Ener1, Inc. Common Stock OPEN MARKET SALE AGREEMENTSM
Exhibit
1.1
Ener1,
Inc.
Common
Stock
OPEN MARKET SALE
AGREEMENTSM
May 22,
2009
XXXXXXXXX
& COMPANY, INC.
000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxx 00000
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
Ener1,
Inc., a Florida corporation (the “Company”), proposes, subject
to the terms and conditions stated herein, to issue and sell from time to time
through Jefferies & Company, Inc., as sales agent and/or principal (the
“Agent”), shares of the
Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Shares”), having an
aggregate offering price of up to $40,000,000 on the terms set forth in this
agreement (this “Agreement”).
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
Section
1.01 Certain
Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, capitalized terms
used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the following respective
meanings:
“Affiliate” of a Person means
another Person that directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries,
controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such first-
mentioned Person. The term “control” (including the terms “controlling,”
“controlled by” and “under common control with”) means the possession, direct or
indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and
policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by
contract or otherwise.
“Agency Period” means the
period commencing on the Effective Date and expiring on the earliest to occur of
(x) the date on which the Agent shall have placed the Maximum Program Amount
pursuant to this Agreement, (y) the date this Agreement is terminated pursuant
to Article VII
and (z) the third anniversary of the date of the
Effective Date.
“Agent” has the meaning set
forth in the introductory paragraph of this
Agreement.
“Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the introductory
paragraph of this Agreement.
“Annual Report” has the meaning
set forth in Section
3.02(a).
“Base Prospectus” has the
meaning set forth in Section
3.01.
“Code” has the meaning set
forth in Section
3.22.
“Commission” means the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Common Shares” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph
of this Agreement.
“Company” has the meaning set forth in the introductory
paragraph of this Agreement.
“Debt Repayment Triggering
Event” has the meaning set forth in Section
3.16.
“Default” has the meaning set
forth in Section
3.16.
“Effective Date” has the
meaning set forth in Section
2.01(b).
“Environmental Laws” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.29.
“ERISA” has the meaning set
forth in Section 3.30.
“ERISA Affiliate” has the
meaning set forth in Section 3.30.
“Exchange Act” means the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of
the Commission thereunder.
“Existing Instrument” has the
meaning set forth in Section
3.16.
“FINRA” has the meaning set
forth in Section
2.04.
“Floor Price” means the minimum
price set by the Company in the Issuance Notice below which the Agent shall not
sell Shares during the applicable Selling Period, which may be adjusted by the
Company at any time during the Selling Period by delivering written notice of
such change to the Agent and which in no event shall be less than $1.00 without
the prior written consent of the Agent, which may be withheld in the Agent’s
sole discretion.
“Free Writing Prospectus” has
the meaning set forth in Section
2.03.
“Governmental Licenses” has the
meaning set forth in Section
3.19.
“Hazardous Materials” has the
meaning set forth in Section
3.29.
“Issuance” means each occasion
on which the Company elects to exercise its right to deliver an Issuance Notice
requiring the Agent to use its commercially reasonable efforts to sell the
Common Shares as specified in such Issuance Notice, subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement.
“Issuance Amount” means the
aggregate Sales Price of the Shares to be sold by the Agent with respect to any
Issuance.
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“Issuance Date” means any
Trading Day during the Agency Period that an Issuance Notice is delivered pursuant to Section
2.02(a).
“Issuance Notice” means a
written notice delivered to the Agent by the Company in accordance with this
Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A that is
executed by its Chief Executive Officer, the
President or the Chief Financial Officer.
“Issuance Price” means the Sales Price less the Selling Commission.
“Issuance Supplement” has the
meaning set forth in Section 3.01.
“Intellectual Property Rights”
has the meaning set forth in Section 3.18.
“Investment Company Act” has
the meaning set forth in Section 3.22.
“Material Adverse Change” has
the meaning set forth in Section
3.08.
“Maximum Program Amount” means
Common Shares with an aggregate Sales Price of the lesser of (1) $40,000,000 and
(2) the aggregate amount of Shares registered under the Registration
Statement.
“Money Laundering Laws” has the
meaning set forth in Section
3.34.
“OFAC” has the meaning set
forth in Section
3.35.
“Original Registration
Statement” has the meaning set forth in Section
3.01.
“PCAOB” has the meaning set
forth in Section
3.09.
“Person” means an individual or
a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust, incorporated or
unincorporated association, joint venture, joint stock company, governmental
authority or other entity of any kind.
“Principal Market” means the
Nasdaq Global Market or such other national securities exchange on which the
Common Shares, including any Shares, are then listed.
“Prospectus” has the meaning
set forth in Section
3.01.
“PTO” has the meaning set forth
in Section
3.18.
“Registration Statement” has
the meaning set forth in Section
3.01.
“Regulation M” has the meaning
set forth in Section 3.24.
“Related Judgment” has the
meaning set forth in Section 8.07.
“Related Proceedings” has the
meaning set forth in Section 8.07.
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“Representation Date” has the
meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph of Article III.
“Rule 102” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.16.
“Sales Price” means the actual
sale execution price of each Share placed by the Agent pursuant to this
Agreement.
“Securities Act” means the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the
Commission thereunder.
“Selling Commission” means five
percent (5%) of the gross proceeds for the first $13,500,000 of Shares sold
pursuant to this Agreement, and three percent (3%) of the gross proceeds for
Shares sold pursuant to this Agreement in excess of $13,500,000.
“Selling Period” means the
period of one to twenty consecutive Trading Days (as determined by the Company
in the Company’s sole discretion and specified in the applicable Issuance
Notice) including the Trading Day on which an Issuance Notice is delivered
pursuant to Section
2.02(a), if such notice is delivered prior to 3:00 p.m. (New York time)
and otherwise, following the Trading Day on which an Issuance Notice is
delivered pursuant to Section
2.02(a).
“Settlement Date” means the third (3rd)
business day following each Trading Day during the Selling Period on which
Shares are sold pursuant to this Agreement, when the Company shall deliver to
the Agent the amount of Shares sold on such Trading Day and the Agent shall
deliver to the Company the Issuance Price received on such sales.
“Shares” shall mean the
Company’s Common Shares issued or issuable pursuant to this
Agreement.
“Specified Courts” has the
meaning set forth in Section 8.07.
“Subsidiary” or “Subsidiaries” has the meaning
set forth in Section 3.13.
“Time of Sale” has the meaning
set forth in Section 2.02(e).
“Time of Sale Information” has
the meaning set forth in Section 3.02(c)
“Trading Day” means any day on
which the Principal Market is open for trading.
“Triggering Event” has the
meaning set forth in Section
4.13.
ARTICLE
II
ISSUANCE
AND SALE OF COMMON SHARES
Section
2.01 Sale of
Securities. (a) On the basis of the representations,
warranties and agreements herein contained, but subject to the terms and
conditions herein set forth, the Company and the Agent agree that the Company
may from time to time seek to sell Shares through the Agent, acting as sales
agent, or directly to the Agent, acting as principal, as follows, with an
aggregate Sales Price of up to the Maximum Program Amount, based on and in
accordance with such number of Issuance Notices as the Company may deliver,
during the Agency Period.
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(b) Agreement
Effectiveness. This Agreement shall be deemed effective on the
date on which each of the following conditions has been satisfied (the “Effective Date”):
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(i)
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the
execution and delivery of this Agreement by the parties hereto;
and
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(ii)
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the Agent shall have received the documents
identified in Sections
4.13(w), 4.13(x), 4.13(y) and
4.13(z),
with the understanding that the form and substance of (A) the legal
opinions required by Section 4.13(w)
shall be in the forms contained in Exhibits B
through E, and (B) the
comfort letters required by Section 4.13(x)
shall be in the form agreed to as of the Effective
Date.
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The
Effective Date must occur prior to the delivery of any Issuance Notice by the
Company and the efforts by the Agent to place any Shares.
Section
2.02 Mechanics of
Issuances.
(a) Issuance
Notice. Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
herein, on any Trading Day during the Agency Period on which the conditions set
forth in Sections 5.01
and 5.02 shall
have been satisfied, the Company may exercise its right to request an Issuance
by delivering to the Agent an Issuance Notice; provided, however, that (i)
in no event may the Company deliver an Issuance Notice to the extent that (I)
the sum of (x) the aggregate Sales Price of the requested Issuance Amount, plus
(y) the aggregate Sales Price of all Shares issued under all previous Issuances
effected pursuant to this Agreement, would exceed the Maximum Program Amount;
and (ii) prior to delivery of any Issuance Notice, the Selling Period for any
previous Issuance Notice shall have expired or been terminated. An Issuance
Notice shall be considered delivered on the Trading Day that it is received by
e-mail to the persons so identified in writing by the Agent and confirmed by the
Company by telephone (including a voicemail message to the persons so
identified), with the understanding that, with adequate prior written notice,
the Agent may modify the list of such persons from time to time.
(b) Agent
Efforts. Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set
forth in this Agreement, upon the receipt of an Issuance Notice, the Agent will
use its commercially reasonable efforts consistent with its normal sales and
trading practices to place the Shares with respect to which the Agent has agreed
to act as sales agent, subject to, and in accordance with the information
specified in, the Issuance Notice, unless the sale of the Shares described
therein has been suspended, cancelled or otherwise terminated in accordance with
the terms of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, the parties
to this Agreement may modify an Issuance Notice at any time provided they both
agree in writing to any such modification.
(c) Method of Offer and
Sale. The Shares may be offered and sold (i) in privately
negotiated transactions, (ii) as crosses, (iii) as block transactions or (iv) by
any other method or payment permitted by law deemed to be an “at the market”
offering as defined in Rule 415 under the Securities Act, including sales made
directly on the Principal Market or sales made to or through a market maker or
through an electronic communications network. Nothing in this
Agreement shall be deemed to require either party to agree to the method of
offer and sale specified in the preceding sentence, and (except as specified in
clause (i) above) the method of placement of any Shares by the Agent shall be at
the Agent’s discretion.
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(d) Confirmation to the
Company. If acting as sales agent hereunder, the Agent will
provide written confirmation to the Company no later than the opening of the
Trading Day next following the Trading Day on which it has placed Shares
hereunder setting forth the number of shares sold on such Trading Day, the
corresponding Sales Price and the Issuance Price payable to the Company in
respect thereof.
