EX-10.4 5 a2239760zex-10_4.htm EX-10.4

Exhibit 10.4

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

 

dated as of

 

September, 20 2019

 

by and among

 

APREA THERAPEUTICS, INC

 

and

 

the SHAREHOLDERS party hereto as set forth on Exhibit A

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

PAGE

 

 

ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS

 

 

 

 

Section 1.01

Definitions

2

Section 1.02

Other Definitional and Interpretative Provisions

5

 

 

ARTICLE II
REGISTRATION RIGHTS

 

 

 

 

Section 2.01

Demand Registration

6

Section 2.02

Piggyback Registration

8

Section 2.03

Shelf Registration

9

Section 2.04

Lock-Up Agreements

11

Section 2.05

Registration Procedures

11

Section 2.06

Participation In Public Offering

16

Section 2.07

Rule 144 Sales; Cooperation By The Company

15

 

 

ARTICLE III
INDEMNIFICATION AND CONTRIBUTION

 

 

 

 

Section 3.01

Indemnification by the Company

15

Section 3.02

Indemnification by Participating Shareholders

16

Section 3.03

Conduct of Indemnification Proceedings

16

Section 3.04

Contribution

17

Section 3.05

Other Indemnification

18

 

 

ARTICLE IV
MISCELLANEOUS

 

 

 

 

Section 4.01

Binding Effect; Assignability; Benefit; Shareholders

18

Section 4.02

Notices

18

Section 4.03

Waiver; Amendment; Termination

19

Section 4.04

Governing Law

19

Section 4.05

Jurisdiction

19

Section 4.06

WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL

20

Section 4.07

Specific Enforcement

20

Section 4.08

Counterparts; Effectiveness

20

Section 4.09

Entire Agreement

20

Section 4.10

Severability

20

Section 4.11

Other Registration Rights

20

Section 4.12

Confidentiality

21

Section 4.13

Independent Nature of Shareholders’ Obligations and Rights

21

 

 

 

Exhibit A

List of Shareholders

 

Exhibit B

Joinder Agreement

 

 


 

AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

 

This Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of September 20, 2019, (this “Agreement”) among Aprea Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”), and the shareholders party hereto as listed on Exhibit A, including any Permitted Transferees and New Investors (collectively, the “Shareholders”).

 

In consideration of the mutual promises made herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

 

RECITALS

 

WHEREAS, the Shareholders are parties to that certain Registration Rights Agreement dated as of 29 November, 2018, as amended on 26 February, 2019, by and among Aprea Therapeutics AB (the “Swedish Sub”) and certain of the Shareholders (the Prior Agreement”);

 

WHEREAS, the Company, the Swedish Sub, the Shareholders and the other stockholders of the Company are party to a Contribution and Exchange Agreement dated June 13, 2019, pursuant to which each Shareholder has agreed to contribute to the Company, and the Company has agreed to accept from such Shareholder, the number and class of ordinary shares and preferred shares of the Swedish Sub owned by such Shareholder, in exchange for the same number and class of shares of common stock or preferred stock in the Company (the “Contribution Agreement”), with such contribution and exchange to take effect on the Effective Date (as defined therein); and

 

WHEREAS, it is a condition of the exchange of shares of the Swedish Sub for shares of stock in the Company that the Company and each Stockholder execute, deliver and enter into this Agreement.

 

WHEREAS, Section 4.03 of the Prior Agreement provides that the Prior Agreement may be amended with the written consent of the holders of 60% of the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Prior Agreement);

 

WHEREAS, the undersigned Shareholders holding not less than 60% of the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Prior Agreement) desire to amend and restate the Prior Agreement and accept on behalf of all of the parties thereto the rights and covenants hereof in lieu of such parties’ rights and covenants under the Prior Agreement; and

 

WHEREAS, the Shareholders and the Company hereby agree that this Agreement shall govern the rights of the Shareholders to cause the Company to register certain Company Securities (as defined below) issued to the Shareholders;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree as follows:

 

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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS

 

Section 1.01                             Definitions.

 

(a)                                 The following terms, as used herein, have the following meanings:

 

Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Person, provided that no securityholder of the Company shall be deemed an Affiliate of any other securityholder solely by reason of any investment in the Company.  For the purpose of this definition, the term “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlling”, “controlled by” and “under common control with”), as used with respect to any Person, shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

 

Business Day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized by law to close.

 

Charter” means the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended and/or restated from time to time.

 

Common Stock” means shares of Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company, and any shares of stock into which such Common Stock may thereafter be converted or changed.

 

Company Securities” means the Preference Stock (or any Common Stock that have been converted from Preference Stock) held by the Shareholders and, for purposes of the definitions of “Permitted Transferees” and “Transfer”, shall also mean any other securities of the Company held by any Shareholder that are convertible or exercisable into or exchangeable for Common Stock.

 

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

FINRA” means the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and any successor thereto.

 

First Public Offering” means the Company’s initial Public Offering.

 

Permitted Transferee” means in the case of any Shareholder, a Person to whom Registrable Securities are Transferred by such Shareholder; provided that (i) such Transfer does not violate any agreements between such Shareholder and the Company or any of the Company’s subsidiaries, (ii) such Transfer is not made in a registered offering or pursuant to Rule 144 and (iii) such transferee shall only be a Permitted Transferee if and to the extent the transferor designates the transferee as a Permitted Transferee entitled to rights hereunder pursuant to Section 4.01(b).

 

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Person” means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, trust or other entity or organization, including a government or political subdivision or an agency or instrumentality thereof.

 

Preference Stock” means the Series A Preferred, Series B Preferred and Series C Preferred together;

 

Public Offering” means an underwritten public offering of Registrable Securities of the Company pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, other than pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4, Form F-4 or Form S-8 or any similar or successor form.

 

Registrable Securities” means, at any time, any Common Stock issued, or issuable upon conversion or exchange of any Company Securities and any other securities issued or issuable by the Company or any of its successors or assigns in respect of any such Company Securities by way of conversion, exchange, exercise, dividend, split, reverse split, combination, recapitalization, reclassification, merger, amalgamation, consolidation, sale of assets, other reorganization or otherwise.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, Registrable Securities shall not include any securities (i) disposed of pursuant to an effective registration statement or under circumstances in which all of the applicable conditions of Rule 144 are met, (ii)  eligible for sale by such holder under Rule 144 without any limitation thereunder (including with respect to volume or manner of sale) or need for current public information or (iii) sold in a private transaction in which the tranferor’s rights under Section 2 of this Agreement are not assigned.

