Exhibit 3(l)
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THIS WARRANT AND THE COMMON SHARES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS WARRANT HAVE
NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE
STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS WARRANT AND THE COMMON SHARES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE
OF THIS WARRANT MAY NOT BE SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE, PLEDGED OR HYPOTHECATED IN
THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AS TO THIS WARRANT UNDER SAID
ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY
SATISFACTORY TO XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX CO. THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED.
Right to Purchase 33,000 Shares of Common
Stock of Xxxxxxxxx Brewing Co. (subject
to adjustment as provided herein)
COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT
No. B-4 August 24, 1999
XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX CO., a corporation organized under the laws of the
State of Maryland (the "COMPANY"), hereby certifies that, for value received,
XXXXXXXX X. XXXXX or his assigns, is entitled, subject to the terms set forth
below, to purchase from the Company after August 24, 1999 (the "EFFECTIVE
DATE"), at any time or from time to time before 5:00 p.m., Cleveland, Ohio time,
on August 24, 2002, (the "EXPIRATION DATE"), up to 33,000 fully paid and
nonassessable shares of Common Stock (as hereinafter defined), $.0004 par value
per share, of the Company, at a per share purchase price of $1.00 per share
(such purchase price per share as adjusted from time to time as herein provided
is referred to herein as the "PURCHASE PRICE"). The number and character of such
shares of Common Stock and the Purchase Price are subject to adjustment as
provided herein.
As used herein the following terms, unless the context otherwise
requires, have the following respective meanings:
(a) The term "COMPANY" includes Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Co. and any
corporation which succeeds or assumes the obligations of Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Co.
hereunder.
(b) The term "COMMON STOCK" includes (a) the Company's Common Stock,
$.0004 par value per share, as authorized on the Effective Date, (b) any other
capital stock of any class or classes (however designated) of the Company,
authorized on or after such date, the holders of which shall have the right,
without limitation as to amount, either to all or to a share of the balance of
current dividends and liquidating dividends after the payment of dividends and
distributions on any shares entitled to preference, and the holders of which
shall ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, be entitled to vote for the
election of a majority of directors of the Company (even if the right so to vote
has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency) and (c) any other
securities into which or for which any of the securities described in (a) or (b)
may be converted or exchanged pursuant to a plan of recapitalization,
reorganization, merger, sale of assets or otherwise.
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(c) The term "OTHER SECURITIES" refers to any stock (other than Common
Stock) and other securities of the Company or any other person (corporate or
otherwise) which the holder of the Warrant at any time shall be entitled to
receive, or shall have received, on the exercise of the Warrant, in lieu of or
in addition to Common Stock, or which at any time shall be issuable or shall
have been issued in exchange for or in replacement of Common Stock or Other
Securities pursuant to Section 4 or otherwise.
1. Exercise of Warrant.
1.1. Number of Shares Issuable upon Exercise. From and after
the Effective Date through and including the Expiration Date, the holder hereof
shall be entitled to receive, upon exercise of this Warrant in whole in
accordance with the terms of Subsection 1.2 or upon exercise of this Warrant in
part in accordance with Subsection 1.3, shares of Common Stock of the Company,
subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 4.
1.2. Full Exercise. This Warrant may be exercised in full by
the holder hereof by surrender of this Warrant, with the form of subscription
attached as Exhibit A hereto (the "Subscription Form") duly executed by such
holder, to the Company at its principal office or at the office of its Warrant
agent (as provided in Section 11), accompanied by payment, in cash or by
certified or official bank check payable to the order of the Company, in the
amount obtained by multiplying the number of shares of Common Stock for which
this Warrant is then exercisable by the Purchase Price (as hereinafter defined)
then in effect.
1.3. Partial Exercise. This Warrant may be exercised in part
(but not for a fractional share) by surrender of this Warrant in the manner and
at the place provided in Subsection 1.2 except that the amount payable by the
holder on such partial exercise shall be the amount obtained by multiplying (a)
the number of shares of Common Stock designated by the holder in the
Subscription Form by (b) the Purchase Price then in effect. On any such partial
exercise, the Company, at its expense, will forthwith issue and deliver to or
upon the order of the holder hereof a new Warrant of like tenor, in the name of
the holder hereof or as such holder (upon payment by such holder of any
applicable transfer taxes), may request, the number of shares of Common Stock
for which such Warrant may still be exercised.
