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): May 24, 2021

 

PAYMENTUS HOLDINGS, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

 

Delaware

001-40429

45-3188251

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

(Commission File Number)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

 

 

18390 NE 68th St.

Redmond, WA

 

98052

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

(Zip Code)

(888) 440-4826

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code

Not Applicable

(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 (see General Instructions A.2. below):

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))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class:

 

Trading Symbol(s):

 

Name of each exchange on which registered:

Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share

 

PAY

 

New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Item 1.01Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

As previously disclosed, in connection with the initial public offering (the “IPO”) of Paymentus Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), the Company entered into (i) a Stockholders Agreement, dated as of May 24, 2021, by and among the Company; entities affiliated with Accel-KKR (“AKKR”), the Company’s controlling stockholder; and Dushyant Sharma, the Company’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and certain entities affiliated with Mr. Sharma (collectively, the “Sharma parties”), a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein (the “Stockholders Agreement”), and (ii) a Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of May 24, 2021, by and among the Company, AKKR, the Sharma parties and the Company’s current executive officers, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 4.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein (the “Registration Rights Agreement”). Descriptions of the Stockholders Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement are set forth in the sections titled “Risk Factors” and “Description of Capital Stock” of the Company’s Prospectus (the “Prospectus”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 26, 2021 pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating to the Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended (Registration No. 333-255683). The descriptions of the Stockholders Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the Stockholders Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement filed herewith as Exhibits 10.1 and 4.1, respectively, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

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

 

On May 28, 2021, the Company filed an amended and restated certificate of incorporation (the “Restated Certificate”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in connection with the completion of the IPO. Effective as of May 28, 2021, the Company also adopted amended and restated bylaws (the “Restated Bylaws”) in connection with the completion of the IPO. Descriptions of the Restated Certificate and the Restated Bylaws are set forth in the sections titled “Risk Factors” and “Description of Capital Stock” of the Prospectus. The descriptions of the Restated Certificate and the Restated Bylaws are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the Restated Certificate and the Restated Bylaws filed herewith as Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2, respectively, and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 8.01Other Events.

 

On May 28, 2021, the Company closed the IPO of 11,500,000 shares of its Class A common stock, including the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase 1,500,000 additional shares, at a price to the public of $21.00 per share. In addition, the Company closed its sale of 2,380,950 shares of Class A common stock in a private placement to entities affiliated with Accel-KKR, an existing stockholder of the Company, at the IPO price of $21.00 per share. The gross proceeds from the IPO and the concurrent private placement, including the option exercise, were $291.5 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses payable by the Company.

 

Item 9.01Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.

Description

3.1

Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Paymentus Holdings, Inc.

3.2

Amended and Restated Bylaws of Paymentus Holdings, Inc.

4.1

Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of May 24, 2021, by and among Paymentus Holdings, Inc. and the other signatories thereto

10.1

Stockholders Agreement, dated as of May 24, 2021, by and among Paymentus Holdings, Inc. and the other signatories thereto

 

 


 

 

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 thereunto duly authorized.

 

 

 

PAYMENTUS HOLDINGS, INC.

 

 

 

 

Date: May 28, 2021

 

By:

/s/ Dushyant Sharma

 

 

 

Dushyant Sharma

 

 

 

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

Exhibit 3.1

AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF

PAYMENTUS HOLDINGS, INC.

a Delaware corporation

Paymentus Holdings, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Company”), does hereby certify as follows:

A.The original Certificate of Incorporation of the Company was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on September 2, 2011.

B.This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation was duly adopted in accordance with Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”) by the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board of Directors”) and has been duly approved by the written consent of the stockholders of the Company in accordance with Section 228 of the DGCL.

C.The text of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

ARTICLE I

The name of the Company is Paymentus Holdings, Inc.

ARTICLE II

The address of the Company’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, Delaware 19801. The name of its registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

ARTICLE III

The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted by the Company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the DGCL.

ARTICLE IV

Section 1.Classes of Stock. This Company is authorized to issue three classes of stock, to be designated, respectively, Class A Common Stock, Class B Common Stock and Preferred Stock. The total number of shares of Class A Common Stock authorized to be issued is 883,950,000, par value $0.0001 per share. The total number of shares of Class B Common Stock authorized to be issued is 111,050,000, par value $0.0001 per share. The total number of shares of Preferred Stock authorized to be issued is 5,000,000, par value $0.0001 per share. The Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock are referred to together as “Common Stock.”

 

 


 

 

 

Immediately upon the Effective Time, automatically and without any further action, each share of “Common Stock” as defined in the certificate of incorporation of the Company in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time issued and outstanding or held in treasury immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be reclassified and changed into one share of Class B Common Stock. Any stock certificate that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented shares of the Company’s Common Stock shall after the Effective Time represent the same number of shares of Class B Common Stock, without the need for surrender or exchange thereof.

Section 2.Rights of Preferred Stock. The Board of Directors is authorized, subject to any limitations prescribed by law, but to the fullest extent permitted by law, to provide by resolution for the issuance of shares of Preferred Stock in series, and by filing a certificate pursuant to the applicable law of the State of Delaware (such certificate being hereinafter referred to as a “Preferred Stock Designation”), to establish from time to time the number of shares to be included in each such series, and to fix the designation, powers (which may include, without limitation, full, limited or no voting powers), preferences, and relative, participating, optional or other rights of the shares of each such series and any qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, including, without limitation, authority to fix by resolution or resolutions the dividend rights, dividend rate, conversion rights, voting rights, rights and terms of redemption (including sinking fund provisions), redemption price or prices, and liquidation preferences of any such series, and the number of shares constituting any such series and the designation thereof, or any of the foregoing. The Board of Directors is further authorized to increase (but not above the total number of authorized shares of the class) or decrease (but not below the number of shares of any such series then outstanding) the number of shares of any series, subject to the powers, preferences and rights, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof stated in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or the resolution of the Board of Directors originally fixing the number of shares of such series. Except as may be otherwise specified by the terms of any series of Preferred Stock, if the number of shares of any series of Preferred Stock is so decreased, then the Company shall take all such steps as are necessary to cause the shares constituting such decrease to resume the status which they had prior to the adoption of the resolution originally fixing the number of shares of such series. Except as otherwise required by law or provided in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, holders of Common Stock shall not be entitled to vote on any amendment to this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including any Preferred Stock Designation filed with respect to any series of Preferred Stock) that relates solely to the terms of one or more outstanding series of Preferred Stock if the holders of such affected series are entitled, either separately or together as a class with the holders of one or more other such series, to vote thereon by law or pursuant to this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including any Preferred Stock Designation filed with respect to any series of Preferred Stock).

Section 3.Vote to Increase or Decrease Authorized Shares of Preferred Stock. The number of authorized shares of Preferred Stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the majority of the Voting Stock, without a separate class vote of the holders of Preferred Stock, or any separate series votes of any series thereof, unless a vote of any such holders is required pursuant to the terms of any Preferred Stock Designation, irrespective of the provisions of Section 242(b)(2) of the DGCL.

 

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Section 4.Rights of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock. The relative powers, rights, qualifications, limitations and restrictions granted to or imposed on the shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock are as follows:

(a)Voting Rights.

(1)General Right to Vote Together; Exception. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein or required by applicable law, the holders of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock shall vote together as one class on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders; providedhowever, that subject to the terms of any Preferred Stock Designation, the number of authorized shares of Class A 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 a majority of the Voting Stock, irrespective of the provisions of Section 242(b)(2) of DGCL (or any successor provision thereto), without a separate vote of the holders of the Class A Common Stock.

(2)Votes Per Share. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein or required by applicable law, on any matter that is submitted to a vote of the stockholders, each holder of Class A Common Stock shall be entitled to one (1) vote for each such share held as of the applicable record date, and each holder of Class B Common Stock shall be entitled to ten (10) votes for each such share held as of the applicable record date.

(b)Identical Rights. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein or required by applicable law, shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock shall have the same rights and privileges and rank equally, share ratably and be identical in all respects as to all matters, including, without limitation:

(1)Dividends and Distributions. Shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock shall be treated equally, identically and ratably, on a per share basis, with respect to any Distribution paid or distributed by the Company, unless different treatment of the shares of each such class is approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of the outstanding shares of such applicable class treated adversely; providedhowever, that if a Distribution is paid in the form of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock (or Rights to acquire such stock), then holders of Class A Common Stock shall receive Class A Common Stock (or Rights to acquire such stock, as the case may be) and holders of Class B Common Stock shall receive Class B Common Stock (or Rights to acquire such stock, as the case may be).

(2)Subdivision or Combination. If the Company in any manner subdivides or combines the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, the outstanding shares of the other such class will be subdivided or combined in the same proportion and manner, unless different treatment of the shares of each such class is approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock and by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock, each voting separately as a class.

(c)Equal Treatment in a Change of Control or any Merger Transaction. In connection with any Change of Control Transaction, after payment or provision for payment of the debts and other liabilities of the Company, and subject to the rights of the holders of Preferred Stock in respect thereof, shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock shall be treated equally, identically and ratably, on a per share basis, with respect to any consideration into which such shares are converted or any consideration paid or otherwise distributed to stockholders of the Company by virtue of their ownership of such shares, unless different treatment of the shares of each such class is approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock and by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock, each voting separately as a class. Any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into any other entity that does not constitute a Change of Control Transaction shall require approval by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock and by the affirmative vote

 

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of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock, each voting separately as a class, unless (i) the shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock remain outstanding and no other consideration is received in respect thereof or (ii) such shares are converted on a pro rata basis into shares of the surviving or parent entity in such transaction having identical rights to the shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, respectively.

(d)Conversion of Class B Common Stock.

(1)Voluntary Conversion. Each one (1) share of Class B Common Stock shall be convertible into one (1) share of Class A Common Stock at the option of the holder thereof at any time upon written notice to the transfer agent of the Company; provided that such notice may specify a future time or future event upon which such conversion shall be effective.

(2)Automatic Conversion. Shares of Class B Common Stock shall automatically, without any further action, convert into an equal number of shares of Class A Common Stock upon the earliest of:

(A)a Transfer of such shares of Class B Common Stock; provided, however, that no automatic conversion shall occur in the case of a Transfer by a Class B Stockholder to any of the persons or entities listed in clauses (i) through (viii) of this subsection (d)(2)(A) (each, a “Permitted Transferee”) or by any such Permitted Transferee back to such Class B Stockholder and/or to any other Permitted Transferee, as of the time of each such Transfer, of such Class B Stockholder:

(i)a trust for the benefit of such Class B Stockholder or persons other than the Class B Stockholder so long as the Class B Stockholder has sole dispositive power and exclusive Voting Control with respect to the shares of Class B Common Stock held by such trust; provided such Transfer does not involve any payment of cash, securities, property or other consideration (other than an interest in such trust) to the Class B Stockholder and, provided further, that if such Class B Stockholder no longer has sole dispositive power and exclusive Voting Control with respect to the shares of Class B Common Stock held by such trust, each such share of Class B Common Stock then held by such trust shall automatically convert into one (1) fully paid and nonassessable share of Class A Common Stock;

(ii)a trust under the terms of which such Class B Stockholder has retained a “qualified interest” within the meaning of §2702(b) of the Internal Revenue Code and/or a reversionary interest so long as the Class B Stockholder has sole dispositive power and exclusive Voting Control with respect to the shares of Class B Common Stock held by such trust; providedhowever, that if the Class B Stockholder no longer has sole dispositive power and exclusive Voting Control with respect to the shares of Class B Common Stock held by such trust, each such share of Class B Common Stock then held by such trust shall automatically convert into one (1) fully paid and nonassessable share of Class A Common Stock;

(iii)an Individual Retirement Account, as defined in Section 408(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a pension, profit sharing, stock bonus or other type of plan or trust of which such Class B Stockholder is a participant or beneficiary and which satisfies the requirements for qualification under Section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code; provided that in each case such Class B Stockholder has sole dispositive power and exclusive Voting Control with respect to the shares

 

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of Class B Common Stock held in such account, plan or trust, and provided further that, if the Class B Stockholder no longer has sole dispositive power and exclusive Voting Control with respect to the shares of Class B Common Stock held by such account, plan or trust, each such share of Class B Common Stock then held by such account, plan or trust shall automatically convert into one (1) fully paid and nonassessable share of Class A Common Stock;

(iv)a member of such Class B Stockholder’s Immediate Family; provided that such Class B Stockholder retains exclusive Voting Control with respect to the shares of Class B Common Stock transferred to such Immediate Family member, and provided further that such Transfer does not involve any payment of cash, securities, property or other consideration to such Class B Stockholder;

(v)a corporation, partnership or limited liability company in which such Class B Stockholder directly, or indirectly through one or more Permitted Transferees, owns shares, partnership interests or membership interests, as applicable, with sufficient Voting Control in the corporation, partnership or limited liability company, as applicable, or otherwise has legally enforceable rights, such that the Class B Stockholder retains sole dispositive power and exclusive Voting Control with respect to the shares of Class B Common Stock held by such corporation, partnership or limited liability company; provided that if the Class B Stockholder no longer owns sufficient shares, partnership interests or membership interests, as applicable, or no longer has sufficient legally enforceable rights to ensure the Class B Stockholder retains sole dispositive power and exclusive Voting Control with respect to the shares of Class B Common Stock held by such corporation, partnership or limited liability company, as applicable, each such share of Class B Common Stock then held by such corporation, partnership or limited liability company, as applicable, shall automatically convert into one (1) fully paid and nonassessable share of Class A Common Stock;

(vi)if such transferring Class B Stockholder is a partnership, or a nominee for a partnership, any person or entity that, at the time of such Transfer, is a direct or indirect partner (whether general or limited) of such partnership in accordance with such person or entity’s ownership interests (whether by way of limited partnership, general partnership, carried interest or otherwise) in such partnership and the terms of any applicable partnership or similar agreement binding such partnership at the time of such Transfer;

(vii)if such transferring Class B Stockholder is a limited liability company, corporation or other entity (other than a partnership (which is addressed in clause (vi)) or a trust (which is addressed in clauses (i) through (iii) and (viii)), or a nominee for a limited liability company, corporation or such other entity, any person or entity that, at the time of such Transfer, is a direct or indirect member, stockholder or other equityholder of such limited liability company or corporation or such other entity in accordance with their ownership interests in such limited liability company, corporation or other entity (whether by way of membership, stock, carried interest or otherwise) and the terms of any applicable governing documents binding such limited liability company, corporation or other entity and its members, stockholders or other equityholders at the time of such Transfer; and

(viii)if such transferring Class B Stockholder is a trust for the benefit of Sharma or Sharma’s Immediate Family, any beneficiary of the trust that is Sharma or Sharma’s Immediate Family; provided that such Class B Stockholder or Sharma retains or gains sole dispositive power and exclusive Voting Control with respect to the shares of Class B Common Stock transferred to such beneficiary;

(B)the date specified by a written notice and certification request of the Company to the holder of such share of Class B Common Stock requesting a certification, in a form

 

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satisfactory to the Company, verifying such holder’s ownership of Class B Common Stock and confirming that a conversion to Class A Common Stock has not occurred; provided that no such automatic conversion pursuant to this subsection (B) shall occur in the case of a Class B Stockholder or its Permitted Transferees that furnishes a certification satisfactory to the Company prior to the specified date.

For the avoidance of doubt, to the extent any shares are deemed to be held by a trustee of a trust described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) above, the trustee shall be deemed a Permitted Transferee so long as the other requirements of clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) are otherwise satisfied.

(3)Conversion Upon Death or Incapacity of a Class B Stockholder.

(A)Each share of Class B Common Stock held of record by a Class B Stockholder, other than Sharma, or by such Class B Stockholder’s Permitted Transferees, shall automatically, without any further action, convert into one (1) fully paid and nonassessable share of Class A Common Stock upon the death or Incapacity of such Class B Stockholder.

(B)Upon the death or Incapacity of Sharma, each share of Class B Common Stock held of record by Sharma or by Sharma’s Permitted Transferees shall automatically convert into one (1) fully paid and nonassessable share of Class A Common Stock upon the close of business on the date that is nine (9) months after the date of death or Incapacity of Sharma.

(4)Automatic Conversion of all Outstanding Class B Common Stock. Each one (1) share of Class B Common Stock shall automatically, without any further action, convert into one (1) share of Class A Common Stock upon the time (including a time determined by the happening of a future event) specified by affirmative vote or written election of the holders of at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock, voting as a single class (which election may be revoked by such holders prior to the time at which the automatic conversion would otherwise occur unless otherwise specified by such holders).

(5)Final Conversion of Class B Common Stock. At the Final Conversion Time, each one (1) issued share of Class B Common Stock shall automatically, without any further action, convert into one (1) share of Class A Common Stock. Following such conversion, the reissuance of all shares of Class B Common Stock shall be prohibited, and such shares shall be retired and cancelled in accordance with Section 243 of the DGCL and the filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware required thereby, and upon such retirement and cancellation, all references to Class B Common Stock in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation shall be eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law.

(6)Procedures. The Company may, from time to time, establish such administrative policies and procedures relating to the conversion of Class B Common Stock to Class A Common Stock and the general administration of this multi-class stock structure, including the issuance of stock certificates with respect thereto, as it may deem reasonably necessary or advisable, and may from time to time request that holders of shares of Class B Common Stock furnish certifications, affidavits or other proof to the Company as it deems necessary to verify the ownership of Class B Common Stock and to confirm that a conversion to Class A Common Stock has not occurred. A determination by the Secretary of the Company or the Board of Directors or a duly authorized committee thereof as to whether or not a Transfer has occurred and results in a conversion to Class A Common Stock shall be conclusive and binding.

(7)Immediate Effect. In the event of a conversion of shares of Class B Common Stock to shares of Class A Common Stock pursuant to this ARTICLE IV, Section 4(d), including

 

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at the Final Conversion Time, such conversion(s) shall be deemed to have been made at the time that the Transfer of shares occurred, at the conversion time or event otherwise provided herein, or immediately at the Final Conversion Time, as applicable. Upon any conversion of Class B Common Stock to Class A Common Stock, all rights of the holder or holders of shares of Class B Common Stock shall cease and the person or persons in whose name or names the certificate or certificates representing the shares of Class A Common Stock are to be issued shall be treated for all purposes as having become the record holder or holders of such shares of Class A Common Stock. Shares of Class B Common Stock that are converted into shares of Class A Common Stock as provided in this ARTICLE IV, Section 4(d) or are otherwise redeemed, repurchased or acquired by the Company shall be retired and may not be reissued.

(8)Reservation of Stock. The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized but unissued shares of Class A Common Stock, solely for the purpose of effecting the conversion of the shares of Class B Common Stock, such number of its shares of Class A Common Stock as shall from time to time be sufficient to effect the conversion of all outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock into shares of Class A Common Stock; and if at any time the number of authorized but unissued shares of Class A Common Stock will not be sufficient to effect the conversion of all then-outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock, the Company will take such corporate action as may, in the opinion of its counsel, be necessary to increase its authorized but unissued shares of Class A Common Stock to such number of shares as will be sufficient for such purpose.

Section 5.No Further Issuances. Except for the issuance of Class B Common Stock issuable upon exercise of Rights outstanding as of the first date that the Company’s equity securities have been listed for trading on a Securities Exchange or a dividend payable in accordance with ARTICLE IV, Section 4(b)(1), and without limiting ARTICLE IV, Section 4(b)(2), the Company shall not at any time from and after the first date that the Company’s equity securities have been listed for trading on a Securities Exchange issue any additional shares of Class B Common Stock, unless such issuance is approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock, voting separately as a class. After the Final Conversion Time, the Company shall not issue any additional shares of Class B Common Stock.

ARTICLE V

The following terms, where capitalized in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Article V:

Affiliates” means (i) with respect to any holder, any other holder who, directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such holder, including, without limitation, any general partner, managing member, officer or director of such holder, or any private equity or venture capital fund now or hereafter existing which is controlled by one or more general partners or managing members of, or shares the same management company with, such holder and (ii) a trust created for the benefit of the holder or a holder’s Immediate Family, except in Article XII hereof, where “Affiliate” shall have the definition provided therein.

AKKR Investors” means each of Accel-KKR Capital Partners CV III, LP; Accel-KKR Growth Capital Partners II Strategic Fund, LP; Accel-KKR Growth Capital Partners II, LP; Accel-KKR Growth Capital Partners III, LP; Accel-KKR Members Fund, LLC; and KKR-AKI Investors, LLC.

Amendment Trigger Date” means the first date on which the AKKR Investors, their Affiliates and any Permitted Transferees of the AKKR Investors or their Affiliates cease to beneficially own in the aggregate (directly or indirectly) at least 50% of the Voting Stock.

 

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Change of Control Share Issuance” means the issuance by the Company, in a transaction or series of related transactions, of voting securities representing more than two percent (2%) of the total voting power (assuming the Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock each have one (1) vote per share) of the Company before such issuance to any person or persons acting as a group as contemplated in Rule 13d-5(b) under the Exchange Act (or any successor provision) that immediately prior to such transaction or series of related transactions held fifty percent (50%) or less of the total voting power of the Company (assuming the Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock each have one (1) vote per share), such that, immediately following such transaction or series of related transactions, such person or group of persons would hold more than fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power of the Company (assuming the Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock each have one (1) vote per share)provided that any issuance by the Company of any securities to the AKKR Investors or Sharma shall not constitute a “Change of Control Share Issuance.”

Change of Control Transaction” means (i) the sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition (other than liens and encumbrances created in the ordinary course of business, including liens or encumbrances to secure indebtedness for borrowed money that are approved by the Company’s Board of Directors, so long as no foreclosure occurs in respect of any such lien or encumbrance) of all or substantially all of the Company’s property and assets (which shall for such purpose include the property and assets of any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company); provided that any sale, lease, exchange or other disposition of property or assets exclusively between or among the Company and any direct or indirect subsidiary or subsidiaries of the Company shall not be deemed a “Change of Control Transaction”; (ii) the merger, consolidation, business combination, or other similar transaction of the Company with any other entity, other than a merger, consolidation, business combination, or other similar transaction that would result in the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior thereto continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity or its parent) more than fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power represented by the voting securities of the Company as outstanding immediately after such merger, consolidation, business combination, or other similar transaction, and stockholders of the Company immediately prior to the merger, consolidation, business combination, or other similar transaction continue to own more than fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power represented by voting securities of the Company, the surviving entity or its parent immediately following the merger, consolidation, business combination, or other similar transaction; (iii) a recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution, or other similar transaction involving the Company, other than a recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution, or other similar transaction that would result in the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior thereto continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity or its parent) more than fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power represented by the voting securities of the Company as outstanding immediately after such recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution or other similar transaction, and the stockholders of the Company immediately prior to the recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution or other similar transaction own voting securities of the Company, the surviving entity or its parent immediately following the recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution or other similar transaction in substantially the same proportions (vis-a-vis each other) as such stockholders owned the voting securities of the Company immediately prior to the transaction; and (iv) any Change of Control Share Issuance.

Class B Stockholder” means (i) the registered holder of a share of Class B Common Stock at the Effective Time; provided that, for purposes of Section 4(d)(vi) and (vii) of Article IV, this clause (i) shall be limited to any Person who is an AKKR Investor or any of their respective Affiliates, (ii) the initial registered holder of any shares of Class B Common Stock that are originally issued by the Company after the Effective Time; provided that, for purposes of Section 4(d)(vi) and (vii) of Article IV, this clause (ii) shall be limited to any Person who is an AKKR Investor or any of their respective Affiliates and (iii) a Permitted Transferee.

 

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Distribution” means (i) any dividend or distribution of cash, property, shares of the Company’s capital stock, or Rights in respect of shares of the Company’s capital stock, when, as and if declared thereon by the Board of Directors from time to time out of any assets or funds of the Company legally available therefor; and (ii) any distribution following or in connection with any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, either voluntary or involuntary.

Effective Time” means immediately upon the filing and effectiveness of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.

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

Exempted Persons” means any of the AKKR Investors and/or their Affiliates and/or their respective directors, partners, principals, officers, members, managers and/or employees, including any of the foregoing who serve as officers or directors of the Company.

Final Conversion Time” means the first Trading Day following the date on which the AKKR Investors, Sharma, the Persons then party to the Stockholders Agreement and their respective Affiliates and Permitted Transferees collectively cease to hold at least ten percent (10%) of the then outstanding Common Stock.

Immediate Family” means any child, stepchild, grandchild or other descendant, any parent, stepparent, grandparent or other ancestor, any spouse, sibling, niece, nephew, uncle, aunt, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, or brother-in-law or sister-in-law, including adoptive relationships.

Incapacity” shall mean that such holder is incapable of managing his or her financial affairs under the criteria set forth in the applicable probate code that can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months as determined by a licensed practitioner. In the event of a dispute regarding whether a Class B Stockholder has suffered an Incapacity, no Incapacity of such holder will be deemed to have occurred unless and until an affirmative determination regarding such Incapacity has been made by the Board of Directors.

Internal Revenue Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Proceeding” means any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative.

Rights” means any option, warrant, conversion right or contractual right of any kind to acquire shares of the Company’s authorized but unissued capital stock.