(e) Settlement. Each
Issuance will be settled on the applicable Settlement Date for such Issuance
and, subject to the provisions of Article V, on or
before each Settlement Date, the Company will, or will cause its transfer agent
to, electronically transfer the Shares being sold by crediting the Agent or its
designee’s account at The Depository Trust Company through its
Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian (DWAC) System, or by such other means of
delivery as may be mutually agreed upon by the parties hereto and, upon receipt
of such Shares, which in all cases shall be freely tradeable, transferable,
registered shares in good deliverable form, the Agent will deliver, by wire
transfer of immediately available funds, the related Issuance Price in same day
funds delivered to an account designated by the Company prior to the Settlement
Date. The Company may sell Shares to the Agent as principal at a
price agreed upon at each relevant time Shares are sold pursuant to this
Agreement (each, a “Time of
Sale”).
(f) Suspension or Termination of
Sales. Consistent with standard market settlement practices,
the Company or the Agent may, upon notice to the other party hereto in writing
or by telephone (confirmed immediately by verifiable email), suspend any sale of
Shares, and the Selling Period shall immediately terminate; provided, however, that (i)
such suspension and termination shall not affect or impair either party’s
obligations with respect to any Shares placed or sold hereunder prior to the
receipt of such notice; (ii) if the Company suspends or terminates any sale of
Shares after the Agent confirms such sale to the Company, the Company shall
still be obligated to comply with Section 2.02(e) with
respect to such Shares; and (iii) if the Company defaults in its obligation to
deliver Shares on a Settlement Date, the Company agrees that it will hold the
Agent harmless against any loss, claim, damage or expense (including, without
limitation, penalties, interest and reasonable legal fees and expenses), as
incurred, arising out of or in connection with such default by the Company. The
parties hereto acknowledge and agree that, in performing its obligations under
this Agreement, the Agent may borrow Common Shares from stock lenders in the
event that the Company has not delivered Shares to settle sales as required by
subsection (e) above, and may use the Shares to settle or close out such
borrowings. The Company agrees that no such notice shall be effective
against the Agent unless it is made to the persons identified in writing by the
Agent pursuant to Section
2.02(a).
(g) No Guarantee of Placement,
Etc. The Company acknowledges and agrees that (i) there can be
no assurance that the Agent will be successful in placing Shares and (ii) the
Agent will incur no liability or obligation to the Company or any other Person
if it does not sell Shares, and (iii) the Agent shall be under no
obligation to purchase Shares on a principal basis pursuant to this
Agreement, except as otherwise specifically agreed by the Agent and the
Company.
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(h) Blackouts. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Agreement, the Company and the Agent agree that the
Company shall not deliver any Issuance Notice to the Agent, and the Agent shall
not be obligated to place any Issuance Shares, during any period in which the
Company’s xxxxxxx xxxxxxx policy, as it exists on the date of this Agreement,
would prohibit the purchase or sale of Shares by persons subject to such policy,
or during any other period in which the Company is, or could be deemed to be, in
possession of material non-public information.
Section
2.03 Use of Free Writing
Prospectus. Neither the Company nor the Agent has prepared, used,
referred to or distributed, or will prepare, use, refer to or distribute,
without the other party’s prior written consent, any “written communication”
that constitutes a “free writing
prospectus” as such terms are defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act with respect to the offering contemplated by this
Agreement (any such free writing prospectus being referred to herein as a
“Free Writing
Prospectus”).
Section
2.04 Expenses. The
Company agrees, whether or not any Shares are placed or sold pursuant to this
Agreement, to pay all costs, fees and expenses incurred by it (including any
fees payable pursuant to Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) Rule 5110) in
connection with the performance of its obligations hereunder.
ARTICLE
III
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY
The
Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the Agent that as of (1)
the Effective Date, (2) each Issuance Date, (3) each Settlement Date, (4) any
time that the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be amended or
supplemented and (5) as of each Time of Sale (each of the times referenced above
is referred to herein as a “Representation Date”), except
as may be disclosed in the Prospectus (including any documents incorporated by
reference therein and any supplements thereto) on or before a Representation
Date:
Section
3.01 Registration
Statement. The Company has prepared and filed with the
Commission a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File
No. 333-156609) that contains a base prospectus (the “Base
Prospectus”). Such registration statement registers the
issuance and sale by the Company of the Shares under the Securities
Act. Such registration statement, including any information deemed to
be a part thereof pursuant to Rule 430B under the Securities Act, including all
financial statements, exhibits and schedules thereto and all documents
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference pursuant to Item
12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act as from time to time amended or
supplemented, is herein referred to as the “Registration Statement,” and
the prospectus constituting a part of such registration statement, together with
any prospectus supplement filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b)
under the Securities Act relating to a particular issuance of the Shares (each,
an “Issuance
Supplement”), including all documents incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated therein by reference pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the
Securities Act, in each case, as from time to time amended or supplemented, is
referred to herein as the “Prospectus,” except that if
any revised prospectus is provided to the Agent by the Company for use in
connection with the offering of the Shares that is not required to be filed by
the Company pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, the term “Prospectus” shall refer to
such revised prospectus from and after the time it is first provided to the
Agent for such use. The Registration Statement at the time it
originally became effective is herein called the “Original Registration
Statement.” As used in this Agreement, the terms “amendment”
or “supplement” when applied to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus
shall be deemed to include the filing by the Company with the Commission of any
document under the Exchange Act after the date hereof that is or is deemed to be
incorporated therein by reference.
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All
references in this Agreement to financial statements and schedules and other
information which is “contained,” “included” or “stated” in the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus (and all other references of like import) shall be
deemed to mean and include all such financial statements and schedules and other
information which is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in or
otherwise deemed under the Securities Act to be a part of or included in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus, as the case may be, as of any
specified date; and all references in this Agreement to amendments or
supplements to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be deemed to
mean and include, without limitation, the filing of any document under the
Exchange Act which is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in or
otherwise deemed under the Securities Act to be a part of or included in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus, as the case may be, as of any
specified date.
Section
3.02 Compliance with Registration
Requirements. (a) At the time the Registration Statement was originally
declared effective and at the time the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the year ended December 31, 2008 (the “Annual Report”) was filed with
the Commission, the Company met the then applicable requirements for use of
Form S-3 under the Securities Act. The Company meets the
requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act specified in
FINRA Rule 5110(b)(7)(C)(i).
(b) The
Original Registration Statement has been declared effective by the
Commission. The Company has complied to the Commission’s satisfaction
with all requests of the Commission for additional or supplemental
information. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement is in effect and no proceedings for such purpose have
been instituted or are pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, are
contemplated or threatened by the Commission, and any request on the part of the
Commission for additional information has been complied with. The
Registration Statement is not the subject of a pending proceeding or examination
under Section 8(d) or Section 8(e) of the Securities Act, and the
Company is not the subject of a pending proceeding under Section 8A of the
Securities Act in connection with the offering and sale of the
Shares.
(c) The
Registration Statement, as amended complies in all material respects with the
requirements of the Securities Act, and the Registration Statement, as amended,
does not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading. The Prospectus, as amended or supplemented,
conforms in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and
does not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a
material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The
Prospectus and any Free Writing Prospectus considered together (collectively,
the “Time of Sale
Information”), conforms in all material respects to the requirements of
the Securities Act and does not contain an untrue statement of a material fact
or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in
the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. There are no contracts or other documents required to be
described in the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration
Statement that have not been described or filed as required.
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The
representations and warranties in this Section 3.02 shall
not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement or any
post-effective amendment thereto or the Prospectus or any amendments or
supplements thereto made in reliance upon and in conformity with information
furnished to the Company in writing by the Agent expressly for use in the
Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto or the Prospectus
or any amendment or supplement thereto. With respect to the
Prospectus filed on May 22, 2009, no such information has been provided by the
Agent.
Section
3.03 Ineligible Issuer
Status. At the time of filing the Original Registration Statement, at the
time of the most recent amendment, if any, thereto for the purposes of complying
with Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act, at the earliest time
thereafter that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide
offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) under the Securities Act) of the
Shares, and at the date hereof, the Company was not and is not an “ineligible
issuer,” as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.
Section
3.04 Incorporated
Documents. The documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by
reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, at the time they
were filed with the Commission, complied in all material respects with the
requirements of the Exchange Act, as applicable, and, when read together with
the other information in the Prospectus, do not contain an untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading.
Section
3.05 The Open Market Sale
Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company.
Section
3.06 Authorization of the
Shares. The Shares have been duly authorized for issuance and sale
pursuant to this Agreement and, when issued and delivered by the Company
pursuant to this Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable; the Shares conform in all material respects to the description
thereof in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and such description
conforms to the rights set forth in the Company’s Amended and Restated Articles
of Incorporation and By-Laws; no holder of the Shares shall be subject to any
personal liability solely by reason of being such a holder; and the issuance and
sale of the Shares is not subject to any preemptive rights, rights of first
refusal or other similar rights to subscribe for or purchase the
Shares.
Section
3.07 No Applicable Registration
or Other Similar Rights. Except as set forth in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus, there are no persons with registration or other
similar rights to have any equity or debt securities registered for sale under
the Registration Statement or included in the offering contemplated by this
Agreement.
Section
3.08 No Material Adverse
Change. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is
given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus: (i) there has been
no material adverse change, or any development that could reasonably be expected
to result in a material adverse change, in the condition, financial or
otherwise, or in the earnings, business, operations or prospects, whether or not
arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, of the Company and
the Subsidiaries, considered as one entity (any such change is called a “Material Adverse Change”);
(ii) the Company and the Subsidiaries, considered as one entity, have not
incurred any material liability or obligation, indirect, direct or contingent,
not in the ordinary course of business or entered into any material transaction
or agreement not in the ordinary course of business; and (iii) there has
been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the
Company or, except for dividends paid to the Company or other Subsidiaries, any
of the Subsidiaries on any class of capital stock or repurchase or redemption by
the Company or any of the Subsidiaries of any class of capital
stock.
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Section
3.09 Independent
Accountants. Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx, PC, who have expressed their opinion
with respect to the financial statements (which term as used in this Agreement
includes the consolidated financial statements of the Company and the related
notes thereto) and supporting schedules filed with the Commission as a part of
the Registration Statement and included in the Prospectus, are, to the knowledge
of the Company, after due inquiry, (i) independent public or certified public
accountants as required by the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, (ii) in
compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of
accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X and (iii) a
registered public accounting firm as defined by the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”) whose registration has
not been suspended or revoked and who has not requested such registration to be
withdrawn.
Section
3.10 Preparation of the Financial
Statements. The financial statements filed with the Commission as a part
of the Registration Statement and included in the Prospectus present fairly, in
all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company and
its subsidiaries as of and at the dates indicated and the results of their
operations and cash flows for the periods specified. The supporting
schedules included in the Registration Statement present fairly, in all material
respects, the information required to be stated therein. Such
financial statements and supporting schedules have been prepared in conformity
with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States
applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved, except as may be
expressly stated in the related notes thereto. No other financial
statements or supporting schedules are required to be included in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus. The financial data set
forth in or incorporated by reference into the Prospectus under the caption
“Selected Financial Data” fairly presents, in all material respects, the
information set forth therein on a basis consistent with that of the audited
financial statements contained in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus. To the knowledge of the Company, no person who has been
suspended or barred from being associated with a registered public accounting
firm, or who has failed to comply with any sanction pursuant to Rule 5300
promulgated by the PCAOB, has participated in or otherwise aided the preparation
of, or audited, the financial statements, supporting schedules or other
financial data filed with the Commission as a part of the Registration Statement
and included in the Prospectus.
