FORM OF AMENDED AND RESTATED
STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT
OF
COMPLETE PRODUCTION SERVICES, INC.
A Delaware Corporation
This Amended and
Restated STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT, dated as of [___], 2006 amends and
restates in its entirety the Amended and Restated Stockholders
Agreement (the “ Previous Agreement
”), dated as of September 12, 2005, by and among
Complete Production Services, Inc. (the “
Company ”) and the other parties thereto
(including parties who had become parties thereto by execution of
an adoption agreement) as contemplated by Section 5.8 of the
Previous Agreement and as amended by the First Amendment to the
Previous Agreement, dated as of [___ ___], 2006.
ARTICLE 1.
DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION
1.1
Definitions. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere
herein, when used herein the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
“
Affiliate ” means, with respect to a particular
Person, any Person Controlling, Controlled by, or Under Common
Control with such Person.
“
Agreement ” means this Amended and Restated
Stockholders Agreement, as further amended and restated from time
to time.
“
Board ” means the board of directors of the
Company.
“
Business Day ” means any day other than a
Saturday, a Sunday, or a holiday on which banks are authorized or
required by Law to close in the city of Houston, Texas.
“
Common Stock ” means the common stock, $.01 par
value, of the Company.
“
Common Stock Equivalents ” means (without
duplication with any other Common Stock or Common Stock
Equivalents) rights, warrants, options, convertible securities, or
exchangeable securities or indebtedness, or other rights,
exercisable for or convertible or exchangeable into, directly or
indirectly, Common Stock or securities convertible or exchangeable
into Common Stock, whether at the time of issuance or upon the
passage of time or the occurrence of some future event.
“
Company ” means Complete Production Services,
Inc., a Delaware corporation.
“
Contractual Management Rights ” has the meaning
set forth in Section 3.1(b).
“
Control ” (including the correlative terms
“Controlling”, “Controlled by” and
“Under Common Control with”) means possession, directly
or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause
the direction
of management or policies (whether through ownership of securities
or any partnership or other ownership interest, by contract or
otherwise) of a Person.
“
Demand Holder ” means any SCF Demand Holder or
Non-SCF Demand Holder.
“
Demand Registration ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.1(a)(i) below.
“
Demand Request ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.1(a)(i) below.
“
Disposing Holders ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.9.
“
Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated by
the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder.
“
Fully-Diluted Common Stock ” means, at any time,
the then outstanding Common Stock of the Company plus (without
duplication) all shares of Common Stock issuable, whether at such
time or upon the passage of time or the occurrence of future
events, upon the exercise, conversion or exchange of all then
outstanding Common Stock Equivalents.
“
Holder ” means a Stockholder (as defined herein,
but excluding any Person who executes this Agreement or a separate
agreement to be bound by the terms hereof solely in his or her
capacity as a spouse of a Stockholder) who holds Registrable
Securities; provided , however that a Person shall
cease to be a Holder if and when such Person owns Common Stock and
Common Stock Equivalents representing less than four percent of the
outstanding Common Stock and such Person may dispose of all
Registrable Securities then owned by such Person pursuant to Rule
144(k) (or any successor rule) under the Securities Act, and in
such case the Registrable Securities owned by such Person shall
cease to be Registrable Securities; provided further,
however that a Person shall cease to be a Holder after the
second anniversary hereof if the Company requests in writing that
such Person confirm in writing that such Person remains a Holder
and such Person fails to so confirm within 30 days of such
notice.
“
Indemnified Party ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.6(c) below.
“
Indemnifying Party ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.6(c) below.
“
Inspectors ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.4(j) below.
“
Law ” means any applicable constitutional
provision, statute, act, code, law, regulation, rule, ordinance,
order, decree, ruling, proclamation, resolution, judgment,
decision, declaration, or interpretative or advisory opinion or
letter of a governmental authority.
“
Material Adverse Effect ” has the meaning set
forth in Section 2.1(d) below.
“
Non-SCF Demand Holders ” means the Non-SCF Holders
and each transferee of Non-SCF Registrable Securities directly or
indirectly (in a chain of title) from the Non-SCF Holder if such
transferee to whom the right to request, or participate in the
request of, a Demand Registration under Section 2.1(a) has
been expressly assigned in writing directly or indirectly (in a
chain of title) from the Non-SCF Holder as permitted by
Section 2.8 hereof.
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“
Non-SCF Holder ” means any Stockholder other than
SCF or any of its Affiliates.
