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EXHIBIT
10.1
REGISTRATION RIGHTS
AGREEMENT
dated as of
August 14, 2007
between
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES,
INC.
and
LEHMAN BROTHERS
INC.,
as Initial
Purchaser
REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
dated as of August 14, 2007 between Advanced Micro Devices,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”),
and Lehman Brothers Inc., as initial purchaser (the “
Initial Purchaser ”) to the Purchase Agreement dated
as of August 9, 2007 (the “ Purchase Agreement
”) with the Company. In order to induce the Initial Purchaser
to enter into the Purchase Agreement, the Company has agreed to
provide the registration rights set forth in this Agreement. The
execution of this Agreement is a condition to the closing under the
Purchase Agreement.
The Company agrees with the
Initial Purchaser, (i) for its benefit as Initial Purchaser
and (ii) for the benefit of the beneficial owners (including
the Initial Purchaser) from time to time of the Securities (as
defined herein) and the beneficial owners from time to time of the
Underlying Common Stock (as defined herein) issued upon conversion
of the Securities (each of the foregoing a “ Holder
” and together the “ Holders ”), as
follows:
Section 1 .
Definitions. Capitalized terms used herein without definition
shall have their respective meanings set forth in the Purchase
Agreement. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall
have the following meanings:
“ Additional Filing
Deadline ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2(f)(v) hereof.
“ Additional
Interest Amount ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2(f) hereof.
“ Affiliate
” means with respect to any specified person, an
“affiliate,” as defined in Rule 144, of such
person.
“ Amendment
Effectiveness Deadline ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2(d) hereof.
“ Automatic Shelf
Registration Statement ” has the meaning ascribed to it
in Rule 405.
“ Business Day
” means any day, except a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday
on which banking institutions in The City of New York are
authorized or obligated by law or executive order to
close.
“ Common Stock
” means the shares of common stock, par value $.01 per share,
of the Company, and any other shares of common stock as may
constitute “Common Stock” for purposes of the
Indenture, including the Underlying Common Stock.
“ Conversion
Price ” has the meaning assigned such term in the
Indenture.
“ Deferral
Notice ” has the meaning set forth in Section 3(h)
hereof.
“ Deferral
Period ” has the meaning set forth in Section 3(h)
hereof.
“ Effectiveness
Deadline ” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)
hereof.
“ Effectiveness
Period ” means the period commencing on the first date
that a Shelf Registration Statement is declared effective under the
Securities Act hereof and ending on the date that all Securities
and the Underlying Common Stock have ceased to be Registrable
Securities.
“ Exchange Act
” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and
the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated
thereunder.
“ Free Writing
Prospectus ” has the meaning set forth in Rule
405.
“ Filing
Deadline ” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)
hereof.
“ Holder ”
has the meaning set forth in the second paragraph of this
Agreement.
“ Indenture
” means the Indenture dated as of the date hereof between the
Company and the Trustee, pursuant to which the Securities are being
issued.
“ Initial
Purchaser ” means the Initial Purchaser named in the
Purchase Agreement.
“ Interest Payment
Date ” means each February 15 and August 15 of
each year.
“ Issue Date
” means the first date of original issuance of the
Securities.
“Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus” has the meaning set forth in Rule 433.
“ Material Event
” has the meaning set forth in Section 3(h)
hereof.
“ Notice and
Questionnaire ” means a written notice delivered to the
Company containing substantially the information called for by the
Selling Securityholder Notice and Questionnaire attached as
Annex A to the Offering Memorandum of the Company dated as of
August 9, 2007 relating to the Securities.
“ Notice Holder
” means, on any date, any Holder that has delivered a Notice
and Questionnaire to the Company on or prior to such
date.
“ Purchase
Agreement ” has the meaning set forth in the preamble
hereof.
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“ Prospectus
” means a prospectus relating to a Shelf Registration
Statement, as amended or supplemented, and all materials
incorporated by reference in such Prospectus.
“ Record Date
” means each February 1 and August 1 of each
year.
“ Record Holder
” means with respect to any Interest Payment Date relating to
any Securities or Underlying Common Stock as to which any
Additional Interest Amount has accrued, the registered holder of
such Security on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest
Payment Date.
