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EXHIBIT 4.17
THIS WARRANT AS WELL AS THE COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON THE EXERCISE OF THIS
WARRANT HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED(THE "ACT"), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD UNLESS REGISTERED UNDER THE
ACT OR AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE ACT IS AVAILABLE.
Void after 5:00 P.M., New York City Time, on June 12, 2003
(the "Termination Date")
WARRANT TO PURCHASE 2,800,000 SHARES OF THE COMMON STOCK OF
CREDIT DEPOT CORPORATION
This is to Certify That, FOR VALUE RECEIVED, The Global Opportunity Fund Limited
(the "Holder"), is entitled to purchase, subject to the provisions of this
Warrant, from Credit Depot Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"),
2,800,000 shares of the Common Stock of the Company, $.001 par value (the
"Common Stock"), at a price of $1.25 per share at any time or from time to time
until 5:00 P.M., New York City Time on the Termination Date. The number of
shares to be received upon the exercise of this Warrant and the price to be paid
for each such share may be adjusted from time to time as hereinafter set forth.
The shares deliverable upon such exercise, and as adjusted from time to time,
are hereinafter sometimes referred to as "Warrant Shares" and the exercise price
of this Warrant as in effect at any time as adjusted from time to time is
hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "Exercise Price."
SECTION 1. EXERCISE OF WARRANT.
(a) This Warrant may be exercised in whole or in part at any time or
from time to time until 5:00 P.M., New York City Time, on the Termination Date
(the "Exercise Period") provided, however, that if such day is a day on which
banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized by law to close,
then on the next succeeding day which shall not be such a day.
(b) In the event of any merger, consolidation or sale of substantially
all the assets of the Company as an entirety resulting in any distribution to
the Company's stockholders, on or before the Termination Date, the Holder shall
have the right to exercise this Warrant commencing at such time through the
Termination Date which shall entitle the Holder to receive, in lieu of Warrant
Shares, the kind and amount of securities and property (including cash)
receivable by a holder of the number of shares of Warrant Shares into which this
Warrant might have been exercisable immediately prior thereto. For purposes of
this Warrant, the term "Warrant Shares" shall include such securities and
property. This Warrant may be exercised by presentation and surrender hereof to
the Company at
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its principal office, or at the office of its stock transfer agent, if any, with
the Purchase Form annexed hereto duly executed and accompanied by payment of the
Exercise Price for the number of Warrant Shares specified in such form. Such
payment may be made, at the option of the Holder, by check or wire transfer As
soon as practicable after each such exercise of the Warrant, but not later than
two business days from the date of such exercise, the Company shall issue and
deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates representing the Warrant
Shares issuable upon such exercise, registered in the name of the Holder or the
Holder's designee. If this Warrant should be exercised in part only, the Company
shall, upon surrender of this Warrant for cancellation, execute and deliver a
new Warrant evidencing the rights of the Holder thereof to purchase the balance
of the Warrant Shares purchasable thereunder. Upon receipt by the Company of
this Warrant at its office, or by the stock transfer agent of the Company at its
office, in proper form for exercise, the Holder shall be deemed to be the holder
of record of the Warrant Shares issuable upon such exercise, notwithstanding
that the stock transfer books of the Company shall then be closed or that
certificates representing such shares shall not then be physically delivered to
the Holder.
SECTION 2. RESERVATION OF SHARES.
The Company shall at all times reserve for issuance and/or delivery
upon exercise of this Warrant such number of Warrant Shares as shall be required
for issuance and delivery upon exercise of this Warrant.
SECTION 3. FRACTIONAL SHARES.
No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares shall be
issued upon the exercise of this Warrant. With respect to any fraction of a
share called for upon any exercise hereof, the Company shall pay to the Holder
an amount in cash equal to such fraction multiplied by the current market value
of a share, determined as follows:
(a) If the Common Stock is listed on a national securities exchange or
admitted to unlisted trading privileges on such exchange or listed for trading
on NASDAQ, the current market value shall be the last reported sale price of the
Common Stock on such exchange or system on the last business day prior to the
date of exercise of this Warrant or if no such sale is made on such day, the
average of the closing high bid and low asked prices for such day on such
exchange or system; or
(b) If the Common Stock is not so listed or admitted to unlisted
trading privileges but bid and asked prices are reported by the National
Quotation Bureau, Inc., the current market value shall be the average of last
reported high bid and low asked prices reported by the National Quotation
Bureau, Inc. on the last business day prior to the date of the exercise of this
Warrant; or
(c) If the Common Stock is not so listed or admitted to unlisted
trading privileges and bid and asked prices are not so reported, the current
market value shall be an amount, the book value
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of a share thereof as at the end of the fiscal quarter of the Company ending
immediately prior to the date of the exercise of the Warrant.