Section
3.11 Company’s Accounting
System. The Company and each of its subsidiaries make and keep accurate
books and records and maintain a system of internal accounting controls
sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are
executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization;
(ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of
financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles
as applied in the United States and to maintain accountability for assets;
(iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s
general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for
assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate
action is taken with respect to any differences. There has not been
and is no material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting (whether or not remediated) and since December 31, 2008, there
has been no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting
that has materially and adversely affected, or is reasonably likely to
materially and adversely affect, the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting..
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Section
3.12 Incorporation and Good
Standing of the Company. The Company has
been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing
under the laws of the State of Florida and has the power and authority
(corporate or other) to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its
business as described in the Prospectus and to enter into and perform its
obligations under this Agreement. The Company is duly qualified as a
foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in each
jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the
ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the
failure to be so qualified and in good standing would not, individually or in
the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change.
Section
3.13 Incorporation and Good
Standing of the Company’s Subsidiaries. Each “significant
subsidiary” of the Company (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of
Regulation S-X) (each a “Subsidiary” and, collectively,
the “Subsidiaries”) has
been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing
under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, has corporate power and
authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business
as described in the Prospectus and is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to
transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such
qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of
property or the conduct of business, except where the failure so to qualify or
to be in good standing has not resulted, or would not reasonably be expected to
result, in a Material Adverse Change; except as otherwise disclosed in or
contemplated by the Prospectus, all of the issued and outstanding capital stock
of each such Subsidiary has been duly authorized and validly issued, is fully
paid and nonassessable and is owned by the Company, directly or through
subsidiaries, free and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge or lien
that reasonably would be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change; none
of the outstanding shares of capital stock of any Subsidiary was issued in
violation of the preemptive or similar rights of any securityholder of such
Subsidiary that reasonably would be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Change. The only subsidiaries of the Company are the subsidiaries
listed on Exhibit 21 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 2008. The only Subsidiary of the
Company is Enertech International, Inc., a Korean corporation..
Section
3.14 Capitalization and Other
Capital Stock Matters. The authorized, issued and outstanding capital
stock of the Company is as set forth in the Prospectus, as of the date so
presented (other than for subsequent issuances, if any, pursuant to employee
benefit plans described in the Prospectus or upon the exercise of outstanding
options or warrants described in the Prospectus). The capital stock
of the Company, including the Shares, conforms in all material respects to the
description thereof contained in the Prospectus. All of the issued
and outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly authorized and validly
issued, are fully paid and nonassessable and have been issued in compliance with
federal and state securities laws. None of the outstanding shares of
Common Stock was issued in violation of any preemptive rights, rights of first
refusal or other similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities of the
Company. There are no authorized or outstanding options, warrants,
preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase, or
equity or debt securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for,
any capital stock of the Company other than those accurately described in the
Prospectus. The description of the Company’s stock option, stock
bonus and other stock plans or arrangements, and the options or other rights
granted thereunder, set forth in the Prospectus accurately and fairly presents
the information required to be shown with respect to such plans, arrangements,
options and rights.
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3.15 Stock Exchange
Listing. The Common Shares are duly listed, and admitted and authorized
for trading on the Nasdaq Global Market, and the Shares are or, upon issuance,
will be duly listed, and admitted and authorized for trading on the Nasdaq
Global Market subject only to official notice of
issuance.
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3.16 Non-Contravention of
Existing Instruments; No Further Authorizations or Approvals Required.
Neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is in violation of its charter
or by-laws or operating agreement or similar organizational document, as
applicable, or is in default (or, with the giving of notice or lapse of time,
would be in default) (“Default”) under any indenture,
mortgage, loan or credit agreement, note, contract, franchise, lease or other
instrument to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is a party or by
which it or any of them may be bound (including, without limitation, any credit
agreement, indenture, pledge agreement, security agreement or other instrument
or agreement evidencing, guaranteeing, securing or relating to indebtedness of
the Company or any of the Subsidiaries), or to which any of the property or
assets of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is subject (each, an “Existing Instrument”), except
for such Defaults as would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a
Material Adverse Change. The Company’s execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement, consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby and by the Prospectus and the issuance and sale of the Shares
(i) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and will
not result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws,
operating agreement or similar organizational document of the Company or any
Subsidiary, as applicable, (ii) will not conflict with or constitute a
breach of, or Default or a Debt Repayment Triggering Event (as defined below)
under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or
encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of the
Subsidiaries pursuant to, or require the consent of any other party to, any
Existing Instrument, except for such conflicts, breaches, Defaults or Debt
Repayment Triggering Events as would not, individually or in the aggregate,
result in a Material Adverse Change and (iii) will not result in any
violation of any law, administrative regulation or administrative or court
decree applicable to the Company or any Subsidiary. No consent,
approval, authorization or other order of, or registration or filing with, any
court or other governmental or regulatory authority or agency, is required for
the Company’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the Prospectus,
except such as have been obtained or made by the Company and are in full force
and effect under the Securities Act, applicable state securities or blue sky
laws; provided,
however, the
Company does not make any representation as to any required consent, approval,
authorization or other order of, or registration or filing with, FINRA. As used herein, a “Debt Repayment Triggering
Event” means any event or condition that gives, or with the giving of
notice or lapse of time would give, the holder of any note, debenture or other
evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the
right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of
such indebtedness by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries.
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3.17 No Material Actions or
Proceedings. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus, there are
no legal or governmental actions, suits, investigations, inquiries or
proceedings pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened (i) against
or affecting the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, (ii) which have as the
subject thereof property owned or leased by, or to the Company’s knowledge, any
officer or director of, the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or
(iii) relating to environmental or discrimination matters, where in any
such case (A) any such action, suit or proceeding, if so determined
adversely, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change
or adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement or (B) any such action, suit or proceeding is or would be material in
the context of the sale of Shares. No material labor dispute with the
employees of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, or, to the Company’s
knowledge, with the employees of any principal supplier, manufacturer, customer
or contractor of the Company, exists or, to the Company’s knowledge, is
threatened or imminent.
Section
3.18 Intellectual Property
Rights. The Company and the Subsidiaries own, possess or can acquire on
reasonable terms sufficient trademarks, servicemarks, trade names, patents,
copyrights, and any registrations and applications for any of the foregoing,
domain names, licenses, approvals, trade secrets, know-how, inventions,
technology and other similar rights (collectively, “Intellectual Property Rights”)
reasonably necessary to conduct their respective businesses as now conducted as
set forth in the Prospectus (including the commercialization of products or
services described therein), except where the failure to own, possess or acquire
such rights would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material
Adverse Change. There are no third parties who have or, to the
Company’s knowledge, will be able to establish rights to any Intellectual
Property Rights owned by the Company or any Subsidiary, except for, and to the
extent of, the ownership rights of the owners of the Intellectual Property
Rights which the Prospectus discloses are licensed to the
Company. There are no pending actions, suits, claims or proceedings
that have been asserted or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened against the
Company or any Subsidiary challenging the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s rights
in or to any Intellectual Property Rights, and the Company is unaware of any
facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such action, suit, claim or
proceeding. There are no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge,
threatened actions, suits, claims, or proceedings challenging the validity,
enforceability or scope of any Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company
or any Subsidiary, and the Company is unaware of any facts which could form a
reasonable basis for any such action, suit, claim or
proceeding. There are no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge,
threatened actions, suits, claims or proceedings that the Company or any
Subsidiary infringes or otherwise violates, or would, upon the commercialization
of any product or service described in the Prospectus as under development,
infringe or violate, any Intellectual Property Rights of others, and the Company
is unaware of any facts which could form a reasonable basis for any such action,
suit, claim or proceeding. The Company and the Subsidiaries have
complied in all material respects with the terms of each agreement pursuant to
which Intellectual Property Rights have been licensed to the Company or any
Subsidiary under valid and enforceable license agreements, and all such
agreements are in full force and effect. To the Company’s knowledge,
there is no patent or patent application that contains claims that interfere
with the issued or pending claims of any of the Intellectual Property Rights
owned by the Company or any Subsidiary or that challenges the validity,
enforceability or scope of any of the Intellectual Property Rights owned by the
Company or any Subsidiary. To the Company’s knowledge, there is no
prior art that may render any patent application filed by the Company or a
Subsidiary within the Intellectual Property unpatentable that has not been
disclosed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the “PTO”). The Company
and the Subsidiaries have duly and properly filed or caused to be filed with the
PTO or foreign and international patent authorities all patent applications
disclosed in the Prospectus as owned by the Company or the
Subsidiaries.
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3.19 All Necessary Permits,
etc. The Company and each Subsidiary possess such valid and current
certificates, permits, licenses, approvals, consents and other authorizations
(collectively, “Governmental
Licenses”) issued by the appropriate state, federal or foreign regulatory
agencies or bodies necessary to conduct their respective businesses, except
where failure to possess any such Governmental License would not, individually
or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change; the Company and its
Subsidiaries are in compliance with the terms and conditions of all such
Governmental Licenses, except where the failure so to comply would not,
individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change; all of
the Governmental Licenses are valid and in full force and effect, except when
the invalidity of such Governmental Licenses or the failure of such Governmental
Licenses to be in full force and effect would not, individually or in the
aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change; and neither the Company nor any
Subsidiary has received, or has any reason to
believe that it will receive, any notice of proceedings relating to the
revocation or modification of, or non-compliance with, any such Governmental
License, which, individually or in the aggregate, if the subject of an
unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, could result in a Material Adverse
Change.
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3.20 Title to Properties.
The Company and each of the Subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all
of the real and personal property and other assets reflected as owned in the
financial statements referred to in Section 3.10
above in each case free and clear of any security interests, mortgages, liens,
encumbrances, equities, adverse claims and other defects, except such as do not
materially and adversely affect the value of such property and do not materially
interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such property by the
Company or such Subsidiary. The real property, improvements,
equipment and personal property held under lease by the Company or any
Subsidiary are held under valid and enforceable leases, with such exceptions as
are not material and do not materially interfere with the use made or proposed
to be made of such real property, improvements, equipment or personal property
by the Company or such Subsidiary.
