The First Closing Date Delivery of certificates for the Firm Shares to be purchased by the Underwriters and payment therefor shall be made at the offices of Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP (or such other place as may be agreed to by the Company and the Representatives) at 9:00 a.m. New York City time, on [•], or such other time and date not later than 1:30 p.m. New York City time, on [•] as the Representatives shall designate by notice to the Company (the time and date of such closing are called the “First Closing Date”). The Company hereby acknowledges that circumstances under which the Representatives may provide notice to postpone the First Closing Date as originally scheduled include, but are not limited to, any determination by the Company or the Representatives to recirculate to the public copies of an amended or supplemented Prospectus or a delay as contemplated by the provisions of Section 11.
First Closing The First Closing shall have occurred.
Initial Closing Date The obligation of Buyer hereunder to purchase the Initial Preferred Shares from the Company at the Initial Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or before the Initial Closing Date, of each of the following conditions, provided that these conditions are for Buyer's sole benefit and may be waived by Buyer at any time in its sole discretion:
(i) the Company shall have executed each of the Transaction Documents and delivered the same to Buyer.
(ii) the Certificate of Designations shall have been filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, and a copy thereof certified by such Secretary of State, or a facsimile of such a copy and certification, shall have been delivered to Buyer.
(iii) the Common Stock (x) shall be designated for quotation or listed on the Principal Market and (y) shall not have been suspended by the SEC or the Principal Market from trading on the Principal Market nor shall suspension by the SEC or the Principal Market have been threatened either (A) in writing by the SEC or the Principal Market or (B) by falling below the minimum listing maintenance requirements of the Principal Market; and the Conversion Shares issuable upon conversion of the Initial Preferred Shares shall be listed upon the Principal Market.
(iv) the representations and warranties of the Company shall be true and correct as of the date when made and as of the Initial Closing Date as though made at that time (except for representations and warranties that speak as of a specific date, which shall be true and correct as of such date) and the Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied with the covenants, agreements and conditions required by the Transaction Documents to be performed, satisfied or complied with by the Company at or prior to the Closing Date. Buyer shall have received a certificate, executed by a duly authorized officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the foregoing effect and as to such other matters as may be reasonably requested by Buyer including, but not limited to, an update as of the Closing Date regarding the representation contained in Section 3(c) above.
(v) Buyer shall have received the opinion of Xxxxx & Xxxxxxx L.L.P. dated as of the Initial Closing Date, in form, scope and substance reasonably satisfactory to Buyer and in substantially the form of EXHIBIT D attached hereto.
(vi) the Company shall have executed and delivered to Buyer the Initial Preferred Stock Certificates (in such denominations as Buyer shall request) for the Initial Preferred Shares being purchased by Buyer at the Initial Closing.
(vii) the Board of Directors of the Company shall have adopted resolutions consistent with Section 3(b) above and in a form reasonably acceptable to Buyer (the "TRANSACTIONS RESOLUTIONS").
(viii) as of the Initial Closing Date, the Company shall have reserved out of its authorized and unissued Common Stock, solely for the purpose of effecting the conversion of the Initial Preferred Shares and issuance of the Initial Warrant Shares, an agreed upon number of shares of Common Stock.
(ix) the Company shall have delivered to Buyer a certified copy of the Certificate of Incorporation as certified by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, and a good standing certificate for the Company as certified by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, each as of a date within fifteen (15) days of the Initial Closing Date.
(x) the Company shall have delivered to Buyer a secretary's certificate, dated as of the Initial Closing Date, as to (A) the Transaction Resolutions, (B) resolutions of the Company's Board of Directors increasing the Ownership Limit to 9.225% (the "OWNERSHIP LIMIT RESOLUTIONS"), (C) the Certificate of Incorporation, (D) the By-Laws, with (A), (B) and (C) each as in effect at the Initial Closing, (E) the Limited Partnership Agreement of the Operating Partnership and all amendments thereto and (F) the incumbency signatures of those officers of the Company executing this Agreement or any document or instrument contemplated hereby.
