0001193125-15-335512.txt : 20151001 0001193125-15-335512.hdr.sgml : 20151001 20151001171700 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-15-335512 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 6 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20150925 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers ITEM INFORMATION: Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20151001 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20151001 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Madison Square Garden Co CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001636519 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-MISCELLANEOUS AMUSEMENT & RECREATION [7990] IRS NUMBER: 473373056 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0630 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-36900 FILM NUMBER: 151137854 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO PENNSYLVANIA PLAZA CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10121 BUSINESS PHONE: 212-465-6000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: TWO PENNSYLVANIA PLAZA CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10121 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MSG SPINCO, INC. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20150313 8-K 1 d99443d8k.htm FORM 8-K Form 8-K
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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): September 25, 2015

 

 

THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN COMPANY

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   1-36900   47-3373056

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification Number)

 

Two Penn Plaza

New York, NY

  10121
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (212) 465-6000

MSG Spinco, Inc.

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Item 1.01   

Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

     1   
Item 5.02   

Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

     1   
Item 5.03   

Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

     1   
Item 8.01   

Other Events.

     2   
Item 9.01   

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

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SIGNATURES      3   
EX-3.1   
EX-3.2   
EX-4.1   
EX-4.2   
EX-10.1   


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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

The information set forth under Item 8.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K regarding the Children Trusts Registration Rights Agreement, the Dolan Registration Rights Agreement and the Standstill Agreement, in each case as defined below, is incorporated into this Item 1.01 by reference.

 

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On September 25, 2015, the following persons were elected as directors of The Madison Square Company (formerly MSG Spinco, Inc., and referred to herein as the “Company”) effective immediately following the time of the distribution by MSG Networks Inc. (formerly The Madison Square Garden Company, and referred to herein as “MSG Networks”) to its stockholders of all of the common stock of the Company (the “Distribution”):

Designated as directors elected by the holders of the Company’s Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Class A Common Stock”):

 

    Richard D. Parsons

 

    Nelson Peltz

 

    Scott M. Sperling

Designated as directors elected by the holders of the Company’s Class B common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Class B Common Stock”):

 

    James L. Dolan

 

    Charles F. Dolan

 

    Charles P. Dolan

 

    Kristin A. Dolan

 

    Thomas C. Dolan

 

    Wilt Hildenbrand

 

    Alan D. Schwartz

 

    Brian G. Sweeney

 

    Vincent Tese

Information concerning these individuals, including biographical and compensation information, is included in the Information Statement filed as Exhibit 99.1 to Amendment No. 6 of the Company’s registration statement on Form 10 (the “Form 10”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on September 11, 2015. Such information is incorporated into this Item 5.02 by reference.

On September 28, 2015, Messrs. Parsons and Schwartz were appointed to serve as members of the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”). Mr. Tese is also a member of the Audit Committee. The Board has determined that each member of the Audit Committee (i) is “independent” within the meaning of the rules of both the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) and the SEC, (ii) has not participated in the preparation of the financial statements of the Company or any current subsidiary of the Company at any time during the past three years, (iii) is able to read and understand fundamental financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements, and (iv) is an “audit committee financial expert” within the meaning of the rules of the SEC.

Messrs. Schwartz and Sperling were appointed to serve as members of the Compensation Committee of the Board. Mr. Tese is also a member of the Compensation Committee. The Board of Directors has determined that each member of the Compensation Committee is “independent” for purposes of serving on the Compensation Committee within the meaning of the rules of NYSE.


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Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

On September 30, 2015, the Company filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware its amended and restated certificate of incorporation which, among other things, (i) effected the name change of the Company from MSG Spinco, Inc. to The Madison Square Garden Company, (ii) effected a reclassification of the Company’s common stock so that its outstanding common stock was reclassified into an aggregate of 20,397,558 shares of Class A Common Stock and 4,529,518.33 shares of Class B Common Stock, and (iii) authorized 165,000,000 shares for issuance, 120,000,000 shares of which are designated as Class A Common Stock, 30,000,000 of which are designated as Class B Common Stock and 15,000,000 of which are designated as preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share. The amended and restated certificate of incorporation, which became effective immediately prior to the Distribution, is substantially in the form included as Exhibit 3.2 to the Form 10, except for the inclusion of the information set forth in clauses (ii) and (iii) above.

The above description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the amended and restated certificate of incorporation, which is attached as Exhibit 3.1 hereto and incorporated into this Item 5.03 by reference.

Also on September 30, 2015, the Company’s amended by-laws became effective immediately prior to the Distribution. The amended by-laws are in the form included as Exhibit 3.4 to the Form 10, are attached as Exhibit 3.2 hereto and are incorporated into this Item 5.03 by reference.

 

Item 8.01 Other Events.

On September 30, 2015, MSG Networks effected the Distribution of all of the Company’s outstanding common stock. In the Distribution, each holder of MSG Networks Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of record as of the close of business, New York City time, on September 21, 2015 (the “record date”), received one share of the Company’s Class A Common Stock for every three shares of MSG Networks’ Class A common stock held on the record date. Each record holder of MSG Networks Class B common stock, par value $0.01 per share, received one share of the Company’s Class B Common Stock for every three shares of MSG Networks’ Class B common stock held on the record date. In the Distribution, an aggregate of 20,397,558 shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock and 4,529,518.33 shares of the Company’s Class B Common Stock were issued, but any fractional shares were converted to cash and paid to stockholders.

In connection with the Distribution, the Company entered into a Registration Rights Agreement, dated September 15, 2015, with The Charles F. Dolan Children Trusts (the “Children Trusts Registration Rights Agreement”), a Registration Rights Agreement, dated September 15, 2015, with The Dolan Family Affiliates (the “Dolan Registration Rights Agreement”), and a Standstill Agreement, dated September 15, 2015, with The Dolan Family Group (the “Standstill Agreement”) as further described in the Form 10. The operative provisions of each of such agreements became effective upon the consummation of the Distribution. The Children Trusts Registration Rights Agreement, the Dolan Registration Rights Agreement and the Standstill Agreement are substantially in the forms included as Exhibit 3.5, Exhibit 3.6 and Exhibit 10.7 to the Form 10, respectively, are attached hereto as Exhibit 4.1, Exhibit 4.2 and Exhibit 10.1, respectively, and are incorporated into this Item 8.01 by reference.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

  (d) Exhibits.

 

  3.1 Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of The Madison Square Garden Company.

 

  3.2 Amended By-Laws of The Madison Square Garden Company.

 

  4.1 Registration Rights Agreement, dated September 15, 2015, by and among The Madison Square Garden Company and The Charles F. Dolan Children Trusts.

 

  4.2 Registration Rights Agreement, dated September 15, 2015, by and among The Madison Square Garden Company and The Dolan Family Affiliates.

 

  10.1 Standstill Agreement, dated September 15, 2015, between The Madison Square Garden Company and The Dolan Family Group.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN COMPANY (Registrant)
By:   /s/ Lawrence J. Burian
  Name:   Lawrence J. Burian
  Title:   Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Dated: October 1, 2015

 

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EX-3.1 2 d99443dex31.htm EX-3.1 EX-3.1

Exhibit 3.1

AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

MSG SPINCO, INC.

Pursuant to Sections 242 and 245 of

The General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware

MSG Spinco, Inc., a Delaware corporation, hereby certifies as follows:

1. The name of the corporation is MSG Spinco, Inc. The date of filing of its original certificate of incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware was March 4, 2015.

2. This restated certificate of incorporation amends, restates and integrates the provisions of the certificate of incorporation of said corporation and has been duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware by written consent of the holder of all of the outstanding stock entitled to vote thereon and all of the outstanding stock of each class entitled to vote thereon as a class in accordance with the provisions of Section 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

3. The text of the certificate of incorporation is hereby amended and restated to read herein as set forth in full:

“AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN COMPANY

FIRST. The name of this corporation (hereinafter called the “Corporation”) is The Madison Square Garden Company.

SECOND. The name and address, including street, number, city and county, of the registered office and registered agent for service of process of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, 19808.

THIRD. The nature of the business and of the purposes to be conducted and promoted by the Corporation are to conduct any lawful business, to promote any lawful purpose, and to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.


FOURTH. The aggregate number of shares of capital stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue shall be 165,000,000 shares, which shall be divided into the following classes:

(a) 120,000,000 shares shall be of a class designated Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Class A Common Stock”);

(b) 30,000,000 shares shall be of a class designated Class B common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Class B Common Stock” and together with Class A Common Stock, “Common Stock”);

(c) 15,000,000 shares shall be of a class designated preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Preferred Stock”).

This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation shall become effective at 11:59 p.m. on September 30, 2015 (the “Effective Time”). At the Effective Time, the shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Corporation (“Old Common Stock”), in the aggregate outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall automatically be reclassified as and converted into an aggregate of 20,397,558 shares of Class A Common Stock and 4,529,518.33 shares of Class B Common Stock. From and after the Effective Time, certificates that previously represented shares of Old Common Stock shall, until the same are presented for exchange, represent the number of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock into which such shares of Old Common Stock were reclassified and converted pursuant hereto.

The following is a statement of (a) the designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of the Common Stock, and (b) the authority expressly vested in the Board of Directors hereunder with respect to the issuance of any series of Preferred Stock:

 

A. Common Stock.

 

  I. Priority of Preferred Stock.

Each of the Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock is subject to all the powers, rights, privileges, preferences and priorities of any series of Preferred Stock as are stated and expressed herein and as shall be stated and expressed in any Certificates of Designations filed with respect to any series of Preferred Stock pursuant to authority expressly granted to and vested in the Board of Directors by the provisions of Section B of this Article FOURTH.

 

  II. Dividends.

Subject to (a) any other provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation including, without limitation, Section A.V of this Article FOURTH, and (b) the provisions of any Certificates of Designations filed with respect to any series of Preferred Stock, holders of

 

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Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock shall be entitled to receive equally on a per share basis such dividends and other distributions in cash, stock or property of the Corporation as may be declared thereon by the Board of Directors from time to time out of assets or funds of the Corporation legally available therefor; provided that, subject to Section A.V of this Article, the Board of Directors shall declare no dividend, and no dividend shall be paid, with respect to any outstanding share of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, whether paid in cash or property, unless, simultaneously, the same dividend is paid with respect to each share of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock.

 

  III. Voting.

(a) Except as otherwise required (i) by statute, (ii) pursuant to the provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation, or (iii) pursuant to the provisions of any Certificates of Designations filed with respect to any series of Preferred Stock, the holders of Common Stock shall have the sole right and power to vote on all matters on which a vote of stockholders is to be taken. At every meeting of the stockholders, each holder of Class A Common Stock shall be entitled to cast one (1) vote in person or by proxy for each share of Class A Common Stock standing in his or her name on the transfer books of the Corporation and each holder of Class B Common Stock shall be entitled to cast ten (10) votes in person or by proxy for each share of Class B Common Stock standing in his or her name on the transfer books of the Corporation.

Except in the election of directors of the Corporation (voting in respect of which shall be governed by the terms set forth in subsections (b) and (c) of this Section III) and as otherwise required (i) by statute, (ii) pursuant to the provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation, or (iii) pursuant to the provisions of any Certificates of Designations filed with respect to any series of Preferred Stock, the holders of Common Stock shall vote together as a single class; provided, that the affirmative vote or consent of the holders of at least 66 2/3% of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock, voting separately as a class, shall be required for (1) the authorization or issuance of any additional shares of Class B Common Stock and (2) any amendment, alteration or repeal of any of the provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation which adversely affects the powers, preferences or rights of Class B Common Stock. Except as provided in the previous sentence, the number of authorized shares of any class of Common Stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of the majority of the stock of the Corporation entitled to vote.

(b) With respect to the election of directors:

(i) If on the record date for notice of any meeting of stockholders of the Corporation at which directors are to be elected by the holders of Common Stock (the “Common Stock Directors”), the aggregate number of outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock is at least 10% of the total aggregate number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, holders of Class A Common Stock shall vote together as a separate class and shall be entitled to elect 25% of the total number of Common Stock Directors; provided, that if such 25% is not a whole number, then the holders of Class A Common Stock, voting together as a separate class,

 

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shall be entitled to elect the nearest higher whole number of directors that is at least 25% of the total number of the Common Stock Directors. Subject to subsection (iii) of this Section III(b), holders of Class B Common Stock shall vote together as a separate class to elect the remaining Common Stock Directors;

(ii) If on the record date for notice of any meeting of stockholders of the Corporation at which Common Stock Directors are to be elected, the aggregate number of outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock is less than 10% of the total aggregate number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, the holders of Common Stock shall vote together as a single class with respect to the election of the Common Stock Directors and the holders of Class A Common Stock, voting together as a separate class, shall not have the right to elect 25% of the Common Stock Directors, but shall have one (1) vote per share for all Common Stock Directors and the holders of Class B Common Stock shall be entitled to ten (10) votes per share for all Common Stock Directors; and

(iii) If on the record date for notice of any meeting of stockholders of the Corporation at which Common Stock Directors are to be elected, the aggregate number of outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock is less than 12 1/2% of the total aggregate number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, then the holders of Class A Common Stock, voting together as a separate class, shall continue to elect a number of directors equal to 25% of the total number of Common Stock Directors (or the next highest whole number) in accordance with subsection (b)(i) of this Section III and, in addition, shall vote together with the holders of Class B Common Stock, as a single class, to elect the remaining Common Stock Directors, with the holders of Class A Common Stock entitled to one (1) vote per share for all Common Stock Directors and the holders of Class B Common Stock entitled to ten (10) votes per share for all Common Stock Directors.

(c) Any vacancy in the office of a Common Stock Director elected by the holders of Class A Common Stock voting as a separate class during the term for which such Common Stock Director was elected shall be filled by a vote of holders of Class A Common Stock voting as a separate class, and any vacancy in the office of a Common Stock Director elected by the holders of Class B Common Stock voting as a separate class during the term for which such Common Stock Director was elected shall be filled by a vote of holders of Class B Common Stock voting as a separate class or, in the absence of a stockholder vote, in the case of a vacancy in the office of a Common Stock Director elected by either class during the term for which such Common Stock Director was elected, such vacancy may be filled by the remaining directors of such class. Except as provided in the foregoing sentence, any vacancy on the Board of Directors may be filled by a vote of holders of Class A Common Stock or the Common Stock Directors elected thereby if the number of Common Stock Directors elected thereby is then less than 25% of the total number of Common Stock Directors, and otherwise may be filled by a vote of holders of Class B Common Stock or the Common Stock Directors elected thereby; provided, that in each case at the time of the filling of such vacancy, the holders of such class of stock were

 

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then entitled to elect directors to the Board of Directors by class vote. Any director elected by the Board of Directors to fill a vacancy shall serve until the next annual meeting of stockholders (at which time such person’s term shall expire) and until such person’s successor has been duly elected and qualified. If the Board of Directors increases the number of directors in accordance with Article FIFTH of this Certificate of Incorporation, any newly created directorship may be filled by the Board of Directors; provided that, so long as the holders of Class A Common Stock have the rights provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this Section III in respect of the last preceding annual meeting of stockholders to elect 25% of the total number of Common Stock Directors, (i) the Board of Directors may be so enlarged by the directors only to the extent that at least 25% of the enlarged board consists of (1) Common Stock Directors elected by the holders of Class A Common Stock, (2) persons appointed to fill vacancies created by the death, resignation or removal of persons elected by the holders of Class A Common Stock or (3) persons appointed by Common Stock Directors elected by holders of Class A Common Stock or persons appointed to fill vacancies created by the death, resignation or removal of persons elected by holders of Class A Common Stock and (ii) each person filling a newly-created directorship is designated either (x) as a Common Stock Director to be elected by holders of Class A Common Stock and is appointed by Common Stock Directors elected by holders of Class A Common Stock or persons appointed to fill vacancies created by the death, resignation or removal of persons elected by holders of Class A Common Stock or (y) as a Common Stock Director to be elected by holders of Class B Common Stock and is appointed by Common Stock Directors elected by holders of Class B Common Stock or persons appointed to fill vacancies created by the death, resignation or removal of persons elected by the holders of Class B Common Stock.

(d) Notwithstanding anything in this Section III to the contrary, the holders of Class A Common Stock shall have exclusive voting power on all matters upon which, pursuant to this Certificate of Incorporation or applicable laws, the holders of Common Stock are entitled to vote, at any time when no shares of Class B Common Stock are issued and outstanding.

(e) Wherever any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation or the by-laws of the Corporation sets forth a specific percentage of the shares outstanding and entitled to vote which is required for approval or ratification of any action upon which the vote of the stockholders is required or may be obtained, such provision shall mean such specified percentage of the votes entitled to be cast by holders of shares then outstanding and entitled to vote on such action.

(f) From and after the date on which The Madison Square Garden Company (to be renamed MSG Networks Inc. effective as of the Effective Time, and referred to herein as “MSG Networks”) first distributes to its stockholders shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock pursuant to the Distribution Agreement, dated as of September 11, 2015, between the Corporation and MSG Networks, no action of stockholders of the Corporation required or permitted to be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation may be taken without a meeting of stockholders, without prior notice and without a vote, and the power of the stockholders of the Corporation to consent in writing to the taking of any action without a meeting is specifically denied. Notwithstanding this clause (f), the holders of any series of Preferred Stock of the Corporation shall be entitled to take action by written consent to such extent, if any, as may be provided in the terms of such series.

 

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  IV. Conversion Rights.

(a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Article FOURTH, each share of Class B Common Stock shall be convertible at any time and from time to time, at the option of the holder thereof, at the office of any transfer agent for such Class B Common Stock and at such other place or places, if any, as the Board of Directors may designate, or, if the Board of Directors shall fail to so designate, at the principal office of the Corporation (attention of the Secretary of the Corporation), into one (1) fully paid and non-assessable share of Class A Common Stock. Upon conversion, the Corporation shall make no payment or adjustment on account of dividends accrued or in arrears on Class B Common Stock surrendered for conversion or on account of any dividends on the Class A Common Stock issuable on such conversion; provided, that the foregoing shall not affect the right of any holder of Class B Common Stock on the record date for any dividend to receive payment of such dividend. Before any holder of Class B Common Stock shall be entitled to convert the same into Class A Common Stock, he or she shall surrender the certificate or certificates for such Class B Common Stock at the office of said transfer agent (or other place as provided above), which certificate or certificates, if the Corporation shall so request, shall be duly endorsed to the Corporation or in blank or accompanied by proper instruments of transfer to the Corporation or in blank (such endorsements or instruments of transfer to be in form satisfactory to the Corporation), and shall give written notice to the Corporation at said office that he or she elects so to convert said Class B Common Stock in accordance with the terms of this Section IV, and shall state in writing therein the name or names in which he or she wishes the certificate or certificates for Class A Common Stock to be registered. Every such notice of election to convert shall constitute a binding contract between the holder of such Class B Common Stock and the Corporation, whereby the holder of such Class B Common Stock shall be deemed to subscribe for the amount of Class A Common Stock which he or she shall be entitled to receive upon such conversion, and, in satisfaction of such subscription, to deposit the Class B Common Stock to be converted and to release the Corporation from all liability thereunder, and thereby the Corporation shall be deemed to agree that the surrender of the certificate or certificates therefor and the extinguishment of liability thereon shall constitute full payment of such subscription for Class A Common Stock to be issued upon such conversion. The Corporation will as soon as practicable after such deposit of a certificate or certificates for Class B Common Stock, accompanied by the written notice, issue and deliver at the office of said transfer agent (or other place as provided above) to the person for whose account such Class B Common Stock was so surrendered, or to his nominee or nominees, a certificate or certificates for the number of full shares of Class A Common Stock to which he shall be entitled as aforesaid. Subject to the provisions of subsection (c) of this Section IV, such conversion shall be deemed to have been made as of the date of such surrender of the Class B Common Stock to be converted; and the person or persons entitled to receive the Class A Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such Class B Common Stock shall be treated for all purposes as the record holder or holders of such Class A Common Stock on such date. Upon conversion of shares of Class B Common Stock, shares of Class B Common Stock so converted will be canceled and retired by the Corporation, such shares shall not be reissued and the number of shares of Class B Common Stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue shall be decreased by the number of shares of Class B Common Stock so converted and the Board of Directors shall take such steps as are required to so retire such shares.

