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): January 10, 2020
 
RumbleOn, Inc.
 
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Nevada
 
(State or Other Jurisdictionof Incorporation)
 
 001-38248
 46-3951329
 (Commission File Number)
 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
 

 901 W. Walnut Hill Lane
Irving, Texas
 75038
 (Address of Principal Executive Offices)
 (Zip Code)
 
 
(469) 250-1185
 
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
 
 
 (Former Name or Former Address, If Changed Since Last Report)
 
 
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
 
 Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
 Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
 Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2 (b))
 Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4 (c))
 
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 B Common Stock, $0.001 par value
RMBL
The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR §230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR §240.12b-2).
 
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.
 


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Item 1.01.    Entry into Material Definitive Agreement.
 
Public Offering
 
On January 10, 2020, RumbleOn, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with National Securities Corporation, as representative to the several underwriters named on Schedule 1-A to the Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriters”), relating to the Company’s public offering (the “Offering”) of 18,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock (the “Firm Shares”) and an additional 2,700,000 shares of Class B Common Stock (the “Additional Shares,” and together with Firm Shares, the “Shares”).
 
The Underwriters agreed to purchase the Firm Shares at a price of $0.57 per share. The Firm Shares were offered, issued, and sold pursuant to a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement filed with the SEC on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-234340) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).
 
On January 14, 2020, the Company issued the Firm Shares and closed the Offering at a public price of $0.57 per share for net proceeds to the Company of approximately $9.3 million after deducting the underwriting discount and offering fees and expenses payable by the Company. Certain of the Company's officers and directors participated in the Offering.
 
On January 16, 2020, the Company received notice of the Underwriters' intent to exercise the over-allotment option in full. The Company expects to close on the over-allotment exercise on January 17, 2020.
 
The Underwriting Agreement included customary representations, warranties, and agreements by the Company, customary conditions to closing, indemnification obligations of the Company and the Underwriters, including for liabilities under the Securities Act, other obligations of the parties and termination provisions. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Underwriting Agreement were made only for purposes of such agreement and as of specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to the agreement and were subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties.
 
The Underwriting Agreement is filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this report and is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the terms of the Underwriting Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to Exhibit 1.1. A copy of the opinion of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. relating to the legality of the issuance and sale of the Shares in the Offering is attached hereto as Exhibit 5.1.
 
The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Offering for working capital and general corporate purposes, which may include further technology development, increased spending on marketing and advertising and capital expenditures necessary to grow the business. Pending these uses, the Company may invest the net proceeds in short-term interest-bearing investment grade instruments.
 
Convertible Note Exchange and Offer
 
Also on January 10, 2020, the Company entered into a note exchange and subscription agreement (the "Note Exchange & Subscription Agreement"), as amended by that certain Joinder and Amendment effective January 13, 2020 (the "Joinder Agreement," and together with the Note Exchange & Subscription Agreement, the "Note Agreement"), with the investors in the Company's May 2019 144A Convertible Note transaction (the "Note Investors"), pursuant to which the Company agreed to complete (i) a note exchange pursuant to which $30 million of the Company's 6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2024 would be cancelled in exchange for a new series of 6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “New Notes”) and (ii) the issuance of additional New Notes in a private placement in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Rule 506 of Regulation D of the Securities Act as a sale not involving any public offering (the "Note Offering"). On January 14, 2020, the Company closed the Note Offering. The net proceeds for the Note Offering were approximately $8.6 million, after deducting offering-related expenses.
 
 
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The New Notes were issued on January 14, 2020 pursuant to an Indenture (the “Indenture”), by and between the Company and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”). The Note Agreement includes customary representations, warranties and covenants by the Company and customary closing conditions. The New Notes will bear interest at 6.75% per annum, payable semiannually on January 1 and July 1 of each year, beginning on July 1, 2020. The New Notes may bear additional interest under specified circumstances relating to the Company’s failure to comply with its reporting obligations under the Indenture or if the New Notes are not freely tradeable as required by the Indenture. The New Notes will mature on January 1, 2025, unless earlier converted, redeemed or repurchased pursuant to their terms.
 
The initial conversion rate of the New Notes is 500 shares of Class B Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of New Notes, which is equal to an initial conversion price of $2.00 per share. The conversion rate is subject to adjustment in certain events as set forth in the Indenture, but will not be adjusted for any accrued and unpaid interest. In addition, upon the occurrence of a "make-whole fundamental change" (as defined in the Indenture), the Company will, in certain circumstances, increase the conversion rate by a number of additional shares for a holder that elects to convert its New Notes in connection with such make-whole fundamental change. Before July 1, 2024, the New Notes will be convertible only under circumstances as described in the Indenture. No adjustment to the conversion rate as a result of conversion or a make-whole fundamental change adjustment will result in a conversion rate greater than 1233.0456 shares per $1,000 in principal amount.
 
The Indenture contains a “blocker provision” which provides that no holder (other than the depositary with respect to the notes) or beneficial owner of a New Note shall have the right to receive shares of the Class B Common Stock upon conversion to the extent that, following receipt of such shares, such holder or beneficial owner would be the beneficial owner of more than 4.99% of the outstanding shares of the Class B Common Stock.
 
The New Notes are not redeemable by the Company before the January 14, 2023. The Company may redeem for cash all or any portion of the New Notes, at its option, on or after January 14, 2023 if the last reported sale price of the Class B Common Stock has been at least 130% of the conversion price then in effect for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive), including the trading day immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides notice of redemption, during any 30 consecutive trading day period ending on, and including, the trading day immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides notice of redemption at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date. No sinking fund is provided for the notes.
 
The New Notes rank senior in right of payment to any of the Company’s indebtedness that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the New Notes; equal in right of payment to any of the Company’s unsecured indebtedness that is not so subordinated; effectively junior in right of payment to any of the Company’s secured indebtedness to the extent of the value of the assets securing such indebtedness; and structurally junior to all indebtedness and other liabilities of current or future subsidiaries of the Company (including trade payables).
 
The New Notes are subject to events of default typical for this type of instrument. If an event of default, other than an event of default in connection with certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company or any significant subsidiary, occurs and is continuing, the Trustee by notice to the Company, or the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding New Notes by notice to the Company and the Trustee, may declare 100% of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all the New Notes then outstanding to be due and payable.
 
In connection with the Note Offering, on January 14, 2020, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement (the "Registration Rights Agreement") with the Note Investors, pursuant to which the Company has agreed to file with the SEC an automatic shelf registration statement, if the Company is eligible to do so and has not already done so, and, if the Company is not eligible for an automatic shelf registration statement, then in lieu of the foregoing the Company shall file a shelf registration statement for the registration of, and the sale on a continuous or delayed basis by the holders of, all of the New Notes pursuant to Rule 415 or any similar rule that may be adopted by the Commission, and use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the shelf registration statement to become or be declared effective under the Securities Act on the day that is 120 days after January 14, 2020.
 
The foregoing description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the text of the Indenture, the form of 6.75% Convertible Senior New Notes due 2025, the form of Registration Rights Agreement, the form of Note Exchange & Subscription Agreement and the form of Joinder Agreement, which are attached as Exhibits 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 10.1 and 10.2 respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated herein by reference.
 
 
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Investor Note Exchange
 
Also, in connection with the closing of the Offering and the Note Offering, certain of the Company's investors extended the maturity of currently outstanding promissory notes, and exchanged such notes for new notes (the "New Investor Notes"), pursuant to that certain Note Exchange Agreement, dated January 14, 2020 (the "Investor Note Exchange Agreement"), by and between the Company and each investor thereto (the "Investors"), including Halcyon Consulting, LLC ("Halcyon"), an entity affiliated with Kartik Kakarala, a director of the Company, such New Investor Note for an aggregate principal amount of $833,333, Blue Flame Capital, LLC ("Blue Flame"), an entity affiliated with Denmar Dixon, a director of the Company, such New Investor Note for an aggregate principal amount of $99,114 and Mr. Dixon, individually, such New Investor Note for an aggregate principal amount of $272,563. The New Investor Notes, having an aggregate principal amount of approximately $1.5 million, will mature on January 31, 2021, and will be convertible at any time at the Investor's option at a price of $3.00 per share. In connection with the issuance of the New Investor Notes, the Company also entered into a Security Agreement, dated as of January 14, 2020 with the Investors, pursuant to which the Company granted to the Investors a security interest in certain collateral to secure, on a pro rata basis based on the percentage equal to the amount of principal outstanding on each New Investor Note divided by the amount of principal outstanding on all of the New Investor Notes to each Investor.
 
The foregoing description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the text of the form of Investor Note Exchange Agreement, the form of New Investor Note and the form of Security Agreement, which are attached as Exhibits 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated herein by reference.
 
Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
 
The information set forth under Item 1.01 is incorporated herein by reference.
 
Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.
 
The information set forth under Item 1.01 is incorporated herein by reference.
 
The New Investor Notes and the New Notes were sold to the investors pursuant to the Investor Note Exchange Agreement and the Note Agreement, respectively, in a private placement in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Rule 506 of Regulation D of the Securities Act as a sale not involving any public offering. To the extent that any shares of Class B Common Stock are issued upon conversion of the New Investor Notes and the New Notes, they will be issued in transactions anticipated to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 3(a)(9) thereof, because no commission or other remuneration is expected to be paid in connection with conversion of the New Investor Notes and the New Notes, and any resulting issuance of shares of Class B Common Stock.
 
Item 8.01. Other Events.
 
On January 14, 2020, the Company issued a press release announcing the closing of the offerings. The press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this report and is incorporated herein by reference.
 
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
 
(d) Exhibits
 
Exhibit No.
Description
1.1
Underwriting Agreement, between the Company and the underwriters named therein, dated January 10, 2020.
4.1
Indenture, dated January 14, 2020, between the Company and Wilmington Trust National Association.
4.2
Form of 6.75% Convertible Senior Note due 2025 (included as Exhibit A to the Indenture filed as Exhibit 4.1).
4.3
Form of Registration Rights Agreement, dated January 14, 2020
5.1
Opinion of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
Form of Note Exchange & Subscription Agreement, dated January 10, 2020
Form of Joinder & Amendment, dated January 10, 2020
Form of Investor Note Exchange Agreement
Form of New Investor Note
Form of Security Agreement, dated January 14, 2020
23.1
Consent of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (included in Exhibit 5.1).
Press Release, dated January 14, 2020
 

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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
 
RUMBLEON, INC.
 
 
 
Date: January 16, 2020
By:  
/s/ Steven R. Berrard
 
 
Steven R. Berrard 
 
 
Chief Financial Officer
 
 

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Exhibit 1.1
 
18,000,000 Shares
 
RUMBLEON, INC.
Class B Common Stock
 
 
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
 
January 10, 2020
 
 
National Securities Corporation
As Representative of the several Underwriters
200 Vesey Street, 25th Floor
New York, New York 10281
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
The undersigned, RumbleOn, Inc., a corporation formed under the laws of the State of Nevada (the “Company”), hereby confirms its agreement (this “Agreement”) with National Securities Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the “Representative”) and with the other underwriters named on Schedule 1-A hereto for which the Representative is acting as representative (the Representative and such other underwriters being collectively called the “Underwriters” or, individually, an “Underwriter”) as follows:
 
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Purchase and Sale of Shares.
 
1.1 Nature and Purchase of Shares.
 
(i) On the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained, but subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to issue and sell, severally and not jointly, to the Underwriters, an aggregate of 18,000,000 shares (the “Firm Shares”) of the Company’s Class B Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Class B Common Stock”), and, at the election of the Underwriters, upon the terms and conditions stated herein, up to 2,700,000 additional shares (the “Additional Shares”) of Class B Common Stock solely to cover over-allotments, if any (the Firm Shares and the Additional Shares that the Underwriters elect to purchase pursuant to Section 1.2(iii) hereof being collectively called the “Shares”).
 
(ii) The Underwriters, severally and not jointly, agree to purchase from the Company the Shares at a purchase price of $0.57 per share (92% of the per Share offering price). The Shares are to be offered initially to the public at the offering price set forth on the cover page of the Prospectus (as defined in Section 2.1.1). The offering and sale of the Shares is hereinafter referred to as the “Offering.”
 
 
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1.2 Payment and Delivery of Shares.
 
(i) Delivery and payment for the Firm Shares shall be made at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second (2nd) Business Day following the date of this Agreement (or the third (3rd) Business Day following the date of this Agreement if the purchase price set forth in Schedule 1-B is determined after 4:01 p.m., New York City time) or at such earlier time as shall be agreed upon by the Representative and the Company, at the offices of McGuireWoods LLP, 1251 Avenue of the Americas, 20th Floor, New York, New York 10020 (“Underwriters’ Counsel”), or at such other place (or remotely by facsimile or other electronic transmission) as shall be agreed upon by the Representative and the Company. The hour and date of delivery and payment for the Firm Shares is called the “Closing Date.”
 
(ii) Payment for the Shares shall be made on the Closing Date by wire transfer in Federal (same day) funds, payable to the order of the Company upon delivery of the certificates (in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters) representing the Shares (or through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”)) for the account of the Underwriters. The Shares shall be registered in such name or names and in such authorized denominations as the Representative may request in writing. The Company shall not be obligated to sell or deliver the Shares except upon tender of payment by the Representative for all of the Shares. The term “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions are authorized or obligated by law to close in New York, New York.
 
(iii) As referenced in Section 1.1(i) above, the Company hereby grants to the Underwriters the option to purchase from the Company an aggregate of up to the total number of Additional Shares, at a purchase price equal to $0.57 per share. This option may be exercised by the Representative at any time and from time to time on or before the date that is thirty (30) days following the date hereof, by written notice to the Company. Each notice shall set forth the aggregate number of Additional Shares as to which the option is being exercised, and the date and time when the Additional Shares are to be delivered (each such date and time being herein referred to as an “Option Closing Date”); provided, however, that no Option Closing Date shall be earlier than the Closing Date nor later than one Business Day after the date on which the option shall have been exercised unless the Company and the Representative otherwise agree. Payment of the purchase price and delivery of the Additional Shares shall be made on each Option Closing Date in the same manner and at the same place as payment for and delivery of the Firm Shares occurs pursuant to Section 1.2(ii) above.
 
2. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to the Underwriters as of the Applicable Time (as defined below), as of the Closing Date and as of each Option Closing Date as follows:
 
2.1 Filing of Registration Statement. The Company has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a “shelf” Registration Statement (as hereinafter defined) on Form S-3 (File No. 333-234340) which became effective on October 31, 2019 (the “Effective Date”), including a base prospectus dated October 31, 2019 relating to the securities registered pursuant to such Registration Statement (the “Base Prospectus”), for the registration of the Shares under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), which Registration Statement and amendment or amendments have been prepared by the Company in all material respects in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission under the Securities Act (the “Securities Act Regulations”) and contain all material statements that are required to be stated therein in accordance with the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations. On the Effective Date, the Company met the then-applicable requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act. As of the date hereof, the Company meets, and as of the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, the Company will meet, the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act. Pursuant to General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3, the issuance of the Firm Shares and the Additional Shares is eligible to be registered pursuant to the Prospectus. The term “Registration Statement” as used in this Agreement means the registration statement (including all exhibits, financial schedules and all documents and information deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430A and 430B of the Securities Act Regulations), as amended and/or supplemented to the date of this Agreement, including the Base Prospectus. The Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act and no stop order preventing or suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or suspending or preventing the use of the Prospectus (as defined below) has been issued by the Commission and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, are threatened by the Commission.
 
 
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The Company proposes to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act Regulations a final prospectus supplement relating to the issuance and sale of the Shares to the Base Prospectus. Such supplemental form of prospectus, in the form in which it shall be filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) (including the Base Prospectus as so supplemented) is hereinafter called the “Prospectus.” Any preliminary form of Prospectus which is filed or used prior to filing of the Prospectus is hereinafter called a “Preliminary Prospectus.” Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 which were filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), on or before the last to occur of the Effective Date, the date of the last Preliminary Prospectus, or the date of the Prospectus, and any reference herein to the terms “amend,” “amendment,” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include (i) the filing of any document under the Exchange Act after the Effective Date, the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the date of the Prospectus, as the case may be, which is incorporated by reference, and (ii) any such document so filed. If the Company has filed an abbreviated registration statement to register additional securities pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act Regulations (the “462(b) Registration Statement”), then any reference herein to the Registration Statement shall also be deemed to include such 462(b) Registration Statement.
 
As used in this Section 2.1 and elsewhere in this Agreement:
 
Applicable Time” means 7:45 a.m., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement.
 
Pricing Disclosure Package” means the Pricing Prospectus and the information included on Schedule 2 hereto, considered together.
 
Pricing Prospectus” means the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, and the Base Prospectus, each as amended and supplemented immediately prior to the Applicable Time, including any document incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof.
 
2.2 No Stop Orders, etc. Neither the Commission nor any state regulatory authority has issued any order preventing or suspending the use of the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus or has instituted or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened to institute, any proceedings with respect to such an order. The Company has complied with each request (if any) from the Commission for additional information.
 
2.3 Listing and Maintenance Requirements. The Company is subject to and in compliance in all material respects with the reporting requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as applicable. The Class B Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market (the “Exchange”), and the Company has taken no action designed to, or reasonably likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Class B Common Stock under the Exchange Act or delisting the Class B Common Stock from the Exchange, nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission, FINRA or The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (“NASDAQ”) is contemplating terminating such registration or listing, except as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. No consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing, notification or registration with, the Exchange is required for the listing and trading of the shares of Class B Common Stock on the Exchange, except for (i) a Notification Form: Listing of Additional Shares; and (ii) a Notification Form: Change in the Number of Shares Outstanding.
 
2.4 Disclosures in Registration Statement.
 
 
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2.4.1. Compliance with Securities Act and 10b-5 Representation.
 
(i) Each of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at the time it became effective, at the date of this Agreement and at the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations. Each Preliminary Prospectus, including the prospectus filed as part of the Registration Statement as originally filed or as part of any amendment or supplement thereto, and the Prospectus, at the time each was filed with the Commission, at the date of this Agreement and at the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations. Each Preliminary Prospectus delivered to the Underwriters for use in connection with this Offering and the Prospectus was or will be identical to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.
 
(ii) Neither the Registration Statement nor any amendment thereto, at its effective time, as of the Applicable Time, or at the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date contained, contains or will contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits or will omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.
 
(iii) The Pricing Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time or at the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date did not, does not and will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to statements made or statements omitted in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company with respect to the Underwriters by the Representative expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto. The parties acknowledge and agree that such information provided by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists solely of the following disclosure contained in the “Underwriting” section of the Prospectus: the fourth paragraph under the caption “Underwriting,”  the second sentence of the first paragraph and the first sentence of the second paragraph under the caption “Underwriting – Stabilization,” and the information in the caption “Underwriting – Electronic Distribution” (collectively, the “Underwriter’s Information”); and
 
(iv) Neither the Prospectus nor any amendment or supplement thereto (including any prospectus wrapper), as of its issue date, at the time of any filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) or at the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, included, includes or will include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to the Underwriter’s Information.
 
2.4.2. Disclosure of Agreements. The agreements and documents incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and there are no agreements or other documents required by the Securities Act, the Securities Act Regulations or the Exchange Act to be described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or to be filed with the Commission as exhibits to the Registration Statement, that have not been so filed. Each agreement or other instrument (however characterized or described) to which the Company is a party or by which it is or may be bound or affected and (i) that is referred to or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, or (ii) is material to the Company’s business, has been duly authorized and validly executed by the Company, is in full force and effect in all material respects and is enforceable against the Company and, to the Company’s knowledge, the other parties thereto, in accordance with its terms, except (x) as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, (y) as enforceability of any indemnification or contribution provision may be limited under the federal and state securities laws, and (z) that the remedy of specific performance and injunctive and other forms of equitable relief may be subject to the equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought. None of such agreements or instruments has been assigned by the Company, and neither the Company nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any other party is in default thereunder and, to the Company’s knowledge, no event has occurred that, with the lapse of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a default thereunder. Performance by the Company of the material provisions of such agreements or instruments will not result in a material violation of any existing applicable law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any governmental agency or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its assets or businesses (each, a “Governmental Entity”), including, without limitation, those relating to environmental laws and regulations.
 
 
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2.4.3. Prior Securities Transactions. No securities of the Company have been sold by the Company or by or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any person or persons controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Company, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Preliminary Prospectus.
 
2.4.4. Regulations. The disclosures in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus concerning the effects of federal, state, local and all foreign regulation on the Offering and the Company’s business as currently contemplated and conducted are correct in all material respects and no other such regulations are required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus which are not so disclosed.
 
2.5 Changes After Dates in Registration Statement.
 
2.5.1. No Material Adverse Change. Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, except as otherwise specifically stated therein: (i) there has been no material adverse change in the financial position or results of operations of the Company, nor any change or development that, singularly or in the aggregate, would involve a material adverse change or a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business, assets or prospects of the Company (a “Material Adverse Change”); (ii) there have been no material transactions entered into by the Company, other than as contemplated pursuant to this Agreement; and (iii) no officer or director of the Company has resigned from any position with the Company.
 
2.5.2. Recent Securities Transactions, etc. Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and except as may otherwise be indicated or contemplated herein or disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company has not: (i) issued any securities or incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, for borrowed money; or (ii) declared or paid any dividend or made any other distribution on or in respect to its capital stock.
 
2.6 Independent Accountants. Scharf Pera & Co., PLCC (the “Auditor”), whose report is filed with the Commission as part of the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm as required by the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The Auditor has not, during the periods covered by the financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, provided to the Company any non-audit services, as such term is used in Section 10A(g) of the Exchange Act. Since November 19, 2019, Grant Thornton LLP has acted, and continues to act, as the Company’s independent, registered public accounting firm.
 
2.7 Financial Statements, etc. The financial statements, including the notes thereto and supporting schedules, included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, fairly present the financial position and the results of operations of the Company at the dates and for the periods to which they apply; and such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), consistently applied throughout the periods involved (provided that unaudited interim financial statements are subject to year-end audit adjustments that are not expected to be material in the aggregate and do not contain all footnotes required by GAAP); and the supporting schedules included in the Registration Statement present fairly the information required to be stated therein. Except as included therein, no historical or pro forma financial statements are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus under the Securities Act or the Securities Act Regulations. All disclosures contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus regarding “non-GAAP financial measures” (as such term is defined by the rules and regulations of the Commission), if any, comply with Regulation G of the Exchange Act and Item 10 of Regulation S-K of the Securities Act, to the extent applicable. Each of the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus discloses all material off-balance sheet transactions, arrangements, obligations (including contingent obligations), and other relationships of the Company with unconsolidated entities or other persons that may have a material current or future effect on the Company’s financial condition, changes in financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures, capital resources, or significant components of revenues or expenses. Except as disclosed or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (a) the Company has not incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material transactions other than in the ordinary course of business, (b) the Company has not declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any kind with respect to its capital stock, (c) there has not been any change in the capital stock of the Company, or, other than in the course of business, any grants under any stock compensation plan, and (d) there has not been any material adverse change in the Company’s long-term or short-term debt.
 
 
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2.8 Authorized Capital, etc. The Company had, at the date or dates indicated in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the duly authorized, issued and outstanding capitalization as set forth therein. Based on the assumptions stated in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company will have on the Closing Date the adjusted stock capitalization set forth therein. Except as set forth in, or contemplated by, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, on the Effective Date, as of the Applicable Time and on the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, there will be no stock options, warrants, or other rights to purchase or otherwise acquire any authorized, but unissued shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock, $0.001 per share (the “Class A Common Stock”) or the Class B Common Stock or any security convertible or exercisable into shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, or any contracts or commitments to issue or sell shares of Class A Common Stock, Class B Common Stock or any such options, warrants, rights or convertible securities.
 
2.9 Valid Issuance of Securities, etc.
 
2.9.1. Outstanding Securities. All issued and outstanding securities of the Company issued prior to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable; the holders thereof have no rights of rescission with respect thereto, and are not subject to personal liability by reason of being such holders; and none of such securities were issued in violation of the preemptive rights of any holders of any security of the Company or similar contractual rights granted by the Company. The authorized shares of Class B Common Stock conform in all material respects to all statements relating thereto contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. The offers and sales of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock were at all relevant times either registered under the Securities Act and the applicable state securities or “blue sky” laws or, based in part on the representations and warranties of the purchasers of such shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, exempt from such registration requirements.
 
2.9.2. Shares Sold Pursuant to this Agreement. The Shares have been duly authorized for issuance and sale and, when issued and paid for, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; the holders thereof are not and will not be subject to personal liability by reason of being such holders; the Shares are not and will not be subject to the preemptive rights of any holders of any security of the Company or similar contractual rights granted by the Company; and all corporate action required to be taken for the authorization, issuance and sale of the Shares has been duly and validly taken. The Shares conform in all material respects to all statements with respect thereto contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
 
2.10 Registration Rights of Third Parties. Except as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, no holders of any securities of the Company or any rights exercisable for or convertible or exchangeable into securities of the Company have the right to require the Company to (i) register the sale or resale of any such securities of the Company under the Securities Act, (ii) include any such securities in a registration statement to be filed by the Company or (iii) register the resale of any securities of the Company held by such persons, or that such persons may acquire upon the exercise or conversion of any other securities of the Company, pursuant to the Prospectus as part of the Offering.
 
2.11 Validity and Binding Effect of Agreement. This Agreement has been duly and validly authorized by the Company, and, when executed and delivered, will constitute, the valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally; (ii) as enforceability of any indemnification or contribution provision may be limited under the federal and state securities laws; and (iii) that the remedy of specific performance and injunctive and other forms of equitable relief may be subject to the equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought.
 
2.12 No Conflicts, etc. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and all ancillary documents, the consummation by the Company of the transactions herein and therein contemplated and the compliance by the Company with the terms hereof and thereof do not and will not, with or without the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both: (i) result in a material breach of, or conflict with any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a material default under, or result in the creation, modification, termination or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company pursuant to the terms of any agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party; (ii) result in any violation of the provisions of the Company’s Articles of Incorporation (as the same may be amended or restated from time to time, the “Charter”) or the Company’s bylaws (the “Bylaws”); or (iii) violate any existing applicable law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any Governmental Entity as of the date hereof.
 
 
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2.13 No Defaults; Violations. No material default exists in the due performance and observance of any term, covenant or condition of any material license, contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, note, loan or credit agreement, or any other agreement or instrument evidencing an obligation for borrowed money, or any other material agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company may be bound or to which any of the properties or assets of the Company is subject. The Company is not in violation of any term or provision of its Charter or Bylaws, or in violation of any franchise, license, permit, applicable law, rule, regulation, judgment or decree of any Governmental Entity.
 
2.14 Corporate Power; Licenses; Consents.
 
2.14.1. Conduct of Business. The Company has all requisite corporate power and authority, and has all necessary authorizations, approvals, orders, licenses, certificates and permits of and from all governmental regulatory officials and bodies that it needs as of the date hereof to conduct its business purpose as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
 
2.14.2. Transactions Contemplated Herein. The Company has all corporate power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to carry out the provisions and conditions hereof, and all consents, authorizations, approvals and orders required in connection therewith have been obtained. No consent, authorization or order of, and no filing with, any court, Governmental Entity or other body is required for the valid issuance, sale and delivery of the Shares and the consummation of the transactions and agreements contemplated by this Agreement and as contemplated by the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, except with respect to applicable federal and state securities laws and the rules and regulations of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”).
 
2.15 Independence Questionnaires. To the Company’s knowledge, all information concerning the Company’s directors, officers and principal shareholders as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, as well as in the Lock-Up Agreement (as defined in Section 2.24), is true and correct in all material respects and the Company has not become aware of any information which would cause such information to become materially inaccurate and incorrect.
 
2.16 Litigation; Governmental Proceedings. There is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry, arbitration, investigation, litigation or governmental proceeding pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened against, or involving the Company which has not been disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or in connection with the Company’s listing application for the listing of the Shares on the Exchange, which if resolved adversely to the Company is reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Change.
 
2.17 Good Standing. The Company has been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation and is in good standing under the laws of the State of Nevada as of the date hereof, and is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing in each other jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of business requires such qualification, except where the failure to qualify, singularly or in the aggregate, would not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
 
2.18 Insurance. The Company carries or is entitled to the benefits of insurance, with reputable insurers, in such amounts and covering such risks which the Company believes are adequate, including, but not limited to, directors and officers insurance coverage at least equal to $5,000,000 and the Company has included each Underwriter as an additional insured party to the directors and officers insurance coverage and all such insurance is in full force and effect. The Company has no reason to believe that it will not be able (i) to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such policies expire or (ii) to obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now conducted and at a cost that would not result in a Material Adverse Change.
 
 
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2.19 Transactions Affecting Disclosure to FINRA.
 
2.19.1. Finder’s Fees. There are no claims, payments, arrangements, agreements or understandings relating to the payment of a finder’s, consulting or origination fee by the Company or any of the Company’s officers, directors or beneficial owners of 5% or more of any class of the Company’s securities of with respect to the sale of the Shares hereunder or any other arrangements, agreements or understandings of the Company or, to the Company’s knowledge, any of its shareholders that may affect the Underwriters’ compensation, as determined by FINRA.
 
2.19.2. Payments Within Twelve (12) Months. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company has not made any direct or indirect payments (in cash, securities or otherwise) to: (i) any person, as a finder’s fee, consulting fee or otherwise, in consideration of such person raising capital for the Company or introducing to the Company persons who raised or provided capital to the Company; (ii) any FINRA member; or (iii)  any person or entity that has any direct or indirect affiliation or association with any FINRA member, within the twelve (12) months prior to the Effective Date, other than the payment to the Underwriters as provided hereunder in connection with the Offering.
 
2.19.3. Use of Proceeds. None of the net proceeds of the Offering will be paid by the Company to any participating FINRA member or its affiliates, except as specifically authorized herein.
 
2.19.4. FINRA Affiliation. There is no (i) officer or director of the Company, (ii) beneficial owner of 5% or more of any class of the Company’s securities or (iii) beneficial owner of the Company’s unregistered equity securities which were acquired during the 180-day period immediately preceding the filing of the Registration Statement that is an affiliate or associated person of a FINRA member participating in the Offering (as determined in accordance with the rules and regulations of FINRA).
 
2.19.5. Information. All information provided by the Company in its FINRA questionnaire to Underwriters’ Counsel specifically for use by Underwriters’ Counsel in connection with its Public Offering System filings (and related disclosure) with FINRA is true, correct and complete in all material respects.
 
2.20 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The Company or, to the Company’s knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any other person acting on behalf of the Company, has not, directly or indirectly, given or agreed to give any money, gift or similar benefit (other than legal price concessions to customers in the ordinary course of business) to any customer, supplier, employee or agent of a customer or supplier, or official or employee of any governmental agency or instrumentality of any government (domestic or foreign) or any political party or candidate for office (domestic or foreign) or other person who was, is, or may be in a position to help or hinder the business of the Company (or assist it in connection with any actual or proposed transaction) that (i) might subject the Company to any damage or penalty in any civil, criminal or governmental litigation or proceeding, (ii) if not given in the past, might have had a Material Adverse Change, or (iii) if not continued in the future, might adversely affect the assets, business, operations or prospects of the Company. The Company has taken reasonable steps to ensure that its accounting controls and procedures are sufficient to cause the Company to comply in all material respects with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.
 
2.21 Compliance with OFAC. Neither the Company nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any other person acting on behalf of the Company, is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“OFAC”), and the Company will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the Offering hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.
 
2.22 Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any Governmental Entity (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”); and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any Governmental Entity involving the Company with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened.
 
 
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2.23 Officers’ Certificate. Any certificate signed by any duly authorized officer of the Company and delivered to the Representative or to Underwriters’ Counsel shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to the Underwriters as to the matters covered thereby.
 
2.24 Lock-Up Agreements. Schedule 3 hereto contains a complete and accurate list of the Company’s executive officers and directors as well as any stockholders deemed to be affiliates through their ownership of the Company’s Class B Common Stock or Class A Common Stock (collectively, the “Lock-Up Parties”). The Company has caused each of the Lock-Up Parties to deliver to the Representative an executed Lock-Up Agreement, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Lock-Up Agreement”), prior to the execution of this Agreement.
 
2.25 Subsidiaries. Except as set forth on Schedule 2.25 and in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company has no direct or indirect subsidiaries.
 
2.26 Related Party Transactions. There are no business relationships or related party transactions involving the Company or any other person required to be described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus that have not been described as required.
 
2.27 Board of Directors. The Board of Directors of the Company is comprised of the persons set forth in the Company’s definitive proxy statement filed with the Commission on April 19, 2019, except as set forth in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 25, 2019, and incorporated by reference into each Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus. The qualifications of the persons serving as board members and the overall composition of the board comply with the Exchange Act, the rules and regulations of the Commission under the Exchange Act (the “Exchange Act Regulations”), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules promulgated thereunder (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”) applicable to the Company and the listing rules of the Exchange, except as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. At least one member of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert,” as such term is defined under Regulation S-K and the listing rules of the Exchange.
 
2.28 Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance.
 
2.28.1. Disclosure Controls. The Company has developed and currently maintains disclosure controls and procedures that comply with Rule 13a-15 or 15d-15 under the Exchange Act Regulations, and such controls and procedures are effective to ensure that all material information concerning the Company is made known on a timely basis to the individuals responsible for the preparation of the Company’s Exchange Act filings and other public disclosure documents.
 
2.28.2. Compliance. The Company is, or at the Applicable Time and on the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date will be, in material compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act applicable to it, and has implemented or will implement such programs and taken reasonable steps to ensure the Company’s future compliance (not later than the relevant statutory and regulatory deadlines therefor) with all of the material provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
 
2.29 Accounting Controls. The Company maintains systems of “internal control over financial reporting” (as defined under Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act Regulations) that comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act and have been designed by, or under the supervision of, its principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with GAAP, including, but not limited to, internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company is not aware of any material weaknesses in its internal controls. The Company’s auditors and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company have been advised of: (i) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls over financial reporting which are known to the Company’s management and that have adversely affected or are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company’ ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and (ii) any fraud known to the Company’s management, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting.
 
 
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2.30 No Investment Company Status. The Company is not and, after giving effect to the Offering and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, will not be, required to register as an “investment company,” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
 
2.31 No Labor Disputes. No labor dispute with the employees of the Company exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent.
 
2.32 Intellectual Property Rights. The Company owns or possesses or has valid rights to use all patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service mark registrations, copyrights, licenses, trade secrets and similar rights (“Intellectual Property Rights”), if any, necessary for the conduct of the business of the Company as currently carried on and as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. To the knowledge of the Company, no action or use by the Company necessary for the conduct of its business as currently carried on and as described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus infringes any Intellectual Property Rights of others. Except as would not reasonably be expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Change, the Company has not received any notice alleging any such infringement, with asserted Intellectual Property Rights of others. Except as would not reasonably be expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Change (A) to the knowledge of the Company, there is no infringement, misappropriation or violation by third parties of any of the Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company; (B) there is no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the rights of the Company in or to any such Intellectual Property Rights, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim, that would, individually or in the aggregate, together with any other claims in this Section 2.32, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change; (C) the Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company and, to the knowledge of the Company, the Intellectual Property Rights licensed to the Company have not been adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, and there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity or scope of any such Intellectual Property Rights, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim that would, individually or in the aggregate, together with any other claims in this Section 2.32, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change; (D) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company infringes, misappropriates or otherwise violates any Intellectual Property Rights or other proprietary rights of others, the Company has not received any written notice of such claim and the Company is unaware of any other facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim that would, individually or in the aggregate, together with any other claims in this Section 2.32, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change; and (E) to the Company’s knowledge, no employee of the Company is in violation in any material respect of any term of any employment contract, patent disclosure agreement, invention assignment agreement, non-competition agreement, non-solicitation agreement, nondisclosure agreement or any restrictive covenant to or with a former employer where the basis of such violation relates to such employee’s employment with the Company, or actions undertaken by the employee while employed with the Company and could reasonably be expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Change. To the Company’s knowledge, all material trade secrets developed by and belonging to the Company which have not been patented have been kept confidential. The Company is not a party to or bound by any options, licenses or agreements with respect to the Intellectual Property Rights of any other person or entity that are required to be set forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and are not described therein. The Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus contain in all material respects the same description of the matters set forth in the preceding sentence. None of the technology employed by the Company has been obtained or is being used by the Company in violation of any contractual obligation binding on the Company or, to the Company’s knowledge, any of its officers, directors or employees, or otherwise in violation of the rights of any persons.
 
2.33 Taxes. The Company has filed all returns (as hereinafter defined) required to be filed with taxing authorities prior to the date hereof or has duly obtained extensions of time for the filing thereof. The Company has paid all taxes (as hereinafter defined) shown as due on such returns that were filed and has paid all taxes imposed on or assessed against the Company. The provisions for taxes payable, if any, shown on the financial statements filed with or as part of the Registration Statement are sufficient for all accrued and unpaid taxes, whether or not disputed, and for all periods to and including the dates of such financial statements. Except as disclosed in writing to the Representative, (i) no issues have been raised (and are currently pending) by any taxing authority in connection with any of the returns or taxes asserted as due from the Company, and (ii) no waivers of statutes of limitation with respect to the returns or collection of taxes have been given by or requested from the Company. The term “taxes” means all federal, state, local, foreign and other net income, gross income, gross receipts, sales, use, ad valorem, transfer, franchise, profits, license, lease, service, service use, withholding, payroll, employment, excise, severance, stamp, occupation, premium, property, windfall profits, customs, duties or other taxes, fees, assessments or charges of any kind whatever, together with any interest and any penalties, additions to tax or additional amounts with respect thereto. The term “returns” means all returns, declarations, reports, statements and other documents required to be filed in respect to taxes.
 
 
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2.34 ERISA Compliance. The Company and any “employee benefit plan” (as defined under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (collectively, “ERISA”)) established or maintained by the Company or its “ERISA Affiliates” (as defined below) are in compliance in all material respects with ERISA. “ERISA Affiliate” means, with respect to the Company, any member of any group of organizations described in Sections 414(b),(c),(m) or (o) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (the “Code”) of which the Company is a member. No “reportable event” (as defined under ERISA) has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates. No “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates, if such “employee benefit plan” were terminated, would have any “amount of unfunded benefit liabilities” (as defined under ERISA). Neither the Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates has incurred or reasonably expects to incur any material liability under (i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any “employee benefit plan” or (ii) Sections 412, 4971, 4975 or 4980B of the Code. Each “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified and, to the knowledge of the Company, nothing has occurred, whether by action or failure to act, which would cause the loss of such qualification.
 
2.35 Compliance with Laws. The Company: (A) is and at all times has been in compliance with all statutes, rules, or regulations applicable to the conduct of the Company’s business (collectively, the “Applicable Laws”), except as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Change; (B) has not received any warning letter, untitled letter or other correspondence or notice from any other Governmental Entity alleging or asserting noncompliance with any Applicable Laws or any licenses, certificates, approvals, clearances, authorizations, permits and supplements or amendments thereto required by any such Applicable Laws (collectively, the “Authorizations”); (C) possesses all material Authorizations and such Authorizations are valid and in full force and effect and the Company is not in material violation of any term of any such Authorizations; (D) has not received notice of any claim, action, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action from any Governmental Entity or third party alleging that any of the Company’s activities is in violation of any Applicable Laws or Authorizations and has no knowledge that any such Governmental Entity or third party is considering any such claim, litigation, arbitration, action, suit, investigation or proceeding; (E) has not received notice that any Governmental Entity has taken, is taking or intends to take action to limit, suspend, modify or revoke any Authorizations and has no knowledge that any such governmental authority is considering such action; and (F) has filed, obtained, maintained or submitted all material reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments as required by any Applicable Laws or Authorizations and that all such reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments were complete and correct on the date filed (or were corrected or supplemented by a subsequent submission).
 
2.36 Reserved
 
2.37 Real Property. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the Company has good and marketable title in fee simple to, or has valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real or personal property which are material to the business of the Company, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, security interests, claims and defects that could not, singly or in the aggregate, materially affect the value of such property and do not interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company; and all of the leases and subleases material to the business of the Company, and under which the Company holds properties described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, are in full force and effect, and the Company has not received any notice of any material claim of any sort that has been asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of the Company under any of the leases or subleases mentioned above, or affecting or questioning the rights of the Company to the continued possession of the leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease.
 
2.38 Contracts Affecting Capital. There are no transactions, arrangements or other relationships between and/or among the Company, any of its affiliates (as such term is defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act Regulations) and any unconsolidated entity, including, but not limited to, any structured finance, special purpose or limited purpose entity, that could reasonably be expected to materially affect the Company’s liquidity or the availability of or requirements for its capital resources required to be described or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus which have not been described or incorporated by reference as required.
 
2.39 Loans to Directors or Officers. There are no outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances for business expenses in the ordinary course of business) or guarantees or indebtedness by the Company to or for the benefit of any of the officers or directors of the Company or any of their respective family members, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
 
2.40 Smaller Reporting Company.  As of the time of filing of the Registration Statement, the Company was a “smaller reporting company,” as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act Regulations.
 
 
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2.41 Industry Data.  The statistical and market-related data included in each of the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company reasonably and in good faith believes are reliable and accurate or represent the Company’s good faith estimates that are made on the basis of data derived from such sources.
 
2.42 Reserved.
 
2.43 Testing-the-Waters Communications. The Company has not (i) alone engaged in any Testing-the-Waters Communications, other than Testing-the-Waters Communications with the written consent of the Representative and with entities that are qualified institutional buyers within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act or institutions that are accredited investors within the meaning of Rule 501 under the Securities Act and (ii) authorized anyone other than the Representative to engage in Testing-the-Waters Communications. The Company has not distributed any Written Testing-the-Waters Communications other than those listed on Schedule 2 hereto. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Testing-the-Waters Communication” means any oral or written communication with potential investors undertaken in reliance on Section 5(d) of the Securities Act. “Written Testing-the-Waters Communication” means any Testing-the-Waters Communication that is a written communication within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act.
 
2.44 Margin Securities. The Company owns no “margin securities” as that term is defined in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve Board”), and none of the proceeds of Offering will be used, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin security, for the purpose of reducing or retiring any indebtedness which was originally incurred to purchase or carry any margin security or for any other purpose which might cause any of the shares of Class B Common Stock to be considered a “purpose credit” within the meanings of Regulation T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.
 
2.45 NASDAQ Marketplace Rules.                                                                 The Company is, and after giving effect to the Offering will be, in compliance in all material respects with all applicable corporate governance requirements set forth in the NASDAQ Marketplace Rules, except (a) as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and (b) the Exchange’s minimum $1.00 per share bid price rule.
 
2.46 NASDAQ Stockholder Approval Rules. No approval of the stockholders of the Company under the rules and regulations of NASDAQ (including Rule 5635 of the NASDAQ Marketplace Rules) is required to issue and deliver the Shares to the Underwriters.
 
3.
Covenants of the Company. The Company covenants and agrees as follows:
 
3.1 Amendments to Registration Statement. The Company shall deliver to the Representative, prior to filing, any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or Prospectus proposed to be filed after the Effective Date and not file any such amendment or supplement to which the Representative shall reasonably object in writing.
 
 
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3.2 Federal Securities Laws.
 
3.2.1. Compliance. The Company, subject to Section 3.2.2, shall comply with the requirements of Rule 430A of the Securities Act Regulations, and will notify the Representative promptly, and confirm the notice in writing, (i) when any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement shall become effective or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus shall have been filed; (ii) of the receipt of any comments from the Commission; (iii) of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or for additional information; (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, or of the suspension of the qualification of the Shares for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or of the initiation or threatening of any proceedings for any of such purposes or of any examination pursuant to Section 8(d) or 8(e) of the Securities Act concerning the Registration Statement; and (v) if the Company becomes the subject of a proceeding under Section 8A of the Securities Act in connection with the Offering of the Shares. The Company shall effect all filings required under Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act Regulations, in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b) (without reliance on Rule 424(b)(8)), and shall take such steps as it deems necessary to ascertain promptly whether the form of prospectus transmitted for filing under Rule 424(b) was received for filing by the Commission and, in the event that it was not, it will promptly file such prospectus. The Company shall use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order, prevention or suspension and, if any such order is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible moment.
 
3.2.2. Continued Compliance. The Company shall comply with the Securities Act, the Securities Act Regulations, the Exchange Act and the Exchange Act Regulations so as to permit the completion of the distribution of the Shares as contemplated in this Agreement and in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. If at any time when a prospectus relating to the Shares is (or, but for the exception afforded by Rule 172 of the Securities Act Regulations (“Rule 172”), would be) required by the Securities Act to be delivered in connection with sales of the Shares, any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which it is necessary, in the opinion of Underwriters’ Counsel or Company Counsel (as defined below), to (i) amend the Registration Statement in order that the Registration Statement will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; (ii) amend or supplement the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus in order that the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, as the case may be, will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances existing at the time it is delivered to a purchaser; or (iii) amend the Registration Statement or amend or supplement the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, as the case may be, in order to comply with the requirements of the Securities Act or the Securities Act Regulations, the Company will promptly (A) give the Representative notice of such event; (B) prepare any amendment or supplement as may be necessary to correct such statement or omission or to make the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus comply with such requirements and, a reasonable amount of time prior to any proposed filing or use, furnish the Representative with copies of any such amendment or supplement; and (C) file with the Commission any such amendment or supplement; provided, however, that the Company shall not file or use any such amendment or supplement to which the Representative or Underwriters’ Counsel shall reasonably object. The Company will furnish to the Representative such number of copies of such amendment or supplement as the Representative may reasonably request. The Company has given the Representative notice of any filings made pursuant to the Exchange Act or the Exchange Act Regulations within forty-eight (48) hours prior to the Applicable Time. The Company shall give the Representative notice of its intention to make any such filing from the Applicable Time until the last Option Closing Date and will furnish the Representative with copies of the related document(s) a reasonable amount of time prior to such proposed filing, as the case may be, and will not file or use any such document to which the Representative or Underwriters’ Counsel shall reasonably object.
 
3.2.3. Exchange Act Registration. For a period of three (3) years after the date of this Agreement, the Company shall use its best efforts to maintain the registration of the shares of Class B Common Stock under the Exchange Act. The Company shall not deregister the shares of Class B Common Stock under the Exchange Act without the prior written consent of the Representative.
 
3.3 Delivery to the Representative of Registration Statements. The Company has delivered or made available or shall deliver or make available to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel, without charge, signed copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto (including exhibits filed therewith) and signed copies of all consents and certificates of experts, and will also deliver to the Representative, without charge, a conformed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto (without exhibits) for the Representative. The copies of the Registration Statement and each amendment thereto furnished to the Representative will be identical to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.
 
 
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3.4 Delivery to the Underwriters of Prospectuses. The Company has delivered or made available or will deliver or make available to the Underwriters, without charge, as many copies of each Preliminary Prospectus as the Underwriters reasonably requested, and the Company hereby consents to the use of such copies for purposes permitted by the Securities Act. The Company will furnish to the Underwriters, without charge, during the period when a prospectus relating to the Shares is (or, but for the exception afforded by Rule 172, would be) required to be delivered under the Securities Act, such number of copies of the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) as each Underwriter may reasonably request. The Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto furnished to the Underwriters will be identical to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.
 
3.5 Events Requiring Notice to the Representative. The Company shall notify the Representative immediately and confirm the notice in writing: (i) of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and any amendment thereto; (ii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of the initiation, or the threatening, of any proceeding for that purpose; (iii) of the issuance by any state securities commission of any proceedings for the suspension of the qualification of the Shares for offering or sale in any jurisdiction or of the initiation, or the threatening, of any proceeding for that purpose; (iv) of the mailing and delivery to the Commission for filing of any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or Prospectus; (v) of the receipt of any comments or request for any additional information from the Commission; and (vi) of the happening of any event during the period described in this Section 3.5 that, in the judgment of the Company, makes any statement of a material fact made in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus untrue or that requires the making of any changes in (a) the Registration Statement in order to make the statements therein not misleading, or (b) in the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. If the Commission or any state securities commission shall enter a stop order or suspend such qualification at any time, the Company shall make every reasonable effort to obtain promptly the lifting of such order.
 
3.6 Review of Financial Statements. For a period of five (5) years after the date of this Agreement, the Company, at its expense, shall cause its regularly engaged independent registered public accounting firm to review (but not audit) the Company’s financial statements for each of the three fiscal quarters immediately preceding the announcement of any quarterly financial information.
 
3.7 Listing. The Company shall use its best efforts to maintain the listing of the shares of Class B Common Stock (including the Shares) on the Exchange for at least three (3) years from the date of this Agreement.
 
3.8 Financial Public Relations Firm. As of the Effective Date, the Company shall have retained a financial public relations firm reasonably acceptable to the Representative and the Company, which shall initially be The Blueshirt Group, which firm shall be experienced in assisting issuers in initial public offerings of securities and in their relations with their security holders, and shall retain such firm or another firm reasonably acceptable to the Representative for a period of not less than two (2) years after the Effective Date.
 
3.9 Reports to the Representative.
 
3.9.1. Periodic Reports, etc. For a period of three (3) years after the date of this Agreement, the Company shall furnish or make available to the Representative copies of such financial statements and other periodic and special reports as the Company from time to time furnishes generally to holders of any class of its securities and also promptly furnish to the Representative: (i) a copy of each periodic report the Company shall be required to file with the Commission under the Exchange Act and the Exchange Act Regulations; (ii) a copy of every press release and every news item and article with respect to the Company or its affairs which was released by the Company; (iii) a copy of each Form 8-K prepared and filed by the Company; (iv) five copies of each registration statement filed by the Company under the Securities Act; and (v) such additional documents and information with respect to the Company and the affairs of any future subsidiaries of the Company as the Representative may from time to time reasonably request; provided the Representative shall sign, if requested by the Company, a Regulation FD compliant confidentiality agreement which is reasonably acceptable to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel in connection with the Representative’s receipt of such information. Documents filed with the Commission pursuant to its EDGAR system shall be deemed to have been delivered to the Representative pursuant to this Section 3.9.1.
 
