Exhibit 4.4
AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of October 18, 2020, is made and entered into by and among South Mountain Merger Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “South Mountain”), South Mountain LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”), Factor Systems, Inc. (d/b/a Billtrust), a Delaware corporation (“Billtrust”) and the undersigned parties listed under Holder on the signature page hereto (each such party, together with the Sponsor and any person or entity who hereafter becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 5.2 or Section 5.10 of this Agreement, a “Holder” and collectively the “Holders”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, South Mountain and Billtrust are party to that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated as of October 18, 2020 (as it may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “BCA”), by and among South Mountain, BT Merger Sub I, Inc., a Delaware corporation, BT Merger Sub II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Billtrust, pursuant to which, among other things, the separate existence of Billtrust will cease to exist and Billtrust shall become a subsidiary of South Mountain, which shall survive as the surviving corporation (the “Business Combination” and, South Mountain following the consummation of the Business Combination, the “Company”);
WHEREAS, as a condition to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the BCA that the parties hereto enter into this Agreement, to be effective upon the consummation of the Business Combination;
WHEREAS, South Mountain, the Sponsor and certain of the Holders entered into that certain Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of June 19, 2019 (as it may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time until the consummation of the Business Combination, the “Existing Agreement”);
WHEREAS, upon the consummation of the Business Combination, the parties to the Existing Agreement desire to amend and restate the Existing Agreement in its entirety as set forth herein and South Mountain and the Holders desire to enter into this Agreement, pursuant to which the Company shall grant the Holders certain registration rights with respect to the Registrable Securities (as defined below) on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the representations, covenants and agreements contained herein, and certain other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Definitions. The terms defined in this Article I shall, for all purposes of this Agreement, have the respective meanings set forth below:
“Adverse Disclosure” shall mean any public disclosure of material non-public information, which disclosure, in the good faith judgment of the Chief Executive Officer or principal financial officer of the Company, after consultation with counsel to the Company, (i) would be required to be made in any Registration Statement or Prospectus in order for the applicable Registration Statement or Prospectus not to contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein (in the case of any prospectus and any preliminary prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, (ii) would not be required to be made at such time if the Registration Statement were not being filed, and (iii) the Company has a bona fide business purpose for not making such information public.
“Agreement” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble.
“Board” shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company.
“Business Combination” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.
“Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or a Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions are generally authorized or required by law or regulation to close in the City of New York, New York.