Section
3.21 Tax Law Compliance.
The Company and the Subsidiaries have filed all necessary federal, state and
local and foreign income and franchise tax returns required to be filed through
the date hereof and have paid all taxes due thereon and, if due and payable, any
related or similar assessment, fine or penalty levied against any of them,
except as may be being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings,
and no tax deficiency has been determined adversely to the Company or any of the
Subsidiaries which has had, nor does the Company have any knowledge of any tax
deficiency which, if determined adversely to the Company or any of the
Subsidiaries, would reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse
Change. The Company has made adequate charges, accruals and reserves
in the applicable financial statements referred to in Section 3.10
above in respect of all federal, state and foreign income and franchise taxes
for all periods as to which the tax liability of the Company or any of the
Subsidiaries has not been finally determined.
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Section
3.22 Company Not an “Investment
Company.” The Company is not, and will not be, either after receipt of
payment for the Shares or after the application of the proceeds therefrom as
described under “Use of Proceeds” in the Prospectus, (i) an “investment
company” (or a company controlled by an “investment company”) within the meaning
of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”); or
(ii) a “passive foreign investment company” as such term is defined in the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations and published
interpretations thereunder (the “Code”).
Section
3.23 Insurance. Each of
the Company and the Subsidiaries are insured by recognized, financially sound
and reputable institutions with policies in such amounts and with such
deductibles and covering such risks as are generally deemed adequate and
customary for their businesses including, but not limited to, policies covering
real and personal property owned or leased by the Company and the Subsidiaries
against theft, damage, destruction and acts of vandalism and policies covering
the Company and the Subsidiaries for product liability claims. The
Company has no reason to believe that it or any Subsidiary will not be able
(i) to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such policies
expire or (ii) to obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as
may be necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now conducted and at
a cost that would not result in a Material Adverse Change.
Section
3.24 No Price Stabilization or
Manipulation; Compliance with Regulation M. Neither the Company nor any
Affiliate of the Company has taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed
to or that might be reasonably expected to cause or result in stabilization or
manipulation of the price of the Shares or any other “reference security” (as
defined in Rule 100 of Regulation M under the Exchange Act (“Regulation M”)) whether to
facilitate the sale or resale of the Shares or otherwise, and has taken no
action which would directly or indirectly violate
Regulation M. The Company acknowledges that the Agent may engage
in passive market making transactions in the Shares on the Principal Market in
accordance with Regulation M.
Section
3.25 Related Party
Transactions. There are no business relationships or related-party
transactions involving the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or any other
person required to be described in the Prospectus that have not been described
as required.
Section
3.26 Statistical and
Market-Related Data. The statistical, demographic and
market-related data included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes to be reliable
and accurate or represent the Company’s good faith estimates that are made on
the basis of data derived from such sources.
Section
3.27 No Unlawful Contributions or
Other Payments. Neither the Company nor any of the
Subsidiaries nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any employee or agent of the
Company or any Subsidiary, has made any contribution or other payment to any
official of, or candidate for, any federal, state or foreign office in violation
of any law or of the character required to be disclosed in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus.
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Section
3.28 Disclosure Controls and
Procedures; Deficiencies in or Changes to Internal Control Over Financial
Reporting. The Company has established and maintains
disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act
Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)), which (i) are designed to ensure that
material information relating to the Company, including its consolidated
subsidiaries, is made known to the Company’s principal executive officer and its
principal financial officer by others within those entities, particularly during
the periods in which the periodic reports required under the Exchange Act are
being prepared; (ii) have been evaluated by management of the Company for
effectiveness as of the end of the Company’s most recent fiscal quarter; and
(iii) are effective in all material respects to perform the functions for
which they were established. Based on the most recent evaluation of
its disclosure controls and procedures, the Company is not aware of (i) any
significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the design or operation of
internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to
adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report
financial information or (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that
involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the
Company’s internal control over financial reporting. The Company is
not aware of any change in its internal control over financial reporting that
has occurred during its most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected,
or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control
over financial reporting.
Section
3.29 Compliance with
Environmental Laws. Except as described in each the Prospectus
or except as would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse
Change, (i) neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is in violation
of any federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, rule, regulation,
ordinance, code, policy or rule of common law or any judicial or administrative
interpretation thereof, including any judicial or administrative order, consent,
decree or judgment, relating to pollution or protection of human health, the
environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water,
groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) or wildlife, including, without
limitation, laws and regulations relating to the release or threatened release
of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, hazardous
substances, petroleum or petroleum products, asbestos-containing materials or
molds (collectively, “Hazardous
Materials”) or to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use,
treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials
(collectively, “Environmental
Laws”), (ii) the Company and the Subsidiaries have all permits,
authorizations and approvals required under any applicable Environmental Laws
and are each in compliance with their requirements, (iii) there are no pending
or threatened administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands,
demand letters, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation,
investigation or proceedings relating to any Environmental Law against the
Company or any of the Subsidiaries and (iv) there are no events or circumstances
that might reasonably be expected to form the basis of an order for clean-up or
remediation, or an action, suit or proceeding by any private party or
governmental body or agency, against or affecting the Company or any of the
Subsidiaries relating to Hazardous Materials or any Environmental
Laws.
Section
3.30 ERISA
Compliance. The Company and the Subsidiaries and any “employee
benefit plan” (as defined under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974, as amended, and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder
(collectively, “ERISA”))
established or maintained by the Company, the Subsidiaries or their “ERISA
Affiliates” (as defined below) are in compliance in all material respects with
ERISA. “ERISA
Affiliate” means, with respect to the Company or a Subsidiary, any member
of any group of organizations described in Sections 414(b), (c), (m) or (o)
of the Code of which the Company or such Subsidiary is a member. No
“reportable event” (as defined under ERISA) has occurred or is reasonably
expected to occur with respect to any “employee benefit plan” established or
maintained by the Company, the Subsidiaries or any of their ERISA
Affiliates. No “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by
the Company, the Subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates, if such
“employee benefit plan” were terminated, would have any “amount of unfunded
benefit liabilities” (as defined under ERISA). Neither the Company,
the Subsidiaries nor any of their ERISA Affiliates has incurred or reasonably
expects to incur any liability under (i) Title IV of ERISA with
respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any “employee benefit plan” or
(ii) Sections 412, 4971, 4975 or 4980B of the Code. Each
“employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company, the
Subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates that is intended to be qualified
under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified and nothing has occurred,
whether by action or failure to act, which would cause the loss of such
qualification.
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Section
3.31 Brokers. Except
pursuant to this Agreement, the Engagement Letter dated as of November 26, 2008 between the Company and the Agent and the Side
Letter dated as of May 22, 2009 between the company and the Agent, there is no
broker, finder or other party that is entitled to receive from the Company any
brokerage or finder’s fee or other fee or commission as a result of any
transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
Section
3.32 Dividend
Restrictions. No Subsidiary is prohibited or restricted,
directly or indirectly, from paying dividends to the Company, or from making any
other distribution with respect to such Subsidiary’s equity securities or from
repaying to the Company or any other Subsidiary any amounts that may from time
to time become due under any loans or advances to such Subsidiary from the
Company or from transferring any property or assets to the Company or to any
other Subsidiary.
Section
3.33 Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor any
director, officer, agent, employee or other person associated with or acting on
behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, has used any corporate funds
for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense
relating to political activity; made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to
any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds;
violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act of 1977; or made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or
other unlawful payment, except for payments or violations that, individually or
in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Change.
Section
3.34 Money Laundering
Laws. The operations of the Company and the Subsidiaries are,
and have been conducted at all times, in compliance, in all material respects,
with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the
Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money
laundering statutes of all applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations
thereunder and any related or similar applicable rules, regulations or
guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency
(collectively, the “Money
Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any
court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the
Company or any of the Subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is
pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.
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Section
3.35 OFAC. Neither
the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company,
any director, officer, agent, employee, Affiliate or person acting on behalf of
the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S.
sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S.
Treasury Department (“OFAC”); and the Company will
not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of this offering, or lend,
contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint
venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the
activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by
OFAC.
Section
3.36 Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx. The
Company is in compliance, in all material respects, with all applicable
provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
Section
3.37 Duties, Transfer Taxes,
Etc. No stamp or other issuance or transfer taxes or duties
and no capital gains, income, withholding or other taxes are payable by the
Agent in the United States, the Republic of Korea, or any political subdivision
or taxing authority thereof or therein in connection with the execution,
delivery or performance of this Agreement by the Company or the sale and
delivery by the Company of the Shares.
Section
3.38 No Association with
FINRA. Neither the Company nor any of its Affiliates directly,
or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by,
or is under common control with, or is a person associated with any member firm
of FINRA.
Any
certificate signed by any officer or representative of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries and delivered to the Agent or counsel for the Agent in connection
with an Issuance shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to
the Agent as to the matters covered thereby on the date of such
certificate.
The
Company acknowledges that the Agent and, for purposes of the opinions to be
delivered pursuant to Section 4.13 hereof,
counsel to the Company and counsel to the Agent, will rely upon the accuracy and
truthfulness of the foregoing representations and hereby consents to such
reliance.
ARTICLE
IV
COVENANTS
The
Company covenants and agrees with the Agent as follows, in addition to any other
covenants and agreements made elsewhere in this Agreement:
Section
4.01 Periodic Reporting
Obligations; Exchange Act Compliance. During the Agency
Period, the Company shall file, on a timely basis, with the Commission all
reports and documents required to be filed under the Exchange Act in the manner
and within the time periods required by the Exchange Act.
Section
4.02 Securities Act
Compliance. After the date of this Agreement through the last
time that a prospectus is required by the Securities Act (including, without
limitation, pursuant to Rule 173(d)) to be delivered in connection with
sales of the Shares, the Company shall promptly advise the Agent in writing
(i) of the receipt of any comments of, or requests for additional or
supplemental information from, the Commission, (ii) of the time and date of
any filing of any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or any
amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or any document incorporated by
reference therein, (iii) of the time and date that any post-effective
amendment to the Registration Statement becomes effective and (iv) of the
issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto, any amendment or
supplement to the Prospectus or of any order preventing or suspending the use of
the Prospectus, or of any proceedings to remove, suspend or terminate from
listing or quotation the Shares from any securities exchange upon which they are
listed for trading or included or designated for quotation, or of the
threatening or initiation of any proceedings for any of such
purposes. If the Commission shall enter any such stop order at any
time, the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the
lifting of such order at the earliest possible moment. Additionally,
the Company agrees that it shall comply with the provisions of Rule 424(b)
and Rule 433, as applicable, under the Securities Act and will use its
reasonable efforts to confirm that any filings made by the Company under such
Rule 424(b) or Rule 433 were received in a timely manner by the
Commission.
