EXHIBIT 10.29
NEITHER THIS WARRANT NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THIS WARRANT IS
EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN
EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED
(THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD
EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS THEREUNDER AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE
STATE SECURITIES OR BLUE SKY LAWS.
USCI, INC.
WARRANT
Warrant No. 3 Dated May 7, 1998
USCI, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of
Delaware (the "Company"), hereby certifies that, for value received, JNC
Opportunity Fund Ltd. or its registered assigns ("Holder"), is entitled,
subject to the terms set forth below, to purchase from the Company up to
a total of 203,749 shares of Common Stock, $.0001 par value per share
(the "Common Stock"), of the Company (each such share, a "Warrant Share"
and all such shares, the "Warrant Shares") at an exercise price equal to
$5.85 per share (as adjusted from time to time as provided in Section 8,
the "Exercise Price"), at any time and from time to time from and after
the date hereof and through and including May 7, 2003 (the
"Expiration Date"), and subject to the following terms and conditions:
1. Registration of Warrant. The Company shall register
this Warrant, upon records to be maintained by the Company for that
purpose (the "Warrant Register"), in the name of the record Holder
hereof from time to time. The Company may deem and treat the registered
Holder of this Warrant as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of
any exercise hereof or any distribution to the Holder, and for all other
purposes, and the Company shall not be affected by notice to the
contrary.
2. Registration of Transfers and Exchanges.
(a) The Company shall register the transfer of any
portion of this Warrant in the Warrant Register, upon surrender of this
Warrant, with the Form of Assignment attached hereto duly completed and
signed, to the Company at the office specified in or pursuant to Section
3(b). Upon any such registration or transfer, a new warrant to purchase
Common Stock, in substantially the form of this Warrant (any such new
warrant, a "New Warrant"), evidencing the portion of this Warrant so
transferred shall be issued to the transferee and a New Warrant
evidencing the remaining portion of this Warrant not so transferred, if
any, shall be issued to the transferring Holder. The acceptance of the
New Warrant by the transferee thereof shall be deemed the acceptance of
such transferee of all of the rights and obligations of a holder of a
Warrant.
(b) This Warrant is exchangeable, upon the surrender
hereof by the Holder to the office of the Company specified in or
pursuant to Section 3(b) for one or more New Warrants, evidencing in the
aggregate the right to purchase the number of Warrant Shares which may
then be purchased hereunder. Any such New Warrant will be dated the
date of such exchange.
3. Duration and Exercise of Warrants.
(a) This Warrant shall be exercisable by the
registered Holder on any business day before 5:30 P.M., Eastern Standard
Time, at any time and from time to time on or after the date hereof to
and including the Expiration Date. At 5:30 P.M., Eastern Standard Time
on the Expiration Date, the portion of this Warrant not exercised prior
thereto shall be and become void and of no value. This Warrant may not
be redeemed by the Company.
(b) Subject to Sections 2(b), 6 and 11, upon surrender
of this Warrant, with the Form of Election to Purchase attached hereto
duly completed and signed, to the Company at its address for notice set
forth in Section 11 and upon payment of the Exercise Price multiplied by
the number of Warrant Shares that the Holder intends to purchase
hereunder, in lawful money of the United States of America, in cash or
by certified or official bank check or checks, all as specified by the
Holder in the Form of Election to Purchase, the Company shall promptly
(but in no event later than 3 business days after the Date of Exercise
(as defined herein)) issue or cause to be issued and cause to be
delivered to or upon the written order of the Holder and in such name or
names as the Holder may designate, a certificate for the Warrant Shares
issuable upon such exercise, free of restrictive legends other than as
required by applicable law. Any person so designated by the Holder to
receive Warrant Shares shall be deemed to have become holder of record
of such Warrant Shares as of the Date of Exercise of this Warrant.
