SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2023-02-01

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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="ia4fbd17afdd94fd9b317ea8462efaafb_1"></div><div style="min-height:64.8pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">This Registration Rights Agreement (this &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;) is made as of February&#160;1, 2023, by and between Advanced Emissions Solutions Inc., a Delaware corporation (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Company</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;), and the persons listed on the attached </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Schedule&#160;A</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"> who are signatories to this Agreement (collectively, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Investors</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221; and each an &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Investor</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;). Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used in this Agreement have the respective meanings ascribed to them in the Purchase Agreement (as defined below).</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">RECITALS</font></div><div style="margin-top:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">WHEREAS</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">, concurrent herewith, the Company is entering into that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of February&#160;1, 2023 (as may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Purchase Agreement</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;), among the Company and Arq Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of Jersey (&#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Arq</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;), whereby, among other things, the Company will purchase the equity interests of the subsidiaries of Arq (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Purchased Interests</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;) from Arq and Arq will sell the Purchased Interests to the Company in exchange for the issuance by ADES to Arq of (i) 3,814,864 shares of common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Common Stock</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;) and (ii) 5,294,462 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, of Company (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Series A Preferred Stock</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;) (833,914 of which shares of Series A Preferred Stock are initially being deposited into an escrow account), on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein and in the ancillary agreements thereto (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">Transaction</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;)&#