Securities Exchange” means, at any time, the registered national securities exchange on which the Company’s equity securities are then principally listed or traded, which shall be the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq Global Select Market (or similar national quotation system of the Nasdaq Stock Market) (“Nasdaq”) or any successor exchange of either the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq.

Sharma” means Dushyant Sharma.

Stockholders Agreement” means that certain Stockholders Agreement to be entered into by and among the Company, the AKKR Investors, Sharma and the other parties named therein in connection with the Company’s initial public offering, as amended from time to time.

 

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Trading Day” means any day on which the Securities Exchange is open for trading.

Transfer” of a share of Class B Common Stock shall mean any sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance, hypothecation, gift, pledge, mortgage or other transfer or disposition of such share or any legal or beneficial right or interest in such share, whether or not for value and whether voluntary or involuntary or by operation of law. A “Transfer” shall also include, without limitation and for the avoidance of doubt, (i) a Transfer of a share of Class B Common Stock to a broker or other nominee (regardless of whether or not there is a corresponding change in beneficial ownership), (ii) the Transfer of, or entering into a binding agreement with respect to, Voting Control over a share of Class B Common Stock by proxy or otherwise, (iii) the Transfer of a share of Class B Common Stock by a stockholder that is an entity to the beneficial or record owners of equity of such entity (unless otherwise explicitly permitted hereunder) or (iv) any Transfer in connection with a divorce proceeding, domestic relations order or similar legal requirement; providedhowever, that the following shall not be considered a “Transfer”: (a) entering into a support, voting, tender or similar agreement, arrangement or understanding (with or without granting a proxy), and taking any action contemplated thereunder, in connection with a Change of Control Transaction or other proposal that has been approved by the Board of Directors of the Company; (b) the grant of a proxy to officers or directors of the Company at the request of the Board of Directors of the Company in connection with actions to be taken at an annual or special meeting of stockholders or the grant of a revocable proxy given to any other person in response to a public proxy or consent solicitation made pursuant to, and in accordance with, the applicable provisions of the General Rules and Regulations promulgated under the Exchange Act; (c) the pledge of shares of Class B Common Stock by a Class B Stockholder that creates a mere security interest in such shares pursuant to a bona fide loan or indebtedness transaction so long as the Class B Stockholder continues to exercise Voting Control over such pledged shares; providedhowever, that a foreclosure on such shares of Class B Common Stock or other similar action by the pledgee shall constitute a “Transfer”; (d) any entry into a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act with a broker or other nominee; provided, however, that a sale of such shares of Class B Common Stock pursuant to such plan shall constitute a “Transfer” at the time of such sale; (e) entering into a voting trust, agreement or arrangement (with or without granting a proxy) solely with stockholders who are holders of Class B Common Stock, which voting trust, agreement or arrangement (i) is disclosed either in a Schedule 13D filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission or in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, (ii) either has a term not exceeding one year or is terminable by the holder of the shares subject thereto at any time and (iii) does not involve any payment of cash, securities, property or other consideration to the holder of the shares subject thereto other than (if applicable) the mutual promise to vote shares in a designated manner; or (f) the fact that, as of the Effective Time or at any time after the Effective Time, the spouse of any Class B Stockholder possesses or obtains an interest in such holder’s shares of Class B Common Stock arising solely by reason of the application of the community property laws of any jurisdiction (excluding in connection with a divorce proceeding, domestic relations order or similar legal requirement, all of which shall constitute “Transfers”), so long as no other event or circumstance shall exist or have occurred that constitutes a “Transfer” of such shares of Class B Common Stock.

Trigger Date” means the close of business on the date on which the AKKR Investors and their Affiliates (as defined herein) cease to beneficially own in the aggregate (directly or indirectly) fifty percent (50%) or more of the Voting Stock.

Voting Control” with respect to a share of capital stock or other security means the power (whether exclusive or shared, and whether directly or indirectly) to vote or direct the voting of such share of security by proxy, voting agreement, or otherwise.

Voting Stock” means the voting power of the then outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company, except in Article XII hereof, where “Voting Stock” shall have the definition provided therein.

 

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For the avoidance of doubt, every reference to a percentage of Voting Stock in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation shall refer to such percentage of the votes of the shares of such Voting Stock.

Whole Board” means the total number of authorized directorships whether or not there exist any vacancies or other unfilled seats in previously authorized directorships.

ARTICLE VI

Section 1.Number of Directors. Subject to the rights of holders of Preferred Stock, the number of directors that constitutes the entire Board of Directors of the Company shall be fixed only by resolution of the Board of Directors acting pursuant to a resolution adopted by a majority of the Whole Board. At each annual meeting of stockholders, directors of the Company shall be elected to hold office until the expiration of the term for which they are elected and until their successors have been duly elected and qualified or until their earlier death, resignation or removal, except that if any such meeting shall not be so held, such election shall take place at a stockholders’ meeting called and held in accordance with the DGCL.

Section 2.Election of Directors. From and after the effectiveness of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the directors of the Company shall be elected by a plurality of the votes cast; provided that, whenever the holders of any class or series of capital stock of the Company are entitled to elect one or more directors pursuant to the provisions of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including, but not limited to, any Preferred Stock Designation), such directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes cast by such holders. The directors of the Company (other than any who may be elected by holders of Preferred Stock under specified circumstances) shall be divided into three classes as nearly equal in size as is practicable, hereby designated Class I, Class II and Class III. Directors already in office shall be assigned to each class at the Effective Time by a resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors and in accordance with the Stockholders Agreement. At the first annual meeting of stockholders following the date hereof, the term of office of the Class I directors shall expire and Class I directors shall be elected for a full term of three years. At the second annual meeting of stockholders following the date hereof, the term of office of the Class II directors shall expire and Class II directors shall be elected for a full term of three years. At the third annual meeting of stockholders following the date hereof, the term of office of the Class III directors shall expire and Class III directors shall be elected for a full term of three years. At each succeeding annual meeting of stockholders, directors shall be elected for a full term of three years to succeed the directors of the class whose terms expire at such annual meeting. If the number of directors is changed, any newly created directorships or decrease in directorships shall be so apportioned hereafter among the classes as to make all classes as nearly equal in number as is practicable; provided that no decrease in the number of directors constituting the Board of Directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

ARTICLE VII

Section 1.Removal and Resignation of Directors. Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock then outstanding and notwithstanding any other provision of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, (i) prior to the Trigger Date, directors may be removed with or without cause upon the affirmative vote of stockholders representing at least a majority of the Voting Stock, voting together as a single class and (ii) on and after the Trigger Date, only for so long as the Board of Directors is classified and subject to the rights of holders of Preferred Stock, any director or the entire Board of Directors may be removed from office at any time, but only for cause, and only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the Voting Stock entitled to vote in the election of directors, at a meeting of the Company’s stockholders called for that purpose. Any director may resign at any time upon written notice to the Company.

 

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Section 2.Vacancies and Newly Created Directorships. From and after the Trigger Date, and subject to the rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock with respect to election of directors under specified circumstances or except as otherwise provided by resolution of a majority of the Whole Board and, if applicable, in accordance with the Stockholders Agreement, newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the number of directors, created in accordance with the Bylaws of the Company, and any vacancies on the Board of Directors resulting from death, resignation, disqualification, removal or other cause shall be filled only by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, even though less than a quorum of the Board of Directors, or by a sole remaining director, and not by the stockholders. Prior to the Trigger Date, vacancies and newly created directorships may be filled in accordance with the Stockholders Agreement by the remaining directors (though less than a quorum) or by the stockholders. A person so elected to fill a vacancy or newly created directorship shall hold office until the next election of the class for which such director shall have been chosen until his or her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, or until such director’s earlier death, resignation or removal. No decrease in the number of directors constituting the Board of Directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

ARTICLE VIII

Section 1.Perpetual Existence. The Company is to have perpetual existence.

Section 2.General Powers. The business and affairs of the Company shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors. In addition to the powers and authority expressly conferred upon them by statute or by this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws of the Company, the directors are hereby empowered to exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done by the Company.

Section 3.Amendment of Bylaws. In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the Board of Directors is expressly authorized to adopt, alter, amend or repeal the Bylaws of the Company. The affirmative vote of at least a majority of the Whole Board shall be required in order for the Board of Directors to adopt, amend, alter or repeal the Company’s Bylaws. The Company’s Bylaws may also be adopted, amended, altered or repealed by the stockholders of the Company; provided that the affirmative vote of the holders of at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the Voting Stock, voting together as a single class, shall be required for stockholders to alter, amend or repeal, or adopt any Bylaw inconsistent with, Article II, Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 and 3.11 of Article III, Article VIII, Section 9.5 of Article IX or Article X of the Bylaws (including, without limitation, any such Article or Section as renumbered as a result of any amendment, alteration, change, repeal, or adoption of any other Bylaw). No Bylaw hereafter legally adopted, amended, altered or repealed shall invalidate any prior act of the directors or officers of the Company that would have been valid if such Bylaw had not been adopted, amended, altered or repealed.

Section 4.Written Ballot. The election of directors need not be by written ballot unless the Bylaws of the Company shall so provide.

Section 5.No Cumulative Voting. No stockholder will be permitted to cumulate votes at any election of directors.

ARTICLE IX

Section 1.Action by Written Consent. From and after Trigger Date, and subject to the rights of holders of Preferred Stock, any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Company must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Company and

 

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may not be effected by any consent in writing by such stockholders. Prior to the Trigger Date, any action required or permitted to be taken by stockholders of the Company that could be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of the stockholders may be effected by written consent in lieu of such meeting only if the action is first recommended or approved by the Board of Directors.

Section 2.Special Meetings. From and after the Trigger Date, and subject to the terms of any series of Preferred Stock, special meetings of stockholders of the Company may be called only by the Chairperson of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Board of Directors acting pursuant to a resolution adopted by a majority of the Whole Board, but a special meeting may not be called by any other person or persons and any power of stockholders to call a special meeting of stockholders is specifically denied. Prior to the Trigger Date, special meetings of the stockholders of the Company may be called, in addition to the persons listed in the immediately preceding sentence, by holders of a majority of the Voting Stock. Only such business shall be considered at a special meeting of stockholders as shall have been stated in the notice for such meeting.

Section 3.Advance Notice. Advance notice of stockholder nominations for the election of directors and of business to be brought by stockholders before any meeting of the stockholders of the Company shall be given in the manner and to the extent provided in the Bylaws of the Company.

ARTICLE X

Section 1.To the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL as the same exists or as may hereafter be amended from time to time, a director of the Company shall not be personally liable to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director. If the DGCL is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the Company shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as so amended.

Section 2.Subject to any provisions in the Bylaws of the Company related to indemnification of directors of the Company, the Company shall indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any director of the Company who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any Proceeding by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director of the Company or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with any such Proceeding. The Company shall be required to indemnify a person in connection with a Proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person only if the Proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors.

Section 3.The Company shall have the power to indemnify, to the extent permitted by applicable law, any officer, employee or agent of the Company who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any Proceeding by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with any such Proceeding.

Section 4.Neither any amendment nor repeal of any Section of this ARTICLE X, nor the adoption of any provision of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws of the Company inconsistent with this ARTICLE X, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this ARTICLE X in

 

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respect of any matter occurring, or any Proceeding accruing or arising or that, but for this ARTICLE X, would accrue or arise, prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision.

ARTICLE XI

Meetings of stockholders may be held within or outside of the State of Delaware, as the Bylaws may provide. The books of the Company may be kept (subject to any provision of applicable law) outside of the State of Delaware at such place or places or in such manner or manners as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors or in the Bylaws of the Company.

ARTICLE XII

Section 1.Section 203 of the DGCL. The Company expressly elects not to be subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the DGCL.

Section 2.Business Combinations with Interested Stockholders. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to the contrary, unless waived by unanimous approval of a Business Combination by the Board of Directors before or after an Interested Stockholder becomes an Interested Stockholder, the Company shall not engage in any Business Combination (as defined hereinafter), at any point in time at which any shares of Common Stock are registered under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, with any Interested Stockholder (as defined hereinafter) for a period of three years following the time that such stockholder became an Interested Stockholder, unless:

(a)prior to such time the Board of Directors approved either the Business Combination or the transaction which resulted in such stockholder becoming an Interested Stockholder;

(b)upon consummation of the transaction which resulted in such stockholder becoming an Interested Stockholder, such stockholder owned at least eighty-five percent (85%) of the Voting Stock outstanding at the time the transaction commenced, excluding for purposes of determining the Voting Stock (but not the Voting Stock owned by such Interested Stockholder) those shares owned (i) by Persons (as defined hereinafter) who are directors and also officers of the Company and (ii) employee stock plans of the Company in which employee participants do not have the right to determine confidentially whether shares held subject to the plan will be tendered in a tender or exchange offer; or

(c)at or subsequent to such time, the Business Combination is approved by the Board of Directors and authorized at an annual or special meeting of stockholders, and not by written consent, by the affirmative vote of at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the Voting Stock which is not owned by such Interested Stockholder.

Section 3.Exceptions to Prohibition on Interested Stockholder Transactions. The restrictions contained in this ARTICLE XII shall not apply if:

(a)a stockholder becomes an Interested Stockholder inadvertently and (i) as soon as practicable divests itself of ownership of sufficient shares so that the stockholder ceases to be an Interested Stockholder; and (ii) would not, at any time within the three- year period immediately prior to a Business Combination between the Company and such stockholder, have been an Interested Stockholder but for the inadvertent acquisition of ownership; or

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transaction which (i) constitutes one of the transactions described in the second sentence of this ARTICLE XII, Section 3(b); (ii) is with or by a Person who either was not an Interested Stockholder during the previous three years or who became an Interested Stockholder with the approval of the Board of Directors; and (iii) is approved or not opposed by a majority of the directors then in office (but not less than one) who were directors prior to any Person becoming an Interested Stockholder during the previous three years or were recommended for election or elected to succeed such directors by a majority of such directors. The proposed transactions referred to in the preceding sentence are limited to (x) a merger or consolidation of the Company (except for a merger in respect of which, pursuant to Section 251(f) of the DGCL, no vote of the stockholders of the Company is required); (y) a sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge, transfer or other disposition (in one transaction or a series of transactions), whether as part of a dissolution or otherwise, of assets of the Company or of any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Company (other than to any direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary or to the Company) having an aggregate market value equal to fifty percent (50%) or more of either that aggregate market value of all of the assets of the Company determined on a consolidated basis or the aggregate market value of all the outstanding Stock (as defined hereinafter) of the Company; or (z) a proposed tender or exchange offer for fifty percent (50%) or more of the Voting Stock. The Company shall give not less than 20 days’ notice to all Interested Stockholders prior to the consummation of any of the transactions described in clause (x) or (y) of the second sentence of this ARTICLE XII, Section 3(b).

Section 4.Definitions. As used in this ARTICLE XII only, notwithstanding any definitions ascribed to such terms in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation outside of this Article XII, and unless otherwise provided by the express terms of this ARTICLE XII, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them as set forth in this Section 4:

(a)Affiliate” means a Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, another Person;

(b)Associate,” when used to indicate a relationship with any Person, means: (i) any corporation, partnership, unincorporated association or other entity of which such Person is a director, officer or general partner or is, directly or indirectly, the owner of twenty percent (20%) or more of any class of Voting Stock; (ii) any trust or other estate in which such Person has at least a twenty percent (20%) beneficial interest or as to which such Person serves as trustee or in a similar fiduciary capacity; and (iii) any relative or spouse of such Person, or any relative of such spouse, who has the same residence as such Person;

(c)Business Combination” means:

(1)any merger or consolidation of the Company or any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Company with (A) the Interested Stockholder, or (B) any other corporation, partnership, unincorporated association or other entity if the merger or consolidation is caused by the Interested Stockholder and as a result of such merger or consolidation ARTICLE XII, Section 2 is not applicable to the surviving entity;

(2)any sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge, transfer or other disposition (in one transaction or a series of transactions), except proportionately as a stockholder of the Company, to or with the Interested Stockholder, whether as part of a dissolution or otherwise, of assets of the Company or of any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Company which assets have an aggregate market value equal to ten percent (10%) or more of either the aggregate market value of all the assets of the Company determined on a consolidated basis or the aggregate market value of all the outstanding Stock of the Company;

 

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(3)any transaction which results in the issuance or transfer by the Company or by any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Company of any Stock of the Company or of such subsidiary to the Interested Stockholder, except: (A) pursuant to the exercise, exchange or conversion of securities exercisable for, exchangeable for or convertible into Stock of the Company or any such subsidiary which securities were outstanding prior to the time that the Interested Stockholder became such; (B) pursuant to a merger under Section 251(g) of the DGCL; (C) pursuant to a dividend or distribution paid or made, or the exercise, exchange or conversion of securities exercisable for, exchangeable for or convertible into Stock of the Company or any such subsidiary which security is distributed, pro rata to all holders of a class or series of Stock of the Company subsequent to the time the Interested Stockholder became such; (D) pursuant to an exchange offer by the Company to purchase Stock made on the same terms to all holders of such Stock; or (E) any issuance or transfer of Stock by the Company; provided, however, that in no case under items (C)-(E) of this ARTICLE XII, Section 4(c)(3) shall there be an increase in the Interested Stockholder’s proportionate share of the Stock of any class or series of the Company or of the Voting Stock of the Company;

(4)any transaction involving the Company or any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Company which has the effect, directly or indirectly, of increasing the proportionate share of the Stock of any class or series, or securities convertible into the Stock of any class or series, of the Company or of any such subsidiary which is owned by the Interested Stockholder, except as a result of immaterial changes due to fractional share adjustments or as a result of any purchase or redemption of any shares of Stock not caused, directly or indirectly, by the Interested Stockholder; or

(5)any receipt by the Interested Stockholder of the benefit, directly or indirectly (except proportionately as a stockholder of the Company), of any loans, advances, guarantees, pledges or other financial benefits (other than those expressly permitted in ARTICLE XII, Section 4(c)(1)-(4)) provided by or through the Company or any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Company;

(d)Control,” including the terms “controlling,” “controlled by” and “under common control with,” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of Voting Stock, by contract or otherwise. A Person who is the owner of twenty percent (20%) or more of the outstanding Voting Stock of any corporation, partnership, unincorporated association or other entity shall be presumed to have control of such entity, in the absence of proof by a preponderance of the evidence to the contrary; notwithstanding the foregoing, a presumption of control shall not apply where such Person holds Voting Stock, in good faith and not for the purpose of circumventing this ARTICLE XII, as an agent, bank, broker, nominee, custodian or trustee for one or more owners who do not individually or as a group (as such term is used in Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, as such Rule is in effect as of the date of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation) have control of such entity;

(e)Interested Stockholder” means any Person (other than the Company and any direct or indirect majority-owned subsidiary of the Company) that (i) is the owner of fifteen percent (15%) or more of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company, or (ii) is an Affiliate or Associate of the Company and was the owner of fifteen percent (15%) or more of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company at any time within the three-year period immediately prior to the date on which it is sought to be determined whether such Person is an Interested Stockholder, and the Affiliates and Associates of such Person. Notwithstanding anything in this ARTICLE XII to the contrary, the term “Interested Stockholder” shall not include: (x) the AKKR Investors or any of their Affiliates, or any other Person with whom any of the foregoing are acting as a group or in concert for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting or disposing of shares of Stock of the Company, (y) any Person who would otherwise be an Interested Stockholder either in connection with or because of a transfer, sale, assignment, conveyance, hypothecation, encumbrance, or

 

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other disposition of five percent (5%) or more of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company (in one transaction or a series of transactions) by the AKKR Investors or any of their Affiliates or Associates to such Person; providedhowever, that such Person was not an Interested Stockholder prior to such transfer, sale, assignment, conveyance, hypothecation, encumbrance, or other disposition; or (z) any Person whose ownership of shares in excess of the fifteen percent (15%) limitation set forth herein is the result of action taken solely by the Company; provided that, for purposes of this clause (z) only, such Person shall be an Interested Stockholder if thereafter such Person acquires additional shares of Voting Stock of the Company, except as a result of further action by the Company not caused, directly or indirectly, by such Person; provided that, for the purpose of determining whether a Person is an Interested Stockholder, the Voting Stock of the Company deemed to be outstanding shall include Stock deemed to be owned by the Person through application of this definition of “owned” but shall not include any other unissued Stock of the Company which may be issuable pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding, or upon exercise of conversion rights, warrants or options, or otherwise;

(f)Owner,” including the terms “own” and “owned,” when used with respect to any Stock, means a Person that individually or with or through any of its Affiliates or Associates beneficially owns such Stock, directly or indirectly; or has (A) the right to acquire such Stock (whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time) pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding, or upon the exercise of conversion rights, exchange rights, warrants or options, or otherwise; providedhowever, that a Person shall not be deemed the owner of Stock tendered pursuant to a tender or exchange offer made by such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates until such tendered Stock is accepted for purchase or exchange; or (B) the right to vote such Stock pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding; providedhowever, that a Person shall not be deemed the owner of any Stock because of such Person’s right to vote such Stock if the agreement, arrangement or understanding to vote such Stock arises solely from a revocable proxy or consent given in response to a proxy or consent solicitation made to 10 or more Persons; or (C) has any agreement, arrangement or understanding for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting (except voting pursuant to a revocable proxy or consent as described in (B) of this ARTICLE XII, Section 4(f)), or disposing of such Stock with any other Person that beneficially owns, or whose Affiliates or Associates beneficially own, directly or indirectly, such Stock;

(g)Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, unincorporated association or other entity;

(h)Stock” means, with respect to any corporation, any capital stock of such corporation and, with respect to any other entity, any equity interest of such entity; and

(i)Voting Stock” means, with respect to any corporation, Stock of any class or series entitled to vote generally in the election of directors and, with respect to any entity that is not a corporation, any equity interest entitled to vote generally in the election of the governing body of such entity. Every reference to a percentage of Voting Stock in this ARTICLE XII shall refer to such percentage of the votes of such Voting Stock.

ARTICLE XIII

Section 1.Certain Acknowledgments. In recognition and anticipation that (i) certain of the directors, partners, principals, officers, members, managers and/or employees of the AKKR Investors or their Affiliates may serve as directors or officers of the Company and (ii) the AKKR Investors and their Affiliates engage and may continue to engage in the same or similar activities or related lines of business as those in which the Company, directly or indirectly, may engage and/or other business activities that overlap with or compete with those in which the Company, directly or indirectly, may engage, and (iii)  the

 

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Company and its Affiliates may engage in material business transactions with the AKKR Investors and their Affiliates, and that the Company is expected to benefit therefrom, the provisions of this ARTICLE XIII are set forth to regulate and define to the fullest extent permitted by law the conduct of certain affairs of the Company as they may involve the Exempted Persons, and the powers, rights, duties and liabilities of the Company and its officers, directors and stockholders in connection therewith.

Section 2.Competition and Corporate Opportunities. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, none of the Exempted Persons shall have any fiduciary duty to refrain from engaging directly or indirectly in the same or similar business activities or lines of business as the Company or any of its Affiliates. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates, renounces any interest or expectancy of the Company and its Affiliates in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, business opportunities that are from time to time presented to the Exempted Persons, even if the opportunity is one that the Company or its Affiliates might reasonably be deemed to have pursued or had the ability or desire to pursue if granted the opportunity to do so, and each Exempted Person shall have no duty to communicate or offer such business opportunity to the Company or its Affiliates and, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, shall not be liable to the Company, any of its Affiliates or its stockholders for breach of any fiduciary or other duty, as a director, officer or stockholder of the Company, solely by reason of the fact that the AKKR Investors, their Affiliates or any such Exempted Person pursues or acquires such business opportunity, sells, assigns, transfers or directs such business opportunity to another person or fails to present such business opportunity, or information regarding such business opportunity, to the Company or any of its Affiliates. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this ARTICLE XIII, Section 2, the Company does not renounce any interest or expectancy it may have in any business opportunity that is expressly offered to any Exempted Person solely in his or her capacity as a director or officer of the Company, and not in any other capacity.

Section 3.Certain Matters Deemed Not Corporate Opportunities. In addition to and notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this ARTICLE XIII, a corporate opportunity shall not be deemed to belong to the Company if it is a business opportunity the Company is not financially able or contractually permitted or legally able to undertake, or that is, from its nature, not in the line of the Company’s business or is of no practical advantage to it or that is one in which the Company has no interest or reasonable expectancy.

Section 4.Amendment of this Article. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary elsewhere contained in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock then outstanding, and in addition to any vote required by applicable law, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the Voting Stock, voting together as a single class, shall be required to alter, amend or repeal, or to adopt any provision inconsistent with, this ARTICLE XIII; provided, however, that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, neither the alteration, amendment or repeal of this ARTICLE XIII nor the adoption of any provision of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designation relating to any series of Preferred Stock) inconsistent with this ARTICLE XIII shall apply to or have any effect on the liability or alleged liability of any Exempted Person for or with respect to (or otherwise eliminate or reduce the effect of this Article XIII as now in effect in respect of) any activities or opportunities which such Exempted Person identified or otherwise becomes aware or which arise or accrue prior to such alteration, amendment, repeal, addition or adoption.

Section 5.Deemed Notice. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring or holding any interest in any shares of the Company shall be deemed to have notice of and to have consented to the provisions of this ARTICLE XIII.