 
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3.9.2. Transfer Agent; Transfer Sheets. For a period of three (3) years after the date of this Agreement, the Company shall retain a transfer agent and registrar acceptable to the Representative (the “Transfer Agent”) and shall furnish to the Representative at the Company’s sole cost and expense such transfer sheets of the Company’s securities as the Representative may reasonably request, including the daily and monthly consolidated transfer sheets of the Transfer Agent and DTC. West Coast Stock Transfer, Inc. is acceptable to the Representative to act as Transfer Agent for the shares of Class B Common Stock.
 
3.9.3. Trading Reports. During such time as the Shares are listed on the Exchange, the Company shall provide to the Representative, at the Company’s expense, such reports published by Exchange relating to price trading of the Shares, as the Representative shall reasonably request.
 
3.9.4. Payment of Expenses and Advisory Fee. The Company hereby agrees to pay on the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date all expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company under this Agreement, including, but not limited to: (a) all filing fees and communication expenses relating to the registration of the Shares to be sold in the Offering (including the Additional Shares) with the Commission, (b) all filing fees and other expenses (including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters) incurred in connection with qualification of the Shares for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representative designates, (c) costs and expenses related to the review of the Offering by FINRA, including all filing fees and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters relating to such review, (d) costs and reasonable expenses relating to investor presentations or any “road show” in connection with the Offering, including, without limitation, the costs of recording and hosting on the Internet of the Company’s road show presentation and any reasonable travel expenses of the Company’s officers and employees and any other expenses of the Company, (e) fees and expenses incident to listing or continued listing of the Shares on the Exchange and on such other stock exchanges as the Company and the Representative together determine, (f) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel, accountants and other advisors in connection with the Offering, (g) expenses incurred in preparing, printing and distributing each Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus (including any amendments and supplements thereto) to the Underwriters and for expenses incurred for preparing, printing and distributing any issuer free writing prospectuses to investors or prospective investors, (h) reasonable fees, disbursements and expenses of the Underwriters’ counsel, (i) the costs and expenses of a public relations firm selected by the Company in its sole discretion, if any, (i) the costs of preparing, printing and delivering certificates representing the Shares, (k) fees and expenses of the transfer agent for the delivery of the shares of Shares, (1) stock transfer and/or stamp taxes, if any, payable upon the transfer of securities from the Company to the Underwriters, (m) to the extent approved by the Company in writing, the costs associated with post-closing advertising of the Offering in the national editions of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, (n) fees, expenses and disbursements relating to background checks of the Company’s officers and directors in connection with the Offering; provided, however, that the maximum amount of fees, costs and expenses incurred by the Underwriters with respect to subparagraphs (a) through (n) above that the Company shall be required to pay under this Section 3.9.4 shall be $75,000, of which amount up to $65,000 shall be used to pay the fees, disbursements and expenses of counsel to the Underwriters. The Representative may deduct from the net proceeds of the Offering payable to the Company on the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, the expenses set forth herein to be paid by the Company to the Underwriters.
 
3.10 Application of Net Proceeds. The Company shall apply the net proceeds from the Offering received by it in a manner consistent with the application thereof described under the caption “Use of Proceeds” in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
 
3.11 Delivery of Earnings Statements to Security Holders. The Company shall make generally available to its security holders as soon as practicable, but not later than the first day of the fifteenth (15th) full calendar month following the date of this Agreement, an earnings statement (which need not be certified by independent registered public accounting firm unless required by the Securities Act or the Securities Act Regulations, but which shall satisfy the provisions of Rule 158(a) under Section 11(a) of the Securities Act) covering a period of at least twelve (12) consecutive months ending after the date of this Agreement.
 
3.12 Stabilization. Neither the Company nor, to its knowledge, any of its employees, directors or shareholders (without the consent of the Representative) has taken or shall take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that has constituted or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under Regulation M of the Exchange Act, or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares.
 
3.13 Internal Controls. The Company shall maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary in order to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
 
3.14 Accountants. The Company shall retain an independent registered public accounting firm reasonably acceptable to the Representative, and the Company shall continue to retain a nationally recognized independent registered public accounting firm for a period of at least three (3) years after the date of this Agreement. The Representative acknowledges that Grant Thornton LLP is acceptable to the Representative.
 
 
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3.15 FINRA. The Company shall advise the Representative (who shall make an appropriate filing with FINRA) if it is or becomes aware that (i) any officer or director of the Company, (ii) any beneficial owner of 5% or more of any class of the Company’s securities, or (iii) any beneficial owner of the Company’s unregistered equity securities which were acquired during the 180-day period immediately preceding the filing of the Registration Statement is or becomes an affiliate or associated person of a FINRA member participating in the Offering (as determined in accordance with the rules and regulations of FINRA).
 
3.16 No Fiduciary Duties. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters’ responsibility to the Company is solely contractual in nature and that none of the Underwriters or their affiliates or any selling agent shall be deemed to be acting in a fiduciary capacity, or otherwise owes any fiduciary duty to the Company or any of its affiliates in connection with the Offering and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
 
3.17 Company Lock-Up Agreements.
 
3.17.1. Restriction on Sales of Capital Stock. The Company, on behalf of itself and any successor entity, agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Representative, it will not, for a period of ninety (90) days after the date of this Agreement (the “Lock-Up Period”), (a) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of capital stock of the Company or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of the Company, (b) file or cause to be filed any registration statement with the Commission relating to the offering of any shares of capital stock of the Company or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of the Company (except for registration statements on Form S-4 or Form S-8) or (c) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of capital stock of the Company, whether any such transaction described in clause (a), (b) or (c) above is to be settled by delivery of shares of capital stock of the Company or such other securities, in cash or otherwise. The restrictions contained in this Section 3.17.1 shall not apply to (A) sales of shares of capital stock of the Company under any trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, existing as of the date of this Agreement or (B) dispositions or transfers of shares of capital stock of the Company customarily excluded from lock-up restrictions of this type. The restrictions contained in this Section 3.17.1 shall not apply to (i) the Shares to be sold hereunder, (ii) the issuance by the Company of shares of capital stock of the Company upon the exercise of a stock option or warrant or the conversion or vesting of a security outstanding on the date hereof, (iii) the issuance by the Company of equity awards of the Company under any equity compensation plan of the Company, (iv) the issuance by the Company of shares of capital stock of the Company or securities convertible into, exchangeable for or that represent the right to receive shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with the acquisition by the Company of the securities, business, technology, property or other assets of another person or entity, (v) the sale of shares of capital stock of the Company to cover the payment of exercise prices or the payment of taxes associated with the exercise or vesting of equity awards under any equity compensation plan of the Company, (vi) the issuance by the Company of the investor notes described in the Registration Statement, Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (the “Investor Notes”), and the shares of Class B Common Stock underlying the Investor Notes, (vii) the issuance by the Company of the 6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 described in the Registration Statement, Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (the “Notes”), and the shares of Class B Common Stock underlying the Notes (the “Note Shares”), (viii) the filing of a resale registration statement by the Company for the Notes and the Note Shares, or (ix) the filing of a post-effective amendment to the Company’s registration statements on Form S-3 (Reg. Nos. 333-234340, 333-231631, 333-233399, 333-223425, 333-225217, 333-226514, 333-228483 and 333-231884) and Form S-8 (Reg. Nos. 333-219203, 333-223428 and 333-226440) with the Commission to maintain effectiveness of such registration statements, provided that in each of (ii) and (iii) above, the underlying shares of capital stock of the Company shall be restricted from sale during the entire Lock-Up Period.
 
3.17.2. Restriction on Continuous Offerings. Notwithstanding the restrictions contained in Section 3.17.1, the Company, on behalf of itself and any successor entity, agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Representative, it will not, for a period of twelve (12) months after the date of this Agreement, directly or indirectly in any “at-the-market” or continuous equity transaction, offer to sell, sell, contract to sell, grant any option to sell or otherwise dispose of shares of capital stock of the Company or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of the Company.
 
3.18 Release of Lock-up Period. If the Representative, in its sole discretion, agrees to release or waive the restrictions set forth in the Lock-Up Agreements described in Section 2.24 for an officer or director of the Company and provide the Company with notice of the impending release or waiver at least three (3) Business Days before the effective date of the release or waiver, the Company agrees to announce the impending release or waiver by a press release substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto through a major news service at least two (2) Business Days before the effective date of the release or waiver.
 
3.19 Blue Sky Qualifications. The Company shall use its best efforts, in cooperation with the Representative, if necessary, to qualify the Shares for offering and sale under the applicable securities laws of such states and other jurisdictions (domestic or foreign) as the Representative may designate and to maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required to complete the distribution of the Shares; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to file any general consent to service of process or to qualify as a foreign corporation or as a dealer in securities in any jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified or to subject itself to taxation in respect of doing business in any jurisdiction in which it is not otherwise so subject.
 
 
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3.20 Reporting Requirements. The Company, during the period when a prospectus relating to the Shares is (or, but for the exception afforded by Rule 172, would be) required to be delivered under the Securities Act, will file all documents required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act within the time periods required by the Exchange Act and Exchange Act Regulations. Additionally, the Company shall report the use of proceeds from the issuance of the Shares as may be required under Rule 463 under the Securities Act Regulations.
 
4. Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase and pay for the Shares, as provided herein, shall be subject to (i) the continuing accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company as of the date hereof, as of the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, as applicable; (ii) the accuracy of the statements of officers of the Company made pursuant to the provisions hereof; (iii) the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder; and (iv) the following conditions:
 
4.1 Regulatory Matters.
 
4.1.1. Effectiveness of Registration Statement; Rule 430A Information. The Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has been issued under the Securities Act, no order preventing or suspending the use of the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any part thereof shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A under the Securities Act shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, and all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission (to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Representative; and the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, and the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by, and in compliance with, the Rules and Securities Act Regulations and in accordance with Section 3.2 and the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, shall have become effective immediately upon its filing with the Commission. The Prospectus containing the Rule 430A Information shall have been filed with the Commission in the manner and within the time frame required by Rule 424(b) (without reliance on Rule 424(b)(8)) or a post-effective amendment providing such information shall have been filed with, and declared effective by, the Commission in accordance with the requirements of Rule 430A.
 
4.1.2. FINRA Clearance. On or before the date of this Agreement, the Representative shall have received clearance from FINRA as to the amount of compensation allowable or payable to the Underwriters as described in the Registration Statement.
 
4.1.3. Exchange Stock Market Clearance. On the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, the Company’s shares of Class B Common Stock, including the Shares, shall have been approved for listing on the Exchange, subject only to official notice of issuance.
 
4.2 Company Counsel Matters.
 
4.2.1. Closing Date Opinion of Company Counsel. On the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, the Representative shall have received (i) the favorable opinion and negative assurance letter of Akerman LLP, counsel to the Company (“Company Counsel”), and (ii) the favorable opinion of Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., Nevada counsel to the Company (“Nevada Counsel”), in each case, dated the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, as applicable, and addressed to the Representative in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative.
 
4.2.2. Reliance. In rendering its opinion, Company Counsel and Nevada Counsel may rely: (i) as to matters involving the application of laws other than the laws of the United States and jurisdictions in which it is admitted, to the extent Company Counsel or Nevada Counsel deems proper and to the extent specified in such opinion, if at all, upon an opinion or opinions (in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative) of other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Representative, familiar with the applicable laws; and (ii) as to matters of fact, to the extent they deem proper, on certificates or other written statements of officers of the Company and officers of departments of various jurisdictions having custody of documents respecting the corporate existence or good standing of the Company, provided that copies of any such statements or certificates shall be delivered to Underwriters’ Counsel if requested. The opinion of Company Counsel and any opinion relied upon by Company Counsel shall include a statement to the effect that it may be relied upon by Underwriters’ Counsel in its opinion delivered to the Underwriters.
 
 
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4.3 Comfort Letters.
 
4.3.1. Cold Comfort Letter. At the time this Agreement is executed the Representative shall have received a cold comfort letter containing statements and information of the type customarily included in accountants’ comfort letters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, addressed to the Representative and in form and substance satisfactory in all respects to the Representative and to the Auditor, dated as of the date of this Agreement.
 
4.3.2. Bring-down Comfort Letter. At the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, the Representative shall have received from the Auditor a letter, dated as of the Closing Date or such Option Closing Date, as applicable, to the effect that the Auditor reaffirms the statements made in the letter furnished pursuant to Section 4.3.1, except that the specified date referred to shall be a date not more than three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date or Option Closing Date, as applicable.
 
4.4 Officers’ Certificates.
 
4.4.1. Officers’ Certificate. The Company shall have furnished to the Representative a certificate, dated the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, as applicable, of its Chief Executive Officer and Chairman and its Chief Financial Officer stating that (i) such officers have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and, in their opinion, the Registration Statement and each amendment thereto, as of the Applicable Time and as of the Closing Date or such Option Closing Date, as applicable, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and the Pricing Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time and as of the Closing Date and such Option Closing Date, as applicable, the Prospectus and each amendment or supplement thereto, as of the respective date thereof and as of the Closing Date or Option Closing Date, as applicable, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, (ii) since the effective date of the Registration Statement, no event has occurred which should have been set forth in a supplement or amendment to the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, (iii) as of the Closing Date or such Option Closing Date, as applicable, the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct in all material respects and the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date or such Option Closing Date, as applicable, and (iv) there has not been, subsequent to the date of the most recent audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Pricing Disclosure Package, any material adverse change in the financial position or results of operations of the Company, or any change or development that, singularly or in the aggregate, would involve a material adverse change or a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business, assets or prospects of the Company, except as set forth in the Prospectus.
 
4.4.2. Secretary’s Certificate. At the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, the Representative shall have received a certificate of the Company signed by the Secretary of the Company, dated the Closing Date or such Option Closing Date, as applicable, certifying: (i) that each of the Charter and the Bylaws is true and complete, has not been modified and is in full force and effect; (ii) that the resolutions of the Company’s Board of Directors relating to the Offering are in full force and effect and have not been modified; (iii) as to the accuracy and completeness of all correspondence between the Company or Company Counsel and the Commission; and (iv) as to the incumbency of the officers of the Company. The documents referred to in such certificate shall be attached to such certificate.
 
4.5 No Material Changes. Prior to and on the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date: (i) there shall have been no Material Adverse Change or development involving a prospective material adverse change in the condition or prospects or the business activities, financial or otherwise, of the Company from the latest dates as of which such condition is set forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; (ii) no action, suit or proceeding, at law or in equity, shall have been pending or threatened against the Company or any officer, director or beneficial owner of 10% or more of any class of the Company’s securities before or by any court or federal or state commission, board or other administrative agency wherein an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding may materially adversely affect the business, operations, prospects or financial condition or income of the Company, except as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; (iii) no stop order shall have been issued under the Securities Act and no proceedings therefor shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission; and (iv) the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto shall contain all material statements which are required to be stated therein in accordance with the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations and shall conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Act Regulations, and neither the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package nor the Prospectus nor any amendment or supplement thereto shall contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
 
4.6 Delivery of Agreements. On or before the date of this Agreement, the Company shall have delivered to the Representative executed copies of the Lock-Up Agreements from each of the persons listed in Schedule 3 hereto.
 
4.7 Additional Documents. At the Closing Date and each Option Closing Date, Underwriters’ Counsel shall have been furnished with such documents and opinions as they may require for the purpose of enabling Underwriters’ Counsel to deliver an opinion to the Representative, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations or warranties, or the fulfillment of any of the conditions, herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the Company in connection with the issuance and sale of the Shares as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and Underwriters’ Counsel.
 
 
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5.
Indemnification.
 
5.1 Indemnification of the Underwriters.
 
5.1.1. General. Subject to the conditions set forth below, the Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Representative, the Underwriters, their affiliates and each of their respective directors, officers, members, employees, representatives, partners, shareholders, affiliates, counsel, and agents and each person, if any, who controls each Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (collectively the “Underwriter Indemnified Parties,” and each an “Underwriter Indemnified Party”), against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever (including but not limited to any and all legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever, whether arising out of any action between any of the Underwriter Indemnified Parties and the Company or between any of the Underwriter Indemnified Parties and any third party, or otherwise) to which they or any of them may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or any other statute or at common law or otherwise or under the laws of foreign countries (a “Claim”), (i) arising out of or based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in (A) the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, or in any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication (as from time to time each may be amended and supplemented); (B) any materials or information provided to investors by, or with the approval of, the Company in connection with the marketing of the Offering, including any “road show” or investor presentations made to investors by the Company; or (C) any application or other document or written communication (in this Section 5, collectively called “application”) executed by the Company or based upon written information furnished by the Company in any jurisdiction in order to qualify the Shares under the securities laws thereof or filed with the Commission, any state securities commission or agency, the Exchange or any other national securities exchange; or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, unless such statement or omission was made in reliance upon, and in conformity with, the Underwriter’s Information, or (ii) otherwise arising in connection with or allegedly in connection with the Offering. The Company also agrees that it will reimburse each Underwriter Indemnified Party for all fees and expenses (including but not limited to any and all legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever, whether arising out of any action between any of the Underwriter Indemnified Parties and the Company or between any of the Underwriter Indemnified Parties and any third party, or otherwise) (collectively, the “Expenses”), and further agrees wherever and whenever possible to advance payment of Expenses as they are incurred by an Underwriter Indemnified Party in investigating, preparing, pursuing or defending any Claim.
 
5.1.2. Procedure. If any action is brought against an Underwriter Indemnified Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought against the Company pursuant to Section 5.1.1, such Underwriter Indemnified Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the institution of such action and the Company shall assume the defense of such action, including the employment and fees of counsel (subject to the approval of such Underwriter Indemnified Party) and payment of actual expenses if an Underwriter Indemnified Party requests that the Company do so. Such Underwriter Indemnified Party shall have the right to employ its or their own counsel in any such case, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of the Company, and shall be advanced by the Company. The Company shall not be liable for any settlement of any action effected without its consent (which shall not be unreasonably withheld). In addition, the Company shall not, without the prior written consent of the Representative, settle, compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment in or otherwise seek to terminate any pending or threatened action in respect of which advancement, reimbursement, indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not such Underwriter Indemnified Party is a party thereto) unless such settlement, compromise, consent or termination (i) includes an unconditional release of each Underwriter Indemnified Party, acceptable to such Underwriter Indemnified Party, from all liabilities, expenses and claims arising out of such action for which indemnification or contribution may be sought and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of any Underwriter Indemnified Party.
 
5.2 Indemnification of the Company. The Underwriters, severally and not jointly, agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, its officers who signed the Registration Statement and persons who control the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense described in the foregoing indemnity from the Company to the Underwriters, as incurred, but only with respect to untrue statements or omissions, or alleged untrue statements or omissions made in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Pricing Disclosure Package or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto or in any application, in reliance upon, and in strict conformity with, the Underwriter’s Information. In case any action shall be brought against the Company or any other person so indemnified based on any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto or any application, and in respect of which indemnity may be sought against the Underwriters, the Underwriters shall have the rights and duties given to the Company, and the Company and each other person so indemnified shall have the rights and duties given to the Underwriters by the provisions of Section 5.1.2. The Company agrees promptly to notify the Underwriters of the commencement of any litigation or proceedings against the Company or any of its officers, directors or any person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, in connection with the issuance and sale of the Shares or in connection with the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, or any Written Testing-the-Waters Communication.
 
 
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5.3 Contribution.
 
5.3.1. Contribution Rights. If the indemnification provided for in this Section 5 shall for any reason be unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under Section 5.1 or 5.2 in respect of any loss, claim, damage or liability, or any action in respect thereof, referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in respect thereof, (i) in such proportion as shall be appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other, from the Offering of the Shares, or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other, with respect to the statements or omissions that resulted in such loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in respect thereof, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other, with respect to such Offering shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the Offering of the Shares purchased under this Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by the Company, as set forth in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus, on the one hand, and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters with respect to the shares of the Class B Common Stock purchased under this Agreement, as set forth in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus, on the other hand. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or the Representative, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contributions pursuant to this Section 5.3.1 were to be determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation that does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to herein. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in respect thereof, referred to above in this Section 5.3.1 shall be deemed to include, for purposes of this Section 5.3.1, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 5.3.1 in no event shall any Underwriter be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by such Underwriter with respect to the Offering of the Shares exceeds the amount of any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.
 
5.3.2. Contribution Procedure. Within fifteen (15) days after receipt by any party to this Agreement (or its representative) of notice of the commencement of any action, suit or proceeding, such party will, if a claim for contribution in respect thereof is to be made against another party (“contributing party”), notify the contributing party of the commencement thereof, but the failure to so notify the contributing party will not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any other party other than for contribution hereunder. In case any such action, suit or proceeding is brought against any party, and such party notifies a contributing party or its representative of the commencement thereof within the aforesaid fifteen (15) days, the contributing party will be entitled to participate therein with the notifying party and any other contributing party similarly notified. Any such contributing party shall not be liable to any party seeking contribution on account of any settlement of any claim, action or proceeding affected by such party seeking contribution on account of any settlement of any claim, action or proceeding affected by such party seeking contribution without the written consent of such contributing party. The contribution provisions contained in this Section 5.3.2 are intended to supersede, to the extent permitted by law, any right to contribution under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise available. Each Underwriter’s obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 5.3 are several and not joint.
 
6.
Reserved.
 
 
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7.
Additional Covenants.
 
7.1 Board Composition and Board Designations. The Company shall ensure that: (i) the qualifications of the persons serving as members of the Board of Directors and the overall composition of the Board of Directors comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, with the Exchange Act and with the listing rules of the Exchange or any other national securities exchange, as the case may be, in the event the Company seeks to have its Shares listed on another exchange or quoted on an automated quotation system, subject to any applicable cure period, and (ii) if applicable, at least one member of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert,” as such term is defined under Regulation S-K and the listing rules of the Exchange.
 
7.2 Prohibition on Press Releases and Public Announcements. Prior to the last Option Closing Date, the Company shall not issue any press release or other communication directly or indirectly or hold any press conference with respect to the Company, its condition, financial or otherwise, or earnings, business affairs or business prospects (except for routine oral marketing communications in the ordinary course of business and consistent with the past practices of the Company and of which the Representative is notified), without the prior written consent of the Representative, unless in the judgment of the Company and its counsel, and after notification to the Representative, such press release or communication is required by law or applicable Exchange rules.
 
8.
Effective Date of this Agreement and Termination Thereof.
 
8.1 Effective Date. This Agreement shall become effective when both the Company and the Representative have executed the same and delivered counterparts of such signatures to the other party.
 
8.2 Termination. The Representative shall have the right to terminate this Agreement at any time prior to the Closing Date, (i) if any domestic or international event or act or occurrence has materially disrupted, or in the Representative’s opinion will in the immediate future materially disrupt, general securities markets in the United States; or (ii) if trading on the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ shall have been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum prices for trading shall have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for securities shall have been required by FINRA or by order of the Commission or any other government authority having jurisdiction; or (iii) if the United States shall have become involved in a new war or an increase in major hostilities; or (iv) if a banking moratorium has been declared by a New York State or federal authority; or (v) if a moratorium on foreign exchange trading has been declared which materially adversely impacts the United States securities markets; or (vi) if the Company shall have sustained a material loss by fire, flood, accident, hurricane, earthquake, theft, sabotage or other calamity or malicious act which, whether or not such loss shall have been insured, will, in the Representative’s opinion, make it inadvisable to proceed with the delivery of the Shares; or (vii) if the Company is in material breach of any of its representations, warranties or covenants hereunder; or (viii) if the Representative shall have become aware after the date hereof of such a material adverse change in the conditions or prospects of the Company, or such adverse material change in general market conditions as in the Representative’s judgment would make it impracticable to proceed with the offering, sale and/or delivery of the Shares or to enforce contracts made by the Underwriters for the sale of the Shares.
 
 
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8.3 Expenses. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, in the event that this Agreement shall not be carried out for any reason whatsoever, within the time specified herein or any extensions thereof pursuant to the terms herein, the Company shall be obligated to pay to the Representative its reasonable accountable out-of-pocket expenses related to the transactions contemplated herein then due and payable (including the fees and disbursements of Underwriters’ Counsel) up to $75,000 and upon demand the Company shall pay the full amount thereof to the Representative on behalf of the Underwriters; provided, however, that such expense cap in no way limits or impairs the indemnification and contribution provisions of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any advance received by the Representative will be reimbursed to the Company to the extent not actually incurred in compliance with FINRA Rule 5110(f)(2)(C).
 
8.4 Indemnification. Notwithstanding any contrary provision contained in this Agreement, any election hereunder or any termination of this Agreement, and whether or not this Agreement is otherwise carried out, the provisions of Section 5 shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be in any way affected by, such election or termination or failure to carry out the terms of this Agreement or any part hereof.
 
8.5 Representations, Warranties, Agreements to Survive. All representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement or in certificates of officers of the Company submitted pursuant hereto, shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i) any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or its affiliates or selling agents, any person controlling any Underwriter, its officers or directors or any person controlling the Company or (ii) delivery of and payment for the Shares.
 
9.
Miscellaneous.
 
9.1 Notices. All communications hereunder, except as herein otherwise specifically provided, shall be in writing and shall be mailed (registered or certified mail, return receipt requested), personally delivered or sent by facsimile transmission and confirmed and shall be deemed given when so delivered or faxed and confirmed or if mailed, two (2) days after such mailing.
 
 
If to the Representative:
 
National Securities Corporation
200 Vesey Street, 25th Floor
New York, New York 10281
Attn: Jonathan C. Rich
Email: jrich@yournational.com
Fax No: (212) 380-2828
with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
 
McGuireWoods LLP
1251 Avenue of the Americas, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10020
Attention: Stephen Older, Esq. and Rakesh Gopalan, Esq.
Email: solder@mcguirewoods.com and rgopalan@mcguirewoods.com
Fax No: (212) 715-2307
 
 
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If to the Company:
 
RumbleOn, Inc.
901 West Walnut Hill Lane
Irving, Texas 75038
Attention: Marshall Chesrown, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
                  Steven R. Berrard, Chief Financial Officer
Fax No: 704-980-0038
 
with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
 
Akerman LLP
350 East Las Olas Boulevard, Suite 1600
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Attention: Michael Francis, Esq.
Email: michael.francis@akerman.com
Fax No: (954) 463-2224
 
9.2 Headings. The headings contained herein are for the sole purpose of convenience of reference, and shall not in any way limit or affect the meaning or interpretation of any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement.
 
9.3 Amendment. This Agreement may only be amended by a written instrument executed by each of the parties hereto.
 
9.4 Entire Agreement. This Agreement (together with the other agreements and documents being delivered pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement) constitutes the entire agreement of the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof, and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings of the parties, oral and written, with respect to the subject matter hereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, it is understood and agreed by the parties hereto that all other terms and conditions of that certain engagement letter between the Company and National Securities Corporation dated February 5, 2019, shall remain in full force and effect.
 
9.5 Binding Effect. This Agreement shall inure solely to the benefit of and shall be binding upon the Representative, the Underwriters, the Company and the controlling persons, directors and officers referred to in Section 5, and their respective successors, legal representative, heirs and assigns, and no other person shall have or be construed to have any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of or by virtue of this Agreement or any provisions herein contained. The term “successors and assigns” shall not include a purchaser, in its capacity as such, of securities from the Underwriters.
 
9.6 Governing Law; Consent to Jurisdiction; Trial by Jury. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to conflict of laws principles thereof. The Company hereby agrees that any action, proceeding or claim against it arising out of, or relating in any way to this Agreement shall be brought and enforced in state and federal courts located in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York, and irrevocably submits to such jurisdiction, which jurisdiction shall be exclusive. The Company hereby waives any objection to such exclusive jurisdiction and that such courts represent an inconvenient forum. Any such process or summons to be served upon the Company may be served by transmitting a copy thereof by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, addressed to it at the address set forth in Section 9.1. Such mailing shall be deemed personal service and shall be legal and binding upon the Company in any action, proceeding or claim. The Company agrees that the prevailing party(ies) in any such action shall be entitled to recover from the other party(ies) all of its reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses relating to such action or proceeding and/or incurred in connection with the preparation therefor. The Company (on its behalf and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, on behalf of its stockholders and affiliates) and the Underwriters hereby irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
 
9.7 Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, and by the different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement, and shall become effective when one or more counterparts has been signed by each of the parties hereto and delivered to each of the other parties hereto. Delivery of a signed counterpart of this Agreement by facsimile or email/pdf transmission shall constitute valid and sufficient delivery thereof.
 
9.8 Waiver, etc. The failure of any of the parties hereto to at any time enforce any of the provisions of this Agreement shall not be deemed or construed to be a waiver of any such provision, nor to in any way effect the validity of this Agreement or any provision hereof or the right of any of the parties hereto to thereafter enforce each and every provision of this Agreement. No waiver of any breach, non-compliance or non-fulfillment of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be effective unless set forth in a written instrument executed by the party or parties against whom or which enforcement of such waiver is sought; and no waiver of any such breach, non-compliance or non-fulfillment shall be construed or deemed to be a waiver of any other or subsequent breach, non-compliance or non-fulfillment.
 
[Signature Page Follows]
 
 
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If the foregoing correctly sets forth the understanding between the Underwriters and the Company, please so indicate in the space provided below for that purpose, whereupon this letter shall constitute a binding agreement between us.
 
 
 
 
Very truly yours,
 
 
RUMBLEON, INC.
 
 
 
 
 

By:  
/s/ Marshall Chesrown
 
 
 
Name: Marshall Chesrown
 
 
 
Title: Chairman and CEO
 
 

  
Confirmed as of the date first written above mentioned:
 
NATIONAL SECURITIES CORPORATION
as Representative of the several Underwriters
 
By: /s/ Jonathan C. Rich
Name: Jonathan C. Rich
Title: Executive Vice President Head of Investment Banking
 
 
 
[Signature Page]
RUMBLEON, INC. – Underwriting Agreement
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SCHEDULE 1-A
 
Underwriters
 
Name of Underwriter
 
Number of Firm Shares
National Securities Corporation
 
17,100,000
Maxim Group LLC
 
900,000
 
 
 
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SCHEDULE 1-B
 
 
Pricing Information
 
Number of Shares: 18,000,000
 
Public Offering Price per Share: $0.57
 
Underwriting Discount per Share: $0.0456
 
Proceeds to Company per Share (before expenses): $0.5244
 
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SCHEDULE 2
 
Written Testing-the-Waters Communications
 
None.
 
 
 
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SCHEDULE 3
 
List of Lock-Up Parties
 
 
 
 
Marshall Chesrown
 
Steven R. Berrard
 
Denmar Dixon
 
Kartik Kakarala
 
Kevin Westfall
 
Richard A. Gray
 
Halcyon Consulting, LLC
 
Berrard Holdings Limited Partnership
 
Blue Flame Capital, LLC
 
    
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EXHIBIT A
 
Form of Lock-Up Agreement
 
January __, 2020
 
National Securities Corporation
As Representative of the Several Underwriters
200 Vesey Street, 25th Floor
New York, New York 10281
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
The undersigned understands that National Securities Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the “Representative”) and with the other underwriters named on Schedule 1-A to the Underwriting Agreement (as defined below) for which the Representative is acting as representative (the Representative and such other underwriters being collectively called the “Underwriters” or, individually, an “Underwriter”) proposes to enter into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with RumbleOn, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), providing for the public offering (the “Public Offering”) of shares of Class B Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company (the “Shares”).
 
To induce the Underwriters to continue their efforts in connection with the Public Offering, the undersigned hereby agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Representative, the undersigned will not, during the period commencing on the date hereof and ending ninety (90) days after the date of the final prospectus (the “Prospectus”) relating to the Public Offering (the “Lock-Up Period”), (1) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of capital stock of the Company or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of the Company, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by the undersigned or with respect to which the undersigned has or hereafter acquires the power of disposition (collectively, the “Lock-Up Securities”); (2) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of Lock-Up Securities, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of shares of Lock-Up Securities, in cash or otherwise; (3) make any demand for or exercise any right with respect to the registration of any Lock-Up Securities; or (4) publicly disclose the intention to make any offer, sale, pledge or disposition, or to enter into any transaction, swap, hedge or other arrangement relating to any Lock-Up Securities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and subject to the conditions below, the undersigned may transfer Lock-Up Securities without the prior written consent of the Representative in connection with (a) transactions relating to Lock-Up Securities acquired in open market transactions after the completion of the Public Offering; provided that no filing under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), shall be required or shall be voluntarily made in connection with subsequent sales of Lock-Up Securities acquired in such open market transactions; (b) transfers of Lock-Up Securities as a bona fide gift, by will or intestacy or to a family member or trust for the benefit of a family member (for purposes of this lock-up agreement, “family member” means any relationship by blood, marriage or adoption, not more remote than first cousin); (c) transfers of Lock-Up Securities to a charity or educational institution; (d) if the undersigned, directly or indirectly, controls a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity, any transfers of Lock-Up Securities to any shareholder, partner or member of, or owner of similar equity interests in, the undersigned, as the case may be, or (e) the sales of Shares to cover the payment of the exercise prices or the payment of taxes associated with the exercise or vesting of equity awards under any equity compensation plan of the Company; provided that in the case of any transfer pursuant to the foregoing clauses (b), (c) or (d), (i) any such transfer shall not involve a disposition for value, (ii) each transferee shall sign and deliver to the Representative a lock-up agreement substantially in the form of this lock-up agreement and (iii) no filing under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act shall be required or shall be voluntarily made, except for a Form 5. The undersigned also agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the transfer of the undersigned’s Lock-Up Securities except in compliance with this lock-up agreement.
 
 
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If the undersigned is an officer or director of the Company, (i) the undersigned agrees that the foregoing restrictions shall be equally applicable to any issuer-directed or “friends and family” Shares that the undersigned may purchase in the Public Offering; (ii) the Representative agrees that, at least three (3) Business Days (as that term is defined in the Underwriting Agreement) before the effective date of any release or waiver of the foregoing restrictions in connection with a transfer of Lock-Up Securities, the Representative will notify the Company of the impending release or waiver; and (iii) the Company has agreed in the Underwriting Agreement to announce the impending release or waiver by press release through a major news service at least two (2) Business Days before the effective date of the release or waiver. Any release or waiver granted by the Representative hereunder to any such officer or director shall only be effective two (2) Business Days after the publication date of such press release. The provisions of this paragraph will not apply if (a) the release or waiver is effected solely to permit a transfer of Lock-Up Securities not for consideration and (b) the transferee has agreed in writing to be bound by the same terms described in this lock-up agreement to the extent and for the duration that such terms remain in effect at the time of such transfer.
 
No provision in this agreement shall be deemed to restrict or prohibit the exercise, exchange or conversion by the undersigned of any securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into Shares, as applicable; provided that the undersigned does not transfer the Shares acquired on such exercise, exchange or conversion during the Lock-Up Period, unless otherwise permitted pursuant to the terms of this lock-up agreement. In addition, no provision herein shall be deemed to restrict or prohibit the entry into or modification of a so-called “10b5-1” plan at any time (other than the entry into or modification of such a plan in such a manner as to cause the sale of any Lock-Up Securities within the Lock-Up Period).
 
The undersigned understands that the Company and the Underwriters are relying upon this lock-up agreement in proceeding toward consummation of the Public Offering. The undersigned further understands that this lock-up agreement is irrevocable and shall be binding upon the undersigned’s heirs, legal representative, successors and assigns.
 
The undersigned understands that, if the Underwriting Agreement is not executed by January 31, 2020, or if the Underwriting Agreement (other than the provisions thereof which survive termination) shall terminate or be terminated prior to payment for and delivery of the Shares to be sold thereunder, then this lock-up agreement shall be void and of no further force or effect.
 
Whether or not the Public Offering actually occurs depends on a number of factors, including market conditions. Any Public Offering will only be made pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement, the terms of which are subject to negotiation between the Company and the Underwriters.
 
 
 
Very truly yours,
 
 
 
_______________________________________________
 
(Name - Please Print)
 
 
 
_______________________________________________
 
(Signature)
 
 
 
_______________________________________________
 
(Name of Signatory, in the case of entities - Please Print)
 
 
 
_______________________________________________
 
(Title of Signatory, in the case of entities - Please Print)
 
 
 
Address: _________________________________
 
               _________________________________
 
               _________________________________
 


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EXHIBIT B
 
Form of Press Release
 
RUMBLEON, INC.
 
[Date]
 
RumbleOn, Inc. (the “Company”) announced today that National Securities Corporation acting as representative of the Underwriters for the Company’s recent public offering of [___] shares of the Company’s Class B Common Stock, is [waiving] [releasing] a lock-up restriction with respect to _________ shares of the Company’s Class B Common Stock [and _________ shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock] held by [certain officers or directors] [an officer or director] of the Company.  The [waiver] [release] will take effect on  _________, 20___, and the shares may be sold on or after such date.  
 
 
This press release is not an offer or sale of the securities in the United States or in any other jurisdiction where such offer or sale is prohibited, and such securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
 
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SCHEDULE 2.25
 
 
RMBL Tennessee, LLC was converted into RumbleOn Dealers, Inc. in September 2019.
 
 
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Exhibit 4.1
 
 
 
RUMBLEON, INC.
 
AND
 
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
 
as Trustee
 
INDENTURE
 
Dated as of January 14, 2020
 
6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025
 
 
 



 
 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
Page
 
Article 1 DEFINITIONS  
1
Section 1.01
Definitions
1
Section 1.02
References to Interest
15
Article 2 ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES
16
Section 2.01
Designation and Amount
16
Section 2.02
Form of Notes
16
Section 2.03
Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest and Defaulted Amounts
17
Section 2.04
Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Notes
18
Section 2.05
Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer; Depositary
19
Section 2.06
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes
25
Section 2.07
Temporary Notes
26
Section 2.08
Cancellation of Notes Paid, Converted, Etc
26
Section 2.09
CUSIP Numbers
26
Section 2.10
Repurchases
26
Article 3 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE  
27
Section 3.01
Satisfaction and Discharge
27
Article 4 PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
27
Section 4.01
Payment of Principal and Interest
27
Section 4.02
Maintenance of Office or Agency
27
Section 4.03
Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office
28
Section 4.04
Provisions as to Paying Agent
28
Section 4.05
Existence
29
Section 4.06
Rule 144A Information Requirement and Annual Reports
29
Section 4.07
Stay, Extension and Usury Laws
30
Section 4.08
Compliance Certificate; Statements as to Defaults
30
Section 4.09
Additional Interest pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement
31
Section 4.10
Limitation on Liens Securing Indebtedness
31
Section 4.11
Further Instruments and Acts
31
Article 5 LISTS OF HOLDERS AND REPORTS BY THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE
32
Section 5.01
Lists of Holders
32
Section 5.02
Preservation and Disclosure of Lists
32
Article 6 DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES  
32
Section 6.01
Events of Default
32
Section 6.02
Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment
33
Section 6.03
Additional Interest
34
Section 6.04
Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor
35
Section 6.05
Application of Monies Collected by Trustee
36
Section 6.06
Proceedings by Holders
37
Section 6.07
Proceedings by Trustee
38
 
 
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Section 6.08
Remedies Cumulative and Continuing
38
Section 6.09
Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Holders
39
Section 6.10
Notice of Defaults
39
Section 6.11
Undertaking to Pay Costs
39
Article 7 CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE  
40
Section 7.01
Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee
40
Section 7.02
Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc
41
Section 7.03
No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc
43
Section 7.04
Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents, Bid Solicitation Agent or Note Registrar May Own Notes
43
Section 7.05
Monies to Be Held in Trust
43
Section 7.06
Compensation and Expenses of Trustee
44
Section 7.07
Officers’ Certificate as Evidence
44
Section 7.08
Eligibility of Trustee
44
Section 7.09
Resignation or Removal of Trustee
45
Section 7.10
Acceptance by Successor Trustee
46
Section 7.11
Succession by Merger, Etc
46
Section 7.12
Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company
47
Article 8 CONCERNING THE HOLDERS  
47
Section 8.01
Action by Holders
47
Section 8.02
Proof of Execution by Holders
47
Section 8.03
Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners
47
Section 8.04
Company-Owned Notes Disregarded
48
Section 8.05
Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound
48
Article 9 HOLDERS’ MEETINGS  
48
Section 9.01
Purpose of Meetings
48
Section 9.02
Call of Meetings by Trustee
49
Section 9.03
Call of Meetings by Company or Holders
49
Section 9.04
Qualifications for Voting
49
Section 9.05
Regulations
49
Section 9.06
Voting
50
Section 9.07
No Delay of Rights by Meeting
50
Article 10 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES  
50
Section 10.01
Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders
50
Section 10.02
Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders
51
Section 10.03
Effect of Supplemental Indentures
52
Section 10.04
Notation on Notes
53
Section 10.05
Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished Trustee
53
Article 11 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE
53
Section 11.01
Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms
53
Section 11.02
Successor Corporation to Be Substituted
54
Section 11.03
Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to Be Given to Trustee
54
Article 12 IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
54
Section 12.01
Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate Obligations
54
 
 
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Article 13 [INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]  
55
Article 14 CONVERSION OF NOTES  
55
Section 14.01
Conversion Privilege
55
Section 14.02
Conversion Procedure; Settlement Upon Conversion
58
Section 14.03
Increased Conversion Rate Applicable to Certain Notes Surrendered in Connection with Make-Whole Fundamental Changes or Redemption Notice
63
Section 14.04
Adjustment of Conversion Rate
65
Section 14.05
Adjustments of Prices
73
Section 14.06
Shares to Be Fully Paid
73
Section 14.07
Effect of Recapitalizations, Reclassifications and Changes of the Common Stock
73
Section 14.08
Certain Covenants
75
Section 14.09
Responsibility of Trustee
76
Section 14.10
Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions
76
Section 14.11
Stockholder Rights Plans
77
Section 14.12
Ownership Limitation
77
Article 15 REPURCHASE OF NOTES AT OPTION OF HOLDERS
78
Section 15.01
[Intentionally Omitted]
78
Section 15.02
Repurchase at Option of Holders Upon a Fundamental Change
78
Section 15.03
Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice
80
Section 15.04
Deposit of Fundamental Change Repurchase Price
81
Section 15.05
Covenant to Comply with Applicable Laws Upon Repurchase of Notes
81
Article 16 OPTIONAL REDEMPTION  
82
Section 16.01
Optional Redemption
82
Section 16.02
Notice of Optional Redemption; Selection of Notes
82
Section 16.03
Payment of Notes Called for Redemption
83
Section 16.04
Restrictions on Redemption
83
Article 17 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS  
84
Section 17.01
Provisions Binding on Company’s Successors
84
Section 17.02
Official Acts by Successor Corporation
84
Section 17.03
Addresses for Notices, Etc
84
Section 17.04
Governing Law; Jurisdiction
84
Section 17.05
Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent; Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to Trustee
85
Section 17.06
Legal Holidays
85
Section 17.07
No Security Interest Created
86
Section 17.08
Benefits of Indenture
86
Section 17.09
Table of Contents, Headings, Etc
86
Section 17.10
Authenticating Agent
86
Section 17.11
Execution in Counterparts
87
Section 17.12
Severability
87
Section 17.13
Waiver of Jury Trial
87
Section 17.14
Force Majeure
87
Section 17.15
Calculations
87
Section 17.16
USA PATRIOT Act
87
 
 
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EXHIBIT
 
Exhibit A                       
Form of Note A-1
 
 
 
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INDENTURE dated as of January 14, 2020 between RUMBLEON, INC., a Delaware corporation, as issuer (the “Company,” as more fully set forth in Section 1.01) and WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee,” as more fully set forth in Section 1.01).
 
W I T N E S S E T H:
 
WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has duly authorized the issuance of its 6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”), initially in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $38,750,000, and in order to provide the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are to be authenticated, issued and delivered, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; and
 
WHEREAS, the Form of Note, the certificate of authentication to be borne by each Note, the Form of Notice of Conversion, the Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice and the Form of Assignment and Transfer to be borne by the Notes are to be substantially in the forms hereinafter provided; and
 
WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary to make the Notes, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent, as in this Indenture provided, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and this Indenture a valid agreement according to its terms, have been done and performed, and the execution of this Indenture and the issuance hereunder of the Notes have in all respects been duly authorized.
 
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
 
That in order to declare the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated, issued and delivered, and in consideration of the premises and of the purchase and acceptance of the Notes by the Holders thereof, the Company covenants and agrees with the Trustee for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of the Notes (except as otherwise provided below), as follows:
 
ARTICLE 1
 
DEFINITIONS
 
Section 1.01     Definitions. The terms defined in this Section 1.01 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section 1.01. The words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder” and words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision. The terms defined in this Article include the plural as well as the singular.
 
Additional Interest” means all amounts, if any, payable pursuant to Section 4.06(d) and Section 6.03 hereof and pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, as applicable.
 
Additional Shares” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03(a).
 
 
 
 
 
Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control,” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the determination of whether one Person is an “Affiliate” of another Person for purposes of this Indenture shall be made based on the facts at the time such determination is made or required to be made, as the case may be, hereunder.
 
Affiliated Holders” means, (1) with respect to any specified natural Person, any company, partnership, trust, foundation or other entity or investment vehicle for which such specified natural Person (or such specified Person’s estate) retains sole dispositive and exclusive voting power with respect to the Class A Common Stock and/or the Common Stock, as the case may be, held by such company, partnership, trust, foundation or other entity or investment vehicle, and the trustees, legal representatives, beneficiaries and/or beneficial owners, but solely in such capacity, of such company, partnership, trust, foundation or other entity or investment vehicle and (2) the estates of such specified natural Person (it being understood, for the avoidance of doubt, that this clause (2) will not cover any Person to whom any securities are transferred from any such estate).
 
beneficial owner,” “beneficial ownership” or “beneficially owned” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act.
 
Bid Solicitation Agent” means the Company or the Person appointed by the Company to solicit bids for the Trading Price of the Notes in accordance with Section 14.01(b)(i). The Company shall initially act as the Bid Solicitation Agent.
 
Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or a committee of such board duly authorized to act for it hereunder.
 
Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
 
Business Day” means, with respect to any Note, any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is authorized or required by law or executive order to close or be closed.
 
Capital Lease Obligation” means, at the time any determination is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a capital lease that would at that time be required to be capitalized on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, and the stated maturity thereof shall be the date of the last payment of rent or any other amount due under such lease prior to the first date upon which such lease may be prepaid by the lessee without payment of a penalty.
 
Capital Stock” means, for any entity, any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) stock issued by that entity.
 
Cash Settlement” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a).
 
 
 
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Class A Common Stock” means the Class A common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share, at the date of this Indenture.
 
Clause A Distribution” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
 
Clause B Distribution” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
 
Clause C Distribution” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
 
close of business” means 5:00 p.m. (New York City time).
 
Combination Settlement” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a).
 
Commission” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
Common Equity” of any Person means Capital Stock of such Person that is generally entitled (a) to vote in the election of directors of such Person or (b) if such Person is not a corporation, to vote or otherwise participate in the selection of the governing body, partners, managers or others that will control the management or policies of such Person.
 
Common Stock” means the Class B common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share, at the date of this Indenture, subject to Section 14.07.
 
Company” shall have the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture, and subject to the provisions of Article 11, shall include its successors and assigns.
 
Company Order” means a written order of the Company, signed by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President, Executive or Senior Vice President or any Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or numbers or word or words added before or after the title “Vice President”), and delivered to the Trustee.
 
Consumer Warehouse Facilities” means a revolving credit or repurchase facility intended to finance the loans made by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to consumers acquiring vehicles of any nature from any of the Company’s Subsidiaries which facility may include Liens on the accounts, documents and other property of the entity making or acquiring or otherwise involved with such consumer loans.
 
Conversion Agent” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.
 
Conversion Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(c).
 
Conversion Obligation” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(a).
 
Conversion Price” means as of any time, $1,000, divided by the Conversion Rate as of such time.
 
Conversion Rate” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(a).
 
Corporate Event” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(b)(iii).
 
 
 
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Corporate Trust Office” means the designated office of the Trustee at which at any time this Indenture shall be administered, which office at the date hereof is located at Wilmington Trust, National Association, Global Capital Markets, 50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1290, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, Attention: RumbleOn Notes Administrator, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the designated corporate trust office of any successor trustee (or such other address as such successor trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).
 
Credit Facilities” means one or more (i) debt facilities or commercial paper facilities, providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to lenders or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from lenders against such receivables), letters of credit, (ii) debt securities, indentures or other forms of debt financing (including convertible or exchangeable debt instruments or bank guarantees or bankers’ acceptances) or (iii) instruments or agreements evidencing any other Indebtedness, in each case, as amended, supplemented, modified, extended, restructured, renewed, refinanced, restated, replaced or refunded in whole or in part from time to time (including increasing the amount of available borrowings thereunder or adding the Company’s Subsidiaries as additional borrowers or guarantors thereunder).
 
Custodian” means the Trustee, as custodian for The Depository Trust Company, with respect to the Global Notes, or any successor entity thereto.
 
Daily Conversion Value” means, for each of the 40 consecutive Trading Days during the Observation Period, one-fortieth (1/40th) of the product of (a) the Conversion Rate on such Trading Day and (b) the Daily VWAP for such Trading Day.
 
Daily Measurement Value” means the Specified Dollar Amount (if any), divided by 40.
 
Daily Settlement Amount,” for each of the 40 consecutive Trading Days during the Observation Period, shall consist of:
 
(a)           cash in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the Daily Measurement Value and (ii) the Daily Conversion Value on such Trading Day; and
 
(b)           if the Daily Conversion Value on such Trading Day exceeds the Daily Measurement Value, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to (i) the difference between the Daily Conversion Value and the Daily Measurement Value, divided by (ii) the Daily VWAP for such Trading Day.
 
Daily VWAP” means the per share volume-weighted average price as displayed under the heading “Bloomberg VWAP” on Bloomberg page “RMBL <equity> AQR” (or its equivalent successor if such page is not available) in respect of the period from the scheduled open of trading until the scheduled close of trading of the primary trading session on such Trading Day (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market value of one share of the Common Stock on such Trading Day determined, using a volume-weighted average method, by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company). The “Daily VWAP” shall be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of the regular trading session trading hours.
 
Default” means any event that is, or after notice or passage of time, or both, would be, an Event of Default.
 
