Exhibit 4.4
EXECUTION
VERSION
REGISTRATION RIGHTS
AGREEMENT
Dated as of
May 10, 2007
Among
CAPMARK FINANCIAL GROUP
INC.,
THE GUARANTORS LISTED
ON SCHEDULE I HERETO
and
CREDIT SUISSE
SECURITIES (USA) LLC,
CITIGROUP GLOBAL
MARKETS INC.
and
GOLDMAN,
SACHS & CO.
Floating Rate Senior
Notes due 2010
5.875% Senior Notes due
2012
6.300% Senior Notes due
2017
TABLE OF
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1.
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Definitions
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2.
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Exchange
Offer
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3.
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Shelf
Registration
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4.
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Market-Making
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5.
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Additional
Interest
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6.
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Registration
Procedures
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7.
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Registration
Expenses
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8.
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Indemnification and
Contribution
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9.
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Rules 144 and
144A
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10.
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Underwritten
Registrations
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11.
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Miscellaneous
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REGISTRATION RIGHTS
AGREEMENT
This Registration
Rights Agreement (this “ Agreement ”) is dated
as of May 10, 2007, among CAPMARK FINANCIAL GROUP INC, a
Nevada corporation (the “ Company ”), the
guarantors listed on Schedule I hereto (the “
Guarantors ”) and CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC,
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. and GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO., as
representatives (the “ Representatives ”) of the
several purchasers (the “ Purchasers ”) named on
Schedule A to the Purchase Agreement (as defined
below).
This Agreement is
entered into in connection with the Purchase Agreement, dated
May 3, 2007 (the “ Purchase Agreement ”),
by and among the Company, the Guarantors and the Purchasers, which
provides for, among other things, the sale by the Company to the
Purchasers of $850,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the
Company’s Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2010 (the “
2010 Notes ”), $1,200,000,000 aggregate principal
amount of the Company’s 5.875% Senior Notes due 2012 (the
“ 2012 Notes ”) and $500,000,000 aggregate
principal amount of the Company’s 6.300% Senior Notes due
2017 (the “ 2017 Notes ” and, together with the
2010 Notes and the 2012 Notes, the “ Notes
”). The 2010 Notes, the 2012 Notes and the 2017 Notes
are each to be issued under an indenture, each dated as of the date
hereof (each such indenture, as amended or supplemented from time
to time, an “ Indenture ,” and collectively, the
“ Indentures ”), among the Company, the
Guarantors and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee
(the “ Trustee ”). Pursuant to the
Purchase Agreement and the Indentures, the Guarantors are required
to guarantee (collectively, the “ Guarantees ”)
the Company’s obligations under the Notes and the
Indentures. References to the “ Securities
” shall mean, collectively, the Notes and, when issued, the
Guarantees. In order to induce the Purchasers (including the
Market-Maker) to enter into the Purchase Agreement, the Company has
agreed to provide the registration rights set forth in this
Agreement for the benefit of the Purchasers and any subsequent
holder or holders of the Securities. The execution and
delivery of this Agreement is a condition to the Purchasers’
obligations under the Purchase Agreement.
The parties hereby
agree as follows:
1.
Definitions
As used in this
Agreement, the following terms shall have the following
meanings:
2010 Notes : See the
introductory paragraphs hereto.
2012 Notes : See the
introductory paragraphs hereto.
2017 Notes : See the
introductory paragraphs hereto.
Additional Interest : See
Section 5(a) hereof.
Additional Securities : See the last
paragraph of Section 2(a) hereof.
Advice : See the last
paragraph of Section 6 hereof.
Agreement : See the
introductory paragraphs hereto.
Applicable Period : See
Section 2(b) hereof.
Business Day : Shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Rule 14d-1 under the Exchange
Act.
Company : See the introductory
paragraphs hereto.
Effectiveness Date : In the
case of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, the 390th day
after the Issue Date, and, with respect to any Shelf Registration
Statement, the 120th day after the date a Shelf Notice is requested
or required to be delivered with respect thereto; provided ,
however , that if the Effectiveness Date would otherwise
fall on a day that is not a Business Day, then the Effectiveness
Date shall be the next succeeding Business Day.
Effectiveness Period : See
Section 3(a) hereof.
Event Date : See
Section 5(b) hereof.
Exchange Act : The Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and
regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.
Exchange Notes : See
Section 2(a) hereof.
Exchange Offer : See
Section 2(a) hereof.
Exchange Offer Registration
Statement : See Section 2(a) hereof.
