactions . The Company
shall not be obligated to effect any registration of Registrable
Securities under this Section 2.2 incidental to the registration of
any of its securities in connection with:
(i) Any Public Offering relating to employee
benefit plans or dividend reinvestment plans;
(ii) Any Public Offering relating to the
acquisition or merger after the date hereof by the Company or any
of its subsidiaries of or with
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any other businesses except to the extent such
Public Offering is for the sale of securities for cash;
or
(iii) The Initial Public Offering if all
Registrable Securities included in such Initial Public Offering are
securities of the Company for its own account.
2.2.2. Payment of Expenses . The Company
will pay all Registration Expenses in connection with registrations
of Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2.2.
2.2.3. Additional Procedures . Holders
participating in any Public Offering pursuant to this Section 2.2
shall take all such actions and execute all such documents and
instruments that are reasonably requested by the Company to effect
the sale of their Registrable Securities in such Public Offering,
including being parties to the underwriting agreement entered into
by the Company and any other selling shareholders in connection
therewith and being liable in respect of the representations and
warranties and the other agreements (including customary selling
stockholder representations, warranties, indemnifications and
"lock-up" agreements) for the benefit of the underwriters contained
therein; provided , however , that (a) with respect
to individual representations, warranties, indemnities and
agreements of sellers of Registrable Securities in such Public
Offering, the aggregate amount of such liability shall not exceed
such holder’s net proceeds from such offering and (b) to the
extent selling stockholders give further representations,
warranties and indemnities, then with respect to all other
representations, warranties and indemnities of sellers of shares in
such Public Offering, the aggregate amount of such liability shall
not exceed the lesser of (i) such holder’s pro rata portion
of any such liability, in accordance with such holder’s
portion of the total number of Registrable Securities included in
the offering, and (ii) such holder’s net proceeds from such
offering.
2.2.4. Registration Statement Form . The
Company shall select the registration statement form for any
registration pursuant to this Section 2.2 (other than a
registration that is also pursuant to Section 2.1); provided that
if any registration requested pursuant to this Section 2.2 is
proposed to be effected on Form S-3 (or any successor form) and is
in connection with an underwritten offering, and if the managing
underwriter shall advise the Company in writing that, in its
opinion, it is of material importance to the success of such
proposed offering to include in such registration statement
information not required to be included pursuant to such form, then
the Company will supplement such registration statement as
reasonably requested by such managing underwriter.
2.3. Certain Other Provisions .
2.3.1. Underwriter’s Cutback . In
connection with any registration of shares, the underwriter may
determine that marketing factors (including an adverse effect on
the per share offering price) require a limitation of the number of
shares to be underwritten. Notwithstanding any contrary provision
of this Section 2 and subject to the terms of this Section 2.3.1,
the underwriter may limit the number of shares which would
otherwise be included in such registration by excluding any or all
Registrable Securities from
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such registration, it being understood that, if
the registration in question involves a registration for sale of
securities for the Company’s own account, then the number of
shares which the Company seeks to have registered in such
registration shall not be subject to exclusion, in whole or in
part, under this Section 2.3.1. Upon receipt of notice from the
underwriter of the need to reduce the number of shares to be
included in the registration, the Company shall advise all holders
of the Company’s securities that would otherwise be
registered and underwritten pursuant hereto, and the number of
shares of such securities, including Registrable Securities, that
may be included in the registration shall be allocated in the
following manner, unless the underwriter shall determine that
marketing factors require a different allocation: shares, other
than Registrable Securities, requested to be included in such
registration by other shareholders shall be excluded unless the
Company, with the consent of the parties required to approve any
amendment or waiver of this Agreement pursuant to Section 5.2, has
granted registration rights which are to be treated on an equal
basis with Registrable Securities for the purpose of the exercise
of the underwriter cutback (such shares afforded such equal
treatment being " Parity Shares "); and, if a limitation on
the number of shares is still required, the number of Registrable
Securities, Parity Shares and other shares of Common Stock that may
be included in such registration shall be allocated among the
holders thereof in proportion, as nearly as practicable, as follows
(determined in accordance with Section 7.8):
(a) there shall be first allocated to each such
holder requesting that its Registrable Securities or Parity Shares
be registered in such registration a number of such shares to be
included in such registration equal to the lesser of (i) the number
of such shares requested to be registered by such holder, and (ii)
a number of such shares equal to such holder’s Pro Rata
Portion;
(b) the balance, if any, not allocated pursuant
to clause (a) above shall be allocated to those holders requesting
that their Registrable Securities or Parity Shares be registered in
such registration which requested to register a number of such
shares in excess of such holder’s Pro Rata Portion pro rata
to each such holder based upon the number of Registrable Securities
and Parity Shares held by such holder, or in such other manner as
the holders requesting that their Registrable Securities or Parity
Shares be registered in such registration may otherwise agree;
and
(c) the balance, if any, not allocated pursuant
to clause (b) above shall be allocated to shares, other than
Registrable Securities and Parity Shares, requested to be included
in such registration by other stockholders.