 

Registration Expenses” means any and all expenses incident to the performance of, or compliance with, any registration or marketing of securities, including all (i) registration and filing fees, and all other fees and expenses payable in connection with the listing of securities on any securities exchange or automated interdealer quotation system, (ii) fees and expenses of compliance with any securities or “blue sky” laws (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel in connection with “blue sky” qualifications of the securities registered), (iii) expenses in connection with the preparation, printing, mailing and delivery of any registration statements, prospectuses and other documents in connection therewith and any amendments or supplements thereto, (iv) security engraving and printing expenses, (v) internal expenses of the Company (including all salaries and expenses of its officers and employees performing legal or accounting duties), (vi) reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company and customary fees and expenses for independent certified public accountants retained by the Company (including the expenses relating to any comfort letters or costs associated with the delivery by independent certified public accountants of any comfort letters requested pursuant to Section 2.05(h)), (vii) reasonable fees and expenses of any special experts retained by the Company in connection with such registration, (viii) reasonable fees, out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the Shareholders, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of one counsel for all of the Shareholders participating in the offering selected by the Shareholders holding the majority of the Registrable Securities to be sold for the account of all Shareholders in the offering, (ix) fees and expenses in connection with any review by FINRA of the underwriting arrangements or

 

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other terms of the offering, and all fees and expenses of any “qualified independent underwriter,” including the fees and expenses of any counsel thereto, (x) fees and disbursements of underwriters customarily paid by issuers or sellers of securities, but excluding any underwriting fees, discounts and commissions attributable to the sale of Registrable Securities, (xi) costs of printing and producing any agreements among underwriters, underwriting agreements, any “blue sky” or legal investment memoranda and any selling agreements and other documents in connection with the offering, sale or delivery of the Registrable Securities, (xii) transfer agents’ and registrars’ fees and expenses and the fees and expenses of any other agent or trustee appointed in connection with such offering, (xiii) expenses relating to any analyst or investor presentations or any “road shows” undertaken in connection with the registration, marketing or selling of the Registrable Securities, and (xiv) all out-of pocket costs and expenses incurred by the Company or its appropriate officers in connection with their compliance with Section 2.05(m).  Except as set forth in clause (viii) above, Registration Expenses shall not include any out-of-pocket expenses of the Shareholders (or the agents who manage their accounts) or any stock transfer taxes.

 

Rule 144” means Rule 144 (or any successor or similar provisions) under the Securities Act.

 

SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

Series A Preferred” shall mean shares of Series A Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company, having the voting rights, powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights and qualifications, limitations and restrictions set forth in the Charter.

 

Series B Preferred” shall mean shares of Series B Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company, having the voting rights, powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights and qualifications, limitations and restrictions set forth in the Charter.

 

Series C Preferred” shall mean shares of Series C Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company, having the voting rights, powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights and qualifications, limitations and restrictions set forth in the Charter.

 

Transfer” means, with respect to any Company Securities, (i) when used as a verb, to sell, assign, dispose of, exchange, pledge, encumber, hypothecate or otherwise transfer such Company Securities or any participation or interest therein, whether directly or indirectly, or agree or commit to do any of the foregoing and (ii) when used as a noun, a direct or indirect sale, assignment, disposition, exchange, pledge, encumbrance, hypothecation, or other transfer of such Company Securities or any participation or interest therein or any agreement or commitment to do any of the foregoing.

 

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(b)                                 Each of the following terms is defined in the Section set forth opposite such term:

 

Term

 

Section

Agreement

 

Preamble

Company

 

Preamble

Contribution Agreement

 

Recitals

Damages

 

3.01

Demand Registration

 

2.01(a)

Indemnified Party

 

3.03

Indemnifying Party

 

3.03

Inspectors

 

2.05(g)

Maximum Offering Size

 

2.01(e)

New Investor

 

4.01(d)

Notice

 

4.02

Piggyback Registration

 

2.02(a)

Prior Agreement

 

Recitals

Records

 

2.05(g)

Registering Shareholders

 

2.01(a)

Requesting Shareholder

 

2.01(a)

Shareholder

 

Preamble

Shelf Registration

 

2.03

Shelf Registering Shareholder

 

2.03

Shelf Requesting Shareholder

 

2.03

Swedish Sub

 

Recitals

Underwritten Takedown

 

2.03

 

Section 1.02                             Other Definitional and Interpretative Provisions.  The words “hereof”, “herein” and “hereunder” and words of like import used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement.  The captions herein are included for convenience of reference only and shall be ignored in the construction or interpretation hereof.  References to Articles, Sections or Exhibits are to Articles, Sections and Exhibits of this Agreement unless otherwise specified.  All Exhibits annexed hereto or referred to herein are hereby incorporated in and made a part of this Agreement as if set forth in full

 

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herein.  Any capitalized term used in any Exhibit but not otherwise defined therein shall have the meaning as defined in this Agreement.  Any singular term in this Agreement shall be deemed to include the plural, and any plural term the singular.  Whenever the words “include”, “includes” or “including” are used in this Agreement, they shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation”, whether or not they are in fact followed by those words or words of like import.  “Writing”, “written” and comparable terms refer to printing, typing and other means of reproducing words (including electronic media) in a visible form.  References to any agreement or contract are to that agreement or contract as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.  References to any Person include the successors and permitted assigns of that Person.  References from or through any date mean, unless otherwise specified, from and including or through and including, respectively.

 

ARTICLE II
REGISTRATION RIGHTS

 

Section 2.01                             Demand Registration.

 

(a)                                 If at any time after 180 days following the effective date of a registration statement for the First Public Offering, the Company shall receive a request from a Shareholder or group of Shareholders holding not less than fifty per cent (50%) of the then outstanding Registrable Securities (the “Requesting Shareholders”) that the Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of the Requesting Shareholder’s Registrable Securities (such request, a “Demand Request”), and specifying the intended method of disposition thereof, then the Company shall as promptly as practicable following the date of receipt of such Demand Request give notice to the other Shareholders of such Demand Request at least 10 Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Demand Request (the “Demand Registration”), and thereupon shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:

 

(i)                                           subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(e), all Registrable Securities for which the Requesting Shareholders have requested registration under this Section 2.01, and

 

(ii)                                        subject to the restrictions set forth in Sections 2.01(e) and 2.02, all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Requesting Shareholders that any Shareholders (all such Shareholders, together with the Requesting Shareholders, the “Registering Shareholders”) have requested the Company to register pursuant to Section 2.02, by request received by the Company within seven Business Days after such Shareholders receive the Company’s notice of the Demand Request,

 

all to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in accordance with the intended methods thereof as aforesaid) of the Registrable Securities so to be registered, provided that, the Company shall not be obligated to effect a Demand Registration unless the aggregate proceeds expected to be received from the sale of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such Demand Registration equals or exceeds $10,000,000

 

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(USD).  In no event shall the Company be required to effect more than one Demand Registration hereunder within any six-month period or any Demand Registration if, at the time of such Demand Request, four or more Demand Registrations and Underwritten Takedowns have previously been effected or deemed effected.