Exchange Securities : See
Section 2(a) hereof.
Guarantees : See the
introductory paragraphs hereto.
Guarantors : See the
introductory paragraphs hereto.
Holder : Any holder of a
Registrable Security or Registrable Securities.
Indenture/Indentures : See the
introductory paragraphs hereto.
Information : See
Section 6(n) hereof.
Initial Shelf Registration :
See Section 3(a) hereof.
Inspectors : See
Section 6(n) hereof.
Issue Date : May 10,
2007, the date of original issuance of the Notes.
Market-Maker : See
Section 4(a) hereof.
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Market-Making Registration :
See Section 4(a)(i) hereof.
Market-Making Registration Statement
: See Section 4(a)(i) hereof.
NASD : See Section 6(s)
hereof.
New Guarantees : See
Section 2(a) hereof.
Notes : See the introductory
paragraphs hereto.
Participant : See
Section 8(a) hereof.
Participating Broker-Dealer :
See Section 2(b) hereof.
Person : An individual,
trustee, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint
stock company, trust, unincorporated association, union, business
association, firm or other legal entity.
Private Exchange : See
Section 2(b) hereof.
Private Exchange Notes : See
Section 2(b) hereof.
Prospectus : The prospectus
included in any Registration Statement (including, without
limitation, any prospectus subject to completion and a prospectus
that includes any information previously omitted from a prospectus
filed as part of an effective registration statement in reliance
upon Rule 430A under the Securities Act and any term sheet
filed pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act), as
amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement, 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.
Purchase Agreement : See the
introductory paragraphs hereof.
Purchasers : See the
introductory paragraphs hereto.
Records : See
Section 6(n) hereof.
Registrable Securities : Each
Security upon its original issuance and at all times subsequent
thereto, each Exchange Security as to which
Section 2(c)(v) hereof is applicable upon original
issuance and at all times subsequent thereto and each Private
Exchange Note (and the related Guarantees) upon original issuance
thereof and at all times subsequent thereto, until, in each case,
the earliest to occur of (i) a Registration Statement (other
than, with respect to any Exchange Securities as to which
Section 2(c)(v) hereof is applicable, the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement) covering such Security, Exchange Security
or Private Exchange Note (and the related Guarantees) has been
declared effective by the SEC and such Security, Exchange Security
or such Private Exchange Note (and the related Guarantees), as the
case may be, has been disposed of in accordance with such effective
Registration Statement, (ii) such Security has been exchanged
pursuant to the Exchange Offer for an Exchange Security or Exchange
Securities that may be resold without restriction under state and
federal securities laws, (iii) such Security, Exchange
Security or Private Exchange Note (and the related Guarantees), as
the
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case may be,
ceases to be outstanding for purposes of the applicable Indenture
or (iv) such Security, Exchange Security or Private Exchange
Note (and the related Guarantees), as the case may be, may be
resold without restriction pursuant to Rule 144(k) (as amended
or replaced) under the Securities Act.
Registration Statement : Any
registration statement of the Company that covers any of the
Securities, the Exchange Securities or the Private Exchange Notes
(and the related Guarantees) filed with the SEC under the
Securities Act, including, in each case, the Prospectus, amendments
and supplements to such registration statement, including
post-effective amendments, all exhibits, and all material
incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference
in such registration statement.
Rule 144 : Rule 144
under the Securities Act.
Rule 144A :
Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
Rule 405 : Rule 405
under the Securities Act.
Rule 415 : Rule 415
under the Securities Act.
Rule 424 : Rule 424
under the Securities Act.
SEC : The U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission.
Securities : See the
introductory paragraphs hereto.
Securities Act : The
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and
regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.
Shelf Notice : See
Section 2(c) hereof.
Shelf Registration : See
Section 3(b) hereof.
Shelf Registration Statement :
Any Registration Statement relating to a Shelf Registration.
Shelf Suspension Period : See
Section 3(a) hereof.
Subsequent Shelf Registration
: See Section 3(b) hereof.
TIA : The Trust Indenture Act
of 1939, as amended.
Trustee : The trustee under
the Indentures and the trustee under any indenture (if different)
governing the Exchange Securities and Private Exchange Notes (and
the related Guarantees).
Underwritten registration or underwritten
offering : A registration in which securities of
the Company are sold to an underwriter for reoffering to the
public.
