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Exhibit 4.6
Registration Rights
Agreement
Dated as of June 3,
2005
By and Among
NEFF CORP.
as Company,
the GUARANTORS named
herein
and
the PURCHASERS named
herein
13% Senior Subordinated Notes due
2013
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REGISTRATION RIGHTS
AGREEMENT
This Registration Rights Agreement
(this “ Agreement ”) is dated as of June 3,
2005, by and among Neff Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “
Company ”), and each of the Guarantors (as defined
herein) (the Company and the Guarantors are referred to
collectively herein as the “ Issuers ”), on the
one hand, and the purchasers listed on the signature
pages hereto (together with their successors and assigns, the
“ Purchasers ”) on the other hand.
This Agreement is entered into in
connection with the Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 3,
2005, by and among the Issuers and the Purchasers (the “
Purchase Agreement ”), relating to the offering of
$80,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 13%
Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013 (including the guarantees
thereof by the Guarantors, the “ Notes ”). The
execution and delivery of this Agreement is a condition to the
Purchasers’ obligation to purchase the Notes under the
Purchase Agreement.
The parties hereby agree as
follows:
1.
Definitions . As
used in this Agreement, the following capitalized terms shall have
the following meanings:
Demand Registration
: See
Section 3(a) hereof.
Disadvantageous
Condition : See
Section 5(a) hereof.
Exchange Act
: The Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended.
Exchange Notes
: See Section 4
hereof.
Guarantors
: Neff Rental, Inc. and each
other Person who executes and delivers a counterpart of this
Agreement hereafter pursuant to
Section 9(e) hereof.
Indemnified Parties
: See
Section 7(a) hereof.
Indenture : The Indenture, dated as of June 3, 2005,
by and among the Issuers and Wells Fargo Bank, National
Association, as trustee, pursuant to which the Notes are being
issued, as amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance
with the terms thereof.
Issuers : See the introductory paragraph
hereto.
NASD : National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc.
Notes : See the second introductory paragraph
hereto.
Person : An individual partnership, corporation, trust
or unincorporated organization, or a government or agency or
political subdivision thereof.
Prospectus
: The prospectus included in any
Registration Statement, 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 such
Registration Statement and by all other amendments and supplements
to the prospectus, including post-effective amendments and all
material incorporated by reference in such prospectus.
Registrable Securities
: All Notes; provided that a
Note ceases to be a Registrable Security when it is no longer a
Transfer Restricted Security.
Rule 144
: Rule 144 promulgated under
the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to
time, or any similar rule (other than Rule 144A) or
regulation hereafter adopted by the SEC providing for offers and
sales of securities made in compliance therewith resulting in
offers and sales by subsequent holders that are not affiliates of
an issuer of such securities being free of the registration and
prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act.
Registered Exchange
Offer : See
Section 4 hereof.
Registration Expenses
: See Section 6
hereof.
Registration Statement
: Any registration statement of the
Issuers which covers any of the Registrable Securities pursuant to
the provisions of this Agreement, including the Prospectus,
amendments and supplements to such Registration Statement,
including post-effective amendments, all exhibits and all material
incorporated by reference in such Registration
Statement.
SEC : The Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Securities Act
: The Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.
Transfer Restricted
Security : Registrable
Securities upon original issuance thereof; provided that a
Registrable Security is no longer a Transfer Restricted Security
when such Registrable Security is (x) sold to the public, (y) can
be resold pursuant to Rule 144(k) or (z) exchanged for an
Exchange Note (unless such Exchange Note may not be sold without
restriction under state and federal securities laws).
Trigger Date
: The earliest of (x) the date that
is six months following the consummation by the Company of an
initial public offering of its common stock under the
Securities
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Act, (y) the date that a Registered
Exchange Offer is consummated and (z) the date that is three years
following the date hereof.
Underwritten
Registration or
Underwritten Offering : A registration in which securities
of the Company are sold to an underwriter for reoffering to the
public.
2.
Securities Subject to this Agreement .
(a)
Registrable Securities . The securities entitled to the
benefits of this Agreement are the Registrable
Securities.
(b)
Holders of Registrable Securities . A Person is deemed to be
a holder of Registrable Securities whenever such Person owns
Registrable Securities of record or has provided evidence
reasonably satisfactory to the Company that such Person has the
right to acquire such Registrable Securities, whether or not such
acquisition has actually been effected and disregarding any legal
restrictions upon the exercise of such right.
3.
Demand
Registration .