SECTION 4. EXCHANGE, TRANSFER, ASSIGNMENT OR LOSS OF
WARRANT.
This Warrant is exchangeable, without expense, at the option of the
Holder, upon presentation and surrender hereof to the Company or at the office
of its stock transfer agent, if any, for other warrants of different
denominations entitling the holder thereof to purchase in the aggregate the same
number of shares of Common Stock purchasable hereunder. The term "Warrant" as
used herein includes any Warrants into which this Warrant may be divided or
exchanged. Upon receipt by the Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to it
of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant, and (in the case
of loss, theft or destruction) of reasonably satisfactory indemnification, and
upon surrender and cancellation of this Warrant, if mutilated, the Company will
execute and deliver a new Warrant of like tenor and date. Any such new Warrant
executed and delivered shall constitute an additional contractual obligation on
the part of the Company, whether or not this Warrant so lost, stolen, destroyed,
or mutilated shall be at any time enforceable by anyone.
SECTION 5. RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF THE HOLDER.
The Holder shall not, by virtue hereof, be entitled to any rights of a
shareholder in the Company, either at law or equity, and the rights of the
Holder are limited to those expressed in the Warrant and are not enforceable
against the Company except to the extent set forth herein. No provision of this
Warrant, in the absence of affirmative action by the Holder to purchase the
Warrant Shares, and no mere enumeration herein of the rights or privileges of
the Holder, shall give rise to any liability of the Holder for the Exercise
Price or as a shareholder of the Company, whether such liability is asserted by
the Company or by creditors of the Company.
SECTION 6. ADJUSTMENTS, NOTICE PROVISIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ON
ISSUANCE OF ADDITIONAL SECURITIES.
SECTION 6.1 Adjustment of Exercise Price. The Exercise Price in
effect from time to time shall be subject to adjustment, as follows:
(a) In case the Company shall (i) declare a dividend or make a
distribution on the outstanding shares of its capital stock that is payable in
shares of its Common Stock, (ii) subdivide, split or reclassify the outstanding
shares of its Common Stock into a greater number of shares, or (iii) combine or
reclassify the outstanding shares of its Common Stock into a smaller number of
shares, the Exercise Price in effect immediately after the record date for such
dividend or distribution or the effective date of such subdivision, combination
or reclassification shall be adjusted so that it shall equal the price
determined by multiplying the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior thereto
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by a fraction, of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding immediately before such dividend, distribution, split,
subdivision, combination or reclassification, and of which the denominator shall
be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such
dividend, distribution, split, subdivision, combination or reclassification. Any
shares of Common Stock issuable in payment of a dividend shall be deemed to have
been issued immediately prior to the record date for such dividend for purposes
of calculating the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company
under this Section 6. Such adjustment shall be made successively upon the
occurrence of each event specified above.
(b) In case the Company fixes a record date for the issuance to holders
of its Common Stock of rights, options, warrants or convertible or exchangeable
securities generally entitling such holders to subscribe for or purchase shares
of Common Stock at a price per share less than the Current Market Price (as such
term is defined in Subsection 6.1(d) hereof) per share of Common Stock on such
record date, the Exercise Price shall be adjusted immediately thereafter so that
it shall equal the price determined by multiplying the Exercise Price in effect
immediately prior thereto by a fraction, of which the numerator shall be the
number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on such record date plus the number
of shares of Common Stock which the aggregate offering price of the total number
of shares of Common Stock so offered would purchase at the Current Market Price
per share, and of which the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding on such Record Date plus the number of additional shares of
Common Stock offered for subscription or purchase. Such adjustment shall be made
successively on each date whenever a record date is fixed.