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Except as
otherwise specifically provided, all references in this Agreement
to acts, laws, statutes, rules, regulations, releases, forms,
no-action letters and other regulatory requirements (collectively,
“ Regulatory Requirements ”) shall be deemed to
refer also to any amendments thereto and all subsequent Regulatory
Requirements adopted as a replacement thereto having substantially
the same effect therewith; provided that Rule 144 shall
not be deemed to amend or replace Rule 144A.
2.
Exchange Offer
(a)
Unless the Exchange Offer would violate applicable law or any
applicable interpretation of the staff of the SEC, the Company
shall use its reasonable best efforts to file with the SEC a
Registration Statement (the “ Exchange Offer Registration
Statement ”) on an appropriate registration form with
respect to a registered offer (the “ Exchange Offer
”) to exchange any and all of the Registrable Securities for
a like aggregate principal amount of debt securities of the Company
(the “ Exchange Notes ”), guaranteed, to the
extent applicable, on an unsecured senior basis by the Guarantors
(the “ New Guarantees ” and, together with the
Exchange Notes, the “ Exchange Securities ”),
that are identical in all material respects to the 2010 Notes, 2012
Notes or 2017 Notes, as applicable, except that (i) the
Exchange Notes shall contain no restrictive legend thereon,
(ii) interest thereon shall accrue from the last date on which
interest was paid on such Notes or, if no such interest has been
paid, from the Issue Date and (iii) the Exchange Notes will be
entitled to the benefits of the Indenture applicable to the 2010
Notes, 2012 Notes or 2017 Notes, as the case may be, or a trust
indenture which is identical in all material respects to such
Indenture (other than such changes to such Indenture or any such
identical trust indenture as are necessary to comply with the TIA)
and which, in either case, has been qualified under the TIA.
The Exchange Offer shall comply with all applicable tender offer
rules and regulations under the Exchange Act and other
applicable laws. The Company shall use its reasonable best
efforts to (x) cause the Exchange Offer Registration Statement
to become effective under the Securities Act on or prior to the
Effectiveness Date; (y) keep the Exchange Offer open for at least
20 Business Days (or longer if required by applicable law) after
the date that notice of the Exchange Offer is mailed to Holders;
and (z) consummate the Exchange Offer on or prior to the 420th
day following the Issue Date.
Each Holder
(including, without limitation, each Participating Broker-Dealer)
that participates in the Exchange Offer, as a condition to
participation in the Exchange Offer, will be required to represent
to the Company in writing (which may be contained in the applicable
letter of transmittal) that: (i) any Exchange Securities
acquired in exchange for Registrable Securities tendered are being
acquired in the ordinary course of business of the Person receiving
such Exchange Securities, whether or not such recipient is such
Holder itself; (ii) at the time of the commencement or
consummation of the Exchange Offer neither such Holder nor, to the
actual knowledge of such Holder, any other Person receiving
Exchange Securities from such Holder has an arrangement or
understanding with any Person to participate in the distribution
(within the meaning of the Securities Act) of the Exchange
Securities in violation of the provisions of the Securities Act;
(iii) neither the Holder nor, to the actual knowledge of such
Holder, any other Person receiving Exchange Securities from such
Holder is an “affiliate” (as defined in Rule 405)
of the Company or, if it is an affiliate of the Company, it will
comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements
of the Securities Act to the extent applicable and will provide
information to be included in the Shelf Registration Statement in
accordance with Section 6 hereof in order to have their
Securities included in the Shelf Registration Statement and benefit
from the provisions regarding Additional Interest in Section 5
hereof; (iv) if such Holder is not a broker-dealer, neither
such Holder nor, to the actual knowledge of such Holder, any other
Person receiving Exchange
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Securities from
such Holder is engaging in or intends to engage in a distribution
of the Exchange Securities; and (v) if such Holder is a
Participating Broker-Dealer, such Holder has acquired the
Registrable Securities for its own account in exchange for
Securities that were acquired as a result of market-making
activities or other trading activities and that it will comply with
the applicable provisions of the Securities Act (including, but not
limited to, the prospectus delivery requirements
thereunder).
Upon consummation
of the Exchange Offer in accordance with this Section 2, the
provisions of this Agreement shall continue to apply,
mutatis mutandis , solely with respect to Registrable
Securities that are Private Exchange Notes (and the related
Guarantees) or as to which Section 2(c)(iv) is
applicable, Exchange Securities as to which
Section 2(c)(v) is applicable and Exchange Securities
held by the Market-Maker and Participating Broker-Dealers, and the
Company shall have no further obligation to register Registrable
Securities (other than Private Exchange Notes (and the related
Guarantees), Registrable Securities as to which
Section 2(c)(iv) applies and Exchange Securities as to
which clause 2(c)(v) hereof applies) pursuant to
Section 3 hereof.
