NONQUALIFIED STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT NQSO-012
THIS NONQUALIFIED STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is made and
entered into on July 3, 1995, by and between XXXXXXX LABORATORIES, INC., a
California corporation ("Company"), and XXXXXX X. XXXXXXXX ("Optionee").
1. GRANT OF OPTION. The Company hereby irrevocably grants to the
Optionee, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this
Agreement, the right and option ("Option") to purchase all or any part of an
aggregate of 5,000 shares ("Option Shares") of the Company's common stock,
such number being subject to adjustment as provided in Section 8 hereof. It
is understood by the parties hereto that the Option is not intended to
qualify as an "incentive stock option" within the meaning of Section 422 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"). If Optionee is
an employee of the Company or a parent or a subsidiary of the Company, it is
further understood by the parties hereto that the Option has been granted as
a matter of separate inducement and agreement in connection with the
employment of the Optionee and is not in lieu of any salary or other
compensation for the Optionee's services.
2. OPTION EXERCISE PRICE. The exercise price for the Option Shares
shall be $7.00 per share. The exercise price shall be paid in full as
provided in Section 9 hereof.
3. TERM OF OPTION. The term of the Option shall be for a period of
five (5) years from the date hereof, subject to earlier termination as
provided in Section 7 hereof.
4. EXERCISABILITY OF OPTION.
(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 4(b) hereof, the Option
shall be exercisable as to all of the Option Shares throughout the term
hereof.
(b) The Company's grant of the Option is based upon the assumption
that the Optionee's exercise of the Option and the Company's issuance of the
Option Shares as a result of such exercise will be exempt from registration
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). In the
event that the Company's assumption is erroneous, the Option may not be
exercised unless and until a registration statement under the Securities Act
relating to the Option Shares shall be in effect, or unless and until the
issuance of the Option Shares upon the exercise of the Option shall be exempt
from registration under the Securities Act, in either of which events the
term of the Option shall be deemed to have been automatically extended
through and including a period of ninety (90) days from and after the date
that such registration statement under the Securities Act relating to the
Option Shares first becomes effective or the date that the issuance of the
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Option Shares upon the exercise of the Option first becomes exempt from
registration under the Securities Act, as the case may be. In this regard,
the Company shall use its best efforts to either register the Option Shares
in accordance with the registration requirements of the Securities Act or to
comply with any exemption therefrom with regard to the issuance of the Option
Shares. The Company shall promptly notify Optionee of any automatic
extension in the term of the Option in the event the foregoing provisions
become applicable. In all events, the Optionee shall give a written
representation satisfactory to legal counsel to the Company upon his exercise
of the Option that he is acquiring the Option Shares for investment purposes
and not with a view to, or for resale in connection with, the distribution of
any Option Shares or other securities of the Company.
5. LIMITATION ON OPTIONEE'S RIGHTS.
(a) The Optionee shall not have any of the rights of a shareholder
of the Company with respect to the Option Shares except to the extent that
one or more certificates for the Option Shares shall be delivered to him upon
the due exercise of the Option.
(b) If Optionee is an employee of the Company or a parent or a
subsidiary of the Company, nothing contained in this Agreement shall confer
upon the Optionee any right with respect to the continuation of his
employment by the Company or a parent or a subsidiary of the Company or
interfere in any way with the right of the Company or a parent or a
subsidiary of the Company (subject to the terms of any separate employment
agreement to the contrary) to terminate his employment at any time or to
increase or decrease the compensation payable to the Optionee.
6. NONTRANSFERABILITY OF OPTION. The Option shall not be transferable
by the Optionee otherwise than by will or the laws of descent and
distribution, and the Option may be exercised during the lifetime of the
Optionee only by him. More particularly, but without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, the Option may not be assigned, transferred (except upon
the death of the Optionee), pledged or hypothecated in any way, shall not be
assignable by operation of law and shall not be subject to execution,
attachment or similar process. Any attempted assignment, transfer, pledge,
hypothecation or other disposition of the Option contrary to the provisions
hereof, and the levy of any execution, attachment or similar process upon the
Option, shall be null and void and without effect.