For purposes of any underwriter cutback, all
Registrable Securities held by any Holder shall also include any
Registrable Securities held by the partners, retired partners,
shareholders or Affiliates of such Holder, or the estates and
family members of any such Holder or such partners and retired
partners, any trusts for the benefit of any of the foregoing
Persons and, at the election of such Holder or such partners,
retired partners, trusts or Affiliates, any Charitable Organization
to which any of the foregoing shall have contributed Common Stock
prior to the execution of the underwriting agreement in connection
with such underwritten offering, and such Holder and
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other Persons shall be deemed to be a single
selling Holder, and any pro rata reduction with respect to such
selling Holder shall be based upon the aggregate amount of Common
Stock owned by all entities and individuals included in such
selling Holder, as defined in this sentence. No securities excluded
from the underwriting by reason of the underwriter’s
marketing limitation shall be included in such registration. Upon
delivery of a written request that Registrable Securities be
included in the underwriting pursuant to Section 2.1.1 or 2.2.1(a),
the Holder thereof may not thereafter elect to withdraw therefrom
without the written consent of the Principal Participating Holders;
provided that, if the managing underwriter of any
underwritten offering shall advise the Holders participating in a
registration pursuant to Section 2.1 that the Registrable
Securities covered by the registration statement cannot be sold in
such offering within a price range acceptable to the Principal
Participating Investors, then the Principal Participating Investors
shall have the right to notify the Company that they have
determined that the registration statement be abandoned or
withdrawn, in which event the Company shall abandon or withdraw
such registration statement; provided , further ,
that if the price to the public at which the Registrable Securities
are proposed to be sold will be less than 90% of the average
closing price of the Class A-4 Common Stock during the 10 trading
days preceding the date on which notice of such offering was given
pursuant to Section 2.2.1(a), then the Stockholders participating
in such registration pursuant to Section 2.1 or 2.2 may elect to
withdraw from such registration by written notice to the Company.
The Company may, but shall not be required to, extend a similar
withdrawal right to other Holders of Registrable Securities or
Parity Shares.