 
 
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Defaulted Amounts” means any amounts on any Note (including, without limitation, the Redemption Price, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, principal and interest) that are payable but are not punctually paid or duly provided for, in each case, when due.
 
delivered” means, with respect to any notice to be delivered, given or mailed to a Holder pursuant to this Indenture, notice (x) given to the Depositary (or its designee) pursuant to the standing instructions from the Depositary or its designee, including by electronic mail in accordance with accepted practices or procedures at the Depositary (in the case of a Global Note) or (y) mailed to such Holder by first class mail, postage prepaid, at its address as it appears on the Note Register, in each case in accordance with Section 17.03. Notice so “delivered” shall be deemed to include any notice to be “mailed” or “given,” as applicable, under this Indenture.
 
Depositary” means, with respect to each Global Note, the Person specified in Section 2.05(c) as the Depositary with respect to such Notes, until a successor shall have been appointed and become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter, “Depositary” shall mean or include such successor.
 
Distributed Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
 
Effective Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03(c), except that, as used in Section 14.04 and Section 14.05, “Effective Date” means the first date on which shares of the Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, reflecting the relevant share split or share combination, as applicable.
 
Event of Default” shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.01.
 
Ex-Dividend Date” means the first date on which shares of the Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, without the right to receive the issuance, dividend or distribution in question, from the Company or, if applicable, from the seller of Common Stock on such exchange or market (in the form of due bills or otherwise) as determined by such exchange or market.
 
Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
 
Form of Assignment and Transfer” means the “Form of Assignment and Transfer” attached as Attachment 3 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
 
Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” means the “Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” attached as Attachment 2 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
 
Form of Note” means the “Form of Note” attached hereto as Exhibit A.
 
Form of Notice of Conversion” means the “Form of Notice of Conversion” attached as Attachment 1 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
 
Fundamental Change” shall be deemed to have occurred at the time after the Notes are originally issued if any of the following occurs:
 
 
 
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(a)           a “person” or “group” within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, other than the Company, its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries and the employee benefit plans of the Company and its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, has become the direct or indirect beneficial owner, of (i) the Common Stock representing more than 50% of the voting power of the Common Stock or (ii) the Company’s common equity representing more than 50% of the voting power of its Common Equity on an aggregate basis; provided that, for purposes of both clauses (i) and (ii), the voting power of the Company’s Class A Common Stock and the Common Stock directly or indirectly beneficially owned, by a Permitted Holder (as defined below) or a “group” (composed solely of Permitted Holders) will exclude (A) any shares of Class A Common Stock and Common Stock directly or indirectly beneficially owned by such Permitted Holder on the date of this Indenture for so long as such shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock or Common Stock, as the case may be, are directly or indirectly beneficially owned by such Permitted Holder and (B) any shares of Common Stock directly or indirectly beneficially owned by such Permitted Holder that are acquired after the date of this Indenture by such Permitted Holder pursuant to equity grants (or the exercise, vesting, settlement or conversion thereof by such Permitted Holder outstanding on the date of this Indenture or subsequently granted under one or more of the Company’s equity incentive plans; or
 
(b)           the consummation of (A) any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Common Stock (other than changes resulting from a subdivision or combination) as a result of which the Common Stock would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets; (B) any share exchange, consolidation or merger of the Company pursuant to which the Common Stock will be converted into cash, securities or other property or assets; or (C) any sale, lease or other transfer in one transaction or a series of transactions of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any Person other than one of the Company’s direct or indirect Wholly Owned Subsidiaries; provided, however, that a transaction described in clause (B) in which the holders of all classes of the Company’s Common Equity immediately prior to such transaction own, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of all classes of Common Equity of the continuing or surviving corporation or transferee or the parent thereof immediately after such transaction in substantially the same proportions as such ownership immediately prior to such transaction shall not be a Fundamental Change pursuant to this clause (b); or
 
(c)           the stockholders of the Company approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or
 
(d)           the Common Stock (or other common stock underlying the Notes) ceases to be listed or quoted on any of The New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Capital Market, The NASDAQ Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market (or any of their respective successors);
 
provided, however, that a transaction or transactions described in clause (a) or clause (b) above shall not constitute a Fundamental Change, if at least 90% of the consideration received or to be received by the holders of the Common Stock of the Company, excluding cash payments for fractional shares, in connection with such transaction or transactions consists of shares of common stock that are listed or quoted on any of The New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Capital Market, The NASDAQ Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market (or any of their respective successors) or will be so listed or quoted when issued or exchanged in connection with such transaction or transactions and as a result of such transaction or transactions the Notes become convertible into such consideration, excluding cash payments for fractional shares (subject to the provisions of Section 14.02(a)). If any transaction in which the Common Stock is replaced by the securities of another entity occurs, following completion of any related Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period (or, in the case of a transaction that would have been a Fundamental Change or a Make-Whole Fundamental Change but for the proviso immediately following clause (d) of the definition thereof, following the effective date of such transaction), references to the Company in this definition shall instead be references to such other entity.
 
 
 
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For purposes of this definition, any transaction that constitutes a “Fundamental Change” pursuant to both clause (a) and clause (b) above (without giving effect to the proviso to clause (b)) shall be deemed a “Fundamental Change” solely under clause (b) (subject to the proviso to clause (b)).
 
Fundamental Change Company Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(c).
 
Fundamental Change Repurchase Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(a).
 
Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(b)(i).
 
Fundamental Change Repurchase Price” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(a).
 
Global Note” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b).
 
Guarantee” means a guarantee other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business, direct or indirect, in any manner including, without limitation, by way of a pledge of assets or through letters of credit or reimbursement agreements in respect thereof, of all or any part of any Indebtedness (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreements to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take or pay or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise).
 
Hedging Obligations” means, with respect to any specified Person, the obligations of such Person under:
 
(1) 
interest rate swap agreements (whether from fixed to floating or from floating to fixed), interest rate cap agreements and interest rate collar agreements;
 
(2) 
other agreements or arrangements designed to manage interest rates or interest rate risk; and
 
(3) 
other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in currency exchange rates or commodity prices.
 
Holder,” as applied to any Note, or other similar terms (but excluding the term “beneficial holder”), means any Person in whose name at the time a particular Note is registered on the Note Register.
 
Indebtedness” means, with respect to any specified Person, any indebtedness of such Person (excluding accrued expenses and trade payables), whether or not contingent:
 
 
 
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(1) 
in respect of borrowed money;
 
(2) 
evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments or letters of credit (or reimbursement agreements in respect thereof);
 
(3) 
in respect of banker’s acceptances;
 
(4) 
representing Capital Lease Obligations;
 
(5) 
representing the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any property or services (other than trade payables not overdue by more than 60 days incurred in the ordinary course of such Person’s business); or
 
(6) 
representing any Hedging Obligations,
 
if and to the extent any of the preceding items (other than letters of credit and Hedging Obligations) would appear as a liability upon a balance sheet of the specified Person prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. In addition, the term “Indebtedness” includes all Indebtedness of others secured by a Lien on any asset of the specified Person (whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by the specified Person) and, to the extent not otherwise included, the Guarantee by the specified Person of any Indebtedness of any other Person, to the extent, as applicable, of the amount of Indebtedness covered by such Guarantee, or the lesser of the fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Company) of the asset or assets subject to such Lien or the principal (or accreted) amount of the Indebtedness secured by such Lien; provided that Indebtedness shall not include post-closing payment adjustments to which the seller may become entitled to the extent such payment is determined by a final closing balance sheet or such payment depends on the performance of such business after the closing. Indebtedness shall be calculated without giving effect to the effects of Accounting Standards Codification 815 — Derivatives and Hedging and related interpretations to the extent such effects would otherwise increase or decrease an amount of Indebtedness for any purpose under this Indenture as a result of accounting for any embedded derivatives created by the terms of such Indebtedness.
 
The amount of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date will be:
 
(1) 
the accreted value of the Indebtedness, in the case of any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount;
 
(2) 
the principal amount of the Indebtedness, in the case of any other Indebtedness;
 
(3) 
in the case of the Guarantee by the specified Person of any Indebtedness of any other Person where the amount of the Guarantee is less than the principal amount of such Indebtedness, such lesser amount; and
 
(4) 
in respect of Indebtedness of another Person secured by a Lien on the assets of the specified Person, the lesser of:
 
(a) 
the fair market value of such assets at the date of determination, as determined in good faith by the Company; and
 
(b) 
the amount of the Indebtedness of the other Person so secured.
 
 
 
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Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented.
 
Interest Make-Whole Payment” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(c).
 
Interest Payment Date” means each January 1 and July 1 of each year, beginning on July 1, 2020.
 
Inventory Financing Agreement” means that certain Inventory Financing and Security Agreement, by and among Inventory Financing Lenders and RMBL Missouri, dated February 16, 2018, as it may be amended, and any similar agreements entered into with any Inventory Financing Lender.
 
Inventory Financing Lenders” means Ally Bank and Ally Financial Inc., collectively and each of their assigns or successors in interest, and any additional or replacement lenders providing inventory financing to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, provided that such lender shall be domiciled in the United States and shall be in the business of extending credit of such type in the ordinary course of business.
 
Last Reported Sale Price” of the Common Stock on any date means the closing sale price per share (or if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) on that date as reported in composite transactions for the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is traded. If the Common Stock is not listed for trading on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange on the relevant date, the “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be the last quoted bid price for the Common Stock in the over-the-counter market on the relevant date as reported by OTC Markets Group Inc. or a similar organization. If the Common Stock is not so quoted, the “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be the average of the mid-point of the last bid and ask prices for the Common Stock on the relevant date from each of at least three nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected by the Company for this purpose. The “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of the regular trading session trading hours.
 
Liens” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in the nature of a security interest in respect of such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected under applicable law, including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement or any lease in the nature thereof. For the avoidance of doubt, a license shall not constitute a “Lien” for purposes of this section.
 
Make-Whole Adjustment Reference Price” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03(f)(i).
 
Make-Whole Fundamental Change” means any transaction or event that constitutes a Fundamental Change (as defined above and determined after giving effect to any exceptions to or exclusions from such definition, but without regard to the proviso in clause (b) of the definition thereof).
 
Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03(a).
 
 
 
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Make-Whole Fundamental Change VWAP” means 95.0% of the simple average of the Daily VWAP for the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Days ending on and including the Trading Day immediately preceding the Effective Date.
 
Market Disruption Event” means, for the purposes of determining amounts due upon conversion and the number of shares of Common Stock deliverable in respect of an Interest Make-Whole Payment if the Company elects (or is deemed to have elected) to make an Interest Make-Whole Payment in shares of its Common Stock, (a) a failure by the primary U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading to open for trading during its regular trading session or (b) the occurrence or existence prior to 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Scheduled Trading Day for the Common Stock for more than one half-hour period in the aggregate during regular trading hours of any suspension or limitation imposed on trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the relevant stock exchange or otherwise) in the Common Stock or in any options contracts or futures contracts relating to the Common Stock.
 
Maturity Date” means January 1, 2025.
 
Measurement Period” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(b)(i).
 
Note” or “Notes” shall have the meaning specified in the first paragraph of the recitals of this Indenture.
 
Note Register” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a).
 
Note Registrar” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a).
 
Notice of Conversion” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(b).
 
Observation Period” with respect to any Note surrendered for conversion means: (i) subject to clause (ii), if the relevant Conversion Date occurs prior to July 1, 2024, the 40 consecutive Trading Day period beginning on, and including, the second Trading Day immediately succeeding such Conversion Date; (ii) if the relevant Conversion Date occurs during a Redemption Period with respect to the Notes pursuant to Section 16.02 and prior to the relevant Redemption Date, the 40 consecutive Trading Days beginning on, and including, the 41st Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding such Redemption Date; and (iii) if the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after July 1, 2024, the 40 consecutive Trading Days beginning on, and including, the 41st Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date.
 
 “Officer” means, with respect to the Company, the President, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any Executive or Senior Vice President or any Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or numbers or word or words added before or after the title “Vice President”).
 
Officers’ Certificate,” when used with respect to the Company, means a certificate that is delivered to the Trustee and that is signed by (a) two Officers of the Company or (b) one Officer of the Company and one of the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary or the Controller of the Company. Each such certificate shall include the statements provided for in Section 17.05 if and to the extent required by the provisions of such Section. One of the Officers giving an Officers’ Certificate pursuant to Section 4.08 shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.
 
 
 
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open of business” means 9:00 a.m. (New York City time).
 
Opinion of Counsel” means an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company, or other counsel who is acceptable to the Trustee, that is delivered to the Trustee. Each such opinion shall include the statements provided for in Section 17.05 if and to the extent required by the provisions of such Section 17.05.
 
Optional Redemption” shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.01.
 
outstanding,” when used with reference to Notes, shall, subject to the provisions of Section 8.04, mean, as of any particular time, all Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture, except:
 
(a)           Notes theretofore canceled by the Trustee or accepted by the Trustee for cancellation;
 
(b)           Notes, or portions thereof, that have become due and payable and in respect of which monies in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent (other than the Company) or shall have been set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent);
 
(c)           Notes that have been paid pursuant to Section 2.06 or Notes in lieu of which, or in substitution for which, other Notes shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.06 unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by protected purchasers in due course;
 
(d)           Notes converted pursuant to Article 14 and required to be cancelled pursuant to Section 2.08;
 
(e)           Notes redeemed pursuant to Article 16; and
 
(f)           Notes repurchased by the Company pursuant to the penultimate sentence of Section 2.10.
 
Ownership Limitation” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.12.
 
Paying Agent” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.
 
Permitted Holder” means any of (1) Marshall Chesrown, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer as of the date hereof, (2) Steven Berrard, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer as of the date hereof and (3) each of the Affiliated Holders (as defined below) of either of the natural persons referred to in clauses (1) and (2) of this definition.
 
Permitted Liens” means:
 
(1) 
Liens on any or all of the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ assets securing one or more Credit Facilities (and borrowings thereunder) other than Inventory Financing Agreements and Credit Facilities for Consumer Warehouse Facilities; provided that the aggregate secured borrowings under such Credit Facilities shall not at any one time exceed $5.0 million in the aggregate;
 
 
 
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(2) 
Liens on property (including equity interests) existing at the time of acquisition of the property and/or person by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (plus improvements and accessions to such property or proceeds or distributions thereof); provided that such Liens were in existence prior to such acquisition and not incurred in contemplation of such acquisition;
 
(3) 
Liens arising under this Indenture, including those that are for the benefit of the Trustee;
 
(4) 
Liens securing Hedging Obligations entered into by the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business and entered into for bona fide hedging purposes (and not for speculative purposes) as determined in good faith by the Company;
 
(5) 
Liens securing Indebtedness pursuant to a Qualified Inventory Financing;
 
(6) 
Liens securing Indebtedness constituting Consumer Warehouse Facilities;
 
(7) 
Liens securing Capital Lease Obligations in an amount not in excess of $1,000,000.00; and
 
(8) 
Liens securing letters of credit (or reimbursement agreements in respect thereof) in an amount not to exceed $500,000.00 at any time outstanding, and Liens securing reimbursement obligations in connection with letters of credit serving as a lease deposit.
 
Person” means an individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, an association, a partnership, a joint venture, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated organization or a government or an agency or a political subdivision thereof.
 
Physical Notes” means permanent certificated Notes in registered form issued in minimum denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
 
Physical Settlement” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a).
 
Predecessor Note” of any particular Note means every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.06 in lieu of or in exchange for a mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note that it replaces.
 
Qualified Inventory Financing” means Indebtedness owing to Inventory Financing Lenders pursuant to an Inventory Financing Agreement, provided that, the aggregate outstanding amount of the aggregate amount of such Indebtedness at any time outstanding shall not exceed the aggregate book value of all inventory of the Company and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis.
 
 
 
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Record Date” means, with respect to any dividend, distribution or other transaction or event in which the holders of Common Stock (or other applicable security) have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or in which the Common Stock (or such other security) is exchanged for or converted into any combination of cash, securities or other property, the date fixed for determination of holders of the Common Stock (or such other security) entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by the Board of Directors, by statute, by contract or otherwise).
 
Redemption Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.02(a).
 
Redemption Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.02(a).
 
Redemption Period” shall the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a)(i).
 
Redemption Price” means, for any Notes to be redeemed pursuant to Section 16.01, 100% of the principal amount of such Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (unless the Redemption Date falls after a Regular Record Date but on or prior to the immediately succeeding Interest Payment Date, in which case interest accrued to the Interest Payment Date will be paid to Holders of record of such Notes on such Regular Record Date, and the Redemption Price will be equal to 100% of the principal amount of such Notes).
 
Reference Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.07(a).
 
Registration Rights Agreement” means that certain Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of January 14, 2020, among the Company and the Initial Purchaser, as amended from time to time.
 
Regular Record Date,” with respect to any Interest Payment Date, means the December 15 or June 15 (whether or not such day is a Business Day) immediately preceding the applicable January 1 or July 1 Interest Payment Date, respectively.
 
Responsible Officer” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant secretary, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter relating to this Indenture is referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and, in each case, who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.
 
Restricted Securities” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).
 
Rule 144” means Rule 144 as promulgated under the Securities Act.
 
Rule 144A” means Rule 144A as promulgated under the Securities Act.
 
Scheduled Trading Day” means a day that is scheduled to be a Trading Day on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading. If the Common Stock is not so listed or admitted for trading, “Scheduled Trading Day” means a Business Day.
 
 
 
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Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
 
Settlement Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a)(iv).
 
Settlement Method” means, with respect to any conversion of Notes, Physical Settlement, Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement, as elected (or deemed to have been elected) by the Company.
 
Settlement Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a)(iii).
 
Share Exchange Event” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.07(a).
 
Significant Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary of the Company that meets the definition of “significant subsidiary” in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act.
 
Specified Dollar Amount” means the maximum cash amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes to be received upon conversion as specified in the Settlement Notice (or as deemed specified pursuant to Section 14.02) related to any converted Notes.
 
Spin-Off” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
 
Stock Price” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03(c).
 
Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, association, partnership or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock or other interests (including partnership interests) entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers, general partners or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by (i) such Person; (ii) such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person; or (iii) one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.
 
Successor Company” shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.01(a).
 
Trading Day”, except for purposes of determining amounts due upon conversion and the number of shares of Common Stock, if any, deliverable in respect of an Interest Make-Whole Payment, means a day on which (i) trading in the Common Stock (or other security for which a closing sale price must be determined) generally occurs on The NASDAQ Capital Market or, if the Common Stock (or such other security) is not then listed on The NASDAQ Capital Market, on the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock (or such other security) is then listed or, if the Common Stock (or such other security) is not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the principal other market on which the Common Stock (or such other security) is then traded and (ii) a Last Reported Sale Price for the Common Stock (or such other security) is available on such securities exchange or market; provided that if the Common Stock (or such other security) is not so listed or traded, “Trading Day” means a Business Day; and provided further that, for purposes of determining amounts due upon conversion and the number of shares of Common Stock deliverable in respect of an Interest Make-Whole Payment if the Company elects (or is deemed to have elected) to make an Interest Make-Whole Payment in shares of its Common Stock only, “Trading Day” means a day on which (x) there is no Market Disruption Event and (y) trading in the Common Stock generally occurs on The NASDAQ Capital Market or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on The NASDAQ Capital Market, on the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the principal other market on which the Common Stock is then listed or admitted for trading, except that if the Common Stock is not so listed or admitted for trading, “Trading Day” means a Business Day.
 
 
 
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Trading Price” of the Notes on any date of determination means the average of the secondary market bid quotations obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent for $2,000,000 principal amount of Notes at approximately 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such determination date from three independent nationally recognized securities dealers the Company selects for this purpose; provided that if three such bids cannot reasonably be obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent but two such bids are obtained, then the average of the two bids shall be used, and if only one such bid can reasonably be obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent, that one bid shall be used. If the Bid Solicitation Agent cannot reasonably obtain at least one bid for $2,000,000 principal amount of Notes from a nationally recognized securities dealer on any determination date, then the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes on such determination date shall be deemed to be less than 98% of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock and the Conversion Rate.
 
transfer” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).
 
Trigger Event” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
 
Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as it was in force at the date of execution of this Indenture; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after the date hereof, the term “Trust Indenture Act” shall mean, to the extent required by such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as so amended.
 
Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder.
 
U.S. GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect on the date of this Indenture, without giving effect to ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842).
 
unit of Reference Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.07(a).
 
Valuation Period” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
 
Wholly Owned Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person, except that, solely for purposes of this definition, the reference to “more than 50%” in the definition of “Subsidiary” shall be deemed replaced by a reference to “100%”.
 
Section 1.02       References to Interest. Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to interest on, or in respect of, any Note in this Indenture shall be deemed to include Additional Interest if, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable pursuant to any of Section 4.06(d) and Section 6.03 hereof or pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement. Unless the context otherwise requires, any express mention of Additional Interest in any provision hereof shall not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.
 
 
 
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ARTICLE 2
 
ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES
 
Section 2.01        Designation and Amount. The Notes shall be designated as the “6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025.” The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is limited to $38,750,000. Except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of other Notes to the extent expressly permitted hereunder, the Company may not issue additional Notes without the consent of at least a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding (determined in accordance with Article 8).
 
Section 2.02        Form of Notes. The Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication to be borne by such Notes shall be substantially in the respective forms set forth in Exhibit A, the terms and provisions of which shall constitute, and are hereby expressly incorporated in and made a part of this Indenture. To the extent applicable, the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby.
 
Any Global Note may be endorsed with or have incorporated in the text thereof such legends or recitals or changes not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture as may be required by the Custodian or the Depositary, or as may be required to comply with any applicable law or any regulation thereunder or with the rules and regulations of any securities exchange or automated quotation system upon which the Notes may be listed or traded or designated for issuance or to conform with any usage with respect thereto, or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes are subject.
 
Any of the Notes may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such notations, legends or endorsements as the Officer executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, or to conform to usage or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes are subject.
 
Each Global Note shall represent such principal amount of the outstanding Notes as shall be specified therein and shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby may from time to time be increased or reduced to reflect redemptions, repurchases, cancellations, conversions, transfers or exchanges permitted hereby. Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee or the Note Registrar, at the direction of the Trustee, in such manner and upon instructions given by the Holder of such Notes in accordance with this Indenture. Payment of principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, a Global Note shall be made to the Holder of such Note on the date of payment, unless a record date or other means of determining Holders eligible to receive payment is provided for herein.
 
 
 
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Section 2.03          Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest and Defaulted Amounts. (a) The Notes shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and only in minimum denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication and shall bear interest from, and including, the date specified on the face of such Note. Accrued interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year composed of twelve 30-day months and, for partial months, on the basis of the number of days actually elapsed in a 30-day month.
 
(b)           The Person in whose name any Note (or its Predecessor Note) is registered on the Note Register at the close of business on any Regular Record Date with respect to any Interest Payment Date shall be entitled to receive the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date. The principal amount of any Note (x) in the case of any Physical Note, shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company maintained by the Company for such purposes in the contiguous United States, which shall initially be the Corporate Trust Office and (y) in the case of any Global Note, shall be payable by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee. The Company shall pay, or cause the Paying Agent to pay (to the extent funded by the Company),interest (i) on any Physical Notes (A) to Holders holding Physical Notes having an aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 or less, by check mailed (at the Company’s expense) to the Holders of these Notes at their address as it appears in the Note Register and (B) to Holders holding Physical Notes having an aggregate principal amount of more than $5,000,000, either by check mailed to each Holder or, upon application by such a Holder to the Trustee not later than the relevant Regular Record Date, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to that Holder’s account within the United States, which application shall remain in effect until the Holder notifies, in writing, the Trustee to the contrary or (ii) on any Global Note by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee.
 
(c)           Any Defaulted Amounts shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant payment date but shall accrue interest per annum at the rate borne by the Notes, subject to the enforceability thereof under applicable law, from, and including, such relevant payment date, and such Defaulted Amounts together with such interest thereon shall be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (i) or (ii) below:
 
 
 
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(i)           The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Amounts to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Amounts, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of the Defaulted Amounts proposed to be paid on each Note and the date of the proposed payment (which shall be not less than 25 days after the receipt by the Trustee of such notice), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Amounts or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit on or prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Amounts as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Company shall fix a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Amounts which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment, and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of such special record date at least five (5) Business Days before such notice is to be sent to the Holders, and the Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Amounts and the special record date therefor to be sent to each Holder not less than 10 days prior to such special record date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Amounts and the special record date therefor having been so sent, such Defaulted Amounts shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on such special record date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (ii) of this Section 2.03(c). The Trustee shall have no responsibility for the calculation of Defaulted Amounts.
 
(ii)           The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Amounts in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange or automated quotation system, if, after written notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such manner of payment shall be practicable in consultation with the Trustee.
 
Section 2.04          Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Notes. The Notes shall be signed in the name and on behalf of the Company by the manual or facsimile signature by one of its Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Secretary or any of its Executive or Senior Vice Presidents.
 
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Notes executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Notes, such Company Order to specify the amount of Notes to be authenticated, the applicable rate at which interest will accrue on such Notes, the date on which the original issuance of such Notes is to be authenticated, the date from which interest on such Notes will begin to accrue, the date or dates on which interest on such Notes will be payable and the date on which the principal of such Notes will be payable and other terms relating to such Notes; provided that the Trustee shall be entitled to receive an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel with respect to the issuance, authentication and delivery of such Notes as provided in Section 17.05. The Trustee shall thereupon in accordance with such Company Order manually authenticate and deliver such Notes, without any further action by the Company hereunder.
 
Only such Notes as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth on the Form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto, executed manually by an authorized officer of the Trustee (or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee as provided by Section 17.10), shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate by the Trustee (or such an authenticating agent) upon any Note executed by the Company shall be conclusive evidence that the Note so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the Holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
 
In case any Officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the Notes shall cease to be such Officer before the Notes so signed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, or disposed of by the Company, such Notes nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed such Notes had not ceased to be such Officer of the Company; and any Note may be signed on behalf of the Company by such persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Note, shall be the Officers of the Company, although at the date of the execution of this Indenture any such person was not such an Officer.
 
 
 
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Section 2.05          Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer; Depositary. (a) The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the register maintained in such office or in any other office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 4.02, the “Note Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Notes and of transfers of Notes. Such register shall be in written form or in any form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable period of time. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed the “Note Registrar” for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided. The Company may appoint one or more co-Note Registrars in accordance with Section 4.02.
 
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note to the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar, and satisfaction of the requirements for such transfer set forth in this Section 2.05, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and bearing such restrictive legends as may be required by this Indenture.
 
Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any such office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Notes that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive, bearing registration numbers not contemporaneously outstanding.
 
All Notes presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange, repurchase or conversion shall (if so required by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Note Registrar and duly executed, by the Holder thereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing. Each Holder presenting or surrendering for registration or transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Trustee), provide to the Trustee such security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense to be incurred therein or thereby.
 
No service charge shall be imposed by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar, any co-Note Registrar or the Paying Agent for any exchange or registration of transfer of Notes, but the Company may require a Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax required in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of new Notes issued upon such exchange or registration of transfer being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for exchange or registration of transfer.
 
None of the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of (i) any Notes surrendered for conversion or, if a portion of any Note is surrendered for conversion, such portion thereof surrendered for conversion, (ii) any Notes, or a portion of any Note, surrendered for repurchase (and not withdrawn) in accordance with Article 15 or (iii) any Notes selected for redemption in accordance with Article 16, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.
 
 
 
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All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes in accordance with this Indenture shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
 
(b)           So long as the Notes are eligible for book-entry settlement with the Depositary, unless otherwise required by law, subject to the fourth paragraph from the end of Section 2.05(c) all Notes shall be represented by one or more Notes in global form (each, a “Global Note”) registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of the Depositary. The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests in a Global Note that does not involve the issuance of a Physical Note shall be effected through the Depositary (but not the Trustee or the Custodian) in accordance with this Indenture (including the restrictions on transfer set forth herein) and the procedures of the Depositary therefor.
 
(c)           Every Note that bears or is required under this Section 2.05(c) to bear the legend set forth in this Section 2.05(c) (together with any Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Notes that is required to bear the legend set forth in Section 2.05(d), collectively, the “Restricted Securities”) shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section 2.05(c) (including the legend set forth below), unless such restrictions on transfer shall be eliminated or otherwise waived by written consent of the Company, and the Holder of each such Restricted Security, by such Holder’s acceptance thereof, agrees to be bound by all such restrictions on transfer. As used in this Section 2.05(c) and Section 2.05(d), the term “transfer” encompasses any sale, pledge, transfer or other disposition whatsoever of any Restricted Security.
 
Any certificate evidencing such Note (and all securities issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof, other than Common Stock, if any, issued upon conversion thereof, which shall bear the legend set forth in Section 2.05(d), if applicable) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (unless (i) such Notes have been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, (ii) such Notes have been or sold pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, which results in such Notes not being subject to transfer restrictions under the Securities Act and pursuant to which the Company reasonably believes such legend may be removed in compliance with applicable law, or (iii) otherwise agreed by the Company in writing, with notice thereof to the Trustee):
 
THIS SECURITY AND THE CLASS B COMMON STOCK, IF ANY, ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:
 
(1)           REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND
 
 
 
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(2)           AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF RUMBLEON, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, EXCEPT:
 
(A)           TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, OR
 
(B)           PURSUANT TO, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH, A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT IS EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER, OR
 
(C)           TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
 
(D)           PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
 
PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE (2)(D) ABOVE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER FOR THE COMPANY TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
 
No transfer of any Note that bears the legend set forth in this Section 2.05(c) will be registered by the Note Registrar unless the applicable box on the Form of Assignment and Transfer has been checked.
 
Any Note (or security issued in exchange or substitution therefor) (i) that has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become effective or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer or (ii) that has been sold pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act which results in such Notes not being subject to transfer restrictions under the Securities Act and pursuant to which the Company reasonably believes such legend may be removed in compliance with applicable laws, may, upon surrender of such Note for exchange to the Note Registrar in accordance with the provisions of this Section 2.05, be exchanged for a new Note or Notes, of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, which shall not bear the restrictive legend required by this Section 2.05(c) and shall not be assigned a restricted CUSIP number. The Company shall be entitled to instruct the Custodian in writing to so surrender any Global Note as to which any of the conditions set forth in clause (i) through (iii) of the immediately preceding sentence have been satisfied, and, upon such instruction, the Custodian shall so surrender such Global Note for exchange in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary; and any new Global Note so exchanged therefor shall not bear the restrictive legend specified in this Section 2.05(c) and shall not be assigned a restricted CUSIP number. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee after a registration statement, if any, with respect to the Notes or any Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Notes has been declared effective under the Securities Act. Any exchange pursuant to the forgoing paragraph shall be in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary.
 
 
 
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Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture (other than the provisions set forth in this Section 2.05(c)), a Global Note may not be transferred as a whole or in part except (i) by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary and (ii) for exchange of a Global Note or a portion thereof for one or more Physical Notes in accordance with the second immediately succeeding paragraph.
 
The Depositary shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act. The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company to act as Depositary with respect to each Global Note. Initially, each Global Note shall be issued to the Depositary, registered in the name of Cede & Co., as the nominee of the Depositary, and deposited with the Trustee as custodian for Cede & Co.
 
If (i) the Depositary notifies the Company at any time that the Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for the Global Notes and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days, (ii) the Depositary ceases to be registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days or (iii) an Event of Default with respect to the Notes has occurred and is continuing, subject to the Depositary’s applicable procedures, and a beneficial owner of any Note requests that its beneficial interest therein be issued as a Physical Note, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Officers’ Certificate and a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of Notes, shall authenticate and deliver (x) in the case of clause (iii), a Physical Note to such beneficial owner in a principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Note corresponding to such beneficial owner’s beneficial interest and (y) in the case of clause (i) or (ii), Physical Notes to each beneficial owner of the related Global Notes (or a portion thereof) in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Global Notes in exchange for such Global Notes, and upon delivery of the Global Notes to the Trustee such Global Notes shall be canceled.
 
Physical Notes issued in exchange for all or a part of the Global Note pursuant to this Section 2.05(c) shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, or, in the case of clause (iii) of the immediately preceding paragraph, the relevant beneficial owner, shall instruct the Trustee. Upon execution and authentication, the Trustee shall deliver such Physical Notes to the Persons in whose names such Physical Notes are so registered.
 
At such time as all interests in a Global Note have been converted, canceled, repurchased, redeemed or transferred, such Global Note shall be, upon receipt thereof, canceled by the Trustee in accordance with standing procedures and existing instructions between the Depositary and the Custodian. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Physical Notes, converted, canceled, repurchased, redeemed or transferred to a transferee who receives Physical Notes therefor or any Physical Note is exchanged or transferred for part of such Global Note, the principal amount of such Global Note shall, in accordance with the standing procedures and instructions existing between the Depositary and the Custodian, be appropriately reduced or increased, as the case may be, and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, to reflect such reduction or increase.
 
 
 
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None of the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Conversion Agent or any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall have any responsibility or liability for the payment of amounts to beneficial holders, any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Global Note or maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
 
(d)           Any stock certificate representing Common Stock issued upon conversion of a Note (including any Common Stock delivered in connection with the payment of an Interest Make-Whole Payment) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (unless (i) such Common Stock has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, or (ii) the Note or such Common Stock has been sold pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, which results in such Common Stock not being subject to transfer restrictions under the Securities Act and pursuant to which the Company reasonably believes such legend may be removed in compliance with applicable law, or (iii) such Common Stock has been issued upon conversion of a Note that has transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, or pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, which results in such Notes not being subject to transfer restrictions under the Securities Act and pursuant to which the Company reasonably believes such legend may be removed in compliance with applicable law, or unless otherwise agreed by the Company with written notice thereof to the Trustee and any transfer agent for the Common Stock):
 
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:
 
(1)           REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND
 
(2)           AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF RUMBLEON, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, EXCEPT:
 
(A)           TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, OR
 
(B)           PURSUANT TO, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT IS EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER, OR
 
(C)           TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
 
 
 
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(D)           PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
 
PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE (2)(D) ABOVE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRANSFER AGENT FOR THE COMPANY’S CLASS B COMMON STOCK RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER FOR THE COMPANY TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
 
Any such Common Stock (i) as to which such restrictions on transfer shall have expired in accordance with their terms, (ii) that has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer or (iii) that has been sold pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, which results in such Common Stock not being subject to transfer restrictions under the Securities Act and pursuant to which the Company reasonably believes such legend may be removed in compliance with applicable law, may, upon surrender of the certificates representing such shares of Common Stock for exchange in accordance with the procedures of the transfer agent for the Common Stock, be exchanged for a new certificate or certificates for a like aggregate number of shares of Common Stock, which shall not bear the restrictive legend required by this Section 2.05(d).
 
(e)           Any Note or Common Stock issued upon the conversion or exchange of a Note that is repurchased or owned by any Affiliate of the Company (or any Person who was an Affiliate of the Company at any time during the three months immediately preceding) may not be resold by such Affiliate (or such Person, as the case may be) unless registered under the Securities Act or resold pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in a transaction that results in such Note or Common Stock, as the case may be, no longer being a “restricted security” (as defined under Rule 144). The Company shall cause any Note that is repurchased or owned by it to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.08.
 
(f)           The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any securities laws or restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Depositary participants or beneficial owners of interests in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by the terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.
 
(g)           Neither the Trustee nor any agent shall have any responsibility or liability for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.
 
 
 
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Section 2.06          Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. In case any Note shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company in its discretion may execute, and upon receipt of a Company Order the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Note, bearing a registration number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated Note, or in lieu of and in substitution for the Note so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a substituted Note shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless from any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.
 
The Trustee or such authenticating agent may authenticate any such substituted Note and deliver the same upon the receipt of a Company Order and such security or indemnity as the Trustee, the Company and, if applicable, such authenticating agent may require. No service charge shall be imposed by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar, any co-Note Registrar or the Paying Agent upon the issuance of any substitute Note, but the Company may require a Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax required in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of the new substitute Note being different from the name of the Holder of the old Note that became mutilated or was destroyed, lost or stolen. In case any Note that has matured or is about to mature or has been surrendered for required repurchase or is about to be converted in accordance with Article 14 shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may, in its sole discretion, instead of issuing a substitute Note, pay or authorize the payment of or convert or authorize the conversion of the same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated Note), as the case may be, if the applicant for such payment or conversion shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless for any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee and, if applicable, any Paying Agent or Conversion Agent evidence of their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.
 
Every substitute Note issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.06 by virtue of the fact that any Note is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be found at any time, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the limitations set forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder. To the extent permitted by law, all Notes shall be held and owned upon the express condition that the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement, payment, redemption, conversion or repurchase of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes and shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement, payment, redemption, conversion or repurchase of negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender.
 
 
 
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Section 2.07          Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of Physical Notes, the Company may execute and the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall, upon written request of the Company, authenticate and deliver temporary Notes (printed or lithographed). Temporary Notes shall be issuable in any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the Physical Notes but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Notes, all as may be determined by the Company. Every such temporary Note shall be executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee or such authenticating agent upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with the same effect, as the Physical Notes. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or such authenticating agent Physical Notes (other than any Global Note) and thereupon any or all temporary Notes (other than any Global Note) may be surrendered in exchange therefor, at each office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02 and the Trustee or such authenticating agent upon receipt of a Company Order shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such temporary Notes an equal aggregate principal amount of Physical Notes. Such exchange shall be made by the Company at its own expense and without any charge therefor. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same limitations under this Indenture as Physical Notes authenticated and delivered hereunder.
 
Section 2.08         Cancellation of Notes Paid, Converted, Etc. The Company shall cause all Notes surrendered for the purpose of payment, repurchase, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or conversion, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee (including any of the Company’s agents, Subsidiaries or Affiliates), to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. All Notes delivered to the Trustee shall be canceled promptly by it, and, except for Notes surrendered for transfer or exchange, no Notes shall be authenticated in exchange thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. The Trustee shall deliver an acknowledgment of such cancellation to the Company, at the Company’s written request in a Company Order.
 
Section 2.09         CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in all notices issued to Holders as a convenience to such Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or on such notice and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the “CUSIP” numbers.
 
Section 2.10          Repurchases. The Company may, to the extent permitted by law, and directly or indirectly (regardless of whether such Notes are surrendered to the Company), repurchase Notes in the open market or otherwise, whether by the Company or its Subsidiaries or through a private or public tender or exchange offer or through counterparties to private agreements, including by cash-settled swaps or other derivatives. The Company shall cause any Notes so repurchased (other than Notes repurchased pursuant to cash-settled swaps or other derivatives) to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.08, and the Trustee and no one else shall cancel all Notes so surrendered and such Notes shall no longer be considered outstanding under this Indenture upon their cancellation.
 
 
 
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ARTICLE 3
 
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
 
Section 3.01        Satisfaction and Discharge. This Indenture shall upon request of the Company contained in an Officers’ Certificate cease to be of further effect, and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute such instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as reasonably requested by the Company, when (a) (i) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Notes which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced, paid or converted as provided in Section 2.06) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or (ii) the Company has deposited with the Trustee or delivered to Holders, as applicable, after the Notes have become due and payable, whether on the Maturity Date, any Redemption Date, any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, upon conversion or otherwise, cash or cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination thereof, as applicable (which shall be delivered directly to the Holders and not to the Trustee), solely to satisfy the Company’s Conversion Obligation, sufficient to pay all of the outstanding Notes and all other sums due and payable under this Indenture by the Company, including any Interest Make-Whole Payment; and (b) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with. Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 7.06 shall survive.
 
ARTICLE 4
 
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
 
Section 4.01          Payment of Principal and Interest. The Company covenants and agrees that it will cause to be paid the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, each of the Notes at the places, at the respective times and in the manner provided herein and in the Notes. Principal, premium, if any, and interest shall be considered paid on the date due if the Paying Agent, if other than the Company, holds as of 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the due date money deposited by the Company in immediately available funds and designated for and sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, and interest then due.
 
Section 4.02          Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company will maintain in the contiguous United States an office or agency where the Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for payment or repurchase (“Paying Agent”) or for conversion (“Conversion Agent”). The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations and surrenders may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office.
 
The Company may also from time to time designate as co-Note Registrars one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the contiguous United States for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. The terms “Paying Agent” and “Conversion Agent” include any such additional or other offices or agencies, as applicable.
 
The Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as the Paying Agent (other than for purposes of Article 15, which shall be appointed by the Company in connection with a Fundamental Change), Note Registrar, Custodian and Conversion Agent and the Corporate Trust Office as the office or agency in the contiguous United States, where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for payment or repurchase or for conversion.
 
 
 
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Section 4.03            Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office. The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 7.09, a Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder.
 
Section 4.04            Provisions as to Paying Agent. (a) If the Company shall appoint a Paying Agent other than the Trustee, the Company will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 4.04:
 
(i)           that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for the payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes;
 
(ii)          that it will give the Trustee prompt written notice of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes when the same shall be due and payable; and
 
(iii)        that at any time during the continuance of an Event of Default, upon request of the Trustee, it will forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust.
 
The Company shall, on or before each due date of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes, deposit with the Paying Agent a sum in immediately available funds sufficient to pay such principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) or accrued and unpaid interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action; provided that if such deposit is made on the due date, such deposit must be received by the Paying Agent by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date.
 
(b)           If the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent, it will, on or before each due date of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes a sum sufficient to pay such principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) and accrued and unpaid interest so becoming due and will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action and of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes when the same shall become due and payable. The Company or any Affiliate of the Company may act as Paying Agent (except for the purposes of Article 3). Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default under Section 6.01(i) or Section 6.01(j), the Trustee shall automatically be the Paying Agent.
 
(c)           Anything in this Section 4.04 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, or for any other reason, pay, cause to be paid or deliver to the Trustee all sums or amounts held in trust by the Company or any Paying Agent hereunder as required by this Section 4.04, such sums or amounts to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained and upon such payment or delivery by the Company or any Paying Agent to the Trustee, the Company or such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability but only with respect to such sums or amounts.
 
 
 
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(d)           Subject to applicable abandoned property laws, any money or property deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, accrued and unpaid interest on and the consideration due upon conversion of any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable), interest or consideration due upon conversion has become due and payable shall be paid or delivered, as the case may be, to the Company on request of the Company contained in an Officers’ Certificate, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money or property, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease.
 
Section 4.05          Existence. Subject to Article 11, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.
 
Section 4.06          Rule 144A Information Requirement and Annual Reports. (a) At any time the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall, so long as any of the Notes or any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof shall, at such time, constitute “restricted securities” within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act, promptly deliver to the Trustee and, upon written request, any Holder, beneficial owner or prospective purchaser of such Notes or any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such Notes, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act to facilitate the resale of such Notes or shares of Common Stock pursuant to Rule 144A. The Company shall take such further action as any Holder or beneficial owner of such Notes or such Common Stock may reasonably request to the extent from time to time required to enable such Holder or beneficial owner to sell such Notes or shares of Common Stock in accordance with Rule 144A, as such rule may be amended from time to time.
 
(b)           The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 15 days after the same are required to be filed with the Commission, copies of any documents or reports that the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (giving effect to any grace period provided by Rule 12b-25 under the Exchange Act). Any such document or report that the Company files with the Commission via the Commission’s EDGAR system shall be deemed to be delivered to the Trustee for purposes of this Section 4.06(b) at the time such documents are filed via the EDGAR system, it being understood that the Trustee shall not be responsible for determining whether such filings have been made.
 
(c)           Delivery of the reports and documents described in subsection (b) above to the Trustee is for informational purposes only, and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute actual or constructive notice or knowledge of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely on an Officers’ Certificate).
 
 
 
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(d)           If, at any time during the six-month period beginning on, and including, the date that is six months after January 14, 2020, the Company fails to timely file any document or report that it is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as applicable (after giving effect to all applicable grace periods thereunder and other than reports on Form 8-K), or the Notes are not otherwise freely tradable pursuant to Rule 144 by Holders other than the Company’s Affiliates or Holders that were the Company’s Affiliates at any time during the three months immediately preceding (as a result of restrictions pursuant to U.S. securities laws or the terms of this Indenture or the Notes), the Company shall pay Additional Interest on such Notes. Such Additional Interest shall accrue on such Notes at the rate of 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of such Notes outstanding for each day during such period for which the Company’s failure to file has occurred and is continuing or such Notes are not otherwise freely tradable pursuant to Rule 144 by Holders other than the Company’s Affiliates (or Holders that were the Company’s Affiliates at any time during the three months immediately preceding). As used in this Section 4.06(d), documents or reports that the Company is required to “file” with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act does not include documents or reports that the Company furnishes to the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.
 
(e)           Additional Interest will be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date following accrual in the same manner as regular interest on the Notes.
 
(f)           The Additional Interest that is payable in accordance with Section 4.06(d) shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any Additional Interest that may be payable as a result of the Company’s election pursuant to Section 6.03 hereof or pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.
 
(g)           If Additional Interest is payable by the Company pursuant to Section 4.06(d), the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating (i) the amount of such Additional Interest that is payable, (ii) the date on which such Additional Interest is payable and (iii) accompanied by a form of notice to be delivered to Holders of such Additional Interest payment with a direction to the Trustee to deliver such notice to the Holders. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives at the Corporate Trust Office such a certificate, the Trustee may assume without inquiry that no such Additional Interest is payable. If the Company has paid such Additional Interest directly to the Persons entitled to it, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the particulars of such payment.
 
Section 4.07          Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or other law that would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of or interest on the Notes as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
 
Section 4.08         Compliance Certificate; Statements as to Defaults. The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company (beginning with the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2019) an Officers’ Certificate stating whether the signers thereof have knowledge of any failure by the Company to comply with all conditions and covenants then required to be performed under this Indenture, any Default or Event of Default, and, if so, specifying each such failure, the nature thereof and what actions the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.
 
 
 
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In addition, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee, as soon as possible, and in any event within 30 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default or Default, an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the details of such Event of Default or Default, its status and the action that the Company is taking or proposing to take in respect thereof. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received such Officers’ Certificate, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any such Event of Default or Default.
 
Section 4.09        Additional Interest pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement. If Additional Interest is payable by the Company pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate to that effect stating (a) the amount of such Additional Interest that is payable, (b) the date on which such interest is payable and (c) accompanied by a form of notice to be delivered to Holders of such Additional Interest payment with a direction to the Trustee to deliver such notice to the Holders. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives at the Corporate Trust Office such a certificate, the Trustee may assume without inquiry that no such Additional Interest is payable.
 
Section 4.10        Limitation on Liens Securing Indebtedness. The Company will not, nor will the Company permit any of its Subsidiaries to create, assume or suffer to exist any Lien to secure Indebtedness on any asset now owned or hereafter acquired by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries except for Permitted Liens; provided, however, that any Lien on such asset shall be permitted notwithstanding that it is not a Permitted Lien if all payments due under this Indenture and the Notes are secured on an equal and ratable (or senior) basis with the obligations so secured by such Lien until such time as such obligations are no longer secured by a Lien.
 
The foregoing covenant will immediately terminate, and any then existing default thereof will immediately be deemed cured, upon the earliest to occur of: (i) a Fundamental Change described in clause (1) or (2) of the definition thereof, (ii) such time as less than $3.0 million aggregate principal amount of Notes are outstanding and (iii) both of (x) the conclusion of any 30 Trading Day period during which the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock has been at least 150% of the Conversion Price then in effect for at least 20 Trading Days (whether or not consecutive) and (y) the initial effectiveness of the registration statement filed pursuant to the Company’s obligations under the Registration Rights Agreement. Any Lien created for the benefit of the Holders pursuant to the foregoing covenant shall provide by its terms that such Lien shall be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged upon the earlier of (x) the termination of such Indebtedness and (y) the termination of the foregoing covenant.
 
Section 4.11        Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Indenture.
 
 
 
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ARTICLE 5
 
LISTS OF HOLDERS AND REPORTS BY THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE
 
Section 5.01         Lists of Holders. The Company covenants and agrees that it will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee, semi-annually, not more than 5 days after each December 15 and June 15 in each year beginning with June 15, 2020, and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 15 days after receipt by the Company of any such request (or such lesser time as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to enable it to timely provide any notice to be provided by it hereunder), a list in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders as of a date not more than 15 days (or such other date as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to so provide any such notices) prior to the time such information is furnished, except that no such list need be furnished so long as the Trustee is acting as Note Registrar.
 
Section 5.02        Preservation and Disclosure of Lists. The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, all information as to the names and addresses of the Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to it as provided in Section 5.01 or maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar, if so acting. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 5.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
 
ARTICLE 6
 
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
 
Section 6.01        Events of Default. Each of the following events shall be an “Event of Default” with respect to the Notes:
 
(a)           default in any payment of interest on any Note when due and payable, and the default continues for a period of 30 days;
 
(b)           default in the payment of principal of any Note when due and payable on the Maturity Date, upon Optional Redemption, upon any required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;
 
(c)           failure by the Company to comply with its obligation to convert the Notes in accordance with this Indenture upon exercise of a Holder’s conversion right, including the payment of any Interest Make-Whole Payment;
 
(d)           failure by the Company to issue a Fundamental Change Company Notice in accordance with Section 15.02(c), notice of the Effective Date of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change in accordance with Section 14.03(b) or notice of a specified distribution or specified Corporate Event in accordance with Section 14.01(b)(ii) or 14.01(b)(iii), in each case, when due;
 
(e)           failure by the Company to comply with its obligations under Article 11;
 
(f)           failure by the Company for 60 days after written notice from the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding has been received by the Company to comply with any of its other agreements contained in the Notes or this Indenture;
 
 
 
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(g)           default by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company with respect to any mortgage, agreement or other instrument under which there may be outstanding, or by which there may be secured or evidenced, any indebtedness for money borrowed in excess of $5,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent) in the aggregate of the Company and/or any such Significant Subsidiary, whether such indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created (i) resulting in such indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable or (ii) constituting a failure to pay the principal or interest of any such debt when due and payable at its stated maturity, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;
 
(h)           a final judgment or judgments for the payment of $5,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent) or more (excluding any amounts covered by insurance) in the aggregate rendered against the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, which judgment is not discharged, bonded, paid, waived or stayed within 90 days after (i) the date on which the right to appeal thereof has expired if no such appeal has commenced, or (ii) the date on which all rights to appeal have been extinguished;
 
(i)           the Company or any Significant Subsidiary shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or any such Significant Subsidiary or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company or any such Significant Subsidiary or any substantial part of its property, or shall consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due; or
 
(j)           an involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or such Significant Subsidiary or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company or such Significant Subsidiary or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of 30 consecutive days.
 
