NEITHER THESE SECURITIES NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE
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 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.
KURCHATOV RESEARCH HOLDINGS, LTD.
WARRANT
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Dated: April 14, 1999
KURCHATOV RESEARCH HOLDINGS, LTD., a corporation organized under the
laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), hereby certifies that, for value
received, ____________________________or its registered assigns ("Holder"), is
entitled, subject to the terms set forth below, to purchase from the Company up
to a total of___________________________________ 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 $0.65 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 April
14, 1999 and through and including April 14, 2004 (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 Transfer Agent
or 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 5:00 P.M., New York City time, at any time and from time
to time on or after the date hereof to and including the Expiration Date. At
5:00 P.M., New York City time on the Expiration Date, the portion of this
Warrant not exercised prior thereto shall be and become void and of no value.
Prior to the Expiration Date, the Company may not call or otherwise redeem this
Warrant without the prior written consent of the Holder.
(b) Subject to Sections 2(b), 6 and 10, 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 12
and upon payment of the Exercise Price multiplied by the number of Warrant
Shares that the Holder intends to purchase hereunder, in the manner provided
hereunder, 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 except (i) either in the event
that a registration statement covering the resale of the Warrant Shares and
naming the Holder as a selling stockholder thereunder is not then effective or
the Warrant Shares are not freely transferable without volume restrictions
pursuant to Rule 144(k) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the "Securities Act"), or (ii) if this Warrant shall have been issued pursuant
to a written agreement between the original Holder and the Company, as required
by such agreement. 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.
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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 anytime, 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, 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 Warrant Shares are otherwise freely
transferable without volume restrictions pursuant to Rule 144(k) promulgated
under the Act), unless the Company provides the Holder with not less than 20
days 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 Date. 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. 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
requested, 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
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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 (except scheduled dividends paid on outstanding
preferred stock as of the date hereof which contain a stated dividend rate) 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, (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 or any
compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is converted into
other securities, cash 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 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
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give to the Holder the right to receive the securities or property set forth in
this Section 9(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
the Company's independent certified public accountants that regularly examines
the financial statements of the Company (an "Appraiser").
(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 for a consideration per share less
than the Exercise Price then in effect, then, forthwith upon such issue or sale,
the Exercise Price shall be reduced to the price (calculated to the nearest
cent) determined by multiplying the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior
thereto by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the sum of (i) the number
of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such issuance, and
(ii) the number of shares of Common Stock which the aggregate consideration
received (or to be received, assuming exercise or conversion in fill of such
rights, warrants and convertible securities) for the issuance of such additional
shares of Common Stock would purchase at the Exercise Price, and the denominator
of which shall be the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
immediately after the issuance of such additional shares. Such adjustment shall
be made successively whenever such an issuance is made.
(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.
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(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) Whenever the Exercise Price is adjusted pursuant to Section 8(c)
above, the Holder, after receipt of the determination by the Appraiser, shall
have the right to select an additional appraiser (which shall be a nationally
recognized accounting firm), in which case the adjustment shall be equal to the
average of the adjustments recommended by each of the Appraiser and such
appraiser. The Holder shall promptly mail or cause to be mailed to the Company,
a notice setting forth the Exercise Price after such adjustment and setting
forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment. Such adjustment
shall become effective immediately after the record date mentioned above.
(h) 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
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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 average of the closing sale prices
of the Common Stock for the five (5) trading
days immediately prior to (but not
including) 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 fill Warrant Shares which shall be issuable upon the exercise of
this Warrant shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate number of Warrant
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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 pay an amount in cash equal
to the Exercise Price multiplied by such fraction.
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 prior to 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a business day, (ii) the
business day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is
delivered via facsimile at the facsimile telephone number specified in this
Section later than 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any date and earlier than
11:59 p.m. (New York City time) on such date, (iii) the business day following
the date of mailing, if sent by nationally recognized overnight courier service,
or (iv) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be
given. The addresses for such communications shall be: (i) if to the Company,
to, at ______________________________ or to facsimile no. (,) ________, 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. 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. My 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 Holders 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 assigns. This Warrant may be
amended only in writing signed by the Company and the Holder and their
successors and assigns.
(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 inure to 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 Delaware without regard to the
principles of conflicts of law thereof. The Company and the Holder hereby
irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts
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sitting in the City of New York, borough of Manhattan, for the adjudication of
any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction
contemplated hereby or discussed herein, and hereby irrevocably waives, and
agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not
personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, or that such suit,
action or proceeding is improper. Each of the Company and the Holder hereby
irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being
served in any such suit, action or proceeding by receiving a copy thereof sent
to the Company at the address in effect for notices to it under this instrument
and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of
process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in
any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law.
(d) The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute
apart 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 therefore, 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.
KURCHATOV RESEARCH HOLDINGS, LTD.
By:______________________________________
Name: Xxxxx Xxx Xxx
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Title: President
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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: Kurchatov Research Holdings, Ltd.:
In accordance with the Warrant enclosed with this Form of Election to
Purchase, the undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to purchase _______________
shares of Common Stock ("Common Stock"), $.0001 par value per share, of
Kurchatov Research Holdings, Ltd., and, if such Holder is not utilizing the
cashless exercise provisions set forth in this Warrant, encloses herewith
$__________ in cash, 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 Xxxxxx:
(Print)_______________________________
(By:)_________________________________
(Name:)
(Title:)
(Signature must conform in all
respects to name of holder as
specified on the face of the Warrant)
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT
[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 Kurchatov Research
Holdings, Ltd. to which the within Warrant relates and appoints
__________________ attorney to transfer said fight on the books of Kurchatov
Research Holdings, Ltd. 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:
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