No securities
other than the Exchange Securities (and the related guarantees) and
any additional securities and related guarantees issued after the
Issue Date that form a part of the same series as the 2010 Notes,
the 2012 Notes or the 2017 Notes, as applicable (the
“Additional Securities”), shall be included in the
Exchange Offer Registration Statement.
(b)
The Company shall include within the Prospectus contained in the
Exchange Offer Registration Statement a section entitled
“Plan of Distribution,” which shall contain a summary
statement of the positions taken or policies made by the staff of
the SEC with respect to the potential “underwriter”
status of any broker-dealer that is the “beneficial
owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act)
of Exchange Notes received by such broker-dealer in the Exchange
Offer (a “ Participating Broker-Dealer ”),
whether such positions or policies have been publicly disseminated
by the staff of the SEC or such positions or policies represent the
prevailing views of the staff of the SEC. Such “Plan of
Distribution” section shall also expressly permit, to
the extent permitted by applicable policies and regulations of the
SEC, the use of the Prospectus by all Participating Broker-Dealers,
and include a statement describing the means by which Participating
Broker-Dealers may resell the Exchange Securities in compliance
with the Securities Act.
The Company shall
use its reasonable best efforts to keep the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement effective and to amend and supplement the
Prospectus contained therein in order to permit such Prospectus to
be lawfully delivered by all Persons subject to the prospectus
delivery requirements of the Securities Act for such period of time
as is necessary to comply with applicable law in connection with
any resale of the Exchange Securities; provided ,
however , that such period shall not be required to exceed
90 days, or such longer period if extended pursuant to the last
paragraph of Section 6 hereof (the “ Applicable
Period ”).
If, prior to
consummation of the Exchange Offer, the Purchasers hold any Notes
acquired by them that have the status of an unsold allotment in the
initial distribution, the Company, upon the request of the
Purchasers, shall simultaneously with the delivery of the Exchange
Notes issue and deliver to the Purchasers, in exchange (the “
Private Exchange ”) for such Notes held by any such
Holder, a like principal amount of notes (the “ Private
Exchange Notes ”) of the Company, guaranteed by the
Guarantors, that are identical in all material respects to the
Exchange Notes except for the placement of a restrictive
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legend on such
Private Exchange Notes. The Private Exchange Notes shall be
issued pursuant to the same indenture as the Exchange Notes and
bear the same CUSIP number as the Exchange Notes if permitted by
the CUSIP Service Bureau.
In connection with
the Exchange Offer, the Company shall:
(1)
mail, or cause to be mailed, to each Holder of record entitled to
participate in the Exchange Offer a copy of the Prospectus forming
part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, together with an
appropriate letter of transmittal and related documents;
(2)
use its reasonable best efforts to keep the Exchange Offer open for
not less than 20 Business Days from the date that notice of the
Exchange Offer is mailed to Holders (or longer if required by
applicable law);
(3)
utilize the services of a depositary for the Exchange Offer with an
address in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York;
(4)
permit Holders to withdraw tendered Notes at any time prior to the
close of business, New York time, on the last Business Day on which
the Exchange Offer remains open; and
(5)
otherwise comply with all laws, rules and regulations
applicable to the Exchange Offer.
As soon as
practicable after the close of the Exchange Offer and any Private
Exchange, the Company shall:
(1)
accept for exchange all Registrable Securities validly tendered and
not validly withdrawn pursuant to the Exchange Offer and any
Private Exchange;
(2)
deliver to the Trustee for cancellation all Registrable Securities
so accepted for exchange; and
(3)
cause the Trustee to authenticate and deliver promptly to each
Holder of Notes, Exchange Notes or Private Exchange Notes, as the
case may be, equal in principal amount to the Notes of such Holder
so accepted for exchange; provided that, in the case of any
Notes held in global form by a depositary, authentication and
delivery to such depositary of one or more replacement Notes in
global form in an equivalent principal amount thereto for the
account of such Holders in accordance with the applicable Indenture
shall satisfy such authentication and delivery requirement.
