NERC Registration The NTO shall register or enter into agreement with a NERC registered entity for all required NERC functions applicable to the NTO, that may include, without limitation, those functions designated by NERC to be: “Transmission Owner” and “Transmission Planner” and “Transmission Operator.” The Parties agree to negotiate in good faith the compliance obligations for the NERC functions applicable to, and to be performed by, each Party with respect to the NTO’s facilities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the ISO shall register for the “Transmission Operator” function for all NTO Transmission Facilities under ISO Operational Control identified in Appendix A-1 of this Agreement.
Form S-3 Registration In case the Company shall receive from any Holder or Holders of the Registrable Securities then outstanding a written request or requests that the Company effect a registration on Form S-3 and any related qualification or compliance with respect to all or a part of the Registrable Securities owned by such Holder or Holders, the Company will:
(a) promptly give written notice of the proposed registration, and any related qualification or compliance, to all other Holders; and
(b) use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as soon as practicable, such registration and all such qualifications and compliances as may be so requested and as would permit or facilitate the sale and distribution of all or such portion of such Holder’s or Holders’ Registrable Securities as are specified in such request, together with all or such portion of the Registrable Securities of any other Holder or Holders joining in such request as are specified in a written request given within 15 days after receipt of such written notice from the Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to effect any such registration, qualification or compliance, pursuant to this Section 1.11: (1) if Form S-3 is not available for such offering by the Holders; (2) if the participating Holders, together with the holders of any other securities of the Company entitled to inclusion in such registration, propose to sell Registrable Securities and such other securities (if any) at an anticipated aggregate price to the public (net of any underwriters’ discounts or commissions) of less than $1,000,000; (3) if the Company has, within the twelve (12) month period preceding the date of such request, already effected two (2) registrations on Form S-3 for the Holders pursuant to this Section 1.11; or (4) in any particular jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such registration, qualification or compliance unless the Company is already subject to service in such jurisdiction and except as may be required by the Act.
(c) Subject to the foregoing, the Company shall file a registration statement covering the Registrable Securities and other securities so requested to be registered as soon as practicable after receipt of the request or requests of the Holders. All expenses incurred in connection with a registration requested pursuant to Section 1.11, including (without limitation) all registration, filing, qualification, printer’s and accounting fees, reasonable fees and expenses for one special counsel for the Holders associated with Registrable Securities (such special counsel to be selected by the Holders of at least a majority in interest of the outstanding Registrable Securities (determined on an as-converted to Common Stock basis) requesting such registration) and the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company, but excluding any underwriters’ discounts or commissions, shall be borne by the Company. Registrations effected pursuant to this Section 1.11 shall not be counted as demands for registration or registrations effected pursuant to Sections 1.2 or 1.3, respectively.
SEC Registration The Parties mutually agree to use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain effective registration statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to the long-term incentive awards to the extent any such registration statement is required by applicable Law.
Required Registration (a) On two (2) occasions after the date that is the earlier of (i) Monday, July 19, 2010, and (ii) one hundred eighty (180) days after the consummation of the initial Public Offering, Holders of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities then outstanding may require the Company to register such Holders’ Registrable Securities under the Securities Act. Such Holders shall notify the Company in writing that it or they intend to offer or cause to be offered for public sale of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities, and within ten (10) days of the receipt after such notice, the Company will so notify all Holders of Registrable Securities.
(b) Upon written request of any Holder given within thirty (30) days after the receipt by such Holder from the Company of such notification, the Company will use its best efforts to cause all or any part of the Registrable Securities that may be requested by any Holder thereof (including the Holders giving the initial notice of intent to offer (each an “Initiating Holder” and collectively the “Initiating Holders”)) to be registered under the Securities Act as expeditiously as possible; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to effect any such registration pursuant to this Section 2.2 unless the proposed aggregate dollar amount of the offering (valued at the high end of a proposed offering range) of the Registrable Securities requested to be included is at least $10,000,000.
