EXHIBIT NO. 10.2
REGISTRATION RIGHTS
AGREEMENT
This Registration Rights Agreement
(this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of April
29, 2005, by and between MICRO COMPONENT TECHNOLOGY, INC., a
Minnesota corporation (the “Company”), and Laurus
Master Fund, Ltd., a Cayman Islands company (the
“Purchaser”).
This Agreement is made pursuant to
the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by
and between the Purchaser and the Company (as amended, modified or
supplemented from time to time, the “Securities Purchase
Agreement”), and pursuant to the Note referred to
therein.
The Company and the Purchaser hereby
agree as follows:
Definitions
. Capitalized terms used and
not otherwise defined herein that are defined in the Securities
Purchase Agreement shall have the meanings given such terms in the
Securities Purchase Agreement. As used in this Agreement, the
following terms shall have the following meanings:
“ Commission ”
means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“ Common Stock ”
means shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01
per share.
“ Effectiveness Date
” means (i) with respect to the initial Registration
Statement required to be filed hereunder, a date no later than
ninety days following the date hereof and (ii) with respect to each
additional Registration Statement required to be filed hereunder, a
date no later than thirty (30) days following the applicable Filing
Date.
“ Effectiveness Period
” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
2(a).
“ Exchange Act ”
means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and any
successor statute.
“ Filing Date ”
means, with respect to (i) the Registration Statement required to
be filed hereunder in respect of the first 1,500,000 shares of
Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Option[Note should be
registered first], a date no later than 30 days following the date
hereof, (ii) the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of
the balance of the Option and upon conversion of the Note, the date
which is 30 days after the date on which the Company receives
shareholder approval of a sufficient increase in the
Company’s authorized shares, but no later than August 30,
2005 and (iii) the shares of Common Stock issuable to the Holder as
a result of adjustments to the Fixed Conversion Price or Exercise
Price, as the case may be, made pursuant to the Note or the Option
or otherwise, thirty (30) days after the occurrence such event or
the date of the adjustment of the Fixed Conversion Price or
Exercise Price, as the case may be.
“ Holder ” or
“ Holders ” means the Purchaser or any of its
affiliates or transferees to the extent any of them hold
Registrable Securities.
“ Indemnified Party
” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
5(c).
“ Indemnifying Party
” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
5(c).
“ Note ” has the
meaning set forth in the Securities Purchase Agreement.
“ Option ” has
the meaning set forth in the Securities Purchase
Agreement.
“ Proceeding ”
means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding
(including, without limitation, an investigation or partial
proceeding, such as a deposition), whether commenced or
threatened.
“ Prospectus ”
means the prospectus included in the Registration Statement
(including, without limitation, a prospectus that includes any
information previously omitted from a prospectus filed as part of
an effective registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A
promulgated under the Securities Act), as amended or supplemented
by any prospectus supplement, with respect to the terms of the
offering of any portion of the Registrable Securities covered by
the Registration Statement, and all other amendments and
supplements to the Prospectus, including post-effective amendments,
and all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be
incorporated by reference in such Prospectus.
“ Registrable
Securities ” means the shares of Common Stock issued upon
the conversion of the Note and the exercise of the
Option.
“ Registration
Statement ” means each registration statement required to
be filed hereunder, including the Prospectus, amendments and
supplements to such registration statement or Prospectus, including
pre- and post-effective amendments, all exhibits thereto, and all
material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by
reference in such registration statement.
“ Rule 144 ”
means Rule 144 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the
Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or
any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission
having substantially the same effect as such Rule.
“ Rule 415 ”
means Rule 415 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the
Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or
any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission
having substantially the same effect as such Rule.
“ Rule 424 ”
means Rule 424 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the
Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or
any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission
having substantially the same effect as such Rule.
“ Securities Act
” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any
successor statute.
“ Securities Purchase
Agreement ” shall have the meaning set forth in the
recitals hereto.
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“ Trading Market
” means any of the NASD OTC Bulletin Board, NASDAQ SmallCap
Market, the Nasdaq National Market, the American Stock Exchange or
the New York Stock Exchange.
Registration
.
On or prior to the Filing Date the
Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a Registration
Statement covering the Registrable Securities for an offering to be
made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The
Registration Statement shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company
is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable
Securities on Form S-3, in which case such registration shall be on
another appropriate form in accordance herewith). The Company
shall cause the Registration Statement to become effective and
remain effective as provided herein. The Company shall use
its reasonable commercial efforts to cause the Registration
Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as
promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event no
later than the Effectiveness Date. The Company shall use its
reasonable commercial efforts to keep the Registration Statement
continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date
which is the earlier date of when (i) all Registrable Securities
have been sold or (ii) all Registrable Securities may be sold
immediately without registration under the Securities Act and
without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k), as determined
by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter
to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Company’s
transfer agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness
Period”).