Section 6.02          Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment. If one or more Events of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body), then, and in each and every such case (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or Section 6.01(j) with respect to the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries), unless the principal of all of the Notes shall have already become due and payable, the Trustee may, or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), may declare 100% of the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, all the Notes to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall automatically be immediately due and payable, anything contained in this Indenture or in the Notes to the contrary notwithstanding. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or Section 6.01(j) with respect to the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries occurs and is continuing, 100% of the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, all Notes shall become and shall automatically be immediately due and payable.
 
 
 
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The immediately preceding paragraph, however, is subject to the conditions that if, at any time after the principal of the Notes shall have been so declared due and payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the monies due shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, the Company shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum in immediately available funds sufficient to pay installments of accrued and unpaid interest upon all Notes and the principal of any and all Notes that shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest on overdue installments of accrued and unpaid interest to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, and on such principal at the rate borne by the Notes at such time) and amounts due to the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.06, and if (1) rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (2) any and all existing Events of Default under this Indenture, other than the nonpayment of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on Notes that shall have become due solely by such acceleration, shall have been cured or waived pursuant to Section 6.09, then and in every such case (except as provided in the immediately succeeding sentence) the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may waive all Defaults or Events of Default with respect to the Notes and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences and such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent Default or Event of Default, or shall impair any right consequent thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any Default or Event of Default resulting from (i) the nonpayment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest on, any Notes, (ii) a failure to repurchase any Notes when required or (iii) a failure to pay or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due upon conversion of the Notes.
 
Section 6.03            Additional Interest. Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture or in the Notes to the contrary, to the extent the Company elects, the sole remedy for an Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to (i) comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) or (ii) deliver to the Trustee pursuant to Section 314(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act any documents or reports that it is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall after the occurrence of such an Event of Default consist exclusively of the right to receive Additional Interest on the Notes at a rate equal to 0.25% per annum of the principal amount of the Notes outstanding for each day during the 60-day period on which such Event of Default is continuing beginning on, and including, the date on which such an Event of Default first occurs. Additional Interest payable pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall be in addition to, not in lieu of, any Additional Interest payable pursuant to Section 4.06(d) hereof or pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement. If the Company so elects, such Additional Interest shall be payable in the same manner and on the same dates as the stated interest payable on the Notes. On the 61st day after such Event of Default (if the Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to comply with (i) its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) or (ii) the requirements of Section 314(a(1) of the Trust Indenture Act is not cured or waived prior to such 61st day), the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02. The provisions of this paragraph will not affect the rights of Holders of Notes in the event of the occurrence of any Event of Default other than the Company’s failure to comply with (i) its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) or (ii) the requirements of Section 314(a(1) of the Trust Indenture Act. In the event the Company does not elect to pay Additional Interest following an Event of Default in accordance with this Section 6.03 or the Company elected to make such payment but does not pay the Additional Interest when due, the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02.
 
 
 
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In order to elect to pay Additional Interest as the sole remedy during the first 60 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default described in the immediately preceding paragraph, the Company must notify in writing all Holders of the Notes, the Trustee and the Paying Agent in writing of such election prior to the beginning of such 60-day period. Upon the failure to timely give such written notice, the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02.
 
Section 6.04            Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor. If an Event of Default described in clause (a) or (b) of Section 6.01 shall have occurred, the Company shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on the Notes for principal and interest, if any, with interest on any overdue principal and interest, if any, at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover any amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.06. If the Company shall fail to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes, wherever situated.
 
In the event there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy or for the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor on the Notes under Title 11 of the United States Code, or any other applicable law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Company or such other obligor, the property of the Company or such other obligor, or in the event of any other judicial proceedings relative to the Company or such other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Company or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of the Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 6.04, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, in respect of the Notes, and, in case of any judicial proceedings, to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents and to take such other actions as it may deem necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the compensation, reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any other obligor on the Notes, its or their creditors, or its or their property, and to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute the same after the deduction of any amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.06; and any receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, custodian or similar official is hereby authorized by each of the Holders to make such payments to the Trustee, as administrative expenses, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for compensation, reasonable expenses, advances and disbursements, including agents and counsel fees, and including any other amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.06, incurred by it up to the date of such distribution. To the extent that such payment of compensation, reasonable expenses, advances and disbursements out of the estate in any such proceedings shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, monies, securities and other property that the Holders of the Notes may be entitled to receive in such proceedings, whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.
 
 
 
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Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting such Holder or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
 
All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes, or the production thereof at any trial or other proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes.
 
In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and in any proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a party) the Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holders of the Notes parties to any such proceedings.
 
In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned because of any waiver pursuant to Section 6.09 or any rescission and annulment pursuant to Section 6.02 or for any other reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the Company, the Holders and the Trustee shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Company, the Holders and the Trustee shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
 
Section 6.05          Application of Monies Collected by Trustee. Any monies or property collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article 6 with respect to the Notes shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of such monies, upon presentation of the several Notes:
 
First, to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee (in each of its capacities) under Section 7.06;
 
Second, in case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall not have become due and be unpaid, to the payment of interest on, and any cash due upon conversion of, the Notes in default in the order of the date due of the payments of such interest and cash due upon conversion, as the case may be, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon such overdue payments at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, such payments to be made ratably to the Persons entitled thereto;
 
 
 
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Third, in case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall have become due, by declaration or otherwise, and be unpaid to the payment of the whole amount (including, if applicable, the payment of the Redemption Price, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and any cash due upon conversion) then owing and unpaid upon the Notes for principal and interest, if any, with interest on the overdue principal and, to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee, upon overdue installments of interest at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, and in case such monies shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amounts so due and unpaid upon the Notes, then to the payment of such principal (including, if applicable, the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and the cash due upon conversion) and interest without preference or priority of principal over interest, or of interest over principal or of any installment of interest over any other installment of interest, or of any Note over any other Note, ratably to the aggregate of such principal (including, if applicable, the Redemption Price, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and any cash due upon conversion) and accrued and unpaid interest; and
 
Fourth, to the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company.
 
Section 6.06          Proceedings by Holders. Except to enforce the right to receive payment of principal (including, if applicable, the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) or interest when due, or the right to receive payment or delivery of the consideration due upon conversion, no Holder of any Note shall have any right by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, liquidator, custodian or other similar official, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
 
(a)           such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as herein provided;
 
(b)           Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
 
(c)           such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee such security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense;
 
(d)           the Trustee shall have not complied with such notice within 60 days after the receipt of the notice and the offer of such security or indemnity; and
 
(e)           no direction that, in the opinion of the Trustee, is inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Trustee by the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding within such 60-day period pursuant to Section 6.09, it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and Holder of every Note with every other taker and Holder and the Trustee that no one or more Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holder, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder, or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders (except as otherwise provided herein). For the protection and enforcement of this Section 6.06, each and every Holder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
 
 
 
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Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture and any provision of any Note, each Holder shall have the right to receive payment or delivery, as the case may be, of (x) the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, (y) accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, and (z) the consideration due upon conversion of, such Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in such Note or in this Indenture, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment or delivery, as the case may be and such right to receive such payment or delivery, as the case may be, on or after such respective dates shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.
 
Section 6.07           Proceedings by Trustee. In case of an Event of Default, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as are necessary to protect and enforce any of such rights, either by suit in equity or by action at law or by proceeding in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
 
Section 6.08           Remedies Cumulative and Continuing. Except as provided in the last paragraph of Section 2.06, all powers and remedies given by this Article 6 to the Trustee or to the Holders shall, to the extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any thereof or of any other powers and remedies available to the Trustee or the Holders of the Notes, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or observance of the covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture, and no delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any of the Notes to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or power, or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Default or Event of Default or any acquiescence therein; and, subject to the provisions of Section 6.06, every power and remedy given by this Article 6 or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders.
 
 
 
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Section 6.09           Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Holders. The Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04 shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Notes; provided, however, that (a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, and (b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction. The Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that it determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of any other Holder (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not such directions are unduly prejudicial to such Holder) or that would involve the Trustee in personal liability, unless the Trustee is offered indemnity or security satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense; provided, however, that the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04 may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes waive any past Default or Event of Default hereunder and its consequences except (i) a default in the payment of accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or the principal (including any Redemption Price and any Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) of, the Notes when due that has not been cured pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.01, (ii) a failure by the Company to pay or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due upon conversion of the Notes or (iii) a default in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article 10 cannot be modified or amended without the consent of each Holder of an outstanding Note affected. Upon any such waiver the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon. Whenever any Default or Event of Default hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by this Section 6.09, said Default or Event of Default shall for all purposes of the Notes and this Indenture be deemed to have been cured and to be not continuing; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
 
Section 6.10           Notice of Defaults. The Trustee shall, within 90 days after a Responsible Officer obtains actual knowledge of the occurrence and continuance of a Default or Event of Default, deliver to all Holders at the name and address set forth in the Note Register (at the Company’s expense) notice of all Defaults known to the Trustee, unless such Defaults or Events of Default shall have been cured or waived before the giving of such notice; provided that, except in the case of a Default in the payment of the principal of (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable), or accrued and unpaid interest on, any of the Notes or a Default in the payment or delivery of the consideration due upon conversion, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as a Responsible Officer of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders.
 
Section 6.11          Undertaking to Pay Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Note by its acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may, in its discretion, require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; provided that the provisions of this Section 6.11 (to the extent permitted by law) shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on any Note (including, but not limited to, the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) on or after the due date expressed or provided for in such Note or to any suit for the enforcement of the right to convert any Note, or receive the consideration due upon conversion, in accordance with the provisions of Article 14.
 
 
 
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ARTICLE 7
 
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
 
Section 7.01          Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee. The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default of which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge and after the curing or waiver of all Events of Default that may have occurred, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture. In the event an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has written notice or actual knowledge of such Event of Default, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs; provided that if an Event of Default occurs and is continuing and a Responsible Officer has written notice or actual knowledge of such Event of Default, the Trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers under this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders unless such Holders have offered (and, if requested, provided) to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to it in its sole discretion against any loss, liability or expense that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.
 
No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own grossly negligent action, its own grossly negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:
 
(a)           prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default of which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default that may have occurred:
 
(i)           the duties of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
 
(ii)           in the absence of gross negligence and willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively and without liability rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but, in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of any mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein);
 
(b)           the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was grossly negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
 
(c)           the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of not less than a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined as provided in Section 8.04 relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture;
 
(d)           whether or not therein provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section;
 
(e)           the Trustee shall not be liable in respect of any payment (as to the correctness of amount, entitlement to receive or any other matters relating to payment) or notice effected by the Company or any Paying Agent or any records maintained by any co-Note Registrar with respect to the Notes;
 
 
 
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(f)           if any party fails to deliver a notice relating to an event the fact of which, pursuant to this Indenture, requires notice to be sent to the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively and without liability rely on its failure to receive such notice as reason to act as if no such event occurred, unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee had actual knowledge of such event;
 
(g)           all cash received by the Trustee shall be placed in a non-interest bearing trust account and shall not be invested unless agreed in writing by the Company and the Trustee;
 
(h)           in the event that the Trustee is also acting as Custodian, Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, Bid Solicitation Agent or transfer agent hereunder, the rights and protections afforded to the Trustee pursuant to this Article 7 shall also be afforded to such Custodian, Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, Bid Solicitation Agent or transfer agent; and
 
(i)           under no circumstances shall the Trustee be liable in its individual capacity for the obligations evidenced by the Notes.
 
None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers. The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the performance of its powers or duties hereunder. The Trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of its rights and powers under this Indenture at the request or direction of the Holders unless such Holder has offered (and if requested, provided) to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it in its sole discretion against any loss, liability or expense.
 
Section 7.02         Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc. Except as otherwise provided in Section 7.01:

(a)           before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officers’ Certificate and/or an Opinion of Counsel. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on an Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.
 
(b)           the Trustee may conclusively and without liability rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, bond, note, coupon or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
 
(c)           any request, direction, order or demand of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any Board Resolution may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company;
 
(d)           the Trustee may consult with counsel of its own selection and require an Opinion of Counsel and any written or verbal advice of such counsel or Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel;
 
 
 
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(e)           the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney at the expense of the Company and shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation;
 
(f)           the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through a co-trustee, agents, custodians, nominees or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent, custodian, nominee or attorney appointed by it with due care hereunder;
 
(g)           the permissive rights of the Trustee enumerated herein shall not be construed as duties;
 
(h)           the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;
 
(i)           the Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the performance of other persons or for the failure of others to perform their duties;
 
(j)           the Holders will not direct the Trustee to take action contrary to this Indenture, the Notes or applicable law, and the Trustee is not obligated to follow any instruction of the Holders that is contrary to this Indenture, the Notes or applicable law;
 
(k)           the Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture, which Officers’ Certificate may be signed by any Person authorized to sign an Officers’ Certificate, including any Person specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded;
 
(l)           the Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the execution of the trusts and powers under this Indenture;
 
(m)           in no event shall the Trustee be liable for any special, punitive, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits), even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action; and
 
 
 
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(n)           the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes, unless either (1) a Responsible Officer shall have actual knowledge of such Default or Event of Default or (2) written notice of such Default or Event of Default shall have been given to the Trustee by the Company or actually received by a Responsible Officer at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee from the Company, a Paying Agent, any Holder or any agent of any Holder, referencing this Indenture and stating that it is a “notice of default”.
 
Section 7.03          No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc. The recitals, statements, warranties and representations contained herein and in the Notes (except in the Trustee’s certificate of authentication) shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Notes. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of any Notes or the proceeds of any Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture. Notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, each Holder shall be solely responsible for making its own independent appraisal of, and investigation into, the financial condition, creditworthiness, condition, affairs, status and nature of the Company, and the Trustee shall not at any time have any responsibility for the same and each Holder shall not rely on the Trustee in respect thereof.
 
Section 7.04         Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents, Bid Solicitation Agent or Note Registrar May Own Notes. The Trustee, any Paying Agent (if other than the Company or an Affiliate thereof), any Conversion Agent, Bid Solicitation Agent (if other than the Company or an Affiliate thereof) or Note Registrar, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, Bid Solicitation Agent or Note Registrar.
 
Section 7.05          Monies to Be Held in Trust. All monies received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received. Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as may be agreed in writing from time to time by the Company and the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be obligated to take possession of any Common Stock, whether upon conversion or in connection with any discharge of this Indenture pursuant to Article 3 hereof, but shall satisfy its obligation as Conversion Agent by working through the stock transfer agent of the Company from time to time as directed by the Company.
 
 
 
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Section 7.06          Compensation and Expenses of Trustee. The Company covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee, in any of its capacities under this Indenture, from time to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, compensation as agreed in writing between the Company and the Trustee for all services rendered by it hereunder in any capacity (which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) as mutually agreed to in writing between the Trustee and the Company, and the Company will pay or reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances reasonably incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture in any capacity thereunder (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel and of all Persons not regularly in its employ and including reasonable attorneys’ fees in connection with enforcement of its rights to indemnity herein) except any such expense, disbursement or advance as shall have been caused by its gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by a final, non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction. The Company also covenants to indemnify the Trustee in any capacity under this Indenture and any other document or transaction entered into in connection herewith and its agents and any authenticating agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, claim, damage, liability, fee, cost, loss, tax, claim, action or expense incurred without gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, its officers, directors, agents or employees, or such agent or authenticating agent, as the case may be, and arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or in any other capacity hereunder, including third-party claims and claims involving the Company, and including the costs and expenses of defending themselves against any claim of liability in the premises. The obligations of the Company under this Section 7.06 to compensate or indemnify the Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall be secured by a senior lien to which the Notes are hereby made subordinate on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except, subject to the effect of Section 6.05, funds held in trust herewith for the benefit of the Holders of particular Notes. The Trustee’s right to receive payment of any amounts due under this Section 7.06 shall not be subordinate to any other liability or indebtedness of the Company. The indemnity under this Section 7.06 is payable upon demand by the Trustee. The obligation of the Company under this Section 7.06 shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the payment of the Notes and the earlier resignation or removal of the Trustee. The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The indemnification provided in this Section 7.06 shall extend to the officers, directors, agents and employees of the Trustee.
 
Without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under applicable law, when the Trustee and its agents and any authenticating agent incur expenses or render services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or Section 6.01(j) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws.
 
Section 7.07         Officers’ Certificate as Evidence. Except as otherwise provided in Section 7.01, whenever in the administration of the provisions of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or omitting any action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, as determined by a final, non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such Officers’ Certificate, in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, as determined by a final, non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.
 
Section 7.08         Eligibility of Trustee. There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act (as if the Trust Indenture Act were applicable hereto) to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of any supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
 
 
 
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Section 7.09         Resignation or Removal of Trustee. (a) The Trustee may at any time resign by giving written notice of such resignation to the Company and by delivering notice thereof to the Holders. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor trustee. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within 60 days after the giving of such notice of resignation to the Holders, the resigning Trustee may at the expense of the Company, upon ten Business Days’ notice to the Company and the Holders, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee, or any Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a Note or Notes for at least six months (or since the date of this Indenture) may, subject to the provisions of Section 6.11, on behalf of himself or herself and all others similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee, and the Company shall bear the expense associated with such appointment.
 
(b)           In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
 
(i)           the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.08 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or
 
(ii)           the Trustee shall become incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then, in either case, the Company may by a Board Resolution remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions of Section 6.11, any Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a Note or Notes for at least six months (or since the date of this Indenture) may, on behalf of himself or herself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.
 
(c)           The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding, as determined in accordance with Section 8.04, may at any time remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee that shall be deemed appointed as successor trustee unless within ten days after notice to the Company of such nomination the Company objects thereto, in which case the Trustee so removed or any Holder, upon the terms and conditions and otherwise as in Section 7.09(a) provided, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor trustee.
 
(d)           Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 7.09 shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section 7.10.
 
 
 
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Section 7.10         Acceptance by Successor Trustee. Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 7.09 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee shall become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Trustee herein; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Company or of the successor trustee, the trustee ceasing to act shall, upon payment of any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.06, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all the rights and powers of the trustee so ceasing to act. Upon request of any such successor trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a senior lien to which the Notes are hereby made subordinate on all money or property held or collected by such trustee as such, except for funds held in trust for the benefit of Holders of particular Notes, to secure any amounts then due to it pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.06.
 
No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 7.10 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 7.08.
 
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in this Section 7.10, each of the Company and the successor trustee, at the written direction and at the expense of the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered notice of the succession of such trustee hereunder to the Holders at their addresses as they shall appear on the Note Register. If the Company fails to deliver such notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee may cause such notice to be delivered at the expense of the Company.
 
Section 7.11         Succession by Merger, Etc. Any corporation or other entity into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation or other entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation or other entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee (including the administration of this Indenture), shall be the successor to the Trustee hereunder without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto; provided that in the case of any corporation or other entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee such corporation or other entity shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 7.08.
 
In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture, any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee or authenticating agent appointed by such predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by such successor trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor trustee hereunder or in the name of the successor trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have; provided, however, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee or to authenticate Notes in the name of any predecessor trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.
 
 
 
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Section 7.12         Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company. Any application by the Trustee for written instructions from the Company (other than with regard to any action proposed to be taken or omitted to be taken by the Trustee that affects the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this Indenture) may, at the option of the Trustee, set forth in writing any action proposed to be taken or omitted by the Trustee under this Indenture and the date on and/or after which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be effective. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken by, or omission of, the Trustee in accordance with a proposal included in such application on or after the date specified in such application (which date shall not be less than three Business Days after the notice has been deemed to have been given pursuant to Section 17.03, unless any such officer shall have consented in writing to any earlier date), unless, prior to taking any such action (or the effective date in the case of any omission), the Trustee shall have received written instructions in accordance with this Indenture in response to such application specifying the action to be taken or omitted.
 
ARTICLE 8
 
CONCERNING THE HOLDERS
 
Section 8.01          Action by Holders. Whenever in this Indenture it is provided that the Holders of a specified percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes may take any action (including the making of any demand or request, the giving of any notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any other action), the fact that at the time of taking any such action, the Holders of such specified percentage have joined therein may be evidenced (a) by any instrument or any number of instruments of similar tenor executed by Holders in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing, or (b) by the record of the Holders voting in favor thereof at any meeting of Holders duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article 9, or (c) by a combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record of such a meeting of Holders. Whenever the Company or the Trustee solicits the taking of any action by the Holders of the Notes, the Company or the Trustee may, but shall not be required to, fix in advance of such solicitation, a date as the record date for determining Holders entitled to take such action. The record date if one is selected shall be not more than fifteen days prior to the date of commencement of solicitation of such action.
 
Section 8.02          Proof of Execution by Holders. Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, Section 7.02 and Section 9.05, proof of the execution of any instrument by a Holder or its agent or proxy shall be sufficient if made in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The holding of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register or by a certificate of the Note Registrar. The record of any Holders’ meeting shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 9.06.
 
Section 8.03          Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners. The Company, the Trustee, any authenticating agent, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent and any Note Registrar may deem the Person in whose name a Note shall be registered upon the Note Register to be, and may treat it as, the absolute owner of such Note (whether or not such Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing thereon made by any Person other than the Company or any Note Registrar) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal (including any Redemption Price and any Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) of and (subject to Section 2.03) accrued and unpaid interest on such Note, for conversion of such Note and for all other purposes; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any Paying Agent nor any Conversion Agent nor any Note Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. The sole registered Holder of a Global Note shall be the Depositary or its nominee. All such payments or deliveries so made to any Holder for the time being, or upon its order, shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sums or shares of Common Stock so paid or delivered, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for monies payable or shares deliverable upon any such Note. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture or the Notes following an Event of Default, any holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note may directly enforce against the Company, without the consent, solicitation, proxy, authorization or any other action of the Depositary or any other Person, such holder’s right to exchange such beneficial interest for a Note in certificated form in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
 
 
 
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Section 8.04         Company-Owned Notes Disregarded. In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, consent, waiver or other action under this Indenture, Notes that are owned by the Company, by any Subsidiary thereof or by any Affiliate of the Company or any Subsidiary thereof shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding for the purpose of any such determination; provided that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, consent, waiver or other action only Notes that a Responsible Officer knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as outstanding for the purposes of this Section 8.04 if the pledgee shall establish to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right to so act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the Company, a Subsidiary thereof or an Affiliate of the Company or a Subsidiary thereof. In the case of a dispute as to such right, any decision by the Trustee taken upon the advice of counsel shall be full protection to the Trustee. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officers’ Certificate listing and identifying all Notes, if any, known by the Company to be owned or held by or for the account of any of the above described Persons; and, subject to Section 7.01, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officers’ Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Notes not listed therein are outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.
 
Section 8.05         Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound. At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 8.01, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes specified in this Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder of a Note that is shown by the evidence to be included in the Notes the Holders of which have consented to such action may, by filing written notice with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office and upon proof of holding as provided in Section 8.02, revoke such action so far as concerns such Note. Except as aforesaid, any action taken by the Holder of any Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders and owners of such Note and of any Notes issued in exchange or substitution therefor or upon registration of transfer thereof, irrespective of whether any notation in regard thereto is made upon such Note or any Note issued in exchange or substitution therefor or upon registration of transfer thereof.
 
ARTICLE 9
 
HOLDERS’ MEETINGS
 
Section 9.01        Purpose of Meetings. A meeting of Holders may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to the provisions of this Article 9 for any of the following purposes:
 
(a)           to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee or to give any directions to the Trustee permitted under this Indenture, or to consent to the waiving of any Default or Event of Default hereunder (in each case, as permitted under this Indenture) and its consequences, or to take any other action authorized to be taken by Holders pursuant to any of the provisions of Article 6;
 
 
 
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(b)           to remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee pursuant to the provisions of Article 7;
 
(c)           to consent to the execution of an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.02; or
 
(d)           to take any other action authorized to be taken by or on behalf of the Holders of any specified aggregate principal amount of the Notes under any other provision of this Indenture or under applicable law.
 
Section 9.02           Call of Meetings by Trustee. The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders to take any action specified in Section 9.01, to be held at such time and at such place as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of the Holders, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting and the establishment of any record date pursuant to Section 8.01, shall be delivered to Holders of such Notes at their addresses as they shall appear on the Note Register. Such notice shall also be delivered to the Company. Such notices shall be delivered not less than 20 nor more than 90 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.
 
Any meeting of Holders shall be valid without notice if the Holders of all Notes then outstanding are present in person or by proxy or if notice is waived before or after the meeting by the Holders of all Notes then outstanding, and if the Company and the Trustee are either present by duly authorized representatives or have, before or after the meeting, waived notice.
 
Section 9.03           Call of Meetings by Company or Holders. In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or the Holders of at least 10% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of Holders, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have delivered the notice of such meeting within 20 days after receipt of such request, then the Company or such Holders may determine the time and the place for such meeting and may call such meeting to take any action authorized in Section 9.01, by delivering notice thereof as provided in Section 9.02.
 
Section 9.04           Qualifications for Voting. To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders a Person shall (a) be a Holder of one or more Notes on the record date pertaining to such meeting or (b) be a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy by a Holder of one or more Notes on the record date pertaining to such meeting. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of Holders shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel and any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.
 
Section 9.05            Regulations. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Holders, in regard to proof of the holding of Notes and of the appointment of proxies, and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall think fit.
 
 
 
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The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the Company or by Holders as provided in Section 9.03, in which case the Company or the Holders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented at the meeting and entitled to vote at the meeting.
 
Subject to the provisions of Section 8.04, at any meeting of Holders each Holder or proxyholder shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes held or represented by him or her; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Note challenged as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote other than by virtue of Notes held by it or instruments in writing as aforesaid duly designating it as the proxy to vote on behalf of other Holders. Any meeting of Holders duly called pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.02 or Section 9.03 may be adjourned from time to time by the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented at the meeting, whether or not constituting a quorum, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.
 
Section 9.06           Voting. The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders shall be by written ballot on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders or of their representatives by proxy and the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Notes held or represented by them. The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record in duplicate of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more Persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was delivered as provided in Section 9.02. The record shall show the aggregate principal amount of the Notes voting in favor of or against any resolution. The record shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one of the duplicates shall be delivered to the Company and the other to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting.
 
Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated.
 
Section 9.07           No Delay of Rights by Meeting. Nothing contained in this Article 9 shall be deemed or construed to authorize or permit, by reason of any call of a meeting of Holders or any rights expressly or impliedly conferred hereunder to make such call, any hindrance or delay in the exercise of any right or rights conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders under any of the provisions of this Indenture or of the Notes.
 
ARTICLE 10
 
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
 
Section 10.01         Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders. The Company, when authorized by the resolutions of the Board of Directors and the Trustee, at the Company’s expense and direction, may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for one or more of the following purposes:
 
 
 
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(a)           to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency;
 
(b)           to provide for the assumption by a Successor Company of the obligations of the Company under this Indenture pursuant to Article 11;
 
(c)           to add guarantees with respect to the Notes;
 
(d)           to secure the Notes;
 
(e)           to add to the covenants or Events of Default of the Company for the benefit of the Holders or surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company;
 
(f)           to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder;
 
(g)           in connection with any Share Exchange Event, to provide that the notes are convertible into Reference Property, subject to the provisions of Section 14.02, and make such related changes to the terms of the Notes to the extent expressly required by Section 14.07;
 
(h)           irrevocably elect a Settlement Method or a specified dollar amount, or eliminate the Company’s right to elect a Settlement Method; or
 
(i)           comply with any requirement of the SEC in connection with the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act, to the extent that this Indenture is required to comply with the Trust Indenture Act.
 
Upon the written request of the Company, the Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in the execution of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to, but may in its discretion, enter into any supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties, liabilities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
 
Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section 10.01 may be executed by the Company and the Trustee without the consent of the Holders of any of the Notes at the time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 10.02.
 
Section 10.02        Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders
 
. With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article 8) of the Holders of at least a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding (determined in accordance with Article 8 and including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a repurchase of, or tender or exchange offer for, Notes), the Company, when authorized by the resolutions of the Board of Directors, at the Company’s expense, may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto with the Trustee for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders; provided, however, that, without the consent of each Holder of an outstanding Note affected, no such supplemental indenture shall:
 
(a)           reduce the amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment;
 
 
 
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(b)           reduce the rate of or extend the stated time for payment of interest on any Note;
 
(c)           reduce the principal of or extend the Maturity Date of any Note;
 
(d)           make any change that adversely affects the conversion rights of any Notes;
 
(e)           reduce the Redemption Price or the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price of any Note or amend or modify in any manner adverse to the Holders the Company’s obligation to make such payments, whether through an amendment or waiver of provisions in the covenants, definitions or otherwise;
 
(f)           make any Note payable in a currency, or at a place of payment, other than that stated in the Note;
 
(g)           change the ranking of the Notes;
 
(h)           impair the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal and interest (including any interest Make-Whole Payment, if applicable) on such Holder’s Notes on or after the due dates therefor or to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Notes; or
 
(i)           make any change in this Article 10 that requires each Holder’s consent or in the waiver provisions in Section 6.02 or Section 6.09.
 
Upon the written request of the Company, and upon the delivery to the Trustee of evidence of the requisite consent of Holders as aforesaid and subject to Section 10.05, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental indenture unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental indenture.
 
Holders do not need under this Section 10.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture. It shall be sufficient if such Holders approve the substance thereof. After any such supplemental indenture becomes effective, the Company shall deliver to the Holders (with a copy to the Trustee) a notice briefly describing such supplemental indenture. However, the failure to give such notice to all the Holders, or any defect in the notice, will not impair or affect the validity of the supplemental indenture.
 
Section 10.03        Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article 10, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
 
 
 
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Section 10.04        Notation on Notes
 
. Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article 10 may, at the Company’s expense, bear a notation in form acceptable to the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company or the Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Board of Directors, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may, at the Company’s expense, be prepared and executed by the Company, authenticated by the Trustee (or an authenticating agent duly appointed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 17.10) and delivered in exchange for the Notes then outstanding, upon surrender of such Notes then outstanding.
 
Section 10.05        Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished Trustee. In addition to the documents required by Section 17.05, the Trustee shall receive an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture executed pursuant hereto complies with the requirements of this Article 10 and is permitted or authorized by this Indenture.
 
ARTICLE 11
 
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE
 
Section 11.01        Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms. Subject to the provisions of Section 11.02, the Company shall not consolidate with, merge with or into, or sell, convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its consolidated properties and assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to another Person, unless:
 
(a)           the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the “Successor Company”), if not the Company, shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and the Successor Company (if not the Company) shall expressly assume, (A) by supplemental indenture all of the obligations of the Company under the Notes and this Indenture, and (B) to the extent the Registration Rights Agreement is then still operative, all of the Company’s obligations under the Registration Rights Agreement; and
 
(b)           immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing under this Indenture.
 
For purposes of this Section 11.01, the sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company to another Person, which properties and assets, if held by the Company instead of such Subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company to another Person.
 
 
 
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Section 11.02         Successor Corporation to Be Substituted. In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease and upon the assumption by the Successor Company, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee, of the due and punctual payment of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on all of the Notes, the due and punctual delivery or payment, as the case may be, of any consideration due upon conversion of the Notes and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Company, such Successor Company (if not the Company) shall succeed to and, except in the case of a lease of all or substantially all of the Company’s properties and assets, shall be substituted for the Company, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the party of the first part. Such Successor Company thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company any or all of the Notes issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such Successor Company instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver, or cause to be authenticated and delivered, any Notes that previously shall have been signed and delivered by the Officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Notes that such Successor Company thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All the Notes so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Notes theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Notes had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. In the event of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or transfer (but not in the case of a lease), upon compliance with this Article 11 the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Indenture (or any successor that shall thereafter have become such in the manner prescribed in this Article 11) may be dissolved, wound up and liquidated at any time thereafter and, except in the case of a lease, such Person shall be released from its liabilities as obligor and maker of the Notes and from its obligations under this Indenture and the Notes.
 
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease, such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Notes thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
 
Section 11.03          Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to Be Given to Trustee. No such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease shall be effective unless the Trustee shall receive an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease, as the case may be, and any such assumption and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture, comply with the provisions of this Article 11, and which Opinion of Counsel shall state that the Notes and such supplemental indenture are valid and binding obligations of the Successor Company.
 
ARTICLE 12
 
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
 
Section 12.01          Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate Obligations. No recourse for the payment of the principal of or accrued and unpaid interest on any Note, nor for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture or in any Note, nor because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, employee, agent, Officer or director or Subsidiary, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly understood that all such liability is hereby expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and the issue of the Notes.
 
 
 
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ARTICLE 14
 
CONVERSION OF NOTES
 
Section 14.01        Conversion Privilege. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Article 14, each Holder of a Note shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to convert all or any portion (if the portion to be converted is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) of such Note (i) subject to satisfaction of the conditions described in Section 14.01(b), at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding July 1, 2024 under the circumstances and during the periods set forth in Section 14.01(b), and (ii) regardless of the conditions described in Section 14.01(b), on or after July 1, 2024 and prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, in each case, at an initial conversion rate of 500 shares of Common Stock (subject to adjustment as provided in this Article 14, the “Conversion Rate”) per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (subject to, and in accordance with, the settlement provisions of Section 14.02, the “Conversion Obligation”).
 
(b)           (i) Prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding July 1, 2024, a Holder may surrender all or any portion of its Notes for conversion at any time during the five consecutive Business Day period immediately following any five consecutive Trading Day period (the “Measurement Period”) in which the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, as determined following a request by a Holder of Notes in accordance with this subsection (b)(i), for each Trading Day of the Measurement Period was less than 98% of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on each such Trading Day and the Conversion Rate on each such Trading Day. The Trading Prices shall be determined by the Bid Solicitation Agent pursuant to this subsection (b)(i) and the definition of Trading Price set forth in this Indenture. The Company shall provide written notice to the Bid Solicitation Agent of the three independent nationally recognized securities dealers selected by the Company pursuant to the definition of Trading Price, along with appropriate contact information for each. The Bid Solicitation Agent shall have no obligation to determine the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes unless the Company has requested such determination in writing and the Company shall have no obligation to make such request unless a Holder provides the Company with reasonable evidence that the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes on any Trading Day would be less than 98% of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on such Trading Day and the Conversion Rate on such Trading Day, at which time the Company shall instruct the Bid Solicitation Agent in writing to determine the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes beginning on the next Trading Day and on each successive Trading Day until the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes is greater than or equal to 98% of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock and the Conversion Rate and instruct three independent nationally recognized securities dealers to deliver bids to the Bid Solicitation Agent. If the Company does not instruct the Bid Solicitation Agent to determine the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes when obligated as provided in the preceding sentence, or if the Company instructs the Bid Solicitation Agent in writing to obtain bids and the Bid Solicitation Agent fails to make such determination, then, in either case, the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be deemed to be less than 98% of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock and the Conversion Rate on each Trading Day of such failure. If the Trading Price condition set forth above has been met, the Company shall so notify the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing. If, at any time after the Trading Price condition set forth above has been met, the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes is greater than or equal to 98% of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock and the Conversion Rate for such date, the Company shall so notify the Holders of the Notes, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing.
 
 
 
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(ii)           If, prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding July 1, 2024, the Company elects to:
 
(A)           issue to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock any rights, options or warrants (other than pursuant to a stockholder rights plan in respect of which the stockholder rights have not separated from the shares of Common Stock) entitling them, for a period of not more than 45 calendar days after the announcement date of such issuance, to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock at a price per share that is less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance; or
 
(B)           distribute to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock the Company’s assets, securities or rights to purchase securities of the Company (other than pursuant to a stockholder rights plan in respect of which the stockholder rights have not separated from the shares of Common Stock), which distribution has a per share value, as reasonably determined by the Board of Directors, exceeding 10% of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day preceding the date of announcement for such distribution,
 
then, in either case, the Company shall notify all Holders of the Notes, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing at least 50 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance or distribution. Once the Company has given such notice, a Holder may surrender all or any portion of its Notes for conversion at any time until the earlier of (1) the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance or distribution and (2) the Company’s announcement that such issuance or distribution will not take place, in each case, even if the Notes are not otherwise convertible at such time.
 
(iii)           If (A) a transaction or event that constitutes (x) a Fundamental Change or (y) a Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding July 1, 2024, regardless of whether a Holder has the right to require the Company to repurchase the Notes pursuant to Section 15.02, or (B) the Company is a party to a Share Exchange that occurs prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding July 1, 2024 (each such Fundamental Change, Make-Whole Fundamental Change or Share Exchange Event a “Corporate Event”), then, in each case, all or any portion of a Holder’s Notes may be surrendered for conversion at any time on or after the effective date of such Corporate Event until 35 Trading Days after the effective date of such Corporate Event or, if such Corporate Event also constitutes a Fundamental Change, until the related Fundamental Change Repurchase Date. The Company shall notify Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing no later than the effective date of such Corporate Event.
 
 
 
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(iv)           Prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding July 1, 2024, a Holder may surrender all or any portion of its Notes for conversion at any time during any calendar quarter commencing after the calendar quarter ending on March 31, 2020 (and only during such calendar quarter), if the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock for at least 20 Trading Days (whether or not consecutive) during the period of 30 consecutive Trading Days ending on, and including, the last Trading Day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter is greater than or equal to 130% of the Conversion Price on each applicable Trading Day. The Company shall determine at the beginning of each calendar quarter commencing after July 1, 2020 whether the Notes may be surrendered for conversion in accordance with this clause (iv) and shall notify in writing the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) if the Notes become convertible in accordance with this clause (iv).
 
(v)           If the Company calls any or all of the Notes for redemption pursuant to Article 16, then a Holder may surrender all or any portion of its Notes for conversion at any time prior to the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day prior to the Redemption Date, even if the Notes are not otherwise convertible at such time. After that time, the right to convert on account of the Company’s delivery of the Redemption Notice shall expire, unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Redemption Price, in which case a Holder of Notes may convert its Notes until the Business Day immediately preceding the date on which the Redemption Price has been paid or duly provided for.
 
(c)           For any Conversion Date that occurs on or after January 14, 2021 or after the occurrence of any 30 Trading Day period during which the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock has been at least 130% of the Conversion Price then in effect for at least 20 Trading Days (whether or not consecutive), the Company shall, in addition to the other consideration payable or deliverable in connection with any conversion of Notes, make an interest make-whole payment (an “Interest Make-Whole Payment”) to such converting Holder equal to the sum of the present values of the scheduled payments of interest that would have been made on the Notes to be converted had such Notes remained outstanding from the Conversion Date through the earlier of (i) the date that is two years after the Conversion Date and (ii) February 15, 2023, if the Notes had not been so converted. The present values of the remaining interest payments shall be computed by the Company in good faith using a discount rate equal to 2.0%.
 
If a Conversion Date occurs after the close of business on a Regular Record Date but prior to the open of business on the Interest Payment Date corresponding to such Regular Record Date, the Company shall not pay accrued interest to any converting Holder and shall instead pay the full amount of the relevant interest payment on such Interest Payment Date to the Holder of record on such Regular Record Date. In such case, the Interest Make-Whole Payment to such converting Holder shall equal the present value of all remaining interest payments, starting with the next Interest Payment Date for which interest has not been provided for until the earlier of (i) the date that is two years after the Conversion Date and (ii) February 15, 2023, if the notes had not been so converted, computed by the Company in good faith using a discount rate equal to 2.0%.
 
 
 
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The Company may pay any Interest Make-Whole Payment either in cash or shares of Common Stock, at its election. In order to make an election to pay any Interest Make-Whole Payment in cash or shares of Common Stock, the Company shall notify in writing all Holders of the Notes, the Trustee, Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) of such election at least 15 Scheduled Trading Days prior to January 14, 2021. Thereafter, the Company shall be permitted to make such an election no earlier than 30 Scheduled Trading Days prior to, but no later than 15 Scheduled Trading Days before, the first Scheduled Trading Day of each calendar quarter that begins on or after July 1, 2020, which election shall be effective from the period that begins at the open of business on the first Scheduled Trading Day of such calendar quarter and ends immediately prior to the open of business on the first Scheduled Trading Day of the immediately succeeding calendar quarter. If the Company does not make an election with respect to any Interest Make-Whole Payment to pay in cash or shares of Common Stock, the payment of any such Interest Make-Whole Payment shall be in shares of Common Stock. The Company’s election with respect to any Interest Make-Whole Payment required to be paid prior to January 14, 2021 is to pay in shares of Common Stock. If the Company elects (or is deemed to have elected) to pay any Interest Make-Whole Payment by delivering shares Common Stock, the number of shares of Common Stock a converting Holder of Notes shall receive shall be equal to the amount of the Interest Make-Whole Payment due divided by the greater of (A) the product of (x) 95.0% and (y) the simple average of the daily VWAP of the Common Stock for the 10 trading days ending on and including the Trading Day immediately preceding the Conversion Date and (B) the Conversion Price (rounded to the nearest ten-thousandth) on the applicable Conversion Date. The Company shall pay cash in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock as described under Section 14.02(j). If the Company elects to pay any Interest Make-Whole Payment in cash, the Company shall pay cash in an amount equal to the Interest Make-Whole Payment.
 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) if the Company elects (or is deemed to have elected) to pay any Interest Make-Whole Payment in shares of Common Stock, the number of shares of Common Stock the Company may deliver in connection with a conversion of the Notes, including those delivered in connection with an Interest Make-Whole Payment, shall not exceed 1,233.0456 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, subject to adjustment at the same time and in the same manner as the Conversion Rate as set forth under Section 14.04 and (y) if the Company elects to pay any Interest Make-Whole Payment in cash, the amount of cash the Company may deliver in connection with any such Interest Make-Whole Payment shall not exceed 1,233.0456 per $1,000 principal amount of Notes. The Company shall not be required to make any cash payments in lieu of any fractional share or have any further obligation to deliver any shares of Common Stock or pay any cash in excess of the threshold described in the preceding sentence. In addition, if in connection with any conversion the Conversion Rate is adjusted pursuant to Section 14.03, then such Holder shall not receive the Interest Make-Whole Payment with respect to such Note. None of the Trustee, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent shall be responsible for determining, calculating or verifying the Company’s calculations of, the Interest Make-Whole Payment.
 
Section 14.02                                Conversion Procedure; Settlement Upon Conversion.
 
(a)           Subject to this Section 14.02, Section 14.03(b), Section 14.07(a) and Section 14.12, upon conversion of any Note, the Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, to the converting Holder, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted, cash (“Cash Settlement”), shares of Common Stock, together with cash, if applicable, in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock in accordance with subsection (j) of this Section 14.02 (“Physical Settlement”) or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, together with cash, if applicable, in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock in accordance with subsection (j) of this Section 14.02 (“Combination Settlement”), at its election, as set forth in this Section 14.02.
 
 
 
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(i)           All conversions for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after July 1, 2024, and all conversions for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after the Company’s issuance of a Redemption Notice with respect to the Notes and prior to the related Redemption Date (a “Redemption Period”), shall be settled using the same Settlement Method.
 
(ii)           Except for any conversions for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after July 1, 2024, and any conversions for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs during a Redemption Period, the Company shall use the same Settlement Method for all conversions with the same Conversion Date, but the Company shall not have any obligation to use the same Settlement Method with respect to conversions with different Conversion Dates.
 
(iii)           If, in respect of any Conversion Date (or one of the periods described in the third immediately succeeding set of parentheses, as the case may be), the Company elects to deliver a notice (the “Settlement Notice”) of the relevant Settlement Method in respect of such Conversion Date (or such period, as the case may be), the Company shall deliver such Settlement Notice in writing to converting Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) no later than the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date (or, in the case of any conversions for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs (x) during a Redemption Period, in the related Redemption Notice or (y) on or after July 1, 2024, no later than July 1, 2024). If the Company does not elect a Settlement Method prior to the deadline set forth in the immediately preceding sentence, the Company shall no longer have the right to elect Cash Settlement or Physical Settlement for such conversion or during such period and the Company shall be deemed to have elected Combination Settlement in respect of its Conversion Obligation, and the Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be equal to $1,000. Such Settlement Notice shall specify the relevant Settlement Method and in the case of an election of Combination Settlement, the relevant Settlement Notice shall indicate the Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes. If the Company timely delivers a Settlement Notice electing Combination Settlement in respect of its Conversion Obligation but does not indicate a Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes in such Settlement Notice, the Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be deemed to be $1,000.
 
(iv)           The cash, shares of Common Stock or combination of cash and shares of Common Stock in respect of any conversion of Notes (the “Settlement Amount”) shall be computed as follows:
 
(A)           if the Company elects to satisfy its Conversion Obligation in respect of such conversion by Physical Settlement, subject to the Ownership Limitation, the Company shall deliver to the converting Holder in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date, together with the amount of cash payable in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock, and an Interest Make-Whole Payment, if applicable;
 
 
 
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(B)           if the Company elects to satisfy its Conversion Obligation in respect of such conversion by Cash Settlement, subject to the Ownership Limitation, the Company shall pay to the converting Holder in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted cash in an amount equal to the sum of the Daily Conversion Values for each of the 40 consecutive Trading Days during the related Observation Period, together with the amount of cash payable in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock, and an Interest Make-Whole Payment, if applicable; and
 
(C)           if the Company elects (or is deemed to have elected) to satisfy its Conversion Obligation in respect of such conversion by Combination Settlement, subject to the Ownership Limitation, the Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted, a Settlement Amount equal to the sum of the Daily Settlement Amounts for each of the 40 consecutive Trading Days during the related Observation Period, together with the amount of cash payable in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock, and an Interest Make-Whole Payment, if applicable.
 
(v)           The Daily Settlement Amounts (if applicable) and the Daily Conversion Values (if applicable) shall be determined by the Company promptly following the last day of the Observation Period. Promptly after such determination of the Daily Settlement Amounts or the Daily Conversion Values, as the case may be, and the amount of cash payable in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock, the Company shall notify the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) of the Daily Settlement Amounts or the Daily Conversion Values, as the case may be, and the amount of cash payable in lieu of delivering fractional shares of Common Stock. The Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) shall have no responsibility for any such determination.
 
(b)           Subject to Section 14.02(e), before any Holder of a Note shall be entitled to convert a Note as set forth above, such Holder shall (i) in the case of a Global Note, comply with the procedures of the Depositary in effect at that time and, if required, pay funds equal to interest payable on the next Interest Payment Date to which such Holder is not entitled as set forth in Section 14.02(h) and (ii) in the case of a Physical Note (1) complete, manually sign and deliver an irrevocable notice to the Conversion Agent as set forth in the Form of Notice of Conversion (or a facsimile or other electronic transmission thereof) (a “Notice of Conversion”) at the office of the Conversion Agent and state in writing therein the principal amount of Notes to be converted and the name or names (with addresses) in which such Holder wishes the certificate or certificates for any shares of Common Stock to be delivered upon settlement of the Conversion Obligation to be registered, (2) surrender such Notes, duly endorsed to the Company or in blank (and accompanied by appropriate endorsement and transfer documents), at the office of the Conversion Agent, (3) if required, furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and (4) if required, pay funds equal to interest payable on the next Interest Payment Date to which such Holder is not entitled as set forth in Section 14.02(h). The Trustee (and if different, the Conversion Agent) shall notify the Company of any conversion pursuant to this Article 14 on the Conversion Date for such conversion. No Notice of Conversion with respect to any Notes may be surrendered by a Holder thereof if such Holder has also delivered a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice to the Company in respect of such Notes and has not validly withdrawn such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in accordance with Section 15.03.
 
 
 
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If more than one Note shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same Holder, the Conversion Obligation with respect to such Notes shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes (or specified portions thereof to the extent permitted thereby) so surrendered.
 
(c)           A Note shall be deemed to have been converted immediately prior to the close of business on the date (the “Conversion Date”) that the Holder has complied with the requirements set forth in subsection (b) above. Except as set forth in Section 14.03(b) and Section 14.07(a), the Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due in respect of the Conversion Obligation on the second Business Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date, if the Company elects Physical Settlement, or on the second Business Day immediately following the last Trading Day of the Observation Period, in the case of any other Settlement Method. If any shares of Common Stock are due to a converting Holder, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued, and deliver (if applicable) to the Conversion Agent or to such Holder, or such Holder’s nominee or nominees, the full number of shares of Common Stock to which such Holder shall be entitled, in book-entry format through the Depositary, in satisfaction of the Company’s Conversion Obligation.
 
(d)           In case any Physical Note shall be surrendered for partial conversion, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or upon the written order of the Holder of the Physical Note so surrendered a new Physical Note or Notes in authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of the surrendered Physical Note, without payment of any service charge by the converting Holder but, if required by the Company or Trustee, with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax or similar governmental charge required by law or that may be imposed in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of the new Physical Notes issued upon such conversion being different from the name of the Holder of the old Physical Notes surrendered for such conversion.
 
(e)           If a Holder submits a Note for conversion, the Company shall pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax due on the issue of any shares of Common Stock upon conversion, unless the tax is due because the Holder requests such shares to be issued in a name other than the Holder’s name, in which case the Holder shall pay that tax. The Conversion Agent may refuse to deliver the certificates representing the shares of Common Stock being issued in a name other than the Holder’s name until the Trustee receives a sum sufficient to pay any tax that is due by such Holder in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence.
 
(f)           Except as provided in Section 14.04, no adjustment shall be made for dividends on any shares of Common Stock issued upon the conversion of any Note as provided in this Article 14.
 
(g)           Upon the conversion of an interest in a Global Note, the Trustee, or the Custodian at the direction of the Trustee, shall make a notation on such Global Note as to the reduction in the principal amount represented thereby. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of any conversion of Notes effected through any Conversion Agent other than the Trustee.
 