 

(b)                                 Promptly after the expiration of the seven-Business Day period referred to in Section 2.01(a)(ii), the Company will notify all Registering Shareholders of the identities of the other Registering Shareholders and the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included therein.  At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such registration, the Requesting Shareholders may revoke such request, without liability to any of the other Registering Shareholders, by providing a notice to the Company revoking such request.  Notwithstanding clause (d) below, a request, so revoked, shall be considered to be a Demand Registration unless (i) such revocation arose out of the fault of the Company (in which case the Company shall be obligated to pay all Registration Expenses in connection with such revoked request), or (ii) the Requesting Shareholders reimburse the Company for all Registration Expenses (other than the expenses set forth under clause (v) of the definition of the term Registration Expenses) of such revoked request.

 

(c)                                  The Company shall be liable for and shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Demand Registration, regardless of whether such registration is effected, unless the Requesting Shareholders elect to pay such Registration Expenses as described in the last sentence of Section 2.01(b).

 

(d)                                 A Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have occurred:

 

(i)                                           unless the registration statement relating thereto (A) has become effective under the Securities Act and (B) has remained effective for a period of at least 180 days (or such shorter period in which all Registrable Securities of the Registering Shareholders included in such registration have actually been sold thereunder), provided that a Demand Registration shall not be deemed to have occurred if, after such registration statement becomes effective, (1) such registration statement is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or other governmental agency or court and (2) less than 75% of the Registrable Securities included in such registration statement have been sold thereunder; or

 

(ii)                                        if the Maximum Offering Size is reduced in accordance with Section 2.01(e) such that less than 66 2/3% of the Registrable Securities of the Requesting Shareholders sought to be included in such registration are included.

 

(e)                                  If a Demand Registration involves an underwritten Public Offering and the managing underwriter advises the Company and the Requesting Shareholders that, in its view, the number of shares of Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration (including any securities that the Company proposes to be included that are not Registrable Securities) exceeds the largest number of shares that can be sold without having an adverse effect on such offering, including the price at which such shares can be

 

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sold (the “Maximum Offering Size”), the Company shall include in such registration, in the priority listed below, up to the Maximum Offering Size:

 

(i)                                           first, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by all Registering Shareholders (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of Registrable Securities held by each such Shareholder); and

 

(ii)                                        second, any securities proposed to be registered by the Company (including for the benefit of any other Persons who are not Shareholders party to this Agreement).

 

(f)                                   Upon notice to the Requesting Shareholder, the Company may postpone effecting a registration pursuant to this Section 2.01 and from time to time may require any Requesting Shareholder not to sell under a registration statement or suspend effectiveness thereof, on two occasions during any period of twelve consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days in the aggregate in any period of twelve consecutive months (which period may not be extended or renewed), if (i) the Company reasonably determines that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of the Company the preparation of which had then been commenced, or (ii) the Company is in possession of material non-public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice the Company reasonably believes in good faith would not be in the best interests of the Company.

 

Section 2.02                             Piggyback Registration.

 

(a)                                 If at any time after the completion of the First Public Offering, the Company proposes to register any Common Stock under the Securities Act (other than (i) a Shelf Registration, which will be subject to the provisions of Section 2.03; provided that any Underwritten Takedown will be subject to this Section 2.02, or (ii) a registration on Form S-8, F-4 or S-4, or any successor or similar forms, relating to Common Stock issuable upon exercise of employee stock options or in connection with any employee benefit or similar plan of the Company or in connection with a direct or indirect acquisition by the Company of another Person), whether or not for sale for its own account, the Company shall give prompt notice at least ten Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such registration to each Shareholder, which notice shall set forth such Shareholder’s rights under this Section 2.02 and shall offer such Shareholder the opportunity to include in such registration statement the number of Registrable Securities of the same class or series as those proposed to be registered as each such Shareholder may request (a “Piggyback Registration”), subject to the provisions of Section 2.02(b).  Upon the request of any such Shareholder made within five Business Days after the receipt of notice from the Company (which request shall specify the number of Registrable Securities intended to be registered by such Shareholder), the Company shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration under the Securities Act of all Registrable Securities that

 

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the Company has been so requested to register by all such Shareholders, to the extent required to permit the disposition of the Registrable Securities so to be registered, provided that (A) if such registration involves an underwritten Public Offering, all such Shareholders requesting to be included in the Company’s registration must sell their Registrable Securities to the underwriters selected as provided in Section 2.05(f) on the same terms and conditions as apply to the Company or the Requesting Shareholders, as applicable, and (B) if, at any time after giving notice of its intention to register any Company Securities pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) and prior to the effective date of the registration statement filed in connection with such registration, the Company shall determine for any reason not to register such securities, the Company shall give notice to all such Shareholders and, thereupon, shall be relieved of its obligation to register any Registrable Securities in connection with such registration.  No registration effected under this Section 2.02 shall relieve the Company of its obligations to effect a Demand Registration to the extent required by Section 2.01 or a Shelf Registration to the extent required by Section 2.03.  The Company shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with each Piggyback Registration.

 

(b)                                 If a Piggyback Registration involves an underwritten Public Offering (other than any Demand Registration, in which case the provisions with respect to priority of inclusion in such offering set forth in Section 2.01(e) shall apply) and the managing underwriter advises the Company that, in its view, the number of Common Stock that the Company and such Shareholders intend to include in such registration exceeds the Maximum Offering Size, the Company shall include in such registration, in the following priority, up to the Maximum Offering Size:

 

(i)                                           first, so much of the Common Stock proposed to be registered for the account of the Company (or, if such registration is pursuant to a demand by a Person that is not a Shareholder, for the account of such other Person) as would not cause the offering to exceed the Maximum Offering Size,

 

(ii)                                        second, all Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by any Shareholders pursuant to this Section 2.02 (allocated, if necessary for the offering not to exceed the Maximum Offering Size, pro rata among such Shareholders on the basis of the relative number of shares of Registrable Securities so requested to be included in such registration by each), and

 

(iii)                                     third, any securities proposed to be registered for the account of any other Persons with such priorities among them as the Company shall determine.