 

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ARTICLE XIV

If any provision of this Amended and Restated Certificate becomes or is declared on any ground by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, unenforceable or void, portions of such provision, or such provision in its entirety, to the extent necessary, shall be severed from this Amended and Restated Certificate, and the court will replace such illegal, void or unenforceable provision of this Amended and Restated Certificate with a valid and enforceable provision that most accurately reflects the Company’s intent, in order to achieve, to the maximum extent possible, the same economic, business and other purposes of the illegal, void or unenforceable provision. The balance of this Amended and Restated Certificate shall be enforceable in accordance with its terms.

The Company reserves the right to amend or repeal any provision contained in this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation in the manner prescribed by the laws of the State of Delaware and all rights conferred upon stockholders are granted subject to this reservation; provided, however, that notwithstanding any other provision of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or any provision of law that might otherwise permit a lesser vote, the Board of Directors acting pursuant to a resolution adopted by a majority of the Whole Board and (i) prior to the Amendment Trigger Date, the affirmative vote of a majority of the Voting Stock, voting together as a single class, and (ii) from and after the Amendment Trigger Date, the affirmative vote of sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) of the Voting Stock, voting together as a single class, shall be required for the amendment, alteration, repeal or modification of the provisions of ARTICLE IV, Section 1 (except as provided in ARTICLE IV, Section 3), ARTICLE VI, Section 2, ARTICLE VII, Section 1, ARTICLE VII, Section 2, ARTICLE VIII, Section 5, ARTICLE IX, ARTICLE XII, or this ARTICLE XIV of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation; provided further that, notwithstanding any other provision of this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or any provision of law that might otherwise permit a lesser vote, the Board of Directors acting pursuant to a resolution adopted by a majority of the Whole Board and the affirmative vote of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock and the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock, each voting separately as a class, shall be required for the amendment, repeal, or modification of the provisions of ARTICLE IV, Section 4(a)(2) and ARTICLE IV, Section 4(d).

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Paymentus Holdings, Inc. has caused this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be signed by the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company on this 28th day of May, 2021.

 

 

 

By:

 

/s/ Dushyant Sharma

 

 

Dushyant Sharma

 

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

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Exhibit 3.2

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS OF

PAYMENTUS HOLDINGS, INC.

(Adopted on May 15, 2021)

(Effective upon the closing of the Company’s initial public offering)

 

 

 


 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

 

Page

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE I - CORPORATE OFFICES

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

1.1

 

REGISTERED OFFICE

 

1

1.2

 

OTHER OFFICES

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE II - MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

2.1

 

PLACE OF MEETINGS

 

1

2.2

 

ANNUAL MEETING

 

1

2.3

 

SPECIAL MEETING

 

1

2.4

 

ADVANCE NOTICE PROCEDURES

 

2

2.5

 

NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETINGS

 

8

2.6

 

QUORUM

 

8

2.7

 

ADJOURNED MEETING; NOTICE

 

8

2.8

 

CONDUCT OF BUSINESS

 

9

2.9

 

VOTING

 

9

2.10

 

STOCKHOLDER ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT WITHOUT A MEETING

 

9

2.11

 

RECORD DATES

 

10

2.12

 

PROXIES

 

10

2.13

 

LIST OF STOCKHOLDERS ENTITLED TO VOTE

 

11

2.14

 

INSPECTORS OF ELECTION

 

11

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE III - DIRECTORS

 

12

 

 

 

 

 

3.1

 

POWERS

 

12

3.2

 

NUMBER OF DIRECTORS

 

12

3.3

 

ELECTION, QUALIFICATION AND TERM OF OFFICE OF DIRECTORS

 

12

3.4

 

RESIGNATION AND VACANCIES

 

12

3.5

 

PLACE OF MEETINGS; MEETINGS BY TELEPHONE

 

13

3.6

 

REGULAR MEETINGS

 

13

3.7

 

SPECIAL MEETINGS; NOTICE

 

13

3.8

 

QUORUM; VOTING

 

14

3.9

 

BOARD ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT WITHOUT A MEETING

 

14

3.10

 

FEES AND COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS

 

14

3.11

 

REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS

 

14

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE IV - COMMITTEES

 

14

 

 

 

 

 

4.1

 

COMMITTEES OF DIRECTORS

 

14

4.2

 

COMMITTEE MINUTES

 

15

4.3

 

MEETINGS AND ACTION OF COMMITTEES

 

15

4.4

 

SUBCOMMITTEES

 

16

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(continued)

 

 

 

 

 

Page

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE V - OFFICERS

 

16

 

 

 

 

 

5.1

 

OFFICERS

 

16

5.2

 

APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS

 

16

5.3

 

SUBORDINATE OFFICERS

 

16

5.4

 

REMOVAL AND RESIGNATION OF OFFICERS

 

16

5.5

 

VACANCIES IN OFFICES

 

16

5.6

 

REPRESENTATION OF SECURITIES OF OTHER ENTITIES

 

17

5.7

 

AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS

 

17

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE VI - STOCK

 

17

 

 

 

 

 

6.1

 

STOCK CERTIFICATES; PARTLY PAID SHARES

 

17

6.2

 

SPECIAL DESIGNATION ON CERTIFICATES

 

17

6.3

 

LOST CERTIFICATES

 

18

6.4

 

DIVIDENDS

 

18

6.5

 

TRANSFER OF STOCK

 

18

6.6

 

STOCK TRANSFER AGREEMENTS

 

19

6.7

 

REGISTERED STOCKHOLDERS

 

19

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE VII - MANNER OF GIVING NOTICE AND WAIVER

 

19

 

 

 

 

 

7.1

 

NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETINGS

 

19

7.2

 

NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS SHARING AN ADDRESS

 

19

7.3

 

NOTICE TO PERSON WITH WHOM COMMUNICATION IS UNLAWFUL

 

19

7.4

 

WAIVER OF NOTICE

 

20

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE VIII - INDEMNIFICATION

 

20

 

 

 

 

 

8.1

 

Indemnification of Directors and Officers in Third Party Proceedings

 

20

8.2

 

Indemnification of Directors and Officers in Actions by or in the Right of the COMPANY

 

20

8.3

 

Successful Defense

 

21

8.4

 

Indemnification of Others

 

21

8.5

 

Advanced Payment of Expenses

 

21

8.6

 

Limitation on Indemnification

 

22

8.7

 

Determination; Claim

 

22

8.8

 

Non-Exclusivity of Rights

 

23

8.9

 

Insurance

 

23

8.10

 

Survival

 

23

8.11

 

Effect of Repeal or Modification

 

23

8.12

 

Certain Definitions

 

23

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

(continued)

 

 

 

 

 

Page

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE IX - GENERAL MATTERS

 

24

 

 

 

 

 

9.1

 

EXECUTION OF CORPORATE CONTRACTS AND INSTRUMENTS

 

24

9.2

 

FISCAL YEAR

 

24

9.3

 

SEAL

 

24

9.4

 

CONSTRUCTION; DEFINITIONS

 

24

9.5

 

FORUM SELECTION

 

24

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE X - AMENDMENTS

 

25

 

 

 

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BYLAWS OF PAYMENTUS HOLDINGS, INC.

ARTICLE I - CORPORATE OFFICES

1.1REGISTERED OFFICE

The registered office of Paymentus Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) shall be fixed in the Company’s certificate of incorporation, as the same may be amended from time to time.

1.2OTHER OFFICES

The Company may at any time establish other offices.

ARTICLE II - MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

2.1PLACE OF MEETINGS

Meetings of stockholders shall be held at a place, if any, within or outside the State of Delaware, determined by the board of directors of the Company (the “Board of Directors”). The Board of Directors may, in its sole discretion, determine that a meeting of stockholders shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of remote communication as authorized by Section 211(a)(2) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”). In the absence of any such designation or determination, stockholders’ meetings shall be held at the Company’s principal executive office.

2.2ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting of stockholders shall be held each year. The Board of Directors shall designate the date and time of the annual meeting. At the annual meeting, directors shall be elected and any other proper business, brought in accordance with Section 2.4 of these bylaws, may be transacted. The Board of Directors acting pursuant to a resolution adopted by a majority of the Whole Board may cancel, postpone or reschedule any previously scheduled annual meeting at any time, before or after the notice for such meeting has been sent to the stockholders. For the purposes of these bylaws, the term “Whole Board” shall mean the total number of authorized directorships whether or not there exist any vacancies or other unfilled seats in previously authorized directorships.

2.3SPECIAL MEETING

(a)A special meeting of the stockholders, other than as required by statute, may only be called in the manner provided in the certificate of incorporation. The Board of Directors acting pursuant to a resolution adopted by a majority of the Whole Board may cancel, postpone or reschedule any previously scheduled special meeting at any time, before or after the notice for such meeting has been sent to the stockholders.

(b)The notice of a special meeting shall include the purpose for which the meeting is called. Only such business shall be conducted at a special meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting by or at the direction of a majority of the Whole Board, the chairperson of the Board of Directors, the chief executive officer or the president. Nothing contained in this Section 2.3(b)

 

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shall be construed as limiting, fixing or affecting the time when a meeting of stockholders called by action of the Board of Directors may be held.

2.4ADVANCE NOTICE PROCEDURES

(a)Annual Meetings of Stockholders.

(i)Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors or the proposal of other business to be transacted by the stockholders at an annual meeting of stockholders may be made only (1) pursuant to the Company’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto); (2) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors; (3) as may be provided in the certificate of designations for any class or series of preferred stock; or (4) by any stockholder of the Company who (A) is a stockholder of record at the time of giving of the notice contemplated by Section 2.4(a)(ii); (B) is a stockholder of record on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of the annual meeting; (C) is a stockholder of record on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to vote at the annual meeting; (D) is a stockholder of record at the time of the annual meeting; and (E) complies with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.4(a).

(ii)For nominations or other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting of stockholders by a stockholder pursuant to clause (4) of Section 2.4(a)(i), the stockholder must have given timely notice in writing to the secretary and any such nomination or proposed business must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice must be received by the secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company no earlier than 8:00 a.m., local time, on the 120th day and no later than 5:00 p.m., local time, on the 90th day prior to the day of the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting of stockholders. However, if no annual meeting of stockholders was held in the preceding year, or if the date of the applicable annual meeting has been changed by more than 25 days from the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting, then to be timely such notice must be received by the secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company no earlier than 8:00 a.m., local time, on the 120th day prior to the day of the annual meeting and no later than 5:00 p.m., local time, on the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of the annual meeting was first made by the Company. In no event will the adjournment, rescheduling or postponement of any annual meeting, or any announcement thereof, commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above. If the number of directors to be elected to the Board of Directors is increased and there is no public announcement naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board of Directors at least 10 days before the last day that a stockholder may deliver a notice of nomination pursuant to the foregoing provisions, then a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.4(a)(ii) will also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it is received by the secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company no later than 5:00 p.m., local time, on the 10th day following the day on which such public announcement is first made. “Public announcement” means disclosure in a press release reported by a national news service or in a document publicly filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (as amended and inclusive of rules and regulations thereunder, the “1934 Act”).

 

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(iii)A stockholder’s notice to the secretary must set forth:

(1)as to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election as a director:

(A)such person’s name, age, business address, residence address and principal occupation or employment; the class and number of shares of the Company that are held of record or are beneficially owned by such person and a description of any Derivative Instruments (defined below) held or beneficially owned thereby or of any other agreement, arrangement or understanding (including any short position or any borrowing or lending of shares), the effect or intent of which is to mitigate loss to, or to manage the risk or benefit of share price changes for, or to increase or decrease the voting power of such person; and all information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for the contested election of directors, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to the Section 14 of the 1934 Act;

(B)such person’s written consent to being named in such stockholder’s proxy statement as a nominee of such stockholder and to serving as a director of the Company if elected;

(C)a reasonably detailed description of any direct or indirect compensatory, payment, indemnification or other financial agreement, arrangement or understanding that such person has, or has had within the past three years, with any person or entity other than the Company (including the amount of any payment or payments received or receivable thereunder), in each case in connection with candidacy or service as a director of the Company (a “Third-Party Compensation Arrangement”); and

(D)a description of any other material relationships between such person and such person’s respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert with them, on the one hand, and such stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made, and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert with them, on the other hand;

(2)as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting:

(A)a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting;

(B)the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and, if applicable, the text of any proposed amendment to these bylaws);

(C)the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting;

(D)any material interest in such business of such stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made, and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert with them; and

 

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(E)a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made, and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert with them, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder; and

(3)as to the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made:

(A)the name and address of such stockholder (as they appear on the Company’s books), of such beneficial owner and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert with them;

(B)for each class or series, the number of shares of stock of the Company that are, directly or indirectly, held of record or are beneficially owned by such stockholder, such beneficial owner or their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert with them;

(C)a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between such stockholder, such beneficial owner or their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert with them, and any other person or persons (including, in each case, their names) in connection with the proposal of such nomination or other business;

(D)a description of any agreement, arrangement or understanding (including, regardless of the form of settlement, any derivative, long or short positions, profit interests, forwards, futures, swaps, options, warrants, convertible securities, stock appreciation or similar rights, hedging transactions and borrowed or loaned shares) that has been entered into by or on behalf of such stockholder, such beneficial owner or their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert with them, with respect to the Company’s securities (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”), or any other agreement, arrangement or understanding that has been made the effect or intent of which is to create or mitigate loss to, manage risk or benefit of share price changes for or increase or decrease the voting power of such stockholder, such beneficial owner or their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert with them, with respect to the Company’s securities;

(E)any rights to dividends on the Company’s securities owned beneficially by such stockholder, such beneficial owner or their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert with them, that are separated or separable from the underlying security;

(F)any proportionate interest in the Company’s securities or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder, such beneficial owner or their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert with them, is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner of such general or limited partnership;

(G)any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder, such beneficial owner or their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert with them, is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of the Company’s securities or Derivative Instruments, including, without limitation, any such interests held by members of the immediate family of such persons sharing the same household;

 

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(H)any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments in any principal competitor of the Company that are held by such stockholder, such beneficial owner or their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert with them;

(I)any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder, such beneficial owner or their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert with them, in any contract with the Company, any affiliate of the Company or any principal competitor of the Company (in each case, including any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement);

(J)a representation and undertaking that the stockholder is a holder of record of stock of the Company as of the date of submission of the stockholder’s notice and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to bring such nomination or other business before the meeting;

(K)a representation and undertaking that such stockholder or any such beneficial owner intends, or is part of a group that intends, to (x) deliver a proxy statement or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the voting power of the Company’s then-outstanding stock required to approve or adopt the proposal or to elect each such nominee; or (y) otherwise solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or nomination;

(L)any other information relating to such stockholder, such beneficial owner, or their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert with them, or director nominee or proposed business that, in each case, would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required to be made in connection with the solicitation of proxies in support of such nominee (in a contested election of directors) or proposal pursuant to Section 14 of the 1934 Act; and

(M)such other information relating to any proposed item of business as the Company may reasonably require to determine whether such proposed item of business is a proper matter for stockholder action.

(iv)In addition to the requirements of this Section 2.4, to be timely, a stockholder’s notice (and any additional information submitted to the Company in connection therewith) must further be updated and supplemented (1) if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice is true and correct as of the record date(s) for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the meeting and as of the date that is 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment, rescheduling or postponement thereof and (2) to provide any additional information that the Company may reasonably request. Such update and supplement or additional information, if applicable, must be received by the secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company, in the case of a request for additional information, promptly following a request therefor, which response must be delivered not later than such reasonable time as is specified in any such request from the Company or, in the case of any other update or supplement of any information, not later than five business days after the record date(s) for the meeting (in the case of any update and supplement required to be made as of the record date(s)), and not later than eight business days prior to the date for the meeting or any adjournment, rescheduling or postponement thereof (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of 10 business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment, rescheduling or postponement thereof). The failure to timely provide such update, supplement or additional information shall result in the nomination or proposal no longer being eligible for consideration at the meeting.

 

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(b)Special Meetings of Stockholders. Except to the extent required by the DGCL, and subject to Section 2.3(a), special meetings of stockholders may be called only in accordance with the Company’s certificate of incorporation and these bylaws. Only such business will be conducted at a special meeting of stockholders as has been brought before the special meeting pursuant to the Company’s notice of meeting. If the election of directors is included as business to be brought before a special meeting in the Company’s notice of meeting, then nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors at such special meeting may be made by any stockholder who (i) is a stockholder of record at the time of giving of the notice contemplated by this Section 2.4(b); (ii) is a stockholder of record on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of the special meeting; (iii) is a stockholder of record on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to vote at the special meeting; (iv) is a stockholder of record at the time of the special meeting; and (v) complies with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.4(b). For nominations to be properly brought by a stockholder before a special meeting pursuant to this Section 2.4(b), the stockholder’s notice must be received by the secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company no earlier than 8:00 a.m., local time, on the 120th day prior to the day of the special meeting and no later than 5:00 p.m., local time, on the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of the special meeting was first made. In no event will any adjournment, rescheduling or postponement of a special meeting or the announcement thereof commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice. A stockholder’s notice to the Secretary must comply with the applicable notice requirements of Section 2.4(a)(iii).

(c)Other Requirements.

(i)To be eligible to be a nominee by any stockholder for election as a director of the Company, the proposed nominee must provide to the secretary, in accordance with the applicable time periods prescribed for delivery of notice under Section 2.4(a)(ii) or Section 2.4(b):

(1)a signed and completed written questionnaire (in the form provided by the secretary at the written request of the nominating stockholder, which form will be provided by the secretary within 10 days of receiving such request) containing information regarding such nominee’s background and qualifications and such other information as may reasonably be required by the Company to determine the eligibility of such nominee to serve as a director of the Company or to serve as an independent director of the Company;

(2)a written representation and undertaking that, unless previously disclosed to the Company, such nominee is not, and will not become, a party to any voting agreement, arrangement, commitment, assurance or understanding with any person or entity as to how such nominee, if elected as a director, will vote on any issue;

(3)a written representation and undertaking that, unless previously disclosed to the Company, such nominee is not, and will not become, a party to any Third-Party Compensation Arrangement;

(4)a written representation and undertaking that, if elected as a director, such nominee would be in compliance, and will continue to comply, with the Company’s corporate governance guidelines as disclosed on the Company’s website, as amended from time to time; and

(5)a written representation and undertaking that such nominee, if elected, intends to serve a full term on the Board of Directors.

 

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(ii)At the request of the Board of Directors, any person nominated by the Board of Directors for election as a director must furnish to the secretary the information that is required to be set forth in a stockholder’s notice of nomination that pertains to such nominee.

(iii)No person will be eligible to be nominated by a stockholder for election as a director of the Company unless nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.4. No business proposed by a stockholder will be conducted at a stockholder meeting except in accordance with this Section 2.4.

(iv)The chairperson of the applicable meeting of stockholders will, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that a nomination was not made in accordance with the procedures prescribed by these bylaws or that business was not properly brought before the meeting. If the chairperson of the meeting should so determine, then the chairperson of the meeting will so declare to the meeting and the defective nomination will be disregarded or such business will not be transacted, as the case may be.

(v)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.4, unless otherwise required by law, if the stockholder (or a qualified representative of the stockholder) does not appear in person at the meeting to present a nomination or other proposed business, such nomination will be disregarded or such proposed business will not be transacted, as the case may be, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such nomination or business may have been received by the Company and counted for purposes of determining a quorum. For purposes of this Section 2.4, to be considered a qualified representative of the stockholder, a person must be a duly authorized officer, manager or partner of such stockholder or must be authorized by a writing executed by such stockholder or an electronic transmission delivered by such stockholder to act for such stockholder as proxy at the meeting, and such person must produce such writing or electronic transmission, or a reliable reproduction of the writing or electronic transmission, at the meeting.

(vi)Without limiting this Section 2.4, a stockholder must also comply with all applicable requirements of the 1934 Act with respect to the matters set forth in this Section 2.4, it being understood that (1) any references in these bylaws to the 1934 Act are not intended to, and will not, limit any requirements applicable to nominations or proposals as to any other business to be considered pursuant to this Section 2.4; and (2) compliance with clause (4) of Section 2.4(a)(i) and with Section 2.4(b) are the exclusive means for a stockholder to make nominations or submit other business (other than as provided in Section 2.4(c)(vii)).

(vii)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.4, the notice requirements set forth in these bylaws with respect to the proposal of any business pursuant to this Section 2.4 will be deemed to be satisfied by a stockholder if (1) such stockholder has submitted a proposal to the Company in compliance with Rule 14a‑8 under the 1934 Act; and (2) such stockholder’s proposal has been included in a proxy statement that has been prepared by the Company to solicit proxies for the meeting of stockholders. Subject to Rule 14a‑8 and other applicable rules and regulations under the 1934 Act, nothing in these bylaws will be construed to permit any stockholder, or give any stockholder the right, to include or have disseminated or described in the Company’s proxy statement any nomination of a director or any other business proposal.

 

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2.5NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETINGS

Whenever stockholders are required or permitted to take any action at a meeting, a notice of the meeting shall be given which shall state the place, if any, date and hour of the meeting, the means of remote communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxy holders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such meeting, the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, if such date is different from the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting, and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called. Except as otherwise provided in the DGCL, the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, the notice of any meeting of stockholders shall be given not less than 10 nor more than 60 days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting as of the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting.

2.6QUORUM

The holders of a majority of the voting power of the capital stock of the Company issued and outstanding and entitled to vote, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at all meetings of the stockholders. Where a separate vote by a class or series or classes or series is required, a majority of the voting power of the outstanding shares of such class or series or classes or series, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum entitled to take action with respect to that vote on that matter, except as otherwise provided by law, the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws.

If, however, such quorum is not present or represented at any meeting of the stockholders, then either (a) the chairperson of the meeting, or (b) the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, present in person or represented by proxy, shall have power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present or represented. At such adjourned meeting at which a quorum is present or represented, any business may be transacted that might have been transacted at the original meeting.

2.7ADJOURNED MEETING; NOTICE

When a meeting is adjourned to another time or place, unless these bylaws otherwise require, notice need not be given of the adjourned meeting if the time, place, if any, thereof, and the means of remote communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxy holders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such adjourned meeting are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. At the adjourned meeting, the Company may transact any business which might have been transacted at the original meeting. If the adjournment is for more than 30 days, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting. If after the adjournment a new record date for stockholders entitled to vote is fixed for the adjourned meeting, the Board of Directors shall fix a new record date for notice of such adjourned meeting in accordance with Section 213(a) of the DGCL and Section 2.11 of these bylaws, and shall give notice of the adjourned meeting to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at such adjourned meeting as of the record date fixed for notice of such adjourned meeting.

 

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2.8CONDUCT OF BUSINESS

The chairperson of any meeting of stockholders shall determine the order of business and the procedure at the meeting, including such regulation of the manner of voting and the conduct of business and discussion as seem to the chairperson in order. The chairperson of any meeting of stockholders shall be designated by the Board of Directors; in the absence of such designation, the chairperson of the Board of Directors, if any, or the chief executive officer (in the absence of the chairperson of the Board of Directors) or the president (in the absence of the chairperson of the Board of Directors and the chief executive officer), or in their absence any other executive officer of the Company, shall serve as chairperson of the stockholder meeting. The chairperson of any meeting of stockholders shall have the power to adjourn the meeting to another place, if any, date or time, whether or not a quorum is present.

2.9VOTING

The stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of stockholders shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.11 of these bylaws, subject to Section 217 (relating to voting rights of fiduciaries, pledgors and joint owners of stock) and Section 218 (relating to voting trusts and other voting agreements) of the DGCL.

Except as may be otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of capital stock held by such stockholder.

Except as otherwise provided by law, the certificate of incorporation, these bylaws or the rules of the stock exchange on which the Company’s securities are listed, in all matters other than the election of directors, the affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power of the shares cast, affirmatively or negatively, shall be the act of the stockholders and broker non-votes and abstentions will be considered for purposes of establishing a quorum, but will not be considered as votes cast for or against a proposal. Except as otherwise required by law, the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, directors shall be elected by a plurality of the voting power of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors. Where a separate vote by a class or series or classes or series is required, in all matters other than the election of directors, the affirmative vote of the majority of the voting power of the shares of such class or series or classes or series cast, affirmatively or negatively, at the meeting and entitled to vote on the subject matter shall be the act of such class or series or classes or series (and broker non-votes and abstentions will not be considered as votes cast for or against a proposal), except as otherwise provided by law, the certificate of incorporation, these bylaws or the rules of the stock exchange on which the securities of the Company are listed.

2.10STOCKHOLDER ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT WITHOUT A MEETING

Unless otherwise provided in the Company’s certificate of incorporation, subject to the rights of holders of preferred stock of the Company or any other class of stock or series thereof that have been expressly granted the right to take action by written consent, any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Company must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Company and may not be effected by any consent in writing by such stockholders.

 

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2.11RECORD DATES

In order that the Company may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors and which record date shall not be more than 60 nor less than 10 days before the date of such meeting. If the Board of Directors so fixes a date, such date shall also be the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote at such meeting unless the Board of Directors determines, at the time it fixes such record date, that a later date on or before the date of the meeting shall be the date for making such determination.

If no record date is fixed by the Board of Directors, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of and 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.

A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for determination of stockholders entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting, and in such case shall also fix as the record date for stockholders entitled to notice of such adjourned meeting the same or an earlier date as that fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to vote in accordance with the provisions of Section 213 of the DGCL and this Section 2.11 at the adjourned meeting.

