SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEE
EXHIBIT
10.4
SUBSIDIARY
GUARANTEE, dated as of May 14, 2008 (this “Guarantee”), made by
Lifeline Cell Technology, LLC, a California limited liability company
(“Lifeline”), and International Stem Cell Corporation, a California corporation
(together with Lifeline and any other entity that may become a party hereto as
provided herein, individually and collectively, the “Guarantor”, and
together with the Company (as defined below), the “Debtors”), in favor
of the purchaser (including such purchaser’s successors, transferees and
assigns, the “Purchaser”) signatory
to the Purchase Agreement (as defined below).
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I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS,
pursuant to that certain Securities Purchase Agreement (“Purchase Agreement”)
dated as of May 14, 2008 by and between International Stem Cell Corporation, a
Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and the
Purchaser, the Company has agreed to sell and issue to the Purchaser, and the
Purchaser has agreed to purchase from the Company the Company’s OID Senior
Secured Convertible Note (the “Note”), subject to
the terms and conditions set forth therein;
WHEREAS,
each Guarantor is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company, and as a
condition to the Closing of the transactions contemplated by the Purchase
Agreement, and in order to induce the Purchaser to enter into and consummate the
transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement (including without
limitation purchasing the Note and making the loans evidenced thereby), the
Company has agreed that the Guarantor would guaranty the Company’s obligations
under the Note, Purchase Agreement and other Transaction Documents in accordance
with the terms set forth in this Guarantee, the Note, the Purchase Agreement and
other Transaction Documents; and
WHEREAS, each Guarantor will directly
benefit from the extension of credit to the Company represented by the issuance
of the Note;
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and to induce the Purchaser to enter
into the applicable Purchase Agreement and to carry out the transactions
contemplated thereby, each Guarantor hereby agrees with the Purchaser as
follows:
1. Definitions. Unless
otherwise defined herein, initially capitalized terms defined in the Purchase
Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Purchase
Agreement. The words “hereof,” “herein,” “hereto” and “hereunder” and
words of similar import when used in this Guarantee shall refer to this
Guarantee as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Guarantee, and
Section and Schedule references are to this Guarantee unless otherwise
specified. The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally
applicable to both the singular and plural forms of such terms. The
following terms shall have the following meanings:
“Guarantee” means this
Subsidiary Guarantee, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time.
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“Obligations” means,
in addition to all other costs and expenses of collection incurred by Purchaser
in enforcing any of such Obligations and/or this Guarantee, all of the
liabilities and obligations (primary, secondary, direct, contingent, sole, joint
or several) due or to become due, or that are now or may be hereafter contracted
or acquired, or owing, of any Debtor to the Purchaser, including without
limitation all obligations under the Purchase Agreement, the Note, the Warrants,
this Guarantee and any other instruments, agreements or other documents executed
and/or delivered in connection herewith or therewith, in each case, whether now
or hereafter existing, voluntary or involuntary, direct or indirect, absolute or
contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, whether or not jointly owed with others,
and whether or not from time to time decreased or extinguished and later
increased, created or incurred, and all or any portion of such obligations or
liabilities that are paid, to the extent all or any part of such payment is
avoided or recovered directly or indirectly from any of the Purchaser as a
preference, fraudulent transfer or otherwise, as such obligations may be
amended, supplemented, converted, extended or modified from time to
time. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term
“Obligations” shall include without limitation: (i) principal of, and interest
on, the Note and the loans extended pursuant thereto; (ii) any and all other
fees, indemnities, costs, obligations and liabilities of the Debtors from time
to time under or in connection with the Purchase Agreement, the Note, the
Warrants, this Guarantee and any other instruments, agreements or other
documents executed and/or delivered in connection herewith or therewith; and
(iii) all amounts (including but not limited to post-petition interest) in
respect of the foregoing that would be payable but for the fact that the
obligations to pay such amounts are unenforceable or not allowable due to the
existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding involving any
Debtor.
2. Guarantee.
(a) Guarantee.