 

Section 2.03                             Shelf Registration.

 

(a)                                 At any time after the first anniversary of the First Public Offering, if the Company is eligible to use Form F-3 or Form S-3, a Shareholder or group of Shareholders may request the Company (the requesting Shareholder(s) shall be referred to herein as the “Shelf Requesting Shareholder”) to effect a registration of some or all

 

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of the Registrable Securities held by such Shelf Requesting Shareholder under a Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (or any successor or similar rule) (a “Shelf Registration”).  The Company shall only be required to effectuate one Public Offering from such Shelf Registration (an “Underwritten Takedown”) within any six-month period.  The provisions of Section 2.01 shall apply mutatis mutandis to each Underwritten Takedown, with references to “filing of the registration statement” or “effective date” being deemed references to filing of a prospectus or supplement for such offering and references to “registration” being deemed references to the offering; provided that Registering Shareholders shall only include Shareholders whose Registrable Securities are included in such Shelf Registration or may be included therein without the need for an amendment to such Shelf Registration (other than an automatically effective amendment).  So long as the Shelf Registration is effective, no Shareholder may request any Demand Registration pursuant to Section 2.01 with respect to Registrable Securities that are registered on such Shelf Registration but instead shall have the right to request an Underwritten Takedown as set forth above.

 

(b)                                 If the Company shall receive a request from a Shelf Requesting Shareholder that the Company effect a Shelf Registration, then the Company shall as promptly as practicable following the date of receipt by the Company of such request give notice of such requested registration and at least ten Business Days prior to the anticipated filing date of the registration statement relating to such Shelf Registration to the other Shareholders and thereupon shall use its reasonable best efforts to effect, as expeditiously as possible, the registration under the Securities Act of:

 

(i)                                           all Registrable Securities for which the Shelf Requesting Shareholder has requested registration under this Section 2.03, and

 

(ii)                                        all other Registrable Securities of the same class as those requested to be registered by the Shelf Requesting Shareholder that any Shareholders (all such Shareholders, together with the Shelf Requesting Shareholder, the “Shelf Registering Shareholders”) have requested the Company to register by request received by the Company within five Business Days after such Shareholders receive the Company’s notice of the Shelf Registration, all to the extent necessary to permit the registration of the Registrable Securities so to be registered on such Shelf Registration.

 

(c)                                  At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to such Shelf Registration, the Shelf Requesting Shareholder may revoke such request, without liability to any of the other Shelf Registering Shareholders, by providing a notice to the Company revoking such request.

 

(d)                                 The Company shall be liable for and pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any Shelf Registration not withdrawn in accordance with Section 2.03(c).

 

(e)                                  Upon notice to the Shelf Registering Shareholders, the Company may postpone effecting a registration pursuant to this Section 2.03, and from time to time may

 

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require any Shelf Requesting Shareholder not to sell under a registration statement or suspend effectiveness thereof, on two occasions during any period of twelve consecutive months for a reasonable time specified in the notice but not exceeding 90 days in the aggregate in any period of twelve consecutive months (which period may not be extended or renewed), if the Company determines that effecting the registration would materially and adversely affect an offering of securities of the Company the preparation of which had then been commenced, or the Company is in possession of material non- public information the disclosure of which during the period specified in such notice the Company reasonably believes in good faith would not be in the best interests of the Company.

 

Section 2.04                             Lock-Up Agreements.  Each Shareholder hereby agrees that such Shareholder shall not sell, dispose of, transfer, make any short sale of, grant any option for the purchase of, or enter into any hedging or similar transaction with the same economic effect as a sale, any Common Stock (or other securities) of the Company held by such Shareholder (other than those included in the registration) during the 180-day period following the effective date of the First Public Offering; provided, that all officers and directors of the Company and holders of at least 1% of the Company’s voting securities are bound by and have entered into similar agreements.  Any discretionary waiver or termination of the restrictions of any or all of such agreements by the Company or the underwriters shall apply pro rata to all holders subject to such agreements, based on the number of shares subject to such agreements.

 

Section 2.05                             Registration Procedures.  Whenever Shareholders request that any Registrable Securities be registered pursuant to Section 2.01 or 2.02, or the Company prepares a Shelf Registration pursuant to Section 2.03, subject to the provisions of such Sections, the Company shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration and the sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method of disposition thereof as quickly as practicable, and, in connection with any such request:

 

(a)                                 The Company shall as expeditiously as possible prepare and file with the SEC a registration statement on any form for which the Company then qualifies or that counsel for the Company shall deem appropriate and which form shall be available for the sale of the Registrable Securities to be registered thereunder in accordance with the intended method of distribution thereof, and use all commercially reasonable efforts to cause such filed registration statement to become and remain effective for a period of not less than 180 days, or in the case of a Shelf Registration, three years (or such shorter period in which all of the Registrable Securities of the Shareholders included in such registration statement shall have actually been sold thereunder or cease to be Registrable Securities).  Any such registration statement shall be an automatically effective registration statement to the extent permitted by the SEC’s rules and regulations.

 

(b)                                 Prior to filing a registration statement or prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto (other than any report filed pursuant to the Exchange Act that is incorporated by reference therein), the Company shall, if requested, furnish to each participating Shareholder and each underwriter, if any, of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement copies of such registration statement as proposed to be filed, and thereafter the Company shall furnish to such Shareholder and underwriter,

 

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if any, such number of copies of such registration statement, each amendment and supplement thereto (in each case including all exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein), the prospectus included in such registration statement (including each preliminary prospectus and any summary prospectus) and any other prospectus filed under Rule 424, Rule 430A, Rule 430B or Rule 430C under the Securities Act and such other documents as such Shareholder or underwriter may reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of the Registrable Securities owned by such Shareholder.

 

(c)                                  After the filing of the registration statement, the Company shall (i) cause the related prospectus to be supplemented by any required prospectus supplement and, as so supplemented, to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act, (ii) comply with the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the disposition of all Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement during the applicable period in accordance with the intended methods of disposition by the Shareholders thereof set forth in such registration statement or supplement to such prospectus and (iii) promptly notify each Shareholder holding Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement of any stop order issued or threatened by the SEC or any state securities commission and take all reasonable actions required to prevent the entry of such stop order or to remove it if entered.