 
 
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(h)           Upon conversion, a Holder shall not receive any separate cash payment for accrued and unpaid interest, if any, except as set forth below and under Section 14.01(c). The Company’s settlement of the full Conversion Obligation shall be deemed to satisfy in full its obligation to pay the principal amount of the Note and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the relevant Conversion Date. As a result, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the relevant Conversion Date shall be deemed to be paid in full rather than cancelled, extinguished or forfeited. Upon a conversion of Notes into a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, accrued and unpaid interest will be deemed to be paid first out of the cash paid upon such conversion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Notes are converted after the close of business on a Regular Record Date but prior to the open of business on the Interest Payment Date corresponding to such Regular Record Date, Holders of such Notes as of the close of business on such Regular Record Date will receive the full amount of interest payable on such Notes on the corresponding Interest Payment Date notwithstanding the conversion. Notes surrendered for conversion during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date to the open of business on the immediately following Interest Payment Date must be accompanied by funds equal to the amount of interest payable on the Notes so converted; provided that no such payment shall be required (1) for conversions following the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date; (2) if the Company has specified a Redemption Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the second Business Day immediately following the corresponding Interest Payment Date (or, if such Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day, the third Business Day immediately following such Interest Payment Date); (3) if the Company has specified a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the Business Day immediately following the corresponding Interest Payment Date (or, if such Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day, the second Business Day immediately following such Interest Payment Date); (4) for Notes in respect of which an Interest Make-Whole Payment is payable upon conversion; or (5) to the extent of any Defaulted Amounts, if any Defaulted Amounts exists at the time of conversion with respect to such Note. Therefore, for the avoidance of doubt, all Holders of record after the close of business on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date, a Redemption Date or Fundamental Change Repurchase Date described in clauses (2) and (3) of this Section 14.02(h), and any Holders of record entitled to receive an Interest Make-Whole Payment upon conversion described in clause (4) of this Section 14.02(h) shall receive the full interest payment due on the Maturity Date or other applicable Interest Payment Date in cash regardless of whether their Notes have been converted following such Regular Record Date.
 
(i)           The Person in whose name the shares of Common Stock shall be issuable upon conversion shall be treated as a stockholder of record as of the close of business on the relevant Conversion Date (if the Company elects to satisfy the related Conversion Obligation by Physical Settlement) or the last Trading Day of the relevant Observation Period (if the Company elects to satisfy the related Conversion Obligation by Combination Settlement), as the case may be. Upon a conversion of Notes, such Person shall no longer be a Holder of such Notes surrendered for conversion.
 
(j)           The Company shall not issue any fractional share of Common Stock upon conversion of the Notes and shall instead pay cash in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock issuable upon conversion based on the Daily VWAP for the relevant Conversion Date (in the case of Physical Settlement) or based on the Daily VWAP for the last Trading Day of the relevant Observation Period (in the case of Combination Settlement). For each Note surrendered for conversion, if the Company has elected Combination Settlement, the full number of shares that shall be issued upon conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate Daily Settlement Amounts for the relevant Observation Period and any fractional shares remaining after such computation shall be paid in cash.
 
 
 
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Section 14.03         Increased Conversion Rate Applicable to Certain Notes Surrendered in Connection with Make-Whole Fundamental Changes or Redemption Notice. (a) If (x) the Effective Date of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs prior to the Maturity Date or (y) the Company gives a Redemption Notice with respect to any or all of the Notes in accordance with Section 16.02 and, in each case, a Holder elects to convert its Notes in connection with such Make-Whole Fundamental Change or Redemption Notice, as applicable, the Company shall, under the circumstances described below, increase the Conversion Rate for the Notes so surrendered for conversion by a number of additional shares of Common Stock (the “Additional Shares”), as described below. A conversion of Notes shall be deemed for these purposes to be “in connection with” such Make-Whole Fundamental Change if the relevant Notice of Conversion is received by the Conversion Agent from, and including, the Effective Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change up to, and including, the Business Day immediately prior to the related Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (or, in the case of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change that would have been a Fundamental Change but for the proviso in clause (b) of the definition thereof, the 35th Trading Day immediately following the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change) (such period, the “Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period”). A conversion of Notes shall be deemed for these purposes to be “in connection with” a Redemption Notice if the relevant Notice of Conversion is received by the Conversion Agent from, and including, the date of the Redemption Notice until the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding corresponding Redemption Date.
 
(b)           Subject to Section 14.03(f) below, upon surrender of Notes for conversion in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change pursuant to Section 14.01(b)(iii) or Redemption Notice pursuant to Section 14.01(b)(v), the Company shall, at its option, satisfy the related Conversion Obligation by Physical Settlement, Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement in accordance with Section 14.02 based on the Conversion Rate as increased to reflect the Additional Shares pursuant to Section 14.03(f) below; provided, however, that if, at the effective time of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change described in clause (b) of the definition of Fundamental Change, the Reference Property following such Make-Whole Fundamental Change is composed entirely of cash, for any conversion of Notes following the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change, the Conversion Obligation shall be calculated based solely on the Stock Price for the transaction and shall be deemed to be an amount of cash per $1,000 principal amount of converted Notes equal to the Conversion Rate (including any adjustment for Additional Shares), multiplied by such Stock Price. The Company shall notify the Holders of Notes, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing of the Effective Date of any Make-Whole Fundamental Change and issue a press release announcing such Effective Date no later than five Business Days after such Effective Date.
 
(c)           The number of Additional Shares, if any, by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased shall be determined by reference to Section 14.03(f) below, based on the date on which the Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs or becomes effective, or the date of the relevant Redemption Notice, as the case may be (in each case, the “Effective Date”), and the price paid (or deemed to be paid) per share of the Common Stock in the Make-Whole Fundamental Change or with respect to the Optional Redemption, as the case may be (the “Stock Price”). If the holders of the Common Stock receive in exchange for their Common Stock only cash in a Make-Whole Fundamental Change described in clause (b) of the definition of Fundamental Change, the Stock Price shall be the cash amount paid per share. Otherwise, the Stock Price shall be the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the five consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Effective Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change or the date of the Redemption Notice, as the case may be.
 
 
 
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(d)           In the event that a conversion in connection with a Redemption Notice would also be deemed to be in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, a Holder of the Notes to be converted will be entitled to a single increase to the Conversion Rate with respect to the first to occur of the date of the applicable Redemption Notice or the Effective Date of the applicable Make-Whole Fundamental Change, and the later event will be deemed not to have occurred for purposes of this Section 14.03. The Board of Directors shall make appropriate adjustments to the Stock Price, in its good faith determination, to account for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the Conversion Rate where the Ex-Dividend Date, Effective Date (as such term is used in Section 14.04) or expiration date of the event occurs during such five consecutive Trading Day period.
 
(e)           The Stock Prices set forth in Section 14.03(f) below shall be adjusted as of any date on which the Conversion Rate for the Notes is otherwise adjusted. The adjusted Stock Prices shall equal the Stock Prices applicable immediately prior to such adjustment, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Conversion Rate immediately prior to such adjustment giving rise to the Stock Price adjustment and the denominator of which is the Conversion Rate as so adjusted. The number of Additional Shares set forth in Section 14.03(f) below shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as the Conversion Rate as set forth in Section 14.04.
 
(f)           The following sets forth the number of Additional Shares by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased pursuant to this Section 14.03:
 
(i)           If the Stock Price is greater than $1.00 (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Stock Prices pursuant to subsection (d) above) (as so adjusted, the “Make-Whole Adjustment Reference Price”), a number of Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate equal to the following (rounded to the nearest ten-thousandth):
 
where,
 
AS          =     the number of Additional Shares calculated pursuant to this Section 14.03(f)(i);
 
CR0        =     the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to adjustment pursuant to this Section 14.03(f)(i);
 
MWRP   =    the Make-Whole Adjustment Reference Price in effect as of the calculation of the number of Additional Shares pursuant to this Section 14.03(f)(i); and
 
SP           =    the Stock Price; and
 
 
 
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(ii)           if the Stock Price is less than or equal to the Make-Whole Adjustment Reference Price, no Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate; provided, however, that, notwithstanding anything in Section 14.01(a) to the contrary, the Company’s Conversion Obligation in connection with such conversion shall be, and the Company shall settle such Conversion Obligation solely by, the payment or delivery to the converting Holder in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted of either (A) $1,000 in cash or (B) subject to the Ownership Limitation, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to $1,000 divided by the Make-Whole Fundamental Change VWAP, in either case together with the amount of cash payable in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock, and an Interest Make-Whole Payment, if applicable; provided, further, that if the number of shares of Common Stock deliverable pursuant to this Section 14.03(f)(ii) is reduced as a result of the immediately following sentence, then the Company shall settle such Conversion Obligation through clause (A) above.
 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the Conversion Rate per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, or the number of shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes delivered by the Company in settlement of the Conversion Obligation pursuant to Section 14.03(f)(ii), exceed 1,233.0456 shares of Common Stock, subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 14.04.
 
(g)           Nothing in this Section 14.03 shall prevent an adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 14.04 in respect of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change.
 
Section 14.04         Adjustment of Conversion Rate. The Conversion Rate shall be adjusted from time to time by the Company if any of the following events occurs, except that the Company shall not make any adjustments to the Conversion Rate if Holders of the Notes participate (other than in the case of (x) a share split or share combination or (y) a tender or exchange offer), at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Common Stock and solely as a result of holding the Notes, in any of the transactions described in this Section 14.04, without having to convert their Notes, as if they held a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate, multiplied by the principal amount (expressed in thousands) of Notes held by such Holder.
 
(a)           If the Company exclusively issues shares of Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on shares of the Common Stock, or if the Company effects a share split or share combination in respect of the Common Stock, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:
 
where,
 
CR0      =     the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex- Dividend Date of such dividend or distribution, or immediately prior to the open of business on the Effective Date of such share split or share combination, as applicable;
 
CR1      =      the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Ex- Dividend Date or Effective Date;
 
OS0      =      the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date or Effective Date; and
 
OS1      =      the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such dividend, distribution, share split or share combination.
 
 
 
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Any adjustment made under this Section 14.04(a) shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution, or immediately after the open of business on the Effective Date for such share split or share combination, as applicable. If any dividend or distribution of the type described in this Section 14.04(a) is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be immediately readjusted, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines not to pay such dividend or distribution, to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.
 
(b)           If the Company issues to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock any rights, options or warrants (other than in connection with a stockholder rights plan) entitling them, for a period of not more than 45 calendar days after the announcement date of such issuance, to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock at a price per share that is less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance, the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
 
 
where,
 
CR0    =      the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance;
 
CR1    =      the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date;
 
OS0    =      the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date;
 
X       =      the total number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to such rights, options or warrants; and
 
Y       =      the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights, options or warrants, divided by the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of the issuance of such rights, options or warrants.
 
Any increase made under this Section 14.04(b) shall be made successively whenever any such rights, options or warrants are issued and shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance. To the extent that shares of the Common Stock are not delivered after the expiration of such rights, options or warrants, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the increase with respect to the issuance of such rights, options or warrants been made on the basis of delivery of only the number of shares of Common Stock actually delivered. If such rights, options or warrants are not so issued, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance had not occurred.
 
 
 
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For purposes of this Section 14.04(b) and for the purpose of Section 14.01(b)(ii)(A), in determining whether any rights, options or warrants entitle the holders to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock at less than such average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement for such issuance, and in determining the aggregate offering price of such shares of Common Stock, there shall be taken into account any consideration received by the Company for such rights, options or warrants and any amount payable on exercise or conversion thereof, the value of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by the Board of Directors.
 
(c)           If the Company distributes shares of its Capital Stock, evidences of its indebtedness, other assets or property of the Company or rights, options or warrants to acquire its Capital Stock or other securities, to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock, excluding (i) dividends, distributions or issuances as to which an adjustment was effected pursuant to Section 14.04(a) or Section 14.04(b), (ii) dividends or distributions paid exclusively in cash as to which an adjustment was effected pursuant to Section 14.04(d), (iii) except as otherwise provided in Section 14.11, rights issued under a stockholder rights plan of the Company, (iv) distributions of Reference Property in exchange for or upon conversion of the Common Stock in a Share Exchange Event and (v) Spin-Offs as to which the provisions set forth below in this Section 14.04(c) shall apply (any of such shares of Capital Stock, evidences of indebtedness, other assets or property or rights, options or warrants to acquire Capital Stock or other securities, the “Distributed Property”), then the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
 
 
where,
 
CR0     =      the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution;
 
CR1      =      the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date;
 
SP0     =      the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution; and
 
FMV  =      t he fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors) of the Distributed Property with respect to each outstanding share of the Common Stock on the Ex- Dividend Date for such distribution
 
 
 
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Any increase made under the portion of this Section 14.04(c) above shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution. If such distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such distribution had not been declared. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if “FMV” (as defined above) is equal to or greater than “SP0” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder of a Note shall receive, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount thereof, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Common Stock receive the Distributed Property, the amount and kind of Distributed Property such Holder would have received if such Holder owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Ex-Dividend Date for the distribution. If the Board of Directors determines the “FMV” (as defined above) of any distribution for purposes of this Section 14.04(c) by reference to the actual or when-issued trading market for any securities, it shall in doing so consider the prices in such market over the same period used in computing the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution.
 
With respect to an adjustment pursuant to this Section 14.04(c) where there has been a payment of a dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock of shares of Capital Stock of any class or series, or similar equity interest, of or relating any Subsidiaries or other business units of the Company, that are, or, when issued, will be, listed or admitted for trading on a U.S. national securities exchange (a “Spin-Off”), the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
 
 
where,
 
CR0       =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the end of the Valuation Period;
 
CR1       =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the end of the Valuation Period;
 
FMV0   =    the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Capital Stock or similar equity interest distributed to holders of the Common Stock applicable to one share of the Common Stock (determined by reference to the definition of Last Reported Sale Price as set forth in Section 1.01 as if references therein to Common Stock were to such Capital Stock or similar equity interest) over the first 10 consecutive Trading Day period after, and including, the Ex-Dividend Date of the Spin-Off (the “Valuation Period”); an
 
MP0     =     the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the Valuation Period.
 
The adjustment to the Conversion Rate under the preceding paragraph shall occur at the close of business on the last Trading Day of the Valuation Period; provided that (x) in respect of any conversion of Notes for which Physical Settlement is applicable, if the relevant Conversion Date occurs during the Valuation Period, references to “10” in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed between the Ex-Dividend Date of such Spin-Off and the Conversion Date in determining the Conversion Rate and (y) in respect of any conversion of Notes for which Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement is applicable, for any Trading Day that falls within the relevant Observation Period for such conversion and within the Valuation Period, references to “10” in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed between the Ex-Dividend Date of such Spin-Off and such Trading Day in determining the Conversion Rate as of such Trading Day.
 
 
 
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For purposes of this Section 14.04(c) (and subject in all respect to Section 14.11), rights, options or warrants distributed by the Company to all holders of the Common Stock entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Company’s Capital Stock, including Common Stock (either initially or under certain circumstances), which rights, options or warrants, until the occurrence of a specified event or events (“Trigger Event”): (i) are deemed to be transferred with such shares of the Common Stock; (ii) are not exercisable; and (iii) are also issued in respect of future issuances of the Common Stock, shall be deemed not to have been distributed for purposes of this Section 14.04(c) (and no adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 14.04(c) will be required) until the occurrence of the earliest Trigger Event, whereupon such rights, options or warrants shall be deemed to have been distributed and an appropriate adjustment (if any is required) to the Conversion Rate shall be made under this Section 14.04(c). If any such right, option or warrant, including any such existing rights, options or warrants distributed prior to the date of this Indenture, are subject to events, upon the occurrence of which such rights, options or warrants become exercisable to purchase different securities, evidences of indebtedness or other assets, then the date of the occurrence of any and each such event shall be deemed to be the date of distribution and Ex-Dividend Date with respect to new rights, options or warrants with such rights (in which case the existing rights, options or warrants shall be deemed to terminate and expire on such date without exercise by any of the holders thereof). In addition, in the event of any distribution (or deemed distribution) of rights, options or warrants, or any Trigger Event or other event (of the type described in the immediately preceding sentence) with respect thereto that was counted for purposes of calculating a distribution amount for which an adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 14.04(c) was made, (1) in the case of any such rights, options or warrants that shall all have been redeemed or purchased without exercise by any holders thereof, upon such final redemption or purchase (x) the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights, options or warrants had not been issued and (y) the Conversion Rate shall then again be readjusted to give effect to such distribution, deemed distribution or Trigger Event, as the case may be, as though it were a cash distribution, equal to the per share redemption or purchase price received by a holder or holders of Common Stock with respect to such rights, options or warrants (assuming such holder had retained such rights, options or warrants), made to all holders of Common Stock as of the date of such redemption or purchase, and (2) in the case of such rights, options or warrants that shall have expired or been terminated without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights, options and warrants had not been issued.
 
For purposes of Section 14.04(a), Section 14.04(b) and this Section 14.04(c), if any dividend or distribution to which this Section 14.04(c) is applicable also includes one or both of:
 
(A)           a dividend or distribution of shares of Common Stock to which Section 14.04(a) is applicable (the “Clause A Distribution”); or
 
(B)           a dividend or distribution of rights, options or warrants to which Section 14.04(b) is applicable (the “Clause B Distribution”),
 
 
 
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then, in either case, (1) such dividend or distribution, other than the Clause A Distribution and the Clause B Distribution, shall be deemed to be a dividend or distribution to which this Section 14.04(c) is applicable (the “Clause C Distribution”) and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by this Section 14.04(c) with respect to such Clause C Distribution shall then be made, and (2) the Clause A Distribution and Clause B Distribution shall be deemed to immediately follow the Clause C Distribution and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by Section 14.04(a) and Section 14.04(b) with respect thereto shall then be made, except that, if determined by the Company (I) the “Ex-Dividend Date” of the Clause A Distribution and the Clause B Distribution shall be deemed to be the Ex-Dividend Date of the Clause C Distribution and (II) any shares of Common Stock included in the Clause A Distribution or Clause B Distribution shall be deemed not to be “outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date or Effective Date” within the meaning of Section 14.04(a) or “outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date” within the meaning of Section 14.04(b).
 
(d)           If any cash dividend or distribution is made to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:
 
 
where,
 
CR0  =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution;
 
CR1  =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution;
 
SP0  =    the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution; and
 
C     =    the amount in cash per share the Company distributes to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock.
 
Any increase pursuant to this Section 14.04(d) shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution. If such dividend or distribution is not so paid, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines not to make or pay such dividend or distribution, to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if “C” (as defined above) is equal to or greater than “SP0” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder of a Note shall receive, for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes such Holder holds, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of shares of the Common Stock, the amount of cash that such Holder would have received if such Holder owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Ex-Dividend Date for such cash dividend or distribution.
 
(e)           If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries make a payment in respect of a tender or exchange offer for the Common Stock, to the extent that the cash and value of any other consideration included in the payment per share of the Common Stock exceeds the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer, the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
 
 
 
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where,
 
CR0    =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires;
 
CR1    =    the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires;
 
AC     =    the aggregate value of all cash and any other consideration (as determined by the Board of Directors) paid or payable for shares of Common Stock purchased in such tender or exchange offer;
 
OS0    =    the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the date such tender or exchange offer expires (prior to giving effect to the purchase of all shares of Common Stock accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer);
 
OS1    =    the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after the date such tender or exchange offer expires (after giving effect to the purchase of all shares of Common Stock accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer); and
 
SP1    =    the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires.
 
The increase to the Conversion Rate under this Section 14.04(e) shall occur at the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires; provided that (x) in respect of any conversion of Notes for which Physical Settlement is applicable, if the relevant Conversion Date occurs during the 10 Trading Days immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the expiration date of any tender or exchange offer, references to “10” or “10th” in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed between the date that such tender or exchange offer expires and the Conversion Date in determining the Conversion Rate and (y) in respect of any conversion of Notes for which Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement is applicable, for any Trading Day that falls within the relevant Observation Period for such conversion and within the 10 Trading Days immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the expiration date of any tender or exchange offer, references to “10” or “10th” in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed between the expiration date of such tender or exchange offer and such Trading Day in determining the Conversion Rate as of such Trading Day.
 
 
 
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Notwithstanding this Section 14.04 or any other provision of this Indenture or the Notes, if a Conversion Rate adjustment becomes effective on any Ex-Dividend Date, and a Holder that has converted its Notes on or after such Ex-Dividend Date and on or prior to the related Record Date would be treated as the record holder of the shares of Common Stock as of the related Conversion Date as described under Section 14.02(i) based on an adjusted Conversion Rate for such Ex-Dividend Date, then, notwithstanding the Conversion Rate adjustment provisions in this Section 14.04, the Conversion Rate adjustment relating to such Ex-Dividend Date shall not be made for such converting Holder. Instead, such Holder shall be treated as if such Holder were the record owner of the shares of Common Stock on an unadjusted basis and participate in the related dividend, distribution or other event giving rise to such adjustment.
 
(f)           Except as stated herein, the Company shall not adjust the Conversion Rate for the issuance of shares of the Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Common Stock or the right to purchase shares of the Common Stock or such convertible or exchangeable securities.
 
(g)           In addition to those adjustments required by clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of this Section 14.04, and to the extent permitted by applicable law and subject to the applicable listing standards of The NASDAQ Capital Market, the Company from time to time may increase the Conversion Rate by any amount for a period of at least 20 Business Days if the Board of Directors determines that such increase would be in the Company’s best interest. In addition, to the extent permitted by applicable law and subject to the applicable listing standards of The NASDAQ Capital Market, the Company may (but is not required to) increase the Conversion Rate to avoid or diminish any income tax to holders of Common Stock or rights to purchase Common Stock in connection with a dividend or distribution of shares of Common Stock (or rights to acquire shares of Common Stock) or similar event. Whenever the Conversion Rate is increased pursuant to either of the preceding two sentences, the Company shall deliver to the Holder of each Note, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) a written notice of the increase at least 15 days prior to the date the increased Conversion Rate takes effect, and such notice shall state the increased Conversion Rate and the period during which it will be in effect.
 
(h)           Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article 14, the Conversion Rate shall not be adjusted:
 
(i)           upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to any present or future plan providing for the reinvestment of dividends or interest payable on the Company’s securities and the investment of additional optional amounts in shares of Common Stock under any plan;
 
(ii)           upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock or options or rights to purchase those shares pursuant to any present or future employee, director or consultant benefit plan or program of or assumed by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries (other than rights plans described in Section 14.11);
 
(iii)           upon the issuance of any shares of the Common Stock pursuant to any option, warrant, right or exercisable, exchangeable or convertible security not described in clause (ii) of this subsection and outstanding as of the date the Notes were first issued;
 
(iv)           solely for a change in the par value of the Common Stock; or
 
 
 
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(v)           for accrued and unpaid interest, if any.
 
(i)           All calculations and other determinations under this Article 14 shall be made by the Company and shall be made to the nearest one-ten thousandth (1/10,000th) of a share.
 
(j)           Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall promptly deliver to the Trustee (and the Conversion Agent if not the Trustee) an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the Conversion Rate after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received such Officers’ Certificate, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any adjustment of the Conversion Rate and may assume without inquiry that the last Conversion Rate of which it has knowledge is still in effect. Promptly after delivery of such certificate, the Company shall prepare a notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate setting forth the adjusted Conversion Rate and the date on which each adjustment becomes effective and shall deliver such notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate to each Holder at its address appearing in the Note Register. Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of any such adjustment. Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be under any duty or responsibility with respect to any such certificate or the information and calculations contained therein.
 
(k)           For purposes of this Section 14.04, the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company so long as the Company does not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company, but shall include shares of Common Stock issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock.
 
Section 14.05        Adjustments of Prices. Whenever any provision of this Indenture requires the Company to calculate the Last Reported Sale Prices, the Daily VWAPs, the Daily Conversion Values or the Daily Settlement Amounts over a span of multiple days (including an Observation Period and the period for determining the Stock Price for purposes of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change or Optional Redemption), the Board of Directors shall make appropriate adjustments to each to account for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the Conversion Rate where the Ex-Dividend Date, Effective Date or expiration date, as the case may be, of the event occurs, at any time during the period when the Last Reported Sale Prices, the Daily VWAPs, the Daily Conversion Values or the Daily Settlement Amounts are to be calculated.
 
Section 14.06        Shares to Be Fully Paid. The Company shall provide, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued shares or shares held in treasury, sufficient shares of Common Stock to provide for conversion of the Notes from time to time as such Notes are presented for conversion (assuming delivery of the maximum number of Additional Shares pursuant to Section 14.03 and that at the time of computation of such number of shares, all such Notes would be converted by a single Holder and that Physical Settlement were applicable).
 
Section 14.07        Effect of Recapitalizations, Reclassifications and Changes of the Common Stock.
 
(a)           In the case of:
 
 
 
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(i)           any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Common Stock (other than changes resulting from a subdivision or combination or a change of par value or to no par value),
 
(ii)           any consolidation, merger, combination or similar transaction involving the Company,
 
(iii)           any sale, lease or other transfer to a third party of the consolidated assets of the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries substantially as an entirety or
 
(iv)           any statutory share exchange,
 
in each case, as a result of which the Common Stock would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) (any such event, a “Share Exchange Event”), then, at the effective time of the Share Exchange Event, the Company or the successor or acquiring corporation, as the case may be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture, without the consent of Holders, providing that at and after the effective time of such Share Exchange Event, the right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be changed into a right to convert such principal amount of Notes into the kind and amount of shares of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) that a holder of a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate immediately prior to such Share Exchange Event would have owned or been entitled to receive (the “Reference Property,” with each “unit of Reference Property” meaning the kind and amount of Reference Property that a holder of one share of Common Stock is entitled to receive) upon such Share Exchange Event and, prior to or at the effective time of such Share Exchange Event, the Company or the successor or purchasing Person, as the case may be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture permitted under Section 10.01(g) providing for such change in the right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes; provided, however, that at and after the effective time of the Share Exchange Event (A) the Company shall continue to have the right to determine the form of consideration to be paid or delivered, as the case may be, upon conversion of Notes in accordance with Section 14.02 and (B) (I) any amount payable in cash upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with Section 14.02 shall continue to be payable in cash, (II) any shares of Common Stock that the Company would have been required to deliver upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with Section 14.02 shall instead be deliverable in the amount and type of Reference Property that a holder of that number of shares of Common Stock would have been entitled to receive in such Share Exchange Event and (III) the Daily VWAP shall be calculated based on the value of a unit of Reference Property.
 
If the Share Exchange Event causes the Common Stock to be converted into, or exchanged for, the right to receive more than a single type of consideration (determined based in part upon any form of stockholder election), then the Reference Property into which the Notes will be convertible shall be deemed to be the weighted average of the types and amounts of consideration received by the holders of Common Stock. If the holders of the Common Stock receive only cash in such Share Exchange Event, then for all conversions for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs after the effective date of such Share Exchange Event (A) the consideration due upon conversion of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be solely cash in an amount equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date (as may be increased by any Additional Shares pursuant to Section 14.03), multiplied by the price paid per share of Common Stock in such Share Exchange Event, and, if applicable, an Interest Make-Whole Payment, which the Company shall pay in cash (B) the Company shall satisfy the Conversion Obligation by paying cash to converting Holders on the second Business Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date. The Company shall notify Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing of such weighted average of the types and amounts of consideration received by the holders of the Common Stock as soon as practicable after such determination is made.
 
 
 
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Such supplemental indenture described in the second immediately preceding paragraph shall provide for anti-dilution and other adjustments that shall be as nearly equivalent as is possible to the adjustments provided for in this Article 14. If, in the case of any Share Exchange Event, the Reference Property includes shares of stock, securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) of a Person other than the successor or acquiring corporation, as the case may be, in such Share Exchange Event, then such supplemental indenture shall also be executed by such other Person and shall contain such additional provisions to protect the interests of the Holders of the Notes as the Board of Directors shall reasonably consider necessary by reason of the foregoing, including the provisions providing for the purchase rights set forth in Article 15.
 
(b)           When the Company executes a supplemental indenture pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section 14.07, the Company shall promptly deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate briefly stating the reasons therefor, the kind or amount of cash, securities or property or asset that will comprise a unit of Reference Property after any such Share Exchange Event, any adjustment to be made with respect thereto and that all conditions precedent have been complied with, and shall promptly deliver notice thereof to all Holders. The Company shall cause notice of the execution of such supplemental indenture to be delivered to each Holder within 20 days after execution thereof. Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of such supplemental indenture.
 
(c)           The Company shall not become a party to any Share Exchange Event unless its terms are consistent with this Section 14.07. None of the foregoing provisions shall affect the right of a holder of Notes to convert its Notes into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, as set forth in Section 14.01 and Section 14.02 prior to the effective date of such Share Exchange Event.
 
(d)           The above provisions of this Section shall similarly apply to successive Share Exchange Events.
 
Section 14.08         Certain Covenants. (a) The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of Notes will be fully paid and non-assessable by the Company and free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof.
 
(b)           The Company covenants that, if any shares of Common Stock to be provided for the purpose of conversion of Notes hereunder require registration with or approval of any governmental authority under any federal or state law before such shares of Common Stock may be validly issued upon conversion, the Company will, to the extent then permitted by the rules and interpretations of the Commission, secure such registration or approval, as the case may be.
 
(c)           The Company further covenants that if at any time the Common Stock shall be listed on any national securities exchange or automated quotation system the Company will list and keep listed, so long as the Common Stock shall be so listed on such exchange or automated quotation system, any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes.
 
 
 
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Section 14.09         Responsibility of Trustee. The Trustee and any other Conversion Agent shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder to determine the Conversion Rate (or any adjustment thereto) or whether any facts exist that may require any adjustment (including any increase) of the Conversion Rate, or with respect to the nature or extent or calculation of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method employed, or herein or in any supplemental indenture provided to be employed, in making the same. The Trustee and any other Conversion Agent shall not be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock, or of any securities, property or cash that may at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of any Note; and the Trustee and any other Conversion Agent make no representations with respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any shares of Common Stock or stock certificates or other securities or property or cash upon the surrender of any Note for the purpose of conversion, the accuracy or inaccuracy of any mathematical calculation or formulae under this Indenture, whether by the Company or any Person so authorized by the Company for such purpose under this Indenture or the failure by the Company or to comply with any of the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this Article. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be under any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any supplemental indenture entered into pursuant to Section 14.07 relating either to the kind or amount of shares of stock or securities or property (including cash) receivable by Holders upon the conversion of their Notes after any event referred to in such Section 14.07 or to any adjustment to be made with respect thereto, but, subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, may accept (without any independent investigation) as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such provisions, and shall be protected in relying upon, the Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel (which the Company shall be obligated to deliver to the Trustee prior to the execution of any such supplemental indenture) with respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall be responsible for determining whether any event contemplated by Section 14.01(b) has occurred that makes the Notes eligible for conversion or no longer eligible therefor until the Company has delivered to the Trustee and the Conversion Agent the notices referred to in Section 14.01(b) with respect to the commencement or termination of such conversion rights, on which notices the Trustee and the Conversion Agent may conclusively rely, and the Company agrees to deliver such notices to the Trustee and the Conversion Agent immediately after the occurrence of any such event or at such other times as shall be provided for in Section 14.01(b). Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, neither the Trustee nor any other agent acting under this Indenture (other than the Company, if acting in such capacity) shall have any obligation to make any calculation or to determine whether the Notes may be surrendered for conversion pursuant to this Indenture, or to notify the Company or the Depositary or any of the Holders if the Notes have become convertible pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
 
Section 14.10         Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions. In case of any:
 
(a)           action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 14.04 or Section 14.11;
 
(b)           Share Exchange Event; or
 
(c)           voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding-up of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
 
 
 
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then, in each case (unless notice of such event is otherwise required pursuant to another provision of this Indenture), the Company shall cause to be delivered to the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) and to be delivered to each Holder at its address appearing on the Note Register, as promptly as possible but in any event at least 20 days prior to the applicable date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (i) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries or, if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of Common Stock of record are to be determined for the purposes of such action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, or (ii) the date on which such Share Exchange Event, dissolution, liquidation or winding-up is expected to become effective or occur, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their Common Stock for securities or other property deliverable upon such Share Exchange Event, dissolution, liquidation or winding-up. Failure to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of such action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, Share Exchange Event, dissolution, liquidation or winding-up.
 
Section 14.11          Stockholder Rights Plans. If the Company has a stockholder rights plan in effect upon conversion of the Notes, each share of Common Stock, if any, issued upon such conversion shall be entitled to receive the appropriate number of rights, if any, and the certificates representing the Common Stock issued upon such conversion shall bear such legends, if any, in each case as may be provided by the terms of any such stockholder rights plan, as the same may be amended from time to time. The Company shall not adjust the Conversion Rate upon the adoption of a stockholder rights plan, so long as the rights are not currently exercisable and have not separated from the shares of Common Stock in accordance with the provisions of the applicable rights plan. However, if, prior to any conversion of Notes, the rights have separated from the shares of Common Stock in accordance with the provisions of the applicable stockholder rights plan, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted at the time of separation as if the Company distributed to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock Distributed Property as provided in Section 14.04(c), subject to readjustment in the event of the expiration, termination or redemption of such rights.
 
Section 14.12         Ownership Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no Holder (other than the Depositary with respect to the Notes) or beneficial owner of a Note shall have the right to receive shares of Common stock upon Conversion, and any purported delivery of shares of Common Stock to such Holder or beneficial owner, shall be null and void, to the extent that, following receipt of such shares of Common Stock, such Holder or beneficial owner (together with such Holder’s Affiliates and any other persons whose beneficial ownership of Common Stock would be aggregated with the Holder’s for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules promulgated thereunder, including any “group” of which such holder is a member) would be the beneficial owner of more than 4.99% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock. For the avoidance of doubt, if a Holder or beneficial owner is prevented from receiving any shares of Common Stock to which it would otherwise be entitled pursuant to this Section 14.12, the Company’s obligation to deliver such shares of Common Stock shall not be extinguished, and the Company shall deliver such shares of Common Stock (or any designated portion thereof) within two Business Days following written notice from the converting Holder or beneficial owner that receipt of such shares of Common Stock (or any designated portion thereof) would not be prohibited by this sentence (this sentence being referred to as the “Ownership Limitation”); provided, however, that the Ownership Limitation shall not apply in connection with and subject to completion of a third party tender offer for the Common Stock issuable thereupon. The provisions of this Section 14.12 may be construed and implemented by the Company in a manner that is otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of this Section 14.12 in order to correct this Section 14.12 (or any portion hereof) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended ownership limitation herein contained or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such limitation. The limitations contained in this Section 14.12 shall apply to a successor Holder of Notes. The Trustee (including in its capacities as Note Registrar, Paying Agent and, if applicable, Conversion Agent) shall have no responsibility for construing or implementing the provisions of this Section 14.12 or for determining whether any Holder or beneficial owner of a Note would upon conversion be prevented from receiving any shares of Common Stock as a result of this Section 14.12.
 
 
 
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ARTICLE 15
 
REPURCHASE OF NOTES AT OPTION OF HOLDERS
 
Section 15.01         [Intentionally Omitted].
 
Section 15.02         Repurchase at Option of Holders Upon a Fundamental Change. (a) If a Fundamental Change occurs at any time, each Holder shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to require the Company to repurchase for cash all of such Holder’s Notes, or any portion thereof that is equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000, on the date (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Date”) specified by the Company that is not less than 20 calendar days or more than 35 calendar days following the date of the Fundamental Change Company Notice at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the relevant Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Price”), unless the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date falls after a Regular Record Date but on or prior to the Interest Payment Date to which such Regular Record Date relates, in which case the Company shall instead pay the full amount of accrued and unpaid interest to Holders of record as of such Regular Record Date on such Interest Payment Date, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price shall be equal to 100% of the principal amount of Notes to be repurchased pursuant to this Article 15.
 
(b)           Repurchases of Notes under this Section 15.02 shall be made, at the option of the Holder thereof, upon:
 
(i)           delivery to the Paying Agent by a Holder of a duly completed notice (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice”) in the form set forth in Attachment 2 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A, if the Notes are Physical Notes, or in compliance with the Depositary’s procedures for surrendering interests in Global Notes, if the Notes are Global Notes, in each case on or before the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date; and
 
(ii)           delivery of the Notes, if the Notes are Physical Notes, to the Paying Agent at any time after delivery of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice (together with all necessary endorsements for transfer) at the Corporate Trust Office of the Paying Agent located in the contiguous United States as notified by the Company, as the case may be, or book-entry transfer of the Notes, if the Notes are Global Notes, in compliance with the procedures of the Depositary, in each case such delivery being a condition to receipt by the Holder of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price therefor.
 
 
 
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The Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in respect of any Notes to be repurchased shall state:
 
(iii)           in the case of Physical Notes, the certificate numbers of the Notes to be delivered for repurchase;
 
(iv)           the portion of the principal amount of Notes to be repurchased, which must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; and
 
(v)           that the Notes are to be repurchased by the Company pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Notes and this Indenture;
 
provided, however, that if the Notes are Global Notes, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice must comply with appropriate Depositary procedures.
 
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to the Paying Agent, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice contemplated by this Section 15.02 shall have the right to withdraw, in whole or in part, such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 15.03.
 
The Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice or written notice of withdrawal thereof.
 
(c)           On or before the 20th calendar day after the occurrence of the effective date of a Fundamental Change, the Company shall provide to all Holders of Notes and the Trustee, the Paying Agent (if other than the Trustee) and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) a written notice (the “Fundamental Change Company Notice”) of the occurrence of the effective date of the Fundamental Change and of the repurchase right at the option of the Holders arising as a result thereof. In the case of Physical Notes, such notice shall be by first class mail or, in the case of Global Notes, such notice shall be delivered in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary. Simultaneously with providing such notice, the Company shall publish a notice containing the information set forth in the Fundamental Change Company Notice in a newspaper of general circulation in The City of New York or publish such information on the Company’s website or through such other public medium as the Company may use at that time. Each Fundamental Change Company Notice shall specify:
 
(i)           the events causing the Fundamental Change;
 
(ii)           the date of the Fundamental Change;
 
(iii)           the last date on which a Holder may exercise the repurchase right pursuant to this Article 15;
 
(iv)           the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price;
 
(v)           the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date;
 
(vi)           the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent, if applicable;
 
 
 
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(vii)           if applicable, the Conversion Rate and any adjustments to the Conversion Rate;
 
(viii)           that the Notes with respect to which a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice has been delivered by a Holder may be converted only if the Holder withdraws the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; and
 
(ix)           the procedures that Holders must follow to require the Company to repurchase their Notes.
 
No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notices and no defect therein shall limit the Holders’ repurchase rights or affect the validity of the proceedings for the repurchase of the Notes pursuant to this Section 15.02.
 
At the Company’s request, the Paying Agent shall give such notice in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense; provided, however, that, in all cases, the text of such Fundamental Change Company Notice shall be prepared by the Company and delivered to the Paying Agent no later than two (2) Business Days (or such shorter period as is acceptable to the Paying Agent) prior to the date the Fundamental Change Company Notice is to be sent.
 
(d)           Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Notes may be repurchased by the Company on any date at the option of the Holders upon a Fundamental Change if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated, and such acceleration has not been rescinded, on or prior to such date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price with respect to such Notes). The Paying Agent will promptly return to the respective Holders thereof any Physical Notes held by it during the acceleration of the Notes (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price with respect to such Notes), or any instructions for book-entry transfer of the Notes in compliance with the procedures of the Depositary shall be deemed to have been cancelled, and, upon such return or cancellation, as the case may be, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice with respect thereto shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.
 
Section 15.03        Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice. (a) A Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice may be withdrawn (in whole or in part) by means of a written notice of withdrawal delivered to the Paying Agent located in the contiguous United States as notified to Holders and the Trustee in accordance with this Section 15.03 at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, specifying:
 
(i)           the principal amount of the Notes with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, which must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof,
 
(ii)           if Physical Notes have been issued, the certificate number of the Note in respect of which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, and
 
(iii)           the principal amount, if any, of such Note that remains subject to the original Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice, which portion must be in a minimum principal amount of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000;
 
provided, however, that if the Notes are Global Notes, the notice must comply with appropriate procedures of the Depositary.
 
 
 
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Section 15.04        Deposit of Fundamental Change Repurchase Price. (a) The Company will deposit with the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company, or if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 4.04) on or prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date an amount of money sufficient to repurchase all of the Notes to be repurchased at the appropriate Fundamental Change Repurchase Price. Subject to receipt of funds and/or Notes by the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company), payment for Notes surrendered for repurchase (and not withdrawn prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date) will be made on the later of (i) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (provided the Holder has satisfied the conditions in Section 15.02) and (ii) the time of book-entry transfer or the delivery of such Note to the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) by the Holder thereof in the manner required by Section 15.02 by mailing checks for the amount payable to the Holders of such Notes entitled thereto as they shall appear in the Note Register; provided, however, that payments to the Depositary shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee. The Trustee or Paying Agent shall, promptly after such payment and upon written demand by the Company, return to the Company any funds in excess of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.
 
(b)           If by 11:00 a.m. New York City time, on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) holds money sufficient to make payment on all the Notes or portions thereof that are to be repurchased on such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, then, with respect to the Notes that have been properly surrendered for repurchase to the Paying Agent and have not been validly withdrawn, (i) such Notes will cease to be outstanding, (ii) interest will cease to accrue on such Notes (whether or not book-entry transfer of the Notes has been made or the Notes have been delivered to the Trustee or Paying Agent) and (iii) all other rights of the Holders of such Notes will terminate (other than the right to receive the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and, if applicable, accrued and unpaid interest).
 
(c)           Upon surrender of a Physical Note that is to be repurchased in part pursuant to Section 15.02, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder a new Physical Note in an authorized denomination equal in principal amount to the unrepurchased portion of the Physical Note surrendered.
 
Section 15.05         Covenant to Comply with Applicable Laws Upon Repurchase of Notes. In connection with any repurchase offer, the Company will, if required:
 
(a)           comply with the provisions of Rule 13e-4, Rule 14e-1 and any other tender offer rules under the Exchange Act;
 
(b)           file a Schedule TO or any other required schedule under the Exchange Act; and
 
(c)           otherwise comply with all federal and state securities laws in connection with any offer by the Company to repurchase the Notes;
 
in each case, so as to permit the rights and obligations under this Article 15 to be exercised in the time and in the manner specified in this Article 15.
 
 
 
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ARTICLE 16
 
OPTIONAL REDEMPTION
 
Section 16.01         Optional Redemption. No sinking fund is provided for the Notes. The Notes shall not be redeemable by the Company prior to January 14, 2023.1 On or after January 14, 2023, the Company may redeem (an “Optional Redemption”) for cash all or any portion of the Notes, at the Redemption Price, if the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock has been at least 130% of the Conversion Price then in effect for at least 20 Trading Days (whether or not consecutive), including the Trading Day immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides the relevant Redemption Notice, during any 30 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides the Redemption Notice in accordance with Section 16.02.
 
Section 16.02         Notice of Optional Redemption; Selection of Notes. (a) In case the Company exercises its Optional Redemption right to redeem all or, as the case may be, any part of the Notes pursuant to Section 16.01, it shall fix a date for redemption (each, a “Redemption Date”) and it or, at its written request received by the Trustee not less than five Business Days prior to the date the Redemption Notice is to be delivered to the Holders (or such shorter period of time as may be acceptable to the Trustee), the Trustee, in the name of and at the expense of the Company, shall deliver or cause to be delivered a notice of such Optional Redemption (a “Redemption Notice”) not less than 50 nor more than 65 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes so to be redeemed as a whole or in part; provided, however, that, if the Company shall give such notice, it shall also give written notice of the Redemption Date to the Trustee. The Redemption Date must be a Business Day. The Company shall not specify a Redemption Date that falls on or after July 1, 2024.
 
(b)           The Redemption Notice, if delivered in the manner herein provided, shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such Redemption Notice by mail or any defect in the Redemption Notice to the Holder of any Note designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Note.
 
(c)           Each Redemption Notice shall specify:
 
(i)           the Redemption Date;
 
(ii)           the Redemption Price;
 
(iii)           that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each Note to be redeemed, and that interest thereon, if any, shall cease to accrue on and after the Redemption Date;
 
(iv)           the place or places where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;
 
 

1 Three years from issuance
 
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(v)           that Holders may surrender their Notes for conversion at any time prior to the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Redemption Date (unless the Company fails to pay the Redemption Price, in which case a Holder may convert such Notes until the Business Day immediately preceding the date on which the Redemption Price has been paid or duly provided for);
 
(vi)           the procedures a converting Holder must follow to convert its Notes and the Settlement Method and Specified Cash Amount, if applicable;
 
(vii)           the Conversion Rate and, if applicable, the number of Additional Shares added to the Conversion Rate in accordance with Section 14.03;
 
(viii)           the CUSIP, ISIN or other similar numbers, if any, assigned to such Notes; and
 
(ix)           in case any Note is to be redeemed in part only, the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed and on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Note, a new Note in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof shall be issued.
 
A Redemption Notice shall be irrevocable.
 
If fewer than all of the outstanding Notes are to be redeemed, the Notes to be redeemed will be selected according to the applicable procedures of the Depositary, in the case of Notes represented by a Global Note, or, in the case of Physical Notes, the Trustee shall select, pro rata or by lot in such other manner as it shall deem appropriate and fair, Notes to be redeemed in whole or in part. If any Note selected for partial redemption is submitted for conversion in part after such selection, the portion of the Note submitted for conversion shall be deemed (so far as may be possible) to be the portion selected for redemption.
 
Section 16.03         Payment of Notes Called for Redemption. (a) If any Redemption Notice has been given in respect of the Notes in accordance with Section 16.02, the Notes shall become due and payable on the Redemption Date at the place or places stated in the Redemption Notice and at the applicable Redemption Price. On presentation and surrender of the Notes at the place or places stated in the Redemption Notice, the Notes shall be paid and redeemed by the Company at the applicable Redemption Price.
 
(b)           Prior to the open of business on the Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent or, if the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 7.05 an amount of cash (in immediately available funds if deposited on the Redemption Date), sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all of the Notes to be redeemed on such Redemption Date. Subject to receipt of funds by the Paying Agent, payment for the Notes to be redeemed shall be made on the Redemption Date for such Notes. The Paying Agent shall, promptly after such payment and upon written demand by the Company, return to the Company any funds in excess of the Redemption Price.
 
Section 16.04         Restrictions on Redemption. The Company may not redeem any Notes on any date if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, and such acceleration has not been rescinded, on or prior to the Redemption Date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Redemption Price with respect to such Notes).
 
 
 
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ARTICLE 17
 
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Section 17.01           Provisions Binding on Company’s Successors. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements of the Company contained in this Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns whether so expressed or not.
 
Section 17.02           Official Acts by Successor Corporation. Any act or proceeding by any provision of this Indenture authorized or required to be done or performed by any board, committee or Officer of the Company shall and may be done and performed with like force and effect by the like board, committee or officer of any corporation or other entity that shall at the time be the lawful sole successor of the Company.
 
Section 17.03            Addresses for Notices, Etc. Any notice or demand that by any provision of this Indenture is required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee or by the Holders on the Company shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes if given or served by being deposited postage prepaid by registered or certified mail in a post office letter box addressed (until another address is filed by the Company with the Trustee) to RumbleOn, Inc., 901 West Walnut Hill Lane, Irving, Texas 75038, Attention: General Counsel. Any notice, direction, request or demand hereunder to the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing and delivered in person or by first-class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested), facsimile transmission (confirmed by delivery in Person or by first-class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested)) or guaranteed overnight courier at the Corporate Trust Office, or such other means reasonably acceptable to the Trustee (it being agreed that such notice to the Trustee shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if it is in writing and actually received by the Trustee).
 
The Trustee, by notice to the Company, may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.
 
Any notice or communication delivered or to be delivered to a Holder of Physical Notes shall be sent to each Holder at its address as it appears on the Note Register and shall be sufficiently given to it if so sent within the time prescribed. Any notice or communication delivered or to be delivered to a Holder of Global Notes shall be delivered in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary and shall be sufficiently given to it if so delivered within the time prescribed.
 
Failure to mail or deliver a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders. If a notice or communication is sent or delivered, as the case may be, in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.
 
Section 17.04            Governing Law; Jurisdiction. THIS INDENTURE AND EACH NOTE, AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS INDENTURE AND EACH NOTE, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICTS OF LAWS PROVISIONS THEREOF).
 
 
 
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The Company irrevocably consents and agrees, for the benefit of the Holders from time to time of the Notes and the Trustee, that any legal action, suit or proceeding against it with respect to obligations, liabilities or any other matter arising out of or in connection with this Indenture or the Notes may be brought in the courts of the State of New York or the courts of the United States located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York and, until amounts due and to become due in respect of the Notes have been paid, hereby irrevocably consents and submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of each such court in personam, generally and unconditionally with respect to any action, suit or proceeding for itself in respect of its properties, assets and revenues.
 
The Company irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any of the aforesaid actions, suits or proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Indenture brought in the courts of the State of New York or the courts of the United States located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York and hereby 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.
 
Section 17.05           Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent; Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to Trustee. Upon any application or demand by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive: (a) an Officers’ Certificate stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent (including any covenants, compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent), if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and (b) an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent (including any covenants, compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent) have been complied with.
 
Each Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel provided for, by or on behalf of the Company in this Indenture and delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with this Indenture (other than the Officers’ Certificates provided for in Section 4.08) shall include (a) a statement that the person signing such certificate is familiar with the requested action and this Indenture; (b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statement contained in such certificate is based; (c) a statement that, in the judgment of such person, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed judgment as to whether or not such action is permitted by this Indenture and as to whether all conditions precedent (including any covenants, compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent), if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the judgment of such person, such action is permitted by this Indenture and all such conditions precedent (including any covenants, compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent) have been complied with.
 
Section 17.06         Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest Payment Date, any Redemption Date, any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or the Maturity Date is not a Business Day, then any action to be taken on such date need not be taken on such date, but may be taken on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if taken on such date, and no interest shall accrue in respect of the delay.
 
 
 
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Section 17.07          No Security Interest Created. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall be construed to constitute a security interest under the Uniform Commercial Code or similar legislation, as now or hereafter enacted and in effect, in any jurisdiction.
 
