NONQUALIFIED STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT NQSO-015
THIS NONQUALIFIED STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is made and entered
into on July 3, 1995, by and between XXXXXXX LABORATORIES, INC., a California
corporation ("Company"), and XXXX XXXXXXX ("Optionee").
1. GRANT OF OPTION. The Company hereby irrevocably grants to the
Optionee, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this
Agreement, the right and option ("Option") to purchase all or any part of an
aggregate of 5,000 shares ("Option Shares") of the Company's common stock, such
number being subject to adjustment as provided in Section 8 hereof. It is
understood by the parties hereto that the Option is not intended to qualify as
an "incentive stock option" within the meaning of Section 422 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"). If Optionee is an employee of
the Company or a parent or a subsidiary of the Company, it is further understood
by the parties hereto that the Option has been granted as a matter of separate
inducement and agreement in connection with the employment of the Optionee and
is not in lieu of any salary or other compensation for the Optionee's services.
2. OPTION EXERCISE PRICE. The exercise price for the Option Shares shall
be $7.00 per share. The exercise price shall be paid in full as provided in
Section 9 hereof.
3. TERM OF OPTION. The term of the Option shall be for a period of five
(5) years from the date hereof, subject to earlier termination as provided in
Sections 7 hereof.
4. EXERCISABILITY OF OPTION.
(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 4(b) hereof, the Option
shall be exercisable in accordance with the following schedule:
Percentage of Option
Date Shares Purchasable
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On or after July 3, 1995 20%
On or after July 3, 1996 40%
On or after July 3, 1997 60%
On or after July 3, 1998 80%
On or after July 3, 1999 100%
The Optionee's right to exercise the Option shall be cumulative as to the Option
Shares covered thereby.
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(b) The Company's grant of the Option is based upon the assumption
that the Optionee's exercise of the Option and the Company's issuance of the
Option Shares as a result of such exercise will be exempt from registration
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). In the
event that the Company's assumption is erroneous, the Option may not be
exercised unless and until a registration statement under the Securities Act
relating to the Option Shares shall be in effect, or unless and until the
issuance of the Option Shares upon the exercise of the Option shall be exempt
from registration under the Securities Act, in either of which events the term
of the Option shall be deemed to have been automatically extended through and
including a period of ninety (90) days from and after the date that such
registration statement under the Securities Act relating to the Option Shares
first becomes effective or the date that the issuance of the Option Shares upon
the exercise of the Option first becomes exempt from registration under the
Securities Act, as the case may be. In this regard, the Company shall use its
best efforts to either register the Option Shares in accordance with the
registration requirements of the Securities Act or to comply with any exemption
therefrom with regard to the issuance of the Option Shares. The Company shall
promptly notify Optionee of any automatic extension in the term of the Option in
the event the foregoing provisions become applicable. In all events, the
Optionee shall give a written representation satisfactory to legal counsel to
the Company upon his exercise of the Option that he is acquiring the Option
Shares for investment purposes and not with a view to, or for resale in
connection with, the distribution of any Option Shares or other securities of
the Company.
5. LIMITATION ON OPTIONEE'S RIGHTS.
(a) The Optionee shall not have any of the rights of a shareholder of
the Company with respect to the Option Shares except to the extent that one or
more certificates for the Option Shares shall be delivered to him upon the due
exercise of the Option.
(b) If Optionee is an employee of the Company or a parent or a
subsidiary of the Company, nothing contained in this Agreement shall confer upon
the Optionee any right with respect to the continuation of his employment by the
Company or a parent or a subsidiary of the Company or interfere in any way with
the right of the Company or a parent or a subsidiary of the Company (subject to
the terms of any separate employment agreement to the contrary) to terminate his
employment at any time or to increase or decrease the compensation payable to
the Optionee.
6. NONTRANSFERABILITY OF OPTION. The Option shall not be transferable by
the Optionee otherwise than by will or the laws of descent and distribution, and
the Option may be exercised during the lifetime of the Optionee only by him.
More particularly, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
Option may not be assigned, transferred (except upon the death of the Optionee),
pledged or hypothecated in any way, shall not be
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assignable by operation of law and shall not be subject to execution,
attachment or similar process. Any attempted assignment, transfer, pledge,
hypothecation or other disposition of the Option contrary to the provisions
hereof, and the levy of any execution, attachment or similar process upon the
Option, shall be null and void and without effect.