 

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(b) The issuance of certificates for shares of Class A Common Stock upon conversion of shares of Class B Common Stock shall be made without charge for any stamp or other similar tax in respect of such issuance. However, if any such certificate is to be issued in a name other than that of the holder of the share or shares of Class B Common Stock converted, the person or persons requesting the issuance thereof shall pay to the Corporation the amount of any tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in such issuance or shall establish to the satisfaction of the Corporation that such tax has been paid or that no such tax is due.

(c) The Corporation shall not be required to convert Class B Common Stock, and no surrender of Class B Common Stock shall be effective for that purpose, while the stock transfer books of the Corporation are closed for any purpose; but the surrender of Class B Common Stock for conversion during any period while such books are closed shall be deemed effective for conversion immediately upon the reopening of such books, as if the conversion had been made on the date such Class B Common Stock was surrendered.

(d) The Corporation will at all times reserve and keep available, solely for the purpose of issue upon conversion of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock, such number of shares of Class A Common Stock as shall be issuable upon the conversion of all such outstanding shares; provided, that nothing contained herein shall be construed to preclude the Corporation from satisfying its obligations in respect of the conversion of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock by delivery of shares of Class A Common Stock which are held in the treasury of the Corporation. The Corporation covenants that if any shares of Class A Common Stock, required to be reserved for purposes of conversion hereunder, require registration with or approval of any governmental authority under any federal or state law before such shares of Class A Common Stock may be issued upon conversion, the Corporation will use its best efforts to cause such shares to be duly registered or approved, as the case may be. The Corporation will endeavor to list the shares of Class A Common Stock required to be delivered upon conversion prior to such delivery upon each national securities exchange, if any, upon which the outstanding Class A Common Stock is listed at the time of such delivery. The Corporation covenants that all shares of Class A Common Stock which shall be issued upon conversion of the shares of Class B Common Stock will, upon issue, be fully paid and non-assessable and not entitled to any preemptive rights.

 

  V. Securities Distributions.

(a) The Corporation may declare and pay a dividend or distribution consisting of shares of Class A Common Stock, Class B Common Stock or any other securities of the Corporation or any other person (hereinafter sometimes called a “share distribution”) to holders of one or more classes of Common Stock only in accordance with the provisions of this Section V.

 

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(b) If at any time a share distribution is to be made with respect to Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, such share distribution may be declared and paid only as follows:

(i) a share distribution consisting of shares of Class A Common Stock (or Convertible Securities (as defined below) convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of Class A Common Stock) to holders of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, on an equal per share basis;

(ii) a share distribution consisting of shares of Class A Common Stock (or Convertible Securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of Class A Common Stock) to holders of Class A Common Stock and, on an equal per share basis, shares of Class B Common Stock (or like Convertible Securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of Class B Common Stock) to holders of Class B Common Stock; and

(iii) a share distribution consisting of any class or series of securities of the Corporation or any other person other than as described in clauses (i) and (ii) of this subsection (a) of this Section V, either (1) on the basis of a distribution of identical securities, on an equal per share basis, to holders of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock or (2) on the basis of a distribution of one class or series of securities to holders of Class A Common Stock and another class or series of securities to holders of Class B Common Stock; provided, that the securities so distributed (and, if the distribution consists of Convertible Securities, the securities into which such Convertible Securities are convertible or for which they are exercisable or exchangeable) do not differ in any respect other than differences in their rights (other than voting rights) consistent in all material respects with the differences between the Class A Common Stock and the Class B Common Stock and difference in their relative voting rights, with holders of shares of Class B Common Stock receiving the class or series having the higher relative voting rights (without regard to whether such voting rights differ to a greater or lesser extent than the corresponding differences in the voting rights of the Class A Common Stock and the Class B Common Stock provided in Section A.III of this Article FOURTH); provided, that if the securities so distributed constitute capital stock of a subsidiary of the Corporation, such voting rights shall not differ to a greater extent than the corresponding differences in voting rights of the Class A Common Stock and the Class B Common Stock provided in Section A.III of this Article FOURTH, and provided in each case that such distribution is otherwise made on an equal per share basis, as determined by the Board of Directors in its sole discretion.

For purposes of this Certificate of Incorporation, “Convertible Securities” shall mean any securities of the Corporation (other than any class of Common Stock) or any subsidiary thereof that are convertible into, exchangeable for or evidence the right to purchase any shares of any class of Common Stock, whether upon conversion, exercise, exchange, pursuant to anti-dilution provisions of such securities or otherwise.

 

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  VI. Liquidation Rights.

In the event of any liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, after payment or provision for payment of the debts and other liabilities of the Corporation and after payment in full of the amounts to be paid to holders of Preferred Stock as set forth in any Certificates of Designations filed with respect thereto, the remaining assets and funds of the Corporation shall be divided among, and paid ratably to the holders of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock (including those persons who shall become holders of Class A Common Stock by reason of the conversion of their shares of Class B Common Stock) as a single class. For the purposes of this Section VI, a consolidation or merger of the Corporation with one or more other corporations or business entities shall not be deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution or winding up, voluntary or involuntary.

 

  VII. Reclassifications, Etc.

Neither the Class A Common Stock nor the Class B Common Stock may be subdivided, consolidated, reclassified or otherwise changed unless contemporaneously therewith the other class of Common Stock is subdivided, consolidated, reclassified or otherwise changed in the same proportion and in the same manner.

 

  VIII. Mergers, Consolidations, Etc.

In any merger, consolidation or business combination of the Corporation with or into another corporation, whether or not the Corporation is the surviving corporation, the consideration per share to be received by holders of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock in such merger, consolidation or business combination must be identical to that received by holders of the other class of Common Stock, except that in any such transaction in which shares of capital stock are distributed, such shares may differ as to voting rights to the extent and only to the extent that the voting rights of the Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock differ as provided herein.

 

  IX. Rights and Warrants.

In case the Corporation shall issue rights or warrants to purchase shares of capital stock of the Corporation, the terms of the rights and warrants, and the number of rights or warrants per share, to be received by holders of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock must be identical to that received by holders of the other class of Common Stock, except that the shares of capital stock into which such rights or warrants are exercisable may differ as to voting rights to the extent and only to the extent that the voting rights of the Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock differ as provided herein.

 

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  X. Transfers of Shares.

At any time during which the Corporation owns, directly or indirectly, an interest in a professional sports franchise, the ownership and transfer of shares of Common Stock will be subject to any applicable restrictions on transfer imposed by the league or other governing body with respect to such franchise (the “League”), which restrictions are described in the Corporation’s filings (including exhibits) with the Securities and Exchange Commission. If a transfer of shares of Common Stock (including any pledge or creation of a security interest therein) to a person, or the ownership of shares of Common Stock by a person, requires approval or other action by the League and such approval or other action has not been obtained or taken as required, the Corporation shall have the right by written notice to the holder to require the holder to dispose of the shares of Common Stock which triggered the need for such approval (the “excess shares”) within 10 days of delivery of such notice (a “required divestiture”). If a holder has failed to provide documentation satisfactory to the Corporation of the holder’s compliance with a required divestiture by the fifth business day following the end of the 10-day period, in addition to any other remedies the Corporation may have for such failure to comply with a required divestiture, the Corporation shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to redeem from such holder the excess shares (a “mandatory redemption”) by providing written notice of such required divestiture to the holder (a “redemption notice”) and mailing a check payable to the holder in an amount equal to 85% of the fair market value of the excess shares on the date of the notice. For purposes of establishing the fair market value of the excess shares, the fair market value of a share of Common Stock will be equal to the average of the closing sale price (or if no closing sale price is reported, the last reported sale price) of the Class A Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange (or if the Class A Common Stock is not traded on the New York Stock Exchange on any date of determination, the principal securities exchange on which such stock is listed or quoted) over the 10-trading day period ending on the second trading day preceding the redemption notice, or such other amount as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors. A mandatory redemption shall require no action by the holder of the redeemed shares and the shares shall be deemed to be cancelled upon the delivery by the Corporation of payment therefor in accordance with this Section X.

 

B. Preferred Stock.

 

  I. Issuance.

Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series, the shares of each series to have such powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, as are stated and expressed herein or in a Certificate or Certificates of Designations providing for the issuance of such series, adopted by the Board of Directors as hereinafter provided.

 

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  II. Powers of the Board of Directors.

Authority is hereby expressly granted to the Board of Directors to authorize the issue of one or more series of Preferred Stock, and with respect to each series to set forth in a Certificate or Certificates of Designations provisions with respect to the issuance of such series, the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof of the shares of each series of Preferred Stock, including without limitation the following:

(a) The maximum number of shares to constitute such series and the distinctive designation thereof;

(b) Whether the shares of such series shall have voting rights, in addition to any voting rights provided by law, and, if so, the terms of such voting rights;

(c) The dividend rate, if any, on the shares of such series, the conditions and dates upon which such dividends shall be payable, the preference or relation which such dividends shall bear to the dividends payable on any other class or classes or on any other series of capital stock, and whether such dividends shall be cumulative or non-cumulative;

(d) Whether the shares of such series shall be subject to redemption by the Corporation, and, if made subject to redemption, the times, prices and other terms and conditions of such redemption;

(e) The rights of the holders of shares of such series upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation;

(f) Whether or not the shares of such series shall be subject to the operation of a retirement or sinking fund, and, if so, the extent to and manner in which any such retirement or sinking fund shall be applied to the purchase or redemption of the shares of such series for retirement or to other corporate purposes and the terms and provisions relative to the operation thereof;

(g) Whether or not the shares of such series shall be convertible into, or exchangeable for, shares of stock of any other class or classes, or of any other series of the same class, and if so convertible or exchangeable, the price or prices or the rate or rates of conversion or exchange and the method, if any, of adjusting the same;

(h) The limitations and restrictions, if any, to be effective while any shares of such series are outstanding upon the payment of dividends or making of other distributions on, and upon the purchase, redemption or other acquisition by the corporation of the Class A Common Stock, the Class B Common Stock or any other class or classes of stock of the corporation ranking junior to the shares of such series either as to dividends or upon liquidation;

(i) The conditions or restrictions, if any, upon the creation of indebtedness of the corporation or upon the issue of any additional stock (including additional shares of such series or of any other series or of any other class) ranking on a parity with or prior to the shares of such series as to dividends or distribution of assets on liquidation, dissolution or winding up; and

 

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(j) Any other preference and relative, participating, optional, or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof as shall not be inconsistent with this Article FOURTH.

 

  III. Ranking.

All shares of any one series of Preferred Stock shall be identical with each other in all respects, except that shares of any one series issued at different times may differ as to the dates from which dividends, if any, thereon shall be cumulative; and all series shall rank equally and be identical in all respects, except as permitted by the foregoing provisions of Section B.II of this Article FOURTH; and all shares of Preferred Stock shall rank senior to the Common Stock both as to dividends and upon liquidation.

 

  IV. Liquidation Rights.

Except as shall be otherwise stated and expressed in the Certificate or Certificates of Designations adopted by the Board of Directors with respect to any series of Preferred Stock, in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, before any payment or distribution of the assets of the Corporation (whether capital or surplus) shall be made to or set apart for the holders of any class or classes of stock of the Corporation ranking junior to the Preferred Stock upon liquidation, the holders of the shares of the Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive payment at the rate fixed in the resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors providing for the issue of such series, plus (if dividends on shares of such series of Preferred Stock shall be cumulative) an amount equal to all dividends (whether or not earned or declared) accumulated to the date of final distribution to such holders; but they shall be entitled to no further payment. Except as aforesaid, if, upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, the assets of the Corporation, or proceeds thereof, distributable among the holders of the shares of the Preferred Stock shall be insufficient to pay in full the preferential amount aforesaid, then such assets, or the proceeds thereof, shall be distributed among such holders ratably in accordance with the respective amounts which would be payable on such shares if all amounts payable thereon were paid in full. For the purposes of this Section IV, a consolidation or merger of the Corporation with one or more other corporations or business entities shall not be deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution or winding up, voluntary or involuntary.

 

  V. Voting.

Except as shall be otherwise stated and expressed herein or in the Certificate or Certificates of Designations adopted by the Board of Directors with respect to the issuance of any series of Preferred Stock and except as otherwise required by the laws of the State of Delaware, the holders of shares of Preferred Stock shall have, with respect to such shares, no right or power to vote on any question or in any proceeding or to be represented at, or to receive notice of, any meeting of stockholders.

FIFTH. The management of the business and the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation, including the election of the Chairman, if any, the President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, and other principal officers of the Corporation, shall be vested in its

 

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Board of Directors. The number of directors of the Corporation shall be fixed by the by-laws of the Corporation and may be altered from time to time as provided therein. A director shall be elected to hold office until the expiration of the term for which such person is elected (which shall expire at the next annual meeting of stockholders after such person’s election), and until such person’s successor shall be duly elected and qualified.

SIXTH. Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between the Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between the Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of the Corporation or any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for the Corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or the stockholders or class of stockholders of the Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of the Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of the Corporation as a consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of the Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this corporation.

SEVENTH. The power to make, alter, or repeal the by-laws, and to adopt any new by-law, shall be vested in the Board of Directors and the stockholders entitled to vote in the election of directors.

EIGHTH. The Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same may be amended and supplemented, or by any successor thereto, indemnify any and all persons whom it shall have power to indemnify under said section from and against any and all of the expenses, liabilities or other matters referred to in or covered by said section. Such right to indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person. The indemnification provided for herein shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may be entitled under any by-law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

No director of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except that this paragraph shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (A) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (B) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (C) under Section 174 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, or (D) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

 

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No amendment, modification or repeal of this Article EIGHTH shall adversely affect any right or protection of a person that exists at the time of such amendment, modification or repeal.

NINTH. No contract or transaction between the Corporation and one or more of its directors or officers, or between the Corporation and any other corporation, partnership, association or other organization in which one or more of its directors or officers are directors or officers, or have a financial interest, shall be void or voidable solely for this reason, or solely because the director or officer is present at or participates in the meeting of the Board of Directors or committee thereof which authorizes the contract or transaction, or solely because such director’s or officer’s votes are counted for such purpose, if:

A. The material facts as to the director’s or officer’s relationship or interest and as to the contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the Board of Directors or the committee, and the Board of Directors or committee in good faith authorizes the contract or transaction by the affirmative votes of a majority of the disinterested directors, even though the disinterested directors be less than a quorum; or

B. The material facts as to the director’s or officer’s relationship or interest and as to the contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the stockholders entitled to vote thereon, and the contract or transaction is specifically approved in good faith by vote of the stockholders; or

C. The contract or transaction is fair as to the Corporation as of the time it is authorized, approved or ratified by the Board of Directors, a committee thereof, or the stockholders.

Common or interested directors may be counted in the presence of a quorum at a meeting of the Board of Directors or of a committee which authorizes the contract or transaction.

TENTH.

 

A. Certain Acknowledgements; Definitions.

It is recognized that (a) certain directors and officers of the Corporation and its subsidiaries (the “Overlap Persons”) have served and may serve as directors, officers, employees and agents of MSG Networks, Cablevision Systems Corporation and AMC Networks Inc. and their respective subsidiaries and successors (each of the foregoing is an “Other Entity”), (b) the Corporation and its subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, may engage in the same, similar or related lines of business as those engaged in by any Other Entity and other business activities that overlap with or compete with those in which such Other Entity may engage, (c) the Corporation or its subsidiaries may have an interest in the same areas of business opportunity as an Other

 

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Entity, (d) the Corporation will derive substantial benefits from the service as directors or officers of the Corporation and its subsidiaries of Overlap Persons, and (e) it is in the best interests of the Corporation that the rights of the Corporation, and the duties of any Overlap Persons, be determined and delineated as provided in this Article TENTH in respect of any Potential Business Opportunities (as defined below) and in respect of the agreements and transactions referred to herein. The provisions of this Article TENTH will, to the fullest extent permitted by law, regulate and define the conduct of the business and affairs of the Corporation and its officers and directors who are Overlap Persons in connection with any Potential Business Opportunities and in connection with any agreements and transactions referred to herein. Any person purchasing or otherwise acquiring any shares of capital stock of the Corporation, or any interest therein, will be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the provisions of this Article TENTH. References in this Article TENTH to “directors,” “officers,” “employees” and “agents” of any person will be deemed to include those persons who hold similar positions or exercise similar powers and authority with respect to any other entity that is a limited liability company, partnership, joint venture or other non-corporate entity.

 

B. Duties of Directors and Officers Regarding Potential Business Opportunities; Renunciation of Interest in Potential Business Opportunities.

The Corporation hereby renounces, on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any interest or expectancy in any Potential Business Opportunity that is not a Restricted Potential Business Opportunity. If a director or officer of the Corporation who is an Overlap Person is presented or offered, or otherwise acquires knowledge of, a potential transaction or matter that may constitute or present a business opportunity for the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries, in which the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries could, but for the provisions of this Article TENTH, have an interest or expectancy (any such transaction or matter, and any such actual or potential business opportunity, a “Potential Business Opportunity”), (i) such Overlap Person will, to the fullest extent permitted by law, have no duty or obligation to refrain from referring such Potential Business Opportunity to any Other Entity and, if such Overlap Person refers such Potential Business Opportunity to an Other Entity, such Overlap Person shall have no duty or obligation to refer such Potential Business Opportunity to the Corporation or to any of its subsidiaries or to give any notice to the Corporation or to any of its subsidiaries regarding such Potential Business Opportunity (or any matter related thereto), (ii) if such Overlap Person refers a Potential Business Opportunity to an Other Entity, such Overlap Person, to the fullest extent permitted by law, will not be liable to the Corporation as a director, officer, stockholder or otherwise, for any failure to refer such Potential Business Opportunity to the Corporation, or for referring such Potential Business Opportunity to any Other Entity, or for any failure to give any notice to the Corporation regarding such Potential Business Opportunity or any matter relating thereto; (iii) any Other Entity may participate, engage or invest in any such Potential Business Opportunity notwithstanding that such Potential Business Opportunity may have been referred to such Other Entity by an Overlap Person, and (iv) if a director or officer who is an Overlap Person refers a Potential Business Opportunity to an Other Entity, then, as between the Corporation and/or its subsidiaries, on the one hand, and such Other Entity, on the other hand, the Corporation and its subsidiaries shall be deemed to have renounced any interest, expectancy or right in or to such Potential Business Opportunity or to receive any income or proceeds derived therefrom solely as a result of such Overlap Person having been presented or offered, or otherwise acquiring knowledge of, such Potential Business Opportunity, unless in each case referred to in clause (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv), such Potential Business Opportunity

 

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satisfies all of the following conditions (any Potential Business Opportunity that satisfies all of such conditions, a “Restricted Potential Business Opportunity”): (A) such Potential Business Opportunity was expressly presented or offered to the Overlap Person solely in his or her capacity as a director or officer of the Corporation; (B) the Overlap Person believed that the Corporation possessed, or would reasonably be expected to be able to possess, the resources necessary to exploit such Potential Business Opportunity; and (C) such opportunity relates exclusively to a theatrical or arena venue with a seating capacity of greater than 1,000; provided, that the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries is directly engaged in such business at the time the Potential Business Opportunity is presented or offered to the Overlap Person. In the event the Corporation’s board of directors declines to pursue a Restricted Potential Business Opportunity, Overlap Persons shall be free to refer such Restricted Potential Business Opportunity to an Other Entity.