(a)
At any time after the Trigger Date, the holder or holders of
outstanding Registrable Securities may make a written request to
the Company for registration under the Securities Act (“
Demand Registration ”) of all or part of its or their
Registrable Securities but not less than $15.0 million of the
aggregate amount of the Registrable Securities held by such
requesting holders; provided that the Issuers shall not be
obligated to effect more than four Demand Registrations in respect
of the Registrable Securities. Such request will specify the number
of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold and will also specify
the intended method of disposition thereof. Within 10 business days
after receipt of such request, the Issuers will give written notice
of such registration request to all other holders of Registrable
Securities and include in such registration all Registrable
Securities with respect to which the Company has received written
requests for inclusion therein from the holders thereof within 15
business days after receipt by the applicable holder of the
Company’s notice. Each such request will also specify the
aggregate number of Registrable Securities to be registered and the
intended method of disposition thereof.
(b)
A registration will not count as a Demand Registration until the
registration statement relating thereto has become effective under
the Securities Act and has remained effective for a period of at
least 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable
Securities of the holder included in such registration have
actually been sold thereunder). No securities other than
Registrable Securities shall be registered without the consent of
holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities requesting
registration. For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that the
Company registers any class of debt or preferred stock prior to the
completion of an offering pursuant to a Demand Registration then
such Demand
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Registration will not count as a
Demand Registration if such Demand Registration is withdrawn at the
request of the holders of Registrable Securities that requested
such Demand Registration.
(c)
If any Demand Registration is in the form of an Underwritten
Offering, the holders of a majority of the aggregate number of the
outstanding Registrable Securities shall designate the underwriter
or a group of underwriters to be utilized in connection with the
public offering of such Registrable Securities, which selection
shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company.
4.
Exchange Offer .
If the Company files a registration statement under the Securities
Act with respect to an exchange offer by the Company of any debt
securities for its own account or for the account of any of its
security holders (a “ Registered Exchange Offer
”), then the Company shall include all outstanding
Registrable Securities in such Registered Exchange Offer, whereby
all Registrable Securities shall be exchanged for a like principal
amount of notes (including guarantees with respect thereto)
(“ Exchange Notes ”) that are identical in all
material respects to the Notes (except that the Exchange Notes
shall bear no restrictive legend thereon).
5.
Registration
Procedures . In connection with the Issuers’ Demand
Registration obligations set forth in Section 3 hereof, the
Issuers will use their reasonable best efforts to effect such
registration to permit the sale of such Registrable Securities in
accordance with the intended method or methods of distribution
thereof, and pursuant thereto the Issuers will, as expeditiously as
possible:
(a)
prepare and file with the SEC, within 45 days of the receipt of
such request (90 days if the Company is not at the time subject to
the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act), a Registration
Statement or Registration Statements relating to the Demand
Registration on any appropriate form under the Securities Act,
which form shall be available for the sale of the Registrable
Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of
distribution thereof and shall include all financial statements
(including, if applicable, financial statements of any Person that
shall have guaranteed any indebtedness of the Issuers) required by
the SEC to be filed therewith, cooperate and assist in any filings
required to be made with the NASD, and use their reasonable best
efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective;
provided, that before filing a Registration Statement or any
amendments or supplements thereto, the Issuers will furnish to the
holders of the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration
Statement, copies of all such documents proposed to be filed, which
documents will be subject to the review by such holders, and the
Issuers will not, except to the extent required by applicable law,
file any Registration Statement or any amendments or supplements
thereto to which the holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of such Registrable Securities shall reasonably object; and
provided further that the
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Issuers may postpone the filing or
the effectiveness of a Registration Statement relating to the
Registrable Securities or delivery of a supplement or amendment
thereto no more than twice in any twelve-month period if, in the
Issuers’ reasonable good faith judgment, it would be
significantly disadvantageous to the Issuers to file or deliver
such Registration Statement or supplement or amendment (because in
the Issuers’ reasonable good faith judgment (x) the sale of
Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement or the
disclosure of information in any such supplement or amendment would
materially interfere with any pending or anticipated acquisition,
financing or transaction involving the Issuers or their material
subsidiaries or (y) the public disclosure of material information,
which the Issuers have a bona fide business purpose for
preserving as confidential, at the time would be materially
prejudicial to the Issuers) (any condition described in clauses (x)
or (y), a “ Disadvantageous Condition ”). The
Issuers shall be entitled, except as provided below, to postpone
filing, effectiveness or delivery of any such Registration
Statement, amendment or supplement until the earlier of as soon as
is reasonably practicable after the date such Disadvantageous
Condition no longer exists or a period of 30 days has
expired.
