E-LOAN, INC.
RESTATED INVESTOR RIGHTS AGREEMENT
This Restated Investor Rights Agreement (the "Agreement") is
effective as of August 20, 1999 by and among E-Loan, Inc. (the "Company")
and the investors listed on Schedule A attached hereto (the "Investors"). This
Agreement amends and restates the Investor Rights Agreement dated as of May 13,
1999 (the "Prior Agreement").
The Prior Agreement is hereby terminated in its entirety and restated herein.
Such termination and restatement is effective upon the execution of this
Agreement by the holders of at least a majority of the shares of Registrable
Securities (as the term is defined under the Prior Agreement) outstanding as of
the date of this Agreement.
RECITALS
A. Pursuant to that certain Series C Preferred Stock Purchase
Agreement dated December 18, 1997 (the "Series C Agreement"), the Company agreed
to sell to certain Investors (the "Series C Holders") a total of 4,069,936
shares of the Series C Preferred Stock of the Company and, as an inducement for
the Series C Holders to purchase such shares, the Company agreed to grant
certain rights to the Series C Holders.
B. Pursuant to that certain Series C Warrant Agreement dated March 26,
1998, (the "Series C Warrant") the Company agreed to issue to certain Investors
a warrant exercisable for a total of 200,000 shares of the Series C Preferred
Stock and, in connection with the Series C Warrant Agreement, the Company agreed
to grant certain rights to the warrant holder.
C. Pursuant to that certain Series D Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement
dated September 4, 1998 (the "Series D Agreement"), the Company agreed to sell
to certain Investors (the "Series D Holders") a total of 1,662,529 shares of the
Series D Preferred Stock of the Company and, as an inducement for the Series D
Holders to purchase such shares, the Company agreed to enter into this
Agreement.
D. Pursuant to a Stock Purchase Warrant dated May 13, 1999 (the "Common
Stock Warrant Agreement"), the Company has agreed to issue to certain Investors
a warrant exercisable for a total of 75,000 shares of Common Stock of the
Company and, pursuant to the Common Stock Warrant Agreement, the Company agreed
to enter into this Agreement.
- Registration Rights
.
- Definitions
. For purposes of this Section 1:
- The term "register," "registered," and "registration" refer to a
registration effected by preparing and filing a registration statement or
similar document in compliance with the Act, and the declaration or ordering of
effectiveness of such registration statement or document;
- The term "Registrable Securities" means (1) the Common Stock issued or
issuable upon (i) conversion of the outstanding Series C Preferred Stock sold
pursuant to the Series C Agreement dated December 18, 1997 and upon exercise of
the Series C Warrant; (ii) conversion of the outstanding shares of Series D
Preferred Stock sold pursuant to the Series D Agreement dated September 4, 1998;
and (iii) exercise of the Common Stock Warrant, and any Common Stock held by the
Investors and any of their affiliates, (2) the Common Stock issued or issuable
upon conversion of any Series C-1 Preferred Stock issued or issuable in exchange
for Series C Preferred Stock pursuant to Article IV, Section 3(d) of the
Company's Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, and (3) any Common
Stock of the Company issued as (or issuable upon the conversion or exercise of
any warrant, right or other security which is issued as) a dividend or other
distribution with respect to, or in exchange for or in replacement of, such
Preferred Stock or Common Stock, excluding in all cases, however, (i) any
Registrable Securities sold by a person in a transaction in which such person's
rights under this Section 1 are not assigned, or (ii) any Registrable
Securities sold to or through a broker or dealer or underwriter in a public
distribution or a public securities transaction;
- The number of shares of "Registrable Securities then outstanding" shall be
determined by the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding which are
issuable pursuant to then exercisable or convertible securities which are,
Registrable Securities;
- The term "Holder" means any person owning or having the right to acquire
Registrable Securities or any assignee thereof in accordance with
Section 1.13 hereof;
- The term "Form S-3" means such form under the Act as in effect on the date
hereof or any registration form under the Act subsequently adopted by the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") which permits inclusion or
incorporation of substantial information by reference to other documents filed
by the Company with the SEC; and
- The term "Act" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
- Request for Registration
.