“
Non-SCF Registrable Securities ” means the Common
Stock issued to or acquired by any Non-SCF Holders, and any Common
Stock into which Common Stock Equivalents held by a Non-SCF Holder
have been or may be converted, exchanged or acquired and any other
securities issued or issuable with respect to such securities by
way of a stock dividend or stock split or in connection with a
combination of shares, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or
reorganization; provided , that any Non-SCF Registrable
Security will cease to be a Non-SCF Registrable Security when
(a) a registration statement covering such Non-SCF Registrable
Security has been declared effective by the SEC and it has been
disposed of pursuant to such effective registration statement,
(b) it is sold under circumstances in which all of the
applicable conditions of Rule 144 (or any similar provisions
then in force) under the Securities Act are met, (c) (i) it
has been otherwise transferred, (ii) the Company has delivered
a new certificate or other evidence of ownership for it not bearing
any legend similar to that required pursuant to Section 5.6 of
the Previous Agreement and (iii) it may be resold without
subsequent registration under the Securities Act and without any
restrictions set forth under Rule 144 (or any successor rule)
or (d) the Non-SCF Holder thereof has ceased to be a Holder in
accordance with the provisos to the definition of Holder provided
for herein.
“
Person ” means any natural person, limited
liability company, corporation, limited partnership, general
partnership, joint stock company, joint venture, association,
company, trust, bank trust company, land trust, business trust, or
other organization, whether or not a legal entity, and any
government or agency or political subdivision thereof.
“
Piggyback Registration ” has the meaning set forth
in Section 2.2(a).
“
Piggyback Securities ” has the meaning set forth
in Section 2.2(b).
“
Preferred Request ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.3(c).
“
Qualified Public Offering ” means the first
closing of an underwritten public offering of Common Stock
registered under the Securities Act, pursuant to which such shares
of common stock are authorized and approved for listing on a
national securities exchange or admitted to trading and quoted in
the Nasdaq National Market or comparable system.
“
Records ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.4(j) below.
“
Registrable Securities ” means the SCF Registrable
Securities and the Non-SCF Registrable Securities.
“
Registration Expenses ” has the meaning set forth
in Section 2.5 below.
“
Requesting Holders ” means a Holder who makes a
Demand Request pursuant to Section 2.1 below, except as
provided in Section 2.1(e) below.
“
Required Filing Date ” has the meaning set forth
in Section 2.1(a)(ii).
“
SCF ” means SCF-IV, L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership.
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“ SCF
Demand Holders ” means SCF and each transferee of SCF
Registrable Securities directly or indirectly (in a chain of title)
from SCF if such transferee to whom the right to request a Demand
Registration under Section 2.1(a) has been expressly assigned
in writing directly or indirectly (in a chain of title) from SCF as
permitted by Section 2.8 hereof.
“ SCF
Directors ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 3.1(a).
“ SCF
Registrable Securities ” means the Common Stock
issued to or acquired by SCF, including any Common Stock acquired
by SCF from any Non-SCF Holder in accordance with the terms of the
Agreement, and any Common Stock into which Common Stock Equivalents
held by SCF have been converted, exchanged or acquired and any
other securities issued or issuable with respect to such securities
by way of a stock dividend or stock split or in connection with a
combination of shares, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or
reorganization; provided , that any SCF Registrable Security
will cease to be an SCF Registrable Security when (a) a
registration statement covering such SCF Registrable Security has
been declared effective by the SEC and it has been disposed of
pursuant to such effective registration statement, (b) it is
sold under circumstances in which all of the applicable conditions
of Rule 144 (or any similar provisions then in force) under
the Securities Act are met, (c) (i) it has been otherwise
transferred, (ii) the Company has delivered a new certificate
or other evidence of ownership for it not bearing any legend
similar to that required pursuant to Section 5.6 of the
Previous Agreement and (iii) it may be resold without
subsequent registration under the Securities Act, or (d) SCF
has ceased to be a Holder in accordance with the provisos to the
definition of Holder provided for herein.
“
SEC ” means the Securities and Exchange Commission
or any successor governmental agency.
“
Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended from time to time.
“
Selling Holder ” means a Holder who is selling
Registrable Securities pursuant to a registration statement under
the Securities Act.
“
Spouse ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 4.8.
“
Stockholder ” means each person listed as a
“Stockholder” on Exhibit A hereto and any
Person to whom Registrable Securities and registration rights have
been transferred pursuant to Section 2.8 hereof.