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4.03 Amendments and Supplements
to the Prospectus and Other Securities Act Matters. If, after the
Effective Date through the last time that a prospectus is required by the
Securities Act (including, without limitation, pursuant to Rule 173(d)) to
be delivered in connection with sales of the Shares, any event shall occur or
condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the
Prospectus (including any documents incorporated by reference therein) so that
the Prospectus does not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit
to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in
the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser,
not misleading, or if in the opinion of the Agent or counsel for the Agent it is
otherwise necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with
applicable law, including the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, the Company
agrees (subject to Section 4.04) to
promptly prepare, file with the Commission and furnish at its own expense to the
Agent, amendments or supplements to the Prospectus so that the statements in the
Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not include an untrue statement of
a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus is
delivered to a purchaser, not misleading or so that the Prospectus, as amended
or supplemented, will comply with applicable law including the Securities
Act. Neither the Agent’s consent to, nor delivery of, any such
amendment or supplement shall constitute a waiver of any of the Company’s
obligations under Section 4.04.
Section
4.04 Agent’s Review of Proposed
Amendments and Supplements. After the Effective Date
through the last time that a prospectus is required by the Securities Act
(including, without limitation, pursuant to Rule 173(d)) to be delivered in
connection with sales of the Shares, prior to amending or supplementing the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus (including any amendment or supplement
through incorporation of any report filed under the Exchange Act), the Company
shall furnish to the Agent for review, a reasonable amount of time prior to the
proposed time of filing or use thereof, a copy of each such proposed amendment
or supplement, and the Company shall not file or use any such proposed amendment
or supplement to which the Agent, after receiving reasonable advanced notice,
objects prior to such filing or use.
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4.05 Free Writing
Prospectuses.
The Company shall furnish to the Agent for review, a reasonable amount of
time prior to the proposed time of filing or use thereof, a copy of each
proposed free writing prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto to be
prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company and the
Company shall not file, use or refer to any proposed free writing prospectus or
any amendment or supplement thereto to which the Agent, after receiving
reasonable advanced notice, objects prior to such filing or use. The
Company shall furnish to the Agent, without charge, as many copies of any free
writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of, or used by the Company, as the
Agent may reasonably request. If at any time when a prospectus is
required by the Securities Act (including, without limitation, pursuant to
Rule 173(d)) to be delivered in connection with sales of the Shares (but in
any event if at any time through and including the Effective Date) there
occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of which any free writing
prospectus prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company
conflicted or would conflict with the information contained in the Registration
Statement or included or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted or would omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances prevailing at that
subsequent time, not misleading, the Company shall promptly amend or supplement
such free writing prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict or so that
the statements in such free writing prospectus as so amended or supplemented
will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of
the circumstances prevailing at such subsequent time, not misleading, as the
case may be; provided, however, that prior
to amending or supplementing any such free writing prospectus, the Company shall
furnish to the Agent for review, a reasonable amount of time prior to the
proposed time of filing or use thereof, a copy of such proposed amended or
supplemented free writing prospectus and the Company shall not file, use or
refer to any such amended or supplemented free writing prospectus to which the
Agent, after receiving reasonable advanced notice, objects prior to such filing
or use.
Section
4.06 Filing of Agent Free Writing
Prospectuses.
The Company shall not take any action that would result in the Agent or
the Company being required to file with the Commission pursuant to
Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act a free writing prospectus prepared by
or on behalf of the Agent that the Agent otherwise would not have been required
to file thereunder.
Section
4.07 Copies of Registration
Statement and Prospectus. After the Effective Date through the
last time that a prospectus is required by the Securities Act (including,
without limitation, pursuant to Rule 173(d)) to be delivered in connection
with sales of the Shares, the Company agrees to furnish the Agent with copies
(which may be electronic copies) of the Registration Statement and each
amendment thereto, and with copies of the Prospectus and each amendment or
supplement thereto in the form in which it is filed with the Commission pursuant
to the Securities Act or Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, both in such
quantities as the Agent may reasonably request from time to time; and, if the
delivery of a prospectus is required under the Securities Act or under the blue
sky or securities laws of any jurisdiction at any time on or prior to the
applicable Settlement Date for any Selling Period in connection with the
offering or sale of the Shares and if at such time any event has occurred as a
result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary
in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under
which they were made when such Prospectus is delivered, not misleading, or, if
for any other reason it is necessary during such same period to amend or
supplement the Prospectus or to file under the Exchange Act any document
incorporated by reference in the Prospectus in order to comply with the
Securities Act or the Exchange Act, to notify the Agent and to request that the
Agent suspend offers to sell Shares (and, if so notified, the Agent shall cease
such offers as soon as practicable); and if the Company decides to amend or
supplement the Registration Statement or the Prospectus as then amended or
supplemented, to advise the Agent promptly by telephone (with confirmation in
writing) and to prepare and cause to be filed promptly with the Commission an
amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus as then
amended or supplemented that will correct such statement or omission or effect
such compliance; provided, however, that if during such same period the Agent is
required to deliver a prospectus in respect of transactions in the Shares, the
Company shall promptly prepare and file with the Commission such an amendment or
supplement.
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Section
4.08 Blue Sky
Compliance. The Company shall reasonably cooperate with the
Agent and counsel for the Agent to qualify or register the Shares for sale under
(or obtain exemptions from the application of) the state securities or blue sky
laws or Canadian provincial securities laws of those jurisdictions reasonably
designated by the Agent, shall comply with such laws and shall continue such
qualifications, registrations and exemptions in effect so long as required for
the distribution of the Shares. The Company shall not be required to
qualify as a foreign corporation or to take any action that would subject it to
general service of process in any such jurisdiction where it is not presently
qualified or where it would be subject to taxation as a foreign
corporation. The Company will advise the Agent promptly of the
suspension of the qualification or registration of (or any such exemption
relating to) the Shares for offering, sale or trading in any jurisdiction or any
initiation or threat of any proceeding for any such purpose, and in the event of
the issuance of any order suspending such qualification, registration or
exemption, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain
the withdrawal thereof at the earliest possible moment.
Section
4.09 Rule
158. To make generally available to its holders of the Shares
as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than 18 months after the
effective date of the Registration Statement (as defined in Rule 158(c) under
the Securities Act), an earnings statement of the Company and its consolidated
subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the
Securities Act (including the option of the Company to file periodic reports in
order to make generally available such earnings statement, to the extent that it
is required to file such reports under Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act, pursuant to Rule 158 under the Securities Act).
Section
4.10 Listing; Reservation of
Shares; Transfer Agent. The Company shall (a) use its best
efforts to list, subject to notice of issuance, the Shares on the Nasdaq Global
Market and to maintain the listing of the Shares on the Nasdaq Global Market;
(b) shall reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights,
Shares for the purpose of enabling the Company to satisfy its obligations under
this Agreement; and (c) engage and maintain, at its expense, a registrar and
transfer agent for the Shares.
Section
4.11 Due
Diligence. On each Representation Date, in connection with any
Issuance and otherwise from time to time at the reasonable request of the Agent,
the Company shall permit and assist representatives of the Agent and counsel to
the Agent to conduct due diligence with the appropriate business, financial and
legal representatives and directors of the Company, consistent with such
parties’ due diligence prior to the date hereof and otherwise appropriate under
the circumstances in the reasonable judgment of the Agent, including but not
limited to due diligence regarding the business and financial condition of the
Company, reasonable requests for documents, conference calls regarding these
matters and conference calls with representatives of the Company’s internal and
outside counsel providing legal opinions pursuant to this Agreement and with
representatives of the Company’s registered independent accounting firms
providing comfort letters pursuant to this Agreement. Prior to the
filing of any document with the Commission that would constitute a Triggering
Event specified in Section 4.13,
the Company shall furnish to the Agent for review, a reasonable amount of time
prior to the proposed time of filing or use thereof, a copy of each such
document, and the Company shall not file or use any such document to which the
Agent, after receiving reasonable advanced notice, objects prior to such filing
or use.
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Section
4.12 Representations and
Warranties. The Company acknowledges that each delivery of an
Issuance Notice and each delivery of Shares on a Settlement Date shall be deemed
to be (i) an affirmation to the Agent that the representations and warranties of
the Company contained in or made pursuant to this Agreement are true and correct
as of the date of such Issuance Notice or of such Settlement Date, as the case
may be, as though made at and as of each such date, except as may be disclosed
in the Prospectus (including any documents incorporated by reference therein and
any supplements thereto), and (ii) an undertaking that the Company will
advise the Agent if any of such representations and warranties will not be true
and correct as of the Settlement Date for the Shares relating to such Issuance
Notice, as though made at and as of each such date (except that such
representations and warranties shall be deemed to relate to the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented relating to such
Shares).
Section
4.13 Deliverables upon a
Triggering Event. The Company agrees that, during the term of this
Agreement, upon
(a) the
amendment or supplement of any Registration Statement or Prospectus, including
any document incorporated by reference therein,
(b) the
filing with the Commission of an Annual Report on Form 10-K or a Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q, in each case, of the Company,
(c) any Shares are delivered to the
Agent as principal on a Settlement Date, at the Agent’s oral or written request
and upon reasonable advance oral or written notice to the Company,
or
(d) the
filing with the Commission of a Current Report on Form 8-K of the Company that
is material to the offering of securities of the Company, in the reasonable
discretion of the Agent,
(any such
event, a “Triggering
Event”), then the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the
Agent on the date of such Triggering Event, the following:
(w) the
written legal opinions of (i) Xxxxxx Song & Xxxxxxx LLP, New York counsel to
the Company, dated the date of delivery in the form of Exhibit B; (ii)
Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx, LPA, Florida counsel to the Company, dated the date of
delivery and in the form of Exhibit C; (iii) Kim,
Chang & Xxx, Korean counsel to the Company, dated the date of delivery and
in the form of Exhibit
D; and (iv) Dae-Ki Min, New Jersey counsel to the Company, dated the date
of delivery and in the form of Exhibit E, or, in the
discretion of the Agent, a reliance letter from such counsel to the Agent,
permitting the Agent to rely on a previously delivered opinion letter, modified
as appropriate for any passage of time or Triggering Event (except that
statements in such prior opinion shall be deemed to relate to the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus as amended or supplemented as of such
Representation Date);
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(x) comfort
letters, dated the date of delivery, of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx, PC and
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the independent registered public accounting firms
who have audited the financial statements included or incorporated by reference
in the Registration Statement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the Agent; it being understood that, in the case of clause (d) above, any
such comfort letters will only be required for the Triggering Event specified to
the extent that it contains financial statements filed with the Commission under
the Exchange Act and incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference into
a Prospectus;
(y) a
certificate executed by the Secretary of the Company, signing in such capacity,
dated the Applicable Time (A) certifying that attached thereto are true and
complete copies of the resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the
Company authorizing the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby (including, without
limitation, the issuance of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement), which
authorization shall be in full force and effect on and as of the date of such
certificate, (B) certifying and attesting to the office, incumbency, due
authority and specimen signatures of each Person who executed this Agreement for or on behalf of the Company,
and (C) containing any other certification that the Agent shall reasonably
request; and
(z) a
certificate executed by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or any Executive or Senior Vice President of the Company
and by the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, signing in such respective capacities, (A) confirming that the
representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement are
true and correct, (B) that the Company has performed all of it obligations
hereunder to be performed on or prior to the Effective Date and as to the
matters set forth in Section 5.01(a)
hereof, and (C) containing any other certification that the Agent shall
reasonably request.
