Exhibit 10.3
REGISTRATION AND SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AGREEMENT
THIS REGISTRATION AND SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of October 25, 2024, is made and entered into by and among Oaktree Acquisition Corp. III Life Sciences, a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”), Oaktree Acquisition Holdings III LS, LLC, a Cayman Islands limited liability company (the “Sponsor” and, together with any person or entity who hereafter becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 6.2 of this Agreement, a “Holder” and collectively, the “Holders”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Sponsor currently owns 5,031,250 shares of the Company’s Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class B Ordinary Shares”);
WHEREAS, the Class B Ordinary Shares are convertible into the Company’s Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share (“Ordinary Shares”), at the time of the initial Business Combination or earlier at the option of the holder on a one-for-one basis, subject to adjustment, on the terms and conditions provided in the Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, as may be amended from time to time;
WHEREAS, on October 23, 2024, the Company and the Sponsor entered into that certain Private Placement Units Purchase Agreement, pursuant to which the Sponsor agreed to purchase 550,000 units (or up to 602,500 units if the option to purchase additional Ordinary Shares in connection with the Company’s initial public offering (the “IPO”) is exercised in full by the underwriters of such offering) (such units, the “Private Placement Units”), each Private Placement Unit being comprised of one Ordinary Share (such Ordinary Shares, the “Private Placement Shares”) and one-fifth of one redeemable warrant (the “Private Placement Warrants”) to purchase one Ordinary Share (the “Warrant Shares”) and to be governed by the Warrant Agreement to be entered into with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company in connection with the consummation of the IPO;
WHEREAS, in order to finance the Company’s transaction costs in connection with an intended Business Combination (as defined below), the Sponsor, an affiliate of the Sponsor or certain of the Company’s officers or directors may, but are not obligated to, loan the Company funds as the Company may require, of which up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into Private Placement Units at a price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit at the option of the lender (such Private Placement Units, the “Working Capital Units”); 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 certain 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 1
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.
“Agreement” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.