The Exchange Offer
and the Private Exchange shall not be subject to any conditions,
other than that (i) the Exchange Offer or Private Exchange, as
the case may be, does not violate applicable law or any applicable
interpretation of the staff of the SEC; (ii) no action or
proceeding shall have been instituted or threatened in any court or
by any governmental agency which might materially impair the
ability of the Company to proceed with the Exchange Offer or the
Private Exchange, and no material
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adverse
development shall have occurred in any existing action or
proceeding with respect to the Company; and (iii) all
governmental approvals shall have been obtained, which approvals
the Company deems necessary for the consummation of the Exchange
Offer or Private Exchange.
The Exchange
Securities and the Private Exchange Notes (and related guarantees)
shall be issued under (i) the applicable Indenture or
(ii) an indenture identical in all material respects to such
applicable Indenture and which, in either case, has been qualified
under the TIA or is exempt from such qualification and shall
provide that the Exchange Securities shall not be subject to the
transfer restrictions set forth in the applicable Indenture.
The Indenture or such indenture with respect to each of the 2010
Notes, the 2012 Notes or the 2017 Notes, shall provide that the
Exchange Notes, the Private Exchange Notes and the Notes of the
applicable series shall vote and consent together on all matters as
one class and that none of the Exchange Notes, the Private Exchange
Notes or the Notes of the applicable series will have the right to
vote or consent as a separate class on any matter.
(c)
If, (i) because of any change in law or in currently
prevailing interpretations of the staff of the SEC, the Company is
not permitted to effect the Exchange Offer, (ii) the Exchange
Offer is not consummated within 420 days of the Issue Date,
(iii) any holder of Private Exchange Notes so requests in
writing to the Company at any time within 30 days after the
consummation of the Exchange Offer, (iv) any Holder of
Registrable Securities (other than an Participating Broker-Dealer)
is prohibited by applicable law or SEC policy from participating in
the Exchange Offer and so requests in writing to the Company at any
time within 30 days after the consummation of the Exchange Offer,
or (v) in the case of any Holder that participates in the
Exchange Offer, such Holder does not receive Exchange Securities on
the date of the exchange that may be sold without restriction under
state and federal securities laws (other than due solely to the
status of such Holder as an affiliate of the Company within the
meaning of the Securities Act) and so notifies the Company within
30 days after such Holder first becomes aware of such restrictions,
then in the case of each of clauses (i) to and including
(v) of this sentence, the Company shall promptly deliver to
the Trustee (to deliver to the Holders) written notice thereof (the
“ Shelf Notice ”) and shall file a Shelf
Registration pursuant to Section 3 hereof.
3.
Shelf Registration
If at any time a
Shelf Notice is delivered as contemplated by
Section 2(c) hereof, then:
(a)
Shelf Registration . The Company shall promptly file
with the SEC a Registration Statement for an offering to be made on
a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 covering all of the
Registrable Securities (the “ Initial Shelf
Registration ”). The Initial Shelf Registration
shall be on Form S-1 or another appropriate form permitting
registration of such Registrable Securities for resale by Holders
in the manner or manners designated by them (including, without
limitation, one or more underwritten offerings). The Company
shall not permit any securities other than the Registrable
Securities and the Guarantees and any Additional Securities to be
included in the Initial Shelf Registration or any Subsequent Shelf
Registration (as defined below).
The Company shall
use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Shelf Registration to
be declared effective under the Securities Act on or prior to the
Effectiveness Date and to keep the Initial Shelf Registration
continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earliest
of (i) the date that is two years from the Issue Date
(ii) such shorter period ending when all Registrable
Securities covered by
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the Initial Shelf
Registration have been sold in the manner set forth and as
contemplated in the Initial Shelf Registration or, if applicable, a
Subsequent Shelf Registration or (iii) the date upon which all
Registrable Securities become eligible for resale without regard to
volume, manner of sale or other restrictions pursuant to
Rule 144(k) (the “ Effectiveness Period ”);
provided , however , that the Effectiveness Period in
respect of the Initial Shelf Registration shall be extended to the
extent required to permit dealers to comply with the applicable
prospectus delivery requirements of Rule 174 under the
Securities Act and as otherwise provided herein.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, at any
time, the Company may delay the filing of any Initial Shelf
Registration Statement or delay or suspend the effectiveness
thereof, for a reasonable period of time, but not in excess of 60
consecutive days or more than three (3) times during any
calendar year (each, a “ Shelf Suspension Period
”), if the Board of Directors of the Company determines
reasonably and in good faith that the filing of any such Initial
Shelf Registration Statement or the continuing effectiveness
thereof would require the disclosure of non-public material
information that, in the reasonable judgment of the Board of
Directors of the Company, would be detrimental to the Issuer if so
disclosed or would otherwise materially adversely affect a
financing, acquisition, disposition, merger or other material
transaction or such action is required by applicable
law.