(i) The
Guarantor hereby, jointly and severally, absolutely, unconditionally and
irrevocably, guarantees to the Purchaser and their respective successors,
indorsees, transferees and assigns, the prompt and complete payment and
performance by the Company when due (whether at the stated maturity, by
acceleration or otherwise) of the Obligations. The Guarantor’s
liability under this Guarantee shall be unlimited, open and continuous for so
long as this Guarantee remains in force. For clarification, each
Guarantor’s liability under this Guarantee shall be joint and
several.
(ii) Anything
herein or in any other Transaction Document to the contrary notwithstanding, the
maximum liability of Guarantor hereunder and under the other Transaction
Documents shall in no event exceed the amount which can be guaranteed by the
Guarantor under applicable federal and state laws, including laws relating to
the insolvency of debtors, fraudulent conveyance or transfer or laws affecting
the rights of creditors generally (after giving effect to the right of
contribution set forth in Section 2(b)).
(iii) Guarantor
agrees that the Obligations may at any time and from time to time exceed the
amount of the liability of the Guarantor hereunder without impairing the
guarantee contained in this Section 2 or affecting the rights and remedies of
the Purchaser hereunder.
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(iv) The
guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall remain in full force and effect
until all the Obligations and the obligations of Guarantor under the guarantee
contained in this Section 2 shall have been satisfied by payment in
full.
(v) No
payment made by the Company, the Guarantor, any other guarantor or any other
Person or received or collected by the Purchaser from the Company, the
Guarantor, any other guarantor or any other Person by virtue of any action or
proceeding or any set-off or appropriation or application at any time or from
time to time in reduction of or in payment of the Obligations shall be deemed to
modify, reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of the Guarantor
hereunder which shall, notwithstanding any such payment (other than any payment
made by the Guarantor in respect of the Obligations or any payment received or
collected from the Guarantor in respect of the Obligations), remain liable for
the Obligations up to the maximum liability of the Guarantor hereunder until the
Obligations are paid in full.
(vi) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Guarantee, with respect to any defaulted
non-monetary Obligations the specific performance of which by the Guarantor is
not reasonably possible (e.g. the issuance of the Company's Common Stock), the
Guarantor shall only be liable for making the Purchaser whole on a monetary
basis for the Company's failure to perform such Obligations in accordance with
the Transaction Documents.
(b) Right of
Contribution. Guarantor hereby agrees that to the extent that
a Guarantor shall have paid more than its proportionate share of any payment
made hereunder, the Guarantor shall be entitled to seek and receive contribution
from and against any other Guarantor hereunder which has not paid its
proportionate share of such payment. Guarantor's right of
contribution shall be subject to the terms and conditions of Section
2(c). The provisions of this Section 2(b) shall in no respect limit
the obligations and liabilities of the Guarantor to the Purchaser, and Guarantor
shall remain liable to the Purchaser for the full amount guaranteed by the
Guarantor hereunder.
(c) No
Subrogation. Notwithstanding any payment made by the Guarantor
hereunder or any set-off or application of funds of the Guarantor by the
Purchaser, no Guarantor shall be entitled to be subrogated to any of the rights
of the Purchaser against the Company or any other Guarantor or any collateral
security or guarantee or right of offset held by the Purchaser for the payment
of the Obligations, nor shall the Guarantor seek or be entitled to seek any
contribution or reimbursement from the Company or any other Guarantor in respect
of payments made by the Guarantor hereunder, until all amounts owing to the
Purchaser by the Company on account of the Obligations are paid in
full. If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor on account of such
subrogation rights at any time when all of the Obligations have not been paid in
full, such amount shall be held by the Guarantor in trust for the Purchaser,
segregated from other funds of the Guarantor, and shall, promptly following
receipt by the Guarantor, be turned over to the Purchaser in the exact form
received by the Guarantor (duly indorsed by the Guarantor to the Purchaser, if
required), to be applied against the Obligations, whether matured or unmatured,
in such order as the Purchaser may determine.