A "Date of Exercise" means the date on which the
Company shall have received (i) this Warrant (or any New Warrant, as
applicable), with the Form of Election to Purchase attached hereto (or
attached to such New Warrant) appropriately completed and duly signed,
and (ii) payment of the Exercise Price for the number of Warrant Shares
so indicated by the holder hereof to be purchased.
(c) This Warrant shall be exercisable, either in its
entirety or, from time to time, for a portion of the number of Warrant
Shares. If less than all of the Warrant Shares which may be purchased
under this Warrant are exercised at any time, the Company shall issue or
cause to be issued, at its expense, a New Warrant evidencing the right
to purchase the remaining number of Warrant Shares for which no exercise
has been evidenced by this Warrant.
4. Piggyback Registration Rights. During the term of this
Warrant, the Company may not file any registration statement with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (other than registration statements
of the Company filed on Form S-8 or Form S-4, each as promulgated under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), pursuant
to which the Company is registering securities pursuant to a Company
employee benefit plan or pursuant to a merger, acquisition or similar
transaction including supplements thereto, but not additionally filed
registration statements in respect of such securities) at any time when
there is not an effective registration statement covering the resale of
the Warrant Shares and naming the Holder as a selling stockholder
thereunder, unless the Company provides the Holder with not less than 20
days notice to each of the Holder and Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
& Xxxxxx LLP, attention Xxxx X. Xxxxx, notice of its intention to file
such registration statement and provides the Holder the option to
include any or all of the applicable Warrant Shares therein. The
piggyback registration rights granted to the Holder pursuant to this
Section shall continue until all of the Holder's Warrant Shares have
been sold in accordance with an effective registration statement or upon
the expiration of this Warrant. The Company will pay all registration
expenses in connection therewith.
5. Payment of Taxes. The Company will pay all documentary
stamp taxes attributable to the issuance of Warrant Shares upon the
exercise of this Warrant; provided, however, that the Company shall not
be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any
transfer involved in the registration of any certificates for Warrant
Shares or Warrants in a name other than that of the Holder, and the
Company shall not be required to issue or cause to be issued or deliver
or cause to be delivered the certificates for Warrant Shares unless or
until the person or persons requesting the issuance thereof shall have
paid to the Company the amount of such tax or shall have established to
the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid. The Holder
shall be responsible for all other tax liability that may arise as a
result of holding or transferring this Warrant or receiving Warrant
Shares upon exercise hereof.
6. Replacement of Warrant. If this Warrant is mutilated,
lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued
in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation hereof, or in
lieu of and substitution for this Warrant, a New Warrant, but only upon
receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss,
theft or destruction and indemnity, if reasonably satisfactory to it.
Applicants for a New Warrant under such circumstances shall also comply
with such other reasonable regulations and procedures and pay such other
reasonable charges as the Company may prescribe.
7. Reservation of Warrant Shares. The Company covenants
that it will at all times reserve and keep available out of the
aggregate of its authorized but unissued Common Stock, solely for the
purpose of enabling it to issue Warrant Shares upon exercise of this
Warrant as herein provided, the number of Warrant Shares which are then
issuable and deliverable upon the exercise of this entire Warrant, free
from preemptive rights or any other actual contingent purchase rights of
persons other than the Holder (taking into account the adjustments and
restrictions of Section 8). The Company covenants that all Warrant
Shares that shall be so issuable and deliverable shall, upon issuance
and the payment of the applicable Exercise Price in accordance with the
terms hereof, be duly and validly authorized, issued and fully paid and
nonassessable.
8. Certain Adjustments. The Exercise Price and number of
Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant are subject to
adjustment from time to time as set forth in this Section 8. Upon each
such adjustment of the Exercise Price pursuant to this Section 8, the
Holder shall thereafter prior to the Expiration Date be entitled to
purchase, at the Exercise Price resulting from such adjustment, the
number of Warrant Shares obtained by multiplying the Exercise Price in
effect immediately prior to such adjustment by the number of Warrant
Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant immediately prior to such
adjustment and dividing the product thereof by the Exercise Price
resulting from such adjustment.