7. TERMINATION OF OPTION UPON COMPANY'S ACQUISITION. In the event that
the Company is involved in a merger, consolidation or other combination with one
or more other corporations in which the Company is not the surviving corporation
or in the event that the Company is liquidated and dissolved following the
Company's sale of all, or substantially all, of its operating assets and
goodwill to another corporation, the Option shall terminate as of the effective
date of such merger, consolidation or other combination or as of the effective
date of such sale of this corporation's operating assets and goodwill, as the
case may be, to the extent that the Option has not theretofore been exercised
by the Optionee and/or is not agreed to be assumed by, or replaced by equivalent
options granted by, the surviving corporation in such merger, consolidation or
other combination or the purchasing corporation in such sale of this
corporation's operating assets and goodwill.
8. CHANGES IN CAPITAL STRUCTURE. In the event that the outstanding
shares of common stock of the Company are changed into or exchanged for a
different number or kind of shares or other securities of the Company or of
another corporation by reason of merger, consolidation, combination,
reorganization, recapitalization, reclassification, combination of shares, stock
dividend, stock split or reverse stock split, the rights of the Optionee shall
be appropriately adjusted both as to the number of shares and the Option
exercise price.
9. METHOD OF EXERCISING OPTION.
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Option
may be exercised by written notice ("Exercise Notice") from the Optionee or
other person entitled to exercise the Option delivered to the Company stating
the election to exercise the Option and the number of the Option Shares in
respect of which it is being exercised, and shall be signed and dated by the
person or persons so exercising the Option. The Exercise Notice shall be
accompanied by the full exercise price for the Option Shares in respect of which
the Option is being exercised. In the event the Option shall be exercised by
any person or persons other than the Optionee, the Exercise Notice shall be
accompanied by appropriate proof of the right of such person or persons to
exercise the Option.
(b) Payment of the exercise price shall be made by the delivery of a
bank cashier's check, personal check or the equivalent thereof payable to the
order of the Company, by the delivery of shares of the Company's common stock
duly endorsed in favor of the Company or accompanied by a duly executed stock
power in favor of the
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Company or by a combination of the foregoing. If shares of the Company's
common stock are delivered in full or partial payment of the aggregate
exercise price, such shares shall be valued at the average of the per share
closing bid and asked prices for shares of the Company's common stock in the
over-the-counter market on the date immediately preceding the date the
Exercise Notice is dated or, in the absence of any reported sales on such
date, the first preceding date on which there were such sales.
(c) The certificate or certificates for the Option Shares in respect
of which the Option shall have been exercised shall be registered in the name of
the person or persons exercising the Option, or, if the Option is exercised by
the Optionee and if the Optionee shall so request in the Exercise Notice, shall
be registered in the name of the Optionee and another person jointly, with right
of survivorship, and shall be delivered as provided above to or upon the written
order of the person or persons exercising the Option.
All of the Option Shares purchased upon the exercise of the Option as provided
herein shall, when issued, be fully paid and nonassessable.
10. ADEQUATE AUTHORIZED CAPITALIZATION. The Company shall at all times
during the term of the Option reserve and keep available or otherwise have
authorized such number of shares of the Company's common stock as will be
sufficient to satisfy the requirements of this Agreement, shall pay all fees and
expenses necessarily incurred by the Company in connection therewith, and shall
from time to time use its best efforts to comply with all laws and regulations
which, in the opinion of legal counsel to the Company, shall be applicable
thereto.
11. NOTICES. All notices, requests, demands and other communications
called for or contemplated hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to
have been duly given when personally delivered or when mailed by United States
certified or registered mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the following
parties or their successors in interest at the following addresses, or at such
other addresses as the parties may designate by written notice in the manner
aforesaid:
If to the Company: Xxxxxxx Laboratories, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attn: President
If to Optionee: (See address below)
12. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. Subject to the limitations on transferability
contained in Section 6 hereof, this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall
inure to the
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benefit of the parties hereto, the Company's successors in interest and
assigns, and the Optionee's permitted successors in interest.
13. APPLICABLE LAW. This Agreement shall be construed and enforced in
accordance with the laws of the State of California.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement on the
date first above written.
"Company" "Optionee"
XXXXXXX LABORATORIES, INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxx
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Its: President Xxxx Xxxxxxx
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