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(d) Amendments, Etc. With
Respect to the Obligations. Guarantor shall remain obligated
hereunder notwithstanding that, without any reservation of rights against the
Guarantor and without notice to or further assent by the Guarantor, any demand
for payment of any of the Obligations made by the Purchaser may be rescinded by
the Purchaser and any of the Obligations continued, and the Obligations, or the
liability of any other Person upon or for any part thereof, or any collateral
security or guarantee therefor or right of offset with respect thereto, may,
from time to time, in whole or in part, be renewed, extended, amended, modified,
accelerated, compromised, waived, surrendered or released by the Purchaser, and
the Purchase Agreement, the Note and the other Transaction Documents and any
other documents executed and delivered in connection therewith may be amended,
modified, supplemented or terminated, in whole or in part, as the Purchaser may
deem advisable from time to time, and any collateral security, guarantee or
right of offset at any time held by the Purchaser for the payment of the
Obligations may be sold, exchanged, waived, surrendered or released. The
Purchaser shall have no obligation to protect, secure, perfect or insure any
Lien at any time held by them as security for the Obligations or for the
guarantee contained in this Section 2 or any property subject
thereto.
(e) Guarantee Absolute and
Unconditional. Guarantor waives any and all notice of the
creation, renewal, extension or accrual of any of the Obligations and notice of
or proof of reliance by the Purchaser upon the guarantee contained in this
Section 2 or acceptance of the guarantee contained in this Section 2; the
Obligations, and any of them, shall conclusively be deemed to have been created,
contracted or incurred, or renewed, extended, amended or waived, in reliance
upon the guarantee contained in this Section 2; and all dealings between the
Company and the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Purchaser, on the other
hand, likewise shall be conclusively presumed to have been had or consummated in
reliance upon the guarantee contained in this Section 2. Guarantor
waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, diligence, presentment,
protest, demand for payment and notice of default or nonpayment to or upon the
Company or the Guarantor with respect to the Obligations. Guarantor
understands and agrees that the guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall be
construed as a continuing, absolute and unconditional guarantee of payment
without regard to (a) the validity or enforceability of the Purchase Agreement,
the Note or any other Transaction Document, any of the Obligations or any other
collateral security therefor or guarantee or right of offset with respect
thereto at any time or from time to time held by the Purchaser, (b) any defense,
set-off or counterclaim (other than a defense of payment and performance in full
of the Obligations) which may at any time be available to or be asserted by the
Company or any other Person against the Purchaser, or (c) any other circumstance
whatsoever (with or without notice to or knowledge of the Company or the
Guarantor) which constitutes, or might be construed to constitute, an equitable
or legal discharge of the Company for the Obligations, or of the Guarantor under
the guarantee contained in this Section 2, in bankruptcy or in any other
instance. When making any demand hereunder or otherwise pursuing its rights and
remedies hereunder against the Guarantor, the Purchaser may, but shall be under
no obligation to, make a similar demand on or otherwise pursue such rights and
remedies as they may have against the Company, any other Guarantor or any other
Person or against any collateral security or guarantee for the Obligations or
any right of offset with respect thereto, and any failure by the Purchaser to
make any such demand, to pursue such other rights or remedies or to collect any
payments from the Company, any other Guarantor or any other Person or to realize
upon any such collateral security or guarantee or to exercise any such right of
offset, or any release of the Company, any other Guarantor or any other Person
or any such collateral security, guarantee or right of offset, shall not relieve
the Guarantor of any obligation or liability hereunder, and shall not impair or
affect the rights and remedies, whether express, implied or available as a
matter of law, of the Purchaser against the Guarantor. For the
purposes hereof, “demand” shall include without limitation the commencement and
continuance of any legal proceedings.
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(f) Reinstatement. The
guarantee contained in this Section 2 shall continue to be effective, or be
reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of
any of the Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be restored or returned by
the Purchaser upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation or
reorganization of the Company or the Guarantor, or upon or as a result of the
appointment of a receiver, intervenor or conservator of, or trustee or similar
officer for, the Company or the Guarantor or any substantial part of its
property, or otherwise, all as though such payments had not been
made.
(g) Payments. Guarantor
hereby guarantees that payments hereunder will be paid to the Purchaser without
set-off or counterclaim in U.S. dollars at the address set forth or referred to
in the Purchase Agreement.