(b)
Withdrawal of Stop Orders; Subsequent Shelf Registrations
. If the Initial Shelf Registration or any Subsequent Shelf
Registration ceases to be effective for any reason at any time
during the Effectiveness Period (other than because of the sale of
all of the Registrable Securities registered thereunder), 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 file an additional Shelf Registration Statement
pursuant to Rule 415 covering all of the Registrable
Securities covered by and not sold under the Initial Shelf
Registration or an earlier Subsequent Shelf Registration (each, a
“ Subsequent Shelf Registration ”). If a
Subsequent Shelf Registration is filed, the Company shall use its
reasonable best efforts to cause the Subsequent Shelf Registration
to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as
practicable after such filing and to keep such subsequent Shelf
Registration continuously effective for a period equal to the
number of days in the Effectiveness Period less the aggregate
number of days during which the Initial Shelf Registration or any
Subsequent Shelf Registration was previously continuously
effective. As used herein the term “ Shelf
Registration ” means the Initial Shelf Registration and
any Subsequent Shelf Registration.
(c)
Supplements and Amendments . The Company shall
promptly supplement and amend the Shelf Registration if required by
the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the
registration form used for such Shelf Registration, if required by
the Securities Act, or if reasonably requested by the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Registrable
Securities (or their counsel) covered by such Registration
Statement with respect to the information included therein with
respect to one or more of such Holders, or, if reasonably requested
by any underwriter of such Registrable Securities, with respect to
the information included therein with respect to such
underwriter.
4.
Market-Making
(a)
For the sole benefit of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (in such
capacity, the “ Market-Maker ”) or any of its
affiliates (as defined in the rules and regulations of the
SEC), so long as (x) any of the Registrable Securities or
Exchange Securities are outstanding and (y) it would be
necessary under applicable laws, rules and regulations, in the
reasonable opinion of the Market-Maker, for the Market-
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Maker or any
of its affiliates to deliver a prospectus in connection with
market-making activities with respect to the Registrable Securities
or Exchange Securities and the Market-Maker or such affiliate
proposes to make a market in the Registrable Securities or Exchange
Securities as part of its business in the ordinary course, the
following provisions shall apply for the sole benefit of the
Market-Maker:
(i)
The Company shall file under the Securities Act one or more
registration statements, in a form approved by the Market-Maker
(each such filing, a “ Market-Making Registration
,” and each such registration statement, the “
Market-Making Registration Statement ”). The
Company agrees to use its reasonable best efforts to cause a
Market-Making Registration Statement with respect to the Exchange
Securities to be declared effective on or prior to (i) the
date the Exchange Offer is completed pursuant to
Section 2(a) above or (ii) the date the Initial
Shelf Registration becomes or is declared effective pursuant to
Section 3 above, and, in each case, to keep such Market-Making
Registration Statement continuously effective for so long as the
Market-Maker may be required to deliver a prospectus in connection
with transactions in the Registrable Securities or the Exchange
Securities, as the case may be. In the event that the
Market-Maker holds Securities at the time the Exchange Offer is to
be conducted under Section 2(a) above, the Company agrees
that the applicable Market-Making Registration shall provide for
the resale by the Market-Maker of such Registrable Securities or
Exchange Securities and shall use its reasonable best efforts to
keep the Market-Making Registration Statement continuously
effective for so long as the Market-Maker may be required to
deliver a prospectus in connection with the sale of such
Registrable Securities or Exchange Securities. The Company
further agrees to supplement or make amendments to each
Market-Making Registration Statement, as and when required by the
rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration
form used by the Company for the applicable Market-Making
Registration Statement, and the Company agrees to furnish to the
Market-Maker copies of any such supplement or amendment prior to
its being used or promptly following its filing with the SEC.
(ii)
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may suspend the offering
and sale under a Market-Making Registration Statement for a period
or periods the Board of Directors of the Company reasonably
determines to be advisable for valid business reasons, if
(A) (i) the Board of Directors of the Company determines
in good faith that such action is in the best interests of the
Company or (ii) such Market-Making Registration Statement,
prospectus or amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue
statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and
(B) the Company notifies the Market-Maker within five days
before the effectiveness of such suspension.
