Exhibit 4.4
THIS WARRANT HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933,
AS AMENDED, OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE AND MAY NOT BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED
OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
OR EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE FOREGOING LAWS.
VOID AFTER 5:00 P.M. EASTERN TIME ON NOVEMBER 17, 2003 ("EXPIRATION DATE").
LIFECELL CORPORATION
WARRANT TO PURCHASE SHARES OF
COMMON STOCK, PAR VALUE $.001 PER SHARE ("Common Stock")
For VALUE RECEIVED, The Tail Wind Fund, Ltd. ("Warrantholder"), is
entitled to purchase, subject to the provisions of this Warrant, from LifeCell
Corporation, a Delaware corporation ("Company"), at any time not later than 5:00
P.M., Eastern time, on the Expiration Date, at an exercise price per share equal
to $5.46 (the exercise price in effect being herein called the "Warrant Price"),
Two Hundred Thousand (200,000) shares ("Warrant Shares") of Common Stock. The
number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon exercise of this Warrant and the
Warrant Price shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as described
herein.
Section 1. Registration. The Company shall maintain books for the
transfer and registration of the Warrant. Upon the initial issuance of the
Warrant, the Company shall issue and register the Warrant in the name of the
Warrantholder.
Section 2. Transfers. As provided herein, this Warrant may be
transferred only pursuant to a registration statement filed under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended ("Securities Act") or an exemption from such
registration; provided, however, this Warrant may only be transferred to an
affiliate of the Warrantholder. Subject to such restrictions, the Company shall
transfer this Warrant from time to time upon the books to be maintained by the
Company for that purpose, upon surrender thereof for transfer properly endorsed
or accompanied by appropriate instructions for transfer and such other documents
as may be reasonably required by the Company to establish that such transfer is
being made in accordance with the terms hereof, and a new Warrant shall be
issued to the transferee and the surrendered Warrant shall be canceled by the
Company.
Section 3. Exercise of Warrant. Subject to the provisions hereof, the
Warrantholder may exercise this Warrant in whole or in part at any time upon
surrender of the Warrant, together with delivery of the duly executed Warrant
exercise form attached hereto (the "Exercise Agreement") and payment by cash,
certified check or wire transfer of funds for the Warrant Price (subject to the
provisions relating to cashless exercises described below) for that number of
Warrant Shares then being purchased, to the Company during normal business hours
on any business day at the Company's principal executive offices (or such other
office or agency of the Company as it may designate by notice to the holder
hereof). The Warrant Shares so purchased shall be deemed to be issued to the
holder hereof or such holder's designee, as the record owner of such shares, as
of the close of business on the date on which this Warrant shall have been
surrendered (or evidence of loss, theft or destruction thereof and security or
indemnity satisfactory to the Company), the Warrant Price shall have been paid
and the completed Exercise Agreement shall have been delivered. Certificates for
the Warrant Shares so purchased, representing the aggregate number of shares
specified in the Exercise Agreement, shall be delivered to the holder hereof
within a reasonable time, not exceeding seven (7) business days, after this
Warrant shall have been so exercised. The certificates so delivered shall be in
such denominations as may be requested by the holder hereof and shall be
registered in the name of such holder or such other name as shall be designated
by such holder. If this Warrant shall have been exercised only in part, then,
unless this Warrant has expired, the Company shall, at its expense, at the time
of delivery of such certificates, deliver to the holder a new Warrant
representing the number of shares with respect to which this Warrant shall not
then have been exercised.
In the event the closing bid price of the Common Stock is less
than $2.00 for twenty consecutive trading days, this Warrant shall immediately
terminate and in its place the holder shall have a stock appreciation right,
subject to the terms and conditions of this Warrant, entitling the holder upon
exercise to acquire, without further cash payment, that number of shares of
Common Stock determined by multiplying the number of Warrant Shares to which it
would otherwise have been entitled by a fraction, the numerator of which shall
be the difference between the closing bid price of the Common Stock on the date
of exercise and the Warrant Price, and the denominator of which shall be such
closing bid price of the Common Stock.
Each exercise (whether of the Warrant or, if applicable, the
stock appreciation right) hereof shall constitute the representation and
warranty of the Warrantholder to the Company that the representations and
warranties contained in Article 5 of the Purchase Agreement (as defined below)
are true and correct in all material respects with respect to the Warrantholder
as of the time of such exercise.
Section 4. Compliance with the Securities Act of 1933. Neither this
Warrant nor the Common Stock issued upon exercise hereof nor any other security
issued or issuable upon exercise of this Warrant may be offered, sold or
transferred except as provided in this agreement and in conformity with the
Securities Act, and then only against receipt of an agreement of such person to
whom such offer of sale is made to comply with the provisions of this Section 4
with respect to any resale or other disposition of such security. The Company
may cause the legend set forth on the first page of this Warrant to be set forth
on each Warrant or similar legend on any security issued or issuable upon
exercise of this Warrant, unless counsel for the Company is of the opinion as to
any such security that such legend is unnecessary.