“ Registrable
Securities ” means the Securities until such Securities
have been converted into or exchanged for the Underlying Common
Stock and, at all times subsequent to any such conversion, the
Underlying Common Stock and any securities into or for which such
Underlying Common Stock has been converted or exchanged, and any
security issued with respect thereto upon any stock dividend, split
or similar event until, in the case of any such security,
(A) the earliest of (i) its effective registration under
the Securities Act and resale in accordance with a Shelf
Registration Statement, (ii) expiration of the holding period
that would be applicable thereto under Rule 144(k) or
(iii) its sale to the public pursuant to Rule 144 (or any
similar provision then in force, but not Rule 144A) under the
Securities Act, and (B) as a result of the event or
circumstance described in any of the foregoing clauses
(i) through (iii), the legend with respect to transfer
restrictions required under the Indenture is removed or removable
in accordance with the terms of the Indenture or such legend, as
the case may be.
“ Registration
Default ” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(f)
hereof.
“ Registration
Default Period ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2(f) hereof.
“ Rule 144
” means Rule 144 under the Securities Act, as such Rule may
be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation
hereafter adopted by the SEC.
“ Rule 144A
” means Rule 144A under the Securities Act, as such Rule may
be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation
hereafter adopted by the SEC.
“ Rule 405
” means Rule 405 under the Securities Act, as such Rule may
be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation
hereafter adopted by the SEC.
“ Rule 424
” means Rule 424 under the Securities Act, as such Rule may
be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation
hereafter adopted by the SEC.
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“ Rule 433
” means Rule 433 under the Securities Act, as such Rule may
be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation
hereafter adopted by the SEC.
“ SEC ”
means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“ Securities
” means the 5.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2012 of the
Company to be purchased pursuant to the Purchase Agreement,
including any Securities purchased by the Initial Purchaser upon
exercise of its option to purchase additional
Securities.
“ Securities Act
” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules
and regulations promulgated by the SEC thereunder.
“ Shelf Registration
Statement ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2(a) hereof, including amendments to such registration
statement, all exhibits to such registration statement and all
materials incorporated by reference in such registration
statement.
“ Special
Counsel ” means Davis Polk & Wardwell or one
such other successor counsel as shall be specified by the Holders
of a majority of the Registrable Securities, but which may, with
the written consent of the Initial Purchaser (which shall not be
unreasonably withheld), be another nationally recognized law firm
experienced in securities law matters designated by the Company.
For purposes of determining Holders of a majority of the
Registrable Securities in this definition, Holders of Securities
shall be deemed to be the Holders of the number of shares of
Underlying Common Stock into which such Securities are or would be
convertible as of the date the consent is requested.
“ Trustee
” means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, the Trustee
under the Indenture.
“ Underlying Common
Stock ” means the Common Stock into which the Securities
are convertible or issued upon any such conversion.
Section 2 . Shelf
Registration. (a) The Company shall prepare and file or
cause to be prepared and filed with the SEC, as soon as practicable
but in any event by the date (the “ Filing Deadline
”) 90 days after the Issue Date, a registration statement for
an offering to be made on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to
Rule 415 of the Securities Act registering the resale from time to
time by Holders of the Registrable Securities (a “ Shelf
Registration Statement ”). The Shelf Registration
Statement shall be on Form S-3 or another appropriate form
permitting registration of the Registrable Securities for resale by
the Holders in accordance with the methods of distribution elected
by the Holders and set forth in the Shelf Registration Statement.
Each Shelf Registration Statement that
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is filed on Form S-3 shall be designated
by the Company as an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement if the
Company is then eligible to file an Automatic Shelf Registration
Statement on Form S-3 for the purposes contemplated by this
Agreement. If the Company is eligible pursuant to Rule 430B(b) to
omit from the related Prospectus the identities of selling
securityholders and the amounts of securities to be registered on
their behalf, the Company shall prepare and file each Shelf
Registration Statement in a manner as to permit such omission and
to allow for the subsequent filing of such information in a
Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) in the manner contemplated by
Rule 430B(d). The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to
cause a Shelf Registration Statement to be declared effective under
the Securities Act as promptly as is practicable but in any event
by the date (the “ Effectiveness Deadline ”)
that is 180 days after the Issue Date, and to keep a Shelf
Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities
Act until the expiration of the Effectiveness Period. Each Holder
that became a Notice Holder within 20 days of receiving notice from
the Company pursuant to Section 3(c) below of the filing of
the Shelf Registration Statement shall be named as a selling
securityholder in the initial Shelf Registration Statement and the
related Prospectus in such a manner as to permit such Holder to
deliver the Prospectus to purchasers of Registrable Securities in
accordance with applicable law. None of the Company’s
security holders (other than the Holders) shall have the right to
include any of the Company’s securities in a Shelf
Registration Statement.