3. Representations and
Warranties. Guarantor hereby makes the following representations and
warranties to the Purchaser as of the date hereof:
(a) Organization and
Qualification. The Guarantor is an entity, duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the applicable jurisdiction set
forth on Schedule 1, with the requisite power and authority to own and use its
properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently conducted. The
Guarantor has no subsidiaries other than those identified as such on the
Disclosure Schedules to the Purchase Agreement. The Guarantor is duly
qualified to do business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation in
each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property
owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be
so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not, individually or
in the aggregate, (x) adversely affect the legality, validity or enforceability
of any of this Guaranty in any material respect, (y) have a material adverse
effect on the results of operations, assets, prospects, or financial condition
of the Guarantor, or (z) adversely impair in any material respect the
Guarantor's ability to perform fully on a timely basis its obligations under
this Guaranty (a “Material Adverse
Effect”).
(b) Authorization;
Enforcement. The Guarantor has the requisite power and
authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this
Guaranty, and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder. The
execution and delivery of this Guaranty by the Guarantor and the consummation by
it of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by all
requisite action on the part of the Guarantor. This Guaranty has been
duly executed and delivered by the Guarantor and constitutes the legal, valid
and binding obligation of the Guarantor enforceable against the Guarantor in
accordance with its terms.
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(c) No Conflicts. The
execution, delivery and performance of this Guaranty by the Guarantor and the
consummation by the Guarantor of the transactions contemplated thereby do not
and will not (i) conflict with or violate any provision of its Articles of
Organization or Operating Agreement or (ii) conflict with, constitute a default
(or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default)
under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or
cancellation of, any agreement, indenture or instrument to which the Guarantor
is a party, or (iii) result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order,
judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of any court or governmental
authority to which the Guarantor is subject (including federal and state
securities laws and regulations), or by which any material property or asset of
the Guarantor is bound or affected, except in the case of each of clauses (ii)
and (iii) such conflicts, defaults, terminations, amendments, accelerations,
cancellations and violations as could not, individually or in the aggregate,
have or result in a Material Adverse Effect. The business of the
Guarantor is not being conducted in violation of any law, ordinance or
regulation of any governmental authority, except for violations which,
individually or in the aggregate, do not have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(d) Consents and
Approvals. The Guarantor is not required to obtain any
consent, waiver, authorization or order of, or make any filing or registration
with, any court or other federal, state, local, foreign or other governmental
authority or other person in connection with the execution, delivery and
performance by the Guarantor of this Guaranty.
(e) Purchase
Agreement. The representations and warranties of the Company
set forth in the Purchase Agreement as they relate to the Guarantor, each of
which is hereby incorporated herein by reference, are true and correct as of
each time such representations are deemed to be made pursuant to the Purchase
Agreement, and the Purchaser shall be entitled to rely on each of them as if
they were fully set forth herein, provided that each reference in each such
representation and warranty to the Company's knowledge shall, for the purposes
of this Section 3, be deemed to be a reference to the Guarantor's
knowledge.
(f) Company’s
Request. This Guarantee is executed at the Company’s request
and not at the request of the Purchaser.
(g) Obtaining Company
Information. The Guarantor has established adequate means of
obtaining from the Company on a continuing basis information regarding the
Company’s financial condition.
(h) Solvency. As
of the date hereof and after giving effect to the transactions contemplated
hereby (a) the property of the Guarantor, at a fair valuation, will exceed its
debt; (b) the capital of the Guarantor will not be unreasonably small to conduct
its business; (c) the Guarantor will not have incurred debts, or have intended
to incur debts, beyond its ability to pay such debts as they mature; and (d) the
present fair salable value of the assets of the Guarantor will be greater than
the amount that will be required to pay its probable liabilities (including
debts) as they become absolute and matured. For purposes of this
subsection (i), “debt” means any liability on a claim, and “claim” means (i) the
right to payment, whether or not such right is reduced to judgment, liquidated,
unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, undisputed, legal,
equitable, secured or unsecured, or (ii) the right to an equitable remedy for
breach of performance if such breach gives rise to a right to payment, whether
or not such right to an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed,
contingent, matured, unmatured, undisputed, secured or unsecured.
