Exhibit 10.2
EXECUTION VERSION
REGISTRATION RIGHTS
AGREEMENT
dated as of April 27,
2007
between
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES,
INC.
and
MORGAN STANLEY & CO.
INCORPORATED,
as representative of the Initial
Purchasers
REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT dated
as of April 27, 2007 between Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a
Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), and
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, as representative of
the several initial purchasers listed on Schedule I (the
“ Initial Purchasers ”) to the Purchase
Agreement dated as of April 24, 2007 (the “ Purchase
Agreement ”) with the Company. In order to induce the
Initial Purchasers 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
Purchasers, (i) for their benefit as Initial Purchasers and
(ii) for the benefit of the beneficial owners (including the
Initial Purchasers) 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 Purchasers
” means the Initial Purchasers named in Schedule I to the
Purchase Agreement.
“ Interest Payment Date
” means each May 1 and November 1 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
April 24, 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 April 15 and October 15 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 6.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2015 of the Company to
be purchased pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, including any
Securities purchased by the Initial Purchasers upon exercise of
their 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 Purchasers (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 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
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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
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.
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(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 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
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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));
(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
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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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(i)
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Filing
Deadline
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the date a
Shelf Registration Statement is filed
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(ii)
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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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(iii)
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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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(iv)
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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 Shelf Registration Statement becomes effective
under the Securities Act
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(v)
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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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(vi)
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the date on
which the aggregate
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termination of
the Deferral Period
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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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duration of
Deferral Periods in any period exceeds the number of days permitted
by Section 3(h)
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that caused the
limit on the aggregate duration of Deferral Periods to be
exceeded
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(vii)
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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 3(h)
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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 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 a Interest Payment
Date) to the Record Holders of
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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.
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 Purchasers
and the Special Counsel of such offering, if any, copies of all
such documents proposed to be filed at least three Business Days
prior to the filing of such Shelf Registration Statement or
amendment thereto or Prospectus or supplement thereto.
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(b) Subject to Section 3(h)
prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and post-effective
amendments to e