2.3.2. Registration Procedures . If and in
each case when the Company is required to effect a registration of
any Registrable Securities as provided in this Section 2, the
Company shall promptly:
(a) prepare and, in any event within forty-five
days (thirty days in the case of a Form S-3 registration) after the
end of the period under Section 2.2.1(a) within which a piggyback
request for registration may be given to the Company, file with the
Commission a registration statement with respect to such
Registrable Securities and use its best efforts to cause such
registration statement to become effective within ninety days of
the initial filing;
(b) prepare and file with the Commission such
amendments and supplements to such registration statement and the
prospectus used in connection therewith as may be necessary to keep
such registration statement effective for a period not in excess of
270 days (or such shorter period which will terminate when all
Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement have
been sold) and to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act
and the Exchange Act with respect to the disposition of all
securities covered by such registration statement during such
period in accordance with the intended methods of disposition by
the seller or sellers thereof set forth in such registration
statement; provided that before filing a registration
statement or prospectus, or any amendments or supplements thereto
in accordance with Sections 2.1 or 2.2, the Company will furnish to
each counsel selected pursuant to Section 2.3.3 hereof copies of
all documents proposed to be filed, which documents will be subject
to the review of such counsel;
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(c) furnish to each seller of such Registrable
Securities such number of copies of such registration statement and
of each amendment and supplement thereto (in each case including
all exhibits filed therewith), such number of copies of the
prospectus included in such registration statement (including each
preliminary prospectus and summary prospectus), in conformity with
the requirements of the Securities Act, and such other documents as
such seller may reasonably request in order to facilitate the
disposition of the Registrable Securities by such
seller;
(d) use its best efforts to register or qualify
such Registrable Securities covered by such registration in such
jurisdictions as each seller shall reasonably request, and do any
and all other acts and things which may be reasonably necessary or
advisable to enable such seller to consummate the disposition in
such jurisdictions of the Registrable Securities owned by such
seller, except that the Company shall not for any such purpose be
required to qualify generally to do business as a foreign
corporation in any jurisdiction where, but for the requirements of
this clause (d), it would not be obligated to be so qualified or to
consent to general service of process in any such
jurisdiction;
(e) notify each seller of any such Registrable
Securities covered by such registration statement, at any time when
a prospectus relating thereto is required to be delivered under the
Securities Act, of the Company’s becoming aware that the
prospectus included in such registration statement, as then in
effect, includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to
state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the
circumstances then existing, and at the request of any such seller,
prepare and furnish to such seller a reasonable number of copies of
an amended or supplemental prospectus as may be necessary so that,
as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of such Registrable
Securities, such prospectus shall not include an untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading in the light of the circumstances then
existing;
(f) otherwise use its best efforts to comply with
all applicable rules and regulations of the Commission, and make
available to its security holders, as soon as reasonably
practicable (but not more than 18 months) after the effective date
of the registration statement, an earnings statement which shall
satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities
Act;
(g) (i) if such Registrable Securities are Common
Stock (including Common Stock issuable upon conversion, exchange or
exercise of another security), use its best efforts to list such
Registrable Securities on any securities exchange or authorize for
quotation on each other market (including, if applicable, the
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the " NASD
") Automated Quotation System) on which the Common Stock is then
listed or authorized for quotation if such Registrable Securities
are not already so listed or authorized for quotation; and (ii) use
its best efforts to provide a transfer agent
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and registrar for such Registrable Securities
covered by such registration statement not later than the effective
date of such registration statement;
(h) enter into such customary agreements
(including an underwriting agreement in customary form), which may
include indemnification provisions in favor of underwriters and
other Persons in addition to the provisions of Section 2.4 hereof,
and take such other actions as the Principal Participating Holders
or the underwriters, if any, reasonably requested in order to
expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable
Securities;
(i) obtain a "cold comfort" letter or letters
from the Company’s independent public accountants in
customary form and covering matters of the type customarily covered
by "cold comfort" letters as the Principal Participating Holders
shall reasonably request;
(j) make available for inspection by any seller
of such Registrable Securities covered by such registration
statement, by any managing underwriter or underwriters
participating in any disposition to be effected pursuant to such
registration statement and by any attorney, accountant or other
agent retained by any such seller or any such managing
underwriter(s), all pertinent financial and other records,
pertinent corporate documents and properties of the Company, and
cause all of the Company’s officers, directors and employees
to supply all information reasonably requested by any such seller,
underwriter, attorney, accountant or agent in connection with such
