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