If: (i) the Registration Statement
is not filed on or prior to the Filing Date; (ii) the Registration
Statement is not declared effective by the Commission by the
Effectiveness Date; (iii) after the Registration Statement is filed
with and declared effective by the Commission, the Registration
Statement ceases to be effective (by suspension or otherwise) as to
all Registrable Securities to which it is required to relate at any
time prior to the expiration of the Effectiveness Period (without
being succeeded immediately by an additional registration statement
filed and declared effective) for a period of time which shall
exceed 30 days in the aggregate per year or more than 20
consecutive calendar days (defined as a period of 365 days
commencing on the date the Registration Statement is declared
effective); or (iv) the Common Stock is not listed or quoted, or is
suspended from trading on any Trading Market for a period of three
(3) consecutive Trading Days (provided the Company shall not have
been able to cure such trading suspension within 30 days of the
notice thereof or list the Common Stock on another Trading Market);
(any such failure or breach being referred to as an
“Event,” and for purposes of clause (i) or (ii) the
date on which such Event occurs, or for purposes of clause (iii)
the date which such 30 day or 20 consecutive day period (as the
case may be) is exceeded, or for purposes of clause (iv) the date
on which such three (3) Trading Day period is exceeded, being
referred to as “Event Date”), then until the applicable
Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in
cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1.0% for
each thirty (30) day period (prorated for partial periods) on a
daily basis of the original principal amount of the Note.
While such Event continues, such liquidated damages shall be paid
not less often than each thirty (30) days. Any unpaid
liquidated damages as of the date when an Event has been cured by
the Company
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shall be paid within three (3) days following
the date on which such Event has been cured by the
Company.
Registration
Procedures . If and
whenever the Company is required by the provisions hereof to effect
the registration of any Registrable Securities under the Securities
Act, the Company will, as expeditiously as possible:
prepare and file with the Commission
the Registration Statement with respect to such Registrable
Securities, respond as promptly as possible to any comments
received from the Commission, and use its best efforts to cause the
Registration Statement to become and remain effective for the
Effectiveness Period with respect thereto, and promptly provide to
the Purchaser copies of all filings and Commission letters of
comment relating thereto;
prepare and file with the Commission
such amendments and supplements to the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus used in connection therewith as may be necessary to
comply with the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to
the disposition of all Registrable Securities covered by the
Registration Statement and to keep such Registration Statement
effective until the expiration of the Effectiveness
Period;
furnish to the Purchaser such number
of copies of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus included
therein (including each preliminary Prospectus) as the Purchaser
reasonably may request to facilitate the public sale or disposition
of the Registrable Securities covered by the Registration
Statement;
use its commercially reasonable
efforts to register or qualify the Purchaser’s Registrable
Securities covered by the Registration Statement under the
securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions
within the United States as the Purchaser may reasonably request,
provided, however, that the Company shall not for any such purpose
be required to qualify generally to transact business as a foreign
corporation in any jurisdiction where it is not so qualified or to
consent to general service of process in any such
jurisdiction;
list the Registrable Securities
covered by the Registration Statement with any securities exchange
on which the Common Stock of the Company is then listed;
immediately notify the Purchaser at
any time when a Prospectus relating thereto is required to be
delivered under the Securities Act, of the happening of any event
of which the Company has knowledge as a result of which the
Prospectus contained 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 light of the
circumstances then existing; and
make available for inspection by the
Purchaser and any attorney, accountant or other agent retained by
the Purchaser, all publicly available, non-confidential financial
and other records, pertinent corporate documents and properties of
the Company, and cause the Company’s officers, directors and
employees to supply all publicly available, non-confidential
information reasonably requested by the attorney, accountant or
agent of the Purchaser.
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Registration Expenses
. All expenses relating to the
Company’s compliance with Sections 2 and 3 hereof, including,
without limitation, all registration and filing fees, printing
expenses, fees and disbursements of counsel and independent public
accountants for the Company, fees and expenses (including
reasonable counsel fees) incurred in connection with complying with
state securities or “blue sky” laws, fees of the NASD,
transfer taxes, fees of transfer agents and registrars, fees of,
and disbursements incurred by, one counsel for the Holders (to the
extent such counsel is required due to Company’s failure to
meet any of its obligations hereunder), are called
“Registration Expenses”. All selling commissions
applicable to the sale of Registrable Securities, including any
fees and disbursements of any special counsel to the Holders beyond
those included in Registration Expenses, are called “Selling
Expenses.” The Company shall only be responsible
for all Registration Expenses.
Indemnification
.
In the event of a registration of
any Registrable Securities under the Securities Act pursuant to
this Agreement, the Company will indemnify and hold harmless the
Purchaser, and its officers, directors and each other person, if
any, who controls the Purchaser within the meaning of the
Securities Act, against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities,
joint or several, to which the Purchaser, or such persons may
become subject under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as
such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect
thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any
Registration Statement under which such Registrable Securities were
registered under the Securities Act pursuant to this Agreement, any
preliminary Prospectus or final Prospectus contained therein, or
any amendment or supplement thereof, or arise out of or are based
upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading, and will reimburse the
Purchaser, and each such person for any reasonable legal or other
expenses incurred by them in connection with investigating or
defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action;
provided, however, that the Company will not be liable in any such
case if and to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or
liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission so made in
conformity with information furnished by or on behalf of the
Purchaser or any such person in writing specifically for use in any
such document.
In the event of a registration of
the Registrable Securities under the Securities Act pursuant to
this Agreement, the Purchaser will indemnify and hold harmless the
Company, and its officers, directors and each other person, if any,
who controls the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act,
against all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or
several, to which the Company or such persons may become subject
under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses,
claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof)
arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged
untrue statement of any material fact w