Section 5. Payment of Taxes. The Company will pay any documentary stamp
taxes attributable to the initial issuance of Warrant Shares issuable upon the
exercise of the Warrant; provided, however, that the Company shall not be
required to pay any tax or taxes which may be payable in respect of any transfer
involved in the issuance or delivery of any certificates for Warrant Shares in a
name other than that of the registered holder of this Warrant in respect of
which such shares are issued, and in such case, the Company shall not be
required to issue or deliver any certificate for Warrant Shares or any Warrant
until the person requesting the same has paid to the Company the amount of such
tax or has established to the Company's satisfaction that such tax has been
paid. The holder shall be responsible for income taxes due under federal, state
or other law, if any such tax is due.
Section 6. Mutilated or Missing Warrants. In case this Warrant shall be
mutilated, lost, stolen, or destroyed, the Company shall issue in exchange and
substitution of and upon cancellation of the mutilated Warrant, or in lieu of
and substitution for the Warrant lost, stolen or destroyed, a new Warrant of
like tenor and for the purchase of a like number of Warrant Shares, but only
upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss,
theft or destruction of the Warrant, and with respect to a lost, stolen or
destroyed Warrant, reasonable indemnity or bond with respect thereto, if
requested by the Company.
Section 7. Reservation of Common Stock. The Company hereby represents
and warrants that there have been reserved, and the Company shall at all
applicable times keep reserved until issued (if necessary) as contemplated by
this Section 7, out of the authorized and unissued Common Stock, sufficient
shares to provide for the exercise of the rights of purchase represented by the
Warrant. The Company agrees that all Warrant Shares issued upon exercise of the
Warrant shall be, at the time of delivery of the certificates for such Warrant
Shares, duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable shares of
Common Stock of the Company.
Section 8. Adjustments. Subject and pursuant to the provisions of this
Section 8, the Warrant Price and number of Warrant Shares subject to this
Warrant shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as set forth
hereinafter.
(a) If the Company shall at any time or from time to time
while the Warrant is outstanding, pay a dividend or make a distribution on its
Common Stock in shares of Common Stock, subdivide its outstanding shares of
Common Stock into a greater number of shares or combine its outstanding shares
into a smaller number of shares or issue by reclassification of its outstanding
shares of Common Stock any shares of its capital stock (including any such
reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the
Company is the continuing corporation), then the number of Warrant Shares
purchasable upon exercise of the Warrant and the Warrant Price in effect
immediately prior to the date upon which such change shall become effective,
shall be adjusted by the Company so that the Warrantholder thereafter exercising
the Warrant shall be entitled to receive the number of shares of Common Stock or
other capital stock which the Warrantholder would have received if the Warrant
had been exercised immediately prior to such event upon payment of a Warrant
Price that has been adjusted to reflect a fair allocation of the economics of
such event to the Warrantholder. Such adjustments shall be made successively
whenever any event listed above shall occur. No adjustment shall be made with
respect to any dividends paid on the Series B Preferred Stock.
(b) If any capital reorganization, reclassification of the
capital stock of the Company, consolidation or merger of the Company with
another corporation in which the Company is not the survivor, or sale, transfer
or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company's assets to
another corporation shall be effected, then, as a condition of such
reorganization, reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or other
disposition, lawful and adequate provision shall be made whereby each
Warrantholder shall thereafter have the right to purchase and receive upon the
basis and upon the terms and conditions herein specified and in lieu of the
Warrant Shares immediately theretofore issuable upon exercise of the Warrant,
such shares of stock, securities or assets as would have been issuable or
payable with respect to or in exchange for a number of Warrant Shares equal to
the number of Warrant Shares immediately theretofore issuable upon exercise of
the Warrant, had such reorganization, reclassification, consolidation, merger,
sale, transfer or other disposition not taken place, and in any such case
appropriate provision shall be made with respect to the rights and interests of
each Warrantholder to the end that the provisions hereof (including, without
limitations, provision for adjustment of the Warrant Price) shall thereafter be
applicable, as nearly equivalent as may be practicable in relation to any shares
of stock, securities or properties thereafter deliverable upon the exercise
thereof. The Company shall not effect any such consolidation, merger, sale,
transfer or other disposition unless prior to or simultaneously with the
consummation thereof the successor corporation (if other than the Company)
resulting from such consolidation or merger, or the corporation purchasing or
otherwise acquiring such assets or other appropriate corporation or entity shall
assume the obligation to deliver to the holder of the Warrant such shares of
stock, securities or assets as, in accordance with the foregoing provisions,
such holder may be entitled to purchase and the other obligations under this
Warrant. The provisions of this paragraph (b) shall similarly apply to
successive reorganizations, reclassifications, consolidations, mergers, sales,
transfers or other dispositions.