 

C. Certain Agreements and Transactions Permitted.

No contract, agreement, arrangement or transaction (or any amendment, modification or termination thereof) entered into between the Corporation and/or any of its subsidiaries, on the one hand, and an Other Entity, on the other hand, before the Corporation ceased to be an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of MSG Networks shall be void or voidable or be considered unfair to the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries solely because an Other Entity is a party thereto, or because any directors, officers or employees of an Other Entity were present at or participated in any meeting of the board of directors, or a committee thereof, of the Corporation, or the board of directors, or committee thereof, of any subsidiary of the Corporation, that authorized the contract, agreement, arrangement or transaction (or any amendment, modification or termination thereof), or because his, her or their votes were counted for such purpose. The Corporation may from time to time enter into and perform, and cause or permit any of its subsidiaries to enter into and perform, one or more contracts, agreements, arrangements or transactions (or amendments, modifications or supplements thereto) with an Other Entity. To the fullest extent permitted by law, no such contract, agreement, arrangement or transaction (nor any such amendments, modifications or supplements), nor the performance thereof by the Corporation, any subsidiary of the Corporation or an Other Entity, shall be considered contrary to any fiduciary duty owed to the Corporation (or to any subsidiary of the Corporation, or to any stockholder of the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries) by any director or officer of the Corporation (or by any director or officer of any subsidiary of the Corporation) who is an Overlap Person. To the fullest extent permitted by law, no director or officer of the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation who is an Overlap Person thereof shall have or be under any fiduciary duty to the Corporation (or to any subsidiary of the Corporation, or to any stockholder of the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries) to refrain from acting on behalf of the Corporation, any subsidiary of the Corporation or an Other Entity in respect of any such contract, agreement, arrangement or transaction or performing any such contract, agreement, arrangement or transaction in accordance with its terms and each such director or officer of the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation who is an Overlap Person shall be deemed to have acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the

 

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best interests of the Corporation and its subsidiaries, and shall be deemed not to have breached his or her duties of loyalty to the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective stockholders, and not to have derived an improper personal benefit therefrom.

 

D. Amendment of Article TENTH.

No alteration, amendment or repeal of, or adoption of any provision inconsistent with, any provision of this Article TENTH will have any effect upon (a) any agreement between the Corporation or a subsidiary thereof and any Other Entity, that was entered into before the time of such alteration, amendment or repeal or adoption of any such inconsistent provision (the “Amendment Time”), or any transaction entered into in connection with the performance of any such agreement, whether such transaction is entered into before or after the Amendment Time, (b) any transaction entered into between the Corporation or a subsidiary thereof and any Other Entity, before the Amendment Time, (c) the allocation of any business opportunity between the Corporation or any subsidiary thereof and any Other Entity before the Amendment Time, or (d) any duty or obligation owed by any director or officer of the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation (or the absence of any such duty or obligation) with respect to any Potential Business Opportunity which such director or officer was offered, or of which such director or officer otherwise became aware, before the Amendment Time (regardless of whether any proceeding relating to any of the above is commenced before or after the Amendment Time).”

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, MSG SPINCO, INC. has caused this certificate to be signed by Lawrence J. Burian, its Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, on the 30th day of September, 2015.

 

MSG SPINCO, INC.

By 

 

/s/ Lawrence J. Burian

  Name:     Lawrence J. Burian
  Title:   Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

 

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EX-3.2 3 d99443dex32.htm EX-3.2 EX-3.2

Exhibit 3.2

 

 

AMENDED BY-LAWS

OF

MSG SPINCO, INC.

(TO BE RENAMED THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN COMPANY)

(A DELAWARE CORPORATION)

AMENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2015


MSG SPINCO, INC.

BY-LAWS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

          Page  

Article I Stockholders

     1   

1.

   Certificates; Uncertificated Shares      1   

2.

   Fractional Share Interests      2   

3.

   Stock Transfers      2   

4.

   Record Date for Stockholders      2   

5.

   Meaning of Certain Terms      3   

6.

   Stockholder Meetings      3   

Article II Directors

     7   

1.

   Functions and Definitions      7   

2.

   Qualifications and Number      7   

3.

   Election and Term      7   

4.

   Meeting      7   

5.

   Removal of Directors      8   

6.

   Action in Writing      8   

7.

   Executive Committee      9   

8.

   Other Committees      9   

Article III Officers

     10   

1.

   Executive Officers      10   

2.

   Term of Office; Removal      10   

3.

   Authority and Duties      10   

4.

   The Chairman      10   

Article IV Voting of Stock in Other Companies

     10   

Article V Corporate Seal and Corporate Books

     11   

Article VI Fiscal Year

     11   

Article VII Control over By-Laws

     11   

Article VIII Indemnification

     11   


AMENDED BY-LAWS

OF

MSG SPINCO, INC.

(TO BE RENAMED THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN COMPANY)

(A DELAWARE CORPORATION)

ARTICLE I

STOCKHOLDERS

1. Certificates; Uncertificated Shares. The shares of stock in the corporation shall be represented by certificates, provided that the Board of Directors may provide by resolution or resolutions that some or all of any or all classes or series of the corporation’s stock shall be uncertificated shares. Any such resolution shall not apply to shares represented by a certificate theretofore issued until such certificate is surrendered to the Corporation. Notwithstanding the adoption of such a resolution by the Board, to the extent, if any, required by applicable law, every holder of stock in the corporation represented by a certificate shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of, the corporation by the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer or Vice Chairman, if any, or by the President, if any, or a Vice President and by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the corporation certifying the number of shares owned by him in the corporation. If such certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent other than the corporation or its employee or by a registrar other than the corporation or its employee, any other signature on the certificate may be a facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent, or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent, or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if he or she were such officer, transfer agent, or registrar at the date of issue.

Whenever the corporation shall be authorized to issue more than one class of stock or more than one series of any class of stock, and whenever the corporation shall issue any shares of its stock as partly paid stock, the certificates representing shares of any such class or series or of any such partly paid stock shall set forth thereon the statements prescribed by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “General Corporation Law”). Any restrictions on the transfer or registration of transfer of any shares of stock of any class or series shall be noted conspicuously on the certificate representing such shares. Within a reasonable time after the issuance or transfer of uncertificated stock, the corporation shall send to the registered owner thereof a written notice containing the information required by law to be set forth or stated on certificates or a statement that the corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights.


The corporation may issue a new certificate of stock in place of any certificate theretofore issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen, or destroyed, and the Board of Directors may require the owner of any lost, stolen, or destroyed certificate, or such owner’s legal representative, to give the corporation a bond sufficient to indemnify the corporation against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss, theft, or destruction of any such certificate or the issuance of any such new certificate.

2. Fractional Share Interests. The corporation may, but shall not be required to, issue fractions of a share. In lieu thereof it shall either pay in cash the fair value of fractions of a share, as determined by the Board of Directors, to those entitled thereto or issue scrip or fractional warrants in registered form, either represented by a certificate or uncertificated, or bearer form over the manual or facsimile signature of an officer of the corporation or of its agent, exchangeable as therein provided for full shares, but such scrip or fractional warrants shall not entitle the holder to any rights of a stockholder except as therein provided. Such scrip or fractional warrants may be issued subject to the condition that the same shall become void if not exchanged for certificates representing full shares of stock or uncertificated full shares of stock before a specified date, or subject to the condition that the shares of stock for which such scrip or fractional warrants are exchangeable may be sold by the corporation and the proceeds thereof distributed to the holders of such scrip or fractional warrants, or subject to any other conditions which the Board of Directors may determine.

3. Stock Transfers. Upon compliance with provisions restricting the transfer or registration of transfer of shares of stock, if any, transfers or registration of transfer of shares of stock of the corporation shall be made only on the stock ledger of the corporation by the registered holder thereof, or by such holder’s attorney thereunto authorized by power of attorney duly executed and filed with the Secretary of the corporation or with a transfer agent or a registrar, if any, and, in the case of shares represented by certificates, on surrender of the certificate or certificates for such shares of stock properly endorsed and the payment of all taxes due thereon.

4. Record Date for Stockholders. For the purpose of determining the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or for the purpose of determining stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or the allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion, or exchange of stock, or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the directors may fix, in advance, a date as the record date for any such determination of stockholders. Such date shall not be more than sixty days nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting, nor more than sixty days prior to any other action. If no record date is fixed, the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held; the record date for determining stockholders for any other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto. When a determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders has been made as provided in this paragraph, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof; provided, however, that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.

 

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5. Meaning of Certain Terms. As used herein in respect of the right to notice of a meeting of stockholders or a waiver thereof or to participate or vote thereat, the term “share” or “shares” or “share of stock” or “shares of stock” or “stockholder” or “stockholders” refers to an outstanding share or shares of stock and to a holder or holders of record of outstanding shares of stock when the corporation is authorized to issue only one class of shares of stock, and said reference is also intended to include any outstanding share or shares of stock and any holder or holders of record of outstanding shares of stock of any class upon which or upon whom the corporation’s certificate of incorporation, as amended (the “certificate of incorporation”) confers such rights where there are two or more classes or series of shares of stock or upon which or upon whom the General Corporation Law confers such rights notwithstanding that the certificate of incorporation may provide for more than one class or series of shares of stock, one or more of which are limited or denied such rights thereunder; provided, however, that no such right shall vest in the event of an increase or a decrease in the authorized number of shares of stock of any class or series which is otherwise denied voting rights under the provisions of the certificate of incorporation, including any Preferred Stock which is denied voting rights under the provisions of the resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors with respect to the issuance thereof.

6. Stockholder Meetings.

Time. The annual meeting shall be held on the date and at the time fixed, from time to time, by the directors. A special meeting shall be held on the date and at the time fixed by the directors.

Place. Annual meetings and special meetings shall be held at such place, within or without the State of Delaware, as the directors may, from time to time, fix. Whenever the directors shall fail to fix such place, the meeting shall be held at the registered office of the corporation in the State of Delaware.

Call. Annual meetings and special meetings may be called by the Board of Directors only.

Notice or Waiver of Notice. Notice of all meetings shall be given, stating the place, date, and hour of the meeting. The notice of an annual meeting shall state that the meeting is called for the election of directors and for the transaction of other business which may properly come before the meeting, and shall (if any other action which could be taken at a special meeting is to be taken at such annual meeting) state such other action or actions as are known at the time of such notice. The notice of a special meeting shall in all instances state the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called. If any action is proposed to be taken which would, if taken, entitle stockholders to receive payment for their shares of stock, the notice shall include a statement of that purpose and to that effect. Except as otherwise provided by the General Corporation Law, a copy of the notice of any meeting shall be given, personally or by mail or in such other manner as may be permitted by the General Corporation Law, not less than ten days

 

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nor more than sixty days before the date of the meeting, unless the lapse of the prescribed period of time shall have been waived, and directed to each stockholder at such stockholder’s record address or at such other address which he or she may have furnished for such purpose in writing to the Secretary of the corporation. Notice by mail shall be deemed to be given when deposited, with postage thereof prepaid, in the United States mail. If a meeting is adjourned to another time, not more than thirty days hence, and/or to another place, and if an announcement of the adjourned time and/or place is made at the meeting, it shall not be necessary to give notice of the adjourned meeting unless the directors, after adjournment, fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting. Notice need not be given to any stockholder who submits a written waiver of notice before or after the time stated therein. Attendance of a person at a meeting of stockholders shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the stockholder attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the stockholders need be specified in any written waiver of notice.

Stockholder List. There shall be prepared and made, at least ten days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least ten days prior to the meeting either at a place within the city or other municipality or community where the meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of the meeting, or if not so specified, at the place where the meeting is to be held. The list shall also be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder who is present. The stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the stockholders entitled to examine the stock ledger, the list required by this section or the books of the corporation, or to vote at any meeting of stockholders.

Conduct of Meeting. Meetings of the stockholders shall be presided over by one of the following officers in the order or seniority and if present and acting, the Chairman, if any, the Chief Executive Officer, if any, a Vice Chairman, if any, the President, if any, a Vice President, a chairman for the meeting chosen by the Board of Directors, or, if none of the foregoing is in office and present and acting, by a chairman to be chosen by the stockholders. The Secretary of the corporation, or in his or her absence, an Assistant Secretary, shall act as secretary of every meeting, but if neither the Secretary nor an Assistant Secretary is present, the chairman for the meeting shall appoint a secretary of the meeting. The presiding officer shall: call the meeting to order; determine when proxies must be filed with the secretary of the meeting; open the polls, establish the time period for which polls remain open and close the polls; decide who may address the meeting and generally determine the order of business and time for adjournment of the meeting. The presiding officer shall also maintain proper and orderly conduct, and shall take all means reasonably necessary to prevent or cease disruptions, personal attacks or inflammatory remarks at the meeting. In addition to the powers and duties specified herein, the presiding officer shall have the authority to make all other determinations necessary for the order and proper conduct of the meeting.

 

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Proxy Representation. Every stockholder may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder by proxy in all matters in which a stockholder is entitled to participate, whether by waiving notice of any meeting or voting or participating at a meeting. Such authorization may take any form permitted by the General Corporation Law. No proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date unless such proxy provides for a longer period. A duly executed proxy shall be irrevocable if it states that it is irrevocable and, if, and only as long as, it is coupled with an interest sufficient in law to support an irrevocable power. A proxy may be made irrevocable regardless of whether the interest with which it is coupled is an interest in the stock itself or an interest in the corporation generally.

Inspectors and Judges. The directors, in advance of any meeting, may, but need not, appoint one or more inspectors of election or judges of the vote, as the case may be, to act at the meeting or any adjournment thereof. If an inspector or inspectors or judge or judges are not appointed, the person presiding at the meeting may, but need not, appoint one or more inspectors or judges. In case any person who may be appointed as an inspector or judge fails to appear or act, the vacancy may be filled by appointment made by the person presiding thereat. Each inspector or judge, if any, before entering upon the discharge of such inspector’s duties, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector or judge at such meeting with strict impartiality and according to the best of his or her ability. The inspectors or judges, if any, shall determine the number of shares of stock outstanding and the voting power of each, the shares of stock represented at the meeting, the existence of a quorum, the validity and effect of proxies, and shall receive votes or ballots, hear and determine all challenges and questions arising in connection with the right to vote, count and tabulate all votes or ballots, determine the result, and do such acts as are proper to conduct the election or vote with fairness to all stockholders. On request of the person presiding at the meeting, the inspector or inspectors or judge or judges, if any, shall make a report in writing of any challenge, question or matter determined by such inspector(s) and execute a certificate of any fact found by such inspector(s).

Quorum. Except as the General Corporation Law or these by-laws may otherwise provide, the holders of a majority of the votes represented by the outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of stockholders for the transaction of any business; provided, however, that if the certificate of incorporation or the General Corporation Law provides that voting on a particular action is to be by class, a majority of the votes represented by the outstanding shares of stock of such class shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of stockholders for the authorization of such action. The stockholders present may adjourn the meeting despite the absence of a quorum. When a quorum is once present to organize a meeting, it is not broken by the subsequent withdrawal of any stockholders.

Voting. Except as otherwise provided in these by-laws, the certificate of incorporation or, with respect to Preferred Stock, the resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors providing for the issuance thereof, and except as otherwise provided by the General Corporation Law, at every meeting of the stockholders, each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting shall be entitled to the number of votes as specified, and to the extent provided for, in the certificate of incorporation or, with respect to Preferred Stock, the resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors providing for the issuance thereof, in person or by proxy, for each share of stock entitled to vote held by such stockholder. In the election of directors, a plurality of the votes cast by each class of stock, voting separately as a class, shall elect the directors that such class is authorized to elect as specified, and to the extent provided for, in the

 

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certificate of incorporation. Any other action shall be authorized by a majority of the votes cast except where the certificate of incorporation or the General Corporation Law prescribes a different percentage of votes and/or a different exercise of voting power. Voting by ballot shall not be required for corporate action except as otherwise provided by the General Corporation Law.

Advance Notice of Stockholder Proposals. At any annual or special meeting of stockholders, proposals by stockholders and persons nominated for election as directors by stockholders shall be considered only if advance notice thereof has been timely given as provided herein. Notice of any proposal to be presented by any stockholder or of the name of any person to be nominated by any stockholder for election as a director of the corporation at any meeting of stockholders shall be given to the Secretary of the corporation not less than 60 nor more than 90 days prior to the date of the meeting; provided, however, that if the date of the meeting is publicly announced or disclosed less than 70 days prior to the date of the meeting, such notice shall be given not more than ten days after such date is first so announced or disclosed. No additional public announcement or disclosure of the date of any annual meeting of stockholders need be made if the corporation shall have previously disclosed, in these by-laws or otherwise, that the annual meeting in each year is to be held on a determinable date, unless and until the Board of Directors determines to hold the meeting on a different date. Any stockholder who gives notice of any such proposal shall deliver therewith the text of the proposal to be presented and a brief written statement of the reasons why such stockholder favors the proposal and setting forth such stockholder’s name and address, the number and class of all shares of each class of stock of the corporation beneficially owned by such stockholder and any material interest of such stockholder in the proposal (other than as a stockholder). Any stockholder desiring to nominate any person for election as a director of the corporation shall deliver with such notice a statement in writing setting forth the name of the person to be nominated, the number and class of all shares of each class of stock of the corporation beneficially owned by such person, the information regarding such person required by Item 401 of Regulation S-K adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (or the corresponding provisions of any regulation subsequently adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission applicable to the corporation), such person’s signed consent to serve as a director of the corporation if elected, such stockholder’s name and address and the number and class of all shares of each class of stock of the corporation beneficially owned by such stockholder. As used herein, shares “beneficially owned” shall mean all shares as to which such person, together with such person’s affiliates and associates (as defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934), may be deemed to beneficially own pursuant to Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as well as all shares as to which such person, together with such person’s affiliates and associates, has the right to become the beneficial owner pursuant to any agreement or understanding, or upon the exercise of warrants, options or rights to convert or exchange (whether such rights are exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time or the occurrence of conditions). The person presiding at the meeting shall determine whether such notice has been duly given and shall direct that proposals and nominees not be considered if such notice has not been given.

 

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ARTICLE II

DIRECTORS

1. Functions and Definitions. The business of the corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors of the corporation. The use of the phrase “whole Board of Directors” herein refers to the total number of directors which the corporation would have if there were no vacancies.

2. Qualifications and Number. A director need not be a stockholder, a citizen of the United States, or a resident of the State of Delaware. The initial Board of Directors shall consist of 12 persons. Thereafter the number of directors constituting the whole Board of Directors shall be at least three. Subject to the foregoing limitation and except for the first Board of Directors, such number may be fixed from time to time by action of the Board of Directors only, or, if the number is not fixed, the number shall be 12.

3. Election and Term. The first Board of Directors shall be elected by the incorporator and shall hold office until the next election of the class for which such directors have been chosen and until their successors have been elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal. Any director may resign at any time upon written notice to the corporation. Thereafter, directors who are elected at an annual meeting of stockholders, and directors who are elected in the interim to fill vacancies and newly created directorships, shall hold office for the term of the class for which such directors shall have been chosen and until their successors have been elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal. In the interim between annual meetings of stockholders or of special meetings of stockholders called for the election of directors and/or for the removal of one or more directors and for the filling of any vacancies in the Board of Directors, including vacancies resulting from the removal of directors for cause or without cause, any vacancy in the Board of Directors may be filled as provided in the certificate of incorporation.

4. Meeting.

Time. Meetings shall be held at such time as the Board of Directors shall fix.

First Meeting. The first meeting of each newly elected Board of Directors may be held immediately after each annual meeting of the stockholders at the same place at which the annual meeting of stockholders is held, and no notice of such meeting shall be necessary, provided a quorum shall be present. In the event such first meeting is not so held immediately after the annual meeting of the stockholders, it may be held at such time and place as shall be specified in the notice given as hereinafter provided for special meetings of the Board of Directors, or at such time and place as shall be fixed by the consent in writing of all of the directors.

Place. Meetings, both regular and special, shall be held at such place within or without the State of Delaware as shall be fixed by the Board of Directors.

Call. No call shall be required for regular meetings for which the time and place have been fixed. Special meetings may be called by or at the direction of the Chairman, if any, a Vice Chairman, if any, the Chief Executive Officer, or the President, if any, or of a majority of the directors in office.