(c) In case the Company fixes a record date for the making of a
distribution to all holders of shares of its Common Stock (i) of shares of any
class of capital stock other than its Common Stock or (ii) of evidences of its
indebtedness or (iii) of assets (other than dividends or distributions referred
to in Subsection 6.1(a) hereof) or (iv) of rights, options, warrant or
convertible or exchangeable securities (excluding those rights, options,
warrants or convertible or exchangeable securities referred to in Subsection
6.1(b) hereof), then in each such case the Exercise Price in effect immediately
thereafter shall be determined by multiplying the Exercise Price in effect
immediately prior thereto by a fraction, of which the numerator shall be the
total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on such record date
multiplied by the Current Market Price (as such term is defined in Subsection
6.1(d) hereof) per share on such record date, less the aggregate fair value as
determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company of said shares
or evidences of indebtedness or assets or rights, options, warrants or
convertible or exchangeable securities so distributed, and of which the
denominator shall be the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on
such record date multiplied by such Current market Price per share. Such
adjustment shall be made successively each time such a record date is fixed. In
the event that such distribution is not so made, the Exercise Price then in
effect shall be readjusted to the Exercise Price which would then be in effect
if such record date had not been fixed.
(d) For the purpose of any computation under Subsection 6.1(a), 6.1(b)
or 6.1(c) hereof, the "Current Market Price" per share at any date (the
"Computation Date") shall be deemed to be the
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average of the daily current market value of the Common Stock as determined in
accordance with the provisions of Section 3 hereof over twenty consecutive
trading days ending the trading day before such date; provided, however, upon
the occurrence, prior to the Computation Date, of any event described in
Subsections 6.1(a), 6.1(b) or 6.1(c) which shall have become effective with
respect to market transactions at any time (the "Market-Effect Date") on or
after the beginning of such 20-day period, the current market value, as
determined in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 hereof for each
trading day preceding the Market-Effect Date shall be adjusted, for purposes of
calculating such average, by multiplying such Closing Price by a fraction the
numerator of which is the Exercise Price as in effect immediately after the
Market-Effect Date and the denominator of which is the Exercise Price
immediately prior to the Market-Effect Date, it being understood that the
purpose of this proviso is to ensure that the effect of such event on the market
price of the Common Stock shall, as nearly as possible, be eliminated in order
that the distortion in the calculation of the Current Market Price may be
minimized.
(f) All calculations under this Section 6.1 shall be made to the
nearest cent.
SECTION 6.2 Adjustment of Number of Shares. Upon each adjustment of the
Exercise Price pursuant to Subsection 6.1 hereof, this Warrant shall thereupon
evidence the right to purchase, in addition to any other securities to which the
Holder is entitled to purchase, that number of Warrant Shares (calculated to the
nearest one-hundred thousandth of a share) obtained by multiplying the number of
shares of Common Stock purchasable upon exercise of the Warrant immediately
prior to such adjustment by the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to
such adjustment and dividing the product so obtained by the Exercise Price in
effect immediately after such adjustment.
SECTION 6.3 Verification of Computations. The Company shall select a firm
of independent public accountants, which may be the Company's independent
auditors, and which selection may be changed from time to time, to verify the
computations made in accordance with this Section 6. The certificate, report of
other written statement of any such firm shall be conclusive evidence of the
correctness of any computation made under this Section 6. Promptly upon its
receipt of such certificate, report or statement from such firm of independent
public accountants, the Company shall deliver a copy thereof to the Holder.
SECTION 6.4 Warrant Certificate Amendments. Irrespective of any
adjustments pursuant to this Section 6, Warrant Certificates theretofore or
thereafter issued need not be amended or replaced, but Warrant Certificates
thereafter issued shall bear an appropriate legend or other notice of any
adjustments and which legend and/or notice has been provided by the Company to
the Holder, provided the Company may, at its option, issue new Warrant
Certificates evidencing Warrants in the form attached hereto to reflect any
adjustment in the Exercise Price and the number of Warrant Shares evidenced by
such Warrant Certificates and deliver the same to the Holder in substitution for
existing Warrant Certificates.
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SECTION 7. OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE.
Whenever the Exercise Price, the number of Warrant Shares underlying
this Warrant or either of them shall be adjusted as required by the provisions
of the foregoing Section, the Company shall forthwith file in the custody of its
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary at its principal office and with its stock
transfer agent, if any, an officer's certificate showing the adjusted Exercise
Price and number of Warrant shares determined as herein provided, setting forth
in reasonable detail the facts requiring such adjustment, including a statement
of the number of additional shares of Common Stock, if any, and such other facts
as shall be necessary to show the reason for and the manner of computing such
adjustment. Each such officer's certificate shall be made available at all
reasonable times for inspection by the Holder or any holder of a Warrant
executed and delivered pursuant to Section 1 hereof and the Company shall,
forthwith after each such adjustment, mail a copy by certified mail of such
certificate to the Holder or any such holder.
SECTION 8. NOTICES TO WARRANT HOLDERS.