In order that the Company may determine the stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights or the stockholders 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 Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted, and which record date shall be not more than 60 days prior to such action. If no record date is fixed, the record date for determining stockholders for any such purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto.

2.12PROXIES

Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders, or such stockholder’s authorized officer, director, employee or agent, may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder by proxy authorized by a document or by a transmission permitted by law filed in accordance with the procedure established for the meeting, but no such proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period. The authorization of a person to act as a proxy may be documented, signed and delivered in accordance with Section 116 of the DGCL; provided that such authorization shall set forth, or be delivered with information enabling the Company to determine, the identity of the stockholder granting such authorization. The revocability of a proxy that states on its face that it is irrevocable shall be governed by the provisions of Section 212 of the DGCL.

 

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2.13LIST OF STOCKHOLDERS ENTITLED TO VOTE

The Company shall prepare, at least 10 days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting; provided, however, if the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to vote is less than 10 days before the meeting date, the list shall reflect the stockholders entitled to vote as of the tenth day before the meeting date, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. The Company shall not be required to include electronic mail addresses or other electronic contact information on such list. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder for any purpose germane to the meeting for a period of at least 10 days prior to the meeting: (a) on a reasonably accessible electronic network, provided that the information required to gain access to such list is provided with the notice of the meeting, or (b) during ordinary business hours, at the Company’s principal place of business. In the event that the Company determines to make the list available on an electronic network, the Company may take reasonable steps to ensure that such information is available only to stockholders of the Company. If the meeting is to be held at a place, then a list of stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting shall be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be examined by any stockholder who is present. If the meeting is to be held solely by means of remote communication, then such list shall also be open to the examination of any stockholder during the whole time of the meeting on a reasonably accessible electronic network, and the information required to access such list shall be provided with the notice of the meeting.

2.14INSPECTORS OF ELECTION

Before any meeting of stockholders, the Company shall appoint an inspector or inspectors of election to act at the meeting or its adjournment. The Company may designate one or more persons as alternate inspectors to replace any inspector who fails to act.

Such inspectors shall:

(a)ascertain the number of shares outstanding and the voting power of each;

(b)determine the shares represented at the meeting and the validity of proxies and ballots;

(c)count all votes and ballots;

(d)determine and retain for a reasonable period a record of the disposition of any challenges made to any determination by the inspectors; and

(e)certify their determination of the number of shares represented at the meeting, and their count of all votes and ballots.

The inspectors of election shall perform their duties impartially, in good faith, to the best of their ability and as expeditiously as is practical. If there are multiple inspectors of election, the decision, act or certificate of a majority is effective in all respects as the decision, act or certificate of all. Any report or certificate made by the inspectors of election is prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.

 

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ARTICLE III - DIRECTORS

3.1POWERS

The business and affairs of the Company shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors, except as may be otherwise provided in the DGCL or the certificate of incorporation.

3.2NUMBER OF DIRECTORS

The Board of Directors shall consist of one or more members, each of whom shall be a natural person. Unless the certificate of incorporation fixes the number of directors, the number of directors shall be determined from time to time by resolution of a majority of the Whole Board. No reduction of the authorized number of directors shall have the effect of removing any director before that director’s term of office expires.

3.3ELECTION, QUALIFICATION AND TERM OF OFFICE OF DIRECTORS

Except as provided in Section 3.4 of these bylaws, each director, including a director elected to fill a vacancy or newly created directorship, shall hold office until the expiration of the term for which elected and until such director’s successor is elected and qualified or until such director’s earlier death, resignation or removal. Directors need not be stockholders unless so required by the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws. The certificate of incorporation, these bylaws or the Stockholders Agreement (as defined in the Company’s certificate of incorporation) may prescribe other qualifications for directors.

If so provided in the certificate of incorporation, the directors of the Company shall be divided into three classes.

3.4RESIGNATION AND VACANCIES

Any director may resign at any time upon notice given in writing or by electronic transmission to the Company. A resignation is effective when the resignation is delivered unless the resignation specifies a later effective date or an effective date determined upon the happening of an event or events. A resignation which is conditioned upon the director failing to receive a specified vote for reelection as a director may provide that it is irrevocable. Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, when one or more directors resign from the Board of Directors, effective at a future date, a majority of the directors then in office, including those who have so resigned, shall have power to fill such vacancy or vacancies, the vote thereon to take effect when such resignation or resignations shall become effective, and shall do so in accordance with the Stockholders Agreement.

Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws or permitted in the specific case by resolution of the Board of Directors, and subject to the rights of holders of preferred stock, vacancies and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors elected by all of the stockholders having the right to vote as a single class may be filled by a majority of the directors then in office in accordance with the Stockholders Agreement, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director, and not by stockholders. If the directors are divided into classes, a person so chosen to fill a vacancy or newly created directorship shall hold office until the next election of the class for which such director shall have been chosen and until his or her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified.

 

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3.5PLACE OF MEETINGS; MEETINGS BY TELEPHONE

The Board of Directors may hold meetings, both regular and special, either within or outside the State of Delaware.

Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, members of the Board of Directors may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and such participation in a meeting shall constitute presence in person at the meeting.

3.6REGULAR MEETINGS

Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held without notice at such time and at such place as shall from time to time be determined by the Board of Directors.

3.7SPECIAL MEETINGS; NOTICE

Special meetings of the Board of Directors for any purpose or purposes may be called at any time by the chairperson of the Board of Directors, the chief executive officer, the president, the secretary or a majority of the Whole Board.

Notice of the time and place of special meetings shall be:

(a)delivered personally by hand, by courier or by telephone;

(b)sent by United States first-class mail, postage prepaid;

(c)sent by facsimile;

(d)sent by electronic mail; or

(e)otherwise given by electronic transmission (as defined in Section 232 of the DGCL),

directed to each director at that director’s address, telephone number, facsimile number, electronic mail address or other contact for notice by electronic transmission, as the case may be, as shown on the Company’s records.

If the notice is (i) delivered personally by hand, by courier or by telephone, (ii) sent by facsimile, (iii) sent by electronic mail or (iv) otherwise given by electronic transmission, it shall be delivered, sent or otherwise directed to each director, as applicable, at least 24 hours before the time of the holding of the meeting. If the notice is sent by United States mail, it shall be deposited in the United States mail at least four days before the time of the holding of the meeting. Any oral notice of the time and place of the meeting may be communicated to the director in lieu of written notice if such notice is communicated at least 24 hours before the time of the holding of the meeting. The notice need not specify the place of the meeting (if the meeting is to be held at the Company’s principal executive office) nor the purpose of the meeting, unless required by statute.

 

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3.8QUORUM; VOTING

At all meetings of the Board of Directors, a majority of the Whole Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. If a quorum is not present at any meeting of the Board of Directors, then the directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present.

The affirmative vote of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board of Directors, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by statute, the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws.

If the certificate of incorporation provides that one or more directors shall have more or less than one vote per director on any matter, except as may otherwise be expressly provided herein or therein and denoted with the phrase “notwithstanding the final paragraph of Section 3.8 of the bylaws” or language to similar effect, every reference in these bylaws to a majority or other proportion of the directors shall refer to a majority or other proportion of the votes of the directors.

3.9BOARD ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT WITHOUT A MEETING

Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors, or of 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 or by electronic transmission. Any person (whether or not then a director) may provide, whether through instruction to an agent or otherwise, that a consent to action will be effective at a future time (including a time determined upon the happening of an event), no later than 60 days after such instruction is given or such provision is made and such consent shall be deemed to have been given for purposes of this Section 3.9 at such effective time so long as such person is then a director and did not revoke the consent prior to such time. Any such consent shall be revocable prior to its becoming effective.

3.10FEES AND COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS

Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, the Board of Directors shall have the authority to fix the compensation of directors.

3.11REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS

Any director or the entire Board of Directors may be removed from office by stockholders of the Company in the manner specified in the certificate of incorporation and applicable law. No reduction of the authorized number of directors shall have the effect of removing any director prior to the expiration of such director’s term of office.

ARTICLE IV - COMMITTEES

4.1COMMITTEES OF DIRECTORS

The Board of Directors may, by resolution passed by a majority of the Whole Board, designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Company. The Board of Directors may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace

 

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any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not such member or members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board of Directors or in these bylaws, 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 Company, and may authorize the seal of the Company to be affixed to all papers that may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority to (a) approve or adopt, or recommend to the stockholders, any action or matter (other than the election or removal of directors) expressly required by the DGCL to be submitted to stockholders for approval, or (b) adopt, amend or repeal any bylaw of the Company.

4.2COMMITTEE MINUTES

Each committee and subcommittee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings.

4.3MEETINGS AND ACTION OF COMMITTEES

Meetings and actions of committees and subcommittees shall be governed by, and held and taken in accordance with, the provisions of:

(a)Section 3.5 (place of meetings and meetings by telephone);

(b)Section 3.6 (regular meetings);

(c)Section 3.7 (special meetings and notice);

(d)Section 3.8 (quorum; voting);

(e)Section 3.9 (action without a meeting); and

(f)Section 7.4 (waiver of notice)

with such changes in the context of those bylaws as are necessary to substitute the committee or subcommittee and its members for the Board of Directors and its members. However, (i) the time and place of regular meetings of committees or subcommittees may be determined either by resolution of the Board of Directors or by resolution of the committee or subcommittee; (ii) special meetings of committees or subcommittees may also be called by resolution of the Board of Directors or the committee or the subcommittee; and (iii) notice of special meetings of committees and subcommittees shall also be given to all alternate members who shall have the right to attend all meetings of the committee or subcommittee. The Board of Directors may adopt rules for the government of any committee not inconsistent with the provisions of these bylaws.

Any provision in the certificate of incorporation providing that one or more directors shall have more or less than one vote per director on any matter shall apply to voting in any committee or subcommittee, unless otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws.

 

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4.4SUBCOMMITTEES

Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation, these bylaws or the resolutions of the Board of Directors designating the committee, a committee may create one or more subcommittees, each subcommittee to consist of one or more members of the committee, and delegate to a subcommittee any or all of the powers and authority of the committee.

ARTICLE V - OFFICERS

5.1OFFICERS

The officers of the Company shall be a president and a secretary. The Company may also have, at the discretion of the Board of Directors, a chairperson of the Board of Directors, a vice chairperson of the Board of Directors, a chief executive officer, a chief financial officer or treasurer, one or more vice presidents, one or more assistant vice presidents, one or more assistant treasurers, one or more assistant secretaries and any such other officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of these bylaws. Any number of offices may be held by the same person.

5.2APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS

The Board of Directors shall appoint the officers of the Company, except such officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.3 of these bylaws, subject to the rights, if any, of an officer under any contract of employment.

5.3SUBORDINATE OFFICERS

The Board of Directors may appoint, or empower any officer to appoint, such other officers as the business of the Company may require. Each of such officers shall hold office for such period, have such authority, and perform such duties as are provided in these bylaws or as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.

5.4REMOVAL AND RESIGNATION OF OFFICERS

Subject to the rights, if any, of an officer under any contract of employment, any officer may be removed, either with or without cause, by the Board of Directors or, for the avoidance of doubt, any duly authorized committee or subcommittee thereof or by any officer who has been conferred such power of removal.

Any officer may resign at any time by giving notice, in writing or by electronic transmission, to the Company. Any resignation shall take effect at the date of the receipt of that notice or at any later time specified in that notice. Unless otherwise specified in the notice of resignation, the acceptance of the resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. Any resignation is without prejudice to the rights, if any, of the Company under any contract to which the officer is a party.

5.5VACANCIES IN OFFICES

Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Company shall be filled by the Board of Directors or as provided in Section 5.3.

 

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5.6REPRESENTATION OF SECURITIES OF OTHER ENTITIES

The chairperson of the Board of Directors, the chief executive officer, the president, any vice president, the treasurer, the secretary or assistant secretary of this Company or any other person authorized by the Board of Directors or the chief executive officer, the president or a vice president, is authorized to vote, represent and exercise on behalf of this Company all rights incident to any and all shares or other securities of any other entity or entities, and all rights incident to any management authority conferred on the Company in accordance with the governing documents of any entity or entities, standing in the name of this Company, including the right to act by written consent. The authority granted herein may be exercised either by such person directly or by any other person authorized to do so by proxy or power of attorney duly executed by such person having the authority.

5.7AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS

Each officer of the Company shall have such authority and perform such duties in the management of the business of the Company as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors and, to the extent not so provided, as generally pertain to such office, subject to the control of the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE VI - STOCK

6.1STOCK CERTIFICATES; PARTLY PAID SHARES

The shares of the Company 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 its stock shall be uncertificated shares. Any such resolution shall not apply to shares represented by a certificate until such certificate is surrendered to the Company. Unless otherwise provided by resolution of the Board of Directors, every holder of stock represented by certificates shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of, the Company by any two officers of the Company representing the number of shares registered in certificate form. Any or all of the signatures 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 has ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the Company with the same effect as if such person were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue. The Company shall not have power to issue a certificate in bearer form.

The Company may issue the whole or any part of its shares as partly paid and subject to call for the remainder of the consideration to be paid therefor. Upon the face or back of each stock certificate issued to represent any such partly-paid shares, or upon the books and records of the Company in the case of uncertificated partly-paid shares, the total amount of the consideration to be paid therefor and the amount paid thereon shall be stated. Upon the declaration of any dividend on fully-paid shares, the Company shall declare a dividend upon partly-paid shares of the same class, but only upon the basis of the percentage of the consideration actually paid thereon.

6.2SPECIAL DESIGNATION ON CERTIFICATES

If the Company is authorized to issue more than one class of stock or more than one series of any class, then the powers, the designations, the preferences and the 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 shall be set forth in full or summarized on the face or back of the certificate that the Company shall issue to represent such class or series of stock; provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided in Section 202 of the DGCL, in lieu of the foregoing requirements, there may be set forth on the face or back of the certificate that the Company shall issue to represent such class or series of stock, a statement that the Company 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. Within a reasonable time after the issuance or transfer of uncertificated stock, the registered owner thereof shall be given a notice, in writing or by electronic transmission, containing the information required to be set forth or stated on certificates pursuant to this Section 6.2 or Sections 156, 202(a), 218(a) or 364 of the DGCL or with respect to this Section 6.2 a statement that the Company 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

 

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such preferences and/or rights. Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the rights and obligations of the holders of uncertificated stock and the rights and obligations of the holders of certificates representing stock of the same class and series shall be identical.

6.3LOST CERTIFICATES

Except as provided in this Section 6.3, no new certificates for shares shall be issued to replace a previously issued certificate unless the latter is surrendered to the Company and cancelled at the same time. The Company may issue a new certificate of stock or uncertificated shares in the place of any certificate theretofore issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, and the Company may require the owner of the lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or such owner’s legal representative, to give the Company a bond sufficient to indemnify it 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 such new certificate or uncertificated shares.

6.4DIVIDENDS

The Board of Directors, subject to any restrictions contained in the certificate of incorporation or applicable law, may declare and pay dividends upon the shares of the Company’s capital stock. Dividends may be paid in cash, in property, or in shares of the Company’s capital stock, subject to the provisions of the certificate of incorporation. The Board of Directors may set apart out of any of the funds of the Company available for dividends a reserve or reserves for any proper purpose and may abolish any such reserve.

6.5TRANSFER OF STOCK

Transfers of record of shares of stock of the Company shall be made only upon its books by the holders thereof, in person or by an attorney duly authorized, and, if such stock is certificated, upon the surrender of a certificate or certificates for a like number of shares, properly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignation or authority to transfer.

 

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6.6STOCK TRANSFER AGREEMENTS

The Company shall have power to enter into and perform any agreement with any number of stockholders of any one or more classes of stock of the Company to restrict the transfer of shares of stock of the Company of any one or more classes owned by such stockholders in any manner not prohibited by the DGCL.

6.7REGISTERED STOCKHOLDERS

The Company:

(a)shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive dividends and notices and to vote as such owner; and

(b)shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of another person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of Delaware.

ARTICLE VII - MANNER OF GIVING NOTICE AND WAIVER

7.1NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETINGS

Notice of any meeting of stockholders shall be given in the manner set forth in the DGCL.

7.2NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS SHARING AN ADDRESS

Except as otherwise prohibited under the DGCL, without limiting the manner by which notice otherwise may be given effectively to stockholders, any notice to stockholders given by the Company under the provisions of the DGCL, the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws shall be effective if given by a single written notice to stockholders who share an address if consented to by the stockholders at that address to whom such notice is given. Any such consent shall be revocable by the stockholder by written notice to the Company. Any stockholder who fails to object in writing to the Company, within 60 days of having been given written notice by the Company of its intention to send the single notice, shall be deemed to have consented to receiving such single written notice. This Section 7.2 shall not apply to Sections 164, 296, 311, 312 or 324 of the DGCL.

7.3NOTICE TO PERSON WITH WHOM COMMUNICATION IS UNLAWFUL

Whenever notice is required to be given, under the DGCL, the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, to any person with whom communication is unlawful, the giving of such notice to such person shall not be required and there shall be no duty to apply to any governmental authority or agency for a license or permit to give such notice to such person. Any action or meeting which shall be taken or held without notice to any such person with whom communication is unlawful shall have the same force and effect as if such notice had been duly given. In the event that the action taken by the Company is such as to require the filing of a certificate under the DGCL, the certificate shall state, if such is the fact and if notice is required, that notice was given to all persons entitled to receive notice except such persons with whom communication is unlawful.

 

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7.4WAIVER OF NOTICE

Whenever notice is required to be given under any provision of the DGCL, the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, a written waiver, signed by the person entitled to notice, or a waiver by electronic transmission by the person entitled to notice, whether before or after the time of the event for which notice is to be given, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of a person at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the person 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 or any waiver by electronic transmission unless so required by the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws.

ARTICLE VIII - INDEMNIFICATION

8.1Indemnification of Directors and Officers in Third Party Proceedings

Subject to the other provisions of this Article VIII, the Company shall indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as now or hereinafter in effect, any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “Proceeding”) (other than an action by or in the right of the Company) by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or was a director or officer of the Company serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such Proceeding if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe such person’s conduct was unlawful. The termination of any Proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that such person’s conduct was unlawful.

8.2Indemnification of Directors and Officers in Actions by or in the Right of the COMPANY

Subject to the other provisions of this Article VIII, the Company shall indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as now or hereinafter in effect, any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed Proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or was a director or officer of the Company serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of such Proceeding if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company; except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been finally adjudged to be liable to the Company unless and only to the extent that

 

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the Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.

8.3Successful Defense

To the extent that a present or former director or officer (for purposes of this Section 8.3 only, as such term is defined in Section 145(c)(1) of the DGCL) of the Company has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding described in Section 8.1 or Section 8.2, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith. The Company may indemnify any other person who is not a present or former director or officer of the Company against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person to the extent he or she has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any suit or proceeding described in Section 8.1 or Section 8.2, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein.

8.4Indemnification of Others

Subject to the other provisions of this Article VIII, the Company shall have power to indemnify its employees and agents, or any other persons, to the extent not prohibited by the DGCL or other applicable law. The Board of Directors shall have the power to delegate to any person or persons identified in subsections (1) through (4) of Section 145(d) of the DGCL the determination of whether employees or agents shall be indemnified.

8.5Advanced Payment of Expenses

Expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by a former or current officer or director of the Company in defending any Proceeding shall be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such Proceeding upon receipt of a written request therefor (together with documentation reasonably evidencing such expenses) and an undertaking by or on behalf of the person to repay such amounts if it shall ultimately be determined that the person is not entitled to be indemnified under this Article VIII or the DGCL. Such expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by former or current directors and officers or other employees and agents of the Company or by persons serving at the request of the Company as directors, officers, employees or agents of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the Company deems appropriate. The right to advancement of expenses shall not apply to any Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) for which indemnity is excluded pursuant to these bylaws, but shall apply to any Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) referenced in Section 8.6(b) or 8.6(c) prior to a determination that the person is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless otherwise determined pursuant to Section 8.8, no advance shall be made by the Company to an officer of the Company (except by reason of the fact that such officer is or was a director of the Company, in which event this paragraph shall not apply) in any Proceeding if a determination is reasonably and promptly made (a) by a vote of the directors who are not parties to such Proceeding, even though less than a quorum, or (b) by a committee of such directors designated by the vote of the majority of such directors, even though less than a quorum, or (c) if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, that facts known to the decision-

 

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making party at the time such determination is made demonstrate clearly and convincingly that such person acted in bad faith or in a manner that such person did not believe to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company.

8.6Limitation on Indemnification

Subject to the requirements in Section 8.3 and the DGCL, the Company shall not be obligated to indemnify any person pursuant to this Article VIII in connection with any Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding):

(a)for which payment has actually been made to or on behalf of such person under any statute, insurance policy, indemnity provision, vote or otherwise, except with respect to any excess beyond the amount paid;

(b)for an accounting or disgorgement of profits pursuant to Section 16(b) of the 1934 Act, or similar provisions of federal, state or local statutory law or common law, if such person is held liable therefor (including pursuant to any settlement arrangements);

(c)for any reimbursement of the Company by such person of any bonus or other incentive-based or equity-based compensation or of any profits realized by such person from the sale of securities of the Company, as required in each case under the 1934 Act (including any such reimbursements that arise from an accounting restatement of the Company pursuant to Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”), or the payment to the Company of profits arising from the purchase and sale by such person of securities in violation of Section 306 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act), if such person is held liable therefor (including pursuant to any settlement arrangements);

(d)initiated by such person, including any Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) initiated by such person against the Company or its directors, officers, employees, agents or other indemnitees, unless (i) the Board of Directors authorized the Proceeding (or the relevant part of the Proceeding) prior to its initiation, (ii) the Company provides the indemnification, in its sole discretion, pursuant to the powers vested in the Company under applicable law, (iii) otherwise required to be made under Section 8.7 or (iv) otherwise required by applicable law; or

(e)if prohibited by applicable law.

8.7Determination; Claim

If a claim for indemnification or advancement of expenses under this Article VIII is not paid in full within 90 days after receipt by the Company of the written request therefor, the claimant shall be entitled to an adjudication by a court of competent jurisdiction of his or her entitlement to such indemnification or advancement of expenses. The Company shall indemnify such person against any and all expenses that are actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with any action for indemnification or advancement of expenses from the Company under this Article VIII, to the extent such person is successful in such action, and to the extent not prohibited by law. In any such suit, the Company shall, to the fullest extent not prohibited by law, have the burden of proving that the claimant is not entitled to the requested indemnification or advancement of expenses.

 

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8.8Non-Exclusivity of Rights

The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article VIII shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under the certificate of incorporation or any statute, bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office. The Company is specifically authorized to enter into individual contracts with any or all of its directors, officers, employees or agents respecting indemnification and advancement of expenses, to the fullest extent not prohibited by the DGCL or other applicable law.

8.9Insurance

The Company may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such person’s status as such, whether or not the Company would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions of the DGCL.

8.10Survival

The rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses conferred by this Article VIII 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.

8.11Effect of Repeal or Modification

A right to indemnification or to advancement of expenses arising under a provision of the certificate of incorporation or a bylaw shall not be eliminated or impaired by an amendment to or repeal or elimination of the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws after the occurrence of the act or omission that is the subject of the civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding for which indemnification or advancement of expenses is sought, unless the provision in effect at the time of such act or omission explicitly authorizes such elimination or impairment after such action or omission has occurred.

8.12Certain Definitions

For purposes of this Article VIII, references to the “Company” shall include, in addition to the resulting company, any constituent company (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, employees or agents, so that any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent company, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this Article VIII with respect to the resulting or surviving company as such person would have with respect to such constituent company if its separate existence had continued. For purposes of this Article VIII, references to “other enterprises” shall include employee benefit plans; references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; and references to “serving at the request of the

 

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Company” shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the Company” as referred to in this Article VIII.

ARTICLE IX - GENERAL MATTERS

9.1EXECUTION OF CORPORATE CONTRACTS AND INSTRUMENTS

Except as otherwise provided by law, the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws, the Board of Directors may authorize any officer or officers, or agent or agents, to enter into any contract or execute any document or instrument in the name of and on behalf of the Company; such authority may be general or confined to specific instances. Unless so authorized or ratified by the Board of Directors or within the agency power of an officer, no officer, agent or employee shall have any power or authority to bind the Company by any contract or engagement or to pledge its credit or to render it liable for any purpose or for any amount.

9.2FISCAL YEAR

The fiscal year of the Company shall be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors and may be changed by the Board of Directors.

9.3SEAL

The Company may adopt a corporate seal, which shall be adopted and which may be altered by the Board of Directors. The Company may use the corporate seal by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or in any other manner reproduced.

9.4CONSTRUCTION; DEFINITIONS

Unless the context requires otherwise, the general provisions, rules of construction, and definitions in the DGCL shall govern the construction of these bylaws. Without limiting the generality of this provision, the singular number includes the plural, the plural number includes the singular, and the term “person” includes a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, and a natural person. Any reference in these bylaws to a section of the DGCL shall be deemed to refer to such section as amended from time to time and any successor provisions thereto.