(b)
prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and post-effective
amendments to the Registration Statement as may be necessary to
keep the Registration Statement effective until all Registrable
Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold;
cause the Prospectus to be supplemented by any required Prospectus
supplement, and as so supplemented to be filed pursuant to
Rule 424 under the Securities Act; and comply with the
provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the disposition of
all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement
during the applicable period in accordance with the intended method
or methods of distribution by the sellers thereof set forth in such
Registration Statement or supplement to the Prospectus;
(c)
notify the selling holders of Registrable Securities promptly, and
(if requested by any such Person) confirm such advice in writing,
(i) when the Prospectus or any Prospectus supplement or
post-effective amendment has been filed, and, with respect to the
Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment, when the
same has become effective, (ii) of any request by the SEC for
amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus or for additional information, (iii) of the
issuance by the SEC of any stop order of which any Issuer or its
counsel is aware suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose,
(iv) if at any time the representations and warranties of the
Issuers contemplated by clause (o) below cease to be true and
correct, (v) of the receipt by the Issuers of any notification
with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the
Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the
initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose and
(vi) of the Company’s becoming aware that the Prospectus
(including any document incorporated therein by reference), as then
in effect, includes an untrue statement of material fact or omits
to state a material fact required to
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be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the
circumstances then existing;
(d)
make every reasonable effort to obtain the withdrawal of any order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement at the
earliest possible moment;
(e)
if reasonably requested by a holder of Registrable Securities being
sold in connection with an Underwritten Offering, promptly
incorporate in a Prospectus such information as the holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Registrable
Securities being sold agree should be included therein relating to
the plan of distribution with respect to such Registrable
Securities, including, without limitation, information with respect
to the principal amount of Registrable Securities being sold, the
purchase price being paid therefor and any other terms of the
underwritten (or best efforts underwritten) offering of the
Registrable Securities to be sold in such offering; and make all
required filings of such Prospectus as promptly as practicable upon
being notified of the matters to be incorporated in such
Prospectus;
(f)
if requested, furnish to each selling holder of Registrable
Securities without charge, at least one copy of the Registration
Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, including
financial statements and schedules, all documents incorporated
therein by reference and all exhibits (including those incorporated
by reference);
(g)
deliver to each selling holder of Registrable Securities without
charge, as many copies of the Prospectus (including each
preliminary Prospectus) and any amendment or supplement thereto as
such Persons may reasonably request; subject to the last sentence
of this Section 5, the Issuers’ consent to the use of
the Prospectus by each of the selling holders of Registrable
Securities, in connection with the offering and sale of the
Registrable Securities covered by the Prospectus;
(h)
prior to any public offering of Registrable Securities, use its
commercially reasonable efforts to register or qualify or cooperate
with the selling holders of Registrable Securities and their
counsel in connection with the registration or qualification of
such Registrable Securities for offer and sale under the securities
or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as any such seller
reasonably requests in writing and do any and all other acts or
things necessary or advisable to enable the disposition in such
jurisdictions of such Registrable Securities; provided, that
no Issuer will be required to qualify generally to do business in
any jurisdiction where it is not then so qualified or to take any
action which would subject it to general service of process or
taxation in any such jurisdiction where it is not then so
subject;
(i)
cooperate with the selling holders of Registrable Securities to
facilitate, to the extent commercially reasonable under the
circumstances, with respect to the timely preparation and delivery
of certificates representing such Registrable Securities to be sold
and
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not bearing any restrictive legends;
and enable such Registrable Securities to be in such denominations
and registered in such names as such selling holders may request at
least two business days prior to any sale of such Registrable
Securities;
(j)
[reserved];
(k)
upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by clause
(c)(vi) above, prepare a supplement or post-effective
amendment to the related Registration Statement or the related
Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or
file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered
to the holders of the Registrable Securities, the Prospectus will
not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state
any material fact necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading in the light of the circumstances then
existing;
(l)
use commercially reasonable efforts to cause all Registrable
Securities covered by a Registration Statement to be listed on each
securities exchange on which similar securities issued by the
Issuers are then listed if such listing is permitted under the
rules of such exchange and if requested by the holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of such Registrable
Securities;
(m)
if no other debt or debt securities of the Company is then rated by
a nationally recognized rating agency at such time, cause the
Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement to be
rated with such rating agencies as the holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of such Registrable Securities may
designate;
(n)
not later than the effective date of the Demand Registration,
provide a CUSIP number for all Registrable Securities and provide
the transfer agent with printed certificates for the Registrable
Securities which are in a form eligible for deposit with The
Depository Trust Company;
(o)
enter into such customary agreements (including an underwriting
agreement in customary form) and take all such other appropriate
and reasonable actions in connection therewith in order to expedite
or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities and in
such connection, whether or not an underwriting agreement is
entered into and whether or not the registration is an Underwritten
Registration (i) make such representations and warranties to
the holders of such Registrable Securities in form, substance and
scope as are customarily made by issuers to underwriters in primary
Underwritten Offerings and covering matters including, but not
limited to, those set forth in t