 

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Notice or Actual or Constructive Waiver. No notice shall be required for regular meetings for which the time and place have been fixed. Written, oral, electronic or any other mode of notice of the time and place shall be given for special meetings in sufficient time for the convenient assembly of the directors thereat. The notice of any meeting need not specify the purpose of the meeting. Any requirement of furnishing a notice shall be waived by any director who signs a written waiver of such notice before or after the time stated therein.

Attendance of a director at a meeting of the Board of Directors shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the director attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

Quorum and Action. A majority of the whole Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum except when a vacancy or vacancies prevents such majority, whereupon a majority of the directors in office shall constitute a quorum; provided, however, that such majority shall constitute at least one-third (1/3) of the whole Board of Directors. Any director may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all directors participating in the meeting can hear each other, and such participation in a meeting of the Board of Directors shall constitute presence in person at such meeting. A majority of the directors present, whether or not a quorum is present, may adjourn a meeting to another time and place. Except as herein otherwise provided, and except as otherwise provided by the General Corporation Law or the certificate of incorporation, the act of the Board of Directors shall be the act by vote of a majority of the directors present at a meeting, a quorum being present. The quorum and voting provisions herein stated shall not be construed as conflicting with any provisions of the General Corporation Law and these by-laws which govern a meeting of directors held to fill vacancies and newly created directorships in the Board of Directors.

Chairman of the Meeting. The Chairman, if any and if present and acting, shall preside at all meetings; otherwise, any other director chosen by the Board of Directors shall preside.

5. Removal of Directors. Any or all of the directors may be removed for cause or without cause by the stockholders; provided, however, that so long as the certificate of incorporation provides that each class of stock, voting separately as a class, shall elect a certain percentage of directors, a director may be removed without cause by stockholders only by the vote of the class of stock, voting separately as a class, that either elected such director or elected the predecessor of such director whose position was filled by such director due to the predecessor director’s death, resignation or removal.

6. Action in Writing. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all members of the Board of Directors or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing, and the writing or writings are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Directors or committee.

 

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7. Executive Committee.

Powers. The Board of Directors may appoint an Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the corporation of such number of members as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors. The term of office of each member of the Executive Committee shall be co-extensive with the term of such member’s office as director. Any member of the Executive Committee who shall cease to be a director of the corporation shall ipso facto cease to be a member of the Executive Committee. A majority of the members of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum for the valid transaction of business. The Executive Committee may meet at stated times or on two days’ notice by any member of the Executive Committee to all other members, by delivered letter, by mail, by courier service or by email. The provisions of Section 4 of this Article II with respect to waiver of notice of meetings of the Board of Directors and participation at meetings of the Board of Directors by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment shall apply to meetings of the Executive Committee. The provisions of Section 6 of this Article II with respect to action taken by a committee of the Board of Directors without a meeting shall apply to action taken by the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the board of directors in the management of the business and affairs of the corporation, except as limited by the General Corporation Law. The Executive Committee shall have power to make rules and regulations for the conduct of its business. Vacancies in the membership of the Executive Committee shall be filled by the Board of Directors from among the directors at a regular meeting, or at a special meeting held for that purpose.

Chairman and Secretary. The Executive Committee shall elect from its own members a chairman who shall hold office during the term of such person’s office as a member of the Executive Committee. When present, the chairman shall preside over all meetings of the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee shall also elect a secretary of the Executive Committee who shall attend all meetings of the Executive Committee and keep the minutes of its acts and proceedings. Such secretary shall be a member of the Board of Directors and may, but need not, be a member of the Executive Committee.

Minutes. The Executive Committee shall keep minutes of its acts and proceedings which shall be submitted at the next meeting of the Board of Directors, and any action taken by the Board of Directors with respect thereto shall be entered in the minutes of the Board of Directors.

Meetings. The Executive Committee may hold meetings, both regular and special, either within or without the State of Delaware, as shall be set forth in the Notice of the Meeting or in a duly executed Waiver of Notice thereof.

8. Other Committees. The Board of Directors may from time to time, by resolution adopted by affirmative vote of a majority of the whole Board of Directors, appoint other committees of the Board of Directors which shall have such powers and duties as the Board of Directors may properly determine. No such other committee of the Board of Directors shall be composed of fewer than two

 

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directors. Meetings of such committees of the Board of Directors may be held at any place, within or without the State of Delaware, from time to time designated by the Board of Directors or the committee in question. Such committees may meet at stated times or on two days’ notice by any member of such committee to all other members, by delivered letter, by mail, by courier service or by email. The provisions of Section 4 of this Article II with respect to waiver of notice of meetings of the Board of Directors and participation at meetings of the Board of Directors by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment shall apply to meetings of such other committees.

ARTICLE III

OFFICERS

1. Executive Officers. The directors may elect or appoint an Executive Chairman, a Chief Executive Officer, one or more Vice Chairmen, a President, one or more Vice Presidents (one or more of whom may be denominated “Executive Vice President” or “Senior Vice President”), a Secretary, one or more Assistant Secretaries, a Treasurer, one or more Assistant Treasurers, a Controller, one or more Assistant Controllers and such other officers as they may determine. Any number of offices may be held by the same person.

2. Term of Office; Removal. Unless otherwise provided in the resolution of election or appointment, each officer shall hold office until the meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual meeting of stockholders and until such officer’s successor has been elected and qualified. The Board of Directors may remove any officer for cause or without cause.

3. Authority and Duties. All officers, as between themselves and the corporation, shall have such authority and duties as generally pertain to their respective offices, as well as such powers and duties as from time to time may be conferred by these by-laws, or, to the extent not so provided, by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may delegate to the Chairman or to the Chief Executive Officer the power and authority to define the authority and duties of any or all of the other officers of the corporation.

4. The Chairman. The Chairman, if any, shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors; otherwise, any other director chosen by the Board of Directors shall preside. The Chairman, if any, shall have such additional duties as the Board of Directors may prescribe. As used in these by-laws, the term “Chairman” means the Executive Chairman if any.

ARTICLE IV

VOTING OF STOCK IN OTHER COMPANIES

Unless otherwise ordered by the Board of Directors, the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, a Vice Chairman, the President, a Vice President, the Secretary or the Treasurer shall have full power and authority on behalf of the corporation to attend and to act and vote at any meetings of stockholders of any corporation, or to execute written consents as a stockholder of any corporation, in which the corporation may hold stock and at any such meeting, or in connection with any such consent, shall possess

 

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and exercise any and all of the rights and powers incident to the ownership of such stock which as the owner thereof the corporation might have possessed and exercised if present or any of the foregoing officers of the corporation may in his or her discretion give a proxy or proxies in the name of the corporation to any other person or persons, who may vote said stock, execute any written consent, and exercise any and all other rights in regard to it here accorded to the officers. The Board of Directors by resolution from time to time may limit or curtail such power. The officers named above shall have the same powers with respect to entities which are not corporations.

ARTICLE V

CORPORATE SEAL AND CORPORATE BOOKS

The corporate seal shall be in such form as the Board of Directors shall prescribe.

The books of the corporation may be kept within or without the State of Delaware, at such place or places as the Board of Directors may, from time to time, determine.

ARTICLE VI

FISCAL YEAR

The fiscal year of the corporation shall be fixed, and shall be subject to change, by the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE VII

CONTROL OVER BY-LAWS

The power to amend, alter, and repeal these by-laws and to adopt new by-laws shall be vested in both the Board of Directors and the stockholders entitled to vote in the election of directors.

ARTICLE VIII

INDEMNIFICATION

A. The corporation shall indemnify each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she, or a person of whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a director or officer of the corporation or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in official capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent or alleged action in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee or agent, to the maximum extent authorized by the General Corporation Law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that

 

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such amendment permits the corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than said law permitted the corporation to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorney’s fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid or to be paid in settlement) reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such proceeding. Such indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and administrators. The right to indemnification conferred in this Article shall be a contract right and shall include the right to be paid by the corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided, however, that, if the General Corporation Law so requires, the payment of such expenses incurred by a director or officer in advance of the final disposition of a proceeding shall be made only upon receipt by the corporation of an undertaking by or on behalf of such person to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation as authorized in this Article or otherwise.

B. The right to indemnification and advancement of expenses conferred on any person by this Article shall not limit the corporation from providing any other indemnification permitted by law nor shall it be deemed exclusive of any other right which any such person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the certificate of incorporation, by-law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

C. The corporation may purchase and maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the General Corporation Law.

 

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EX-4.1 4 d99443dex41.htm EX-4.1 EX-4.1

Exhibit 4.1

 

 

 

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

BY AND AMONG

MSG SPINCO, INC.

(TO BE RENAMED THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN COMPANY)

AND

THE CHARLES F. DOLAN CHILDREN TRUSTS

 

 

 


REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

Registration Rights Agreement (this “Agreement”) dated as of September 15, 2015 (but effective as provided in Section 10(l)), by and among MSG Spinco, Inc. (to be renamed The Madison Square Garden Company), a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), the Charles F. Dolan Children Trusts, created under an Agreement dated December 22, 2009, between Kathleen M. Dolan, Paul J. Dolan, Matthew J. Dolan and Mary S. Dolan, as Grantors and Trustees (the “Children Trusts”), and the Qualifying Creditors, if any, who have agreed in writing to become bound by this Agreement. Certain capitalized terms used in this Agreement are defined in Annex A hereto.

WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS, as of the date of this Agreement, the Children Trusts own shares of Class B Common Stock of The Madison Square Garden Company, par value $.01 per share (“MSG Class B Common Stock”), and shares of Class A Common Stock of The Madison Square Garden Company, par value $.01 per share (“MSG Class A Common Stock”);

WHEREAS, the Children Trusts are party to a Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of January 13, 2010, by and among MSG and the Children Trusts, and the Children Trusts have certain registration rights under that agreement with respect to shares of MSG Class A Common Stock;

WHEREAS, MSG intends to distribute (the “Distribution”) to the holders of MSG Class A Common Stock all of the outstanding shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, $.01 par value (the “Class A Common Stock”), and to the holders of MSG Class B Common Stock all of the outstanding shares of the Company’s Class B Common Stock, $.01 par value (the “Class B Common Stock”); and

WHEREAS, the Company and the Children Trusts wish to provide for benefits and restrictions applicable to the Shares owned by the Children Trust Holders following the Distribution, all as provided herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements contained herein, the parties hereby agree as follows:

1. Conversion of Class B Common Stock into Class A Common Stock.

(a) Transfers Requiring Conversion. Subject to Section 1(b), (i) each Children Trust agrees that if at any time or from time to time it desires to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly (including, without limitation, any transfer or issuance of equity or beneficial interests in an entity that is a Children Trust Holder) (a “Transfer”), any or all of its shares of Class B Common Stock and (ii) each other Children Trust Holder agrees that if at any time or from time to time it desires to Transfer any or all of its CSCo Shares, such Children Trust or Children Trust Holder, as the case may be, shall convert such shares of Class B Common Stock into shares of Class A Common Stock in accordance with the terms of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company immediately prior to such Transfer. Subject to Section 1(b), the Company shall be under no obligation to record the Transfer on its books of such shares of Class B Common Stock until they have been converted into Class A Common Stock.

(b) Permissible Transfers Without Conversion. The provisions of subparagraph (a) of this Section 1 are inapplicable to (i) any Transfer of shares of Class B Common Stock (including any Transfer of equity or beneficial interests in an entity that is a Children Trust Holder) to Dolan, his spouse, any person related to Dolan by reason of being his ancestor or descendent (natural or adopted), any Acceptable Marital Trust, any entity (whether a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust or other entity of any kind) all of the equity or beneficial interests in which are owned or held by any of the foregoing persons, or any person (whether or not such person is one of the foregoing persons) who is a trustee for, or is acting on behalf of, any of such foregoing persons, and (ii) any bona fide pledge or similar perfected security interest relating to any interest in any of the foregoing persons (an “Indirect Pledge”) or to Collateral Stock, in either case for the benefit of any Creditor; provided, however, that the Transfer shall not be permissible and shall be void for all purposes unless (x) in the case of a Transfer referred to in clause (i) of this Section 1(b) the transferee executes a joinder agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (it being understood that, if such transferee is also a successor to a Children Trust, neither the obligation to execute, nor the execution of, such joinder agreement shall limit the effect of the first sentence of Section 10(d)), and (y) in the case of a Transfer referred to in clause (ii) of this Section 1(b), (A) such shares of Collateral Stock or, in the case of an Indirect Pledge, such interests in such other person, remain registered solely in the name of one or more Children Trust Holders, and (B) any such Creditor agrees with the Company in a writing reasonably acceptable to the Company not to foreclose on, or otherwise make use of or exercise remedies with respect to, or effect any Transfer of, the Collateral Stock or, in the case of an Indirect Pledge, such interests, without prior conversion of the shares of Collateral Stock or, in the case of an Indirect Pledge, the shares of Class B Common Stock, owned by the person the interests in which are the subject of the Indirect Pledge into shares of Class A Common Stock in accordance with the terms of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, and provided further that the last sentence of paragraph (a) of this Section 1 shall remain applicable to any shares of Class B Common Stock that are the subject of a Transfer, including any pledge or the creation of any security interest, pursuant to this Section 1(b).


(c) Legends. All certificates representing shares of Class B Common Stock that are covered by this Agreement shall have endorsed thereon a legend which shall read substantially as follows:

“The shares represented by this certificate are held subject to the terms of a certain Registration Rights Agreement, dated September 15, 2015, by and among The Madison Square Garden Company (formerly MSG Spinco, Inc.) and the Dolan Children Trusts, as amended from time to time, a copy of which is on file with the Secretary of The Madison Square Garden Company, and such shares may not be sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of, directly or indirectly, except in accordance with the terms of such Registration Rights Agreement.”

2. Demand Registration by the Children Trust Parties of the Shares.

(a) Demand Registration. One or more of the Children Trust Parties may request in writing, with the Dolan Consent, that the Company file a registration statement on an appropriate form for the general registration of securities under the Securities Act, and include therein such number of the Shares owned by such Children Trust Party as such person may specify in its written request; provided, however, that (x) the Company shall not be required to file a registration statement pursuant to this Section 2 if (A) the Shares requested to be so registered do not, in the case of a Children Trust Holder, together with any Shares timely requested to be registered by other Children Trust Holders and Other Holders pursuant to the third-to-last sentence of this Section 2(a), have an aggregate Market Price exceeding the Rule 144 Threshold as of the Trading Day immediately preceding the expiration of the applicable Notice Period under such sentence or, in the case of a Qualifying Creditor, do not have an aggregate Market Price exceeding the Rule 144 Threshold as of the Trading Day immediately preceding the date on which the request for registration is received by the Company, or (B) the Company delivers to each Children Trust Party requesting registration under this Section 2 an opinion of counsel to the Company (such opinion and such counsel to be reasonably acceptable to each such Children Trust Party, it being agreed that the Company’s regular outside securities counsel shall be deemed to be reasonably acceptable counsel for this purpose) to the effect that the Shares proposed to be registered by such person may be offered and sold by such person to the public in the United States together with the Shares requested to be registered by all other Children Trust Parties and Other Holders (I) without registration pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and (II) within the volume limitations under Rule 144(e) promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor rule or regulation) whether or not such volume limitations are then applicable, (y) subject to the next sentence, the Children Trust Holders shall in the aggregate have the right on only four occasions to require the Company to file a registration statement pursuant to this Section 2, and (z) subject to the next sentence, a Qualifying Creditor may require registration only following the exercise of its remedies under a security agreement with a Children Trust Holder and for the purpose of Transferring Shares pursuant thereto and each Qualifying Creditor may only require one registration hereunder. The total number of demand registrations under clauses (y) and (z) of the immediately preceding sentence and under the corresponding provisions of the Dolan Registration Rights Agreement shall not exceed four. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, it is understood and agreed that the Dolan Consent may be granted by the person or entity then entitled to grant such consent with respect to a Qualifying Creditor at the time the pledge or similar security arrangement applicable to such Qualifying Creditor is created, and that such consent will thereafter constitute an irrevocable Dolan Consent for any future request by such Qualifying Creditor for a registration under this Section 2, whether or not the person or entity that granted such Dolan Consent is the person or entity otherwise entitled to grant Dolan Consents at the time such request is actually exercised. All requests made pursuant to this paragraph shall specify the aggregate number of Shares to be registered and the intended methods of disposition thereof, which methods may include an underwritten public offering. Upon receipt of a written request for registration from a Children Trust Holder pursuant to the preceding sentences, the Company shall promptly give written notice of the proposed registration to each such other Children Trust Holder and each Other Holder and provide each such other holder with the opportunity to join in such request by written notice to the Company specifying the aggregate number of Shares to be registered by such holder within 20 days from the date of the Company’s written notice (such period is referred to as the “Notice Period”). Subject to Section 2(c) of this Agreement, the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to ensure that each registration statement required to be filed pursuant to this Section 2 shall be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as promptly as reasonably practicable, but not later than 45 days after receipt of such request by the Company, and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective by the Commission as promptly thereafter as practicable; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to maintain such effectiveness for more than 90 days. Notwithstanding the Company’s rights to effect a Suspension of Filing or Suspension of Effectiveness in Section 2(c), the Children Trust Parties that made the registration request under this Section 2(a) shall have the right to withdraw any such request, and such withdrawn request shall not count as a demand registration under clause (y) or (z) of this Section 2(a) or the corresponding provisions under the Dolan Registration Rights Agreement, if (1) the registration statement required to be filed pursuant to this Section 2 is not filed with the Commission by the date that is 45 days after such request is received by the Company and has not at the time of such withdrawal been filed with the Commission, or is not declared effective by the date that is 90 days after the date such registration statement is filed with the Commission and has not at the time of such withdrawal been declared effective, and (2) in either case, such Children Trust Parties notify the Company of the withdrawal of such request no later than 10 days after such 45th or 90th day, as the case may be.

 

 

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(b) Concurrent Primary Offering. Anything in this Section 2 to the contrary notwithstanding, if the Company at the time of receipt of a request for registration pursuant to this Section 2 has a bona fide intent and plan to file a registration statement (other than on Form S-4 or S-8 or any successor forms) covering a primary offering by the Company of its Common Equity Securities, the Company, by notice to the applicable Children Trust Parties, may delay the filing (but not the preparation) of the requested registration statement for a period ending on the earlier of (i) 60 days after the closing of such offering or (ii) 120 days after receipt of the request for registration; and, provided, further, if the Company either abandons its plan to file such registration statement or does not file the same within 75 days after receipt of such request, the Company shall promptly thereafter file the requested registration statement. The Company may not, pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence, delay the filing of a requested registration statement more than once during any two-year period.

(c) Suspension of Offering. Upon notice by the Company to any Children Trust Party which has requested registration under this Section 2 that a negotiation or consummation of a transaction by the Company or any of its subsidiaries is pending or an event has occurred, which negotiation, consummation or event would require disclosure in the registration statement for the requested registration and such disclosure would, in the good faith judgment of the board of directors of the Company, be materially adverse to the business interests of the Company, and the nondisclosure of which in the registration statement would reasonably be expected to cause the registration statement to fail to comply with applicable disclosure requirements (a “Materiality Notice”), the Company may delay the filing (but not the preparation) of such registration statement (a “Suspension of Filing”). Upon the delivery of a Materiality Notice by the Company pursuant to the preceding sentence at any time when a registration statement has been filed but not declared effective, the Company may delay seeking the effectiveness of such registration statement (a “Suspension of Effectiveness”), and each Children Trust Party named therein shall immediately discontinue any offers of Shares under such registration statement until such Children Trust Party receives copies of a supplemented or amended prospectus that corrects such misstatement or omission, or until it is advised in writing by the Company that offers under such registration statement may be resumed and has received copies of any additional or supplemental filings which are incorporated by reference in such registration statement. Upon the delivery of a Materiality Notice by the Company pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 2(c) at any time when a registration statement has been filed and declared effective, each Children Trust Party named therein shall immediately discontinue offers and sales of Shares under such registration statement until such Children Trust Party receives copies of a supplemented or amended prospectus that corrects such misstatement or omission and notice that any post-effective amendment has become effective, or until it is advised in writing by the Company that offers under such registration statement may be resumed and has received copies of any additional or supplemental filings which are incorporated by reference in the registration statement (a “Suspension of Offering;” a Suspension of Filing, a Suspension of Effectiveness and a Suspension of Offering are collectively referred to herein as, “Suspensions”). If so directed by the Company, each Children Trust Party will deliver to the Company all copies (other than permanent file copies then in such Children Trust Party’s possession) of any prospectus covering Shares in the possession of such Children Trust Party or its agents current at the time of receipt of any Materiality Notice. In any 12-month period, the aggregate time of all Suspensions shall not, without the consent of a majority of the Children Trust Holders (by number of Shares held), which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, exceed 180 days. If interrupted by a Suspension of Offering, any 90-day period in respect of which the Company is

required to maintain the effectiveness of a registration statement pursuant to Section 2(a) of this Agreement shall be extended by the number of days during which the Suspension of Offering was in effect. In the event of any Suspension of Offering of more than 30 days in duration prior to which the Children Trust Parties have sold less than 75% of the Shares to be sold in such offering, the Children Trust Parties shall be entitled to withdraw such registration prior to the later of (i) the end of the Suspension of Offering and (ii) three business days after the Company has provided the Dolan Family Parties written notice of the anticipated date on which the Suspension of Offering will end, and, if such registration is withdrawn, the related demand for registration shall not count for the purposes of the limitations set forth under clauses (y) and (z) of Section 2(a) or the comparable provisions under the Dolan Registration Rights Agreement.