(xi) the Company shall have made all filings required to be made prior to closing under all applicable federal and state securities laws necessary to consummate the issuance of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement in compliance with such laws.
(xii) the Company shall have delivered to Buyer such other documents relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as Buyer or its counsel may reasonably request.
(xiii) a certificate shall have been delivered to Buyer executed by Bayerische Hypo-Und Vereinsbank AG (the "BANK") in which the Bank (i) consents to the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Transaction Documents, (ii) indicates that no Event of Default under the Loan Documents will be triggered as a result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Transaction Documents and (iii) indicates that, to the knowledge of the Bank, no Event of Default has occurred under the Loan Documents.
(xiv) an Ownership Limit Waiver Agreement shall be been delivered to Buyer executed by the Company in the form attached hereto as EXHIBIT F.
(xv) an amendment to the Limited Partnership Agreement of the Operating Partnership in the form of EXHIBIT G (the "PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT AMENDMENT") shall have been duly adopted.
Initial Closing In consideration for each applicable Lender’s payment of its pro rata share of the aggregate purchase price (the “Closing Note Purchase Price”) of the Notes to be purchased by the Lenders at the Closing (as defined below), which is set forth opposite such Lender’s name in column four (4) of the Schedule of Lenders attached hereto, the Borrower shall issue and sell to such Lender on the Closing Date (as defined below), and each applicable Lender severally, but not jointly, agrees to purchase from the Borrower on the Closing Date, a Note, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, and in the aggregate principal amount as is set forth opposite such Lender’s name in column four (4) of the Schedule of Lenders attached hereto. The closing (the “Closing”) of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the issuance of the Notes to be issued on the Closing Date by the Borrower and the purchase thereof by the applicable Lenders shall occur at the offices of Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000. The date and time of the Closing (the “Closing Date”) shall be 10:00 a.m., Chicago time, on the date hereof, subject to notification of satisfaction (or waiver) of the conditions to the Closing set forth in Section 5.1 below (or such later date as is mutually agreed to by the Borrower and the Agent). On the Closing Date, (i) each Lender shall pay its pro rata share of the Closing Note Purchase Price to the Borrower for the Notes to be issued and sold to such Lender at the Closing, by wire transfer of immediately available funds, as more fully set forth on the Schedule of Lenders and (ii) the Borrower shall deliver to each Lender the Notes (in the denominations as such Lender shall have requested prior to the Closing) which such Lender is then purchasing, duly executed on behalf of the Borrower and registered in the name of such Lender or its designee.
Additional Closing i. The obligations of KiOR to sell the Notes, and of the Purchasers to purchase the Notes are subject to the fulfillment, on or before each Additional Closing, of each of the following conditions:
(a) The notifications of the Purchasers and KiOR pursuant to the HSR Act, if any, shall have been made and the applicable waiting period and any extensions thereof shall have expired or been terminated; and
(b) Consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or by the Transaction Documents shall not have been restrained, enjoined or otherwise prohibited or made illegal by, or conditioned upon the receipt of any approvals or consents from Governmental Authorities under, any applicable law.
ii. The obligations of KiOR to sell the Notes are subject to the fulfillment, on or before any Additional Closing, of each of the following conditions, unless otherwise waived by KiOR:
(a) each Purchaser shall pay to KiOR, by wire transfer of immediately available funds, the applicable amount set forth opposite such Purchaser’s name under the heading “Additional Closing” on the Schedule of Purchasers for the Notes being purchased by such Purchaser at the Additional Closing. The Additional Closing shall not be deemed to occur, and all such payments by any Purchaser shall be deemed to be held in escrow, until all Purchasers listed on the Schedule of Purchasers have tendered to KiOR the applicable Purchase Price indicated thereon; and
(b) each of the representations and warranties of each Purchaser in this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents shall be true and correct on the date of the Additional Closing, and the occurrence of such Additional Closing shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty of each Purchaser that such representations and warranties are true and correct.
iii. The obligations of each Purchaser to purchase the Notes are subject to the fulfillment, on or before each Additional Closing, of each of the following conditions, unless otherwise waived by such Purchaser:
(a) the Required Purchasers shall have determined that the Company shall have satisfied the applicable Milestone (as determined in the sole discretion of (and to the satisfaction of) the Required Purchasers);
(b) the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 4 of this Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by “materiality” or “Material Adverse Effect” in the text thereof) on and as of such Additional Closing, and no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing as of the date of such Additional Closing; and
(c) the Company shall have performed and complied with all covenants, agreements, obligations and conditions contained in this Agreement that are required to be performed or complied with by the Company on or before such Additional Closing.
Closing; Closing Date Closing" and "Closing Date" have the meanings set forth in Section 5.3.
Additional Closings (a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, at any time and from time to time from the date of the Initial Closing and ending on October 15, 2012, the Company may, at one or more additional closings (each an “Additional Closing” and collectively with the Initial Closing, a “Closing”), without obtaining the signature, consent or permission of any of the Lender, offer and sell to other investors, which may include one or more of the Lenders (the “New Lenders”) Notes and Warrants pursuant to this Agreement under the same terms and conditions as set forth in this Agreement, with such Notes having an aggregate Principal Amount of no more than the difference of (i) the Maximum Funding Amount minus (ii) the aggregate Principal Amount of all Notes previously sold hereunder. As set forth above, New Lenders may include persons or entities who are already Lenders under this Agreement.
(b) The Company and each New Lender purchasing one or more Notes at an Additional Closing will execute counterpart signature pages to this Agreement, and each New Lender will, upon delivery by such New Lender to the Company of such signature pages, and the payment by such New Lender to the Company of the principal amount of the Note(s) to be purchased by such New Lender and the purchase price for the Warrant(s) to be acquired by such New Lender at such Additional Closing, become a party to, and bound by, this Agreement to the same extent as if such New Lender had been a Lender at the Initial Closing. The obligation of the Company to sell and issue Notes and Warrants to New Lenders at each Additional Closing, and the obligation of each New Lender at each Additional Closing to purchase a Note and Warrant, shall each be subject to satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Sections 2.3 and 2.4 of this Agreement, except that unless otherwise set forth therein, each reference in Section 2.3 and 2.4 to the “Closing” shall instead refer to the applicable Additional Closing. Immediately after each Additional Closing, the Schedule of Lenders attached to this Agreement will be amended, without the consent of any other Lender, to add to the names of the New Lenders purchasing Notes and Warrants at such Additional Closing as “Lenders” hereunder and to set forth the principal amount of each Note and the Warrant purchase price for each New Lender under this Agreement. The Company will promptly furnish to each Lender upon request, a copy of the Schedule of Lenders as amended to the date of such request.
Second Closing (1) Subject to the satisfaction (or, where permissible, waiver) of the conditions to closing set forth in Section 1.2(d), the second closing (the “Second Closing”) shall take place at a time and date as shall be agreed upon by the parties hereto, but in no event later than the third business day after the date of satisfaction or waiver of the last of the conditions specified in Section 1.2(d), at the offices of Xxxxxxx Spidi & Xxxxx, PC, 0000 00xx Xxxxxx, X.X., Xxxxxxxxxx, X.X. 00000, or such other date or location as agreed by the parties in writing. The date of the Second Closing is referred to as the “Second Closing Date.”
(2) Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions described in Section 1.2(d), at the Second Closing, the Company will deliver to the Investor (i) one or more certificates bearing the appropriate legends herein provided for and free and clear of all Liens representing _________ shares of Series B Preferred Stock against payment by the Investor of $_________ (the “Second Purchase Price” and together with the Initial Purchase Price, the “Purchase Price”) by wire transfer of immediately available United States funds to a bank account designated by the Company; provided, that if the Second Common Shares, together with the Common Shares issued at the First Closing and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of the Series B Preferred Shares (the “Conversion Shares”) would cause the Investor or its Affiliates to be deemed for purposes of the BHC Act to own 25% or more of the outstanding shares of any class of voting securities of the Company or to otherwise control the Company, then the number of Series B Preferred Shares to be purchased at the Second Closing shall be reduced to the highest number of Series B Preferred Shares at a purchase price per share of $1,000 (and the Second Purchase Price and the Purchase Price shall be reduced accordingly) such that the Investor will not be deemed for purposes of the BHC Act to own 25% or more of the outstanding shares of any class of voting securities of the Company or to otherwise control the Company. Any determinations under the proviso of the preceding sentence shall take into account the appropriate regulatory treatment of convertible securities.