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4. Covenants.
(a) Actions. Guarantor
covenants and agrees with the Purchaser that, from and after the date of this
Guarantee until the Obligations shall have been paid in full, the Guarantor
shall take, and/or shall refrain from taking, as the case may be, each
commercially reasonable action that is necessary to be taken or not taken, as
the case may be, so that no Event of Default is caused by the failure to take
such action or to refrain from taking such action by the Guarantor.
(b) Insurance. So
long as the Note remains outstanding, the Guarantor shall have in full force and
effect (a) insurance reasonably believed by the Guarantor to be adequate on all
assets and activities, covering property damage and loss of income by fire or
other casualty, and (b) insurance reasonably believed to be adequate protection
against all liabilities, claims and risks against which it is customary for
companies similarly situated as the Guarantor to insure.
(c) Compliance with
Laws. So long as the Note remains outstanding, Guarantor will
use reasonable efforts to comply with all applicable laws, rules, regulations,
orders and decrees of all governmental authorities, except to the extent
non-compliance (in one instance or in the aggregate) would not have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(d) Corporate Existence; Merger
and Consolidation. So long as the Note remains outstanding,
the Guarantor shall maintain their corporate existence. The Guarantor
shall not consolidate with or merge with or into, or convey, transfer or lease
all or substantially all its assets to, any Person, except to the same extent
that the Company is so permitted, and in accordance with the same provisions
applicable to the Company, in the Purchase Agreement or the Note (with the
assumption of obligations applying to the assumption of the obligations under
this Guarantee).
(e) Taxes. The
Guarantor shall pay, and shall cause each of its subsidiaries to pay, prior to
delinquency, all material taxes, assessments, and governmental levies except
such as are contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings or where the
failure to effect such payment is not adverse in any material respect to the
Guarantor or the Purchaser.
(f) Stay, Extension and Usury
Laws. The Guarantor covenants (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any
manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension
or usury law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may
affect the covenants or the performance of this Guarantee; and the Guarantor (to
the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or
advantage of any such law, and covenants that it shall not, by resort to any
such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any right herein granted to
the Purchaser, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such right as
though no such law has been enacted.
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(g) Negative
Covenants. So long as any of the Obligations are outstanding,
unless the Purchaser shall otherwise consent in writing, Guarantor will not
directly or indirectly on or after the date of this Guarantee:
i. other than Permitted Indebtedness (as defined in the
Note), enter into,
create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any indebtedness for borrowed money of
any kind, including but not limited to, a guarantee, on or with respect to any
of its property or assets now owned or hereafter acquired or any interest therein or any income or profits
therefrom;
ii. other than Permitted Liens (as defined in the Note), enter into,
create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any liens of any kind, on or with
respect to any of its property or assets now owned or hereafter acquired or any interest therein or any income or
profits therefrom;
iii. amend its certificate of incorporation, bylaws or other
charter documents so as to adversely affect any rights of the Purchaser
hereunder;
iv. repay,
repurchase or offer to repay, repurchase or otherwise acquire more than a de
minimis number of shares of its securities or debt obligations;
v. repay,
repurchase or offer to repay, repurchase or otherwise acquire any Indebtedness,
other than regularly scheduled principal and interest payments as such terms are
in effect as of the Closing Date (subject to clause (vi) below);
vi. repay,
repurchase or offer to repay, repurchase or otherwise acquire any indebtedness
to any current or former employees, officers or directors of the Guarantor or
Company or such current or former employees’, officers’ or directors’
affiliates, including without limitation any loans from or management fees
payable to Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx or Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx or their affiliates, except
for repayment to Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx of loans made by him to the Company since
January 1, 2008, not to exceed $150,000 (in the aggregate together with payments
made by the Company);
vii. pay cash
dividends or distributions on any equity securities of the
Guarantor;
viii. enter
into any transaction with any Affiliate of the Guarantor which would be required
to be disclosed in any public filing of the Company with the Commission, unless
such transaction is made on an arm’s-length basis and expressly approved by a
majority of the disinterested directors of the Company (even if less than a
quorum otherwise required for board approval); or
ix. enter
into any agreement with respect to any of the foregoing;
provided, however,
that the Guarantor shall not be prohibited from undertaking any of the actions
described above that the Company is
permitted to undertake pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement,
Note
and any and all other agreements or other documents entered into in connection
with the financings contemplated by the Purchase Agreement.