1.4. Fair Market Value. Fair Market Value of a share of Common
Stock as of the date of exercise of this Warrant (the "DETERMINATION DATE")
shall mean the Fair Market Value of a share of the Company's Common Stock. Fair
Market Value of a share of Common Stock as of the Determination Date shall mean:
(a) If the Company's Common Stock is traded on an
exchange or is quoted on the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
Automated Quotation ("NASDAQ") National Market System or the NASDAQ SmallCap
Market, then the closing or last sale price, respectively, reported for the last
business day immediately prior to the Determination Date.
(b) If the Company's Common Stock is not traded on an
exchange or on the NASDAQ National Market System or the NASDAQ SmallCap Market
but is traded in the over-
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the-counter market, then the mean of the closing bid and asked prices reported
for the last business day immediately prior to the Determination Date.
(c) If the Company's Common Stock is not publicly
traded, then as the Holder and the Company agree or, in the absence of
agreement, by arbitration in accordance with the rules then standing of the
American Arbitration Association, before a single arbitrator to be chosen from a
panel of persons qualified by education and training to pass on the matter to be
decided.
(d) If the Determination Date is the date of a
liquidation, dissolution or winding up, or any event deemed to be a liquidation,
dissolution or winding up pursuant to the Company's charter, then all amounts to
be payable per share to holders of the Common Stock pursuant to the charter in
the event of such liquidation, dissolution or winding up, plus all other amounts
to be payable per share in respect of the Common Stock in liquidation under the
charter, assuming for the purposes of this clause (d) that all of the shares of
Common Stock then issuable upon exercise of all of the Warrants are outstanding
at the Determination Date.
1.5. Company Acknowledgment. The Company will, at the time of
the exercise of the Warrant, upon the request of the holder hereof acknowledge
in writing its continuing obligation to afford to such holder any rights to
which such holder shall continue to be entitled after such exercise in
accordance with the provisions of this Warrant. If the holder shall fail to make
any such request, such failure shall not affect the continuing obligation of the
Company to afford to such holder any such rights.
1.6. Trustee for Warrant Holders. In the event that a bank or
trust company shall have been appointed as trustee for the holders of the
Warrants pursuant to Subsection 3.2, such bank or trust company shall have all
the powers and duties of a warrant agent appointed pursuant to Section 10 and
shall accept, in its own name for the account of the Company or such successor
person as may be entitled thereto, all amounts otherwise payable to the Company
or such successor, as the case may be, on exercise of this Warrant pursuant to
this Section 1.
2. Delivery of Stock Certificates, etc. on Exercise. The Company agrees
that the shares of Common Stock purchased upon exercise of this Warrant shall be
deemed to be issued to the holder hereof as the record owner of such shares as
of the close of business on the date on which this Warrant shall have been
surrendered and payment made for such shares as aforesaid. As soon as
practicable after the exercise of this Warrant in full or in part, and in any
event within ten (10) business days thereafter, the Company at its expense
(including the payment by it of any applicable issue taxes) will cause to be
issued in the name of and delivered to the holder hereof, or as such holder
(upon payment by such holder of any applicable transfer taxes) may direct in
compliance with applicable securities laws, a certificate or certificates for
the number of duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable shares of
Common Stock (or Other Securities) to which such holder shall be entitled on
such exercise, plus, in lieu of any fractional share to which such holder would
otherwise be entitled, cash equal to such fraction multiplied by the then Fair
Market Value of one full share, together with any other stock or other
securities and property (including cash, where applicable) to which such holder
is entitled upon such exercise, pursuant to Section 1 or otherwise.
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3. Adjustment for Reorganization, Consolidation,- Merger, etc.
3.1. Reorganization, Consolidation, Merger, etc. In case at
any time or from time to time, the Company (a) effects a reorganization, (b)
consolidates with or merges into any other person, or (c) transfers all or
substantially all of its properties or assets to any other person under any plan
or arrangement contemplating the dissolution of the Company, then, in each such
case, as a condition to the consummation of such a transaction, proper and
adequate provision shall be made by the Company whereby the holder of this
Warrant, on the exercise hereof as provided in Section 1 at any time after the
consummation of such reorganization, consolidation or merger or the effective
date of such dissolution, as the case may be, shall receive, in lieu of the
Common Stock (or Other Securities) issuable on such exercise prior to such
consummation or such effective date, the stock and other securities and property
(including cash) to which such holder would have been entitled upon such
consummation or in connection with such dissolution, as the case may be, if such
holder had so exercised this Warrant, immediately prior thereto, all subject to
further adjustment thereafter as provided in Section 4.