Conditions Precedent to the Closing Date The effectiveness of this Agreement and the obligations of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder on the Closing Date are subject to the satisfaction (or waiver by the Required Lenders) of the following conditions precedent:
(a) The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) a counterpart of this Agreement and, except as provided in Section 5.15, each other Loan Document signed on behalf of each party hereto and thereto (including via any electronic means) or (ii) evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (which may include a facsimile or other electronic imaging transmission) that such party has signed such a counterpart.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received, on behalf of itself and the Lenders, a favorable written opinion of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Borrower, of Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, P.A., counsel for certain Loan Parties, in each case (i) dated the Closing Date, (ii) addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and (iii) in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders, covering such matters customarily covered in opinions of this type as the Required Lenders shall reasonably request, and the Borrower hereby requests such counsel to deliver such opinions.
(c) The representations and warranties of the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article III or any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Closing Date; provided that, to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date; provided, further, that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language shall be true and correct (after giving effect to any qualification therein) in all respects on such respective dates.
(d) Immediately prior to and immediately after the Closing Date, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
(e) The making of such Loan shall not violate any Requirement of Law applicable to the Loan Parties, and shall not be enjoined, temporarily, preliminarily or permanently.
(f) The Borrower and New Pyxus Topco hereby agree that the release of their signatures to this Agreement shall be deemed to constitute a certification of compliance with the conditions precedent set forth in paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of this Section 4.01.
(g) The Administrative Agent shall have received a notice of such Borrowing as required by Section 2.03.
(h) Subject to Section 5.15, the Administrative Agent shall have received (i) a copy of the certificate or articles of incorporation (or the foreign equivalent), including all amendments thereto, of each Loan Party, certified as of a recent date by the Secretary of State of the state of its organization (or, to the extent applicable, confirmation that there has been no changes to any such formation document since the closing date of the Term Loan Credit Agreement) and a certificate as to the good standing of each Loan Party as of a recent date, from such Secretary of State (in each case, or the foreign equivalent, if any); (ii) a certificate of the Responsible Officer of each Loan Party (or, with respect to a UK Loan Party, a certificate of a director of such UK Loan Party, or, with respect to any other Foreign Guarantor, an equivalent officer or director of such Foreign Guarantor) dated the Closing Date and certifying (A) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of the constitutional documents, articles of association, memorandum of association, certificate of incorporation and by-laws of such Loan Party as in effect on the Closing Date and at all times since a date prior to the date of the resolutions described in clause (B) below (or, to the extent applicable, confirmation that there has been no changes to any such organizational document since the date of delivery in connection with the Term Loan Credit Agreement), (B) that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of resolutions duly adopted by the board of directors (or its equivalent) of such Loan Party (and, in the case of a UK Loan Party, of resolutions duly passed by its members) authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which such person is a party and, in the case of the Borrower, the borrowings hereunder, and that such resolutions have not been modified, rescinded or amended and are in full force and effect, (C) where required by local law or the relevant constitutional documents, that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of resolutions adopted by the general meeting of shareholders (or its equivalent) of such Loan Party authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which such person is a party and that such resolutions have not been modified, rescinded or amended and are in full force and effect, (D) that the certificate or articles of incorporation, constitutional documents, articles of association and memorandum of association of such Loan Party have not been amended since the date of the last amendment thereto shown on the certificate of good standing (or the foreign equivalent, if any) furnished pursuant to clause (i) above, (E) as to the incumbency and specimen signature of each officer executing any Loan Document or any other document delivered in connection herewith on behalf of such Loan Party and (F) except in the case of any UK Loan Party, as to the absence of any pending proceeding for dissolution or liquidation of such Loan Party or, to the knowledge of such Responsible Officer, threatening the existence of such Loan Party; (iii) a certificate of another officer as to the incumbency and specimen signature of the Responsible Officer executing the certificate pursuant to clause (ii) above; (iv) in the case of a UK Loan Party, a certificate of a director confirming that the entry into the Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents would not exceed any guarantee limits under the constitutional documents of such UK Loan Party or under any other agreement or instrument to which such UK Loan Party is a party; (v) in the case of a UK Loan Party, a resolution of the direct shareholders of that UK Loan Party approving the terms of the Loan Documents to which such UK Loan Party is a party and (vi) such other documents as the Required Lenders may reasonably request.
