The Registration Statement (a) As promptly as practicable after the date hereof, the Purchaser shall prepare with the reasonable assistance of the Company, and file with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-4 (as amended or supplemented from time to time, and including the Proxy Statement contained therein, the “Registration Statement”) in connection with the registration under the Securities Act of the Purchaser Common Stock to be issued under this Agreement as the Stockholder Merger Consideration, which Registration Statement will also contain a proxy statement (as amended, the “Proxy Statement”) for the purpose of (x) soliciting proxies from the Purchaser’s stockholders for issuance of the Stockholder Merger Consideration and the other the matters to be acted upon at the special meeting of the Purchaser’s stockholders (the ”Purchaser Special Meeting”) and (y) soliciting proxies from the Company Stockholders for the matters to be acted upon at the special meeting of the Company’s Stockholders (the “Company Special Meeting”).
(b) The Purchaser and the Company, with the assistance of the other Parties, shall promptly respond to any SEC comments on the Registration Statement and shall otherwise use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registration Statement to “clear” comments from the SEC and become effective. Each Party shall provide the other Party with copies of any written comments, and shall inform the other Party of any material oral comments, that such Party or its Representatives receive from the SEC or its staff with respect to the Registration Statement, the Purchaser Special Meeting, and the Company Special Meeting promptly after the receipt of such comments and shall give the other Party a reasonable opportunity under the circumstances to review and comment on any proposed written or material oral responses to such comments.
(c) Purchaser shall file the reports required to be filed by it under the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations adopted by the SEC thereunder (or, if Purchaser is not required to file such reports, will, make publicly available other information) and will take such further action as the Company Stockholders may reasonably request, all to the extent required from time to time to enable the Company Stockholders (or their designees) to sell the Merger Consideration without registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by (i) Rule 144 under the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or (ii) any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the SEC.
Filing of the Registration Statement The Company has prepared and filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. [ ]), which contains a form of prospectus to be used in connection with the Offering. Such registration statement, as amended, including the financial statements, exhibits and schedules thereto contained in the registration statement at the time such registration statement became effective, in the form in which it was declared effective by the Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the “Securities Act Regulations”), and including any required information deemed to be a part thereof at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430A under the Securities Act, or pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the “Exchange Act Regulations”), is called the “Registration Statement.” Any registration statement filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act is called the “Rule 462(b) Registration Statement,” and from and after the date and time of filing of the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, the term “Registration Statement” shall include the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement. Such prospectus, in the form first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act after the date and time that this Agreement is executed and delivered by the parties hereto, or, if no filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act is required, the form of final prospectus relating to the Offering included in the Registration Statement at the effective date of the Registration Statement (“Effective Date”), is called the “Prospectus.” All references in this Agreement to the Registration Statement, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, the preliminary prospectus included in the Registration Statement (each, a “preliminary prospectus”), the Prospectus, or any amendments or supplements to any of the foregoing, shall include any copy thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (“▇▇▇▇▇”). The preliminary prospectus that was included in the Registration Statement immediately prior to the Applicable Time (as defined below) is hereinafter called the “Pricing Prospectus.” Any reference to the “most recent preliminary prospectus” shall be deemed to refer to the latest preliminary prospectus included in the registration statement. Any reference herein to any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus or any supplement or amendment to either thereof shall be deemed to refer to and include any documents incorporated by reference therein as of the date of such reference.
Effectiveness of the Registration Statement The Registration Statement shall have been declared effective by the SEC under the Securities Act. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued by the SEC and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been initiated or, to the knowledge of Parent or the Company, threatened by the SEC.
Disclosures in Registration Statement i. Each of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at the time it became effective, complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act. Each Preliminary Prospectus, including the prospectus filed as part of the Registration Statement as originally filed or as part of any amendment or supplement thereto, and the Prospectus, at the time each was filed with the Commission, complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act. Each Preliminary Prospectus delivered to the Underwriters for use in connection with this Offering and the Prospectus was or will be identical to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system (“▇▇▇▇▇”), except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T;
ii. Neither the Registration Statement nor any amendment thereto, at the time each part thereto became effective pursuant to the Securities Act, as of the date of this Agreement, at the First Closing Date or at the Second Closing Date, contained, contains or will contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits or will omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; provided however that this representation and warranty shall not apply to statements made or statements omitted in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company with respect to the Underwriters by the Representative expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto. The parties acknowledge and agree that such information provided by or on behalf of the Underwriters consists solely of (i) the name of the Underwriters contained on the cover page of the Pricing Prospectus and Prospectus and (ii) the sub-sections titled “Commissions and Expenses”, “Underwriters’ Warrants”, “Indemnification; Indemnification Escrow”, “Lock-Up Agreements”, “Pricing of this Offering”, “Electronic Offer, Sale and Distribution”, “Price Stabilization, Short Positions and Penalty Bids”, “Passive Market Making”, “Potential Conflicts of Interest”, and “Selling Restrictions” in each case under the caption “Underwriting” in the Prospectus (the “Underwriter Information”);
iii. The Pricing Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, as of the date of this Agreement, and at the First Closing Date and the Second Closing Date, did not, does not and 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; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to the Underwriter Information. Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus does not conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as supplemented by and taken together with the Pricing Prospectus as of the Applicable Time, did 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 light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to the Underwriter Information; and
iv. Neither the Prospectus nor any amendment or supplement thereto, as of its issue date, at the time of any filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b), or at the First Closing Date or the Second Closing Date, included, includes or will include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits or will 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; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to the Underwriter Information.
