Exhibit 10.3
FORM OF REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
THIS REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of , 2022, is made and entered into by and among Seven Oaks Acquisition Corp. II, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), Seven Oaks Sponsor II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”), JTCM Ventures LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“JTCM”) and Jones & Associates, Inc., a California corporation (“Jones”, and together with the Sponsor, the “Founders”, and, together with JTCM and any other person or entity who hereafter becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 5.2, a “Holder” and, collectively, the “Holders”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Company has 7,187,500 shares of Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Founder Shares”), issued and outstanding, up to 937,500 of which will be forfeited to the Company for no consideration depending on the extent to which the underwriters of the Company’s initial public offering exercise their over-allotment option;
WHEREAS, the Founder Shares are convertible into shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), on the terms and conditions provided in the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation;
WHEREAS, on , 2022, the Company and the Sponsor entered into that certain Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement (the “Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement”), pursuant to which the Sponsor agreed to purchase 9,000,000 private placement warrants (or up to 9,750,000 private placement warrants to the extent that the over-allotment option in connection with the Company’s initial public offering is exercised) (the “Private Placement Warrants”) in a private placement transaction occurring simultaneously with the closing of the Company’s initial public offering;
WHEREAS, on , 2022, the Company, Jones and JTCM Ventures LLC, an affiliate of Jones (“JTCM”), entered into that certain Private Placement Warrant Issuance Agreement, pursuant to which JTCM has agreed to accept 2,500,000 Private Placement Warrants (or up to an aggregate of 2,875,000 Private Placement Warrants if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full), in lieu of Jones receiving $2,500,000 in underwriting discounts and commissions (or up to an aggregate of $2,875,000 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full);
WHEREAS, in order to finance the Company’s transaction costs in connection with its search for and consummation of an initial Business Combination (as defined below), the Sponsor or an affiliate of the Sponsor or certain of the Company’s officers and directors may loan to the Company funds as the Company may require, of which up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into private placement-equivalent warrants (“Working Capital Warrants”) at a price of $1.00 per warrant at the option of the lender; and
WHEREAS, the Company and the Holders desire to enter into this Agreement, pursuant to which the Company shall grant the Holders certain registration rights with respect to certain securities of the Company, as set forth in this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual representations, covenants and agreements contained herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Definitions. The terms defined in this Article I shall, for all purposes of this Agreement, have the respective meanings set forth below:
“Adverse Disclosure” shall mean any public disclosure of material non-public information, which disclosure, in the good faith judgment of the principal executive officer or principal financial officer of the Company, after consultation with counsel to the Company, (i) would be required to be made in any Registration Statement or Prospectus in order for the applicable Registration Statement or Prospectus not to contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein (in the case of any prospectus and any preliminary prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, (ii) would not be required to be made at such time if the Registration Statement were not being filed, and (iii) the Company has a bona fide business purpose for not making such information public.