 

(d)                                 The Company shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to (i) register or qualify the Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement under such other securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions in the United States as any Registering Shareholder holding such Registrable Securities reasonably (in light of such Shareholder’s intended plan of distribution) requests and (ii) cause such Registrable Securities to be registered with or approved by such other governmental agencies or authorities as may be necessary by virtue of the business and operations of the Company and do any and all other acts and things that may be reasonably necessary or advisable to enable such Shareholder to consummate the disposition of the Registrable Securities owned by such Shareholder, provided that the Company shall not be required to (A) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify but for this Section 2.05(d), (B) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction or (C) consent to general service of process in any such jurisdiction.

 

(e)                                  The Company shall immediately notify each Shareholder holding such Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement, at any time when a prospectus relating thereto is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, of the occurrence of an event requiring the preparation of a supplement or amendment to such prospectus so that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of such Registrable Securities, such prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading and promptly prepare and make available to each such Shareholder and file with the SEC any such supplement or amendment.

 

(f)                                   The Company shall have the right to select an underwriter or underwriters in connection with any Public Offering resulting from any exercise of a Demand

 

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Registration (including any Underwritten Takedown), which underwriter or underwriters shall be reasonably acceptable to the Requesting Shareholder.  In connection with any Public Offering, the Company shall enter into customary agreements (including an underwriting agreement in customary form) and take such all other actions as are reasonably required in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities in any such Public Offering, including the engagement of a “qualified independent underwriter” in connection with the qualification of the underwriting arrangements with FINRA.

 

(g)                                  Upon execution of confidentiality agreements in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Company, the Company shall, in connection with a Public Offering make available for inspection by any Shareholder and any underwriter participating in any disposition pursuant to a registration statement being filed by the Company pursuant to this Section 2.05 and any attorney, accountant or other professional retained by any such Shareholder or underwriter (collectively, the “Inspectors”), all financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and properties of the Company (collectively, the “Records”) as shall be reasonably necessary or desirable to enable any of the Inspectors to exercise its due diligence responsibility, and cause the Company’s officers, directors and employees to supply all information reasonably requested by any Inspectors in connection with such registration statement.  Records that the Company determines, in good faith, to be confidential and that it notifies the Inspectors are confidential shall not be disclosed by the Inspectors unless (i) the disclosure of such Records is necessary to avoid or correct a material misstatement or omission in such registration statement or (ii) the release of such Records is ordered pursuant to a subpoena or other order from a court of competent jurisdiction.  Each Shareholder agrees that information obtained by it as a result of such inspections shall be deemed confidential and shall not be used by it or its Affiliates as the basis for any market transactions in the Company Securities unless and until such information is made generally available to the public.  Each Shareholder further agrees that, upon learning that disclosure of such Records is sought in a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall give notice to the Company and allow the Company, at its expense, to undertake appropriate action to prevent disclosure of the Records deemed confidential.

 

(h)                                 In connection with any Public Offering, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to furnish to each Registering Shareholder and to each such underwriter, if any, a signed counterpart, addressed to such Shareholder or underwriter, of (i) an opinion or opinions of counsel to the Company and (ii) a comfort letter or comfort letters from the Company’s independent public accountants, each in customary form and covering such matters of the kind customarily covered by opinions or comfort letters, as the case may be, as the managing underwriter therefor reasonably requests.

 

(i)                                     The Company shall otherwise use its reasonable best efforts to comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the SEC, and make available to its security holders, as soon as reasonably practicable, an earnings statement or such other document covering a period of 12 months, beginning within three months after the effective date of the registration statement, which earnings statement satisfies the requirements of Rule 158 under the Securities Act.

 

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(j)                                    The Company may require each Shareholder promptly to furnish in writing to the Company such information regarding the distribution of the Registrable Securities as the Company may from time to time reasonably request and such other information as may be legally required in connection with such registration.  In connection with a Shelf Registration, any Shareholder that does not provide such information within five Business Days of a request by the Company (which request is made before filing of the Shelf Registration) may have its Registrable Securities excluded from such Shelf Registration; provided that such securities shall be added within fifteen Business Days after the Shareholder provides such information if the Company may add such securities to such Shelf Registration without the need for a post-effective amendment (other than an automatically effective amendment) to the Shelf Registration.

 

(k)                                 Each Shareholder agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 2.05(e), such Shareholder shall forthwith discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration statement covering such Registrable Securities until such Shareholder’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or amended prospectus contemplated by Section 2.05(e), and, if so directed by the Company, such Shareholder shall deliver to the Company all copies, other than any permanent file copies then in such Shareholder’s possession, of the most recent prospectus covering such Registrable Securities at the time of receipt of such notice.  If the Company shall give such notice, the Company shall extend the period during which such registration statement shall be maintained effective (including the period referred to in Section 2.05(a)) by the number of days during the period from and including the date of the giving of notice pursuant to Section 2.05(e) to the date when the Company shall make available to such Shareholder a prospectus supplemented or amended to conform with the requirements of Section 2.05(e).

 

(l)                                     The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to list all Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement on any securities exchange or quotation system on which the Common Stock are then listed or traded.

 

(m)                             In any Public Offering pursuant to a Demand Registration, the Company shall have appropriate officers of the Company (i) prepare and make presentations at any “road shows” and before analysts and (ii) otherwise use their reasonable efforts to cooperate as reasonably requested by the underwriters in the offering, marketing or selling of the Registrable Securities.

 

(n)                                 Each Shareholder agrees that, in connection with any offering pursuant to this Agreement, it will not prepare or use or refer to, any “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act) without the prior written authorization of the Company (which authorization shall not be unreasonably withheld), and will not distribute any written materials in connection with the offer or sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to any registration statement hereunder other than the Prospectus and any such free writing prospectus so authorized.

 

Section 2.06                             Participation In Public Offering.  No Shareholder may participate in any Public Offering hereunder unless such Shareholder (a) agrees to sell such Shareholder’s

 

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Registrable Securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the Persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements and (b) completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements that are consistent for all similarly situated Shareholders and the provisions of this Agreement in respect of registration rights.

 

Section 2.07                             Rule 144 Sales; Cooperation By The Company.  If any Shareholder shall transfer any Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 144, the Company shall cooperate, to the extent commercially reasonable, with such Shareholder and shall provide to such Shareholder such information as such Shareholder shall reasonably request.  Without limiting the foregoing, the Company shall at any time after any of the Company’s shares of capital stock are registered under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act: (i) make and keep available public information, as those terms are contemplated by Rule 144; (ii) use commercially reasonable efforts to timely file with the SEC all reports and other documents required to be filed under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act; and (iii) furnish to each Shareholder forthwith upon request a written statement by the Company as to its compliance with the reporting requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly report of the Company, and such other information as such Shareholder may reasonably request in order to avail itself of any rule or regulation of the SEC allowing such Shareholder to sell any Registrable Securities without registration.