(iii)
The Company shall notify the Market-Maker (A) when any
post-effective amendment to a Market-Making Registration Statement
or any amendment or supplement to the related prospectus has been
filed, and, with respect to any post-effective amendment, when the
same has become effective; (B) of any request by the SEC for
any post-effective amendment to a Market-Making Registration
Statement, any supplement or amendment to the related prospectus or
for additional information; (C) the issuance by the SEC of any
stop order suspending the effectiveness of a Market-Making
Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for
that purpose; (D) of the receipt by the Company of any
notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of
the Registrable Securities or Exchange Securities for sale in
any
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jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening
of any proceedings for such purpose; and (E) of the happening
of any event that makes any statement made in a Market-Making
Registration Statement, the related prospectus or any amendment or
supplement thereto untrue or that requires the making of any
changes in a Market-Making Registration Statement, such prospectus
or any amendment or supplement thereto, in order to make the
statements therein not misleading.
(iv)
If any event contemplated by Section 4(a)(iii)(B),
(D) and (E) occurs during the period for which the
Company is required to maintain an effective Market-Making
Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly prepare and file
with the SEC a post-effective amendment to the applicable
Market-Making Registration Statement or a supplement to the related
prospectus or file any other required document so that the
prospectus will not include an untrue statement of a material fact
or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which
they were made, not misleading.
(v)
In the event of the issuance of any stop order suspending the
effectiveness of a Market-Making Registration Statement or of any
order suspending the qualification of the Registrable Securities or
Exchange Securities for sale in any jurisdiction, the Company shall
use promptly its reasonable best efforts to obtain its
withdrawal.
(vi)
The Company shall furnish to the Market-Maker, in each case without
charge to the Market-Maker, at least one conformed copy of each
Market-Making Registration Statement and any post-effective
amendment thereto and electronic copies of the related prospectus
and any amendment or supplement thereto.
(vii)
The Company shall consent to the use of the prospectus contained in
a Market-Making Registration Statement or any amendment or
supplement thereto by the Market-Maker in connection with its
market-making activities.
(viii)
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 4,
the Company may for valid business reasons, including without
limitation, a potential acquisition, divestiture of assets or other
material corporate transaction, issue a notice that a Market-Making
Registration Statement is no longer effective or the prospectus
included therein is no longer usable for offers and sales of
Registrable Securities or Exchange Securities (or Existing Notes,
if applicable) and may issue any notice suspending use of such
Market-Making Registration Statement required under applicable
securities laws to be issued for so long as valid business reasons
exist and the Company shall not be obligated to amend or supplement
such Market-Making Registration Statement or the prospectus
included therein until it reasonably deems appropriate. The
Market-Maker agrees that upon receipt of any notice from the
Company pursuant to this Section 4(a)(viii), it will
discontinue use of each Market-Making Registration Statement until
receipt of copies of the supplemented or amended prospectus
relating thereto until advised in writing by the Company that the
use of a Market-Making Registration Statement may be resumed.
(b)
In connection with a Market-Making Registration, the Company shall
(i) make reasonably available for inspection by a
representative of, and counsel acting for, the Market-Maker all
relevant financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents
and properties of the Company and its
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subsidiaries
and (ii) use its reasonable best efforts to have its officers,
directors, employees, accountants and counsel supply all relevant
information reasonably requested by such representative or counsel
or the Market-Maker.
(c)
Prior to the effective date of a Market-Making Registration
Statement, the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to
register or qualify such Registrable or Exchange Securities, as
applicable, for offer and sale under the securities or blue sky
laws of such jurisdictions as the Market-Maker reasonably requests
in writing and do any and all other acts or things necessary or
advisable to enable the offer and sale in such jurisdictions of the
Registrable Securities or Exchange Securities covered by such
Market-Making Registration Statement; provided that neither
the Company nor any Guarantor 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 to taxation in any such jurisdiction where it
is not then so subject.
(d)
The Company represents that each Market-Making Registration
Statement, any post-effective amendments thereto, any amendments or
supplements to the related prospectus and any documents filed by
them under the Exchange Act will, when they become effective or are
filed with the SEC, as the case may be, conform in all respects to
the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and the
rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder and will not, as
of the effective date of such Market-Making Registration Statement
or post-effective amendments and as of the filing date of
amendments or supplements to such prospectus or filings under the
Exchange Act, contain 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 in light of the
circumstances under which they were made not misleading;
provided that no representation or warranty is made as to
information contained in or omitted from a Market-Making
Registration Statement or the related prospectus in reliance upon
and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company
by the Market-Maker specifically for inclusion therein, which
information the parties hereto agree will be limited to the
statements concerning the Market-Making activities of the
Market-Maker to be set forth on the cover page and in the
“Plan of Distribution” section of the
prospectus.
