Company: HCWB
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-032115
Chunk: 84

Company: HCW Biologics Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 84
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 the Registrable Securities covered thereby and no Put Shares remain issuable under the Purchase
Agreement (the “”). In the event that any Registration Statement filed hereunder is no longer effective and Rule 144 is available for sales of the Registrable Securities, the Company shall provide

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an opinion upon request of the Investor that the Investor may sell any such Registrable Securities held by the Investor pursuant to Rule 144 with all costs related to such opinion to be borne by
the Company. Each Registration Statement (including any amendments or supplements thereto and prospectuses contained therein) shall not contain any 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 in which they were made, not misleading.

e. .
If the Staff or the SEC seeks to characterize any offering pursuant to a Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Agreement as constituting an offering of securities that does not permit such Registration Statement to become or remain effective
and be used for resales by the Investor under Rule 415 at then-prevailing market prices (and not fixed prices) by comment letter or otherwise, or if after the filing of the Initial Registration Statement with the SEC pursuant to
, the Company is otherwise required by the Staff or the SEC to reduce the number of Registrable Securities included in such Initial Registration Statement, then the Company shall reduce the number of Registrable
Securities to be included in such Initial Registration Statement (after having consulted the Investor and its legal counsel as to the specific Registrable Securities to be removed therefrom) until such time as the Staff and the SEC shall so permit
such Registration Statement to become effective and be used as aforesaid. In the event of any reduction in Registrable Securities pursuant to this paragraph, the Company shall file one or more New Registration Statements in accordance with
until such time as all Registrable Securities have been included in Registration Statements that have been declared effective and the prospectus contained therein is available for use by the Investor.
Notwithstanding any provision herein or in the Purchase Agreement to the contrary, the Company’s obligations to register Registrable Securities (and any related conditions to the Investor’s obligations) shall be qualified as necessary to
comport with any requirement of the SEC or the Staff as addressed in this .

3. .

With respect to a Registration Statement and whenever any Registrable Securities are to be Registered pursuant to
, including on any Other Registration Statement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to