3.2. Dissolution. In the event of any dissolution of the
Company following the transfer of all or substantially all of its properties or
assets, the Company, prior to such dissolution, shall at its expense deliver or
cause to be delivered the Common Stock and Other Securities and property
(including cash, where applicable) receivable by the holders of the Warrants
after the effective date of such dissolution pursuant to this Section 3 to a
bank or trust company having its principal office in Cleveland, Ohio, as trustee
for the holder or holders of the Warrants.
3.3. Continuation of Terms. Upon any reorganization,
consolidation, merger or transfer (and any dissolution following any transfer)
referred to in this Section 3.3, this Warrant shall continue in full force and
effect and the terms hereof shall be applicable to the shares of Common Stock
and Other Securities and property receivable on the exercise of this Warrant
after the consummation of such reorganization, consolidation or merger or the
effective date of dissolution following any such transfer, as the case may be,
and shall be binding upon the issuer of any such stock or other securities,
including, in the case of any such transfer, the person acquiring all or
substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company, whether or not
such person shall have expressly assumed the terms of this Warrant as provided
in Section 4. In the event this Warrant does continue in full force and effect
after the consummation of the transaction described in this Section 3.3, then
only in such event will the Company's Other Securities and property (including
cash, where applicable) receivable by the holders of the Warrants be delivered
to the Trustee as contemplated by Section 3.2.
4. Extraordinary Events Regarding Common Stock. In the event that the
Company shall (a) issue additional shares of the Common Stock as a dividend or
other distribution on outstanding Common Stock, (b) subdivide its outstanding
shares of Common Stock, or (c) combine its outstanding shares of the Common
Stock into a smaller number of shares of the Common Stock, then, in each such
event, the Purchase Price shall, simultaneously with the happening of such
event, be adjusted by multiplying the then Purchase Price by a fraction, the
numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
immediately prior to such event and the denominator of which shall be the number
of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, and the
product so obtained shall thereafter be the Purchase Price then in effect.
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The Purchase Price, as so adjusted, shall be readjusted in the same manner upon
the happening of any successive event or events described herein in this Section
4. The number of shares of Common Stock that the holder of this Warrant shall
thereafter, on the exercise hereof as provided in Section 1, be entitled to
receive shall be increased or decreased to a number determined by multiplying
the number of shares of Common Stock that would otherwise (but for the
provisions of this Section 4) be issuable on such exercise by a fraction of
which (a) the numerator is the Purchase Price that would otherwise (but for the
provisions of this Section 4) be in effect, and (b) the denominator is the
Purchase Price in effect on the date of such exercise.
5. Certificate as to Adjustments. In each case of any adjustment or
readjustment in the shares of Common Stock (or Other Securities) issuable on the
exercise of the Warrants, the Company at its expense will promptly cause its
Chief Financial Officer or other appropriate designee to compute such adjustment
or readjustment in accordance with the terms of the Warrant and prepare a
certificate setting forth such adjustment or readjustment and showing in detail
the facts upon which such adjustment or readjustment is based, including a
statement of (a) the consideration received or receivable by the Company for any
additional shares of Common Stock (or Other Securities) issued or sold or deemed
to have been issued or sold, (b) the number of shares of Common Stock (or Other
Securities) outstanding or deemed to be outstanding, and (c) the Purchase Price
and the number of shares of Common Stock to be received upon exercise of this
Warrant, in effect immediately prior to such adjustment or readjustment and as
adjusted or readjusted as provided in this Warrant. The Company will forthwith
mail a copy of each such certificate to the holder of the Warrant and any
Warrant agent of the Company (appointed pursuant to Section 10 hereof).
6. Reservation of Stock, etc. Issuable on Exercise of Warrant;
Financial Statements. The Company will at all times reserve and keep available,
solely for issuance and delivery on the exercise of the Warrants, all shares of
Common Stock (or Other Securities) from time to time issuable on the exercise of
the Warrant. This Warrant entitles the holder hereof to receive copies of all
financial and other information distributed or required to be distributed to the
holders of the Company's Common Stock.
7. Assignment; Exchange of Warrant. Subject to compliance with
applicable securities laws, this Warrant, and the rights evidenced hereby, may
be transferred by any registered holder hereof (a "TRANSFEROR") with respect to
any or all of the Shares. On the surrender for exchange of this Warrant, with
the Transferor's endorsement in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto (the
"TRANSFEROR ENDORSEMENT FORM") and together with evidence reasonably
satisfactory to the Company demonstrating compliance with applicable Securities
Laws, the Company at its expense but with payment by the Transferor of any
applicable transfer taxes will issue and deliver to or on the order of the
Transferor thereof a new Warrant or Warrants of like tenor, in the name of the
Transferor and/or the transferee(s) specified in such Transferor Endorsement
Form (each a "TRANSFEREE"), calling in the aggregate on the face or faces
thereof for the number of shares of Common Stock called for on the face or faces
of the Warrant so surrendered by the Transferor.
