Initial Public Offering (a) In the event that at any time after the date hereof, the Board of Directors determines that it shall facilitate an offering of Equity Securities in the Company or a successor through an Initial Public Offering, then the Board of Directors shall have the power to cause the Company to be reorganized as a corporation (such corporation or other issuer entity being hereinafter referred to as a “Public Vehicle”) under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware by incorporation, merger, conversion, contribution, formation of a corporate Subsidiary or other permissible manner (a “Conversion”), and the Members shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to effectuate such Conversion and take such actions as are reasonably necessary or desirable to complete the Initial Public Offering in a manner designed to achieve a fair price and broad public distribution of the securities being offered in the Initial Public Offering. (b) If applicable, the Members holding Units shall receive, in exchange for their Units of a particular class, shares of stock in the Public Vehicle of the relevant class having the same relative seniority, preference, accumulated dividends, dividend rate, dividend accumulation and compounding and, in the case of the Class A Units, the other characteristics of the Class A Units, voting, management and consent rights, economic interest and other rights and obligations (and in no event shall such interest, rights or obligations be less favorable to such Member than the terms of their respective Units) in the Public Vehicle as are set forth in this Agreement applicable to the Units, subject to any modifications deemed appropriate by the Board of Directors as a result of the Conversion or if advisable in order to effectuate the Initial Public Offering. (c) In such event, the Public Vehicle and the Members (in their capacities as stockholders of the Public Vehicle) shall enter into a stockholders’ agreement providing for such terms and conditions as are necessary for the rights and obligations and provisions of this Agreement that survive an Initial Public Offering (and do not otherwise adversely affect the ability to effectuate the Initial Public Offering) to continue to apply to the Public Vehicle, the stockholders of the Public Vehicle and the capital stock of the Public Vehicle, including (i) an agreement to vote all shares of capital stock held by such stockholders to elect the Board of Directors of such resulting corporation in accordance with the substance of Section 6.1, and (ii) the rights and obligations of the Members contained herein (which may, at the election of the holders of a Majority Class A Interest, be contained in the Public Vehicle’s certificate of incorporation). (d) Except as otherwise provided in this Section 3.8, no Member will have the right or power to veto, vote for or against, amend, modify or delay a Conversion or the Initial Public Offering. In furtherance of the foregoing, each Member hereby makes, constitutes and appoints the Company its true and lawful attorney, for it and in its name, place and stead and for its use and benefit, to act as its proxy in respect of any vote or approval of Members required to give effect to this Section 3.8, including any vote or approval required under the Act. The proxy granted pursuant to this Section 3.8(d) is a special proxy coupled with an interest and is irrevocable. (e) The Company and the Members hereby agree to use their commercially reasonable efforts to structure the Conversion to maximize the ability of the Members to aggregate (or “tack”) the period during which they hold their Units together with the period during which they hold shares of capital stock of the Public Vehicle for purposes of the United States securities laws, including Rule 144 under the Securities Act. (f) Each Member (including any Transferee thereof) agrees, if requested by the Company and a managing underwriter, if any, in connection with any Initial Public Offering and upon confirmation reasonably satisfactory to such Member that all officers and directors of the Company and all holders, collectively with their Affiliates and Approved Funds, of one percent (1%) or greater of Equity Securities of the Company shall enter into similar agreements, thereby agreeing not to Transfer any Equity Securities of the Company held by it for one hundred eighty (180) days following the effective date of the relevant registration statement filed under the Securities Act in connection with the Initial Public Offering, as such managing underwriter shall specify reasonably and in good faith. Each Member shall enter into customary letter agreements to the foregoing effect if so, requested by the Company and the managing underwriter, if any. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event any Member is released by the Company and the managing underwriter, if any, from the restrictions contemplated by this Section 3.8(f), all other Members shall be released from such restrictions pro-rata. (g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, the restrictions contained in this Agreement shall not apply to Units, any other Equity Securities or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Units or other Equity Securities acquired by any Member, including acquired by any of their respective Affiliates or Approved Funds, following the effective date of the first registration statement of the Company covering common stock (or other securities) to be sold on behalf of the Company in an underwritten public offering.
Notice of Inability to Use Automatic Shelf Registration Statement Form If at any time when Securities remain unsold by the Underwriters the Company receives from the Commission a notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) or otherwise ceases to be eligible to use the automatic shelf registration statement form, the Company will (i) promptly notify the Representatives, (ii) promptly file a new registration statement or post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement on the proper form relating to the Securities, in a form satisfactory to the Representatives, (iii) use its best efforts to cause such new registration statement or post-effective amendment to be declared effective and (iv) promptly notify the Representatives of such effectiveness. The Company will take all other action necessary or appropriate to permit the public offering and sale of the Securities to continue as contemplated in the registration statement that was the subject of the Rule 401(g)(2) notice or for which the Company has otherwise become ineligible. References herein to the Registration Statement shall include such new registration statement or post-effective amendment, as the case may be.