Section
4.14 Agent’s Own Account;
Clients’ Account. The Company consents to the Agent trading,
in compliance with applicable law, in the Common Shares for the Agent’s own
account and for the account of its clients at the same time as sales of the
Shares occur pursuant to this Agreement.
Section
4.15 Investment
Limitation. The Company shall not invest or otherwise use the
proceeds received by the Company from its sale of any Shares in such a manner as
would require the Company or any of the Subsidiaries to register as an
investment company under the Investment Company Act. The Company will
conduct its business in a manner so that it will not become subject to the
Investment Company Act.
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Section
4.16 Market
Activities. The Company will not take, directly or indirectly,
any action designed to or that might be reasonably expected to cause or result
in stabilization or manipulation of the price of the shares of Common Stock or
any other reference security, whether to facilitate the sale or resale of the
Shares or otherwise, and the Company will, and shall cause each of its
Affiliates to, comply with all applicable provisions of
Regulation M. If the limitations of Rule 102 of
Regulation M (“Rule
102”) do not apply with respect to the Shares or any other reference
security pursuant to any exception set forth in Section (d) of
Rule 102, then promptly upon notice from the Agent (or, if later, at the
time stated in the notice), the Company will, and shall cause each of its
Affiliates to, comply with Rule 102 as though such exception were not
available but the other provisions of Rule 102 (as interpreted by the
Commission) did apply.
Section
4.17 Other
Documents. On the Effective Date, the Agent and its counsel
shall have been furnished with such documents as they may reasonably request in
order to evidence the accuracy and completeness of any of the representations or
warranties, or the fulfillment of the conditions, herein contained; and all
action taken by the Company in connection with the issuance and sale of the
Shares as herein contemplated shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and
substance to the Agent and its counsel.
ARTICLE
V
CONDITIONS
TO DELIVERY OF ISSUANCE
NOTICES
AND TO SETTLEMENT
Section
5.01 Conditions Precedent to the
Right of the Company to Deliver an Issuance Notice and the Obligation of the
Agent to Sell Shares During the Selling Period(s). The right
of the Company to deliver an Issuance Notice hereunder is subject to the
satisfaction, on the date of delivery of such Issuance Notice, and the
obligation of the Agent to use its commercially reasonable efforts to place
Shares during the applicable Selling Period is subject to the satisfaction, on
each Trading Day during the Selling Period, of each of the following
conditions:
(a) Accuracy of the Company’s
Representations and Warranties; Performance by the
Company. The representations and warranties of the Company
shall be true and correct as of each applicable Representation Date as though
made at such time. The Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied with
all covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Agreement to be
performed, satisfied or complied with by the Company at or prior to such date,
including, but not limited to, the covenants contained in Section 4.11 and
Section
4.13.
(b) No
Injunction. No statute, rule, regulation, executive order,
decree, ruling or injunction shall have been enacted, entered, promulgated or
endorsed by any court or governmental authority of competent jurisdiction or any
self-regulatory organization having authority over the matters contemplated
hereby that prohibits or directly and materially adversely affects any of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and no proceeding shall have been
commenced that may have the effect of prohibiting or materially adversely
affecting any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
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(c) Material Adverse
Changes. Since the Effective Date, no event that had or would reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Change shall have occurred that
has not been disclosed in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus
(including the documents incorporated by reference therein and any supplements
thereto).
(d) No Suspension of Trading in
or Delisting of Common Shares; Other Events. The trading of
the Common Shares (including without limitation the Shares) shall not have been
suspended by the Commission, the Principal Market or FINRA since the immediately
preceding Settlement Date or, if there has been no Settlement Date, the
Effective Date, and the Shares (including without limitation the Shares) shall
have been approved for listing or quotation on and shall not have been delisted
from the Principal Market. There shall not have occurred (and be
continuing in the case of occurrences under clauses (i) and
(ii) below) any of the following: (i) if trading generally
on the American Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange or The Nasdaq Stock
Market has been suspended or materially limited, or minimum and maximum prices
for trading have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices have been required, by
any of said exchanges or by such system or by order of the Commission, FINRA or
any other governmental authority, or a material disruption has occurred in
commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United
States; (ii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities in New
York declared by either federal or New York state authorities; or
(iii) any material adverse change in the financial markets in
the United States or in the international financial markets, any outbreak or
escalation of hostilities or other calamity or crisis involving the United
States or the declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war or
any change or development involving a prospective change in national or
international political, financial or economic conditions, if the effect of any
such event specified in this clause (iii) in the sole judgment of the Agent
makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale of Shares of the
Company.
Section
5.02 Documents Required to be
Delivered on each Issuance Date. The Agent’s obligation to use
its commercially reasonable efforts to place Shares pursuant to an Issuance
hereunder shall additionally be conditioned upon the delivery to the Agent on or
before the Issuance Date of a certificate in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Agent, executed by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Chief Financial Officer of
the Company, to the effect that all conditions to the delivery of such Issuance
Notice shall have been satisfied as at the date of such certificate (which
certificate shall not be required if the foregoing representations shall be set
forth in the Issuance Notice).
ARTICLE
VI
INDEMNIFICATION
AND CONTRIBUTION
Section
6.01 Indemnification of the
Agent. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the
Agent, its officers and employees, and each person, if any, who controls the
Agent within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act against any
loss, claim, damage, liability or expense, as incurred, to which the Agent or
such officer, employee or controlling person may become subject, under the
Securities Act, the Exchange Act, other federal or state statutory law or
regulation, or the laws or regulations of foreign jurisdictions where Shares
have been offered or sold or at common law or otherwise (including in settlement
of any litigation), insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or expense
(or actions in respect thereof as contemplated below) arises out of or is based
upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material
fact contained in the Registration Statement, or any amendment thereto,
including any information deemed to be a part thereof pursuant to Rule 430A
under the Securities Act, or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading; (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained in any free
writing prospectus that the Company has used, referred to or filed, or is
required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Securities Act or
the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), or the omission or
alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading; (iii) information or statements provided by the Company to the
media; or (iv) any act or failure to act or any alleged act or failure to
act by the Agent in connection with, or relating in any manner to, the Shares or
the offering contemplated hereby, and which is included as part of or referred
to in any loss, claim, damage, liability or action arising out of or based upon
any matter covered by clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, provided that the
Company shall not be liable under this clause (iv) to the extent that a
court of competent jurisdiction shall have determined by a final and
non-appealable judgment that such loss, claim, damage, liability or action
resulted directly from any such acts or failures to act undertaken or omitted to
be taken by the Agent through its bad faith, willful misconduct or gross
negligence; and to reimburse the Agent and each such officer, employee and
controlling person for any and all expenses (including the fees and
disbursements of counsel chosen by the Agent) as such expenses are reasonably
incurred by the Agent or such officer, employee or controlling person in
connection with investigating, defending, settling, compromising or paying any
such loss, claim, damage, liability, expense or action. The indemnity
agreement set forth in this Section 6.01
shall be in addition to any liabilities that the Company may otherwise
have.
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Section
6.02 Notifications and Other
Indemnification Procedures. Promptly after receipt by an
indemnified party under this Article VI of notice
of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in
respect thereof is to be made against an indemnifying party under this Article VI, notify
the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof, but the omission
so to notify the indemnifying party will not relieve the indemnifying party from
any liability which it may have to any indemnified party for contribution under
Section 6.04
below or otherwise under the indemnity agreement contained in this Article VI except to
the extent such indemnifying party is materially prejudiced as a result of such
failure. In case any such action is brought against any indemnified
party and such indemnified party seeks or intends to seek indemnity from an
indemnifying party, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate in,
and, to the extent that it shall elect, jointly with all other indemnifying
parties similarly notified, by written notice delivered to the indemnified party
promptly after receiving the aforesaid notice from such indemnified party, to
assume the defense thereof with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such
indemnified party; provided, however, if the defendants in any such action
include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the
indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded, based upon written advice of
counsel, that a conflict may arise between the positions of the indemnifying
party and the indemnified party in conducting the defense of any such action or
that there may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified
parties which are different from or additional to those available to the
indemnifying party, the indemnified party or parties shall have the right to
select separate counsel to assume such legal defenses and to otherwise
participate in the defense of such action on behalf of such indemnified party or
parties. Upon receipt of notice from the indemnifying party to such
indemnified party of such indemnifying party’s election so to assume the defense
of such action and approval by the indemnified party of counsel, the
indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Article VI for any
legal expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection
with the defense thereof unless (i) the indemnified party shall have
employed separate counsel in accordance with the proviso to the preceding
sentence (it being understood, however, that the indemnifying party shall not be
liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys
(together with local counsel), representing the indemnified parties who are
parties to such action), which counsel (together with any local counsel) for the
indemnified parties shall be selected by the Agent, (ii) the indemnifying
party shall not have employed counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified
party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice
of commencement of the action, or (iii) the indemnifying party authorizes
the indemnified party in writing to employ separate counsel at the indemnifying
party’s expense, in each of which cases the reasonable fees and expenses of
counsel shall be at the expense of the indemnifying party and shall be paid as
they are incurred.
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Section
6.03 Settlements. The
indemnifying party under this Article VI shall not
be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written
consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned),
but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the
plaintiff, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify the indemnified party
against any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense by reason of such
settlement or judgment. No indemnifying party shall, without the
prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement,
compromise or consent to the entry of judgment in any pending or threatened
action, suit or proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could
have been a party and indemnity was or could have been sought hereunder by such
indemnified party, unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes an
unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims
that are the subject matter of such action, suit or proceeding.