(c) In case the Company shall fix a payment date for the
making of a distribution to all holders of Common Stock (including any such
distribution made in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the
Company is the continuing corporation) of evidences of indebtedness or assets
(other than cash dividends or cash distributions payable out of consolidated
earnings or earned surplus or dividends or distributions referred to in Section
8(a)), or subscription rights or warrants, the Warrant Price to be in effect
after such payment date shall be determined by multiplying the Warrant Price in
effect immediately prior to such payment date by a fraction, the numerator of
which shall be the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding multiplied
by the Market Price per share of Common Stock (as defined below), less the fair
market value (as determined by the Company's Board of Directors in good faith)
of said assets or evidences of indebtedness so distributed, or of such
subscription rights or warrants, and the denominator of which shall be the total
number of shares of Common Stock outstanding multiplied by such Market Price per
share of Common Stock. "Market Price" shall mean the average of the closing bid
price of the Common Stock over the ten trading days immediately preceding the
applicable date. Such adjustments shall be made successively whenever such a
payment date is fixed.
(d) If pursuant to the Purchase Agreement by and between the
Company and the Investors named therein dated November 17, 1999 (the "Purchase
Agreement") there is an adjustment under Section 7.1 thereof, then the Warrant
Price shall be adjusted to a price equal to the Market Price (as defined above)
of the Common Stock on the date of such adjustment, if such adjustment to the
Warrant Price would result in a lower Warrant Price. Such adjustments shall be
made successively whenever required.
(e) An adjustment shall become effective immediately after the
payment date in the case of each dividend or distribution and immediately after
the effective date of each other event which requires an adjustment.
(f) In the event that, as a result of an adjustment made
pursuant to Section 8(a), the holder of this Warrant shall become entitled to
receive any shares of capital stock of the Company other than shares of Common
Stock, the number of such other shares so receivable upon exercise of this
Warrant shall be subject thereafter to adjustment from time to time in a manner
and on terms as nearly equivalent as practicable to the provisions with respect
to the Warrant Shares contained in this Warrant.
Section 9. Fractional Interest. The Company shall not be required to
issue fractions of Warrant Shares upon the exercise of the Warrant. If any
fraction of a Warrant Share would, except for the provisions of this Section, be
issuable upon the exercise of the Warrant (or specified portions thereof), the
fractional share shall be disregarded and the number of shares to be issued upon
exercise shall be the number of whole shares only.
Section 10. Benefits. Nothing in this Warrant shall be construed to
give any person, firm or corporation (other than the Company and the
Warrantholder) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim, it being agreed
that this Warrant shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Company and
the Warrantholder.
Section 11. Notices to Warrantholder. Upon the happening of any event
requiring an adjustment of the Warrant Price, the Company shall promptly give
written notice thereof to the Warrantholder at the address appearing in the
records of the Company, stating the adjusted Warrant Price and the adjusted
number of Warrant Shares resulting from such event and setting forth in
reasonable detail the method of calculation and the facts upon which such
calculation is based. In the event of a dispute with respect to any such
calculation, the certificate of the Company's independent certified public
accountants shall be conclusive evidence of the correctness of any computation
made, absent manifest error. Failure to give such notice to the Warrantholder or
any defect therein shall not affect the legality or validity of the subject
adjustment.
Section 12. Identity of Transfer Agent. The Transfer Agent for the
Common Stock is Xxxxxx Trust & Savings Bank. Upon the appointment of any
subsequent transfer agent for the Common Stock or other shares of the Company's
capital stock issuable upon the exercise of the rights of purchase represented
by the Warrant, the Company will mail to the Warrantholder a statement setting
forth the name and address of such transfer agent.
Section 13. Notices. Any notice pursuant hereto to be given or made by
the Warrantholder to or on the Company shall be sufficiently given or made if
sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, addressed as
follows:
LifeCell Corporation
Xxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attn: Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Chief Financial Officer
Fax: 000-000-0000
or such other address as the Company may specify in writing by notice to the
Warrantholder complying as to delivery with the terms of this Section 13.
Any notice pursuant hereto to be given or made by the Company to or on
the Warrantholder shall be sufficiently given or made if personally delivered or
if sent by an internationally recognized courier services by overnight or
two-day service, to the address set forth on the books of the Company or, as to
each of the Company and the Warrantholder, at such other address as shall be
designated by such party by written notice to the other party complying as to
delivery with the terms of this Section 13. All such notices, requests, demands,
directions and other communications shall, when sent by courier be effective two
(2) days after delivery to such courier as provided and addressed as aforesaid.
Section 14. Registration Rights. The initial holder of this Warrant is
entitled to the benefit of certain registration rights in respect of the Warrant
Shares as provided in the Registration Rights Agreement dated as of as of
November 17, 1999.
Section 15. Successors. All the covenants and provisions hereof by or
for the benefit of the Warrantholder shall bind and inure to the benefit of its
respective successors and assigns hereunder.
Section 16. Governing Law. This Warrant shall be deemed to be a
contract made under the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to
its conflict of law principles, and for all purposes shall be construed in
accordance with the laws of said State.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Warrant to be
duly executed, as of the day and year first above written.
LIFECELL CORPORATION
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Sr. V.P., C.F.O.