registration statement (subject to each party referred to in this
clause (j) entering into customary confidentiality agreements in a
form reasonably acceptable to the Company);
(k) notify each counsel selected pursuant to
Section 2.3.3 hereof for the Holders of Registrable Securities
included in such registration statement and the managing
underwriter or agent, immediately, and confirm the notice in
writing (i) when the registration statement, or any post-effective
amendment to the registration statement, shall have become
effective, or any supplement to the prospectus or any amendment to
the prospectus shall have been filed, (ii) of the receipt of any
comments from the Commission, (iii) of any request of the
Commission to amend the registration statement or amend or
supplement the prospectus or for additional information, and (iv)
of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the registration statement or of any order
preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus, or
of the suspension of the qualification of the registration
statement for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or of the
institution or threatening of any proceedings for any of such
purposes;
(l) make every commercially reasonable effort to
prevent the issuance of any stop order suspending the effectiveness
of the registration statement or of any order preventing or
suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus and, if any such
order is issued, to obtain the withdrawal of any such order as soon
as practicable;
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(m) if requested by the managing underwriter or
agent or any Holder of Registrable Securities covered by the
registration statement, incorporate in a prospectus supplement or
post-effective amendment such information as the managing
underwriter or agent or such Holder reasonably requests to be
included therein, including, with respect to the number of
Registrable Securities being sold by such Holder to such
underwriter or agent, the purchase price being paid therefor by
such underwriter or agent and with respect to any other terms of
the underwritten offering of the Registrable Securities to be sold
in such offering; and make all required filings of such prospectus
supplement or post-effective amendment as soon as practicable after
being notified of the matters incorporated in such prospectus
supplement or post-effective amendment;
(n) cooperate with the Holders of Registrable
Securities covered by the registration statement and the managing
underwriter or agent, if any, to facilitate the timely preparation
and delivery of certificates (not bearing any restrictive legends)
representing securities to be sold under the registration
statement, and enable such securities to be in such denominations
and registered in such names as the managing underwriter or agent,
if any, or such Holders may request;
(o) obtain for delivery to the Holders of
Registrable Securities being registered and to the underwriter or
agent an opinion or opinions from counsel for the Company in
customary form and in form, substance and scope reasonably
satisfactory to such Holders, underwriters or agents and their
counsel;
(p) cooperate with each seller of Registrable
Securities and each underwriter or agent participating in the
disposition of such Registrable Securities and their respective
counsel in connection with any filings required to be made with the
NASD; and
(q) use its commercially reasonable best efforts
to make available the executive officers of the Company to
participate with the Holders of Registrable Securities and any
underwriters in any "road shows" that may be reasonably requested
by the Holders in connection with distribution of the Registrable
Securities.
2.3.3. Selection of Underwriters and
Counsel . The underwriters to be retained by the Company (a) in
connection with the Initial Public Offering shall be selected by
the Board, (b) in connection with the first Public Offering
following the Initial Public Offering, if initiated pursuant to
Section 2.1, shall be selected by the Investors holding a majority
of Registrable Securities covered by such registration, and (c)
otherwise, shall be selected by the Holders of a majority of
Registrable Securities covered by such registration. In connection
with any registration of Registrable Securities pursuant to Section
2.1 or 2.2 hereof, the Holders of a majority of Registrable
Securities covered by such registration may select one counsel to
represent all Holders of Registrable Securities covered by such
registration; provided , that the cost of such counsel shall
be borne by the Company; provided , however , that in
the event that the counsel selected as provided above is also
acting as counsel to the Company in connection with such
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registration, the remaining Holders shall be
entitled to select one additional counsel to represent, at the
Company’s expense, all such remaining Holders.
2.3.4. Company Lock-Up . If any
registration pursuant to Section 2.1 of this Agreement shall be in
connection with an underwritten public offering, the Company agrees
not to effect any public sale or distribution of any Common Stock
of the Company (or securities convertible into or exchangeable or
exercisable for Common Stock) (in each case, other than as part of
such underwritten public offering and other than pursuant to a
registration on Form S-4 or S-8) for its own account, within 90
days (or such shorter period as the managing underwriters may
require) after, the effective date of such registration (except as
part of such registration).
2.3.5. Holders Lock-Up . In connection
with each underwritten Public Offering each Holder hereby agrees to
be bound by and, if requested, to execute and deliver such lock-up
agreement with the underwriter(s) of such Public Offering
restricting such Holder’s right to (a) Transfer, directly or
indirectly, any shares of Common Stock or any securities
convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for such Common
Stock or (b) enter into any swap or other arrangement that
transfers to another any of the economic consequences of ownership
of Common Stock, in each case to the extent that such restrictions
are agreed to (i) in the case of an Initial Public Offering or
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