Section
6.04 Contribution. If
the indemnification provided for in this Article VI is for any
reason held to be unavailable to or otherwise insufficient to hold harmless an
indemnified party in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or
expenses referred to therein, then the indemnifying party shall contribute to
the aggregate amount paid or payable by such indemnified party, as incurred, as
a result of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses referred to
therein (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative
benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Agent, on the other
hand, from the offering contemplated hereby or (ii) if the allocation
provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such
proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred
to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company, on the
one hand, and the Agent, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or
omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or
expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The
relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Agent, on
the other hand, in connection with the offering of the Shares shall be deemed to
be in the same respective proportions as the total gross proceeds from the
offering of the Shares (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear
to the total commissions received by the Agent. The relative fault of the
Company, on the one hand, and the Agent, on the other hand, shall be determined
by reference to, among other things, whether any such untrue or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material
fact relates to information supplied by the Company, on the one hand, or the
Agent, on the other hand, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to
information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or
omission.
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The amount paid or payable by a party
as a result of the losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses referred to
above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 6.02,
any legal or other fees or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in
connection with investigating or defending any action or claim. The
provisions set forth in Section 6.02
with respect to notice of commencement of any action shall apply if a claim for
contribution is to be made under this Section 6.04;
provided, however, that no
additional notice shall be required with respect to any action for which notice
has been given under Section 6.02 for
purposes of indemnification.
The Company and the Agent agree that it
would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 6.04
were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation that
does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in this Section 6.04.
Notwithstanding
the provisions of this Section 6.04,
the Agent shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the agent
fees received by the Agent in connection with the offering contemplated
hereby. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the
meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to
contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent
misrepresentation. For purposes of this Section 6.04,
each officer and employee of the Agent and each person, if any, who controls the
Agent within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act shall have
the same rights to contribution as the Agent, and each director of the Company,
each officer of the Company who signed the Registration Statement, and each
person, if any, who controls the Company with the meaning of the Securities Act
and the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the
Company.
ARTICLE
VII
TERMINATION
& SURVIVAL
Section
7.01 Term. Subject
to the provisions of this Article VII, the term
of this Agreement shall continue from the Effective Date until the end of the
Agency Period, unless earlier terminated by the parties to this Agreement
pursuant to this Article VII.
Section
7.02 Termination; Survival
Following Termination. Either party may terminate this
Agreement prior to the end of the Agency Period, by giving written notice as
required by this Agreement, upon one Trading Day’s notice to the other party;
provided that, (a) if the Company terminates this Agreement after the Agent
confirms to the Company any sale of Shares, the Company shall remain obligated
to comply with Section
2.02(e) with respect to such Shares and (b) Articles III, VI, VII and VIII shall survive
termination of this Agreement. If termination shall occur prior to
the Settlement Date for any sale of Issuance Shares, such sale shall
nevertheless settle in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
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Section
7.03 Other Survival
Provisions. In addition to
the survival provision of Section 7.02, the respective
indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the
Company, of its officers set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will
remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on
behalf of the Agent or the Company or any of its or their partners, officers or
directors or any controlling person, as the case may be, and, anything herein to
the contrary notwithstanding, will survive delivery of and payment for the
Shares sold hereunder.
ARTICLE
VIII
MISCELLANEOUS
Section
8.01 Press Releases and
Disclosure. The Company may issue a press release describing
the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby as soon as
practicable following the Effective Date, and may file with the Commission a
Current Report on Form 8-K, with this Agreement attached as an exhibit
thereto, describing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby,
and the Company shall consult with the Agent prior to making such disclosures,
and the parties hereto shall use all commercially reasonable efforts, acting in
good faith, to agree upon a text for such disclosures that is reasonably
satisfactory to all parties hereto. No party hereto shall issue thereafter any
press release or like public statement (including, without
limitation, any disclosure required in reports filed with the
Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act) related to this Agreement or any of the
transactions contemplated hereby without the prior written approval of the other
party hereto, except as may be necessary or appropriate in the reasonable
opinion of the party seeking to make disclosure to comply with the requirements
of applicable law or stock exchange rules. If any such press release or like
public statement is so required, the party making such disclosure shall consult
with the other party prior to making such disclosure, and the parties shall use
all commercially reasonable efforts, acting in good faith, to agree upon a text
for such disclosure that is reasonably satisfactory to all parties
hereto.
Section
8.02 No Advisory or Fiduciary
Relationship. The Company
acknowledges and agrees that (a) the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
are an arm’s-length commercial transactions, (b) when acting as a principal
under this Agreement, the Agent is and has been acting solely as a principal and
is not the agent or fiduciary of any of the Company, or its stockholders,
creditors, employees or any other party, (c) the Agent has not assumed nor will
assume an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with
respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the process
leading thereto (irrespective of whether the Agent has advised or is currently
advising the Company on other matters) and the Agent shall not have any
obligation to the Company with respect to the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement, (d) the
Agent and its Affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that
involve interests that differ from those of the Company, and (e) the Agent has
not provided any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Company has consulted its
own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it deemed
appropriate. In addition, each of the parties hereto acknowledges
that it is a sophisticated business person who was adequately represented by
counsel during negotiations regarding the provisions hereof, including, without
limitation, the indemnification and contribution provisions of Article VI, and is
fully informed regarding said provisions, and that the provisions of Article VI hereto
fairly allocate the risks in light of the ability of the parties to investigate
the Company, its affairs and its business in order to assure that adequate
disclosure has been made in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus (and
any amendments and supplements thereto), as required by the Securities Act and
the Exchange Act.
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Section
8.03 Research Analyst
Independence. The Company acknowledges that the Agent’s
research analysts and research departments are required to and should be
independent from their respective investment banking divisions and are subject
to certain regulations and internal policies, and as such the Agent’s research
analysts may hold views and make statements or investment recommendations and/or
publish research reports with respect to the Company or the offering that differ
from the views of their respective investment banking divisions. The
Company understands that the Agent is a full service securities firm and as such
from time to time, subject to applicable securities laws, may effect
transactions for its own account or the account of its customers and hold long
or short positions in debt or equity securities of the companies that may be the
subject of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
Section
8.04 Notices. All
communications hereunder shall be in writing, shall be effective upon actual
receipt by the intended recipient and (except to the extent other forms of
delivery are specified in this Agreement) shall be mailed, hand delivered or
telecopied and confirmed to the parties hereto as follows:
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to the Agent:
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& Company, Inc.
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Xxx Xxxx 00000
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Counsel
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a copy to:
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Xxx Xxxx 00000
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to the Company:
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Inc.
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Executive Officer
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Song & Xxxxxxx LLP
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Any party
hereto may change the address for receipt of communications by giving written
notice to the others in accordance with this Section
8.04.
Section
8.05 Successors. This Agreement
will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto, and to the
benefit of the employees, officers and directors and controlling persons
referred to in Article
VI, and in each case their respective successors, and no other person
will have any right or obligation hereunder.
Section
8.06 Partial
Unenforceability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any
Section, paragraph or provision of this Agreement shall not affect the validity
or enforceability of any other Section, paragraph or provision
hereof. If any Article, Section, paragraph or provision of this
Agreement is for any reason determined to be invalid or unenforceable, there
shall be deemed to be made such minor changes (and only such minor changes) as
are necessary to make it valid and enforceable.
Section
8.07 Governing Law
Provisions. This Agreement
shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the
State of New York applicable to agreements made and to be performed in such
state. Any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based
upon this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby (“Related Proceedings”) may be
instituted in the federal courts of the United States of America located in the
Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York or the courts of the State of New
York in each case located in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York
(collectively, the “Specified
Courts”), and each party irrevocably submits to the exclusive
jurisdiction (except for proceedings instituted in regard to the enforcement of
a judgment of any such court (a “Related Judgment”), as to
which such jurisdiction is non-exclusive) of such courts in any such suit,
action or proceeding. Service of any process, summons, notice or
document by mail to such party’s address set forth above shall be effective
service of process for any suit, action or other proceeding brought in any such
court. The parties irrevocably and unconditionally waive any
objection to the laying of venue of any suit, action or other proceeding in the
Specified Courts and irrevocably and unconditionally waive and agree not to
plead or claim in any such court that any such suit, action or other proceeding
brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient
forum.
With respect to any Related Proceeding,
each party irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable
law, all immunity (whether on the basis of sovereignty or otherwise) from
jurisdiction, service of process, attachment (both before and after judgment)
and execution to which it might otherwise be entitled in the Specified Courts,
and with respect to any Related Judgment, each party waives any such immunity in
the Specified Courts or any other court of competent jurisdiction, and will not
raise or claim or cause to be pleaded any such immunity at or in respect of any
such Related Proceeding or Related Judgment, including, without limitation, any
immunity pursuant to the United States Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976,
as amended.
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Section
8.08 General
Provisions. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of
the parties to this Agreement and supersedes all prior written or oral and all
contemporaneous oral agreements, understandings and negotiations with respect to
the subject matter hereof. This Agreement may be executed in two or
more counterparts, each one of which shall be an original, with the same effect
as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument, and may
be delivered by facsimile transmission or by electronic delivery of a portable
document format (PDF) file. This Agreement may not be amended or
modified unless in writing by all of the parties hereto, and no condition herein
(express or implied) may be waived unless waived in writing by each party whom
the condition is meant to benefit. The Article and Section headings
herein are for the convenience of the parties only and shall not affect the
construction or interpretation of this Agreement.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first set forth
above.
ENER1,
INC.
By: /s/
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx
Title: Chief
Executive Officer
XXXXXXXXX
& COMPANY, INC.
By: /s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxxx
Title: Managing
Director
EXHIBIT
A
ISSUANCE
NOTICE
[Date]
Xxxxxxxxx
& Company, Inc.
000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attn:
[__________]
Reference
is made to the Open Market Sale Agreement between Ener1, Inc. (the “Company”) and Xxxxxxxxx &
Company, Inc. (the “Agent”) dated as of
May 22, 2009. The Company confirms that all conditions to the
delivery of this Issuance Notice are satisfied as of the date
hereof.
Effective
Date of Delivery of Issuance Notice (determined pursuant to Section 2.02(a)):
_______________________
Issuance
Amount (equal to the total Sales Price for such Shares):
$_____________________
Number of
Days in Selling Period: _____________________
First
Date of Selling
Period:
_____________________
Last Date
of Selling
Period:
_____________________
Settlement
Date(s) if other than standard T+3 settlement:
_____________________
Floor
Price Limitation (in no event less than $1.00 without the prior written consent
of the Agent, which consent may be withheld in the Agent’s sole discretion): $
____ per share
Comments:
_________________________________________________________________________________________
ENER1,
INC.
By:
_____________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT
B
Form of
Opinion of Xxxxxx Song & Xxxxxxx LLP, New York counsel to the
Company
References to the Prospectus in this
Exhibit B
include any amendments and supplements thereto at the Effective
Date.
(i) The
Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company,
enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms.