Resale Registration Statement (a) Parent shall prepare and file or cause to be prepared and filed with the SEC, as soon as practicable following the Closing Date (but in no event later than thirty (30) days following the Closing Date), a Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis, pursuant to Rule 415 of the Securities Act or any successor thereto, registering the resale from time to time by CBA Member, its Affiliates (as defined in the Stockholder Agreement), such Affiliates of Parent set forth on Schedule 7.4(a), and any other Person who executes an Additional Purchase Subscription Agreement pursuant to Section 7.9 named as “selling shareholders” therein (collectively, the “Holders”) of all of the CBA Closing Consideration and Pubco Shareholder Issuance, and all shares of Parent Class A Common Stock acquired by the CBA Member, its Affiliates (as defined in the Stockholder Agreement), such Affiliates of Parent set forth on Schedule 7.4(a), and any other Person who executes an Additional Purchase Subscription Agreement pursuant to Section 7.9 (the “Resale Shelf Registration Statement” and any CBA Closing Consideration or Pubco Shareholder Issuance so registered, the “Registrable Shares”). The Resale Shelf Registration Statement shall be on Form S-3 (or, if Form S-3 is not available to be used by Parent at such time, on Form S-1 or another appropriate form permitting Registration of such CBA Closing Consideration and Pubco Shareholder Issuance for resale). If the Resale Shelf Registration Statement is initially filed on Form S-1 and thereafter Parent becomes eligible to use Form S-3 for secondary sales, Parent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Resale Shelf Registration Statement to be amended by post-effective amendment as promptly as practicable, such that the Resale Shelf Registration Statement shall be on Form S-3. Parent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Resale Shelf Registration Statement to be declared effective as soon as possible after filing but no later than the earlier of (i) 180 days following the Closing Date and (ii) the tenth (10th) Business Day after the date Parent is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the SEC that the Resale Shelf Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review and shall provide prompt notice to the Holders of such effectiveness; provided, however, that Parent’s obligations to include the Registrable Shares held by the Holders in the Resale Shelf Registration Statement are contingent upon the Holders timely furnishing in writing to Parent such information regarding the Holders, the securities of Parent to be held by the Holders and the intended method of disposition of the Registrable Shares as shall be reasonably requested by the Parent to effect the registration of the Registrable Shares, and the Holders shall execute such documents in connection with such registration as Parent may reasonably request that are customary of a selling stockholder in similar situations.
(b) CBA Member agrees to comply with all applicable federal and state securities Laws in connection with the resale of Registrable Shares pursuant to the Resale Shelf Registration Statement. Parent shall notify CBA Member promptly upon discovery that the Resale Shelf Registration Statement or any supplement to any prospectus forming a part of the Resale Shelf Registration Statement contains a Material Misstatement and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to supplement or amend such prospectus as promptly as practicable so that such prospectus will not contain such Material Misstatement and shall provide a copy of such supplemented or amended prospectus to CBA Member as promptly as practicable, but no later than one (1) Business Day following the filing thereof with the SEC. Upon being notified by Parent of any Material Misstatement, CBA Member shall refrain from selling any Registrable Shares pursuant to the Resale Shelf Registration Statement until such holder receives from Parent copies of a supplemented or amended prospectus prepared and filed by Parent, or until Parent notifies such holders in writing that the then current prospectus may be used.
(c) Following declaration of the effectiveness of the Resale Shelf Registration Statement, Parent shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Resale Shelf Registration Statement to be continuously effective until such time as all Registrable Shares covered by such Resale Shelf Registration Statement (i) have been sold (whether pursuant to such Resale Shelf Registration Statement or otherwise) or (ii) may be transferred under Rule 144 or another similar exemption under the Securities Act without manner of sale or volume restrictions (such period, the “Registration Period”).
(d) From the date of this Agreement until the end of the Registration Period, Parent shall make and keep public information available, as those terms are understood and defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act, and file with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and other documents required to be filed by Parent under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act.