“
Subsidiary ” means (i) any corporation or
other entity a majority of the capital stock or other equity
ownership interests of which having ordinary voting power to elect
a majority of the board of directors or other Persons performing
similar functions is at the time owned, directly or indirectly,
with power to vote, by the Company or any direct or indirect
Subsidiary of the Company or (ii) a partnership in which the
Company or any direct or indirect Subsidiary is a general
partner.
“
Transfer ” (including the correlative terms
“Transfers,” “Transferring” or
“Transferred”) means any direct or indirect transfer,
assignment, sale, gift, pledge, hypothecation or other encumbrance,
or any other disposition (whether voluntary or involuntary or by
operation
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of law), of
shares of Common Stock (or any interest (pecuniary or otherwise)
therein or right thereto), including derivative or similar
transactions or arrangements whereby a portion or all of the
economic interest in, or risk of loss or opportunity for gain with
respect to, Common Stock is transferred or shifted to another
Person; provided , however , that (i) an
exchange, merger, recapitalization, consolidation or reorganization
involving the Company in which securities of the Company or any
other Person and/or cash are issued in respect of all shares of
Common Stock shall not be deemed a Transfer if all shares of Common
Stock are treated identically in any such transaction (other than
(A) differences resulting from the treatment of fractional
shares that would otherwise result from such transaction,
(B) the cancellation for no consideration of shares of Common
Stock held by any Party that has consented to such cancellation
and/or (C) differences resulting from any election made by the
Parties so long as all Parties have an equal opportunity to make
such an election) and (ii) the exercise of options in
accordance with the terms of an Incentive Plan shall not be deemed
a Transfer.
“
Underwriter ” means a securities dealers which
purchases any Registrable Securities as principal and not as part
of such dealer’s market-making activities.
1.2
Construction. All references in this Agreement to
Exhibits, Articles, Sections, subsections and other subdivisions
refer to the corresponding Exhibits, Articles, Sections,
subsections and other subdivisions of or to this Agreement unless
expressly provided otherwise. Titles appearing at the beginning of
any Articles, Sections, subsections or other subdivisions of this
Agreement are for convenience only, do not constitute any part of
this Agreement, and shall be disregarded in construing the language
hereof. The words “this Agreement,”
“herein,” “hereby,” “hereunder”
and “hereof” and words of similar import refer to this
Agreement as a whole and not to any particular subdivision unless
expressly so limited. The words “this Article,”
“this Section” and “this subsection” and
words of similar import refer only to the Article, Section or
subsection hereof in which such words occur. The word
“or” is not exclusive, and the word
“including” (in its various forms) means including
without limitation. Pronouns in masculine, feminine or neuter
genders shall be construed to state and include any other gender,
and words, terms and titles (including terms defined herein) in the
singular form shall be construed to include the plural and vice
versa, unless the context otherwise requires.
ARTICLE 2.
REGISTRATION OF STOCK
(a)
Request for Registration .
(i) From and after
180 days following a Qualified Public Offering, any SCF Demand
Holder or the Non-SCF Demand Holders holding in the aggregate at
least 50% of the Non-SCF Registrable Securities then held by the
Non-SCF Demand Holders may make a written request of the Company (a
“ Demand Request ”) to have the
Company effect a registration under the Securities Act (a “
Demand Registration ”) for the sale of
all or part of their Registrable Securities. Following receipt of
such Demand Request, the Company shall be required to use
commercially reasonable efforts to effect such Demand Registration
subject to the terms hereof; provided that the Registrable
Securities proposed
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to be offered
by the Requesting Holders in any such Demand Request must have a
reasonably anticipated aggregate offering price of at least
$20,000,000 net of underwriting discounts and commissions; and
provided further that (x) the SCF Demand Holders shall
be entitled to make no more than five Demand Requests in the
aggregate pursuant to the foregoing provisions and (y) subject
to paragraph (b) below, the Non-SCF Demand Holders (regardless
of whether certain Non-SCF Demand Holders do not participate in
such Demand Request) shall be entitled to make no more than one
Demand Request pursuant to the foregoing provisions; and
provided further that, with respect to clauses (x) and
(y) above, the Company shall not be obligated to effect more
than one Demand Registration at the request of any of the Demand
Holders in any six-month period. After such time as the Company
shall become eligible to use Form S-3 (or comparable form) for the
registration under the Securities Act of any of its securities, any
Demand Request by SCF with a reasonably anticipated aggregate
offering price of at least $100,000,000 may be for a
“shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415 under
the Securities Act; provided that if SCF requests that any
such “shelf” registration statement remain effective
for a period in excess of two years, such “shelf”
registration shall count as two Demand Requests for the purposes of
this Section 2.1(a).