(b) If a Shelf Registration
Statement covering resales of the Registrable Securities ceases to
be effective for any reason at any time during the Effectiveness
Period (other than because all securities registered thereunder
shall have been resold pursuant thereto or shall have otherwise
ceased to be Registrable Securities), or if such Shelf Registration
Statement constituted an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement at
the time it was filed with the SEC and ceases to constitute an
Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, the Company shall use its
reasonable best efforts to obtain the prompt withdrawal of any
order suspending the effectiveness thereof, and in any event shall
within 30 days of such cessation of effectiveness amend the Shelf
Registration Statement in a manner reasonably expected to obtain
the withdrawal of the order suspending the effectiveness thereof,
or file an additional Shelf Registration Statement so that all
Registrable Securities outstanding as of the date of such filing
are covered by a Shelf Registration Statement. If a new Shelf
Registration Statement is filed, the Company shall use its
reasonable best efforts to cause the new Shelf Registration
Statement to become effective as promptly as is practicable after
such filing and to keep the new Shelf Registration Statement
continuously effective until the end of the Effectiveness
Period.
(c) The Company shall amend
and supplement the Prospectus and amend the Shelf Registration
Statement if required by the rules, regulations or instructions
applicable to the registration form used by the Company for
such
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Shelf Registration Statement or file a
new Shelf Registration Statement, if required by the Securities
Act, or any other documents necessary to name a Notice Holder as a
selling securityholder pursuant to Section 2(e)
below.
(d) The Company agrees that,
unless it obtains the prior consent of the Holders of a majority of
the Registrable Securities that are registered under the Shelf
Registration Statement at such time or the consent of the managing
underwriters in connection with any underwritten offering of
Registrable Securities, and each Holder agrees that, unless it
obtains the prior written consent of the Company and any such
underwriters, it will not make any offer relating to the Securities
that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or that
would otherwise constitute a Free Writing Prospectus required to be
filed with the SEC. The Company represents that any Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus prepared by it or authorized by it in writing
for use by such Holder will not include any information that
conflicts with the information contained in the Shelf Registration
Statement or the Prospectus and, any such Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, when taken together with the information in the Shelf
Registration Statement and the Prospectus, will not include any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material
fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading.
(e) Each Holder may sell
Registrable Securities pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement
and related Prospectus only in accordance with this
Section 2(e) and Section 3(h). Each Holder wishing to
sell Registrable Securities pursuant to a Shelf Registration
Statement and related Prospectus shall deliver a Notice and
Questionnaire to the Company prior to any intended distribution of
Registrable Securities under the Shelf Registration Statement. From
and after the date the initial Shelf Registration Statement is
declared effective, the Company shall, as promptly as practicable
after the date a fully completed Notice and Questionnaire is
delivered, and in any event upon the later of (x) 30 calendar
days after such date or (y) five Business Days after the
expiration of any Deferral Period in effect when the fully
completed Notice and Questionnaire is delivered or put into effect
within 30 calendar Days of such delivery date:
(i) if required by applicable
law, file with the SEC a post-effective amendment to the Shelf
Registration Statement or prepare and, if required by applicable
law, file a supplement to the related Prospectus or a supplement or
amendment to any document incorporated therein by reference or file
a new Shelf Registration Statement or any other required document
so that the Holder delivering such fully completed Notice and
Questionnaire is named as a selling securityholder in a Shelf
Registration Statement and the related Prospectus in such a manner
as to permit such Holder to deliver such Prospectus to purchasers
of the Registrable Securities in accordance with applicable law
and, if the Company shall file a post-effective amendment to a
Shelf Registration Statement or shall file
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a new Shelf Registration
Statement, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to
cause such post-effective amendment or new Shelf Registration
Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as
promptly as is practicable, but in any event by the date (the
“ Amendment Effectiveness Deadline ”) that is 45
days after the date such post-effective amendment or new Shelf
Registration Statement is required by this clause to be
filed;
(ii) provide such Holder
copies of any documents filed pursuant to Section 2(e)(i);
and
(iii) notify such Holder as
promptly as practicable after the effectiveness under the
Securities Act of any new Shelf Registration Statement or
post-effective amendment filed pursuant to
