Exhibit 4.3
Execution Version
AMENDED AND RESTATED PIGGY-BACK REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
This AMENDED AND RESTATED PIGGY-BACK REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), is made as of July 29, 2019, by and among Sunnova Energy International Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and each of the shareholders listed onSchedule A hereto, each of which is referred to in this Agreement as a “Holder”.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, Sunnova Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Predecessor Company”), and the Holders are party to that certain Amended and Restated Piggy-Back Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of August 30, 2018 (the “Original Piggy-back Registration Rights Agreement”);
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Original Piggy-back Registration Rights Agreement, if the Predecessor Company elects to effect an underwritten registered offering of equity securities of a subsidiary or parent of the Predecessor Company (“Alternative IPO Entity”), rather than the equity securities of the Predecessor Company, including as a result of a reorganization, the parties to the Original Piggy-back Registration Rights Agreement will enter into an agreement providing registration rights with respect to the equity securities of the Alternative IPO Entity;
WHEREAS, on July 29, 2019, the Predecessor Company effected a reorganization pursuant to which Sunnova Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“MergerSub”), merged with and into the Predecessor Company, with the Predecessor Company surviving as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Reorganization”);
WHEREAS, certain other shareholders entered into that certain Second Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement with the Company, dated as of July 29, 2019 (the “Existing Registration Rights Agreement”); and
WHEREAS, as a result of the Reorganization the Holders and the Company hereby agree that this Agreement shall govern the rights of the Holders to cause the Company to register Common Stock (as defined below) held or issuable to the Holders as set forth in this Agreement and all rights of the Holders under the Original Piggy-back Registration Rights Agreement shall be extinguished;
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree as follows:
1. Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement:
1.1 “Affiliate” means, with respect to any specified Person, any other Person who, directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such Person, including, without limitation, any general partner, managing member, officer or director of such Person or any venture capital or private equity fund now or hereafter existing that is controlled by one or more general partners or managing members of, or shares the same management company with, such Person. For purposes of this Agreement, “Affiliates” of a Holder shall (a) include any funds managed, advised orsub-advised by a Holder or any of its Affiliates and (b) exclude any portfolio companies in which any funds managed, advised orsub-advised by a Holder or any of its Affiliates have invested.
1.2 “Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company.
1.3 “Business Day” means any day of the year on which national banking institutions in Houston, Texas are open to the public for conducting business and are not required or authorized to close.
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