So long as this Warrant shall be outstanding, (i) if the Company shall
pay any dividend or make any distribution upon the Common Stock, (ii) if the
Company shall offer to the holders of its Common Stock rights to subscribe for,
purchase, or exchange property for any shares of any class of stock, or any
other rights or options or (iii) if any capital reorganization of the Company,
reclassification of the capital stock of the Company, consolidation or merger of
the Company with or into another corporation, sale, lease or transfer of all or
substantially all of the property and assets of the Company to another
corporation, or voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up
of the Company shall be effected, then in any such case, the Company shall cause
to be sent by overnight mail or courier service to the Holder, at least fifteen
days prior to the date specified in (x) or (y) below, as the case may be, a
notice containing a brief description of the proposed action and stating the
date on which (x) a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend,
distribution or subscription rights, or (y) such reclassification,
reorganization, consolidation, merger, conveyance, lease, dissolution,
liquidation or winding up is to take place and the date, if any is to be fixed,
as of which the holders of Common Stock or other securities shall receive cash
or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, reorganization,
consolidation, merger, conveyance, dissolution, liquidation or winding up.
SECTION 9. RECLASSIFICATION, REORGANIZATION OR MERGER.
In case of any reclassification, capital reorganization or other change
of outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company, or in case of any
consolidation or merger of the Company with or into another corporation (other
than a merger with a subsidiary in which merger the Company is the continuing
corporation and which does not result in any reclassification, capital
reorganization or other change of outstanding shares of Common Stock of the
class issuable upon exercise of this Warrant) or in case of any sale, lease or
conveyance to another corporation of the property of the
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Company as an entirety (collectively such actions being hereinafter referred to
as "Reorganizations"), the Company shall, as a condition precedent to such
Reorganization transaction, cause effective provisions to be made so that the
Holder shall have the right thereafter by exercising this Warrant at any time
prior to the expiration of the Warrant, to receive in lieu of the amount of
securities otherwise deliverable, the kind and amount of shares of stock and
other securities and property receivable upon such Reorganization by a holder of
the number of shares of Common Stock which might have been purchased upon
exercise of this Warrant and the warrants included in the Shares immediately
prior to such Reorganization. Any such provision shall include provision for
adjustments which shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the
adjustments provided for in this Warrant. The foregoing provisions of this
Section 9 shall similarly apply to successive Reorganizations.
SECTION 10. ISSUE TAX.
The issuance of certificates representing the Warrant Shares upon the
exercise of this Warrant as well as securities underlying the Share Warrants
shall be made without charge to the Holder for any issuance tax in respect
thereof.
SECTION 11. EXCHANGE PROVISIONS
At any time during which this Warrant is exercisable in accordance with
its terms, the Holder may, at its option, exchange this Warrant, in whole or in
part (a "Warrant Exchange"), into the number of Warrant Shares determined in
accordance with this Section 11, by surrendering this Warrant at the principal
office of the Company or at the office of its stock transfer agent, accompanied
by a notice stating such Holder's intent to effect such exchange, the number of
Warrant Shares to be exchanged and the date on which the Holder requests that
such Warrant Exchange occur (the "Notice of Exchange"). The Warrant Exchange
shall take place on the date specified in the Notice of Exchange or, if later,
the date the Notice of Exchange is received by the Company (the "Exchange
Date"). Certificates for the shares issuable upon such Warrant Exchange and, if
applicable, a new warrant of like tenor evidencing the balance of the shares
remaining subject to this Warrant, shall be issued as of the Exchange Date and
delivered to the Holder within seven (7) days following the Exchange Date. In
connection with any Warrant Exchange, this Warrant shall represent the right to
subscribe for and acquire the number of Warrant Shares (rounded to the next
highest integer) equal to (i) the number of Warrant Shares specified by the
Holder in its Notice of Exchange (the "Total Number") less (ii) the number of
Warrant Shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (A) the product of the
Total Number and the existing Exercise Price by (B) the Fair Market Value. "Fair
Market Value" "Fair Market Value" shall mean: (1) if the Common Stock is listed
on a National Securities Exchange or admitted to unlisted trading privileges on
such exchange or listed for trading on the NASDAQ system, Fair Market Value
shall be the average of the last reported sale prices of the Common Stock on
such exchange or system for the twenty (20) business days ending on the last
business day prior to the date for which the determination is being made; or
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(2) if the Common Stock is not so listed or admitted to unlisted trading
privileges, Fair Market Value shall be the average of the means of the last
reported bid and asked prices reported by the National Quotation Bureau, Inc.
for the twenty (20) business days ending on the last business day prior to the
date for which the determination is being made; or (3) if the Common Stock is
not so listed or admitted to unlisted trading privileges and bid and asked
prices are not so reported, the Fair Market Value shall be the book value
thereof as at the end of the most recent fiscal year of the Company ending prior
to the Exchange Date, determined in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles.