Section 2(e)(i);
provided that if such Notice and
Questionnaire is delivered during a Deferral Period, the Company
shall so inform the Holder delivering such Notice and Questionnaire
and shall take the actions set forth in clauses (i), (ii) and
(iii) above upon expiration of the Deferral Period in
accordance with Section 3(h). Notwithstanding anything
contained herein to the contrary, (i) the Company shall be
under no obligation to name any Holder that is not a Notice Holder
as a selling securityholder in any Shelf Registration Statement or
related Prospectus, (ii) the Amendment Effectiveness Deadline
shall be extended by up to ten Business Days from the expiration of
a Deferral Period, and (iii) the Company shall not be under
any obligation to file more than one prospectus supplement or
post-effective amendment to a Shelf Registration Statement in any
calendar quarter or file a new Shelf Registration Statement if the
latest existing Shelf Registration Statement was filed in the same
calendar quarter.
(f) The parties hereto agree
that the Holders of Registrable Securities will suffer damages, and
that it would not be feasible to ascertain the extent of such
damages with precision, if:
(i) a Shelf Registration
Statement has not been filed on or prior to the Filing
Deadline;
(ii) a Shelf Registration
Statement has not been declared effective under the Securities Act
on or prior to the Effectiveness Deadline;
(iii) the Company has failed
to perform its obligations set forth in Section 2(e)(i) within
the time period required therein (taking into account the last
sentence of Section 2(e));
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(iv) a new Shelf Registration
Statement or a post-effective amendment to a Shelf Registration
Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(e)(i) has not become
effective under the Securities Act on or prior to the Amendment
Effectiveness Deadline (taking into account the last sentence of
Section 2(e));
(v) a supplement to a
Prospectus is required to be filed with the SEC pursuant to
Section 2(e)(i) and fails to be filed with the SEC within the
prescribed period and in the manner set forth in Section 2(e)
above (a date such filing is required to be made, an “
Additional Filing Deadline ”);
(vi) the aggregate duration
of Deferral Periods in any period exceeds the number of days
permitted in respect of such period pursuant to Section 3(h)
hereof; or
(vii) the number of Deferral
Periods in any period exceeds the number permitted in respect of
such period pursuant to Section 3(h) hereof.
Each event described in any of the
foregoing clauses (i) through (vii) is individually
referred to herein as a “ Registration Default
.” For purposes of this Agreement, each Registration Default
set forth above shall begin and end on the dates set forth in the
table set forth below:
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Type of
Registration
Default by
Clause
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Beginning
Date
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Ending Date
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Filing
Deadline |
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the date
a Shelf Registration Statement is filed |
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Effectiveness Deadline |
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the date
a Shelf Registration Statement becomes effective under the
Securities Act |
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the date
by which the Company is required to perform its obligations under
Section 2(e)(i) (taking into account the last sentence of Section
2(e)) |
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the date the
Company performs its obligations set forth in Section
2(e)(i) |
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the
Amendment Effectiveness Deadline (taking into account the last
sentence of Section 2(e)) |
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the date
the applicable post-effective amendment to a Shelf Registration
Statement or a new |
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Type of
Registration
Default by
Clause
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Beginning
Date
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Ending Date
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Shelf
Registration Statement becomes effective under the Securities
Act |
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the
Additional Filing Deadline |
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the date
the applicable supplement to a Prospectus is filed with the SEC in
the manner set forth in Section 2(e) |
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the date
on which the aggregate duration of Deferral Periods in any period
exceeds the number of days permitted by Section 3(h) |
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termination
of the Deferral Period that caused the limit on the aggregate
duration of Deferral Periods to be exceeded |
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the date
of commencement of a Deferral Period that causes the number of
Deferral Periods to exceed the number permitted by Section
3(h) |
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termination of the Deferral Period that caused the number of
Deferral Periods to exceed the number permitted by Section
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For purposes of this Agreement,
Registration Defaults shall begin on the dates set forth in the
table above and shall continue until the ending dates set forth in
the table above.