Section 17.08          Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the Holders, the parties hereto, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent, any authenticating agent, any Note Registrar and their successors hereunder, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
 
Section 17.09         Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. The table of contents and the titles and headings of the articles and sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
 
Section 17.10         Authenticating Agent. The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent that shall be authorized to act on its behalf and subject to its direction in the authentication and delivery of Notes in connection with the original issuance thereof and transfers and exchanges of Notes hereunder, including under Section 2.04, Section 2.05, Section 2.06, Section 2.07, Section 10.04 and Section 15.04 as fully to all intents and purposes as though the authenticating agent had been expressly authorized by this Indenture and those Sections to authenticate and deliver Notes. For all purposes of this Indenture, the authentication and delivery of Notes by the authenticating agent shall be deemed to be authentication and delivery of such Notes “by the Trustee” and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an authenticating agent shall be deemed to satisfy any requirement hereunder or in the Notes for the Trustee’s certificate of authentication. Such authenticating agent shall at all times be a Person eligible to serve as trustee hereunder pursuant to Section 7.08.
 
Any corporation or other entity into which any authenticating agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation or other entity resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any authenticating agent shall be a party, or any corporation or other entity succeeding to the corporate trust business of any authenticating agent, shall be the successor of the authenticating agent hereunder, if such successor corporation or other entity is otherwise eligible under this Section 17.10, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the parties hereto or the authenticating agent or such successor corporation or other entity.
 
Any authenticating agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any authenticating agent by giving written notice of termination to such authenticating agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time any authenticating agent shall cease to be eligible under this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor authenticating agent (which may be the Trustee), shall give written notice of such appointment to the Company and shall deliver notice of such appointment to all Holders.
 
The Company agrees to pay to the authenticating agent from time to time compensation for its services as agreed to in writing .
 
 
 
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The provisions of Article 7 and Section 8.03 and this Section 17.10 shall be applicable to any authenticating agent.
 
If an authenticating agent is appointed pursuant to this Section 17.10, the Notes may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:
 
as Authenticating Agent, certifies that this is one
of the Notes described in the within-named
 
Indenture.
 
By:
Authorized Officer
 
Section 17.11          Execution in Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.
 
Section 17.12          Severability. In the event any provision of this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, then (to the extent permitted by law) the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired.
 
Section 17.13          Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
 
Section 17.14           Force Majeure. In no event shall the Trustee (in any of its capacities hereunder) be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts that are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.
 
Section 17.15           Calculations. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Company shall be responsible for making all calculations called for under the Notes. These calculations include, but are not limited to, determinations of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock, the Daily VWAPs, the Daily Conversion Values, the Daily Settlement Amounts, accrued interest payable on the Notes, any Interest Make-Whole Payment, the Conversion Rate of the Notes and Defaulted Amounts. The Company shall make all these calculations in good faith and, absent manifest error, the Company’s calculations shall be final and binding on Holders of Notes. The Company shall provide a schedule of its calculations to each of the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent, and each of the Trustee, the Paying Agent and Conversion Agent is entitled to rely conclusively and without liability upon the accuracy of the Company’s calculations without independent verification. The Trustee will forward the Company’s calculations to any registered Holder of Notes upon the request of that Holder at the sole cost and expense of the Company. The Trustee, the Paying Agent and any other Conversion Agent, and their respective agents, shall not be under any duty or responsibility to monitor the accuracy of any calculation made by the Company.
 
Section 17.16          USA PATRIOT Act. The parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Trustee, like all financial institutions and in order to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, is required to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account with the Trustee. The parties to this Indenture agree that they will provide the Trustee with such information as it may request in order for the Trustee to satisfy the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act.
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first written above.
 
 
 
 
RUMBLEON, INC.
 
 
 
 

By:  
/s/ Steven R. Berrard 
 
 
Steven R. Berrard 
 
 
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
 
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
 
 
 
 

By:  
/s/ Sarah Vilhauer 
 
 
Name: Sarah Vilhauer
 
 
Title: Banking Officer
 
 

 
 
[Signature Page to Indenture]
 
EXHIBIT A
 
[FORM OF FACE OF NOTE]
 
[INCLUDE FOLLOWING LEGEND IF A GLOBAL NOTE]
 
[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREUNDER IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]
 
[INCLUDE FOLLOWING LEGEND IF A RESTRICTED SECURITY]
 
[THIS SECURITY AND THE CLASS B COMMON STOCK, IF ANY, ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:
 
(1)           REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND
 
(2)           AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF RUMBLEON, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, EXCEPT:
 
(A)           TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, OR
 
(B)           PURSUANT TO, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT IS EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER, OR
 
(C)           TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
 
(D)           PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
 
PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE (2)(D) ABOVE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER FOR THE COMPANY TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.]
 
 
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RumbleOn, Inc.
 
6.75% Convertible Senior Note due 2025
 
No. [ ]
 
 [Initially]2 $[ ]
 
CUSIP No. [ ]
 
RumbleOn, Inc., a corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Company,” which term includes any successor corporation or other entity under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received hereby promises to pay to [CEDE & CO.]3 [ ]4, or registered assigns, the principal sum [as set forth in the “Schedule of Exchanges of Notes” attached hereto]5 [of $[ ]]6, which amount, taken together with the principal amounts of all other outstanding Notes, shall not exceed $[38,750,000] in aggregate at any time, in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary, on January 1, 2025, and interest thereon as set forth below.
 
This Note shall bear interest at the rate of 6.75% per year from, and including, January 14, 2020, or from, and including, the most recent date to which interest had been paid or provided for to, but excluding, the next scheduled Interest Payment Date until January 1, 2025. Interest is payable semi-annually in arrears on each January 1 and July 1, commencing on July 1, 2020, to Holders of record at the close of business on the preceding December 15 and June 15 (whether or not such day is a Business Day), respectively. Additional Interest will be payable as set forth in Section 4.06(d) and Section 6.03 of the within-mentioned Indenture, and pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, and any reference to interest on, or in respect of, any Note therein shall be deemed to include Additional Interest if, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable pursuant to any of such Section 4.06(d) or Section 6.03, or the Registration Rights Agreement, and any express mention of the payment of Additional Interest in any provision therein shall not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those provisions thereof where such express mention is not made.
 
Any Defaulted Amounts shall accrue interest per annum at the rate borne by the Notes, subject to the enforceability thereof under applicable law, from, and including, the relevant payment date to, but excluding, the date on which such Defaulted Amounts shall have been paid by the Company, at its election, in accordance with Section 2.03(c) of the Indenture.
 
The Company shall pay the principal of and interest on this Note, if and so long as such Note is a Global Note, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the Depositary or its nominee, as the case may be, as the registered Holder of such Note. As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Company, through the Paying Agent, shall pay the principal of any Notes (other than Notes that are Global Notes) at the office or agency designated by the Company for that purpose. The Company has initially designated the Trustee as its Paying Agent, Note Registrar, Custodian and Conversion Agent in respect of the Notes and the Corporate Trust Office as a place where Notes may be presented for payment or for registration of transfer and exchange.
 
 

2 Include if a global note.
3 Include if a global note.
4 Include if a physical note.
5 Include if a global note.
6 Include if a physical note.
 
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Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, including, without limitation, provisions giving the Holder of this Note the right to convert this Note into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, on the terms and subject to the limitations set forth in the Indenture. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.
 
This Note, and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Note, shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York (without regard to the conflicts of laws provisions thereof).
 
In the case of any conflict between this Note and the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall control and govern.
 
This Note shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed manually by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent under the Indenture.
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be duly executed.
 
 
 
RUMBLEON, INC.
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
Name:
 
 
Title:
 
 
 
 
Dated:                               
 
TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
 
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Trustee, certifies that this is
one of the Notes described in the within-named
Indenture.
 
By: __________________________________
                     Authorized signatory
 
 
 
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[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]
 
RumbleOn, Inc.
6.75% Convertible Senior Note due 2025
 
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Company, designated as its 6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”), limited to the aggregate principal amount of $38,750,000, all issued or to be issued under and pursuant to an Indenture dated as of January 14, 2020 (the “Indenture”), between the Company and Wilmington Trust, National Association (the “Trustee”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the Notes. Capitalized terms used in this Note and not defined in this Note shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Indenture.
 
In case certain Events of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of, and interest on, all Notes may be declared, by either the Trustee or Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding, and upon said declaration shall become, due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions and certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture.
 
Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the Company will make all payments and deliveries in respect of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (if applicable), the Redemption Price on any Redemption Date (if applicable) and the principal amount on the Maturity Date, as the case may be, to the Holder who surrenders a Note to a Paying Agent to collect such payments in respect of the Note. The Company will pay cash amounts in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
 
The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and the Trustee in certain circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes, and in certain other circumstances, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding, evidenced as in the Indenture provided, to execute supplemental indentures modifying the terms of the Indenture and the Notes as described therein. It is also provided in the Indenture that, subject to certain exceptions, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes waive any past Default or Event of Default under the Indenture and its consequences.
 
Each Holder shall have the right to receive payment or delivery, as the case may be, of (x) the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, (y) accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, and (z) the consideration due upon conversion of, this Note at the place, at the respective times, at the rate and in the lawful money or shares of Common Stock, as the case may be, herein prescribed.
 
The Notes are issuable in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples thereof. At the office or agency of the Company referred to on the face hereof, and in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, Notes may be exchanged for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of other authorized denominations, without payment of any service charge but, if required by the Company or Trustee, with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer or similar tax that may be imposed in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of the new Notes issued upon such exchange of Notes being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for such exchange.
 
 
 
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The Notes shall be redeemable at the Company’s option on or after January 14, 2023 in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions specified in the Indenture. No sinking fund is provided for the Notes.
 
Upon the occurrence of a Fundamental Change, the Holder has the right, at such Holder’s option, to require the Company to repurchase for cash all of such Holder’s Notes or any portion thereof (in principal amounts of $1,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date at a price equal to the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.
 
Subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder hereof has the right, at its option, during certain periods and upon the occurrence of certain conditions specified in the Indenture, prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, to convert any Notes or portion thereof that is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof, into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, at the Conversion Rate specified in the Indenture, as adjusted from time to time as provided in the Indenture.
 
For any Conversion Date that occurs on or after January 14, 2021 or after the occurrence of any 30 Trading Day period during which the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock has been at least 130% of the Conversion Price then in effect for at least 20 Trading Days (whether or not consecutive), the Company shall, in addition to the other consideration payable or deliverable in connection with any conversion of Notes, make an Interest Make-Whole Payment as provided in the Indenture.
 
 
 
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ABBREVIATIONS
 
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription of the face of this Note, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:
 
TEN COM = as tenants in common
 
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT = Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
 
CUST = Custodian
 
TEN ENT = as tenants by the entireties
 
JT TEN = joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common
 
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
 
 
 
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SCHEDULE A7
 
SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF NOTES
 
RumbleOn, Inc.
 
6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025
 
The initial principal amount of this Global Note is DOLLARS ($[ ]). The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made:
 
Date of exchange
Amount of
decrease in
principal
amount of this
Global Note
Amount of
increase in
principal
amount of this
Global Note
Principal
amount of this
Global Note
following such
decrease or
increase
Signature of
authorized
signatory of
Trustee or
Custodian
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

7 Include if a global note.
 
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ATTACHMENT 1
 
[FORM OF NOTICE OF CONVERSION]
 
To: 
Wilmington Trust, National Association
Global Capital Markets
50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1290
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
Attn: RumbleOn Notes Administrator
 
The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby exercises the option to convert this Note, or the portion hereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Note, and directs that any cash payable and any shares of Common Stock issuable and deliverable upon such conversion, together with any cash for any fractional share, and any Notes representing any unconverted principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the registered Holder hereof unless a different name has been indicated below. If any shares of Common Stock or any portion of this Note not converted are to be issued in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes, if any in accordance with Section 14.02(d) and Section 14.02(e) of the Indenture. Any amount required to be paid to the undersigned on account of interest accompanies this Note. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.
 
Dated: ___________________________
_______________________________________
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
_______________________________________
 
 
 
Signature(s)
 
 
 
 
 
 
_________________________________
Signature Guarantee
 
Signature(s) must be guaranteed by
an eligible Guarantor Institution
(banks, stock brokers, savings and
loan associations and credit unions)
with membership in an approved
signature guarantee medallion program
pursuant to Securities and Exchange
Commission Rule 17Ad-15 if shares
of Common Stock are to be issued, or
Notes are to be delivered, other than
to and in the name of the registered holder.
 
 
 
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Fill in for registration of shares if to be issued,
and Notes if to be delivered, other than to and in
the name of the registered holder:
 
 
___________________________
(Name)
 
 
___________________________
(Street Address)
 
 
___________________________
(City, State and Zip Code)
Please print name and address
 
Principal amount to be converted (if less than all):
$_______,000
 
NOTICE: The above signature(s) of the Holder(s)
hereof must correspond with the name as written
upon the face of the Note in every particular
without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.
 
________________________
Social Security or Other Taxpayer
Identification Number
 
 
 
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ATTACHMENT 2
 
[FORM OF FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE REPURCHASE NOTICE]
 
To: 
Wilmington Trust, National Association
Global Capital Markets
50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1290
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
Attn: RumbleOn Notes Administrator
 
 
The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby acknowledges receipt of a notice from RumbleOn, Inc. (the “Company”) as to the occurrence of a Fundamental Change with respect to the Company and specifying the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date and requests and instructs the Company to pay to the registered holder hereof in accordance with Section 15.02 of the Indenture referred to in this Note (1) the entire principal amount of this Note, or the portion thereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, and (2) if such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date does not fall during the period after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the corresponding Interest Payment Date, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to, but excluding, such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.
 
In the case of Physical Notes, the certificate numbers of the Notes to be repurchased are as set forth below:
 
 
_________________________________ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dated: ___________________________
_______________________________________
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
_______________________________________
 
 
 
Signature(s)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
_______________________________________ 
 
 
 
Social Security or Other Taxpayer
 
 
 
Identification Number
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Principal amount to be repaid (if less than all):
 
 
 
$_______,000
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
NOTICE: The above signature(s) of the Holder(s)
hereof must correspond with the name as written
upon the face of the Note in every particular without
alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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ATTACHMENT 3
 
[FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER]
 
Wilmington Trust, National Association
Global Capital Markets
50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1290
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
Attn: RumbleOn Notes Administrator
 
 
For value received ____________________ hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto
 
_____________________________________________________________
 
_____________________________________________________________
 
(Please insert social security or Taxpayer Identification Number of assignee)
 
the within Note, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints attorney to transfer the said Note on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.
 
In connection with any transfer of the within Note occurring during the time that such Note includes the legend set forth in Section 2.05(c), the undersigned confirms that such Note is being transferred:
 
☐   To RumbleOn, Inc. or a subsidiary thereof; or
 
☐   Pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or
 
☐   Pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or
 
☐   Pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any other available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
 
 
Dated: ___________________________
 
_______________________________________
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
_______________________________________
 
 
 
Signature(s)
 
 
 
_________________________________
Signature Guarantee
 
Signature(s) must be guaranteed
by an eligible Guarantor Institution
(banks, stock brokers, savings and
loan associations and credit unions)
with membership in an approved
signature guarantee medallion
program pursuant to Securities and
Exchange Commission Rule 17Ad-15
if Notes are to be delivered, other than
to and in the name of the registered holder.
NOTICE: The signature on the assignment
must correspond with the name as written
upon the face of the Note in every particular
without alteration or enlargement or any
change whatever.
 
 
 
 
 
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Exhibit 4.3
 
$38,750,000
RUMBLEON, INC.
6.75% Convertible Senior Notes Due 2025
Form of
Registration Rights Agreement
 
January 14, 2020
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
RumbleOn, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue to ___________________________ and ___________________________, (the “Investors”) pursuant to the Exchange and Subscription Agreement dated January 10, 2020, between the Company and the Initial Holders (the “Exchange and Subscription Agreement”), as amended by that certain Joinder and Amendment, dated January 13, 2020, by and among the Company, the Investors and ___________________________. (“___________________________” and together with the Investors, each an “Initial Holder” and collectively, the “Initial Holders”). $38,750,000 aggregate principal amount of its 6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”) upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Exchange and Subscription Agreement.
 
As an inducement to the Initial Holders to enter into the Exchange and Subscription Agreement and in satisfaction of a condition to the obligations of the Initial Holders thereunder, the Company agrees with the Initial Holders, for the benefit of the Holders (as defined below), as follows:
 
1.                  
Certain Definitions.
 
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Exchange and Subscription Agreement. For purposes of this Registration Rights Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
 
(a) Additional Interest” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 2(d).
 

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(b) Additional Interest Payment Date” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 2(d).
 
(c) Affiliate” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, except as otherwise expressly provided herein.
 
(d) Agreement” means this Registration Rights Agreement, as the same may be amended from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof.
 
(e) Automatic Shelf Registration Statement” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.
 
(f) Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed.
 
(g) Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any other federal agency at the time administering the Exchange Act or the Securities Act, whichever is the relevant statute for the particular purpose.
 
(h) Company” has the meaning assigned thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
 
(i) Deferral Notice” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 3(b).
 
(j) Deferral Period” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 3(b).
 
(k) Effective Period” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 2(a).
 
(l) Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
 
(m) Exchange and Subscription Agreement” has the meaning assigned thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement”
 
(n) FINRA” means the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.
 
(o) Holder” means each holder, from time to time, of Registrable Securities (including the Initial Holders).
 
(p) Indemnified Holder” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 6(a).
 
(q) Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of January 14, 2020 between the Company and the Trustee, pursuant to which the Notes are being issued.
 
(r) Initial Holders” has the meaning assigned thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
 
(s) Last Reported Sale Price” has the meaning assigned to it in the Indenture.
 
(t) Material Event” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 3(a)(iv).
 
 
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(u) Majority Holders” means, on any date, the holders of the majority in aggregate amount of the Registrable Securities; provided that such aggregate amount, with respect to Notes that are Registrable Securities will be based on the aggregate principal amount of Notes that are Registrable Securities, and with respect to Shares that are Registrable Securities, will be based on the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Company’s Common Stock for each of five consecutive trading days ending on a date chosen by the Company in a reasonable manner to effect the intent of this Agreement multiplied by the number of such Shares that are Registrable Securities; provided further that whenever the consent or approval of the Majority Holders is required hereunder, any Registrable Securities owned directly or indirectly by the Company or any Affiliate shall not be counted in determining whether such consent or approval was given by the Majority Holders.
 
(v) Notice and Questionnaire” means a written notice delivered to the Company containing substantially the information called for by the Form of Selling Securityholder Notice and Questionnaire attached as Annex A to this Agreement.
 
(w) Notice Holder” means, on any date, any Holder that has delivered a properly completed Notice and Questionnaire to the Company on or prior to such date.
 
(x) Notes” has the meaning assigned thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
 
(y) Person” means a corporation, limited liability company, association, partnership, organization, business, individual, government or political subdivision thereof or governmental agency.
 
(z) Prospectus” means the prospectus included in any Shelf Registration Statement (including, without limitation, a prospectus that discloses information previously omitted from a prospectus filed as part of an effective registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A, 430B or 430C under the Securities Act), as amended or supplemented by any amendment or prospectus supplement, including post-effective amendments, and all materials incorporated by reference or explicitly deemed to be incorporated by reference in such Prospectus.
 
(aa) Registrable Securities” means the Securities; provided, however, that such Securities shall not be Registrable Securities if as of the applicable date of determination (i) such Securities have ceased to be outstanding; (ii) in the circumstances contemplated by Section 2(a), a registration statement registering such Securities under the Securities Act has been declared or becomes effective and such Securities have been sold or otherwise transferred or disposed of by the Holder thereof pursuant to such effective registration statement; or (iii) Securities that have been transferred or sold in a transaction in which the Company delivered a new security in place of the Securities and such new security (x) is not subject to transfer restrictions under the Securities Act, (y) does not bear a restrictive legend and (z) is assigned an unrestricted CUSIP.
 
(bb) Registration Default” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 2(d).
 
(cc) Registration Expenses” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 5.
 
(dd) Rule 144,” “Rule 144A,” “Rule 405,” “Rule 415” and “Rule 433” mean, in each case, such rule as promulgated under the Securities Act.
 
(ee) Securities” means the Notes and the Shares.
 
 
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(ff) Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
 
(gg) Shares” means the shares of Class B Common Stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), as of the date hereof (and subject to Section 14.07 of the Indenture), into which the Notes are convertible or that have been issued upon any conversion of Notes into Common Stock of the Company, including any Interest Make-Whole Payment (as defined in the Indenture).
 
(ii)            
Shelf Inspectors” has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 3(a)(vii).
 
(hh) Shelf Registration Statement” means the shelf registration statement referred to in Section 2(a), as amended or supplemented by any amendment or supplement, including post-effective amendments and any additional information contained in a form of prospectus or prospectus supplement that is deemed retroactively to be a part of the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Rules 430A, 430B or 430C, and all materials incorporated by reference or explicitly deemed to be incorporated by reference in such Shelf Registration Statement, which may be an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement.
 
(ii) Special Counsel” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in Section 5.
 
(jj) Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, or any successor thereto, and the rules, regulations and forms promulgated thereunder, all as the same shall be amended from time to time.
 
(kk) Trustee” shall have the meaning assigned such term in the Indenture.
 
Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference herein to a “Section” or “clause” refers to a Section or clause, as the case may be, of this Agreement, and the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Section or other subdivision. Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a statute, rule or regulation refers to the same (including any successor statute, rule or regulation thereto) as it may be amended from time to time.
 
2.                 
Registration Under the Securities Act.
 
(a)         The Company shall file an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, if the Company is eligible to do so and has not already done so (provided such previously filed Automatic Shelf Registration Statement covers all Holders of Registrable Securities determined as of the date such subsequent obligation arose), and, if the Company is not eligible for an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, then in lieu of the foregoing the Company shall file a Shelf Registration Statement for the registration of, and the sale on a continuous or delayed basis by the Holders of, all of the Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 415 or any similar rule that may be adopted by the Commission, and use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Shelf Registration Statement to become or be declared effective under the Securities Act on the day that is 120 days after the date of this Agreement. It being understood that if there are no Registrable Securities entitled to be included in the Shelf Registration Statement at such time that the Company shall have no obligation to file such Shelf Registration Statement at such time.
 
The Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep such Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective, subject to Section 3(b), until the earliest of (x) the date by which all Registrable Securities have been sold pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement; and (y) such date as each of the Registrable Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement ceases to be a Registrable Security (the “Effective Period”).
 
 
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(b) The Company further agrees that it shall cause the Shelf Registration Statement, the related Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, as of the effective date of the Shelf Registration Statement, as of the time of sale of any Securities under such Shelf Registration Statement, and as of the date of any such amendment or supplement, (i) to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and (ii) not to contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein (in the case of the Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, and the Company agrees to furnish to the Holders such number of copies as such Holders may reasonably request of any supplement or amendment prior to its being used or promptly following its filing with the Commission; provided, however, that the Company shall have no obligation to deliver to Holders copies of any amendment consisting exclusively of an Exchange Act report or other Exchange Act filing otherwise publicly available on the Commission’s Edgar database. If the Shelf Registration Statement, as amended or supplemented from time to time, ceases to be effective for any reason at any time during the Effective Period (other than because all Registrable Securities registered thereunder shall have been sold pursuant thereto or shall have otherwise ceased to be Registrable Securities), the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the prompt withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness thereof.
 
 
(c) Each Holder agrees that if such Holder wishes to sell Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement and related Prospectus, it will do so only in accordance with this Section 2(c) and Section 3(c) and Section 4 hereof. From and after the date the Shelf Registration Statement is initially effective and until the tenth (10th) Business Day prior to the expiration of the Effective Period, the Company shall, as promptly as is reasonably practicable after the date a Notice and Questionnaire is delivered by a Notice Holder, and in any event within (x) ten (10) Business Days after the date such Notice and Questionnaire is received by the Company, (y) if a Notice and Questionnaire is so received during a Deferral Period, ten (10) Business Days after the expiration of such Deferral Period or (z) if a Notice and Questionnaire is received prior to a Deferral Period, but a Deferral Period occurs prior to ten (10) Business Days after such receipt, ten (10) Business Days after the expiration of such Deferral Period,
 
(i) if required by applicable law, file with the Commission a post-effective amendment to the Shelf Registration Statement or prepare and, if required by applicable law, file a supplement to the related Prospectus or a supplement or amendment to any document incorporated therein by reference or file any other required document so that the Holder delivering such Notice and Questionnaire is named as a selling security holder in the Shelf Registration Statement and the related Prospectus in such a manner as to permit such Holder to deliver such Prospectus to purchasers of the Registrable Securities in accordance with applicable law and, if the Company shall file a post-effective amendment to the Shelf Registration Statement and such amendment is not automatically effective, use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such post-effective amendment to be declared or to otherwise become effective under the Securities Act as promptly as is reasonably practicable;
 
(ii) provide such Holder with as many copies of any documents filed pursuant to Section 2(c)(i) as such Holder may reasonably request in connection with the Securities covered by such Holder’s Notice and Questionnaire; and
 
 
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(iii) notify such Holder as promptly as reasonably practicable after the effectiveness under the Securities Act of any post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Section 2(c)(i);
 
provided that if such Notice and Questionnaire is delivered during a Deferral Period, the Company shall so inform the Holder delivering such Notice and Questionnaire and shall take the actions set forth in this Section 2(c) above upon expiration of the Deferral Period in accordance with Section 3(b). Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Company shall be under no obligation to name any Holder that is not a Notice Holder as a selling securityholder in any Shelf Registration Statement or related Prospectus or prospectus supplement; provided, however, that any Holder that becomes a Notice Holder pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2(c) (whether or not such Holder was a Notice Holder at the time the Shelf Registration Statement was declared or otherwise became effective) shall be named as a selling securityholder in the Shelf Registration Statement or related Prospectus in accordance with the requirements of this Section 2(c). Notwithstanding the forgoing, in no event shall the Company be required to file more than one post-effective amendment to the Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(c)(i) during any 45-day period.
 
(d)          If any of the following events (any such event a “Registration Default”) shall occur, then additional interest (the “Additional Interest”) shall become payable by the Company to Holders in respect of the Notes as follows:
 
(i) if on the day that is 120 days after the date of this Agreement, Registrable Securities are held by any Person other than the Company and the Shelf Registration Statement has not been filed with and declared effective by the Commission by such date (other than pursuant to Section 3(b) hereof), and the Company does not file and have declared effective a Shelf Registration Statement within five (5) Business Days, then, commencing on the day following the Registration Default, Additional Interest shall accrue on the principal amount of the outstanding Notes that are Registrable Securities at a rate of 0.50% per annum;
 
(ii) [Reserved];
 
(iii) if the Shelf Registration Statement has become or been declared effective but such Shelf Registration Statement ceases to be effective or the prospectus contained therein ceases to be usable in connection with the resales of Registrable Securities at any time during the Effective Period (other than pursuant to Section 3(b) hereof), and the Company does not cure the Registration Default within five (5) Business Days by a post-effective amendment or a report filed pursuant to the Exchange Act, then, commencing on the day such Shelf Registration Statement ceases to be effective, Additional Interest shall accrue on the principal amount of the outstanding Notes that are Registrable Securities at a rate of 0.50% per annum;
 
(iv) if the aggregate duration of Deferral Periods in any period exceeds the number of days permitted in respect of such period pursuant to Section 3(b) hereof, then, commencing on the day the aggregate duration of Deferral Periods in any period exceeds the number of days permitted in respect of such period, Additional Interest shall accrue on the principal amount of the outstanding Notes that are Registrable Securities at a rate of 0.50% per annum;
 
provided, however, that the Additional Interest rate on the Notes shall not exceed in the aggregate 0.50% per annum and shall not be payable under more than one clause above for any given period of time; provided further, however, that Additional Interest on the Notes that are Registrable Securities as a result of clauses (i) through (iv) above, shall cease to accrue upon the earlier of (1) the filing and effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement (in the case of clause (i) above), (2) the effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement which had ceased to remain effective (in the case of clause (iii) above), (3) the termination of the Deferral Period that caused the limit on the aggregate duration of Deferral Periods in a period set forth in Section 3(b) to be exceeded (in the case of clause (iv) above), (4) the date the Notes cease to be Registrable Securities or (5) the date the Notes cease to be outstanding (as determined in accordance with the terms of the Indenture).
 
 
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Additional Interest on the Notes, if any, will be payable in arrears in cash on January 1 and July 1 of each year (the “Additional Interest Payment Date”) to holders of record of outstanding Notes that are Registrable Securities at the close of business on December 15 or June 15 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, immediately preceding the relevant Additional Interest Payment Date; provided that (x) any accrued and unpaid Additional Interest with respect to any Notes or portion thereof submitted for conversion shall be paid in the manner and to the extent provided for the payment of interest in Section 14.02(h) of the Indenture and (y) that any accrued and unpaid Additional Interest with respect to any Notes or portion thereof submitted for repurchase on a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (as defined in the Indenture), and not withdrawn in compliance with Section 15.03 of the Indenture, shall be paid in the manner provided for the payment of interest in Section 15.02(a) of the Indenture. Following the cure of all Registration Defaults requiring the payment of Additional Interest to the Holders of Notes that are Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 2(d), the accrual of Additional Interest will cease (without in any way limiting the effect of any subsequent Registration Default requiring the payment of Additional Interest). Additional Interest on the Notes, if any, will accrue beginning on the date provided for in clauses 2(d)(i) through (iv) above, as applicable, to, but excluding, the date on which all Registration Defaults have been cured. If a Holder converts some or all of the Notes into Shares, such Holder will not be entitled to receive Additional Interest on such Shares.
 
The Company shall notify the Trustee as promptly as reasonably practicable upon the happening of each and every Registration Default. The Trustee shall be entitled, on behalf of Holders, to seek any available remedy for the enforcement of this Agreement, including for the payment of any Additional Interest if any becomes due.
 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the parties agree that the sole monetary damages payable for a violation of the terms of this Agreement with respect to which additional monetary amounts are expressly provided shall be as set forth in this Section 2(d). Nothing shall preclude a Notice Holder or Holder from pursuing or obtaining specific performance or other equitable relief with respect to this Agreement.
 
3.                  
Registration Procedures.
 
The following provisions shall apply to the Shelf Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2:
 
(a)            
The Company shall:
 
(i) notify the Holders of Registrable Securities at least 20 (twenty) Business Days before filing any Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2 of the Company’s intent to file such Shelf Registration Statement and seeking a determination from such Holder as to whether such Holder elects to have its Registrable Securities included in such Shelf Registration Statement;
 
(ii) before filing any Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto with the Commission, furnish to the Initial Holders copies of all such documents proposed to be filed and use its commercially reasonable efforts to reflect in each such document when so filed with the Commission such comments as such Initial Holders reasonably shall propose within three (3) Business Days of the delivery of such copies to the Holders; provided, however, that the Company shall be permitted to file prospectus supplements or post-effective amendments to reflect additional selling securityholders without prior review of the Initial Holders;
 
 
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(iii) use its commercially reasonable efforts to prepare and file with the Commission such amendments and post-effective amendments to the Shelf Registration Statement and file with the Commission any other required document as may be necessary to keep such Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective until the expiration of the Effective Period; cause the related Prospectus to be supplemented by any required prospectus supplement, and as so supplemented to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 (or any similar provisions then in force) under the Securities Act; and comply with the provisions of the Securities Act applicable to it with respect to the disposition of all Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement during the Effective Period in accordance with the intended methods of disposition by the sellers thereof set forth in such Shelf Registration Statement as so amended or such Prospectus as so supplemented;
 
(iv) as promptly as reasonably practicable, notify the Notice Holders (A) when such Shelf Registration Statement or the Prospectus included therein or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or post-effective amendment has been filed with the Commission, and, with respect to such Shelf Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment that is not an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, when the same is declared or has become effective, provided, that the availability of such Shelf Registration Statement or any Prospectus or post-effective amendment on the Commission’s EDGAR database shall be considered notice for the purpose of this Section 3(a)(iv), (B) of any request (but not the nature or details regarding such request), following the effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement, by the Commission or any other federal or state governmental authority for amendments or supplements to the Shelf Registration Statement or related Prospectus (other than any such request relating to a review of the Company’s Exchange Act filings), (C) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of such Shelf Registration Statement or the initiation or written threat of any proceedings for that purpose, (D) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or written threat of any proceeding for such purpose, (E) of the occurrence of any event or the existence of any fact (but not the nature of or details concerning such event or fact) (a “Material Event”) as a result of which any Shelf Registration Statement shall contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or any Prospectus shall contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that no notice by the Company shall be required pursuant to this clause (E) in the event that the Company either promptly files a prospectus supplement, amendment to the Shelf Registration Statement to update the Prospectus or a Form 8-K or other appropriate Exchange Act report that is incorporated by reference into the Shelf Registration Statement, which, in either case, contains the requisite information with respect to such Material Event that results in such Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus, as the case may be, no longer containing any untrue statement of material fact or omitting to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements contained therein (in the case of the Prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, (F) of the determination by the Company that a post-effective amendment to the Shelf Registration Statement (other than for the purpose of naming a Notice Holder as a selling securityholder therein) will be filed with the Commission, which notice may, at the discretion of the Company (or as required pursuant to Section 3(b)), state that it constitutes a Deferral Notice, in which event the provisions of Section 3(b) shall apply or (G) at any time when a Prospectus is required (or but for the exemption contained in Rule 172 would be required) to be delivered under the Securities Act, that the Shelf Registration Statement, Prospectus, Prospectus amendment or supplement or post-effective amendment does not conform in all material respects to the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder;
 
 
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(v) prior to any public offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement, use its commercially reasonable efforts to register or qualify, or cooperate with the Notice Holders included therein and their respective counsel in connection with the registration or qualification of Securities for offer and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions within the United States as any such Notice Holders reasonably request in writing and do any and all other acts or things reasonably necessary or advisable to enable the offer and sale in such jurisdictions of the Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement; prior to any public offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement, use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep each such registration or qualification (or exemption therefrom) effective during the Effective Period in connection with such Notice Holder’s offer and sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration or qualification (or exemption therefrom) and use its commercially reasonable efforts to provide for the disposition in such jurisdictions of such Registrable Securities in the manner set forth in the Shelf Registration Statement and the related Prospectus; provided that for purposes of this Section 3(a)(v), the Company will not be required to qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not then so qualified or to take any action which would subject it to general service of process or to taxation in any such jurisdiction where it is not then so subject;
 
(vi) use its commercially reasonable efforts to lift any suspension of the qualification of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction in which they have been qualified for sale, in each case at the earliest practicable date;
 
(vii) upon reasonable written notice, and only in connection with a disposition of Securities under the Shelf Registration Statement, for a reasonable period prior to the filing of the Shelf Registration Statement, and throughout the Effective Period (but not during a Deferral Period), (i) make reasonably available for inspection by a representative of, and Special Counsel acting for, the Majority Holders and any underwriter (and its counsel) participating in any disposition of Securities pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement (collectively, the “Shelf Inspectors”), all relevant and material financial and other records and pertinent corporate documents of the Company and its subsidiaries and (ii) use commercially reasonable efforts to have its officers, employees, accountants and counsel make available all relevant material information reasonably requested by such representative, Special Counsel or any such underwriter in connection with such Shelf Registration Statement, in each case as is reasonable and customary for similar “due diligence” examinations of issuers of similar size and business of the Company; provided, however, that such persons shall first agree with the Company that any information that is reasonably designated by the Company as confidential at the time of delivery shall be kept confidential by such persons and shall be used solely for the purposes of exercising rights under this Agreement and satisfying “due diligence” obligations under the Securities Act and such person shall not engage in trading any securities of the Company until such material non-public information becomes properly publicly available, unless (w) disclosure of such information is required by court or administrative order or is necessary to respond to inquiries of regulatory authorities, (x) disclosure of such information is required by law, including any disclosure requirements pursuant to federal securities laws in connection with the filing of any Shelf Registration Statement or the use of any Prospectus or prospectus supplement referred to in this Agreement upon a customary opinion of counsel for such persons delivered and reasonably satisfactory to the Company, (y) such information becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure or failure to safeguard by any such person, or (z) such information becomes available to any such person from a source (other than the Company, its Affiliates, officers, employees, accountants, agents and counsel) and such source is not bound by a confidentiality agreement; provided, further, that with respect to any Special Counsel engaged by the Majority Holders, the foregoing inspection and information gathering shall be coordinated by one counsel designated by the Majority Holders;
 
 
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(viii) if requested by the Majority Holders, their Special Counsel or the managing underwriters (if any) in connection with an underwritten offering of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement, use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause (i) its counsel to deliver an opinion relating to the Shelf Registration Statement and the Securities in a customary form, (ii) its officers to execute and deliver all customary documents and certificates reasonably requested by the Majority Holders, their Special Counsel or the managing underwriters (if any) and (iii) its registered independent public accounting firm to provide a comfort letter or letters relating to the Shelf Registration Statement in a reasonable and customary form, subject to receipt of appropriate documentation as contemplated, and only if permitted, by Statement of Auditing Standards No. 72 or any successor statement thereto, covering matters of the type customarily covered in comfort letters in connection with secondary underwritten offerings; provided, that in no event shall the Company be required to furnish such opinions, documents or comfort letters pursuant to the provisions of this Section in more than three underwritten offerings.
 
(ix) if reasonably requested in writing by any Initial Holder or any Notice Holder as a result of the “due diligence” examination referred to in Section 3(a)(vii) above, promptly incorporate in a prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment to the Shelf Registration Statement such information as such Initial Holder or such Notice Holder shall, on the basis of a written opinion of Special Counsel, determine to be required to be included therein by applicable law and make any required filings of such prospectus supplement or such post-effective amendment; provided, that the Company shall not be required to take any actions under this Section 3(a)(ix) that are not, in the reasonable opinion of counsel for the Company, in compliance with applicable law; provided, further, that the Company shall have no liability for Additional Interest under this Agreement if it reasonably objects to making such additional filing and if such additional filing would otherwise cause the Company to pay Additional Interest.
 
(x) as promptly as practicable furnish to each Notice Holder and the Initial Holders, upon their request and without charge, at least one (1) conformed copy of the Shelf Registration Statement and any amendments thereto, including financial statements but excluding schedules, all documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference and all exhibits; provided, however, that the Company shall have no obligation to deliver to Notice Holders or the Initial Holders a copy of any amendment publicly available on the Company’s website or in the Commission’s EDGAR database;
 
(xi) during the Effective Period, deliver to each Notice Holder in connection with any sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement, upon their request and without charge, as many copies of the Prospectus relating to such Registrable Securities (including each preliminary prospectus) and any amendment or supplement thereto as such Notice Holder may reasonably request; and the Company hereby consents (except during such periods that a Deferral Notice is outstanding and has not been revoked) to the use of such Prospectus or each amendment or supplement thereto by each Notice Holder in connection with any offering and sale of the Registrable Securities covered by such Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto in the manner set forth therein and subject to applicable law; and
 
(xii) during the Effective Period, cooperate with the Notice Holders to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing Securities to be sold pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement free of any restrictive legends, unless required by applicable law, and in such denominations as permitted by the Indenture and registered in such names as the Holders thereof may request in writing at least one (1) Business Days prior to sales of Securities pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement; provided, that nothing herein shall require the Company to deliver certificated Securities to any beneficial holder of Securities, except as required by the Indenture; provided further however, such Notice Holders shall pay any such tax that is due because such Notice Holder requests any shares of Common Stock to be issued in a name other than the holder’s name as provided for in Sections 2.05(a) and 14.02(e) of the Indenture.
 
 
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(b)          Upon (A) the issuance by the Commission of a stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement or the initiation of proceedings with respect to the Shelf Registration Statement under Section 8(d) or 8(e) of the Securities Act, (B) the occurrence of any event or the existence of any Material Event as a result of which the Shelf Registration Statement shall contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or any Prospectus shall contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or (C) the occurrence or existence of any corporate development or business reason that, in the sole discretion of the Company, makes it appropriate to suspend the availability of the Shelf Registration Statement and the related Prospectus, including, without limitation, the acquisition of assets, pending corporate developments, public filings with Commission and similar events, the Company will (i) in the case of clause (B) above, subject to the second sentence of this provision, use its commercially reasonable efforts to prepare and file an amendment to such Shelf Registration Statement or a supplement to the related Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or file any other required document that would be incorporated by reference into such Shelf Registration Statement and Prospectus so that (1) such Shelf Registration Statement does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and (2) such Prospectus does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, as thereafter delivered or made available to the purchasers of the Registrable Securities being sold thereunder, and, in the case of a post-effective amendment to the Shelf Registration Statement, subject to the second sentence of this provision, use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause it to be declared effective or otherwise become effective and (ii) give notice to the Notice Holders that the availability of the Shelf Registration Statement is suspended (a “Deferral Notice”). The Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the use of the Prospectus may be resumed (x) in the case of clause (A) above, as promptly as reasonably practicable, (y) in the case of clause (B) above, as soon as, in the sole judgment of the Company, public disclosure of such Material Event would not be prejudicial to or contrary to the interests of the Company or, if necessary to avoid unreasonable burden or expense, as soon as practicable thereafter and (z) in the case of clause (C) above, as soon as, in the sole discretion of the Company, such suspension is no longer appropriate; provided that the period during which the availability of the Shelf Registration Statement and any Prospectus is suspended (the “Deferral Period”), without the Company incurring any obligation to pay Additional Interest pursuant to Section 2(d), shall not exceed forty-five (45) days in the aggregate in any ninety (90) day period or an aggregate of ninety (90) days in any 12-month period.
 
(c)           Each Holder agrees that upon receipt of any Deferral Notice from the Company, such Holder shall forthwith discontinue (and cause any placement or sales agent or underwriters acting on their behalf to discontinue) the disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement until such Holder (i) shall have received copies of such amended or supplemented Prospectus and, if so directed by the Company, such Holder shall deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, other than permanent file copies, then in such Holder’s possession of the Prospectus covering such Registrable Securities at the time of receipt of such notice or (ii) shall have received notice from the Company that the disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration may continue. Each Holder shall keep confidential any communication received by it from the Company regarding the suspension of the use of the Prospectus, except as required by applicable law.
 
 
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(d) The Company may require each Holder as to which any registration pursuant to Section 2(a) is being effected to furnish to the Company such information regarding such Holder and such Holder’s intended method of distribution of such Registrable Securities as the Company may from time to time reasonably request in writing, but only to the extent such information is required to comply with the Securities Act.
 
(e) The Company shall provide a CUSIP number for all Registrable Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement not later than the effective date of such Shelf Registration Statement and provide the Trustee and the transfer agent for the Shares with printed certificates for the Registrable Securities that are in a form eligible for deposit with The Depository Trust Company.
 
(f) The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide such information as is required for any filings required to be made with FINRA.
 
(g) Until the expiration of the Effective Period, the Company will not resell, and will use its commercially reasonable efforts to prevent its “affiliates” (as defined in Rule 144) from reselling, any of the Notes that have been reacquired by any of them except pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act.
 
(h) The Company shall cause the Indenture to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act in a the manner prescribed by the Trust Indenture Act and shall enter into any necessary supplemental indentures in connection therewith.
 
(i) The Company shall enter into such customary agreements and take such other reasonable and lawful actions in connection therewith (including those reasonably requested by the Majority Holders) in order to expedite or facilitate disposition of such Registrable Securities.
 
(j) The Company shall cause the Shares covered by the Shelf Registration Statement to be listed or quoted, as the case may be, on each securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted.
 
4.                  
Holders’ Obligations.
 
(a) In addition to the other limitations and requirements described herein, each Holder agrees, by acquisition of the Registrable Securities, that no Holder shall be entitled to sell any of such Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement or to receive a Prospectus relating thereto, unless such Holder has furnished the Company with a completed Notice and Questionnaire as required pursuant to Section 2(c) hereof (including the information required to be included in such Notice and Questionnaire) and the information set forth in the next sentence. Each Notice Holder agrees to notify the Company as promptly as practicable of any inaccuracy or change in information previously furnished by such Notice Holder to the Company or of the occurrence of any event in either case as a result of which any Prospectus relating to such registration contains or would contain an untrue statement of a material fact regarding such Notice Holder or such Notice Holder’s intended method of disposition of such Registrable Securities or omits to state any material fact regarding such Notice Holder or such Notice Holder’s intended method of disposition of such Registrable Securities necessary to make the statements therein, in light of circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, and promptly to furnish to the Company (i) any additional information required to correct and update any previously furnished information or required so that such Prospectus shall not contain, with respect to such Notice Holder or the disposition of such Registrable Securities, an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading and (ii) any other information regarding such Notice Holder and the distribution of such Registrable Securities as may be required to be disclosed in the Shelf Registration Statement under applicable law or pursuant to Commission comments. Each Holder further agrees not to sell any Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement without delivering, causing to be delivered, or, if permitted by applicable law, making available, a Prospectus to the purchaser thereof and, following termination of the Effective Period, to notify the Company, within ten (10) Business Days of a request by the Company, of the amount of Registrable Securities sold pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement and, in the absence of a response, the Company may assume that all of the Holder’s Registrable Securities were so sold in compliance with applicable law and this Agreement unless and until the Company is notified otherwise.
 
 
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(b) Any sale of any Registrable Securities by any Holder shall constitute a representation and warranty by such Holder that the information relating to such Holder and its plan of distribution is as set forth in the Prospectus delivered by such Holder in connection with such disposition, that such Prospectus does not as of the time of such sale contain any untrue statement of a material fact relating to or provided by such Holder or its plan of distribution and that such Prospectus does not as of the time of such sale omit to state any material fact relating to or provided by such Holder or its plan of distribution necessary to make the statements in such Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Each Holder further agrees that such Holder will not make any offer relating to the Registrable Securities that would constitute an “issuer free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 433) or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405) required to be filed by the Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433 of the Securities Act, unless it has obtained the prior written consent of the Company.
 
(c) The Holders shall not offer Registrable Securities under the Shelf Registration Statement in an underwritten offering without the Company’s prior written consent. Any underwritten offering agreed to by the Company shall be on terms and conditions agreed to by the Company in connection with such offering. The Company shall not be required to undertake more than three underwritten offerings pursuant to this Agreement.
 
5. Registration Expenses.
 
The Company agrees to bear and to pay or cause to be paid promptly after request being made therefor all fees and expenses incident to the Company’s performance of or compliance with this Agreement, including, but not limited to, (a) all Commission and any FINRA registration and filing fees and expenses, (b) all fees and expenses in connection with the qualification of the Securities for offering and sale under the state securities and blue sky laws referred to in Section 3(a)(v) hereof, including reasonable fees and disbursements of one counsel for the placement agent or underwriters, if any, in connection with such qualifications, (c) all expenses relating to the preparation, printing, distribution and reproduction of the Shelf Registration Statement, the related Prospectus, each amendment or supplement to each of the foregoing, the certificates representing the Securities and all other documents relating hereto, (d) fees and expenses of the Trustee under the Indenture, any escrow agent or custodian, and of the registrar and transfer agent for the Shares, (e) in connection with an underwritten offering, fees, disbursements and expenses of counsel and the registered independent public accounting firm of the Company (including the expenses of any opinions or “cold comfort” letters required by or incident to such performance and compliance) and (f) reasonable fees, disbursements and expenses of one counsel for all Holders retained in connection with the Shelf Registration Statement, as selected by the Company (unless reasonably objected to by the Majority Holders, in which case the Majority Holders shall select such counsel for the Holders) (“Special Counsel”), and fees, expenses and disbursements of any other Persons, including special experts, retained by the Company in connection with such registration (collectively, the “Registration Expenses”). To the extent that any reasonable and proper Registration Expenses are incurred, assumed or paid by any Holder or any underwriter or placement agent therefor, the Company shall reimburse such Person for the full amount of the Registration Expenses so incurred, assumed or paid promptly after receipt of a documented request therefor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Holders of the Registrable Securities being registered shall pay all underwriting discounts and commissions and placement agent fees and commissions attributable to the sale of such Registrable Securities and the fees and disbursements of any counsel or other advisors or experts retained by such Holders (severally or jointly), other than the Special Counsel and experts specifically referred to above.
 
 
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6. Indemnification.
 
(a)           The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless each Notice Holder (including, without limitation, the Initial Holders), its Affiliates, their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents, and each Person, if any, who controls such Notice Holder within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act (collectively referred to for purposes of this Section 6 and Section 7 as an “Indemnified Holder”) from and against any loss, claim, damage or liability, joint or several, or any action in respect thereof (including, without limitation, any loss, claim, damage, liability or action relating to purchases and sales of Registrable Securities), to which that Indemnified Holder may become subject, whether commenced or threatened, under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, any other federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of, or is based upon, (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any such Shelf Registration Statement or any Prospectus forming part thereof, or (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein (in the case of any Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, and shall reimburse each Indemnified Holder promptly upon demand for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by that Indemnified Holder in connection with investigating or defending or preparing to defend against or appearing as a third party witness in connection with any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of, or is based upon, an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in or omission or alleged omission from any of such documents in reliance upon and in conformity with any information provided by such Indemnified Holder in writing to the Company expressly for use therein including its Notice and Questionnaire. This indemnity agreement shall be in addition to any liability that the Company may otherwise have.
 
(b)           Each Notice Holder (including, without limitation, the Initial Holders) shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its Affiliates, their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents, and each Person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act (collectively referred to for purposes of this Section 6(b) and Section 7 as the Company), from and against any loss, claim, damage or liability, joint or several, or any action in respect thereof, to which the Company may become subject, whether commenced or threatened, under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, any other federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of, or is based upon, (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any such Shelf Registration Statement or any Prospectus forming part thereof, or (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein (in the case of any Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, but in each case only to the extent that the untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information furnished to the Company in writing by such Notice Holder expressly for use therein including its Notice and Questionnaire, and shall reimburse the Company for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company in connection with investigating or defending or preparing to defend against or appearing as a third party witness in connection with any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that no such Notice Holder shall be liable for any indemnity claims hereunder in excess of the amount of net proceeds received by such Notice Holder from the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which any such Notice Holder may otherwise have.
 