 

ARTICLE III
INDEMNIFICATION AND CONTRIBUTION

 

Section 3.01                             Indemnification by the Company.  The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Shareholder beneficially owning any Registrable Securities covered by a registration statement, its officers, directors, employees, partners and agents, and each Person, if any, who controls such Shareholder within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable expenses of investigation and reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) (collectively, “Damages”) caused by or relating to any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any registration statement or prospectus relating to the Registrable Securities (as amended or supplemented if the Company shall have furnished any amendments or supplements thereto) or any preliminary prospectus or free-writing prospectus (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act), or caused by or relating to any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except insofar as such Damages are caused by or related to any such untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission so made based upon information furnished in writing to the Company by such Shareholder or on such Shareholder’s behalf expressly for use therein.  The Company also agrees to indemnify any underwriters of the Registrable Securities, their officers and directors and each Person who controls such underwriters within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act on substantially the same basis as that of the indemnification of the Shareholders provided in this Section 3.01.

 

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Section 3.02                             Indemnification by Participating Shareholders.  Each Shareholder holding Registrable Securities included in any registration statement agrees, severally but not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its officers, directors and agents and each Person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as the indemnity from the Company to such Shareholder provided in Section 3.01, but only to the extent such Damages arise out of or are based upon actions and omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information about such Shareholder furnished in writing by such Shareholder or on such Shareholder’s behalf expressly for use in any registration statement or prospectus relating to the Registrable Securities, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any preliminary prospectus or free-writing prospectus.  Each such Shareholder also agrees to indemnify and hold harmless underwriters of the Registrable Securities, their officers and directors and each Person who controls such underwriters within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act on substantially the same basis as that of the indemnification of the Company provided in this Section 3.02.  As a condition to including Registrable Securities in any registration statement filed in accordance with Article 2, the Company may require that it shall have received an undertaking reasonably satisfactory to it from any underwriter to indemnify and hold it harmless to the extent customarily provided by underwriters with respect to similar securities.  No Shareholder shall be liable under this Section 3.02 for any Damages in excess of the net proceeds realized by such Shareholder in the sale of Registrable Securities of such Shareholder to which such Damages relate.

 

Section 3.03                             Conduct of Indemnification Proceedings.  If any proceeding (including any governmental investigation) shall be brought or asserted against any Person in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Article 3, such Person (an “Indemnified Party”) shall promptly notify the Person against whom such indemnity may be sought (the “Indemnifying Party”) in writing and the Indemnifying Party shall assume the defense thereof, including the employment of counsel reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Party, and shall assume the payment of all fees and expenses, provided that the failure of any Indemnified Party so to notify the Indemnifying Party shall not relieve the Indemnifying Party of its obligations hereunder except to the extent that the Indemnifying Party is materially prejudiced by such failure to notify.  In any such proceeding, any Indemnified Party shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnified Party unless (a) the Indemnifying Party and the Indemnified Party shall have mutually agreed to the retention of such counsel, (b) in the reasonable judgment of such Indemnified Party representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them, including one or more defenses or counterclaims that are different from or in addition to those available to the Indemnifying Party, or (c) the Indemnifying Party shall have failed to assume the defense within 30 days of notice pursuant to this Section 3.03.  It is understood that, in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, the Indemnifying Party shall not be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys (in addition to one local counsel per jurisdiction) at any time for all such Indemnified Parties, and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred.  In the case of any such separate firm for the Indemnified Parties, such firm shall be designated in writing by the Indemnified Parties.  The Indemnifying Party shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent, or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff,

 

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the Indemnifying Party shall indemnify and hold harmless such Indemnified Parties from and against any loss or liability (to the extent stated above) by reason of such settlement or judgment.  Without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Party, no Indemnifying Party shall effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any Indemnified Party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Party, unless such settlement (A) includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Party from all liability arising out of such proceeding, and (B) does not include any injunctive or other equitable or non-monetary relief applicable to or affecting such Indemnified Party.

 

Section 3.04                             Contribution.  If the indemnification provided for in this Article 3 is unavailable to or unenforceable by the Indemnified Parties in respect of any Damages, then each Indemnifying Party, in lieu of indemnifying the Indemnified Parties, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Party, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Indemnifying Party and Indemnified Party in connection with the actions, statements or omissions that resulted in such Damages as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.  The relative fault of such Indemnifying Party and Indemnified Party shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any action in question, including any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission of a material fact, has been taken or made by, or relates to information supplied by, such Indemnifying Party or Indemnified Party, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such action, statement or omission.  The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of any Damages shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in this Agreement, any reasonable attorneys’ or other reasonable fees or expenses incurred by such party in connection with any proceeding to the extent such party would have been indemnified for such fees or expenses if the indemnification provided for in this Article 3 was available to such party in accordance with its terms.

 

The parties hereto agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 3.04 were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation that does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 3.04, no Shareholder shall be required to contribute, in the aggregate, any amount in excess of the amount by which the proceeds actually received by such Shareholder from the sale of the Registrable Securities subject to the proceeding exceeds the amount of any damages that such Shareholder has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission, except in the case of fraud by such Shareholder.  Each Shareholder’s obligation to contribute pursuant to this Section 3.03 is several in the proportion that the proceeds of the offering received by such Shareholder bears to the total proceeds of the offering received by all such Shareholders and not joint.

 

No Person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any Person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.  The indemnity and contribution agreements contained in this Article 3 are in addition to any liability that the Indemnifying Parties may have to the Indemnified Parties.

 

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Section 3.05                             Other Indemnification.  Indemnification similar to that provided in this Article 3 (with appropriate modifications) shall be given by the Company and each Shareholder participating therein with respect to any required registration or other qualification of securities under any foreign, federal or state law or regulation or governmental authority other than the Securities Act.

 

ARTICLE IV
MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 4.01                             Binding Effect; Assignability; Benefit; Shareholders.

 

(a)                                 This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective heirs, successors, legal representatives and permitted assigns.  Any Shareholder that ceases to own beneficially any Registrable Securities shall cease to be bound by the terms hereof (other than (i) the provisions of Article 3 applicable to such Shareholder with respect to any offering of Registrable Securities completed before the date such Shareholder ceased to own any Registrable Securities and (ii) this Article 4).