Commencing on (and including)
any date that a Registration Default has begun and ending on (but
excluding) the next date on which there are no Registration
Defaults that have occurred and are continuing (a “
Registration Default Period ”), the Company shall pay
to Record Holders of Registrable Securities in respect of each day
in the Registration Default Period, additional interest in respect
of any Security, at a rate per annum equal to 0.25% of the
aggregate principal amount of such Security for the first
90 days of such Registration Default and a rate per annum
equal to 0.50% of the aggregate principal amount of such Security
thereafter (the “ Additional Interest Amount ”);
provided that in the case of a Registration Default Period
that is in effect solely as a result of a Registration Default of
the type described in clause (iii), (iv) or (v) of the
preceding paragraph, such Additional Interest Amount shall be paid
only to the Holders (as set forth in the succeeding paragraph) that
have delivered Notices and Questionnaires that caused the Company
to incur the obligations set forth in Section 2(e) the
non-performance of which is the basis of
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such Registration Default.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Additional Interest Amount shall
accrue as to any Registrable Security from and after the earlier of
(x) the date such security is no longer a Registrable Security
and (y) expiration of the Effectiveness Period. The rate of
accrual of the Additional Interest Amount with respect to any
period shall not exceed the rate provided for in this paragraph
notwithstanding the occurrence of multiple concurrent Registration
Defaults.
The Additional Interest
Amount shall accrue from the first day of the applicable
Registration Default Period, and shall be payable on each Interest
Payment Date during the Registration Default Period (and on the
Interest Payment Date next succeeding the end of the Registration
Default Period if the Registration Default Period does not end on
an Interest Payment Date) to the Record Holders of the Registrable
Securities entitled thereto; provided that any Additional
Interest Amount accrued with respect to any Security or portion
thereof redeemed by the Company on a redemption date, purchased by
the Company on a repurchase date or converted into Underlying
Common Stock on a conversion date prior to the Interest Payment
Date, shall, in any such event, be paid instead to the Holder who
submitted such Security or portion thereof for redemption, purchase
or conversion on the applicable redemption date, repurchase date or
conversion date, as the case may be, on such date (or promptly
following the conversion date, in the case of conversion), unless
the redemption date or the repurchase date, as the case may be,
falls after the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest
Payment Date and on or prior to the corresponding Interest Payment
Date; and provided further , that, in the case of a
Registration Default of the type described in clause (iii),
(iv) or (v) of the first paragraph of this
Section 2(f) such Additional Interest Amount shall be paid
only to the Holders entitled thereto by check mailed to the address
set forth in the Notice and Questionnaire delivered by such Holder.
The Trustee shall be entitled, on behalf of registered holders of
Securities, to seek any available remedy for the enforcement of
this Agreement, including for the payment of such Additional
Interest Amount. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the parties agree
that the sole damages payable for a violation of the terms of this
Agreement with respect to which additional interest are expressly
provided shall be such Additional Interest Amount. Nothing shall
preclude any Holder from pursuing or obtaining specific performance
or other equitable relief with respect to this
Agreement.
All of the Company’s
obligations set forth in this Section 2(f) that are
outstanding with respect to any Registrable Security at the time
such security ceases to be a Registrable Security shall survive
until such time as all such obligations with respect to such
security have been satisfied in full (notwithstanding termination
of this Agreement pursuant to Section 8(k)).
The parties hereto agree that
the additional interest provided for in this Section 2(f)
constitutes a reasonable estimate of the damages that may be
incurred by Holders of Registrable Securities by reason of the
failure of a Shelf Registration Statement to be filed or declared
effective or available for effecting resales of Registrable
Securities in accordance with the provisions hereof.
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Section 3 .
Registration Procedures. In connection with the registration
obligations of the Company under Section 2 hereof, the Company
shall:
(a) Before filing any Shelf
Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendments or
supplements thereto with the SEC, furnish to the Initial Purchaser
and the Special Counsel of such offering, if any, copies of all
such documents proposed to be f
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