 
 
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(c)           Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 6 of notice of any claim or the commencement of any action, the indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party pursuant to Section 6(a) or 6(b), notify the indemnifying party in writing of the claim or the commencement of that action; provided, however, that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under this Section 6 except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and provided, further, that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 6. If any such claim or action shall be brought against an indemnified party, and it shall notify the indemnifying party thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it wishes, jointly with any other similarly notified indemnifying party, to assume the defense thereof with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. After notice from the indemnifying party to the indemnified party of its election to assume the defense of such claim or action, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to the indemnified party under this Section 6 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by the indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof other than the reasonable costs of investigation; provided, however, that an indemnified party shall have the right to employ its own counsel in any such action, but the fees, expenses and other charges of such counsel for the indemnified party will be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (1) the employment of counsel by the indemnified party has been authorized in writing by the indemnifying party, (2) the indemnified party has reasonably concluded (based upon advice of counsel to the indemnified party) that there may be legal defenses available to it or other indemnified parties that are different from or in addition to those available to the indemnifying party, (3) a conflict or potential conflict exists (based upon advice of counsel to the indemnified party) between the indemnified party and the indemnifying party (in which case the indemnifying party will not have the right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of the indemnified party) or (4) the indemnifying party has not in fact employed counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to assume the defense of such action within a reasonable time after receiving notice of the commencement of the action, in each of which cases the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel will be at the expense of the indemnifying party or parties. It is understood that the indemnifying party or parties shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of more than one separate firm of attorneys (in addition to any local counsel) at any one time for all such indemnified party or parties. Each indemnified party, as a condition of the indemnity agreements contained in Sections 6(a) and 6(b), shall use its reasonable efforts to cooperate with the indemnifying party in the defense of any such action or claim. No indemnifying party shall be liable for any settlement of any such action effected without its written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), but if settled with its written consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff in any such action, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses or counsel as contemplated by this section, the indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of a request in writing setting forth proposed settlement terms from the indemnified party and (ii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed the indemnified party in accordance with the aforesaid request prior to the date of such settlement. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement (i) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and (ii) does not include a statement or admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of the indemnified party.
 
 
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(d)           The provisions of this Section 6 and Section 7 shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Notice Holder, the Company, or any of the indemnified Persons referred to in this Section 6 and Section 7, and shall survive the sale by a Notice Holder of Registrable Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement.
 
7. Contribution.
 
If the indemnification provided for in Section 6 is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under Section 6(a) or 6(b), then each indemnifying party shall, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in respect thereof, (i) in such proportion as shall be appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company from the offering and sale of the Notes, on the one hand, and a Holder with respect to the sale by such Holder of Registrable Securities, on the other, or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and such Holder on the other with respect to the statements or omissions that resulted in such loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in respect thereof, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and a Holder on the other with respect to such offering and such sale shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Notes (before deducting expenses) received by or on behalf of the Company, on the one hand, and the total net proceeds (before deducting expenses) received by such Holder upon a resale of the Registrable Securities, on the other, bear to the total gross proceeds from the sale of all Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement in the offering of the Registrable Securities from which the contribution claim arises. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to the Company or information supplied by the Company on the one hand or to any information contained in the relevant Notice and Questionnaire supplied by such Holder on the other, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The Notice Holders’ respective obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 7 are several in proportion to the respective number of Registrable Securities they have sold pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement and not joint. The parties hereto agree that it would not be just and equitable if contributions pursuant to this Section 7 were to be determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation that does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to herein. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in respect thereof, referred to above in this Section 7 shall be deemed to include, for purposes of this Section 7, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending or preparing to defend any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7, an indemnifying party that is a Holder shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Registrable Securities sold by such indemnifying party to any purchaser exceeds the amount of any damages which such indemnifying party has otherwise paid or become liable to pay by reason of any untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No Person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any Person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.
 
 
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8. Information Requirements.
 
The Company covenants that, if at any time before the end of the Effective Period the Company is not subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, it will cooperate with any Holder and take such further customary action as any Holder may reasonably request in writing (including, without limitation, making such representations as any such Holder may reasonably request), all to the extent required from time to time to enable such Holder to sell Registrable Securities without registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by Rule 144 and Rule 144A under the Securities Act and customarily taken in connection with sales pursuant to such exemptions. Upon the written request of any Holder, the Company shall deliver to such Holder a written statement as to whether it has complied with such filing requirements, unless such a statement has been included in the Company’s most recent report filed pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of Exchange Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 8 shall be deemed to require the Company to register any of its securities under any section of the Exchange Act.
 
9. Miscellaneous.
 
(a)           Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given, unless the Company has obtained the written consent of the Majority Holders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a waiver or consent to depart from the provisions hereof with respect to a matter that relates exclusively to the rights of Holders whose Registrable Securities are being sold pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement and that does not directly or indirectly affect the rights of other Holders may be given by Holders of a majority in aggregate amount of the Registrable Securities being sold by such Holders pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement; provided that such aggregate amount, with respect to such Registrable Securities that are Notes will be based on the aggregate principal amount of such Notes that are Registrable Securities, and with respect to such Registrable Securities that are Shares, will be based on the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Company’s Common Stock for each of five consecutive trading days ending on a date chosen by the Company in a reasonable manner to effect the intent of this Agreement multiplied by the number of such Registrable Securities that are Shares. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, (i) this Agreement may be amended by written agreement signed by the Company and the Initial Holders, without the consent of the Holders, to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision contained herein that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein, or to make such other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising under this Agreement that shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders. Each Holder at the time of any such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent or thereafter shall be bound by any such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent effected pursuant to this Section 9(a), whether or not any notice, writing or marking indicating such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent appears on the Registrable Securities or is delivered to such Holder.
 
 
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(b)           Notices. All notices and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall be made in writing by hand-delivery, first-class mail, telecopier or air courier guaranteeing next-day delivery:
 
(1) If to the Company, initially at the address set forth in the Indenture; and
 
(2) If to a Holder, to the address of such Holder set forth in the register (described in Section 2.06 of the Indenture), the Notice and Questionnaire or other records of the Company.
 
All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: when delivered by hand, if personally delivered; one (1) Business Day after being delivered to a next-day air courier; five (5) Business Days after being deposited in the mail, if being delivered by first-class mail; and when receipt is acknowledged by the recipient’s telecopier machine, if sent by telecopier.
 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the notice required pursuant to Section 3(a)(i) shall be given in the same manner that notices are required to be delivered to holders of Notes pursuant to the Indenture.
 
(c)           Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the Company and each of its successors and assigns. Any Person who purchases any Securities from any Initial Holder shall be deemed, for purposes of this Agreement, to be an assignee of such Initial Holder. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and assigns of each of the parties and shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon each Holder, provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to permit any assignment, transfer or other disposition of Registrable Securities in violation of the terms of the Indenture. If any transferee of any Holder shall acquire Registrable Securities, in any manner, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Registrable Securities shall be held subject to all of the terms of this Agreement, and by taking and holding such Registrable Securities, such Person shall be conclusively deemed to have agreed to be bound by and to perform all of the terms and provisions of this Agreement and such Person shall be entitled to receive the benefits hereof.
 
(d) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts (which may be delivered in original form or by telecopier) and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.
 
(e) Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.
 
(f) Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A CONTRACT MADE UNDER THE LAWS OF NEW YORK, AND FOR ALL PURPOSES SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF NEW YORK (WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICTS OF LAWS PROVISIONS THEREOF).
 
(g) Remedies. In the event of a breach by the Company or by any Holder of any of their respective obligations under this Agreement, each Holder or the Company, as the case may be, in addition to being entitled to exercise all rights granted by law, including recovery of damages (other than the recovery of damages for a breach by the Company of its obligations under Section 3 hereof for which Additional Interest has been paid pursuant to Section 2 hereof), will be entitled to specific performance of its rights under this Agreement. The Company and each Holder agree that monetary damages would not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of a breach by it of any of the provisions of this Agreement and hereby further agree that, in the event of any action for specific performance in respect of such breach, it shall waive the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.
 
 
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(h) No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company represents, warrants and agrees that (i) it has not entered into and shall not on or after the date of this Agreement enter into any agreement that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof, (ii) it has not previously entered into any agreement which remains in effect and does not currently contemplate entering into any agreement granting any registration rights with respect to any of its debt securities to any Person other than this Agreement and (iii) without limiting the generality of the foregoing, without the written consent of the Majority Holders, it shall not grant to any Person the right to request the Company to register any securities of the Company under the Securities Act unless the rights so granted are not in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement.
 
(i) Piggyback on Registrations. The Company may grant registration rights that would permit any person that is a third party the right to piggyback on any Shelf Registration Statement, provided that if the managing underwriter, if any, of any underwritten offering conducted pursuant to Section 4(c) hereof notifies the Company that the total amount of securities which the Notice Holders and the holders of such piggyback rights intend to include in any Shelf Registration Statement is so large as to materially threaten the success of such offering (including the price at which such securities can be sold), then the amount, number or kind of securities to be offered for the account of holders of such piggyback rights will be reduced to the extent necessary to reduce the total amount of securities to be included in such offering to the amount, number and kind recommended by the managing underwriter prior to any reduction in the amount of Registrable Securities to be included in such Shelf Registration Statement; provided that it would not be a default under the agreements granting such piggyback rights to make such reduction; provided further that to the extent it would be such a default under any such agreement to make such reduction, the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain appropriate waivers.
 
(j) Severability. The remedies provided herein are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any term, provision, covenant or restriction that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.
 
(k) Survival. The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and each other provision set forth in this Agreement or made pursuant hereto shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation (or statement as to the results thereof) made by or on behalf of any Holder, any director, officer or partner of such Holder, any agent or underwriter or any director, officer or partner thereof, or any controlling Person of any of the foregoing, and shall survive (x) the delivery and payment for the Notes pursuant to the Exchange and Subscription Agreement and (y) the transfer and registration of Registrable Securities by holders of Registrable Securities.
 
(l) Securities Held by the Company, etc. Whenever the consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of Securities is required hereunder, Securities held by the Company or its Affiliates (other than subsequent Holders if such subsequent Holders are deemed to be Affiliates solely by reason of their holdings of such Securities) shall not be counted in determining whether such consent or approval was given by the Holders of such required percentage.
 
 
 
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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, kindly sign and return to us a counterpart hereof, whereupon this instrument will become a binding agreement between the Company and the Initial Holders in accordance with its terms.
 
Very truly yours,
 
THE COMPANY
 
RUMBLEON, INC.
 
By:
 
Name:
Title:
 
 
 
Accepted: January 14, 2020
 
 
 
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Annex A
 
 
 
 
Form of Selling Stockholder
Notice and Questionnaire
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  Exhibit 5.1
Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
Hughes Center
3883 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 1100
Las Vegas, NV 89169-5958
TELEPHONE: 702.784.5200
FACSIMILE: 702.784.5252
 
 
January 16, 2020
 
RumbleOn, Inc.
901 W. Walnut Hill Lane
Irving, Texas 75038
 
Re: Prospectus Supplement to Registration Statement on Form S-3
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
We have acted as Nevada counsel to RumbleOn, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Company's preparation and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") of a Prospectus Supplement dated January 10, 2020 filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act Regulations ("Prospectus Supplement"), which supplements the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-234340) which was declared effective October 31, 2019, as amended from time to time (the "Registration Statement"), under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), including the base prospectus dated October 31, 2019 (together with the Prospectus Supplement, the "Prospectus"), relating to the registration and offering by the Company of 18,000,000 shares (the “Firm Shares”) and up to 2,700,000 additional shares (the “Additional Shares,” and together with the Firm Shares, collectively, the “Shares”) of the Company’s Class B Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Class B Common Stock”), pursuant to that certain Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”), dated January 10, 2020, among the Company, on the one hand, and National Securities Corporation, as representative of the several underwriters named in Schedule 1-A to the Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriters”), on the other hand.
 
This opinion is being furnished in accordance with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act in connection with the filing of the Registration Statement. All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings given to them in the Prospectus.
 
 
In connection with this opinion, we have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of (i) the Registration Statement and exhibits thereto, including the Prospectus; (ii) the Articles of Incorporation of the Company, as amended, as currently in effect; (iii) the Amended Bylaws of the Company, as amended, as currently in effect; (iv) the Underwriting Agreement and (v) certain resolutions and minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors of the Company relating to (A) the issuance and sale of the Shares, (B) the specimen of Class B Common Stock certificate, and (C) other related matters. For the purpose of rendering this opinion, we have made such factual and legal examinations as we deemed necessary under the circumstances, and in that connection therewith we have examined, among other things, originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such documents, corporate records, certificates of public officials, certificates of officers or other representatives of the Company, and other instruments and have made such inquiries as we have deemed appropriate for the purpose of rendering this opinion.
 
 
 
 
RumbleOn, Inc.
January 16, 2020
Page 2
 
In our examination, we have assumed without independent verification the legal capacity of all natural persons, the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as facsimile, electronic, certified, conformed or photostatic copies, and the authenticity of the originals of such copies. In making our examination of executed documents, we have assumed that the parties thereto, other than the Company, had the power, corporate or other, to enter into and perform all obligations thereunder and have also assumed the due authorization by all requisite action, corporate or other, and the execution and delivery by such parties of such documents and the validity and binding effect thereof on such parties. Our opinions are subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights and remedies generally, and subject, as to enforceability, to general principles of equity, including principles of commercial reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding at law or in equity). As to any facts material to the opinions expressed herein which were not independently established or verified, we have relied upon oral or written statements and representations of officers or other representatives of the Company and others.
 
 
On the basis of, and in reliance on, the foregoing examination and subject to the assumptions, exceptions, qualifications and limitations contained herein, we are of the opinion that the Shares to be issued and sold by the Company under the Underwriting Agreement have been duly authorized, and when the Shares are delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters in accordance with the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
 
We render this opinion only with respect to the general corporate law of the State of Nevada as set forth in Chapter 78 of the Nevada Revised Statutes. We neither express nor imply any obligation with respect to any other laws or the laws of any other jurisdiction or of the United States. For purposes of this opinion, we assume that the Shares will be issued in compliance with all applicable state securities or blue sky laws.
 
We assume no obligation to update or supplement this opinion if any applicable laws change after date of this opinion or if we become aware after the date of this opinion of any facts, whether existing before or arising after the date hereof, that might change the opinions expressly so stated. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, we neither express nor imply any opinion regarding the contents of the Registration Statement, other than as expressly stated herein with respect to the Shares.
 
We are opining only as to matters expressly set forth herein, and no opinion should be inferred as to any other matters. This opinion is rendered as of the date hereof and is based upon currently existing statutes, rules, regulations and judicial decisions. We disclaim any obligation to advise you of any change in any of these sources of law or subsequent legal or factual developments that affect any matters or opinions set forth herein.
 
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter with the Commission as an exhibit to the Current Report on Form 8-K dated the date hereof filed by the Company. We also consent to the reference to our firm under the heading “Legal Matters” in the Prospectus Supplement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby concede that we are included in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.
 
Very truly yours,
 
/s/ Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
 
 
 

Exhibit 10.1
 
FORM OF 
NOTE EXCHANGE & SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT



January 10, 2020
 
RumbleOn, Inc.
1350 Lakeshore Drive, Suite 160
Coppell, Texas 75019
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
 
Re: 
Exchange and Subscription for RumbleOn, Inc. Convertible Senior Notes due 2025
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
 
RumbleOn, Inc., a Nevada corporation, (the “Company”), is offering a new series of 6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “New Notes”). The New Notes will be convertible into cash, shares (“Underlying Shares”) of Class B common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”), or a combination thereof, at the Company’s election. The New Notes will be issued pursuant to an Indenture, to be dated as of the Closing Date (as defined below), between the Company and Wilmington Trust, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), the form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit E (the “Indenture”).
 
The undersigned (the “Investor”), for itself and, in relation to the New Notes Offering (as defined below), on behalf of the accounts (if any) listed on Exhibit A and Exhibit B hereto (the “Accounts” and, collectively with the Investor, the “Purchasers”), agrees to:
 
(1)
tender the Company’s existing 6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2024 (CUSIP 781386 AA5 and ISIN: US781386AA56) (the “Old Notes”) for an amount of New Notes determined as set forth herein (the “Exchange”); and
 
(2)
subscribe for and purchase from the Company New Notes for cash (the “Subscription” and, together with the Exchange, the “New Notes Offering”),
 
in each case, pursuant and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this agreement (this “Agreement”).
 
The Investor and each Account understands that the New Notes Offering is being made without registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or any securities laws of any state of the United States or of any other jurisdiction, and that the New Notes Offering is only being made to investors who are both “accredited investors” (as defined in Rule 501 of Regulation D under the Securities Act) and “qualified institutional buyers” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) in reliance upon one or more exemptions from registration under the Securities Act.
 
The holders of the New Notes will be entitled to the benefits of a registration rights agreement, to be dated as of the Closing Date, the form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit F (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), between the Company and the Investors, pursuant to which the Company will agree to file one or more registration statements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) providing for the registration under the Securities Act of the resale of the New Notes and the Underlying Shares. This Agreement, the Indenture, the New Notes and the Registration Rights Agreement are referred to herein collectively as the “Transaction Documents.”
 
Concurrently with the New Notes Offering, the Company is selling, in a transaction registered under the Securities Act, shares of Common Stock (the “Concurrent Common Stock Offering”), and the Company is amending and exchanging certain of its outstanding subordinated secured promissory notes in an aggregate principal amount of $2.0 million to extend the maturity of a portion of such notes (the “Concurrent Investor Note Exchange”). The net proceeds of the Concurrent Common Stock Offering, less commissions to the placement agent and estimated expenses payable by the Company, are expected to be at least $10 million. As contemplated by Section 7(b) of this Agreement, the New Notes Offering is contingent upon completion of the Common Stock Offering.
 
 
 
 
1.
The Exchange. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Purchasers hereby tender, assign and transfer to the Company all right, title and interest in the aggregate principal amount (the “Exchanged Principal Amount”) of Old Notes set forth in column 2 of Exhibit A hereto (such principal amount of Old Notes, the “Exchanged Old Notes”) in exchange for New Notes having an aggregate principal amount, for each Purchaser, equal to the product of (x) the Exchange Ratio, as set forth in Exhibit A and (y) the Exchanged Principal Amount of Exchanged Old Notes for such Purchaser, rounded to the nearest integral multiple of $1,000 in principal amount, if applicable, as set forth in column 4 of Exhibit A hereto (such aggregate principal amount of New Notes, as so rounded, if applicable, the “Exchanged New Notes”), and the Company agrees to issue such Exchanged New Notes to the Purchasers in exchange for such Exchanged Old Notes. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company will make separate cash payment in respect of rounded amounts or interest, if any, accrued and unpaid to the Closing Date (as defined below) for the Exchanged Old Notes. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Investor, on behalf of itself and each Account, hereby (a) waives any and all other rights with respect to such Exchanged Old Notes, and (b) releases and discharges the Company from any and all claims the Investor and each Account may now have, or may have in the future, arising out of, or related to, such Exchanged Old Notes.

2.
The Subscription. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Purchasers hereby agree to purchase from the Company, and the Company hereby agrees to issue and sell to the Investor and/or any such Account, New Notes (the “Purchased New Notes”) having an aggregate principal amount as set forth in column 2 of Exhibit B hereto (the “Purchased Principal Amount”), for an aggregate purchase price in cash in respect of such Purchased New Notes as set forth in column 3 of Exhibit B (such aggregate cash purchase price, the “Cash Purchase Price”).
 
3.
The Closing. The closing of the New Notes Offering (the “Closing”) shall take place at the offices of Akerman LLP, 350 East Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301 at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on January 14, 2020 or, subject to the immediately succeeding sentence, at such other time and place as the Company may designate by notice to the Investor (the “Closing Date”).
 
4.
Closing Mechanics.
 
(a)
The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) will act as securities depositary for the New Notes.
 
(b)
At or prior to the times set forth in the Exchange/Subscription Procedures set forth in Exhibit C hereto (the “Exchange/Subscription Procedures”), the Investor, on behalf of itself and/or any other Account, shall:
 
(i)
deliver and/or cause the Purchaser to deliver the Exchanged Old Notes, by book entry transfer through the facilities of DTC, to the Trustee, for the account/benefit of the Company for cancellation as instructed in the Exchange/Subscription Procedures; and
 
(ii)
transfer the Cash Purchase Price by wire in immediately available funds to the account of the Company designated in the Exchange/Subscription Procedures.
 
 
(c)
On the Closing Date, subject to satisfaction of the conditions precedent specified in Section 7 hereof, and the prior receipt by the Trustee from each Purchaser of the Exchanged Old Notes to be tendered by such Purchaser and the prior receipt by the Company of the Cash Purchase Price from such Purchaser:
 
(i)
the Company shall execute and deliver the Indenture; and
 
(ii)
the Company shall execute, cause the Trustee to authenticate and cause to be delivered to the DTC account(s) specified by the Investor or the relevant Account in Exhibit D hereto, the Exchanged New Notes and the Purchased New Notes.
 
All questions as to the form of all documents and the validity and acceptance of the Old Notes and the New Notes will be determined in good faith by the Company.
 
5.
Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to the Investor (and each Account, as applicable) that:
 
(a)
Organization. The Company and each of the subsidiaries of the Company set forth in the SEC Reports (defined below) (the “Subsidiaries”) is an entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, with the requisite power and authority to own and use its properties and assets and to carry on its business as described in the SEC Reports. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in violation nor default of any of the provisions of its respective certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents. Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a material adverse effect on (i) the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) the results of operations, assets, business, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) on the Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction Document (a “Material Adverse Effect”).
 
 
 
 
(b)
Due Authorization. The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by each of the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and no further action is required by the Company, the board of directors of the Company (the “Board of Directors”) or the Company’s stockholders in connection herewith or therewith other than in connection with the Required Approvals (as defined below). This Agreement, the Indenture and each other Transaction Document to which the Company is a party has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, fraudulent conveyance, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, and other laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) (collectively, the “Enforceability Exceptions”).
 
(c)
New Notes. The Company has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute, issue, sell and perform its obligations under the New Notes. The New Notes have been duly authorized and, at the Closing Date, will have been duly executed by the Company and, when authenticated, issued and delivered in the manner provided for in the Indenture and delivered in the Exchange and the Subscription as provided in this Agreement, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits of the Indenture, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by the Enforceability Exceptions, and will be in the form contemplated by, and entitled to the benefits of, the Indenture.
 
(d)
Underlying Shares. The maximum number of Underlying Shares initially issuable upon conversion of the New Notes (assuming settlement solely in shares of Common Stock and taking into account the maximum make-whole adjustment under the Indenture) have been duly and validly authorized and reserved for by the Company and, when issued upon conversion of the New Notes in accordance with the terms of the New Notes, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of any Underlying Shares will not be subject to any preemptive or similar rights.
 
(e)
Exemption from Registration. Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Investor and each other investor executing an Agreement, (1) each of the issuance of the Exchanged New Notes in connection with the Exchange and the issuance of the Purchased New Notes in connection with the Subscription, as the case may be, pursuant to this Agreement is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act; and (2) the Indenture is not required to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.
 
(f)
New Class. The New Notes, when issued, will not be of the same class as securities listed on a national securities exchange registered under Section 6 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or quoted in a U.S. automated inter-dealer quotation system, within the meaning of Rule 144A(d)(3)(i) under the Securities Act.
 
(g)
No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of each of the Transaction Documents, and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated thereby, including the offer and sale of the New Notes and the Underlying Shares do not and will not (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents, (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, result in the creation of any lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company or Subsidiary debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary is bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of any court or governmental authority to which the Company or a Subsidiary is subject (including federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company or a Subsidiary is bound or affected; except in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
 
(h)
Conduct of Business. Since December 31, 2018, except as has been publicly disclosed in the SEC Reports and except for the Concurrent Common Stock Offering, the Company has conducted its business in the ordinary course materially consistent with past practice. Since December 31, 2018, there has not been any Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries nor has there occurred any event that is reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
 
 
 
 
(i)
Filings, Consents and Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority or other person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated thereby, including the offer and sale of the New Notes and the Underlying Shares, in each case other than: (i) the filings required pursuant to Section 8 of this Agreement, (ii) application(s) to The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) for the listing of the Underlying Shares for trading thereon in the time and manner required thereby, and (iii) such filings as are required to be made under applicable state securities laws (collectively, the “Required Approvals”).
 
(j)
Capitalization. The capitalization of the Company is as set forth in the SEC Reports, except to the extent affected by the Concurrent Common Stock Offering and the Concurrent Note Exchange. Except as contemplated by the Concurrent Common Stock Offering, the Company has not issued any capital stock since its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act, other than pursuant to the vesting and delivery of awards under the Company’s employee equity plans outstanding as of the date of the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act. No person has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. All issued and outstanding securities of the Company issued prior to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable; the holders thereof have no rights of rescission with respect thereto, and are not subject to personal liability by reason of being such holders; and none of such securities were issued in violation of the preemptive rights of any holders of any security of the Company or similar contractual rights granted by the Company. The offers and sales of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock and Common Stock were at all relevant times either registered under the Securities Act and the applicable state securities or “blue sky” laws or, based in part on the representations and warranties of the purchasers of such shares of Class A Common Stock and Common Stock, exempt from such registration requirements.

(k)
SEC Reports. Since January 9, 2017, the Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, being collectively referred to herein as the “SEC Reports”), on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such extension. As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
 
(l)
Financial Statements. The financial statements, including the notes thereto and supporting schedules, included in the SEC Reports, fairly present the financial position and the results of operations of the Company at the dates and for the periods to which they apply; and such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), consistently applied throughout the periods involved (provided that unaudited interim financial statements are subject to year-end audit adjustments that are not expected to be material in the aggregate and do not contain all footnotes required by GAAP). All disclosures contained in the SEC Reports regarding “non-GAAP financial measures” (as such term is defined by the rules and regulations of the Commission), if any, comply with Regulation G of the Exchange Act and Item 10 of Regulation S-K of the Securities Act, to the extent applicable. The SEC Reports disclose all material off-balance sheet transactions, arrangements, obligations (including contingent obligations), and other relationships of the Company with unconsolidated entities or other persons that may have a material current or future effect on the Company’s financial condition, changes in financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures, capital resources, or significant components of revenues or expenses. Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports, (a) the Company has not incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into any material transactions other than in the ordinary course of business, (b) the Company has not declared or paid any dividends or made any distribution of any kind with respect to its capital stock, (c) there has not been any change in the capital stock of the Company, or, other than in the course of business, any grants under any stock compensation plan, and (d) there has not been any material adverse change in the Company’s long-term or short-term debt.

(m)
Disclosure Controls. The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures as required by Rule 13a-15 or 15d-15 under the Exchange Act. Such disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that all information required to be disclosed by the Company is recorded and reported on a timely basis to the individuals responsible for the preparation of the SEC Reports and other public disclosure documents. The Company maintains systems of “internal control over financial reporting” (as defined under Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act Regulations) that comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act and have been designed by, or under the supervision of, its principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions. Such systems of internal control over financial reporting are effective in providing reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with GAAP and include policies and procedures that provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. No attorney representing the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, whether or not employed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, has reported evidence of a violation of securities laws, breach of fiduciary duty or similar violation by the Company or any of its officers, directors, employees or agents pursuant to the rules adopted pursuant to Section 307 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
 
(n)
Internal Controls. The Company has disclosed, based on the most recent evaluation by its chief executive officer and its chief financial officer prior to the date hereof, to the Company’s auditors and the Audit Committee of Board of Directors (i) any significant deficiencies in the design or operation of its internal controls over financial reporting that are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information and has identified for the Company’s auditors and Audit Committee of the Board of Directors any material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting and (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. No material complaints from any source regarding accounting, internal accounting controls or auditing matters, and no concerns from the Company’s employees regarding questionable accounting or auditing matters, have been received by the Company or, to the knowledge of the Company, the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
 
(o)
Nasdaq Compliance. The Company is in compliance in all material respects with the applicable listing and corporate governance rules and regulations of Nasdaq. From January 1, 2017 through the date hereof, the Company has not received any comment letter from the Commission or the staff thereof or, except as disclosed in the SEC Reports, any correspondence from the Nasdaq or the staff thereof relating to the delisting or maintenance of listing of Common Stock on Nasdaq, other than such disclosures or documents that can be obtained on the Commission’s website at www.sec.gov. No approval of the stockholders of the Company under the rules and regulations of Nasdaq (including Rule 5635 of the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules) is required to issue and deliver the New Notes to the Purchasers or the Underlying Securities upon the conversion of the New Notes.
 
 
 
 
(p)
Investment Company. The Company is not, and is not an Affiliate of, and immediately after receipt of payment for the New Notes, will not be or be an Affiliate of, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Company shall conduct its business in a manner so that it will not become an “investment company” subject to registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
 
(q)
Information Provided. The Company confirms that, to its knowledge, with the exception of the proposed sale of the New Notes under this Agreement and the Transaction Documents relating hereto, neither the Company nor any other persons acting on its behalf has provided any of the Investors or their agents or counsel with any information that constitutes or might constitute material, nonpublic information. The Company further confirms that until public disclosure of the events described above, the Investors will be restricted by the insider trading prohibitions under the Exchange Act from trading or “tipping” on the basis of such information.

(r)
Intellectual Property. The Company owns or possesses or has valid rights to use all patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service mark registrations, copyrights, licenses, trade secrets and similar rights (“Intellectual Property Rights”), if any, necessary for the conduct of the business of the Company as currently carried on and as described in the SEC Reports. To the knowledge of the Company, no action or use by the Company necessary for the conduct of its business as currently carried on and as described in the SEC Reports will involve or give rise to any infringement of, or license or similar fees for, any Intellectual Property Rights of others. Except as would not reasonably be expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company has not received any notice alleging any such infringement, fee or conflict with asserted Intellectual Property Rights of others. Except as would not reasonably be expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect (A) to the knowledge of the Company, there is no infringement, misappropriation or violation by third parties of any of the Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company; (B) there is no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the rights of the Company in or to any such Intellectual Property Rights, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim, that would, individually or in the aggregate, together with any other claims in this Section 5(r), reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; (C) the Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company and, to the knowledge of the Company, the Intellectual Property Rights licensed to the Company, have not been adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, and there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity or scope of any such Intellectual Property Rights, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim that would, individually or in the aggregate, together with any other claims in this Section 5(r), reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; (D) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company infringes, misappropriates or otherwise violates any Intellectual Property Rights or other proprietary rights of others, the Company has not received any written notice of such claim and the Company is unaware of any other facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such claim that would, individually or in the aggregate, together with any other claims in this Section 5(r), reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; and (E) to the Company’s knowledge, no employee of the Company is in violation in any material respect of any term of any employment contract, patent disclosure agreement, invention assignment agreement, non-competition agreement, non-solicitation agreement, nondisclosure agreement or any restrictive covenant to or with a former employer where the basis of such violation relates to such employee’s employment with the Company, or actions undertaken by the employee while employed with the Company and could reasonably be expected to result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect. To the Company’s knowledge, all material trade secrets developed by and belonging to the Company which have not been patented have been kept confidential. The Company is not a party to or bound by any options, licenses or agreements with respect to the Intellectual Property Rights of any other person or entity that are required to be set forth in the SEC Reports and are not described therein. None of the technology employed by the Company has been obtained or is being used by the Company in violation of any contractual obligation binding on the Company or, to the knowledge of the Company, any of its officers, directors or employees, or otherwise in violation of the rights of any persons.
 
(s)
Registration Rights of Third Parties. Except (i) pursuant to that certain registration rights agreement, dated May 14, 2019, between the Company and JMP Securities LLC, and (ii) as has been publicly disclosed in the SEC Reports, no holders of any securities of the Company or any rights exercisable for or convertible or exchangeable into securities of the Company have the right to require the Company to (i) register the sale or resale of any such securities of the Company under the Securities Act (other than pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement), (ii) include any such securities in a registration statement to be filed by the Company (including any registration statement required to be filed pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, other than the holders of the New Notes) or (iii) register the resale of any securities of the Company held by such persons, or that such persons may acquire upon the exercise or conversion of any other securities of the Company or pursuant to the prospectus as part of the Concurrent Common Stock Offering.

(t)
No Integration. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates has, directly or through any agent, sold, offered for sale, solicited offers to buy or otherwise negotiated in respect of, any security (as defined in the Securities Act), that is or will be integrated with the Exchange or the Subscription in a manner that would require registration of the Securities under the Securities Act.
 
(u)
Litigation; Governmental Proceedings. There is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry, arbitration, investigation, litigation or governmental proceeding pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened against, or involving the Company which (i) has not been disclosed in the SEC Reports and, if resolved adversely to the Company, is reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents, the New Notes or the Underlying Shares.
 
 
 
 
6.
Representations and Warranties of the Investor. The Investor hereby represents and warrants to and covenants with the Company, on behalf of itself and each Account, as applicable, that:
 
(a)
The Investor is a corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company or other entity, as the case may be, duly formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its formation.
 
(b)
The Investor has full power and authority to tender, assign and transfer the Exchanged Old Notes in exchange for the Exchanged New Notes pursuant to this Agreement and to enter into this Agreement and perform all obligations required to be performed by the Investor hereunder. If the Investor is executing this Agreement on behalf of an Account, (i) the Investor has all requisite authority to enter into this Agreement on behalf of, and, bind, each Account to the terms of this Agreement, (ii) Exhibit A hereto is a true, correct and complete list of (A) the name of each Purchaser and (B) the principal amount of each Purchaser's Exchanged Old Notes and (iii) Exhibit B hereto is a true, correct and complete list of each Purchaser and the aggregate principal amount of Purchased New Notes each such Purchaser agrees to purchase hereunder.
 
(c)
Each Purchaser participating in the Exchange is the current beneficial owner of the Exchanged Old Notes. When the Exchanged Old Notes are exchanged, the Company will acquire good, marketable and unencumbered title thereto, free and clear of all liens, restrictions, charges, encumbrances, adverse claims, rights or proxies.
 
(d)
Participation in the New Notes Offering will not contravene (1) any law, rule or regulation binding on the Investor or any investment guideline or restriction applicable to the Investor (or, if applicable, any Account) and (2) the charter or bylaw (or equivalent organizational documents) of the Investor (or, if applicable, any Account).
 
(e)
The Investor (or applicable Account) is a resident of the jurisdiction set forth in Exhibit D and, unless otherwise set out in Exhibit A and Exhibit B hereto is not acquiring the Exchanged New Notes or the Purchased New Notes, respectively, as a nominee or agent or otherwise for any other person.

(f)
The Investor has received a copy of the Transaction Documents. The Investor acknowledges that: (1) no person has been authorized to give any information or to make any representation concerning the New Notes Offering or the Company or any of its subsidiaries, other than as contained in this Agreement or the Transaction Documents or in the information (i) contained in the Company’s periodic and current reports filed by the Company with the Commission or (ii) given by the Company’s duly authorized officers and employees in connection with the Investor’s examination of the Company and its subsidiaries and the terms of the New Notes Offering; and (2) the Company and its subsidiaries do not take any responsibility for, and cannot provide any assurance as to the reliability of, any other information that may have been provided to the Investor.
 
(g)
The Investor understands and accepts that acquiring the New Notes in the New Notes Offering involves risks, including those risks set forth in the SEC Reports. The Investor has such knowledge, skill and experience in business, financial and investment matters that the Investor is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the New Notes Offering and an investment in the New Notes. With the assistance of its own professional advisors (to the extent the Investor has deemed appropriate), the Investor has made its own legal, tax, accounting and financial evaluation of the merits and risks of an investment in the New Notes and the consequences of the New Notes Offering and this Agreement. The Investor has considered the suitability of the New Notes as an investment in light of its own circumstances and financial condition, and the Investor is able to bear the risks associated with an investment in the New Notes.
 
(h)
The Investor confirms that it is not relying on any communication (written or oral) of the Company or any of its agents or affiliates as investment advice or as a recommendation to participate in the New Notes Offering and receive the New Notes pursuant to the terms hereof. It is understood that information provided in the Transaction Documents, or by the Company or any of its agents or affiliates, shall not be considered investment advice or a recommendation with respect to the New Notes Offering, and that neither the Company nor any of its agents or affiliates is acting or has acted as an advisor to the Investor in deciding whether to participate in the New Notes Offering.
 
(i)
The Investor confirms that the Company has not (1) given any guarantee or representation as to the potential success, return, effect or benefit (either legal, regulatory, tax, financial, accounting or otherwise) of an investment in the New Notes; or (2) made any representation to the Investor regarding the legality of an investment in the New Notes under applicable investment guidelines, laws or regulations. In deciding to participate in the New Notes Offering, the Investor is not relying on the advice or recommendations of the Company, and the Investor has made its own independent decision that the investment in the New Notes is suitable and appropriate for the Investor.
 
(j)
The Investor is a sophisticated participant in the transactions contemplated hereby and has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an investment in the New Notes, is experienced in investing in capital markets and is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the New Notes. The Investor is familiar with the business and financial condition and operations of the Company and its subsidiaries and has conducted its own investigation of the Company and its subsidiaries and the New Notes and has consulted with its own advisors concerning such matters and shall be responsible for making its own independent investigation and appraisal of the transactions contemplated hereby. The Investor has had access to the Company filings with the Commission and such other information concerning the Company and its subsidiaries and the New Notes as it deems necessary to enable it to make an informed investment decision concerning the New Notes Offering. The Investor has been offered the opportunity to ask questions of the Company and its representatives and has received answers thereto as the Investor deems necessary to enable it to make an informed investment decision concerning the New Notes Offering and the New Notes.
 
 
 
 
(k)
The Investor understands that no federal, state, local or foreign agency has passed upon the merits or risks of an investment in the New Notes or made any finding or determination concerning the fairness or advisability of such investment.
 
(l)
The Investor is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act. The Investor agrees to furnish any additional information reasonably requested by the Company or any of its affiliates to assure compliance with applicable U.S. federal and state securities laws in connection with the New Notes Offering.
 
(m)
The Investor is not directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controlling or controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control with, the Company and is not, and has not been for the immediately preceding three months, an “affiliate” (within the meaning of Rule 144 under the Securities Act) of the Company.
 
(n)
The Investor is acquiring the New Notes solely for the Investor’s own beneficial account, or for an account with respect to which the Investor exercises sole investment discretion, for investment purposes, and not with a view to, or for resale in connection with, any distribution of the New Notes that is impermissible under applicable law. The Investor understands that the offer and sale of the New Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws by reason of specific exemptions under the provisions thereof that depend in part upon the investment intent of the Investor and the accuracy of the other representations made by the Investor in this Agreement.
 
(o)
The Investor understands that the Company is relying upon the representations and agreements contained in this Agreement (and any supplemental information) for the purpose of determining whether the Investor’s participation in the New Notes Offering meets the requirements for the exemptions referenced in Section 6(n) above.
 
(p)
The Investor acknowledges that the New Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act. As a result, until registered under the Securities Act, the New Notes may not be offered or sold within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons, except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act as described in the Indenture, and the Investor hereby agrees that it will not sell the New Notes other than in compliance with such transfer restrictions. Further, the Investor acknowledges that the New Notes will initially be issued pursuant to a restricted CUSIP number.
 
(q)
The Investor acknowledges that the terms of the New Notes Offering have been mutually negotiated between the Investor and the Company. The Investor was given a meaningful opportunity to negotiate the terms of the New Notes Offering.
 
(r)
The Investor will, upon request, execute and deliver any additional documents, information or certifications reasonably requested by the Company, the Trustee to complete the New Notes Offering.

(s)
The Investor understands that, unless the Investor notifies the Company in writing to the contrary before the Closing, each of the Investor’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement will be deemed to have been reaffirmed and confirmed as of the Closing, taking into account all information received by the Investor.
 
(t)
The Investor acknowledges that it had a sufficient amount of time to consider whether to participate in the New Notes Offering and that the Company has not placed any pressure on the Investor to respond to the opportunity to participate in the New Notes Offering. The Investor acknowledges that it did not become aware of the New Notes Offering through any form of general solicitation or advertising within the meaning of Rule 502 under the Securities Act.
 
(u)
The operations of the Investor have been conducted in material compliance with the rules and regulations administered or conducted by the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) applicable to the Investor. The Investor has performed due diligence necessary to reasonably determine that its (or, where applicable, the Accounts’) beneficial owners are not named on the lists of denied parties or blocked persons administered by OFAC, resident in or organized under the laws of a country that is the subject of comprehensive economic sanctions and embargoes administered or conducted by OFAC (“Sanctions”), or otherwise the subject of Sanctions.
 
 
 
 
7.
Conditions to Obligations of the Investor and the Company. The obligations of the Investor to deliver, or to cause the Accounts to deliver, the Exchanged Old Notes and the Cash Purchase Price and of the Company to deliver the Exchanged New Notes and Purchased New Notes are subject to:
 
(a)
The satisfaction at or prior to the Closing of the condition precedent that the representations and warranties of the Company on the one hand, and of the Investor on the other contained in Sections 5 and 6, respectively, shall be true and correct as of the Closing in all material respects with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made as of the Closing.
 
(b)
The receipt by the Company of at least $10 million in net proceeds from the issuance and sale of Common Stock in the Concurrent Common Stock Offering.
 
(c)
The maximum number of Underlying Shares initially issuable upon conversion of the New Notes (assuming settlement solely in shares of Common Stock and taking into account the maximum make-whole adjustment under the Indenture) have been approved for listing on Nasdaq.
 
(d)
Solely as to the obligations of the Investor:
 
i.
The execution and delivery of the Registration Rights Agreement by the Company and the execution and delivery by the Company and the Trustee of the Indenture.
 
ii.
The delivery to the Investor of a certificate of the chief financial officer or chief accounting officer of the Company and one additional senior executive officer of the Company confirming that the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct as of the Closing Date and that the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on their part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date.
 
iii.
The delivery to the Investor of an opinion from (x) Akerman LLP (or if Akerman LLP is unable to issue such an opinion, of another nationally recognized law firm proposed by the Company that is reasonably acceptable to the Investor), and (y) Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., Nevada counsel for the Company, in each case, dated as of the Closing Date and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Investor.
 
iv.
The payment of fees of counsel of King & Spalding LLP as contemplated by that Fee Letter, dated January 5, 2020, between the Company and King & Spalding LLP.
 
v.
From the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the Commission or Nasdaq, and, at any time prior to the Closing Date, trading in securities generally as reported by Bloomberg L.P. shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not have been established on securities whose trades are reported by such service, or on Nasdaq, nor shall a banking moratorium have been declared either by the United States or New York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material adverse change in, any financial market which, in each case, in the reasonable judgment of the Investor, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the Closing
 
8.
Covenant and Acknowledgment of the Company. At or prior to 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the first business day after the date hereof, the Company shall issue a press release announcing the New Notes Offering, which press release the Company acknowledges and agrees will disclose all confidential information communicated by or on behalf of the Company to the Investor in connection with the New Notes Offering to the extent such confidential information constitutes material non-public information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of the Investor, any of its Accounts, or their respective affiliates and investment advisors, or include the name of the Investor, any of its Accounts, or their respective affiliates and investment advisors in any press release or in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or trading market, without the prior written consent of the Investor, except (i) as required by the federal securities laws in connection with the transaction contemplated hereby, and (ii) to the extent such disclosure is required by law, at the request of the Staff of the Commission, any representative of Nasdaq or any other regulatory agency, in which case the Company shall, to the extent practicable, provide the Investor with prior written notice of such disclosure.
 
9.
Integration. The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the New Notes or the Underlying Shares in a manner that would require the registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Shares or that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Shares for purposes of the rules and regulations of any trading market on which the Common Stock is listed such that it would require shareholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.

10.
Covenant of the Investor. No later than one (1) business day after the date hereof, the Investor agrees to deliver settlement instructions for each Purchaser to the Company substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto.
 
 
 
 
11.
Waiver, Amendment. Neither this Agreement nor any provisions hereof shall be modified, changed, discharged or terminated except by an instrument in writing, signed by the party against whom any waiver, change, discharge or termination is sought.
 
12.
Assignability. Neither this Agreement nor any right, remedy, obligation or liability arising hereunder or by reason hereof shall be assignable by the Company or the Investor without the prior written consent of the other party.

13.
Taxation. The Investor acknowledges that, if the Investor (or any Account) is a United States person for U.S. federal income tax purposes, either (1) the Company must be provided with a correct taxpayer identification number (“TIN”), generally a person’s social security or federal employer identification number, and certain other information on Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) Form W-9, which is provided as an attachment hereto, and a certification, under penalty of perjury, that such TIN is correct, that the Investor (or such Account) is not subject to backup withholding and that the Investor is a United States person, or (2) another basis for exemption from backup withholding must be established. The Investor further acknowledges that, if the Investor (or any Account) is not a United States person for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (1) the Company must be provided the appropriate IRS Form W-8 signed under penalties of perjury, attesting to that non-U.S. Investor’s foreign status, and (2) the Investor (or such Account) may be subject to U.S. federal withholding or U.S. federal backup withholding tax on certain payments made to the Investor (or such Account) unless the Investor (or such Account) properly establishes an exemption from, or a reduced rate of, withholding or backup withholding.
 
14.
Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE INVESTOR (FOR ITSELF AND, IF APPLICABLE, ON BEHALF OF EACH ACCOUNT) IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY WITH RESPECT TO ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT.
 
15.
Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAW PRINCIPLES THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF ANY LAW OTHER THAN THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
 
16.
Submission to Jurisdiction. Each of the Company and the Investor (for itself and, if applicable, on behalf of each Account) (a) agrees that any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby shall be instituted exclusively in the courts of the State of New York located in the City and County of New York or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; (b) waives any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such suit, action or proceeding; and (c) irrevocably consents to the jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts in any such suit, action or proceeding. Each of the Company and the Investor (for itself and, if applicable, on behalf of each Account) agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.
 
17.
Venue. Each of the Company and the Investor (for itself and, if applicable, on behalf of each Account) irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement in any court referred to in Section 16. Each of the Company and the Investor (for itself and, if applicable, on behalf of each Account) irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.
 
18.
Service of Process. Each of the Company and the Investor (for itself and, if applicable, on behalf of each Account) irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 21. Nothing in this Agreement will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.
 
19.
Section and Other Headings. The section and other headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
 
20.
Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by one or more of the parties hereto in any number of separate counterparts (including by facsimile or other electronic means, including telecopy, email or otherwise), and all of said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by facsimile or other transmission (e.g., “pdf” or “tif” format) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof. 
 
 
 
 
21.
Notices. All notices and other communications to the Company provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if delivered personally or sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid to the following addresses, or, in the case of the Investor or any Account, the address provided in Exhibit D (or such other address as either party shall have specified by notice in writing to the other):
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
If to the Company:
RumbleOn, Inc.
901 W. Walnut Hill Lane
Irving, Texas 75038
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
In each case, with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):
Akerman LLP
350 E. Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Attn: Michael Francis; Christina Russo
 
 
 
 
 
22.
Binding Effect. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and accrue to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective heirs, legal representatives, successors and permitted assigns.
 
23.
Notification of Changes. The Investor (for itself and, if applicable, on behalf of each Account) hereby covenants and agrees to notify the Company upon the occurrence of any event prior to the Closing that would cause any representation, warranty, or covenant of the Investor (and/or such Account) contained in this Agreement to be false or incorrect in any material respect.
24.
Severability. If any term or provision (in whole or in part) of this Agreement is invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other term or provision of this Agreement or invalidate or render unenforceable such term or provision in any other jurisdiction.
 
[Signature Pages Follow]
 

 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Investor (for itself and, if applicable, on behalf of each Account) has executed this Agreement as of the date first written above.
 
 
 
Legal Name of Executing Investor:
___________________________

 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
[Signature Page to Agreement]
 
 

 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Investor (for itself and, if applicable, on behalf of each Account) has executed this Agreement as of the date first written above.
 
 
 
___________________________
 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
___________________________
 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
  
 
___________________________
 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
[Signature Page to Agreement]
 
 
ACCEPTED AND AGREED:
 
 
 
RUMBLEON, INC.
 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
[Signature Page to Agreement]
 
 

 
 
EXHIBIT A
 
The Exchange Ratio: 1.0
 
 
 
 
 
EXHIBIT B
 
 
 
 
 
 
EXHIBIT C
 
 
NOTICE OF EXCHANGE/SUBSCRIPTION PROCEDURES
 
Attached are Exchange/Subscription Procedures for the settlement of the RumbleOn, Inc. (the “Company”) exchange and subscription of its Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “New Notes”) pursuant to the Agreement, dated as of January 10, 2020, between you and the Company which is expected to occur on or about January 14, 2020. To ensure timely settlement, please follow the instructions for exchanging your existing RumbleOn, Inc.’s 6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2024 (the “Old Notes”) and subscribing for New Notes as set forth on the following page.
 
These instructions supersede any prior instructions you received. Your failure to comply with the attached instructions may delay your receipt of the New Notes.
 
If you have any questions, please contact Nathan Plotkin at (860) 251-5320.
 
Thank you.
 
 
 
 
 
Delivery of Old Notes
 
You must direct the eligible DTC participant through which you hold a beneficial interest in the Old Notes to post on January 14, 2020, no later than 9:00 a.m., New York City time, one-sided withdrawal instructions through DTC via DWAC for transfer to Wilmington Trust, National Association, the aggregate principal amount1 of Exchanged Old Notes (CUSIP 781386 AA5 / ISIN: US781386AA56) set forth in column 2 of Exhibit A (“Aggregate Principal Amount of Exchanged Old Notes”) of the Agreement.
 
It is important that this instruction be submitted and the DWAC posted on January 14, 2020, no later than 9:00 a.m., New York City time.
 
To receive New Notes
 
You must direct your eligible DTC participant through which you wish to hold a beneficial interest in the New Notes to post and accept on January 14, 2020, no later than 9:00 a.m., New York City time, a one-sided deposit instruction through DTC via DWAC from Wilmington Trust, National Association for the aggregate principal amount2 of Exchanged New Notes (CUSIP/ISIN #781386 AB3 / US781386AB30) set forth in column 4 of Exhibit A (“Aggregate Principal Amount of Exchanged New Notes”) of the Agreement.
 
It is important that this instruction be submitted and the DWAC posted on January 14, 2020, no later than 9:00 a.m., New York City time.
 
AND
 
1.
No later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on January 14 2020, you must pay the Cash Purchase Price set forth in column 3 of Exhibit B3 (“Cash Purchase Price”) of the Agreement by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the following account of the Company:

 

 Beneficiary Financial Center Name and Address:  
 
______________________
 
______________________
 
______________________
 
Account Holder/Beneficiary: __________ 
 
Beneficiary Account Name: ___________
 
Beneficiary Account Number: _________ 
 
ABA/Routing Number: ______________ 
 
You must complete ALL steps described above in order to complete the exchange of Old Notes for New Notes.
 
