Registration Statement Clause Example from Business Contracts

Registration Statement. The Company has prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the "Securities Act"), a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-185228), including a base prospectus, relating to various debt and equity securities of the Company, including the Securities. Such registration statement, as amended at the time it becomes effective, includi...ng the information, if any, deemed pursuant to Rule 430A, 430B or 430C under the Securities Act to be part of the registration statement at the time of its effectiveness ("Rule 430 Information"), is referred to herein as the "Registration Statement"; and as used herein, the term "Preliminary Prospectus" means the base prospectus together with any preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the offering of the Securities used prior to the filing of the Prospectus and deemed part of the Registration Statement that omits the Rule 430 Information; and the term "Prospectus" means the prospectus in the form first used (or made available upon request of purchasers pursuant to Rule 173 under the Securities Act) in connection with confirmation of sales of the Securities. If the Company has filed an abbreviated registration statement pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act (the "Rule 462 Registration Statement"), then any reference herein to the term "Registration Statement" shall be deemed to include such Rule 462 Registration Statement. Any reference in this Agreement to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act, as of the effective date of the Registration Statement or the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be (such date, the "Effective Date") and any reference to "amend", "amendment" or "supplement" with respect to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any documents filed after such date under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the "Exchange Act") that are deemed to be incorporated by reference therein. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus. At or prior to the time when sales of the Securities were first made (the "Time of Sale"), the Company had prepared the following information (collectively with the information referred to in the next succeeding sentence, the "Time of Sale Information"): a Preliminary Prospectus dated January 9, 2013, and each "free-writing prospectus" (as defined pursuant to Rule 405 under the Securities Act) listed on Annex B hereto as constituting part of the Time of Sale Information. As used in this paragraph and elsewhere in this Agreement, "Time of Sale" means 3:00 p.m. (New York time) on the date of this Agreement or such other time as agreed to by the Company and the Representative. View More