(d) Market Price; Trading Day. For purposes of this Section 2:

(i) “Market Price” of a share of Class A Common Stock shall mean the weighted average of the closing prices for the Class A Common Stock on each Trading Day (as defined below) in the 30-day period ending on the day prior to the date of determination as reported in the consolidated transaction reporting system of the New York Stock Exchange or on the comparable reporting system of such other exchange or trading system that is at the time the principal market for the Class A Common Stock.

(ii) “Trading Day” shall mean any day on which trading takes place on the New York Stock Exchange or such other exchange or trading system that is at the time the principal market for the Class A Common Stock.

3. Coordination of PiggyBack Registration Rights.

 

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Each of the Children Trust Parties hereby acknowledges and consents to the grant by the Company to the Dolan Family Affiliate Holders (as defined in the Dolan Registration Rights Agreement and hereinafter referred to in this Agreement as the “Other Holders”), in the Dolan Registration Rights Agreement, of the right of the Other Holders to include certain of their respective shares of Class A Common Stock in certain registration statements filed pursuant hereto. Each of the Children Trust Parties further acknowledges and agrees that if any offering hereunder is to be underwritten and if the managing underwriter or underwriters of such offering informs such person in writing that the number of shares of Class A Common Stock which the Children Trust Parties, and the Other Holders, as the case may be, intend to include in such offering is sufficiently large so as to affect the offering price of such offering materially and adversely, then the respective number of shares of Class A Common Stock to be offered for the account of each Children Trust Party and each Other Holder, as the case may be, who is participating in such offering shall be reduced pro rata to the extent necessary to reduce the total number of shares of Class A Common Stock to be included in such offering to the number recommended by such managing underwriter. Except for such piggyback registration rights granted to Other Holders, and to any transferee of the shares of Class A Common Stock owned by an Other Holder which may be registered pursuant to the Dolan Registration Rights Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its security holders shall have the right to include any of the Company’s securities in any registration statement filed pursuant hereto.

4. Piggyback Registration of the Shares.

If the Company proposes to file a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to an offering (a) by an Other Holder of its holdings of Class A Common Stock pursuant to the Dolan Registration Rights Agreement, (b) by any other holder of any Common Equity Securities or (c) by the Company for its own account of any Common Equity Securities (other than a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8, or any successor form or a form filed in connection with an exchange offer or an offering of securities solely to the existing stockholders of the Company), the Company shall give written notice of such proposed filing to each of the Children Trust Holders at least 20 days before the anticipated filing date which shall state whether such registration will be in connection with an underwritten offering and offer such Children Trust Holders the opportunity, subject to receipt of the Dolan Consent, to include in such registration statement such number of the Shares as such Children Trust Holder may request not later than three days prior to the anticipated filing date. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the managing underwriter or underwriters of a proposed underwritten offering to permit such Children Trust Holders to be included in the registration for such offering and to include such Shares in such offering on the same terms and conditions as the Common Equity Securities included in such offering. If such proposed offering is to be underwritten, then upon request by the managing underwriter or underwriters given to such Children Trust Holders prior to the effective date of the offering, any Children Trust Holder electing to have Shares included in the registration statement shall either enter into underwriting agreements with customary terms and conditions for a secondary offering with such underwriter or underwriters providing for the inclusion of such number of the Shares owned by such Children Trust Holder in such offering on such terms and conditions or, if such Children Trust Holder shall refuse to enter into any such agreement, the Company shall have the right to exclude from such registration all (but not less than all) of the Shares of such Children Trust Holder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) in no event will any Children Trust Holder be required in such underwriting agreement (or in any other agreement in connection with such offering) to (i) make any representations or warranties to or agreements with the underwriters other than representations, warranties or agreements customarily made by selling securityholders in underwritten secondary offerings, (ii) make any representations or warranties to or agreements with the Company other than representations, warranties or agreements regarding such Children Trust Holder, the ownership of such Children Trust Holder’s Common Equity Securities, the authorization, validity and binding effect of transaction documents executed by such Children Trust Holder in connection with such registration and such Children Trust Holder’s intended method or methods of distribution and any other representation required by law; provided that no Children Trust Holder shall be required to make any representation or warranty to any person covered by the indemnity in Section 8(b) other than on a several (and not joint) basis, or (iii) furnish any indemnity to any person which is broader than the indemnity customarily furnished by selling security holders in underwritten offerings; provided that no Children Trust Holder shall be required to furnish any indemnity broader than the indemnity furnished by such Children Trust Holder in Section 8(b) to any person covered by the indemnity in Section 8(b), and (y) if the managing underwriter or underwriters of such offering informs the Children Trust Holders in writing that the number of Shares which the Children Trust Holders and the number of Shares which the Other Holders intend to include in such offering is sufficiently large so as to affect materially and adversely the success of such offering, the Shares to be offered for the account of the Children Trust Holders and the Other Holders shall first be reduced pro rata to the extent necessary to reduce the total number of shares of Class A Common Stock to be included in such offering to the number recommended by such managing underwriter. In giving effect to the foregoing reduction, the respective number of the Shares to be offered for the account of Children Trust Holders shall be reduced pro rata.

 

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5. Holdback Agreements.

(a) Restrictions on Public Sale by Children Trust Parties. To the extent not inconsistent with applicable law, each Children Trust Party agrees not to offer publicly or effect any public sale or distribution of Common Equity Securities, including a sale pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any successor rule or regulation), during the seven days prior to, and during the 90-day period beginning on, the effective date of any registration statement filed by the Company pursuant to which any such shares or securities are being registered (except as part of such registration), if and to the extent requested by the Company in the case of a non-underwritten public offering or if and to the extent requested by the managing underwriter or underwriters in the case of an underwritten public offering.

(b) Restrictions on Public Sale by the Company and Others. The Company agrees (i) that during the seven days prior to, and during the 90-day period beginning on, the effective date of any registration statement filed at the request of a Children Trust Party pursuant hereto, the Company will not offer publicly or effect any public sale or distribution of Common Equity Securities (other than any such sale or distribution of such securities in connection with any merger or consolidation of the Company or any subsidiary with, or the acquisition by the Company or a subsidiary of the capital stock or substantially all of the assets of, any other person or any offer or sale of such securities pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-8), and (ii) that any agreement entered into after the date of this Agreement pursuant to which the Company issues or agrees to issue any privately placed Common Equity Securities shall contain a provision under which holders of such securities agree not to effect any public sale or distribution of any such securities during the periods described in (i) above, in each case including a sale pursuant to Rule 144 (or any successor rule or regulation) under the Securities Act (except as part of any such registration, if permitted).

6. Registration Procedures.

In connection with any registration of the Shares owned by a Children Trust Party contemplated hereby, the Company will as expeditiously as possible:

(a) Furnish to such Children Trust Party, prior to filing a registration statement, copies of such registration statement as proposed to be filed, and thereafter such number of copies of such registration statement, each amendment and supplement thereto (in each case including all exhibits thereto), the prospectus included in such registration statement (including each preliminary prospectus) and such other documents in such quantities as such Children Trust Party may reasonably request from time to time in order to facilitate the disposition of the Shares.

(b) Use its reasonable best efforts to register or qualify the Shares being registered as contemplated hereby (the “Registered Class A”) under such other securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as such Children Trust Party reasonably requests and do any and all other acts and things which may be reasonably necessary or advisable to enable such Children Trust Party to consummate the disposition in such jurisdictions of the Registered Class A; provided that the Company will not be required to (i) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify but for this paragraph (b), (ii) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction, or (iii) consent to general service of process in any such jurisdiction.

(c) Use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registered Class A 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 to enable such Children Trust Party to consummate the disposition of such Registered Class A.

(d) Notify such Children Trust Party at any time, (i) of any request by the Commission or any other federal or state governmental authority for amendments or supplements to a registration statement or related prospectus or for additional information, (ii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a registration statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, (iii) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of any of the Registered Class A for sale in any jurisdiction, or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose, and (iv) when a prospectus relating thereto is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, of the happening of any event as a result of which the prospectus included in such registration statement contains an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and, except as otherwise provided in Section 2(c) hereof, the Company will, as expeditiously as practicable, prepare a supplement or amendment to such prospectus so that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of such Registered Class A, 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.

(e) Use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of a registration statement, or the lifting of any suspension of the qualification (or exemption from qualification) of any of the Registered Class A for sale in any jurisdiction at the earliest date reasonably practical.

 

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(f) Cause all such Registered Class A to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange or on any other securities exchange on which the Class A Common Stock is then listed, provided that the applicable listing requirements are satisfied.

(g) Enter into customary agreements (including an underwriting agreement in customary form) and take such other actions as are reasonably requested by the relevant Children Trust Party in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of the Registered Class A.

(h) Make available for inspection by such Children Trust Party, any underwriter participating in any disposition pursuant to such registration statement, and any attorney, accountant or other agent retained by such Children Trust Party or such 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 to enable them to exercise their due diligence responsibility, and cause the officers, directors and employees of the Company to supply all information reasonably requested by any such Inspector in connection with such registration statement. Records which the Company determines, in good faith, to be confidential and which 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 misstatement or omission in the registration statement or (ii) the release of such Records is ordered pursuant to a subpoena or other order from a court of competent jurisdiction. Any Children Trust Party shall use reasonable best efforts, prior to any disclosure by any such Inspector under clause (i) of the preceding sentence, to inform the Company that such disclosure is necessary to avoid or correct a misstatement or omission in the registration statement. Each Children Trust Party further agrees that it will, upon learning that disclosure of Records is sought in a court of competent jurisdiction, give notice to the Company and allow the Company, at the expense of the Company, to undertake appropriate action to prevent disclosure of the Records deemed confidential.

(i) In the event such sale is pursuant to an underwritten offering, use its reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain a comfort letter from the independent public accountants for the Company in customary form and covering such matters of the type customarily covered by such letters as any Children Trust Party reasonably requests and (ii) ensure that (A) the representations, warranties and covenants contained in the applicable underwriting agreement shall expressly be for the benefit of any Children Trust Party participating in such sale, (B) the conditions to closing in said underwriting agreement shall be reasonably satisfactory to such Children Trust Party and (C) to the extent customary, all comfort letters and opinions of counsel contemplated by said underwriting agreements are delivered to such Children Trust Party on the closing date of the offering.

(j) Otherwise use its reasonable best efforts to comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the Commission and have the registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable after filing.

The Company may require any Children Trust Party to furnish to the Company such information regarding such Children Trust Party as the Company may from time to time reasonably request in writing, in each case only as required by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.

Each Children Trust Party agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 6(d) hereof, such Children Trust Party will forthwith discontinue disposition of the Registered Class A pursuant to the registration statement covering such Registered Class A until such Children Trust Party receives the copies of the supplemented or amended prospectus contemplated by Section 6(d) hereof, and, if so directed by the Company, such Children Trust Party will deliver to the Company (at the expense of the Company) all copies, other than permanent file copies then in such Children Trust Party’s possession, of the prospectus covering such Registered Class A current at the time of receipt of such notice. If interrupted by receipt of any such notice pursuant to Section 6(d), any 90-day period in respect of which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of a registration statement pursuant to Section 2(a) shall be extended by the number of days during which the interruption was in effect.

 

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7. Registration Expenses.

Other than in the case of (a) a registration at the request of a Qualifying Creditor or (b) a demand registration under Section 2(a)(iii) after the second such registration (each registration referred to in clause (a) or (b), a “Designated Registration”), all expenses incident to the performance of or compliance with this Agreement by the Company, including, without limitation, all registration and filing fees, fees and expenses of compliance with securities or blue sky laws (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel in connection with blue sky qualifications of the Registered Class A), printing expenses, messenger and delivery expenses, internal expenses (including, without limitation, all salaries and expenses of its officers and employees performing legal or accounting duties), the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the listing of the Registered Class A on the New York Stock Exchange or any other securities exchange on which such Class A Common Stock is then listed, fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company and its independent certified public accountants (including the expenses of any special audit or comfort letters required by or incident to such performance), securities acts liability insurance (if the Company elects to obtain such insurance), the fees and expenses of any special experts retained by the Company in connection with such registration, the fees and expenses of other persons retained by the Company, including transfer agents, trustees, depositories and registrars (all such expenses being herein called “Registration Expenses”), will be borne by the Company. In the case of a Designated Registration, all Registration Expenses other than internal expenses of the Company and securities acts liability insurance obtained by the Company at its election, shall be borne by the Qualifying Creditor or the Children Trust Holders participating in the offering, as the case may be. The Company will not have any responsibility for any of the expenses of any Children Trust Party incurred in connection with any registration statement hereunder, including, without limitation, underwriting discounts or commissions attributable to the sale of Registered Class A and fees and expenses of counsel for such Children Trust Party.

8. Indemnification; Contribution.

(a) Indemnification by the Company. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by law, (i) each Children Trust Party, (ii) the directors, officers, partners, employees, agents, beneficiaries, trustees, members and affiliates of each Children Trust Party, and the directors, officers, partners, employees and agents of each such affiliate, and (iii) each person who controls any of the foregoing (within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act), and any investment adviser thereof, against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, expenses (or actions or proceedings in respect thereof) or costs (including, without limitation, costs of investigation and reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements incurred by any such indemnified person in connection with enforcing its rights hereunder preparing, pursuing or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability, expense, action or proceeding), including any of the foregoing incurred in settlement of any litigation commenced or threatened (collectively, “Losses”), joint or several, based upon or arising out of (x) any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in any registration statement, prospectus, preliminary prospectus, summary prospectus or amendment or supplement thereto, (y) any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, or (z) any violation by the Company of any federal, state or common law rule or regulation applicable to the Company in connection with such registration, and the Company will reimburse each such indemnified party for any such Loss, except in each case insofar as any such Loss arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or omission made in any such registration statement, prospectus, preliminary prospectus, final prospectus, summary prospectus, amendment or supplement, or a violation of law or regulation in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such indemnified party expressly for use in the preparation thereof, it being understood that the information to be furnished to the Company for use in the preparation of any such document shall be limited only to the information specifically referenced in the penultimate sentence of Section 8(b). Such indemnity shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by such indemnified person and shall survive the Transfer of any Shares by any such indemnified person. The indemnity in this Section 8(a) shall not apply to Losses incurred by a person other than in his or her capacity as a selling security holder. In connection with an underwritten offering, the Company will indemnify the underwriters thereof, their officers and directors and each person who controls such underwriters (within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act) to the same extent as provided above with respect to the indemnification of each Children Trust Party.

 

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(b) Indemnification by Children Trust Parties. In connection with any registration statement contemplated hereby, each Children Trust Party participating in any offer or sale pursuant to such registration statement will furnish to the Company in writing such information with respect to such Children Trust Party as the Company reasonably requests for use in connection with any such registration statement, prospectus, preliminary prospectus, summary prospectus or amendment or supplement thereto and agrees to indemnify and hold harmless, severally, and not jointly, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company, its directors, officers, employees, agents and affiliates and the directors, officers, partners, employees and agents of each such affiliate and each person who controls the Company (within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act) against any Losses insofar as such Losses arise out of or are based upon (i) an untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any such registration statement, prospectus, preliminary prospectus, summary prospectus or amendment or supplement thereto or any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, to the extent that such untrue statement or omission is contained in or omitted from any information with respect to such Children Trust Party so furnished in writing by such Children Trust Party expressly for use in the preparation of such registration statement, prospectus, preliminary prospectus, summary prospectus or amendment or supplement thereto, as the case may be, or (ii) any violation by such Children Trust Party of any federal, state or common law rule or regulation applicable to such Children Trust Party in connection with such registration. It is understood that the information to be furnished by a Children Trust Party to the Company for use in the preparation of any such document shall be limited only to information regarding such Children Trust Party, the ownership of such Children Trust Party’s Common Equity

Securities, such Children Trust Party’s intended method or methods of distribution and any other information required by law. The liability of a Children Trust Party under this Section 8(b) shall not exceed the amount of net proceeds received by such Children Trust Party (net of underwriting discounts borne by such Children Trust Party) from the sale of the Shares in the offering that is the subject of an indemnity claim under this Section 8(b).

(c) Conduct of Indemnification Proceedings. Any person entitled to indemnification hereunder agrees to give prompt written notice to the indemnifying party after the receipt by such person of any written notice of the commencement of any action, suit, proceeding or investigation or threat thereof made in writing for which such person will claim indemnification or contribution pursuant to this Agreement, provided that the failure of any indemnified party to give notice as provided herein shall not relieve the indemnified party of its obligations under this Section 8, except to the extent that the indemnifying party is materially prejudiced by such failure to give notice. Unless in the reasonable judgment of such indemnified party, a conflict of interest may exist between such indemnified party and the indemnifying party with respect to such claim, the indemnified party shall permit the indemnifying party to assume the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party. If the indemnifying party is not entitled to, or elects not to, assume the defense of a claim, it will not be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of more than one counsel with respect to such claim, unless in the reasonable judgment of any indemnified party a conflict of interest may exist between such indemnified party and any other of such indemnified parties with respect to such claim, in which event the indemnifying party shall be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of such additional counsel or counsels. No indemnifying party will be subject to any liability for any settlement made without its consent. No indemnifying party, in the defense of any such claim or litigation shall, except with the consent of the applicable indemnified party, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party of a release from all liability in respect of such claim or litigation.

(d) Indemnification Payments. Any indemnification required to be made by an indemnifying party pursuant to this Section 8 shall be made by periodic payments to the indemnified party during the course of the action or proceeding, as and when bills are received by such indemnifying party with respect to indemnifiable Losses incurred by such indemnified party.

(e) Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in this Section 8 from the indemnifying party is unavailable to an indemnified party hereunder in respect of any Losses or is insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party from all Losses covered thereby, then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such Losses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party and indemnified parties in connection with the actions which resulted in such Losses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of such indemnifying party and indemnified parties shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by such indemnifying party or indemnified parties, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statements or omissions. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 8(c), any legal or other fees or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with any investigation or proceeding.

The parties hereto agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 8(e) were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph. 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.

 

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Notwithstanding anything else contained herein, (i) no party shall be liable for contribution under this Section 8(e) except to the extent and under such circumstances as such party would have been liable to indemnify under this Section 8 if such indemnification were enforceable under applicable law and (ii) no Children Trust Party (or related indemnified party) shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the net proceeds received by such Children Trust Party (net of underwriting discounts borne by such Children Trust Party) from the sale of Shares in the offering that is the subject of the claim for contribution exceeds the amount of any damages which such Children Trust Party (or related indemnified party) would have been required to pay by reason of the indemnity under this Section 8 if such indemnification was enforceable under applicable law.