(e)
At the time of effectiveness of a Market-Making Registration
Statement (unless it is the same as the time of effectiveness of
the Exchange Offer Registration Statement) and concurrently with
each time such Market-Making Registration Statement or the related
prospectus shall be amended or such prospectus shall be
supplemented, the Company shall (if requested in writing by the
Market-Maker) furnish the Market-Maker and its counsel with a
certificate of an appropriate officer to the effect that:
(i)
such Market-Making Registration Statement has been declared
effective;
(ii)
in the case of an amendment or supplement, such amendment has
become effective under the Securities Act as of the date and time
specified in such certificate, if applicable; if required, such
amendment or supplement to the prospectus was filed with the SEC
pursuant to the subparagraph of Rule 424(b) under the
Securities Act specified in such certificate on the date specified
therein; and
(iii)
as of the date of such Market-Making Registration Statement,
amendment or supplement, as applicable, such Market-Making
Registration Statement and the prospectus, as
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amended or supplemented, if applicable, did not
include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to
state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading.
(f)
The Company, on the one hand, and the Market-Maker, on the other
hand, hereby agree to indemnify each other, and, if applicable,
contribute to the other, in accordance with Section 8 of this
Agreement.
(g)
The Company will comply with the provisions of this Section 4
at its own expense.
(h)
The agreements contained in this Section 4 and the
representations, warranties and agreements contained in this
Agreement shall survive all offers and sales of the Registrable
Securities or Exchange Securities and shall remain in full force
and effect, regardless of any termination or cancellation of
agreements outside this Section 4 of this Agreement or any
investigation made by or on behalf of any indemnified party.
(i)
For purposes of this Section 4, any reference to the terms
“amend,” “amendment” or
“supplement” with respect to a Market-Making
Registration Statement or the prospectus contained therein shall be
deemed to refer to and include the filing under the Exchange Act of
any document deemed to be incorporated therein by reference.
5.
Additional Interest
(a)
The Company and the Purchasers agree that the Holders will suffer
damages if the Company fails to fulfill its obligations under
Section 2 or Section 3 hereof and that it would not be
feasible to ascertain the extent of such damages with
precision. Accordingly, the Company agrees to pay, jointly
and severally, as liquidated damages, additional interest on the
2010 Notes, 2012 Notes and/or the 2017 Notes, as applicable, in
each case that are Registrable Securities (“ Additional
Interest ”), if (A) the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement has not been declared effective by the SEC on or prior to
the Effectiveness Date; (B) the Company has not exchanged
Exchange Securities for all Securities validly tendered in
accordance with the terms of the Exchange Offer on or prior to the
420th day after the Issue Date; (C) the Company is required to
file a Shelf Registration Statement and such Shelf Registration
Statement is not declared effective on or prior to the later of
(1) the 390th day after the Issue Date and (2) the
Effectiveness Date with respect to such Shelf Registration
Statement; or (D) if applicable, a Shelf Registration
Statement has been declared effective and such Shelf Registration
Statement ceases to be effective at any time during the
Effectiveness Period (other than because of the sale of all of the
Registrable Securities registered thereunder), then Additional
Interest shall accrue on the principal amount of the Notes at a
rate of 0.25% per annum (which rate will be increased by an
additional 0.25% per annum for each subsequent 90-day period that
such Additional Interest continues to accrue, provided that the
rate at which such Additional Interest accrues may in no event
exceed 1.00% per annum) (such Additional Interest to be calculated
by the Company) commencing on the (w) 391st day after the Issue
Date, in the case of (A) above, (x) the 421st day after the
Issue Date, in the case of (B) above, (y) the later of the
391st day after the Issue Date and the day after the Effectiveness
Date with respect to the Shelf Registration Statement, in the case
of (C) above, or (z) the day the Shelf Registration Statement
ceases to be effective in the case of (D) above;
provided , however , that upon the effectiveness of
the Exchange
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Offer
Registration Statement (in the case of clause (A) of this
Section 5(a)), upon the exchange of the Exchange Securities
for all Securities validly tendered (in the case of clause
(B) of this Section 5(a)), upon the effectiveness of the
applicable Shelf Registration Statement (in the case of
clause
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