(i) [Reserved].
(j) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have received, at least three Business Days prior to the Closing Date, to the extent requested at least five Business Days prior to the Closing Date, (i) all documentation and other information required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act and (ii) if the Borrower qualified as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, a customary certification regarding beneficial ownership required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation in relation to the Borrower.
(k) Except as provided in Section 5.15, the Collateral Agent shall have received evidence that each Loan Party shall have taken or caused to be taken any action, executed and delivered or cause to be executed and delivered any other agreement, document and instrument and made or caused to be made any other filing and recording reasonably required by the Collateral Agent and the Lenders. Prior to or substantially simultaneously therewith, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have received the fees in the amounts contemplated to be paid hereunder on the Closing Date or otherwise previously agreed in writing by the Agents or the Lenders, and all expenses (including the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel to the extent payable in accordance with the terms hereof) payable by the Loan Parties (with respect to expenses, to the extent invoices have been presented at least one Business Day prior to such date) shall have been paid.
(l) There shall not exist any action, suit, investigation, litigation, proceeding or hearing, pending or threatened in any court or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority that affects the Transactions or otherwise impairs the ability of the Loan Parties to consummate the Transactions and no preliminary or permanent injunction or order by a state or federal court shall have been entered, in each case that would be material and adverse to the Agents or the Lenders.
Third Closing At any time after forty-five (45) days following the Second Closing Date, subject to the mutual agreement of the Buyer and the Company, for the “Third Closing Date” and subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Sections 7 and 8, (A) the Company shall deliver to the Buyer the following: (i) the Third Debenture; (ii) an amendment to the Transfer Agent Instruction Letter instructing the Transfer Agent to reserve that number of shares of Common Stock as is required under Section 4(g) hereof, if necessary; and (iii) an officer’s certificate of the Company confirming, as of the Third Closing Date, the accuracy of the Company’s representations and warranties contained herein and updating Schedules 3(b), 3(c) and 3(k) as of the Third Closing Date, and (B) the Buyer shall deliver to the Company the Third Purchase Price.
9. The following sentences shall be added to Section 12(a): In addition, the Company shall issue 350,000 shares of Restricted Stock (the “Second Commitment Shares”) to Investments as a commitment fee on the Second Closing Date. The Second Commitment Shares shall be earned in full as of the Second Closing Date. In addition, the Company shall issue 350,000 shares of Restricted Stock (the “Third Commitment Shares”) to Investments as a commitment fee on the Third Closing Date. The Third Commitment Shares shall be earned in full as of the Third Closing Date. A non-accountable fee of One Thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($1,000.00) on the Second Closing Date (with respect to the Second Debenture) shall be withheld from the Second Purchase Price to cover the Buyer’s accounting fees, legal fees, and other transactional costs incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Second Debenture. A non-accountable fee of One Thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($1,000.00) on the Third Closing Date (with respect to the Third Debenture) shall be withheld from the Third Purchase Price to cover the Buyer’s accounting fees, legal fees, and other transactional costs incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Third Debenture.
10. This Amendment shall be deemed part of, but shall take precedence over and supersede any provisions to the contrary contained in the Agreement. Except as specifically modified hereby, all of the provisions of the Agreement, which are not in conflict with the terms of this Amendment, shall remain in full force and effect.