SECTION 12 REDEMPTION
(a) The Company may, at the option of the Board of Directors, at any
time or from time to time, redeem the whole or any part of the this Warrant upon
not less than thirty (30) and not more than forty-five (45) days prior written
notice (the "Redemption Notice"), at a redemption price of $.01 per Warrant
Share then purchasable hereunder, payable in cash, subject to appropriate
adjustment in the event of a stock split or subdivision or a stock combination
of the Common Stock (collectively, the "Redemption Price"), except to the extent
restricted by applicable law, provided that (i) the Warrant Shares shall have
been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, and such registration shall
then be current and effective, and (ii) the average of the closing sales price
of the Company's Common Stock as reported by Nasdaq shall, for twenty (20)
consecutive trading days ending within ten (10) days of the date of the
Redemption Notice, equals or exceeds 200% of the then current Exercise Price.
(b) The Redemption Notice shall be mailed by overnight courier to the
Holder (at the close of business on the business day next preceding the day on
which notice is given) at the address for such holder shown on the Company's
records, at least 30 days but not more than 45 days prior to the date fixed for
redemption (the "Redemption Date"). The Redemption Notice shall notify the
Holder of the redemption to be effected, specifying the Redemption Date, the
amount which is to be redeemed, the Redemption Price, the place at which payment
may be obtained and the date on which such holder's Conversion Rights (as
described below) as to such shares terminate and calling upon such holder to
surrender to the Company, in the manner and at the place designated, such
holder's certificate or certificates so redeemed. Upon sending the Redemption
Notice, the Company shall become obligated to redeem at the time of redemption
specified therein all or parts of this Warrant as specified therein. In case
less than all of this Warrant is to be redeemed pursuant to this Section 12, a
new certificate shall be issued representing the unredeemed portion of this
Warrant shall be issued by the Company without cost to the Holder.
(c) From and after the close of business on the Redemption Date, the
all or a portion of this Warrant, as the case may be, shall no longer be
considered to be outstanding, the right to exercise this Warrant or portion
thereof, as the case may be, shall cease and all rights of Holder s with respect
all or the portion of this warrant redeemed shall forthwith, after such
Redemption Date, cease and terminate, excepting only the right of the Holders to
receive the Redemption Price therefor, without interest. Not less than three
days prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall
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deposit the Redemption Price of all or a portion of the Warrant designated for
redemption in the Redemption Notice and not yet redeemed or exercised with the
transfer agent for the Common Stock or if no transfer agent shall have been
appointed or shall be in existence, with a bank or trust corporation (the
"Paying Agent") as a trust fund for the benefit of the Holder, with irrevocable
instructions and authority to the Paying Agent to pay the Redemption Price to
the Holder on or after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of this Warrant. Any
monies deposited by the Company pursuant to this paragraph for the redemption of
all or a portion of this Warrant which is exercised no later than the close of
business on the day preceding the Redemption Date shall be returned to the
Company forthwith upon such exercise. Any moneys set aside by the Company for a
redemption and unclaimed at the end of six years from such Redemption Date shall
revert to the general funds of the Company, provided that a person to which such
monies would be payable hereunder shall be entitled upon proof of its ownership
of this Warrant to receive the Redemption Price (without interest). Any interest
accrued on funds so deposited shall be paid to the Company from time to time.
SECTION 12. GOVERNING LAW, JURISDICTION AND VENUE.
This Warrant shall be governed by and construed and enforced in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York. The Company hereby consents
to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts of the State of New York
located in New York County, New York with respect to any matter relating to this
Warrant and the performance of the Company's obligations hereunder and the
Company hereto hereby further consents to the personal jurisdiction of such
courts. Any action suit or proceeding brought by or on behalf of the Company
relating to such matters shall be commenced, pursued, defended and resolved only
in such courts and any appropriate appellate court having jurisdiction to hear
an appeal from any judgment entered in such courts.
CREDIT DEPOT CORPORATION
By:
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Xxxxx XxXxx, President
[SEAL]
Dated: June 12, 1998
Attest:
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Secretary
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