(ii) Each Demand
Request shall specify the number of shares of Registrable
Securities proposed to be sold. Subject to Section 2.3(c), the
Company shall use its best efforts to file under the Securities Act
a registration statement on an appropriate form to effect the
Demand Registration within 30 days if eligible to use Form
S-3, otherwise within 60 days if not so eligible, after
receiving a Demand Request (the “ Required Filing
Date ”) and shall use commercially reasonable
efforts to cause the same to be declared effective by the SEC as
promptly as practicable after such filing.
(b)
Effective Registration and Expenses . A registration will
not count as a Demand Registration until it has become effective
(unless the Requesting Holders withdraw their Demand Request, in
which case such demand will count as a Demand Registration unless
(i) the Requesting Holders pay all Registration Expenses in
connection with such withdrawn registration, (ii) during the
registration process material adverse information regarding the
Company is disclosed that was not known by such Requesting Holders
at the time the request for such Demand Registration was made or
(iii) the Company has not complied in all material respects
with its obligations hereunder required to have been taken prior to
such withdrawal); provided that if, after it has become
effective, an offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to a
registration is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or
other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency
or court, such registration will be deemed not to have been
effected and will not count as a Demand Registration.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, in connection with the Demand
Request made by the Non-SCF Demand Holders only, the number of
Registrable Securities of such Non-SCF Demand Holders included in
such registration after giving effect to the provisions of
paragraph (d) below is less than 70% of the Non-SCF
Registrable Securities requested to be included in such
registration pursuant to such Demand Request, such Non-SCF Demand
Holders shall be entitled to make one additional Demand Request, in
which case the dollar limitations set forth in paragraph
(a) above shall be waived; provided that any Non-SCF
Demand Holders who elected to opt out of the first Demand Request
by the Non-SCF Demand Holders shall be entitled to participate in
any additional Demand Request hereby granted to the Non-SCF Demand
Holders.
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(c)
Selection of Underwriters . The offering of Registrable
Securities pursuant to a Demand Registration requested prior to
such time as the Company is eligible to register on a Form S-3
registration statement (or a successor form) the sale of Common
Stock requested by such Demand Registration shall be in the form of
an underwritten offering. If the Requesting Holder so indicates,
the Requesting Holder shall select the book-running managing
Underwriter and such additional Underwriters to be used in
connection with the offering; provided that such selections
shall be subject to the consent of the Company, which consent shall
not be unreasonably withheld.
(d)
Priority on Demand Registrations . No securities to be sold
for the account of any Person (including the Company) other than a
Requesting Holder shall be included in a Demand Registration if the
managing Underwriter(s) shall advise the Requesting Holders that
the inclusion of such securities will materially and adversely
affect the price or success of the offering (a “
Material Adverse Effect ”);
provided , however , that for purposes of the
foregoing, (i) with respect to a Demand Request made by an SCF
Demand Holder, all other SCF Holders who desire to participate in
such Demand Registration and, for the first two (2) Demand
Requests made by the SCF Demand Holders only, all Non-SCF Holders
who have the right to participate in such Demand Registration in
accordance with paragraph (e) below or pursuant to an exercise
of their rights under Section 2.2, shall be deemed to be
Requesting Holders for all purposes other than determining the
number of Demand Requests made by such SCF Holders, and
(ii) with respect to a Demand Request made by the Non-SCF
Demand Holders, all of the Non-SCF Demand Holders who desire to
participate in such Demand Registration shall be deemed to be
Requesting Holders. Furthermore, in the event the managing
Underwriter(s) shall advise the Requesting Holders that even after
exclusion of all securities of other Persons pursuant to the
immediately preceding sentence, the amount of Registrable
Securities proposed to be included in such Demand Registration by
Requesting Holders is sufficiently large to cause a Material
Adverse Effect, the Registrable Securities of Requesting Holders to
be included in such Demand Registration shall be allocated pro rata
among the Requesting Holders on the basis of the number of shares
of Common Stock requested to be included in such registration by
each such Requesting Holder.