- If the Company shall receive at the earlier of (i) December 31, 2001 or (ii)
six (6) months after the effective date of the Company's initial registration
statement (but not within six (6) months of the effective date of a registration
statement for a public offering of securities of the Company (other than a
registration statement relating either to the sale of securities to employees of
the Company pursuant to a stock option, stock purchase or similar plan or a SEC
Rule 145 transaction)), a written request from the Holders of at least 66 2/3%
of the Registrable Securities then outstanding (including securities convertible
into Registrable Securities) that the Company file a registration statement
under the Act covering the registration of Registrable Securities having an
aggregate offering price in excess of $1,500,000, then the Company shall, within
ten (10) days of the receipt thereof, give written notice of such request to all
Holders and shall, subject to the limitations of Section 1.2(b), effect as
soon as practicable, and in any event within 90 days of the receipt of such
request, the registration under the Act of all Registrable Securities which the
Holders request to be registered within twenty (20) days of the mailing of such
written notice by the Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be
obligated to take any action to effect any such registration, qualification or
compliance pursuant to this Section 1.2(a):
- During the period starting with the date sixty (60) days prior to the
Company's estimated date of filing of, and ending on the date 120 days
immediately following the effective date of, any registration statement
pertaining to securities of the Company (other than a registration of securities
in a Rule 145 transaction or with respect to an employee benefit plan), provided
that the Company is actively employing in good faith all reasonable efforts to
cause such registration statement to become effective;
- After the Company has effected two such registrations pursuant to this
Section 1.2(a), and both registrations have been declared or ordered
effective; or
- If the Company shall furnish to such Holders a certificate signed by the
Chairman of the Board of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of
the Board of Directors it would be seriously detrimental to the Company or its
shareholders for a registration statement to be filed at such time, then the
Company's obligation to use its best efforts to register, qualify or comply
under this Section 1.2(a) shall be deferred for a period not to exceed 120
days from the date of receipt of written request from the Holders; provided,
however, that the Company may not utilize this right more than once in any
twelve-month period.
- If the Holders initiating the registration request hereunder (the
"Initiating Holders") intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by
their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the Company as a
part of their request made pursuant to this Section 1.2 and the Company
shall include such information in the written notice referred to in
Section 1.2(a). In such event, the right of any Holder to include his
Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such
Holder's participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of such Holder's
Registrable Securities in the underwriting (unless otherwise mutually agreed by
a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders and such Holder) to the extent
provided herein. All Holders proposing to distribute their securities through
such underwriting shall (together with the Company as provided in
Section 1.4(e)) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with
the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by a majority in
interest of the Initiating Holders. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Section 1.2, if the underwriter advises the Initiating Holders in writing
that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of shares to be
underwritten, then the Initiating Holders shall so advise all Holders of
Registrable Securities which would otherwise be underwritten pursuant hereto,
and the number of shares of Registrable Securities that may be included in the
underwriting shall be allocated among all Holders thereof, including the
Initiating Holders, in proportion (as nearly as practicable) to the amount of
Registrable Securities of the Company owned by each Holder.
- Company Registration
. If (but without any obligation to do so) the
Company proposes to register (including for this purpose a registration effected
by the Company for shareholders other than the Holders) any of its stock or
other securities under the Act in connection with the public offering of such
securities solely for cash (other than a registration relating solely to the
sale of securities to participants in a Company stock plan, the Company shall,
at such time, promptly give each Holder written notice of such registration.
Upon the written request of each Holder given within twenty (20) days after
mailing of written notice by the Company, the Company shall, subject to the
provisions of Section 1.8, cause to be registered under the Act all of the
Registrable Securities that each such Holder has requested to be
registered.
- Obligations of the Company
. Whenever required under this
Section 1 to effect the registration of any Registrable Securities, the
Company shall, as expeditiously as reasonably possible:
- Prepare and file with the SEC a registration statement with respect to such
Registrable Securities and use its best efforts to cause such registration
statement to become effective, and, upon the request of the Holders of a
majority of the Registrable Securities registered thereunder, keep such
registration statement effective for up to one hundred twenty (120) days.
- Prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and supplements to such
registration statement and the prospectus used in connection with such
registration statement as may be necessary to comply with the provisions of the
Act with respect to the disposition of all securities covered by such
registration statement.
- Furnish to the Holders such numbers of copies of a prospectus, including a
preliminary prospectus, in conformity with the requirements of the Act, and such
other documents as they may reasonably request in order to facilitate the
disposition of Registrable Securities owned by them.
- Use its best efforts to register and qualify the securities covered by such
registration statement under such other securities or Blue Sky laws of such
jurisdictions as shall be reasonably requested by the Holders, provided that the
Company shall not be required in connection therewith or as a condition thereto
to qualify to do business or to file a general consent to service of process in
any such states or jurisdictions.
- In the event of any underwritten public offering, enter into and perform its
obligations under an underwriting agreement, in usual and customary form, with
the managing underwriter of such offering. Each Holder participating in such
underwriting shall also enter into and perform its obligations under such an
agreement provided that such underwriting agreement shall not provide for
indemnification or contribution obligations on the part of the holders greater
than the obligations set forth in Section 1.10(b).
- Notify each Holder of Registrable Securities covered by such registration
statement at any time when a prospectus relating thereto is required to be
delivered under the Act of the happening of any event as a result of which the
prospectus included in such registration statement, as then in effect, includes
an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading in the light of the circumstances then existing, or otherwise fails
to comply with the requirements of the Act and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder. The Company shall, promptly upon the happening of any
such event, provide each such Holder with revised prospectuses correcting any
such untrue statement or omission or failure to comply.
- Furnish, at the request of any Holder requesting registration of Registrable
Securities pursuant to this Section 1, on the date that such Registrable
Securities are delivered to the underwriters for sale in connection with a
registration pursuant to this Section 1, if such securities are being sold
through underwriters, or, if such securities are not being sold through
underwriters, on the date that the registration statement with respect to such
securities becomes effective, (i) an opinion, dated such date, of the counsel
representing the Company for the purposes of such registration, in form and
substance as is customarily given to underwriters in an underwritten public
offering, addressed to the underwriters, if any, and to the Holders requesting
registration of Registrable Securities and (ii) if such offering is being
underwritten, a letter dated such date, from the independent certified public
accountants of the Company, in form and substance as is customarily given by
independent certified public accountants to underwriters in an underwritten
public offering, addressed to the underwriters.
- Furnish Information
. It shall be a condition precedent to the
obligations of the Company to take any action pursuant to this Section 1
with respect to the Registrable Securities of any selling Holder that such
holder shall furnish to the Company such information regarding itself, the
Registrable Securities held by it, and the intended method of disposition of
such securities as shall be required to effect the registration of such Holder's
Registrable Securities.
- Expenses of Demand Registration
. All expenses other than
underwriting discounts and commissions incurred in connection with the
registration, filing or qualification pursuant to Section 1.2, including
all registration, filing and qualification fees, printers' and accounting fees,
fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company, and the reasonable fees and
disbursements of one counsel for the selling Holders shall be borne by the
Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay for
any expenses of any registration proceeding begun pursuant to Section 1.2
if the registration request is subsequently withdrawn at the request of the
Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities to be registered (in which
case all Participating Holders shall bear such expenses), unless the Holders of
a majority of the Registrable Securities agree to forfeit their right to a
demand registration pursuant to Section 1.2; provided further, however,
that if at the time of such withdrawal, the Holders have learned of a material
adverse change in the condition, business, or prospects of the Company from that
known to the Holders at the time of their request, then the Holders shall not be
required to pay any of such expenses and shall retain their rights pursuant to
Section 1.2.
- Expenses of Company Registration
. The Company shall bear and pay all
expenses incurred in connection with any registration, filing or qualification
of Registrable Securities with respect to the registrations pursuant to
Section 1.3 for each Holder (which right may be assigned as provided in
Section 1.13), including all registration, filing, and qualification fees,
printers and accounting fees relating or apportionable thereto and the fees and
disbursements of one counsel for the selling Holders selected by them, but
excluding underwriting discounts and commissions relating to Registrable
Securities.
