the SEC within specific time periods, (ii) declared effective by the SEC within specified time periods or (iii) available (with certain limited exceptions) after having been declared effective. Additionally, the Purchase Agreement contains piggyback registration rights requiring the Company to include Fund Vs shares of Common Stock acquired pursuant to the Purchase Agreement in future registration statements that may be filed by the Company (with certain limited exceptions).
Preemptive Rights. For so long as Fund V, together with its Affiliates, has a Qualifying Ownership Interest and Fund V is a non-objecting beneficial owner of the Qualifying Ownership Interest, if at any time after the date of the Purchase Agreement the Company makes any public or nonpublic offering or sale of any equity (including Common Stock, preferred stock or restricted stock), or any securities, options or debt that is convertible or exchangeable into equity or that includes an equity component (such as, an equity kicker) (including any hybrid security) (any such security, a New Security) (other than (i) any Common Stock or other securities issuable upon the exercise or conversion of any securities of the Company issued or agreed or contemplated (and disclosed to Fund V in writing) to be issued as of the date of the Purchase Agreement; (ii) pursuant to the granting or exercise of employee stock options, restricted stock or other stock incentives pursuant to the Companys stock incentive plans approved by the Board of Directors or the issuance of stock pursuant to the Companys employee stock purchase plan approved by the Board of Directors or similar plan where stock is being issued or offered to a trust, other entity or otherwise, for the benefit of any employees, officers or directors of the Company, in each case in the ordinary course of providing incentive compensation; (iii) issuances of capital stock as full or partial consideration for a merger, acquisition, joint venture, strategic alliance, license agreement or other similar nonfinancing transaction; (iv) issuance of Common Stock upon exercise of warrants outstanding as of the date hereof; (v) issuances of any securities issued as a result of a stock split, stock dividend, reclassification or reorganization or similar event, but solely to the extent such issuance is made to all holders of Common Stock; or (vi) in connection with the rights offering under the Purchase Agreement); then Fund V shall be afforded the opportunity (provided, in the case of an offering that is not a registered public offering, that Fund V satisfied any applicable accredited investor, qualified institutional buyer or other investor criteria applicable to such offering) to acquire from the Company for the same price (net of any underwriting discounts or sales commissions) and on the same terms as such securities are proposed to be offered to others, up to the amount of New Securities in the aggregate required to enable it to maintain its proportionate Common Stock-equivalent interest in the Company immediately prior to any such issuance of New Securities.
ERISA Matters. Fund V and, at Fund Vs request, each affiliate of Fund V that directly or indirectly has an interest in Fund V, the Company or the Bank, in each case, that is intended to qualify as a venture capital operating company as defined in the regulations (the Plan Asset Regulations) issued by the Department of Labor at Section 2510.3 101 of Part 2510 of Chapter XXV, Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as the same may be amended from time to time (a VCOC and each such person a VCOC Investor), was provided customary VCOC rights in the Purchase Agreement, including the right to receive regular financial reports (including, but not limited to, audited annual and quarterly financial reports), the right to inspect the books and records of the Company, and the right to consult with management of the Company on matters relating to the business and affairs of the Company; provided, however, that this provision does not entitle any VCOC Investor to consult with management of the Company on matters relating to the business and affairs of the Company more than once per quarter. The Company also agreed to consider, in good faith, the recommendations of the VCOC Investor or its designated representative in connection with the matters on which it is consulted as described above, recognizing that the ultimate discretion with respect to all such matters shall be retained by the Company and each of the Companys subsidiaries, as the case may be. Fund V and the Company entered into a letter agreement in furtherance of the foregoing on November 25, 2014 (the VCOC Letter Agreement), which is attached hereto as Exhibit 3 and incorporated herein by reference.
On March 16, 2015, the Company and Fund V entered into the First Amendment to Securities Purchase Agreement (the SPA Amendment). Among other things, the SPA Amendment amended the Purchase Agreement as follows: (i) the ownership percentage described in the Avoidance of Control paragraph of this Item 6 was adjusted from 9.9% to 9.99%; and (ii) the amount of cash deliverable from Fund V to the Company in connection with the Second Closing was reduced by $19,020.24, to a total of $2,299,071.51. The reduction described in clause (ii) of the preceding sentence was made in order to reflect the adjustment contemplated in the Purchase Agreement resulting from the Companys declaration of an $0.08 per share dividend payable to common shareholders, with a record date of March 16, 2015 for such dividend.
The foregoing references to and descriptions of the Purchase Agreement, the SPA Amendment, and the transactions contemplated thereby do not purport to be complete and are subject to, and are qualified in their entirety by reference to, the full text of the Purchase Agreement and the SPA Amendment, which are attached hereto as Exhibit 2 and Exhibit 4, respectively, and incorporated herein by reference.
Passivity Commitments. In connection with the Purchase Agreement, Fund V made certain customary passivity commitments to the Federal Reserve in a commitment letter to ensure that Fund V and its affiliates will not, among other things, exercise or attempt to exercise a controlling influence over the management or policies of the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
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