 

(b)                                 Neither this Agreement nor any right, remedy, obligation or liability arising hereunder or by reason hereof shall be assignable by any party hereto pursuant to any Transfer of Registrable Securities or otherwise, except that each Shareholder may assign rights hereunder to any Permitted Transferee of such Shareholder.  Any such Permitted Transferee shall (unless already bound hereby) execute and deliver to the Company an agreement to be bound by this Agreement in the form of Exhibit B hereto (a “Joinder Agreement”) and shall thenceforth be a “Shareholder” under this Agreement.

 

(c)                                  Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, is intended to confer on any Person other than the parties hereto, and their respective heirs, successors, legal representatives and permitted assigns, any rights, remedies, obligations or liabilities under or by reason of this Agreement.

 

(d)                                 During the term of this Agreement, the Company may, with the consent of the board of directors of the Company and holders of 60% of the Registrable Securities, allow any Person who acquires Preference Stock from the Company to become a party to this Agreement as a Shareholder by executing a Joinder Agreement (such Person, a “New Investor”), and Exhibit A hereto shall be revised and updated accordingly.

 

Section 4.02                             Notices.  All notices, requests and other communications (each, a “Notice”) to any party shall be in writing and shall be delivered in person, mailed by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, or sent by facsimile transmission or email transmission so long as receipt of such email is requested and received,

 

if to the Company to:

 

535 Boylston St.

Boston, MA 02116

Attention: Chris Schade

 

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if to any Shareholder, at the address for such Shareholder listed in Exhibit A or otherwise provided to the Company as set forth below.

 

Any Notice shall be deemed received on the date of receipt by the recipient thereof if received prior to 5:00 p.m. in the place of receipt and such day is a Business Day in the place of receipt.  Otherwise, such Notice shall be deemed not to have been received until the next succeeding Business Day in the place of receipt.  Any Notice sent by electronic mail or facsimile transmission also shall be confirmed by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, posted within one Business Day after the date of the sending of such electronic mail or facsimile transmission, or by personal delivery, whether courier or otherwise, made within two Business Days after the date of such electronic mail or facsimile transmission.

 

Any Person that becomes a Shareholder after the date hereof shall provide its address, fax number and email address to the Company.

 

Section 4.03                             Waiver; Amendment; Termination.  The provisions of this Agreement, including the provisions of this sentence, may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given without the written consent of holders of 60% of the Registrable Securities; provided, however, that in no event shall the obligations of any holder of Registrable Securities be materially increased or the rights of any Shareholder be adversely affected (without similarly adversely affecting the rights of all Shareholders), except upon the written consent of such holder.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, a waiver or consent to depart from the provisions hereof with respect to a matter that relates exclusively to the rights of holders of Registrable Securities whose securities are being sold pursuant to a Registration Statement and that does not directly or indirectly affect the rights of other holders of Registrable Securities may be given by holders of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities being sold by such holders pursuant to such Registration Statement.

 

Section 4.04                             Governing Law.  This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without regard to the conflicts of laws rules of such state.

 

Section 4.05                             Jurisdiction.  The parties hereby agree that any suit, action or proceeding seeking to enforce any provision of, or based on any matter arising out of or in connection with, this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby shall be brought in any state or federal court in The City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, so long as one of such courts shall have subject matter jurisdiction over such suit, action or proceeding, and that any cause of action arising out of this Agreement shall be deemed to have arisen from a transaction of business in the State of New York, and each of the parties hereby irrevocably consents to the jurisdiction of such courts (and of the appropriate appellate courts therefrom) in any such suit, action or proceeding and irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such suit, action or proceeding in any such court or that any such suit, action or proceeding which is brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient form.  Process in any such suit, action or proceeding may be served on any party anywhere in the world, whether within or without the jurisdiction of any such court.  Without

 

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limiting the foregoing, each party agrees that service of process on such party as provided in Section 4.02 shall be deemed effective service of process on such party.

 

Section 4.06                             WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.  EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

 

Section 4.07                             Specific Enforcement.  Each party hereto acknowledges that the remedies at law of the other parties for a breach or threatened breach of this Agreement would be inadequate and, in recognition of this fact, any party to this Agreement, without posting any bond or furnishing other security, and in addition to all other remedies that may be available, shall be entitled to obtain equitable relief in the form of specific performance, a temporary restraining order, a temporary or permanent injunction or any other equitable remedy that may then be available.

 

Section 4.08                             Counterparts; Effectiveness.  This Agreement may be executed (including by facsimile or other electronic image scan transmission) with counterpart signature pages or in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which shall, taken together, be considered one and the same agreement, it being understood that each party need not sign the same counterpart.  This Agreement shall become effective when each party hereto shall have executed and delivered this Agreement.  Until and unless each party has executed and delivered this Agreement, this Agreement shall have no effect and no party shall have any right or obligation hereunder (whether by virtue of any other oral or written agreement or other communication).

 

Section 4.09                             Entire Agreement.  This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding among the parties hereto and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings, both oral and written, among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

Section 4.10                             Severability.  If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction or other authority to be invalid, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated so long as the economic or legal substance of the transactions contemplated hereby is not affected in any manner materially adverse to any party.  Upon such a determination, the parties shall negotiate in good faith to modify this Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the parties as closely as possible in an acceptable manner so that the transactions contemplated hereby be consummated as originally contemplated to the fullest extent possible.

 

Section 4.11                             Other Registration Rights.  From and after the date of this Agreement, the Company shall not enter into any agreement with any holder or prospective holder of any securities of the Company giving such holder or prospective holder any registration rights the terms of which are equivalent to or more favorable than the registration rights granted to Shareholders hereunder, or which would reduce the amount of Registrable Securities the

 

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Shareholders can include in any registration filed pursuant to this Agreement, unless such rights are subordinate to those of the Shareholders hereunder.

 

Section 4.12                             Confidentiality.  Each Shareholder agrees that any notice received pursuant to this Agreement, including any notice of a proposed underwritten public offering or postponement of an offering or effecting of a registration, is confidential information and that any trading in securities of the Company following receipt of such information may only be done in compliance with all applicable securities laws.

 

Section 4.13                             Independent Nature of Shareholders’ Obligations and Rights.  The obligations of each Shareholder hereunder are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Shareholder hereunder, and no Shareholder shall be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any other Shareholder hereunder.  Nothing contained herein or in any other agreement or document delivered at any closing, and no action taken by any Shareholder pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Shareholders as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Shareholders are in any way acting in concert with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.  Each Shareholder shall be entitled to protect and enforce its rights, including the rights arising out of this Agreement, and it shall not be necessary for any other Shareholder to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.