(ii) The
Registration Statement has been declared effective by the Commission under the
Securities Act. To our knowledge, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of
the Registration Statement has been issued under the Securities Act and no
proceedings for such purpose have been instituted, are pending or, to our
knowledge, are contemplated or threatened by the Commission. The Prospectus has
been filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act
in the manner and within the time period required by such rule.
(iii) Based on
advice received from the Nasdaq Global Market, the Shares have been approved for
inclusion and quotation on the Nasdaq Global Market.
(iv) The
statements in the Prospectus under the captions “Description of Common Stock,”
and “Securities We May Offer,” in each case insofar as such statements purport
to describe certain provisions of documents, instruments, agreements, statutes,
regulations or the subject legal proceedings referred to therein, are accurate
in all material respects.
(v) To our
knowledge, there are no legal or governmental actions, suits or proceedings
pending or threatened that are required to be disclosed in the Registration
Statement and are not so disclosed.
(vi) Other
than as specifically described in the Registration Statement, there are no
persons with the right to have any securities registered for sale under the
Registration Statement.
(vii) To our
knowledge, (i) there are no Existing Instruments required to be described or
referred to in the Registration Statement or to be filed as exhibits thereto
other than those described or referred to therein, or filed or incorporated by
reference as exhibits thereto; (ii) the descriptions thereof and references
thereto are accurate in all material respects; and (iii) the Company is not in
Default under any Existing Instrument.
(viii) No
consent, approval, authorization or other order of, or registration or filing
with, any court or other governmental or regulatory authority or agency, is
required for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Agreement,
except such as have been obtained or made by the Company and are in full force
and effect under the Securities Act or New York State securities
laws.
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(ix) The
Company is not, and after receipt of payment for the Shares will not be, an
“investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company
Act.
(x) Each
document filed pursuant to the Exchange Act (other than the financial statements
and financial schedules and other financial data included therein, as to which
we express no opinion) and incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by
reference in the Prospectus complied when so filed as to form in all material
respects with the Exchange Act.
(xi) The
execution and delivery of the Agreement by the Company, the performance by the
Company of its obligations thereunder (other than performance by the Company of
its obligations under the indemnification section of the Agreement, as to which
we render no opinion) and the issuance and sale of the Shares (i) will not
constitute a breach of, or Default or a Debt Repayment Triggering Event under,
or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon
any property or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to (A)
the Line of Credit Agreement dated as of December 29, 2008 by and among the
Company, Ener1 Group, Inc., and the other parties thereto, or (B) to our
knowledge, any other material Existing Instrument; and (ii) will not result in
any violation of New York State or U.S. federal law or, to our knowledge, any
administrative regulation or administrative or court decree, applicable to the
Company.
(xii) To our
knowledge, no shareholder of the Company or any other person has any preemptive
right or right of first refusal to subscribe for or purchase securities of the
Company.
In addition to the opinions expressed
above, we hereby inform you that (A) the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus (except for the financial statements, financial schedules and other
financial data included therein, as to which we express no view) appear on their
face to be appropriately responsive in all material respects to the requirements
of the Securities Act, and (B) nothing has come to our attention that causes us
to believe that (i) the Registration Statement (except for the financial
statements, financial schedules and other financial data included therein, as to
which we express no view), at the time the Registration Statement became
effective, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state
a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading, (ii) the Base Prospectus (except for
the financial statements, financial schedules and other financial data included
therein, as to which we express no view), as of the date on which it was filed,
contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material
fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (iii) the
Prospectus (except for the financial statements, financial schedules and other
financial data included therein, as to which we express no view), as of its
date, contained or (as amended or supplemented, if applicable, as of the
Agreement Closing Date) contains any untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted or (as amended or supplemented, if applicable, as of the Agreement
Closing Date) omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading., or (iv) the Time of Sale Information (except for the
financial statements, financial schedules and other financial data included
therein, as to which we express no view), as of the Issuance Date, contained any
untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.1
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EXHIBIT
C
Form of
Opinion of Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx, LPA, Florida counsel to the
Company
References to the Prospectus in this
Exhibit C
include any amendments and supplements thereto at the Effective
Date.
(i) The
Company is a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the State of
Florida and, to our knowledge, has corporate power and authority to own, lease
and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the
Prospectus and to enter into and perform its obligations under the
Agreement.
(ii) The
Company is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Florida and, to our Knowledge, is qualified to do business as a foreign
corporation and is in good standing in every jurisdiction in which such
qualification is required, except for such jurisdictions where the lack of
qualification would not result in a Material Adverse Change.
(iii) The form
of certificate used to evidence the Shares is in due and proper form and
complies with all applicable requirements of the articles of incorporation and
by-laws of the Company and the Florida Business Corporation Act.
(iv) No
stockholder of the Company or any other person has any preemptive right or right
of first refusal to subscribe for or purchase securities of the Company arising
solely by operation of the articles of incorporation or by-laws of the Company
or the Florida Business Corporation Act.
(v) The
Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the
Company.
(vi) The
Shares to be purchased from the Company have been duly authorized for issuance
and sale pursuant to the Agreement and, when issued and delivered by the Company
pursuant to the Agreement against payment of the consideration set forth
therein, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
(vii) The
execution and delivery of the Agreement by the Company, the performance by the
Company of its obligations thereunder (other than performance by the Company of
its obligations under the indemnification section of the Sales Agency Agreement,
as to which no opinion need be rendered) and the issuance and sale of the Shares
(i) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of
the Company; (ii) will not result in any violation of the provisions of the
articles of incorporation or by-laws of the Company; (iii) will not result in
any violation of Florida law; (iv) to our knowledge any administrative
regulation or administrative or court decree, applicable to the Company; or
(v) will not require any registrations, declarations or filings to be made
by the Company, in each case, under any Florida statute, rule or regulation
applicable to the Company that have not been obtained or made.
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(viii) The
company is not in violation of its articles of incorporation or by-laws, except
for such violation or Default as would not, individually or in the aggregate,
result in a Material Adverse Change.
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EXHIBIT D
Form of
Opinion of Kim, Chang & Xxx, Korean counsel to the Company
References
to the Prospectus in this Exhibit D
include any amendments and supplements thereto at the Effective
Date.
(i) Enertech
is a stock corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of
Korea and has the corporate power to own, lease and operate its properties and
to conduct the business of manufacturing and selling lithium ion batteries for
consumer products as described in the Registration Statement and the
Prospectus.
(ii) Subject
to applicable government filing requirements under the Korean Foreign Exchange
Transaction Act and the decrees, rules and regulations issued thereunder,
Enertech is not prohibited or restricted, directly or indirectly, from (i)
paying dividends to its shareholders out of legally distributable earnings, (ii)
making other distributions with respect to the shares of Enertech as permitted
under the Korean Commercial Code (and the Korean Financial Services and Capital
Markets Act if the shares of Enertech are listed for trading on the Korea
Exchange), or (iii) repaying to the Company or any other subsidiary of the
Company any amounts that may from time to time become due under any loans or
advances lawfully made by the Company or such subsidiary to
Enertech.
(iii) Based
solely upon our review of the Corporate Documents that the Company has provided
to us (including share certificates and other documents representing or
evidencing the outstanding shares of common stock and convertible bonds of
Enertech held by the Company through its subsidiaries), without further inquiry
or investigation:
(a) As of
the date of this opinion, the issued and outstanding capital stock and other
equity or ownership interests of Enertech consist of (i) 18,294,913 shares of
common stock with a par value of 500 Korean Won per share, (ii) the series 5
U.S. dollar convertible bonds in the aggregate principal amount of US$9,172,900
and (iii) management and employee stock options to purchase up to 914,500 shares
of common stock with a par value of 500 Korean Won per share;
(b) All
of the above outstanding shares of common stock and convertible bonds have been
duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable;
and
(c) The
Company, through its subsidiaries, currently owns 15,851,913 shares of common
stock of Enertech and the series 5 U.S. dollar convertible bonds of Enertech in
the aggregate principal amount of US$8,809,800;
(iv) Other
than the rights of the shareholders of Enertech to subscribe for and purchase
new shares issued by Enertech in proportion to their respective shareholding
ratios (which rights are conferred on the shareholders by the Commercial Code of
Korea and the articles of incorporation of Enertech), no shareholder of Enertech
or any other person has any preemptive right, right of first refusal or other
similar right to subscribe for or purchase securities of Enertech arising (i) by
operation of the articles of incorporation of Enertech or the laws, rules and
regulations of Korea, or (ii) to the best of our knowledge,
otherwise.
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(v) To the
best of our knowledge, there are no legal or governmental actions, suits or
proceedings pending or threatened against Enertech, which would, individually or
in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change.
(vi) To the
best of our knowledge, Enertech is not in material violation of its articles of
incorporation.
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EXHIBIT E
Form of
Opinion of Dae-Ki Min, New Jersey counsel to the Company
References
to the Prospectus in this Exhibit E
include any amendments and supplements thereto at the Effective
Date.
(i) The
Company is a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the State of New
Jersey, with corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its
properties and to conduct its business as described in the Prospectus and to
enter into and perform its obligations under the Agreement.
(ii) The
Company is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
New Jersey and is not qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in any
other jurisdiction in which such qualification is required.
(iii) All of
the issued and outstanding capital stock or other equity or ownership interests
of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and
non-assessable, and, based upon a review on April 29, 2009 of certificates
representing outstanding capital stock or other equity or ownership interests
of, and stock, ownership or other equity transfer records for, the Company, all
of the outstanding shares of capital stock or other equity or ownership
interests of the Company were owned of record on that date by Ener1, directly or
through Subsidiaries.
(iv) Except as
provided in the Advised Line of Credit Note dated April 25, 2008 with XX Xxxxxx
Chase Bank, N.A. the Company is not prohibited or restricted, directly or
indirectly, from paying dividends, or from making any other distribution with
respect to its equity securities or from repaying to Ener1 or any other
subsidiary of Ener1 any amounts that may from time to time become due under any
loan or advances to the Company from Ener1.
(v) No
stockholder of the Company or any other person has preemptive right other than
as provided in the New Jersey General Corporation Law or any right of first
refusal or other similar right to subscribe for or purchase securities of the
Company arising (i) by operation of the charter or by-laws of the Company
or the New Jersey General Corporation Law or (ii) to the best of our
knowledge, otherwise.
(vi) To the
best of our knowledge, there are no legal or governmental actions, suits or
proceedings pending or threatened against the Company that are required to be
disclosed in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus.
(vii) To the
best of our knowledge, there are no Existing Instruments relative to the Company
required to be described or referred to in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits thereto.
(viii) To the
best of our knowledge the Company is not in violation of its charter, by-laws,
or similar organizational document, as applicable, or in Default under any
Existing Instrument, except for such violation or Default as would not,
individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse
Change.
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