(e)
Multiple Demands . If the Company shall receive, within a
period of 15 days, a request to file a registration statement
from more than one Person who has the contractual right (whether
exercisable alone or in conjunction with other rights) to require
the Company to file a registration statement (whether or not such
Person is a Demand Holder), only the first such Person requesting
the Company to file a registration statement shall be considered a
Requesting Holder for the purposes of determining the number of
Demand Requests that may be made by such Person pursuant to this
Section 2.1, and all other Persons making such requests shall
be considered a Requesting Holder for all purposes other than
determining the number of Demand Requests made by such Person and
provided further that if the request to file such a
registration statement was first made by the Non-SCF Holders, then
any Non-SCF Holder who exercises his rights under Section 2.2
hereof shall be deemed a Requesting Holder for all purposes
hereunder. In the event the Company shall receive a request to file
a Demand Registration Statement from any Person (including a Demand
Holder) who has the contractual right to cause the Company to do
so, the Company shall promptly (and in any event within five days
after its receipt of such request) notify all Demand Holders (in
each case who then own Registrable Securities) thereof.
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2.2
Piggy-Back Registration.
(a)
Piggyback Registration Rights . If the Company proposes to
file a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect
to an offering of any shares of Common Stock by the Company for its
own account (other than a Qualified Public Offering) or for the
account of any holder of Common Stock (including any Holder) (other
than a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8 or any substitute
form that may be adopted by the SEC or any registration statement
filed in connection with an exchange offer or offering of
securities solely to the Company’s existing security
holders), then the Company shall give written notice of such
proposed filing to the Holders of the Registrable Securities as
soon as practicable (but, subject to the last sentence in
Section 2.1(e), in no event less than 15 days before the
anticipated filing date of such registration statement), and such
notice shall offer such Holders the opportunity to register such
number of Registrable Securities as each such Holder may request (a
“ Piggyback Registration ”).
Subject to Section 2.2(b) hereof, the Company shall include in
each such Piggyback Registration all Registrable Securities
requested to be included in the registration for such offering by
written notice to the Company within 15 days of receipt (in
accordance with Section 4.1) of the Company’s notice
referred to above; provided , however , that the
Company may at any time withdraw or cease proceeding with any such
registration for its own account prior to effectiveness of such
registration whether or not any Holder of Registrable Securities
has elected to include any Registrable Securities in such
registration. Each Holder of Registrable Securities shall be
permitted to withdraw all or part of such Holder’s
Registrable Securities from a Piggyback Registration at any time
prior to the effective date thereof.
(b)
Priority on Piggyback Registration . The Company shall use
commercially reasonable efforts to cause the managing
Underwriter(s) of a proposed underwritten offering to permit the
Registrable Securities requested to be included in the registration
statement for such offering under Section 2.2(a) (“
Piggyback Securities ”) to be included
on the same terms and conditions as any similar securities included
therein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be
required to include any Holder’s Piggyback Securities in such
offering unless such Holder accepts the terms of the underwriting
agreement between the Company and the managing Underwriter(s) and
otherwise complies with the provisions of Section 2.7 below.
If the managing Underwriter(s) of a proposed underwritten offering
advise(s) the Company that in their opinion the total amount of
securities, including Piggyback Securities, to be included in such
offering is sufficiently large to cause a Material Adverse Effect,
then in such event the securities to be included in such offering
shall be allocated first to the Requesting Holders if such
registration statement is pursuant to a Demand Request or, if not,
then to the Company, and then, to the extent that any additional
securities can, in the opinion of such managing Underwriter(s), be
sold without any such Material Adverse Effect, pro rata among the
holders of Piggyback Securities on the basis of the number of
Registrable Securities then held by each such holder.
(a)
Restrictions on Public Sale by Holder of Registrable
Securities . Following any underwritten public offering of
equity securities by the Company or any Holder of Registrable
Securities effected pursuant to this Agreement, each Holder of
Registrable Securities agrees not to effect any public sale or
distribution of securities similar to those being registered or of
any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for
such securities or hedging
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transactions
relating to the Registrable Securities, including a sale pursuant
to Rule 144 under the Securities Act, during the 14 days
prior to the expected date of “pricing” of such
offering and during such period, not to exceed 180 days with
respect to a Qualified Public Offering or 90 days with respect
to any subsequent offering, beginning on the date of such final
prospectus (or prospectus supplement if the offering is made
pursuant to a “shelf” registration) as shall be
reasonably requested by the managing Underwriter(s) except as part
of such registration, and, if and to the extent requested by the
managing Underwriter(s), each such Holder of Registrable Securities
agrees to execute an agreement to the foregoing effect with the
Underwriter(s) for such offering on such terms as the managing
Underwriter(s) shall reasonably request.
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