If indemnification is available under this Section 8, the indemnifying parties shall indemnify each indemnified party to the full extent provided in Sections 8(a) and (b) without regard to the relative fault of said indemnifying party or indemnified party or any other equitable consideration provided for in this Section 8(e).

9. Participation in Underwritten Registrations. A Children Trust Party may not participate in any underwritten registration hereunder or under the Dolan Registration Rights Agreement or otherwise unless such Children Trust Party (a) agrees to sell the Shares on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements with customary terms and conditions for a secondary offering 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, provided that none of the foregoing shall in any way limit the obligations of the Company under Section 8.

10. Miscellaneous.

(a) Specific Performance. The Company and each Children Trust Party acknowledge that it will be impossible to measure in money the damage to the Company if such Children Trust Party fails to comply with any of the obligations imposed by Section 1 of this Agreement, that every such obligation therein is material and that, in the event of any such failure, the Company will not have an adequate remedy at law or in damages. Accordingly, each Children Trust Party consents to the issuance of an injunction or the enforcement of other equitable remedies against it at the suit of the Company without bond or other security, to compel performance by such Children Trust Party of all the terms of Section 1 hereof, and waives any defenses of (i) failure of consideration, (ii) breach of any other provision of this Agreement and (iii) availability of relief in damages.

(b) No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company will not hereafter enter into any agreement with respect to its securities which is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Children Trust Parties in this Agreement.

(c) Amendments. This Agreement may not be amended, modified or altered except by a writing duly signed by the party against which such amendment or modification is sought to be enforced.

(d) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Company, the Children Trust Parties and the respective successors and permitted assigns of the Company and the Children Trust Parties. This Agreement may not be assigned by either the Company or a Children Trust Party without the prior written consent of the other party hereto. The Company shall assign its rights and obligations hereunder to any entity that succeeds to all or substantially all of its assets, by merger or otherwise, including to any holding company that may be formed to be the parent of the Company, if such entity becomes the issuer of the securities then owned by the Children Trust Holders.

(e) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

(f) Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not constitute a part hereof.

(g) Construction. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of New York without giving any effect to principles of conflicts of laws.

(h) Notices. Any notice required or desired to be delivered hereunder shall be (i) in writing, (ii) delivered by personal delivery, sent by commercial delivery service or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by facsimile or electronic mail, (iii) deemed to have been given on the date of personal delivery, the date set forth in the records of the delivery service or return receipt, or in the case of facsimile or electronic mail, upon dispatch, and (iv) addressed as designated on Schedule 1 hereto (or to such other address as the party entitled to notice shall hereafter designate in accordance with the terms hereof), with copies as designated on Schedule 1 hereto.

(i) Severability. If any provision of this Agreement or the application of any provision hereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this Agreement and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected unless the provision held invalid shall substantially impair the benefits of the remaining portions of this Agreement.

 

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(j) Entire Agreement. This Agreement is intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement and is intended to be a complete and exclusive statement of the agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter contained herein. There are no restrictions, promises, warranties or undertakings, other than those set forth or referred to herein. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings between the parties with respect to such subject matter.

(k) Attorneys’ Fees. In any action or proceeding brought to enforce any provision of this Agreement, or where any provision hereof is validly asserted as a defense, the successful party shall be entitled to recover reasonable attorneys’ fees in addition to any other available remedy.

(l) Effectiveness. This Agreement shall become effective on the date on which the Distribution is consummated, without any further action of any of the parties hereto.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first written above.

 

MSG SPINCO, INC.

(to be renamed The Madison Square Garden Company)

By:  

/s/ David O’ Connor

  Name: David O’ Connor
  Title: President and Chief Executive Officer
KATHLEEN M. DOLAN

/s/ Kathleen M. Dolan

As a Trustee of the Charles F. Dolan Children Trusts FBO Kathleen M. Dolan, Deborah A. Dolan-Sweeney, Marianne Dolan Weber, Patrick F. Dolan, Thomas C. Dolan and James L. Dolan
PAUL J. DOLAN

/s/ Paul J. Dolan

As a Trustee of the Charles F. Dolan Children Trust FBO Kathleen M. Dolan and the Charles F. Dolan Children Trust FBO James L. Dolan
MATTHEW DOLAN

/s/ Matthew Dolan

As a Trustee of the Charles F. Dolan Children Trust FBO Marianne Dolan Weber and the Charles F. Dolan Children Trust FBO Thomas C. Dolan

 

MARY S. DOLAN

/s/ Mary S. Dolan

As a Trustee of the Charles F. Dolan Children Trust FBO Deborah A. Dolan-Sweeney and the Charles F. Dolan Children Trust FBO Patrick F. Dolan

[Signature Page to Children Trusts Registration Rights Agreement (MSG Spinco)]


Annex A

Definitions:

Acceptable Marital Trust” means a marital trust the income of which is for the benefit of any spouse of any descendant of Dolan and the principal of which (including all shares of Class B Common Stock held by such trust) is for the sole benefit of any descendant of Dolan.

Children Trust Holders” means the Children Trusts and any transferee of shares of Class B Common Stock pursuant to clause (i) of Section 1(b).

Children Trust Parties” means all Children Trust Holders and any Qualifying Creditor.

Children Trusts” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals.

Class A Common Stock” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals.

Class B Common Stock” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals.

Collateral Stock” means shares of Class B Common Stock that are the subject of a bona fide pledge or similar perfected security interest.

Commission” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2(a) hereof.

Common Equity Securities” means shares of any class of common stock, or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares of any class of common stock of the Company.

Company” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals.

Creditor” means any financial institution approved by the Company, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld.

CSCo Shares” means (a) shares of Class B Common Stock issued in the Distribution in respect of shares of MSG Class B Common Stock that were previously issued in respect of Cablevision NY Group Class B Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, that were (i) owned at any time by Cablevision Systems Company, CFD Joint Venture or MAC TRUST GROUP or (ii) issued by Cablevision Systems Corporation in respect of any such shares as a result of any stock split, stock dividend or other recapitalization, and (b) any shares of Class B Common Stock issued by the Company in respect of such shares issued in the Distribution as a result of any stock split, stock dividend or other recapitalization.

Designated Registration” shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7 hereof.

Distribution” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals.

Dolan” means Charles F. Dolan; such term does not include Mr. Dolan’s legal representatives or his estate.

Dolan Consent” means the prior written consent of Charles F. Dolan and at least two other members of the Dolan Family Committee, prior to the Transition Time, and, thereafter, the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the votes of the members of the Dolan Family Committee.

Dolan Family Committee” means the Dolan Family Committee established pursuant to the MSG Spinco, Inc. (to be renamed The Madison Square Garden Company) Stockholders Agreement, dated as of September 15, 2015, by and among each of the holders of the Class B Common Stock, as the same may be amended, modified or amended and restated from time to time.

Dolan Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the Company and the Dolan Family Affiliates (as defined therein), as the same may be amended, modified or amended and restated from time to time.

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

Inspectors” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6(g) hereof.

 

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Losses” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8(a) hereof.

Market Price” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2(d) hereof.

Materiality Notice” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2(c) hereof.

MSG” means The Madison Square Garden Company, a Delaware corporation.

MSG Class A Common Stock” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals.

MSG Class B Common Stock” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals.

Other Holders” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3 hereof.

Permanent Incapacity” means, with respect to an individual, any individual whose ability to receive and evaluate information effectively or to communicate decisions, or both, is impaired to such an extent that the individual permanently lacks the capacity to manage his or her financial resources, as determined by certification of one licensed physician.

Public Offering” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals.

Qualifying Creditor” means a Creditor who has, at the written request of a Children Trust Holder, signed an instrument in form reasonably acceptable to the Company agreeing to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement. Any affiliate of a Qualifying Creditor who owns Collateral Stock shall be deemed to be the same person as the Qualifying Creditor for purposes of Section 2.

Records” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6(g) hereof.

Registered Class A” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6(b).

Registration Expenses” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7 hereof.

Rule 144 Threshold” means the product of (a) the maximum number of shares of Class A Common Stock of the Company that could be sold under Rule 144(e)(1) under the Securities Act (or any successor rule or regulation) and (b) the applicable Market Price provided for in this Agreement.

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

Shares” means (i) shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock acquired by any Children Trust Holder in the Distribution or pursuant to a Transfer in accordance with Section 1(b), (ii) shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock acquired by any Children Trust Holder as a result of any stock split, stock dividend or other recapitalization with respect to any shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock acquired by any Children Trust Holder in the Distribution, pursuant to a Transfer in accordance with Section 1(b) or as provided in this clause (ii) and (iii) shares of Class A Common Stock acquired upon conversion of Class B Common Stock acquired in the Distribution, pursuant to a Transfer in accordance with Section 1(b) or as provided in clause (ii).

Suspension of Effectiveness” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2(c) hereof.

Suspension of Filing” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2(c) hereof.

Suspension of Offering” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2(c) hereof.

Trading Day” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2(d) hereof.

Transfer” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 1(a) hereof.

Transition Time” means the death or Permanent Incapacity of Charles F. Dolan.

 

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Exhibit A

FORM OF JOINDER

REGISTRATION RIGHTS JOINDER AGREEMENT

Reference is made to the Registration Rights Agreement, dated September 15, 2015, by and among The Madison Square Garden Company (formerly MSG Spinco, Inc.) and the Charles F. Dolan Children Trusts (as amended from time to time, the “Registration Rights Agreement”).

In consideration of the benefits to which the undersigned is entitled under the Registration Rights Agreement as a Children Trust Holder (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement), the undersigned hereby agrees to be bound by the provisions of the Registration Rights Agreement as a Children Trust Holder, including Sections 1(a), 1(b) and 1(c) thereof, but, for the avoidance of doubt, only with respect to its CSCo Shares (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement).

 

 

Name:                             

 

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Schedule 1

Notices

To the Company:

MSG Spinco, Inc. (to be renamed The Madison Square Garden Company)

Two Pennsylvania Plaza

New York, NY 10121

Attn: General Counsel

Facsimile:

E-mail:

To the Children Trust Holders:

c/o Brian G. Sweeney

Cablevision Systems Corporation

1111 Stewart Avenue

Bethpage, NY 11714

Facsimile: (516) 803-1186

E-mail: bgsweeney@cablevision.com

With copies to (which shall not constitute notice):

Dolan Family Office LLC

340 Crossways Park Drive

Woodbury, New York 11797

Attn: Renzo Mori

Facsimile: (516) 364-4592

E-mail: rmori@dfollc.com

and

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

919 Third Avenue

New York, New York 10022

Attn: Richard D. Bohm

Facsimile: (212) 909-6836

E-mail: rdbohm@debevoise.com

 

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EX-4.2 5 d99443dex42.htm EX-4.2 EX-4.2

Exhibit 4.2

 

 

 

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

BY AND AMONG

MSG SPINCO, INC.

(TO BE RENAMED THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN COMPANY)

AND

THE DOLAN FAMILY AFFILIATES

 

 

 


REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

Registration Rights Agreement (this “Agreement”) dated as of September 15, 2015 (but effective as provided in Section 9(k)), by and among MSG Spinco, Inc. (to be renamed The Madison Square Garden Company), a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), the parties set forth on Annex A to this Agreement (the “Dolan Family Affiliates”) and the Qualifying Creditors, if any, who have agreed in writing to become bound by this Agreement. Certain capitalized terms used in this Agreement are defined in Annex B hereto.

WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS, as of the date of this Agreement, the Dolan Family Affiliates own shares of Class B Common Stock of The Madison Square Garden Company, par value $.01 per share (“MSG Class B Common Stock”), and shares of Class A Common Stock of The Madison Square Garden Company, par value $.01 per share (“MSG Class A Common Stock”);

WHEREAS, the Dolan Family Affiliates are party to a Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of January 13, 2010, by and among MSG and the Dolan Family Affiliates, and the Dolan Family Affiliates have certain registration rights under that agreement with respect to shares of MSG Class A Common Stock;

WHEREAS, MSG intends to distribute (the “Distribution”) to the holders of MSG Class A Common Stock all of the outstanding shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, $.01 par value (the “Class A Common Stock”), and to the holders of MSG Class B Common Stock all of the outstanding shares of the Company’s Class B Common Stock, $.01 par value (the “Class B Common Stock”); and

WHEREAS, the Company and the Dolan Family Affiliates wish to provide for benefits and restrictions applicable to the Shares owned by the Dolan Family Holders following the Distribution, all as provided herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements contained herein, the parties hereby agree as follows:

1. Demand Registration by the Dolan Family Parties of the Shares.

(a) Demand Registration. One or more of the Dolan Family Parties may request in writing, with the Dolan Consent, that the Company file a registration statement on an appropriate form for the general registration of securities under the Securities Act, and include therein such number of the Shares owned by such Dolan Family Party as such person may specify in its written request; provided, however, that (i) the Company shall not be required to file a registration statement pursuant to this Section 1 if (x) the Shares requested to be so registered do not, in the case of a Dolan Family Holder, together with any Shares timely requested to be registered by other Dolan Family Holders and Other Holders pursuant to the third-to-last sentence of this Section 1(a), have an aggregate Market Price exceeding the Rule 144 Threshold as of the Trading Day immediately preceding the expiration of the applicable Notice Period under such sentence or, in the case of a Qualifying Creditor, do not have an aggregate Market Price exceeding the Rule 144 Threshold as of the Trading Day immediately preceding the date on which the request for registration is received by the Company, or (y) the Company delivers to each Dolan Family Party requesting registration under this Section 1 an opinion of counsel to the Company (such opinion and such counsel to be reasonably acceptable to each such Dolan Family Party, it being agreed that the Company’s regular outside securities counsel shall be deemed to be reasonably acceptable counsel for this purpose) to the effect that the Shares proposed to be registered by such person may be offered and sold by such person to the public in the United States together with the Shares requested to be registered by all other Dolan Family Parties and Other Holders (I) without registration pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and (II) within the volume limitations under Rule 144(e) promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor rule or regulation) whether or not such volume limitations are then applicable, (ii) subject to the next sentence, the Dolan Family Holders shall in the aggregate have the right on only four occasions to require the Company to file a registration statement pursuant to this Section 1, and (iii) subject to the next sentence, a Qualifying Creditor may require registration only following the exercise of its remedies under a security agreement with a Dolan Family Holder and for the purpose of Transferring Shares pursuant thereto and each Qualifying Creditor may only require one registration hereunder. The total number of demand registrations under clauses (ii) and (iii) of the immediately preceding sentence and under the corresponding provisions of the Dolan Children Trusts Registration Rights Agreement shall not exceed four. All requests made pursuant to this paragraph shall specify the aggregate number of Shares to be registered and the intended methods of disposition thereof, which methods may include an underwritten public offering. Upon receipt of a written request for registration from a Dolan Family Holder pursuant to the preceding sentences, the Company shall promptly give written notice of the proposed registration to each such other Dolan Family Holder and each Other Holder and provide each such other holder with the opportunity to join in such request by written notice to the Company specifying the aggregate number of Shares to be registered by such holder within 20 days from the date of the Company’s written notice (such period is referred to as the “Notice Period”).


Subject to Section 1(c) of this Agreement, the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to ensure that each registration statement required to be filed pursuant to this Section 1 shall be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) as promptly as reasonably practicable, but no later than 45 days after receipt of such request by the Company, and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective by the Commission as promptly thereafter as practicable; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to maintain such effectiveness for more than 90 days. Notwithstanding the Company’s rights to effect a Suspension of Filing or Suspension of Effectiveness in Section 1(c), the Dolan Family Parties that made the registration request under this Section 1(a) shall have the right to withdraw any such request, and such withdrawn request shall not count as a demand registration under clause (ii) or (iii) of this Section 1(a) or the corresponding provisions under the Dolan Children Trusts Registration Rights Agreement, if (1) the registration statement required to be filed pursuant to this Section 1 is not filed with the Commission by the date that is 45 days after such request is received by the Company and has not at the time of such withdrawal been filed with the Commission, or is not declared effective by the date that is 90 days after the date such registration statement is filed with the Commission and has not at the time of such withdrawal been declared effective, and (2) in either case, such Dolan Family Parties notify the Company of the withdrawal of such request no later than 10 days after such 45th or 90th day, as the case may be.

(b) Concurrent Primary Offering. Anything in this Section 1 to the contrary notwithstanding, if the Company at the time of receipt of a request for registration pursuant to this Section 1 has a bona fide intent and plan to file a registration statement (other than on Form S-4 or S-8 or any successor forms) covering a primary offering by the Company of its Common Equity Securities, the Company, by notice to the applicable Dolan Family Parties, may delay the filing (but not the preparation) of the requested registration statement for a period ending on the earlier of (i) 60 days after the closing of such offering or (ii) 120 days after receipt of the request for registration; and, provided, further, if the Company either abandons its plan to file such registration statement or does not file the same within 75 days after receipt of such request, the Company shall promptly thereafter file the requested registration statement. The Company may not, pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence, delay the filing of a requested registration statement more than once during any two-year period.

(c) Suspension of Offering. Upon notice by the Company to any Dolan Family Party which has requested registration under this Section 1 that a negotiation or consummation of a transaction by the Company or any of its subsidiaries is pending or an event has occurred, which negotiation, consummation or event would require disclosure in the registration statement for the requested registration and such disclosure would, in the good faith judgment of the board of directors of the Company, be materially adverse to the business interests of the Company, and the nondisclosure of which in the registration statement would reasonably be expected to cause the registration statement to fail to comply with applicable disclosure requirements (a “Materiality Notice”), the Company may delay the filing (but not the preparation) of such registration statement (a “Suspension of Filing”). Upon the delivery of a Materiality Notice by the Company pursuant to the preceding sentence at any time when a registration statement has been filed but not declared effective, the Company may delay seeking the effectiveness of such registration statement (a “Suspension of Effectiveness”), and each Dolan Family Party named therein shall immediately discontinue any offers of Shares under such registration statement until such Dolan Family Party receives copies of a supplemented or amended prospectus that corrects such misstatement or omission, or until it is advised in writing by the Company that offers under such registration statement may be resumed and has received copies of any additional or supplemental filings which are incorporated by reference in such registration statement. Upon the delivery of a Materiality Notice by the Company pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 1(c) at any time when a registration statement has been filed and declared effective, each Dolan Family Party named therein shall immediately discontinue offers and sales of Shares under such registration statement until such Dolan Family Party receives copies of a supplemented or amended prospectus that corrects such misstatement or omission and notice that any post-effective amendment has become effective, or until it is advised in writing by the Company that offers under such registration statement may be resumed and has received copies of any additional or supplemental filings which are incorporated by reference in the registration statement (a “Suspension of Offering;” a Suspension of Filing, a Suspension of Effectiveness and a Suspension of Offering are collectively referred to herein as, “Suspensions”). If so directed by the Company, each Dolan Family Party will deliver to the Company all copies (other than permanent file copies then in such Dolan Family Party’s possession) of any prospectus covering Shares in the possession of such Dolan Family Party or its agents current at the time of receipt of any Materiality Notice. In any 12-month period, the aggregate time of all Suspensions shall not, without the consent of a majority of the Dolan Family Holders (by number of Shares held), which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, exceed 180 days. If interrupted by a Suspension of Offering, any 90-day period in respect of which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of a registration statement pursuant to Section 1(a) of this Agreement shall be extended by the number of days during which the Suspension of Offering was in effect. In the event of any Suspension of Offering of more than 30 days in duration prior to which the Dolan Family Parties have sold less than 75% of the Shares to be sold in such offering, the Dolan Family Parties shall be entitled to withdraw such registration prior to the later of (i) the end of the Suspension of Offering and (ii) three business days after the Company has provided the Dolan Family Parties written notice of the anticipated date on which the Suspension of Offering will end, and, if such registration is withdrawn, the related demand for registration shall not count for the purposes of the limitations set forth under clauses (ii) and (iii) of Section 1(a) or the comparable provisions under the Dolan Trusts Registration Rights Agreement.