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5. Miscellaneous.
(a) Amendments in
Writing. None of the terms or provisions of this
Guarantee may be waived, amended, supplemented or otherwise modified except in
writing by the Purchaser.
(b) Notices. All
notices, requests and demands to or upon the Purchaser or the Guarantor
hereunder shall be effected in the manner provided for in the Purchase
Agreement, provided that any such notice, request or demand to or upon the
Guarantor shall be addressed to the Guarantor at its notice address set forth on
Schedule
1.
(c) No Waiver by Course of
Conduct; Cumulative Remedies. The Purchaser shall not by any act (except
by a written instrument pursuant to Section 5(a)), delay, indulgence, omission
or otherwise be deemed to have waived any right or remedy hereunder or to have
acquiesced in any default under the Transaction Documents or Event of
Default. No failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the
part of the Purchaser any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a
waiver thereof. No single or partial exercise of any right, power or
privilege hereunder shall preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the
exercise of any other right, power or privilege. A waiver by the
Purchaser of any right or remedy hereunder on any one occasion shall not be
construed as a bar to any right or remedy which the Purchaser would otherwise
have on any future occasion. The rights and remedies provided herein
are cumulative, may be exercised singly or concurrently and are not exclusive of
any other rights or remedies provided by law.
(d) Enforcement Expenses;
Indemnification.
(i) Guarantor
agrees to pay, or reimburse the Purchaser for, all costs and expenses incurred
in collecting against the Guarantor under the guarantee contained in Section 2
or otherwise enforcing or preserving any rights under this Guarantee and the
other Transaction Documents to which the Guarantor is a party, including without
limitation the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the
Purchaser.
(ii) Guarantor
agrees to pay, and to save the Purchaser harmless from, any and all liabilities
with respect to, or resulting from any delay in paying, any and all stamp,
excise, sales or other taxes which may be payable or determined to be payable in
connection with any of the transactions contemplated by this
Guarantee.
(iii) Guarantor
agrees to pay, and to save the Purchaser harmless from, any and all liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,
expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever with respect to the
execution, delivery, enforcement, performance and administration of this
Guarantee to the extent the Company would be required to do so pursuant to the
Purchase Agreement.
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(iv) The
agreements in this Section shall survive repayment of the Obligations and all
other amounts payable under the Purchase Agreement, the Note and the other
Transaction Documents.
(e) Successor and
Assigns. This Guarantee shall be binding upon the successors and assigns
of Guarantor and shall inure to the benefit of the Purchaser and their
respective successors and assigns; provided that no Guarantor may assign,
transfer or delegate any of its rights or obligations under this Guarantee
without the prior written consent of the Purchaser.
(f) Set-Off. Guarantor
hereby irrevocably authorizes the Purchaser at any time and from time to time
while an Event of Default under any of the Transaction Documents shall have
occurred and be continuing, without notice to the Guarantor or any other
guarantor, any such notice being expressly waived by Guarantor, to set-off and
appropriate and apply any and all deposits, credits, indebtedness or claims, in
any currency, in each case whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent,
matured or unmatured, at any time held or owing by the Purchaser to or for the
credit or the account of the Guarantor, or any part thereof in such amounts as
the Purchaser may elect, against and on account of the obligations and
liabilities of the Guarantor to the Purchaser hereunder and claims of every
nature and description of the Purchaser against the Guarantor, in any currency,
whether arising hereunder, under the Purchase Agreement, any other Transaction
Document or otherwise, as the Purchaser may elect, whether or not the Purchaser
have made any demand for payment and although such obligations, liabilities and
claims may be contingent or unmatured. The Purchaser shall notify the
Guarantor promptly of any such set-off and the application made by the Purchaser
of the proceeds thereof, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not
affect the validity of such set-off and application. The rights of
the Purchaser under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies
(including without limitation other rights of set-off) which the Purchaser may
have.
