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Investors’ Rights Agreement
In addition, Arix Ltd. and certain other stockholders of the Issuer entered into an amended and restated investors’s rights agreement with the Issuer (the “Investors Agreement”), dated as of June 19, 2017. The Investor Agreement grants certain registration rights to the holders of shares of the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the shares of preferred stock.
Under the Investors Agreement, holders of registrable shares can demand that the Issuer file a registration statement or request that their shares be included on a registration statement that the Issuer is otherwise filing, in either case, registering the resale of their shares of Common Stock. These registration rights are subject to conditions and limitations, including the right, in certain circumstances, of the underwriters of an offering to limit the number of shares included in such registration and the Issuer’s right, in certain circumstances, not to effect arequested S-1 or S-3 registration during the period that is 60 days or 30 days, respectively, before its estimated date of filing of, and ending on a date that is 180 days or 90 days, respectively, after the effective date of, a company-initiated registration statement.
The registration rights of any holder will terminate upon the earliest to occur of the closing of a deemed liquidation event or such time as Rule 144 or another similar exemption under the Securities Act is available for the sale of all of such holder’s shares without limitation during a three-month period without registration.
Demand Registration Rights
After the expiration ofthe 180-day period following the completion of the IPO, the holders of at least 60% the registrable shares then outstanding may require the Issuer to file a registration statement onForm S-1 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), at the Issuer’s expense with respect to the resale of their registrable shares, and the Issuer is required to, as soon as practicable, and in any event within 60 days after such request is given by the initiating holders, file aForm S-1 registration statement covering the registrable securities properly requested to be included.
At any time when the Issuer is eligible to file a registration statement onForm S-3 under the Securities Act, any holders of the registrable shares may require the Issuer to file a registration statement onForm S-3 at the Issuer’s expense with respect to the resale of their registrable shares at an aggregate offering price to the public (net of selling expenses) of not less than $1.0 million, and the Issuer is required to, as soon as practicable, and in any event within 45 days after such request is given by the initiating holders, file aForm S-3 registration statement covering the registrable securities properly requested to be included.
Piggyback Registration Rights
If the Issuer proposes to register any of its securities under the Securities Act for its own account or the account of any other holder (excluding any registration (i) relating to the sale of securities to its employees pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan, (ii) relating to a Rule 145 transaction, (iii) on a form that does not include substantially the same information as would be required to be included in a registration statement covering the sale of the registrable securities or (iv) in which the only Common Stock being registered is Common Stock issuable upon conversion of debt securities that are also being registered), the holders of registrable shares are entitled to notice of such registration and to request that the Issuer include registrable shares for resale on such registration statement and the Issuer is required, subject to certain conditions, to include such registrable securities on such registration statement.
The Investor Agreement contains customary cross-indemnification provisions, pursuant to which the Issuer is obligated to indemnify the selling stockholders in the event of misstatements or omissions in the registration statement attributable to the Issuer or any violation of the federal or state securities laws, rules or regulations and they are obligated to indemnify the Issuer for misstatements or omissions in the registration statement attributable to them.
The Issuer is required to pay substantially all expenses incurred in connection with registrations, filings or qualifications, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of one counsel for the selling stockholders. The Issuer is not required to pay registration expenses if a demand registration is withdrawn by holders of at least a majority of shares to be registered, unless the withdrawal is due to discovery of a materially adverse change in the Issuer’s business.
The foregoing description of the Investors Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Investors Agreement, which is filed hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference.