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): September 26, 2014 (September 25, 2014)

 

21st CENTURY ONCOLOGY

HOLDINGS, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

Delaware

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

 

333-170812

 

26-1747745

(Commission File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

2270 Colonial Boulevard

Fort Myers, Florida

 

33907

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

(239) 931-7275
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code)

 

N/A

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report.)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

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Item 1.01                                           Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

On September 26, 2014, 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) issued to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (the “Purchaser”), in a private placement, an aggregate of 385,000 newly issued shares of its Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), for a purchase price of $325.0 million.

 

This equity investment provides the Company with substantial incremental liquidity, significantly reduces its debt, and provides the necessary long-term capital to continue to grow its business.  A portion of the net proceeds from the Series A Preferred Stock will be used to repay all outstanding borrowings under the Company’s revolving credit facility, repay all obligations under the South Florida Radiation Oncology credit facilities, repay certain other debt and capital leases, as well as provide capital for near-term strategic initiatives and general corporate purposes.  As a result of this investment, the Recapitalization Support Agreement that the Company entered into in July has terminated in accordance with its terms, and the Company’s senior subordinated notes will remain outstanding and unmodified.

 

Series A Preferred Stock

 

The Series A Preferred Stock was issued by the Company to the Purchaser pursuant to a Subscription Agreement (the “Subscription Agreement”), dated as of September 26, 2014, by and among the Company, the Purchaser, 21st Century Oncology Investments, LLC (“Parent”) and 21st Century Oncology, Inc. (“Opco” and collectively with the Company and Parent, the “Sellers”).  The Subscription Agreement contains customary representations and warranties of the Sellers and the Purchaser and covenants with respect to the ongoing operation of the Company’s business.

 

As set forth in the Certificate of Designations of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Certificate of Designations”), holders of Series A Preferred Stock are entitled to receive, as and if declared by the board of directors of the Company, dividends at an applicable rate per annum, payable quarterly in arrears on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year.  During the first three years after issuance, any dividends when and if declared, shall be paid by the Company in the form of additional shares of Series A Preferred Stock.  During the first twelve months after issuance, the applicable dividend rate on the Series A Preferred Stock shall be 9.875%, thereafter increasing on a periodic basis, as set forth in the Certificate of Designations.  Such dividends accrue daily, whether or not declared by the board of directors of the Company.  After the third anniversary of issuance and only if the Company’s outstanding 97/8% senior subordinated notes due 2017 are repaid in full, or upon certain other events of default, dividends shall be paid in cash upon the election of a majority of the holders of Series A Preferred Stock.

 

The Series A Preferred Stock is mandatorily convertible into common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”) of the Company upon the occurrence of a qualifying initial public offering of the Company or a qualifying merger, in each case at the conversion prices set forth in the Certificate of Designations.  In the case of a qualifying initial public offer, the conversion price is the initial public offering price of the qualifying initial public offer.  Holders of Series A Preferred Stock also have, among other rights, the right to require the Company to repurchase their shares upon the occurrence of certain events of default and certain change of control transactions, at the prices set forth in the Certificate of Designations.  In addition, the Certificate of Designations also provides for certain consent rights of the holders of a majority of the outstanding Series A Preferred Stock (the “Majority Preferred Holders”) in connection with specified corporate events of Parent or its subsidiaries, including, among other things, with respect to certain equity issuances and certain acquisitions, financing transactions and asset sale transactions.  Upon certain events of default and the obtaining of applicable anti-trust regulatory approvals, holders of Series A Preferred Stock are also entitled to vote together with holders of Common Stock, on an as-converted basis.

 

Warrant Agreement

 

Pursuant to the terms of the Subscription Agreement, immediately following the occurrence of a qualifying initial public offering of the Company or a qualifying merger, the Company will execute and deliver to the Purchaser a Warrant Agreement in the form attached to the Subscription Agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”) and issue to the Purchaser warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock having a then-current value of $30 million, at a purchase price of $0.01 per share.  The warrants expire on the tenth anniversary of the date of issuance.

 

Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement

 

Effective as of September 26, 2014, Parent, the Company, the Purchaser and the other parties thereto entered into a Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement (the “Amended Securityholders Agreement”).  The Amended Securityholders Agreement amends and restates Parent’s existing securityholders agreement in its entirety to provide, among other things, that Parent’s board of managers (the “Board of Managers”), the Company’s board of directors (the “Company Board”) and Opco’s board of directors (the “Opco Board” and together with the Board of Managers and the Company Board, the “Seller Boards”) are to be comprised of (i) two managers nominated by the Majority Preferred Holders, (ii) three managers nominated by funds affiliated with Vestar Capital Partners (“Vestar”) and (iii) Dr. Daniel E. Dosoretz and one manager he shall nominate after consultation with Vestar and the Majority Preferred Holders, subject to certain ongoing security ownership provisions.  In addition, the size of the Seller

 

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Boards may be increased to include one independent manager nominated by the Majority Preferred Holders at their election.  Following an event of default under the certificate of designations, the parties to the Amended Securityholders Agreement agree to vote in favor of a changed board composition at the election of the Majority Preferred Holders.  The Amended Securityholders Agreement provides for similar consent rights of the Majority Preferred Holders to those contained in the Certificate of Designations.  In addition, in the event that Parent or the Company proposes to incur indebtedness to a third party or the Company proposes to issue shares of its capital stock or other equity securities, the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock will have the right to provide a portion of such indebtedness or purchase a portion of such capital stock or other equity securities.  The Amended Securityholders Agreement also provides for the establishment of an executive committee of each of the Seller Boards (the “Executive Committees”), which will carry out all activities of each of the Seller Boards to the extent permitted by applicable Delaware law.  The Executive Committees shall be comprised of three members, one of which shall be designated by the Majority Preferred Holders, one of which shall be designated by a fund affiliated with Vestar and one of which will be designated by Dr. Dosoretz, subject to certain ongoing security ownership provisions.

 

Fifth Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of 21st Century Oncology Investments, LLC

 

Effective as of September 26, 2014, Parent entered into the Fifth Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement (the “Amended LLC Agreement”).  The Amended LLC Agreement amends and restates Parent’s existing limited liability company agreement in its entirety to, among other things, implement the terms of the Subscription Agreement and the Amended Securityholders Agreement including, without limitation, the board and committee composition terms set forth therein.

 

The foregoing descriptions of the Certificate of Designations, the Subscription Agreement, the Warrant Agreement, the Amended Securityholders Agreement and the Amended LLC Agreement are qualified in their entirety by reference to such documents, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibits 3.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4, respectively, and incorporated into this Item 1.01 by reference.

 

Amendment to Employment Agreement

 

On September 25, 2014, the Company entered into an amendment to the Second Amended and Restated Executive Employment Agreement with Dr. Dosoretz (the “Amendment”). Pursuant to the Amendment, Dr. Dosoretz’s annual base salary was decreased from $1,200,000 to $300,000, effective July 27, 2014. The Amendment also provides that in the event of a Change of Control of the Company (as defined in the Amendment), a material deleveraging of the Company or a material refinancing or recapitalization of the Company, Dr. Dosoretz’s annual base salary will be increased back to $1,200,000.

 

Should Dr. Dosoretz be terminated as Chief Executive Officer for any reason, the Amendment provides that Dr. Dosoretz may elect to remain employed by the Company as a senior physician providing radiation oncology services at the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ integrated cancer care centers and that, under such circumstances, Dr. Dosoretz and the Company, or one of its affiliates, shall enter into a new employment agreement pursuant to which Dr. Dosoretz will receive an annual base salary of $1,000,000 and be eligible to participate in such other performance, bonus and benefit plans afforded other senior physicians of the Company and receive comparable fringe benefits to such other senior physicians.

 

The foregoing description of the Amendment is qualified in its entirety by reference to such document, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.5 and incorporated into this Item 1.01 by reference.

 

Item 5.02                                           Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers.

 

The description of the Amendment included in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.02.

 

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

 

Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation of 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.

 

On September 25, 2014, the Company filed an amendment to its certificate of incorporation (the “Charter Amendment”) to authorize the issuance of 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock and 3,500,000 shares of preferred stock.

 

The foregoing description of the Charter Amendment is qualified in its entirety by reference to such document, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1 and incorporated into this Item 5.03 by reference.

 

The description of the Series A Preferred Stock and Certificate of Designations included in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.03.

 

Item 7.01                                           Regulation FD Disclosure.

 

On September 26, 2014, the Company issued a press release announcing the foregoing issuance to Purchaser. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Item 9.01                                           Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)                                 Exhibits.

 

Exhibit
Number

 

Description

3.1

 

Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation of 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.

3.2

 

Certificate of Designations of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock of 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.

10.1

 

Subscription Agreement by and among 21st Century Oncology Investments, LLC, 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc., 21st Century Oncology, Inc., and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, dated as of September 26, 2014.

10.2

 

Warrant Agreement.

10.3

 

Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement dated as of September 26, 2014, by and among 21st Century Oncology Investments, LLC, 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc. and the other parties thereto.

10.4

 

Fifth Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of 21st Century Oncology Investments, dated as of September 26, 2014.

10.5

 

Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Executive Employment Agreement, dated as of September 25, 2014, by and among 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc. and Daniel E. Dosoretz.

99.1

 

Press Release.

 

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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.

 

 

21st CENTURY ONCOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC.

 

 

 

 

Date: September 26, 2014

By:

/s/ Joseph Biscardi

 

 

Name:

Joseph Biscardi

 

 

Title:

Senior Vice President, Assistant Treasurer, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer

 

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EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit
Number

 

Description

3.1

 

Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation of 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.

3.2

 

Certificate of Designations of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock of 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.

10.1

 

Subscription Agreement by and among 21st Century Oncology Investments, LLC, 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc., 21st Century Oncology, Inc., and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, dated as of September 26, 2014.

10.2

 

Warrant Agreement.

10.3

 

Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement dated as of September 26, 2014, by and among 21st Century Oncology Investments, LLC, 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc. and the other parties thereto.

10.4

 

Fifth Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of 21st Century Oncology Investments, dated as of September 26, 2014.

10.5

 

Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Executive Employment Agreement, dated as of September 25, 2014, by and among 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc. and Daniel E. Dosoretz.

99.1

 

Press Release.

 

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Exhibit 3.1

 

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

OF THE

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

21ST CENTURY ONCOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC.

(a Delaware corporation)

 

Pursuant to Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the undersigned officer of 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Corporation”), hereby certifies as follows:

 

FIRST:                  The name of the Corporation is 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.

 

SECOND:             The date of filing of the Corporation’s original Certificate of Incorporation was October 9, 2007. The Corporation was originally incorporated under the name Radiation Therapy Services Holdings, Inc.

 

THIRD:                 The Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended to effect a change in Article Four thereof. Accordingly, Article Four of the Certificate of Incorporation shall be amended to read as follows:

 

ARTICLE FOUR

 

Section 1.              Authorized Shares.  The total number of shares of all classes of capital stock that the Corporation has authority to issue is 4,500,000 shares, consisting of:

 

(a)           3,500,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Preferred Stock”); and

 

(b)           1,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”).

 

The Preferred Stock and the Common Stock shall have the rights, preferences and limitations set forth below.

 

Section 2.              Preferred Stock.  Shares of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series.  The Board of Directors is authorized, to provide by resolution or resolutions from time to time for the issuance, out of the authorized but unissued shares of Preferred Stock, of all or any of the shares of Preferred Stock in one or more series, and to establish the number of shares to be included in each such series, and to fix the voting powers (full, limited or no voting powers), designations, powers, preferences, privileges and relative, participating, optional or other rights, if any, and any qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, or such series, including, without limitation, that any such series may be (i) subject to redemption at such time or times and at such price or prices, (ii) entitled to receive dividends (which may be cumulative or non-cumulative) at such rates, on such conditions, and at such times, and payable in preference to, or in such relation to, the dividends payable on any other class or classes or series of capital stock, (iii) entitled to such rights upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of, or upon any distribution of the assets of, the Corporation or (iv)

 



 

convertible into, or exchangeable for, shares of any other class or classes of capital stock, or of any other series of the same class of capital stock, of the Corporation at such price or prices or at such rates and with such adjustments; all as may be stated in such resolution or resolutions, which resolution or resolutions shall be set forth on a certificate of designations filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in accordance with the Delaware General Corporation Law.  Except as otherwise provided in this Certificate of Incorporation, no vote of the holders of Preferred Stock or Common Stock shall be a prerequisite to the designation or issuance of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock authorized by and complying with the conditions of this Certificate of Incorporation.  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 242(b)(2) of the Delaware General Corporation Law, the number of authorized shares of Preferred Stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority in voting power of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote, without the separate vote of the holders of the Preferred Stock as a class.  Subject to Section 1 of this ARTICLE FOUR, the Board of Directors is also expressly authorized to increase or decrease the number of shares of any series of Preferred Stock subsequent to the issuance of shares of that series, but not below the number of shares of such series then outstanding. Unless otherwise expressly provided in the certificate of designations in respect of any series of Preferred Stock, in case the number of shares of such series shall be decreased in accordance with the foregoing sentence, the shares constituting such decrease shall resume the status that they had prior to the adoption of the resolution originally fixing the number of shares of such series.

 

Section 3.              Common Stock.

 

(a)           Voting Rights. Except as otherwise provided by the Delaware General Corporation Law or this Certificate of Incorporation and subject to the rights of holders of Preferred Stock, all of the voting power of the stockholders of the Corporation shall be vested in the holders of the Common Stock, and each holder of Common Stock shall have one vote for each share held by such holder on all matters voted upon by the stockholders of the Corporation.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Certificate of Incorporation to the contrary, the holders of Common Stock shall not be entitled to vote on any amendment to this Certificate of Incorporation (including any certificate of designation in respect of any series of Preferred Stock) that relates solely to the terms of one or more outstanding series of Preferred Stock if the holders of such affected series are entitled, either separate or together as a class with the holders of one or more such other series, to vote thereon pursuant to this Certificate of Incorporation or the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

(b)           Dividends. Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, and to the other provisions of this Certificate of Incorporation, holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive equally, on a per share basis, such dividends and other distributions in cash, securities or other property of the Corporation as may be declared thereon by the Board of Directors from time to time out of assets or funds of the Corporation legally available therefor.

 

(c)           Liquidation Rights. In the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, after payment or provision for payment of the Corporation’s debts and subject to the rights of the holders of shares

 

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of any series of Preferred Stock upon such dissolution, liquidation or winding up, the remaining net assets of the Corporation shall be distributed among holders of shares of Common Stock equally on a per share basis. A merger or consolidation of the Corporation with or into any other corporation or entity, or a sale, lease, exchange, conveyance or other disposition of all or any part of the assets of the Corporation shall not be deemed to be a voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution or winding up of the Corporation within the meaning of this Section 3(c).

 

(d)           Conversion Rights. The Common Stock shall not be convertible into, or exchangeable for, shares of any other class or classes or of any other series of the same class of the Corporation’s capital stock

 

FOURTH:            This amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation effected hereby was approved by the Board of Directors of the Corporation, and by written consent of the stockholders of the issued and outstanding capital stock of the Corporation.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned affirms as true the foregoing under penalties of perjury, and has executed this Certificate this 25th day of September, 2014.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Daniel Dosoretz, M.D.

 

Name:

Daniel Dosoretz, M.D.

 

Title:

Chief Executive Officer

 

[Signature Page to Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation]

 


 



Exhibit 3.2

 

CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATIONS OF
SERIES A CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK,
PAR VALUE $0.001 PER SHARE,
OF
21
st CENTURY ONCOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC.

 

Pursuant to Section 151 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware

 

The undersigned DOES HEREBY CERTIFY that the following resolution was duly adopted by the Board (the “Board”) of 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the “Company”), with the designations, powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, having been fixed by the Board pursuant to authority granted to it under the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and in accordance with the provisions of Section 151 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware

 

RESOLVED:  That, pursuant to authority conferred upon the Board by the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, the Board hereby authorizes the issuance of 3,500,000 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company and hereby fixes the designations, powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of such shares, in addition to those set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as follows:

 

Section 1.                                           Designation.  The shares of such series shall be designated “Series A Convertible Preferred Stock,” and the number of shares constituting such series shall be 3,500,000 (the “Series A Convertible Preferred Stock”).  The number of shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock may be increased or decreased by resolution of the Board and the approval by the Majority Holders, voting as a separate class; provided that no decrease shall reduce the number of shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock to a number less than the number of shares of such series then outstanding.

 

Section 2.                                           Currency.  All Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall be denominated in United States currency, and all payments and distributions thereon or with respect thereto shall be made in United States currency.  All references herein to “$” or “dollars” refer to United States currency.

 

Section 3.                                           Ranking.

 

(a)                                 The Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall, with respect to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, winding up or dissolution, rank senior to each other

 



 

class or series of shares of the Company that the Company has issued or may issue in the future the terms of which do not expressly provide that such class or series ranks equally with, or senior to, the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock with respect to dividend rights and/or rights upon liquidation, winding up or dissolution, including, without limitation, the common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”) (such junior stock being referred to hereinafter collectively as “Junior Stock”).

 

(b)                                 The Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall, with respect to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, winding up or dissolution, rank equally with each other class or series of shares of the Company that the Company may issue in the future the terms of which expressly provide that such class or series shall rank equally with the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock with respect to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, winding up or dissolution (“Parity Stock”).

 

(c)                                  The Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall, with respect to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, winding up or dissolution, rank junior to each other class or series of shares of the Company that the Company may issue in the future the terms of which expressly provide that such class or series shall rank senior to the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock with respect to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, winding up or dissolution (“Senior Stock”).  The Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall also rank junior to the Company’s existing and future indebtedness.

 

Section 4.                                           Dividends.

 

(a)                                 The holders of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board, out of any funds legally available therefor, dividends per share of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock of an amount equal to a percentage, which shall equal the Dividend Rate then in effect, per annum on the Stated Value (as herein defined) of each share of such Series A Convertible Preferred Stock then in effect, before any dividends shall be declared, set apart for or paid upon the Junior Stock (the “Regular Dividends”). For purposes hereof, the term “Stated Value” shall mean, as of any given time, the sum of (i) $1,000.00 per share of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (as appropriately adjusted for any stock dividend, stock split, reclassification, recapitalization, consolidation or similar event affecting the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock) plus (ii) the sum of all accumulated and unpaid Regular Dividends (including dividends in respect of any stub period in process as of such time).

 

(b)                                 When and if declared, Regular Dividends shall be payable quarterly in arrears on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year (unless any such day is not a Business Day, in which event such Regular Dividends shall be payable on the next succeeding Business Day, without accrual to the actual payment date), commencing on January 1, 2015 (each such payment date (whether or not Regular Dividends are declared) being a “Regular Dividend Payment Date,” and the period from the date of issuance of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock to the first Regular Dividend

 

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Payment Date and each such quarterly period thereafter being a “Regular Dividend Period”).  The amount of Regular Dividends payable on the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock for any period shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed.

 

(c)                                  Regular Dividends, whether or not declared, shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from the Issue Date and shall compound at the relevant rate on each subsequent Regular Dividend Payment Date (i.e., no Regular Dividends shall accrue on another Regular Dividend unless and until any Regular Dividend Payment Date for such other Regular Dividends has passed, at which time Regular Dividends will begin to accrue on such other Regular Dividends).  For the avoidance of doubt, dividends shall accumulate whether or not in any Regular Dividend Period there have been funds of the Company legally available for the payment of such dividends.

 

(d)                                 Except as otherwise provided herein, if at any time the Company pays less than the total amount of Regular Dividends then accumulated with respect to the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, such payment shall be distributed pro rata among the holders thereof based upon the Stated Value on all shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock held by each such holder.  When Regular Dividends are not paid in full upon the shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, all Regular Dividends declared on Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and any other Parity Stock shall be paid pro rata so that the amount of Regular Dividends so declared on the shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and each such other class or series of Parity Stock shall in all cases bear to each other the same ratio as accumulated Regular Dividends (for the full amount of dividends that would be payable for the most recently payable dividend period if dividends were declared in full on non-cumulative Parity Stock) on the shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and such other class or series of Parity Stock bear to each other.

 

(e)                                  When and if declared, the Regular Dividends shall be paid by issuing a number of fully paid and nonassessable shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock equal to the number of such shares (including fractional shares) that have an aggregate Stated Value equal to the amount of such Regular Dividend, provided that, from and after the later of (x) the third anniversary of the Issue Date and (y) the repayment of all amounts outstanding in respect of the Subordinated Notes, Regular Dividends shall be paid in cash (i) upon the election of the Majority Holders by written notice to the Company or (ii) upon the occurrence of any Default Event.

 

(f)                                   Each Dividend shall be payable to the holders of record of shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock as they appear on the stock records of the Company at the Close of Business on such record date, which shall be 10 days preceding the applicable Regular Dividend Payment Date.

 

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(g)                                  From and after the time, if any, that the Company shall have failed to pay all accumulated and unpaid Regular Dividends for all prior Regular Dividend Periods in accordance with this Section 4, no dividends shall be declared or paid or set apart for payment, or other distribution declared or made, upon any Junior Stock, nor shall any Junior Stock be redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired for any consideration (nor shall any moneys be paid to or made available for a sinking fund for the redemption of any shares of any such Junior Stock) by the Company, directly or indirectly until all such Regular Dividends have been paid in full without the consent of the Majority Holders; provided, however, that the foregoing limitation shall not apply to:

 

(1)                                 an exchange, redemption, reclassification or conversion of any class or series of Junior Stock for any class or series of Junior Stock; or

 

(2)                                 any dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividended stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks equal or junior to that stock.

 

Section 5.                                           Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up.

 

(a)                                 Upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company (each, a “Liquidation”), after satisfaction of all liabilities and obligations to creditors of the Company and before any distribution or payment shall be made to holders of any Junior Stock, each holder of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, out of the assets of the Company or proceeds thereof (whether capital or surplus) legally available therefor, an amount per share of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock equal to the Stated Value per share as of the date of Liquidation (the “Liquidation Preference”).  Holders of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock will not be entitled to any other amounts from the Company after they have received the full amounts provided for in this Section 5(a) and will have no right or claim to any of the Company’s remaining assets.

 

(b)                                 If, in connection with any distribution described in Section 5(a) above, the assets of the Company or proceeds thereof are not sufficient to pay in full the Liquidation Preference payable on the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and the corresponding amounts payable on the Parity Stock, then such assets, or the proceeds thereof, shall be paid pro rata in accordance with the full respective amounts which would be payable on such shares if all amounts payable thereon were paid in full.

 

(c)                                  For purposes of this Section 5, the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into any other corporation or other entity, or the sale, conveyance, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, shall not constitute a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company.

 

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Section 6.                                           Voting Rights; Approval Rights.

 

(a)                                 The Majority Holders, as of the time the voting rights under clause (c) apply, shall have the right to appoint (i) two directors to the Board and (ii) at least one member to each of the Company’s key management committees, including, without limitation, any compensation committee and audit committee and the executive committee (which executive committee, the “Executive Committee”, shall have three members, one selected by the Majority Holders, one selected by Vestar (as defined in the Subscription Agreement) and one selected by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company or the Majority Executives (as defined in the Securityholders Agreement), as applicable, and which shall have the full authority, to the extent permitted under applicable law, to take and authorize actions that would otherwise be in the jurisdiction of the Board, provided that such Executive Committee shall cease to exist from and after a Default Event or following a Qualified IPO or Qualified Merger).

 

(b)                                 The Company shall also ensure that the Majority Holders have rights of representation on the Board or managers, as applicable, of any Subsidiary of the Company that are at least equivalent to any such rights held by any other investor in Parent or the Company.

 

(c)                                  From and after the later of (i) any Default Event and (ii) if applicable, the date when any applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the “HSR Act”), applicable to the grant of voting rights to the holders of shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall have expired or been terminated, the holders of the shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall be entitled to (i) vote with the holders of the Common Stock on all matters submitted for a vote of holders of Common Stock, (ii) a number of votes per share of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock equal to the number of shares of Common Stock into which each such share of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock would then be convertible based upon the Converted Ownership Percentage; provided that, with respect to any vote relating to the election or removal of directors, the votes of any shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock held by CPPIB or any of its Affiliates shall be limited to 29% of the total votes which may be cast for the election or removal of such directors; provided, further, that such limitation shall automatically and immediately, with no further action on the part of the Company or any other Person, terminate and be of no further force and effect upon the transfer of such shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock by CPPIB (or any of its Affiliates) to a person that is not an Affiliate of CPPIB and (iii) notice of all stockholders’ meetings (or pursuant to any action by written consent) in accordance with the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws as if the holders of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock were holders of Common Stock.  The obligations under the Subscription Agreement of the Company to make filings under the HSR Act and to make other required governmental filings are hereby incorporated as a

 

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substantive obligation in this Certificate of Designations, exercisable hereunder by notice from the Majority Holders;

 

(d)                                 For so long as any shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock remain outstanding, the Company shall not, and shall not permit any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company to, take or commit to take any of the following actions (including by means of merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization or otherwise) without the prior written consent of the Majority Holders:

 

(1)                                 altering or changing the powers, rights or preferences of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock; increasing or decreasing the number of authorized shares or the par value of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock; reclassifying any Junior Stock or Parity Stock into Senior Stock; authorizing, creating or issuing any class or series of Senior Stock or Parity Stock, or any securities directly or indirectly convertible into or exchangeable for any Senior Stock; or amending or repealing any provision of, or adding any provision to, the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation or By-Laws in a manner that could reasonably be expected to affect adversely the powers, rights or preferences of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock; or

 

(2)                                 the Company or any of its Subsidiaries entering into any other line of business other than businesses substantially similar or related to the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ existing businesses on the date hereof; or

 

(3)                                 any action resulting or reasonably likely to result in Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries ceasing to be duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the applicable laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, including, without limitation, any voluntary initiation of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or commencement of a proceeding for bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar action with respect to any of the foregoing; or.

 

(4)                                 entering into any Related Party Transaction or amending or renewing any agreement related to any Related Party Transaction or waiving any of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ rights under any such agreement; or

 

(5)                                 any issuance of equity securities or entering into any agreement (or granting of any right capable of becoming an agreement) to issue any equity interests in the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the issuance of warrants, options or similar rights or instruments convertible into or exchangeable for such equity interests), other than pursuant to rights or agreements existing as of the date hereof disclosed pursuant to the Subscription Agreement; or

 

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(6)                                 any declaration or payment of any cash dividend or cash distribution to any holder of equity securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than any declaration or payment of any cash dividend or cash distribution to the Company by any of its wholly owned Subsidiaries); or

 

(7)                                 prior to (i) a Qualified IPO, (ii) a Qualified Merger or (iii) the refinancing of the existing Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries in form and substance satisfactory to the Majority Holders (it being understood for the avoidance of doubt that the use of proceeds contemplated by the Subscription Agreement shall not constitute such a required refinancing), (a) any acquisition by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, of equity interests in another Person, (b) any acquisition by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of assets constituting all or substantially all of the business (or a line of business or business unit) of any Person (any transaction described in clause (a) or this clause (b) of this Section 6(d)(7), whether by merger, amalgamation, other business combination or otherwise, an “Acquisition”) or (c) participation by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in any joint venture or strategic alliance, if, in each case, after giving effect to such transaction, the aggregate of all amounts invested and all Indebtedness incurred by the Company and its Subsidiaries in connection with such transactions (together with any amounts invested or Indebtedness incurred by Parent in connection with transactions of any type described in clauses (a) through (c), and less amounts funded by amounts drawn under existing debt facilities in accordance with the limitations set forth herein) is greater than $2,000,000; or

 

(8)                                 any Acquisition (x) with an aggregate value greater than $150,000,000, or (y) that would, or could through circumstances outside CPPIB’s control, result in CPPIB not being in compliance with the 30% Rule; or

 

(9)                                 any sale, transfer, license or pledge of assets by the Company or any of its subsidiaries having a fair market value equal to or greater than $2,000,000 in any single transaction or series of related transactions or, together with the fair market value of any such sale, transfer, license or pledge of assets by Parent, $10,000,000 in aggregate, in each case other than (i) in the ordinary course of business, (ii) in connection with a Change of Control, (iii) pledges required by creditors in connection with the incurrence of Indebtedness otherwise permitted hereunder or (iv) any sale, transfer, license or pledge from any subsidiary of Parent to the Company or any of Parent’s other direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries; or

 

(10)                          any sale, transfer, license or pledge of any securities of the Company, other than in connection with a Change of Control or a Qualified IPO; or

 

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(11)                          any incurrence or refinancing of Indebtedness or incurrence of liens with respect thereto by the Company or any of its subsidiaries to the extent that, immediately after giving effect to such incurrence, the ratio of the Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA for the most recently ended four fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date on which such additional Indebtedness is incurred would not be less than a ratio of 6.5-to-1 on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such incurrence and the use of the proceeds therefrom; or

 

(12)                          any amendments, extensions or waivers to the terms of Subordinated Notes or other amendments, extensions or waivers to the terms of other indebtedness that would reasonably be expected to be material to the rights associated with the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock; or

 

(13)                          the conduct of any business or incurrence of any material liability or material obligation by the Company (other than any liability or obligation resulting solely from the corporate existence of the Company, its status as a guarantor of indebtedness of its subsidiaries or otherwise supporting its subsidiaries obligations to creditors, in connection with filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or as otherwise permitted hereunder); or

 

(14)                          removal and appointment of the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company or Opco; or

 

(15)                          setting or any material change in the compensation for any officer or other key employee of the Company or Opco, or entering into or amending any employment or severance agreement with any officer or other key employee of the Company or Opco; or

 

(16)                          establishment of or amendment to any employee benefit or welfare plan of the Company or Opco or the establishment of, or amendment to, any material terms of, any management incentive or equity plan, or other similar plan or program, of the Company or Opco; or

 

(17)                          any public offering of securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, other than a Qualified IPO; or

 

(18)                          adoption of the annual capital expenditure budget (and individual budget for acquisitions in such year) approved by the board of directors of the Company or board of directors of Opco (or, in each case, the committee thereof with authority to approve such budget), any material changes to such annual capital expenditure budgets (and individual budgets for acquisitions in such year), and any deviations from any such capital expenditure budget or individual budget by more than $5 million; or

 

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(19)                          any action resulting in Opco ceasing to be a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of the Company other than in connection with a Qualified IPO or a Qualified Merger; or

 

(20)                          any capital contribution or other funding of the New York Proton Center Project; or

 

(21)                          changing the size or composition of the board of directors or board of managers of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (except as expressly permitted by the Securityholders Agreement).

 

Section 7.                                           Conversion.

 

(a)                                 Mandatory Conversion by the Company.

 

(1)                                 Subject to Section 7(a)(3) and Section 7(a)(4), upon the occurrence of (i) a Qualified IPO (or, with the consent of the Majority Holders, another initial public offering of Common Stock), (ii) a Qualified Merger or (iii) Redemption Option (the date of such occurrence, the “Mandatory Conversion Trigger Date”), the shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall be converted into a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate Stated Value of the shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock to be converted divided by the Conversion Price then in effect, plus (b) cash in lieu of fractional shares, as set out in Section 7(b), out of funds legally available therefor (“Mandatory Conversion”).  The Company shall provide notice of the anticipated Mandatory Conversion Trigger Date 30 days prior to such date.

 

(2)                                 In connection with a Mandatory Conversion triggered by a Qualified IPO or Qualified Merger, the holders of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock immediately prior to such Mandatory Conversion shall receive, in addition to the shares of Common Stock, rights that are at least equivalent to (a) in the case of a Qualified IPO, the rights held by any equityholder of Parent or the Company that survive or such Qualified IPO or are granted pursuant to any agreement entered into between such equityholder and Parent or the Company in connection with such Qualified IPO or (b) in the case of a Qualified Merger the rights held by any equityholder of Parent or the Company pursuant to any agreement entered into with the acquirer in connection with such Qualified Merger.

 

(3)                                 In connection with any Mandatory Conversion, if the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock upon such conversion would represent more than 29% of the issued and outstanding Common Stock, the Majority Holders shall have the right, exercisable by notice to the Company to elect that the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock in excess of such 29% amount shall not be converted

 

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into Common Stock but shall instead be exchanged for shares of a newly issued series of preferred stock of the Company with an aggregate economic value equivalent to the aggregate economic value of such remaining shares (the “29% Option”).  The shares of such newly issued series of preferred stock shall (A) be mandatorily convertible to Common Stock upon the fifteenth anniversary of their issuance (pursuant to the procedures contained herein for a conversion triggered by Redemption Option except that the date of Redemption Option shall be the fifteenth anniversary of their issuance), (B) receive dividends at a rate of 12% per annum (to be paid in shares of such series), (C) be redeemable by the Company at any time at 100% of their Stated Value and (D) otherwise have rights substantially similar to the rights of holders of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock set forth in Sections 3, 4, 5, 9 and 10 of this Certificate of Designations.

 

(4)                                 If, in connection with any Mandatory Conversion, the Majority Holders do not exercise the 29% Option, and, as of the related record date, the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock held by CPPIB would, upon such conversion, represent more than 29% of the issued and outstanding Common Stock, then the conversion of shares as provided in Section 7(a)(1) shall be delayed pending the prompt amendment of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation to create a new class of common stock of the Company (the “Class B Common Stock”).  The Class B Common Stock shall have rights that are identical in all respects to the rights of the Common Stock, except that shares of Class B Common Stock shall have no voting rights with respect to any vote relating to the election or removal of directors; provided that such limitation on the voting rights of shares of Class B Common Stock shall automatically and immediately, with no further action on the part of the Company or any other Person, terminate and be of no further force and effect upon the transfer of such shares by CPPIB (or any of its Affiliates) to a person that is not an Affiliate of CPPIB.  Immediately following the effectiveness of such amendment, the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock held by CPPIB in excess of the 29% amount described herein shall be converted into shares of Class B Common Stock and, simultaneously with such conversion, all of the remaining shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock will be converted as provided in Section 7(a)(1).

 

(b)                                 Fractional Shares.  No fractional shares of Common Stock will be delivered to the holders of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock upon conversion.  In lieu of fractional shares otherwise issuable, holders of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive an amount in cash equal to the fraction of a share of Common Stock, multiplied by the Closing Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the applicable Conversion Date.  In order to determine whether the number of shares of Common Stock to be delivered to a holder of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock upon the conversion of such holder’s shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock will include a fractional share (in lieu of which cash would

 

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be paid hereunder), such determination shall be based on the aggregate number of shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock of such holder that are being converted on any single Conversion Date.

 

(c)                                  Conversion Price.  The “Conversion Price” means

 

(1)                                 if the conversion was triggered by a Qualified IPO, the IPO Price;

 

(2)                                 if the conversion was triggered by a Qualified Merger, the Merger Price; or

 

(3)                                 if the conversion was triggered by Redemption Option, the Redemption Option Price.

 

(d)                                 Conversion Procedures.  A holder must do each of the following in order to convert its shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock pursuant to this Section 7:

 

(1)                                 complete and manually sign the conversion notice provided by the conversion Agent, and deliver such notice to the Company;

 

(2)                                 deliver to the Company the certificate or certificates representing the shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock to be converted (or, if such certificate or certificates have been lost, stolen or destroyed, a lost certificate affidavit and indemnity in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Company); and

 

(3)                                 if required, pay any stock transfer, documentary, stamp or similar taxes not payable by the Company pursuant to Section 7(h).

 

The “Conversion Date” means the date on which a holder complies in all respects with the procedures set forth in this Section 7(d).

 

(e)                                  Cooperation; Effect of Conversion.  Following notice of a Mandatory Conversion, the holder of shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall take all actions necessary to complete the conversion procedures set forth in Section 7(d) as promptly as practicable and to otherwise cooperate with the Company under the terms hereof, without waiving any rights hereunder, to effect the Mandatory Conversion.  Effective immediately prior to the Close of Business on the Conversion Date applicable to any shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, dividends shall no longer accrue or be declared on any such shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and such shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall cease to be outstanding.

 

(f)                                   Record Holder of Underlying Securities as of Conversion Date.  The Person or Persons entitled to receive the Common Stock and, to the extent applicable, cash, issuable upon conversion of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock on a Conversion

 

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Date shall be treated for all purposes as the record holder(s) of such shares of Common Stock and/or cash as of the Close of Business on such Conversion Date.  As promptly as practicable on or after the Conversion Date and compliance by the applicable holder with the relevant conversion procedures contained in Section 7(d) (and in any event no later than three Trading Days thereafter), the Company shall issue the number of whole shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion (and deliver payment of cash in lieu of fractional shares).  Such delivery of shares of Common Stock and, if applicable, cash shall be made, at the option of the applicable holder, in certificated form or by book-entry.  Any such certificate or certificates shall be delivered by the Company to the appropriate holder on a book-entry basis or by mailing certificates evidencing the shares to the holders at their respective addresses as set forth in the conversion notice.  In the event that a holder shall not by written notice designate the name in which shares of Common Stock and, to the extent applicable, cash to be delivered upon conversion of shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock should be registered or paid, or the manner in which such shares and, if applicable, cash should be delivered, the Company shall be entitled to register and deliver such shares and, if applicable, cash in the name of the holder and in the manner shown on the records of the Company.

 

(g)                                  Status of Converted Shares.  Shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock duly converted in accordance with this Certificate of Designations, or otherwise acquired by the Company in any manner whatsoever, shall be retired promptly after the acquisition thereof.  All such shares shall upon their retirement and any filing required by the Delaware General Corporation Law become authorized but unissued shares of Preferred Stock, without designation as to series until such shares are once more designated as part of a particular series by the Board pursuant to the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation.

 

(h)                                 Taxes.  (1)  The Company shall be entitled to withhold taxes on all payments on the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock or Common Stock or other securities issued upon conversion of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock to the extent required by law (as determined in the good faith discretion of the Company).  Prior to the date of any such payment, each holder of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall deliver to the Company a duly executed, valid, accurate and properly completed Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or an appropriate Internal Revenue Service Form W-8, as applicable.

 

(2)                                 Notwithstanding Section 7(h)(1) above, if the Company shall be so required by law to withhold US Tax from any distribution or other payment made to any holder of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, then, to the extent such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, the amount of such distribution payable by the Company shall be increased as necessary so that, after any such required withholding has been made (including such withholding applicable to additional amounts payable under this Section 7(h)(2)), such holder shall receive an amount equal to the sum it would have received had

 

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no such withholding been made.  For this purpose an “Indemnified Tax” shall mean a US federal or state withholding tax imposed on a distribution or other payment made by the Company to a holder of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, other than (i) any Tax that is attributable to such holder no longer qualifying as a foreign government within the meaning of Section 892 of the Code or as an organization described in paragraph 1, 2 or 3 of Article XXI of the U.S.-Canada tax treaty (without regard to paragraph 4 thereof), (ii) any Tax that is attributable to a change in law occurring after the date of the adoption of this Certificate of Designations or (iii) any Tax imposed under Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code.

 

(3)                                 The Company shall pay any and all documentary, stamp and similar issue or transfer tax due on (x) the issue of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and (y) the issue of shares of Common Stock upon conversion of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.  However, in the case of conversion of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, the Company shall not be required to pay any tax or duty that may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue and delivery of shares of Common Stock or Series A Convertible Preferred Stock in a name other than that of the holder of the shares to be converted, and no such issue or delivery shall be made unless and until the person requesting such issue has paid to the Company the amount of any such tax or duty, or has established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax or duty has been paid.

 

(i)                                     Appraisal.  The following procedures shall apply for establishing the Redemption Option Price.  As of the 30th day prior to the Redemption Option date (if it has not already occurred), the Majority Holders shall have the right to designate (subject to the approval of the Company, not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed on the first three firms proposed by the Majority Holders) an independent nationally recognized valuation firm (the “Valuation Firm”) to determine the total equity value of the Company as of such date, and, based on such calculated total equity value, a proposed applicable Conversion Price (each a “Proposed Price”), and the Parties shall jointly instruct the Valuation Firm to determine the total equity value of the Company and, based on the total equity value, the price per share of the Common Stock, within 10 Business Days of such submission.  Each party shall be entitled to submit to the Valuation Firm together with its Proposed Price written information for the Valuation Firm’s use in making such determination and, promptly upon request, shall provide to the Valuation Firm such additional information as the Valuation Firm shall reasonably request as useful in making its determination.  Based on the information provided by the Parties, the Valuation Firm shall determine the price per share of the Common Stock as instructed and shall then select the Proposed Price which is closest thereto, without considering whether such Proposed Price is higher or lower than the price per share determined by the Valuation Firm.  The Proposed Price selected by the Valuation Firm shall be the “Redemption Option Price” for purposes of this Certificate of Designations. The decision of the Valuation Firm shall be final and binding on the parties. The party whose Proposed Price was not selected by the Valuation Firm shall pay the Valuation Firm’s fees.

 

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Section 8.                                           Repurchase.

 

(a)                                 Upon the occurrence of a (i) a Change of Control or (ii) a Default Event (each a “Repurchase Event”), each holder of shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall have the right to require the Company to repurchase, by written notice to the Company, all or any portion of such holder’s shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Repurchase Option”) at a purchase price per share, payable in cash to the account designated by such holder, equal to (1) if such Repurchase Event occurs on or prior to the date that is 18 months following the Issue Date, 109% multiplied by the Stated Value per share of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock or (2) if such Repurchase Event occurs after the date that is 18 months following the Issue Date, 105% multiplied by the Stated Value per share of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.

 

(b)                                 Within 30 days of the occurrence of a Repurchase Event, the Company shall send notice by first class mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the holders of record of the shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock at their respective last addresses appearing on the books of the Company stating (1) that a Repurchase Event has occurred, (2) that all shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock tendered prior to a Business Day no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed shall be accepted for repurchase and (3) the procedures that holders of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock must follow in order for their shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock to be repurchased, including the place or places where certificates for such shares are to be surrendered for payment of the repurchase price.  Any notice mailed as provided in this Subsection shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the holder receives such notice, but failure duly to give such notice by mail, or any defect in such notice or in the mailing thereof, to any holder of shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock designated for repurchase shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the repurchase of any other shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.

 

(c)                                  Without limiting the rights of holders of shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock following any failure to repurchase all shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock under a Repurchase Option (whether such failure is due to limitations under applicable law or otherwise), the Majority Holders shall have the right, upon notice to the Company to:

 

(1)                                 require the Company to exchange the shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock designated by the Majority Holders to be exchanged for an unsecured promissory note in a principal amount equal to the accreted Stated Value of such shares as of such time and otherwise containing economic and other substantive terms identical to the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (other than those that would apply as a legal matter in the case of a debt instrument rather than an equity instrument); and / or

 

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(2)                                 in order to generate the funds required to redeem the Preferred Stock, require the Board initiate a Sale Process (such notice, a “Sale Notice”).  After receipt of a Sale Notice, the Board and the Company shall initiate a Sale Process as soon as practicable. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to consummate a Company Sale and satisfy its redemption obligations under this Section 8 by a date six months subsequent to the date on which a Sale Notice was delivered to the Company.

 

Section 9.                                           Reservation of Shares.  The Company shall at all times when the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall be outstanding reserve and keep available, free from preemptive rights, for issuance upon the conversion of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, such number of its authorized but unissued Common Stock as will from time to time be sufficient to permit the conversion of all outstanding Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.  Prior to the delivery of any securities which the Company shall be obligated to deliver upon conversion of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, the Company shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations which require action to be taken by the Company.

 

Section 10.                                    Notices.  Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of (i) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number specified in this Section prior to or at the Close of Business on a Business Day and electronic confirmation of receipt is received by the sender, (ii) the next Business Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number specified in this Section on a day that is not a Business Day or later than the Close of Business on any Business Day, (iii) the Business Day following the date of mailing, if sent by nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (iv) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given.  The addresses for such communications shall be:  (i) if to the Company, attention:  Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel, or (ii) if to a holder of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, to the address or facsimile number appearing on the Company’s stockholder records or such other address or facsimile number as such holder may provide to the Company in accordance with this Section 10.

 

Section 11.                                    Certain Definitions.  As used in this Certificate of Designations, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires:

 

29% Option” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 7(a).

 

Acquisition” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 6(d).

 

Affiliate” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with, such other Person, it

 

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being understood, for the avoidance of doubt, that any officer or director of any Person and his or her family members and their respective Affiliates shall be deemed Affiliates of such Person.  For purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlled by” and “under common control with”) when used with respect to any person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to cause the direction of management or policies of such person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

 

Board” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the recitals.

 

Business Day” shall mean a day that is a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday and is not a day on which banking institutions in New York, New York generally are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close.

 

Capital Stock” shall mean any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) stock issued by the Company.

 

Certificate of Designations” shall mean this Certificate of Designations relating to the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, as it may be amended from time to time.

 

Change of Control” shall mean any transfer, other than in connection with a Qualified IPO, Qualified Merger or a transfer to or from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board or any of its Affiliates, of (i) a direct or indirect economic interest in Parent, the Company or Opco equivalent, in the aggregate, to 30% or more of the aggregate economic interest in Parent, the Company or Opco represented by the total issued and outstanding equity securities of Parent, the Company or Opco or (ii) a direct or indirect voting interest in Parent, the Company or Opco equivalent, in the aggregate, to 30% or more of the aggregate voting power represented by the issued and outstanding equity securities of Parent, the Company or Opco, in each case regardless of whether such transfer occurs in a single transaction or a series of related transaction and regardless of whether such interest is transferred to a single transferee or to multiple transferees.

 

Class B Common Stock” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 7(a).

 

Close of Business” shall mean 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Business Day.

 

Closing Price” shall means the price per share of the final trade of the Common Stock on the applicable Trading Day on the principal national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted to trading.

 

CPPIB” means the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board established under the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act, S.C. 1997, c. 40.

 

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Common Stock” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 3.

 

Company” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the recitals.

 

Company Sale” means a sale, conveyance or other disposition of the Company or (at the election of the Majority Holders, the Parent), whether by merger, consolidation, sale of all or substantially all of the Company’s (or the Parent’s) assets or sale of equity interests.

 

Consolidated EBITDA” shall have meaning ascribed to it in the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of August 28, 2013, among 21st Century Oncology, Inc., Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent, and the other parties thereto, as in effect on the date hereof, or in any replacement financing thereof to the extent approved by the Majority Holders.

 

Consolidated Total Debt” shall have meaning ascribed to it in the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of August 28, 2013, among 21st Century Oncology, Inc., Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent, and the other parties thereto, as in effect on the date hereof, or in any replacement financing thereof to the extent approved by the Majority Holders.

 

Conversion Price” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 7(c).

 

Converted Ownership Percentage” means, on any date of determination, the percentage of the total number of then outstanding Common Shares into which the aggregate number of issued and outstanding Series A Convertible Preferred Stock would be converted if a Mandatory Conversion upon Redemption Option pursuant to Section 7(a) were assumed to occur on such date of determination and assuming that the 29% Option were not exercised.

 

Default Event” shall mean (i) failure of the Company to make when due and in full any cash payment it is obligated to make pursuant to this Certificate of Designations, (ii) a breach of any other obligation of the Company under this Certificate of Designations that remains uncured after 45 days, and (iii) (a) failure of Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to pay when due any principal of or interest on or any other amount payable in respect of any item of Indebtedness with principal of $5 million or more beyond the grace period, if any, provided therefor; or (b) breach or default by Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to any other material term of (1) any item(s) of Indebtedness referred to in clause (a) above, or (2) any loan agreement, mortgage, indenture or other agreement relating to such item(s) of Indebtedness, in each case beyond the grace period, if any, provided therefor, if the effect of such breach or default is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of that Indebtedness (or a trustee on behalf of such holder or holders) to cause, that Indebtedness to become or be declared due and payable (or subject to a compulsory repurchase or redemption) or to require the

 

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prepayment, redemption, repurchase or defeasance of, or to cause Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to make any offer to prepay, redeem, repurchase or defease such Indebtedness, prior to its stated maturity or the stated maturity of any underlying obligation, as the case may be.

 

Default Rate” shall mean the statutory maximum rate, less 1.00%.

 

Dividend” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 4(a).

 

Dividend Rate” shall mean during each of the periods set forth in the table below the corresponding percentage rate:

 

Months from Issue Date

 

Percentage Rate

 

 

 

 

 

0-12

 

9.875

%

 

 

 

 

13-18

 

12.00

%

 

 

 

 

19-24

 

14.00

%

 

 

 

 

25-36

 

18.00

%

 

 

 

 

37-48

 

22.00

%

 

 

 

 

More the 48 months from the Issue Date

 

26.00

%

 

provided that from and after any Default Event, the Dividend Rate shall equal the Default Rate.

 

Dividend Payment Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 4(b).

 

HSR Act” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 6(c).

 

Indebtedness” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of August 28, 2013, among 21st Century Oncology, Inc., Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent, and the other parties thereto, as in effect on the date hereof, or in any replacement financing thereof to the extent approved by the Majority Holders.

 

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IPO Price” shall mean the offering price of a share of Common Stock in a Qualified IPO.

 

Issue Date” shall mean September 26, 2014.

 

Junior Stock” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 3.

 

Liquidation” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 5(a).

 

Liquidation Preference” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 5(a).

 

Majority Holders” shall mean holders of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock representing at least a majority of the then-issued and outstanding shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.

 

Mandatory Conversion” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 7(a).

 

Mandatory Conversion Trigger Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 7(a).

 

Merger Price” shall mean the per share price of the Common Stock payable in connection with a Qualified Merger.

 

Opco” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 6(d).

 

Parent” shall mean 21st Century Oncology Investments, LLC.

 

Parity Stock” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 3.

 

Person” shall mean any individual, company, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, government or agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity.

 

Preferred Stock” shall mean any and all series of preferred stock of the Company, including the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.

 

Proposed Price” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 7(i).

 

Qualified Exchange” shall mean the New York Stock Exchange, the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system or any other US peer national stock exchange hereafter instituted providing equivalent trading liquidity to investors.

 

Qualified IPO” shall mean the listing of at least $250 million of Common Stock on a Qualified Exchange.

 

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Qualified Merger” shall mean a merger of the corporation with and into another party resulting in at least $500 million of public float of Common Stock on a Qualified Exchange.

 

Record Date” shall mean, with respect to any dividend, distribution or other transaction or event in which the holders of Common Stock have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or in which the Common Stock (or other applicable security) is exchanged for or converted into any combination of cash, securities or other property, the date fixed for determination of shareholders entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by the Board or by statute, contract, this Certificate of Designations or otherwise).

 

Redemption Option” shall mean the date that is the tenth anniversary of the Issue Date or any date thereafter at the option of either party.

 

Redemption Option Price” shall mean the per share price of the Common Stock determined pursuant to the procedure set forth in Section 7(i).

 

Regular Dividend” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 4(a).

 

Regular Dividend Payment Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 4(b).

 

Regular Dividend Period” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 4(b).

 

Related Documents” shall have the same meaning as “Transaction Agreements” pursuant to the Subscription Agreement.

 

Related Party Transaction” shall mean any transaction between or among Parent, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and any Affiliate of any of the foregoing, on the other hand.

 

Repurchase Event” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 8(a).

 

Repurchase Option” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 8(a).

 

Sale Notice” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 8(c)(2).

 

Sale Process” means a process reasonably designed to solicit for the benefit of the Company and all of its stockholders offers from third parties who wish to acquire the Company (or, with the consent of the Majority Holders) the Parent in a transaction that would constitute a Company Sale, it being understood that such process shall include the engagement of investment bankers or other financial advisors and the provision of access to personnel and information in a manner that is customary for such transactions, unless the Majority Holders otherwise agree.

 

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Securityholders Agreement” shall mean the Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement, dated as of September 26, 2014, among the Company and the other parties thereto.

 

Senior Stock” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 3.

 

Series A Convertible Preferred Stock” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 1.

 

Stated Value” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 4(a).

 

Subordinated Notes” shall mean the 9 7/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017, dated as of April 20, 2010, among 21st Century Oncology, Inc., the guarantors party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association.

 

Subscription Agreement” shall mean the Subscription Agreement, dated as of September 26, 2014, between the Company and CPPIB.

 

Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any company or corporate entity for which such Person owns, directly or indirectly, an amount of the voting securities, other rights or interests including pursuant to Contract which is sufficient to elect at least a majority of its Board or other governing body (or, if there are no such voting interests, more than 50% of the equity interests of such company or corporate entity).

 

Trading Day” shall mean any Business Day on which the Common Stock is traded, or able to be traded, on the principal national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted to trading.

 

Valuation Firm” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 7(i).

 

Section 12.            Headings.  The headings of the paragraphs of this Certificate of Designations are for convenience of reference only and shall not define, limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.

 

Section 13.            Record Holders.  To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company may deem and treat the record holder of any share of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock as the true and lawful owner thereof for all purposes, and the Company shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary.

 

Section 14.            Notices.  All notices or communications in respect of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall be sufficiently given if given in writing and delivered in person or by first class mail, postage prepaid, or if given in such other manner as may be permitted in this Certificate of Designations, in the Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws or by applicable law or regulation.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock is issued in book-entry form through The Depository Trust

 

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Corporation or any similar facility, such notices may be given to the holders of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock in any manner permitted by such facility.

 

Section 15.            Replacement Certificates.  The Company shall replace any mutilated certificate at the holder’s expense upon surrender of that certificate to the Company.  The Company shall replace certificates that become destroyed, stolen or lost at the holder’s expense upon delivery to the Company of reasonably satisfactory evidence that the certificate has been destroyed, stolen or lost, together with any indemnity that may be required by the Company.

 

Section 16.            Transfer Agent, Conversion Agent, Registrar and Paying Agent.  The duly appointed Transfer Agent, Conversion Agent, Registrar and Paying Agent for the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall be the Company.  The Company may, in its sole discretion, remove the Transfer Agent in accordance with the agreement between the Company and the Transfer Agent; provided that the Company shall appoint a successor transfer agent who shall accept such appointment prior to the effectiveness of such removal.  Upon any such removal or appointment, the Company shall send notice thereof by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the holders of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.

 

Section 17.            Severability.  If any term of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock set forth herein is invalid, unlawful or incapable of being enforced by reason of any rule of law or public policy, all other terms set forth herein which can be given effect without the invalid, unlawful or unenforceable term will, nevertheless, remain in full force and effect, and no term herein set forth will be deemed dependent upon any other such term unless so expressed herein.

 

Section 18.            Other Rights.  The shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock shall not have any rights, preferences, privileges or voting powers or relative, participating, optional or other special rights, or qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, other than as set forth herein or in the Certificate of Incorporation or as provided by applicable law and regulation.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc. has caused this Certificate of Designations to be duly executed by its authorized corporate officer this 26th day of September, 2014.

 

 

21st CENTURY ONCOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By

/s/ Daniel E. Dosoretz

 

 

Name:

Daniel E. Dosoretz

 

 

Title:

Chief Executive Officer

 

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Exhibit 10.1

 

(EXECUTION COPY)

 

SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT

 

by and among

 

21st Century Oncology Investments, LLC,

 

21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.,

 

21st Century Oncology, Inc., and

 

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

 

Dated as of September 26, 2014

 



 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

Page

 

 

ARTICLE I.

PURCHASE AND SALE

 

 

 

1.1

Sale and Issuance of the Shares

1

1.2

Closing

1

1.3

Closing Deliveries

1

 

 

 

ARTICLE II.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT AND THE COMPANY

 

 

 

2.1

Organization and Good Standing

2

2.2

Authority; No Conflict

2

2.3

Capitalization; Issuance of Shares

3

2.4

Commission Filings

5

2.5

Financial Statements; Controls

5

2.6

Title to Properties

6

2.7

No Undisclosed Liabilities

7

2.8

Taxes

7

2.9

Material Adverse Effect

8

2.10

Employee Benefits

8

2.11

Labor Relations; Compliance

9

2.12

Compliance with Legal Requirements; Governmental Authorizations

9

2.13

Legal Proceedings; Orders

12

2.14

Absence of Certain Changes and Events

12

2.15

Contracts; No Defaults

13

2.16

Insurance

13

2.17

Environmental Matters

14

2.18

Intellectual Property

14

2.19

Relationships with Related Persons

14

2.20

Brokers or Finders

15

2.21

1940 Act

15

2.24

Subsidiary Distributions and Payments

15

 

ARTICLE III.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PURCHASER

 

 

 

3.1

Organization

15

3.2

Authority; No Conflict

15

3.3

Investment Representations

16

3.4

Brokers or Finders

16

 

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ARTICLE IV.

COVENANTS

 

 

 

4.1

Use of Proceeds

16

4.2

Continuing Information Access; Due Diligence

17

4.3

Costs and Expenses

17

4.4

Conduct of Business by the Company

17

4.5

Governmental Filings

18

4.6

New York Proton Center

19

4.7

Issuance of Warrants

19

 

 

 

ARTICLE V.

[RESERVED]

 

5.1

Payment Obligations

19

 

 

 

ARTICLE VI.

CLOSING CONDITIONS

 

 

 

6.1

Conditions to Obligations of Purchaser

19

6.2

Conditions to Obligations of the Company

21

6.3

Frustration of Closing Conditions

21

 

 

 

ARTICLE VII.

INDEMNIFICATION

 

 

 

7.1

Parent and Company Indemnification

21

7.2

Purchaser Indemnification

22

7.3

Indemnification Procedures

22

7.4

Exclusion of Other Remedies

23

7.5

Investigation and Waivers

23

7.6

Tax Treatment of Indemnity Payments

23

 

 

 

ARTICLE VIII.

TERMINATION

 

 

 

8.1

Termination

23

8.2

Effect of Termination

24

 

 

 

ARTICLE IX.

MISCELLANEOUS

 

 

 

9.1

Survival

24

9.2

Public Announcements

25

9.3

Waiver

25

9.4

Notices

25

9.5

Consent to Jurisdiction

27

9.6

Further Assurances

27

 

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9.7

Entire Agreement and Modification

27

9.8

Specific Performance

28

9.9

Construction

28

9.10

Severability

28

9.11

Binding Effect; Assignment; No Third-Party Beneficiaries

28

9.12

Restricted Information

28

9.13

Governing Law

29

9.14

Waiver of Jury Trial

29

9.15

Execution of Agreement; Counterparts

29

9.16

Currency

29

9.17

No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Owners, Etc.

29

9.18

30% Rule Compliance

30

 

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SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT

 

This SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”), dated as of September 26, 2014, is by and among 21st Century Oncology Investments, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Parent”), 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), 21st Century Oncology, Inc., a Florida corporation (“Opco”), and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, a Canadian federal Crown corporation (“Purchaser”; each of Company and Purchaser a “Party”).  All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given such terms in Annex A of this Agreement.

 

Recitals

 

WHEREAS, the Purchaser desires to purchase from the Company, and the Company desires to issue and sell to the Purchaser, shares of the Company’s Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, on the terms and conditions set forth herein (the “Purchase Transaction”), with all of the proceeds of such Purchase Transaction to be used by the Company in the manner contemplated by Exhibit A hereto.

 

Agreement

 

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter set forth, the parties, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I.
PURCHASE AND SALE

 

1.1                               Sale and Issuance of the Shares.  The Purchaser shall purchase from the Company, for an aggregate purchase price equal to the Subscription Price, and the Company shall issue and sell to Purchaser, in each case, upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, 385,000 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (such shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock issued to the Purchaser pursuant to this Section 1.1 are referred to herein as the “Shares”).  For the avoidance of doubt, the aggregate discount Purchaser shall receive on the purchase of the Shares, based on the Subscription Price paid by Purchaser and the aggregate Stated Value of the Shares (as defined in the Certificate of Designations) immediately following the Closing, shall be equal to $60,000,000.

 

1.2                               Closing.  Unless this Agreement has been terminated pursuant to Section 8.1, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Article VI, the closing of the purchase and issuance of the Shares (the “Closing”) contemplated by this Agreement shall take place at the offices of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, 919 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022, immediately following the execution and delivery of this Agreement, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the latest to occur of the conditions set forth in Article VI or at such other place as the Purchaser and the Company may mutually agree (such date of Closing, the “Closing Date”).

 

1.3                               Closing Deliveries. Subject to the satisfaction or waiver at or prior to the Closing of the conditions set forth in Article VI, at the Closing:

 



 

(a)                                 Purchaser shall pay to the Company the amount payable pursuant to Section 1.1 by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account which shall have been designated by the Company at least two (2) Business Days prior to the anticipated Closing Date.

 

(b)                                 The Company shall deliver to Purchaser one or more certificates representing the Shares against payment to the Company of the amount payable pursuant to Section 1.1.

 

(c)                                  Purchaser shall deliver to the Company a correct, complete and signed IRS Form W-8 EXP at the Closing or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.

 

ARTICLE II.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT AND THE COMPANY

 

Parent and the Company, jointly and severally, represent and warrant to Purchaser that, except as may be set forth in the schedules hereto, or , other than for purposes of Section 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.15, 2.19, 2.20 or 2.21, as may be expressly disclosed in the Commission Documents:

 

2.1                               Organization and Good Standing.

 

(a)                                 The Company is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware.  Parent and each of the Company’s subsidiaries is an entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is organized, except where the failure to be so organized, existing or in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, be materially adverse to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. Each of Parent, the Company and its subsidiaries is duly qualified or licensed to do business in each jurisdiction where the character of the properties owned, leased or operated by it or the nature of its business makes qualification or licensing necessary, except for such failures to be so qualified or licensed that would not, individually or in the aggregate, be materially adverse to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.  Each of Parent, the Company and its subsidiaries has the requisite power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to carry on its business as it is now being conducted, in each case, in all material respects.

 

(b)                                 True and correct copies of the Organization Documents of Parent, the Company and its subsidiaries have been made available to Purchaser.

 

2.2                               Authority; No Conflict.

 

(a)                                 The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Agreements and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby (together, including, without limitation, the issuance and conversion of equity or debt thereunder, the “Contemplated Transactions”), are within the Company’s (and, as applicable, Parent’s and Opco’s) corporate or limited liability company powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company (and, as applicable, Parent and Opco) and their respective equityholders, and no other corporate or limited liability company action will be required on the part of the Company (or, as applicable, Parent and Opco) or otherwise that is necessary to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by the Company (or Parent or Opco) of the Transaction Agreements or the

 

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consummation of the Contemplated Transactions.  The Transaction Agreements are, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Purchaser and the other parties thereto, the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company (or, as applicable, Parent), enforceable against the Company (or, as applicable, Parent and Opco) in accordance with their respective terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights, and to general equitable principles (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding at law or in equity).

 

(b)                                 The execution and delivery of the Transaction Agreements by the Company (and, as applicable, Parent or Opco) the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions do not, and the performance by the Company (and, as applicable, Parent and Opco) of their respective obligations hereunder will not, (i) violate any provision of the Organization Documents of Parent, the Company or any subsidiary of the Company, (ii) violate any Legal Requirement applicable to Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries or by which any property or asset of Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or affected or (iii) require any Consent under, result in any breach of or any loss of any benefit under, or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or give to others (including, without limitation, any employees or directors of the Company or any of its subsidiaries) any right of payment under, termination, recapture, vesting, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, or result in the creation of an Encumbrance (except for liens contemplated by the Loan Agreements) on any property or asset of Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, any Contract to which Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party, or Governmental Authorization held by Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries, except, with respect to clauses (ii) and (iii), for any such violations, requirements, Consents, breaches, defaults, Encumbrances or other occurrences which would not, individually or in the aggregate, be materially adverse to Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or have a material adverse effect on the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions.

 

(c)                                  The execution and delivery of the Transaction Agreements by the Company (and, as applicable, Parent and Opco) do not, and the performance of the Transaction Agreements and of the Contemplated Transactions by the Company (and, as applicable, Parent and Opco) will not, assuming the accuracy of the information provided by Purchaser to Company with respect thereto, (i) require any Consent of, filing with, or notification to, any Person other than a Governmental Body, by Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or (ii) require any Consent of, filing with, or notification to, any Governmental Body by Parent, the Company or any subsidiary of the Company, except for such Consents, filings and/or notifications required by the HSR Act, if any, except, with respect to clauses (i) and (ii), where failure to obtain such Consent or make such filing or notification would not, individually or in the aggregate, be materially adverse to Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or have a material adverse effect on the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions.

 

2.3                               Capitalization; Issuance of Shares.

 

(a)                                 Parent has not conducted and does not conduct any activities other than those incident to its ownership of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company.  Schedule 2.3(a) lists all of the record holders of interests (or rights to acquire

 

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interests) in Parent and the number of interests held.  Parent owns no equity securities in any Person other than the Company.

 

(b)                                 The Company conducts no activities other than incident to its ownership of its subsidiaries.  After giving effect to the Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, dated as of the date hereof and filed immediately prior to the execution of this Agreement, the authorized capital stock of the Company consists of 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock, of which 1,028 shares shall be issued and outstanding, and 3,500,000 shares of preferred stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share (the “Preferred Stock”), none of which is issued and outstanding.  Parent is the holder of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company.

 

(c)                                  Other than as set forth on Schedule 2.3(c) or pursuant to the Contemplated Transactions, there are no securities, options, warrants, calls, rights or other Contracts to which Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party, or by which the Parent, Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound, obligating Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries to issue, deliver or sell, or cause to be issued, delivered or sold, additional shares of, or other equity or voting securities or interests in, or securities convertible into, or exchangeable or exercisable for, shares of Common Stock, or other equity or voting securities or interests in, Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries or obligating Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries to issue, grant, extend or enter into any such security, option, warrant, call, right or Contract.

 

(d)                                 Other than as set forth on Schedule 2.3(d), there are no Contracts between Parent or the Company or any of its subsidiaries, on the one hand, and any Person, on the other hand, granting such Person the right to require Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries to file a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to any securities owned or to be owned by such Person or to require the Company or any of its subsidiaries to include such securities in the securities registered pursuant to this Agreement (or in any securities being registered pursuant to any other registration statement filed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries under the Securities Act).

 

(e)                                  Schedule 2.3(e) sets forth all authorized and issued and outstanding equity securities and other securities convertible or exchangeable for equity securities of each direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company and the ownership thereof.  The outstanding equity securities of each such subsidiary that are owned directly or indirectly, by the Company or one or more subsidiaries of the Company are owned free and clear of all Encumbrances other than Encumbrances granted under the terms of or in connection with the Loan Agreements.  All of the outstanding equity securities of the Company and each of its subsidiaries have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable.  All of the outstanding equity securities and other securities convertible or exchangeable for equity securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries were validly issued in compliance with the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and any other applicable Legal Requirement, except for immaterial failures to comply with any such other Legal Requirements.  Other than as set forth on Schedule 2.3(e) hereto, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries owns, or has any Contract to acquire, any equity securities of any Person (other than a subsidiary of the Company) or any direct or indirect equity or ownership interest in any other business.

 

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(f)                                   The issuance of the Shares and all other equity and debt securities issuable pursuant to the Transaction Agreements have been duly authorized and, upon issuance in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other applicable Transaction Agreements, the Shares and such other equity and debt securities will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and free from all Encumbrances other than Encumbrances created by Purchaser.

 

(g)                                  The use of proceeds listed on Exhibit A are reasonably expected by the Company to result in increased cash flow of at least $20 million for the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries from the pro forma cash interest savings and EBITDA from acquisitions specified on such Exhibit on a pro forma basis during the 12 month period following the Closing.

 

(h)                                 As of the Closing, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have any liabilities or obligations in respect of the New York Proton Center Project other than pursuant to the Amended and Restated Operating Agreement of New York Proton Management, LLC, a New York limited liability company (“NYPM”), dated as of March 18, 2014, by and among Opco and the other parties thereto (“NYPM LLC Agreement”).

 

2.4                               Commission Filings.  The Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013, and all other reports, schedules, forms, prospectuses, proxy statements and other documents filed or furnished by the Company with the Commission since November 24, 2011 (collectively, and in each case including all exhibits and schedules thereto and documents incorporated therein by reference, as such statements and reports may have been amended since their filing, the “Filed Documents”), when they were filed with the Commission conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and none of such Filed Documents, as of their respective dates (as updated, amended, restated or corrected in a subsequent Filed Document dated prior to the date of this Agreement), contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

2.5                               Financial Statements; Controls.

 

(a)                                 As of their respective dates, the audited consolidated financial statements (the “Audited Financial Statements”) of the Company as of and for the years ended December 31, 2013 (the “Audited Balance Sheet Date”), December 31, 2012, and December 31, 2011, included in the Filed Documents and the unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Company as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2014, included in the Filed Documents (such unaudited consolidated financial statements are referred to herein as the “Interim Financial Statements”, and together with the Audited Financial Statements, the “Financial Statements”) were prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be indicated in the related notes and schedules thereto, or, in the case of unaudited financial statements, as may be permitted by Commission rules and regulations and subject, in the case of the unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial year-end adjustments.  The consolidated balance sheets (including the related notes) included in such Financial Statements (as updated, amended, restated or corrected in a subsequent Commission Document) fairly present, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries at the respective dates

 

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thereof, and the consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows (in each case, including the related notes) included in such Financial Statements (as updated, amended, restated or corrected in a subsequent Filed Document dated prior to the date of this Agreement) fairly present, in all material respects, the consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the respective dates thereof and for the periods indicated, subject, in the case of the unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial year-end audit adjustments.

 

(b)                                 The interim cash flow and other financial information made available to Purchaser listed on Schedule 2.5(b) has been prepared from the books and records of the Company and its subsidiaries, maintained in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practices.   Any forecasts or other pipeline information listed on such schedule has been prepared in good faith based upon currently available information.

 

(c)                                  The Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act), which (i) are reasonably designed to ensure that material information required to be disclosed by the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, in the reports that it files under the Exchange Act is made known to the Company’s principal executive officer and its principal financial officer or persons performing similar functions by others within the Company, particularly during the periods in which the periodic reports required under the Exchange Act are being prepared; (ii) have been evaluated for effectiveness as of December 31, 2013; and (iii) are effective in all material respects to perform the functions for which they were established.  Based on the evaluation of its disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2013, the Company is not aware of (i) any significant deficiency in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data or any material weaknesses in internal controls that has not been remedied, or (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal controls. Since the date of the most recent evaluation of such disclosure controls and procedures, there have been no significant changes in the design or operation of internal controls nor has the Company identified any significant deficiencies or material weaknesses with respect to internal controls.

 

(d)                                 The Company and its subsidiaries have a system of internal control over financial reporting sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of its consolidated financial statements in conformity 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 reported accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.

 

2.6                               Title to Properties.   The Company and each of its subsidiaries have good, valid and, to the extent that the construct exists under applicable Legal Requirements, marketable title in fee simple to, or a leasehold, subleasehold, easement, possessory rights or similar interest in, all real property and good and valid title to all personal property owned by them, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, defects, equities or claims except for liens

 

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contemplated by the Loan Agreements or as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries; all assets held under lease by the Company and its subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases, with such exceptions as are not material and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such assets by the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.  For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 2.6 does not cover intellectual property matters, which are the subject of Section 2.18.

 

2.7                               No Undisclosed Liabilities.

 

(a)                                 Neither Parent nor the Company has any material liabilities or material obligations of any kind whatsoever, whether or not accrued and whether or not contingent or absolute, other than liabilities and obligations resulting from their respective corporate and limited liability company existences or ownership interests, or incurred in connection with the Contemplated Transactions, or, in the case of the Company, its status as a guarantor of Opco debt or in connection with filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

(b)                                 None of the Company’s subsidiaries has any liabilities or obligations of the type required to be disclosed on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP, other than (i) liabilities or obligations disclosed or provided for in the consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of December 31, 2013, including the notes thereto, contained in the Filed Documents, (ii) liabilities or obligations incurred in connection with the Contemplated Transactions, (iii) liabilities or obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practice, since December 31, 2013, or (iv) other liabilities or obligations that are not otherwise covered by insurance that are not, individually, or in the aggregate, materially adverse to the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

 

2.8                               Taxes.

 

(a)                                 Each of the Company and its subsidiaries has timely filed all material United States federal, state, local and foreign Tax Returns required to be filed through the date hereof, and all such Tax Returns are complete and accurate in all material respects, and has timely paid all material Taxes due within the applicable statute of limitations.  There are no Encumbrances for such Taxes upon any asset of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (other than Encumbrances for Taxes not yet due and payable or for taxes that the taxpayer is contesting in good faith and for which appropriate reserves are maintained under GAAP).  No material Tax deficiency (i) has been claimed in writing or, to the knowledge of the Company, otherwise (and there is no current audit, assessment, dispute or claim concerning any material Tax liability of the Company or any of its subsidiaries); or (ii) has been determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries nor does the Company or any of its subsidiaries have any knowledge of any potential material Tax deficiency.  All material Taxes required to be withheld, collected or deposited by or with respect to the Company and each of its subsidiaries have been timely withheld, collected or deposited as the case may be and, to the extent required, have been timely paid to the relevant taxing authority.

 

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respect to the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

 

(c)                                  None of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has directly or indirectly participated in a “listed transaction” within the meaning of Section 6707A(c)(2) of the Code.

 

(d)                                 The Company has not been a “distributing corporation” or a “controlled corporation” in any distribution occurring during the last two years intended to qualify under Section 355 of the Code.

 

2.9                               Material Adverse Effect.  Since the Audited Balance Sheet Date, there has not been any Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

2.10                        Employee Benefits.

 

(a)                                 Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (i) the Company and its subsidiaries and each Employee Plan are in compliance in all material respects with all applicable provisions of ERISA, and each Employee Plan for which the Company or any of its subsidiaries has or would reasonably be expected to have any liability has been maintained in material compliance with its terms and the requirements of any applicable statutes, orders, rules and regulations including, but not limited to, ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable non-U.S. statutes, orders, rules and regulations that are similar to ERISA or the Code (collectively, “Other Plan Laws”); (ii) no “reportable event” (as defined in Section 4043(c) of ERISA), other than any event for which the 30-day notice requirement under ERISA has been waived by regulation, has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any Employee Plan which is a “pension benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA); (iii) no “prohibited transaction” (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA) has occurred with respect to any Employee Plan, excluding transactions effected pursuant to statutory or administrative exemption; (iv) the Company and its subsidiaries have not incurred nor reasonably expect to incur liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any Employee Plan; (v) there has been no failure by any Employee Plan to satisfy the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) applicable to such Employee Plan, whether or not waived; (vi) no Employee Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA is, or is reasonably expected to be, in “at risk status” (within the meaning of Section 303(i) of ERISA) or “endangered status” or “critical status” (within the meaning of Section 305 of ERISA); and (vii) each Employee Plan that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code or the applicable provisions of Other Plan Laws is so qualified and to the knowledge of the Company, nothing has occurred, whether by action or by failure to act, which would cause the loss of such qualification. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has any liability with respect to any “employee benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) solely by reason of Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries being treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code with any trade, business or entity other than Parent, the Company and the subsidiaries that would continue to be or become a liability to the Company or any of its subsidiaries on or after the date hereof.

 

(b)                                 Except as set forth on Schedule 2.10(b), neither Parent or the Company contributes, nor within the six (6)-year period ending on the date of this Agreement has any of

 

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them contributed, sponsored or maintained, or been obligated to contribute, sponsor or maintain, or has any liability with respect to, any plan, program or agreement which is a “multiemployer plan” (as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA) or which is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 or Title IV of ERISA.

 

(c)                                  No amount will be received (whether in cash or property or the vesting of the property) as a result of the execution and delivery of the Transaction Agreements by the Company (and, as applicable, Parent or Opco) or the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions (whether alone or in connection with any other event) by any employee, director or other service provider of the Company or any of its subsidiaries that would not be deductible by reason of Section 280G of the Code or would be subject to an excise tax under Section 4999 of the Code.

 

2.11                        Labor Relations; Compliance.Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has been, or is now, a party to any collective bargaining or other similar labor Contract.  There has not been, there is not presently existing and, to the knowledge of the Company, there is not threatened, any strike, organized slowdown or work stoppage involving the employees of the Company or its subsidiaries.  The Company and its subsidiaries have complied in all material respects with all applicable Legal Requirements relating to employment, equal employment opportunity, nondiscrimination, immigration, wages, hours, benefits, collective bargaining, the payment of social security and similar Taxes, occupational safety and health and plant closings and layoffs, except where the failure to so comply would not, individually or in the aggregate, be materially adverse to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.  Each individual who renders services to the Company or any of its subsidiaries who is classified by the Company or such subsidiary, as applicable, as having the status of an independent contractor or other non-employee status for any purpose (including for purposes of taxation, tax reporting, Employee Plans and compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act) is properly so characterized.

 

2.12                        Compliance with Legal Requirements; Governmental Authorizations.

 

(a)                                 The businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries are not being, and, have not been, conducted in violation of any Legal Requirement, except where such violations would not be materially adverse to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

 

(b)                                 The Company and its subsidiaries, and each applicable employee of each of them, are in possession of all material Governmental Authorizations necessary to be held by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any of their respective employees, for the Company or any of its subsidiaries to lease and/or operate the property and to carry on the businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries as it is being conducted, except where the failure to possess the same would not, individually or in the aggregate, be materially adverse to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; and all such Governmental Authorizations are valid, and in full force and effect, in all material respects, except where the failure to be so valid and in full force and effect, would not, individually or in the aggregate, be materially adverse to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.  Since January 1, 2012, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any written notice or other written communication from any Governmental Body regarding any material (a) actual or alleged violation of or failure to comply with any term or requirement of any such Governmental Authorization or (b) actual or proposed

 

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revocation, withdrawal, suspension, cancellation, termination of or modification to any such Governmental Authorization, in each case except where such violation, failure, revocation, withdrawal, suspension, cancellation, termination or modification would not, individually or in the aggregate, be materially adverse to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

 

(c)                                  Without limiting the generality of Section 2.12(a) or Section 2.12(b), except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Company or any subsidiary, none of Parent, the Company or its subsidiaries, nor their respective Affiliates or partners, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any Persons who provide professional services under agreements with any of the foregoing for the benefit of Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries, Affiliates or partners, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any Persons whose business is managed or administered under agreements with the Company or any of its subsidiaries, Affiliates or partners, has engaged in any activities which are prohibited by (i) the federal civil and criminal false claims statutes and regulations, (ii) the Medicare and Medicaid statutes, regulations, billing guidelines and related compliance guidance, including, but not limited to, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7a-7b), (iii) the federal Stark law governing physician self-referrals (42 USC. Section 1395nn et seq.) and regulations, (iv) the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), including the privacy and anti-fraud provisions thereof, (v) the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HITECH”), (vi) any laws or regulation regarding the corporate practice of medicine and physician fee-splitting prohibitions, (vii) any comparable state or international statute or regulation, or, (viii) to the knowledge of the Company, any Legal Requirement or rule relating to the regulation of the medical or worker’s compensation industry.

 

(d)                                 Without limiting the generality of Section 2.12(a) or Section 2.12(b), none of Parent, the Company or its subsidiaries, nor their respective Affiliates or partners, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any Persons who provide professional services under agreements with any of the foregoing for the benefit of Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries, Affiliates or partners, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any Persons whose business is managed or administered under agreements with the Company or any of its subsidiaries, Affiliates or partners, (i) has been debarred, disqualified, suspended or excluded from participation under any private, commercial or governmental programs; (ii) has been convicted or charged with (or, to the knowledge of the Company, investigated for) any criminal offenses under any Law relating to fraud, theft, embezzlement, breach of fiduciary responsibility, or other criminal offense or other misconduct in connection with the delivery of an item or service or with respect to any act or omission under any private, commercial or governmental programs; (iii) has been subject to any order of, or any criminal, civil or administrative fine or penalty imposed by, any Governmental Body; or (iv) is a party to or is bound by an individual integrity agreement, corporate integrity agreement, deferred prosecution agreement, or other formal or informal agreement with any Governmental Body concerning compliance with any Law.

 

(e)                                  Without limiting the generality of Section 2.12(a) or Section 2.12(b), except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Company or any subsidiary, (i) each of Parent, the Company and its subsidiaries, and their respective Affiliates and partners, complies with HIPAA (including its implementing regulations, as amended by the regulations promulgated pursuant to HITECH) and all applicable Legal Requirements related to the privacy, security, and transmission of health information (collectively, “Health Information

 

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Laws”), (ii) each of Parent, the Company and its subsidiaries, and their respective Affiliates and partners, has business associate or confidentiality agreements in effect as required by the Health Information Laws; (iii) each Parent, the Company and its subsidiaries, and their respective Affiliates and partners, is currently submitting, receiving and handling or capable of submitting, receiving and handling the transactions that have been standardized pursuant to the TCS Standards of HIPAA at 45 CFR Parts 160 and 162, and is in material compliance with the TCS Standards, (iv)  none of Parent, the Company and its subsidiaries, nor their respective Affiliates or partners, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any Persons who provide professional services under agreements with any of the foregoing for the benefit of Parent, the Company and its subsidiaries, has either (A) received any notice from any Person, including any Governmental Body, regarding its or any of its agents’, employees’ or contractors’ uses or disclosures of, or security or privacy practices regarding, individually identifiable health information in violation of any applicable Health Information Law or (B) breached a business associate or confidentiality agreement pertaining to individually identifiable health information. None of Parent, the Company and its subsidiaries, nor their respective Affiliates and partners, has had any impermissible use or disclosure, breach, or security incident (each as determined by reference to the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (45 C.F.R. Parts 160 and 164, Subparts A and E), the Breach Notification Rule (45 C.F.R. Part 164, Subpart D), the Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information (45 C.F.R. Part 164, Subparts A and C) or state Legal Requirements, as applicable) involving individually identifiable health information, including electronic individually identifiable health information, held by Parent, the Company or its subsidiaries, Affiliates, partners, agents, employees or contractors.

 

(f)                                   Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has (in the case of directors, officers, employees or other persons, in connection with activities undertaken on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries), (i) used any corporate funds for any contribution, gift, entertainment or other expense relating to political activity; (ii) made any direct or, to the knowledge of the Company, indirect payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended; or (iv) made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other similar payment, in each case of clauses (i), (ii) and (iv) above, in violation of applicable Legal Requirements.

 

(g)                                  The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the anti-money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions to which the Company or its subsidiaries are subject, and the rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any Governmental Body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is, to the knowledge of the Company, pending or threatened.

 

(h)                                 None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or controlled affiliate of the Company or any of

 

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its subsidiaries 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 use the proceeds of the Purchase Transaction, 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 that, at the time of such activities, is subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.

 

(i)                                     The Company and, to the knowledge of the Company, the Company’s directors and officers (in their capacities as such) are, in compliance in all material respects with any applicable provision of the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith.

 

(j)                                    The Company and its subsidiaries have at all times acted in compliance in all material respects with any applicable provision of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) of 1988 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith.

 

2.13                        Legal Proceedings; Orders.  There is no Proceeding or written notice regarding intent to conduct an audit or examination pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, by or against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties before any court or arbitrator or any Governmental Body except as would not individually or in the aggregate (a) be materially adverse to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole or (b) prevent or materially delay the performance by the Company of its obligations pursuant to this Agreement or the Contemplated Transactions, in each case of clauses (a) and (b) above, if adversely determined.  There is no Order of any Governmental Body outstanding against the Company or any of its subsidiaries which, individually or in the aggregate, would (x) be materially adverse to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole or (y) prevent or materially delay the performance by the Company of its obligations pursuant to this Agreement or the Contemplated Transactions.  The Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance with any Order of any Governmental Body outstanding against the Company or any of its subsidiaries, except where the failure to so be in compliance would not, individually or in the aggregate, be materially adverse to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

 

2.14                        Absence of Certain Changes and Events.  Except as contemplated by this Agreement or as disclosed on Schedule 2.14, from the Audited Balance Sheet Date until the date of this Agreement, the Company and its subsidiaries have conducted their businesses in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practice. From the Audited Balance Sheet Date until the date of this Agreement, there has not been any of the following or any Contract entered into to do any of the following (other than pursuant to this Agreement, the other Transaction Agreements or the Contemplated Transactions):

 

(a)                                 a change in the Company’s authorized or issued capital stock;

 

(b)                                 any notice claiming a default or event of default under any Contract with respect to any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its subsidiaries;

 

(c)                                  a repurchase of equity securities of Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries;

 

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(d)                                 an Acquisition;

 

(e)                                  an amendment to the Organization Documents of Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries;

 

(f)                                   material change in the accounting methods used by the Company or any of its subsidiaries; or

 

(g)                                  incurrence of any indebtedness for borrowed money (excluding draws in the ordinary course of business under existing lines of credit of the Company or any of its subsidiaries) or repayment of any indebtedness for borrowed money prior to its stated maturity, except for mandatory prepayments of amounts outstanding under the Loan Agreements.

 

2.15                        Contracts; No Defaults.

 

(a)                                 Schedule 2.15(a) sets forth each material Contract to which Parent or the Company is a party.  Each such Contract with executor obligations is in full force and effect and constitutes a legal, valid and binding agreement of Parent or the Company (as applicable), enforceable against Parent or the Company (as applicable), in each case in all material respects, and, to the knowledge of the Company, the other parties thereto, in accordance with its terms except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium and other applicable Legal Requirement affecting creditor’s rights generally and by general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding at law or in equity).

 

(b)                                 Schedule 2.15(b) sets forth each Material Contract of any subsidiary of the Company.  Each such Material Contract is in full force and effect and constitutes a legal, valid and binding agreement of the subsidiary of the Company party thereto, enforceable against such subsidiary of the Company, in each case except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, be materially adverse to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and, to the knowledge of the Company, the other parties thereto, in accordance with its terms except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium and other applicable Legal Requirement affecting creditor’s rights generally and by general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding at law or in equity).  A complete copy of each such Material Contract has been made available to Purchaser prior to the date hereof.

 

(c)                                  There is no uncured material breach or default or claimed uncured material breach or default under any Material Contract required to be disclosed pursuant to Section 2.15(a) or (b), to accelerate repayment or to modify terms of any such Material Contract that would permit the other party to terminate such Material Contract or, to the knowledge of the Company, would otherwise be, individually or in the aggregate, materially adverse to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

 

2.16                        Insurance.  The Company and each of its subsidiaries carry, or are covered by, insurance (including directors and officers insurance) in such amounts and covering such risks as is adequate for the conduct of their respective businesses and the value of their respective properties and as is customary for companies engaged in similar businesses in similar industries.

 

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2.17                        Environmental Matters.

 

(a)                                 The Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance with all Environmental Laws applicable to the business and operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to be materially adverse to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

 

(b)                                 Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has disposed of, arranged for or permitted the disposal of, exposed any Person to, or released any Hazardous Materials in violation of any Environmental Law at or from real property owned or leased by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or to the knowledge of the Company at any real property formerly owned or operated by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, except for any such violation which would not reasonably be expected to result in any material liability to the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to any Environmental Law.

 

(c)                                  Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any material written Environmental Claim which would reasonably be expected to result in any material liability to the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to any Environmental Law.

 

(d)                                 Except in those cases which would not reasonably be expected to result in any material liability to the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to any Environmental Law, the Company and its subsidiaries are in possession of all material Environmental Permits required under any Environmental Law that are necessary for the Company or any of its subsidiaries’ activities and operations as currently conducted at the real property owned or leased by the Company or any of its subsidiaries; to the knowledge of the Company: all such Environmental Permits are valid and in full force and effect, the Company and its subsidiaries are, and have been, in material compliance with the terms and conditions of such Environmental Permits, and the Company and its subsidiaries during this period have timely submitted any applications necessary for the renewal or extension of all such Environmental Permits.

 

2.18                        Intellectual Property.   The Company and each of its subsidiaries own or have a license or other right to use all patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service mark registrations, copyrights, inventions, and know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures) necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses and the conduct of the businesses of the Company and each of its subsidiaries do not conflict with, and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any written notice of any claim of infringement on the intellectual property rights of others, in each case, except as would not be materially adverse to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

 

2.19                        Relationships with Related Persons.  Except as set forth on Schedule 2.19, other than employment agreements with any employee or officer of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, the Transaction Agreements or pursuant to the Contemplated Transactions, no Affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (i) is a party to a Contract with the Company or any of its subsidiaries (a “Related Party Contract”) or (ii) has any interest in any property (whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or intangible), used in the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ businesses.  Each Related Party Contract contains terms that are no less

 

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favorable in the aggregate to the Company and its subsidiaries than the market terms at the time such Related Party Contract was entered into.  Except for employment-related arrangements, no Related Party Contract is subject to change in current economic or other terms or modification or termination in the event a party to such Related Party Contract ceases to be an Affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, as applicable.

 

2.20                        Brokers or Finders. Except as set forth in Schedule 2.20, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any Contract with any Person with respect to a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or like payment in connection with the Contemplated Transactions.

 

2.21                        1940 Act.  Neither the Company nor any subsidiary is currently or will be, upon the Closing of the Contemplated Transactions in accordance herewith, an “investment company” or a company “controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of and subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

2.22                        Subsidiary Distributions and Payments.  Except as set forth in the Loan Agreements, no subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, under any agreement or other instrument to which it is a party or subject, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such subsidiary’s capital stock, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such subsidiary’s properties or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company.

 

ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PURCHASER

 

Purchaser makes the following representations and warranties to the Company as of the date hereof:

 

3.1                               Organization.  Purchaser is a Canadian federal Crown corporation.

 

3.2                               Authority; No Conflict.

 

(a)                                 The Purchaser has all requisite power and capacity to execute, deliver and perform the Transaction Agreements to which it is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and the Purchaser has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution and delivery by Purchaser of the Transaction Agreements to which it is a party and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.  The Transaction Agreements to which the Purchaser is a party are, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Company and the other parties thereto, the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Purchaser, enforceable against the Purchaser in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights, and to general equitable principles (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding at law or in equity).

 

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which it is a party do not, and the performance by the Purchaser of its obligations hereunder and thereunder will not, (i) violate any provision of the Organization Documents of the Purchaser, (ii) violate any Legal Requirement applicable to the Purchaser or by which any property or asset of the Purchaser is bound or affected or (iii) result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or give to others any right of termination, recapture, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, or result in the creation of an Encumbrance on any property or assets of the Purchaser pursuant to, any Contract to which the Purchaser is a party, or other instrument or obligation of or Government Authorization held by the Purchaser, except, with respect to clauses (ii) and (iii), for any such violations, breaches, defaults, Encumbrances or other occurrences which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Purchaser Material Adverse Effect.

 

(c)                                  The execution and delivery by the Purchaser of the Transaction Agreements to which it is a party do not, and the performance of such Transaction Agreements and of the Contemplated Transactions by the Purchaser will not, require any Consent of, or filing with, or notification to, any Governmental Body or any other Person, except where failure to obtain such Consents, or to make such filings or notifications, would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Purchaser Material Adverse Effect.

 

3.3                               Investment Representations.

 

(a)                                 The Purchaser is not a “U.S. person” within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act or acting for the account or benefit of U.S. persons.

 

(b)                                 The Purchaser acknowledges that it is acquiring the Shares outside the United States in an “offshore transaction” (as defined in Rule 902(h) under Regulation S) in compliance with Regulation S.

 

(c)                                  The Purchaser was offered the Shares in, and is resident in, the Province of Ontario.  The Purchaser is an accredited investor as defined in National Instrument 45-106 — Prospectus and Registration Exemptions (“NI 45-106”), is not relying on subparagraph (m) of that definition and is eligible to purchase the Shares pursuant to an exemption from the prospectus requirements in NI 45-106.  The Purchaser confirms that it has not received any “offering memorandum” (within the meaning of the Ontario Securities Act regarding the Company in connection with its subscription.)

 

3.4                               Brokers or Finders.  Purchaser is not liable for any finder’s fee or other commission or compensation in respect of the transactions contemplated hereby, other than fees or other compensation that will be paid by Purchaser (subject to reimbursement as contemplated by Section 4.3 hereof).

 

ARTICLE IV.
COVENANTS

 

4.1                               Use of Proceeds.  The Company shall use the proceeds of the Purchase Transaction in the manner contemplated by Exhibit A, it being understood by the parties that the acquisitions contemplated thereby shall be subject to the consent of the Majority Holders (as

 

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defined in the Certificate of Designations).

 

4.2                               Continuing Information Access; Due Diligence. From the date of this Agreement through the Closing Date the Company shall, and shall cause its subsidiaries to, (a) afford Purchaser and its representatives reasonable access during normal business hours to the properties, Contracts, books and records and other documents and data of the Company and its subsidiaries that are not included in the Commission Documents, (b) furnish Purchaser and its representatives with such additional financial, operating and other data and information as the Purchaser may reasonably request that are not included in the Commission Documents and (c) make available to Purchaser and its representatives, upon reasonable advance notice and during normal business hours, the officers and representatives of the Company, as Purchaser may reasonably request; provided, however, nothing herein shall obligate the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any other representative or agent of any of the foregoing to take any actions that would (x) result in any waiver of attorney-client privilege or any similar privilege or violate any terms of any Contract to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or to which any of their respective assets are subject or (y) result in any violation of any applicable Legal Requirement.  All information made available to Purchaser pursuant to this Section 4.2 shall be deemed Confidential Information (as such term is defined in the Confidentiality Agreement) and be governed by the terms of the Confidentiality Agreement.

 

4.3                               Costs and Expenses.   If the Purchase Transaction is not consummated pursuant to this Agreement, the Company or Opco shall reimburse Purchaser for (i) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses related to the Contemplated Transactions incurred by Purchaser and (ii) all reasonable and documented fees and expenses of third-party advisors retained by the Purchaser with respect to the Contemplated Transactions (the “Investor Expenses”), up to a maximum of $2,000,000 in the aggregate for (i) and (ii) above, unless reimbursement in excess of such amount is approved by the Company.  If the Purchase Transaction is consummated pursuant to this Agreement, Purchaser shall be responsible for all Investor Expenses.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company shall bear all costs incurred in connection with regulatory filings in connection with the Contemplated Transactions.

 

4.4                               Conduct of Business by the Company.   During the period between the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, and except (i) as contemplated by the Contemplated Transactions or (ii) with the prior written consent of Purchaser (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed):

 

(a)                                 the Company shall, and shall cause each of its subsidiaries to, (x) maintain its existence in good standing under applicable Legal Requirements other than as may be necessary or advisable in connection with internal corporate restructuring transactions or except where the failure to maintain such existence in good standing would not have a Company Material Adverse Effect, (y) carry on its business in the ordinary course consistent with past practice in all material respects, and (z) use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep available the services of its current officers and employees and to preserve its relationships with its material customers, suppliers and other Persons (including Governmental Bodies) with which it has business relations as is reasonably necessary in order to preserve substantially intact their goodwill and business organization; and

 

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(b)                                 the Company shall not, and shall cause its subsidiaries not to, do any of the following or agree or promise, whether oral or written, to do any of the following:

 

(i)                                     adjust, split, combine, subdivide or reclassify the Company’s Common Stock; issue any security convertible into such capital stock; or grant any registration rights;

 

(ii)                                  amend, waive or terminate any Material Contract (except for amendments, waivers, terminations or non-renewals in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice that would not be material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole), or enter into any Contract that would constitute a Material Contract if in effect on the date hereof (except for such Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice that would not be material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole); or

 

(iii)                               take any other action that would require the consent of holders of a majority of Shares pursuant to the Certificate of Designations if taken after the Closing.

 

4.5                               Governmental Filings.

 

(a)                                 Each party shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain all Consents of any Governmental Body required to be obtained in connection with the consummation of the Purchase Transaction, provided that the reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs of obtaining any such Consents shall be borne by the Company.  To the extent permitted by applicable Legal Requirements, each party shall promptly notify the other party of any communications such party or its Affiliates receive from any Governmental Body related to the matters that are subject to this Agreement.  The Company shall timely file any post-Closing notifications required by any Governmental Body, including complying with Medicare enrollment requirements.

 

(b)                                 Without limiting Section 4.5(a), upon either party’s request by written notice to the other party, the Company and Purchaser shall make filings required under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the “HSR Act”).  The parties shall (and shall cause their respective Affiliates to) furnish the other party hereto such information and cooperation as may reasonably be requested by such party in connection with the preparation and submission of such filings under the foregoing.  The Company and Purchaser shall promptly keep each other informed of any developments with respect to such filing and provide the other and its legal counsel with an opportunity to provide comments on draft correspondence relating thereto on the proposed responses to any requests for information associated therewith.  Each party shall use its commercially reasonable efforts in such party’s good faith judgment to resist any assertion that the Contemplated Transactions, individually or taken as a whole, constitute a violation of federal, state or provincial antitrust laws and shall seek early termination of any waiting periods under the HSR Act, and shall seek the appropriate orders or approvals in order to consummate the Contemplated Transactions (to the extent not previously consummated).  The Company or Opco shall bear all of Purchaser’s reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs

 

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and expenses associated with the filing under the HSR Act and related matters described in this Section 4.5.  For the avoidance of doubt, the Company shall not consummate any corporate action that would give rise to a conversion under Section 7 of the Certificate of Designations without prior notice to Purchaser so that any applicable filings under the HSR Act can be made.

 

4.6                               New York Proton Center.  From and after the date hereof, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to (i) transfer the limited liability company interests of NYPM, held by Opco to a third party, pursuant to a Membership Interest Transfer Agreement, and (ii) cause Opco to enter into a Technical Advisor Services Agreement with such third party pursuant to which Opco will provide consulting and adviser services to such third party in connection with its provision of administrative services to NYPM related to the New York Proton Center Project, in each case, in substantially the form provided to Purchaser prior to the date hereof; provided, that any material changes to such documentation shall require the prior consent of Purchaser.

 

4.7                               Issuance of Warrants.  Immediately following a Mandatory Conversion (as defined in the Certificate of Designations), provided that any of the Shares remain outstanding at the time of such Mandatory Conversion, the Company shall execute and deliver to CPPIB or its designee a warrant agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (the “Warrant Agreement”) and shall issue to Purchaser a number of warrants in the form attached to the Warrant Agreement equal to the quotient of (x) 30,000,000 divided by (y) a number, in US dollars, equal to the Conversion Price (as defined in and determined pursuant to the Certificate of Designations).  The issuance of such warrants shall, if applicable, be subject to Section 9.18 of this Agreement.

 

ARTICLE V.
[RESERVED]

 

5.1                               [Reserved].

 

ARTICLE VI.
CLOSING CONDITIONS

 

6.1                               Conditions to Obligations of Purchaser.The obligations of Purchaser to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby shall be subject to the satisfaction (or waiver by the Purchaser) at or prior to the Closing of each of the conditions set forth below.

 

(a)                                 Representations and Warranties.  The representations and warranties of the Company in Article II shall be true and correct in all respects on and as of the Closing Date as though such representations and warranties were made on and as of such date (except that representations and warranties that are made as of a specific date must be true and correct as though made on and as of such date), except where the failure of such representations and warranties (without giving effect to any materiality, adversity or Company Material Adverse Effect qualifiers contained therein) to be so true and correct has not had a Company Material Adverse Effect; provided, that this exception shall not apply to any Fundamental Representations which shall be true and correct in all respects (other than de minimis exceptions).

 

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(b)                                 Covenants and Agreements. The Company shall have performed and complied in all material respects with all covenants, obligations and agreements required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by the Company on or prior to the Closing.

 

(c)                                  Company Compliance Certificates.  Purchaser shall have received a certificate executed by the Company as to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Sections 6.1(a) and 6.1(b).

 

(d)                                 Material Adverse Effect.  Since the date of this Agreement, there shall not have been any Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

(e)                                  Certificate of Designations.  The Certificate of Designations shall have been filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.

 

(f)                                   Amendment to Parent Agreements.  The following shall have been executed and delivered by each of the parties thereto:

 

(i)             An Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of 21st Century Oncology Investments LLC, in the form attached here to as Exhibit C (the “LLC Agreement”).

 

(ii)          Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement of 21st Century Oncology Investments LLC, in the form attached here to as Exhibit D (the “Securityholders Agreement”).

 

(g)                                  Board Appointments.  Purchaser’s Designated Representatives shall have been appointed as members of the Board and become parties to indemnification agreements reasonably acceptable to Purchaser.

 

(h)                                 Termination of Recapitalization Support Agreement.  The parties to the Recapitalization Support Agreement, dated July 29, 2014 (the “RSA”), shall have acknowledged that the transactions contemplated hereby constitute a “Recapitalization” under the terms of the RSA and, therefore, the RSA shall be terminated and be without further force or effect, as of the Closing Date, subject to the Company’s receipt of funds from Purchaser pursuant to Section 1.1 hereof.

 

(i)                                     Manager Compensation. Vestar Capital Partners V, L.P. (“Vestar”) and its Affiliates shall have acknowledged, in an amendment to the Management Agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Purchaser, providing that (i) none of them shall receive any compensation from Parent, the Company or any of their respective Affiliates as a result of the execution of the Transaction Agreements or the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions and (ii) that the aggregate amount of any compensation payable to Vestar or any of its Affiliates in connection with any Sale of the Company or Public Offering (each as defined in the Securityholders Agreement) or comparable transaction shall equal $6,000,000, provided that in no event shall any compensation be paid to Vestar or any of its Affiliates under the management agreement following a Default Event (as defined in the Certificate of Designations).

 

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(j)                                    Event of Default.  No uncured event of default by the Company or any of its subsidiaries shall have occurred or shall have been claimed to have occurred under any agreements governing Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

6.2                               Conditions to Obligations of the CompanyThe obligations of the Company to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby shall be subject to the satisfaction (or waiver by the Company) at or prior to the Closing of each of the conditions set forth below.

 

(a)                                 Representations and Warranties.  The representations and warranties of Purchaser in Article III shall be true and correct on and as of the Closing Date as though such representations and warranties were made on and as of such date (except that representations and warranties that are made as of a specific date will be true and correct as though made on and as of such date).

 

(b)                                 Covenants and Agreements.  Purchaser shall have performed and complied in all material respects with all covenants, obligations and agreements required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by Purchaser on or prior to the Closing.

 

(c)                                  Purchaser Compliance Certificate.  The Company shall have received on the Closing Date, a certificate executed by Purchaser as to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Sections 6.2(a) and 6.2(b).

 

(d)                                 Amendment to Parent Agreements.  The following shall have been executed and delivered by each of the parties thereto:

 

(i)             the LLC Agreement.

 

(ii)          the Securityholders Agreement.

 

6.3                               Frustration of Closing ConditionsNo Party may rely on the failure of any condition set forth in this Article VI to be satisfied if such failure was caused by such Party’s failure to use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Closing to occur.

 

ARTICLE VII.
INDEMNIFICATION

 

7.1                               Parent and Company Indemnification From and after the Closing, Parent, the Company and Opco, jointly and severally, shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Purchaser and its officers, directors and Affiliates (including any director, officer, employee, agent and controlling person of any of the foregoing) (each, a “Purchaser Indemnified Person”) from and against all Damages sustained or incurred by a Purchaser Indemnified Person arising from, relating to or resulting from (i) the breach of the representations and warranties made by Parent and the Company in this Agreement (in each case, other than for Sections 2.5 or the definition of Material Contract, without giving effect to any materiality, materially adverse or similar qualification contained therein), (ii)  the breach of any covenant, obligation or agreement made by the Company in the Certificate of Designations or (iii) any third party claims, whether asserted prior to or following the Closing, with respect to the matter specified in Schedule 7.1.  “Damages” means all losses, costs, claims, damages, liabilities, expenses (including reasonable

 

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attorneys’ and accountants’ fees, costs of investigation, costs of suit and costs of appeal), fines and penalties (other than speculative, remote, treble, exemplary and punitive damages).  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no claims by or on behalf of a Purchaser Indemnified Person shall be asserted under clause (i) of this Section 7.1 unless and until the aggregate amount of Damages that would otherwise be recoverable under clause (i) of this Section 7.1 exceeds on a cumulative basis an amount equal to $10,000,000, provided that this sentence shall not apply to any such claim arising from, relating to or resulting from a breach of any Fundamental Representations.

 

7.2                               Purchaser Indemnification.  From and after the Closing, the Purchaser shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Company and its officers, directors and Affiliates (including any director, officer, employee, agent and controlling person of any of the foregoing) (each, a “Company Indemnified Person”) from and against all Damages sustained or incurred by a Company Indemnified Person arising from, relating to or resulting from (i) the breach of the representations and warranties made by the Purchaser in this Agreement (in each case without giving effect to any materiality or materially adverse event qualifier contained therein) or (ii) the breach of any covenant, obligation or agreement made by the Purchaser in this Agreement.

 

7.3                               Indemnification Procedures.  A party entitled to indemnification hereunder (each, an “Indemnified Party”) shall give written notice to the party indemnifying it (the “Indemnifying Party”) of any claim with respect to which it seeks indemnification promptly after the discovery by such Indemnified Party of any matters giving rise to a claim for indemnification, provided that the failure of any Indemnified Party to give notice as provided herein shall not relieve the Indemnifying Party of its obligations under this Article VII unless and to the extent that the Indemnifying Party shall have been actually prejudiced by the failure of such Indemnified Party to so notify such party.  Such notice shall describe in reasonable detail such claim and shall include (if then known, and if not then known, a reasonable and good faith estimate of) the amount or the method of computation of the amount of such claim and reference to the provision(s) of this Agreement on which such claim is based. In case any such action, suit, claim or proceeding is brought against an Indemnified Party, the Indemnified Party shall be entitled to hire, at its own expense, separate counsel and participate in the defense thereof; provided, however, the Indemnifying Party shall be entitled to assume and conduct the defense thereof, unless the counsel to the Indemnified Party advises such Indemnifying Party in writing that such claim involves a conflict of interest (other than one of a monetary nature) that would reasonably be expected to make it inappropriate for the same counsel to represent both the Indemnifying Party and the Indemnified Party, in which case the Indemnified Party shall be entitled to retain its own counsel at the cost and expense of the Indemnifying Party (except that the Indemnifying Party shall only be liable for the legal fees and expenses of one law firm for all Indemnified Parties, taken together with respect to any single action or group of related actions). If the Indemnifying Party assumes the defense of any claim, all Indemnified Parties shall thereafter deliver to the Indemnifying Party copies of all notices and documents (including court papers) received by the Indemnified Party relating to the claim, and each Indemnified Party shall cooperate in the defense or prosecution of such claim. Such cooperation shall include the retention and (upon the Indemnifying Party’s request) the provision to the Indemnifying Party of records and information that are reasonably relevant to such claim, and making employees available on a mutually convenient basis to provide additional information and explanation of any material provided hereunder. The Indemnifying Party shall not be liable for any settlement

 

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of any action, suit, claim or proceeding effected without its written consent; provided, however, the Indemnifying Party shall not unreasonably withhold, condition or delay its consent. The Indemnifying Party further agrees that it will not, without the Indemnified Party’s prior written consent (which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), settle or compromise any claim or consent to entry of any judgment in respect thereof in any pending or threatened action, suit, claim or proceeding in respect of which indemnification has been sought hereunder unless such settlement or compromise (i) includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Party from all liability arising out of such action, suit, claim or proceeding, (ii) does not impose injunctive or other equitable relief against the Indemnified Party and (iii) does not require the Indemnified Party to make a statement or admission of fault, culpability or failure to act. If an offer is made to settle a pending or threatened action, suit, claim or proceeding, which offer the Indemnifying Party is permitted to settle under this Section 7.3 only upon the prior written consent of the Indemnified Party, and the Indemnifying Party desires to accept and agree to such offer, the Indemnifying Party will give prompt written notice to the Indemnified Party to that effect.  If the Indemnified Party fails to consent to such firm offer within twenty (20) calendar days after its receipt of such notice, the Indemnified Party may continue to contest or defend such claim and, in such event, the maximum liability of the Indemnifying Party as to such claim will not exceed the amount of such settlement offer, plus costs and expenses paid or incurred by the Indemnified Party through the date such settlement offer is given to the Indemnified Party and which amount is otherwise indemnifiable hereunder.

 

7.4                               Exclusion of Other Remedies.  The parties agree that from and after the Closing the indemnification or reimbursement obligations of the parties set forth in this Article VII shall constitute the sole and exclusive remedies of the parties for any Damages based upon, arising out of or otherwise in respect of the matters set forth in this Agreement.  The provisions of this Section 7.4 will not, however, prevent or limit a cause of action (a) on account of fraud (but not constructive fraud) or (b) under Section 9.8.

 

7.5                               Investigation and Waivers.   The respective representations and warranties of Purchaser and the Company contained in this Agreement or in any certificate or other document delivered by any party hereto prior to the Closing and the rights to indemnification set forth in this Article VII shall not be deemed waived or otherwise affected by any investigation made by a party and each party shall be entitled to rely on the representations and warranties of the other party despite such investigation or any knowledge that such party may otherwise have.  In addition, a party’s right to indemnity pursuant to this Article VII shall not be adversely affected by its waiver of a condition to closing set forth in Article VI, as applicable or by its determination that such condition has been satisfied.

 

7.6                               Tax Treatment of Indemnity Payments.  All indemnification payments under this Article VII shall be treated as adjustments to the Subscription Price for tax purposes, except as otherwise required by applicable Law.

 

ARTICLE VIII.
TERMINATION

 

8.1                               Termination.  This Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the Closing Date:

 

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(a)                                 by mutual written consent of the Purchaser and the Company;

 

(b)                                 by either party hereto if the Closing shall not have been consummated on or before October 1, 2014 (the “Termination Date”); provided, however, that the right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 8.1(b) shall not be available to any party whose failure to fulfill any material obligation under this Agreement has been a proximate cause of the failure of the Closing to be consummated on or before the Termination Date;

 

(c)                                  by Purchaser, if it is not in material breach of its obligations under this Agreement, and if there shall have been a material breach by the Company of any of its representations, warranties, covenants or agreements contained in this Agreement, which breach would result in the failure to satisfy one or more of the conditions set forth in Section 6.1(a) or Section 6.1(b); or

 

(d)                                 by the Company, if it is not in material breach of its obligations under this Agreement, and if there shall have been a material breach by Purchaser of any of its representations, warranties, covenants or agreements contained in this Agreement, which breach would result in the failure to satisfy one or more of the conditions set forth in Section 6.2(a) or Section 6.2(b).

 

8.2                               Effect of Termination. Any proper termination of this Agreement under Section 8.1 will be effective immediately upon the delivery of a valid written notice of the terminating party to the other party hereto. In the event of termination of this Agreement as provided in Section 8.1 hereof, (i) this Agreement shall forthwith become null and void and be of no further force or effect, except as set forth in Section 4.3, this Section 8.2 and Article IX, each of which shall remain in full force and effect and survive any termination of this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof, and (ii) there shall be no liability on the part of Purchaser or Parent or the Company (or any of their respective Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, shareholders, agents or representatives); provided, however, nothing herein shall prevent a party from bringing a specific performance claim (or a claim for injunctive relief) or shall relieve a party from liability (or limit such liability) for any failure to close when required hereunder or for any breach occurring prior to such termination.

 

ARTICLE IX.
MISCELLANEOUS

 

9.1                               Survival.

 

(a)                                 Other than the representations and warranties of Parent and the Company specified in the next sentence, the representations and warranties in this Agreement shall survive the Closing and will not terminate for twenty four (24) months following the Closing Date.  The representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12 and 2.17 (collectively, the “Fundamental Representations”) shall survive the Closing indefinitely, or until the 30th day following the earlier expiration of any applicable statute of limitations relating to the subject matter of such representation.

 

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such shorter period as may be expressly stated therein.

 

9.2                               Public Announcements.  The Company and the Purchaser shall cooperate with each other in relaying to third parties information concerning this Agreement and the transactions contemplated herein, and shall discuss drafts of all press releases and other releases of information for dissemination to the public pertaining hereto.  However, nothing in this Section 9.2 shall prevent the Company or the Purchaser from furnishing or filing any information to or with any Governmental Body or regulatory authority, insofar as is required by this Agreement or any Legal Requirement, provided that a party which proposes to make such a public disclosure shall, to the extent reasonably possible, provide the other party with a draft of such information in sufficiently in advance of its release to enable such other party to review such draft and advise that party of any comments it may have with respect thereto.  In particular, the Company agrees that it shall, except as required by any applicable Legal Requirement, obtain consent of the Purchaser to the disclosure of any information regarding the Purchaser to be contained in any news release or other document furnished or filed to or with any Governmental Body, authorized authority or disclosed to the public.

 

9.3                               Waiver.  Any party hereto may extend the time for the performance of any of the obligations or other acts required hereunder, waive any inaccuracies in the representations and warranties contained herein or in any document delivered pursuant hereto and waive compliance with any of the agreements or conditions contained herein.  Any such extension or waiver shall be valid only if set forth in an instrument in writing signed by the party to be bound thereby or as otherwise contemplated herein.  No failure or delay on the part of any party hereto in the exercise of any right hereunder will impair such right or be construed to be a waiver of, or acquiescence in, any breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement herein, nor will any single or partial exercise of any such right preclude any other (or further) exercise thereof or of any other right.

 

9.4                               Notices.  All notices, consents, waivers, and other communications under this Agreement must be in writing and will be deemed to have been duly given when (a) delivered by hand (with written confirmation of receipt), (b) sent by facsimile with confirmation of transmission by the transmitting equipment, (c) received by the addressee, if sent by certified mail, return receipt requested or (d) received by the addressee, if sent by a nationally recognized overnight delivery service, return receipt requested, in each case to the appropriate addresses or facsimile numbers set forth below (or to such other addresses, e-mail addresses or facsimile numbers as a party may designate by notice to the other parties):

 

(a)                                 If to Purchaser:

 

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Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

One Queen Street East

Suite 2500

Toronto, ON

Canada

M5C 2W5

Facsimile:                 (416) 868-8690

Attention:                 Managing Director, Head of Relationship Investments

 

and to:

 

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

One Queen Street East

Suite 2500

Toronto, ON

Canada

M5C 2W5

Facsimile:                 (416) 868-4760

Attention:                 Senior Vice-President, General Counsel and

Corporate Secretary

 

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

 

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

919 Third Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Facsimile:                 (212) 909-6836

Attention:                 Kevin M. Schmidt

 

(b)                                 If to Parent, the Company or Opco:

 

c/o Vestar Capital Partners

245 Park Avenue, 41st Floor,

New York, NY 10167

Facsimile:                 (212) 880-4922

Attention:                 General Counsel

 

and to:

 

21st Century Oncology

2270 Colonial Boulevard

Fort Myers, FL 33907

Facsimile:                 (516) 301-5778

Attention:                 General Counsel

 

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

 

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Kirkland & Ellis LLP

 

 

601 Lexington Avenue

 

 

New York, NY 10022

 

 

Facsimile:                 (212) 446-6460

 

 

Attention:                 Michael Movsovich

Constantine Skarvelis

 

 

 

9.5                               Consent to Jurisdiction.  In any action or proceeding between the parties arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated hereby, each party (1) hereby irrevocably and unconditionally consents and submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York and the United States of America, in each case located in the County of New York (and each party agrees not to commence any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated hereby except in such courts), (2) agrees that any service of any process, summons, notice or document by United States registered mail to the address of such party as set forth in Section 9.4 hereof shall be effective service of process for any action or proceeding brought against any party in the courts set forth above, and (3) hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives any objection to the laying of venue in the courts of the State of New York and the United States of America, in each case located in the County of New York, and hereby further irrevocably and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any such action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. Nothing in this section, however, shall affect the right of any party to serve legal process in any other manner permitted by law.

 

9.6                               Further Assurances.   The parties agree (a) to furnish upon request to each other such further information, (b) to execute and deliver to each other such other documents, and (c) to do such other acts and things, all as the other parties may reasonably request, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Agreement. Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, between the date of this Agreement and the Closing, (i) the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to timely satisfy each of the conditions to be satisfied by it as provided in Section 6.1 of this Agreement and (ii) the Purchaser shall use its reasonable best efforts to timely satisfy each of the conditions to be satisfied by it as provided in Section 6.2 of this Agreement.

 

9.7                               Entire Agreement and Modification.  This Agreement, together with the schedules and annexes hereto, supersedes all prior agreements between the parties solely with respect to its subject matter (other than (i) the Confidentiality Agreement, which, notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and shall terminate in accordance with the provisions thereof and (ii) the letter of intent, dated August 30, 2014 by and among Purchaser, the Company and Vestar Capital Partners V, L.P., which shall remain in effect and only terminate if the Closing occurs hereunder), and constitutes (along with the documents to be delivered at Closing pursuant to this Agreement) a complete and exclusive statement of the terms of the agreement between the parties solely with respect to its subject matter. This Agreement may not be amended except by a written agreement executed by Purchaser and the Company.  The parties hereto make no representations or warranties, express or implied, with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement except for the express representations and warranties of such party contained

 

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in this Agreement.

 

9.8                               Specific Performance.  The parties hereto agree that irreparable damage would occur in the event that the provisions contained in this Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached, and that monetary damages would not be sufficient.  It is accordingly agreed that the parties shall be entitled to an injunction or injunctions, without the posting of any bond, to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions hereof, this being in addition to any other remedy to which any such party may be entitled pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.

 

9.9                               Construction.  The headings of Articles and Sections in this Agreement are provided for convenience only and will not affect its construction or interpretation.  All annexes and schedules to this Agreement are incorporated into and constitute an integral part of this Agreement as if fully set forth herein.  All words used in this Agreement will be construed to be of such gender or number as the context requires.  The word “including” shall be read as “including but not limited to” and otherwise shall be considered illustrative and non-limiting.  The language used in the Agreement will be construed, in all cases, according to its fair meaning, and not for or against any party hereto.  The parties acknowledge that each party has reviewed this Agreement and that rules of construction, to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party, will not be available in the interpretation of this Agreement.

 

9.10                        Severability.  If any term or provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced by any Legal Requirement or public policy, all other terms and provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.  Upon such determination that any term or provision is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced, the parties hereto shall negotiate in good faith to amend or otherwise modify this Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the parties as closely as possible in a mutually acceptable manner such that that transactions contemplated hereby are fulfilled to the extent possible.

 

9.11                        Binding Effect; Assignment; No Third-Party Beneficiaries.  All or any portion of the rights and obligations of the Purchaser hereunder may be transferred by the Purchaser to any Affiliate or to any transferee of Shares without the consent of the Company; provided that the Purchaser shall notify the Company in writing prior to any such transfer.  No portion of the rights or obligations of the Purchaser hereunder may be transferred by the Purchaser to a non-Affiliate without the prior written consent of the Company, provided that such consent shall not be required for assignment of the rights under Section 4.7 (or, for the avoidance of doubt, of the rights and obligations under the Ancillary Documents).  Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement will apply to, be binding in all respects upon, and inure to the benefit of the successors and permitted assigns of the parties.  Except as set forth in Article VII, nothing in this Agreement shall create or be deemed to create any third party beneficiary rights in any Person not a party to this Agreement.

 

9.12                        Restricted Information.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, to the extent the Company is permitted to withhold information due to privilege, contractual limitation, Legal Requirement or otherwise, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to seek to provide to the Purchaser, the Purchaser Director or Purchaser’s representatives, as applicable, such information in a manner that does not violate such limitations or restrictions to the extent

 

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possible.

 

9.13                        Governing Law.  This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York without regard to any conflicts of law principles (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdiction) that would require the application of the law of any other jurisdiction.

 

9.14                        Waiver of Jury Trial.  TO THE EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LEGAL REQUIREMENT THAT CANNOT BE WAIVED, THE PARTIES HEREBY WAIVE, AND COVENANT THAT NEITHER WILL ASSERT (WHETHER AS PLAINTIFF, DEFENDANT OR OTHERWISE), ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY PERTAINING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY, WHETHER NOW OR HEREAFTER ARISING, AND WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE.  ANY PARTY MAY FILE A COPY OF THIS SECTION 9.14 WITH ANY COURT AS WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF THE KNOWING, VOLUNTARY AND BARGAINED AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES TO IRREVOCABLY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY, AND THAT ANY PROCEEDING OR ACTION WHATSOEVER BETWEEN THE PARTIES RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY WILL INSTEAD BE TRIED IN A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION BY A JUDGE SITTING WITHOUT A JURY.

 

9.15                        Execution of Agreement; Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which will be deemed to be an original copy of this Agreement and all of which, when taken together, will be deemed to constitute one and the same agreement.  The exchange of copies of this Agreement and of signature pages by facsimile, or by .pdf or similar imaging transmission, will constitute effective execution and delivery of this Agreement as to the parties and may be used in lieu of the original Agreement for all purposes.  Signatures of the parties transmitted by facsimile, or by .pdf or similar imaging transmission, will be deemed to be their original signatures for any purpose whatsoever and shall be considered to have the same binding legal effect as if it were the original signed version thereof delivered in person.

 

9.16                        Currency.  All references to currency, monetary value and dollars set forth herein mean United States (U.S.) dollars and all payments hereunder shall be made in United States dollars.

 

9.17                        No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Owners, Etc.  No director, officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder, controlling Person, manager, member, general partner, limited partner, principal or other agent of any of the Purchaser or Parent, the Company or Opco shall have any liability for any obligations of the Purchaser or Parent, the Company or Opco, as applicable, under this Agreement or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, the respective obligations of the Purchaser or Parent, the Company or Opco, as applicable, under this Agreement.  Each of parties hereto hereby waives and releases all liability described in the immediately preceding sentence.  This waiver and release is a material inducement to each party’s entry into this Agreement.

 

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9.18                        30% Rule Compliance.

 

(a)                                 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no CPPIB Entity (each an “Applicable Entity”) will be required or permitted to make any investment in any Group Entity that would be reasonably expected to cause any such Applicable Entity to be in breach of or to contravene the 30% Rule (as supported by the written opinion of external legal counsel to such Applicable Entity at its own cost).

 

(b)                                 The Group Entities will co-operate with the relevant Applicable Entities (to the extent commercially reasonable and provided that one or more of the Applicable Entities agree to reimburse the Group Entities for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs or expenses incurred by them, if any, in respect of any such cooperation, excluding the cost of acquiring any securities) to assist the Applicable Entities to comply with the 30% Rule in relation to their investment in any Group Entity. In furtherance of the foregoing, each Group Entity agrees to take any action or step reasonably requested by any Applicable Entity, including, without limitation, a change in the authorized capital of a Group Entity, that is necessary to avoid any breach or potential breach of the 30% Rule, or any amendment or replacement of that rule, including, without limitation, any breach or potential breach arising in connection with the potential exercise of any rights of first refusal or first offer, any pre-emptive rights, any right or obligation to transfer or exchange securities (including in connection with but prior to the completion of any Public Offering (including a Qualified IPO) or the issuance of equity securities in any merger or other business combination (including a Qualified Merger), or any option, warrant or other right or obligation to purchase or acquire securities (including upon conversion of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock purchased hereunder), in each case existing or arising under this Agreement or otherwise in relation to any Group Entity.  In addition, each Group Entity agrees that it shall not, without CPPIB’s prior written consent, issue any new securities or otherwise alter its capital structure in any way that would affect or adjust any securityholder’s proportionate interest in the voting rights to appoint and remove directors of the Group Entity or would otherwise change the authorized or issued share capital of the Group Entity or the rights attaching thereto if such change would result in a breach of the 30% Rule.

 

(c)                                  The Group Entities agree that they will co-operate with any Applicable Entity (including, for greater certainty, following the completion of an initial Public Offering by the Company (including a Qualified IPO)) and use reasonable efforts to provide such information or certifications as may reasonably be required by the Applicable Entities in the event the Applicable Entities make an application to the Ontario Securities Commission for a discretionary order providing a prospectus exemption from applicable Canadian securities laws to facilitate the resale of Registrable Securities or any securities issued in any merger or other business combination involving the Company (including a Qualified Merger).

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first written above.

 

 

 

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Pierre Lavallee

 

 

Name: Pierre Lavallee

 

 

Title: Senior Managing Director & Chief Talent Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ R. Scott Lawrence

 

 

Name: R. Scott Lawrence

 

 

Title: Managing Director, Head of Relationship Investments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

21st Century Oncology Investments, LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ James Elrod

 

 

Name: James Elrod

 

 

Title: President

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Daniel Dosoretz, M.D.

 

 

Name: Daniel Dosoretz, M.D.

 

 

Title: CEO

 

 

 

 

21st Century Oncology, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Daniel Dosoretz, M.D.

 

 

Name: Daniel Dosoretz, M.D.

 

 

Title: CEO

 



 

Annex A

 

Defined Terms

 

For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

 

(a)                                 30% Rule” means those restrictions set out in section 13 of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Regulations, SOR/99-190, that prohibit CPPIB from investing directly or indirectly in the securities of a corporation to which are attached more than 30% of the votes that may be cast to elect the directors of that corporation.

 

(b)                                 Acquisition” means (a) any acquisition of equity interests in another Person or (b) any acquisition of assets constituting all or substantially all of the business (or a line of business or business unit) of any Person.

 

(c)                                  Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with, such other Person, it being understood, for the avoidance of doubt, that any officer or director of any Person and his or her immediate family members or their Affiliates shall be deemed Affiliates of such Person.  For purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlled by” and “under common control with”) when used with respect to any person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to cause the direction of management or policies of such person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

 

(d)                                 Ancillary Agreements” means the Certificate of Designations, Warrant Agreement, the LLC Agreement and the Securityholders Agreement.

 

(e)                                  Applicable Exchange” means, as of the applicable time of determination, the stock exchange or quotation service on which the Common Stock is then listed or qualified for trading.

 

(f)                                   Board” means the board of directors of the Company.

 

(g)                                  Business Day” means any day on which banks are not required or authorized to close in New York City.

 

(h)                                 Certificate of Designations” means the Certificate of Designations of the powers, preferences and other special rights of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, in the form attached as Exhibit E hereto.

 

(i)                                     Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and rules and regulations issued pursuant to the Code.

 

(j)                                    Commission” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and each successor agency.

 



 

(k)                                 Commission Documents” means all Filed Documents, but excluding any forward-looking disclosure set forth in any risk factor section, any disclosures in any section relating to forward-looking statements and any other disclosures included therein to the extent they are predictive or forward-looking in nature.

 

(l)                                     Common Stock” means share of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share.

 

(m)                             Company Material Adverse Effect” means any change, event, development, state of facts or effect that has had a material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets, liabilities, results of operations or financial condition of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; provided, however, none of the following shall be deemed in itself, or in any combination, to constitute, and none of the following shall be taken into account in determining whether there has been or will be, a Company Material Adverse Effect, except, in the case of any event described in clauses (ii), (iii), (iv), (vi) or (vii) below, those events that have, or are reasonably likely to have, a disproportionate impact on the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, as compared to other entities operating in the industries or markets in which the Company and each of its subsidiaries operate (and in any such case, only such disproportionate impact shall be taken into account in determining if a Company Material Adverse Effect has occurred): any adverse change, effect, event, occurrence, state of facts or development arising from or relating to (i) the announcement or pendency of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; (ii) conditions affecting the industry in which the Company and its subsidiaries participate, the United States economy as a whole or the financial, securities, commodities or credit markets in general or the markets in which the Company and its subsidiaries operate in general; (iii) changes in GAAP (or interpretations thereof); (iv) changes in law, rules, regulations, orders, or other binding directives issued by any Governmental Body (or interpretations thereof); (v) performance or compliance with the terms of this Agreement, or the taking or refraining from taking of any action required by this Agreement or at the written direction of Purchaser; (vi) national or international political or social conditions, including, the commencement, continuation or escalation of a war, armed hostilities or other international or national calamity or act of terrorism, directly or indirectly involving the United States of America or other markets in which the Company or any of its subsidiaries operate; (vii) changes in financial, banking, or securities markets (including any disruption thereof and any decline in the price of any security or any market index; or (viii) any failure by the Company to meet any estimates or expectations regarding the Company’s revenues, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations for any period, or any failure by the Company to meet its internal budgets, plans, forecasts regarding its revenues, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations; provided, that the exception in this clause (viii) shall not prevent or otherwise affect a determination that any effect underlying such failure resulted in, or contributed to, a Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

(n)                                 Confidentiality Agreement” means the Confidentiality Agreement,

 

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dated as of June 6, 2014, between the Company and the Purchaser, as may be amended from time to time.

 

(o)                                 Consent” means any approval, consent, waiver or other authorization (including any Governmental Authorization).

 

(p)                                 Contract” means, with respect to a Person, any agreement, contract, lease, commitment, promise, indenture, or undertaking, to which such Person is legally bound or to which any of such Person’s properties or assets is subject.

 

(q)                                 CPPIB” means the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board established under the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act, S.C. 1997, c. 40.

 

(r)                                    CPPIB Entity” means CPPIB and any subsidiary thereof, as that term is defined in the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act.

 

(s)                                   Designated Representatives” shall mean R. Scott Lawrence and Christian Hensley.

 

(t)                                    Employee Plans” means all employee welfare benefit plans (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA), employee pension benefit plans (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA) and all other material employment, compensation, consulting, bonus, stock option, restricted stock grant, stock purchase, other cash or stock-based incentive, profit sharing, savings, retirement, disability, insurance, severance, deferred compensation and other similar fringe or employee benefit plans, programs, agreements or arrangements sponsored, maintained, contributed to or required to be contributed to, or entered into by Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries for the benefit of, or relating to, any current or former employee, director or other independent contractor of, or consultant to, Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries in respect of which Parent, the Company or any of its subsidiaries has any liability.

 

(u)                                 Encumbrance” means any charge, claim, community property interest, condition, equitable interest, lien, option, pledge, security interest, right of first refusal or similar restriction (other than restrictions on transfer imposed by applicable securities laws).  For the avoidance of doubt, “Encumbrance” shall not be deemed to include any non-exclusive out-license of intellectual property rights in the ordinary course of business.

 

(v)                                 Environmental Claim” means any written claim, action, cause of action, formal investigation or written notice by any Person alleging potential liability (including potential liability for investigatory costs, cleanup costs, governmental response costs, natural resources damages, property damages, personal injuries or penalties) arising out of, based on or resulting from (a) the presence, or release into the environment, of any Hazardous Material at any location, whether or not owned or operated by such Person or any of its subsidiaries or (b) circumstances forming the basis of any violation of any

 

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Environmental Law.

 

(w)                               Environmental Laws” means all applicable Legal Requirements in effect on the date of this Agreement relating to human health and safety (with respect to Hazardous Materials) or pollution or protection of the environment, including laws relating to releases or threatened releases of Hazardous Materials or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials.

 

(x)                                 Environmental Permits” means any permit, approval, identification number, license and other authorization required under any applicable Environmental Law.

 

(y)                                 ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and any rules or regulations pursuant to ERISA.

 

(z)                                  ERISA Affiliate” means any entity, whether or not incorporated, that together with the Company would be deemed a “single employer” for purposes of Section 414 of the Code or Section 4001 of ERISA.

 

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

 

(bb)                          Governmental Authorization” means any approval, accreditation, consent, license, permit, waiver or other authorization issued, granted, given or otherwise made available by or under the authority of any Governmental Body or pursuant to any applicable Legal Requirement.

 

(cc)                            Governmental Body” means any federal, state, local, municipal, foreign or other governmental or quasi-governmental authority of any nature (including any governmental agency, branch, department, official or entity and any court or other tribunal), multi-national organization or body, or body exercising, or entitled to exercise, any administrative, executive, judicial, legislative, police, regulatory or taxing authority or power of any nature, including any antitrust authority.

 

(dd)                          Group Entity” means Parent, the Company and each of their respective subsidiaries.

 

(ee)                            Hazardous Materials” means (a) any petroleum, petroleum products, byproducts or breakdown products, radioactive materials, asbestos-containing materials or polychlorinated biphenyls or (b) any chemical, material, waste or other substance defined or regulated because of its harmful, toxic or hazardous characteristics under any applicable Environmental Law.

 

(ff)                              Indebtedness” means with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries, (a) all obligations of any such Person for borrowed money or in respect of loans,

 

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advances, or interest rate derivative or hedging transactions (including any unpaid principal, premium and accrued and unpaid interest), (b) indebtedness evidenced by any note, bond, debenture or other debt security, to the extent not included in clause (a), (c) letters of credit, issued for the account of any such Person, (d) obligations under leases required in accordance with GAAP to be recorded as a capital lease.

 

(gg)                            knowledge”, when applied to the Company, means the actual knowledge, after due inquiry, of Daniel Dosoretz, Frank English, Joe Biscardi, Norton Travis, Kurt Janavitz or Madlyn Dornaus.

 

(hh)                          Legal Requirement” means any federal, state, local, municipal, foreign, international, multinational or other administrative Order, constitution, law, principle of equity, ordinance, principle of common law, regulation, statute or treaty.

 

(ii)                                  Loan Agreements” means the following (as they may be amended, supplemented, modified or replaced from time to time):

 

(i)                                     the Credit Agreement dated as of May 10, 2012, as amended and restated August 28, 2013, among Opco, the Company, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent, and the joint lead arrangers, joint bookrunners, co-documentation agents and syndication agent referred to therein;

 

(ii)                                  the Indenture entered into by Opco and certain of its subsidiaries dated as of May 10, 2012, by and between Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee, Opco and the Persons set forth as “Guarantors” therein, in connection with the issuance by Opco (then named “Radiation Therapy Services, Inc.”) of the 8 7/8% Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2017, together with all instruments and other agreements entered into by Opco or such Persons in connection therewith;

 

(iii)                               the Indenture entered into by Opco and certain of its subsidiaries dated as of April 20, 2010, by and between Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as trustee, Opco and the Persons set forth as “Guarantors” therein, in connection with the issuance by Opco (then named “Radiation Therapy Services, Inc.”) of the 9-7/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017, together with all instruments and other agreements entered into by Opco or such Persons in connection therewith; and

 

(iv)                              the Amended and Restated Indenture entered into by OnCure Holdings, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries dated as of October 25, 2013, by and between Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee, OnCure Holdings, Inc. and the Persons set forth as “Guarantors” therein, in connection with the issuance by OnCure Holdings, Inc. of the 11-3/4% Senior Secured Notes due 2017, together with all instruments and other agreements entered into by Opco or such Persons in connection therewith.

 

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(jj)                                Management Agreement” shall mean the Management Agreement, dated as of February 21, 2008, among Parent, the Company, Opco and Vestar Capital Partners, Inc.

 

(kk)                          Material Contract” means any Contract to which Parent, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party that constitutes:

 

(i)                                     a Contract with respect to any equity securities or any voting or governance rights with respect to any such Person;

 

(ii)                                  any Related Party Contract;

 

(iii)                               any Contract with respect to the New York Proton Center Project;

 

(iv)                              any Contract with respect to an Acquisition that has remaining contingent payment obligations of any such Person or that has not yet been consummated;

 

(v)                                 any Contract with respect to Indebtedness of any such Person with a principal amount in excess of $5 million; or

 

(vi)                              any other Contract to which any such Person is a party that provides for payments to or by such Person in excess of $20 million in any specified 12 month period.

 

(ll)                                  New York Proton Center Project” means the development, construction, advancement, operation and management of a proton cancer center in New York City.

 

(mm)                  Ontario Securities Commission” means the Ontario Securities Commission and each successor agency.

 

(nn)                          Order” means any award, decision, injunction, judgment, order, ruling, subpoena or verdict entered, issued, made or rendered by any court, administrative agency or other Governmental Body or by any arbitrator.

 

(oo)                          Organization Documents” means, with respect to a Person, the articles or certificate of incorporation and the bylaws or any equivalent organizational documents of such Person.

 

(pp)                          Person” means any individual, partnership, limited partnership, corporation, business trust, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, joint stock company, trust, estate, unincorporated association, joint venture or other entity.

 

(qq)                          Proceeding” means any judicial, administrative or arbitral action, suit, hearing, investigation or other proceeding (whether public or private) by or before any

 

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Governmental Body or any arbitrator.

 

(rr)                                Public Offering” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

(ss)                              Purchaser Material Adverse Effect” means any change, event, development, state of facts or effect that has had, or would reasonably be expected to have, a material adverse effect on the ability of Purchaser to perform its obligations under this Agreement or to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

(tt)                                Qualified IPO” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Certificate of Designations.

 

(uu)                          Qualified Merger” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Certificate of Designations.

 

(vv)                          Registrable Securities” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

(ww)                      Representatives” means with respect to an underwriting, the managing underwriters for such underwriting.

 

(xx)                          Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

(yy)                          Series A Convertible Preferred Stock” has the meaning set forth in the Certificate of Designations.

 

(zz)                            Subscription Price” means $325,000,000.

 

(aaa)                   Tax” or “Taxes” means any federal, state, local or foreign income, gross receipts, license, payroll, employment, excise, severance, stamp, occupation, premium, windfall profits, environmental, customs duties, capital stock, franchise, profits, withholding, social security, unemployment, disability, real property, personal property, sales, use, transfer, registration, value added, alternative or add-on minimum, estimated, or other tax of any kind whatsoever, including any interest, penalty, or addition thereto, whether disputed or not.

 

(bbb)                   Tax Return” means any return, declaration, report, claim for refund, or information return or statement relating to Taxes, including any schedule or attachment thereto, and including any amendment thereof.

 

(ccc)                      Transaction Agreements” means this Agreement, the Certificate of Designations, the Warrant Agreement, the LLC Agreement and the Securityholders Agreement.

 

Terms that are not defined in this Annex A above have the meanings set forth in the

 

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Section set forth opposite such term:

 

Term

 

Section

 

 

 

Agreement

 

Preamble

 

 

 

Applicable Entity

 

9.18

 

 

 

Audited Balance Sheet Date

 

2.5

 

 

 

Audited Financial Statements

 

2.5

 

 

 

Closing

 

1.2

 

 

 

Closing Date

 

1.2

 

 

 

Company

 

Preamble

 

 

 

Company Indemnified Person

 

7.2

 

 

 

Contemplated Transactions

 

2.2(a)

 

 

 

Damages

 

7.1

 

 

 

Filed Documents

 

2.4

 

 

 

Financial Statements

 

2.5

 

 

 

Fundamental Representations

 

9.1(a)

 

 

 

GAAP

 

2.5

 

 

 

Health Information Laws

 

2.12(e)

 

 

 

HIPAA

 

2.12(c)

 

 

 

HITECH

 

2.12(c)

 

 

 

HSR Act

 

4.6

 

 

 

Indemnified Party

 

7.3

 

 

 

Indemnifying Party

 

7.3

 

 

 

Interim Financial Statements

 

2.5

 

 

 

Investor Expenses

 

4.3

 

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Term

 

Section

 

 

 

 

LLC Agreement

 

6.1(f)

 

 

 

Money Laundering Laws

 

2.12(g)

 

 

 

NI 45-106

 

3.3(c)

 

 

 

NYPM

 

2.3(h)

 

 

 

NYPM LLC Agreement

 

2.3(h)

 

 

 

OFAC

 

2.12(h)

 

 

 

Other Plan Laws

 

2.10(a)

 

 

 

Parent

 

Preamble

 

 

 

Purchase Transaction

 

Recitals

 

 

 

Preferred Stock

 

2.3(b)

 

 

 

Purchaser

 

Preamble

 

 

 

Purchaser Indemnified Person

 

7.1

 

 

 

Securityholders Agreement

 

6.1(f)

 

 

 

Shares

 

1.1

 

 

 

Termination Date

 

8.1(b)

 

 

 

Warrant Agreement

 

4.7

 

 

 

Vestar

 

6.1(i)

 

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Exhibit 10.2

 

21ST CENTURY ONCOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC.
WARRANT AGREEMENT

 

WARRANT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of                                  between 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and the holders from time to time of the Warrants referred to herein (the “Holders”).

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Subscription Agreement, dated as of September 26, 2014 (the “Subscription Agreement”), by and among 21st Century Oncology Investments, LLC, the Company, 21st Century Oncology, Inc., and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, providing, among other things, for the issuance by the Company of warrants to purchase Common Stock (collectively, the “Warrants,”); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company has agreed to issue the Warrants on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and the Subscription Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual agreements contained in the Subscription Agreement the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

 

Article I
Issuance

 

Section 1.1                                    Issuance of Warrants.  The Company shall issue and deliver a certificate or certificates evidencing the Warrants (the “Warrant Certificates”) pursuant to the terms of the Subscription Agreement.  Each Warrant Certificate shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto.  Each Warrant Certificate shall be dated the date of issuance.  An Officer of the Company shall sign each Warrant Certificate by manual or electronic signature.

 

Article II
Exercise

 

Section 2.1                                    Exercise.  Each Warrant shall initially entitle the Holder thereof to purchase one share of Common Stock (as adjusted, the “Number of Shares Per Warrant”) for a per share exercise price of $0.01 (as adjusted, the “Exercise Price”), in each case subject to adjustment pursuant hereto.  Subject to Sections 2.2 and Section 2.3, the Warrants shall be exercisable at the election of the Holders thereof either in full at any time or in part from time to time.  The Company shall issue the Warrants pursuant to this Agreement and Section 4.7 of the Subscription Agreement.

 

Section 2.2                                    Exercise of Warrants for Cash.  Each Warrant may be exercised on any Business Day on or prior to 5:00 P.M. New York time on the Expiration Date, by

 



 

(i) surrender of a Warrant Certificate to the Company, at its Principal Place of Business, together with the Form of Election in the form of Exhibit 1 to the Warrant Certificate duly completed and signed by the Holder thereof, and (ii) payment to the Company of an amount equal to the number of Warrants so exercised multiplied by the Exercise Price (the “Payment Amount”) in cash, by certified or official bank check payable to the order of the Company or by wire transfer of funds to an account designated by the Company for such purpose.  Upon exercise pursuant to this Section 2.2, the exercising Holder shall be entitled to receive the number of duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock equal to the number of Warrants exercised multiplied by the Number of Shares Per Warrant.

 

Section 2.3                                    Cashless Exchange of Warrants.  Each Warrant may be exchanged on any Business Day on or prior to 5:00 P.M. New York time on the Expiration Date, by surrender of a Warrant Certificate to the Company at its Principal Place of Business, together with the Form of Election in the form of Exhibit 1 to the Warrant Certificate duly completed and signed by the Holder thereof.  Upon exchange pursuant to this Section 2.3, the exchanging Holder shall be entitled to receive the number of duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock equal to the difference between (a) the number of Warrants exchanged multiplied by the Number of Shares Per Warrant, less (b) the quotient of (x) the product of (1) the number of Warrants exchanged multiplied by (2) the Number of Shares Per Warrant multiplied by (3) the Exercise Price, divided by (y) the Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock on the Business Day immediately preceding the date of such exchange.  For all purposes of this Agreement other than Sections 2.2 and 2.3, unless otherwise specified, any reference to the exercise of any Warrant shall be deemed to include a reference to the exchange of such Warrant into Common Stock in accordance with the terms of this Section 2.3.

 

Section 2.4                                    Delivery of Stock Certificates, etc.  Within 10 Business Days after each exercise of any Warrant, the Company, at its sole expense (including, without limitation, the payment of any applicable issue taxes), shall issue or cause to be issued in the name of and delivered to the Holder of such Warrant or as such Holder may direct:

 

(a)                                 a certificate or certificates for the number of shares of Common Stock, if certificated, to which such Holder shall be entitled upon such exercise plus, in lieu of any fractional share to which such Holder would otherwise be entitled, cash in an amount equal to the same fraction multiplied by the Fair Market Value per such share of Common Stock, as the case may be, on the Business Day immediately preceding the date of such exercise; and

 

(b)                                 in the event that Warrant Certificates are surrendered for exercise in respect of less than all the Warrants represented thereby, new Warrant Certificates, as

 

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directed by the Holders thereof, of like tenor, dated the date hereof, for the remaining Warrants not so exercised.

 

Section 2.5                                    When Exercise Effective.  Each exercise of any Warrant shall be deemed effective immediately prior to the close of business on the Business Day on which such Warrant, together with a properly completed Form of Election, shall be surrendered to the Company and, in the case of exercise pursuant to Section 2.2, the Payment Amount shall be paid with respect to such Warrant, or if such day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day.  At such time, the Persons in whose names any shares of Common Stock shall be issuable shall be deemed to have become the holders of record thereof.

 

Section 2.6                                    No Rights as a Stockholder.  Neither this Agreement nor the Warrant Certificates shall entitle a Holder to any voting rights or other rights as a holder of Common Stock prior to the effectiveness of exercise by such Holder of any Warrant pursuant to Section 2.2 or Section 2.3.

 

Article III
Adjustments

 

Section 3.1                                    Changes in Common Stock.  In the event that at any time or from time to time after the date hereof the Company shall (i) pay a dividend or make a distribution on its Common Stock in shares of its Common Stock or other shares of capital stock, (ii) subdivide its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a larger number of shares of Common Stock, (iii) combine its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares of Common Stock, or (iv) increase or decrease the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding by reclassification of its Common Stock, then the Number of Shares Per Warrant immediately after the occurrence of such event shall be adjusted so that, after giving effect to such adjustment, each Holder shall be entitled to receive the number of shares of Common Stock upon exercise that such Holder would have owned or have been entitled to receive had each Warrant been exercised pursuant to Section 2.2 immediately prior to the occurrence of the events described above, and the Exercise Price shall be adjusted in inverse proportion.  An adjustment made pursuant to this Section 3.1 shall become effective immediately after the effective date in the case of a dividend, distribution, subdivision, combination or reclassification.

 

Section 3.2                                    Consolidation, Merger, Sale of Assets, Reorganization, Liquidation.

 

(a)                                 Except as provided in Section 3.2(b), in the event the Company consolidates or merges with or into any Person, transfers all or a substantial portion of the Company’s properties or assets to any other Person, effects a reorganization or reclassification of its capital stock, or any dissolution, liquidation, winding-up or any

 

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other similar transaction (each, a “Corporate Transaction”), each Holder shall have the right to receive upon exercise of the Warrants, the number and kind of cash and other property that such Holder would have received for its Common Stock had such Holder exercised its Warrant immediately before such Corporate Transaction.  The Company shall provide that any surviving or acquiring Person (the “Successor Company”) in such Corporate Transaction shall enter into an agreement with the Company confirming the Holders’ rights pursuant to this Agreement, assuming the Company’s obligations under this Agreement, jointly and severally with the Company if the Company shall survive such Corporate Transaction, and, unless Section 3.2(b) shall apply, providing after the date of such Corporate Transaction for adjustments, which shall be as nearly equivalent as possible to the adjustments provided for in this Article III.  The provisions of this Section 3.2 shall apply similarly to successive Corporate Transactions involving any Successor Company.

 

(b)                                 In the event of a Corporate Transaction in which consideration payable to holders of Common Stock is payable solely in cash, then the Holders shall be entitled to receive distributions on an equal basis with any holders of Common Stock for which the Warrants are exercisable at such time, as if the Warrants had been exercised immediately prior to such event pursuant to Section 2.2, less the Exercise Price then in effect.  In case of any Corporate Transaction described in this Section 3.2(b), the Company or any Successor Company, as the case may be, shall make available the consideration payable to such Holders (less the Exercise Price then in effect) at the same time and subject to the same terms as the other holders of Common Stock as if the Warrants had been exercised immediately prior to such Corporate Transaction.

 

Section 3.3                                    Dividends and Distributions.  In the event that the Company at any time or from time to time pays or makes any dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock, including, without limitation, distributions of cash, evidence of its indebtedness, Options, Convertible Securities, other securities or property or rights to subscribe for or purchase any of the forgoing, and whether by way of dividend, spin-off, reclassification, recapitalization, similar corporate reorganization or otherwise, other than with respect to a transaction addressed by Section 3.1 or Section 3.2 hereof, then, and in each such case, the Number of Shares Per Warrant shall be increased to a number determined by multiplying the previously applicable Number of Shares Per Warrant by a fraction, (A) the numerator of which shall be the Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock on the effective date for such dividend or other distribution, and (B) the denominator of which shall be the excess, if any, of (x) such Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock, over (y) the sum of the amount of any cash distributed per share of Common Stock plus the positive fair market value (as reasonably determined by the Board in good faith, as evidenced by a board resolution), if any, per share of Common Stock of any such evidences of indebtedness, Options, Convertible Securities, other securities or property or rights to be so distributed.  Such adjustments shall be made

 

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whenever any such dividend or other distribution is made and shall become effective as of the date of such distribution.

 

Section 3.4                                    Other Events.  If any event occurs as to which the provisions of this Article III are not strictly applicable but the failure to make any adjustment would not fairly and adequately protect the purchase rights of the Warrants in accordance with the intent and principles of such provisions, then there shall be made such adjustments in the application of such provisions, in accordance with such intent and principles, as shall be reasonably necessary to protect such purchase rights of the Warrants.

 

Section 3.5                                    Minimum Adjustment.  The adjustments required by the preceding Sections of this Article III shall be made whenever and as often as any specified event requiring an adjustment shall occur, except that no adjustment of the Number of Shares Per Warrant or the Exercise Price that would otherwise be required shall be made unless and until such adjustment either by itself or with other adjustments not previously made increases or decreases by at least 1% the Number of Shares Per Warrant or the Exercise Price immediately prior to the making of such adjustment.  Any adjustment representing a change of less than such minimum amount shall be carried forward and made as soon as such adjustment, together with other adjustments required by this Article III and not previously made, would result in the requisite minimum adjustment.

 

Section 3.6                                    Report as to Adjustments.  In each case of any adjustment in the Number of Shares per Warrant or the Exercise Price, the Company, at its sole expense, shall promptly (and in any event within 60 days) (i) compute such adjustment in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; (ii) prepare a report setting forth such adjustment and showing in reasonable detail the method of calculation thereof and the facts upon which such adjustment is based (including, without limitation, (a) the event or events giving rise to such adjustment; (b)  the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding or deemed to be outstanding prior and subsequent to any such transaction; (c) the method by which any such adjustment was calculated (including a description of the basis on which the Board made any determination of Fair Market Value or fair market value required thereby and copies of the underlying documents supporting such determination); and (d) the Number of Shares Per Warrant and the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such event or events and as adjusted; (iii) mail a copy of each such report to each Holder (which, for the avoidance of doubt, mail be sent by e-mail) and, upon the request at any time (but in any event not more than once per calendar year) of any Holder, furnish to such Holder a like report setting forth the Number of Shares Per Warrant and the Exercise Price at the time in effect and showing in reasonable detail how they were calculated; and (iv) keep copies of all such reports available at its Principal Place of Business for inspection upon reasonable advance notice during normal business hours by any Holder or any prospective purchaser of any Warrant designated by the Holder thereof, subject to a customary confidentiality agreement if reasonably requested by the Company.

 

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Section 3.7                                    Frustration of Purpose.  The Company shall not, by amendment of its certificate of incorporation or other organizational document, through any Corporate Transaction or otherwise, intentionally avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms of this Agreement.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company (a) will not permit the par value of any shares of Common Stock receivable upon the exercise of any Warrant to exceed the Exercise Price, (b) will not permit the number of shares of Common Stock authorized by the Company’s certificate of incorporation and available for issuance upon the exercise of Warrants to be less than the number of shares of Common Stock that Holders may be entitled to receive upon the exercise of all outstanding Warrants; and (c) will take all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock upon the exercise by Holders of all outstanding Warrants.

 

Section 3.8                                    Adjustment to Warrant Certificate.  The form of Warrant Certificate need not be changed as a result of any adjustment made pursuant to this Article III, and Warrant Certificates issued after such adjustment may state the same Number of Shares Per Warrant and the same Exercise Price as are stated in any Warrant Certificates issued prior to such adjustment.  The Company, however, may at any time make any change in the form of Warrant Certificate that it may deem appropriate to give effect to any such adjustment and that does not affect the substance of the Warrant Certificate or the rights represented thereby, and any Warrant Certificate thereafter issued, whether in exchange or substitution for an outstanding Warrant Certificate or otherwise, may be in the form as so changed.

 

Section 3.9                                    Notices of Corporate Action.  In the event the Company proposes to: (i) pay, distribute, or take a record of the holders of any class of securities for the purpose of determining the holders thereof who are entitled to receive, any dividend or other distribution, or any right to subscribe for, purchase or otherwise acquire any shares of capital stock or any other securities or property; (ii) consummate any Corporate Transaction; (iii) issue or repurchase any Common Stock, Convertible Securities, Options or any other securities the return on which is measured in whole or in part by reference to the Common Stock; then, at least 15 days prior to the earlier of any applicable record date or such event, as the case may be, the Company shall mail to each Holder a notice specifying: (a) the date or expected date on which any such payment or distribution is to be made or record is to be taken and the amount and character of any such dividend, distribution or right; (b) the date or expected date on which any Corporate Transaction is to take effect and any record date therefor; (c) the time as of which any holders of record of Common Stock and/or any other class of securities shall be entitled to exchange their shares of Common Stock and/or other securities for the securities or other property deliverable upon such Corporate Transaction and a description in reasonable detail of such transaction; (d) the date of such issuance or repurchase, together with a description of any securities to be issued or repurchased and the consideration to be received or

 

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offered by the Company therefor; and (e) in each case, the expected effect on the Number of Shares Per Warrant and the Exercise Price of each such transaction or event, as applicable.  The Company shall update any such notice to reflect any change in the foregoing information.

 

Article IV
Registration and Transfer

 

Section 4.1                                    Warrant Register; Transfer and Exchange of Warrants.

 

(a)                                 The Company shall maintain its principal place of business at 2270 Colonial Boulevard, Fort Myers, Florida, 33907, or such other address of which the Company shall reasonably notify the Holders (the “Principal Place of Business”), where notices, presentations and demands in respect of the Warrants may be made upon it.  The Company shall cause to be kept at its Principal Place of Business a register for the registration and transfer of the Warrants (the “Warrant Register”).  The names and addresses of Holders of Warrants shall be registered in the Warrant Register.  The Company shall record all transfers of the Warrants in the Warrant Register, and entries in the Warrant Register shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error.  The names and addresses of Holders of Warrants, the transfer thereof and the names and addresses of transferees of Warrants shall be registered in the Warrant Register.  The Company may treat the person in whose name any Warrant Certificate is registered in the Warrant Register as the owner and holder thereof and the Warrants represented thereby for all purposes, except that, if and when any Warrant Certificate is properly assigned in blank, using a Form of Assignment in the form of Exhibit 2 attached to the Warrant Certificate (the “Form of Assignment”), the Company may treat the bearer thereof as the owner of such Warrant Certificate and the Warrants represented thereby.  Warrants, if properly assigned using the Form of Assignment, may be exercised by a new Holder without a new Warrant Certificate first having been issued.

 

(b)                                 Upon surrender at the Principal Place of Business of any Warrant Certificate for exchange or for registration of transfer (together with, in the case of any transfer of all or any portion of the Warrants represented by such Warrant Certificate, a Form of Assignment duly filled in and signed by the Holder thereof and including, if required by the Company, an opinion of its counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Company to the effect that such transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act), the Company, at its sole expense (including, without limitation, the payment of any applicable issue taxes), shall execute and deliver to or upon the order of the Holder thereof a new Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor, in the name of such Holder or as such Holder may direct, calling in the aggregate for the number of shares of Common Stock called for in the Warrant Certificate so surrendered.

 

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Section 4.2                                    Replacement of Warrants.  Upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of any Warrant Certificate (including an affidavit of that fact, and in the case of loss, theft or destruction, such indemnification as the Company may reasonably require), the Company, at its sole expense (including, without limitation, the payment of any applicable issue taxes), shall execute and deliver, in lieu thereof, a new Warrant Certificate of like tenor and dated the date hereof.

 

Section 4.3                                    Required Legend.  Each Holder hereby acknowledges that the Warrant Certificates and any certificates for shares of Common Stock issued upon exercise of any Warrants (unless no longer required in the opinion of counsel) shall bear a legend substantially in the following form:

 

THE WARRANTS REPRESENTED BY THIS WARRANT CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, TRANSFERRED, HYPOTHECATED OR OTHERWISE ASSIGNED WITHOUT COMPLIANCE WITH THE REGISTRATION OR QUALIFICATION PROVISIONS OF APPLICABLE FEDERAL AND STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR APPLICABLE EXEMPTIONS THEREFROM.

 

Whenever the foregoing legend is no longer required in the opinion of outside legal counsel to any Holder, upon request of any such Holder, the Company, at its sole expense (including, without limitation, the payment of any applicable issue taxes), shall issue or cause to be issued in the name of and delivered to such Holder or as such Holder may direct new Warrant Certificates of like tenor, dated the date hereof, and/or new certificates for shares of Common Stock without such legend.  The Company shall have the right to receive upon request a written opinion of such outside legal counsel to the effect that the legends set forth above are no longer required in order to maintain compliance with applicable securities laws.

 

Section 4.4                                    Registration of Common Stock and Warrants.  If any shares of Common Stock required to be issued upon exercise of any Warrant require registration with or approval of any governmental authority under any federal or state law before such shares of Common Stock may be issued, the Company shall, at its sole expense and as expeditiously as possible, use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such shares of Common Stock to be duly registered and approved.  If at any time the Common Stock is listed on any national securities exchange, the Company, at its sole expense, shall obtain promptly and maintain the approval for listing on each such exchange of the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the then outstanding Warrants and shall maintain such listing after their issuance.  For the avoidance of doubt, the shares of

 

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Common Stock underlying the Warrants shall have the benefit of the registration rights set forth in the Securityholders Agreement (as defined in the Subscription Agreement), as it may be amended from time to time.

 

Article V
Covenants

 

Section 5.1                                    Reservation of Stock, etc.  The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available, free from preemptive rights, solely for issuance and delivery upon exercise of the Warrants, the number of shares of Common Stock from time to time issuable upon exercise of all Warrants at the time outstanding.  All shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of any Warrants shall be duly authorized and, when issued upon such exercise, shall be validly issued, fully paid, nonassessable, free from preemptive rights, free from all taxes with respect to the issuance thereof and free from all liens, charges and security interests created by the Company, with no liability on the part of the holders thereof.

 

Section 5.2                                    Cooperation.  Prior to any initial public offering of the equity securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Company shall use reasonable efforts to take any actions necessary to enable any Holder representing the Required Interest to exercise its Warrants for non-voting shares of common stock of the Company in lieu of Common Stock on the same economic terms as provided hereunder.  If Warrants exercisable for non-voting shares of common stock of the Company are transferred, then the Company shall use reasonable efforts to take any actions necessary to enable the exercise of such Warrants for Common Stock.  If any non-voting shares of common stock of the Company are transferred, the Company shall use reasonable efforts to take any actions necessary to convert such non-voting shares of common stock of the Company into Common Stock.

 

Article VI
Definitions

 

Section 6.1                                    Definitions.  The following terms have the meanings indicated below, unless the context otherwise requires:

 

Additional Shares of Common Stock” means all shares, including treasury shares, of Common Stock, issued or sold, or deemed to be issued or sold, by the Company after the date hereof, whether or not subsequently reacquired or retired by the Company, other than the shares of Common Stock issued upon the exercise of Warrants.

 

Agreement” or “Warrant Agreement” means this Warrant Agreement, together with all Exhibits and Schedules hereto, as amended from time to time.

 

Board” means the board of directors of the Company.

 

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Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or a Sunday or a day on which commercial banking institutions in New York City are authorized or required to be closed.

 

Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission and each successor agency.

 

Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share, any capital stock into which such Common Stock shall have been changed or converted, any capital stock resulting from any reclassification of such Common Stock, and all other capital stock of any class or classes of the Company the holders of which have the right either to all or any portion of the balance of current dividends and liquidating dividends after the payment of dividends and distributions on any shares entitled to preference.

 

Convertible Securities” means any evidences of indebtedness, shares of capital stock (other than Common Stock) or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for, directly or indirectly, shares of Common Stock.

 

Expiration Date” means the tenth anniversary of the date hereof.

 

Fair Market Value” of a share of Common Stock on any date means, (i) if the Common Stock is listed on a national stock exchange, the officially quoted closing price on such stock exchange, (ii) if the Common Stock is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market, the officially quoted closing price on NASDAQ, , in either case, on the date as of which the value is to be determined (or if such date is not a trading day, as of the immediately preceding trading day), or (iii) if the Common Stock is not listed on either a national stock exchange or NASDAQ, the fair market value as determined in good faith by the Board; provided that if Holders representing the Required Interest object in writing to such determination by the Board within ten (10) Business Days after receipt of the information delivered pursuant to Section 3.6, (x) Fair Market Value shall be determined by an independent nationally recognized valuation firm mutually agreed by the Board (on behalf of the Company) and the Holders representing the Required Interest, and (y) prior to the final determination of Fair Market Value by such valuation firm, the Holders and the Board shall each be entitled to (a) receive a copy of any draft appraisals, material reports and material correspondence from such valuation firm and (b) reasonable opportunities to discuss the appraisal with the valuation firm.  The fees, costs and expenses of the valuation firm shall be borne equally by the Company, on the one hand, and the objecting Holders, on the other hand.

 

Officer” means the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company.

 

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Options” means rights, options or warrants to subscribe for, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, shares of Common Stock, including, without limitation, Convertible Securities, but excluding options issued pursuant to the 2014 Stock Option Plan of the Company or any other equity incentive plan approved by the Board.

 

Person” means an individual, partnership, limited partnership, corporation, business trust, limited liability company, limited liability company, joint stock company, trust, estate, unincorporated association, joint venture, or other entity.

 

Required Interest” means Holders of a majority of the Warrants at the time outstanding.

 

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933 and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, as amended from time to time.

 

Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any company or corporate entity for which such Person owns, directly or indirectly, an amount of the voting securities, other rights or interests, including pursuant to contract, which is sufficient to elect at least a majority of its board of directors or other governing body (or, if there are no such voting interests, more than 50% of the equity interests of such company or corporate entity).

 

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Section 6.2                                    Other Definitions.  The following terms have the meanings given to them in the sections indicated below:

 

Term

 

Section

Agreement

 

Preamble

Company

 

Preamble

Corporate Transaction

 

3.2(a)

Exercise Price

 

2.1

Holders

 

Preamble

Number of Shares Per Warrant

 

2.1

Payment Amount

 

2.2

Principal Place of Business

 

4.1

Subscription Agreement

 

Recitals

Successor Company

 

3.2(a)

Warrants

 

Recitals

Warrant Certificates

 

1.1

Warrant Register

 

4.1

 

Article VII
Miscellaneous

 

Section 7.1                                    Remedies.  The Company stipulates that the remedies at law available to each Holder in the event of any default or threatened default by the Company in the performance of or compliance with any of the terms of this Agreement are not and will not be adequate and that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, such terms may be specifically enforced by a decree for the specific performance of any agreement contained herein or by an injunction against a violation of any of the terms hereof or otherwise.  No failure or delay on the part of any Holder, in exercising any right, power or remedy hereunder shall operate as a suspension or waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy hereunder.  The remedies herein provided are in addition to and not exclusive of any other remedies provided at law or in equity.

 

Section 7.2                                    No Rights or Liabilities as Stockholder.  Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed as imposing any obligation on any Holder to purchase any securities or as imposing any liabilities on such Holder as a stockholder of the Company, whether such obligation or liabilities are asserted by the Company or by creditors of the Company or otherwise.

 

Section 7.3                                    Notices.  All notices, requests, demands and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing and mailed (by first class registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested), sent by hand delivery, express overnight

 

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courier service or facsimile or email transmission, or delivered to the applicable party, if to the Company, at its Principal Place of Business, or if to any Holder, at the registered address of such Holder as set forth in the Warrant Register or at such other address as shall be designated by such Holder in a written notice to the Company (such designation to be recorded by the Company in the Warrant Register).  All such notices, requests, demands and other communications shall be deemed to have been validly served, given or delivered (a) upon the earlier of actual receipt and two Business Days after deposit in the United States mail, registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, with proper postage paid, (b) upon receipt of transmission, when sent by telecopy, facsimile or email transmission and followed by overnight courier, (c) one Business Day after deposit with a reputable overnight courier with all charges prepaid, or (d) when delivered, if hand delivered by messenger.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, exercise of any Warrant shall be governed by Article II.

 

Section 7.4                                    Amendments and Waivers.  This Agreement and any term hereof may be amended, altered, modified or waived only by an instrument in writing signed by the Company and the Required Interest; provided, however, that no such amendment, alteration, modification or waiver that would negatively affect the rights, interests or obligations of a Holder of any Warrant and would treat such Holder in a discriminatory manner may be made without the prior written consent of such Holder.  Any waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given.

 

Section 7.5                                    Binding Effect; Assignability.  This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Company, its successors and assigns, and the Holders from time to time of the Warrants.  This Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder may be assigned, in whole or in part, by any Holder without the consent of the Company to any Person in connection with the transfer of all or a portion of such Holder’s Warrants to such Person.

 

Section 7.6                                    Prior Agreements.  This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes any prior understandings or agreements, written or oral, concerning the subject matter hereof.

 

Section 7.7                                    Severability.  If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason, it shall be adjusted rather than voided, if possible, to achieve the intent of the parties hereto to the maximum extent possible. Any provision of this Agreement which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

 

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Section 7.8                                    Termination.  This Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect at the close of business on the Expiration Date or the date on which none of the Warrants shall be outstanding (whether by reason of the exercise thereof or the repurchase thereof by the Company), except that the provisions of Section 7.1 (Remedies) and this Section 7.8 (Termination) shall continue in full force and effect after such termination.

 

Section 7.9                                    Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, all of which taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument.

 

Section 7.10                             Governing Law.  This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York without regard to any conflicts of law principles (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdiction) that would require the application of the laws of another jurisdiction.

 

Section 7.11                             Consent to Jurisdiction.  In any action or proceeding between the parties arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated hereby, each party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally (i)  consents and submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York and the United States of America, in each case located in the County of New York (and each party agrees not to commence any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated hereby except in such courts), and (ii)  waives any objection to the laying of venue in the courts of the State of New York and the United States of America, in each case located in the County of New York, and hereby further irrevocably and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any such action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.

 

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

 

 

Company:

 

 

 

21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Holders:

 

 

 

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

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Exhibit A
to Warrant Agreement

 

21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.
[Form of Warrant Certificate]
[Number] Warrants

 

THE WARRANTS REPRESENTED BY THIS WARRANT CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, TRANSFERRED, HYPOTHECATED OR OTHERWISE ASSIGNED WITHOUT COMPLIANCE WITH THE REGISTRATION OR QUALIFICATION PROVISIONS OF APPLICABLE FEDERAL AND STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR APPLICABLE EXEMPTIONS THEREFROM.

 

THE WARRANTS REPRESENTED BY THIS WARANT CERTIFICATE ARE SUBJECT TO A WARRANT AGREEMENT WHICH FIXES THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE COMPANY AND THE HOLDER OF THE WARRANTS.  A COPY OF THE WARRANT AGREEMENT IS ON FILE AT THE COMPANY’S PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS.  ANY TRANSFER OR PLEDGE MADE IN VIOLATION OF SUCH WARRANT AGREEMENT IS VOID.  COPIES OF THE WARRANT AGREEMENT MAY BE OBTAINED BY ANY HOLDER WITHOUT CHARGE UPON WRITTEN REQUEST TO THE COMPANY.

 

No.       
[date]

 

This Warrant Certificate certifies that [Holder], and its permitted assigns, are entitled to purchase from 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), [number of Warrants] (as adjusted, the “Number of Shares”) duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company at the purchase price per share of $0.01 (as adjusted, the “Exercise Price”), at any time or from time to time prior to 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on the tenth anniversary of the date hereof (such date, the “Expiration Date”), all subject to the terms, conditions and adjustments set forth in the Warrant Agreement, dated as of [date] (as may be amended from time to time, the “Warrant Agreement”), by and among the Company and the holders from time to time of the Warrants (the “Holders”).  The warrants represented by this Warrant Certificate are warrants to purchase Common Stock (each a “Warrant” and collectively, the “Warrants,” such term to include any such warrants issued in substitution therefor).  The Warrants may be exercised in whole or in part in the manner, and for the exercise price, provided in the Warrant Agreement.  The Warrants originally issued evidence rights to purchase the Number of Shares, subject to adjustment as provided in the Warrant Agreement.  The Warrant Agreement is hereby incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Warrant Certificate and is hereby referred to for a description of the rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities of the Company and the Holder.

 



 

 

21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

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Exhibit 1
to Warrant Certificate

 

Form of Election
[To be executed upon exercise or exchange of the Warrant]

 

To                                 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.
[Address]

 

The undersigned registered holder of the enclosed Warrant Certificate hereby [exchanges / exercises] [number] of the Warrants represented by such Warrant Certificate and purchases [number](1) shares of Common Stock and / or other such securities and property in such type, number and / or amount as provided in the Warrant Agreement [and herewith makes payment of $[amount] therefore], and requests that the certificates for such shares and / or other evidences of such other securities and property, as the case maybe, be issued in the name of, and delivered to [name], whose address is [address].

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

 

(Signature must conform to name of holder as specified on the face of the Warrant Certificate)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Street Address)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(City)

(State)

(Zip Code)

 


(1)              In the case of a partial exercise, a new Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates, representing the unexercised portion of the Warrant, will be issued and delivered to the holder surrendering the Warrant Certificate.

 



 

Exhibit 2
to Warrant Certificate

 

Form of Assignment
[To be executed upon assignment of the Warrant]

 

To                                 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.
[Address]

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned registered Holder of the enclosed Warrant Certificate hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto [name], whose address is [address], [number] of the Warrants represented by such Warrant Certificate to purchase shares of Common Stock of the Company and / or other such securities and property in such type, number and / or amount as provided in the Warrant Agreement, and, if such Warrants shall not include all of the Warrants represented by the enclosed Warrant Certificate, the Company shall issue and deliver a new Warrant Certificate to the undersigned of like tenor for the remaining Warrants not transferred hereunder, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint [name] attorney, to register such transfer on the books of the Company maintained for such purpose, with full power of substitution.

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

 

(Signature must conform in all respects to name of holder as specified on the face of the Warrant Certificate)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Street Address)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(City)

(State)

(Zip Code)

Signed in the Presence of:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Acknowledged and Accepted:

 

 

 

21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

 




Exhibit 10.3

 

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITYHOLDERS AGREEMENT

 

DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

 

BY AND AMONG

 

21ST CENTURY ONCOLOGY INVESTMENTS, LLC,

 

21ST CENTURY ONCOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC.

 

AND

 

THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO

 



 

Table of Contents

 

 

 

Page

 

ARTICLE I

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE PARTIES

 

 

 

1.1

Representations and Warranties of the Company and Holdings

2

1.2

Representations and Warranties of the Securityholders

3

 

ARTICLE II

BOARD REPRESENTATION; SPECIAL CONSENT RIGHT

 

 

 

2.1

Board of Managers

3

2.2

Proxy

8

2.3

Matters Requiring Supermajority Vote

9

2.4

Termination

14

 

ARTICLE III

TRANSFERS OR EXCHANGES OF SECURITIES

 

 

 

3.1

Restrictions on Transfer of Employee Securities, TCW Securities and NYLIM Securities

15

3.2

Right of First Refusal

15

3.3

Restrictions on Transfers of Vestar Securities

16

3.4

Securities Act Compliance

20

3.5

Certain Transferees Bound by Agreement

20

3.6

Transfers in Violation of Agreement

20

3.7

Exchange of Securities

20

 

ARTICLE IV

TAKE-ALONG RIGHTS; DISTRIBUTION OF PROCEEDS

 

 

 

4.1

Take-Along Rights

21

4.2

Company Sale

23

4.3

Distribution of Proceeds from Sale of Company

24

4.4

30% Rule Compliance

24

 

ARTICLE V

REGISTRATION RIGHTS; LIQUIDITY COOPERATION

 

 

 

5.1

Demand Registrations

25

5.2

Incidental Registration

28

5.3

Holdback Agreements

29

5.4

Registration Procedures

30

5.5

Shelf Registration

33

5.6

Registration Expenses

33

5.7

Indemnification; Contribution

34

5.8

Rules 144 and 144A

37

 

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Table of Contents (continued)

 

 

 

Page

 

 

 

5.9

Underwritten Registrations

37

5.10

Governance following initial Public Offering or Qualified Merger

37

5.11

No Inconsistent Agreements

38

5.12

Cooperation with Transfers by Convertible Preferred Stockholders

38

 

ARTICLE VI

VENTURE CAPITAL OPERATING COMPANY; OTHER RIGHTS

 

 

 

6.1

VCOC Securityholders

38

6.2

Inspection of Property

40

6.3

Financial Statements and Other Information

41

 

ARTICLE VII

AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION

 

 

 

7.1

Amendment and Waiver

41

7.2

Termination of Agreement

41

7.3

Termination as to a Party

41

7.4

Issuer of Registrable Securities

42

 

ARTICLE VIII

PARTICIPATION RIGHTS

 

 

 

8.1

Participation Right

42

8.2

Definition of New Units

43

8.3

Notice from the Company

43

8.4

Closing

43

8.5

Compliance

43

8.6

Convertible Preferred Stockholder Participation Right

44

8.7

Exempted Issuances

45

8.8

Termination of this Section Upon a Public Offering

45

 

ARTICLE IX

MISCELLANEOUS

 

 

 

9.1

Certain Defined Terms

46

9.2

Legends

56

9.3

Severability

57

9.4

Entire Agreement

57

9.5

Successors and Assigns

57

9.6

Counterparts

57

9.7

Remedies

58

9.8

Further Assurances

58

9.9

Notices

58

9.10

Governing Law

60

 

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Table of Contents (continued)

 

 

 

Page

 

 

 

9.11

Arbitration of Valuation of Equivalent Cash Price

60

9.12

Descriptive Headings

61

 

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SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITYHOLDERS AGREEMENT

 

This Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement (this “Agreement”) is entered into as of September 26, 2014 by and among (i) 21st Century Oncology Investments, LLC (f/k/a Radiation Therapy Investments, LLC), a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”), (ii) 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc. (f/k/a Radiation Therapy Services Holding, Inc.), a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“Holdings”), (iii) Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, a Canadian federal crown corporation (“CPPIB”), (iv) Vestar Capital Partners V, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (“Vestar V”), Vestar Capital Partners V-A, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (“Vestar V-A”), Vestar Executive V, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership, Vestar Holdings V, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership, Vestar/Radiation Therapy Investments, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Vestar/RTI”), and any investment fund affiliated with Vestar Capital Partners V, L.P.  that at any time acquires Securities and executes a counterpart of this Agreement or otherwise agrees to be bound by this Agreement (collectively, “Vestar”), (v) parties to this Agreement who are identified as Employees on the signature page hereto (each, an “Employee” and, collectively, the “Employees”), (vi) TCW/Crescent Mezzanine Partners V, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, TCW/Crescent Mezzanine Partners VB, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, TCW/Crescent Mezzanine Partners VC, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, MAC Equity Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the entities described in this clause (vi), each, a “TCW Holder” and collectively, “TCW”)), (vii) New York Life Investment Management Mezzanine Partners II, LP, a Delaware limited partnership, and NYLIM Mezzanine Partners II Parallel Fund, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (the entities described in this clause (vii), each, an “NYLIM Holder” and collectively, “NYLIM”)), (viii) each other holder of Company Securities or Holdings Securities who hereafter executes a separate agreement to be bound by the terms hereof (Vestar, the Employees, TCW, NYLIM and each other Person that is or may become a party to this Agreement as contemplated hereby and holds Company Securities are sometimes referred to herein collectively as the “Company Securityholders” and individually as a “Company Securityholder” and CPPIB and each other Person (other than the Company) that is or may become a party to this Agreement and holds Holdings Securities are sometimes referred to herein collectively as the “Holdings Securityholders” and individually as a “Holdings Securityholder” and the Company Securityholders and the Holdings Securityholders are sometimes referred to herein collectively as the “Securityholders” and individually as a “Securityholder”).  Certain capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 9.1.

 

WHEREAS, on February 21, 2008, pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Purchase Agreement”), dated as of October 19, 2007, by and among 21st Century Oncology, Inc. (f/k/a Radiation Therapy Services, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (“Opco”), Holdings, RTS MergerCo, Inc., a Florida corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Holdings (“Merger Sub”), and the Company (solely for purpose of Section 7.2 thereof), (i) Merger Sub merged with and into Opco, with Opco surviving as a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Holdings and (ii) certain employees and directors of Opco either contributed Opco common stock to the Company or invested cash in the Company, in each case, in exchange for Preferred Units and Class A Units of the Company (the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement, collectively, the “Acquisition”);

 



 

WHEREAS, in connection with the consummation of the Acquisition, the Company, Vestar and the Employees entered into a Securityholders Agreement on February 21, 2008 (such agreement, the “Original Agreement”);

 

WHEREAS, in connection with the issuance of units of limited liability company interest to TCW and certain of its affiliates who are providing mezzanine financing to Opco, the Company, Vestar, the Employees and the other Securityholders entered into an Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement on March 25, 2008 (such agreement, the “Prior Agreement”); and

 

WHEREAS, in connection with the issuance of shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock of Holdings (the “Convertible Preferred Stock”) to CPPIB, in order to recognize modifications to governance, approval and liquidity rights applicable to the Company and its Subsidiaries, including Holdings, from and after the issuance of the Convertible Preferred Stock, the Company, the Employee Majority Holders and the Vestar Majority Holders desire to amend and restate the Prior Agreement, and in connection with such amendment and restatement of the Prior Agreement an amended and restated LLC Agreement has been adopted as of the date hereof in accordance with the terms thereof.

 

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein, the parties hereto, each intending to be legally bound, agree that the Prior Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

 

ARTICLE I
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE PARTIES

 

1.1                               Representations and Warranties of the Company and Holdings.  Each of the Company and Holdings hereby represent and warrant to the Securityholders, that as of the date of this Agreement:

 

(a)                                 In the case of the Company, it is a limited liability company and, in the case of Holdings, it is a corporation, duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, such party has full power and authority to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, and the execution, delivery and performance by such party of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by all necessary limited liability company or corporate action, as the case may be;

 

(b)                                 this Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by such party and constitutes a legal and binding obligation of such party, enforceable against such party in accordance with its terms; and

 

(c)                                  the execution, delivery and performance by such party of this Agreement and the consummation by such party of the transactions contemplated hereby will not, with or without the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both (i) violate any provision of law, statute, rule or regulation to which it is subject, (ii) violate any order, judgment or decree applicable to such party, or (iii) conflict with, or

 

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result in a breach or default under, any term or condition of such party’s organizational documents or any agreement or instrument to which such party is a party or by which such party is bound.

 

1.2                               Representations and Warranties of the Securityholders.  Each Securityholder (as to himself or itself only) represents and warrants to the Company, Holdings and the other Securityholders that, as of the time such Securityholder becomes a party to this Agreement:

 

(a)                                 this Agreement (or the separate joinder agreement executed by such Securityholder) has been duly and validly executed and delivered by such Securityholder, and this Agreement constitutes a legal and binding obligation of such Securityholder, enforceable against such Securityholder in accordance with its terms; and

 

(b)                                 the execution, delivery and performance by such Securityholder of this Agreement (or any joinder to this Agreement) and the consummation by such Securityholder of the transactions contemplated hereby (and thereby) will not, with or without the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, (i) violate any provision of law, statute, rule or regulation to which such Securityholder is subject, (ii) violate any order, judgment or decree applicable to such Securityholder, or (iii) conflict with, or result in a breach or default under, any term or condition of any agreement or other instrument to which such Securityholder is a party or by which such Securityholder is bound.

 

ARTICLE II
BOARD REPRESENTATION; SPECIAL CONSENT RIGHT

 

2.1                               Board of Managers.

 

(a)                                 Each Person that is a party to this Agreement hereby agrees that such Person will vote, or cause to be voted, all voting securities of the Company, Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries over which such Person has the power to vote or direct the voting, and will take all other necessary or desirable action within such Person’s control, and the Company will take all necessary and desirable actions within its control, to cause the board of managers of the Company (the “Board”) and the boards or other applicable governing bodies of Holdings and its Subsidiaries and their respective committees to be constituted, continue in existence and adjusted in accordance with this Article II, including by procuring resignations of its, his or her nominee, as required.  Subject to Section 2.1(n), the Board shall be established at seven managers (or such other number as determined in a manner consistent with this Section 2), and cause to be continued in office, the following individuals:

 

(i)                                     two managers nominated by the Majority Preferred Stockholders, who shall initially be R. Scott Lawrence and Christian Hensley (the “Preferred Managers”).

 

(ii)                                  one manager nominated by Vestar V, who shall initially be Robert Rosner;

 

(iii)                               one manager nominated by Vestar V-A, who shall initially be James L. Elrod, Jr.;

 

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(iv)                              one manager nominated by Vestar/RTI, who shall initially be Erin L. Russell (the managers designated pursuant to Sections 2.1(a)(i) through (iii), collectively, the “Vestar Managers”);

 

(v)                                 Dr. Daniel E.  Dosoretz (“Dr. Dosoretz”) (whether or not he is a senior officer of Opco) and one manager (each of such manager and Dr. Dosoretz, a “Management Manager”) (initially to be Howard M. Sheridan) nominated by Dr. Dosoretz after consultation with the Majority Preferred Stockholders and Vestar V for so long as Dr. Dosoretz is the Chief Executive Officer of Opco and thereafter, determined by the affirmative vote of holders of a majority of Class A Units held by the Executive Holders (the “Majority Executives”); provided, however, the number of Management Managers on the Board shall be reduced to one effective immediately upon the occurrence of any of the following: (x) the Executive Holders collectively hold, directly or indirectly, less than 10% of the outstanding Class A Units of the Company, (y) Dr. Dosoretz exercises his put option pursuant to Section 5.1 of the Dosoretz Unit Subscription Agreement, or (z) for four consecutive quarters, Opco’s EBITDA was at a level less than 90% of the projections provided by management to Vestar V in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement; provided, further, that the Management Manager (other than Dr. Dosoretz) shall be a senior officer of the Company, except that an Executive Holder who is not an officer of the Company may be nominated a Management Manager if such nomination is reasonably acceptable to Vestar V and the Majority Preferred Stockholders, provided, however, that the number of managers on the Board may be increased by the Majority Preferred Stockholders by up to one independent manager, who is not an Affiliate of the nominating Majority Preferred Stockholders or an officer or employee of the Company (the “Independent Manager”), who will be nominated by the Majority Preferred Stockholders after consultation with Vestar V and the Chief Executive Officer of Opco, provided further that in the event the number of Management Managers is reduced to one, at the election of the Majority Preferred Stockholders, either (i) the size of the Board shall be reduced to six managers or (ii) the seventh manager shall be an Independent Manager nominated by the Majority Preferred Stockholders.

 

(b)                                 Until the occurrence of the earliest to occur of (i) a Qualified IPO, (ii) a Qualified Merger and (iii) a Default Event, each of the Company, Holdings and Opco shall have an executive committee (each, an “Executive Committee”) of their respective board of directors or other applicable governing bodies. Each Executive Committee shall be comprised of three members, including one nominated by the Majority Preferred Stockholders, one nominated by Vestar V, and one appointed by Dr. Dosoretz or the Majority Executives (as applicable).  Each Executive Committee shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the respective board of directors or other governing bodies of such entities in the management of the business and affairs of such entity, including to take and authorize actions that would otherwise be in the jurisdiction of the Board (such board of directors or other governing bodies), except to the extent (i) such delegation of authority would not be permitted under applicable Law (assuming for this purposes that the Company is a Delaware corporation) and (ii) the power and authority is reserved to another existing committee under its existing charter (subject to the limitations in 2.1(c) below).  Each Executive Committee shall conduct its proceedings in accordance

 

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with the charters for such Executive Committee adopted on the date hereof. For the avoidance of doubt, upon the occurrence of the earlier of (i) a Qualified IPO, (ii) a Qualified Merger and (iii) a Default Event, each Executive Committee shall be terminated.

 

(c)                                  Each of Vestar V, the Majority Preferred Stockholders and Dr. Dosoretz or the Majority Executives (as applicable)  shall have the right to nominate at least one member to each of the Company’s, Holdings’ and Opco’s other management committees, which consist of compensation committee, an audit/compliance committee and a capital allocation committee.  Except in connection with an initial Public Offering of Holdings, the charters of these committees shall not be modified, and no new committees created, without the consent of Vestar V and the Majority Preferred Stockholders. Except as otherwise required by applicable Law, no committee of the Board or the board of directors or other governing bodies of Holdings and Opco may bind the Board or such board of directors or other governing body.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the charters of the other committees, each such committee shall report to the Executive Committee of the Company, Holdings or Opco, as applicable, for so long as the Executive Committee, of the Company, Holdings or Opco, as applicable, is in existence, and all matters in respect of which any such committee makes a recommendations shall be decided by the applicable Executive Committee.

 

(d)                                 The composition of the board of managers and the Executive Committee (or equivalent governing bodies) of Holdings and Opco shall be the same as the Board and the Executive Committee of the Company unless otherwise approved in writing by Vestar V and the Majority Preferred Stockholders.  At the request of the Majority Preferred Stockholders, the composition of the board of managers and the executive committee (or equivalent governing bodies) of any Subsidiary of Opco shall be the same as the Board and the Executive Committee of the Company; provided, that at least one Management Manager shall serve on the board of managers and executive committee (or equivalent governing bodies) of each Subsidiary of Opco.   The Majority Preferred Stockholders may waive their right to appoint any managers to such governing bodies, on a temporary or permanent basis, at any Subsidiary of Opco.

 

(e)                                  If at any time Vestar V notifies the other parties to this Agreement of its desire to remove, with or without cause, any Vestar Manager from the Board (and the board of managers and similar governing bodies of Holdings and Opco), and each Executive Committee, all such parties so notified will vote, or cause to be voted, all voting securities of the Company and the Subsidiaries of the Company over which they have the power to vote or direct the voting, and shall take all such other actions promptly as shall be necessary or desirable to cause the removal of such manager.

 

(f)                                   If at any time the Majority Preferred Stockholders notify the other parties to this Agreement of its desire to remove, with or without cause, any Preferred Manager or any Independent Manager nominated by it from the Board (and the board of managers and similar governing bodies of Holdings and Opco), and each Executive Committee, all such parties so notified will vote, or cause to be voted, all voting securities of the Company and the Subsidiaries of the Company over which they have the power to vote or direct the voting, and shall take all such other actions promptly as shall be necessary or desirable to cause the removal of such manager.

 

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(g)                                  If at any time Dr. Dosoretz (to the extent that at such time the Management Manager or Management Managers are nominated by Dr. Dosoretz) or the Executive Holders (to the extent the Management Manager or Management Managers are nominated by the Majority Executives) notify the other parties to this Agreement of his or their desire to remove, with or without cause, any Management Manager from the Board (and the board of managers and similar governing bodies of Holdings and Opco), and each Executive Committee, all such parties so notified will vote, or cause to be voted, all voting securities of the Company and the Subsidiaries of the Company over which they have the power to vote or direct the voting, and shall take all such other actions promptly as shall be necessary or desirable to cause the removal of such manager.

 

(h)                                 If at any time a Management Manager (other than Dr. Dosoretz) ceases to be employed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, such Management Manager shall be deemed to have resigned from the Company and, unless otherwise reasonably determined by Vestar V and Dr. Dosoretz or the Majority Executives (as applicable), such Management Manager will be promptly removed from the Board (and the board of managers and similar governing bodies of Holdings and Opco) and each Executive Committee.

 

(i)                                     If an Independent Manager is elected pursuant to Section 2.1(a)(v), such Independent Manager may be removed by the Majority Preferred Stockholders. If at any time the Majority Preferred Stockholders approve the removal of such Independent Manager and notifies the other parties to this Agreement of their desire to remove, with or without cause, such Independent Manager, all such parties so notified will vote, or cause to be voted, all voting securities of the Company and the Subsidiaries of the Company over which they have the power to vote or direct the voting, and shall take all such other actions promptly as shall be necessary or desirable to cause the removal of such Independent Manager.

 

(j)                                    If at any time any Preferred Manager ceases to serve on the Board, the board of managers or similar governing body of Holdings or Opco, any Executive Committee, or the board of managers or executive committee (or similar governing bodies) of the Company’s other Subsidiaries (whether due to resignation, removal or otherwise), the Majority Preferred Stockholders shall be entitled to nominate a successor manager to fill the vacancy created thereby on the terms and subject to the conditions of paragraph (a) above.  Each Person that is a party hereto agrees to vote, or cause to be voted, all voting securities of the Company and the aforementioned Subsidiaries over which such Person has the power to vote or direct the voting, and shall take all such other actions as shall be necessary or desirable to cause the nominated successor to be elected to fill such vacancy.

 

(k)                                 If at any time any Vestar Manager ceases to serve on the Board, the board of managers or similar governing body of Holdings or Opco, any Executive Committee, or the board of managers or executive committee (or similar governing bodies) of the Company’s other Subsidiaries (whether due to resignation, removal or otherwise), Vestar V shall be entitled to nominate a successor manager to fill the vacancy created thereby on the terms and subject to the conditions of paragraph (a) above.  Each Person that is a party hereto agrees to vote, or cause to be voted, all voting securities of the Company and the aforementioned Subsidiaries over which such Person has the power to vote or direct

 

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the voting, and shall take all such other actions as shall be necessary or desirable to cause the nominated successor to be elected to fill such vacancy.

 

(l)                                     If at any time any Independent Manager ceases to serve on the Board, the board of managers or similar governing body of Holdings or Opco, any Executive Committee, or the board of managers or executive committee (or similar governing bodies) of the Company’s other Subsidiaries (whether due to resignation, removal or otherwise), the Majority Preferred Stockholders shall be entitled to nominate a successor manager (provided, that with respect to any successor to an Independent Manager, after consultation with Vestar and Dr. Dosoretz) to fill the vacancy created thereby on the terms and subject to the conditions of paragraph (a) above.  Each Person that is a party hereto agrees to vote, or cause to be voted, all voting securities of the Company and the aforementioned Subsidiaries over which such Person has the power to vote or direct the voting, and shall take all such other actions as shall be necessary or desirable to cause the nominated successor to be elected to fill such vacancy.

 

(m)                             If at any time the Management Manager (other than Dr. Dosoretz) ceases to serve on Board, the board of managers or similar governing body of Holdings or Opco, any Executive Committee, or the board of managers or executive committee (or similar governing bodies) of the Company’s other Subsidiaries (whether due to resignation, removal or otherwise), Dr. Dosoretz or the Majority Executives (as applicable) shall be entitled to nominate a successor manager to fill the vacancy created thereby on the terms and subject to the conditions of paragraph (a) above.  Each Person that is a party hereto agrees to vote, or cause to be voted, all voting securities of the Company and the aforementioned Subsidiaries over which such Person has the power to vote or direct the voting, and shall take all such other actions as shall be necessary or desirable to cause the nominated successor to be elected to fill such vacancy.

 

(n)                                 Dr. Dosoretz shall resign from the Board, the equivalent governing bodies of Holdings or Opco and each Executive Committee effective immediately if (x) his employment is terminated by the Company for Cause (as defined in his Employment Agreement with the Company), (y) his employment is terminated by the Company or he resigns and at the time of such termination or resignation, the Put Option (the “Put Option”) is exercisable pursuant to the Dosoretz Rollover Subscription Agreement, whether or not Dr. Dosoretz elects to exercise such option, or (z) the Company exercises its repurchase option pursuant to Section 5.2 of the Dosoretz Rollover Subscription Agreement with respect to a portion of the Units held by Dr. Dosoretz that is at least equal to the number of Units that Dr. Dosoretz would have been entitled to require the Company to purchase pursuant to the Put Option at such time; provided, that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, Dr. Dosoretz shall not be nominated or elected as a Management Manager at any time after his resignation from the Board pursuant to this Section 2.1(n).

 

(o)                                 No manager may be removed except by vote of the Persons entitled to nominate such manager; provided that Dr. Dosoretz may only cease to serve as a manager on the Board pursuant to Section 2.1(n) above

 

(p)                                 Following a Default Event, in the event the Majority Preferred Stockholders have not elected to exercise the “Repurchase Option” (as defined in the Certificate of Designations) or if such

 

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Repurchase Option has been exercised but not fully satisfied, the Majority Preferred Stockholders shall have the right to nominate a majority of the members of the Board or board of directors or board of managers, as applicable of any or all of the Company, Holdings and its Subsidiaries, along with a majority of the members of any committees thereof, and the size of the Board or the applicable board of directors or board of managers or committees shall be increased to the extent necessary to give effect to this clause (p) of Section 2.1.  Each Person that is a party hereto agrees to vote, or cause to be voted, all voting securities of the Company, Holdings and its Subsidiaries over which such Person has the power to vote or direct the voting, and shall take all such other actions as shall be necessary or desirable to cause such nominees of the Majority Preferred Stockholders to be elected to such Board, board of directors or board of managers and each such committee.

 

(q)                                 Following a “Mandatory Conversion” (as defined in the Certificate of Designations), in the event that the Majority Preferred Stockholders would hold in excess of 50% of the total issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Holdings, the Majority Preferred Stockholders shall have the right to nominate a majority of the members of the Board or board of directors or board of managers, as applicable of any or all of the Company, Holdings and its Subsidiaries, and the size of the Board or the applicable board of directors or board of managers shall be adjusted as determined by the Majority Preferred Stockholders to give effect to this clause (q) of Section 2.1.  Each Person that is a party hereto agrees to vote, or cause to be voted, all voting securities of the Company, Holdings and its Subsidiaries over which such Person has the power to vote or direct the voting, and shall take all such other actions as shall be necessary or desirable to cause such nominees of the Majority Preferred Stockholders to be elected to such Board, board of directors or board of managers.

 

2.2                               Proxy.

 

(a)                                 In order to effectuate the provisions of Section 4.1 hereof, each holder of Employee Securities hereby grants to each of (i) Vestar V, and (ii) Dr. Dosoretz, or if Dr. Dosoretz shall cease to be the Chief Executive Officer of Opco, to the then-current Chief Executive Officer of Opco, or if the Chief Executive Officer of Opco shall be unable to exercise this proxy due to illness or absence or if the position of Chief Executive Officer of Opco shall be vacant, to the Chief Financial Officer of Opco, each such person to have the power to act independently, a proxy to vote at any annual or special meeting of Company Securityholders, or to take any action by written consent in lieu of such meeting with respect to, or to otherwise take action in respect of, all of the Company Securities owned or held of record by such holder in connection with the matters set forth in Section 4.1 hereof in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.1 hereof. Each of the proxies granted hereby is irrevocable and is coupled with an interest.

 

(b)                                 In order to effectuate the provisions of Section 4.2 hereof, each holder of Company Securities, and the Company, as a holder of Holdings Securities, hereby grant to the Majority Preferred Stockholders exercising their rights pursuant to Section 4.2, a proxy to vote at any annual or special meeting of Company Securityholders or, in the case of the proxy from the Company, any annual or special meeting of Holdings, and to take any action by written consent in lieu of such meeting with respect to, or to otherwise take action in respect of, all of the Company Securities and all of the Holdings Securities, if applicable, owned or held of record by such holder in connection with the matters set forth

 

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in Section 4.2 hereof in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.2 hereof.  Each of the proxies granted hereby is irrevocable and is coupled with an interest.

 

(c)                                  To effectuate the provisions of this Article II, the secretary of each of the Company and each of the aforementioned Subsidiaries of the Company, or if there be no secretary such other officer or employee of the Company or such Subsidiaries as the board of directors (or similar governing body) of the Company or such Subsidiaries may appoint to fulfill the duties of the secretary, shall not record any vote or consent or other action contrary to the terms of this Article II.

 

2.3                               Matters Requiring Supermajority Vote.

 

(a)                                 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or the LLC Agreement, without the prior written consent of the Majority Executives, no action shall be taken or resolution be passed by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, the Board or the board of directors (or similar governing body) of any Subsidiary with respect to the following matters:

 

(i)                                     a material change in the nature of the Company’s business; provided, however, the following actions and events shall not be deemed a material change in the nature of the Company’s business:  (i) changes in the size, geographic scope or markets in which the business is conducted or the relative mix of the Company’s business lines, whether as the result of any acquisition, divestiture, combination, organic growth or otherwise, (ii) discontinuation of ancillary businesses not necessary to the provision of radiation therapy services and changes in the method of conducting such ancillary businesses, (iii) discontinuation and/or divestiture of service line or industry segment outside of the Core Business or reduction and/or divestiture of the Core Business in response to financial conditions, (iv) changes in response to local, state or federal government activity, whether in the form of legislative or regulatory action or published guidance or (v) the consummation of a Qualified IPO, Qualified Merger, Sale of the Company or Company Sale;

 

(ii)                                  any transaction with Vestar or its Affiliates, other than (i) any transactions involving an aggregate amount not to exceed $300,000 in any particular fiscal year (excluding any fee payable to Vestar Capital Partners pursuant to the Management Agreement), (ii) any issuance of New Units to Vestar and/or its Affiliates so long as the Employees are granted Participation Rights with respect to such issuance in accordance with Article VIII hereof, (iii) any transaction between the Company and Vestar in its capacity as a holder of Securities of the Company, (iv) any transaction that does not disproportionately affect Vestar as compared to other holders of the same class of Units or (v) any transaction contemplated by the Transaction Documents;

 

(iii)                               alter, amend or change any of the rights, preferences or characteristics of any Vestar Preferred Units having the effect of rendering the Vestar Preferred Units superior to the Employee Preferred Units;

 

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(iv)                              make any distributions on the Vestar Preferred Units that are disproportionate to the distributions or dividends paid on the Employee Preferred Units; or

 

(v)                                 effect any redemption or repurchase of the Vestar Preferred Units that is disproportionate to the redemption or repurchase of the Employee Preferred Units.

 

(b)                                 Sections 2.3(a)(i) and 2.3(a)(ii) shall terminate immediately upon the earlier to occur of (x) the consummation of a Public Offering and (y) the time upon which the aggregate amount of Class A Units held by the Employees represent no more than 5% of the outstanding Class A Units. Section 2.3(a) shall terminate upon any Default Event.

 

(c)                                  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or the LLC Agreement without the prior written consent of the Vestar Majority Holders, until the earlier to occur of (x) a Default Event and (y) the date on which Vestar no longer holds any Units, (i) the Company shall not, to the extent referred to below, (ii) Holdings shall not, and (iii) neither the Company nor Holdings shall permit any Subsidiary of Holdings to take or commit to take any of the following actions (including by means of merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization or otherwise) (with capitalized terms used in this Section 2.3(c) without definition having the meanings set forth in the Certificate of Designations):

 

(1)                                 altering or changing the powers, rights or preferences of the Preferred Units or Class A Units; increasing or decreasing the number of authorized units of the Preferred Units or Class A Units; reclassifying any Units that rank junior to the Preferred Units or Class A Units with respect to distribution rights and rights upon liquidation, winding up or dissolution into units that rank equally or senior to the Preferred Units or Class A Units with respect to distribution rights and rights upon liquidation, winding up or dissolution (“Senior Units”);  authorizing, creating or issuing any class or series of Senior Units, or any securities directly or indirectly convertible into or exchangeable for any Senior Units; or amending or repealing any provision of, or adding any provision to, the LLC Agreement in a manner that could reasonably be expected to affect adversely the powers, rights or preferences of the Preferred Units or Class A Units; or

 

(2)                                 Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries entering into any other line of business other than businesses substantially similar or related to Holdings’ and its Subsidiaries’ existing businesses on the date hereof; or

 

(3)                                 any action resulting or reasonably likely to result in the Company, ceasing to be duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the applicable laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, including, without limitation, any voluntary initiation of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, or commencement of a proceeding for bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar action with respect to any of the foregoing; or

 

(4)                                 entering into any Related Party Transaction or amending any agreement related to any Related Party Transaction or waiving any of Holdings’ or any of its Subsidiaries’ rights

 

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under any such agreement (provided that this clause (4), for the avoidance of doubt, shall not apply to any transaction with a holder of Convertible Preferred Stock that is contemplated by or is ancillary to an exercise of rights pursuant to the Certificate of Designations, the Subscription Agreement or this Agreement); or

 

(5)                                 any issuance of equity securities or entering into any agreement (or granting of any right capable of becoming an agreement) to issue any equity interests in Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the issuance of warrants, options or similar rights or instruments convertible into or exchangeable for such equity interests) other than pursuant to rights or agreements existing as of the date hereof disclosed pursuant to the Subscription Agreement; or

 

(6)                                 prior to (i) a Qualified IPO, (ii) a Qualified Merger or (iii) the refinancing of the existing Indebtedness of Holdings and any and its Subsidiaries in form and substance satisfactory to the Majority Preferred Stockholders, (a) any acquisition by the Company, Holdings or any of their respective Subsidiaries, of equity interests in another Person, (b) any acquisition by the Company, Holdings or any of their respective Subsidiaries of assets constituting all or substantially all of the business (or a line of business or business unit) of any Person (any transaction described in clause (a) or this clause (b) of this Section 2.3(c)(6), whether by merger, amalgamation, other business combination or otherwise, an “Acquisition”) or (c) participation by the Company, Holdings or any of their respective Subsidiaries in any joint venture or strategic alliance, if, in each case, after giving effect to such transaction, the aggregate of all amounts invested and all Indebtedness incurred by the Company and its Subsidiaries in connection with such transactions (less amounts funded by amounts drawn under existing debt facilities in accordance with the limitations set forth herein) is greater than $2,000,000; or

 

(7)                                 any Acquisition (x) with an aggregate value greater than $150,000,000, or (y) that would, or could through circumstances outside CPPIB’s control, result in CPPIB not being in compliance with the 30% Rule; or

 

(8)                                 any incurrence of Indebtedness or liens with respect thereto by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries (including in connection with any refinancing) to the extent that, immediately after giving effect to such incurrence, the ratio of the Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA for the most recently ended four fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date on which such additional Indebtedness is incurred would not be less than a ratio of 6.5-to-1 on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such incurrence and the use of the proceeds therefrom; or

 

(9)                                 any Public Offering of securities of the Company, Holdings or any of their Subsidiaries, other than a Qualified IPO or any other initial Public Offering undertaken in connection with the exercise by the Majority Holders of their rights pursuant to Section 5.1; or..

 

(10)                          any Sale of the Company, provided this consent right shall expire as of the third anniversary of the date of this Agreement.

 

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(d)                                 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or the LLC Agreement for so long as any shares of Convertible Preferred Stock remain outstanding, (i) the Company shall not, to the extent referred to below, (ii) Holdings shall not, and (iii) neither the Company nor Holdings shall permit any Subsidiary of Holdings to take or commit to take any of the following actions (including by means of merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization or otherwise) without the prior written consent of the Majority Preferred Stockholders (with capitalized terms used in this Section 2.3(d) without definition having the meanings set forth in the Certificate of Designations):

 

(1)                                 altering or changing the powers, rights or preferences of the Convertible Preferred Stock; increasing or decreasing the number of authorized shares or the par value of the Convertible Preferred Stock; reclassifying any Junior Stock or Parity Stock into Senior Stock; authorizing, creating or issuing any class or series of Senior Stock or Parity Stock, or any securities directly or indirectly convertible into or exchangeable for any Senior Stock; or amending or repealing any provision of, or adding any provision to, Holdings’ certificate of incorporation or by-laws in a manner that could reasonably be expected to affect adversely the powers, rights or preferences of the Convertible Preferred Stock; or

 

(2)                                 Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries entering into any other line of business other than businesses substantially similar or related to Holdings’ and its Subsidiaries’ existing businesses on the date hereof; or

 

(3)                                 any action resulting or reasonably likely to result in the Company, Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries ceasing to be duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the applicable laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, including, without limitation, any voluntary initiation of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or commencement of a proceeding for bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar action with respect to any of the foregoing; or

 

(4)                                 entering into any Related Party Transaction or amending or renewing any agreement related to any Related Party Transaction or waiving any of Holdings’ or any of its Subsidiaries’ rights under any such agreement; or

 

(5)                                 any issuance of equity securities or entering into any agreement (or granting of any right capable of becoming an agreement) to issue any equity interests in Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries (including, without limitation, the issuance of warrants, options or similar rights or instruments convertible into or exchangeable for such equity interests), other than pursuant to rights or agreements existing as of the date hereof disclosed pursuant to the Subscription Agreement; or

 

(6)                                 any declaration or payment of any cash dividend or cash distribution to any holder of equity securities of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries (other than any declaration or payment of any cash dividend or cash distribution to Holdings by any of its wholly owned Subsidiaries); or

 

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(7)                                 prior to (i) a Qualified IPO, (ii) a Qualified Merger or (iii) the refinancing of the existing Indebtedness of Holdings and any and its Subsidiaries in form and substance satisfactory to the Majority Preferred Stockholders (it being understood for the avoidance of doubt that the use of proceeds contemplated by the Subscription Agreement shall not constitute such a required refinancing), (a) any acquisition by the Company, Holdings or any of their respective Subsidiaries, of equity interests in another Person, (b) any acquisition by the Company, Holdings or any of their respective Subsidiaries of assets constituting all or substantially all of the business (or a line of business or business unit) of any Person (any transaction described in clause (a) or this clause (b) of this Section 2.3(d)(7), whether by merger, amalgamation, other business combination or otherwise, an “Acquisition”) or (c) participation by the Company, Holdings or any of their respective Subsidiaries in any joint venture or strategic alliance, if, in each case, after giving effect to such transaction, the aggregate of all amounts invested and all Indebtedness incurred by the Company and its Subsidiaries in connection with such transactions (less amounts funded by amounts drawn under existing debt facilities in accordance with the limitations set forth herein) is greater than $2,000,000; or

 

(8)                                 any Acquisition (x) with an aggregate value greater than $150,000,000, or (y) that would, or could through circumstances outside CPPIB’s control, result in CPPIB not being in compliance with the 30% Rule; or

 

(9)                                 any sale, transfer, license or pledge of assets by the Company, Holdings or any of their respective Subsidiaries having a fair market value equal to or greater than $2,000,000 in any single transaction or series of related transactions or $10,000,000 in aggregate, in each case other than (i) in the ordinary course of business, (ii) in connection with a Change of Control, (iii) pledges required by creditors in connection with the incurrence of Indebtedness otherwise permitted hereunder or (iv) any sale, transfer, license or pledge from the Company’s Subsidiaries to Holdings or any of its other direct or indirect wholly owned Subsidiaries; or

 

(10)                          any sale, transfer, license or pledge of any Holdings Securities by the Company, other than in connection with a Change of Control or a Qualified IPO; or

 

(11)                          any incurrence or refinancing of Indebtedness or incurrence of liens with respect thereto by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries to the extent that, immediately after giving effect to such incurrence, the ratio of the Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA for the most recently ended four fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date on which such additional Indebtedness is incurred would not be less than a ratio of 6.5-to-1 on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such incurrence and the use of the proceeds therefrom; or

 

(12)                          any amendments, extensions or waivers to the terms of Subordinated Notes or other amendments, extensions or waivers to the terms of other indebtedness that would reasonably be expected to be material to the rights associated with the Convertible Preferred Stock; or

 

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(13)                          the conduct of any business or incurrence of any material liability or material obligation by the Company or Holdings (other than any liability or obligation resulting solely from the corporate existence of the Holdings, its status of guarantor of indebtedness of its subsidiaries or otherwise supporting its subsidiaries obligations to creditors, in connection with filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission or as otherwise permitted hereunder); or

 

(14)                          removal and appointment of the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of any of the Company, Holdings and Opco;

 

(15)                          setting or any material change in the compensation for any officer or other key employee of the Company, Holdings or Opco, or entering into or amending any employment or severance agreement with any officer or other key employee of the Company, Holdings or Opco;

 

(16)                          establishment of or amendment to any employee benefit or welfare plan of the Company, Holdings or Opco or the establishment of, or amendment to, any material terms of, any management incentive or equity plan, or other similar plan or program, of the Company, Holdings or Opco;

 

(17)                          any Public Offering of securities of the Company, Holdings or any of their Subsidiaries, other than a Qualified IPO; or

 

(18)                          adoption of the annual capital expenditure budget (and individual budget for M&A acquisitions in such year) approved by the board of managers of Holdings or board of directors of Opco (or, in each case, the committee thereof with authority to approve such budget), any material changes to such annual capital expenditure budgets (and individual budgets for acquisitions in such year), and any deviations from any such capital expenditure budget or individual budget by more than $5 million; or

 

(19)                          any action resulting in Opco ceasing to be a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Holdings other than in connection with a Qualified IPO or Qualified Merger; or

 

(20)                          any capital contribution or other funding of the New York Proton Center Project; or

 

(21)                          changing the size or composition of the board of directors or board of managers of the Company, Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries (except as expressly permitted by this Agreement).

 

2.4                               Termination.  The provisions of this Article II shall terminate with respect to all entities other than the Company immediately prior to the consummation of an initial Public Offering or Qualified Merger.

 

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ARTICLE III
TRANSFERS OR EXCHANGES OF SECURITIES

 

3.1                               Restrictions on Transfer of Employee Securities, TCW Securities and NYLIM Securities.  Prior to the earlier of (i) a Sale of the Company and (ii) the consummation of a Public Offering, no holder of Employee Securities, TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities may Transfer any Employee Securities, TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities, as the case may be, without the prior written consent of Vestar V (which may be withheld in its sole discretion), except in an Exempt Employee Transfer, an Exempt TCW Transfer or an NYLIM Exempt Transfer, as applicable or except in connection with a Company Sale.

 

3.2                               Right of First Refusal.

 

(a)                                 If any holder of Employee Securities, TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities (for purposes of this Section 3.2(a), a “Selling Security Holder”) proposes to sell any or all of his Employee Securities, TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities, as the case may be (other than an Exempt Employee Transfer, an Exempt TCW Transfer or an Exempt NYLIM Transfer) to a third party (a “Proposed Sale”) prior to (A) a Public Offering resulting in a public market for the Securities and (B) a Sale of the Company or Company Sale (it being understood, for the avoidance of doubt, that the transactions described in clauses (A) and (B) shall not constitute a Proposed Sale), and Vestar V has consented to such Proposed Sale (which consent may be withheld in its sole discretion), such Selling Security Holder shall first notify the Company in writing, which notice shall (i) state such Selling Security Holder’s intention to sell Employee Securities, TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities, as the case may be, to one or more persons, the amount of Employee Securities, TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities to be sold, the purchase price therefor, the identity of each prospective Transferee, if known, and the other material terms of the Proposed Sale and (ii) contain an irrevocable offer to sell such Employee Securities, TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities to the Company (in the manner set forth below) at a purchase price equal to the price contained in, and on the same terms and conditions of, the Proposed Sale (such notice, the “Proposed Sale Notice”).

 

(b)                                 At any time within thirty (30) days after the date of the receipt by the Company of the Proposed Sale Notice, the Company shall have the right and option to purchase, or to arrange for a third party to purchase, all of the Employee Securities, all of the TCW Securities or all of the NYLIM Securities (as the case may be) covered by the Proposed Sale Notice at the same price and on the same terms and conditions of the Proposed Sale (or, if the Proposed Sale includes any consideration other than cash, then, at the sole option of the Company, at the equivalent all cash price, determined in good faith by the Board, as applicable), by delivering a certified bank check or checks in the appropriate amount (or by wire transfer of immediately available funds, if the Selling Security Holder provides to the Company wire transfer instructions) (and any such non-cash consideration to be paid) to the Selling Security Holder at the principal office of the Company against delivery of certificates or other instruments representing the Employee Securities, TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities so purchased, appropriately endorsed by the Selling Security Holder.  If at the end of the 30-day period, the Company has not elected to exercise its right to purchase all of the Employee Securities, all of TCW Securities or all of the NYLIM Securities (as the case may be) covered by the Proposed Sale Notice as described

 

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above or the Company has not tendered the purchase price for such securities in the manner set forth above, Vestar shall have the right and option for fifteen (15) days after the end of the aforementioned 30-day period to purchase all of the Employee Securities, all of the TCW Securities or all of the NYLIM Securities (as the case may be) covered by the Proposed Sale Notice at the same price and on the same terms and conditions of the Proposed Sale (or, if the Proposed Sale includes any consideration other than cash, then, at the sole option of Vestar, at the equivalent all cash price, reasonably determined in good faith by mutual agreement of the Selling Security Holder and Vestar (provided that in the event the Selling Security Holder and Vestar are unable to mutually agree on such cash price, then such determination shall be made in accordance with Section 9.11 of this Agreement), by delivering a certified bank check or checks in the appropriate amount (or by wire transfer of immediately available funds, if the Selling Security Holder provides to Vestar wire transfer instructions) (and any such non-cash consideration to be paid) to the Selling Security Holder at the principal office of the Company against delivery of certificates or other instruments representing the Employee Securities, TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities so purchased, appropriately endorsed by the Selling Security Holder.  If at the end of the 15-day period, neither the Company nor Vestar has tendered the purchase price for such securities in the manner set forth above, the Selling Security Holder may, during the succeeding 30-day period, sell not less than all of the Employee Securities, all of the TCW Securities or all of the NYLIM Securities (as the case may be) covered by the Proposed Sale to a third party on terms no less favorable to Selling Security Holder than those contained in the Proposed Sale Notice.  Promptly after such sale, the Selling Security Holder shall notify the Company of the consummation thereof and shall furnish such evidence of the completion and time of completion of such sale and of the terms thereof as may reasonably be requested by the Company.  If, at the end of sixth (60) days following the expiration of the 30-day period during which the Company is entitled hereunder to purchase the Employee Securities, TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities, the Selling Security Holder has not completed the sale of such securities as aforesaid, all of the restrictions on sale, transfer or assignment contained in this Agreement shall again be in effect with respect to such Employee Securities, TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities.  Any action by Vestar contemplated by this Section 3.2(b) shall be deemed to have been taken by Vestar if such action is taken by the Vestar Majority Holders.

 

3.3                               Restrictions on Transfers of Vestar Securities.

 

(a)                                 Tag-Along Rights.  Subject to the next paragraph, prior to making any Transfer of Vestar Securities (other than a Transfer described in Section 3.3(b)) any holder of Vestar Securities proposing to make such a Transfer (for purposes of this Section 3.3, a “Selling Vestar Holder”) shall give at least fifteen (15) days’ prior written notice to each holder of Employee Securities, TCW Securities and NYLIM Securities (for purposes of this Section 3.3, each an “Other Holder”) and the Company, which notice (for purposes of this Section 3.3, the “Sale Notice”) shall identify the type and amount of Vestar Securities to be sold (for purposes of this Section 3.3, the “Offered Securities”), describe the terms and conditions of such proposed Transfer, and identify each prospective Transferee.  Any of the Other Holders may, within fifteen (15) days of the receipt of the Sale Notice, give written notice (each, a “Tag-Along Notice”) to the Selling Vestar Holder that such Other Holder wishes to participate in such proposed Transfer upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Sale Notice, which Tag-Along Notice shall specify the Employee Securities, TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities, as the

 

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case may be, such Other Holder desires to include in such proposed Transfer; provided, however, that (1) each Other Holder shall be required, as a condition to being permitted to sell Employee Securities, TCW Securities and NYLIM Securities pursuant to this Section 3.3(a) in connection with a Transfer of Offered Securities, to elect to sell Employee Securities, TCW Securities and NYLIM Securities of the same type and class (for purpose of this Section 3.3, the Common Units shall be treated as a single class, provided that the proceeds to be received by the holders thereof shall take into account any differences in distribution rights with respect to the Class A Units, Class B Units, Class C Units and other Units constituting Common Units pursuant to Section 4.1 of the LLC Agreement) and in the same relative proportions (which proportions shall be determined on a unit for unit or, as the case may be, share for share basis and on the basis of aggregate liquidation value with respect to Preferred Units or Preferred Stock) as the Securities which comprise the Offered Securities; (2) no Employee Security that is subject to vesting shall be entitled to be sold pursuant to this Section 3.3(a) unless such Employee Security has fully vested; and (3) to exercise its tag-along rights hereunder, each Other Holder must agree to make to the Transferee the same representations, warranties, covenants, indemnities and agreements as the Selling Vestar Holder agrees to make in connection with the Transfer of the Offered Securities (except that in the case of representations and warranties pertaining specifically to, or covenants made specifically by, the Selling Vestar Holder, the Other Holders shall make comparable representations and warranties pertaining specifically to (and, as applicable, covenants by) themselves), and must agree to bear his or its ratable share (which may be joint and several but contribution shall be based on the proceeds received in respect of Securities that are Transferred by each holder) of all liabilities to the Transferees arising out of representations, warranties and covenants (other than those representations, warranties and covenants that pertain specifically to a given Securityholder, who shall bear all of the liability related thereto), indemnities or other agreements made in connection with the Transfer.  Each Securityholder will bear (x) its or his own costs of any sale of Securities pursuant to this Section 3.3(a) and (y) its or his pro-rata share (based upon the relative amount of Securities sold) of the costs of any sale of Securities pursuant to this Section 3.3(a) (excluding all amounts paid to any Securityholder or his or its Affiliates as a transaction fee, broker’s fee, finder’s fee, advisory fee, success fee, or other similar fee or charge related to the consummation of such sale) to the extent such costs are incurred for the benefit of all Securityholders and are not otherwise paid by the Transferee.

 

If none of the Other Holders gives the Selling Vestar Holder a timely Tag-Along Notice with respect to the Transfer proposed in the Sale Notice, then (notwithstanding the first sentence of this Section 3.3(a)) the Selling Vestar Holder may Transfer such Offered Securities on the terms and conditions set forth, and to or among any of the Transferees identified (or Affiliates of Transferees identified), in the Sale Notice at any time within one hundred twenty (120) days after expiration of the fifteen (15) day period for giving Tag-Along Notices with respect to such Transfer.  Any such Offered Securities not Transferred by the Selling Vestar Holder during such 120-day period will again be subject to the provisions of this Section 3.3(a) upon subsequent Transfer.  If one or more Other Holders give the Selling Vestar Holder a timely Tag-Along Notice, then the Selling Vestar Holder shall use all reasonable efforts to obtain the agreement of the prospective Transferee(s) to the participation of the Other Holders in any contemplated Transfer, on the same terms and conditions as are applicable to the Offered Securities, and no Selling Vestar Holder shall transfer any of its units or shares, as the case may be, to any prospective Transferee if such prospective Transferee(s) declines to allow the participation of the

 

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Other Holders, unless Vestar agrees to purchase the Units that such Other Holders are entitled to sell and have elected to sell in connection with such Transfer.  If the prospective Transferee(s) is unwilling or unable to acquire all of the Offered Securities and all of the Employee Securities, TCW Securities and NYLIM Securities specified in a timely Tag-Along Notice upon such terms, then the Selling Vestar Holder may elect either to cancel such proposed Transfer or to allocate the maximum number of each class of Securities that the prospective Transferees are willing to purchase (the “Allocable Shares”) among the Selling Vestar Holder and the Other Holders giving timely Tag-Along Notices as follows (it being understood that the prospective Transferees shall be required to purchase Securities of the same class on the same terms and conditions taking into account the provisions of clause (1) of the first paragraph of this Section 3.3(a), and to consummate such Transfer on those terms and conditions):

 

(i)                                     each participating Securityholder (including the Selling Vestar Holder) shall be entitled to sell a number of Units or shares of each class of Securities (taking into account the provisions of clause (1) of the first paragraph of this Section 3.3(a)) (not to exceed, for any Other Holder, the number of Units or shares of such class of Securities identified in such Other Holder’s Tag-Along Notice) equal to the product of (A) the number of Allocable Shares of such class of Securities and (B) a fraction, the numerator of which is such Securityholder’s Ownership Percentage of such class of Securities and the denominator of which is the aggregate Ownership Percentage for all participating Securityholders of such class of Securities; provided, however, that if a Securityholder was unable to sell Securities in one or more prior Transfers effected pursuant to this Section 3.3(a) because of clause (2) of the first paragraph of this Section 3.3(a) and, as a result, the aggregate percentage of Securities sold by such Securityholder in Transfers effected pursuant to this Section 3.3(a) is less than the aggregate percentage of Securities sold by Vestar in such Transfers, then additional Allocable Shares shall be allocated to such Securityholder (not to exceed the number of Securities identified in such Securityholder’s Tag-Along Notice) in priority over other Securityholders until, after giving effect to the Transfer proposed to be effected, the aggregate percentage of Securities sold by Vestar and such Securityholder are equal;

 

(ii)                                  if after allocating the Allocable Shares of any class of Securities to such Securityholders in accordance with clause (i) above, there are any Allocable Shares of such class that remain unallocated, then they shall be allocated (in one or more successive allocations on the basis of the allocation method specified in clause (i) above, among the Selling Vestar Holder and each such Other Holder that has elected in its Tag-Along Notice to sell a greater number of shares of such class of Securities than previously has been allocated to it pursuant to clause (i) and this clause (ii) (all of whom (but no others) shall, for purposes of clause (i) above, be deemed to be the participating Securityholders) until all such Allocable Shares have been allocated in accordance with this clause (ii).

 

(b)                                 Excluded Transfers.  The rights and restrictions contained in Section 3.3(a) shall not apply with respect to any of the following Transfers of Securities:

 

(i)                                     any Transfer of Vestar Securities in a Public Sale;

 

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(ii)                                  any Transfer of Vestar Securities to and among (A) the members or partners of Vestar and the members, partners, securityholders and employees of such partners, (B) wholly owned subsidiaries of Vestar or any Person controlled by or under the common control with Vestar and its affiliated funds (but excluding any portfolio company of Vestar or its affiliated funds) or (C) any Person controlled by any Person described above (subject to compliance with Sections 3.4 and3.5 hereof);

 

(iii)                               any Transfer of Vestar Securities in accordance with Section 4.1;

 

(iv)                              any Transfer of Vestar Securities pursuant to Section 4.2;

 

(v)                                 any Transfer of Vestar Securities incidental to the exercise, conversion or exchange of such securities in accordance with their terms or any reclassification or combination of shares (including any reverse stock split);

 

(vi)                              any Transfer of Vestar Securities to employees or directors of, or consultants to, any of the Company and its Subsidiaries;

 

(vii)                           any Transfer constituting an Exempt Individual Transfer;

 

(viii)                        any Transfer of Vestar Securities within 30 days after the date of the Original Agreement to any Person whom Vestar V determines will be an equity co-investor with Vestar in the Company (any such equity co-investor, a “Selldown Investor” and all such Securities being referred to as “Selldown Securities”), provided that Vestar V shall continue to hold at least a majority of Class A Units of the Company after giving effect to such Transfer unless Dr. Dosoretz agrees otherwise; and

 

(ix)                              any direct or indirect Transfer of Vestar Securities by Vestar/RTI to certain lenders (and/or their Affiliates) who are providing mezzanine financing to Opco and its Subsidiaries and/or Affiliates in connection with any sale or transfer of Vestar V’s investment in Vestar/ Opco, in whole or in part, to such lenders (and/or their Affiliates).

 

(c)                                  Excluded Securities.  No Securities that have been transferred by the Selling Vestar Holder or an Other Holder in a Transfer pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.3(a) (“Excluded Securities”) shall be subject again to the restrictions set forth in Section 3.3(a), nor shall any Securityholder holding Excluded Securities be entitled to exercise any rights as an Other Holder under Section 3.3(a) with respect to such Excluded Securities, and no Excluded Securities held by a Selling Vestar Holder or any Other Holder shall be counted in determining the respective participation rights of such Holders in a Transfer subject to Section 3.3(a).

 

(d)                                 The provisions of this Section 3.3 shall terminate immediately prior to the consummation of the initial Public Offering.

 

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3.4                               Securities Act Compliance.  No Securities may be transferred by a Securityholder (other than pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act) unless such Securityholder first delivers to the Company an opinion of counsel, which opinion and counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such Transfer is not required to be registered under the Securities Act.

 

3.5                               Certain Transferees Bound by Agreement.  Subject to compliance with the other provisions of this Article III and the LLC Agreement, any Company Securityholder may Transfer any Company Securities held by such Company Securityholder in accordance with applicable law; provided, however, that if the Transfer is not made pursuant to a Public Sale or a transaction the consummation of which will cause the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Article IV, then the Transferor of such Company Security shall first deliver to the Company a written agreement of the proposed Transferee (excluding a Transferee that is a Limited Partner) to become a Company Securityholder and to be bound by the terms of this Agreement (unless such proposed Transferee is already a Company Securityholder).  All Employee Securities, TCW Securities and NYLIM Securities will continue to be Employee Securities, TCW Securities and NYLIM Securities, respectively, in the hands of any Transferee (other than the Company, Vestar, any Transferee in a Public Sale or any Transferee in a Transfer pursuant to clause (e) of an Exempt TCW Transfer or an Exempt NYLIM Transfer); provided that any Employee Securities, TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities Transferred pursuant to an exercise of tag-along rights as an Other Holder under Section 3.3(a) shall not be subject to the provisions of Section 3.1 in the hands of the Transferee or any subsequent Transferee; provided, further, any TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities transferred pursuant to clause (e) of an Exempt TCW Transfer or an Exempt NYLIM Transfer, as applicable, shall be treated similar to the TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities in the hands of the Transferee.  All Vestar Securities will continue to be Vestar Securities in the hands of any Transferee (other than the Company, the Employees or a Transferee in a Public Sale).

 

3.6                               Transfers in Violation of Agreement.  Any Transfer or attempted Transfer of any Securities in violation of any provision of this Agreement shall be void, and the Company or Holdings, as applicable, shall not record such Transfer on its books or treat any purported transferee of such Securities as the owner of such Securities for any purpose.

 

3.7                               Exchange of Securities.  Upon the issuance by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries of shares of Common Stock or other securities of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or the grant of rights to acquire shares of Common Stock or such other securities or the payment by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries of the cash value thereof to any Company Securityholder in exchange for, or otherwise in satisfaction of, or as a replacement of, Company Securities then held or recently forfeited by such Company Securityholder (whether pursuant to Section 7.6 of the LLC Agreement or otherwise), an equivalent number of shares of Common Stock held by the Company (or a number of shares having an equivalent value, in the case of a cash payment) shall be cancelled and retired (or, if elected by the Majority Preferred Stockholders, repurchased by Holdings at par value).  The parties hereto shall vote all Company Securities or Holdings Securities, as applicable, over which each such party the power to vote or direct the voting, and will take all other necessary or desirable action within such Person’s control, and the Company and Holdings will take all necessary and desirable actions within their

 

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respective control, to effect the foregoing. For the avoidance of doubt, no exchange or satisfaction of securities described in this Section 3.7 shall occur (whether pursuant to Section 7.6 of the LLC Agreement or otherwise) from and after any time when the Company no longer holds any remaining shares of Common Stock.

 

ARTICLE IV
TAKE-ALONG RIGHTS; DISTRIBUTION OF PROCEEDS

 

4.1                               Take-Along Rights.

 

(a)                                 If Vestar elects to consummate, or to cause the Company to consummate, a transaction constituting a Sale of the Company, Vestar shall notify the Company and the other Company Securityholders (and CPPIB if it is a Securityholder at such time)  in writing of that election, the other Company Securityholders will consent to and raise no objections to the proposed transaction, and the Company Securityholders and the Company will take all other actions reasonably necessary or desirable to cause the consummation of such Sale of the Company on the terms proposed by Vestar.  Without limiting the foregoing, (i) if the proposed Sale of the Company is structured as a sale of assets or a merger or consolidation, or otherwise requires equityholder approval pursuant to the LLC Agreement, the Company Securityholders and the Company will vote or cause to be voted all Securities that they hold or with respect to which such Company Securityholder has the power to direct the voting and which are entitled to vote on such transaction in favor of such transaction and will waive any appraisal rights which they may have in connection therewith and (ii) if the proposed Sale of the Company is structured as or involves a sale or redemption of Company Securities, the Company Securityholders will agree to sell their pro-rata share of the Company Securities being sold in such Sale of the Company on the terms and conditions approved by Vestar, and the Company Securityholders will execute any merger, asset purchase, security purchase, recapitalization or other sale agreement approved by Vestar in connection with such Sale of the Company. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4.1, Vestar’s rights to cause a Sale of the Company pursuant to this Section 4.1 shall terminate upon any Default Event.

 

(b)                                 The obligations of the Company Securityholders with respect to the Sale of the Company are subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:

 

(i)                                     upon the consummation of the Sale of the Company, all of the holders of a particular class or series of Company Securities (if any consideration is to be received by such holders) shall receive the same form and amount of consideration per share, unit or amount of Company Securities (for purpose of this Section 4.1, the Common Units shall be treated as a single class, provided that the proceeds to be received by the holders thereof shall take into account any differences in distribution rights with respect to the Class A Units, Class B Units, Class C Units and other Units constituting Common Units pursuant to Article IV of the LLC Agreement), or if any holders of a particular class or series of Company Securities are given an option as to the form and amount of consideration to be received, all holders of such class or series will be given the same option;

 

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(ii)                                  if consideration is to be received by holders of Company Securities, all holders of rights (without regard to time vesting, but giving effect to performance vesting that is contingent upon the return realized in connection with such sale) to acquire a particular class or series of Company Securities will be given an opportunity to either (A) exercise such rights prior to the consummation of the Sale of the Company and participate in such sale as holders of such Company Securities or (B) upon the consummation of the Sale of the Company, receive in exchange for such rights consideration equal to the amount determined by multiplying (1) the same amount of consideration per share, unit or amount of Company Securities received by the holders of such type and class of Company Securities in connection with the Sale of the Company less the exercise price (or limitation on distribution rights, if any) per share, unit or amount of such rights to acquire such Company Securities by (2) the number of shares, units or aggregate amount of Securities represented by such rights;

 

(iii)                               if consideration is to be received by holders of Company Securities, the holders of Preferred Units or, as the case may be, Preferred Stock, shall receive consideration in respect of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Preferred Units or, as the case may be, Preferred Stock equal to the amount of consideration that such holders would have received if the aggregate consideration for such Sale of the Company had been distributed by the Company in complete liquidation pursuant to the rights and preferences set forth in the LLC Agreement as in effect immediately prior to such Sale of the Company;

 

(iv)                              each Company Securityholder shall pay its pro rata share (determined in proportion to net proceeds received by such Company Securityholder in connection with such Sale of the Company) of the expenses incurred in connection with the Sale of the Company; and

 

(v)                                 liability for each Company Securityholder shall be several and not joint with any other Person and shall be limited to such Company Securityholder’s pro rata share (determined in proportion to net proceeds received by such Company Securityholder in connection with such Sale of the Company) of a negotiated aggregate indemnification amount or other obligation (including, without limitation any amount to be held in escrow in connection with such Sale of the Company) that applies pro rata to all Company Securityholders but that in no event exceeds the amount of net proceeds actually paid to such Company Securityholder in connection with such Sale of the Company.

 

(c)                                  Each Company Securityholder will bear its or his pro-rata share (based upon the relative amount of Securities sold) of the reasonable and customary costs of any sale of Company Securities pursuant to a Sale of the Company to the extent such costs are incurred for the benefit of all Company Securityholders and are not otherwise paid by the Company or the acquiring party (it being understood that the reasonable and documented legal fees of one counsel for the holders of Employee Securities up to a cap as determined by the Company’s management committee prior to the Sale of the Company shall be deemed costs for the benefit of all Company Securityholders).  Costs incurred by or on behalf of a Company Securityholder for its or his sole benefit will not be considered costs of the transaction hereunder.

 

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(d)                                 Notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement to the contrary, Vestar Capital Partners shall be entitled to be paid fees for investment banking services or other related services provided by it, including, without limitation, in connection with a Sale of the Company, as set forth in the Management Agreement.

 

(e)                                  In the event of a sale or exchange by the Company Securityholders of all or substantially all of the Company Securities held by the Company Securityholders (whether by sale, merger, recapitalization, reorganization, consolidation, combination or otherwise), each Company Securityholder shall receive in exchange for the Company Securities held by such Company Securityholder the same portion of the aggregate consideration from such sale or exchange that such Company Securityholder would have received if such aggregate consideration had been distributed by the Company in complete liquidation pursuant to the rights and preferences set forth in the LLC Agreement as in effect immediately prior to such sale or exchange.  Each Company Securityholder shall take all necessary or desirable actions in connection with the distribution of the aggregate consideration from such sale or exchange as requested by the Company.

 

(f)                                   Any action by Vestar contemplated by this Article IV shall be deemed to have been taken by Vestar if such action is taken by the Vestar Majority Holders.

 

(g)                                  For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Article IV shall require CPPIB, unless it is also a Company Securityholder, and then only in its capacity as a Company Securityholder, to take any action or otherwise cooperate with the Company, Vestar or any other Company Securityholder in connection with a Sale of the Company.

 

4.2                               Company Sale.  If the Majority Convertible Preferred Stockholders elect to exercise their rights to require a Company Sale pursuant to the Certificate of Designations, the Securityholders shall consent to and raise no objections to the proposed Company Sale, and the Securityholders, the Company and Holdings shall take all other actions necessary or desirable to cause the consummation of such Company Sale, provided that (i) the consideration payable in such transaction (whether structured as a sale at the level of the Company or Holdings), after payment of fees and expenses (allocated in accordance with Section 4.1(c), shall reflect the relative equity value of the Holdings Securities (taking into account, for the avoidance of doubt, the “Stated Value,” as defined in the Certificate of Designations) and (ii) with respect to any amount payable based upon the allocation in clause (i), the economic distribution among Company Securityholders described in Section 4.1 and this Agreement shall control in distributing proceeds to the Company Securityholders.  Without limiting the foregoing, but subject to the proviso in the immediately preceding sentence, (i) if the proposed Company Sale is structured as a sale of assets or a merger or consolidation, or otherwise requires equityholder approval pursuant to the LLC Agreement or the organizational documents of Holdings, the Company Securityholders, the Company and if applicable, Holdings Securityholders, shall vote or cause to be voted all Securities that they hold or with respect to which such Securityholder has the power to direct the voting and which are entitled to vote on such transaction in favor of such transaction and will waive any appraisal rights which they may have in connection therewith and (ii) if the proposed Company Sale is structured as or involves a sale or redemption of Company Securities or Holdings Securities, the Company Securityholders or Holdings Securityholders shall sell their pro-rata share of the Company

 

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Securities or Holdings Securities, as applicable, being sold in such Company Sale on the terms and conditions approved by the Majority Preferred Stockholders, and the applicable Securityholders shall (subject to the limitation in clause (v) of Section 4.1(b)) execute any merger, asset purchase, security purchase, recapitalization or other sale agreement approved by the Majority Preferred Stockholders in connection with such Company Sale.

 

4.3                               Distribution of Proceeds from Sale of Company.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, in case of a Sale of the Company or any Company Sale that occurs at the level of the Company rather than at the level of Holdings, the Convertible Preferred Stock shall have a senior right of priority on the proceeds from any such transaction relative to holders of Company Securities and the Company and the Company Securityholders, as applicable, agree that they shall subordinate their claims to such proceeds (and shall remit same to Holdings for distribution to holders of Convertible Preferred Stock) until the Stated Value (as defined in the Certificate of Designations) in respect of the Convertible Preferred Stock as of such time is satisfied.

 

4.4                               30% Rule Compliance

 

(a)                                 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no CPPIB Entity (each, an “Applicable Entity”) will be required or permitted to make any investment in any Group Entity that would be reasonably expected to cause any such Applicable Entity to be in breach of or to contravene the 30% Rule (as supported by the written opinion of external legal counsel to such Applicable Entity at its own cost).

 

(b)                                 The Group Entities and the Securityholders (for purposes of this Section 4.4, excluding CPPIB) will co-operate with the relevant Applicable Entities (to the extent commercially reasonable and provided that one or more of the Applicable Entities agree to reimburse the Securityholders for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs or expenses incurred by them, if any, in respect of any such cooperation, excluding the cost of acquiring any securities) to assist the Applicable Entities to comply with the 30% Rule in relation to their investment in any Group Entity. In furtherance of the foregoing, prior to the completion of any Initial Public Offering, each Securityholder agrees to take any action or step reasonably requested by any Applicable Entity, including, without limitation, a change in the authorized capital of a Group Entity, that is necessary to avoid any breach or potential breach of the 30% Rule, or any amendment or replacement of that rule, including, without limitation, any breach or potential breach arising in connection with the potential exercise of any rights of first refusal or first offer, any pre-emptive rights, any right or obligation to transfer or exchange securities (including in connection with but prior to the completion of any Public Offering (including a Qualified IPO)) or the issuance of equity securities in any merger or other business combination (including a Qualified Merger), or any option, warrant or other right or obligation to purchase or acquire securities (including upon conversion of the Convertible Preferred Stock), in each case existing or arising under this Agreement or otherwise in relation to any Group Entity. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section 4.4, no Securityholder shall be required to take any action or step that has, or would reasonably be likely to have, a material adverse effect on such Company Securityholder’s, or that would reduce its ownership percentage in the Company.

 

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(c)                                  The Group Entities agree that they will co-operate with any Applicable Entity (including, for greater certainty, following the completion of an initial Public Offering by Holdings (including a Qualified IPO)) and use reasonable efforts to provide such information or certifications as may reasonably be required by the Applicable Entities in the event the Applicable Entities make an application to the Ontario Securities Commission for a discretionary order providing a prospectus exemption from applicable Canadian securities laws to facilitate the resale of Registrable Securities or any securities issued in any merger or other business combination involving Holdings (including a Qualified Merger).

 

ARTICLE V
REGISTRATION RIGHTS; LIQUIDITY COOPERATION

 

5.1                               Demand Registrations.

 

(a)                                 Requests for Registration.  Subject to the provisions of Section 2.3(d)(17) and this Article V, (i) subject to compliance with Section 4.4, the holders of a majority of Vestar Securities that constitute Registrable Securities shall have the right (the “Vestar Demand Right”), (ii) from and after the third anniversary of the date of this Agreement, the Majority Preferred Stockholders shall have the right (the “Preferred Demand Right”), and (iii) subject to compliance with Section 4.4, the Executive Holders holding a majority of such holders’ Employee Securities that constitute Registrable Securities shall have the right (the “Employee Demand Right” and, together with the Vestar Demand Right, and the Preferred Demand Right, the “Demand Registration Rights”), in each case, to request registration under the Securities Act of all or any portion of their Registrable Securities by Holdings on Form S-1 or any similar long-form registration (“Long- Form Demand Registration”) or on Form S-3 or any similar short-form registration (“Short-Form Demand Registration”), if such registration is available to Holdings, by delivering a written notice to the principal business office of Holdings, which notice identifies the Requesting Holders and specifies the number of Registrable Securities to be included in such registration (the “Registration Request”).  Subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 5.1(d), Holdings shall give prompt written notice of such Registration Request (the “Registration Notice”) to all other holders of Registrable Securities and will thereupon use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration (a “Demand Registration”) under the Securities Act on any form available to Holdings of:

 

(i)                                     Registrable Securities that the Requesting Holders shall have requested to be included in such offering pursuant to exercise of their Demand Registration Rights;

 

(ii)                                  Securities that Holdings proposes to offer and sell for its own account;

 

(iii)                               all other Registrable Securities of the same type and class which Holdings has received a written request to register within 20 days after the Registration Notice is given pursuant to Section 5.2(a); and

 

(iv)                              any Securities proposed to be included in such registration by holders of applicable registration rights granted other than pursuant to this Agreement (“Other Registration Rights”), provided that Holdings has complied with Section 5.1(f) hereof.

 

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Holders of Registrable Securities requesting Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 5.1or Incidental Registration pursuant to Section 5.2 are referred to as “Requesting Holders”.

 

(b)                                 Preservation of Demand Registration.  A registration undertaken by Holdings at the request of the Requesting Holder will not count as a Demand Registration:

 

(i)                                     if, pursuant to the Vestar Demand Right, the Preferred Demand Right or the Employee Demand Right, the Requesting Holders fail to register and sell at least 85% of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such registration by them; or

 

(ii)                                  if the Requesting Holders withdraw a Registration Request (A) upon the determination of the Board to postpone the filing or effectiveness of a Registration Statement pursuant to Section 5.1(d) or (B) within ten days of receiving notice from the Company of its intent to exercise its Priority Right in connection with such registration.

 

(c)                                  Priority on Demand Registration.  If the sole or managing underwriter of a Demand Registration advises Holdings in writing that in its opinion the number of Registrable Securities and other securities requested to be included exceeds the maximum number of Registrable Securities and other securities (the “Underwriter’s Maximum Number”) which can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the distribution of the securities being offered, the price that will be paid in such offering or the marketability thereof, then Holdings shall be required to include in such registration only such number of securities as is equal to the Underwriter’s Maximum Number (the “Demand Registration Cutback”) and Holdings and the holders of Registrable Securities shall participate in such offering in the following order of priority:

 

(i)                                     first, there shall be included in such registration that number of Registrable Securities that the Requesting Holders shall have requested to be included in such offering pursuant to either Section 5.1(a) or Section 5.2(a), and that does not exceed the Underwriter’s Maximum Number; provided, however, that holders who request registration pursuant to Section 5.2(a) shall not be entitled to participate in any such registration if (x) the sole or managing underwriter (or, in the case of an offering that is not underwritten, an investment banker) shall determine in good faith that the participation of holders of Employee Securities that constitute Registrable Securities would adversely affect the marketability of the Securities being sold in such registration and (y) if Dr. Dosoretz is then the Chief Executive Officer of the Holdings, he shall have approved the exclusion of such holders based upon the determination of the sole or managing underwriter (or, in the case of an offering that is not underwritten, an investment banker), which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld;

 

(ii)                                  second, Holdings shall be entitled to include in such registration that number of Securities that it proposes to offer and sell for its own account to the full extent of the remaining portion of the Underwriter’s Maximum Number; and

 

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remaining portion of the Underwriter’s Maximum Number; provided, however, that such other holders shall not be entitled to participate in any such registration if the sole or managing underwriter (or, in the case of an offering that is not underwritten, an investment banker) shall determine in good faith that the participation of other holders would adversely affect the marketability of the Securities being sold in such registration.

 

In the event that a Demand Registration Cutback results in less than all of the Securities of a particular category (i.e., Registrable Securities of the Requesting Holders pursuant to clause (i) above; Securities of Holdings pursuant to clause (ii) above; and Securities of other holders pursuant to clause (iii) above) that are requested to be included in such registration actually being included in such registration, then the number of Securities of such category that shall be included in such registration shall be allocated pro rata among all of the holders of Securities of such category that requested Securities to be included in such registration based on the relative number of shares of securities owned by each such Person (assuming for this purpose the conversion of the Convertible Preferred Stock pursuant to the Certificate of Designations).

 

(d)                                 Restrictions on Demand Registrations.  Neither the Vestar Demand Rights nor the Employee Demand Rights may be exercised by the holders thereof during (i) a 90 day period following a Default Event or (ii) any process associated with a Company Sale following a Default Event.  Except as otherwise provided in this Section 5.1(d), Holdings shall be obligated to effect (i) three Long-Form Demand Registrations and (ii) unlimited Short-Form Demand Registrations to the extent Holdings is a registrant entitled to file a registration statement on Form S-3 or any successor or similar short-form registration statement, in each case pursuant to each of the Vestar Demand Right and the Preferred Demand Right. Holdings shall not be obligated to effect an Employee Demand Right until after the first anniversary of the date of Holdings’ first Public Offering.  Thereafter, Holdings shall be obligated to effect (x) one Long-Form Demand Registration and (y) one Short-Form Demand Registration per year to the extent Holdings is a registrant entitled to file a registration statement on Form S-3 or any successor or similar short-form registration statement, in each case pursuant to an Employee Demand Right.  Any Demand Registration following Holdings’ initial Public Offering requested must be for a firmly underwritten public offering of Registrable Securities with an expected value of at least $10 million to be managed by an underwriter or underwriters of recognized national standing selected by the Requesting Holders and reasonably acceptable to Holdings.  Holdings may delay effecting a Demand Registration, for no more than 120 days in any calendar year period, if after a request is made, Holdings has determined in good faith that the filing of a registration request would require disclosure of material information which Holdings has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential, Holdings shall not be obligated to effect the registration until the earlier of (A) the date upon which such material information is disclosed to the public or is no longer material or (B) 120 days after Holdings first makes such good faith determination.

 

(e)                                  Stock Splits.  In connection with any Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 5.1, each party to this Agreement will vote, or cause to be voted, all securities of the Company and Holdings over which it has the power to vote or direct the voting to effect any stock split with

 

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respect to Holdings Securities which, in the opinion of the sole or managing underwriter, is necessary to facilitate the effectiveness of such Demand Registration.

 

(f)                                   Restriction on Other Registration Rights.  Except as provided in this Agreement, Holdings shall not grant to any Persons the right to request Holdings to register any equity securities of Holdings, or any securities convertible or exchangeable into or exercisable for such securities, without the prior written consent of the holders of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities and subject to Section 2.3(d)(16); provided that Holdings may grant rights to other Persons to participate in Incidental Registrations so long as such rights are subordinate to the rights of the holders of Registrable Securities with respect to such Incidental Registrations.

 

5.2                               Incidental Registration.

 

(a)                                 Requests for Incidental Registration.  At any time Holdings proposes to register any shares of Holdings Securities under the Securities Act (other than registrations on such form(s) solely for registration of Securities in connection with any employee benefit plan or dividend reinvestment plan or a merger or consolidation), including registrations pursuant to Section 5.1(a), whether or not for sale for its own account, Holdings will give written notice to each holder of Registrable Securities at least thirty (30) days prior to the initial filing of such Registration Statement with the SEC of its intent to file such registration statement and of such holder’s rights under this Section 5.2.  Upon the written request of any holder of Registrable Securities made within twenty (20) days after any such notice is given (which request shall specify the Registrable Securities intended to be disposed of by such holder), Holdings will use its reasonable best efforts to effect the registration (an “Incidental Registration”) under the Securities Act of all Registrable Securities which Holdings, as the case may be, has been so requested to register by the holders thereof; provided, however, that if, at any time after giving written notice of its intention to register any securities and prior to the effective date of the Registration Statement filed in connection with such Incidental Registration (each an “Incidental Registration Statement”), Holdings shall determine for any reason not to register or to delay registration of such securities, Holdings and, thereupon, (i) in the case of a determination not to register, Holdings shall be relieved of its obligation to register any Registrable Securities under this Section 5.2 in connection with such registration (but not from its obligation to pay the expenses incurred in connection therewith), and (ii) in the case of a determination to delay registration, Holdings shall be permitted to delay registering any Registrable Securities under this Section 5.2 during the period that the registration of such other securities is delayed.

 

(b)                                 Priority on Incidental Registration.  In connection with any registration not involving a Demand Registration Cutback, if the sole or managing underwriter of a registration advises Holdings in writing that in its opinion the number of Registrable Securities and other securities requested to be included exceeds the number of Registrable Securities and other securities which can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the distribution of the securities being offered, the price that will be paid in such offering or the marketability thereof, Holdings will include in such registration the Registrable Securities and other securities of Holdings in the following order of priority:

 

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(i)                                     first, the greatest number of Securities of Holdings proposed to be included in such registration by Holdings for its own account and by holders of Other Registration Rights that have priority over the incidental registration rights granted to holders of Registrable Securities under this Agreement, if any, which in the opinion of such underwriters can be so sold;

 

(ii)                                  second, after all Securities that Holdings proposes to register for its own account or for the accounts of holders of Other Registration Rights that have priority over the incidental registration rights under this Agreement have been included, the greatest amount of Registrable Securities and Securities having Other Registration Rights that are pari passu with Registrable Securities, if any, in each case requested to be registered by the holders thereof which in the opinion of such underwriters can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the distribution of the securities being offered, the price that will be paid in such offering or the marketability thereof, ratably among the holders of Registrable Securities and Securities subject to such Other Registration rights that are pari passu based on the respective amounts of Registrable Securities and securities subject to such Other Registration Rights owned by each such holder; and

 

(iii)                               third, any other Securities.

 

(c)                                  Upon delivering a request under this Section 5.2, a Holdings Securityholder (excluding Vestar and its Affiliates, but including any transferee thereof) will, if requested by Holdings, execute and deliver a custody agreement and power of attorney in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Holdings with respect to such Holdings Securityholder’s Securities to be registered pursuant to this Section 5.2 (a “Custody Agreement and Power of Attorney”).  The Custody Agreement and Power of Attorney will provide, among other things, that the Holdings Securityholder will deliver to and deposit in custody with the custodian and attorney-in-fact named therein a certificate or certificates representing such Holdings Securities (duly endorsed in blank by the registered owner or owners thereof or accompanied by duly executed stock powers in blank) and irrevocably appoint said custodian and attorney-in-fact with full power and authority to act under the Custody Agreement and Power of Attorney on such Holdings Securityholder’s behalf with respect to the matters specified therein.  Such Holdings Securityholder also agrees to execute such other agreements as Holdings may reasonably request to further evidence the provisions of this Section 5.2.

 

5.3                               Holdback Agreements.

 

(a)                                 Each holder of Registrable Securities agrees that if requested in connection with an underwritten offering made pursuant to a Registration Statement for which such Securityholder has registration rights pursuant to this Article V by the managing underwriter or underwriters of such underwritten offering, such holder will not effect any Public Sale or distribution of any of the securities being registered or any securities convertible or exchangeable or exercisable for such securities (except as part of such underwritten offering or pursuant to any Rule 10b-5 trading plan then in effect), during the period beginning ten (10) days prior to, and ending (i) with respect to the initial Public Offering, 180 days after, and (ii) with respect to any underwritten offering subsequent to the initial Public

 

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Offering, 90 days after (or, if approved by the Vestar Majority Holders and the Majority Preferred Stockholders, a longer period up to 180 days after), the closing date of the underwritten offering made pursuant to such Registration Statement (or for such shorter period as to which the managing underwriter or underwriters may agree, provided that such shorter period applies equally to all holders of Registrable Securities).

 

(b)                                 Holdings agrees (i) not to effect any public sale or distribution of its equity securities, or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for such securities, during the seven days prior to and during (x) with respect to the initial Public Offering, the 180-day period, and (y) with respect to any underwritten offering subsequent to the initial Public Offering, the 90-day period (or, if approved by the Vestar Majority Holders and the Majority Preferred Stockholders, a longer period up to 180 days), in each case beginning on the effective date of any underwritten Demand Registration (or for such shorter period as to which the managing underwriter or underwriters may agree), except as part of such Demand Registration or in connection with any employee benefit or similar plan, any dividend reinvestment plan, or a business acquisition or combination and (ii) to use all reasonable efforts to cause each holder of at least 5% (on a fully-diluted basis) of its equity securities, or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for such securities, which are or may be purchased from Holdings at any time after the date of this Agreement (other than in a registered offering) to agree not to effect any sale or distribution of any such securities during such period (except as part of such underwritten offering, if otherwise permitted).

 

5.4                               Registration Procedures.  In connection with the registration of any Registrable Securities or a sale of securities pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement, as applicable, Holdings shall effect such registrations or sales to permit the sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition thereof, and pursuant Holdings shall as expeditiously as possible:

 

(a)                                 Prepare and file with the SEC a Registration Statement or Registration Statements on a form available for the sale of the Registrable Securities by the holders thereof in accordance with the intended method of distribution thereof, and use its reasonable best efforts to cause each such Registration Statement to become effective;

 

(b)                                 Prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and post-effective amendments to each Registration Statement as may be necessary to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective for a period ending on the earlier of (i) ninety (90) days from the effective date and (ii) such time as all of such securities have been disposed of in accordance with the intended method of disposition thereof; 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, the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to it with respect to the disposition of all securities covered by such Registration Statement as so amended or in such prospectus as so supplemented;

 

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(c)                                  Notify the selling holders of Registrable Securities promptly (but in any event within two business days), and confirm such notice in writing, (i) when a prospectus or any prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment has been filed, and, with respect to a Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment, when the same has become effective, (ii) of the issuance by the SEC of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus, (iii) if at any time when a prospectus is required by the Securities Act to be delivered in connection with sales of Registrable Securities of Holdings, Holdings becomes aware that the representations and warranties of Holdings contained in any agreement (including any underwriting agreement) contemplated by Section 5.4(h) below cease to be true and correct in all material respects, (iv) of the receipt by Holdings of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of a Registration Statement or any of the Registrable Securities for offer or sale in any jurisdiction or (v) if Holdings becomes aware of the happening of any event that makes any statement made in such Registration Statement or related prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference untrue in any material respect or that requires the making of any changes in such Registration Statement, prospectus or documents so that, in the case of such Registration Statement, it will 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 that in the case of the prospectus, it will 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 light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;

 

(d)                                 Use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or of any order preventing or suspending the use of a prospectus or suspending the qualification (or exemption from qualification) of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction, and, if any such order is issued, to obtain the withdrawal of any such order at the earliest possible moment;

 

(e)                                  Deliver to each selling holder of Registrable Securities and the underwriters, if any, without charge, as many copies of the prospectus or prospectuses (including each form of prospectus) and each amendment or supplement thereto as such Persons may reasonably request; and Holdings hereby consents to the use of such prospectus and each amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling holders of Registrable Securities and the underwriters or agents, if any, in connection with the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities covered by such prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto;

 

(f)                                   Prior to any public offering of Registrable Securities, to use its reasonable best efforts to register or qualify, and cooperate with the selling holders of Registrable Securities, the underwriters, if any, the sales agents and their respective counsel in connection with the registration or qualification (or exemption from such registration or qualification) of such Registrable Securities for offer and sale under the securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions within the United States as any selling holder or the managing underwriters reasonably request in writing; provided, however, that Holdings will not be required to (i) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not

 

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then so qualified or (ii) take any action that would subject it to general service of process in any such jurisdiction where it is not then so subject;

 

(g)                                  Upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by Section 5.4(c)(v) above, as promptly as practicable prepare a supplement or post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference, or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of the Registrable Securities being sold thereunder, such prospectus will not contain 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, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;

 

(h)                                 Enter into an underwriting agreement in form, scope and substance as is customary in underwritten offerings and take all such other actions as are reasonably requested by the managing or sole underwriter in order to expedite or facilitate the registration or the disposition of such Registrable Securities, and in such connection, (i) make such representations and warranties to the underwriters, with respect to the business of Holdings and its subsidiaries, and the Registration Statement, prospectus and documents, if any, incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein, in each case, in form, substance and scope as are customarily made by issuers to underwriters in underwritten offerings, and confirm the same if and when requested; (ii) obtain opinions of counsel to Holdings and updates thereof (which counsel and opinions (in form, scope and substance) shall be reasonably satisfactory to the managing underwriters), addressed to the underwriters covering the matters customarily covered in opinions requested in underwritten offerings and such other matters as may be reasonably requested by underwriters; (iii) obtain “cold comfort” letters and updates thereof from the independent certified public accountants of Holdings (and, if necessary, any other independent certified public accountants of any Subsidiary of Holdings or of any business acquired by Holdings for which financial statements and financial data are, or are required to be, included in the Registration Statement), addressed to each of the underwriters, such letters to be in customary form and covering matters of the type customarily covered in “cold comfort” letters in connection with underwritten offerings; and (iv) if an underwriting agreement is entered into, the same shall contain indemnification provisions and procedures no less favorable to the holders of Registrable Securities than those set forth in Section 5.7 hereof (or such other provisions and procedures acceptable to holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement and the managing underwriters or agents) with respect to all parties to be indemnified pursuant to said Section.  The above shall be done at each closing under such underwriting agreement, or as and to the extent required thereunder;

 

(i)                                     Comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the SEC and make generally available to its Securityholders earnings statements satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 thereunder (or any similar rule promulgated under the Securities Act) no later than forty-five (45) days after the end of any 12-month period (or ninety (90) days after the end of any 12-month period if such period is a fiscal year) (i) commencing at the end of any fiscal quarter in which Registrable Securities are sold to underwriters in a firm commitment or reasonable best efforts underwritten offering and (ii) if not sold to underwriters in such an offering, commencing on the first

 

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day of the first fiscal quarter of Holdings after the effectiveness of a Registration Statement, which statements shall cover said 12-month periods; and

 

(j)                                    Use its reasonable best efforts to cause all such Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement to be listed on the principal securities exchange on which Common Stock is then listed (if any), (i) if the listing of such Registrable Securities is then permitted under the rules of such exchange, or (ii) if no Common Stock is then so listed, use its reasonable best efforts to cause all such Registrable Securities to be listed on a national securities exchange and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to arrange for at least two market makers to register as such with respect to such shares with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”).

 

Holdings may require each holder of Registrable Securities as to which any registration is being effected to furnish to Holdings such information regarding such holder and the distribution of such Registrable Securities as Holdings may, from time to time, reasonably request in writing and the Company shall be entitled to rely on such information provided; provided that such information shall be used only in connection with such registration.  Holdings may exclude from such registration the Registrable Securities of any holder who unreasonably fails to furnish such information promptly after receiving such request.  Each holder agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from Holdings of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 5.4(c)(ii), 5.4(c)(iv) or 5.4(c)(v), such holder will forthwith discontinue disposition of such Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement or prospectus until such holder’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or amended prospectus contemplated by Section 5.4, or until it is advised in writing by Holdings that the use of the applicable prospectus may be resumed, and has received copies of any amendments or supplements thereto.

 

5.5                               Shelf Registration.  Subject to the provisions set forth in Section 5.4, if the holders of a majority of Vestar Securities that constitute Registrable Securities so specify, or if the Majority Preferred Stockholders so specify, or if the Executive Holders holding a majority of such holders’ Employee Securities that constitute Registrable Securities so specify, in the Registration Notice that they desire Holdings to undertake a shelf registration of some or all of such Registrable Securities, then Holdings shall file with the SEC a registration statement under the Securities Act on the appropriate form pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (the “Required Registration”).  Holdings shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Required Registration to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as practical after filing, and once effective, Holdings shall cause such Required Registration to remain effective for a period ending on the earlier of (i) the second anniversary of the effectiveness thereof, (ii) the date on which all Registrable Securities have been sold pursuant to the Required Registration and (iii) the date as of which there are no longer any Registrable Securities in existence.

 

5.6                               Registration Expenses.  Subject to Section 5.1(b)(i), all fees and expenses incident to the performance of or compliance with this Agreement by Holdings shall be borne by Holdings, whether or not any Registration Statement is filed or becomes effective, including, without limitation, (i) all registration and filing fees (including, without limitation, (A) fees with respect to filings required to be made with FINRA in connection with an underwritten offering and (B) fees and expenses of compliance with state securities or “blue sky” laws), (ii) reasonable messenger, telephone and delivery

 

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expenses, (iii) fees and disbursements of counsel for Holdings, (iv) fees and disbursements of all independent certified public accountants referred to in Section 5.4(h), (v) underwriters’ fees and expenses (excluding discounts, commissions, or fees of underwriters, selling brokers, dealer managers or similar securities industry professionals relating to the distribution of the Registrable Securities), (vi) Securities Act liability insurance, if Holdings so desires such insurance, (vii) internal expenses of Holdings, (viii) the expense of any annual audit, (ix) the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the listing of the securities to be registered on any securities exchange, and (x) the fees and expenses of any Person, including special experts, retained by Holdings.  In connection with any Demand Registration or Incidental Registration hereunder, Holdings shall reimburse the holders of the Registrable Securities being registered in such registration for the reasonable fees and disbursements of not more than one counsel (together with appropriate local counsel) chosen by the Requesting Holders, if pursuant to a Demand Registration, or Holdings, in all other cases, and other reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the holders of Registrable Securities incurred in connection with the registration of the Registrable Securities.

 

5.7                               Indemnification; Contribution.

 

(a)                                 Indemnification by the Company.  Holdings shall, without limitation as to time, indemnify and hold harmless, to the full extent permitted by law, each holder of Registrable Securities, the officers, directors, agents and employees of each of them, each Person who controls each such holder (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act), the officers, directors, agents and employees of each such controlling person and any financial or investment adviser (each, an “Indemnified Party”), to the fullest extent lawful, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, actions or proceedings (whether commenced or threatened) reasonable costs (including, without limitation, reasonable costs of preparation and reasonable attorneys’ fees) and reasonable expenses (including reasonable expenses of investigation) (collectively, “Losses”), as incurred, arising out of or based upon (i) any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement, prospectus or form of prospectus or in any amendment or supplements thereto or in any preliminary prospectus, or arising out of or based upon any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except to the extent that the same arise out of or are based upon information furnished in writing to Holdings by such Indemnified Party or the related holder of Registrable Securities expressly for use therein or (ii) any violation by Holdings of any federal, state or common law rule or regulation applicable to Holdings and relating to action required of or inaction by Holdings in connection with any such registration; provided, however, that the Company shall not be liable to any Person who participates as an underwriter in the offering or sale of Registrable Securities or any other Person, if any, who controls such underwriters within the meaning of the Securities Act to the extent that any such Losses arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in any preliminary prospectus if (x) such Person failed to send or deliver a copy of the prospectus with or prior to the delivery of written confirmation of the sale by such Person to the Person asserting the claim from which such Losses arise, (y) the prospectus would have corrected such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or such omission or alleged omission, and (z) Holdings has complied with its obligations under Section 5.4(c).  Each indemnity and reimbursement

 

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of costs and expenses shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of such indemnified party.

 

(b)                                 Indemnification by Holders.  In connection with any Registration Statement in which a holder of Registrable Securities is participating, such holder, or an authorized officer of such holder, shall furnish to Holdings in writing such information as Holdings reasonably requests for use in connection with any Registration Statement or prospectus and agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify, to the full extent permitted by law, Holdings, its directors, officers, agents and employees, each Person who controls Holdings (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, agents or employees of such controlling persons, from and against all Losses arising out of or based upon any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement, prospectus, or form of prospectus, or arising out of or based upon any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue or alleged untrue statement is contained in, or such omission or alleged omission is required to be contained in, any information so furnished in writing by such holder to Holdings expressly for use in such Registration Statement or prospectus and that such statement or omission was relied upon by Holdings in preparation of such Registration Statement, prospectus or form of prospectus; provided, however, that such holder of Registrable Securities shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that the holder has furnished in writing to Holdings within a reasonable period of time prior to the filing of any such Registration Statement or prospectus or amendment or supplement thereto information expressly for use in such Registration Statement or prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto which corrected or made not misleading, information previously furnished to Holdings, and Holdings failed to include such information therein.  In no event shall the liability of any selling holder of Registrable Securities hereunder be greater in amount than the dollar amount of the proceeds (net of payment of all expenses) received by such holder upon the sale of the Registrable Securities giving rise to such indemnification obligation.  Such indemnity shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of such indemnified party.

 

(c)                                  Conduct of Indemnification Proceedings.  If any Person shall be entitled to indemnity hereunder, such Indemnified Party shall give prompt notice to the party or parties from which such indemnity is sought (the “Indemnifying Parties”) of the commencement of any action, suit, proceeding or investigation or written threat thereof (a “Proceeding”) with respect to which such Indemnified Party seeks indemnification or contribution pursuant hereto; provided, however, that the failure to so notify the Indemnifying Parties shall not relieve the Indemnifying Parties from any obligation or liability except to the extent that the indemnifying parties have been prejudiced by such failure.  The Indemnifying Parties shall have the right, exercisable by giving written notice to an indemnified party promptly after the receipt of written notice from such Indemnified Party of such Proceeding, to assume, at the Indemnifying Parties’ expense, the defense of any such Proceeding, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Party; provided, however, that an Indemnified Party or Parties (if more than one such Indemnified Party is named in any Proceeding) shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such Proceeding and to participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnified Party or parties unless:  (i) the

 

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Indemnifying Parties agree to pay such fees and expenses; (ii) the Indemnifying Parties fail promptly to assume the defense of such Proceeding or fail to employ counsel reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Party or Parties; or (iii) the named parties to any such Proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both such Indemnified Party or parties and the Indemnifying Parties or an affiliate of the Indemnifying Parties or such Indemnified Parties, and there may be one or more defenses available to such Indemnified Party or parties that are different from or additional to those available to the Indemnifying Parties, in which case, if such Indemnified Party or parties notifies the Indemnifying Parties in writing that it elects to employ separate counsel at the expense of the Indemnifying Parties, the Indemnifying Parties shall not have the right to assume the defense thereof and such counsel shall be at the expense of the Indemnifying Parties, it being understood, however, that, unless there exists a conflict among Indemnified Parties, the Indemnifying Parties shall not, in connection with any one such Proceeding or separate but substantially similar or related Proceedings in the same jurisdiction, arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys (together with appropriate local counsel) at any time for such Indemnified Party or Parties.  Whether or not such defense is assumed by the indemnifying parties, such Indemnifying Parties or Indemnified Party or Parties will not be subject to any liability for any settlement made without its or their consent (but such consent will not be unreasonably withheld).  The indemnifying parties shall not consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which (i) provides for other than monetary damages without the consent of the Indemnified Party or parties (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) or (ii) does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such Indemnified Party or parties of a release, in form and substance satisfactory to the Indemnified Party or parties, from all liability in respect of such Proceeding for which such Indemnified Party would be entitled to indemnification hereunder.

 

(d)                                 Contribution.  If the indemnification provided for in this Section 5.7 is unavailable to an Indemnified Party or is insufficient to hold such Indemnified Party harmless for any Losses in respect of which this Section 5.7 would otherwise apply by its terms, then each applicable Indemnifying Party, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Party, shall have an obligation to contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Party as a result of such Losses, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Indemnifying Party, on the one hand, and such Indemnified Party, on the other hand, in connection with the actions, statements or omissions that resulted in such Losses as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.  The relative fault of such Indemnifying Party, on the one hand, and Indemnified Party, on the other hand, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any action in question, including any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact, has been taken by, or relates to information supplied by, such indemnifying party or Indemnified Party, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent any such action, statement or omission.  The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of any Losses shall be deemed to include any legal or other fees or expenses incurred by such party in connection with any Proceeding, to the extent such party would have been indemnified for such expenses if the indemnification provided for in Section 5.7(a) or 5.7(b) was available to such party.  The parties hereto agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 5.7(d) were determined by pro-rata allocation

 

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or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in this Section 5.7(d).  Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 5.7(d), an Indemnifying Party that is a selling holder of Registrable Securities shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the net proceeds received by such Indemnifying Party exceeds the amount of any damages that such Indemnifying Party has otherwise been required to pay by reasons 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.

 

5.8                               Rules 144 and 144A.  At all times after Holdings effects its initial Public Offering, Holdings shall file the reports required to be filed by it under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (or, if Holdings is not required to file such reports, it will, upon the request of any holder of Registrable Securities, make publicly available other information so long as such information is necessary to permit sales under Rule 144A), and will take such further action as any holder of Registrable Securities 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.  Upon the request of any holder of Registrable Securities, Holdings shall deliver to such holder a written statement as to whether it has complied with such requirements.

 

5.9                               Underwritten Registrations.  No holder of Registrable Securities may participate in any underwritten registration hereunder unless such holder (a) agrees to sell such holder’s Registrable Securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the Persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements and (b) completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements and other documents required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements.

 

5.10                        Governance following initial Public Offering or Qualified Merger.  From and after any initial Public Offering or Qualified Merger, the governance rights in Article II as they apply to Holdings and its Subsidiaries shall no longer apply, and the rights and privileges of the Securityholders with respect to such entities, including with respect to post-initial Public Offering board rights and governance rights shall be agreed upon prior to the completion of such Public Offering or Qualified Merger by the Executive Committee of the board of directors of Holdings, provided that the rights given to the Majority Preferred Stockholders shall reflect the equity value of the Convertible Preferred Stock in relation to the holders of the other Holdings Securities and, as a condition to entering into such governance arrangement or agreement, such Securityholder or Securityholders, or the Company, as applicable, shall ensure that the holders of the securities of the Common Stock of Holdings or the securities of the surviving corporation held by the stockholders of the Company prior to such transaction, in each case into which the Convertible Preferred Stock is converted, are offered such rights in respect of Holdings or the surviving corporation, as applicable, no less favorable than such rights proposed to be obtained by such Securityholders or the Company, as applicable, pursuant to such agreement or arrangement.

 

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5.11                        No Inconsistent Agreements.  The Company has not and will not, enter into any agreement with respect to the Company’s securities that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the holders of Registrable Securities in this ARTICLE V or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof.

 

5.12                        Cooperation with Transfers by Convertible Preferred Stockholders.  Upon receipt by notice from any Convertible Preferred Stockholder that such Convertible Preferred Stockholder proposes to Transfer any or all of its shares of the Convertible Preferred Stock, the Company, shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, use commercially reasonable efforts to (a) afford such Convertible Preferred Stockholder and the proposed transferee (and their respective representatives) reasonable access during normal business hours to the properties, contracts, books and records and other documents and data of the Company and its subsidiaries for purposes of the proposed transferee’s evaluation of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (b) furnish such proposed transferee and its representatives with such additional financial, operating and other data and information as such Convertible Preferred Stockholder or the proposed transferee may reasonably request, (c) make available to the proposed transferee and its representatives, upon reasonable advance notice and during normal business hours, the officers and representatives of the Company, as the proposed transferee may reasonably request for purposes of its evaluation of the Company and its Subsidiaries, and (d) otherwise cooperate in good faith with such Convertible Preferred Stockholder and the proposed transferee (and their respective representatives) in connection with the proposed Transfer, in the case of each of clauses (a) to (c), subject to the proposed transferee’s execution of a confidentiality undertaking reasonably acceptable to the Company; provided, however, nothing herein shall obligate the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any other representative or agent of any of the foregoing to take any actions that would (x) result in any waiver of attorney-client privilege or any similar privilege or violate any terms of any Contract to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or to which any of their respective assets are subject or (y) result in any violation of any applicable law.

 

ARTICLE VI
VENTURE CAPITAL OPERATING COMPANY; OTHER RIGHTS

 

6.1                               VCOC Securityholders.

 

(a)                                 Each of Vestar V, Vestar V-A and Vestar/RTI is intended to qualify as a “venture capital operating company” as defined in the Plan Asset Regulations (each, a “VCOC Securityholder”).  For so long as the VCOC Securityholder, directly or through one or more conduit Subsidiaries, continues to hold any Units (or other securities of the Company into which such Units may be converted or for which such Units may be exchanged), without limitation or prejudice of any the rights provided to the Securityholders hereunder, the Company shall, with respect to each such VCOC Securityholder:

 

(i)                                     Provide each VCOC Securityholder or its designated representative with:

 

(A)                               the right to visit and inspect any of the offices and properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries and inspect and copy the books and records of the Company and its Subsidiaries, as the VCOC Securityholder shall reasonably request;

 

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(B)                               as soon as available and in any event within 45 days after the end of each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year of the Company, consolidated balance sheets of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such period, and consolidated statements of income and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the period then ended prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent basis, except as otherwise noted therein, and subject to the absence of footnotes and to year-end adjustments;

 

(C)                               as soon as available and in any event within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such year, and consolidated statements of income and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the year then ended prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent basis, except as otherwise noted therein, together with an auditor’s report thereon of a firm of established national reputation;

 

(D)                               to the extent the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is required by law or pursuant to the terms of any outstanding indebtedness of the Company or such Subsidiary to prepare such reports, any annual reports, quarterly reports and other periodic reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, actually prepared by the Company or such Subsidiary as soon as available; and

 

(E)                                copies of all materials provided to the Board, and if requested, copies of all materials provided to the board of directors (or similar organization body) of the Company’s Subsidiaries, provided, that the Company shall be entitled to exclude portions of such materials to the extent providing such portions would be reasonably likely to result in the waiver of attorney-client privilege.

 

(ii)                                  Make appropriate directors and officers of the Company, and its Subsidiaries, available periodically and at such times as reasonably requested by the VCOC Securityholder for consultation with the VCOC Securityholder or its designated representative with respect to matters relating to the business and affairs of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including significant changes in management personnel and compensation of employees, introduction of new products or new lines of business, important acquisitions or dispositions of plants and equipment, significant research and development programs, the purchasing or selling of important trademarks, licenses or concessions or the proposed commencement or compromise of significant litigation;

 

(iii)                               Give the VCOC Securityholder the right to designate one non-voting board observer who will be entitled to attend all meetings of the Company’s Board, participate in all deliberations of the Board and receive copies of all materials provided to the Board, provided that such observer shall have no voting rights with respect to actions taken or elected not to be taken by the Board, and provided, further, that the Company shall be entitled to exclude such

 

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observer from such portions of a board meeting to the extent such observer’s presence would be reasonably likely to result in the waiver of attorney-client privilege;

 

(iv)                              To the extent consistent with applicable law (and with respect to events which require public disclosure, only following the Company’s public disclosure thereof through applicable securities law filings or otherwise), inform the VCOC Securityholder or its designated representative in advance with respect to any significant corporate actions, including extraordinary dividends, mergers, acquisitions or dispositions of assets, issuances of significant amounts of debt or equity and material amendments to the organizational documents of the Company, and to provide the VCOC Securityholder or its designated representative with the right to consult with the Company with respect to such actions; and

 

(v)                                 Provide the VCOC Securityholder or its designated representative with such other rights of consultation which the VCOC Securityholder’s counsel may determine to be reasonably necessary under applicable legal authorities promulgated after the date hereof to qualify its investment in the Company as a “venture capital investment” for purposes of the Plan Assets Regulation.

 

(b)                                 The Company agrees to consider, in good faith, the recommendations of each VCOC Securityholder or its designated representative in connection with the matters on which it is consulted as described above, recognizing that the ultimate discretion with respect to all such matters shall be retained by the Company.

 

(c)                                  In the event that the Company ceases to qualify as an “operating company” (within the meaning of the first sentence of 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101(c)(1) of the Plan Asset Regulations), then the Company and each Securityholder will cooperate in good faith to take all reasonable action necessary to provide that the investment (or at least 51% of the investment valued at cost) of each VCOC Securityholder shall continue to qualify as a “venture capital investment” (as defined in the Plan Asset Regulations).

 

6.2                               Inspection of Property.  The Company and Holdings shall permit any representative designated by the Majority Preferred Stockholders, upon reasonable notice and during normal business hours and at such other times as the Majority Preferred Stockholders or their designated representative may reasonably request, for any purpose reasonably related to Convertible Preferred Stockholders’ rights and interest as a Securityholder of Holdings or as a party to this Agreement, to (i) visit and inspect any of the properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (ii) examine any books, minutes and records of the Company and its Subsidiaries (including business and financial records) and make copies thereof or extracts therefrom, and (iii) discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with the directors, officers, key employees and independent accountants of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in each case, under such conditions and restrictions (including a reasonable confidentiality undertaking or agreement) as the Board may reasonably prescribe.

 

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6.3                               Financial Statements and Other Information.  The Company shall deliver the same financial statements and all other information that it is required to deliver to each Preferred Member (as defined in the LLC Agreement) and each Class A Member for so long as such Person holds more than 1.5% of the aggregate number of the Preferred Units and the Class A Units taken together, to each Convertible Preferred Stockholder in the same manner and at the same time as it is required to deliver such financial statements or other information to such Members.

 

ARTICLE VII
AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION

 

7.1                               Amendment and Waiver.  Except as otherwise provided herein, no modification, amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement shall be effective against the Company, Holdings or the Securityholders unless such modification, amendment or waiver is approved in writing (a) prior to the occurrence of a Default Event, by each of the Company, Holdings, the Vestar Majority Holders and the Majority Preferred Stockholders and (b) after the occurrence of a Default Event, by the Majority Preferred Stockholders; provided that no such modification, amendment or waiver may change, in the case of clause (a) the rights or obligations hereunder of holders of Employee Securities, TCW Securities or NYLIM Securities and, in the case of clause (b), the rights or obligations hereunder of holders of Employee Securities, TCW Securities, NYLIM Securities or Vestar Securities, in each case, in a manner that is materially and disproportionately adverse unless approved in writing by the Employee Majority Holders, the TCW Majority Holders, the NYLIM Majority Holders, or the Vestar Securityholders, as applicable.  For the avoidance of doubt, any change in a material right personal to a party to this Agreement shall be deemed a material and disproportionate adverse change with respect to any such party.  The failure of any party to enforce any of the provisions of this Agreement shall in no way be construed as a waiver of such provisions and shall not affect the right of such party thereafter to enforce each and every provision of this Agreement in accordance with its terms.

 

7.2                               Termination of Agreement.  This Agreement will terminate in respect of all Securityholders (a) with the written consent of the Company, the Vestar Majority Holders, the Majority Preferred Stockholders, the Employee Majority Holders, the TCW Majority Holders and the NYLIM Majority Holders, (b) upon the dissolution, liquidation or winding-up of the Company or (c) upon the consummation of an initial Public Offering or Qualified Merger .  Unless terminated earlier in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence, this Agreement will terminate solely in respect of any holder of Convertible Preferred Stock (and solely with respect to their ownership of Convertible Preferred Stock) upon the exercise by such holder of Convertible Preferred Stock of its Repurchase Option (as defined in the Certificate of Designations) pursuant to Section 8(a) of the Certificate of Designations and full payment by Holdings to such holder of Convertible Stock the amount due to such holder pursuant to Section 8(a) of the Certificate of Designations.  The termination of this Agreement will not affect any indemnification or contribution obligations under Section 5.7 or any obligation of the parties hereto pursuant to Section 4.3, which shall survive such termination.

 

7.3                               Termination as to a Party.  Any Person who ceases to hold any Securities shall cease to be a Securityholder and shall have no further rights or obligations under this Agreement (except with respect to any indemnification and contribution obligations under Section 5.7, which shall survive).

 

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7.4                               Issuer of Registrable Securities.  Subject to approval by the Majority Preferred Holders (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld) and subject to Section 3.7, prior to distributing to the holders of Units all or substantially all of the securities of any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company then held by the Company, the Company shall cause such Subsidiary to execute and deliver a Stockholders Agreement complying with this Section 7.4 (the “Stockholders Agreement”), which Stockholders Agreement shall be substantially on the same terms as this Agreement, including the provisions that are applicable to an issuer of Registrable Securities hereunder (taking into account that the right, privileges and obligations of the parties hereto are different in respect to the Company and in respect of Holdings and the Subsidiaries of the Company), and each Person, other than the Company, that is a party to this Agreement shall, subject to the approval of the form of such Stockholders Agreement by the Majority Preferred Holders, execute and deliver the Stockholders Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, in no event may such Stockholders Agreement be more favorable to any party (other than the Convertible Preferred Stockholders) than the terms hereof, or less favorable or more burdensome to the Convertible Preferred Stockholders than the terms hereof. In addition, if the issuer has consummated its initial Public Offering, then any provision of this Agreement that, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, terminates upon an initial Public Offering shall be excluded from the Stockholders Agreement, and, in any event, this Section 7.4 shall not be included in the Stockholders Agreement.

 

ARTICLE VIII
PARTICIPATION RIGHTS

 

8.1                               Participation Right.  In the event the Company proposes to sell or issue New Units (as defined in hereof) in one transaction or a series of related transactions, each holder of Class A Units (a “Class A Holder”) and each Convertible Preferred Stockholder shall have the right (the “Participation Right”) to irrevocably subscribe for its Pro Rata Portion of the New Units to be offered in such proposed sale.  “Pro Rata Portion” of the New Units for purposes of this Section 8.1, means (x) the aggregate number of New Units multiplied by (y) the aggregate number of outstanding Class A Units and the Class A Unit Equivalent of Convertible Preferred Stock such Class A Holder or Convertible Preferred Stockholder then owns divided by (z) the total number of Class A Units then outstanding and Class A Unit Equivalent of all Convertible Preferred Stock then outstanding.  To the extent any New Units subject to Participation Rights shall remain unsubscribed for after exercise by the Class A Holders and Majority Preferred Stockholders of their participation right pursuant to this Section 8.1, each Class A Holders and Convertible Preferred Stock Holder that exercised its Participation Right in full (the “Exercising Holders”) shall have the right to purchase up to its pro rata share of the remaining New Units (based on the relative number of New Units in respect of which each Exercising Holder exercised its Participation Right pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 8.1).  If any New Units subject to Participation Rights shall remain unsubscribed for after the Class A Holders and Majority Preferred Stockholders shall have exercised their respective rights pursuant to this Section 8.1, the Company shall have one hundred eighty (180) days thereafter to sell such remaining New Units, at a price and upon terms no more favorable to the purchasers thereof than specified in the Company’s notice given pursuant to Section 8.3. For purposes of this Article VIII, “Class A Unit Equivalent” means, with respect to each share of Convertible Preferred Stock, such number of Class A Units as would result in the total number

 

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of Class A Unit Equivalents in respect of all outstanding Convertible Preferred Stock representing 50% of the product of (i) the number of then-outstanding Class A Units multiplied by (ii) a fraction, the numerator of which is one and the denominator of which is one minus 0.50.

 

8.2                               Definition of New Units.  “New Units” shall mean any (i) Units, or (ii) any warrants, rights, calls, options or other securities exchangeable for or exercisable or convertible into units or any other security entitled to participate in the Company’s profits, in each case to be issued by the Company to any Person; provided, that New Units shall not include any type of security distributed to Company Securityholders as a dividend or distribution in accordance with Section 4.1 of the LLC Agreement.

 

8.3                               Notice from the Company.  In the event the Company proposes to undertake an issuance of New Units, the Company shall give each Class A Holder and each Convertible Stockholder written notice of such proposal (the “Sale Participation Notice”), describing the type of New Units and the price and the terms and conditions upon which the Company proposes to issue the same, and setting forth the pro rata portion of the New Units that such Class A Holder or Convertible Preferred Stockholder is entitled to purchase pursuant to its Participation Right.  For a period of twenty (20) business days following the receipt of such notice from the Company, the Company shall be deemed to have irrevocably offered to sell to each Class A Holder and each Convertible Preferred Stockholder such number of New Units as set forth above for the price and upon the terms specified in the notice.  Each Class A Holder and each Convertible Preferred Stockholder may irrevocably exercise its Participation Right hereunder by giving written notice to the Company and stating therein the quantity of New Units to be purchased within twenty (20) business days following the receipt of the Sale Participation Notice from the Company.

 

8.4                               Closing.  The closing of any such issuance or sale to a Class A Holder or Convertible Preferred Stockholder shall take place as proposed by the Company with respect to the New Units to be issued or sold no earlier than twenty (20) days after the Company receives notice of the exercise of the Participation Right but no later than sixty (60) days after the issuance of the New Units with respect to which such Participation Right was exercised, at which closing the Company shall deliver certificates for the New Units (if the Units are evidenced by certificates) in the name of such Class A Holder or Convertible Preferred Stock Holder, as applicable, against receipt of the consideration therefor.  If the consideration for the New Units is other than cash, the applicable Class A Holder or Convertible Preferred Stock Holder shall be entitled to deliver cash in lieu thereof in an amount equal to the fair market value of such non-cash consideration, as reasonably determined by the Board in its sole discretion.

 

8.5                               Compliance.  Nothing in this Article VIII shall be deemed to prevent any Person from purchasing any New Units without the Company first complying with the provisions of Section 8.1; provided that in connection with such purchase (a) the Company gives prompt notice of such purchase to each Class A Holder and each Convertible Preferred Stockholder, but in any event within thirty (30) days after such purchase, which notice shall describe in reasonable detail the New Units being issued and the purchase price thereof, and (b) the purchasers in such issuance (the “Purchasers”) and the Company take all steps reasonably necessary to enable each Class A Holder and each

 

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Convertible Preferred Stockholder to effectively exercise its Participation Right with respect to the purchase of its Pro Rata Portion of the New Units issued to the Purchasers after such purchase by the Purchasers on the terms specified in this Article VIII within sixty (60) days thereafter.

 

8.6                               Convertible Preferred Stockholder Participation Right.

 

(a)                                 Without limiting Section 2.3 or any of the rights and privileges of the Majority Preferred Stockholders under the Certificate of Designations and the organizational documents of Holdings, in the event (i) the Company or Holdings proposes to incur New Indebtedness from a third party or (ii) Holdings proposes to sell or issue any New Holdings Securities (as defined in Section 8.6(b)), in each case, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, each Convertible Preferred Stockholder shall have the right (the “Preferred Stock Participation Right”) to (x) provide up to its Pro Rata Share of the Preferred Stock Ownership Percentage of the New Indebtedness or (y) subscribe for up to its Pro Rata Share of the Preferred Stock Ownership Percentage of New Holdings Securities to be incurred or offered in such proposed incurrence or sale.  “Pro Rata Share” for purposes of this Section 8.6, means the product obtained by multiplying (x) the aggregate principal amount of the New Indebtedness to be incurred by the Company or Holdings by (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is the aggregate number of outstanding Convertible Preferred Stock such holder of Convertible Preferred Stock then owns and the denominator of which is the total number of shares of Convertible Preferred Stock then outstanding and “Preferred Stock Ownership Percentage” means 50%.  To the extent any New Indebtedness or New Holdings Securities subject to Holding Preferred Stock Participation Rights shall remain unsubscribed for after exercise by the Majority Preferred Stockholders of their participation right pursuant to this Section 8.6, each holder of Convertible Preferred Stock that exercised its Convertible Preferred Stockholder Participation Right in full (each an “Exercising Preferred Stock Holder”) shall have the right to provide or purchase, as applicable, up to its pro rata share of the remaining portion of the Preferred Share Percentage of New Indebtedness or New Holdings Securities, as applicable (based on the relative principal amounts or relative number of New Holdings Securities in respect of which each Exercising Preferred Stock Holder exercised its Preferred Stock Holder Participation Right pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 8.6).  Any portion of the New Indebtedness or New Holdings Securities that the Majority Preferred Stockholders do not elect to provide or purchase, as applicable, after the Majority Preferred Stockholders shall have exercised their respective rights pursuant to this Section 8.6(a), the Company or Holdings, as applicable, shall have one hundred eighty (180) days thereafter to place the remaining New Indebtedness or sell such remaining New Holdings Securities, at a price and upon terms no more favorable to the lenders or purchasers thereof than specified in the Company’s notice given pursuant to Section 8.6(c).  For the avoidance of doubt, each Convertible Preferred Stockholder’s Preferred Stock Participation Right in respect of New Indebtedness shall also include the right of such Convertible Preferred Stockholder to subscribe for its pro rata share of the Converted Ownership Percentage of any securities issued to any other lender in respect of such New Indebtedness as an “equity kicker” on the same terms as such other lender or lenders.

 

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convertible into units or any other security entitled to participate in Holdings’ profits, in each case to be issued by Holdings to any Person.  “New Indebtedness” shall mean any Indebtedness to be incurred by the Company after the date hereof.

 

(c)                                  Closing.  The closing of any such issuance or sale to a holder of Convertible Preferred Stock shall take place as proposed by Holdings with respect to the New Holdings Securities to be issued or sold no earlier than twenty (20) days after the Holdings receives notice of the exercise of the Participation Right but no later than sixty (60) days after the issuance of the New Holdings Securities with respect to which such Participation Right was exercised, at which closing Holdings shall deliver certificates for the New Holdings Securities (if evidenced by certificates) in the name of such holder of Convertible Preferred Stock, against receipt of the consideration therefor.  If the consideration for the New Holdings Securities is other than cash, the applicable holder of Convertible Preferred Stock shall be entitled to deliver cash in lieu thereof in an amount equal to the fair market value of such non-cash consideration.

 

8.7                               Exempted Issuances.  Without limiting the approval rights under Section 2.3(c), the provisions of Sections 8.1 through Section 8.6 above shall not apply to the following issuances of Securities:

 

(a)                                 any Securities issued in connection with the exercise, conversion or exchange of any Securities of the Company or Holdings that were not issued in violation of this Article VIII, any subdivision of Securities (including any dividend or split), any combination of Securities (including any reverse split) or any recapitalization, reorganization or reclassification of the Company or Holdings.

 

(b)                                 any Securities issued to employees, officers, directors, consultants and other service providers of or to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than Vestar or any of its Affiliates) in exchange for services pursuant to any agreement or arrangement approved by the Board;

 

(c)                                  any securities issued to third party lenders as “equity kickers” in connection with what is primarily a loan transaction pursuant to any agreement or arrangement approved by the Board, except in connection with the exercise by any holder of Convertible Preferred Stock of its participation rights pursuant to Section 8.6(a)(ii); and

 

(d)                                 any securities issued to the sellers or a comparable party in connection with an acquisition, including by merger or consolidation, of any business, entity, asset or group of related assets.

 

8.8                               Termination of this Section Upon a Public Offering.  The provisions of this Article VIII shall terminate immediately prior to the consummation of a Qualified IPO or a Qualified Merger.

 

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ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS

 

9.1                               Certain Defined Terms.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth or as referenced below:

 

Acquisition” has the meaning given such term in the Recitals.

 

Affiliate” of any particular Person means any other Person Controlling, Controlled by or under common Control with such particular Person or, in the case of a natural Person, any other member of such Person’s Family Group.

 

Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the preface.

 

Allocable Shares” has the meaning set forth in the second paragraph of Section 3.3(a).

 

“Applicable Entity” has the meaning set forth in the second paragraph of Section 4.4(a).

 

Board” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.1(a).

 

Certificate of Designations” means the certificate of designations of the Convertible Preferred Stock, as it may be amended from time to time.

 

Change of Control” has the meaning set forth in the Certificate of Designations.

 

Class A Holder” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.1.

 

Class A Units” has the meaning set forth in the LLC Agreement.

 

Closing Date” means the closing date of the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement.

 

Common Stock” means, collectively, (i) the common stock of Holdings, or (ii) following a Qualified Merger, the common stock of the surviving corporation in the Qualified Merger.

 

Common Stock Equivalents” means (without duplication with any Class A Units, Common Stock or other Common Stock Equivalents) rights, warrants, options, convertible securities, or exchangeable securities or indebtedness, or other rights, exercisable for or convertible or exchangeable into, directly or indirectly, Class A Units, Common Stock or securities exercisable for or convertible or exchangeable into Class A Units or Common Stock, as the case may be, whether at the time of issuance or upon the passage of time or the occurrence of some future event.

 

Common Units” means, collectively, Class A Units, Class B Units, Class C Units and any other class of Units issued by the Company as determined by the Board.

 

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Company” has the meaning set forth in the preface.

 

Company Sale” has the meaning set forth in the Certificate of Designations.

 

Company Securities” means, collectively, (i) Units or other interests in the Company (including new classes or series thereof having such powers, designations, preferences and rights as may be determined by the Board); (ii) obligations, evidences of indebtedness or other securities or interests convertible or exchangeable into Units or other interests in the Company; and (iii) warrants, options or other rights to purchase or otherwise acquire Units or other interests in the Company.

 

Company Securityholders” has the meaning given to such term in the preamble.

 

Consolidated Total Debt” has the meaning set forth in the Certificate of Designations.

 

Control” (including, with correlative meaning, all conjugations thereof) means with respect to any Person, the ability of another Person to control or direct the actions or policies of such first Person, whether by ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

 

Converted Ownership Percentage” has the meaning set forth in the Certificate of Designations.

 

Core Business” means the business of providing radiation therapy services (both technical and professional) through the establishment, development, operation and management of radiation treatment centers.

 

Convertible Preferred Stock” means the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock of Holdings.

 

CPPIB” means the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board established under the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act, S.C. 1997, c. 40.

 

CPPIB Entity” means CPPIB and any subsidiary thereof, as that term is defined in the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act.

 

Default Event” has the meaning set forth in the Certificate of Designations.

 

Demand Registration” has the meaning given to such term in Section 5.1(a).

 

Demand Registration Cutback” has the meaning given to such term in Section 5.1(c).

 

Demand Registration Rights” has the meaning given to such term in Section 5.1(a).

 

Dosoretz Rollover Subscription Agreement” means the Management Stock Contribution and Unit Subscription Agreement by and between Radiation Therapy Investments, LLC and Dr. Dosoretz, dated as of the Closing Date.

 

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EBITDA” means, with respect to any fiscal period, “Consolidated EBITDA” as defined in the Credit Agreement, provided that the following should also be excluded from the calculation of EBITDA to the extent not already excluded from the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA under the Credit Agreement: (i) Non-Cash Charges (as defined in the Credit Agreement) related to any issuances of equity securities; (ii) fees and expenses relating to the Acquisition; (iii) financing fees (both cash and non-cash) relating to the Acquisition; (iv) covenant-not-to-compete payments to certain members of Opco’s senior management and related expenses; (v) expenses (or any portion thereof) incurred outside of the ordinary course of business that are approved by the Board which the Board determines in its good faith discretion are in the best interest of the Company but which will have a disproportionately adverse impact on the Company’s short term financial performance, affecting the Company’s ability to achieve financial targets related to the vesting of the Class C Units under the Management Subscription Agreements or the Company’s annual bonus plan; (vi) costs and expenses incurred in connection with evaluating and consummating acquisitions not contemplated by the Company’s annual plan, as such plan is approved by the Board in good faith; (vii) related party expenditures that are subject to the prior written consent of the Majority Executives pursuant to Section 2.3(a) of this Agreement but have failed to receive such consent; (viii) advisors’ fees and expenses incurred outside the ordinary course of business related solely to Vestar’s activities that are unrelated to the Company; (ix) costs associated with any put option or call option contemplated by any Management Subscription Agreement; (x) costs associated with any proposed initial Public Offering or Sale of the Company (as such terms are defined in the Securityholders Agreement); (xi) expenses related to any litigation arising from the Acquisition; (x) management fees and costs related to the activities giving rise to such fees that are paid to, paid for or reimbursed to Vestar and its Affiliates; and (xii) material expenditures or incremental expenditures inconsistent with prior practice (to the extent that prior practice is relevant) required by Board (where Management Managers unanimously dissent) unless such expenditures are reasonably likely to result in any benefit (whether economic or non-economic) to the Company as determined by the Board in its good faith discretion.

 

Employee” has the meaning give to such term in the preface.

 

Employee Demand Right” has the meaning giving to such term in Section 5.1(a).

 

Employee Majority Holders” means the Person or Persons having beneficial ownership of a majority of the Class A Units or, as the case may be, Common Stock constituting Employee Securities.

 

Employee Preferred Units” means any Preferred Units held by any Employee or such Employee’s permitted assigns.

 

Employee Securities” means (a) Units acquired by the Employees on or after the date of the Original Agreement under the Management Subscription Agreements, (b) any Securities, Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents hereafter acquired by any holder of Employee Securities, and (c) any securities issued with respect to the securities referred to in clauses (a) or (b) above by way of a payment-in-kind, stock dividend or stock split or in connection with a combination of shares, exchange, conversion, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or other reorganization, or otherwise.

 

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Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.

 

Excluded Securities” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.3(c).

 

Executive Committee” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(b).

 

Executive Holders” means each of the individuals listed on Exhibit A attached hereto, their replacements and any other Securityholder who is added to Exhibit A by Board with the consent of the Majority Executives.

 

Exempt Employee Transfer” means a Transfer of Employee Securities (a) pursuant to an exercise of tag-along rights as an Other Holder under Section 3.3(b), (b) pursuant to a Sale of the Company under Section 4.1, (c) to the Company pursuant to a call option or put option (if any) under any Management Subscription Agreement or otherwise, (d) pursuant to an exercise of registration rights pursuant to Article V, (e) upon the death of the holder pursuant to the applicable laws of descent and distribution, (f) solely to or among such Employee’s Family Group, (g) to the Company incidental to the exercise, conversion or exchange of such securities in accordance with their terms, any combination of shares (including any reverse stock split), (h) to Vestar or (i) in connection with any recapitalization, reorganization or reclassification of, or any merger or consolidation involving, the Company.

 

Exempt Individual Transfer” means a Transfer of Vestar Securities held by a natural person (a) upon the death of the holder pursuant to the applicable laws of descent and distribution, (b) solely to or among such Person’s Family Group, (c) to the Company incidental to the exercise, conversion or exchange of such securities in accordance with their terms, any combination of shares (including any reverse stock split) or (d) in connection with any recapitalization, reorganization or reclassification of, or any merger or consolidation involving, the Company.

 

Exempt NYLIM Transfer” means a Transfer of NYLIM Securities (a) pursuant to an exercise of tag-along rights as an Other Holder under Section 3.3(b), (b) pursuant to a Sale of the Company under Section 4.1, (c) pursuant to an exercise of registration rights pursuant to Article V, (d) to any Affiliate of NYLIM, so long as (x) such transferee remains an Affiliate of the NYLIM Holder who Transferred its NYLIM Securities to such transferee and (y) such transferee does not Transfer the NYLIM Securities to a Person who is not an Affiliate of the NYLIM Holder who Transferred its NYLIM Securities to such transferee, (e) to any Person in connection with the transfer by the same NYLIM Holder of any 2015 Notes to such Person in the same relative proportions, provided that Vestar V or the Company has consented to such transfer of the 2015 Notes, (f) to the Company incidental to the exercise, conversion or exchange of such securities in accordance with their terms, any combination of shares (including any reverse stock split), (g) to Vestar, (h) in connection with any recapitalization, reorganization or reclassification of, or any merger or consolidation involving, the Company.

 

Exempt TCW Transfer” means a Transfer of TCW Securities (a) pursuant to an exercise of tag-along rights as an Other Holder under Section 3.3, (b) pursuant to a Sale of the Company under Section 4.1, (c) pursuant to an exercise of registration rights pursuant to Article V, (d) to any Affiliate of TCW,

 

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so long as (x) such transferee remains an Affiliate of the TCW Holder who Transferred its TCW Securities to such transferee and (y) such transferee does not Transfer the TCW Securities to a Person who is not an Affiliate of the TCW Holder who Transferred its TCW Securities to such transferee, (e) to any Person in connection with the transfer by the same TCW Holder of any 2015 Notes to such Person in the same relative proportions, provided that Vestar V or the Company has consented to such transfer of the 2015 Notes, (f) to the Company incidental to the exercise, conversion or exchange of such securities in accordance with their terms, any combination of shares (including any reverse stock split), (g) to Vestar, (h) in connection with any recapitalization, reorganization or reclassification of, or any merger or consolidation involving, the Company.

 

Family Group” means, with respect to any individual, such individual’s spouse and descendants (whether natural or adopted) and any trust, partnership, limited liability company or similar vehicle established and maintained solely for the benefit of (or the sole members or partners of which are) such individual, such individual’s spouse and/or such individual’s descendants.

 

Group Entity” means the Company, Holdings and each of their respective subsidiaries.

 

Holdings” has the meaning given such term in the Preamble.

 

Holdings Securities” means, collectively, (i) shares or other equity interests in Holdings (including new classes or series thereof having such powers, designations, preferences and rights as may be determined by the board of directors of Holdings); (ii) obligations, evidences of indebtedness or other securities or equity interests convertible or exchangeable into shares or other interests in Holdings; and (iii) warrants, options or other rights to purchase or otherwise acquire shares or other equity interests in Holdings.

 

Holdings Securityholders” has the meaning given to such term in the preamble.

 

Incidental Registration” has the meaning given such term in Section 5.2(a).

 

Indebtedness” has the meaning given to such term in the Certificate of Designations.

 

Indemnified Party” has the meaning given such term in Section 5.7(a).

 

Independent Manager” has the meaning given such term in Section 2.1(a)(v).

 

LLC Agreement” means the limited liability company agreement among the Company and its members, as amended from time to time.

 

Limited Partner” means a limited partner of Vestar (excluding any such limited partner who is an employee either of the general partner of Vestar or an Affiliate of the general partner of Vestar).

 

Long-Form Demand Registration” has the meaning given to such term in Section 5.1(a).

 

Losses” has the meaning given such term in Section 5.7.

 

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Majority Executives” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.1(a)(iv).

 

Majority Preferred Stockholders” has the meaning assigned to the term “Majority Holders” in the Certificate of Designations, provided that from and after conversion of the Convertible Preferred Stock, such term shall include holders of a majority of the Common Stock into which such Convertible Preferred Stock has been converted and, if the Warrant Agreement has been exercised, the Common Stock issued pursuant thereto, excluding any such Common Stock which has ceased to constitute a Registrable Security hereunder.

 

Management Agreement” means the management agreement in effect as of the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Subscription Agreement (giving effect to the amendments thereto that are a condition to such closing) among the Company, the Subsidiaries of the Company named therein and Vestar Capital Partners.

 

Management Manager” has the meaning given such term in Section 2.1(a)(v).

 

Management Subscription Agreements” means the unit subscription agreements between the Company and the respective Employees.

 

Merger Sub” has the meaning given such term in the Recitals.

 

New Units” has the meaning given such term in Section 8.2.

 

NYLIM” has the meaning given such term in the Recitals.

 

NYLIM Holder” has the meaning given such term in the Recitals.

 

NYLIM Majority Holders” means the Person or Persons having beneficial ownership of a majority of the Class A Units or, as the case may be, Common Stock constituting NYLIM Securities.

 

NYLIM Securities” means (a) Units acquired by NYLIM on or after the date of this Agreement, (b) Securities, Common Stock, Common Stock Equivalents, Preferred Units or Preferred Stock hereafter acquired by NYLIM, and (c) any securities of the Company issued with respect to the securities referred to in clause (a) or (b) above by way of a payment-in-kind, stock dividend, or stock split or in connection with a combination of shares, exchange, conversion, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or other reorganization, or otherwise.

 

Offered Securities” has the meaning given such term in Section 3.3(a).

 

Opco” has the meaning given such term in the Recitals.

 

Original Agreement” has the meaning given such term in the Recitals.

 

Other Holder” has the meaning given such term in Section 3.3(a).

 

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Other Registration Rights” has the meaning given such term in Section 5.1(a)(iii).

 

Ownership Percentage” means, for each Securityholder and with respect to a type and class of Security, the percentage obtained by dividing the number of units or shares of such Security held by such Securityholder by the total number of units or shares of such Security (other than Excluded Securities) outstanding.

 

Participation Right” has the meaning given to such term in Section 8.1.

 

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

 

Preferred Stock” means collectively, following the conversion of the Company into a corporation or the Company being merged into, or otherwise succeeded by, a corporation, the preferred stock and any other class or series of authorized capital stock of the Company that is limited to a fixed sum or percentage of par value or stated value in respect of the rights of the holders thereof to participate in dividends and in the distribution of assets upon the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company.

 

Preferred Units” has the meaning set forth in the LLC Agreement.

 

Priority Right” has the meaning given such term in Section 5.1(c)(ii).

 

Proceeding” has the meaning given such term in Section 5.7(c).

 

Proposed Sale” has the meaning given such term in Section 3.2(a).

 

Proposed Sale Notice” has the meaning given such term in Section 3.2(a).

 

Public Offering” means a sale of Common Stock to the public in an offering pursuant to an effective registration statement filed with the SEC pursuant to the Securities Act; provided that a Public Offering shall not include any issuance of equity securities in any merger or other business combination, and shall not include any registration of the issuance of securities to existing Securityholders or Employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries on Form S-4 or Form S-8 (or any successor forms).

 

Public Sale” means a sale of Securities pursuant to a Public Offering or a Rule 144 Sale.

 

Purchase Agreement” has the meaning given such term in the Recitals.

 

Purchasers” has the meaning given to such term in Section 8.5.

 

Put Option” has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.1(n).

 

Qualified Exchange” has the meaning set forth in the Certificate of Designations.

 

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Qualified IPO” has the meaning set forth in the Certificate of Designations.

 

Qualified Merger” has the meaning set forth in the Certificate of Designations.

 

Registrable Securities” means common shares of Holdings, including those receivable upon conversion of Convertible Preferred Stock or upon exercise of the warrants under the Warrant Agreement and common equity securities of Holdings issued or issuable with respect to Holdings common stock by way of dividend, distribution, split or combination of securities, or any recapitalization, merger, consolidation or other reorganization.  As to any particular Registrable Securities, such securities will cease to be Registrable Securities when they have been (i) Transferred in a Public Sale or (ii) otherwise Transferred and new certificates not bearing the legend set forth in Section 9.2(b) hereof shall have been delivered by Holdings and subsequent disposition of such securities shall not require registration or qualification of such securities under the Securities Act or such state securities or blue sky laws then in force.  For purposes of this Agreement, a Person will be deemed to be a holder of Registrable Securities whenever such Person has the right to acquire such Registrable Securities (upon conversion or exercise in connection with a Transfer of securities or otherwise, but disregarding any restrictions or limitations upon the exercise of such right), whether or not such acquisition has actually been affected.

 

Registration Expenses” means all amounts payable by Holdings pursuant to Section 5.6.

 

Registration Notice” has the meaning given such term in Section 5.1(a).

 

Registration Request” has the meaning given such term in Section 5.1(a).

 

Registration Statement” means any registration statement of Holdings under which any of the Registrable Securities are included therein pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, including the prospectus, amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including post-effective amendments, all exhibits, and all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference in such registration statement.

 

Related Party” has the meaning set forth in the Certificate of Designations.

 

Related Party Transaction” has the meaning set forth in the Certificate of Designations.

 

Requesting Holders” has the meaning given such term in Section 5.1(a).

 

Rule 144” means Rule 144 adopted under the Securities Act (or any successor rule or regulation).

 

Rule 144 Sale” means a sale of Securities to the public through a broker, dealer or market-maker pursuant to the provisions of Rule 144 adopted under the Securities Act (or any successor rule or regulation).

 

Sale Notice” has the meaning given such term in Section 3.3(a).

 

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Sale of the Company” means the consummation of a transaction, whether in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions that are consummated contemporaneously (or consummated pursuant to contemporaneous agreements), with any other Person or group of related Persons (other than any Transfer pursuant to Section 3.3(b) or any Exempt Employee Transfer) on an arm’s-length basis, pursuant to which such Person or group of related Persons directly or indirectly (a) acquires (whether by merger, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization, redemption, issuance of capital stock or otherwise) more than 50% of the Class A Units or voting stock of the Company, Holdings or Opco or (b) acquires assets constituting all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis; provided that in no event shall a Sale of the Company be deemed to include any transaction effected solely for the purpose of (i) changing, directly or indirectly, the form of organization or the organizational structure of the Company, Holdings or Opco or any Transfer to a Person (whether a corporation, limited liability company or otherwise) that is a wholly-owned Subsidiary of, parent of, equity interest holder of, or is controlled by or under the common control of any Person described in this clause (i) that does not directly or indirectly change in a material respect the ownership of the Company, Holdings or Opco or (ii) contributing stock or other securities to Subsidiaries of the Company.

 

Sale Participation Notice” has the meaning given to such term in Section 8.3.

 

SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.

 

Securityholder” has the meaning given such term in the preface.

 

Selldown Investor” has the meaning given such term in Section 3.3(b)(viii).

 

Selldown Securities” has the meaning given such term in Section 3.3(b)(viii).

 

Selling Security Holder” has the meaning given such term in Section 3.2(a).

 

Selling Vestar Holder” has the meaning given such term in Section 3.3(a).

 

Short-Form Demand Registration” has the meaning given to such term in Section 5.1(a).

 

Subordinated Notes” has the meaning set forth in the Certificate of Designations.

 

Subscription Agreement” means that certain Subscription Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Company, Holdings, Opco and CPPIB.

 

Subsidiary” means any corporation, limited liability company, partnership or other entity with respect to which another specified entity has the power to vote or direct the voting of sufficient securities to elect directors (or comparable authorized persons of such entity) having a majority of the voting power of the board of directors (or comparable governing body) of such entity.

 

Tag-Along Notice” has the meaning given such term in Section 3.2(a).

 

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TCW” has the meaning given such term in the Recitals.

 

TCW Holder” has the meaning given such term in the Recitals.

 

TCW Majority Holders” means the Person or Persons having beneficial ownership of a majority of the Class A Units or, as the case may be, Common Stock constituting TCW Securities.

 

TCW Securities” means (a) Units acquired by TCW on or after the date of this Agreement, (b) Securities, Common Stock, Common Stock Equivalents, Preferred Units or Preferred Stock hereafter acquired by TCW, and (c) any securities of the Company issued with respect to the securities referred to in clause (a) or (b) above by way of a payment-in-kind, stock dividend, or stock split or in connection with a combination of shares, exchange, conversion, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or other reorganization, or otherwise.

 

30% Rule means those restrictions set out in Section 13 of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Regulations, SOR/99-190, that prohibit CPPIB from investing directly or indirectly in the securities of a corporation to which are attached more than 30% of the votes that may be cast to elect the directors of that corporation.

 

2015 Notes” means the 13.50% Senior Subordinated Notes due March 25, 2015, issued pursuant to that certain Purchase Agreement, dated as of March 25, 2008, by and among Opco and the guarantors and purchasers named therein.

 

Transfer” means (in either the noun or the verb form, including with respect to the verb form, all conjugations thereof, with correlative meaning) with respect to any security, the gift, sale, assignment, transfer, pledge, hypothecation or other disposition (whether for or without consideration, whether directly or indirectly, and whether voluntary, involuntary or by operation of law) of such Security or any interest therein.

 

Transaction Documents” means all agreements or other documents entered into on or prior to the Closing Date in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement, including, without limitation, (i) this Agreement, (ii) the LLC Agreement, (iii) the Management Agreement, (iv) the Management Stock Contribution and Unit Subscription Agreements entered into by and between the Company and certain officers of Opco in connection with the Acquisition; and (v) the Management Unit Subscription Agreements entered into by and between the Company and certain officer of Opco in connection with the grant of any awards under the Company’s 2008 Unit Incentive Plan.

 

Underwriter’s Maximum Number” has the meaning given to such term in Section 5.1(c).

 

Units” has the meaning set forth in the LLC Agreement.

 

Vestar” has the meaning set forth in the preface.

 

Vestar/RTI” has the meaning set forth in the preface.

 

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Vestar V” has the meaning set forth in the preface.

 

Vestar V-A” has the meaning set forth in the preface.

 

Vestar Demand Right” has the meaning given to such term in Section 5.1(a).

 

Vestar Managers” has the meaning given such term in Section 2.1(a)(iii).

 

Vestar Majority Holders” means the Person or Persons holding a majority of the Preferred Units or Preferred Stock and a majority of the Class A Units or Common Stock constituting Vestar Securities.

 

Vestar Preferred Units” means any Preferred Units held by Vestar, its Affiliates or any of their permitted assigns.

 

Vestar Securities” means (a) Units acquired by Vestar on or after the date of the Original Agreement, (b) Securities, Common Stock, Common Stock Equivalents, Preferred Units or Preferred Stock hereafter acquired by Vestar, and (c) any securities of the Company issued with respect to the securities referred to in clause (a) or (b) above by way of a payment-in-kind, stock dividend, or stock split or in connection with a combination of shares, exchange, conversion, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or other reorganization, or otherwise.

 

Warrant Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Subscription Agreement.

 

9.2                               Legends.

 

(a)                                 Securityholders Agreement.  Each certificate or instrument evidencing Company Securities and each certificate or instrument issued in exchange for or upon the Transfer of any such Company Securities (if such securities remain subject to this Agreement after such Transfer) shall be stamped or otherwise imprinted with a legend (as appropriately completed under the circumstances) in substantially the following form:

 

“THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE CONSTITUTE [“EMPLOYEE SECURITIES”] [“VESTAR SECURITIES”] [“TCW SECURITIES”] [“NYLIM SECURITIES”] UNDER A CERTAIN AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITYHOLDERS AGREEMENT DATED AS OF MARCH 25, 2008 AMONG THE ISSUER OF SUCH SECURITIES (THE “COMPANY”) AND CERTAIN OF THE COMPANY’S SECURITYHOLDERS AND, AS SUCH, ARE SUBJECT TO CERTAIN VOTING PROVISIONS, PURCHASE RIGHTS AND RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER SET FORTH IN THE SECURITYHOLDERS AGREEMENT.  A COPY OF SUCH SECURITYHOLDERS AGREEMENT WILL BE FURNISHED WITHOUT CHARGE BY THE COMPANY TO THE HOLDER HEREOF UPON WRITTEN REQUEST.”

 

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(b)                                 Restricted Securities.  Each instrument or certificate evidencing Securities and each instrument or certificate issued in exchange or upon the Transfer of any Securities shall be stamped or otherwise imprinted with a legend substantially in the following form:

 

“THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD UNLESS IT HAS BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR UNLESS AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE (AND, IN SUCH CASE, AN OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY SHALL HAVE BEEN DELIVERED TO THE COMPANY TO THE EFFECT THAT SUCH OFFER OR SALE IS NOT REQUIRED TO BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT).”

 

(c)                                  Removal of Legends.  Whenever in the opinion of the Company and counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Company (which opinion shall be delivered to the Company in writing) the restrictions described in any legend set forth above cease to be applicable to any Securities, the holder thereof shall be entitled to receive from the Company, without expense to the holder, a new instrument or certificate not bearing a legend stating such restriction.

 

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

 

9.4                               Entire Agreement.  Except as otherwise expressly set forth herein, this document embodies the complete agreement and understanding among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and preempts any prior understandings, agreements or representations by or among the parties, written or oral, which may have related to the subject matter hereof in any way, except that this Agreement shall not supersede the covenants and agreements set forth in Section 5.9 (Director and Officer Liability) of the Purchase Agreement, or in the Subscription Agreement which shall be incorporated herein by reference.

 

9.5                               Successors and Assigns.  Except as otherwise provided herein, this Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Company and its successors and assigns and the Securityholders and any subsequent holders of Securities and the respective successors and assigns of each of them, so long as they hold Securities.

 

9.6                               Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in separate counterparts (including by means of telecopy or electronically transmitted signature pages) each of which shall be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.

 

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9.7                               Remedies.  The Company and the Securityholders shall be entitled to enforce their rights under this Agreement specifically, to recover damages by reason of any breach of any provision of this Agreement (including costs of enforcement) and to exercise all other rights existing in their favor.  The parties hereto agree and acknowledge that money damages may not be an adequate remedy for any breach of the provisions of this Agreement and that the Company or any Securityholder may in its or his sole discretion apply to any court of law or equity of competent jurisdiction for specific performance or injunctive relief (without posting a bond or other security) in order to enforce or prevent any violation of the provisions of this Agreement.

 

9.8                               Further Assurances.  Each Person that is a party to this Agreement hereby agrees that such Person will vote, or cause to be voted, all voting securities of the Company, Holdings or Opco as applicable, over which such Person has the power to vote or direct the voting, and will take all other necessary or desirable action within such Person’s control, including by approving and causing the amendment of the certificate of incorporation of Holdings, to give effect to the provisions and carry out the purpose of this Agreement and the Certificate of Designations.

 

9.9                               Notices.  Any notice provided for in this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be either personally delivered, or mailed first class mail (postage prepaid) or sent by reputable overnight courier service (charges prepaid) to the Company at the address set forth below and to any other recipient at the address indicated on the Company’s records, or at such address or to the attention of such other person as the recipient party has specified by prior written notice to the sending party.  Notices will be deemed to have been given hereunder when sent by facsimile (receipt confirmed) delivered personally, five days after deposit in the U.S. mail and one day after deposit with a reputable overnight courier service.  The Company’s and Holdings’ address is:

 

c/o Vestar Capital Partners
245 Park Avenue, 41st Floor,
New York, NY 10167
Facsimile:
                                         (212) 880-4922
Attention:
                                         General Counsel

 

and to:

 

21st Century Oncology, Inc.
2270 Colonial Boulevard
Fort Myers, FL 33907
Facsimile:
                                         (516) 301-5778
Attention:
                                         General Counsel

 

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

 

Kirkland & Ellis LLP
601 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10022

 

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Facsimile:                                         (212) 446-6460
Attention:
                                         Michael Movsovich
                                                                                                Constantine Skarvelis

 

A copy of each notice given to the Company or Holdings shall be given to Vestar (and no notice to the Company or Holdings shall be effective until such copy is delivered to Vestar) at the following addresses:

 

Vestar Capital Partners V, L.P.
245 Park Avenue, 41st Floor
New York, New York 10167
Attention:
                                         General Counsel
Facsimile: (212) 808-4922

 

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

 

Kirkland & Ellis LLP
601 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10022
Attention:
                                         Michael Movsovich
                                                                                                Constantine Skarvelis
Facsimile: (212) 446-4900

 

and

 

21st Century Oncology Inc.
2234 Colonial Boulevard
Fort Myers, Florida 33907
Attention: Chief Executive Officer
Facsimile: (239) 931-7380

 

and

 

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
101 East Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 2800
Tampa, Florida 33602
Attn: Darrell C. Smith
Facsimile: (813) 229-1660

 

A copy of each notice given to the Company or Holdings shall also be given (and no notice to the Company or Holdings shall be effective until such copy is so given) to (i) CPPIB as long as it holds Securities at the following addresses and (ii) if CPPIB ceases to be the Majority Preferred Stockholder, to one or more representatives of the Majority Preferred Stockholders that may be designated at the time of CPPIB’s transfer to such party or parties:

 

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Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
One Queen Street East
Suite 2500
Toronto, ON
Canada
M5C 2W5
Facsimile:
                                         (416) 868-8690
Attention:
                                         Managing Director, Head of Relationship Investments

 

and to:

 

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
One Queen Street East
Suite 2500
Toronto, ON
Canada
M5C 2W5
Facsimile:
                                         (416) 868-4760
Attention:
                                         Senior Vice-President, General Counsel and
                                                                                                Corporate Secretary

 

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

 

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
919 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Facsimile:
                                         (212) 909-6836
Attention:
                                         Kevin M. Schmidt

 

A copy of each notice given to an Executive Holder, a TCW Holder or other Securityholder (other than Vestar) shall be delivered to the address as shown on the Unit or stockholder register of the Company or Holdings, as applicable.

 

9.10                        Governing Law.  The Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (and, following the conversion of the Company into a corporation or the Company being merged into, or otherwise succeeded by, a corporation, the relevant state corporation law) shall govern all questions arising under this Agreement concerning the relative rights of the Company and its stockholders.  All other questions concerning the construction, validity and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the domestic laws of the State of Delaware applicable to contracts made and to be performed in the State of Delaware.

 

9.11                        Arbitration of Valuation of Equivalent Cash Price.  If the Selling Security Holder and Vestar disagree in good faith with respect to the valuation of the equivalent cash price of the non-

 

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cash consideration delivered in connection with a Proposed Sale pursuant to Section 3.2(b) and have not resolved such disagreement within thirty (30) days after the date of receipt of notice of Vestar’s election to purchase all of the Employee Securities, all of the TCW Securities or all of the NYLIM Securities (as the case may be) covered by the Proposed Sale Notice under Section 3.2(b), an Arbiter selected by mutual agreement of the Selling Security Holder and Vestar shall make a determination of such valuation of the non-cash consideration component of the Proposed Sale solely by (i) reviewing a single written presentation (together with any supporting documentation) timely made by each of the Selling Security Holder and Vestar setting forth their respective valuations and the bases therefore and (ii) accepting either Vestar’s or the Selling Security Holder’s proposed valuation.  The fees and expenses incurred with respect to the Arbiter, as well as the reasonable out-of-pocket fees and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of one counsel and one accountant, appraiser or investment banking firm) incurred by or on behalf of the Selling Security Holder, shall be borne by the Company.  For purposes of this Section 9.11, the Company shall make available to the Vestar and the Selling Security Holder all data (including, without limitation, reports of employees and outside advisors) necessary to determine the valuation of the equivalent cash price of the non-cash consideration noted above, and other relevant data reasonably requested by the Vestar and the Selling Security Holder.

 

9.12                        Descriptive Headings.  The descriptive headings of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and do not constitute a part of this Agreement.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement on the day and year first above written.

 

 

21ST CENTURY ONCOLOGY INVESTMENTS, LLC

 

 

 

By:

/s/ James Elrod

 

Name:

James Elrod

 

Title:

President

 

 

 

21ST CENTURY ONCOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC.

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Daniel Dosoretz, M.D.

 

Name:

Daniel Dosoretz, M.D.

 

Title:

CEO

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

VESTAR CAPITAL PARTNERS V, L.P.

 

 

 

By: Vestar Associates V, L.P.,

 

Its General Partner

 

 

 

By: Vestar Managers V, Ltd.,

 

Its General Partner

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Steven Della Rocca

 

Its:

Authorized Signatory

 

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

VESTAR CAPITAL PARTNERS V-A, L.P.

 

 

 

By: Vestar Associates V, L.P.

 

Its: General Partner

 

 

 

By: Vestar Managers V Ltd.

 

Its: General Partner

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Steven Della Rocca

 

Its:

Authorized Signatory

 

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

VESTAR/RADIATION THERAPY INVESTMENTS, LLC

 

 

 

By: Vestar Managers V Ltd.

 

Its: General Partner

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Steven Della Rocca

 

Its:

Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

VESTAR HOLDINGS V, L.P.

 

 

 

By: Vestar Managers V Ltd.

 

Its: General Partner

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Steven Della Rocca

 

Its:

Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

VESTAR EXECUTIVES V, L.P.

 

 

 

By:

Vestar Associates V, L.P.

 

Its:

General Partner

 

 

 

By:

Vestar Managers V Ltd.

 

Its:

General Partner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Steven Della Rocca

 

Its:

Authorized Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

CANADA PENSION PLAN INVESTMENT BOARD

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Pierre Lavallée

 

 

Name: Pierre Lavallée

 

 

Title: Senior Managing Director & Chief Talent Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ R. Scott Lawrence

 

 

Name: R. Scott Lawrence

 

 

Title: Managing Director, Head of Relationship Investments

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

TCW/CRESCENT MEZZANINE PARTNERS V, L.P.

 

 

 

 

 

By: TCW/Crescent Mezzanine Management V, LLC

 

Its: Investment Manager

 

 

 

 

 

By: Crescent Capital Group LP, its sub-advisor

 

By: Crescent Capital GP LLC, its general partner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Tyrone Chang

 

 

 

Name:

Tyrone Chang

 

 

 

Title:

Managing Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Christopher G. Wright

 

 

 

Name:

Christopher G. Wright

 

 

 

Title:

Managing Director

 

 

 

 

 

TCW/CRESCENT MEZZANINE PARTNERS VB, L.P.

 

 

 

 

 

By: TCW/Crescent Mezzanine Management V, LLC

 

Its: Investment Manager

 

 

 

 

 

By: Crescent Capital Group LP, its sub-advisor

 

By: Crescent Capital GP LLC, its general partner

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Tyrone Chang

 

 

Name:

Tyrone Chang

 

 

Title:

Managing Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Christopher G. Wright

 

 

Name:

Christopher G. Wright

 

 

Title:

Managing Director

 

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

TCW/CRESCENT MEZZANINE PARTNERS VC, L.P.

 

 

 

By: TCW/Crescent Mezzanine Management V, LLC

 

Its: Investment Manager

 

 

 

By: Crescent Capital Group LP, its sub-advisor

 

By: Crescent Capital GP LLC, its general partner

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Tyrone Chang

 

 

 

Name: Tyrone Chang

 

 

 

Title: Managing Director

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Christopher G. Wright

 

 

Name: Christopher G. Wright

 

 

Title: Managing Director

 

 

 

MAC EQUITY HOLDINGS, LLC

 

 

 

By: MAC Capital, Ltd.

 

Its: Sole Member

 

 

 

By: TCW-WLA JV Venture LLC, its sub-advisor

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Spencer Chang

 

 

 

Name: Spencer Chang

 

 

 

Title: Vice President

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Amir Rao

 

 

Name: Amir Rao

 

 

Title: SVP

 

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

NEW YORK LIFE INVESTMENT

 

MANAGEMENT MEZZANINE PARTNERS II, LP

 

 

 

 

 

By: NYLIM Mezzanine Partners II GenPar, LP

 

Its: General Partner

 

 

 

 

 

By: NYLIM Mezzanine Partners II GenPar GP, LLC

 

Its: General Partner

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ James M. Barker, V

 

 

Name:

James M. Barker, V

 

 

Title:

Executive Vice President

 

 

 

 

 

 

NYLIM MEZZANINE PARTNERS II PARALLEL

 

FUND, LP

 

 

 

 

 

By: NYLIM Mezzanine Partners II GenPar, LP

 

Its: General Partner

 

 

 

 

 

By: NYLIM Mezzanine Partners II GenPar GP, LLC

 

Its: General Partner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ James M. Barker, V

 

 

Name: James M. Barker, V

 

 

Title: Executive Vice President

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

EMPLOYEE:

 

 

 

/s/ Joseph Biscardi

 

JOSEPH BISCARDI

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

EMPLOYEE:

 

 

 

/s/ Betty Rubenstein

 

JAMES RUBENSTEIN (VIA

 

BETTY RUBENSTEIN)

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

EMPLOYEE:

 

 

 

HOWARD M. SHERIDAN

 

2013 GRANTOR RETAINED

 

ANNUITY TRUST

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Howard M. Sheridan

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

EMPLOYEE:

 

 

 

HOWARD M. SHERIDAN

 

2012 GRANTOR RETAINED

 

ANNUITY TRUST

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Howard M. Sheridan

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

EMPLOYEE:

 

 

 

DANIEL E. DOSORETZ 2013

 

GRANTOR RETAINED ANNUITY

 

TRUST

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Daniel Dosoretz, M.D.

 

Name:

Daniel Dosoretz, M.D.

 

Title:

CEO

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

EMPLOYEE:

 

 

 

DANIEL E. DOSORETZ 2012

 

GRANTOR RETAINED ANNUITY

 

TRUST

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Daniel Dosoretz, M.D.

 

Name:

Daniel Dosoretz, M.D.

 

Title:

CEO

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

EMPLOYEE:

 

 

 

BETTY S. RUBENSTEIN, AS

 

CUSTODIAN FOR SHAINA J.

 

RUBENSTEIN UNDER THE

 

FLORIDA TRANSFERS TO

 

MINORS ACT

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Betty S. Rubenstein

 

Name:

 

 

Title:

 

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

EMPLOYEE:

 

 

 

/s/ Howard M. Sheridan

 

HOWARD M. SHERIDAN

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

 

EMPLOYEE:

 

 

 

/s/ Kurt Janavitz

 

KURT JANAVITZ

 

[Signature Page to Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement]

 



 

EXHIBIT A

 

Executive Holders

 

1.              Daniel E. Dosoretz 2013 Grantor Retained Annuity Trust

2.              Daniel E. Dosoretz 2012 Grantor Retained Annuity Trust

3.              James Rubenstein (via Betty Rubenstein)

4.              Howard M. Sheridan 2013 Grantor Retained Annuity Trust

5.              Howard M. Sheridan 2012 Grantor Retained Annuity Trust

6.              Michael J. Katin 2013 Grantor Retained Annuity Trust

7.              Michael J. Katin 2012 Grantor Retained Annuity Trust

8.              Norton Travis

9.              Madlyn Dornaus

10.       Daniel H. Galmarini 2013 Grantor Retained Annuity Trust

11.       Daniel H. Galmarini 2012 Grantor Retained Annuity Trust

12.       Bruce M. Nakfoor, Jr. 2013 Grantor Retained Annuity Trust

13.       Brust M. Nakfoor, Jr. 2012 Grantor Retained Annuity Trust

14.       Eduardo Fernandez & A. Guckes

15.       Connie Mantz

16.       James W. Orr

17.       Hugo Myslicki

18.       Steve Patrice

19.       Quinten Black

20.       John Miksa (via Valeri Dyke)

21.       Keith Miller

22.       Larry Silverman

23.       Ricardo Andisco

24.       James Eaton

25.       Andrew Woods

26.       Margarita Suarez

2T.      David Watson

28.       Kerry Gillespie

29.       Alex Dosoretz

30.       Joseph Garcia

31.       Bryan J. Carey

 




Exhibit 10.4

 

(EXECUTION COPY)

 


 

21ST CENTURY ONCOLOGY INVESTMENTS, LLC

 

A Delaware Limited Liability Company

 


 

FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED

 

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT

 

Effective as of September 26, 2014

 

THE COMPANY INTERESTS REPRESENTED BY THIS FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR UNDER ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS.  SUCH INTERESTS MAY NOT BE SOLD, ASSIGNED, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF AT ANY TIME WITHOUT EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION UNDER SUCH ACT AND LAWS OR EXEMPTION THEREFROM, AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE OTHER SUBSTANTIAL RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFERABILITY SET FORTH HEREIN.

 

THE COMPANY INTERESTS REPRESENTED BY THIS FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT ARE ALSO SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER SPECIFIED IN THE SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITYHOLDERS AGREEMENT, DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 26, 2014, BY AND AMONG THE COMPANY AND CERTAIN INVESTORS, AS AMENDED OR MODIFIED FROM TIME TO TIME, AND THE COMPANY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REFUSE THE TRANSFER OF SUCH INTERESTS UNTIL SUCH TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH SUCH SECURITYHOLDERS AGREEMENT.  A COPY OF THE SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITYHOLDERS AGREEMENT SHALL BE FURNISHED BY THE COMPANY TO THE HOLDER OF SUCH INTERESTS UPON WRITTEN REQUEST AND WITHOUT CHARGE.

 



 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

Page

 

 

 

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS

2

Section 1.1

Definitions

2

Section 1.2

Terms Generally

13

ARTICLE II GENERAL PROVISIONS

14

Section 2.1

Formation

14

Section 2.2

Name

14

Section 2.3

Term

14

Section 2.4

Purpose; Powers

14

Section 2.5

Foreign Qualification

15

Section 2.6

Registered Office; Registered Agent; Principal Office; Other Offices

15

Section 2.7

No State-Law Partnership

15

ARTICLE III CAPITALIZATION; REDEMPTION RIGHTS

15

Section 3.1

Units; Initial Capitalization; Schedules

15

Section 3.2

Authorization and Issuance of Additional Units

16

Section 3.3

Authorization and Issuance of the Incentive Units; Service Providers

16

Section 3.4

Capital Accounts

17

Section 3.5

Negative Capital Accounts

18

Section 3.6

No Withdrawal

18

Section 3.7

Loans From Unitholders

18

Section 3.8

No Right of Partition

18

Section 3.9

Non-Certification of Units; Legend; Units Are Securities

18

ARTICLE IV DISTRIBUTIONS

19

Section 4.1

Distributions; Priority

19

Section 4.2

Priority over Form of Consideration

20

Section 4.3

Successors

20

Section 4.4

Tax Distributions

20

Section 4.5

Security Interest and Right of Set-Off

21

Section 4.6

Certain Distributions

21

ARTICLE V ALLOCATIONS

21

Section 5.1

Allocations

21

Section 5.2

Special Allocations

22

Section 5.3

Tax Allocations

22

Section 5.4

Unitholders’ Tax Reporting

23

Section 5.5

Indemnification and Reimbursement for Payments on Behalf of a Unitholder

23

ARTICLE VI MANAGEMENT

24

Section 6.1

The Board of Managers; Delegation of Authority and Duties

24

Section 6.2

Establishment of Board of Managers

25

Section 6.3

Board of Managers Meetings

27

 



 

 

 

Page

 

 

 

Section 6.4

Chairman and Vice Chairman

28

Section 6.5

Approval or Ratification of Acts or Contracts

29

Section 6.6

Action by Written Consent

29

Section 6.7

Meetings by Telephone Conference or Similar Measures

29

Section 6.8

Officers

29

Section 6.9

Management Matters

30

Section 6.10

Consent Rights

30

Section 6.11

Securities in Subsidiaries

30

Section 6.12

Liability of Unitholders

31

Section 6.13

Indemnification by the Company

31

ARTICLE VII WITHDRAWAL; DISSOLUTION; TRANSFER OF MEMBERSHIP INTERESTS; ADMISSION OF NEW MEMBERS

32

Section 7.1

Unitholder Withdrawal

32

Section 7.2

Dissolution

32

Section 7.3

Transfer by Unitholders

33

Section 7.4

Admission or Substitution of New Members

33

Section 7.5

Compliance with Law

34

Section 7.6

Public Offering

34

ARTICLE VIII BOOKS AND RECORDS; FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND OTHER INFORMATION; TAX MATTERS

35

Section 8.1

Books and Records; Management Interviews

35

Section 8.2

Financial Statements and Other Information

36

Section 8.3

Fiscal Year; Taxable Year

37

Section 8.4

Certain Tax Matters

37

ARTICLE IX MISCELLANEOUS

39

Section 9.1

Schedules

39

Section 9.2

Governing Law

39

Section 9.3

Successors and Assigns

39

Section 9.4

Confidentiality

39

Section 9.5

Amendments

39

Section 9.6

Notices

40

Section 9.7

Counterparts

41

Section 9.8

Power of Attorney

41

Section 9.9

Entire Agreement

41

Section 9.10

Arbitration

41

Section 9.11

Waiver of Jury Trial

42

Section 9.12

Severability

42

Section 9.13

Creditors

42

Section 9.14

Waiver

42

Section 9.15

Further Action

42

Section 9.16

Delivery by Facsimile or Email

42

 

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Page

 

 

 

SCHEDULES AND EXHIBITS

 

 

 

Schedule A

Schedule of Units

 

Schedule B

Schedule of Members

 

 

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EXECUTION VERSION

 

FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT
OF
21
ST CENTURY ONCOLOGY INVESTMENTS, LLC
A Delaware Limited Liability Company

 

This FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT of 21st Century Investments, LLC (f/k/a Radiation Therapy Investments LLC), a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”), dated and effective as of September 26, 2014 (this “Agreement”), is approved and adopted by the Board of Managers of the Company on the date hereof with consent of the Vestar Majority Holders and Members in accordance with Section 9.5 of the Prior Agreement (as defined below).  Any reference in this Agreement to Vestar or any other Member shall include such Member’s Successors in Interest, to the extent such Successors in Interest have become Substituted Members in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.

 

WHEREAS, the Company was formed as a limited liability company pursuant to the Act by the filing of its Certificate of Formation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on October 9, 2007;

 

WHEREAS, the Company executed and delivered that certain Limited Liability Company Agreement of the Company on October 10, 2007;

 

WHEREAS, on February 21, 2008, pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of October 19, 2007, by and among 21st Century Oncology, Inc. (f/k/a Radiation Therapy Services, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (“Opco”), 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (formerly known as Radiation Therapy Services Holdings, Inc. “Holdings”), RTS MergerCo, Inc., a Florida corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Holdings (“Merger Sub”), and the Company (solely for purpose of Section 7.2 thereof), (i) Merger Sub merged with and into Opco, with Opco surviving as a direct wholly-owned Subsidiary of Radiation Therapy Services Holdings, Inc. (the “Parent”), and (ii) certain Management Members either contributed common stock of Opco to the Company or invested cash in the Company, in each case, in exchange for Preferred Units and Class A Units of the Company pursuant to certain Management Stock Contribution and Unit Subscription Agreements (the “Contribution Agreements”);

 

WHEREAS, the Company and its Members entered into a Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement on March 25, 2008;

 

WHEREAS, the Company and its Members entered into a Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement on June 11, 2012;

 

WHEREAS, the Company and its Members entered into a Fourth Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement on December 9, 2013 (as amended by the First Amendment (as defined below), the “Prior Agreement”);

 

WHEREAS, the Board of Managers of the Company, with the consent of the Vestar Group Majority Holders, approved and adopted Amendment N. 1 to the Prior Agreement on July 28, 2014 (the “First Amendment”);

 

WHEREAS, Section 9.5 of the Prior Agreement provides that the Board of Managers shall have the right to amend or modify the Prior Agreement, except that if (i) an amendment or modification changes the order of priority of distributions to any class of Units relative to any other class of then

 



 

outstanding Units, then such class of Members, by majority vote, must approve such amendment or modification or (ii) an amendment changes the rights of the holders of the same class of Units to share ratably in distributions of such class, then the Members so differently treated must approve such amendment or modification;

 

WHEREAS, Section 6.10(b) of the Prior Agreement provides that the Board of Managers shall not, without the prior written consent of the Vestar Group Majority Holders, amend the organizational documents of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including the Prior Agreement;

 

WHEREAS, on the date of this Agreement, Holdings is issuing shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Convertible Preferred Stock”);

 

WHEREAS, as a condition to the purchase of the Convertible Preferred Stock, the initial purchaser thereof, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, is requiring that the Prior Agreement be amended and restated to recognize modifications to governance, approval and liquidity rights applicable to the Company and its subsidiaries from and after the issuance of the Convertible Preferred Stock; and

 

WHEREAS, the Vestar Majority Holders have consented to the amendment of the Prior Agreement as provided herein.

 

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein, the parties hereto, each intending to be legally bound, agree that the Prior Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

 

ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS

 

Section 1.1                                    Definitions.

 

Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the following meanings for purposes of this Agreement:

 

30% Rule” means those restrictions set out in section 13 of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Regulations, SOR/99-190, that prohibit CPPIB from investing directly or indirectly in the securities of a corporation to which are attached more than 30% of the votes that may be cast to elect the directors of that corporation.

 

AAA” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.10(a).

 

Act” means the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, 6 Del. L. Sections 18-101 et seq., as it may be amended from time to time, and any successor to the Act.

 

Additional Member” means any Person that has been admitted to the Company as a Member pursuant to Section 7.4 by virtue of having received its Membership Interest from the Company and not from any other Member or Assignee.

 

Adjusted Capital Account Deficit” means, with respect to any Person’s Capital Account as of the end of any taxable year, the amount by which the balance in such Capital Account is less than zero.  For this purpose, such Capital Account balance shall be (i) reduced for any items described in Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d)(4), (5) and (6), and (ii) increased for any amount such Person is obligated to contribute or is treated as being obligated to contribute to the Company pursuant to Regulations Section

 

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1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(c) (relating to partner liabilities to a partnership) or Regulations Sections 1.704-2(g)(1) and 1.704-2(i) (relating to minimum gain).

 

Affiliate” when used with reference to another Person means any Person (other than the Company), directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, such other Person.  In addition, Affiliates of a Member shall include all partners, officers, directors, employees and former partners, officers and employees of, all consultants or advisors to, and all other Persons who directly or indirectly receive compensation from, such Member.

 

Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

 

Assignee” means any Transferee to which a Member or another Assignee has Transferred all or any portion of its interest in the Company in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, but that is not a Member.

 

Assumed Tax Rate” means, for any taxable year, the highest marginal effective rate of federal, state and local income tax applicable to an individual resident in New York, New York (or, if higher, a corporation doing business in New York, New York), taking account of any differences in rates applicable to ordinary income, dividends and capital gains and any allowable deductions in respect of such state and local taxes in computing a Member’s liability for federal income tax; provided that the Assumed Tax Rate for ordinary income initially shall be set at 45 percent, with the right of the Vestar Majority Holders to request, by written notice to the Company, a recomputation of the Assumed Tax Rate, which recomputation shall remain in effect until such time as the Vestar Majority Holders request a subsequent recomputation.

 

Bankruptcy” means, with respect to any Person, the occurrence of any of the following events: (i) the filing of an application by such Person for, or a consent to, the appointment of a trustee or custodian of such Person’s assets; (ii) the filing by such Person of a voluntary petition in Bankruptcy or the seeking of relief under Title 11 of the United States Code, as now constituted or hereafter amended, or the filing of a pleading in any court of record admitting in writing such Person’s inability to pay its debts as they become due; (iii) the failure of such Person to pay its debts as such debts become due; (iv) the making by such Person of a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; (v) the filing by such Person of an answer admitting the material allegations of, or such Person’s consenting to, or defaulting in answering, a Bankruptcy petition filed against him in any Bankruptcy proceeding or petition seeking relief under Title 11 of the United States Code, as now constituted or as hereafter amended; or (vi) the entry of an order, judgment or decree by any court of competent jurisdiction adjudicating such Person a bankrupt or insolvent or for relief in respect of such Person or appointing a trustee or custodian of such Person’s assets and the continuance of such order, judgment or decree unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive calendar days.

 

Board of Managers” means the Board of Managers established pursuant to Section 6.2(a).

 

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

 

Capital Account” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.4(a).

 

Capital Contributions” means the amount of any cash or cash equivalents, or the Fair Market Value of other property, that a Member contributes (or is deemed by the Company to contribute) to the Company with respect to any Unit or other Equity Securities issued pursuant to Article III (net of liabilities assumed by the Company or to which such property is subject).

 

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CEO” means the Chief Executive Officer of the Company.

 

Certificate” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1.

 

Certificate of Designations” has the meaning set forth in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

CFO” means the Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

 

Change of Control” has the meaning set forth in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

Class A Members” means the Members holding Class A Units.

 

Class A Unitholders” means the Unitholders holding an Economic Interest in Class A Units.

 

Class A Units” means the Units having the rights and obligations specified with respect to Class A Units in this Agreement.

 

Class G Unitholders” means the Unitholders holding an Economic Interest in Class G Units.

 

Class G Units” means the Units having the rights and obligations specified with respect to Class G Units in this Agreement.

 

Class M Unitholders” means the Unitholders holding an Economic Interest in Class M Units.

 

Class M Units” means the Units having the rights and obligations specified with respect to Class M Units in this Agreement.

 

Class MEP Fraction” means, as of any date of determination, the lesser of (A) one and (B) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of Class MEP Units outstanding at the date of any such determination and the denominator of which is the number of Class MEP Units authorized at the date of any such determination, as each of the numerator and denominator may be adjusted in the event of a recapitalization, split, dividend or other reclassification affecting the Class MEP Units.

 

Class MEP Unitholders” means the Unitholders holding an Economic Interest in Class MEP Units.

 

Class MEP Units” means the Units having the rights and obligations specified with respect to Class MEP Units in this Agreement.

 

Class N Unitholders” means the Unitholders holding an Economic Interest in Class N Units.

 

Class N Units” means the Units having the rights and obligations specified with respect to Class N Units in this Agreement.

 

Class O Unitholders” means the Unitholders holding an Economic Interest in Class O Units.

 

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Class O Units” means the Units having the rights and obligations specified with respect to Class O Units in this Agreement.

 

Code” means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, or any successor statute.  Any reference herein to a particular provision of the Code shall mean, where appropriate, the corresponding provision in any successor statute.

 

Common Stock” has the meaning set forth in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

Company” has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

 

Company Minimum Gain” has the meaning set forth for the term “partnership minimum gain” in Regulations Section 1.704-2(d).

 

Company Sale” shall mean the dissolution of the Company in accordance with this Agreement or the consummation of a transaction, whether in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions that are consummated contemporaneously (or consummated pursuant to contemporaneous agreements), with any other Person or group of related Persons (other than Vestar) on an arm’s-length basis, pursuant to which such Person or group of related Persons (i) acquires (whether by merger, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization, redemption, issuance of capital stock or otherwise) more than 50 percent of (A) the Company’s Units or (B) the total number of shares of Opco or Parent’s common stock outstanding (in each case assuming that all Equity Securities convertible into or exercisable for the Company’s Units or for shares of common stock of Opco or Parent have been so converted or exercised), or (ii) acquires assets constituting all or substantially all of the assets of the Company’s Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis; provided that in no event shall a Company Sale be deemed to include any transaction effected for the purpose of (x) changing, directly or indirectly, the form of organization or the organizational structure of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (y) contributing Equity Securities to entities controlled by the Company or (z) issuing the Convertible Preferred Stock or (ii) any Company Sale as defined in the Certificate of Designations.

 

Compensation Committee” means the compensation committee of the Board of Managers, if any.  For the avoidance of doubt, if no Compensation Committee has been formed by the Board of Managers (or if the Compensation Committee has been dissolved by the Board of Managers), then all actions and decisions permitted or required to be taken by the Compensation Committee hereunder shall be taken by the Board of Managers.

 

Control” means, when used with reference to any Person, the power to direct the management or Policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, by or through stock or other equity ownership, agency or otherwise, or pursuant to or in connection with an agreement, arrangement or other understanding (written or oral); the terms “controlling” and “controlled” shall have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

 

Contribution Agreements” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereof.

 

Convertible Preferred Stock” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereof.

 

Convertible Preferred Stockholders” has the meaning set forth in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

CPPIB” means the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board established under the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act, S.C. 1997, c. 40.

 

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CPPIB Entity” means CPPIB and any Subsidiary thereof, as that term is defined in the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act.

 

Default Event” has the meaning set forth in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

Depreciation” means, for each Fiscal Year or other period, an amount equal to the depreciation, amortization or other cost recovery deduction allowable for federal income tax purposes with respect to an asset for such year or other period, except that if the Gross Asset Value of an asset differs from its adjusted basis for federal income tax purposes at the beginning of such year or other period, then Depreciation shall be an amount that bears the same ratio to such beginning Gross Asset Value as the federal income tax depreciation, amortization or other cost recovery deduction for such year or other period bears to such beginning adjusted tax basis; provided, however, that if the federal income tax depreciation, amortization or other cost recovery deduction for such year is zero, then Depreciation shall be calculated with reference to such beginning Gross Asset Value using any reasonable method selected by the Board of Managers.

 

Distributable Assets” means, with respect to any fiscal period, all cash receipts of the Company (including from any operating, investing and financing activities) and, if distribution thereof is determined to be necessary or desirable by a majority of the Board of Managers, other assets of the Company from any and all sources, reduced by cash operating expenses, contributions of capital to Subsidiaries of the Company and payments (if any) required to be made in connection with any loan to the Company, including any reserve for contingencies or escrow required, in each case, as is determined in Good Faith by the Board of Managers.

 

Economic Interest” means a Member’s or Assignee’s share of the Company’s net profits, net losses and distributions pursuant to this Agreement and the Act, but shall not include any right to participate in the management or affairs of the Company, including the right to vote in the election of Managers, vote on, consent to or otherwise participate in any decision of the Members or Managers, or any right to receive information concerning the business and affairs of the Company, in each case, except as expressly otherwise provided in this Agreement or required by the Act.

 

Equity Securities” means, as applicable, (i) any capital stock, membership interests or other share capital, (ii) any securities directly or indirectly convertible into or exchangeable for any capital stock, membership interests or other share capital or containing any profit participation features, (iii) any rights or options directly or indirectly to subscribe for or to purchase any capital stock, membership interests, other share capital or securities containing any profit participation features or to subscribe for or to purchase any securities directly or indirectly convertible into or exchangeable for any capital stock, membership interests, other share capital or securities containing any profit participation features, (iv) any share appreciation rights, phantom share rights or other similar rights, or (v) any Equity Securities issued or issuable with respect to the securities referred to in clauses (i) through (iv) above in connection with a combination of shares, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or other reorganization.

 

Executive Committee” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.1(c).

 

Exempt Employee Transfer” has the meaning set forth for such term in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

Exempt Individual Transfer” has the meaning set forth for such term in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

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Exempt NYLIM Transfer” has the meaning set forth for such term in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

Exempt TCW Transfer” has the meaning set forth for such term in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

Fair Market Value” means, with respect to any asset or securities, the fair market value for such assets or securities as between a willing buyer and a willing seller in an arm’s length transaction occurring on the date of valuation, taking into account all relevant factors determinative of value, as is determined in Good Faith by the Board of Managers, and subject to the approval of the Vestar Majority Holders.

 

Fiscal Quarter” means each fiscal quarter of the Company and its Subsidiaries, ending on the last day of each of March, June, September and December of any Fiscal Year.

 

Fiscal Year” means the fiscal year of the Company and its Subsidiaries, ending on December 31 of each calendar year.

 

Floor Amount” means, as to each class of Incentive Unit, the amount that would be distributable to the Unitholders with respect to each such class of Incentive Unit pursuant to Section 4.1 in a hypothetical transaction in which the Company sold all of its assets for Fair Market Value and distributed the proceeds therefrom in liquidation of the Company pursuant to Article VII (as determined immediately prior to the issuance of such Incentive Units and all other Incentive Units of the same class that were issued as part of the same issuance).  The Floor Amount for each Class MEP Unit issued on June 11, 2012 is equal to zero.

 

Fund Indemnitors” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.13.

 

GAAP” means accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, consistently applied and maintained throughout the applicable periods.

 

Good Faith” shall mean a Person having acted in good faith and in a manner such Person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and, with respect to a criminal proceeding, having had no reasonable cause to believe such Person’s conduct was unlawful.

 

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

 

Gross Asset Value” means, with respect to any asset, the asset’s adjusted basis for federal income tax purposes, except as follows:

 

(i)                                     The initial Gross Asset Value of any asset contributed by a Unitholder to the Company shall be the gross Fair Market Value of such asset on the date of the contribution.

 

(ii)                                  The Gross Asset Values of all Company assets shall be adjusted to equal their respective gross Fair Market Values as of the following times:

 

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(A)                         the acquisition of an additional interest in the Company after February 21, 2008 by a new or existing Unitholder in exchange for more than a de minimis Capital Contribution, if the Board of Managers reasonably determines that such adjustment is necessary or appropriate to reflect the relative Economic Interests of the Unitholders in the Company;

 

(B)                         the grant of an interest in the Company (other than a de minimis interest) as consideration for the provision of services to or for the benefit of the Company by an existing or a new Member acting in a partner capacity or in anticipation of becoming a partner;

 

(C)                         the distribution by the Company to a Unitholder of more than a de minimis amount of Company property as consideration for an interest in the Company, if the Board of Managers reasonably determine that such adjustment is necessary or appropriate to reflect the relative Economic Interests of the Unitholders in the Company;

 

(D)                         the liquidation of the Company within the meaning of Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(g); and

 

(E)                          such other times as the Board of Managers shall reasonably determine to be necessary or advisable in order to comply with Regulations promulgated under Subchapter K of Chapter 1 of the Code.

 

(iii)                               The Gross Asset Value of any Company asset distributed to a Unitholder shall be the gross Fair Market Value of such asset on the date of distribution.

 

(iv)                              The Gross Asset Values of Company assets shall be increased (or decreased) to reflect any adjustments to the adjusted basis of such assets pursuant to Section 734(b) or Section 743(b) of the Code, but only to the extent that such adjustments are taken into account in determining Capital Accounts pursuant to Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(m); provided, however, that Gross Asset Values shall not be adjusted pursuant to this subparagraph (iv) to the extent that the Board of Managers determine that an adjustment pursuant to subparagraph (ii) of this definition of Gross Asset Value is necessary or appropriate in connection with a transaction that would otherwise result in an adjustment pursuant to this subparagraph (iv).

 

(v)                                 With respect to any asset that has a Gross Asset Value that differs from its adjusted tax basis, Gross Asset Value shall be adjusted by the amount of Depreciation rather than any other depreciation, amortization or other cost recovery method.

 

Group Entity” means the Company, Holdings and each of their respective subsidiaries.

 

HSR Act” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.2(f).

 

Income” means individual items of Company income and gain determined in accordance with the definitions of Net Income and Net Loss.

 

Incentive Units” means, as applicable, the Class G Units, the Class M Units, the Class MEP Units, the Class N Units and the Class O Units, and any other class of Units the Company authorizes after the date hereof that are intended to constitute a “profits interest” in the Company within the meaning of Revenue Procedure 93-27, 1993-2 C.B. 343, or any successor Internal Revenue Service or Treasury

 

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Department regulation or other pronouncement applicable at the date of issuance of such Incentive Units, as the case may be.

 

Initial Issuance Date” means February 21, 2008.

 

IPO Consideration” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.6(b).

 

Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, lien or charge of any kind (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement or lease in the nature thereof), any sale of receivables with recourse against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any filing or agreement to file a financing statement as a debtor under the Uniform Commercial Code or any similar statute other than to reflect ownership by a third party of property leased to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under a lease that is not in the nature of a conditional sale or title retention agreement.

 

Loss” means individual items of Company loss and deduction determined in accordance with the definitions of Net Income and Net Loss.

 

Majority Preferred Stockholders” has the meaning set forth in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

Management Grant Agreements” means each executive grant agreement between the Company and a Management Member granting Incentive Units.

 

Management Member” means any Member that is an employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

Manager” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.2(a).

 

Member” means Vestar, the other Persons listed on Schedule B attached hereto and each other Person who is hereafter admitted as a Member in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Act.  The Members shall constitute the “members” (as such term is defined in the Act) of the Company.  Except as otherwise set forth herein or in the Act, the Members shall constitute a single class or group of members of the Company for all purposes of the Act and this Agreement.

 

Member Minimum Gain” means minimum gain attributable to Member Nonrecourse Debt determined in accordance with Regulations Section 1.704-2(i).

 

Member Nonrecourse Debt” has the meaning set forth for the term “partner nonrecourse debt” in Regulations Section 1.704-2 (b)(4).

 

Member Nonrecourse Deduction” has the meaning set forth for the term “partner nonrecourse deduction” in Regulations Section 1.704-2(i)(2).

 

Membership Interest” means, with respect to each Member, such Member’s Economic Interest and rights as a Member.

 

Merger Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereof.

 

Merger Sub” has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

 

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Net Income” or “Net Loss” means, for each Fiscal Year or other period, an amount equal to the Company’s taxable income or loss for such Fiscal Year or other period, determined in accordance with Section 703(a) of the Code (for this purpose, all items of income, gain, loss or deduction required to be stated separately pursuant to Section 703(a)(1) of the Code shall be included in such taxable income or loss), with the following adjustments:

 

(i)                                     any income of the Company that is exempt from federal income tax and not otherwise taken into account in computing Net Income or Net Loss pursuant to this definition of Net Income or Net Loss shall be added to such taxable income or loss;

 

(ii)                                  any expenditures of the Company described in Section 705(a)(2)(B) of the Code or treated as Section 705(a)(2) (B) of the Code expenditures pursuant to Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(i), and not otherwise taken into account in computing Net Income or Net Loss pursuant to this definition of Net Income or Net Loss shall be subtracted from such taxable income or loss;

 

(iii)                               in the event the Gross Asset Value of any Company asset is adjusted pursuant to subparagraph (ii) or (iii) of the definition of Gross Asset Value, the amount of such adjustment shall be taken into account as gain (if the adjustment increases the Gross Asset Value of the asset) or loss (if the adjustment decreases the Gross Asset Value of the asset) from the disposition of such asset for purposes of computing Net Income or Net Loss;

 

(iv)                              gain or loss resulting from any disposition of property with respect to which gain or loss is recognized for federal income tax purposes shall be computed by reference to the Gross Asset Value of the property disposed of, notwithstanding that the adjusted tax basis of such property differs from its Gross Asset Value;

 

(v)                                 in lieu of the depreciation, amortization, and other cost recovery deductions taken into account in computing such taxable income or loss, Depreciation shall be taken into account for such Fiscal Year or other period;

 

(vi)                              to the extent an adjustment to the adjusted tax basis of any Company asset pursuant to Section 734(b) or 743(b) of the Code is required pursuant to Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(m) to be taken into account in determining Capital Accounts as a result of a distribution other than in liquidation of a Unitholder’s interest in the Company, the amount of such adjustment shall be treated as an item of gain (if the adjustment increases the basis of the asset) or loss (if the adjustment decreases the basis of the asset) from the disposition of the asset and shall be taken into account for purposes of computing Net Income or Net Loss; and

 

(vii)                           notwithstanding any other provision of this definition of Net Income or Net Loss, any items that are specially allocated pursuant to Section 5.2 shall not be taken into account in computing Net Income or Net Loss.  The amounts of the items of Income or Loss available to be specially allocated pursuant to Section 5.2 shall be determined by applying rules analogous to those set forth in this definition of Net Income or Net Loss.

 

Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.3(c).

 

Officer” means each Person designated as an officer of the Company pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.8, subject to any resolution of the Board of Managers appointing such Person as an officer or relating to such appointment.

 

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Other Business” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.2(b)(iii).

 

Parent” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereof.

 

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

 

Preferred Member” means the Members holding Preferred Units.

 

Preferred Unitholders” means the Unitholders holding an Economic Interest in Preferred Units.

 

Preferred Units” means the Units having the rights and obligations specified with respect to Preferred Units in this Agreement.

 

Prior Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereof.

 

Proceeding” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.13.

 

Public Offering” has the meaning set forth for such term in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

Qualified IPO” has the meaning set forth in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

Qualified Merger” has the meaning set forth in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

Recapitalization” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.6(a).”Opco” has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereof.

 

Regulations” means the regulations, including temporary regulations, promulgated by the United States Treasury Department under the Code, as such regulations may be amended from time to time (including corresponding provisions of succeeding regulations).

 

Regulatory Allocations” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.2(e).

 

Securities” means any debt securities or Equity Securities of any issuer, including common and preferred stock and interests in limited liability companies (including warrants, rights, put and call options and other options relating thereto or any combination thereof), notes, bonds, debentures, trust receipts and other obligations, instruments or evidences of indebtedness, other property or interests commonly regarded as securities, interests in real property, whether improved or unimproved, interests in oil and gas properties and mineral properties, short-term investments commonly regarded as money market investments, bank deposits and interests in personal property of all kinds, whether tangible or intangible.

 

Securityholders Agreement” means that certain Second Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement, dated as of the date hereof.

 

Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or business entity of which (i) if a corporation, a majority of the total voting power of shares of stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that

 

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Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof, or (ii) if a limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity (other than a corporation), a majority of partnership or other similar ownership interest thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by any Person or one or more Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof.  For purposes hereof, a Person or Persons shall be deemed to have a majority ownership interest in a limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity (other than a corporation) if such Person or Persons shall be allocated a majority of limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity gains or losses or shall be or control any managing director or general partner of such limited liability company, partnership, association or other business entity.  For purposes hereof, references to a “Subsidiary” of any Person shall be given effect only at such times that such Person has one or more Subsidiaries and, unless otherwise indicated, the term “Subsidiary” refers to a Subsidiary of the Company.

 

Substituted Member” means any Person that has been admitted to the Company as a Member pursuant to Section 7.4 by virtue of such Person receiving all or a portion of a Membership Interest from a Member or its Assignee and not from the Company.

 

Successor in Interest” means any (i) trustee, custodian, receiver or other Person acting in any Bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding with respect to, (ii) assignee for the benefit of the creditors of, (iii) trustee or receiver, or current or former officer, director or partner, or other fiduciary acting for or with respect to the dissolution, liquidation or termination of, or (iv) other executor, administrator, committee, legal representative or other successor or assign of, any Unitholder, whether by operation of law or otherwise.

 

Tax Distribution” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.4.

 

Tax Matters Member” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.4(d).

 

Transfer” means any sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, mortgage, exchange, hypothecation, grant of a security interest or other direct or indirect disposition or encumbrance of an interest (whether with or without consideration, whether voluntarily or involuntarily or by operation of law).  The terms “Transferee,” “Transferor,” “Transferred,” and other forms of the word “Transfer” shall have the correlative meanings.

 

Unit” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(a).

 

Unitholder” means a Member or Assignee that holds an Economic Interest in any of the Units.

 

Unreturned Class A Capital” means, with respect to each Class A Unitholder, the excess, if any, of (i) such Unitholder’s aggregate Capital Contributions made in exchange for or on account of its Class A Units, over (ii) the aggregate amount of all distributions made to such Unitholder pursuant to Section 4.1(e)(i) and Section 4.1(f)(ii).

 

Unreturned Class MEP Capital” means, with respect to each Class MEP Unitholder, the excess, if any, of (i) such Unitholder’s aggregate Capital Contributions made in exchange for or on account of its Class MEP Units, over (ii) the aggregate amount of all distributions made to such Unitholder pursuant to Section 4.1(g)(ii).

 

Unreturned Preferred Capital” means, with respect to each Preferred Unitholder, the excess, if any, of (i) such Unitholder’s aggregate Capital Contributions made in exchange for or on account

 

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of its Preferred Units, over (ii) the aggregate amount of all distributions made to such Unitholder pursuant to or in accordance with Section 4.1(a), Section 4.1(b)(i) and Section 4.1(c)(i).

 

Vestar” means Vestar Capital Partners V-A, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership, Vestar Executive V, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership, Vestar Holdings V, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership, Vestar V and Vestar/RTS.

 

Vestar Group” means, collectively, Vestar V, Vestar/RTS and their respective Affiliates.

 

Vestar Group Majority” means the holders of a majority of the Units then held by members of the Vestar Group.

 

Vestar Majority Holders” means, at any time, the Members holding a majority of the Units then held by the Vestar Unitholders.

 

Vestar/RTS” means Vestar/Radiation Therapy Investments, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

 

Vestar Unitholders” means the Unitholders holding an Economic Interest in any Units initially issued to Vestar.

 

Vestar V” means Vestar Capital Partners V, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership.

 

Vested Class MEP Units” means Class MEP Units owned by a Unitholder that have vested pursuant to the terms and conditions of the applicable Management Grant Agreement.

 

Section 1.2                                    Terms Generally.  In this Agreement, unless otherwise specified or where the context otherwise requires:

 

(a)                                 the headings of particular provisions of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and will not be construed as a part of this Agreement or serve as a limitation or expansion on the scope of any term or provision of this Agreement;

 

(b)                                 words importing any gender shall include other genders;

 

(c)                                  words importing the singular only shall include the plural and vice versa;

 

(d)                                 the words “include,” “includes” or “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation”;

 

(e)                                  the words “hereof,” “herein” and “herewith” and words of similar import shall, unless otherwise stated, be construed to refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement;

 

(f)                                   references to “Articles,” “Exhibits,” “Sections” or “Schedules” shall be to Articles, Exhibits, Sections or Schedules of or to this Agreement;

 

(g)                                  references to any Person include the successors and permitted assigns of such Person;

 

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(h)                                 the use of the words “or,” “either” and “any” shall not be exclusive;

 

(i)                                     wherever a conflict exists between this Agreement and any other agreement (except for the Securityholders Agreement), this Agreement shall control but solely to the extent of such conflict;

 

(j)                                    wherever a conflict exists between this Agreement and the Securityholders Agreement, the Securityholders Agreement shall control but solely to the extent of such conflict.

 

(k)                                 references to “$” or “dollars” means the lawful currency of the United States of America;

 

(l)                                     references to any agreement, contract or schedule, unless otherwise stated, are to such agreement, contract or schedule as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; and

 

(m)                             the parties hereto have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement; accordingly, in the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto, and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party hereto by virtue of the authorship of any provisions of this Agreement.

 

ARTICLE II
GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

Section 2.1                                    Formation.  The Company was formed as a Delaware limited liability company on October 9, 2007 by the execution and filing of a Certificate of Formation (the “Certificate”) by an authorized person under and pursuant to the Act.  The Members agree to continue the Company as a limited liability company under the Act, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement.  The rights, powers, duties, obligations and liabilities of the Members shall be determined pursuant to the Act and this Agreement.  To the extent that the rights, powers, duties, obligations and liabilities of any Member are different by reason of any provision of this Agreement than they would be in the absence of such provision, this Agreement shall, to the extent permitted by the Act, control.

 

Section 2.2                                    Name.  The name of the Company is “21st Century Oncology Investments, LLC,” and all Company business shall be conducted in that name or in such other names that comply with applicable law as the Board of Managers may select from time to time.  The Board of Managers may change the name of the Company at any time and from time to time.  Prompt notification of any such change shall be given to all Members.

 

Section 2.3                                    Term.  The term of the Company commenced on the date the Certificate was filed with the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and shall continue in existence perpetually until termination or dissolution in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.2.

 

Section 2.4                                    Purpose; Powers.

 

(a)                                 General Powers.  The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted by the Company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Act.  The Company may engage in any and all activities necessary, desirable or incidental to the accomplishment of the foregoing.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, nothing set forth herein shall be construed as authorizing the Company to possess any purpose or power, or to do

 

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any act or thing, forbidden by law to a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Delaware.

 

(b)                                 Company Action.  Subject to the provisions of this Agreement and except as prohibited by applicable law, (i) the Company may, with the approval of the Board of Managers, enter into and perform any and all documents, agreements and instruments, all without any further act, vote or approval of any Member and (ii) the Board of Managers may authorize any Person (including any Member or Officer) to enter into and perform any document on behalf of the Company.

 

(c)                                  Merger.  Subject to the provisions of this Agreement and the Securityholders Agreement, the Company may, with the approval of the Board of Managers and without the need for any further act, vote or approval of any Member, merge with, or consolidate into, another limited liability company (organized under the laws of Delaware or any other state), a corporation (organized under the laws of Delaware or any other state) or other business entity (as defined in Section 18-209(a) of the Act), regardless of whether the Company is the survivor of such merger or consolidation.

 

Section 2.5                                    Foreign Qualification.  Prior to the Company’s conducting business in any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware, the Board of Managers shall cause the Company to comply, to the extent procedures are available and those matters are reasonably within the control of the Officers, with all requirements necessary to qualify the Company as a foreign limited liability company in that jurisdiction.

 

Section 2.6                                    Registered Office; Registered Agent; Principal Office; Other Offices.  The registered office of the Company required by the Act to be maintained in the State of Delaware shall be the office of the initial registered agent named in the Certificate or such other office (which need not be a place of business of the Company) as the Board of Managers may designate from time to time in the manner provided by law.  The registered agent of the Company in the State of Delaware shall be the initial registered agent named in the Certificate or such other Person or Persons as the Board of Managers may designate from time to time in the manner provided by law.  The principal office of the Company shall be at such place as the Board of Managers may designate from time to time, which need not be in the State of Delaware, and the Company shall maintain records at such place.  The Company may have such other offices as the Board of Managers may designate from time to time.

 

Section 2.7                                    No State-Law Partnership.  The Unitholders intend that the Company shall not be a partnership (including a limited partnership) or joint venture, and that no Unitholder, Manager or Officer shall be a partner or joint venturer of any other Unitholder, Manager or Officer by virtue of this Agreement, for any purposes other than as is set forth in the last sentence of this Section 2.7, and this Agreement shall not be construed to the contrary.  The Unitholders intend that the Company shall be treated as a partnership for federal and, if applicable, state or local income tax purposes, and each Unitholder and the Company shall file all tax returns and shall otherwise take all tax and financial reporting positions in a manner consistent with such treatment.

 

ARTICLE III
CAPITALIZATION; REDEMPTION RIGHTS

 

Section 3.1                                    Units; Initial Capitalization; Schedules.

 

(a)                                 Units; Initial Capitalization.  Each Member’s interest in the Company, including such Member’s interest, if any, in the capital, income, gain, loss, deduction and expense of the Company and the right to vote, if any, on certain Company matters as provided in this Agreement shall be represented by units of limited liability company interest (each a “Unit”).  The Company shall have seven authorized classes of Units, designated Preferred Units, Class A Units, Class G Units, Class M Units, Class MEP Units, Class N Units and Class O Units, with 546,182.27 Preferred Units, 10,360,448.07 Class A Units, 10 Class G Units, 100,000 Class M Units, 1,000,000 Class MEP Units, 10 Class N Units and 100,000 Class O Units

 

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authorized for issuance.  On the date hereof, the issued and outstanding Units consist of 543,258.20 Preferred Units, 10,308,594.21 Class A Units, 10 Class G Units, 100,000 Class M Units, 910,821.42 Class MEP Units, 10 Class N Units and 100,000 Class O Units.  The ownership by a Unitholder of Units shall entitle such Unitholder to allocations of profits and losses and other items and distributions of cash and other property as is set forth in Article IV and Article V.  The Company may not issue any fractional Units.

 

(b)                                 Schedule of Units; Schedule of Members.  The aggregate number of Units of each class and the aggregate amount of cash Capital Contributions that have been made by the Members and the Fair Market Value of any property other than cash contributed by the Members with respect to the Units (including, if applicable, a description and the amount of any liability assumed by the Company or to which contributed property is subject) shall be set forth on Schedule A attached hereto.  The Fair Market Value of any property contributed by any Management Member with respect to any Units issued on the Initial Issuance Date shall be equal to the amounts set forth in such Management Member’s Contribution Agreement as the consideration for the issuance of the relevant Units.  The name and address of each Member shall be set forth on Schedule B attached hereto.  Schedules A and B shall remain strictly confidential and shall only be disclosed by the Company to Vestar and the CEO.

 

Section 3.2                                    Authorization and Issuance of Additional Units.  Subject to the provisions of Section 6.10, the Board of Managers shall have the right to cause the Company to issue and/or create and issue at any time after the date hereof, and for such amount and form of consideration as the Board of Managers may determine, additional Units or other Equity Securities of the Company (including issuing additional Preferred Units and Incentive Units or creating other classes or series of Units or other Equity Securities having such powers, designations, preferences and rights as may be determined by the Board of Managers).  The Board of Managers shall have the power to make such amendments to this Agreement in order to provide for such powers, designations, preferences and rights as the Board of Managers in its discretion deems necessary or appropriate to give effect to such additional authorization or issuance; provided that any such amendment shall not reasonably be expected to have a material and adverse effect on any Unitholder, in its capacity as such, that would be borne disproportionately by such Unitholder relative to other Unitholders holding Units of the same class under this Agreement (unless such Unitholder consents in writing thereto).  Any Units that are forfeited by, or repurchased by the Company from, any Person pursuant to the provisions of the applicable agreement between such Person and the Company shall be deemed to have been acquired by the Company and may be re-issued at such time and upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the Board of Managers or the Compensation Committee determines; provided, that Incentive Units may only be re-issued to employees, officers, directors or other service providers of or to the Company and its Subsidiaries.

 

Section 3.3                                    Authorization and Issuance of the Incentive Units; Service Providers.

 

(a)                                 Authorization and Issuance of Incentive Units.  Subject to Section 6.10(b), Incentive Units are authorized and reserved for issuance to employees, officers, directors and other service providers of or to the Company and its Subsidiaries, and the Board of Managers or the Compensation Committee from time to time may issue such Units and establish such vesting, forfeiture and repurchase criteria, and such Floor Amount in connection with their issuance as the Board of Managers or the Compensation Committee in its discretion determines (and as may be set forth in the applicable Management Grant Agreement).

 

(b)                                 Profits Interests.  Each Person receiving Incentive Units shall make a timely election under Section 83(b) of the Code with respect to such Units upon their issuance, in a manner reasonably prescribed by the Company.  The Company and each Person receiving Incentive Units hereby acknowledges and agrees that each Person’s Incentive Units, as the case may be, and the rights and privileges associated with such Units, collectively are intended to constitute a “profits interest” in the

 

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Company within the meaning of Revenue Procedure 93-27, 1993-2 C.B. 343, or any successor Internal Revenue Service or Treasury Department regulation or other pronouncement applicable at the date of issuance of such Incentive Units, as the case may be.  For so long as Revenue Procedure 2001-43, 2001-2 C.B. 343, is effective, the Company and each Person who receives Incentive Units, as the case may be, hereby agrees (i) that all such Persons will be treated as Unitholders and as partners for federal income tax purposes immediately upon issuance of such Units and (ii) to comply with the provisions of Revenue Procedure 2001-43, and neither the Company nor any such Person shall perform any act or take any position inconsistent with the application of Revenue Procedure 2001-43.

 

(c)                                  Authorization of Safe Harbor Election.  By executing this Agreement, each Member authorizes and directs the Company to elect to have the “safe harbor” described in the proposed Revenue Procedure set forth in Internal Revenue Service Notice 2005-43, 2005-24 I.R.B. 1221 (the “Notice”), apply to any interest in the Company Transferred to a service provider by the Company on or after the effective date of such Revenue Procedure in connection with services provided to the Company (and, to the extent that then-applicable guidance permits, in connection with services provided to any Subsidiary).  For purposes of making such safe harbor election, the Tax Matters Member is hereby designated as the “partner who has responsibility for federal income tax reporting” by the Company and, accordingly, for execution of a “safe harbor election” in accordance with Section 3.03(1) of the Notice.  The Company and each Member hereby agree to comply with all requirements of the safe harbor described in the Notice, including the requirement that each Member shall prepare and file all federal income tax returns reporting the income tax effects of each safe harbor partnership interest issued by the Company in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Notice.

 

(d)                                 Amendment by Tax Matters Member.  Each Member authorizes the Tax Matters Member to amend this Section 3.3 to the extent necessary to achieve substantially the same tax treatment with respect to any profits interest in the Company Transferred to a service provider by the Company in connection with services provided to the Company (and, to the extent that then applicable guidance permits, in connection with services provided to any Subsidiary) as is set forth in, as applicable, Revenue Procedure 93-27, Revenue Procedure 2001-43 or Section 4 of the Notice (e.g., to reflect changes from the rules set forth in the Notice in subsequent Internal Revenue Service or Treasury Department guidance), provided that such amendment is not materially adverse to any Member (as compared with the after-tax consequences that would result if the provisions of the Notice applied to all profits interests in the Company Transferred to a service provider by the Company in connection with services provided to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries).

 

Section 3.4                                    Capital Accounts.

 

(a)                                 The Company shall maintain a separate capital account for each Unitholder according to the rules of Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv) (each a “Capital Account”).  The Capital Account of each Unitholder shall be credited initially with an amount equal to such Unitholder’s cash contributions and the Fair Market Value of property contributed to the Company by the Unitholder (net of any liabilities securing such contributed property that the Company is considered to assume or take subject to).

 

(b)                                 The Capital Account of each Unitholder shall (i) be credited with all Income allocated to such Unitholder pursuant to Section 5.1 and Section 5.2, and with the amount equal to such Unitholder’s cash contributions and the Fair Market Value of property contributed to the Company by the Unitholder (net of any liabilities securing such contributed property that the Company is considered to assume or take subject to) and (ii) be debited with all Loss allocated to such Unitholder pursuant to Section 5.1 or Section 5.2, and with the amount of cash and the Gross Asset Value of any property (net of liabilities

 

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assumed by such Unitholder and liabilities to which such property is subject) distributed by the Company to such Unitholder.

 

(c)                                  The Company may, upon the occurrence of the events specified in Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(f), increase or decrease the Capital Accounts of the Unitholders in accordance with the rules of such Regulation and Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2) (iv)(g) to reflect a revaluation of Company property.

 

Section 3.5                                    Negative Capital Accounts.  No Unitholder shall be required to pay to any other Unitholder or the Company any deficit or negative balance that may exist from time to time in such Unitholder’s Capital Account (including upon and after dissolution of the Company).

 

Section 3.6                                    No Withdrawal.  No Person shall be entitled to withdraw any part of such Person’s Capital Contributions or Capital Account or to receive any distribution from the Company, except as expressly provided herein.

 

Section 3.7                                    Loans From Unitholders.  Loans by Unitholders to the Company shall not be considered Capital Contributions.  If any Unitholder shall loan funds to the Company, then the making of such loans shall not result in any increase in the Capital Account balance of such Unitholder.  The amount of any such loans shall be a debt of the Company to such Unitholder and shall be payable or collectible in accordance with the terms and conditions upon which such loans are made.

 

Section 3.8                                    No Right of Partition.  No Unitholder shall have the right to seek or obtain partition by court decree or operation of law of any property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the right to own or use particular or individual assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or, except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, be entitled to distributions of specific assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

Section 3.9                                    Non-Certification of Units; Legend; Units Are Securities.

 

(a)                                 Units shall be issued in non-certificated form; provided that the Board of Managers may cause the Company to issue certificates to a Member representing the Units held by such Member.  If any Unit certificate is issued, then such certificate shall bear a legend as is set forth in Section 9.2 of the Securityholders Agreement and also substantially in the following form:

 

This certificate evidences a [Preferred] [Class [A][G][M][MEP][N][O] Unit representing an interest in Radiation Therapy Investments, LLC and shall be a security within the meaning of Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

 

The interest in Radiation Therapy Investments, LLC represented by this certificate is subject to restrictions on transfer set forth in (i) the [Then Effective] Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of Radiation Therapy Investments, LLC, dated as of [Applicable Date], by and among Radiation Therapy Investments, LLC and each of the members from time to time party thereto, as the same may be amended from time to time and the (ii) the Amended and Restated Securityholders Agreement of Radiation Therapy Investments, LLC dated as of March 25, 2008, by and among Radiation Therapy Investments, LLC and some or all of the members from time to time party thereto, as the same may be amended from time to time.

 

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(b)                                 The Company hereby irrevocably elects that all Units shall be “securities” governed by Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of Delaware or analogous provisions in the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in any other jurisdiction.  This Section 3.9(b) shall not be amended without the prior written consent of all of the Members, and any purported amendment to this Section 3.9(b) in violation of the foregoing shall be null and void.

 

ARTICLE IV
DISTRIBUTIONS

 

Section 4.1                                    Distributions; Priority.  Distributable Assets will be distributed at such times as are determined by the Board of Managers, subject to Section 4.4, in the order and priority set forth below:

 

(a)                                 First, $240,779,400 to the Preferred Unitholders pro rata in accordance with each such Unitholder’s aggregate Unreturned Preferred Capital.

 

(b)                                 Second, until such time as the Class M Unitholders have received aggregate distributions pursuant to this Section 4.1(b) in the amount of $17,258,360: (i) 91.28% to the Preferred Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with each such Unitholder’s aggregate Unreturned Preferred Capital, (ii) 1.72% to the Class G Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with the respective number of Class G Units held by each such Unitholder immediately prior to such distribution, and (iii) 7% to the Class M Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with the respective number of Class M Units held by each such Unitholder immediately prior to such distribution.

 

(c)                                  Third, until such time as each Preferred Unitholder’s Unreturned Preferred Capital has been reduced to zero, (i) 89.28% to the Preferred Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with each such Unitholder’s aggregate Unreturned Preferred Capital, (ii) 1.72% to the Class G Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with the respective number of Class G Units held by each such Unitholder immediately prior to such distribution, and (iii) 9% to the Class O Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with the respective number of Class O Units held by each such Unitholder immediately prior to such distribution.

 

(d)                                 Fourth, if any Class N Units remain outstanding at the time of such distribution, $3,500,000 to the Class N Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with the respective number of Class N Units held by each such Unitholder immediately prior to such distribution.

 

(e)                                  Fifth, until such time as the Class O Unitholders have received aggregate distributions pursuant to this Section 4.1(e) and Section 4.1(c) in the amount of $13,500,000, (i) 89.28% to the Class A Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with each such Unitholder’s Unreturned Class A Capital, (ii) 1.72% to the Class G Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with the respective number of Class G Units held by each such Unitholder immediately prior to such distribution, and (iii) 9% to the Class O Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with the respective number of Class O Units held by each such Unitholder immediately prior to such distribution.

 

(f)                                   Sixth, until such time as each Class A Unitholder’s Unreturned Class A Capital has been reduced to zero, (i) 1.72% to the Class G Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with the respective number of Class G Units held by each such Unitholder immediately prior to such distribution, and (ii) 98.28% to the Class A Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with each such Unitholder’s Unreturned Class A Capital.

 

(g)                                  Seventh, until such time as each Class MEP Unitholder’s Unreturned Class MEP Capital has been reduced to zero, (i) 1.72% to the Class G Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with the respective number of Class G Units held by each such Unitholder immediately prior to such distribution,

 

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and (ii) 98.28% to the Class MEP Unitholders pro rata in accordance with each such Unitholder’s Unreturned Class MEP Capital.

 

(h)                                 Eighth, the remainder to the Class A Unitholders, Class G Unitholders and Vested Class MEP Unitholders, divided as follows:

 

(i)                                     86.28% to the Class A Unitholders pro rata in accordance with the aggregate number of Class A Units held by each such Unitholder immediately prior to such distribution;

 

(ii)                                  1.72% to the Class G Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with the respective number of Class G Units held by each such Unitholder immediately prior to such distribution; and

 

(iii)                               12% to, (A) the Vested Class MEP Unitholders in a percentage equal to the product of (x) 12% multiplied by (y) the Class MEP Fraction, to the Vested Class MEP Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with the number of Vested Class MEP Units held by each such Unitholder immediately prior to such distribution, and (B) the remainder of such 12% to the Class A Unitholders, pro rata in accordance with the number of Class A Units held by each such Unitholder immediately prior to such distribution; provided, however, that with respect to clause (A) of this Section 4.1(h)(iii), any Vested Class MEP Unit shall share in distributions pursuant to this Section 4.1(h)(iii) only from and after the point at which the aggregate amount of distributions to the Unitholders pursuant to this Section 4.1(h) after the date of issuance of the Vested Class MEP Unit is equal to the Floor Amount for such Vested Class MEP Unit and any amounts not distributed to the holders of such Vested Class MEP Units by reason of the Floor Amounts shall be distributed pursuant to clause (B) of this Section 4.1(h)(iii).

 

Section 4.2                                    Priority over Form of Consideration.  Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, if the Company makes a distribution pursuant to Section 4.1 that includes more than one kind of asset (e.g., cash, equity or debt securities or any combination thereof), then the assets available for distribution shall be distributed ratably among all Unitholders entitled to participate in such distribution; provided that, to the extent cash is included in such assets, such cash shall first be distributed to the Preferred Unitholders if they so elect by vote of holders of a majority of the Preferred Units.

 

Section 4.3                                    Successors.  For purposes of determining the amount of distributions under Section 4.1, each Unitholder shall be treated as having made the Capital Contributions and as having received the distributions made to or received by its predecessors with respect to any of such Unitholder’s Units.

 

Section 4.4                                    Tax Distributions.  Subject to the Act and to any restrictions contained in any agreement to which the Company is bound and notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4.1, no later than the tenth day of each April, June and September of any calendar year and January of the following calendar year, the Company shall, to the extent of available cash of the Company, make a distribution in cash (each, a “Tax Distribution”) to each Unitholder in an amount equal to the excess of (a) the product of (i) the cumulative taxable income allocated by the Company to the Unitholder through the end of the month immediately preceding the distribution date, in excess of the cumulative taxable loss allocated by the Company to such Unitholder for that period, to the extent that such taxable loss would be available (without regard to any other Tax item of the Unitholder) to offset such taxable income, in each case based upon (x) the information returns filed by the Company, as amended or adjusted to date, and (y) estimated amounts, in the case of periods for which the Company has not yet filed information returns, and (ii) the Assumed Tax Rate applicable to each period, over (b) all prior distributions to the Unitholders pursuant to Section 4.1 (other than clauses (a), (b)(i), (c)(i), (e)(i), (f)(ii) and (g)(ii) thereof) and this Section 4.4.  All distributions made

 

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pursuant to this Section 4.4 to a Unitholder shall be treated as advance distributions under Section 4.1 (other than clauses (a), (b)(i), (c)(i), (e)(i), (f)(ii) and (g)(ii) thereof) and shall be taken into account in determining the amount subsequently distributable to the Unitholder under Section 4.1.  In particular, if, at the time that the Company makes any distribution under Section 4.1 (other than clauses (a), (b)(i), (c)(i), (e)(i), (f)(ii) and (g)(ii) thereof) or this Section 4.4, any Unitholder has received a share of the aggregate distributions made pursuant to such Section(s), as applicable, that is less than the share that it would have received if all such distributions had been made pursuant to such Section(s), as applicable, without regard to Section 4.4, then, notwithstanding such Section(s), as applicable, distributions first shall be made 100 percent to the Unitholders having such a shortfall in such amounts as are required so that each Unitholder has received its appropriate share, determined under such Section(s), as applicable, of all distributions made by the Company under such Section(s), as applicable, and this Section 4.4.  For the avoidance of doubt, Tax Distributions shall be made only with respect to income of the Company allocated to the Unitholders (as opposed to income recognized by any Member with respect to the issuance or vesting of such Member’s Units).  For the purpose of determining the amount of distributions under Section 4.4, each Unitholder shall be treated as having been allocated the cumulative taxable income and received the distributions made to or received by its predecessors with respect to any of such Unitholder’s Units.

 

Section 4.5                                    Security Interest and Right of Set-Off.  As security for any liability or obligation to which the Company may be subject as a result of any act or status of any Unitholder, or to which the Company may become subject with respect to the interest of any Unitholder, the Company shall have (and each Unitholder hereby grants to the Company) a security interest in all Distributable Assets distributable to such Unitholder to the extent of the amount of such liability or obligation.  Whenever the Company is to pay any sum to any Unitholder or any Affiliate or related Person thereof pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, any amounts that such Unitholder or such Affiliate or related Person owes to the Company may be deducted from that sum before payment.

 

Section 4.6                                    Certain Distributions.  For purposes of this Article IV, a distribution to a Member of property (other than cash) shall be treated as a Tax Distribution pursuant to Section 4.4 (rather than as, for example, a distribution pursuant to Section 4.1(a)), in an amount equal to the hypothetical amount of tax that the Member would pay, at the Assumed Tax Rate, if (i) such property were not treated as a distribution of money pursuant to Section 731(c)(2) of the Code (to the extent that Section 731(c)(2) otherwise applies) and (ii) the Member sold the property immediately after receiving such distribution.

 

ARTICLE V
ALLOCATIONS

 

Section 5.1                                    Allocations.  Except as otherwise provided in Section 5.2, Net Income and Net Loss (and, if necessary, individual items of Income and Loss) shall be allocated annually (and at such other times as the Board of Managers determines) to the Unitholders in such manner that the Capital Account balance of each Unitholder shall, to the greatest extent possible, be equal to the amount, positive or negative, that would be distributed to such Unitholder (in the case of a positive amount) or for which such Unitholder would be liable to the Company under this Agreement (in the case of a negative amount), if (a) the Company were to sell the assets of the Company for their Gross Asset Values, (b) all Company liabilities were satisfied (limited with respect to each nonrecourse liability to the Gross Asset Values of the assets securing such liability), (c) the Company were to distribute the proceeds of sale pursuant to Section 4.1 (including to the holders of unvested Class MEP Units that are treated as Unitholders pursuant to Section 3.3) and (d) the Company were to dissolve pursuant to Article VII, minus such Unitholder’s share of Company Minimum Gain and Member Minimum Gain, computed immediately prior to the hypothetical sale of assets.

 

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Section 5.2                                    Special Allocations.

 

(a)                                 Loss attributable to Member Nonrecourse Debt shall be allocated in the manner required by Regulations Section 1.704-2(i).  If there is a net decrease during a taxable year in Member Minimum Gain, Income for such taxable year (and, if necessary, for subsequent taxable years) shall be allocated to the Unitholders in the amounts and of such character as is determined according to Regulations Section 1.704-2(i)(4).  This Section 5.2(a) is intended to be a “partner nonrecourse debt minimum gain chargeback” provision that complies with the requirements of Regulations Section 1.704-2(i)(4), and shall be interpreted in a manner consistent therewith.

 

(b)                                 Except as otherwise provided in Section 5.2(a), if there is a net decrease in Company Minimum Gain during any taxable year, each Unitholder shall be allocated Income for such taxable year (and, if necessary, for subsequent taxable years) in the amounts and of such character as is determined according to Regulations Section 1.704-2(f).  This Section 5.2(b) is intended to be a “minimum gain chargeback” provision that complies with the requirements of Regulations Section 1.704-2(f), and shall be interpreted in a manner consistent therewith.

 

(c)                                  If any Unitholder that unexpectedly receives an adjustment, allocation or distribution described in Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d)(4), (5) or (6) has an Adjusted Capital Account Deficit as of the end of any taxable year, computed after the application of Section 5.2(a) and Section 5.2(b) but before the application of any other provision of this Article V, then Income for such taxable year shall be allocated to such Unitholder in proportion to, and to the extent of, such Adjusted Capital Account Deficit.  This Section 5.2(c) is intended to be a “qualified income offset” provision as described in Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d) and shall be interpreted in a manner consistent therewith.

 

(d)                                 Income and Loss described in clause (iv) of the definition of Gross Asset Value shall be allocated in a manner consistent with the manner that the adjustments to the Capital Accounts are required to be made pursuant to Regulations Section 1.704-1 (b)(2)(iv)(m).

 

(e)                                  The allocations set forth in Section 5.2(a) through Section 5.2(d) inclusive (the “Regulatory Allocations”) are intended to comply with certain requirements of Section 1.704-1(b) and 1.704-2 of the Regulations.  The Regulatory Allocations may not be consistent with the manner in which the Unitholders intend to allocate Income and Loss of the Company or to make distributions.  Accordingly, notwithstanding the other provisions of this Article V, but subject to the Regulatory Allocations, items of Income and Loss of the Company shall be allocated among the Unitholders so as to eliminate the effect of the Regulatory Allocations and thereby cause the respective Capital Account balances of the Unitholders to be in the amounts (or as close thereto as possible) they would have been if Income and Loss had been allocated without reference to the Regulatory Allocations.  In general, the Unitholders anticipate that this will be accomplished by specially allocating other Income and Loss among the Unitholders so that the net amount of Regulatory Allocations and such special allocations to each such Unitholder is zero.

 

(f)                                   Income and Loss of the Company shall be allocated in the manner required by proposed Regulations Section 1.704 (b)-1(b)(4)(xii)(c) (or any successor guidance dealing with so-called “forfeiture allocations”) from and after the time permitted by applicable final or temporary guidance.

 

Section 5.3                                    Tax Allocations.

 

(a)                                 The income, gains, losses and deductions of the Company shall be allocated for federal, state and local income tax purposes among the Unitholders in accordance with the allocation of such income, gains, losses and deductions among the Unitholders for purposes of computing their Capital

 

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Accounts; except that if any such allocation is not permitted by the Code or other applicable law, then the Company’s subsequent income, gains, losses and deductions for tax purposes shall be allocated among the Unitholders so as to reflect as nearly as possible the allocation set forth herein in computing their Capital Accounts.

 

(b)                                 Items of Company taxable income, gain, loss and deduction with respect to any property contributed to the capital of the Company shall be allocated among the Unitholders in accordance with Section 704(c) of the Code so as to take account of any variation between the adjusted basis of such property to the Company for federal income tax purposes and its Gross Asset Value, using the “remedial method” under Regulation Section 1.704-3(d), unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Vestar Majority Holders.

 

(c)                                  If the Gross Asset Value of any Company asset is adjusted pursuant to the requirements of Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(e) or (f), subsequent allocations of items of taxable income, gain, loss and deduction with respect to such asset shall take account of any variation between the adjusted basis of such asset for federal income tax purposes and its Gross Asset Value in the same manner as under Section 704(c) of the Code using such method or methods as the Vestar Group Majority may direct.

 

(d)                                 In addition to the consent rights set forth in Section 6.10(a), the Vestar Group Majority shall have the sole and exclusive right to determine the method used by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to make allocations pursuant to Section 704(c) of the Code (including any so-called “reverse” Section 704(c) allocations).

 

(e)                                  Tax credits, tax credit recapture and any items related thereto shall be allocated to the Unitholders according to their interests in such items as reasonably determined by the Board of Managers taking into account the principles of Regulations Sections 1.704-1(b)(4)(ii) and 1.704-1T(b)(4)(xi).

 

(f)                                   Allocations pursuant to this Section 5.3 are solely for the purposes of federal, state and local taxes and shall not affect, or in any way be taken into account in computing, any Unitholder’s Capital Account or share of Income, Loss, distributions or other Company items pursuant to any provision of this Agreement.

 

Section 5.4                                    Unitholders’ Tax Reporting.  The Unitholders acknowledge and are aware of the income tax consequences of the allocations made pursuant to this Article V and, except as may otherwise be required by applicable law or regulatory requirements, hereby agree to be bound by the provisions of this Article V in reporting their shares of Company income, gain, loss, deduction and credit for federal, state and local income tax purposes.

 

Section 5.5                                    Indemnification and Reimbursement for Payments on Behalf of a Unitholder.  If the Company is required by law to make any payment to a Governmental Entity that is specifically attributable to a Unitholder or a Unitholder’s status as such (including federal withholding taxes, state or local personal property taxes and state or local unincorporated business taxes), then such Unitholder shall indemnify the Company in full for the entire amount paid (including interest, penalties and related expenses).  The Board of Managers may offset distributions to which a Person is otherwise entitled under this Agreement against such Person’s obligation to indemnify the Company under this Section 5.5.  A Unitholder’s obligation to indemnify the Company under this Section 5.5 shall survive termination, dissolution, liquidation and winding up of the Company, and for purposes of this Section 5.5, the Company shall be treated as continuing in existence.  The Company may pursue and enforce all rights and remedies it may have against each Unitholder under this Section 5.5, including instituting a lawsuit to

 

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collect such indemnification, with interest calculated at a rate equal to 10 percent (but not in excess of the highest rate per annum permitted by law).

 

ARTICLE VI
MANAGEMENT

 

Section 6.1                                    The Board of Managers; Delegation of Authority and Duties.

 

(a)                                 Members, Board of Managers and Executive Committee.  The Members shall possess all rights and powers as provided in the Act and otherwise by applicable law.  Except as otherwise expressly provided for herein, the Members hereby consent to the exercise by the Board of Managers of all such powers and rights conferred on them by the Act with respect to the management and control of the Company, provided that such rights and powers shall be exercised on behalf of the Board of Managers exclusively by the Executive Committee, except to the extent (i) such delegation of authority would not be permitted under applicable Law (assuming for this purposes that the Company is a Delaware corporation) and (ii) the power and authority is reserved to another existing committee of the Board of Managers under its existing charter , provided further that if the Executive Committee is dissolved in accordance with Section 6.1(c), all such powers and rights will be exercised by the Board of Managers.  For the avoidance of doubt, any references in this Agreement granting permission or authority to the Board of Managers shall be deemed to refer to the Executive Committee (even if not included in such reference) to the extent consistent with the first proviso in the immediately preceding sentence.  Notwithstanding the foregoing and except as explicitly set forth in this Agreement, if a vote, consent or approval of the Members is required by the Act or other applicable law with respect to any act to be taken by the Company or matter considered by the Board of Managers or the Executive Committee, each Member agrees that it shall be deemed to have consented to or approved such act or voted on such matter in accordance with a vote of the Board of Managers or the Executive Committee, as the case may be, on such act or matter.  Each Class A Unitholder shall have one vote for each Class A Unit held by such Unitholder.  Holders of Preferred Units and Incentive Units shall not have the right to vote on any matter unless such right is expressly provided herein.  If a vote, consent or approval of the Members is required by this Agreement, only the Class A Members shall be entitled to vote, consent or approve unless a right to vote, consent or approve is expressly provided herein to any other Member.  Unless otherwise set forth in this Agreement, any vote, consent or approval of any class of Units required by this Agreement shall require a majority of the voting power of the applicable Units.  No Member, in its capacity as a Member, shall have any power to act for, sign for or do any act that would bind the Company.  The Members, acting through the Board of Managers or the Executive Committee, as applicable, shall devote such time and effort to the affairs of the Company as they may deem appropriate for the oversight of the management and affairs of the Company.  Each Member acknowledges and agrees that no Member shall, in its capacity as a Member, be bound to devote all of such Member’s business time to the affairs of the Company, and that each Member and such Member’s Affiliates do and will continue to engage for such Member’s own account and for the account of others in other business ventures.

 

(b)                                 Delegation by Board of Managers and Executive Committee.  Each of the Board of Managers and the Executive Committee shall have the power and authority to delegate (in the case of the Board of Managers, to the extent such rights and powers have not be delegated to the Executive Committee in accordance with Section 2.1(a) and the Securityholders Agreement) to one or more other Persons its rights and powers to manage and control the business and affairs of the Company, including to delegate to agents and employees of a Member, a Manager or the Company (including Officers), and to delegate by a management agreement or another agreement with, or otherwise to, other Persons.  Each of the  Board of Managers and the Executive Committee may authorize, to the extent of its rights and powers in accordance with Section 6.1(a), any Person (including any Member, Officer or Manager) to enter into and perform under any document on behalf of the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing and for the avoidance of

 

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doubt, all powers and rights of the Board of Managers which are exercised by the Executive Committee in accordance with Section 6.1(a) may only be delegated by the Executive Committee during the period of its existence.

 

(c)                                  Committees.  The Board of Managers shall have, during the period specified below, an executive committee (the “Executive Committee”) and the Board of Managers may, from time to time, designate one or more other committees (including the Compensation Committee).

 

(i)                                     The Executive Committee. The Executive Committee shall be comprised of three Managers, a Manager nominated by the Majority Preferred Holders, a Manager nominated by the Vestar V , and one appointed by Dr. Dosoretz or the Majority Executives (as required by the Securityholders Agreement), each as nominated as set forth in Section 2.1(b) of the Securityholders Agreement.  The Executive Committee shall have and may exercise all powers and rights conferred on the Members by the Act with respect to the management and control of the Company, except for such powers and rights that are reserved for the Board of Managers in accordance with Section 6.1(a). The Executive Committee shall conduct its proceedings in accordance with its charter adopted on the date hereof.  The Executive Committee shall be dissolved upon the occurrence of the earlier of (i) a Qualified IPO, (ii) a Qualified Merger and (iii) a Default Event.

 

(ii)                                  Other Committees.  Each committee other than the Executive Committee shall be comprised of at least three Managers, and, if applicable, shall be constituted in accordance with Section 2.1(c) of the Securityholders Agreement.  Except as otherwise required by applicable law, no committee of the Board of Managers may bind the Board of Managers. . The Board of Managers may dissolve any committee (other than the Executive Committee) at any time, unless otherwise provided in the Securityholders Agreement or this Agreement.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the charters of the other committees, while the Executive Committee is in existence, each such committee shall report to the Executive Committee, and all matters in respect of which any such committee makes a recommendations shall be decided by the Executive Committee.  Each committee in existence as of the date hereof shall conduct its proceedings in accordance with the charters for such committee as in effect or as adopted, as applicable, on the date hereof.  Except in connection with an initial Public Offering of Holdings, the charters of these committees shall not be modified, and no new committees created, without the consent of Vestar V and the Majority Preferred Stockholders.

 

Section 6.2                                    Establishment of Board of Managers.

 

(a)                                 Managers.  There shall be established a board of managers (the “Board of Managers”) composed of seven (7) persons (who, for the avoidance of doubt, need not be members), or such other number of persons as is determined in accordance with Section 2.1 of the Securityholders Agreement, all of whom shall be individuals (each, a “Manager”) who shall be elected by a majority vote of the holders of the Class A Units, voting together as a single class, provided that the Board of Managers shall at all times be constituted in accordance with Section 2.1 of the Securityholders Agreement, and each such Unitholder shall have one vote for each Unit held by such Member.  Each Manager shall be a “manager” (as such term is defined in the Act) of the Company but, notwithstanding the foregoing, no Manager shall have any rights or powers beyond the rights and powers granted to such Manager in this Agreement.  Any Manager may be removed from the Board of Managers at any time by the holders of a majority of the Class A Units, but only in a manner consistent with Section 2.1 of the Securityholders Agreement.  Each Manager shall remain in office until his or her death, resignation or removal, and in the event of death, resignation or removal of a

 

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Manager, the vacancy created shall be filled by a majority vote of the holders of the Class A Units, voting together as a single class, and otherwise in accordance with Section 2.1 of the Securityholders Agreement.

 

(b)                                 Duties; Investment Opportunities; Conflicts of Interest.

 

(i)                                     A Manager shall be personally liable to the Company and the other Members for any loss incurred by such Person for acts or omissions in the management of the Company only in the case of gross negligence, willful misconduct, bad faith or breach of a duty expressly set forth below by such Manager; but a Manager shall not be personally liable to the Company or any Member for any other acts or omissions, including the negligence, strict liability or other fault or responsibility (short of gross negligence, willful misconduct, bad faith or as expressly set forth below) by such Manager.  The Board of Managers and any member or committee thereof may consult with counsel and accountants in respect of Company affairs and, provided the Board of Managers (or such member or committee, as the case may be) acts in good faith reliance upon the advice or opinion of such counsel or accountants, the Board of Managers (or such member or committee, as the case may be) shall not be liable for any loss suffered by the Members or the Company in reliance thereon.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any duty otherwise existing at law or in equity, the parties hereby agree that the Managers and the Members, in their capacities as Managers and Members, as applicable, shall, to the maximum extent permitted by law, including Section 18-1101(c) of the Act, owe no fiduciary duties to the Company, the Members or any other Person bound by this Agreement; provided, however, that the Managers shall act in accordance with the implied contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing.  Any amendment or modification of the provisions of this Section 6.2(b) shall not adversely affect any rights or protections of a Manager at the time of such amendment or modification.  Except as stated in the preceding sentence and the other duties as may be expressly set forth in this Agreement, a Manager shall not be subject to any duties in the management of the Company. And, for the avoidance of doubt, in the event that there is a Company Sale and the Board of Managers or any particular Manager, in such capacity, takes any action to implement, undertake or facilitate such Company Sale at the request of Vestar or the Majority Preferred Holders, then such action shall not be subject to the standards set forth in this Section 6.2(b), but instead shall be considered actions taken to implement the contractual agreements of the parties to this Agreement and not in a fiduciary capacity to the Members.

 

(ii)                                  In performing such Person’s duties, each of the Managers and the officers of the Company shall be entitled to rely in good faith on the provisions of this Agreement and on information, opinions, reports or statements (including financial statements and information, opinions, reports or statements as to the value or amount of the assets, liabilities, profits or losses of the Company or any facts pertinent to the existence and amount of assets from which distributions to Unitholders might properly be paid), of the following other Persons or groups: (A) one or more officers or employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (B) any attorney, independent accountant or other Person employed or engaged by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or (C) any other Person who has been selected with reasonable care by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case, as to matters which such relying Person reasonably believes to be within such other Person’s professional or expert competence.  The preceding sentence shall in no way limit any Person’s right to rely on information to the extent provided in Section 18-406 of the Act.

 

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(iii)                               The Members expressly acknowledge that (A) Vestar, CPPIB and their respective Affiliates are permitted to have, and may presently or in the future have, investments or other business relationships with entities other than through the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (an “Other Business”), (B) Vestar,  CPPIB and their respective Affiliates may have or may develop a strategic relationship with an Other Business, (C) none of Vestar, CPPIB and their respective Affiliates will be prohibited by virtue of its investment in the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or, if applicable, its service on the Board of Managers or the Executive Committee from pursuing and engaging in any such activities with Other Businesses, (D) none of Vestar, CPPIB and its respective Affiliates shall be obligated to inform the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any such opportunity, relationship or investment relating to Other Businesses, (E) the other Members will not acquire or be entitled to any interest or participation in any Other Business except as provided in any agreement with the Company or Subsidiary as a result of the participation therein of Vestar, CPPIB or any of their respective Affiliates, and (F) the involvement of any equityholder of a Member, CPPIB or their Affiliates in any Other Business except as provided in any agreement with the Company or Subsidiary will not constitute a conflict of interest by such Persons with respect to the Company or its Members or any of its Subsidiaries.  Nothing in the preceding sentence shall limit the confidentiality obligations of Section 9.4.

 

(c)                                  Absence.  A Manager may designate a Person to act as his or her substitute and in his or her place at any meeting of the Board of Managers.  Such Person shall have all power of the absent Manager, and references herein to a “Manager” at a meeting shall be deemed to include his or her substitute.  Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, Managers, in their capacities as such, shall not be deemed to be “members” (as such term is defined in the Act) of the Company.

 

(d)                                 No Individual Authority.  No Manager has the authority or power to act for or on behalf of the Company, to do any act that would be binding on the Company or to make any expenditures or incur any obligations on behalf of the Company or authorize any of the foregoing, other than acts that are expressly authorized by the Board of Managers.

 

(e)                                  Conflict.  Each provision of this Section 6.2 is subject to the terms and provisions of the Securityholders Agreement, and to the extent any such provisions apply, they are then to be construed as being incorporated in this Agreement and made a part hereof.

 

(f)                                   Compensation of Directors; Expense Reimbursement.  Managers that are also employees or Officers of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall not receive any stated salary for services in their capacity as Managers; provided, however, that, subject to Section 6.10(b), nothing herein contained shall be construed to preclude any Manager from serving the Company or any Subsidiary in any other capacity and receiving compensation (including Incentive Units) therefor.  Managers that are not also employees or Officers of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may receive equity based compensation and/or a stated salary for their services as Managers, in each case, as is determined from time to time by the Board of Managers.  Managers shall be reimbursed for any reasonable out-of-pocket expenses related to attendance at each regular or special meeting of the Board of Managers (or any committee thereof), subject to the Company’s requirements with respect to reporting and documentation of such expenses.

 

Section 6.3                                    Board of Managers Meetings.

 

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shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business of the Board of Managers, provided that if at any meeting of the Board a quorum is not present, such meeting shall be adjourned by the Board of Managers (which adjournment may be approved by the Board of Managers even if less than a quorum is present) to a date no more than three business days after the initial meeting, and at such adjourned meeting any majority of the total number of Managers shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business of the Board of Managers. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or Section 2.3 of the Securityholders Agreement, the act of a majority of the Managers present at a meeting of the Board of Managers at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board of Managers.  A Manager who is present at a meeting of the Board of Managers at which action on any matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the action unless his dissent shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting or unless he shall file his written dissent to such action with the Person acting as secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof or shall deliver such dissent to the Company immediately after the adjournment of the meeting.  Such right to dissent shall not apply to a Manager who voted in favor of such action.

 

(b)                                 Place and Waiver of Notice.  Meetings of the Board of Managers may be held at such place or places as shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the Board of Managers.  At all meetings of the Board of Managers, business shall be transacted in such order as shall from time to time be determined by resolution of the Board of Managers.  Attendance of a Manager at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except where a Manager attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

(c)                                  Regular Meetings.  Regular meetings of the Board of Managers may be held as from time to time shall be determined by the Board of Managers.  After there has been such determination, and notice thereof has once been given to each Manager, regular meetings of the Board of Managers may be held without further notice being given.  Such notice need not state the purpose or purposes of, nor the business to be transacted at, such meeting, except as may otherwise be required by applicable law or provided for in this Agreement.

 

(d)                                 Special Meetings.  Special meetings of the Board of Managers may be called on at least 24 hours notice to each Manager by any two Managers.  Such notice need not state the purpose or purposes of, nor the business to be transacted at, such meeting, except as may otherwise be required by applicable law or provided for in this Agreement.

 

(e)                                  Notice.  Notice of any special meeting of the Board of Managers or other committee may be given personally, by mail, facsimile, courier or other means and, if other than personally, shall be deemed given when written notice is delivered to the office of the Manager at the address of the Manager in the books and records of the Company.

 

Section 6.4                                    Chairman and Vice Chairman.  The Board of Managers shall designate a Manager to serve as chairman.  Rob Rosner shall serve as the initial chairman of the Board of Managers. The Board of Managers may designate a Manager to serve as vice chairman.  The chairman shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Managers.  If the chairman is absent at any meeting of the Board of Managers, the vice chairman serve as interim chairman for that meeting.  The chairman shall have no independent authority or power to act for or on behalf of the Company, to do any act that would be binding on the Company or to make any expenditure or incur any obligations on behalf of the Company or authorize any of the foregoing.  The chairman shall not have exclusive power to establish the agenda for any meeting.  Any matter proposed for consideration and seconded by at least one Manager other than the proposing Manager shall be deemed properly raised for consideration at any meeting.

 

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Section 6.5                                    Approval or Ratification of Acts or Contracts.  Any act or contract approved or ratified by the Board of Managers shall be as valid and as binding upon the Company and upon all the Members (in their capacity as Members) as if it had been approved or ratified by each Member of the Company.

 

Section 6.6                                    Action by Written Consent.  Any action permitted or required by the Act, the Certificate or this Agreement to be taken at a meeting of the Board of Managers or any committee designated by the Board of Managers may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action to be taken, is signed by a majority of the Managers or representatives of such other committee, as the case may be, subject to Section 2.3 of the Securityholders Agreement.  Such consent shall have the same force and effect as a vote at a meeting and may be stated as such in any document or instrument filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, and the execution of such consent shall constitute attendance or presence in person at a meeting of the Board of Managers or any such other committee, as the case may be.

 

Section 6.7                                    Meetings by Telephone Conference or Similar Measures.  Subject to the requirements of this Agreement for notice of meetings, the Managers, or representatives of any other committee designated by the Board of Managers, may participate in and hold a meeting of the Board of Managers or any such other committee, as the case may be, by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all Persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and participation in such meeting shall constitute attendance and presence in person at such meeting, except where a Person participates in the meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

Section 6.8                                    Officers.

 

(a)                                 Designation and Appointment.  Subject to Section 6.10 and the Securityholders Agreement, the Board of Managers may, from time to time, employ and retain Persons as may be necessary or appropriate for the conduct of the Company’s business (subject to the supervision and control of the Board of Managers), including employees, agents and other Persons (any of whom may be a Member or Manager) who may be designated as Officers of the Company, with such titles as and to the extent authorized by the Board of Managers.  Any number of offices may be held by the same Person.  In its discretion, the Board of Managers may choose not to fill any office for any period as it may deem advisable.  Officers need not be residents of the State of Delaware or Members.  Any Officers so designated shall have such authority and perform such duties as the Board of Managers may from time to time delegate to them.  The Board of Managers may assign titles to particular Officers.  Each Officer shall hold office until his successor shall be duly designated and shall qualify or until his death or until he shall resign or shall have been removed in the manner hereinafter provided.  The salaries or other compensation, if any, of the Officers of the Company shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Managers.

 

(b)                                 Resignation and Removal.  Any Officer may resign as such at any time.  Such resignation shall be made in writing and shall take effect at the time specified therein, or if no time is specified, at the time of its receipt by the Board of Managers.  The acceptance of a resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective, unless expressly so provided in the resignation.  Any Officer may be removed as such, either with or without cause at any time, subject to Section 6.10, by the Board of Managers.  Designation of an Officer shall not of itself create any contractual or employment rights.

 

(c)                                  Duties of Officers Generally.  The Officers, in the performance of their duties as such, shall owe to the Company duties of loyalty and due care of the type owed by the officers of a corporation to such corporation and its stockholders under the laws of the State of Delaware.

 

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Section 6.9                                    Management Matters.

 

(a)                                 Transfer of Property.  All property owned by the Company shall be registered in the Company’s name, in the name of a nominee or in “street name” as the Board of Managers may from time to time determine.  Any corporation, brokerage firm or transfer agent called upon to Transfer any Securities to or from the name of the Company shall be entitled to rely on instructions or assignments signed or purported to be signed by any Officer or Manager without inquiry as to the authority of the Person signing or purporting to sign such instructions or assignments or as to the validity of any Transfer to or from the name of the Company.  At the time of any such Transfer, any such corporation, brokerage firm or transfer agent shall be entitled to assume that (i) the Company is then in existence and (ii) that this Agreement is in full force and effect and has not been amended, in each case, unless such corporation, brokerage firm or transfer agent shall have received written notice to the contrary.

 

(b)                                 Existence and Good Standing.  The Board of Managers may take all action which may be necessary or appropriate (i) for the continuation of the Company’s valid existence as a limited liability company under the laws of the State of Delaware (and of each other jurisdiction in which such existence is necessary to enable the Company to conduct the business in which it is engaged) and (ii) for the maintenance, preservation and operation of the business of the Company in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and applicable laws and regulations.  The Board of Managers may file or cause to be filed for recordation in the office of the appropriate authorities of the State of Delaware, and in the proper office or offices in each other jurisdiction in which the Company is formed or qualified, such certificates (including certificates of limited liability companies and fictitious name certificates) and other documents as are required by the applicable statutes, rules or regulations of any such jurisdiction or as are required to reflect the identity of the Members and the amounts of their respective capital contributions.

 

(c)                                  Investment Company Act.  The Board of Managers shall use its best efforts to assure that the Company shall not be subject to registration as an investment company pursuant to the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

Section 6.10                             Consent Rights.

 

(a)                                 Consent Rights.  The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to take or commit to take any action, unless any required consent of the Majority Executives, the Vestar Majority Holders and the Majority Preferred Stockholders pursuant to Section 2.3 of the Securityholders Agreement has been obtained.

 

(b)                                 Scope of Consent Rights.  The Members hereby acknowledge and agree that the determination of the Vestar Majority Holders, the Majority Preferred Stockholders, any Vestar Manager or any Preferred Manager as to whether to consent to any of the actions referenced in Section 6.10(a) and described in Section 2.3 of the Securityholders Agreement shall be made (i) in the sole discretion of such parties or the applicable Preferred Manager acting in its, his or her own best interests and (ii) without regard to any fiduciary duty.

 

(c)                                  Termination.  The provisions set forth in this Section 6.10 shall terminate as set forth in the Securityholders Agreement.

 

Section 6.11                             Securities in Subsidiaries.  The Company shall vote, or cause to be voted, all of the securities it holds in any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company as directed by the Board of Managers, and in all respects in accordance with the Securityholders Agreement.

 

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Section 6.12                             Liability of Unitholders.

 

(a)                                 No Personal Liability.  Except as otherwise required by applicable law and as expressly set forth in this Agreement, no Unitholder shall have any personal liability whatsoever in such Person’s capacity as a Unitholder, whether to the Company, to any of the other Unitholders, to the creditors of the Company or to any other third party, for the debts, liabilities, commitments or any other obligations of the Company or for any losses of the Company.  Each Unitholder shall be liable only to make such Unitholder’s Capital Contribution to the Company, if applicable, and the other payments provided for expressly herein.

 

(b)                                 Return of Distributions.  In accordance with the Act and the laws of the State of Delaware, a member of a limited liability company may, under certain circumstances, be required to return amounts previously distributed to such member.  It is the intent of the Members that no distribution to any Member pursuant to Article IV shall be deemed a return of money or other property paid or distributed in violation of the Act.  The payment of any such money or distribution of any such property to a Member shall be deemed to be a compromise within the meaning of the Act, and the Member receiving any such money or property shall not be required to return to any Person any such money or property.  However, if any court of competent jurisdiction holds that, notwithstanding the provisions of this Agreement, any Member is obligated to make any such payment, such obligation shall be the obligation of such Member and not of any Manager or other Member.

 

Section 6.13                             Indemnification by the Company.  Subject to the limitations and conditions provided in this Section 6.13, each Person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or arbitral (each a “Proceeding”), or any appeal in such a Proceeding or any inquiry or investigation that could lead to such a Proceeding, by reason of the fact that he, she or it, or a Person of which he, she or it is the legal representative, is or was a Unitholder, Officer or Manager shall be indemnified by the Company to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Company to provide broader indemnification rights than such law permitted the Company to provide prior to such amendment) against all judgments, penalties (including excise and similar taxes and punitive damages), fines, settlements and reasonable expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) actually incurred by such Person in connection with such Proceeding, appeal, inquiry or investigation, if such Person acted in Good Faith.  Reasonable expenses incurred by a Person of the type entitled to be indemnified under this Section 6.13 who was, is or is threatened to be made a named defendant or respondent in a Proceeding shall be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of the Proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such Person to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he or she is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company.  Indemnification under this Section 6.13 shall continue as to a Person who has ceased to serve in the capacity which initially entitled such Person to indemnity hereunder.  The rights granted pursuant to this Section 6.13 shall be deemed contract rights, and no amendment, modification or repeal of this Section 6.13 shall have the effect of limiting or denying any such rights with respect to actions taken or Proceedings, appeals, inquiries or investigations arising prior to any amendment, modification or repeal.  It is expressly acknowledged that the indemnification provided in this Section 6.13 could involve indemnification for negligence or under theories of strict liability.  The Company hereby acknowledges that certain indemnitees under this Section 6.13 may have certain rights to indemnification and/or insurance provided by affiliated investment funds (collectively, “Fund Indemnitors”) of such indemnitees and the Company intends such Fund Indemnitors to be secondary to the primary obligation of the Company to indemnify such indemnitee as provided herein.  The Company hereby agrees (i) that it is the indemnitor of first resort (i.e., its obligations to indemnitees are primary and any obligation of the Fund Indemnitors to advance expenses or to provide indemnification for the same expenses or liabilities incurred by indemnitee are secondary) for the indemnification obligations provided in this Section 6.13, (ii) that it shall be required to advance the full amount of expenses incurred by any indemnitee hereunder and shall be liable for the full

 

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amount of all expenses, judgments, penalties, fines and amounts paid in settlement to the extent legally permitted and as required by the terms of this Agreement (or any other agreement between the Company and any indemnitee), without regard to any rights indemnitee may have against the Fund Indemnitors, and, (iii) that it irrevocably waives, relinquishes and releases the Fund Indemnitors from any and all claims against the Fund Indemnitors for contribution, subrogation or any other recovery of any kind in respect thereof.  The Company further agrees that no advancement or payment by the Fund Indemnitors on behalf of any indemnitee with respect to any claim for which such indemnitee has sought indemnification from the Company shall affect the foregoing and the Fund Indemnitors shall have a right of contribution and/or be subrogated to the extent of such advancement or payment to all of the rights of recovery of such indemnitee against the Company.  The Company and each indemnitee hereunder agree that the Fund Indemnitors are express third party beneficiaries of the terms of this Section 6.13.

 

ARTICLE VII
WITHDRAWAL; DISSOLUTION; TRANSFER OF MEMBERSHIP INTERESTS; ADMISSION OF NEW MEMBERS

 

Section 7.1                                    Unitholder Withdrawal.  No Unitholder shall have the power or right to withdraw or otherwise resign or be expelled from the Company prior to the dissolution and winding up of the Company, except pursuant to a Transfer permitted under this Agreement of all of such Unitholder’s Units to an Assignee, a Member or the Company.

 

Section 7.2                                    Dissolution.

 

(a)                                 Events.  Subject to Section 6.10 and the Securityholders Agreement, the Company shall be dissolved and its affairs shall be wound up on the first to occur of (i) the majority vote of the Board of Managers, or (ii) the entry of a decree of judicial dissolution of the Company under Section 18-802 of the Act.

 

(b)                                 Actions Upon Dissolution.  When the Company is dissolved, the business and property of the Company shall be wound up and liquidated by the Board of Managers or, in the event of the unavailability of the Board of Managers or if the Board of Managers so determine, such Member or other liquidating trustee as shall be named by the Board of Managers.

 

(c)                                  Priority.  A reasonable time shall be allowed for the orderly winding up of the business and affairs of the Company and the liquidation of its assets pursuant to Section 7.2 to minimize any losses otherwise attendant upon such winding up.  Notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, within 120 calendar days after the effective date of dissolution of the Company, the assets of the Company shall be distributed in the following manner and order: (i) all debts and obligations of the Company, if any, shall first be paid, discharged or provided for by adequate reserves; (ii)  amount equal to all payment obligations of the Company and the Unitholders pursuant to Section 4.3 of the Securityholders Agreement shall be paid second, in accordance with Section 4.3 of the Securityholders Agreement and (iii) the balance shall be distributed to the Unitholders in accordance with Section 4.1.

 

(d)                                 Cancellation of Certificate.  On completion of the distribution of Company assets as provided herein, the Company is terminated, and shall file a certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, cancel any other filings made and take such other actions as may be necessary to terminate the Company.

 

(e)                                  Return of Capital.  The liquidators shall not be personally liable for the return of Capital Contributions or any portion thereof to the Members (it being understood that any such return shall be made solely from Company assets).

 

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(f)                                   Hart-Scott-Rodino.  Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, in the event the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the “HSR Act”), is applicable to any Member by reason of the fact that any assets of the Company will be distributed to such Member in connection with the dissolution of the Company, the dissolution of the Company shall not be consummated until such time as the applicable waiting periods (and extensions thereof) under the HSR Act have expired or otherwise been terminated with respect to each such Member.

 

Section 7.3                                    Transfer by Unitholders.  Any Member who shall Transfer any Units in the Company shall cease to be a Member of the Company with respect to such Units and shall no longer have any rights or privileges of a Member with respect to such Units.  Any Member or Assignee who acquires in any manner whatsoever any Units, irrespective of whether such Person has accepted and adopted in writing the terms and provisions of this Agreement, shall be deemed by the acceptance of the benefits of the acquisition thereof to have agreed to be subject to and bound by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement that any predecessor in such Units or other interest in the Company was subject to or by which such predecessor was bound.  No Member shall cease to be a Member upon the collateral assignment of, or the pledging or granting of a security interest in, its entire interest in the Company.  Any Transfer and any related admission of a Person as a Member in compliance with the provisions of the Securityholders Agreement and this Agreement shall be deemed effective on such date that the Transferee or successor in interest complies with the requirements of the Securityholders Agreement and this Agreement.

 

Section 7.4                                    Admission or Substitution of New Members.

 

(a)                                 Admission.  The Board of Managers shall have the right, subject to Section 7.3, to admit as a Substituted Member or an Additional Member any Person who acquires an interest in the Company, or any part thereof, from a Member or from the Company; provided that the Board of Managers shall admit as a Substituted Member, subject to Section 7.4(b), any Transferee who acquires an interest in the Company pursuant to an Exempt Employee Transfer, an Exempt TCW Transfer, an Exempt NYLIM Transfer or an Exempt Individual Transfer.  Concurrently with the admission of a Substituted Member or an Additional Member, the Board of Managers shall forthwith (i) amend Schedule B hereto to reflect the name and address of such Substituted Member or Additional Member and to eliminate or modify, as applicable, the name and address of the Transferring Member with regard to the Transferred Units and (ii) cause any necessary papers to be filed and recorded and notice to be given wherever and to the extent required showing the substitution of a Transferee as a Substituted Member in place of the Transferring Member, or the admission of an Additional Member, in each case, at the expense, including payment of any professional and filing fees incurred, of such Substituted Member or Additional Member, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Managers.

 

(b)                                 Conditions and Limitations.  The admission of any Person as a Substituted Member or an Additional Member shall be conditioned upon (i) such Person’s written acceptance and adoption of all the terms and provisions of this Agreement, either by (A) execution and delivery of a counterpart signature page to this Agreement countersigned by a Manager on behalf of the Company or (B) any other writing evidencing the intent of such Person to become a Substituted Member or an Additional Member and such writing is accepted by the Board of Managers on behalf of the Company and (ii) (at the request of the Board of Managers) such Person’s execution and delivery of a counterpart to the Securityholders Agreement.

 

(c)                                  Prohibited Transfers.  Other than pursuant to a Company Sale, any Transfer of a Unit or an Economic Interest shall not be permitted (and, if attempted, shall be void ab initio) if, in the determination of the Board of Managers, (i) such a Transfer would cause the Company to become ineligible for safe harbor treatment under Section 7704 of the Code and Regulations Section 1.7704-1(h) or otherwise

 

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would pose a material risk that the Company would be a “publicly traded partnership” as defined in Section 7704 of the Code, or (ii) such Transfer would result in 50 percent or more of the Company’s total “partnership interests” having been “sold or exchanged” in any 12-month period (within the meaning of Section 708(b)(1)(B) of the Code) and the resulting termination of the Company pursuant to Section 708(b)(1)(B) would, in the determination of the Board of Managers, have a more than immaterial adverse effect on the Company or the Members.

 

(d)                                 Effect of Transfer to Substituted Member.  Following the Transfer of any Unit that is permitted under this Section 7.4, the Transferee of such Unit shall be treated as having made all of the Capital Contributions in respect of, and received all of the distributions received in respect of, such Unit, shall succeed to the Capital Account balance associated with such Unit, shall receive allocations and distributions under Article IV, Article V and Section 7.2 in respect of such Unit and otherwise shall become a Substituted Member entitled to all the rights of a Member with respect to such Unit.

 

Section 7.5                                    Compliance with Law.  Notwithstanding any other provision hereof to the contrary, no sale or other disposition of an interest in the Company may be made except in compliance with all federal, state and other applicable laws, including federal and state securities laws.  Nothing in this Section 7.5 shall be construed to limit or otherwise affect any of the provisions of the Securityholders Agreement or the Management Grant Agreements, and to the extent any such provisions apply, they are then to be construed as being incorporated in this Agreement and made a part hereof.

 

Section 7.6                                    Public Offering.

 

(a)                                 If the Board of Managers approves, a Qualified IPO, a Qualified Merger (each as defined in the Securityholders Agreement), or  with the consent of Majority Preferred Stockholders, another initial Public Offering, then, subject to the Securityholders Agreement and without limiting the rights and privileges of the Convertible Preferred Stockholders,  the Board of Managers also may authorize, at the time of such Qualified IPO, a Qualified Merger, or Public Offering or at any time subsequent thereto, without the consent of any Member and with respect to all or any portion of the Units, a recapitalization of, or a transaction that effects the recapitalization of, the Company, whether involving a merger, redemption, contribution of Units, share exchange or otherwise (including a contribution of the Units to a newly formed corporation or a Subsidiary of the Company, a distribution of the stock of a Subsidiary of the Company and/or a liquidation of the Company) (a “Recapitalization”).  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in the event that the Board of Managers authorizes a Recapitalization in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof, neither the Board of Managers nor any member of the Vestar Group shall be required to require the dissolution or liquidation of the Company in connection therewith.  All Unitholders shall take all actions in connection with the consummation of such Recapitalization as the Board of Managers so requests, including the voting of any Units as may be necessary to effect such Recapitalization (including in connection with an amendment to this Agreement), the approval of a merger or conversion of the Company or one or more of its Subsidiaries with and into a corporation, and compliance with the requirements of all laws and Governmental Entities, exchanges and other self-regulatory organizations that are applicable to, or have jurisdiction over, such Qualified IPO, a Qualified Merger, or Public Offering, as applicable.

 

(b)                                 In the Recapitalization, the Unitholders will receive Common Stock, or the right to receive Common Stock, in exchange for, or otherwise in satisfaction of, the Units then held by such Unitholders.  The Common Stock issued (or the right to be issued Common Stock) to the Unitholders in connection with any Recapitalization shall be allocated to each Unitholder based on the dollar amount that such Unitholder would be entitled to receive had an amount equal to the equity value of Holdings (as implied by the price per share of Common Stock paid by the public in the Public Offering) been distributed to the Unitholders pursuant to Section 4.1, after taking into account all prior Distributions (including any

 

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proceeds of any Public Offering) (the “IPO Consideration”).  For the avoidance of doubt, Section 3.7 of the Securityholders Agreement shall apply to any Recapitalization.

 

(c)                                  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the IPO Consideration payable pursuant to Section 7.6(b) in respect of the Class M Units, the Class N Units and the Class O Units shall be paid to each such Unitholder as follows: (i) each Class M Unitholder in exchange for, or otherwise in satisfaction of, the Class M Units held by such Unitholder, (ii) each Class N Unitholder in exchange for, or otherwise in satisfaction of, the Class N Units held by such Unitholder, and (iii) each Class O Unitholder in exchange for, or otherwise in satisfaction of, the Class O Units held by such Unitholder, in each case, shall receive (x) one-third (1/3) of such Person’s IPO Consideration in the form of cash or Common Stock, as determined by the Board of Managers in its sole discretion, and (y) two-thirds (2/3) of such Person’s IPO Consideration in the form of (or arranging for the grant to such Unitholder of) a restricted stock award or a restricted stock unit award for Common Stock under an equity compensation plan then effect, taking into account any applicable requirements of Code Section 409A.

 

(d)                                 Each Unitholder agrees that any Units not allocated any Common Stock pursuant to this Section 7.6 shall be forfeited and cancelled without further consideration effective as of the consummation of the Recapitalization without the need for any further action by any person; provided that the holders of any Class MEP Units that are not allocated any Common Stock pursuant to this Section 7.6 shall be issued options to acquire shares of Common Stock.  The number of shares of Common Stock and the exercise price therefore granted pursuant to each such stock option shall substantially replicate the economic entitlements of the holders of such Units with respect to such Units prior to such Recapitalization (as determined by the Board of Managers (or the Compensation Committee) (in its sole discretion)) and to the extent applicable, shall be subject to vesting, forfeiture and Transfer restrictions with respect to such stock options and Common Stock issued pursuant thereto that applied to the applicable Units.

 

ARTICLE VIII
BOOKS AND RECORDS; FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND OTHER INFORMATION; TAX MATTERS

 

Section 8.1                                    Books and Records; Management Interviews.

 

(a)                                 Books and Records.  The Company shall keep at its principal executive office (i) correct and complete books and records of account (which, in the case of financial records, shall be kept in accordance with GAAP), (ii) minutes of the proceedings of meetings of the Members, the Board of Managers and any committee of the Board of Managers, (iii) a current list of the Managers, directors and officers of the Company and its Subsidiaries and their respective residence addresses, and (iv) a record containing the names and addresses of all Members, the total number and class of Units held by each Member, and the dates when they respectively became the owners of record thereof.  Any of the foregoing books, minutes or records may be in written form or in any other form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable time.

 

(b)                                 Inspection of Property.  The Company shall permit any representative designated by the Vestar Majority Holders, or by any Member that owns in excess of 1.5% of the aggregate number of the total Preferred Units and the Class A Units taken together, upon reasonable notice and during normal business hours and at such other times as such Persons may reasonably request, for any purpose reasonably related to such Member’s interest as a member of the Company, to (i) visit and inspect any of the properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (ii) examine any books, minutes and records of the Company and its Subsidiaries (including business and financial records) and make copies thereof or extracts therefrom, and (iii) discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with the directors,

 

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officers, key employees and independent accountants of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in each case, under such conditions and restrictions (including a confidentiality undertaking or agreement) as the Board of Managers may reasonably prescribe.

 

Section 8.2                                    Financial Statements and Other Information.

 

(a)                                 The Company shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, deliver to each Preferred Member and each Class A Member, for so long as such Member (X) holds more than 1.5% of the aggregate number of the Preferred Units and the Class A Units taken together, the items described in this clause (a) or (Y) is an active employee of the Company, the items described in subclauses (i) - (iii) of this clause (a):

 

(i)                                     as soon as available, but in any event within 30 calendar days after the end of each calendar month in each Fiscal Year, unaudited statements of income and cash flows of Opco and each of its Subsidiaries for such monthly period and for the period from the beginning of the Fiscal Year to the end of such month, and unaudited balance sheets of Opco and each of its Subsidiaries as of the end of such monthly period, setting forth, in each case, comparisons to the annual budget for such Fiscal Year and to the corresponding period in the preceding Fiscal Year, and all such statements shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP, subject to the absence of footnote disclosures and to normal year-end adjustments for recurring accruals;

 

(ii)                                  as soon as available, but in any event within 45 calendar days after each Fiscal Quarter during each Fiscal Year, unaudited statements of income and cash flows of Opco and each of its Subsidiaries for such quarterly period and for the period from the beginning of the Fiscal Year to the end of such Fiscal Quarter, and unaudited balance sheets of Opco and each of its Subsidiaries as of the end of such quarterly period, setting forth, in each case, comparisons to the annual budget for such Fiscal Year and to the corresponding period in the preceding Fiscal Year, and all such statements shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP, subject to the absence of footnote disclosures and to normal year-end adjustments for recurring accruals, and shall be certified by the CEO and the CFO.  In addition, such financial statements shall be accompanied by a brief written summary prepared by the CEO and the CFO which summarizes performance highlights, lowlights, variances from the annual budget for such Fiscal Year and the prior year, and an outlook for the ensuing period;

 

(iii)                               as soon as available, but in any event within 90 calendar days after the end of each Fiscal Year, statements of income and cash flows of Opco and each of its Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Year, and balance sheets of Opco and each of its Subsidiaries as of the end of such Fiscal Year, setting forth, in each case, comparisons to the annual budget for such Fiscal Year and to the preceding Fiscal Year, all prepared in accordance with GAAP, and accompanied by an opinion, unqualified as to scope or compliance with GAAP, of a nationally recognized independent accounting firm reasonably acceptable to the Executive Committee, and certified by the CEO and the CFO;

 

(iv)                              at such time as any draft of the annual business plan and budget is provided to the Board of Managers for its consideration, a copy of such draft, and, as soon as practicable before the end of each Fiscal Year, a copy of the annual budget approved by the Board of Managers, including projected income statement, cash flow and balance sheet, on a monthly basis for the ensuing Fiscal Year, together with underlying assumptions and a

 

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brief qualitative description of the Company’s plan by the CEO and the CFO in support of such budget;

 

(v)                                 promptly, but in any event within 10 calendar days, after the discovery of any default under any material agreement to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party, any condition or event that could reasonably be expected to result in any material liability under any federal, state or local statute or regulation relating to public health and safety, worker health and safety or pollution or protection of the environment or any other material adverse change, event or circumstance affecting the Company or any Subsidiary (including the filing of any material litigation against the Company or any Subsidiary or the existence of any dispute with any Person that involves any likelihood of such litigation being commenced);

 

(vi)                              promptly upon receipt thereof, any additional reports, management letters or other detailed information concerning material aspects of the Company’s or such Subsidiary’s operations or financial affairs given to the Company or any Subsidiary by its independent accountants (and not otherwise contained in other materials provided hereunder);

 

(vii)                           within 10 calendar days after generation thereof, copies of any internal valuation memoranda or analyses;

 

(viii)                        within 10 calendar days after generation thereof, a copy of the monthly management reporting package delivered to the Board of Managers;

 

(ix)                              prior to the transmission thereof to the public, copies of all press releases and other written statements made available generally by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to the public concerning material developments in the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ businesses; and

 

(x)                                 with reasonable promptness, such other information and financial data concerning the Company and its Subsidiaries as any Person entitled to receive information under this Section 8.2(a) may reasonably request.

 

(b)                                 The Unitholders shall be supplied with all other Company information necessary to enable each Unitholder to prepare its federal, state and local income tax returns.

 

(c)                                  All determinations, valuations and other matters of judgment required to be made for accounting purposes under this Agreement shall be made in Good Faith by the Board of Managers and shall be conclusive and binding on all Unitholders, their Successors in Interest and any other Person, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, no such Person shall have the right to an accounting or an appraisal of the assets of the Company or any successor thereto.

 

Section 8.3                                    Fiscal Year; Taxable Year.  Each of the Fiscal Year and the taxable year of the Company shall end on December 31 of each calendar year; provided that the taxable year of the Company shall end on a different date if necessary to comply with Section 706 of the Code.

 

Section 8.4                                    Certain Tax Matters.

 

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filed and shall cause such returns to be timely filed.  Except as other provided herein, the Board of Managers shall determine the appropriate treatment of each item of income, gain, loss, deduction and credit of the Company and the accounting methods and conventions under the tax laws of the United States of America, the several states and other relevant jurisdictions as to the treatment of any such item or any other method or procedure related to the preparation of such tax returns.  Except as specifically provided otherwise in this Agreement, the Board of Managers may cause the Company to make or refrain from making any and all elections permitted by such tax laws.

 

(b)                                 Consistent Treatment.  Each Unitholder agrees that it shall not, except as otherwise required by applicable law or regulatory requirements, (i) treat, on its individual income tax returns, any item of income, gain, loss, deduction or credit relating to its interest in the Company in a manner inconsistent with the treatment of such item by the Company as reflected on the Form K-1 or other information statement furnished by the Company to such Unitholder for use in preparing its income tax returns or (ii) file any claim for refund relating to any such item based on, or which would result in, such inconsistent treatment.

 

(c)                                  Duties of the Tax Matters Member.  In respect of an income tax audit of any tax return of the Company, the filing of any amended return or claim for refund in connection with any item of income, gain, loss, deduction or credit reflected on any tax return of the Company, or any administrative or judicial proceedings arising out of or in connection with any such audit, amended return, claim for refund or denial of such claim, (A) the Board of Managers shall direct the Tax Matters Member to act for, and such action shall be final and binding upon, the Company and all Unitholders, except to the extent a Unitholder shall properly elect to be excluded from such proceeding pursuant to the Code, (B) all expenses incurred by the Tax Matters Member in connection therewith (including attorneys’, accountants’ and other experts’ fees and disbursements) shall be expenses of, and payable by, the Company, (C) no Unitholder other than the Tax Matters Member shall have the right to (1) participate in the audit of any Company tax return, (2) file any amended return or claim for refund in connection with any item of income, gain, loss, deduction or credit (other than items which are not partnership items within the meaning of Section 6231(a)(4) of the Code or which cease to be partnership items under Section 6231(b)) of the Code reflected on any tax return of the Company, (3) participate in any administrative or judicial proceedings conducted by the Company or the Tax Matters Member arising out of or in connection with any such audit, amended return, claim for refund or denial of such claim, or (4) appeal, challenge or otherwise protest any adverse findings in any such audit conducted by the Company or the Tax Matters Member or with respect to any such amended return or claim for refund filed by the Company or the Tax Matters Member or in any such administrative or judicial proceedings conducted by the Company or the Tax Matters Member and (D) the Tax Matters Member shall keep the Unitholders reasonably apprised of the status of any such proceeding.  Notwithstanding the previous sentence, if a petition for a readjustment to any partnership item included in a final partnership administrative adjustment is filed with a District Court or the Court of Claims and the IRS has elected to assess income tax against a Member with respect to that final partnership administrative adjustment (rather than suspending assessments until the District Court or Court of Claims proceedings become final), such Member shall be permitted to file a claim for refund within such period of time as to avoid application of any statute of limitations that would otherwise prevent the Member from having any claim based on the final outcome of that review.

 

(d)                                 Tax Matters Member.  The Company and each Member hereby designate Vestar V as the initial “tax matters partner” for purposes of Section 6231(a)(7) of the Code (the “Tax Matters Member”).  The Board of Managers may remove or replace the Tax Matters Member at any time and from time to time.

 

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(e)                                  Certain Filings.  Upon the Transfer of an interest in the Company (within the meaning of the Code), a sale of Company assets or a liquidation of the Company, the Unitholders shall provide the Board of Managers with information and shall make tax filings as reasonably requested by the Board of Managers and required under applicable law.

 

ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 9.1                                    Schedules.  Without in any way limiting the provisions of Section 8.2, a Manager may from time to time execute on behalf of the Company and deliver to the Unitholders schedules that set forth the then current Capital Account balances of each Unitholder and any other matters deemed appropriate by the Board of Managers or required by applicable law.  Such schedules shall be for information purposes only and shall not be deemed to be part of this Agreement for any purpose whatsoever.

 

Section 9.2                                    Governing Law.  THIS AGREEMENT IS GOVERNED BY AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, EXCLUDING ANY CONFLICT-OF-LAWS RULE OR PRINCIPLE THAT MIGHT REFER THE GOVERNANCE OR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS AGREEMENT TO THE LAW OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION.  In the event of a direct conflict between the provisions of this Agreement and any provision of the Certificate or any mandatory provision of the Act, the applicable provision of the Certificate or the Act shall control.

 

Section 9.3                                    Successors and Assigns.  This Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective Successors in Interest; provided that no Person claiming by, through or under a Member (whether as such Member’s Successor in Interest or otherwise), as distinct from such Member itself, shall have any rights as, or in respect to, a Member (including the right to approve or vote on any matter or to notice thereof).

 

Section 9.4                                    Confidentiality.  By executing this Agreement, each Member expressly agrees to maintain, for so long as such Person is a Member and at all times thereafter, the confidentiality of, and not to disclose to any Person other than the Company, another Member or a Person designated by the Company or any of their respective financial planners, accountants, attorneys or other advisors, any information relating to the business, financial structure, financial position or financial results, clients or affairs of the Company, or any Subsidiary of the Company that shall not be generally known to the public, except as otherwise required by applicable law or by any regulatory or self-regulatory organization having jurisdiction and except in the case of any Member who is employed by any entity controlled by the Company in the ordinary course of its duties; provided, however, that to the extent consistent with applicable law, a Member may provide its customary reports to its stockholders, limited partners, members or other owners, as the case may be, regarding its investment in the Company.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 9.4 to the contrary, in the event that any Member desires to undertake any Transfer of its Membership Interest permitted by the Securityholders Agreement, such Member may, upon the execution of a confidentiality agreement (in form reasonably acceptable to the Company’s legal counsel) by the Company and any bona fide potential Transferee, disclose to such potential Transferee (unless such potential Transferee is a direct competitor of the Company or its Affiliates) information of the sort otherwise restricted by this Section 9.4 if such Member reasonably believes such disclosure is necessary for the purpose of Transferring such Membership Interest to the bona fide potential Transferee.

 

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distributions of such class, then the Members so differently treated must approve such amendment or modification, provided further that no amendment may be made to this Agreement that is inconsistent with the Securityholders Agreement (including the approval rights and distribution priority of the Majority Preferred Stockholders thereunder or that would otherwise derogate the Convertible Preferred Stockholders rights and privileges under the Securityholders Agreement or the Certificate of Designations) without the approval of the Majority Preferred Stockholders, and provided further that no amendment shall be effective without the consent of each Member that would be adversely affected by such amendment if such amendment (a) modifies the limited liability of a Member, or (b) amends this Section 9.5.  For the avoidance of doubt the Board of Managers may amend this Agreement without the consent of any class of Members in order to provide for the creation and/or issuance of, any other class of units or other securities (whether of an existing or new class) that was issued in accordance with the Securityholders Agreement and approved in accordance with this Agreement, including Section 6.10 hereof, and to make any such other amendments as it deems necessary or desirable to reflect such additional issuances and to add parties to this Agreement as contemplated by this Agreement.

 

Section 9.6                                    Notices.  Whenever notice is required or permitted by this Agreement to be given, such notice shall be in writing and shall be given to any Member at such Member’s address or facsimile number shown in the Company’s books and records, or, if given to the Company, at the following address:

 

21st Century Oncology Investments, LLC
c/o Vestar Capital Partners V, L.P.
245 Park Avenue
41
st Floor
New York, NY 10167
Attention: James L. Elrod, Erin Russell and General Counsel
Facsimile: (212) 808-4922

 

and

 

Radiation Therapy Services, Inc.
2234 Colonial Boulevard
Fort Myers, FL 33907
Attention: Dr. Dosoretz
Facsimile: (239) 931-7380

 

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

 

Kirkland & Ellis LLP
601 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Attention: Michael Movsovich, Esq. and Constantine Skarvelis, Esq.
Facsimile: (212) 446-6460

 

and

 

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
101 East Kennedy Boulevard
Suite 2800
Tampa, Florida 33602
Attn: Darrell C. Smith, Esq.
Facsimile: (813) 229-1660

 

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Each proper notice shall be effective upon any of the following: (a) personal delivery to the recipient, (b) when sent by facsimile to the recipient (with confirmation of receipt), (c) one Business Day after being sent to the recipient by reputable overnight courier service (charges prepaid) or (d) three Business Days after being deposited in the mails (first class or airmail postage prepaid).

 

Section 9.7                                    Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed simultaneously in two or more separate counterparts, any one of which need not contain the signatures of more than one party, but each of which shall be an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement binding on all the parties hereto.

 

Section 9.8                                    Power of Attorney.  Each Member hereby irrevocably appoints each Manager as such Member’s true and lawful representative and attorney-in-fact, each acting alone, in such Member’s name, place and stead, (a) to make, execute, sign and file all instruments, documents and certificates which, from time to time, may be required to set forth any amendment to this Agreement or which may be required by this Agreement or by the laws of the United States of America, the State of Delaware or any other state in which the Company shall determine to do business, or any political subdivision or agency thereof and (b) to execute, implement and continue the valid and subsisting existence of the Company or to qualify and continue the Company as a foreign limited liability company in all jurisdictions in which the Company may conduct business.  No Manager, as representative and attorney-in-fact, however, shall have any rights, powers or authority to amend or modify this Agreement when acting in such capacity, except as expressly provided herein.  Such power of attorney is coupled with an interest and shall survive and continue in full force and effect notwithstanding the subsequent withdrawal from the Company of any Member for any reason and shall survive and shall not be affected by the disability or incapacity of such Member.

 

Section 9.9                                    Entire Agreement.  This Agreement, and the other documents and agreements referred to herein or entered into concurrently herewith embody the entire agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter contained herein; provided that such other agreements and documents shall not be deemed to be a part of, a modification of or an amendment to this Agreement.  There are no restrictions, promises, representations, warranties, covenants or undertakings, other than those expressly set forth or referred to herein.  This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings between the parties with respect to such subject matter.  Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, wherever a conflict exists between this Agreement and the Securityholders Agreement, the provisions of the Securityholders Agreement shall control, but solely to the extent of such conflict.  For the avoidance of doubt, the Preferred Unitholders acknowledge and agree that, effective as of the effectiveness of this Agreement, the Unpaid Preferred Return (as defined in the Prior Agreement) is $0.

 

Section 9.10                             Arbitration.

 

(a)                                 Any dispute with regard to this Agreement that is not resolved by mutual agreement, other than as provided in Section 9.10(b), shall be resolved by binding arbitration before the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) in New York City pursuant to the rules of AAA.  The arbitration shall be governed by the United States Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. §§1-16 and shall be conducted in accordance with the rules and procedures of AAA.  Any judgment upon the reward rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof.  The arbitrator’s decision shall set forth a reasoned basis for any award of damages or findings of liability.  The arbitrator shall not have the power to award damages in excess of actual compensatory damages and shall not multiply actual damages or award punitive damages, and each party hereby irrevocably waives any claim to such damages.  The costs of AAA and the arbitrator shall be borne by the Company.  Each party shall bear its own costs (including, without limitation, legal fees and fees of any experts) and out-of-pocket expenses.

 

(b)                                 The parties hereby agree and stipulate that in the event of any breach or violation of this Agreement by any other party hereto, either threatened or actual, the non-breaching parties’ rights

 

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shall include, in addition to any and all other rights available to any such non-breaching party at law or in equity, the right to seek and obtain any and all injunctive relief or restraining orders available to it in courts of proper jurisdiction, so as to prohibit, bar, and restrain any and all such breaches or violations by any other party hereto.  Each of the parties hereto further agrees that no bond need be filed in connection with any request by any other party hereto for a temporary restraining order or for temporary or preliminary injunctive relief.

 

Section 9.11                             Waiver of Jury Trial.  EACH PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION, OR CAUSE OF ACTION (A) ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR (B) IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH OR RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THE DEALINGS OF THE PARTIES HERETO IN RESPECT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED HERETO, IN EACH CASE, WHETHER NOW EXISTING OR HEREAFTER ARISING, AND WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, EQUITY OR OTHERWISE.

 

Section 9.12                             Severability.  Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect under any applicable law or rule in any jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision or any other jurisdiction, but this Agreement shall be reformed, construed and enforced in such jurisdiction as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein.

 

Section 9.13                             Securityholders Agreement. In case of any inconsistency between the terms of this Agreement and the Securityholders Agreement, the terms of the Securityholders Agreement shall govern.

 

Section 9.14                             Creditors and Third Party Beneficiaries.  None of the provisions of this Agreement shall be for the benefit of or enforceable by any creditors of the Company or any of its Affiliates, and no creditor who makes a loan to the Company or any of its Affiliates may have or acquire (except pursuant to the terms of a separate agreement executed by the Company in favor of such creditor) at any time as a result of making the loan any direct or indirect interest in Company profits, losses, distributions, capital or property other than as a secured creditor. The Majority Preferred Stock Holders are express third party beneficiaries of this Agreement.

 

Section 9.15                             Waiver.  No failure by any party to insist upon the strict performance of any covenant, duty, agreement or condition of this Agreement or to exercise any right or remedy consequent upon a breach thereof shall constitute a waiver of any such breach or any other covenant, duty, agreement or condition.

 

Section 9.16                             Further Action.  The parties agree to execute and deliver all documents, provide all information and take or refrain from taking such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to achieve the purposes of this Agreement.

 

Section 9.17                             Delivery by Facsimile or Email.  This Agreement, the agreements referred to herein, and each other agreement or instrument entered into in connection herewith or therewith or contemplated hereby or thereby, and any amendments hereto or thereto, to the extent signed and delivered by means of a facsimile machine or email with scan or facsimile attachment, shall be treated in all manner and respects as an original agreement or instrument and shall be considered to have the same binding legal effect as if it were the original signed version thereof delivered in person.  At the request of any party hereto or to any such agreement or instrument, each other party hereto or thereto shall re-execute original forms thereof and deliver them to all other parties.  No party hereto or to any such agreement or instrument shall raise the use of a facsimile machine or email to deliver a signature or the fact that any signature or agreement or instrument was transmitted or communicated through the use of a facsimile machine or email as a defense to the formation or enforceability of a contract, and each such party forever waives any such defense.

 

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Section 9.18                             30% Rule Compliance.

 

(a)                                 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no CPPIB Entity (each, an “Applicable Entity”) will be required or permitted to make any investment in any Group Entity that would be reasonably expected to cause any such Applicable Entity to be in breach of or to contravene the 30% Rule (as supported by the written opinion of external legal counsel to such Applicable Entity at its own cost).

 

(b)                                 The Group Entities and the Members will co-operate with the relevant Applicable Entities (to the extent commercially reasonable and provided that one or more of the Applicable Entities agree to reimburse the Members for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs or expenses incurred by them, if any, in respect of any such cooperation, excluding the cost of acquiring any securities) to assist the Applicable Entities to comply with the 30% Rule in relation to their investment in any Group Entity. In furtherance of the foregoing, prior to the completion of any initial Public Offering, each Member agrees to take any action or step reasonably requested by any Applicable Entity, including, without limitation, a change in the authorized capital of a Group Entity, that is necessary to avoid any breach or potential breach of the 30% Rule, or any amendment or replacement of that rule, including, without limitation, any breach or potential breach arising in connection with the potential exercise of any rights of first refusal or first offer, any pre-emptive rights, any right or obligation to transfer or exchange securities (including in connection with but prior to the completion of any Public Offering (including a Qualified IPO), the issuance of Equity Securities in any merger or other business combination (including a Qualified Merger), or any option, warrant or other right or obligation to purchase or acquire securities (including upon conversion of the Convertible Preferred Stock), in each case existing or arising under this Agreement or otherwise in relation to any Group Entity. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section 9.18, no Member shall be required to take any action or step that has, or would reasonably be likely to have, a material adverse effect on such Member, or that would reduce its ownership percentage in the Company.

 

(c)                                  The Group Entities agree that they will co-operate with any Applicable Entity (including, for greater certainty, following the completion of an initial Public Offering by Holdings (including a Qualified IPO)) and use reasonable efforts to provide such information or certifications as may reasonably be required by the Applicable Entities in the event the Applicable Entities make an application to the Ontario Securities Commission for a discretionary order providing a prospectus exemption from applicable Canadian securities laws to facilitate the resale of Registrable Securities (as defined in the Securityholders Agreement) or any securities issued in any merger or other business combination involving Holdings (including a Qualified Merger).

 

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Exhibit 10.5

 

AMENDMENT TO SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED

 

EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

This AMENDMENT TO SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (“Amendment”) dated as of September 25, 2014, by and between 21ST CENTURY ONCOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC. F/K/A RADIATION THERAPY SERVICES HOLDINGS, INC. (the “Company”), and DANIEL E. DOSORETZ, M.D.  (“Executive”).

 

WHEREAS, the Executive and the Company are currently parties to that certain Second Amended and Restated Executive Employment Agreement, dated May 6, 2014, (the “Employment Agreement”); and

 

WHEREAS, the Executive and Company desire to amend the Employment Agreement in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth below.

 

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained, the parties, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

 

1.                                      Section 3(a).  Section 3(a) of the Employment Agreement is hereby amended to delete the reference to “One Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,200,000.00)” in its entirety and to replace it with “Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00)”.  Section 3(a) of the Employment Agreement is also hereby amended to add a new sentence as follows:

 

“The Parties acknowledge and agree that in the event of a Change of Control of the Company, a material deleveraging of the Company or a material refinancing or recapitalization (including but not limited to recapitalization involving the issuance of common or preferred stock) of the Company, the Executive’s Base Salary shall be increased to One Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,200,000). For purposes of this Agreement, “Change of Control” shall mean the consummation of a transaction, whether in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions that are consummated contemporaneously (or consummated pursuant to contemporaneous agreements), with any other person or group of related persons on an arm’s-length basis, pursuant to which such person or group of related persons (i) acquires (whether by merger, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization, redemption, exchange of debt for capital stock, issuance of capital stock or otherwise) more than 50 percent of the Company’s capital stock outstanding, or (ii) acquires assets constituting all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or the Company’s  Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.”

 



 

2.                                      Section 5(h). Section 5 of the Employment Agreement is hereby amended to add a new Section 5(h) as follows:

 

“Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if the Executive is terminated as Chief Executive Officer for any reason, Executive may elect to remain employed by the Company as a senior physician providing radiation oncology services at the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ radiation therapy centers in which event the Executive and Company, or one of it’s affiliates, shall enter into a new employment agreement which shall, in addition to comparable terms offered to other senior physicians of the Company, contain the following terms: (i) the Executive’s Base Salary shall be One Million  Dollars ($1,000,000.00), (ii) Executive  shall be required to work five (5) days per week as a physician rather than up to two (2) days per week as is the current expectation, and (iii) Executive shall be eligible to participate in such other performance, bonus and benefit plans afforded other senior physicians of the Company and receive comparable fringe benefits to such other senior physicians, including, but not limited to, participating in the Lee County and Charlotte County production bonus pools, in effect as such time.”

 

3.                                      Reimbursement of Attorneys’ Fees. The Company shall reimburse the Executive for reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs incurred by the Executive in connection with the negotiation and execution of this Amendment and as a founding Director in connection with the Company’s recent financial circumstances. Reimbursements shall be made within ten (10) calendar days following the Executive’s submission of documentation to the Company evidencing the amount of such attorneys’ fees and costs.

 

4.                                      Effective Date. The parties acknowledge and agree that the effective date of the foregoing Amendment shall be July 27, 2014.

 

5.                                      No Further Amendments.   The Executive and Company agree that all provisions of the Employment Agreement shall remain in full force and effect except when contradicted by this Amendment, in which case this Amendment shall control.

 

6.                                      Counterparts.  This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, including facsimile or an e-mail of a PDF file containing a copy of the signature page of the person executing this document, each of which shall be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one in the same instrument.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Amendment to Executive Employment Agreement has been duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

 

 

 

21ST CENTURY ONCOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Joseph Biscardi

 

Name:

Joseph Biscardi

 

Title:

Senior Vice President

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXECUTIVE:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Daniel E. Dosoretz, M.D.

 

Daniel E. Dosoretz, M.D.

 




Exhibit 99.1

 

21ST CENTURY ONCOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC.

 

Investors:

 

Media:

 

 

Nick Laudico

 

Owen Blicksilver Public Relations

 

 

The Ruth Group

 

Carol J. Makovich

 

Jennifer Hurson

646-536-7030

 

203-622-4781

 

845-507-0571

nlaudico@theruthgroup.com

 

carol@blicksilverpr.com

 

jennifer@blicksilverpr.com

 

21st CENTURY ONCOLOGY RECEIVES $325 MILLION NET CASH PROCEEDS FROM PREFERRED EQUITY INVESTMENT

 

·                  New investor, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, is Canada’s largest pension fund manager, with C$227 billion in assets under management

·                  Investment results in substantial deleveraging, stronger liquidity, and significant capital for continued business expansion

·                  21st Century Oncology (21C) to use fresh capital to drive integrated cancer care strategy, organic growth and corporate development initiatives

 

FORT MYERS, FL & NEW YORK, NY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 — 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc. (“21st Century Oncology” or “the Company”) and Vestar Capital Partners (“Vestar”) today announced that Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (“CPPIB”), Canada’s largest pension fund manager with C$227 billion in assets under management, has made a $325 million equity investment in the Company.  The investment provides the Company with substantial incremental liquidity, enables significant debt reduction, and secures the long-term capital necessary to support the Company’s future growth strategy.

 

Dr. Daniel Dosoretz, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, said, “This new capital provided by CPPIB is a significant equity investment for 21C. CPPIB’s investment is a key partnership in our worldwide leadership of Integrated Cancer Care (ICC) and our ability to achieve sustained organic and acquisitive growth. We are extremely pleased that CPPIB has joined Vestar Capital as a major equity partner, sharing our conviction that we will continue to leverage our unique global platform and execute our long-term business plan.”

 

Dr. Dosoretz continued, “Importantly, the investment allows us to continue to pursue our ICC and corporate development strategies that have driven the expansion of our business over the past several years. It will significantly enhance our capital structure and give us the resources necessary to continue providing integrated cancer care, improve the quality of care, and deliver that care at compelling value to our expanding patient population throughout North America and Latin America. Our business continues to perform well, with strong organic trends and growth contributions from the acquisitions of OnCure and SFRO. We expect to continue to build on our second quarter momentum as we move through the second half of 2014, delivering academic quality care to patients, improving census and executing our growth strategy.”

 



 

Scott Lawrence, Managing Director, Head of Relationship Investments, CPPIB, said, “We are pleased to become a cornerstone investor in 21C, and we look forward to a strong partnership with senior management and Vestar Capital. This investment is aligned with our goals of providing strategic, long-term capital to industry leading businesses where we can participate in their future success and help create greater value through an ongoing partnership.”

 

Rob Rosner, Chairman of the Board of 21C and Co-President of Vestar Capital, noted, “The CPPIB investment supports Vestar’s long-term thesis that 21C is the preeminent platform for integrated cancer care and provides academic quality care in comfortable, convenient and integrated settings.  We look forward to our partnership with CPPIB in fulfilling the Company’s mission and reaching its full business potential.”

 

The net proceeds of the investment will be used to repay all outstanding borrowings under the Company’s revolving credit facility of approximately $79.5 million, repay all obligations under the South Florida Radiation Oncology (SFRO) credit facilities of approximately $84.5 million, repay certain other debt and capital leases, fund strategic initiatives, and provide working capital for general corporate purposes.  As a result of the CPPIB investment, the recapitalization support agreement that the Company entered into in July has terminated in accordance with its terms. The Company’s senior subordinated notes will remain outstanding and unmodified.  Following the repayments of debt identified for repayment, the Company expects to have approximately $80 million of the net cash proceeds on hand.

 

Pursuant to the terms of the investment, CPPIB will receive shares of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and will have the right to nominate two directors for appointment to 21C’s Board of Directors.  The holders of a majority of the outstanding preferred stock will have customary consent rights and will be entitled to vote together with the holders of the Company’s common stock on an as-converted basis under certain circumstances.

 

A detailed Form 8-K filing that includes the specifics of the new preferred stock and related documentation is available on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website, www.sec.gov.

 

About 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.

 

21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc. is the largest global, physician led provider of Integrated Cancer Care Services. The Company offers a comprehensive range of cancer treatment services, focused on delivering academic quality, cost-effective patient care in personal and convenient settings. The Company operates 179 treatment centers, including 144 centers located in 16 U.S. states. The Company also operates 35 centers located in six countries in Latin America. The Company holds market leading positions in most of its domestic local markets and abroad.

 

(Source: 21st Century Oncology Holdings, Inc.)

 

About Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

 

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is a professional investment management organization that invests the funds not needed by the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to pay current

 



 

benefits on behalf of 18 million Canadian contributors and beneficiaries. In order to build a diversified portfolio of CPP assets, CPPIB invests in public equities, private equities, real estate, infrastructure and fixed income instruments. Headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Hong Kong, London, New York City and São Paulo, CPPIB is governed and managed independently of the Canada Pension Plan and at arm’s length from governments. At June 30, 2014, the CPP Fund totaled C$226.8 billion. For more information about CPPIB, please visit www.cppib.com.

 

About Vestar Capital Partners (“Vestar”)

 

Vestar Capital Partners is a leading U.S. middle-market private equity firm specializing in management buyouts. Vestar invests and collaborates with incumbent management teams and private owners in a creative, flexible and entrepreneurial way to build long-term enterprise value.

 

Vestar is targeting equity investments in the range of $50 million to $250 million in U.S.-based middle-market companies with enterprise values ranging from $150 million to $1.5 billion. Vestar has extensive experience investing across a wide variety of industries including Healthcare, Consumer, Digital Media, Information Services, Diversified Industries, and Financial Services. Since Vestar’s founding in 1988, Vestar funds have completed more than 70 investments in companies with a total value of more than $40 billion. For more information, please visit www.vestarcapital.com.

 

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