- Underwriting Requirements
. In connection with any offering involving
an underwriting of shares being issued by the Company, the Company shall not be
required under Section 1.3 to include any of the Holders' securities in
such underwriting unless they accept the terms of the underwriting as agreed
upon between the Company and the underwriters selected by it, and then only in
such quantity as will not, in the opinion of the underwriters, jeopardize the
success of the offering by the Company; provided that such underwriting
agreement shall not provide for indemnification or contribution obligations on
the part of the Holders greater than the obligations set forth in
Section 1.10(b). If the total amount of securities, including Registrable
Securities, requested by shareholders to be included in such offering exceeds
the amount of securities sold other than by the Company that the underwriters
reasonably believe compatible with the success of the offering, then the Company
shall be required to include in the offering only that number of such
securities, including Registrable Securities, which the underwriters believe
will not jeopardize the success of the offering (the securities so included to
be apportioned pro rata among the Holders and other shareholders who have been
granted registration rights (the "Additional Holders") by the Company according
to the total amount of securities owned by each such shareholder for which the
Company has granted registration rights or in such other proportions as shall
mutually be agreed to by such selling shareholders, provided,
however, that in no event shall the Holder's and the Additional Holder's
shares (in the aggregate) be reduced below 25% of the shares sold in any
offering. For purposes of apportionment, any selling shareholder which is a
Holder of Registrable Securities and which is a partnership or corporation, the
affiliated partnerships, partners, retired partners and shareholders of such
Holder, or the estates and family members of any such partners and retired
partners and any trusts for the benefit of any of the foregoing persons shall be
deemed to be a single "selling shareholder", and any pro rata reduction with
respect to such "selling shareholder" shall be based upon the aggregate amount
of shares carrying registration rights owned by all entities and individuals
included in such "selling shareholder," as defined in this sentence.
- Delay of Registration
. No Holder shall have any right to obtain or
seek an injunction restraining or otherwise delaying any such registration as
the result of any controversy that might arise with respect to the
interpretation or implementation of this Section 1.
- Indemnification
. In the event any Registrable Securities are
included in a registration statement under this Section 1:
- To the extent permitted by law, the Company will indemnify and hold harmless
each Holder, any underwriter (as defined in the Act) for such Holder and each
person, if any, who controls such Holder or underwriter within the meaning of
the Act or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, amended (the "1934 Act"),
against any losses, claims, damages, or liabilities (joint or several) to which
they may become subject under the Act, the 1934 Act or other federal or state
law, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, or liabilities (or actions in
respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any of the following statements,
omissions or violations (collectively a "Violation"): (i) any untrue statement
or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in such registration
statement, including any preliminary prospectus or final prospectus contained
therein or any amendments or supplements thereto, (ii) the omission or alleged
omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein, or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (iii) any violation
or alleged violation by the Company of the Act, the 1934 Act, any state
securities law or any rule or regulation promulgated under the Act, the 1934 Act
or any state securities law; and the Company will pay to each such Holder,
underwriter or controlling person, as incurred, any legal or other expenses
reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any
such loss, claim, damage, liability, or action; provided, however, that the
indemnity agreement contained in this Section 1.10(a) shall not apply to
amounts paid in settlement of any such loss, claim, damage, liability, or action
if such settlement is effected without the consent of the Company (which consent
shall not be unreasonably withheld), nor shall the Company be liable in any such
case for any such loss, claim, damage, liability, or action to the extent that
it arises out of or is based upon a Violation which occurs in reliance upon and
in conformity with written information furnished expressly for use in connection
with such registration by any such Holder, underwriter or controlling
person.
- To the extent permitted by law, each selling Holder will indemnify and hold
harmless the Company, each of its directors, each of its officers who has signed
the registration statement, each person, if any, who controls the Company within
the meaning of the Act, any underwriter, any other Holder selling securities in
such registration statement and any controlling person of any such underwriter
or other selling Holder, against any losses, claims, damages, or liabilities
(joint or several) to which any of the foregoing persons may become subject,
under the Act, the 1934 Act or other federal or state law, insofar as such
losses, claims, damages, or liabilities (or actions in respect thereto) arise
out of or are based upon any Violation, in each case to the extent (and only to
the extent) that such Violation occurs in reliance upon and in conformity with
written information furnished by such Holder expressly for use in connection
with such registration; and each such Holder will pay any legal or other
expenses reasonably incurred by any person intended to be indemnified pursuant
to this Section 1.10(b), in connection with investigating or defending any
such loss, claim, damage, liability, or action; provided, however, that the
indemnity agreement contained in this Section 1.10(b) shall not apply to
amounts paid in settlement of any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action
if such settlement is effected without the consent of the Holder, which consent
shall not be unreasonably withheld; provided, that, in no event shall any
indemnity under this Section 1.10(b) exceed the net proceeds from the
offering received by such Holder.
- Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 1.10
of notice of the commencement of any action (including any governmental action),
such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against
any indemnifying party under this Section 1.10, deliver to the indemnifying
party a written notice of the commencement thereof and the indemnifying party
shall have the right to participate in, and, to the extent the indemnifying
party so desires, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly noticed,
to assume the defense thereof with counsel mutually satisfactory to the parties;
provided, however, that an indemnified party shall have the right to retain its
own counsel, with the fees and expenses to be paid by the indemnifying party, if
representation of such indemnified party by the counsel retained by the
indemnifying party would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing
interests between such indemnified party and any other party represented by such
counsel in such proceeding. The failure to deliver written notice to the
indemnifying party within a reasonable time of the commencement of any such
action, if prejudicial to its ability to defend such action, shall relieve such
indemnifying party of any liability to the indemnified party under this
Section 1.10, but the omission to so deliver written notice to the
indemnifying party will not relieve it of any liability that it may have to any
indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 1.10.
- If the indemnification provided for in Section 1.10 is held by a court
of competent jurisdiction to be unavailable to an indemnified party with respect
to any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to herein, the
indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party thereunder,
shall to the extent permitted by applicable law contribute to the amount paid or
payable by such indemnified party as a result of such loss, claim, damage or
liability in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of
the indemnifying party on the one hand and of the indemnified party on the other
in connection with the Violation(s) that resulted in such loss, claim, damage or
liability, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative
fault of the indemnifying party and of the indemnified party shall be determined
by a court of law by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission to state a material
fact relates to information supplied by the indemnifying party or by the
indemnified party and the parties' relative intent, knowledge, access to
information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission;
provided, that in no event shall any contribution by a Holder hereunder exceed
the net proceeds from the offering received by such Holder.
- The obligations of the Company and Holders under this Section 1.10
shall survive the completion of any offering of Registrable Securities in a
registration statement under this Section 1, and otherwise.
- Reports Under Securities Exchange Act of 1934
. With a view to making
available to the Holders the benefits of Rule 144 promulgated under the Act and
any other rule or regulation of the SEC that may at any time permit a Holder to
sell securities of the Company to the public without registration or pursuant to
a registration on Form S-3, the Company agrees to:
- make and keep public information available, as those terms are understood
and defined in SEC Rule 144, at all times after ninety (90) days after the
effective date of the first registration statement filed by the Company for the
offering of its securities to the general public;
- take such action, including the voluntary registration of its Common Stock
under Section 12 of the 1934 Act, as is necessary to enable the Holders to
utilize Form S-3 for the sale of their Registrable Securities, such action to be
taken as soon as practicable after the end of the fiscal year in which the first
registration statement filed by the Company for the offering of its securities
to the general public is declared effective;
- file with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and other documents
required of the Company under the Act and the 1934 Act; and
- furnish to any Holder, so long as the Holder owns any Registrable
Securities, forthwith upon request (i) a written statement by the Company that
it has complied with the reporting requirements of SEC Rule 144 (at any time
after ninety (90) days after the effective date of the first registration
statement filed by the Company), the Act and the 1934 Act (at any time after it
has become subject to such reporting requirements), or that it qualifies as a
registrant whose securities may be resold pursuant to Form S-3 (at any time
after it so qualifies), (ii) a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly
report of the Company and such other reports and documents so filed by the
Company, and (iii) such other information as may be reasonably requested in
availing any Holder of any rule or regulation of the SEC which permits the
selling of any such securities without registration or pursuant to such
form.
- Form S-3 Registration
.
- In case the Company shall receive from any Holder or Holders who hold 20% of
the Company's Registrable Securities, a written request or requests that the
Company effect a registration on Form S-3 and any related qualification or
compliance with respect to all or a part of the Registrable Securities owned by
such Holder or Holders, the Company will:
- promptly give written notice of the proposed registration, and any related
qualification or compliance, to all other Holders; and
- as soon as practicable, effect such registration and all such qualifications
and compliances as may be so requested and as would permit or facilitate the
sale and distribution of all or such portion of such Holder's or Holders'
Registrable Securities as are specified in such request, together with all or
such portion of the Registrable Securities of any other Holder or Holders
joining in such request as are specified in a written request given within 15
days after receipt of such written notice from the Company; provided, however,
that the Company shall not be obligated to effect any such registration,
qualification or compliance, pursuant to this Section 1.12: (1) if Form S-3
is not available for such offering by the Holders; (2) if the Holders, together
with the holders of any other securities of the Company entitled to inclusion in
such registration, propose to sell Registrable Securities and such other
securities (if any) at an aggregate price to the public of less than $1,500,000;
(3) if the Company shall furnish to the Holders a certificate signed by the
Chairman of the Board of the Company stating that in the good faith judgment of
the Board of Directors of the Company, it would be seriously detrimental to the
Company and its shareholders for such Form S-3 Registration to be effected at
such time, in which event the Company shall have the right to defer the filing
of the Form S-3 registration statement for a period of not more than 120 days
after receipt of the request of the Holder or Holders under this
Section 1.12; provided, however, that the Company shall not utilize this
right more than once in any twelve (12) month period; or (4) in any particular
jurisdiction in which the Company would be required to qualify to do business or
to execute a general consent to service of process in effecting such
registration, qualification or compliance.
- If the Holders initiating the registration request hereunder (the
"Initiating Holders") intend to distribute the Registrable Securities covered by
their request by means of an underwriting, they shall so advise the Company as
part of their request made pursuant to this Section 1.12 and the Company
shall include such information in the written notice referred to in
Section 1.12(a)(i). In such event, the right of any Holder to include his
Registrable Securities in such registration shall be conditioned upon such
Holder's participation in such underwriting and the inclusion of such Holder's
Registrable Securities in the underwriting (unless otherwise mutually agreed by
a majority in interest of the Initiating Holders and such Holder) to the extent
provided herein. All Holders proposing to distribute their securities through
such underwriting shall (together with the Company as provided in
Section 1.4(e)) enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with
the underwriter or underwriters selected for such underwriting by a majority in
interest of the Initiating Holders. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Section 1.12, if the underwriter advises the Initiating Holders in writing
that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of shares to be
underwritten, then the Initiating Holders shall so advise all Holders of
Registrable Securities which would otherwise be underwritten pursuant hereto,
and the number of shares of Registrable Securities that may be included in the
underwriting shall be allocated among all Holders thereof, including the
Initiating Holders, in proportion (as nearly as practicable) to the amount of
Registrable Securities of the Company owned by each Holder.
- Subject to the foregoing, the Company shall file a registration statement
covering the Registrable Securities and other securities so requested to be
registered as soon as practicable after receipt of the request or requests of
the Holders and use its best efforts to keep such registration statement
effective until the registered shares are sold or for three months, whichever
comes first. All expenses incurred in connection with a registration requested
pursuant to Section 1.12, including all registration, filing,
qualification, printer's and accounting fees and the reasonable fees and
disbursements of one counsel for the selling Holders selected by them, but
excluding any underwriters' discounts or commissions associated with Registrable
Securities, shall be borne by the Company. Registrations effected pursuant to
this Section 1.12 shall not be counted as demands for registration or
registrations effected pursuant to Section 1.2 or 1.3,
respectively.
- Assignment of Registration Rights
. The rights to cause the Company
to register Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 1 may be
assigned by a Holder to a transferee or assignee who acquires at least 1,500,000
shares of Registrable Securities, provided the Company is, within a reasonable
time after such transfer, furnished with written notice of the name and address
of such transferee or assignee and the securities with respect to which such
registration rights are being assigned; and provided, further, that such
assignment shall be effective only if immediately following such transfer the
further disposition of such securities by the transferee or assignee is
restricted under the Act. Notwithstanding the above, such rights may be
assigned by a Holder to a limited partner, general partner, affiliated
partnership, former partner, majority owned subsidiary or other affiliate of an
Investor (the "Transferee") regardless of the number of shares acquired by such
Transferee. For purposes of determining the number of shares of Registrable
Securities held by a transferee or assignee, the holdings of transferees and
assignees of a partnership who are partners or retired partners of such
partnership (including spouses and ancestors, lineal descendants and siblings of
such partners or spouses who acquire Registrable Securities by gift, will or
intestate succession) shall be aggregated together and with the partnership;
provided that all assignees, and transferees who would not qualify individually
for assignment of registration rights shall have a single attorney-in-fact for
the purpose of exercising any rights, receiving notices or taking any action
under this Section 1.