 

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(d) Market Price; Trading Day. For purposes of this Section 1:

(i) “Market Price” of a share of Class A Common Stock shall mean the weighted average of the closing prices for the Class A Common Stock on each Trading Day (as defined below) in the 30-day period ending on the day prior to the date of determination as reported in the consolidated transaction reporting system of the New York Stock Exchange or on the comparable reporting system of such other exchange or trading system that is at the time the principal market for the Class A Common Stock.

(ii) “Trading Day” shall mean any day on which trading takes place on the New York Stock Exchange or such other exchange or trading system that is at the time the principal market for the Class A Common Stock.

2. Coordination of PiggyBack Registration Rights.

Each of the Dolan Family Parties hereby acknowledges and consents to the grant by the Company to the Children Trust Holders (as defined in the Dolan Children Trusts Registration Rights Agreement and hereinafter referred to in this Agreement as the “Other Holders”), in the Dolan Children Trusts Registration Rights Agreement, of the right of the Other Holders to include certain of their respective shares of Class A Common Stock in certain registration statements filed pursuant hereto. Each of the Dolan Family Parties further acknowledges and agrees that if any offering hereunder is to be underwritten and if the managing underwriter or underwriters of such offering informs such person in writing that the number of shares of Class A Common Stock which the Dolan Family Parties, and the Other Holders, as the case may be, intend to include in such offering is sufficiently large so as to affect the offering price of such offering materially and adversely, then the respective number of shares of Class A Common Stock to be offered for the account of each Dolan Family Party and each Other Holder, as the case may be, who is participating in such offering shall be reduced pro rata to the extent necessary to reduce the total number of shares of Class A Common Stock to be included in such offering to the number recommended by such managing underwriter. Except for such piggyback registration rights granted to Other Holders, and to any transferee of the shares of Class A Common Stock owned by an Other Holder which may be registered pursuant to the Dolan Children Trusts Registration Rights Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its security holders shall have the right to include any of the Company’s securities in any registration statement filed pursuant hereto.

3. Piggyback Registration of the Shares.

If the Company proposes to file a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to an offering (a) by an Other Holder of its holdings of Class A Common Stock pursuant to the Dolan Children Trusts Registration Rights Agreement, (b) by any other holder of any Common Equity Securities or (c) by the Company for its own account of any Common Equity Securities (other than a registration statement on Form S-4 or S-8, or any successor form or a form filed in connection with an exchange offer or an offering of securities solely to the existing stockholders of the Company), the Company shall give written notice of such proposed filing to each of the Dolan Family Holders at least 20 days before the anticipated filing date which shall state whether such registration will be in connection with an underwritten offering and offer such Dolan Family Holders the opportunity to include in such registration statement such number of the Shares as such Dolan Family Holder may request not later than three days prior to the anticipated filing date. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the managing underwriter or underwriters of a proposed underwritten offering to permit such Dolan Family Holders to be included in the registration for such offering and to include such Shares in such offering on the same terms and conditions as the Common Equity Securities included in such offering. If such proposed offering is to be underwritten, then upon request by the managing underwriter or underwriters given to such Dolan Family Holders prior to the effective date of the offering, any Dolan Family Holder electing to have Shares included in the registration statement shall either enter into underwriting agreements with customary terms and conditions for a secondary offering with such underwriter or underwriters providing for the inclusion of such number of the Shares owned by such Dolan Family Holder in such offering on such terms and conditions or, if such Dolan Family Holder shall refuse to enter into any such agreement, the Company shall have the right to exclude from such registration all (but not less than all) of the Shares of such Dolan Family Holder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) in no event will any Dolan Family Holder be required in such underwriting agreement (or in any other agreement in connection with such offering) to (i) make any representations or warranties to or agreements with the underwriters other than representations, warranties or agreements customarily made by selling securityholders in underwritten secondary offerings, (ii) make any representations or warranties to or agreements with the Company other than representations, warranties or agreements regarding such Dolan Family Holder, the ownership of such Dolan Family Holder’s Common Equity Securities, the authorization, validity and binding effect of transaction documents executed by such Dolan Family Holder in connection with such registration and such Dolan Family Holder’s intended method or methods of distribution and any other representation required by law; provided that no Dolan Family Holder shall be required to make any representation or warranty to any person covered by the indemnity in Section 7(b) other than on a several (and not joint) basis, or (iii) furnish any indemnity to any person which is broader than the indemnity customarily furnished by selling security holders in underwritten offerings; provided that no Dolan Family Holder shall be required to furnish any indemnity broader than the indemnity furnished by such Dolan Family Holder in Section 7(b) to any person covered by the indemnity in Section 7(b), and (y) if the managing underwriter

 

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or underwriters of such offering informs the Dolan Family Holders in writing that the number of Shares which the Dolan Family Holders and the number of Shares which the Other Holders intend to include in such offering is sufficiently large so as to affect materially and adversely the success of such offering, the Shares to be offered for the account of the Dolan Family Holders and the Other Holders shall first be reduced pro rata to the extent necessary to reduce the total number of shares of Class A Common Stock to be included in such offering to the number recommended by such managing underwriter. In giving effect to the foregoing reduction, the respective number of the Shares to be offered for the account of Dolan Family Holders shall be reduced pro rata.

4. Holdback Agreements.

(a) Restrictions on Public Sale by Dolan Family Parties. To the extent not inconsistent with applicable law, each Dolan Family Party agrees not to offer publicly or effect any public sale or distribution of Common Equity Securities, including a sale pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any successor rule or regulation), during the seven days prior to, and during the 90-day period beginning on, the effective date of any registration statement filed by the Company pursuant to which any such shares or securities are being registered (except as part of such registration), if and to the extent requested by the Company in the case of a non-underwritten public offering or if and to the extent requested by the managing underwriter or underwriters in the case of an underwritten public offering.

(b) Restrictions on Public Sale by the Company and Others. The Company agrees (i) that during the seven days prior to, and during the 90-day period beginning on, the effective date of any registration statement filed at the request of a Dolan Family Party pursuant hereto, the Company will not offer publicly or effect any public sale or distribution of Common Equity Securities (other than any such sale or distribution of such securities in connection with any merger or consolidation of the Company or any subsidiary with, or the acquisition by the Company or a subsidiary of the capital stock or substantially all of the assets of, any other person or any offer or sale of such securities pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-8), and (ii) that any agreement entered into after the date of this Agreement pursuant to which the Company issues or agrees to issue any privately placed Common Equity Securities shall contain a provision under which holders of such securities agree not to effect any public sale or distribution of any such securities during the periods described in (i) above, in each case including a sale pursuant to Rule 144 (or any successor rule or regulation) under the Securities Act (except as part of any such registration, if permitted).

5. Registration Procedures.

In connection with any registration of the Shares owned by a Dolan Family Party contemplated hereby, the Company will as expeditiously as possible:

(a) Furnish to such Dolan Family Party, prior to filing a registration statement, copies of such registration statement as proposed to be filed, and thereafter such number of copies of such registration statement, each amendment and supplement thereto (in each case including all exhibits thereto), the prospectus included in such registration statement (including each preliminary prospectus) and such other documents in such quantities as such Dolan Family Party may reasonably request from time to time in order to facilitate the disposition of the Shares.

(b) Use its reasonable best efforts to register or qualify the Shares being registered as contemplated hereby (the “Registered Class A”) under such other securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as such Dolan Family Party reasonably requests and do any and all other acts and things which may be reasonably necessary or advisable to enable such Dolan Family Party to consummate the disposition in such jurisdictions of the Registered Class A; provided that the Company will not be required to (i) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify but for this paragraph (b), (ii) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction, or (iii) consent to general service of process in any such jurisdiction.

(c) Use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registered Class A 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 to enable such Dolan Family Party to consummate the disposition of such Registered Class A.

(d) Notify such Dolan Family Party at any time, (i) of any request by the Commission or any other federal or state governmental authority for amendments or supplements to a registration statement or related prospectus or for additional information, (ii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a registration statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, (iii) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of any of the Registered Class A for sale in any jurisdiction, or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose, and (iv) when a prospectus relating thereto is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, of the happening of any event as a result of which the prospectus included in such registration statement contains an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and, except as otherwise provided in Section 1(c) hereof, the Company will, as expeditiously as practicable, prepare a supplement or amendment to such prospectus so that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of such Registered Class A, 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.

 

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(e) Use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of a registration statement, or the lifting of any suspension of the qualification (or exemption from qualification) of any of the Registered Class A for sale in any jurisdiction at the earliest date reasonably practical.

(f) Cause all such Registered Class A to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange or on any other securities exchange on which the Class A Common Stock is then listed, provided that the applicable listing requirements are satisfied.

(g) Enter into customary agreements (including an underwriting agreement in customary form) and take such other actions as are reasonably requested by the relevant Dolan Family Party in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of the Registered Class A.

(h) Make available for inspection by such Dolan Family Party, any underwriter participating in any disposition pursuant to such registration statement, and any attorney, accountant or other agent retained by such Dolan Family Party or such 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 to enable them to exercise their due diligence responsibility, and cause the officers, directors and employees of the Company to supply all information reasonably requested by any such Inspector in connection with such registration statement. Records which the Company determines, in good faith, to be confidential and which 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 misstatement or omission in the registration statement or (ii) the release of such Records is ordered pursuant to a subpoena or other order from a court of competent jurisdiction. Any Dolan Family Party shall use reasonable best efforts, prior to any disclosure by any such Inspector under clause (i) of the preceding sentence, to inform the Company that such disclosure is necessary to avoid or correct a misstatement or omission in the registration statement. Each Dolan Family Party further agrees that it will, upon learning that disclosure of Records is sought in a court of competent jurisdiction, give notice to the Company and allow the Company, at the expense of the Company, to undertake appropriate action to prevent disclosure of the Records deemed confidential.

(i) In the event such sale is pursuant to an underwritten offering, use its reasonable best efforts to (i) obtain a comfort letter from the independent public accountants for the Company in customary form and covering such matters of the type customarily covered by such letters as any Dolan Family Party reasonably requests and (ii) ensure that (A) the representations, warranties and covenants contained in the applicable underwriting agreement shall expressly be for the benefit of any Dolan Family Party participating in such sale, (B) the conditions to closing in said underwriting agreement shall be reasonably satisfactory to such Dolan Family Party and (C) to the extent customary, all comfort letters and opinions of counsel contemplated by said underwriting agreements are delivered to such Dolan Family Party on the closing date of the offering.

(j) Otherwise use its reasonable best efforts to comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the Commission and have the registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable after filing.

The Company may require any Dolan Family Party to furnish to the Company such information regarding such Dolan Family Party as the Company may from time to time reasonably request in writing, in each case only as required by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.

Each Dolan Family Party agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 5(d) hereof, such Dolan Family Party will forthwith discontinue disposition of the Registered Class A pursuant to the registration statement covering such Registered Class A until such Dolan Family Party receives the copies of the supplemented or amended prospectus contemplated by Section 5(d) hereof, and, if so directed by the Company, such Dolan Family Party will deliver to the Company (at the expense of the Company) all copies, other than permanent file copies then in such Dolan Family Party’s possession, of the prospectus covering such Registered Class A current at the time of receipt of such notice. If interrupted by receipt of any such notice pursuant to Section 5(d), any 90-day period in respect of which the Company is required to maintain the effectiveness of a registration statement pursuant to Section 1(a) shall be extended by the number of days during which the interruption was in effect.

 

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6. Registration Expenses.

Other than in the case of (a) a registration at the request of a Qualifying Creditor or (b) a demand registration under Section 1(a)(ii) after the second such registration (each registration referred to in clause (a) or (b), a “Designated Registration”), all expenses incident to the performance of or compliance with this Agreement by the Company, including, without limitation, all registration and filing fees, fees and expenses of compliance with securities or blue sky laws (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel in connection with blue sky qualifications of the Registered Class A), printing expenses, messenger and delivery expenses, internal expenses (including, without limitation, all salaries and expenses of its officers and employees performing legal or accounting duties), the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the listing of the Registered Class A on the New York Stock Exchange or any other securities exchange on which such Class A Common Stock is then listed, fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company and its independent certified public accountants (including the expenses of any special audit or comfort letters required by or incident to such performance), securities acts liability insurance (if the Company elects to obtain such insurance), the fees and expenses of any special experts retained by the Company in connection with such registration, the fees and expenses of other persons retained by the Company, including transfer agents, trustees, depositories and registrars (all such expenses being herein called “Registration Expenses”), will be borne by the Company. In the case of a Designated Registration, all Registration Expenses other than internal expenses of the Company and securities acts liability insurance obtained by the Company at its election, shall be borne by the Qualifying Creditor or the Dolan Family Holders participating in the offering, as the case may be. The Company will not have any responsibility for any of the expenses of any Dolan Family Party incurred in connection with any registration statement hereunder, including, without limitation, underwriting discounts or commissions attributable to the sale of Registered Class A and fees and expenses of counsel for such Dolan Family Party.

7. Indemnification; Contribution.

(a) Indemnification by the Company. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by law, (i) each Dolan Family Party, (ii) the directors, officers, partners, employees, agents, beneficiaries, trustees, members and affiliates of each Dolan Family Party, and the directors, officers, partners, employees and agents of each such affiliate, and (iii) each person who controls any of the foregoing (within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act), and any investment adviser thereof, against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, expenses (or actions or proceedings in respect thereof) or costs (including, without limitation, costs of investigation and reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements incurred by any such indemnified person in connection with enforcing its rights hereunder preparing, pursuing or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability, expense, action or proceeding), including any of the foregoing incurred in settlement of any litigation commenced or threatened (collectively, “Losses”), joint or several, based upon or arising out of (x) any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in any registration statement, prospectus, preliminary prospectus, summary prospectus or amendment or supplement thereto, (y) any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, or (z) any violation by the Company of any federal, state or common law rule or regulation applicable to the Company in connection with such registration, and the Company will reimburse each such indemnified party for any such Loss, except in each case insofar as any such Loss arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or omission made in any such registration statement, prospectus, preliminary prospectus, final prospectus, summary prospectus, amendment or supplement, or a violation of law or regulation in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such indemnified party expressly for use in the preparation thereof, it being understood that the information to be furnished to the Company for use in the preparation of any such document shall be limited only to the information specifically referenced in the penultimate sentence of Section 7(b). Such indemnity shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by such indemnified person and shall survive the Transfer of any Shares by any such indemnified person. The indemnity in this Section 7(a) shall not apply to Losses incurred by a person other than in his or her capacity as a selling security holder. In connection with an underwritten offering, the Company will indemnify the underwriters thereof, their officers and directors and each person who controls such underwriters (within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act) to the same extent as provided above with respect to the indemnification of each Dolan Family Party.

(b) Indemnification by Dolan Family Parties. In connection with any registration statement contemplated hereby, each Dolan Family Party participating in any offer or sale pursuant to such registration statement will furnish to the Company in writing such information with respect to such Dolan Family Party as the Company reasonably requests for use in connection with any such registration statement, prospectus, preliminary prospectus, summary prospectus or amendment or supplement thereto and agrees to indemnify and hold harmless, severally, and not jointly, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company, its directors, officers, employees, agents and affiliates and the directors, officers, partners, employees and agents of each such affiliate and each person who controls the Company (within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act) against any Losses insofar as such Losses arise out of or are based upon (i) an untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any such registration statement, prospectus, preliminary prospectus, summary prospectus or amendment or supplement thereto or any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, to the extent that such untrue statement

 

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or omission is contained in or omitted from any information with respect to such Dolan Family Party so furnished in writing by such Dolan Family Party expressly for use in the preparation of such registration statement, prospectus, preliminary prospectus, summary prospectus or amendment or supplement thereto, as the case may be, or (ii) any violation by such Dolan Family Party of any federal, state or common law rule or regulation applicable to such Dolan Family Party in connection with such registration. It is understood that the information to be furnished by a Dolan Family Party to the Company for use in the preparation of any such document shall be limited only to information regarding such Dolan Family Party, the ownership of such Dolan Family Party’s Common Equity Securities, such Dolan Family Party’s intended method or methods of distribution and any other information required by law. The liability of a Dolan Family Party under this Section 7(b) shall not exceed the amount of net proceeds received by such Dolan Family Party (net of underwriting discounts borne by such Dolan Family Party) from the sale of the Shares in the offering that is the subject of an indemnity claim under this Section 7(b).

(c) Conduct of Indemnification Proceedings. Any person entitled to indemnification hereunder agrees to give prompt written notice to the indemnifying party after the receipt by such person of any written notice of the commencement of any action, suit, proceeding or investigation or threat thereof made in writing for which such person will claim indemnification or contribution pursuant to this Agreement, provided that the failure of any indemnified party to give notice as provided herein shall not relieve the indemnified party of its obligations under this Section 7, except to the extent that the indemnifying party is materially prejudiced by such failure to give notice. Unless in the reasonable judgment of such indemnified party, a conflict of interest may exist between such indemnified party and the indemnifying party with respect to such claim, the indemnified party shall permit the indemnifying party to assume the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party. If the indemnifying party is not entitled to, or elects not to, assume the defense of a claim, it will not be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of more than one counsel with respect to such claim, unless in the reasonable judgment of any indemnified party a conflict of interest may exist between such indemnified party and any other of such indemnified parties with respect to such claim, in which event the indemnifying party shall be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of such additional counsel or counsels. No indemnifying party will be subject to any liability for any settlement made without its consent. No indemnifying party, in the defense of any such claim or litigation shall, except with the consent of the applicable indemnified party, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party of a release from all liability in respect of such claim or litigation.

(d) Indemnification Payments. Any indemnification required to be made by an indemnifying party pursuant to this Section 7 shall be made by periodic payments to the indemnified party during the course of the action or proceeding, as and when bills are received by such indemnifying party with respect to indemnifiable Losses incurred by such indemnified party.

(e) Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in this Section 7 from the indemnifying party is unavailable to an indemnified party hereunder in respect of any Losses or is insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party from all Losses covered thereby, then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such Losses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party and indemnified parties in connection with the actions which resulted in such Losses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of such indemnifying party and indemnified parties shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by such indemnifying party or indemnified parties, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statements or omissions. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 7(c), any legal or other fees or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with any investigation or proceeding.

The parties hereto agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 7(e) were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph. 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.

Notwithstanding anything else contained herein, (i) no party shall be liable for contribution under this Section 7(e) except to the extent and under such circumstances as such party would have been liable to indemnify under this Section 7 if such indemnification were enforceable under applicable law and (ii) no Dolan Family Party (or related indemnified party) shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the net proceeds received by such Dolan Family Party (net of underwriting discounts borne by such Dolan Family Party) from the sale of Shares in the offering that is the subject of the claim for contribution exceeds the amount of any damages which such Dolan Family Party (or related indemnified party) would have been required to pay by reason of the indemnity under this Section 7 if such indemnification was enforceable under applicable law.

 

 

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If indemnification is available under this Section 7, the indemnifying parties shall indemnify each indemnified party to the full extent provided in Sections 7(a) and (b) without regard to the relative fault of said indemnifying party or indemnified party or any other equitable consideration provided for in this Section 7(e).

8. Participation in Underwritten Registrations. A Dolan Family Party may not participate in any underwritten registration hereunder or under the Dolan Children Trusts Registration Rights Agreement or otherwise unless such Dolan Family Party (a) agrees to sell the Shares on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements with customary terms and conditions for a secondary offering 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, provided that none of the foregoing shall in any way limit the obligations of the Company under Section 7.

9. Miscellaneous.

(a) No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company will not hereafter enter into any agreement with respect to its securities which is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Dolan Family Parties in this Agreement.

(b) Amendments. This Agreement may not be amended, modified or altered except by a writing duly signed by the party against which such amendment or modification is sought to be enforced.

(c) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Company, the Dolan Family Parties and the respective successors and permitted assigns of the Company and the Dolan Family Parties. This Agreement may not be assigned by either the Company or a Dolan Family Party without the prior written consent of the other party hereto; provided that the Company agrees that all transferees of all or substantially all of the Shares held by Dolan shall be accorded all of the registration rights of Dolan hereunder. The Company shall assign its rights and obligations hereunder to any entity that succeeds to all or substantially all of its assets, by merger or otherwise, including to any holding company that may be formed to be the parent of the Company, if such entity becomes the issuer of the securities then owned by the Dolan Family Holders.