(a) If the Company, at any time while this Warrant is
outstanding, (i) shall pay a stock dividend or otherwise make a
distribution or distributions on shares of its Common Stock or on any
other class of capital stock (and not the Common Stock) payable in
shares of Common Stock, other than the dividends payable under the
Purchase Agreement, (ii) subdivide outstanding shares of Common Stock
into a larger number of shares, or (iii) combine outstanding shares of
Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, the Exercise Price shall
be multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number
of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if any)
outstanding before such event and of which the denominator shall be the
number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if any)
outstanding after such event. Any adjustment made pursuant to this
Section shall become effective immediately after the record date for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or
distribution and shall become effective immediately after the effective
date in the case of a subdivision or combination, and shall apply to
successive subdivisions and combinations.
(b) In case of any reclassification of the Common
Stock, any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into another
person, the sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets
of the Company in which the consideration therefor is equity or equity
equivalent securities or any compulsory share exchange pursuant to which
the Common Stock is converted into other securities or property, then
the Holder shall have the right thereafter to exercise this Warrant only
into the shares of stock and other securities and property receivable
upon or deemed to be held by holders of Common Stock following such
reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share
exchange, and the Holder shall be entitled upon such event to receive
such amount of securities or property of the Company's business
combination partner equal to the amount of Warrant Shares such Holder
would have been entitled to had such Holder exercised this Warrant
immediately prior to such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale,
transfer or share exchange. The terms of any such consolidation,
merger, sale, transfer or share exchange shall include such terms so as
to continue to give to the Holder the right to receive the securities or
property set forth in this Section 8(b) upon any exercise following any
such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share
exchange.
(c) If the Company, at any time while this Warrant is
outstanding, shall distribute to all holders of Common Stock (and not to
holders of this Warrant) evidences of its indebtedness or assets or
rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any security (excluding
those referred to in Sections 8(a), (b) and (d)), then in each such case
the Exercise Price shall be determined by multiplying the Exercise Price
in effect immediately prior to the record date fixed for determination
of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction of
which the denominator shall be the Exercise Price determined as of the
record date mentioned above, and of which the numerator shall be such
Exercise Price on such record date less the then fair market value at
such record date of the portion of such assets or evidence of
indebtedness so distributed applicable to one outstanding share of
Common Stock as determined by a nationally recognized or major regional
investment banking firm or firm of independent certified public
accountants of recognized standing (which may be the firm that regularly
examines the financial statements of the Company) (an "Appraiser")
mutually selected in good faith by the holders of a majority in interest
of the Warrants then outstanding and the Company. Any determination
made by the Appraiser shall be final.
(d) If, at any time while this Warrant is outstanding,
the Company shall issue or cause to be issued rights or warrants to
acquire or otherwise sell or distribute shares of Common Stock to all
holders of Common Stock for a consideration per share less than the Per
Share Market Value (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) in effect on
the date of issuance of such rights or warrants, then, forthwith upon
such issue or sale, the Exercise Price shall be reduced to the price
(calculated to the nearest cent) determined by dividing (i) an amount
equal to the sum of (A) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
immediately prior to such issue or sale multiplied by the Exercise
Price, and (B) the consideration, if any, received or receivable by the
Company upon such issue or sale by (ii) the total number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding immediately after such issue or sale.
(e) For the purposes of this Section 8, the following
clauses shall also be applicable:
(i) Record Date. In case the Company shall take
a record of the holders of its Common Stock for the purpose of entitling
them (A) to receive a dividend or other distribution payable in Common
Stock or in securities convertible or exchangeable into shares of Common
Stock, or (B) to subscribe for or purchase Common Stock or securities
convertible or exchangeable into shares of Common Stock, then such
record date shall be deemed to be the date of the issue or sale of the
shares of Common Stock deemed to have been issued or sold upon the
declaration of such dividend or the making of such other distribution or
the date of the granting of such right of subscription or purchase, as
the case may be.