- Limitations on Subsequent Registration Rights
. From and after the
date of this Agreement, the Company shall not, without the prior written consent
of the Holders of at least a majority of the outstanding Registrable Securities,
enter into any agreement with any holder or prospective holder of any securities
of the Company which would allow such holder or prospective holder to include
such securities in any registration filed under Section 1.2 hereof, unless
under the terms of such agreement, such holder or prospective holder may include
such securities in any such registration only to the extent that the inclusion
of his securities will not reduce the amount of the Registrable Securities of
the Holders which is included.
- "Market Stand-Off" Agreement
. Each holder of securities which are or
at one time were Registrable Securities (or which are or were convertible into
Registrable Securities) hereby agrees that, during a period not to exceed 180
days, following the effective date of a registration statement of the Company
filed under the Act, it shall not, to the extent requested by the Company and
such underwriter, sell or otherwise transfer or dispose of (other than to a
donee who agrees to be similarly bound) any Common Stock of the Company held by
it at any time during such period except Common Stock included in such
registration; provided, however, that:
- such agreement shall be applicable only to the first such registration
statement of the Company which covers Common Stock (or other securities) to be
sold on its behalf to the public in an underwritten offering; and
- all officers and directors of the Company enter into similar
agreements.
In order to enforce the foregoing covenant, the Company may impose stop-
transfer instructions with respect to the Registrable Securities of each
Investor (and the shares or securities of every other person subject to the
foregoing restriction) until the end of such period.
- Termination of Registration Rights
. No shareholder shall be entitled
to exercise any right provided for in this Section 1 after the earlier of
seven (7) years following the consummation of the sale of securities pursuant to
a registration statement filed by the Company under the Act in connection with
the initial firm commitment underwritten offering of its securities to the
general public or when all Registrable Securities can be sold in any three month
period under Rule 144.
- Information Rights
.
- Observer Rights
. As long as affiliates of Softbank own not less than
fifty percent (50%) of the shares of the Series D Preferred it purchased on
September 4, 1998 (or an equivalent amount of Common Stock issued upon
conversion thereof), the Company shall invite a representative of Softbank to be
an Observer As long as any funds affiliated with Sequoia Capital ("Sequoia")
owns not less than fifty percent (50%) of the shares of the Series D Preferred
it purchased on September 4, 1998 (or an equivalent amount of Common Stock
issued upon conversion thereof), the Company shall invite a representative of
Sequoia to be an Observer. As long as any funds affiliated with Technology
Partners ("Technology Partners") owns not less than fifty percent (50%) of the
shares of the Series C Preferred Stock it purchased on December 18, 1997 (or an
equivalent amount of Common Stock or Series C-1 Preferred Stock issued upon
conversion thereof), the Company shall invite a representative of Technology
Partners to be an Observer. For purposes of this Agreement, an Observer shall
attend all meetings of its Board of Directors in a nonvoting observer capacity
and, in this respect, shall be given copies of all notices, minutes, consents,
and other materials that the Company provides to its directors; provided,
however, that the Observer shall agree to hold in confidence and trust and to
act in a fiduciary manner with respect to all information so provided; and,
provided further, that the Company reserves the right to withhold any
information and to exclude the Observer from any meeting or portion thereof if
access to such information or attendance at such meeting could adversely affect
the attorney-client privilege between the Company and its counsel or would
result in disclosure of trade secrets to the Observer or if Softbank, Sequoia or
Technology Partners, or the Observer is a direct competitor of the
Company.
- Miscellaneous Provisions
.
- Waivers and Amendments
. Any term of this Agreement may be amended
and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived (either generally
or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively), only
with the written consent of the Company and the holders of at least a majority
of the shares of Registrable Securities. Any amendment or waiver effected in
accordance with this Section 3.1 shall be binding upon each person or
entity which are granted certain rights under this Agreement and the
Company.