(d) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

(e) Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not constitute a part hereof.

(f) Construction. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of New York without giving any effect to principles of conflicts of laws.

(g) Notices. Any notice required or desired to be delivered hereunder shall be (i) in writing, (ii) delivered by personal delivery, sent by commercial delivery service or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by facsimile or electronic mail, (iii) deemed to have been given on the date of personal delivery, the date set forth in the records of the delivery service or return receipt, or in the case of facsimile or electronic mail, upon dispatch, and (iv) addressed as designated on Schedule 1 hereto (or to such other address as the party entitled to notice shall hereafter designate in accordance with the terms hereof), with copies as designated on Schedule 1 hereto.

(h) Severability. If any provision of this Agreement or the application of any provision hereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this Agreement and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected unless the provision held invalid shall substantially impair the benefits of the remaining portions of this Agreement.

(i) Entire Agreement. This Agreement is intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement and is intended to be a complete and exclusive statement of the agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter contained herein. There are no restrictions, promises, warranties or undertakings, other than those set forth or referred to herein. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings between the parties with respect to such subject matter.

(j) Attorneys’ Fees. In any action or proceeding brought to enforce any provision of this Agreement, or where any provision hereof is validly asserted as a defense, the successful party shall be entitled to recover reasonable attorneys’ fees in addition to any other available remedy.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first written above.

 

MSG SPINCO, INC.
(to be renamed The Madison Square Garden Company)
By:  

/s/ David O’ Connor

  Name: David O’ Connor
  Title: President and Chief Executive Officer
CHARLES F. DOLAN

/s/ Charles F. Dolan

Individually, and as Trustee of the
Charles F. Dolan 2009 Revocable Trust
HELEN A. DOLAN

/s/ Helen A. Dolan

Individually, and as Trustee of the Helen A. Dolan 2009 Revocable Trust
MARY S. DOLAN

/s/ Mary S. Dolan

As Trustee of the Charles F. Dolan 2009 Family Trusts
DAVID M. DOLAN

/s/ David M. Dolan

As Trustee of the Charles F. Dolan 2009 Family Trusts

 

KATHLEEN M. DOLAN

/s/ Kathleen M. Dolan

As Trustee of the Tara Dolan 1989 Trust and the Ryan Dolan 1989 Trust
JAMES L. DOLAN

/s/ James L. Dolan

James L. Dolan, individually

[Signature Page to Family Affiliates Registration Rights Agreement (MSG Spinco)]


ANNEX A

DOLAN FAMILY AFFILIATES

 

  Charles F. Dolan  
  Helen A. Dolan  
  Charles F. Dolan 2009 Revocable Trust  
  Helen A. Dolan 2009 Revocable Trust  
  Charles F. Dolan 2009 Family Trusts  
  Tara Dolan 1989 Trust  
  Ryan Dolan 1989 Trust  
  James L. Dolan  

 

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Annex B

Definitions

Acceptable Marital Trust” means a marital trust the income of which is for the benefit of any spouse of any descendant of Dolan and the principal of which (including all shares of Class B Common Stock held by such trust) is for the sole benefit of any descendant of Dolan.

Class A Common Stock” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals.

Class B Common Stock” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals.

Collateral Stock” means shares of Class B Common Stock that are the subject of a bona fide pledge or similar perfected security interest.

Commission” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 1(a) hereof.

Common Equity Securities” means shares of any class of common stock, or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares of any class of common stock of the Company.

Company” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals.

Creditor” means any financial institution approved by the Company, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld.

Designated Registration” shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6 hereof.

Distribution” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals.

Dolan” means Charles F. Dolan; such term does not include Mr. Dolan’s legal representatives or his estate.

Dolan Children Trusts Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the Company and the Charles F. Dolan Children Trusts, as the same may be amended, modified or amended and restated from time to time.

Dolan Consent” means the prior written consent of Charles F. Dolan and at least two other members of the Dolan Family Committee, prior to the Transition Time, and, thereafter, the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the votes of the members of the Dolan Family Committee.

Dolan Family Affiliates” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Preamble hereof.

Dolan Family Committee” means the Dolan Family Committee established pursuant to the MSG Spinco, Inc. (to be renamed The Madison Square Garden Company) Stockholders Agreement, dated as of September 15, 2015, by and among each of the holders of the Class B Common Stock, as the same may be amended, modified or amended and restated from time to time.

Dolan Family Holders” means the Dolan Family Affiliates and any other Dolan Family Member who or that is a transferee of shares of Class B Common Stock from a Dolan Family Affiliate or other Dolan Family Member.

Dolan Family Member” means Dolan, his spouse, any person related to Dolan by reason of being his ancestor or descendent (natural or adopted), any Acceptable Marital Trust, any entity (whether a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust or other entity of any kind) all of the equity or beneficial interests in which are owned or held by any of the foregoing persons, or any person (whether or not such person is one of the foregoing persons) who is a trustee for, or is acting on behalf of, any of such foregoing persons.

Dolan Family Parties” means all Dolan Family Holders and any Qualifying Creditor.

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

Inspectors” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5(g) hereof.

 

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Losses” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7(a) hereof.

Market Price” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 1(d) hereof.

Materiality Notice” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 1(c) hereof.

MSG” means The Madison Square Garden Company, a Delaware corporation.

MSG Class A Common Stock” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals.

MSG Class B Common Stock” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals.

Other Holders” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2 hereof.

Permanent Incapacity” means, with respect to an individual, any individual whose ability to receive and evaluate information effectively or to communicate decisions, or both, is impaired to such an extent that the individual permanently lacks the capacity to manage his or her financial resources, as determined by certification of one licensed physician.

Public Offering” has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals.

Qualifying Creditor” means a Creditor who has, at the written request of a Dolan Family Holder, signed an instrument in form reasonably acceptable to the Company agreeing to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement. Any affiliate of a Qualifying Creditor who owns Collateral Stock shall be deemed to be the same person as the Qualifying Creditor for purposes of Section 1.

Records” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5(g) hereof.

Registered Class A” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5(b).

Registration Expenses” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6 hereof.

Rule 144 Threshold” means the product of (a) the maximum number of shares of Class A Common Stock of the Company that could be sold under Rule 144(e)(1) under the Securities Act (or any successor rule or regulation) and (b) the applicable Market Price provided for in this Agreement.

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

Shares” means (i) shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock acquired by any Dolan Family Holder in the Distribution, (ii) any shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock acquired by any Dolan Family Holder as a result of any stock split, stock dividend or other recapitalization with respect to any shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock acquired by any Dolan Family Holder in the Distribution or acquired as provided in this clause (ii) and (iii) shares of Class A Common Stock acquired upon conversion of Class B Common Stock acquired in the Distribution or acquired as provided in clause (ii).

Suspension of Effectiveness” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2(c) hereof.

Suspension of Filing” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 1(c) hereof.

Suspension of Offering” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 1(c) hereof.

Trading Day” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 1(d) hereof.

Transfer” means a sale, transfer or other disposition.

Transition Time” means the death or Permanent Incapacity of Charles F. Dolan.

 

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Schedule 1

Notices

To the Company:

MSG Spinco, Inc. (to be renamed The Madison Square Garden Company)

Two Pennsylvania Plaza

New York, NY 10121

Attn: General Counsel

Facsimile:

E-mail:

To the Dolan Family Affiliates:

c/o Brian G. Sweeney

Cablevision Systems Corporation

1111 Stewart Avenue

Bethpage, NY 11714

Facsimile: (516) 803-1186

E-mail: bgsweeney@cablevision.com

With copies to (which shall not constitute notice):

Dolan Family Office LLC

340 Crossways Park Drive

Woodbury, New York 11797

Attn: Renzo Mori

Facsimile: (516) 364-4592

E-mail: rmori@dfollc.com

and

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

919 Third Avenue

New York, New York 10022

Attn: Richard D. Bohm

Facsimile: (212) 909-6836

E-mail: rdbohm@debevoise.com

 

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EX-10.1 6 d99443dex101.htm EX-10.1 EX-10.1

Exhibit 10.1

 

 

 

STANDSTILL AGREEMENT

BY AND AMONG

MSG SPINCO, INC.

(TO BE RENAMED THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN COMPANY)

AND

THE DOLAN FAMILY GROUP

 

 

 


STANDSTILL AGREEMENT

Standstill Agreement (this “Agreement”), dated as of September 15, 2015, by and among MSG Spinco, Inc. (to be renamed The Madison Square Garden Company), a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), each of the members of the Dolan Family Group listed on Schedule I to this Agreement (the “Dolan Family Parties”) and, as and to the extent provided herein, their transferees, successors and assigns.

WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS, as of the date of this Agreement, the Dolan Family Parties own all of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock of The Madison Square Garden Company, par value $.01 per share (“MSG Class B Common Stock”), and also own shares of Class A Common Stock of The Madison Square Garden Company, par value $.01 per share (“MSG Class A Common Stock”);

WHEREAS, MSG intends to distribute (the “Distribution”) to the holders of MSG Class A Common Stock all of the outstanding shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, $.01 par value (the “Class A Common Stock”), and to the holders of MSG Class B Common Stock all of the outstanding shares of the Company’s Class B Common Stock, $.01 par value (the “Class B Common Stock” and, together with the Class A Common Stock, the “Common Stock”); and

WHEREAS, the Company and the Dolan Family Parties wish to provide for certain restrictions that will be applicable to the Dolan Family Parties following the Distribution, all as provided herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements contained herein, the parties hereby agree as follows:

1. Standstill Agreement.

During the 12-month period beginning on the date the Distribution is consummated (the “Distribution Date”), the Dolan Family Parties shall obtain the prior approval of a majority of the Company’s Independent Directors prior to acquiring Common Stock of the Company through a tender offer that results in members of the Dolan Family Group beneficially owning more than 50% of the total number of outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company. For purposes of this Standstill Agreement, the term “Independent Directors” means the directors of the Company who have been determined by the Company’s Board of Directors to be independent directors for purposes of the New York Stock Exchange corporate governance standards.

2. Transfers and Related Matters.

(a) Transfers. Each Dolan Family Party agrees that if at any time or from time to time prior to the first anniversary of the Distribution Date it desires to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly (including any transfer of equity or beneficial interests in an entity that is a Dolan Family Party or any other entity to which shares of Class B Common Stock may have been transferred, directly or indirectly) (a “Transfer”), any or all of its shares of Class B Common Stock to any Dolan Person (as defined below) who is not a Dolan Family Party, such Dolan Family Party shall, prior to the consummation of such Transfer, cause the transferee to execute a joinder agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (a “Joinder”), pursuant to which such transferee shall agree to be bound by the provisions of this Standstill Agreement as a Dolan Family Party. In addition, if prior to the first anniversary of the Distribution Date, any person becomes a member of the Dolan Family Group, the Dolan Family Parties shall cause such person to execute a Joinder. “Dolan Person” means any individual who is a member of the “immediate family” (as defined in Rule 16a-1(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) of a Dolan Family Party; an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, a Dolan Family Party; or a trust or estate in which a Dolan Family Party has an interest (including as a trustee or beneficiary).

(b) Legends. The Company may, at its election, require that any certificate representing shares of Class B Common Stock that are covered by this Standstill Agreement and that are issued prior to the first anniversary of the Distribution Date shall have endorsed thereon a legend which shall read substantially as follows:

“The shares represented by this certificate are held subject to the terms of a certain Standstill Agreement, dated September 15, 2015, by and among The Madison Square Garden Company (formerly MSG Spinco, Inc.) and the Dolan Family Group, as amended from time to time, a copy of which is on file with the Secretary of The Madison Square Garden Company, and such shares may not be sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of, directly or indirectly, except in accordance with the terms of such Standstill Agreement.”


Following the first anniversary of the Distribution Date, any stockholder may require the Company to remove the foregoing legend from any of such stockholder’s share certificates promptly after the surrender of any such certificate for such purpose.

3. Miscellaneous.

(a) Specific Performance. The Company and each Dolan Family Party acknowledge that it will be impossible to measure in money the damage to a party hereto if another party fails to comply with any of the obligations imposed by this Standstill Agreement, that every such obligation herein is material and that, in the event of any such failure, the non-breaching party will not have an adequate remedy at law or in damages. Accordingly, each party hereto consents to the issuance of an injunction or the enforcement of other equitable remedies against it without bond or other security, to compel performance by such party of all the terms hereof, and waives any defenses of (i) failure of consideration, (ii) breach of any other provision of this Agreement and (iii) availability of relief in damages.

(b) Amendments. This Standstill Agreement may not be amended, modified or altered except by a writing duly signed by the party against which such amendment or modification is sought to be enforced and with the consent of a majority of the Independent Directors.

(c) Successors and Assigns. This Standstill Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Company, the Dolan Family Parties and the respective successors and permitted assigns of the Company and the Dolan Family Parties. This Standstill Agreement may not be assigned by either the Company or a Dolan Family Party without the prior written consent of the other party hereto. The Company shall assign its rights and obligations hereunder (and no consent thereto shall be required under this Section 3(c)) to any entity that succeeds to all or substantially all of its assets, by merger or otherwise, including to any holding company that may be formed to be the parent of the Company, if such entity becomes the issuer of the securities then owned by the Dolan Family Parties.

(d) Termination. This Agreement shall terminate on the first anniversary of the date hereof, but a termination shall not affect any rights accrued prior to such termination.

(e) Counterparts. This Standstill Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

(f) Headings. The headings in this Standstill Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not constitute a part hereof.

(g) Construction. This Standstill Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of New York without giving any effect to principles of conflicts of laws.

(h) Notices. All notices hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been given at the time when mailed by certified mail, addressed to the address below stated of the party to which notice is given, or to such changed address as such party may have fixed by notice:

To the Company:

MSG Spinco, Inc. (to be renamed The Madison Square Garden Company)

Two Pennsylvania Plaza

New York, NY 10121

Attn: General Counsel

To a Dolan Family Party:

c/o Brian G. Sweeney

Cablevision Systems Corporation

1111 Stewart Avenue

Bethpage, NY 11714

With copies to (which shall not constitute notice):

Dolan Family Office LLC

340 Crossways Park Drive

Woodbury, New York 11797

Attention: Renzo Mori

 

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and

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

919 Third Avenue

New York, New York 10022

Attention: Richard D. Bohm

provided, however, that any notice of change of address shall be effective only upon receipt.

(i) Severability. If any provision of this Standstill Agreement or the application of any provision hereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this Standstill Agreement and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected unless the provision held invalid shall substantially impair the benefits of the remaining portions of this Standstill Agreement.

(j) Entire Agreement. This Standstill Agreement is intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement and is intended to be a complete and exclusive statement of the agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter contained herein. There are no restrictions, promises, warranties or undertakings, other than those set forth or referred to herein. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings between the parties with respect to such subject matter.

(k) Attorneys’ Fees. In any action or proceeding brought to enforce any provision of this Agreement, or where any provision hereof is validly asserted as a defense, the successful party shall be entitled to recover reasonable attorneys’ fees in addition to any other available remedy.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the day and year first written above.

 

MSG SPINCO, INC.

(to be renamed The Madison Square Garden Company)

/s/ David O’ Connor

By:   David O’ Connor
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer
CHARLES F. DOLAN, individually, and as Trustee of the Charles F. Dolan 2009 Revocable Trust

/s/ Charles F. Dolan

By:   Charles F. Dolan
HELEN A. DOLAN, individually, and as Trustee of the Helen A. Dolan 2009 Revocable Trust

/s/ Helen A. Dolan

By:   Helen A. Dolan
JAMES L. DOLAN, individually

/s/ James L. Dolan

By:   James L. Dolan
THOMAS C. DOLAN, individually

/s/ Thomas C. Dolan

By:   Thomas C. Dolan

 

PATRICK F. DOLAN, individually

/s/ Patrick F. Dolan

By:   Patrick F. Dolan
MARIANNE E. DOLAN WEBER, individually

/s/ Marianne Dolan Weber

By:   Marianne Dolan Weber
DEBORAH A. DOLAN-SWEENEY, individually

/s/ Deborah A. Dolan-Sweeney

By:   Deborah A. Dolan-Sweeney
KATHLEEN M. DOLAN, individually, and as a Trustee of the Charles F. Dolan Children Trusts FBO Kathleen M. Dolan, Deborah Dolan-Sweeney, Marianne Dolan Weber, Patrick F. Dolan, Thomas C. Dolan and James L. Dolan, the Ryan Dolan 1989 Trust and the Tara Dolan 1989 Trust

/s/ Kathleen M. Dolan

By:   Kathleen M. Dolan

 

[Signature Page to MSG Spinco Standstill Agreement]


CHARLES F. DOLAN CHILDREN TRUST
FBO KATHLEEN M. DOLAN
CHARLES F. DOLAN CHILDREN TRUST
FBO JAMES L. DOLAN

/s/ Paul J. Dolan

By:   Paul J. Dolan, Trustee
CHARLES F. DOLAN CHILDREN TRUST
FBO MARIANNE DOLAN WEBER
CHARLES F. DOLAN CHILDREN TRUST
FBO THOMAS C. DOLAN

/s/ Matthew J. Dolan

By:   Matthew J. Dolan, Trustee
CHARLES F. DOLAN CHILDREN TRUST
FBO DEBORAH DOLAN-SWEENEY
CHARLES F. DOLAN CHILDREN TRUST
FBO PATRICK F. DOLAN

/s/ Mary S. Dolan

By:   Mary S. Dolan, Trustee

 

CFD 2009 FAMILY TRUST FBO

KATHLEEN M. DOLAN

CFD 2009 FAMILY TRUST FBO

DEBORAH A. DOLAN-SWEENEY

CFD 2009 FAMILY TRUST FBO

MARAIANNE E. DOLAN WEBER

CFD 2009 FAMILY TRUST FBO

PATRICK F. DOLAN

CFD 2009 FAMILY TRUST FBO

THOMAS C. DOLAN

/s/ Mary S. Dolan

By:   Mary S. Dolan, Trustee

/s/ David M. Dolan

By:   David M. Dolan, Trustee

 

[Signature Page to MSG Spinco Standstill Agreement]


SCHEDULE I

DOLAN FAMILY PARTIES

Charles F. Dolan, individually and as Trustee of the Charles F. Dolan 2009 Revocable Trust

Helen A. Dolan, individually and as Trustee of the Helen A. Dolan 2009 Revocable Trust

James L. Dolan

Thomas C. Dolan

Patrick F. Dolan

Marianne Dolan Weber

Deborah A. Dolan-Sweeney

Kathleen M. Dolan

Charles F. Dolan Children Trust FBO Kathleen M. Dolan

Charles F. Dolan Children Trust FBO Deborah A. Dolan-Sweeney

Charles F. Dolan Children Trust FBO Marianne Dolan Weber

Charles F. Dolan Children Trust FBO Patrick F. Dolan

Charles F. Dolan Children Trust FBO Thomas C. Dolan

Charles F. Dolan Children Trust FBO James L. Dolan

Charles F. Dolan 2009 Family Trust FBO Kathleen M. Dolan

Charles F. Dolan 2009 Family Trust FBO Deborah A. Dolan-Sweeney

Charles F. Dolan 2009 Family Trust FBO Marianne Dolan Weber

Charles F. Dolan 2009 Family Trust FBO Patrick F. Dolan

Charles F. Dolan 2009 Family Trust FBO Thomas C. Dolan

Charles F. Dolan 2009 Family Trust FBO James L. Dolan

Tara Dolan 1989 Trust

Ryan Dolan 1989 Trust


EXHIBIT A

FORM OF JOINDER

STANDSTILL JOINDER AGREEMENT

Reference is made to the Standstill Agreement, dated September 15, 2015, by and among The Madison Square Garden Company (formerly MSG Spinco, Inc.) and the Dolan Family Group (as amended from time to time, the “Standstill Agreement”).

The undersigned hereby agrees to be bound by the provisions of the Standstill Agreement as a Dolan Family Party (as defined in the Standstill Agreement).

 

 

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