(g) Counterparts. This
Guarantee may be executed by one or more of the parties to this Guarantee on any
number of separate counterparts (including by fax or PDF), and all of said
counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same
instrument.
(h) Severability. Any
provision of this Guarantee which is prohibited or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of
such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining
provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any
jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any
other jurisdiction.
(i) Section
Headings. The Section headings used in this Guarantee are for
convenience of reference only and are not to affect the construction hereof or
be taken into consideration in the interpretation hereof.
(j) Integration. This
Guarantee and the other Transaction Documents represent the agreement of the
Guarantor and the Purchaser with respect to the subject matter hereof and
thereof, and there are no promises, undertakings, representations or warranties
by the Purchaser relative to subject matter hereof and thereof not expressly set
forth or referred to herein or in the other Transaction Documents.
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(k) Governing
Law. This guarantee shall be governed by, and construed and
interpreted in accordance with, the law of the state of California without
regard to any principles of conflicts of laws.
(l) Submission to
Jurisdictional; Waiver. Guarantor hereby irrevocably
and unconditionally:
(i) submits
for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this
Guarantee and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, or for
recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the
non-exclusive general jurisdiction of the Courts of the State of California,
located in San Diego, California, the courts of the United States of America
located in San Diego, California, and appellate courts from any
thereof;
(ii) consents
that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts and waives any
objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action or
proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an
inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;
(iii) agrees
that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by
mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially
similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to the Guarantor at its address referred
to in Schedule 1 below or at such other address of which the Purchaser shall
have been notified pursuant thereto;
(iv) agrees
that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in any
other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to xxx in any other
jurisdiction; and
(v) waives,
to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim or
recover in any legal action or proceeding referred to in this Section any
special, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages.
(m) Acknowledgements. Guarantor
hereby acknowledges that:
(i) it has
been advised by counsel in the negotiation, execution and delivery of this
Guarantee and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a
party;
(ii) the
Purchaser have no fiduciary relationship with or duty to the Guarantor arising
out of or in connection with this Guarantee or any of the other Transaction
Documents, and the relationship between the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the
Purchaser, on the other hand, in connection herewith or therewith is solely that
of debtor and creditor; and
(iii) no joint
venture is created hereby or by the other Transaction Documents or otherwise
exists by virtue of the transactions contemplated hereby between the Guarantor
and the Purchaser.
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(n) Release of Guarantor.
Subject to Section 2, Guarantor will be released from all liability hereunder
concurrently with the repayment in full of all amounts owed under the Purchase
Agreement, the Note and the other Transaction Documents.
(o) Seniority. The
Obligations of the Guarantor hereunder rank senior in priority to any other
Indebtedness (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) of the
Guarantor.
(p) Waiver of Jury
Trial. GUARANTOR AND, BY ACCEPTANCE OF THE BENEFITS HEREOF,
THE PURCHASER, HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY
LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS GUARANTEE AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM
THEREIN.
(q) Security. The
Obligations and Guarantor’s obligations hereunder and under the other
Transaction Documents are secured by the assets of the Guarantor pursuant to the
terms of the Security Documents.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Guarantee to be
duly executed and delivered as of the date first above written.
LIFELINE
CELL TECHNOLOGY, LLC
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Name:
Title: Managing
Member
INTERNATIONAL STEM CELL
CORPORATION, a California corporation
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Chief
Executive Officer
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SCHEDULE
1
GUARANTOR
The
following are the names, notice addresses, jurisdiction of organization and
percentage ownership of Guarantor by the Company.
|
NAME
|
ADDRESS
FOR NOTICE
|
JURISDICTION
OF INCORPORATION
|
PERCENTAGE
OWNED BY COMPANY
|
|
International
Stem Cell Corporation
|
0000
Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
|
100%
owned by Company
|
|
|
Lifeline
Cell Technology, LLC
|
0000
Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
|
100%
owned by International Stem Cell Corporation, a California
corporation
|
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