- Notices
. All notices and other communications required or permitted
hereunder shall be in writing and, except as otherwise noted herein, shall be
deemed effectively given upon personal delivery, delivery by nationally
recognized courier or five business days after deposit with the United States
Post Office (by first class mail, postage prepaid), addressed: (a) if to the
Company, at 5875 Arnold Road, Dublin, CA 94568 (or at such other address as the
Company shall have furnished to the Investors in writing) attention of President
and (b) if to an Investor, at the latest address of such person shown on the
Company's records.
- Descriptive Headings
. The descriptive headings herein have been
inserted for convenience only and shall not be deemed to limit or otherwise
affect the construction of any provisions hereof.
- Governing Law
. This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted
under the laws of the State of California as applied to agreements among
California residents, made and to be performed entirely within the State of
California.
- Counterparts
. This Agreement may be executed in one or more
counterparts, each of which shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original
and all of which shall constitute the same instrument, but only one of which
need be produced.
- Expenses
. If any action at law or in equity is necessary to enforce
or interpret the terms of this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled
to reasonable attorney's fees, costs and necessary disbursements in addition to
any other relief to which such party may be entitled.
- Successors and Assigns
. Except as otherwise expressly provided in
this Agreement, this Agreement shall benefit and bind the successors, assigns,
heirs, executors and administrators of the parties to this Agreement.
- Entire Agreement
. This Agreement constitutes the full and entire
understanding and agreement between the parties with regard to the subject
matter of this Agreement.
- Separability; Severability
. Unless expressly provided in this
Agreement, the rights of each Investor under this Agreement are several rights,
not rights jointly held with any other Investors. Any invalidity, illegality or
limitation on the enforceability of this Agreement with respect to any Investor
shall not affect the validity, legality or enforceability of this Agreement with
respect to the other Investors. If any provision of this Agreement is
judicially determined to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity,
legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not be affected or
impaired.
- Stock Splits
. All references to numbers of shares in this Agreement
shall be appropriately adjusted to reflect any stock dividend, split,
combination or other recapitalization of shares by the Company occurring after
the date of this Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement on the day and
year first set forth above.
COMPANY:
E-LOAN, INC.
By:
Title:
INVESTORS:
YAHOO! INC.
By:
Title:
SOFTBANK Holdings, Inc.
By:
Title:
SOFTBANK Technology Ventures IV L.P.
By: STV IV LLC
Its General Partner
By:
SOFTBANK Technology Advisors Fund L.P.
By: STV IV LLC
Its General Partner
By:
SEQUOIA CAPITAL
as nominee for:
Sequoia Capital VIII
Sequoia International Technology Partners VIII
Sequoia International Technology Partners VIII-Q
Sequoia 1997
CMS Partners
By:
Title:
BENCHMARK CAPITAL PARTNERS II, L.P.
By: BENCHMARK CAPITAL MANAGEMENT CO. II, L.L.C.
Its General Partner
By:
Member
TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS FUND VI, L.P.
By: TP Management VI, L.L.C.
By:
Ira Ehrenpreis, Managing Member
TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS FUND V, L.P.
By:TPW Management V, L.P.
By:
Ira Ehrenpreis, General Partner
E*TRADE Group, Inc.
By:
Title:
GREENWICH CAPITAL FINANCIAL PRODUCTS, INC.
By:
Title:
EXHIBIT A
LIST OF INVESTORS
Name |
Number of Shares |
Series |
Yahoo! Inc. |
323,869 |
Series D |
Softbank Holdings, Inc. |
388,643 |
Series D |
Softbank Technology Ventures IV, L.P. |
380,402 |
Series D |
Softbank Technology Advisors Fund, L.P. |
8,241 |
Series D |
Sequoia Capital VIII |
352,227 |
Series D |
Sequoia International Technology Partners VIII |
4,469 |
Series D |
Sequoia International Technology Partners VIII-Q |
23,319 |
Series D |
Sequoia 1997 |
855 |
Series D |
CMS Partners |
7,773 |
Series D |
Benchmark Capital Partners II |
97,161
2,589,959 |
Series D
Series C |
Technology Partners Fund V, L.P. |
10,111
739,989 |
Series D
Series C |
Technology Partners Fund VI, L.P. |
65,459
739,988 |
Series D
Series C |
E*TRADE Group, Inc. |
200,000 |
Series C |
Greedwich Capital Financial Products |
75,000 |
Common Stock* |
* Issuable upon exercise of the Common Stock Warrant