8. Replacement of Warrant. On receipt of evidence reasonably
satisfactory to the Company of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of
this Warrant and, in the case of any such loss, theft or destruction of this
Warrant, on delivery of an indemnity agreement or security reasonably
satisfactory in form and amount to the Company or, in the case of any such
mutilation, on surrender
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and cancellation of this Warrant, the Company at its expense will execute and
deliver, in lieu thereof, a new Warrant of like tenor.
9. Warrant Agent. The Company may, by written notice to each holder of
the Warrant, appoint an agent for the purpose of issuing Common Stock (or Other
Securities) on the exercise of this Warrant pursuant to Section 1, exchanging
this Warrant pursuant to Section 7, and replacing this Warrant pursuant to
Section 8, or any of the foregoing, and thereafter any such issuance, exchange
or replacement, as the case may be, shall be made at such office by such agent.
10. Transfer on the Company's Books. Until this Warrant is transferred
on the books of the Company, the Company may treat the registered holder hereof
as the absolute owner hereof for all purposes, notwithstanding any notice to the
contrary.
11. Notices, etc. Unless otherwise provided in this Warrant, any
notice, request, instruction or other document to be given under this Warrant
from the Company to the holder of this Warrant must be in writing and will be
deemed duly given (a) when received if personally delivered or sent by
facsimile, (b) within one (1) business day after being sent by recognized
overnight delivery service or (c) within five (5) business days after being
mailed by certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, and in each
case addressed to such address as may have been furnished to the Company in
writing by the holder of this Warrant or, until such holder furnishes to the
Company an address, then to, and at the address of, the last holder of this
Warrant who has so furnished an address to the Company.
12. Miscellaneous. This Warrant and any term hereof may be changed,
waived, discharged or terminated only by an instrument in writing signed by the
party against which enforcement of such change, waiver, discharge or termination
is sought. This Warrant shall be construed and enforced in accordance with and
governed by the laws of the State of Ohio without giving effect to any conflicts
of laws principles. Any dispute relating to this Warrant shall be adjudicated in
the State of Ohio. The headings in this Warrant are for purposes of reference
only, and shall not limit or otherwise affect any of the terms hereof. The
invalidity or unenforceability of any provision hereof shall in no way affect
the validity or enforceability of any other provision.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has executed this Warrant under seal as
of the date first written above.
XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX CO.
By: __________________________
Name: X. Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Chairman and CEO
Witness:
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Exhibit A
FORM OF SUBSCRIPTION
(To be signed only on exercise of Warrant)
TO: Xxxxxxxxx Brewing Co.
The undersigned, the holder of the within Warrant, hereby irrevocably elects to
exercise this Warrant for, and to purchase thereunder, _______________ shares of
Common Stock of Xxxxxxxxx Brewing Co. and herewith makes payment of
$_______________ therefor, and requests that the certificates for such shares be
issued in the name of, and delivered to _______________ whose address is
____________________________________________________ _______________.
The undersigned represents and warrants that all offers and sales by the
undersigned of the securities issuable upon exercise of the within Warrant shall
be made pursuant to registration of the Common Stock under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") or pursuant to an exemption from
registration under the Securities Act.
Dated: _______________
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(Signature must conform to name of holder as
specified on the face of the Warrant)
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(Address)
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Exhibit B
FORM OF TRANSFEROR ENDORSEMENT
(To be signed only on transfer of Warrant)
For value received, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns, and
transfers unto the person(s) named below under the heading "Transferees" the
right represented by the within Warrant to purchase the percentage and number of
shares of Common Stock of Xxxxxxxxx Brewing Co. to which the within Warrant
relates specified under the headings "Percentage Transferred" and "Number
Transferred," respectively, opposite the name (s) of such person(s) and appoints
each such person Attorney to transfer its respective right on the books of
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Co. with full power of substitution in the premises.
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Percentage Number
Tranferees Transferred Transferred
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Dated: , 19
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(Signature must conform to name of xxxxxx as
specified on the face of the warrant)
Signed in the presence of:
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(Name) (address)
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ACCEPTED AND AGREED: (address)
[TRANSFEREE]
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(Name)