 

[Signature pages follow.]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed this Agreement or have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.

 

 

Versant V Luxco S.à.r.l.

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name: Robin L. Praeger

 

 

Title: Manager A

 

 

 

5AM VENTURES IV, L.P.

 

By: 5AM Partners IV, LLC

 

Its: General Partner

 

 

 

Signature

 

 

 

Name: Andrew J. Schwab

 

 

Title: Managing Member

 

 

Email: finance@5amventures.com

 

 

 

5AM CO-INVESTORS IV, L.P.

 

By: 5AM Partners IV, LLC

 

Its: General Partner

 

 

 

Signature

 

 

 

Name: Andrew J. Schwab

 

 

Title: Managing Member

 

 

Email: finance@5amventures.com

 

 

 

HealthCap VII, L.P.

 

By: Its General Partner

 

HealthCap VII GP, S.A.

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

New Emerging Medical Opportunities Fund III, L.P.

 

By its manager, Sectoral Asset Management, Inc.

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Michael Sjöström

 

 

Chief Investment Officer

 

 

 

 

Kdev Investments AB

 

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By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

KCIF Co-Investment Fund KB

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Karolinska Development AB

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Redmile Biopharma Investments I., L.P.

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

RAF, L.P.

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Rock Springs Capital Master Fund L.P

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Janus Henderson Horizon Fund — Biotechnology Fund

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

 

Janus Henderson Capital Funds Plc (on behalf of its series Janus Henderson Global Life Sciences Fund)

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

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Aprea Therapeutics, Inc.

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name: Christian Schade

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

LIST OF SHAREHOLDERS

 

Name

 

Notice Address

Redmile Biopharma Investments I, L.P.

 

Redmile Group

One Letterman Drive

Building D, Suite D3-300

San Francisco, CA 94129

Attention: Josh Garcia

 

 

 

RAF, L.P.

 

Redmile Group

One Letterman Drive

Building D, Suite D3-300

San Francisco, CA 94129

Attention: Josh Garcia

 

 

 

Rock Springs Capital Master Fund LP

 

650 S. Exeter St., Suite 1070

Baltimore, MD 21202

 

 

 

KDev Investments AB

 

Tomtebodavägen 23A, 171 65 Solna

 

 

 

Karolinska Development AB

 

Tomtebodavägen 23A, 171 65 Solna

 

 

 

KCIF Co-Investment Fund KB

 

Tomtebodavägen 23A, 171 65 Solna

 

 

 

5AM Ventures IV, L.P.

 

501 Second Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA 94107

 

 

 

5AM Co-Investors IV, L.P.

 

501 Second Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA 94107

 

 

 

Versant V Luxco S.a.r.l.

 

15, Boulevard Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, L-2411 Luxembourg BP 2501, L-1025 Luxembourg

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

 

with a copy to: One Sansome Street, Suite 3630, San Francisco, CA 94104

 

 

 

HealthCap VII, L.P.

 

HealthCap VI GP S.A.

18 Avenue d’Ouchy

CH-1006 Lausanne

Switzerland

 

 

 

New Emerging Medical Opportunities Fund III, L.P.

 

Sectoral Asset Management

1010 Sherbrooke St. West, #1610, Montreal, QC Canada H3A 2R7

 

 

 

Janus Henderson Horizon Fund — Biotechnology Fund

 

Janus Capital Management LLC,

151 Detroit Street

Denver 80206

 

 

 

Janus Henderson Capital Funds Plc (on behalf of its series Janus Henderson Global Life Sciences Fund)

 

Janus Capital Management LLC,

151 Detroit Street

Denver 80206

 

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Name

 

Notice Address

Östersjöstiftelsen

 

Södertörns Högskola, 141 89 Huddinge, Sweden

 

 

 

Praktiker Invest PE AB

 

Adolf Fredriks kyrkogata 9 A, 103 55 Stockholm, Sweden

 

 

 

Jessica Alfredsson

 

Hultavägen 27, 428 34 Kållered, Sverige

 

 

 

Wenjie Bao

 

Tröskverksvägen 90, 125 34  Älvsjö, Sweden

 

 

 

Vladimir Bykov

 

Runslingan 37, 187 72  Täby, Sweden

 

 

 

Asa Fransson

 

Vaksala kyrkväg 43, 754 45 Uppsala, Sverige

 

 

 

Natalia Issaeva

 

1131 Avalon Drive East, Orange, CT, USA, 06477

 

 

 

Yvonne Nilsson

 

Kolbäcksgränd 33, 128 46 Bagarmossen, Sweden

 

 

 

Galina Selivanova

 

Rådmansgatan 55, 113 60  Stockholm, Sweden

 

 

 

Staffan Strömblad

 

Reflektorstigen 2, 181 55 Lidingö, Sweden

 

 

 

Roger Tell

 

Porfyrvägen 14A, 132 35 Saltsjö-Boo, Sweden

 

 

 

Annelie Wiman

 

Travslingan 39, 187 54 Täby, Sweden

 

 

 

Klas Wiman

 

Majvägen 20, 187 51  Täby, Sweden

 

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EXHIBIT B

 

JOINDER TO AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

 

This Joinder Agreement (this “Joinder Agreement”) is made as of the date written below by the undersigned (the “Joining Party”) in accordance with the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement dated as of 29 November, 2018 (as the same may be amended from time to time, the “Registration Rights Agreement”), among and the Shareholders party thereto.  Capitalized terms used, but not defined, herein shall have the meaning ascribed to such terms in the Registration Rights Agreement.

 

The Joining Party hereby acknowledges, agrees and confirms that, by its execution of this Joinder Agreement, the Joining Party shall be deemed to be a party to the Registration Rights Agreement as of the date hereof as a “Permitted Transferee” of a Shareholder thereto or as a New Investor (as applicable), and shall have all of the rights and obligations of a “Shareholder” thereunder as if it had executed the Registration Rights Agreement. The Joining Party hereby ratifies, as of the date hereof, and agrees to be bound by, all of the terms, provisions and conditions contained in the Registration Rights Agreement (including, without limitation, Section 4.01 thereof).

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Joinder Agreement as of the date written below.

 

Date:                                                                               ,

 

 

 

[NAME OF JOINING PARTY]

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

Address for Notices:

 

[Address]

 

[Fax Number]

 

[Email Address]

 

 

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