(ii) Treasury Shares. The number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding at any given time shall not include shares
owned or held by or for the account of the Company, and the disposition
of any such shares shall be considered an issue or sale of Common Stock.
(f) All calculations under this Section 8 shall be
made to the nearest cent or the nearest 1/100th of a share, as the case
may be.
(g) If:
(i) the Company shall declare a dividend
(or any other distribution) on its
Common Stock; or
(ii) the Company shall declare a special
nonrecurring cash dividend on or a
redemption of its Common Stock; or
(iii) the Company shall authorize the
granting to all holders of the Common
Stock rights or warrants to subscribe
for or purchase any shares of capital
stock of any class or of any rights;
or
(iv) the approval of any stockholders of
the Company shall be required in
connection with any reclassification
of the Common Stock of the Company,
any consolidation or merger to which
the Company is a party, any sale or
transfer of all or substantially all
of the assets of the Company, or any
compulsory share exchange whereby the
Common Stock is converted into other
securities, cash or property; or
(v) the Company shall authorize the
voluntary dissolution, liquidation or
winding up of the affairs of the
Company,
then the Company shall cause to be mailed to each Holder at their last
addresses as they shall appear upon the Warrant Register, at least 30
calendar days prior to the applicable record or effective date
hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record
is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution,
redemption, rights or warrants, or if a record is not to be taken, the
date as of which the holders of Common Stock of record to be entitled to
such dividend, distributions, redemption, rights or warrants are to be
determined or (y) the date on which such reclassification,
consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange is expected to
become effective or close, and the date as of which it is expected that
holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their
shares of Common Stock for securities, cash or other property
deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale,
transfer, share exchange, dissolution, liquidation or winding up;
provided, however, that the failure to mail such notice or any defect
therein or in the mailing thereof shall not affect the validity of the
corporate action required to be specified in such notice.
9. Payment of Exercise Price. The Holder may pay the
Exercise Price in one of the following manners:
(a) Cash Exercise. The Holder shall deliver
immediately available funds; or
(b) Cashless Exercise. The Holder shall surrender
this Warrant to the Company together with a notice of cashless exercise,
in which event the Company shall issue to the Holder the number of
Warrant Shares determined as follows:
X = Y (A-B)/A
where:
X = the number of Warrant Shares to be issued to
the Holder.
Y = the number of Warrant Shares with respect to
which this Warrant is being exercised.
A = the closing sale prices of the Common Stock
for the Trading Day immediately prior to the Date
of Exercise.
B = the Exercise Price.
For purposes of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act, it is
intended, understood and acknowledged that the Warrant Shares issued in
a cashless exercise transaction shall be deemed to have been acquired by
the Holder, and the holding period for the Warrant Shares shall be
deemed to have been commenced, on the issue date.
10. Fractional Shares. The Company shall not be required
to issue or cause to be issued fractional Warrant Shares on the exercise
of this Warrant. The number of full Warrant Shares which shall be
issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant shall be computed on the
basis of the aggregate number of Warrant Shares purchasable on exercise
of this Warrant so presented. If any fraction of a Warrant Share would,
except for the provisions of this Section 10, be issuable on the
exercise of this Warrant, the Company shall, at its option, (i) pay an
amount in cash equal to the Exercise Price multiplied by such fraction
or (ii) round the number of Warrant Shares issuable, up to the next
whole number.
11. Notices. Any and all notices or other communications
or deliveries hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given
and effective on the earliest of (i) the date of transmission, if such
notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile
telephone number specified in this Section, (ii) the business day
following the date of mailing, if sent by nationally recognized
overnight courier service, or (iii) upon actual receipt by the party to
whom such notice is required to be given. The addresses for such
communications shall be: (1) if to the Company, to 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000, or to Facsimile No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention: Chief Financial Officer, or (ii) if to the Holder, to the
Holder at the address or facsimile number appearing on the Warrant
Register or such other address or facsimile number as the Holder may
provide to the Company in accordance with this Section 11.