 
1 Note that the DWAC instruction should specify the principal amount, not the number, of Exchanged Old Notes.
2 Note that the DWAC instruction should specify the principal amount, not the number, of New Notes.
3 The Cash Purchase Price is the amount of cash that you must wire to the Company in connection with your purchase of New Notes.
 
 
 
 
EXHIBIT D
 
Purchaser Settlement Details
 
These settlement instructions are to be delivered to the Company for each Purchaser no later than one (1) business day after the date of the Agreement.
 
Name of Purchaser:                                                                                      
 
Purchaser Address:
 
                                                                                      
                                                                                      
                                                                                      
 
Telephone:                                                                                                                                                               
 
Email Address:                                                                                                                                                       

 
 
SETTLEMENT
 
On January 14, 2020, after the Company receives your Old Notes and your Cash Purchase Price and your delivery instructions as set forth above, and subject to the satisfaction of the conditions to closing as set forth in your Agreement, the Company will deliver your New Notes in accordance with the delivery instructions set forth above.
 
 
Country of Residence:                                                                   

 
Taxpayer Identification Number:                                                                

 
Exchanged Old Notes
 
DTC Participant Number:                                                                
 
DTC Participant Name:                                                                                                                                          
 
 
 
 
DTC Participant Phone Number:                                                                
 
DTC Participant Contact Email:                                                                
 
FFC Account #:                                                                
 
Account # at Bank/Broker:                                                                
 
Exchanged New Notes (if different from Exchanged Old Notes)
 
 
 
DTC Participant Number:                                                                
 
DTC Participant Name:                                                                
 
DTC Participant Phone Number:                                                                
 
DTC Participant Contact Email:                                                                
 
FFC Account #:                                                                
 
Account # at Bank/Broker:                                                                
 
EXHIBIT E
 
Indenture
 
See Exhibit 4.1 to the Form 8-K.
 
 
 
 
EXHIBIT F
 
Registration Rights Agreement
 
See Exhibit 4.3 to the Form 8-K.
 
 
 Exhibit 10.2
 
 
FORM OF
JOINDER AND AMENDMENT TO EXCHANGE AND SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT
 
This JOINDER AND AMENDMENT (the “Amendment”) to the EXCHANGE AND SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT, dated as of January 10, 2020 (the “Agreement”), as amended from time to time by and among RUMBLEON, INC. (the “Company”) and ______________________________________________________ , and ___________________________ , (each, an “Investor”) is entered into and shall be effective as of January 13, 2020 (the “Effective Date”), among each Investor, ___________________________ . (the “New Investor”) and the Company (referred individually as “Party” and collectively as “Parties”).
 
WITNESSETH:
 
WHEREAS, the Company and the Investors entered into the Agreement pursuant to which the Investors (i) will tender their existing 6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2024 (CUSIP 781386 AA5 and ISIN: US781386AA56) (the “Old Notes”) for an amount of New Notes determined as set forth in the Agreement and (ii) subscribed for and will purchase from the Company New Notes for cash; and
 
WHEREAS, the Company and the Investors now wish to revise and update the Agreement as of the Effective Date to add the New Investor and amend certain terms as set forth below;
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, the receipt and legal sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Parties agree as follows:
 
1.
Definitions. Terms defined in the Agreement shall, except to the extent that the context otherwise requires, bear the same respective meanings in this Amendment.
 
2.
Amendments. The Agreement shall be amended as follows:
 
a.
Section 5(s) shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
 
Registration Rights of Third Parties. Except (i) pursuant to that certain registration rights agreement, dated May 14, 2019, between the Company and JMP Securities LLC (“JMP Securities LLC Registration Rights Agreement”), and (ii) as has been publicly disclosed in the SEC Reports, no holders of any securities of the Company or any rights exercisable for or convertible or exchangeable into securities of the Company have the right to require the Company to (i) register the sale or resale of any such securities of the Company under the Securities Act (other than pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement), (ii) include any such securities in a registration statement to be filed by the Company (including any registration statement required to be filed pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, other than the holders of the New Notes) or (iii) register the resale of any securities of the Company held by such persons, or that such persons may acquire upon the exercise or conversion of any other securities of the Company or pursuant to the prospectus as part of the Concurrent Common Stock Offering. Company hereby represents and warrants that any rights under the JMP Securities LLC Registration Rights Agreement are not in conflict or inconsistent with any registration rights granted to holders of the New Notes.
 
 
 
 
b.
Section 6(u) shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
 
The operations of the Investor have been conducted in material compliance with the rules and regulations administered or conducted by the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) applicable to the Investor. The Investor, or its delegates have performed due diligence necessary to reasonably determine that its (or, where applicable, the Accounts’) investors are not named on the lists of denied parties or blocked persons administered by OFAC, resident in or organized under the laws of a country that is the subject of comprehensive economic sanctions and embargoes administered or conducted by OFAC (“Sanctions”), or otherwise the subject of Sanctions.
 
c.
Section 8 shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
 
Covenant and Acknowledgment of the Company. At or prior to 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the first business day after the date hereof, the Company shall issue a press release or file with the Commission a Current Report on Form 8-K announcing the New Notes Offering and disclosing all material terms of the transaction contemplated by this Agreement as well as any material non-public information, which press release the Company acknowledges and agrees will disclose all confidential information communicated by or on behalf of the Company to the Investor in connection with the New Notes Offering and any transaction contemplated by this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of the Investor, any of its Accounts, or their respective affiliates and investment advisors, or include the name of the Investor, any of its Accounts, or their respective affiliates and investment advisors in any press release or in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or trading market, without the prior written consent of the Investor, except (i) as required by the federal securities laws in connection with the transaction contemplated hereby, and (ii) to the extent such disclosure is required by law, at the request of the Staff of the Commission, any representative of Nasdaq or any other regulatory agency, in which case the Company shall, to the extent practicable, provide the Investor with prior written notice of such disclosure.
 
d.
Exhibit A of the Agreement shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with Exhibit A attached hereto.
 
e.
Exhibit B of the Agreement shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with Exhibit B attached hereto.
 
f.
Except as expressly provided herein, no other changes or modifications to the Agreement are intended or implied, and in all other respects the Agreement is hereby specifically ratified, restated and reaffirmed by the Parties.
 
3.
Representations. Each party represents to the other parties that all representations contained in the Agreement are true and accurate as of the date of this Amendment, and that such representations are deemed to be given or repeated by each Party, as the case may be, on the date of this Amendment.
 
4.
Integration/Effect of Amendment. This Amendment and any instrument and agreements delivered pursuant hereto constitute the entire agreement of the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof, and supersede all prior oral and written communications with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof. To the extent that any provision of the Agreement is inconsistent with the provisions of this Amendment, the provisions of this Amendment shall control.
 
5.
Governing Law. This Amendment shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York excluding any principles of conflicts of law or other rule of law that would cause the application of the law of any jurisdiction other than the laws of the State of New York.
 
6.
Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and any such counterpart shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts shall constitute one and the same agreement.
 
 
 
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have entered into this Amendment as of the date set forth above.
 
 
 
___________________________
By:
 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
RUMBLEON, INC.  
 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
___________________________
By:
 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
By:    

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
___________________________
 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
___________________________
 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
___________________________
 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
EXHIBIT A
 
 
The Exchange Ratio: 1.0
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
EXHIBIT B
 
 
 
 

Exhibit 10.3
 
FORM OF
 
NOTE EXCHANGE AGREEMENT
 
THIS NOTE EXCHANGE AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is dated as of January 14, 2020 (the “Closing Date”), between RumbleOn, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), and ___________ (the “Holder”) and relates to the proposed exchange of that certain promissory note, dated ___________, payable by the Company to the Holder (the “Note”), which Note is attached hereto as Exhibit A, for a new note substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (“New Note”);
 
Recitals
 
WHEREAS, the principal and accrued interest from January 1, 2020 due under the terms of the Note as of the Closing Date is $___________ (the “Outstanding Amount”);
 
WHEREAS, the Note is set to mature on March 31, 2020 (the “Maturity Date”); and
 
WHEREAS, the parties wish to cancel the Note in exchange for the New Note for the Outstanding Amount, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B.
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby agreed and acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
 
1. Securities Exchange.
 
(a) Upon the following terms and subject to the conditions contained herein, the Holder agrees to deliver to the Company the Note in exchange for the New Note and the Company agrees to deliver to the Holder the New Note.
 
(b) The execution and delivery of this Agreement by the parties hereto and the closing under this Agreement (the “Closing”) shall occur upon execution of this Agreement and the delivery of the Note to the Company for cancellation. At Closing, (i) the New Note issued in exchange for cancellation of the Note shall be deemed the full and final consideration for the cancellation of the Note, and the Note shall thereby be fully satisfied, terminated and of no further force and effect without any further action by any party; and (ii) all security interests and other liens of every type at any time granted to or held by the Holder as security for the indebtedness evidenced by the Note shall be terminated and automatically released without further action by the Holder.
 
2. Waiver. The Holder hereby irrevocably waives the provisions set forth in the Note such that: (i) the Company will not incur any penalty or premium by the exchange of the Note for the New Note; (ii) the Company will not be obligated or required to pay any further interest accrued under the terms of the Note; and (iii) and the Holder will accept the New Note, rather than cash, as full satisfaction of the Company’s obligations under the Note.
 
 
 
 
3. Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Holder. The Holder hereby makes the following representations and warranties to the Company, and covenants for the benefit of the Company.
 
(a) This Agreement has been duly authorized, validly executed and delivered by the Holder and is a valid and binding agreement and obligation of the Holder enforceable against the Holder in accordance with its terms, subject to limitations on enforcement by general principles of equity and by bankruptcy or other laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, and the Holder has the power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and documents contemplated hereby and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder.
 
(b) The Holder did not receive any other form of additional consideration in connection with the issuance of the New Note.
 
(c) The Holder understands that the New Note is being offered and sold in reliance on specific provisions of federal and state securities laws and that the Company is relying upon the truth and accuracy of the representations, warranties, agreements, acknowledgments and understandings of the Holder set forth herein for purposes of qualifying for exemptions from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and applicable state securities laws.
 
 (d) The Holder owns and holds, beneficially and of record, the entire right, title, and interest in and to the Note free and clear of all rights and Encumbrances (as defined below) other than restrictions under the Securities Act and other applicable federal and state securities laws. The Holder has full power and authority to transfer and dispose of the Note free and clear of any right or Encumbrance other than restrictions under the Securities Act and other applicable federal and state securities laws. Other than the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, there is no pending proposal, or other right of any person to acquire all or any of portion of the Note. “Encumbrances” shall mean any security or other property interest or right, claim, lien, pledge, option, charge, security interest, contingent or conditional sale, or other title claim or retention agreement interest or other right or claim of third parties, whether perfected or not perfected, voluntarily incurred or arising by operation of law, and including any agreement (other than this Agreement) to grant or submit to any of the foregoing in the future.
 
 (e) The Holder is an “accredited investor” as defined under Rule 501 of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act, with sufficient knowledge and experience in financial matters as to be capable of evaluating the risks and merits of the transaction contemplated hereby.
 
(f) The Holder is acquiring the New Note for the Holder’s own account, for investment purposes, and not with a view to any resale or distribution in whole or in part, in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable securities laws; provided, however, that by making the representations herein, the Holder does not agree to hold the New Note for any minimum or other specific term and reserves the right to dispose of any shares of the Company’s Class B Common Stock, $0.001 par value, issuable upon conversion of the New Note (“Conversion Shares”) at any time in accordance with federal and state securities laws applicable to such disposition.
 
(g) The Holder understands that the Conversion Shares are “restricted securities,” as that term is defined in the Securities Act and the rules thereunder, have not been registered under the Securities Act, and that none of the Conversion Shares can be sold or transferred unless they are first registered under the Securities Act and such state and other securities laws as may be applicable or an exemption from registration under the Securities Act is available (and then the Conversion Shares may be sold or transferred only in compliance with such exemption and all applicable state and other securities laws).
 
(h) No person or entity, other than the Company, has been authorized to give any information or to make any representation on behalf of the Company in connection with the New Note, and if given or made, such information or representations have not been relied upon by the Holder as having been made or authorized by the Company. The only representations and warranties made by the Company in connection with the New Note are those contained in this Agreement, and the only information made available by the Company in connection with the New Note is contained in this Agreement.
 
 
 
 
4. Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to the Holder, and covenants for the benefit of the Holder, as follows:
 
(a) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the state of Nevada, with full corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as currently conducted.
 
(b) This Agreement has been duly authorized, validly executed and delivered on behalf of the Company and is a valid and binding agreement and obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject to limitations on enforcement by general principles of equity and by bankruptcy or other laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, and the Company has full corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the other agreements and documents contemplated hereby and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder.
 
(c) The Company covenants and agrees that promptly following the Closing, the Note will be cancelled and retired by the Company.
 
5. Fees and Expenses. Each party hereto shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisors, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses, incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement.
 
6. Waiver of Interest. In addition to the waiver of any and all further accrued interest under Section 2 of this Agreement, the Holder hereby irrevocably waives any and all claims, demands, suits, actions, causes of action and rights whatsoever at law or in equity, now existing or arising relating to any further accrued and unpaid interest on the Note or any other agreement between the parties. The Holder hereby acknowledges and agrees that it shall not commence or prosecute in any way, or cause to be commenced or prosecuted, any action in any court relating to such accrued and unpaid interest.
 
7. Governing Law; Consent to Jurisdiction. This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Nevada without giving effect conflicts of law principles that would result in the application of the substantive laws of another jurisdiction. EACH PARTY WAIVES ITS RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY.
 
8. Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding and agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior and/or contemporaneous oral or written proposals or agreements relating thereto all of which are merged herein. This Agreement may not be amended or any provision hereof waived in whole or in part, except by a written amendment signed by all of the parties hereto.
 
9. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by facsimile signature or electronic PDF signature and in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement was duly executed on the date first written above.
 
 
 
RUMBLEON, INC.
 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 
Marshall Chesrown
 
 
 
Chief Executive Officer
 
 
 
 
 
 
By:    

 
 
 
Name: 
 
 
 
Title: 
 
 
 

 
 
EXHIBIT A
 
The Note
(see attached)
 
 

 

EXHIBIT B
 
New Note
  See Exhibit 10.4 to the Form 8-K.
 
 

 Exhibit 10.4
 
FORM OF
 
SENIOR SECURED CONFESSED JUDGMENT PROMISSORY NOTE
 
THIS NOTE AND THE UNDERLYING SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "ACT"). THEY MAY NOT BE SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE, PLEDGED OR HYPOTHECATED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AS TO SUCH SECURITIES UNDER THE ACT OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED.
 
$___________  January 14, 2020 (“Effective Date”)
 
 
IMPORTANT NOTICE
 
THIS INSTRUMENT CONTAINS A CONFESSION OF JUDGMENT PROVISION WHICH CONSTITUTES A WAIVER OF IMPORTANT RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AS A DEBTOR AND ALLOWS THE CREDITOR TO OBTAIN A JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU WITHOUT ANY FURTHER NOTICE.
 
 
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, RumbleOn, Inc., a Nevada corporation (“Borrower”), does hereby promise to pay to the order of ___________ (“Lender”), on January 31, 2021 (the “Maturity Date”), or such earlier time as provided herein, the principal sum of ______________________ Dollars ($___________) (the “Principal Amount”), in lawful money of the United States of America, together with any unpaid, accrued interest (“Interest”) thereon, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Senior Secured Confessed Judgment Promissory Note (this “Note”).
 
1. Interest. From the Effective Date through and until the Maturity Date, Interest shall accrue on the outstanding and unpaid Principal Amount at the rate of 10.0% per annum. Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 365-day year for the actual number of days in the interest period. All accrued Interest shall be paid to Lender quarterly in arrears on the last day of each of the Company's fiscal quarters beginning on March 30, 2020, and, if applicable, on the Maturity Date.
 
2. Maturity Date. Borrower will repay the outstanding Principal Amount, together with any accrued and unpaid Interest thereon, in one lump sum on the Maturity Date.
 
3. Prepayment. The Principal Amount and any Interest accrued thereon may be prepaid by Borrower at any time prior to the Maturity Date without premium or penalty.
 
4. Application of Payments. All payments made under this Note shall be applied first to late penalties or other sums owed to the holder of this Note, next to accrued interest, if any, and then to the Principal Amount.
 
 
 
 
5. Conversion.
 
(a) At any time prior to and including the Maturity Date, any Interest and Principal Amount due under the Note shall be convertible into shares of the Borrower’s Class B Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Conversion Shares”) at a conversion price of $3.00 per share (a “Conversion”) at the Lender's option.
 
(b) In the event that any Conversion of this Note in whole or in part into Class B Common Stock is not permitted under applicable law, rule, regulation or stock exchange requirement or would result in the issuance of any fraction of a share of Class B Common Stock, the Borrower shall not be obligated to issue such shares or fraction of a share of Common Stock but shall promptly pay to the Lender in cash the amount of the Note otherwise to be satisfied by such shares or fraction of a share of Class B Common Stock.
 
(c) Subject to Section 5(a) above, the Borrower shall at all times cause to be reserved for issuance such number of authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock as shall be sufficient for conversion of this Note. The Borrower (i) covenants to instruct its transfer agent to issue certificates for the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of this Note and (ii) agrees that its issuance of this Note shall constitute full authority to its officers and agents who are charged with the duty of executing stock certificates to execute and issue the necessary certificates for shares of Class B Common Stock in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Note.
 
(d) Any certificates issued in exchange for, or in substitution or upon conversion of this Note, shall bear the following legend:
 
“THE SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR UNDER ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAW AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO A VALID EXEMPTION UNDER SUCH ACT AS EVIDENCED IN AN OPINION OF COUNSEL TO RUMBLEON, INC. THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND THE RULES AND REGULATIONS PROMULGATED THEREUNDER.”
 
6. Adjustments for Certain Structural Events.
(a) Splits and Combinations. If the Borrower combines its outstanding equity securities into a smaller number of equity securities, the conversion price in effect immediately before the combination will be proportionately increased, as of the effective date of the combination, as follows: (i) the number of Conversion Shares issuable to the Lender hereunder immediately before the effective date of the combination will be adjusted so that the Lender, if the Note is converted on or after that date, will receive the number of Conversion Shares that the Lender would have owned and been entitled to receive as a result of the combination had the Note been converted immediately before that date; and (ii) the conversion price in effect immediately before such adjustment will be adjusted by multiplying the conversion price by a fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate number of Conversion Shares issuable to the Lender upon conversion of this Note immediately before such adjustment, and the denominator of which is the aggregate number of Conversion Shares issuable to the Lender upon conversion of this Note immediately thereafter. If the Borrower subdivides its outstanding equity securities, the number of Conversion Shares issuable upon Conversion hereunder will be proportionally increased and the conversion price in effect before the subdivision will be proportionately decreased, as of the effective date of the subdivision, as follows: (A) the number of Conversion Shares issuable to the Lender upon the conversion of this Note immediately before the effective date of the subdivision will be adjusted so that the Lender, if converted on or after that date, will receive the number of Conversion Shares that the Lender would have owned and been entitled to receive as a result of the subdivision had the Note been converted immediately before that date; and (B) the conversion price in effect immediately before the adjustment will be adjusted by multiplying the conversion price by a fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate number of Conversion Shares issuable to the Lender upon Conversion of this Note immediately before such adjustment, and the denominator of which is the aggregate number of Conversion Shares issuable to the Lender upon Conversion of this Note immediately thereafter.
 
(b) Reorganization, Recapitalization, Merger. If there occurs any reorganization, recapitalization, reclassification, merger, or statutory conversion to another form of business entity involving the Borrower in which the equity securities of the Borrower are converted into or exchanged for other securities (other than a transaction covered by Section 6(a), then Lender will receive upon conversion of this Note, in lieu of the Conversion Shares of the Borrower immediately theretofore issuable upon conversion of this Note, for the aggregate conversion price in effect prior thereto, the kind and amount of other securities receivable upon such reorganization, recapitalization, reclassification, merger, or statutory conversion to another form of business entity, by the holders of the number of Conversion Shares of the Borrower for which this Note could have been converted immediately prior to such reorganization, recapitalization, reclassification, merger, or statutory conversion to another form of business entity.
 
 
 
 
7.    Default. If (1) Borrower shall fail to pay the then unpaid Principal Amount on the Maturity Date or any Interest accrued thereon when due, (2) Borrower shall fail to perform, observe or comply with any other obligation under this Note, which failure is not cured promptly but in no case more than fifteen (15) days after written notice to Borrower, except that in the event Borrower is unable to complete the cure within the fifteen (15) day period, the cure period shall be extended if Borrower has commenced the cure within fifteen (15) days and is diligently pursuing the cure; in no event, however, shall the cure period exceed thirty (30) days from the date of Lender’s notice, unless Lender and Borrower mutually agree to an extension of the cure period, (3) Borrower shall fail to perform, observe or comply with any other obligation under the Security Agreement attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference as Exhibit A and executed on the date hereof by the Borrower in favor of the Lender (the “Security Agreement”), which failure is not cured promptly but in no case more than fifteen (15) days after written notice to Borrower, except that in the event Borrower is unable to complete the cure within the fifteen (15) day period, the cure period shall be extended if Borrower has commenced the cure within fifteen (15) days and is diligently pursuing the cure; in no event, however, shall the cure period exceed thirty (30) days from the date of Lender’s notice, unless Lender and Borrower mutually agree to an extension of the cure period, (4) Borrower is acquired in a merger, consolidation, transfer of all or substantially all of its assets, or enters into any other strategic transaction with a third party(ies) pursuant to which Borrower assigns to the third party(ies) the right to use all of the assets of Borrower in exchange for payments, or (7) Borrower shall commence a voluntary case concerning itself under Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy,” as now or hereafter in effect, or any successor thereto (the “Bankruptcy Code”); or an involuntary case is commenced against Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code, and the petition is not controverted within 30 days, or is not dismissed within 90 days, after commencement of the case; or a trustee or custodian is appointed for, or takes charge of, all or substantially all of the property of Borrower, or Borrower commences any other proceeding under any reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debt, relief of debtors, dissolution, insolvency or liquidation or similar law of any jurisdiction whether now or hereafter in effect relating to Borrower, or there is commenced against Borrower any such proceeding which remains undismissed for a period of 90 days, or Borrower is adjudicated insolvent or bankrupt; or any order of relief or other order approving any such case or proceeding is entered; or Borrower makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors (any of the events referred to in Section 7 (1) – (7) above being referred to herein as a “Default”); then Lender, by written notice to Borrower, may declare the unpaid Principal Amount and any accrued Interest thereon to be, and the same shall thereupon become, forthwith due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by Borrower, and Interest on the unpaid Principal Amount shall thereafter accrue at the rate of fifteen percent (15%) per annum.
 
8. Security.
 
As security for the prompt payment and complete performance of Borrower of its obligations under this Note, Borrower has executed and delivered to the Lender on the date hereof the Security Agreement.
 
9.    Subordination.
 
(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Note, all of the obligations under this Note ("Subordinated Obligations") shall at all times and in all respects be subordinate and junior in right of payment to all Senior Debt (defined below), and for so long as any Senior Debt shall be outstanding, Borrower shall not be obligated to make any payments otherwise required hereunder if the Borrower is then in default under any agreements evidencing and securing the Senior Debt ("Senior Debt Documents") or the payment would cause the Borrower to be in default under the Senior Debt Documents. For purposes of this Note, "Senior Debt" shall mean any other indebtedness of the Borrower as defined under United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, as in effect on the date hereof, that is secured by any assets of the Borrower, and that is (i) indebtedness for borrowed money or indebtedness evidenced by notes, bonds or similar instruments, related to any term loan, revolving credit financing, working capital financing, floor plan financing or real estate financing, and (ii) purchase money indebtedness and capital leases, in the case of (i) or (ii), whether now existing or entered into after the date hereof.
 
(b) The security interest granted under the Security Agreement (the “Security Interest”) shall be subordinated for all purposes and in all respects to the liens and security interests securing any Senior Debt, regardless of the time, manner or order of perfection of any such liens and security interests.
 
(c) Promptly upon Borrower's request, Lender will from time to time execute and deliver a subordination agreement on the terms consistent with this Section 9 and reasonably requested by any holder of any Senior Debt (or any agent for such holders), including but not limited to subordination provisions providing for "deep subordination" of this Note, the Subordinated Obligations and the Security Interest to any Senior Debt; provided that the provisions of such subordination agreement shall not expand the limitations on Borrower's payment obligations set forth in the first sentence of Section 9(a), that is, those provisions shall not restrict a payment by Borrower to Lender in a manner that is not otherwise contemplated by the first sentence of Section 9(a). Lender shall also agree to provide any requested UCC amendment subordinating any of its collateral that is subject to the security interest of any holder of Senior Debt.
 
(d) The subordination, agreements and priorities set forth in this Section 9 shall remain in full force and effect until this Note shall have been indefeasibly paid in full (regardless of whether or not any Senior Debt shall be outstanding), and in the event the Lender is required to return to any party funds or other property that Lender receives from Borrower or any of its respective affiliates in respect of the Subordinated Obligations, the Lender shall not have been deemed to have waived its rights to payment in full under this Note, provided that the provisions of this Section 9 shall apply to such rights to payment of the Lender and to the continuing obligations of the Borrower in respect thereof (which for all purposes shall continue to be Subordinated Obligations hereunder), and Lender agrees to be bound thereby.
 
 
 
 
10. CONFESSION OF JUDGMENT. UPON A DEFAULT OF THIS NOTE, THE BORROWER AUTHORIZES ANY ATTORNEY ADMITTED TO PRACTICE BEFORE ANY COURT OF RECORD IN THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING GLENN D. SOLOMON, AS THE BORROWER’S TRUE AND LAWFUL ATTORNEY-IN-FACT, WITH FULL POWER AND AUTHORITY FOR THE BORROWER, IN THE BORROWER’S NAME, PLACE AND STEAD, ON BORROWER’S BEHALF, TO WAIVE THE ISSUANCE AND SERVICE OF PROCESS AND CONFESS JUDGMENT AGAINST THE BORROWER, IN THE FULL AMOUNT THEN DUE UNDER THIS NOTE, INCLUDING ANY EXPENSES OF COLLECTION, PLUS REASONABLE ATTORNEYS’ FEES. THE AUTHORITY AND POWER TO APPEAR FOR AND ENTER JUDGMENT AGAINST THE BORROWER SHALL NOT BE EXTINGUISHED BY ANY JUDGMENT ENTERED PURSUANT THERETO; SUCH AUTHORITY AND POWER MAY BE EXERCISED ON ONE OR MORE OCCASIONS FROM TIME TO TIME, IN THE SAME OR DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS, AS OFTEN AS THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE SHALL DEEM NECESSARY OR ADVISABLE UNTIL ALL SUMS DUE UNDER THIS NOTE HAVE BEEN PAID IN FULL.
 
11. No Waiver or Modification Except in Writing. No failure on the part of Lender to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right, remedy, or power under this Note or under any other document or agreement executed in connection with this Note shall operate as a waiver thereof. This Note may not be amended or modified orally, nor may any right or provision hereof be waived orally, but only by an instrument in writing signed by the party against which enforcement of such amendment, modification or waiver is sought.
 
12. Waiver of Presentment. Borrower hereby waives presentment for payment, protest and notice of maturity or non-payment.
 
13. Severability. If any provision of this Note is held invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, the other provisions of this Note will remain in full force and effect. Any provision of this Note held invalid or unenforceable only in part or degree will remain in full force and effect to the extent not held invalid or unenforceable. The parties consent to the reformation of any invalid or unenforceable provision so that it is enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law.
 
14. Notices. All notices, requests, consents, demands, and other communications under this Note shall be in writing and shall be delivered either (a) via hand delivery; (b) via facsimile to the recipient’s number (with a confirmation copy delivered via reputable airborne carrier); or (c) via reputable airborne carrier (e.g., Federal Express or DHL). Notice shall be deemed delivered when actually received by the intended recipient. All notices shall be addressed to such address as any party may indicate for itself by written notice to the other party.
 
15. Assignments. The Lender shall not assign or transfer any claim, or suffer or permit the creation or attachment of any lien, claim, encumbrance, hypothecation or pledge upon any claim, with respect to the Subordinated Obligations, unless such assignment or transfer is made expressly subject to this Note, and Lender agrees to provide to any holder of Senior Debt (or its agents) written confirmation from any such assignee or transferee of receipt of, and agreement to be bound by, this Note. Any assignee or pledgee of this Note shall promptly deliver to Borrower a written acknowledgement of the subordination provisions contained in Section 9 of this Note and its obligation to comply therewith. In the event one or more subordination agreements are in effect, any assignee or pledgee of this Note shall promptly execute a joinder to or an acknowledgement of such subordination agreement(s) in the form reasonably acceptable to the Senior Lender(s) party to such subordination agreement(s).
 
16. Governing Law. This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Maryland.
 
17. Consent to Jurisdiction. Each of Borrower and Lender submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of any state or federal court within the State of Maryland in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement and agrees that all claims in respect of the action or proceeding shall be exclusively heard and determined in any such court. The parties hereby irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any objection which they may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such dispute brought in such court. Each of the Parties waives any defense of inconvenient forum to the maintenance of any action or proceeding so brought.
 
18. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL: EACH PARTY HEREBY WAIVES ITS RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS NOTE OR THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF OR THEREOF. THE SCOPE OF THIS WAIVER IS INTENDED TO BE ALL-ENCOMPASSING OF ANY AND ALL DISPUTES THAT MAY BE FILED IN ANY COURT AND THAT RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS NOTE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS, BREACH OF DUTY CLAIMS, AND ALL OTHER COMMON LAW AND STATUTORY CLAIMS. THIS SECTION HAS BEEN FULLY DISCUSSED BY EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AND THESE PROVISIONS WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO ANY EXCEPTIONS. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY FURTHER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT SUCH PARTY HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL COUNSEL, AND THAT SUCH PARTY KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL.
 
 
 
 
19. Facsimile Signature. The execution of this Note by Borrower and the delivery to Lender of a facsimile or PDF copy of such executed Note shall be effective to obligate Borrower hereunder for all purposes and such facsimile or PDF copy shall be deemed to be an original for all purposes.
 
20. Usury Laws. It is the intention of the parties to conform strictly to all applicable usury laws now or hereafter in force, and if the interest imposed hereunder is in excess of the maximum legal amount allowed under the applicable usury laws as now or hereafter construed by the courts having jurisdiction over such matters (the “Usury Laws’) any Interest payable under this Note shall be subject to reduction to the amount equal to the maximum legal amount allowed under the Usury Laws. The aggregate of all interest (whether designated as interest, service charges, points, or otherwise) contracted for, chargeable, or receivable under this Note shall under no circumstances exceed the maximum legal rate upon the unpaid principal balance of this Note remaining unpaid. If such interest does exceed the maximum legal rate, it shall be deemed a mistake and such excess shall be canceled automatically and, if theretofore paid, rebated to Borrower or credited on the unpaid Principal Amount, or if this Note has been repaid, then such excess shall be rebated to Borrower.
 
21. Expenses of Collection. Upon a Default, this Note may be referred to an attorney for collection, whether or not judgment has been confessed or suit has been filed, and the Borrower shall pay all of the reasonable costs, fees, and expenses, including reasonable attorney’s fees, incurred by the Lender.
 
22. Binding Nature. This Note shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Lender and the Lender’s successors and permitted assigns, and shall be binding and enforceable against the Borrower and the Borrower’s successors and assigns.
 
NOW THEREFORE, Borrower has executed this Senior Secured Confessed Judgment Promissory Note under seal on the date first above written.
 
WITNESS: 
BORROWER: 
 

RUMBLEON, INC.
 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 
Marshall Chesrown
 
 
 
Chief Executive Officer
 
 
 
ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED:
 
LENDER:
 
 
__________________________________

[Signature Page to the Form of Note]
 
 
 Exhibit 10.5
FORM OF
SECURITY AGREEMENT
 
THIS SECURITY AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”), made this 14th day of January, 2020, by and among RUMBLEON, INC., a Nevada corporation, with an address of 901 West Walnut Hill Lane, Irving, Texas 75038 ("Debtor"), and HALCYON CONSULTING, LLC, a Maryland limited liability company, with an address of 8600 S. Freeport Parkway, Suite 330, Irving, Texas 75063, Denmar Dixon, with an address of ___________________________________________, Blue Flame Capital, LLC, with an address of __________________________________________, Lori Sue Chesrown, with an address of ____________________________________, and Ralph Wegis, with an address of _____________________________________, (each, a "Secured Party" and collectively, "Secured Parties").
 
1. Grant of Security Interest. Subject to the applicable terms of this Agreement, Debtor grants to Secured Parties a security interest in the Collateral to secure, on a pro rata basis based on the percentage equal to the amount of principal outstanding on a Note divided by the amount of principal outstanding on all of the Notes to each Secured Party, the payment of the Obligations, provided that the security interest granted hereby is subject to the provisions of applicable law (e.g., UCC Section 9-408(c)).
 
2. The Obligations. As used in this Agreement, "Obligations" means collectively all of the following:
 
(a) All amounts due pursuant to the terms of the five (5) promissory notes of even date herewith described in Exhibit A attached hereto (individually, a “Note” and collectively, "Notes").
 
(b) All costs incurred by Secured Parties to enforce the security interest granted hereby ("Security Interest"), collect the Obligations, and maintain the Collateral free of liens (other than Permitted Encumbrances as defined in Exhibit B attached hereto), and including (but not limited to) reasonable attorneys' fees and legal expenses, and expenses of sale.
 
3. The Collateral. As used in this Agreement, "Collateral" shall mean all of Debtor's assets, both now and hereafter acquired, and wherever located, including but not limited to:
 
(a) Accounts;
 
(b) Chattel paper;
 
(c) Contracts;
 
(d) Deposit accounts;
 
(e) Documents;
 
 
 
 
(f) Equipment;
 
(g) Farm products;
 
(h) Fixtures;
 
(i) General intangibles;
 
(j) Goods;
 
(k) Instruments;
 
(l) Inventory;
 
(m) Investment property;
 
(n) Letter-of-credit rights;
 
(o) The Trademark Collateral; and
 
(p) Proceeds and products of all of the foregoing; provided however, that the "Collateral" shall exclude the "Excluded Property". Excluded Property means (i) motor vehicles and other assets subject to certificates of title, letter of credit rights and commercial tort claims; (ii) pledges and security interests prohibited by applicable law, rule, regulation; (iii) equity interests in any person other than wholly-owned subsidiaries of Debtor; (iv) any lease, license or other agreement to the extent that a grant of a security interest therein would violate or invalidate such lease, license or agreement or create a right of termination in favor of any other party thereto; (v) any governmental licenses or state or local franchises, charters and authorizations (but not registered patents and trademarks); (vi) any equipment or other asset subject to liens securing capitalized lease obligations or permitted purchase money indebtedness; and (vii) any property subject to liens securing indebtedness for floor plan financing, and Secured Parties shall release from their security interest (including, without limitation, by the filing of applicable UCC release amendments) any property that now or hereafter constitutes Excluded Property.
 
“Trademark Collateral” means:
 
(a)            All trademark registrations and applications registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, including for the design logo “R” serial number 87532685 and for RumbleOn, serial numbers 874309812, 87975582 and 87532644, together with the goodwill connected with the use of and symbolized thereby and all extensions and renewals thereof (the "Trademarks"), excluding only United States intent-to-use trademark applications to the extent that and solely during the period in which the grant of a security interest therein would impair, under applicable federal law, the registrability of such applications or the validity or enforceability of registrations issuing from such applications;
 
(b)           all rights of any kind whatsoever of Debtor accruing under any of the Trademarks provided by applicable law of any jurisdiction, by international treaties and conventions and otherwise throughout the world;
 
(c)           any and all royalties, fees, income, payments and other proceeds now or hereafter due or payable with respect to any and all of the Trademarks; and
 
(d)          any and all claims and causes of action, with respect to any of the Trademarks, whether occurring before, on or after the date hereof, including all rights to and claims for damages, restitution and injunctive and other legal and equitable relief for past, present and future infringement, dilution, misappropriation, violation, misuse, breach or default, with the right but no obligation to sue for such legal and equitable relief and to collect, or otherwise recover, any such damages.
 
 
 
 
4. Debtor's Covenants.
 
(a) Debtor shall maintain at its principal place of business complete records regarding all account balances due Debtor, whether secured or unsecured, which account balances comprise the Collateral hereunder. Such records shall include, without limitation, current statements of balances due, and copies of all contracts, instruments or documents evidencing, securing or guarantying such balances. Upon reasonable prior notice by Secured Parties, Debtor shall make all such records available for inspection and copying by any Secured Party and/or its agents during normal business hours.
 
(b) Debtor covenants and agrees that it shall: (i) take adequate care of the Collateral (except as provided in 4(b)(viii) below) in accordance with reasonable and customary business practices for similar businesses as the Debtor's, reasonable wear and tear excepted; (ii) insure the Collateral for such hazards and in such amounts customary for similar businesses as the Debtor's, with policies to name the Secured Parties as additional insured and/or loss payee, as the case may be; (iii) pay all costs necessary to enforce the Security Interest, collect the Obligations, and maintain the Collateral free of liens (other than Permitted Encumbrances), including (but not limited to) taxes, assessments, reasonable attorneys' fees and legal expenses, and expenses of sale; (iv) furnish Secured Parties with any information on the Collateral reasonably requested by Secured Parties; (v) upon receipt of reasonable prior written notice, allow any Secured Party to inspect the Collateral, and inspect and copy all records relating to the Collateral and the Obligations, in each case, during business hours; (vi) take commercially reasonable steps to preserve the liability of account debtors, obligors, and secondary parties whose obligations are part of the Collateral; (vii) notify Secured Parties of any material change occurring in or to the Collateral, taken as a whole, and (viii) in its sole discretion, make the decisions regarding any continued prosecution and maintenance of patent Collateral and trademark Collateral.
 
(c) Debtor agrees and covenants that it shall not (without Secured Parties' consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld): (i) remove the Collateral (except in the ordinary course of business) or any records relating thereto from the address set forth above; (ii) allow the Collateral to become an accession to other goods; or (iii) allow the Collateral to be affixed to real estate, except goods identified herein as fixtures.
 
(d) Debtor warrants and represents to the best of its information, knowledge and belief, as follows: (i) Debtor is absolute owner of the Collateral and the Collateral is not encumbered other than by Permitted Encumbrances; (ii) none of the Collateral is affixed to real estate or an accession to other goods, nor will Collateral acquired hereafter be affixed to real estate or an accession to other goods when acquired, unless Debtor has furnished Secured Parties the consents or disclaimers necessary to make this Security Interest valid against persons holding interests in the real estate or other goods; (iii) all of the Collateral is located at Debtor's premises; and (iv) Debtor has never been known by, or done business under, any other name.
 
(e) Debtor authorizes Secured Parties to file financing statements and assignments covering the Collateral and containing such legends as Secured Parties shall deem necessary or desirable to protect Secured Parties' interest in the Collateral.
 
5. Default.
 
(a) Any "Default" as defined under the Notes shall be an event of default hereunder. "Senior Debt" means any indebtedness of the Debtor as defined under United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"), as in effect on the date hereof, that is secured by any assets of the Debtor, and that is (i) indebtedness for borrowed money or indebtedness evidenced by notes, bonds or similar instruments, relating to any term loan, revolving credit financing, working capital financing, floor plan financing or real estate financing, and (ii) purchase money indebtedness and capital leases, in each case, whether now existing or entered into after the date hereof.
 
(b) When an event of default occurs, the entire Obligations become immediately due and payable at Secured Parties' option without notice to Debtor, and Secured Parties may proceed to enforce payment of same and exercise any and all of the rights and remedies available to a secured party under the Uniform Commercial Code as well as all other rights and remedies provided for herein or by law. When Debtor is in default, Debtor, upon demand by Secured Parties, shall assemble the Collateral and make it available to Secured Parties at a place reasonably convenient to both parties. Debtor is entitled to any surplus and shall be liable to Secured Parties for any deficiency, arising from accounts, contract rights, or chattel paper included in the Collateral through sale thereof to the Secured Parties.
 
6. Remedies of Secured Parties. Secured Parties may, in their discretion, after an event of default: (i) require Debtor to give possession or control of the Collateral to Secured Parties, and Secured Parties may take possession of the Collateral without the exercise of judicial process; (ii) indorse as Debtor's agent any instruments or chattel paper in the Collateral; (iii) notify account debtors and obligors on instruments constituting Collateral to make payment directly to Secured Parties; (iv) contact account debtors directly to verify information furnished by Debtor relating to Collateral; (v) take control of proceeds and use cash proceeds from Collateral to reduce any part of the Obligations; (vi) take any action Debtor is required to take or otherwise necessary to perfect, preserve, and enforce the Security Interest, and maintain and preserve the Collateral, without notice to Debtor, and add costs of same to the Obligations (but Secured Parties are under no duty to take any such action); (vii) release Collateral in its possession to Debtor, temporarily or otherwise; (viii) take control of funds generated by the Collateral, such as dividends, interest, proceeds or refunds from insurance, and use same to reduce any part of the Obligations; and (ix) waive any of its rights hereunder without such waiver prohibiting the later exercise of the same or similar rights.
 
 
 
 
7. Application of Proceeds. If Secured Parties dispose of the Collateral following default, the proceeds of such disposition shall be applied first to the Notes, and thereafter to any remaining Obligations secured hereby.
 
8. Subordination. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement:
 
(a)           The Security Interest shall be subordinated for all purposes and in all respects to the liens and security interests securing any Senior Debt, regardless of the time, manner or order of perfection of any such liens and security interests.
 
(b)           Promptly upon Debtor's request, Secured Parties will from time to time execute and deliver a subordination agreement on the terms consistent with Section 9 of the Notes and this Section 8 and reasonably requested by any holder of any Senior Debt (or any agent for such holders), including but not limited to subordination provisions providing for subordination of the Notes, the Obligations and the Security Interest to any Senior Debt.
 
9. Release. Upon payment in full of the Obligations, the Security Interest shall automatically terminate and be released without any further action of the Secured Parties, and at such time Debtor is authorized to file terminations, releases and any other document necessary to terminate and release any evidence of the Security Interest delivered by Debtor or otherwise recorded or filed to evidence the Security Interest, including releases or terminations of UCC financing statements.
 
10. Miscellaneous. The rights and privileges of each Secured Party shall inure to its successors and assigns. All representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of Debtor shall bind Debtor and Debtor's successors and assigns. Unless otherwise defined herein, definitions in the Uniform Commercial Code apply to words and phrases in this Agreement. Debtor waives presentment, demand, notice of dishonor, protest, and extension of time without notice as to any instruments and chattel paper in the Collateral. Notice mailed to Debtor's address set forth above, or to Debtor's most recent changed address on file with Secured Parties, at least five (5) days prior to the related action (or, if the Uniform Commercial Code specifies a longer period, such longer period prior to the related action), shall be deemed reasonable. The laws of the State of New York shall govern the rights and obligations of the parties to this Agreement and the interpretation, construction and enforceability thereof. As used herein, the singular shall include the plural, the plural shall include the singular, and the use of any gender shall include all genders. A photographic or other reproduction of this Agreement, or any financing statement signed by Debtor, is sufficient as a financing statement.
 
 
 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement under seal as of the day and year first above written.
 
WITNESS:  
RUMBLEON, INC.
 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 
Marshall Chesrown
 
 
 
President
"Debtor"
 
 
WITNESS:  
HALCYON CONSULTING, LLC
 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 
Kartik Kakarala
 
 
 
Manager
"Secured Party"
 
WITNESS:  
 
 
 
  
By:  

 
 
 
Denmar Dixon  
 
 
 
"Secured Party"   
 
  
WITNESS:  
BLUE FLAME CAPITAL, LLC
 
 
 
 
 

By:  

 
 
 
Denmar Dixon
 
 
 
Managing Partner
"Secured Party"
 
WITNESS:  
 
 
 
  
By:  

 
 
 
Lori Sue Chesrown  
 
 
 
"Secured Party"   
 
WITNESS:    
 
    
 
 
By:   

 
 
 
Ralph Wegis     
 
 
 
"Secured Party"     
 
 
 

 
 
EXHIBIT "A"
 
Notes
 
 
(1) ________ Senior Secured Confessed Judgment Promissory Note by RumbleOn, Inc. to the order of Halcyon Consulting, LLC;
 
(2) ________ Senior Secured Confessed Judgment Promissory Note by RumbleOn, Inc. to the order of Denmar Dixon;
 
(3) ________ Senior Secured Confessed Judgment Promissory Note by RumbleOn, Inc. to the order of Blue Flame Capital, LLC;
 
(4) ________ Senior Secured Confessed Judgment Promissory Note by RumbleOn, Inc. to the order of Lori Sue Chesrown; and
 
(5) ________ Senior Secured Confessed Judgment Promissory Note by RumbleOn, Inc. to the order of Ralph Wegis
 
 

 
 
EXHIBIT "B"
 
Permitted Encumbrances
 
(a) liens created hereby or otherwise securing the Note;
 
(b) the following liens existing on the date hereof and any renewals or extensions thereof: ________________________________________________________;
 
(c) liens (other than liens imposed under ERISA) for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies not yet due or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable person in accordance with GAAP;
 
(d) statutory or common law liens of landlords (and customary landlords’ liens in leases), carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, materialmen and suppliers and other liens imposed by law or pursuant to customary reservations or retentions of title arising in the ordinary course of business, provided that such liens secure only amounts not overdue by more than 90 days or, if more than 90 days overdue, are unfiled and no other action has been taken to enforce such lien or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings for which adequate reserves determined in accordance with GAAP have been established;
 
(e) pledges or deposits in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation, other than any lien imposed by ERISA;
 
(f) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts and leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;
 
(g) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances affecting real property which, in the aggregate, are not substantial in amount, and which do not in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the applicable person;
 
(h) judgment liens in respect of judgments, the uninsured portion of which, if any, does not exceed $100,000;
 
(i) liens securing Senior Debt;
 
(j) leases or subleases granted to others not interfering in any material respect with the business of Debtor;
 
(k) any interest of title of a lessor under, and liens arising from UCC financing statements (or equivalent filings, registrations or agreements in foreign jurisdictions) relating to, leases;
 
(l) normal and customary rights of setoff upon deposits of cash in favor of banks or other depository institutions;
 
(m) liens of a collection bank arising under Section 4-210 of the Uniform Commercial Code on items in the course of collection;
 
(n) liens of sellers of goods to the Debtor arising under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code or similar provisions of applicable law in the ordinary course of business, covering only the goods sold and securing only the unpaid purchase price for such goods and related expenses; and
 
(o) liens existing on property at the time of its acquisition; provided, that, (i) such lien was not created in contemplation of such acquisition, and (ii) such lien does not encumber any property other than the property encumbered at the time of such acquisition.
 
 

 
Exhibit 99.1
 
 
RumbleOn, Inc. Closes $10.26 Million Public Offering of its Class B Common Stock and Private Placement of
$8.75 Million Convertible Notes
 
Dallas, Texas, January 14, 2020 – RumbleOn, Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBL) (the “Company”), the e-commerce company using innovative technology to simplify how dealers and consumers buy, sell, trade or finance pre-owned vehicles, today announced the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 18,000,000 shares of its Class B Common Stock at a price of $0.57 per share. All of the Class B Common Stock was offered by the Company.
 
National Securities Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of National Holdings Corporation (NasdaqCM:NHLD), served as lead book-running manager for the offering. Maxim Group LLC served as co-manager for the offering.
 
The gross proceeds from the public offering, were $10.26 million, excluding underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering-related expenses. Certain of our officers and directors have participated in the public offering.
 
RumbleOn also announced the closing of its previously announced private placement of $8.75 million aggregate principal amount of 6.75% convertible senior notes due 2025 (the “Note Offering”) and the exchange of $25 million of the Company’s 6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2024 for new 6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “New Notes”) in a private placement to qualified institutional buyers as defined by Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”).
 
The gross proceeds from the private placement, was approximately $8.75 million, excluding offering-related expenses.
 
RumbleOn intends to use the net proceeds from the two offerings for working capital and general corporate purposes, which may include further technology development, increased spending on marketing and advertising, and capital expenditures necessary to further grow the business.
 
Also, in connection with the closing of the offerings, certain of the Company's investors extended the maturity of currently outstanding promissory notes, and exchanged such notes for new notes (the "New Investor Notes"), including Halcyon Consulting, LLC, an entity affiliated with Kartik Kakarala, a director of the Company, and Denmar Dixon, also a director of the Company. The New Investor Notes, having an aggregate principal amount of $1.5 million, will mature on January 31, 2021, and will be convertible at any time at the Investor's option at a price of $3.00 per share.
 
A shelf registration statement relating to the shares of Class B Common Stock offered and sold was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Form S-3 (Reg. No. 333-234340) and was declared effective by the SEC on October 31, 2019. The prospectus supplement relating to this offering is dated January 10, 2020. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained by request to the offices of National Securities Corporation, Attn: Charles Wanyama, Syndicate, 200 Vesey St, 25th Floor, New York, NY 10281, Telephone: (212)-417-3634; Email: prospectusrequest@nationalsecurities.com; or on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.
 
Akerman LLP served as legal counsel to RumbleOn, and McGuireWoods LLP served as legal counsel to the underwriters.
 
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale is not permitted.
 
About RumbleOn, Inc.
 
RumbleOn (NASDAQ: RMBL) is an e-commerce company that uses innovative technology to simplify how dealers and customers buy, sell, trade, or finance pre-owned vehicles through RumbleOn’s 100% online marketplace. Leveraging its capital-light network of 17 regional partnerships and innovative technological solutions, RumbleOn is disrupting the old-school pre-owned vehicle supply chain by providing users with the most efficient, timely and transparent transaction experience. For more information, please visit http://www.rumbleon.com.
 
 
 
 
Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements
 
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding the offering and the intended use of proceeds from the offering. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are based on our expectations as of the date of this press release and speak only as of the date of this press release and are advised to consider the factors listed above together with the additional factors under the heading “Forward-Looking Statements” and “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, as may be supplemented or amended by the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings with the SEC, including the prospectus supplement. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
 
Investor Relations:
 
The Blueshirt Group:
Whitney Kukulka
Investors@rumbleon.com
 
Source: RumbleOn, Inc.