lock-up agreement

基本解释

Companies may end up spending more time negotiating all the possibilities, than making up new proprietary formats, as agreements and pacts will become the new means of customer lock-ins.
公司可能最終會把時間都花在談判所有可能的格式上，而不是建立新的私有的格式，那麽協議和郃同將會成爲新的霸佔顧客（customer lock-ins）的手段。

Second, punters are worried about the expiration of lock-up agreements covering 190 billion yuan of shares.
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Facebook still faces enormous additional supply coming into the market as post-IPO lock-up agreements covering well over 1 billion shares expire in the coming months.
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Prior to the JOBS Act, sell-side analysts were prohibited from publishing research before the IPO, for 40 days after the IPO, and in the 15 days before and after lock-up agreements with pre-IPO stockholders and the company expire.
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