9.5FORUM SELECTION

Unless the Company consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, if the Court of Chancery does not have jurisdiction, another State court in Delaware or the federal district court for the District of Delaware) shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for (a) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Company, (b) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, stockholder, officer or other employee of the Company to the Company or the Company’s stockholders, (c) any action arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or the certificate of incorporation or these

 

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bylaws (as either may be amended from time to time) or (d) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine, except for, as to each of (a) through (d) above, any claim as to which such court determines that there is an indispensable party not subject to the jurisdiction of such court (and the indispensable party does not consent to the personal jurisdiction of such court within 10 days following such determination), which is vested in the exclusive jurisdiction of a court or forum other than such court or for which such court does not have subject matter jurisdiction.

Unless the Company consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the federal district courts of the United States of America shall be the sole and exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, against any person in connection with any offering of the Company’s securities, including, without limitation and for the avoidance of doubt, any auditor, underwriter, expert, control person, or other defendant.

Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in any security of the Company shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to the provisions of this Section 9.5. This provision shall be enforceable by any party to a complaint covered by the provisions of this Section 9.5. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing contained in this Section 9.5 shall apply to any action brought to enforce a duty or liability created by the 1934 Act or any successor thereto.

ARTICLE X - AMENDMENTS

These bylaws may be adopted, amended or repealed by the stockholders entitled to vote; provided, however, that the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% of the total voting power of outstanding voting securities, voting together as a single class, shall be required for the stockholders of the Company to alter, amend or repeal, or adopt any bylaw inconsistent with, the following provisions of these bylaws: Article II, Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.4 and 3.11 of Article III, Article VIII, Section 9.5 of Article IX or this Article X (including, without limitation, any such Article or Section as renumbered as a result of any amendment, alteration, change, repeal, or adoption of any other Bylaw). Except as otherwise provided in the Company’s certificate of incorporation, the Board of Directors shall also have the power to adopt, amend or repeal bylaws; provided, however, that a bylaw amendment adopted by stockholders which specifies the votes that shall be necessary for the election of directors shall not be further amended or repealed by the Board of Directors.

 

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Exhibit 4.1

 

Execution Version

PAYMENTUS HOLDINGS, INC.

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

THIS REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made as of May 24, 2021 among Paymentus Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), each of the investors listed on the signature pages hereto under the caption “Sponsor Investors” (collectively, the “Sponsor Investors”), each Person listed on the signature pages under the caption “Sharma Investors” or who executes a Joinder as a “Sharma Investor” (collectively, the “Sharma Investors”) and each of the executives listed on the signature pages under the caption “Executives” or who executes a Joinder as an “Executive” (collectively, the “Executives”). Except as otherwise specified herein, all capitalized terms used in this Agreement are defined in Exhibit A attached hereto.

In consideration of the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties to this Agreement hereby agree as follows:

Section 1Demand Registrations.

(a)Requests for Registration.  At any time and from time to time, the Sponsor Investors may request registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of their Registrable Securities on Form S-1 or any similar long-form registration statement (“Long-Form Registrations”) or on Form S-3 or any similar short-form registration statement (“Short-Form Registrations”), if available.  From and after the second anniversary of the date of the effectiveness of the registration statement for the Company’s initial Public Offering, the Sharma Investors may request registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of their Registrable Securities on a Long-Form Registration or a Short-Form Registration, if available (any such requested registration and any registration requested by the Sponsor Investors pursuant to the preceding sentence, a “Demand Registration”).  The Sponsor Investors or Sharma Investors may request that any Demand Registration be made pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (a “Shelf Registration”) and (if the Company is a WKSI at the time any such request is submitted to the Company or will become one by the time of the filing of such Shelf Registration) that such Shelf Registration be an automatic shelf registration statement (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) (an “Automatic Shelf Registration Statement”).  Each request for a Demand Registration must specify the approximate number or dollar value of Registrable Securities requested to be registered by the requesting Holders and (if known) the intended method of distribution.  The Sponsor Investors will be entitled to request an unlimited number of Demand Registrations for which the Company will pay all Registration Expenses, whether or not any such registration is consummated.  The Sharma Investors will collectively be entitled to request no more than three (3) Demand Registrations for which the Company will pay all Registration Expenses, whether or not any such registration is consummated.

(b)Notice to Other Holders.  Within four (4) Business Days after receipt of any such request, the Company will give written notice of the Demand Registration to all other Holders and, subject to the terms of Section 1(e), will include in such Demand Registration (and in all related registrations and qualifications under state blue sky laws and in any related underwriting) all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within ten (10) days after the receipt of the Company’s notice; provided that, with the written consent of the Sponsor Investors, the Company may, or at the written request of the Sponsor Investors, the Company shall, instead provide notice of the Demand Registration to all other Holders within three (3) Business Days following the non-confidential filing of the registration statement with respect to the Demand Registration so long as such registration statement is not an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement.

 


 

(c)Form of Registrations.  All Long‑Form Registrations will be underwritten registrations unless otherwise approved by the Sponsor Investors.  Demand Registrations will be Short-Form Registrations whenever the Company is permitted to use any applicable short form unless otherwise requested by the Sponsor Investors.

(d)Shelf Registrations.

(i)For so long as a registration statement for a Shelf Registration (a “Shelf Registration Statement”) is and remains effective, the Demand Initiating Holders will have the right at any time or from time to time (subject to the limitations (including with respect to time and number) set forth in Section 1(a) applicable to any Demand Initiating Holder) to elect to sell pursuant to an offering (including an underwritten offering) Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement (“Shelf Registrable Securities”). If the Demand Initiating Holders desire to sell Registrable Securities pursuant to an underwritten offering, then the Demand Initiating Holders may deliver to the Company a written notice (a “Shelf Offering Notice”) specifying the number of Shelf Registrable Securities that the Demand Initiating Holders desire to sell pursuant to such underwritten offering (the “Shelf Offering”).  As promptly as practicable, but in no event later than two (2) Business Days after receipt of a Shelf Offering Notice, the Company will give written notice of such Shelf Offering Notice to all other Holders of Shelf Registrable Securities that have been identified as selling stockholders in such Shelf Registration Statement and are otherwise permitted to sell in such Shelf Offering, which such notice shall request that each such Holder specify, within seven (7) days after the Company’s receipt of the Shelf Offering Notice, the maximum number of Shelf Registrable Securities such Holder desires to be disposed of in such Shelf Offering.  The Company, subject to Section 1(e) and Section 7, will include in such Shelf Offering all Shelf Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received timely written requests for inclusion.  The Company will, as expeditiously as possible (and in any event within fourteen (14) days after the receipt of a Shelf Offering Notice), but subject to Section 1(e), use its best efforts to consummate such Shelf Offering.  

(ii)If the Demand Initiating Holders desire to engage in an underwritten block trade or bought deal pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement (either through filing an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement or through a take-down from an already existing Shelf Registration Statement and subject to the limitations (including with respect to time and number) set forth in Section 1(a) applicable to any Demand Initiating Holder) (each, an “Underwritten Block Trade”), then notwithstanding the time periods set forth in Section 1(d)(i), the Demand Initiating Holders may notify the Company of the Underwritten Block Trade not less than two (2) Business Days prior to the day such offering is first anticipated to commence.  If requested by the Demand Initiating Holders, the Company will promptly notify other Holders of such Underwritten Block Trade and such notified Holders (each, a “Potential Participant”) may elect whether or not to participate no later than the next Business Day (i.e. one (1) Business Day prior to the day such offering is to commence) (unless a longer period is agreed to by the Demand Initiating Holders), and the Company will as expeditiously as possible use its best efforts to facilitate such Underwritten Block Trade (which may close as early as two (2) Business Days after the date it commences); provided further that, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1(d)(i), no Holder (other than Holders of Sponsor Investor Registrable Securities and Sharma Investor Registrable Securities) will be permitted to participate in an Underwritten Block Trade without the written consent of the Sponsor Investors. Any Potential Participant’s request to participate in an Underwritten Block Trade shall be binding on the Potential Participant.

(iii)All determinations as to whether to complete any Shelf Offering and as to the timing, manner, price and other terms of any Shelf Offering contemplated by this Section 1(d)

 

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shall be determined by the Demand Initiating Holders, and the Company shall use its best efforts to cause any Shelf Offering to occur in accordance with such determinations as promptly as practicable.

(iv)The Company will, at the request of the Demand Initiating Holders, file any prospectus supplement or any post-effective amendments and otherwise take any action necessary to include therein all disclosure and language deemed necessary or advisable by the Demand Initiating Holders to effect such Shelf Offering.

(e)Priority on Demand Registrations and Shelf Offerings. The Company will not include in any Demand Registration any securities which are not Registrable Securities without the prior written consent of the Sponsor Investors.  If a Demand Registration or a Shelf Offering is an underwritten offering and the managing underwriters advise the Company in writing that in their opinion the number of Registrable Securities and (if permitted hereunder) other securities requested to be included in such offering exceeds the number of Registrable Securities and other securities (if any), which can be sold therein without adversely affecting the marketability, proposed offering price, timing or method of distribution of the offering, then the Company will include in such offering (prior to the inclusion of any securities which are not Registrable Securities) the number of Registrable Securities requested to be included by any Holder which, in the opinion of such underwriters, can be sold, without any such adverse effect, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities owned by each such Holder. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if any Holders of Sharma Investor Registrable Securities (outside of a Demand Registration initiated by the Sharma Investors) or Executive Registrable Securities have requested to include such securities in an underwritten offering and the managing underwriters for such offering advise the Company that in their opinion the inclusion of some or all of such Sharma Investor Registrable Securities (outside of a Demand Registration initiated by the Sharma Investors) or Executive Registrable Securities could adversely affect the marketability, proposed offering price, timing and/or method of distribution of the offering, then the Company shall exclude from such offering the number of such Sharma Investor Registrable Securities (outside of a Demand Registration initiated by the Sharma Investors) or Executive Registrable Securities identified by the managing underwriters as having any such adverse effect prior to the exclusion of any Registrable Securities of any other Holders as set forth in this Section 1(e), which, for the avoidance of doubt, may be all such Sharma Investor Registrable Securities (outside of a Demand Registration initiated by the Sharma Investors) or Executive Registrable Securities requested to be included such offering.

(f)Restrictions on Demand Registration and Shelf Offerings.

(i)The Company may postpone, for up to 60 days (or with the consent of the Sponsor Investors, a longer period) from the date of the request (the “Suspension Period”), the filing or the effectiveness of a registration statement for a Demand Registration or suspend the use of a prospectus that is part of a Shelf Registration Statement (and therefore suspend sales of the Shelf Registrable Securities) by providing written notice to the Holders if the following conditions are met: (A) the Company determines that the offer or sale of Registrable Securities would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on any proposal or plan by the Company or any Subsidiary to engage in any material acquisition of assets or stock (other than in the ordinary course of business) or any material merger, consolidation, tender offer, recapitalization, reorganization, financing or other transaction involving the Company or (B) upon advice of counsel, the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration statement would require disclosure of material non-public information not otherwise required to be disclosed under applicable law, and (x) the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving the confidentiality of such transaction or material non-public information, (y) disclosure would have a material adverse effect on the Company or the Company’s ability to consummate such transaction,

 

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or (z) making such disclosure would render the Company unable to comply with any SEC requirement, in each case under circumstances that would make it impractical or inadvisable to cause the registration statement (or such filings) to become effective or to promptly amend or supplement the registration statement on a post-effective basis, as applicable. The Company may delay or suspend the effectiveness of a Demand Registration or Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to this Section 1(f)(i) only once in any twelve (12)-month period (for avoidance of doubt, in addition to the Companys rights and obligations under Section 4(a)(vi)) unless additional delays or suspensions are approved by the Sponsor Investors.

(ii)In the case of an event that causes the Company to suspend the use of a Shelf Registration Statement as set forth in Section 1(f)(i) above or pursuant to Section 4(a)(vi) (a “Suspension Event), the Company will give a notice to the Holders whose Registrable Securities are registered pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement (a “Suspension Notice) to suspend sales of the Registrable Securities and such notice must state generally the basis for the notice and that such suspension will continue only for so long as the Suspension Event or its effect is continuing.  Each Holder agrees not to effect any sales of its Registrable Securities pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement (or such filings) at any time after it has received a Suspension Notice from the Company and prior to receipt of an End of Suspension Notice.  A Holder may recommence effecting sales of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement (or such filings) following further written notice to such effect (an “End of Suspension Notice”) from the Company, which End of Suspension Notice will be given by the Company to the Holders promptly following the conclusion of any Suspension Event (and in any event during the permitted Suspension Period).

(g)Selection of Underwriters.  The Sponsor Investors shall select the legal counsel to the Company, the investment banker(s) and manager(s) to administer any underwritten offering in connection with any Demand Registration or Shelf Offering.

(h)Other Registration Rights.  Except as provided in this Agreement, the Company will not grant to any Person(s) the right to request the Company or any Subsidiary to register any equity securities of the Company or any Subsidiary, or any securities convertible or exchangeable into or exercisable for such securities, without the prior written consent of the Sponsor Investors; provided that, with the prior approval of the Sponsor Investors, the Company may grant rights to employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries to participate in Piggyback Registrations so long as they sign a Joinder as an “Executive”  and Holder of “Executive Registrable Securities” hereunder.

(i)Revocation of Demand Notice or Shelf Offering Notice.  At any time prior to the effective date of the registration statement relating to a Demand Registration or the “pricing” of any offering relating to a Shelf Offering Notice, the Demand Initiating Holders who initiated such Demand Registration or Shelf Offering may revoke or withdraw such notice of a Demand Registration or Shelf Offering Notice on behalf of all Holders participating in such Demand Registration or Shelf Offering without liability to such Holders (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the other Participating Sponsor Investors or other Participating Sharma Investors, as applicable), in each case by providing written notice to the Company.  

(j)Confidentiality.  Each Holder agrees to treat as confidential the receipt of any notice hereunder (including notice of a Demand Registration, a Shelf Offering Notice and a Suspension Notice) and the information contained therein, and not to disclose or use the information contained in any such notice (or the existence thereof) without the prior written consent of the Company until such time as the information contained therein is or becomes available to the public generally (other than as a result of disclosure by such Holder in breach of the terms of this Agreement).

 

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Section 2Piggyback Registrations.

(a)Right to Piggyback.  Whenever the Company proposes to register any of its equity securities under the Securities Act (including primary and secondary registrations, and other than pursuant to an Excluded Registration) (a “Piggyback Registration), the Company will give prompt written notice (and in any event within three (3) Business Days after the public filing of the registration statement relating to the Piggyback Registration) to all Holders of its intention to effect such Piggyback Registration and, subject to the terms of Section 2(b) and Section 2(c), will include in such Piggyback Registration (and in all related registrations or qualifications under blue sky laws and in any related underwriting) all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written requests for inclusion therein within ten (10) days after delivery of the Company’s notice; provided that the Company shall not be required to provide such notice or include any Registrable Securities in such registration if the Sponsor Investors elect not to include any Sponsor Investor Registrable Securities in such registration, unless the Sponsor Investors otherwise consent in writing.  Any Participating Sponsor Investor may withdraw its request for inclusion at any time prior to executing the underwriting agreement, or if none, prior to the applicable registration statement becoming effective.

(b)Priority on Primary Registrations. If a Piggyback Registration is an underwritten primary registration on behalf of the Company, and the managing underwriters advise the Company in writing that in their opinion the number of securities requested to be included in such registration exceeds the number which can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the marketability, proposed offering price, timing or method of distribution of the offering, the Company will include in such registration (i) first, the securities the Company proposes to sell, (ii) second, the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by any Holder which, in the opinion of such underwriters, can be sold, without any such adverse effect, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities owned by each such Holder and (iii) third, other securities requested to be included in such registration which, in the opinion of the underwriters, can be sold without any such adverse effect.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if any Holders of Sharma Investor Registrable Securities or Executive Registrable Securities have requested to include such securities in a Piggyback Registration that is an underwritten primary offering on behalf of the Company and the managing underwriters for such offering advise the Company that in their opinion the inclusion of some or all of such Sharma Investor Registrable Securities or Executive Registrable Securities could adversely affect the marketability, proposed offering price, timing and/or method of distribution of the offering, then the Company shall first exclude from such offering the number (which may be all) of such Sharma Investor Registrable Securities or Executive Registrable Securities identified by the managing underwriters as having any such adverse effect prior to the exclusion of any securities such offering.

(c)Priority on Secondary Registrations. If a Piggyback Registration is an underwritten secondary registration on behalf of holders of the Company’s equity securities (other than pursuant to Section 1 hereof), and the managing underwriters advise the Company in writing that in their opinion the number of securities requested to be included in such registration exceeds the number which can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the marketability, proposed offering price, timing or method of distribution of the offering, the Company will include in such registration (i) first, the securities requested to be included therein by the holders initially requesting such registration which, in the opinion of the underwriters, can be sold without any such adverse effect, (ii) second, the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by any other Holder which, in the opinion of such underwriters, can be sold, without any such adverse effect, pro rata among such Holders on the basis of the number of Registrable Securities owned by each such Holder and (iii) third, other securities requested to be included in such registration which, in the opinion of the underwriters, can be sold without any such adverse effect. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if any Holders of Sharma Investor Registrable Securities or Executive Registrable Securities have requested to include such securities in a Piggyback Registration

 

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that is an underwritten secondary offering and the managing underwriters for such offering advise the Company that in their opinion the inclusion of some or all of such Sharma Investor Registrable Securities or Executive Registrable Securities could adversely affect the marketability, proposed offering price, timing and/or method of distribution of the offering, then the Company shall be permitted to first exclude from such offering the number (which may be all) of such Sharma Investor Registrable Securities or Executive Registrable Securities identified by the managing underwriters as having any such adverse effect prior to the exclusion of any securities such offering.

(d)Right to Terminate Registration. The Company will have the right to terminate or withdraw any registration initiated by it under this Section 2, whether or not any holder of Registrable Securities has elected to include securities in such registration.  

(e)Selection of Underwriters. If any Piggyback Registration is an underwritten offering, the Sponsor Investors shall select the legal counsel for the Company, the investment banker(s) and manager(s) for the offering.

Section 3Stockholder Lock-Up Agreements and Company Holdback Agreement.

(a)Stockholder Lock-up Agreements. In connection with any underwritten Public Offering, each Holder will enter into any lock-up, holdback or similar agreements requested by the underwriter(s) managing such offering, in each case with such modifications and exceptions as may be approved by the Sponsor Investors.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Holder hereby agrees that in connection with any Demand Registration, Shelf Offering or Piggyback Registration that is an underwritten Public Offering, not to (i) offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of (including sales pursuant to Rule 144), directly or indirectly, any equity securities of the Company (including equity securities of the Company that may be deemed to be beneficially owned by such Holder in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC) (collectively, “Securities), or any securities, options or rights convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Securities (collectively, “Other Securities”), (ii) enter into a transaction which would have the same effect as described in clause (i) above, (iii) enter into any swap, hedge or other arrangement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences or ownership of any Securities or Other Securities, whether such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such Securities or Other Securities, in cash or otherwise (each of (i), (ii) and (iii) above, a “Sale Transaction), or (iv) publicly disclose the intention to enter into any Sale Transaction, commencing on the date on which the Company gives notice to the Holders that a preliminary prospectus has been circulated for such underwritten Public Offering or the “pricing” of such offering and continuing to the date that is 90 days following the date of the final prospectus in the case of any other such underwritten Public Offering, in each case with such modifications and exceptions as may be approved by the Sponsor Investors (each such period, or such shorter period as agreed to by the managing underwriters, a “Holdback Period”).  The Company may impose stop-transfer instructions with respect to any Securities or Other Securities subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 3(a) until the end of such Holdback Period.

(b)Company Holdback Agreement.  The Company (i) will not file any registration statement for a Public Offering or cause any such registration statement to become effective, or effect any public sale or distribution of its Securities or Other Securities during any Holdback Period (other than as part of such underwritten Public Offering, or a registration on Form S-4 or Form S-8 or any successor or similar form which is (x) then in effect or (y) shall become effective upon the conversion, exchange or exercise of any then outstanding Other Securities) and (ii) will cause each holder of Securities and Other Securities (including each of its directors and executive officers) to agree not to effect any Sale Transaction during any Holdback Period, except as part of such underwritten registration (if otherwise permitted), unless approved in writing by the Sponsor Investors and the underwriters managing the Public Offering and to

 

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enter into any lock-up, holdback or similar agreements requested by the underwriter(s) managing such offering, in each case with such modifications and exceptions as may be approved by the Sponsor Investors.

Section 4Registration Procedures.

(a)Company Obligations. Whenever the Holders have requested that any Registrable Securities be registered pursuant to this Agreement or have initiated a Shelf Offering, the Company will use its best efforts to effect the registration and the sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method of disposition thereof, and pursuant thereto the Company will as expeditiously as possible:

(i)prepare and file with (or submit confidentially to) the SEC a registration statement, and all amendments and supplements thereto and related prospectuses, with respect to such Registrable Securities and use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective, all in accordance with the Securities Act and all applicable rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (provided that before filing or confidentially submitting a registration statement or prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto, the Company will furnish to the counsel selected by the Sponsor Investors covered by such registration statement copies of all such documents proposed to be filed or submitted, which documents will be subject to the review and comment of such counsel);

(ii)notify each Holder of (A) the issuance by the SEC of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of any registration statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, (B) the receipt by the Company or its counsel of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose, and (C) the effectiveness of each registration statement filed hereunder;

(iii)prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and supplements to such registration statement and the prospectus used in connection therewith as may be necessary to keep such registration statement effective for a period ending when all of the securities covered by such registration statement have been disposed of in accordance with the intended methods of distribution by the sellers thereof set forth in such registration statement (but not in any event before the expiration of any longer period required under the Securities Act or, if such registration statement relates to an underwritten Public Offering, such longer period as in the opinion of counsel for the underwriters a prospectus is required by law to be delivered in connection with sale of Registrable Securities by an underwriter or dealer) and comply with the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the disposition of all securities covered by such registration statement during such period in accordance with the intended methods of disposition by the sellers thereof set forth in such registration statement;

(iv)furnish, without charge, to each seller of Registrable Securities thereunder and each underwriter, if any, such number of copies of such registration statement, each amendment and supplement thereto, the prospectus included in such registration statement (including each preliminary prospectus) (in each case including all exhibits and documents incorporated by reference therein), each amendment and supplement thereto, each Free Writing Prospectus and such other documents as such seller or underwriter, if any, may reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of the Registrable Securities owned by such seller (the Company hereby consenting to the use in accordance with all applicable laws of each such registration statement, each such amendment and supplement thereto, and each such prospectus (or preliminary prospectus or supplement thereto) or Free Writing Prospectus by each such seller of Registrable Securities and

 

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the underwriters, if any, in connection with the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement or prospectus);

(v)use its best efforts to register or qualify such Registrable Securities under such other securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as any seller reasonably requests and do any and all other acts and things which may be reasonably necessary or advisable to enable such seller to consummate the disposition in such jurisdictions of the Registrable Securities owned by such seller (provided that the Company will not be required to (A) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify but for this subparagraph or (B) consent to general service of process in any such jurisdiction or (C) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction);

(vi)notify in writing each seller of such Registrable Securities (A) promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the date and time when such registration statement and each post-effective amendment thereto has become effective or a prospectus or supplement to any prospectus relating to a registration statement has been filed and when any registration or qualification has become effective under a state securities or blue sky law or any exemption thereunder has been obtained, (B) promptly after receipt thereof, of any request by the SEC for the amendment or supplementing of such registration statement or prospectus or for additional information, and (C) at any time when a prospectus relating thereto is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, of the happening of any event or of any information or circumstances as a result of which the prospectus included in such registration statement contains an untrue statement of a material fact or omits any fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and, subject to Section 1(f), if required by applicable law or to the extent requested by the Sponsor Investor, the Company will use its best efforts to promptly prepare and file a supplement or amendment to such prospectus so that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of such Registrable Securities, such prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading and (D) if at any time the representations and warranties of the Company in any underwriting agreement, securities sale agreement, or other similar agreement, relating to the offering shall cease to be true and correct;

(vii)(A) use best efforts to cause all such Registrable Securities to be listed on each securities exchange on which similar securities issued by the Company are then listed and, if not so listed, to be listed on a securities exchange and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to arrange for at least two market markers to register as such with respect to such Registrable Securities with FINRA, and (B) comply (and continue to comply) with the requirements of any self-regulatory organization applicable to the Company, including without limitation all corporate governance requirements;

(viii)use best efforts to provide a transfer agent and registrar for all such Registrable Securities not later than the effective date of such registration statement;

(ix)enter into and perform such customary agreements (including, as applicable, underwriting agreements in customary form) and take all such other actions as the Sponsor Investors or the underwriters, if any, reasonably request in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities (including, without limitation, making available the executive officers of the Company and participating in “road shows,” investor presentations, marketing events and other selling efforts and effecting a stock or unit split or combination, recapitalization or reorganization);

 

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(x)make available for inspection by any seller of Registrable Securities, any underwriter participating in any disposition or sale pursuant to such registration statement and any attorney, accountant or other agent retained by any such seller or underwriter, all financial and other records, pertinent corporate and business documents and properties of the Company as will be necessary to enable them to exercise their due diligence responsibility, and cause the Companys officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives and independent accountants to supply all information reasonably requested by any such seller, underwriter, attorney, accountant or agent in connection with such registration statement and the disposition of such Registrable Securities pursuant thereto;

