2.5 You hereby agree that you will in no event sell or distribute all or any part of the Shares unless (a) you comply with the provisions of this Agreement and (b)(i) there is an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws covering any such transaction involving the Shares or (ii) the Company receives an opinion of your legal counsel (concurred in by legal counsel for the Company) stating that such transaction is exempt from registration or, in the Company’s sole discretion, the Company otherwise satisfies itself that such transaction is exempt from registration.
2.6 You hereby consent to the placing of a legend on your certificate(s) as set forth in Section 5 and to the placing of a stop-transfer order on the books of the Company and with any transfer agents against the Shares until the Shares may be legally resold or distributed.
2.7 You hereby confirm that you understand that at the present time Rule 144 of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) may not be relied on for the resale or distribution of the Shares by you. You understand that the Company has no obligation to you to register the Shares with the SEC and has not represented to you that it will so register the Shares.
2.8 You confirm that you have been advised, prior to your purchase of the Shares, that neither the offering of the Shares nor any offering materials have been reviewed by any administrator under the Securities Act or any other applicable securities act (the “Acts”) and that the Shares have not been registered under any of the Acts and therefore cannot be resold unless they are registered under the Acts or unless an exemption from such registration is available.
2.9 You hereby agree to indemnify the Company and hold it harmless from and against any loss, claim or liability, including attorneys’ fees or legal expenses, incurred by the Company as a result of any breach by you of, or any inaccuracy in, any representation, warranty or statement made by you in this Agreement or the breach by you of any terms or conditions of this Agreement.
3.1 Restrictions on Transfer. Shares will not be sold, transferred, assigned, pledged, encumbered or otherwise disposed of in contravention of the provisions of this Agreement. The Shares may not be sold, transferred, assigned, pledged, encumbered or otherwise disposed of without the prior consent of the Plan Administrator. If the Plan Administrator consents to such sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance or other disposal of the Shares, and you comply with the provisions of Section 4, you agree to (a) pay the Company a transfer processing fee of $5,000 per transaction (whereby transfers to separate transferees shall be deemed to be separate transactions); and (b) provide an opinion, which is reasonably acceptable to legal counsel for the Company, of your legal counsel and the counsel of the transferee (concurred in by legal counsel for the Company) stating that such transaction is exempt from registration under applicable securities laws or, in the Company’s sole discretion, the Company otherwise satisfies itself that such transaction is exempt from registration under applicable securities laws. Such restrictions on transfer, however, will not apply to a transfer to the Company in pledge as security for any purchase-money indebtedness incurred by you in connection with the acquisition of the Shares. For purposes of this Agreement, a “transfer” shall mean any transfer or registration of transfer within the meaning of Delaware law and section 202 of the Delaware general corporation law, including but not limited to any sale, assignment, conveyance, hypothecation, encumbrance, pledge, gift, grant of a security interest or lien, transfer by bequest, devise or descent, any short sale, grant of any option, any hedging or similar transaction with the same economic effect as a sale or transfer, or other transfer or disposition of any kind of a share or any legal, economic or beneficial interest in such share, whether or not for value and whether voluntary or involuntary or by operation of law, or any right or interest therein. Transfer shall also include, without limitation, any (i) transfer of a share to a broker or other nominee (regardless of whether or not there is a corresponding change in beneficial ownership); (2) transfer to a receiver, levying creditor, trustee or receiver in bankruptcy proceedings or general assignee for the benefit of creditors, whether voluntary or by operation of law, directly or indirectly; or (3) transfer of, or entering into a binding agreement with respect to, the power (whether exclusive or shared) to vote or direct the voting of such share by proxy or otherwise.
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