7. TERMINATION OF OPTION UPON COMPANY'S ACQUISITION. In the event
that the Company is involved in a merger, consolidation or other combination
with one or more other corporations in which the Company is not the surviving
corporation or in the event that the Company is liquidated and dissolved
following the Company's sale of all, or substantially all, of its operating
assets and goodwill to another corporation, the Option shall terminate as of
the effective date of such merger, consolidation or other combination
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or as of the effective date of such sale of this corporation's operating
assets and goodwill, as the case may be, to the extent that the Option has
not theretofore been exercised by the Optionee and/or is not agreed to be
assumed by, or replaced by equivalent options granted by, the surviving
corporation in such merger, consolidation or other combination or the
purchasing corporation in such sale of this corporation's operating assets
and goodwill.
8. CHANGES IN CAPITAL STRUCTURE. In the event that the outstanding
shares of common stock of the Company are changed into or exchanged for a
different number or kind of shares or other securities of the Company or of
another corporation by reason of merger, consolidation, combination,
reorganization, recapitalization, reclassification, combination of shares,
stock dividend, stock split or reverse stock split, the rights of the
Optionee shall be appropriately adjusted both as to the number of shares and
the Option exercise price.
9. METHOD OF EXERCISING OPTION.
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the
Option may be exercised by written notice ("Exercise Notice") from the
Optionee or other person entitled to exercise the Option delivered to the
Company stating the election to exercise the Option and the number of the
Option Shares in respect of which it is being exercised, and shall be signed
and dated by the person or persons so exercising the Option. The Exercise
Notice shall be accompanied by the full exercise price for the Option Shares
in respect of which the Option is being exercised. In the event the Option
shall be exercised by any person or persons other than the Optionee, the
Exercise Notice shall be accompanied by appropriate proof of the right of
such person or persons to exercise the Option.
(b) Payment of the exercise price shall be made by the delivery of
a bank cashier's check, personal check or the equivalent thereof payable to
the order of the Company, by the delivery of shares of the Company's common
stock duly endorsed in favor of the Company or accompanied by a duly executed
stock power in favor of the Company or by a combination of the foregoing. If
shares of the Company's common stock are delivered in full or partial payment
of the aggregate exercise price, such shares shall be valued at the average
of the per share closing bid and asked prices for shares of the Company's
common stock in the over-the-counter market on the date immediately preceding
the date the Exercise Notice is dated or, in the absence of any reported
sales on such date, the first preceding date on which there were such sales.
(c) The certificate or certificates for the Option Shares in
respect of which the Option shall have been exercised shall be registered in
the name of the person or persons exercising the Option, or, if the Option is
exercised by the Optionee and if the Optionee shall so request in the
Exercise Notice, shall be registered in the name of the
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Optionee and another person jointly, with right of survivorship, and shall be
delivered as provided above to or upon the written order of the person or
persons exercising the Option.
All of the Option Shares purchased upon the exercise of the Option as
provided herein shall, when issued, be fully paid and nonassessable.
10. ADEQUATE AUTHORIZED CAPITALIZATION. The Company shall at all times
during the term of the Option reserve and keep available or otherwise have
authorized such number of shares of the Company's common stock as will be
sufficient to satisfy the requirements of this Agreement, shall pay all fees
and expenses necessarily incurred by the Company in connection therewith, and
shall from time to time use its best efforts to comply with all laws and
regulations which, in the opinion of legal counsel to the Company, shall be
applicable thereto.
11. NOTICES. All notices, requests, demands and other communications
called for or contemplated hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed
to have been duly given when personally delivered or when mailed by United
States certified or registered mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the
following parties or their successors in interest at the following addresses,
or at such other addresses as the parties may designate by written notice in
the manner aforesaid:
If to the Company: Xxxxxxx Laboratories, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attn: President
If to Optionee: 0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xx. Xxxxxx, XX 00000
12. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. Subject to the limitations on
transferability contained in Section 6 hereof, this Agreement shall be
binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto, the
Company's successors in interest and assigns, and the Optionee's permitted
successors in interest.
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13. APPLICABLE LAW. This Agreement shall be construed and enforced in
accordance with the laws of the State of California.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement on
the date first above written.
"Company" "Optionee"
XXXXXXX LABORATORIES, INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Its: President Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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