(xi)take all actions to ensure that any Free-Writing Prospectus utilized in connection with any Demand Registration or Piggyback Registration or Shelf Offering hereunder complies in all material respects with the Securities Act, is filed in accordance with the Securities Act to the extent required thereby, is retained in accordance with the Securities Act to the extent required thereby and, when taken together with the related prospectus, prospectus supplement and related documents, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;

(xii)otherwise use its best efforts to comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the SEC, and make available to its security holders, as soon as reasonably practicable, an earnings statement covering the period of at least twelve (12) months beginning with the first day of the Company’s first full calendar quarter after the effective date of the registration statement, which earnings statement will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 thereunder;

(xiii)permit any Holder which, in its sole and exclusive judgment, might be deemed to be an underwriter or a controlling person of the Company, to participate in the preparation of such registration or comparable statement and to allow such Holder to provide language for insertion therein, in form and substance satisfactory to the Company, which in the reasonable judgment of such Holder and its counsel should be included;

(xiv)use best efforts to (A) make Short-Form Registration available for the sale of Registrable Securities and (B) prevent the issuance of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a registration statement, or the issuance of any order suspending or preventing the use of any related prospectus or suspending the qualification of any Common Stock included in such registration statement for sale in any jurisdiction use, and in the event any such order is issued, best efforts to obtain promptly the withdrawal of such order;

(xv)use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement to be registered with or approved by such other governmental agencies or authorities as may be necessary to enable the sellers thereof to consummate the disposition of such Registrable Securities;

(xvi)cooperate with the Holders covered by the registration statement and the managing underwriter or agent, if any, to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates (not bearing any restrictive legends) representing securities to be sold under the registration statement, or the removal of any restrictive legends associated with any account at which such securities are held, and enable such securities to be in such denominations and registered in such names as the managing underwriter, or agent, if any, or such Holders may request;

 

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(xvii)if requested by any managing underwriter, include in any prospectus or prospectus supplement updated financial or business information for the Companys most recent period or current quarterly period (including estimated results or ranges of results) if required for purposes of marketing the offering in the view of the managing underwriter;

(xviii)take no direct or indirect action prohibited by Regulation M under the Exchange Act; provided, however, that to the extent that any prohibition is applicable to the Company, the Company will take such action as is necessary to make any such prohibition inapplicable;

(xix)cooperate with each Holder covered by the registration statement and each underwriter or agent participating in the disposition of such Registrable Securities and their respective counsel in connection with the preparation and filing of applications, notices, registrations and responses to requests for additional information with FINRA, the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq or any other national securities exchange on which the shares of Common Stock are or are to be listed, and to the extent required by the rules and regulations of FINRA, retain a Qualified Independent Underwriter acceptable to the managing underwriter;

(xx)in the case of any underwritten offering, use its best efforts to obtain, and deliver to the underwriter(s), in the manner and to the extent provided for in the applicable underwriting agreement, one or more cold comfort letters from the Company’s independent public accountants in customary form and covering such matters of the type customarily covered by cold comfort letters;

(xxi)use its best efforts to provide (A) a legal opinion of the Company’s outside counsel, dated the effective date of such registration statement addressed to the Company, (B) on the date that such Registrable Securities are delivered to the underwriters for sale in connection with a Demand Registration or Shelf Offering, if such securities are being sold through underwriters, or, if such securities are not being sold through underwriters, on the closing date of the applicable sale, (1) one or more legal opinions of the Company’s outside counsel, dated such date, in form and substance as customarily given to underwriters in an underwritten public offering or, in the case of a non-underwritten offering, to the broker, placement agent or other agent of the Holders assisting in the sale of the Registrable Securities and (2) one or more “negative assurances letters” of the Company’s outside counsel, dated such date, in form and substance as is customarily given to underwriters in an underwritten public offering or, in the case of a non-underwritten offering, to the broker, placement agent or other agent of the Holders assisting in the sale of the Registrable Securities, in each case, addressed to the underwriters, if any, or, if requested, in the case of a non-underwritten offering, to the broker, placement agent or other agent of the Holders assisting in the sale of the Registrable Securities and (3) customary certificates executed by authorized officers of the Company as may be requested by any Holder or any underwriter of such Registrable Securities;

(xxii)if the Company files an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement covering any Registrable Securities, use its best efforts to remain a WKSI (and not become an ineligible issuer (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act)) during the period during which such Automatic Shelf Registration Statement is required to remain effective;

(xxiii)if the Company does not pay the filing fee covering the Registrable Securities at the time an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement is filed, pay such fee at such time or times as the Registrable Securities are to be sold;

 

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(xxiv)if the Automatic Shelf Registration Statement has been outstanding for at least three (3) years, at the end of the third year, refile a new Automatic Shelf Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities, and, if at any time when the Company is required to re-evaluate its WKSI status the Company determines that it is not a WKSI, use its best efforts to refile the Shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 and, if such form is not available, Form S-1 and keep such registration statement effective during the period during which such registration statement is required to be kept effective; and

(xxv)if requested by any Participating Sponsor Investor or Participating Sharma Investor, cooperate with such Participating Sponsor Investor and with the managing underwriter or agent, if any, on reasonable notice to facilitate any Charitable Gifting Event and to prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and supplements to such Registration Statement and the Prospectus used in connection therewith as may be necessary to permit any such recipient Charitable Organization to sell in the underwritten offering if it so elects.

(b)Officer Obligations. Each Holder that is an officer of the Company agrees that if and for so long as he or she is employed by the Company or any Subsidiary thereof, he or she will participate fully in the sale process in a manner customary for persons in like positions and consistent with his or her other duties with the Company, including the preparation of the registration statement and the preparation and presentation of any road shows.

(c)Automatic Shelf Registration Statements. If the Company files any Automatic Shelf Registration Statement for the benefit of the holders of any of its securities other than the Holders, and the Sponsor Investors do not request that their Registrable Securities be included in such Shelf Registration Statement, the Company agrees that, at the request of the Sponsor Investors, it will include in such Automatic Shelf Registration Statement such disclosures as may be required by Rule 430B in order to ensure that the Sponsor Investors may be added to such Shelf Registration Statement at a later time through the filing of a prospectus supplement rather than a post-effective amendment.  If the Company has filed any Automatic Shelf Registration Statement for the benefit of the holders of any of its securities other than the Holders, the Company shall, at the request of the Sponsor Investors, file any post-effective amendments necessary to include therein all disclosure and language necessary to ensure that the holders of Registrable Securities may be added to such Shelf Registration Statement.

(d)Additional Information. The Company may require each seller of Registrable Securities as to which any registration is being effected to furnish the Company such information regarding such seller and the distribution of such securities as the Company may from time to time reasonably request in writing, as a condition to such seller’s participation in such registration.

(e)In-Kind Distributions. If any Sponsor Investor (and/or any of their Affiliates) seeks to effectuate an in-kind distribution of all or part of their Registrable Securities to their respective direct or indirect equityholders, the Company will, subject to any applicable lock-ups, work with the foregoing Persons to facilitate such in-kind distribution in the manner reasonably requested and consistent with the Company’s obligations under the Securities Act.

(f)Suspended Distributions.  Each Person participating in a registration hereunder agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 4(a)(vi), such Person will immediately discontinue the disposition of its Registrable Securities pursuant to the registration statement until such Person’s receipt of the copies of a supplemented or amended prospectus as contemplated by Section 4(a)(vi), subject to the Company’s compliance with its obligations under Section 4(a)(vi).

 

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(g)Other.  To the extent that any of the Participating Sponsor Investors or Participating Sharma Investors is or may be deemed to be an underwriter of Registrable Securities pursuant to any SEC comments or policies, the Company agrees that (i) the indemnification and contribution provisions contained in Section 6 shall be applicable to the benefit of such Participating Sponsor Investor in their role as an underwriter or deemed underwriter in addition to their capacity as a holder and (ii) such Participating Sponsor Investor shall be entitled to conduct the due diligence which they would normally conduct in connection with an offering of securities registered under the Securities Act, including without limitation receipt of customary opinions and comfort letters addressed to such Participating Sponsor Investor.

Section 5Registration Expenses.

Except as expressly provided herein, all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Company, any Sharma Investor or any Sponsor Investor in connection with the performance of or compliance with this Agreement and/or in connection with any Demand Registration, Piggyback Registration or Shelf Offering, whether or not the same shall become effective, shall be paid by the Company, including, without limitation: (i) all registration and filing fees, and any other fees and expenses associated with filings required to be made with the SEC or FINRA, (ii) all fees and expenses in connection with compliance with any securities or “blue sky” laws, (iii) all printing, duplicating, word processing, messenger, telephone, facsimile and delivery expenses (including expenses of printing certificates for the Registrable Securities in a form eligible for deposit with The Depository Trust Company or other depositary and of printing prospectuses and Company Free Writing Prospectuses), (iv) all fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company and of all independent certified public accountants of the Company (including the expenses of any special audit and cold comfort letters required by or incident to such performance), (v) Securities Act liability insurance or similar insurance if the Company so desires or the underwriters so require in accordance with then-customary underwriting practice, (vi) all fees and expenses incurred in connection with the listing of the Registrable Securities on any securities exchange on which similar securities of the Company are then listed, (vii) all applicable rating agency fees with respect to the Registrable Securities, (viii) all fees and disbursements of legal counsel for the Company, (ix) all reasonable fees and disbursements of one legal counsel for selling Holders selected by the Sponsor Investors (which may be the same counsel as selected for the Company) together with any necessary local counsel as may be required by the Sponsor Investors, (x) any fees and disbursements of underwriters customarily paid by issuers or sellers of securities, (xi) all fees and expenses of any special experts or other Persons retained by the Company or the Sponsor Investors in connection with any Registration (xii) all of the Company’s internal expenses (including all salaries and expenses of its officers and employees performing legal or accounting duties) and (xiii) all expenses related to the “road-show” for any underwritten offering, including all travel, meals and lodging.  All such expenses are referred to herein as “Registration Expenses.”  The Company shall not be required to pay, and each Person that sells securities pursuant to a Demand Registration, Shelf Offering or Piggyback Registration hereunder will bear and pay, all underwriting discounts and commissions applicable to the Registrable Securities sold for such Person’s account and all transfer taxes (if any) attributable to the sale of Registrable Securities.

Section 6Indemnification and Contribution.

(a)By the Company.  The Company will indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by law and without limitation as to time, each Holder, such Holder’s officers, directors employees, agents, fiduciaries, stockholders, managers, partners, members, affiliates, direct and indirect equityholders, consultants and representatives, and any successors and assigns thereof, and each Person who controls such holder (within the meaning of the Securities Act) (the “Indemnified Parties”) against all losses, claims, actions, damages, liabilities and expenses (including with respect to actions or proceedings, whether commenced or threatened, and including reasonable attorney fees and expenses) (collectively,

 

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Losses) caused by, resulting from, arising out of, based upon or related to any of the following (each, a Violation) by the Company:  (i) any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in (A) any registration statement, prospectus, preliminary prospectus or Free‑Writing Prospectus, or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or (B) any application or other document or communication (in this Section 6, collectively called an application) executed by or on behalf of the Company or based upon written information furnished by or on behalf of the Company filed in any jurisdiction in order to qualify any securities covered by such registration under the blue sky or securities laws thereof, (ii) any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or (iii) any violation or alleged violation by the Company of the Securities Act or any other similar federal or state securities laws or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder applicable to the Company and relating to action or inaction required of the Company in connection with any such registration, qualification or compliance.  In addition, the Company will reimburse such Indemnified Party for any legal or any other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such Losses.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such Losses result from, arise out of, are based upon, or relate to an untrue statement, or omission, made in such registration statement, any such prospectus, preliminary prospectus or Free‑Writing Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, or in any application, in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information prepared and furnished in writing to the Company by such Indemnified Party expressly for use therein or by such Indemnified Partys failure to deliver a copy of the registration statement or prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto after the Company has furnished such Indemnified Party with a sufficient number of copies of the same.  In connection with an underwritten offering, the Company will indemnify such underwriters, their officers and directors, and each Person who controls such underwriters (within the meaning of the Securities Act) to the same extent as provided above with respect to the indemnification of the Indemnified Parties or as otherwise agreed to in the underwriting agreement executed in connection with such underwritten offering. Such indemnity and reimbursement of expenses shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of such Indemnified Party and shall survive the transfer of such securities by such seller.

(b)By Holders.  In connection with any registration statement in which a Holder is participating, each such Holder will furnish to the Company in writing such information and affidavits as the Company reasonably requests for use in connection with any such registration statement or prospectus and, to the extent permitted by law, will indemnify the Company, its officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives, and each Person who controls the Company (within the meaning of the Securities Act) against any Losses resulting from (as determined by a final and appealable judgment, order or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction) any untrue statement of material fact contained in the registration statement, prospectus or preliminary prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but only to the extent that such untrue statement or omission is contained in any information or affidavit so furnished in writing by such Holder expressly for use therein; provided that the obligation to indemnify will be individual, not joint and several, for each Holder and will be limited to the net amount of proceeds received by such Holder from the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration statement.

(c)Claim Procedure.  Any Person entitled to indemnification hereunder will (i) give prompt written notice to the indemnifying party of any claim with respect to which it seeks indemnification (provided that the failure to give prompt notice will impair any Person’s right to indemnification hereunder only to the extent such failure has prejudiced the indemnifying party) and (ii) unless in such indemnified party’s reasonable judgment a conflict of interest between such indemnified and indemnifying parties may exist with respect to such claim, permit such indemnifying party to assume the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party.  If such defense is assumed, the indemnifying party will not be subject to any liability for any settlement made by the indemnified party without its consent (but such consent will not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).  An indemnifying party who

 

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is not entitled to, or elects not to, assume the defense of a claim will not be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of more than one counsel for all parties indemnified by such indemnifying party 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 such instance, the conflicted indemnified parties will have a right to retain one separate counsel, chosen by the majority of the conflicted indemnified parties involved in the indemnification and approved by the Sponsor Investor, at the expense of the indemnifying party.

(d)Contribution.  If the indemnification provided for in this Section 6 is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unavailable to, or is insufficient to hold harmless, an indemnified party or is otherwise unenforceable with respect to any Loss referred to herein, then such indemnifying party will contribute to the amounts paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such Loss, (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party on the one hand and of the indemnified party on the other hand in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such Loss as well as any other relevant equitable considerations or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) of this Section 6(d) is not permitted by applicable law, then in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative fault but also the relative benefit of the Company on the one hand and of the sellers of Registrable Securities and any other sellers participating in the registration statement on the other in connection with the statement or omissions which resulted in such Losses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations; provided that the maximum amount of liability in respect of such contribution will be limited, in the case of each seller of Registrable Securities, to an amount equal to the net proceeds actually received by such seller from the sale of Registrable Securities effected pursuant to such registration.  The relative fault of the indemnifying party and of the indemnified party will be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue (or, as applicable alleged) untrue statement of a material fact or the omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the indemnifying party or by the indemnified party and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.  The parties hereto agree that it would not be just or equitable if the contribution pursuant to this Section 6(d) were to be determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation that does not take into account such equitable considerations.  The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the Losses referred to herein will be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending against any action or claim which is the subject hereof.  No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) will be entitled to contribution from any Person who is not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

(e)Release.  No indemnifying party will, except with the consent of the indemnified party, consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement that does not include as an unconditional term thereof giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.

(f)Non-exclusive Remedy; Survival.  The indemnification and contribution provided for under this Agreement will be in addition to any other rights to indemnification or contribution that any indemnified party may have pursuant to law or contract (and the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be considered the indemnitors of first resort in all such circumstances to which this Section 6 applies) and will remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the indemnified party or any officer, director or controlling Person of such indemnified party and will survive the transfer of Registrable Securities and the termination or expiration of this Agreement.

Section 7Cooperation with Underwritten Offerings.  No Person (unless determined by AKKR Management Company, LLC (or its designee)) may participate in any underwritten registration hereunder unless such Person (i) agrees to sell such Person’s securities on the basis provided in any

 

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underwriting arrangements approved by the Person or Persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements (including, without limitation, pursuant to the terms of any over-allotment or green shoe option requested by the underwriters; provided that no Holder will be required to sell more than the number of Registrable Securities such Holder has requested to include in such registration) and (ii) completes, executes and delivers all questionnaires, powers of attorney, stock powers, custody agreements, indemnities, underwriting agreements and other documents and agreements required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements or as may be reasonably requested by the Company and the lead managing underwriter(s).  To the extent that any such agreement is entered into pursuant to, and consistent with, Section 3, Section 4 and/or this Section 7, the respective rights and obligations created under such agreement will supersede the respective rights and obligations of the Holders, the Company and the underwriters created thereby with respect to such registration.

Section 8“Rule 144”; Coordination and Cooperation.  

(a)With a view to making available to the Holders the benefits of Rule 144 and any other rule or regulation of the SEC that may at any time permit a holder to sell securities of the Company to the public without registration, the Company shall, to the extent requested by AKKR Management Company, LLC (or its designee):

(i)make and keep public information available, as those terms are understood and defined in Rule 144;

(ii)use best efforts to file with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and other documents required of the Company under the Exchange Act; and

(iii)furnish to any Holder so long as the holder owns Registrable Securities, promptly upon request, a written statement by the Company as to its compliance with the reporting requirements of Rule 144 and of the Exchange Act, a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly report of the Company, and such other reports and documents so filed or furnished by the Company as such Holder may request in connection with the sale of Registrable Securities without registration.

(b)During the Coordination Period (as defined below), no Holder shall transfer any or all of its Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 144 or a “block trade”, in each case other than in compliance with this Section 8(b) hereof. Prior to the expiration of the Coordination Period, AKKR Management Company, LLC (or its designee) may require the Holders to make reasonable efforts to coordinate their efforts to transfer Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 144 (“144 Coordination”) or to discontinue such requirement. As of the date of this Agreement, 144 Coordination shall be required until the earlier of (x) the expiration of the Coordination Period and (y) such time as the AKKR Management Company, LLC (or its designee) provides a subsequent notice to the Holders that such coordination is discontinued. AKKR Management Company, LLC (or its designee) may reinstitute and discontinue 144 Coordination from time to time during the Coordination Period by providing notice to the Holders.

(c)For so long as 144 Coordination is in effect, the Sharma Investors shall promptly notify the Company’s board of directors when it wishes to sell Registrable Securities under Rule 144; provided that for any given measurement period for purposes of the Rule 144 group volume limit, no Holder shall be permitted to effect transfers of Registrable Securities in excess of their pro rata share (based on its percentage ownership of Registrable Securities held by all Holder at the applicable time) of all Registrable Securities that may be transferred by the Sharma Investors (with respect to any Sharma Investor) or the Sponsor Investors (with respect to any Sponsor Investor) during the applicable measurement period based on its percentage ownership of Registrable Securities held by all Holders at the start of such measurement

 

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period. In the event any Holder agrees to forego its full pro rata share of the Rule 144 group volume limit by written notice to the Company’s board of directors, the remainder shall be re-allocated pro rata among the other Holders in like manner (except that the Registrable Securities held by such forfeiting Holders at the start of such measurement period shall be excluded from such calculation).

(d)The provisions of this Section 8 shall not apply to any transfer of Registrable Securities (i) in a Public Offering, (ii) to an Affiliate or, with respect to the Sponsor Investors, to any member of the AKKR Group (as defined in the Stockholders Agreement) in a transaction that does not rely on Rule 144 or (iii) at any time with respect to which 144 Coordination is not effective.

(e)Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Holder may opt out of 144 Coordination with respect to any period of time if such Holder delivers a notice to the Company’s board of directors irrevocably committing not to transfer Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 144 during such period.

(f)The restrictions set forth in this Section 8 shall terminate with respect to any Registrable Securities on the earlier of (i) the second anniversary of the date of the effectiveness of the registration statement for the Company’s initial Public Offering and (ii) with respect to each Holder, such time as such Holder owns less than 2% of the then outstanding Securities (the “Coordination Period”). AKKR Management Company, LLC (or its designee), in its sole discretion, may elect to exclude any Holder from the restrictions set forth in Section 8(b) at any time during the Coordination Period.

Section 9Joinder; Additional Parties; Transfer of Registrable Securities.

(a)Joinder. The Company may from time to time (with the prior written consent of the Sponsor Investors) permit any Person who acquires Common Stock (or rights to acquire Common Stock) to become a party to this Agreement and to be entitled to and be bound by all of the rights and obligations as a Holder by obtaining an executed joinder to this Agreement from such Person in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto (a “Joinder”). The Sponsor Investors may permit any Person who acquires Common Stock (or rights to acquire Common Stock) to become a party to this Agreement and to be entitled to and be bound by all or any specified portion of the rights and obligations as a Sponsor Investor and/or Holder by obtaining an executed Joinder.  Upon the execution and delivery of a Joinder by such Person, the Common Stock held by such Person shall become the category of Registrable Securities (i.e. Sponsor Investor Registrable Securities, Sharma Investor Registrable Securities or Executive Registrable Securities), and such Person shall be deemed the category of Holder (i.e. Sponsor Investor, Sharma Investor or Executive), in each case as set forth on the signature page to such Joinder.  

(b)Restrictions on Transfers.  Prior to transferring any Registrable Securities to any Person (including, without limitation, by operation of law), the transferring Holder must first obtain the prior written consent of the Sponsor Investors, and if so obtained, cause the prospective transferee to execute and deliver to the Company a Joinder, except that such consent and Joinder shall not be required in the case of (i) a transfer to the Company, (ii) a transfer by any Sponsor Investor to (at such Sponsor Investor’s election) its direct and indirect partners, members and Affiliates and each of their respective directors, managers, officers, investment professionals, operating partners and employees and their respective immediate family members (and any trust or other entity whose beneficiaries or equityholders are any of the foregoing direct or indirect partners or members), (iii) a Public Offering, (iv) a sale pursuant to Rule 144 and/or (v) a transfer in connection with a Sale of the Company.  Any transfer or attempted transfer of Registrable Securities in violation of any provision of this Agreement will be void, and the Company will not record such transfer on its books or treat any purported transferee of such Registrable Securities as the owner thereof for any purpose (but the Company will be entitled to enforce against such Person the obligations hereunder).

 

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(c)Legend.  Each certificate (if any) evidencing any Registrable Securities and each certificate issued in exchange for or upon the transfer of any Registrable Securities (unless such Registrable Securities would no longer be Registrable Securities after such transfer) will be stamped or otherwise imprinted with a legend in substantially the following form:

“THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE ARE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER AND OTHER PROVISIONS SET FORTH IN A REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT DATED AS OF MAY 24, 2021 AMONG THE ISSUER OF SUCH SECURITIES (THE “COMPANY”) AND CERTAIN OF THE COMPANY’S EQUITYHOLDERS, AS AMENDED.  A COPY OF SUCH AGREEMENT WILL BE FURNISHED WITHOUT CHARGE BY THE COMPANY TO THE HOLDER HEREOF UPON WRITTEN REQUEST.”

The Company will imprint such legend on certificates evidencing Registrable Securities outstanding prior to the date hereof.  The legend set forth above will be removed from the certificates evidencing any securities that have ceased to be Registrable Securities.

Section 10General Provisions.

(a)Amendments and Waivers.  Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions of this Agreement may be amended, modified or waived only with the prior written consent of the Company and the Sponsor Investors who are then Holders; provided that no such amendment, modification or waiver that would treat a specific Holder or group of Holders of Registrable Securities (i.e., Sponsor Investors, Sharma Investors or Executives) in a manner materially and adversely different than any other Holder or group of Holders will be effective against such Holder or group of Holders without the consent of the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities that are held by the group of Holders that is materially and adversely affected thereby.  The failure or delay of any Person to enforce any of the provisions of this Agreement will in no way be construed as a waiver of such provisions and will not affect the right of such Person thereafter to enforce each and every provision of this Agreement in accordance with its terms.  A waiver or consent to or of any breach or default by any Person in the performance by that Person of his, her or its obligations under this Agreement will not be deemed to be a consent or waiver to or of any other breach or default in the performance by that Person of the same or any other obligations of that Person under this Agreement.

(b)Remedies.  The parties to this Agreement will be entitled to enforce their rights under this Agreement specifically (without posting a bond or other security), to recover damages caused by reason of any breach of any provision of this Agreement and to exercise all other rights existing in their favor.  The parties hereto agree and acknowledge that a breach of this Agreement would cause irreparable harm and money damages would not be an adequate remedy for any such breach and that, in addition to any other rights and remedies existing hereunder, any party will be entitled to specific performance and/or other injunctive relief from any court of law or equity of competent jurisdiction (without posting any bond or other security) in order to enforce or prevent violation of the provisions of this Agreement.

(c)Severability.  Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement will be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement is held to be prohibited, invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect under any applicable law or regulation in any jurisdiction, such prohibition, invalidity, illegality or unenforceability will not affect the validity, legality or enforceability of any other provision of this Agreement in such jurisdiction

 

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or in any other jurisdiction, but this Agreement will be reformed, construed and enforced in such jurisdiction as if such prohibited, invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein.

(d)Entire Agreement.  Except as otherwise provided herein, this Agreement contains the complete agreement and understanding among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and preempts any prior understandings, agreements or representations by or among the parties hereto, written or oral, which may have related to the subject matter hereof in any way.

(e)Successors and Assigns.  Except as otherwise provided herein, this Agreement will bind and inure to the benefit and be enforceable by the Company and its successors and permitted assigns and the Holders and their respective successors and permitted assigns (whether so expressed or not); provided that any assignment of the rights or obligations hereunder by any Holder (other than any Sponsor Investor) shall require the prior written consent of the Sponsor Investors.  

(f)Notices.  

All notices, demands or other communications to be given or delivered under or by reason of the provisions of this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been given or made (a) when delivered personally to the recipient, (b) one (1) Business Day after being sent to the recipient by reputable overnight courier service (charges prepaid) or (c) when transmitted, if sent by email transmission before 5:00 p.m. Seattle time on a Business Day, and otherwise on the next Business Day. Such notices, demands and other communications shall be sent to the Company, the Sponsor Investors or the Sharma Investors at the addresses indicated below or, in each case, to any such other address or to the attention of such other person as the recipient party has specified by prior written notice to the sending party.

If to the Company, to:

Paymentus Holdings, Inc.

18390 NE 68th St.

Redmond, WA 98052

Attn: Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel

Email: dsharma@paymentus.com; jmorrow@paymentus.com

 

with a copy (which copy shall not constitute notice) to:

 

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.

701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5100

Seattle, WA 98104

Attn: Michael Nordtvedt; Victor Nilsson

E-mail: mnordtvedt@wsgr.com; vnilsson@wsgr.com

 

If to any AKKR Investor, to:

 

c/o Accel-KKR Capital Management, L.P.

2180 Sand Hill Road

Suite 300

Menlo Park, CA 94025

Attention: Rob Polumbo; Jason Klein

Email: rob@accel-kkr.com; jason@accel-kkr.com

 

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with copies (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Attn: Joshua N. Korff, P.C.

E-mail: jkorff@kirkland.com

 

and

 

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

300 N. LaSalle

Chicago, IL 60654

Attn: Jeffrey Seifman, P.C.; Shelly M. Hirschtritt, P.C.; Kevin W. Mausert, P.C.

E-mail: jseifman@kirkland.com; shelly.hirschtritt@kirkland.com; kevin.mausert@kirkland.com

If to any Sharma Investor, to:

Dushyant Sharma

c/o Paymentus Holdings, Inc.

18390 NE 68th St.

Redmond, WA 98052

E-mail: dsharma@paymentus.com

 

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

 

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

100 North Tryon Street, Suite 4700

Charlotte, NC 28202

Attn: Christopher J.C. Jones

E-mail: chrisjones@mvalaw.com

 

or to such other address or to the attention of such other person as the recipient party has specified by prior written notice to the sending party.

 

(g)Business Days.  If any time period for giving notice or taking action hereunder expires on a day that is not a Business Day, the time period will automatically be extended to the Business Day immediately following such Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

(h)Governing Law.  All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforcement of this Agreement and the exhibits and schedules hereto will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions (whether of the State of Delaware or any other jurisdiction) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware.  

(i)MUTUAL WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.  AS A SPECIFICALLY BARGAINED FOR INDUCEMENT FOR EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT (AFTER HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONSULT WITH COUNSEL), EACH PARTY HERETO EXPRESSLY WAIVES THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LAWSUIT OR PROCEEDING

 

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RELATING TO OR ARISING IN ANY WAY FROM THIS AGREEMENT OR THE MATTERS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

(j)CONSENT TO JURISDICTION AND SERVICE OF PROCESS.  EACH OF THE PARTIES IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS TO THE NON‑EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE, FOR THE PURPOSES OF ANY SUIT, ACTION OR OTHER PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT, ANY RELATED AGREEMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.  EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO FURTHER AGREES THAT SERVICE OF ANY PROCESS, SUMMONS, NOTICE OR DOCUMENT BY U.S. REGISTERED MAIL TO SUCH PARTY’S RESPECTIVE ADDRESS SET FORTH ABOVE WILL BE EFFECTIVE SERVICE OF PROCESS FOR ANY ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO ANY MATTERS TO WHICH IT HAS SUBMITTED TO JURISDICTION IN THIS PARAGRAPH.  EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT, ANY RELATED DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE, AND HEREBY AND THEREBY FURTHER IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES AND AGREES NOT TO PLEAD OR CLAIM IN ANY SUCH COURT THAT ANY SUCH ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT FORUM.

(k)No Recourse.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company and each Holder agrees and acknowledges that no recourse under this Agreement or any documents or instruments delivered in connection with this Agreement, will be had against any current or future director, officer, employee, general or limited partner or member of any Holder or any Affiliate or assignee thereof, whether by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding, or by virtue of any statute, regulation or other applicable law, it being expressly agreed and acknowledged that no personal liability whatsoever will attach to, be imposed on or otherwise be incurred by any current or future officer, agent or employee of any Holder or any current or future member of any Holder or any current or future director, officer, employee, partner or member of any Holder or of any Affiliate or assignee thereof, as such for any obligation of any Holder under this Agreement or any documents or instruments delivered in connection with this Agreement for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation.

(l)Descriptive Headings; Interpretation.  The descriptive headings of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and do not constitute a part of this Agreement.  The use of the word “including” in this Agreement will be by way of example rather than by limitation.

(m)No Strict Construction.  The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties hereto to express their mutual intent, and no rule of strict construction will be applied against any party.

(n)Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts, any one of which need not contain the signature of more than one party, but all such counterparts taken together will constitute one and the same agreement.

(o)Electronic Delivery.  This Agreement, the agreements referred to herein, and each other agreement or instrument entered into in connection herewith or therewith or contemplated hereby or thereby, and any amendments hereto or thereto, to the extent executed and delivered by means of a photographic, photostatic, facsimile or similar reproduction of such signed writing using a facsimile

 

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machine or electronic mail will be treated in all manner and respects as an original agreement or instrument and will be considered to have the same binding legal effect as if it were the original signed version thereof delivered in person.  At the request of any party hereto or to any such agreement or instrument, each other party hereto or thereto will re‑execute original forms thereof and deliver them to all other parties.  No party hereto or to any such agreement or instrument will raise the use of a facsimile machine or electronic mail to deliver a signature or the fact that any signature or agreement or instrument was transmitted or communicated through the use of a facsimile machine or electronic mail as a defense to the formation or enforceability of a contract and each such party forever waives any such defense.

(p)Further Assurances.  In connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, each Holder agrees to execute and deliver any additional documents and instruments and perform any additional acts that may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate and perform the provisions of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.

(q)Dividends, Recapitalizations, Etc.  If at any time or from time to time there is any change in the capital structure of the Company by way of a stock split, stock dividend, combination or reclassification, or through a merger, consolidation, reorganization or recapitalization, or by any other means, appropriate adjustment will be made in the provisions hereof so that the rights and privileges granted hereby will continue.

(r)No Third-Party Beneficiaries. No term or provision of this Agreement is intended to be, or shall be, for the benefit of any Person not a party hereto, and no such other Person shall have any right or cause of action hereunder, except as otherwise expressly provided herein.

(s)Current Public Information. At all times after the Company has filed a registration statement with the SEC pursuant to the requirements of either the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, the Company will file all reports required to be filed by it under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and will take such further action as the Sponsor Investors may reasonably request, all to the extent required to enable such Holders to sell Registrable Securities, unless otherwise agreed by the Sponsor Investors.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Registration Rights Agreement as of the date first written above.

 

PAYMENTUS HOLDINGS, INC.

 

By:

/s/ Dushyant Sharma

Name:

Dushyant Sharma

Title:

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]


 

 

 

SPONSOR INVESTORS:

 

ACCEL-KKR CAPITAL PARTNERS CV

III, LP, a Delaware limited partnership

 

By:

AKKR Fund III Management Company CV, LP

Its:

General Partner

 

 

By:

AKKR Management Company, LLC

Its:

General Partner

 

 

By:

Accel-KKR Holdings GP, LLC

Its:

Managing Member

 

 

By:

/s/ Thomas C. Barnds

Name:

Thomas C. Barnds

Title:

Manager

 

 

ACCEL-KKR MEMBERS FUND, LLC

 

By:

AKKR Management Company, LLC

Its:

Managing Member

 

By:

Accel-KKR Holdings GP, LLC

Its:

Managing Member

 

 

By:

/s/ Thomas C. Barnds

Name:

Thomas C. Barnds

Title:

Manager

 

[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]


 

 

 

ACCEL-KKR GROWTH CAPITAL

PARTNERS II, LP

 

By:

AKKR Growth Capital Management Company II, LP

Its:

General Partner

 

 

By:

AKKR Management Company, LLC

Its:

Managing Member

 

 

By:

Accel-KKR Holdings GP, LLC

Its:

Managing Member

 

 

By:

/s/ Thomas C. Barnds

Name:

Thomas C. Barnds

Title:

Manager

 

 

ACCEL-KKR GROWTH CAPITAL

PARTNERS III, LP

 

By:

AKKR Growth Capital Management Company III, LP

Its:

General Partner

 

 

By:

AKKR Management Company, LLC

Its:

General Partner

 

 

By:

Accel-KKR Holdings GP, LLC

Its:

Managing Member

 

 

By:

/s/ Thomas C. Barnds

Name:

Thomas C. Barnds

Title:

Manager

 

[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]


 

 

 

ACCEL-KKR GROWTH CAPITAL

PARTNERS II STRATEGIC FUND, LP

 

By:

AKKR Growth Capital Management Company II, LP

Its:

Managing Member

 

 

By:

AKKR Management Company, LLC

Its:

Managing Member

 

 

By:

Accel-KKR Holdings GP, LLC

Its:

Managing Member

 

 

By:

/s/ Thomas C. Barnds

Name:

Thomas C. Barnds

Title:

Manager

 

 

KKR-AKI INVESTORS, LLC

 

 

By:

/s/ Thomas C. Barnds

Name:

Thomas C. Barnds

Title:

 

 

[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]


 

 

 

SHARMA INVESTORS:

 

/s/ Dushyant Sharma

Dushyant Sharma

 

 

Ashigrace LLC

 

 

By:

/s/ Dushyant Sharma

Name:

Dushyant Sharma

Title:

Manager

 

 

The Sharma Family Trust A dated March 30, 2021

 

By:

/s/ Ruma Sharma

Name:

Ruma Sharma

Title:

Trustee

 

 

The Sharma Family Trust B dated March 30, 2021

 

 

By:

/s/ Ruma Sharma

Name:

Ruma Sharma

Title:

Trustee

 

 

The Sharma Family Trust C dated March 30, 2021

 

 

By:

/s/ Ruma Sharma

Name:

Ruma Sharma

Title:

Trustee

 

 

The Sharma Family Trust D dated March 30, 2021

 

 

By:

/s/ Ruma Sharma

Name:

Ruma Sharma

Title:

Trustee

 

[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]


 

 

 

The Ruma Sharma Family Trust dated

December 3, 2018

 

By:

/s/ Dushyant Sharma

Name:

Dushyant Sharma

Title:

Trustee

 

[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]


 

 

 

EXECUTIVES:

 

/s/ John Morrow

Name: John Morrow

 

Address:

 

c/o Paymentus

18390 NE 68th St

Redmond, WA 98052

 

/s/ Matt Parson

Name: Matt Parson

 

Address:

 

c/o Paymentus

18390 NE 68th St

Redmond, WA 98052

 

/s/ Gerasimos (Jerry) Portocalis

Name: Gerasimos (Jerry) Portocalis

 

Address:

 

c/o Paymentus

18390 NE 68th St

Redmond, WA 98052

 

 

 

[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]


 

 

EXHIBIT A

DEFINITIONS

Capitalized terms used in this Agreement have the meanings set forth below.

Affiliate” of any Person means any other Person controlled by, controlling or under common control with such Person and, in the case of an individual, also includes any member of such individual’s Family Group; provided that the Company and its Subsidiaries will not be deemed to be Affiliates of any holder of Registrable Securities.  As used in this definition, “control” (including, with its correlative meanings, “controlling,” “controlled by” and “under common control with”) will mean possession, directly or indirectly, of power to direct or cause the direction of management or policies (whether through ownership of securities, by contract or otherwise).  

Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the recitals.

Automatic Shelf Registration Statement” has the meaning set forth in Section 1(a).

Business Day” means a day that is not a Saturday or Sunday or a day on which banks in New York City are authorized or requested by law to close.

Charitable Gifting Event” means any transfer by a Sponsor Investor or Sharma Investor, or any subsequent transfer by such Holder’s members, partners or other employees, in connection with a bona fide gift to any Charitable Organization on the date of, but prior to, the execution of the underwriting agreement entered into in connection with any underwritten offering.

Charitable Organization” means a charitable organization as described by Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as in effect from time to time.

Common Stock” means the Company’s Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share.  For all purposes under this Agreement, the term “Common Stock” (and the determination of any number of shares of Common Stock or Registrable Securities (or any other similar calculation)) shall include and take into account the shares of Class A Common Stock into which any then-outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share, are convertible into or exchangeable therefore, and the Holders of such Class B Common Stock shall be deemed to be (and receive credit for) the owners and Holders of such shares of Class A Common Stock.

Company” has the meaning set forth in the preamble and shall include its successor(s).

Demand Initiating Holders” means the Sponsor Investors or the Sharma Investors, as applicable, who request a Demand Registration pursuant to Section 1(a).

Demand Registrations” has the meaning set forth in Section 1(a).

End of Suspension Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 1(f)(ii).

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time, or any successor federal law then in force, together with all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

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Excluded Registration” means any registration (i) pursuant to a Demand Registration (which is addressed in Section 1(a)), or (ii) in connection with registrations on Form S‑4 or S‑8 promulgated by the SEC or any successor or similar forms).

Executives” has the meaning set forth in the recitals.

Executive Registrable Securities” means any Common Stock held by the management employees of the Company who are listed as “Executives” on the signature page hereto or to a Joinder.

Family Group” means with respect to any individual, such individual’s current or former spouse, their respective parents, descendants of such parents (whether natural or adopted) and the spouses of such descendants, any trust, limited partnership, corporation or limited liability company established solely for the benefit of such individual or such individual’s current or former spouse, their respective parents, descendants of such parents (whether natural or adopted) or the spouses of such descendants.

FINRA” means the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

Free Writing Prospectus” means a free-writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 405.

Holdback Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 3(a).

Holder” means a holder of Registrable Securities who is a party to this Agreement (including by way of Joinder).

Indemnified Parties” has the meaning set forth in Section 6(a).

Joinder” has the meaning set forth in Section 9(a).

Long-Form Registrations” has the meaning set forth in Section 1(a).

Losses” has the meaning set forth in Section 6(c).

Participating Sponsor Investors” means any Sponsor Investor(s) participating in the request for a Demand Registration, Shelf Offering, Piggyback Registration or Underwritten Block Trade.

Participating Sharma Investors” means any Sharma Investor(s) participating (as and to the extent expressly permitted herein) in the request for a Demand Registration, Shelf Offering, Piggyback Registration or Underwritten Block Trade.

Person” means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, a limited liability company, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization and a governmental entity or any department, agency or political subdivision thereof.

Piggyback Registrations” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(a).

Public Offering” means any sale or distribution by the Company and/or Holders to the public of Common Stock or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock pursuant to an offering registered under the Securities Act.

Registrable Securities” means Sponsor Investor Registrable Securities, Sharma Investor Registrable Securities and Executive Registrable Securities. As to any particular Registrable Securities, such securities will cease to be Registrable Securities when they have been (a) sold or distributed pursuant

 

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to a Public Offering, (b) sold in compliance with Rule 144, (c) distributed to the direct or indirect partners or members of a Sponsor Investor without a corresponding grant or assignment of rights hereunder or (d) repurchased by the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company.  For purposes of this Agreement, a Person will be deemed to be a holder of Registrable Securities, and the Registrable Securities will be deemed to be in existence, whenever such Person has the right to acquire, directly or indirectly, such Registrable Securities (upon conversion or exercise in connection with a transfer of securities or otherwise, but disregarding any restrictions or limitations upon the exercise of such right), whether or not such acquisition has actually been effected, and such Person will be entitled to exercise the rights of a holder of Registrable Securities hereunder (it being understood that a holder of Registrable Securities may only request that Registrable Securities in the form of Common Stock be registered pursuant to this Agreement).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Registrable Securities held by any Person (other than any Sponsor Investor or its Affiliates) that may be sold under Rule 144(b)(1)(i) without limitation under any of the other requirements of Rule 144 will be deemed not to be Registrable Securities.

Registration Expenses” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.

Rule 144”, “Rule 158”, “Rule 405”, “Rule 415”, “Rule 403B” and “Rule 462” mean, in each case, such rule promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor provision) by the SEC, as the same will be amended from time to time, or any successor rule then in force.

Sale of the Company” means any transaction or series of transactions pursuant to which any Person(s) or a group of related Persons (other than any Sponsor Investor and/or its Affiliates) in the aggregate acquires: (i)  a majority of the voting power of the outstanding capital stock of the Company entitled to vote (other than voting rights accruing only in the event of a default, breach, event of noncompliance or other contingency) to elect directors with a majority of the voting power of the Company’s board of directors (whether by merger, consolidation, reorganization, combination, sale or transfer of the Company’s Common Stock) or (ii) all or substantially all of the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ assets determined on a consolidated basis; provided that a Public Offering will not constitute a Sale of the Company.

Sale Transaction” has the meaning set forth in Section 3(a).

SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Securities” has the meaning set forth in Section 3(a).

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time, or any successor federal law then in force, together with all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Sharma Investors” has the meaning set forth in the recitals.

Sharma Investor Registrable Securities” means (i) any Common Stock held (directly or indirectly) by any Sharma Investors or any of their Affiliates, and (ii) any equity securities of the Company or any Subsidiary issued or issuable with respect to the securities referred to in clause (i) above by way of dividend, distribution, split or combination of securities, or any recapitalization, merger, consolidation or other reorganization.

Shelf Offering” has the meaning set forth in Section 1(d)(i).

Shelf Offering Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 1(d)(i).

 

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Shelf Registration” has the meaning set forth in Section 1(a).

Shelf Registrable Securities” has the meaning set forth in Section 1(d)(i).

Shelf Registration Statement” has the meaning set forth in Section 1(d).

Short-Form Registrations” has the meaning set forth in Section 1(a).

Sponsor Investors” has the meaning set forth in the recitals and their respective assigns (unless otherwise determined by AKKR Management Company, LLC (or its designee)); provided that any decision to be made under this Agreement by the Sponsor Investors shall be made by the holders of a majority of all Sponsor Investor Registrable Securities.

Sponsor Investor Registrable Securities” means (i) any Common Stock held (directly or indirectly) by any Sponsor Investor or any of its Affiliates, and (ii) any equity securities of the Company or any Subsidiary issued or issuable with respect to the securities referred to in clause (i) above by way of dividend, distribution, split or combination of securities, or any recapitalization, merger, consolidation or other reorganization.

Stockholders Agreement” means that certain Stockholders Agreement of the Company, dated as of May 24, 2021, as amended, restated or amended and restated after the date hereof.

Subsidiary means, with respect to the Company, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity of which (i) if a corporation, a majority of the total voting power of shares of stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the Company or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of the Company or a combination thereof, or (ii) if a limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity, a majority of the limited liability company, partnership or other similar ownership interest thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the Company or one or more Subsidiaries of the Company or a combination thereof.  For purposes hereof, a Person or Persons will be deemed to have a majority ownership interest in a limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity if such Person or Persons will be allocated a majority of limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity gains or losses or will be or control the managing director or general partner of such limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity.

Suspension Event” has the meaning set forth in Section 1(f)(ii).

Suspension Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 1(f)(ii).

Suspension Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 1(f)(i).

Violation” has the meaning set forth in Section 6(a).

WKSI” means a “well-known seasoned issuer” as defined under Rule 405.

 

 

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EXHIBIT B

The undersigned is executing and delivering this Joinder pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement dated as of May 24, 2021 (as amended, modified and waived from time to time, the “Registration Agreement”), among Paymentus Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and the other persons named as parties therein (including pursuant to other Joinders).  Capitalized terms used herein have the meaning set forth in the Registration Agreement.

By executing and delivering this Joinder to the Company, the undersigned hereby agrees to become a party to, to be bound by, and to comply with the provisions of, the Registration Agreement as a Holder in the same manner as if the undersigned were an original signatory to the Registration Agreement, and the undersigned will be deemed for all purposes to be a Holder, an [Sponsor Investor // Sharma Investor // Executive thereunder] and the undersigned’s ____ shares of Common Stock will be deemed for all purposes to be [Sponsor Investor // Sharma Investor // Executive] Registrable Securities under the Registration Agreement.

Accordingly, the undersigned has executed and delivered this Joinder as of the ___ day of ____________, 20___.

 

 

Signature

 

 

 

Print Name

 

Address:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agreed and Accepted as of

 

 

 

, 20

 

 

 

 

PAYMENTUS HOLDINGS, INC.

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Its:

 

 

 

B-1

Exhibit 10.1

 

Execution Version

 

 

 

PAYMENTUS HOLDINGS, INC.

STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT

Dated May 24, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

 

1.

Definitions

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

2.

Board

 

 

4

 

(a)

Nomination of Directors

 

4

 

(b)

Vacancies of Directors

 

5

 

(c)

Nomination of Slate

 

5

 

(d)

Voting at Meetings of Stockholders

 

5

 

(e)

Committees

 

5

 

(f)

Reimbursement of Expenses

 

6

 

(g)

No Liability for Election of Recommended Directors

 

6

 

 

 

 

3.

Charter Amendments

 

6

 

 

 

 

4.

Miscellaneous

 

6

 

(a)

Notices

 

6

 

(b)

Severability

 

8

 

(c)

Headings and Sections

 

8

 

(d)

Amendment

 

8

 

(e)

Waiver

 

8

 

(f)

Successors and Assigns

 

8

 

(g)

Counterparts

 

9

 

(h)

Remedies

 

9

 

(i)

Governing Law; Venue and Forum

 

9

 

(j)

Mutual Waiver of Jury Trial

 

9

 

(k)

No Strict Construction

 

9

 

(l)

Entire Agreement

 

10

 

(m)

Delivery by Email

 

10

 

(n)

Further Action

 

10

 

(o)

Termination

 

10

 

(p)

Effectiveness

 

10

 

(q)

Transfer

 

10

 

 

 

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STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT

This STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) dated as of May 24, 2021 among (i) Paymentus Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), (ii) Accel-KKR Capital Partners CV III, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“AKKR III”), (iii) Accel-KKR Growth Capital Partners II Strategic Fund, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“AKKR Growth II SF”), (iv) Accel-KKR Growth Capital Partners II, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“AKKR Growth II”), (v) Accel-KKR Growth Capital Partners III, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“AKKR Growth III”), (vi) Accel-KKR Members Fund, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“AKKR Members”), (vii) KKR-AKI Investors, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“KKR-AKI” and, collectively with AKKR III, AKKR Growth II SF, AKKR Growth II, AKKR Growth III and AKKR Members, the “AKKR Investors”), (viii) Dushyant Sharma (“Sharma”), (ix) Ashigrace LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company (“Ashigrace”), (x) The Sharma Family Trust A dated March 30, 2021 (“Sharma A”), (xi) The Sharma Family Trust B dated March 30, 2021 (“Sharma B”), (xii) The Sharma Family Trust C dated March 30, 2021 (“Sharma C”), (xiii) The Sharma Family Trust D dated March 30, 2021 (“Sharma D”), (xiv) The Ruma Sharma Family Trust dated December 3, 2018 (“Ruma Sharma Trust” and together with Sharma, Ashigrace, Sharma A, Sharma B, Sharma C, Sharma D and Ruma Sharma Trust, the “Sharma Investors” and collectively together with the AKKR Investors, the “Investor Parties”).

WHEREAS, the AKKR Investors and Ashigrace are stockholders of the Company;

WHEREAS, the Company is contemplating an offering and sale of shares of Class A Common Stock in an underwritten initial public offering (the “IPO”);

WHEREAS, immediately following the consummation of the IPO, the AKKR Investors and the Sharma Investors will continue to be stockholders of the Company; and

WHEREAS, in connection with, and effective upon the completion of the IPO (such time of completion, the “IPO Time”), the Company and the Investor Parties wish to set forth certain understandings between such parties, including with respect to certain governance and voting matters.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein made and other good and valuable consideration, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

1.Definitions.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Action” means any claim, charge, demand, action, cause of action, inquiry, audit, suit, arbitration, indictment, litigation, hearing or other proceeding (whether civil, criminal, administrative, judicial or investigative, whether formal or informal, whether public or private).

Affiliate” means, when used with reference to another Person, any Person, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, Controlling, Controlled by, or under common Control with, such other Person. In addition, Affiliates of an Investor Party shall include all of its partners, officers and employees in their capacities as such, if applicable.

Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

AKKR III” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

AKKR Designation Parties” means the AKKR Investors or their designee(s) (if any).

 


 

AKKR Director(s)” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(i).

AKKR Group” means the AKKR Investors and, unless otherwise determined by the AKKR Designation Parties, their respective direct and indirect partners, members and Affiliates and each of their respective directors, managers, officers, investment professionals, operating partners and employees and their respective immediate family members (and any trust or other entity whose beneficiaries or equityholders are any of the foregoing direct or indirect partners or members).