(c) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section 2.2 or Section 2.3 to the contrary, if the Company furnishes to the Holders requesting any registration pursuant to such sections a certificate signed by the President of the Company stating that, in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, such registration would be detrimental to the Company and that it is in the best interests of the Company to defer the filing of a registration statement, then the Company shall have the right to defer the filing of a registration statement with respect to such offering for a period of not more than one hundred and eighty (180) days from receipt by the Company of the request by the Initiating Holder; provided, however, that the Company may not exercise such right more than once in any twelve-month period.
(d) If the Initiating Holders intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the Company as part of their request and the Company shall include such information in the written notice referred to above.
(e) The underwriter shall be selected by a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company. In such event, the right of any Holder to include his, her or its Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such Holder’s participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of such Holder’s Registrable Securities in the underwriting to the extent provided herein. All Holders proposing to distribute their securities through such underwriting shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the underwriters selected for such underwriting.
(f) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the managing underwriter shall impose a limitation on the number of shares of Common Stock included in any such registration statement because, in such underwriter’s judgment, such limitation is necessary based on market conditions, the Company shall be obligated to include in such registration statement, with respect to the Holders of Registrable Securities which would otherwise be underwritten pursuant hereto, only an amount of Registrable Securities equal to the product of (i) the number of Registrable Securities that remain available for registration after the underwriter’s cut back and (ii) such Holder’s Ownership Percentage; provided, however, that the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such underwriting shall not be reduced unless all other securities other than the Registrable Securities are first entirely excluded from the underwriting.
(g) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to effect, or to take any action to effect, any registration pursuant to this Section 2.2: (i) after the Company has effected two (2) registrations pursuant to this Section 2.2 and such registrations have been declared or ordered effective; (ii) during the period ending on a date one hundred eighty (180) days after the consummation of the initial Public Offering; or (iii) if within thirty (30) days after receipt by the Company of the Holders’ initial notice of intent to offer, the Company furnishes to such Holders requesting registration a certificate signed by the President of the Company stating the Company’s intent to file a registration statement for the initial Public Offering within the following ninety (90) days.
Registration, etc Each Pledgor agrees that, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default hereunder, if for any reason the Collateral Agent desires to sell any of the Pledged Securities of the Borrower at a public sale, it will, at any time and from time to time, upon the written request of the Collateral Agent, use its best efforts to take or to cause the issuer of such Pledged Securities to take such action and prepare, distribute and/or file such documents, as are required or advisable in the reasonable opinion of counsel for the Collateral Agent to permit the public sale of such Pledged Securities. Each Pledgor further agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Collateral Agent, each other Secured Party, any underwriter and their respective officers, directors, affiliates and controlling persons from and against all loss, liability, expenses, costs of counsel (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses to the Collateral Agent of legal counsel), and claims (including the costs of investigation) that they may incur insofar as such loss, liability, expense or claim arises out of or is based upon any alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or in any notification or offering circular, or arises out of or is based upon any alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements in any thereof not misleading, except insofar as the same may have been caused by any untrue statement or omission based upon information furnished in writing to such Pledgor or the issuer of such Pledged Securities by the Collateral Agent or any other Secured Party expressly for use therein. Each Pledgor further agrees, upon such written request referred to above, to use its best efforts to qualify, file or register, or cause the issuer of such Pledged Securities to qualify, file or register, any of the Pledged Securities under the Blue Sky or other securities laws of such states as may be requested by the Collateral Agent and keep effective, or cause to be kept effective, all such qualifications, filings or registrations. Each Pledgor will bear all costs and expenses of carrying out its obligations under this Section 12. Each Pledgor acknowledges that there is no adequate remedy at law for failure by it to comply with the provisions of this Section 12 and that such failure would not be adequately compensable in damages, and therefore agrees that its agreements contained in this Section 12 may be specifically enforced.