12. Warrant Agent.
(a) The Company shall serve as warrant agent under
this Warrant. Upon thirty (30) days' notice to the Holder, the Company
may appoint a new warrant agent.
(b) Any corporation into which the Company or any new
warrant agent may be merged or any corporation resulting from any
consolidation to which the Company or any new warrant agent shall be a
party or any corporation to which the Company or any new warrant agent
transfers substantially all of its corporate trust or shareholders
services business shall be a successor warrant agent under this Warrant
without any further act. Any such successor warrant agent shall
promptly cause notice of its succession as warrant agent to be mailed
(by first class mail, postage prepaid) to the Holder at the Holder's
last address as shown on the Warrant Register.
13. Miscellaneous.
(a) This Warrant shall be binding on and inure to the
benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and
permitted assigns. This Warrant may be amended only in writing signed
by the Company and the Holder.
(b) Subject to Section 13(a), above, nothing in this
Warrant shall be construed to give to any person or corporation other
than the Company and the Holder any legal or equitable right, remedy or
cause under this Warrant; this Warrant shall be for the sole and
exclusive benefit of the Company and the Holder.
(c) This Warrant shall be governed by and construed
and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New
York without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof.
(d) The headings herein are for convenience only, do
not constitute a part of this Warrant and shall not be deemed to limit
or affect any of the provisions hereof.
(e) In case any one or more of the provisions of this
Warrant shall be invalid or unenforceable in any respect, the validity
and enforceability of the remaining terms and provisions of this Warrant
shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and the parties
will attempt in good faith to agree upon a valid and enforceable
provision which shall be a commercially reasonable substitute therefor,
and upon so agreeing, shall incorporate such substitute provision in
this Warrant.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant to be
duly executed by its authorized officer as of the date first indicated
above.
USCI, INC.
By:_______________________________
Name:_____________________________
Title:____________________________
FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE
(To be executed by the Holder to exercise the right to purchase shares
of Common Stock under the foregoing Warrant)
To USCI, Inc.:
In accordance with the Warrant enclosed with this Form of Election
to Purchase, the undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to purchase
[___________] shares of Common Stock, $.0001 par value, of USCI, Inc.
(the "Common Stock") and encloses herewith $________ in cash or
certified or official bank check or checks, which sum represents the
aggregate Exercise Price (as defined in the Warrant) for the number of
shares of Common Stock to which this Form of Election to Purchase
relates, together with any applicable taxes payable by the undersigned
pursuant to the Warrant.
The undersigned requests that certificates for the shares of
Common Stock issuable upon this exercise be issued in the name of
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER
(Please print name and address)
If the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon this
exercise shall not be all of the shares of Common Stock which the
undersigned is entitled to purchase in accordance with the enclosed
Warrant, the undersigned requests that a New Warrant (as defined in the
Warrant) evidencing the right to purchase the shares of Common Stock not
issuable pursuant to the exercise evidenced hereby be issued in the name
of and delivered to:
(Please print name and address)
Dated: , Name of Holder:
(Print)
(By:)
(Name:)
(Title:)
(Signature must conform in all respects to
name of holder as specified on the face of
the Warrant)
[To be completed and signed only upon transfer of Warrant]
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto ________________________________ the right represented by
the within Warrant to purchase ____________ shares of Common Stock of
USCI, Inc. to which the within Warrant relates and appoints
________________ attorney to transfer said right on the books of USCI,
Inc. with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
_______________, ____
_______________________________________
(Signature must conform in all respects to
name of holder as specified on the face of
the Warrant)
_______________________________________
Address of Transferee
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
In the presence of:
__________________________