AKKR Growth II” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

AKKR Growth II SF” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

AKKR Growth III” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

AKKR Investors” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph and any Person who becomes an AKKR Investor pursuant to Section 4(f). Any decision to be made under this Agreement by the AKKR Investors shall be made by the holders of a majority of all votes of all Common Stock held by the AKKR Investors.

AKKR Members” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

Ashigrace” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

Board” means the Company’s board of directors.

Business Day” means any calendar day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in Seattle, Washington are authorized or required to close.

Certificate of Incorporation” means the certificate of incorporation of the Company, as in effect at the IPO Time and as may be amended from time to time.

Chosen Courts” has the meaning set forth in Section 4(i).

Class A Common Stock” means the class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company.

Class B Common Stock” means the class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share of the Company.

Common Stock” means the Class A Common Stock and the Class B Common Stock.

Company” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

Control”, “Controlled” or “Controlling” means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through ownership of company securities, by contract or otherwise.

Directors” means the directors of the Company at the applicable time.

Exchange Act” means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and any applicable rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and any successor to such statute, rules or regulations.

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Equity Incentive Plan” means the Company’s 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (as amended or otherwise modified from time to time).

Governmental Entity” means the United States of America or any other nation, any state or other political subdivision thereof, or any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of government, including any court, in each case, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of the property or other assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

Independent Director” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(ii).

Investor Parties” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

IPO” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

IPO Time” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

KKR-AKI” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

Person” means an individual, a partnership (including a limited partnership), a corporation, a limited liability company, an exempted company, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization, association or other entity or a Governmental Entity.

Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of the date hereof and as may be amended from time to time, by and among the Company, the Investor Parties and the other parties thereto.

Restricted Shares” means shares of Common Stock awarded under the Company’s Equity Incentive Plan, subject to time and performance vesting restrictions.

Ruma Sharma Trust” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

SEC” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(e).

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

Sharma” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

Sharma A” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

Sharma B” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

Sharma C” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

Sharma D” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph.

Sharma Director” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(ii).

Sharma Investors” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph and any Person who becomes a Sharma Investor pursuant to Section 4(f). Any decision to be made under this Agreement by the Sharma Investors shall be made by the holders of a majority of the votes of all Common Stock held by the Sharma Investors.

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Stockholders” means holders of Common Stock.

Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or business entity of which (a) if a corporation, a majority of the total voting power of shares of stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof, or (b) if a limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity (other than a corporation), a majority of partnership or other similar ownership interest thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by any Person or one or more Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof. For purposes hereof, a Person or Persons shall be deemed to have a majority ownership interest in a limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity (other than a corporation) if such Person or Persons shall be allocated a majority of limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity gains or losses or shall be or control any managing member, general partner or analogous controlling Person of such limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity. Unless otherwise indicated, the term “Subsidiary” refers to a Subsidiary of the Company.

2.Board.

(a)Nomination of Directors.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, following the IPO Time until such time as the AKKR Group ceases to hold, on a collective basis, more Common Stock than the Sharma Investors hold, on a collective basis, as of such time (but excluding, for this purpose, any Restricted Shares held by the AKKR Group or the Sharma Investors) (such time, the “Appointment Right Time”):

(i)For so long as the AKKR Group owns, directly or indirectly, in the aggregate, at least:

(1)10% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock that are not Restricted Shares, the AKKR Designation Parties shall have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate to the Board five (5) Directors, who shall initially be the following individuals: Robert Palumbo, Jason Klein and Adam Malinowski with two seats for AKKR Directors left vacant; and

(2)5% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock that are not Restricted Shares, but less than 10% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock that are not Restricted Shares, the AKKR Designation Parties shall have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate to the Board two (2) Directors.  

Any such Director(s) appointed pursuant to this Section 2(a)(i) shall be the “AKKR Director” or “AKKR Directors,” as applicable.

(ii)For so long as (x) the Sharma Investors own, directly or indirectly, in the aggregate, at least 5% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock that are not Restricted Shares or (y) Sharma is the Company’s chief executive officer, the Sharma Investors shall have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate Sharma to the Board and in such capacity Sharma shall be the “Sharma Director.”

Any Directors other than AKKR Directors and the Sharma Director shall be “Independent Directors”, and the initial Independent Directors shall be William Ingram and Gary Trainor with one seat for an Independent Director left vacant.  Any Independent Director shall not be deemed to be an AKKR Director or Sharma Director.

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From and after the Appointment Right Time, and until such time as the AKKR Group ceases to hold, on a collective basis, at least 5% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock that are not Restricted Shares, the AKKR Designation Parties shall have the right, but not the obligation, to nominate to the Board two (2) Directors, who shall be AKKR Directors.

The Board shall consist of three (3) classes of Directors as further specified in the Certificate of Incorporation and, until the Appointment Right Time, each class shall consist of at least one (1) seat for an Independent Director and at least one (1) seat for an AKKR Director.  From and after the Appointment Right Time, so long as the AKKR Designation Parties have the right to designate two (2) AKKR Directors, each seat for an AKKR Director shall be in a separate class of Directors.

(b)Vacancies of Directors.  Unless the Board otherwise requests, and subject to the Directors’ fiduciary duties, in the event of a reduction in the number of AKKR Directors to be designated in accordance with the provisions of Section 2(a), the AKKR Investors shall use their best efforts to obtain the resignations of the number of AKKR Directors corresponding with such reduction.  In the event that a vacancy is created at any time by the death, disability, removal or resignation of any Director designated pursuant to this Section 2, subject to their fiduciary duties under applicable law, the remaining Directors shall cause the vacancy created thereby to be filled, (1) in the case of a vacancy created by an AKKR Director, by a new designee of the AKKR Designation Parties and (2) in the case of a vacancy created by an Independent Director, by a person identified by the Board (with the assistance of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee or similar committee of the Board) and nominated by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee or a similar committee of the Board, and the Company agrees to take, at any time and from time to time, all actions necessary to cause any vacancies to be filled pursuant to this Section 2(b); provided, that notwithstanding the foregoing, in the absence of any designation from the AKKR Designation Parties or the Sharma Investors holding the right to designate a Director as specified above, the Director previously designated by them and then serving shall be reelected if still eligible and willing to serve as provided herein and otherwise, such Board seat shall remain vacant.

(c)Nomination of Slate. In connection with each election of Directors, the Company agrees to use its best efforts cause the election of the slate of nominees recommended by the Board.  Subject to the Directors’ fiduciary duties, such slate will include the Persons designated pursuant to Section 2(a) and no Investor Party will need to, in their capacity as a stockholder, make a nomination that is contemplated pursuant to Section 2(a).

(d)Voting at Meetings of Stockholders. Each of the Investor Parties, so long as such party holds shares of Common Stock, agrees to vote, and to procure the vote of its Controlled Affiliates, in person or by proxy, or to act by written consent (if applicable) with respect to all shares of Common Stock having the right to vote for the election of Directors beneficially owned by it to cause the election of the Persons designated pursuant to Section 2(a).

(e)Committees. Subject to applicable law and the listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange (the “Exchange”), the Board may delegate any of its power and authority to manage the business and affairs of the Company to any standing or special committee upon such terms as it sees fit as permitted by law and as set forth in the resolutions creating such committee. As of the date hereof, the Board has designated the following committees: the Audit Committee, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Compensation Committee.  As of the IPO Time, the Audit Committee, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Compensation Committee shall be comprised of the persons identified in the section entitled “Management–Board Committees” in the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1, originally filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on April 30, 2021 (File No. 333-255683), under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (such Registration Statement, as amended or supplemented and including the exhibits thereto, is hereinafter referred to as the

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Registration Statement”). For so long as the AKKR Designation Parties are entitled to designate one or more Directors pursuant to Section 2(a), the AKKR Designation Parties shall be entitled to designate at least one member of each committee of the Board; provided, that, any such designee shall at all times remain eligible to serve on the applicable committee under applicable law and the listing standards of the Exchange, including any applicable general and heightened independence requirements (subject in each case to any applicable exceptions, including those for newly public companies and for “controlled companies,” and any applicable phase-in periods); provided further, that, any special committee established to evaluate any transaction in which AKKR Management Company, LLC or its Affiliates has an interest which is in conflict with the interests of the Company shall not include any Director designated by the AKKR Designation Parties. If the continued service of a committee member designated by the AKKR Designation Parties would cause the Company to violate any applicable law or listing standard of the Exchange, the AKKR Investors shall use their best efforts to obtain the resignation of such designee from the applicable committee. It is understood by the parties hereto that no AKKR Director is required to be designated on any committee and any failure to exercise such right in this section in a prior period shall not constitute any waiver of such right in a subsequent period. Unless otherwise determined by the Board, and subject to the Directors’ fiduciary duties, each committee shall keep regular minutes and report to the Board as appropriate.

(f)Reimbursement of Expenses. Any Director who is not an employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be entitled to cash and/or equity compensation and is eligible to participate in Company equity plans and indemnification in connection with his or her role as a director, and each AKKR Director and, if not an employee of the Company or its Subsidiaries, the Sharma Director shall be entitled to reimbursement for documented, reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in attending meetings of the Board, or any committees thereof and meetings of the Stockholders of the Company (if attending in their capacity as a Director at the request of the Board).

(g)No Liability for Election of Recommended Directors. None of the Company, the Investor Parties, nor any officer, director, stockholder, partner, employee or agent of any such party, makes any representation or warranty as to the fitness or competence of the nominee of any party hereunder to serve on the Board by virtue of such party’s execution of this Agreement or by the act of such party in voting for such nominee pursuant to this Agreement.

3.Charter Amendments. In no event will the Company or any Investor Party approve, or present to the Board for approval, any amendment to Article XIII of the Certificate of Incorporation that is adverse to the AKKR Group in any respect without the prior written consent of the AKKR Designation Parties.

4.Miscellaneous.

(a)Notices. All notices, demands or other communications to be given or delivered under or by reason of the provisions of this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been given or made (a) when delivered personally to the recipient, (b) one (1) Business Day after being sent to the recipient by reputable overnight courier service (charges prepaid) or (c) when transmitted, if sent by email transmission before 5:00 p.m. Seattle time on a Business Day, and otherwise on the next Business Day. Such notices, demands and other communications shall be sent to the Company and the Investor Parties at the addresses indicated below or, in each case, to any such other address or to the attention of such other person as the recipient party has specified by prior written notice to the sending party.

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If to the Company, to:

Paymentus Holdings, Inc.

18390 NE 68th St.

Redmond, WA 98052

Attn: Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel

Email: dsharma@paymentus.com; jmorrow@paymentus.com

 

with a copy (which copy shall not constitute notice) to:

 

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.

701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5100

Seattle, WA 98104

Attn: Michael Nordtvedt; Victor Nilsson

E-mail: mnordtvedt@wsgr.com; vnilsson@wsgr.com

 

If to any AKKR Investor, to:

 

c/o Accel-KKR Capital Management, L.P.

2180 Sand Hill Road

Suite 300

Menlo Park, CA 94025

Attention: Rob Polumbo; Jason Klein

Email: rob@accel-kkr.com; jason@accel-kkr.com

with copies (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Attn: Joshua N. Korff, P.C.

E-mail: jkorff@kirkland.com

 

and

 

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

300 N. LaSalle

Chicago, IL 60654

Attn: Jeffrey Seifman, P.C.; Shelly M. Hirschtritt, P.C.; Kevin W. Mausert, P.C.

E-mail: jseifman@kirkland.com; shelly.hirschtritt@kirkland.com; kevin.mausert@kirkland.com

If to any Sharma Investor, to:

Dushyant Sharma

c/o Paymentus Holdings, Inc.

18390 NE 68th St.

Redmond, WA 98052

E-mail: dsharma@paymentus.com

 

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with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

 

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

100 North Tryon Street, Suite 4700

Charlotte, NC 28202

Attn: Christopher J.C. Jones

E-mail: chrisjones@mvalaw.com

 

(b)Severability. Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect under any applicable law or rule in any jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision or any other jurisdiction, but this Agreement shall be reformed, construed and enforced in such jurisdiction as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein.

(c)Headings and Sections. The descriptive headings of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and do not constitute a substantive part of this Agreement. Whenever required by the context, any pronoun used in this Agreement shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine or neuter forms, and the singular form of nouns, pronouns and verbs shall include the plural and vice versa. The use of the words “including” or “include” in this Agreement shall be by way of example rather than by limitation. Reference to any agreement, document or instrument means such agreement, document or instrument as amended or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, and if applicable hereof. The use of the words “or,” “either” and “any” shall not be exclusive.

(d)Amendment. This Agreement may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified only by a written instrument executed by the Company and if such amendment, supplement or modification has an adverse effect that is material to a party hereto, the execution of such party.

(e)Waiver. No failure by any party to insist upon the strict performance of any covenant, duty, agreement or condition of this Agreement or to exercise any right or remedy consequent upon a breach thereof shall constitute a waiver of any such breach or any other covenant, duty, agreement or condition. The waiver by any party hereto of a breach of any provision of this Agreement will not operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach. Any waiver by the Company or any Investor Party of any covenant, duty, agreement or condition of this Agreement or to exercise any right or remedy consequent upon a breach thereof shall only be effective if executed in writing by the party making such waiver.

(f)Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns; provided, that no Person claiming by, through or under a party, as distinct from such party itself, shall have any rights as, or in respect to, a party to this Agreement (including the right to approve or vote on any matter or to notice thereof); provided, further, that any assignment of the rights or obligations hereunder by any Investor Party (other than any AKKR Investor) shall require the prior written consent of the AKKR Designation Parties.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) each of the Investor Parties (and any subsequent transferee) shall cause any of their respective Affiliates that receives shares of Common Stock to become a party to this Agreement by executing a joinder to this Agreement in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A as an “Investor Party” and as either a “Sharma Investor” or an “AKKR Investor”, as applicable, as a pre-condition to the effectiveness of such transaction, (ii) each other subsequent transferee of any Investor Party may become an Investor Party and either a “Sharma Investor” or an “AKKR Investor” as applicable, with the prior written consent of the AKKR Designation Parties and (iii) for purposes hereof, in no event shall (x) beneficial ownership of shares of Common Stock by one party hereto be counted towards the beneficial ownership of shares of Common Stock of any other

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party hereto solely as a result of such parties being in the same group (as defined in the Exchange Act) or party to this Agreement and (y) any party hereto be considered an Affiliate of any other party hereto solely by virtue of being in the same group (as defined in the Exchange Act) party to this Agreement.

(g)Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed simultaneously in two or more separate counterparts, any one of which need not contain the signatures of more than one party, but each of which shall be an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement binding on all the parties hereto.

(h)Remedies. Each party hereto shall have all rights and remedies set forth in this Agreement and all rights and remedies which such Person has been granted at any time under any other agreement or contract and all of the rights which such Person has under any applicable law. Any Person having any rights under any provision of this Agreement or any other agreements contemplated hereby shall be entitled to enforce such rights specifically (without posting a bond or other security), to recover damages by reason of any breach of any provision of this Agreement and to exercise all other rights granted by law.  It is agreed and understood that monetary damages would not adequately compensate an injured party for the breach of this Agreement by any party, that this Agreement shall be specifically enforceable, and that any breach or threatened breach of this Agreement shall be the proper subject of a temporary or permanent injunction or restraining order. Further, each party hereto waives any claim or defense that there is an adequate remedy at law for such breach or threatened breach.

(i)Governing Law; Venue and Forum. This Agreement and the exhibits and schedules hereto shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions (whether of the State of Delaware or any other jurisdiction) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware. Each of the parties hereto irrevocably and unconditionally submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, or, if the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware declines to accept jurisdiction over a particular matter, any federal court within the State of Delaware, or, if both the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware and the federal courts within the State of Delaware decline to accept jurisdiction over a particular matter, any other state court within the State of Delaware, and, in each case, any appellate court therefrom (together, the “Chosen Courts”), for the purposes of any Action arising out of this Agreement (and agrees that no such Action relating to this Agreement shall be brought by it or any of its Subsidiaries except in such courts). Each of the parties further agrees that, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, service of any process, summons, notice or document by U.S. registered mail to such person’s respective address set forth in Section 4(a) shall be effective service of process for any Action in the State of Delaware with respect to any matters to which it has submitted to jurisdiction as set forth above in the immediately preceding sentence. Each of the parties hereto irrevocably and unconditionally waives (and agrees not to plead or claim), any objection to the laying of venue of any Action arising out of this Agreement or any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement in the Chosen Courts, or that any such Action, brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.

(j)Mutual Waiver of Jury Trial. As a specifically bargained inducement for each of the parties to enter into this Agreement (with each party having had opportunity to consult counsel), each party hereto expressly and irrevocably waives the right to trial by jury in any lawsuit or legal proceeding relating to or arising in any way from this Agreement or the transactions contemplated herein, and any lawsuit or legal proceeding relating to or arising in any way from this Agreement or the transactions contemplated herein shall be tried in a court of competent jurisdiction by a judge sitting without a jury.

(k)No Strict Construction. The parties hereto have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement. In the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this

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Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto, and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any of the provisions of this Agreement. Wherever a conflict exists between this Agreement and any other agreement, this Agreement shall control but solely to the extent of such conflict.

(l)Entire Agreement. This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. There are no other agreements, representations, warranties, covenants or undertakings with respect to the subject matter hereof other than those expressly set forth herein.  Concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, on the date hereof, the existing Stockholders Agreement of the Company, dated as of September 6, 2011 (the “Original Agreement”), is hereby terminated without any further action by any Person; provided that if this Agreement is not made effective pursuant to Section 4(p) below on or prior to the tenth (10th) Business Day after the date of this Agreement, then the termination of the Original Agreement pursuant to this Section 4(l) shall be null and void and of no effect as of the date hereof, and shall be deemed to be in effect, without any further action by any Person.

(m)Delivery by Email. This Agreement, the agreements referred to herein, and each other agreement or instrument entered into in connection herewith or therewith or contemplated hereby or thereby, and any amendments hereto or thereto, to the extent signed and delivered by means of email with scan, shall be treated in all manner and respects as an original agreement or instrument and shall be considered to have the same binding legal effect as if it were the original signed version thereof delivered in person. No party hereto or to any such agreement or instrument shall raise the use of a facsimile machine or email to deliver a signature or the fact that any signature or agreement or instrument was transmitted or communicated through the use of email as a defense to the formation or enforceability of a contract, and each such party forever waives any such defense.

(n)Further Action. The parties agree to execute and deliver all documents, provide all information and take or refrain from taking such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to achieve the purposes of this Agreement.

(o)Termination. This Agreement shall terminate as it relates to each Investor Party at such time as such Investor Party ceases to own any shares of Common Stock; provided that such termination shall not affect (i) rights perfected under subsections (f) and (g) of Section 2 or obligations incurred by such Investor Party under this Agreement prior to such termination, and (ii) rights or obligations expressly stated to survive such cessation of ownership of Common Stock; provided further that any rights of the Investor Parties under the Registration Rights Agreement shall survive in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement; and provided further that any indemnification rights of the Investor Parties shall survive such termination.

(p)Effectiveness. This Agreement shall become effective upon completion of the IPO at the IPO Time; provided, that this Agreement shall be of no force and effect (i) prior to the completion of the IPO and (ii) if the IPO has not been consummated within ten (10) Business Days from the date of this Agreement.

(q)Transfer.  From the date hereof until the IPO Time, no Party hereto shall sell, transfer, distribute, assign, pledge or otherwise, directly or indirectly, dispose of (whether with or without consideration and whether voluntarily or involuntarily or by operation of law) any interest in such Party’s Common Stock or other equity securities without the prior written consent of the Company.

[Signature pages follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has duly executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

PAYMENTUS HOLDINGS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

/s/ Dushyant Sharma

 

 

Name:

 

Dushyant Sharma

 

 

Title:

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 


[Signature Page to Stockholders Agreement]

 


 

 

 

ACCEL-KKR CAPITAL PARTNERS CV III, LP,

a Delaware limited partnership

 

 

 

By:

 

AKKR Fund III Management Company CV, LP

Its:

 

General Partner

 

 

 

By:

 

AKKR Management Company, LLC

Its:

 

General Partner

 

 

 

By:

 

Accel-KKR Holdings GP, LLC

Its:

 

Managing Member

 

 

 

 

By:

 

/s/ Thomas C. Barnds

Name:

 

Thomas C. Barnds

Title:

 

Manager

 

 

 

 

ACCEL-KKR MEMBERS FUND, LLC

 

 

 

By:

 

AKKR Management Company, LLC

Its:

 

Managing Member

 

 

 

By:

 

Accel-KKR Holdings GP, LLC

Its:

 

Managing Member

 

By:

 

/s/ Thomas C. Barnds

Name:

 

Thomas C. Barnds

Title:

 

Manager

 


[Signature Page to Stockholders Agreement]

 


 

 

 

ACCEL-KKR GROWTH CAPITAL PARTNERS II, LP

 

 

 

By:

 

AKKR Growth Capital Management Company II, LP

Its:

 

General Partner

 

 

 

By:

 

AKKR Management Company, LLC

Its:

 

Managing Member

 

 

 

By:

 

Accel-KKR Holdings GP, LLC

Its:

 

Managing Member

 

By:

 

/s/ Thomas C. Barnds

Name:

 

Thomas C. Barnds

Title:

 

Manager

 

 

 

 

ACCEL-KKR GROWTH CAPITAL PARTNERS III, LP

 

 

 

By:

 

AKKR Growth Capital Management Company III, LP

Its:

 

General Partner

 

 

 

By:

 

AKKR Management Company, LLC

Its:

 

General Partner

 

 

 

By:

 

Accel-KKR Holdings GP, LLC

Its:

 

Managing Member

 

By:

 

/s/ Thomas C. Barnds

Name:

 

Thomas C. Barnds

Title:

 

Manager

 

 

 

 

 


[Signature Page to Stockholders Agreement]

 


 

 

 

ACCEL-KKR GROWTH CAPITAL PARTNERS II STRATEGIC FUND, LP

 

 

 

By:

 

AKKR Growth Capital Management Company II, LP

Its:

 

Managing Member

 

 

 

By:

 

AKKR Management Company, LLC

Its:

 

Managing Member

 

 

 

By:

 

Accel-KKR Holdings GP, LLC

Its:

 

Managing Member

 

By:

 

/s/ Thomas C. Barnds

Name:

 

Thomas C. Barnds

Title:

 

Manager

 

 

 

 

 


[Signature Page to Stockholders Agreement]

 


 

 

 

KKR-AKI INVESTORS, LLC

 

 

 

By:

 

/s/ Thomas C. Barnds

Name:

 

Thomas C. Barnds

Title:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


[Signature Page to Stockholders Agreement]

 


 

 

 

/s/ Dushyant Sharma

Dushyant Sharma

 

Ashigrace LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

/s/ Dushyant Sharma

 

 

Name:

 

Dushyant Sharma

 

 

Title:

 

Manager

 

The Sharma Family Trust A dated March 30, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

/s/ Ruma Sharma

 

 

Name:

 

Ruma Sharma

 

 

Title:

 

Trustee

 

The Sharma Family Trust B dated March 30, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

/s/ Ruma Sharma

 

 

Name:

 

Ruma Sharma

 

 

Title:

 

Trustee

 

The Sharma Family Trust C dated March 30, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

/s/ Ruma Sharma

 

 

Name:

 

Ruma Sharma

 

 

Title:

 

Trustee

 

The Sharma Family Trust D dated March 30, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

/s/ Ruma Sharma

 

 

Name:

 

Ruma Sharma

 

 

Title:

 

Trustee

 

 


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The Ruma Sharma Family Trust dated December 3, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

/s/ Dushyant Sharma

 

 

Name:

 

Dushyant Sharma

 

 

Title:

 

Trustee

 

 

 

 

[Signature Page to Stockholders Agreement]

 


EXHIBIT A

 

 

FORM OF JOINDER AGREEMENT

This JOINDER AGREEMENT, dated as of [_________], 20[__] (this “Joinder”), is delivered pursuant to that certain Stockholders Agreement, dated as of May 24, 2021 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Stockholders Agreement”) of Paymentus Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), by and among the Company and the parties signatory thereto. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the respective meanings set forth in the Stockholders Agreement.

1.

Joinder to the Stockholders Agreement. Upon the execution of this Joinder by the undersigned and delivery hereof to the Company, the undersigned hereby becomes a party to the Stockholders Agreement, with all the rights, privileges, obligations and responsibilities of [the AKKR Investor // a Sharma Investor] thereunder. The undersigned hereby agrees that it shall comply with and be fully bound by the terms of the Stockholders Agreement as if it had been a signatory thereto as of the date thereof (including the dates of any amendment, restatement, supplement or other modification thereto).

2.

Incorporation by Reference. All terms and conditions of the Stockholders Agreement are hereby incorporated by reference in this Joinder as if set forth herein in full.

3.

Address. All notices under the Stockholders Agreement to the undersigned shall be directed to:

[Name]
[Address]
[City, State, Zip Code]
Attn:
Facsimile:
E-mail:

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed and delivered this Joinder as of the day and year first above written.

 

[NAME OF PARTY]

 

 

 

By:

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

Acknowledged and agreed
as of the date first set forth above:

PAYMENTUS HOLDINGS, INC.

 

By:

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title: