ON STAGE ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
a Nevada corporation
and
AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY
Warrant Agent
and
WHALE SECURITIES CO., L.P.
Underwriter
WARRANT AGREEMENT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Section
1 Appointment of Warrant Agent................................. 1
2 Form of Warrant.............................................. 2
3 Countersignature and Registration............................ 2
4 Transfers and Exchanges...................................... 3
5 Exercise of Warrants; Payment of Warrant
Solicitation Fee........................................... 4
6 Payment of Taxes............................................. 7
7 Mutilated or Missing Warrants................................ 8
8 Reservation of Common Stock.................................. 8
9 Warrant Price; Adjustments................................... 10
10 Fractional Interest.......................................... 16
11 Notices to Warrantholders.................................... 17
12 Disposition of Proceeds on Exercise of Warrants.............. 19
13 Redemption of Warrants....................................... 19
14 Merger or Consolidation or Change of
Name of Warrant Agent...................................... 20
15 Duties of Warrant Agent...................................... 20
16 Change of Warrant Agent...................................... 24
17 Identity of Transfer Agent................................... 25
18 Notices...................................................... 25
19. Supplements and Amendments................................... 27
20 New York Contract............................................ 27
21 Benefits of this Agreement................................... 27
22 Successors................................................... 27
Exhibit A - Form of Warrant..................................
WARRANT AGENT AGREEMENT dated as of _________, 1997, by and
among On Stage Entertainment, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the "Company"), Whale
Securities Co., L.P. (the "Underwriter") and American Stock Transfer & Trust
Company, as warrant agent (hereinafter called the "Warrant Agent").
WHEREAS, the Company and certain selling shareholders propose
to issue and sell to the public up to 1,610,000 shares of the common stock of
the Company, par value $.01 per share (hereinafter, together with the stock of
any other class to which such shares may hereafter have been changed, called
"Common Stock"), and up to 1,610,000 Common Stock Purchase Warrants (the
"Warrants");
WHEREAS, each Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one
share of Common Stock;
WHEREAS, the Company desires the Warrant Agent to act on
behalf of the Company, and the Warrant Agent is willing to so act, in connection
with the issuance, registration, transfer, exchange and exercise of the
Warrants;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the
mutual agreements herein set forth, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Section 1. Appointment of Warrant Agent. The Company hereby
appoints the Warrant Agent to act as Warrant Agent for the Company in accordance
with the instructions hereinafter set forth in this Agreement, and the Warrant
Agent hereby accepts such appointment.
Section 2. Form of Warrant. The text of the Warrants and of
the form of election to purchase Common Stock to be printed on the reverse
thereof shall be substantially as set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto. Each
Warrant shall entitle the registered holder thereof to purchase one share of
Common Stock at a purchase price of Five Dollars Fifty Cents ($5.50), at any
time from ___________, 1998 (or such earlier date as to which the Underwriter
consents) until 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, on __________, 2002 (the "Warrant
Exercise Period"). The warrant price and the number of shares of Common Stock
issuable upon exercise of the Warrants are subject to adjustment upon the
occurrence of certain events, all as hereinafter provided. The Warrants shall be
executed on behalf of the Company by the manual or facsimile signature of the
present or any future Chief Executive Officer, President or Vice President of
the Company, attested to by the manual or facsimile signature of the present or
any future Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Company.
Warrants shall be dated as of the issuance by the Warrant
Agent either upon initial issuance or upon transfer or exchange.
In the event the aforesaid expiration dates of the Warrants
fall on a Saturday or Sunday, or on a legal holiday on which the New York Stock
Exchange is closed, then the Warrants shall expire at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on
the next succeeding business day.
Section 3. Countersignature and Registration. The Warrant
Agent shall maintain books for the transfer and registration
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of the Warrants. Upon the initial issuance of the Warrants, the Warrant Agent
shall issue and register the Warrants in the names of the respective holders
thereof. The Warrants shall be countersigned manually or by facsimile by the
Warrant Agent (or by any successor to the Warrant Agent then acting as warrant
agent under this Agreement) and shall not be valid for any purpose unless so
countersigned. Warrants may, however, be so countersigned by the Warrant Agent
(or by its successor as Warrant Agent) and be delivered by the Warrant Agent,
notwithstanding that the persons whose manual or facsimile signatures appear
thereon as proper officers of the Company shall have ceased to be such officers
at the time of such countersignature or delivery.
Section 4. Transfers and Exchanges. The Warrant Agent shall
transfer, from time to time, any outstanding Warrants upon the books to be
maintained by the Warrant Agent for that purpose, upon surrender thereof for
transfer properly endorsed or accompanied by appropriate instructions for
transfer. Upon any such transfer, a new Warrant shall be issued to the
transferee and the surrendered Warrant shall be cancelled by the Warrant Agent.
Warrants so cancelled shall be delivered by the Warrant Agent to the Company
from time to time upon request. Warrants may be exchanged at the option of the
holder thereof, when surrendered at the office of the Warrant Agent, for another
Warrant, or other Warrants of different denominations of like tenor and
representing in the aggregate the right to purchase a like number of shares of
Common Stock.
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Section 5. Exercise of Warrants; Payment of Warrant
Solicitation Fee.
(a) Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, each
registered holder of Warrants shall have the right, which may be exercised
commencing at the opening of business on the first day of the Warrant Exercise
Period, to purchase from the Company (and the Company shall issue and sell to
such registered holder of Warrants) the number of fully paid and non-assessable
shares of Common Stock specified in such Warrants upon surrender of such
Warrants to the Company at the office of the Warrant Agent, with the form of
election to purchase on the reverse thereof duly filled in and signed, and upon
payment to the Company of the warrant price, determined in accordance with the
provisions of Sections 9 and 10 of this Agreement, for the number of shares of
Common Stock in respect of which such Warrants are then exercised. Payment of
such warrant price shall be made in cash or by certified check or bank draft to
the order of the Company. Subject to Section 6, upon such surrender of Warrants
and payment of the warrant price, the Company shall issue and cause to be
delivered with all reasonable dispatch to or upon the written order of the
registered holder of such Warrants and in such name or names as such registered
holder may designate, a certificate or certificates for the number of full
shares of Common Stock so purchased upon the exercise of such Warrants. Such
certificate or certificates shall be deemed to have been issued, and any person
so designated to be named therein shall be deemed to have become a holder of
record of such
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shares of Common Stock, as of the date of the surrender of such Warrants and
payment of the warrant price as aforesaid. The rights of purchase represented by
the Warrants shall be exercisable, at the election of the registered holders
thereof, either as an entirety or from time to time for a portion of the shares
specified therein and, in the event that any Warrant is exercised in respect of
less than all of the shares of Common Stock specified therein at any time prior
to the date of expiration of the Warrants, a new Warrant or Warrants will be
issued to the registered holder for the remaining number of shares of Common
Stock specified in the Warrant so surrendered, and the Warrant Agent is hereby
irrevocably authorized to countersign and to deliver the required new Warrants
pursuant to the provisions of this Section and of Section 3 of this Agreement
and the Company, whenever requested by the Warrant Agent, will supply the
Warrant Agent with Warrants duly executed on behalf of the Company for such
purpose. Anything in the foregoing to the contrary notwithstanding, no Warrant
will be exercisable unless at the time of exercise the Company has filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), covering the shares of Common
Stock issuable upon exercise of such Warrant and such shares have been so
registered or qualified or deemed to be exempt under the securities laws of the
state of residence of the holder of such Warrant. The Company shall use its best
efforts to have all shares so registered or qualified on or before the date on
which the Warrants become exercisable.
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(b) If at the time of exercise of any Warrant after
________, 1998 (i) the market price of the Company's Common Stock is equal to or
greater than the then purchase price of the Warrant, (ii) the exercise of the
Warrant is solicited by the Underwriter at such time while the Underwriter is a
member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD"), (iii)
the Warrant is not held in a discretionary account, (iv) disclosure of the
compensation arrangement is made in documents provided to the holders of the
Warrants; and (v) the solicitation of the exercise of the Warrant is not in
violation of Regulation M (as such regulation or any successor regulation or
rule may be in effect as of such time of exercise) promulgated under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, then the Underwriter shall be entitled to
receive from the Company upon exercise of each of the Warrant(s) so exercised a
fee of five percent (5%) of the aggregate price of the Warrants so exercised
(the "Exercise Fee"). The procedures for payment of the warrant solicitation fee
are set forth in Section 5(c) below.
(c) (1) Within five (5) days of the day of each month
commencing with _______, 1998, the Warrant Agent will notify the Underwriter of
each Warrant Certificate which has been properly completed for exercise by
holders of Warrants during the last month. The Company and Warrant Agent shall
determine, in their sole and absolute discretion, whether a Warrant Certificate
has been properly completed. The Warrant Agent will provide the Underwriter with
such information, in
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connection with the exercise of each Warrant, as the Underwriter shall
reasonably request.
(2) The Company hereby authorizes and instructs the
Warrant Agent to deliver to the Underwriter the Exercise Fee promptly after
receipt by the Warrant Agent from the Company of a check payable to the order of
the Underwriter in the amount of the Exercise Fee. In the event that an Exercise
Fee is paid to the Underwriter with respect to a Warrant which the Company or
the Warrant agent determines is not properly completed for exercise or in
respect of which the Underwriter is not entitled to an Exercise Fee, the
Underwriter will promptly return such Exercise Fee to the Warrant Agent which
shall forthwith return such fee to the Company.
The Underwriter and the Company may at any time, after
____________, 1998, and during business hours, examine the records of the
Warrant Agent, including its ledger of original Warrant certificates returned to
the Warrant Agent upon exercise of Warrants. Notwithstanding any provision to
the contrary, the provisions of paragraphs 5(b) and 5(c) may not be modified,
amended or deleted without the prior written consent of the Underwriter.
Section 6. Payment of Taxes. The Company will pay any
documentary stamp taxes attributable to the initial issuance of Common Stock
issuable upon the exercise of Warrants; provided, however, that the Company
shall not be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any
transfer involved in the issue or delivery of any certificates of shares of
Common Stock
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in a name other than that of the registered holder of Warrants in respect of
which such shares are issued, and in such case neither the Company nor the
Warrant Agent shall be required to issue or deliver any certificate for shares
of Common Stock or any Warrant until the person requesting the same has paid to
the Company the amount of such tax or has established to the Company's
satisfaction that such tax has been paid.
Section 7. Mutilated or Missing Warrants. In case any of the
Warrants shall be mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company may, in its
discretion, issue and the Warrant Agent shall countersign and deliver in
exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation of the mutilated Warrant, or
in lieu of and in substitution for the Warrant lost, stolen or destroyed, a new
Warrant of like tenor and representing an equivalent right or interest, but only
upon receipt of evidence satisfactory to the Company and the Warrant Agent of
such loss, theft or destruction and, in case of a lost, stolen or destroyed
Warrant, indemnity, if requested, also satisfactory to them. Applicants for such
substitute Warrants shall also comply with such other reasonable regulations and
pay such reasonable charges as the Company or the Warrant Agent may prescribe.
Section 8. Reservation of Common Stock. There have been
reserved, and the Company shall at all times keep reserved, out of the
authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock, a number of shares of Common
Stock sufficient to provide for the exercise of the rights of purchase
represented by the Warrants, and the transfer agent for the shares of Common
Stock and every
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subsequent transfer agent for any shares of the Company's Common Stock issuable
upon the exercise of any of the rights of purchase aforesaid are irrevocably
authorized and directed at all times to reserve such number of authorized and
unissued shares of Common Stock as shall be required for such purpose. The
Company agrees that all shares of Common Stock issued upon exercise of the
Warrants shall be, at the time of delivery of the certificates of such shares,
validly issued and outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable and listed on any
national securities exchange upon which the other shares of Common Stock are
then listed. So long as any unexpired Warrants remain outstanding, the Company
will file such post-effective amendments to the registration statement (Form
SB-2, Registration No. 333-24681) (the "Registration Statement") filed pursuant
to the Act with respect to the Warrants (or other appropriate registration
statements or post-effective amendment or supplements) as may be necessary to
permit it to deliver to each person exercising a Warrant, a prospectus meeting
the requirements of Section 10(a)(3) of the Act and otherwise complying
therewith, and will deliver such a prospectus to each such person. To the extent
that during any period it is not reasonably likely that the Warrants will be
exercised, due to market price or otherwise, the Company need not file such a
post-effective amendment during such period. The Company will keep a copy of
this Agreement on file with the transfer agent for the shares of Common Stock
and with every subsequent transfer agent for any shares of the Company's Common
Stock issuable upon the exercise of the rights of purchase represented by the
Warrants.
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The Warrant Agent is irrevocably authorized to requisition from time to time
from such transfer agent stock certificates required to honor outstanding
Warrants. The Company will supply such transfer agent with duly executed stock
certificates for that purpose. All Warrants surrendered in the exercise of the
rights thereby evidenced shall be cancelled by the Warrant Agent and shall
thereafter be delivered to the Company, and such cancelled Warrants shall
constitute sufficient evidence of the number of shares of Common Stock which
have been issued upon the exercise of such Warrants. Promptly after the date of
expiration of the Warrants, the Warrant Agent shall certify to the Company the
total aggregate amount of Warrants then outstanding, and thereafter no shares of
Common Stock shall be subject to reservation in respect of such Warrants which
shall have expired.
Section 9. Warrant Price; Adjustments.
(a) The warrant price at which Common Stock shall
be purchasable upon the exercise of the Warrants shall be $5.50 per share or
after adjustment, as provided in this Section, shall be such price as so
adjusted (the "Warrant Price").
(b) The Warrant Price shall be subject to adjustment from
time to time as follows:
(i) In case the Company shall at any time after the
date hereof pay a dividend in shares of Common Stock or make a distribution in
shares of Common Stock, then upon such dividend or distribution the Warrant
Price in effect immediately prior to such dividend or distribution shall
forthwith be reduced to a price determined by dividing:
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(A) an amount equal to the total number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such dividend or
distribution multiplied by the Warrant Price in effect immediately prior to such
dividend or distribution, by
(B) the total number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding immediately after such issuance or sale.
For the purposes of any computation to be made in accordance
with the provisions of this Section 9(b)(i), the following provisions shall be
applicable: Common Stock issuable by way of dividend or other distribution on
any stock of the Company shall be deemed to have been issued immediately after
the opening of business on the date following the date fixed for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or other
distribution.
(ii) In case the Company shall at any time subdivide or
combine the outstanding Common Stock, the Warrant Price shall forthwith be
proportionately decreased in the case of subdivision or increased in the case of
combination to the nearest one cent. Any such adjustment shall become effective
at the time such subdivision or combination shall become effective.
(iii) Within a reasonable time after the close of each
quarterly fiscal period of the Company during which the Warrant Price has been
adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall:
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(A) file with the Warrant Agent a certificate
signed by the Chief Executive Officer, President or Vice President of the
Company and by the Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Company, showing in detail the facts requiring all
such adjustments occurring during such period and the Warrant Price after each
such adjustment; and
(B) the Warrant Agent shall have no duty with
respect to any such certificate filed with it except to keep the same on file
and available for inspection by holders of Warrants during reasonable business
hours, and the Warrant Agent may conclusively rely upon the latest certificate
furnished to it hereunder. The Warrant Agent shall not at any time be under any
duty or responsibility to any holder of a Warrant to determine whether any facts
exist which may require any adjustment of the Warrant Price, or with respect to
the nature or extent of any adjustment of the Warrant Price when made, or with
respect to the method employed in making any such adjustment, or with respect to
the nature or extent of the property or securities deliverable hereunder. In the
absence of a certificate having been furnished, the Warrant Agent may
conclusively rely upon the provisions of the Warrants with respect to the Common
Stock deliverable upon the exercise of the Warrants and the applicable Warrant
Price thereof.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything contained
herein to the contrary, no adjustment of the Warrant Price shall be made if the
amount of such adjustment shall be less than $.05,
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but in such case any adjustment that would otherwise be required then to be made
shall be carried forward and shall be made at the time and together with the
next subsequent adjustment which, together with any adjustment so carried
forward, shall amount to not less than $.02.
(v) In the event that the number of
outstanding shares of Common Stock is increased by a stock dividend payable in
Common Stock or by a subdivision of the outstanding Common Stock, then, from and
after the time at which the adjusted Warrant Price becomes effective pursuant to
Subsection (b) of this Section by reason of such dividend or subdivision, the
number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of each Warrant
shall be increased in proportion to such increase in outstanding shares. In the
event that the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding is decreased by a
combination of the outstanding Common Stock, then, from and after the time at
which the adjusted Warrant Price becomes effective pursuant to this Section 9(b)
by reason of such combination, the number of shares of Common Stock issuable
upon the exercise of each Warrant shall be decreased in proportion to such
decrease in the outstanding shares of Common Stock.
(vi) In case of any reorganization or
reclassification of the outstanding Common Stock (other than a change in par
value, or from par value to no par value, or as a result of a subdivision or
combination), or in case of any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of
the Company into, another corporation (other than a consolidation or merger in
which the Company
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is the continuing corporation and which does not result in any reclassification
of the outstanding Common Stock), or in case of any sale or conveyance to
another corporation of the property of the Company as an entirety or
substantially as an entirety, the holder of each Warrant then outstanding shall
thereafter have the right to purchase the kind and amount of shares of Common
Stock and other securities and property receivable upon such reorganization,
reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance by a holder of the
number of shares of Common Stock which the holder of such Warrant shall then be
entitled to purchase; such adjustments shall apply with respect to all such
changes occurring between the date of this Warrant Agreement and the date of
exercise of such Warrant.
(vii) Subject to the provisions of this
Section 9, in case the Company shall, at any time prior to the exercise of the
Warrants, make any distribution of its assets to holders of its Common Stock as
a liquidating or a partial liquidating dividend, then the holder of Warrants who
exercises its Warrants after the record date for the determination of those
holders of Common Stock entitled to such distribution of assets as a liquidating
or partial liquidating dividend shall be entitled to receive for the Warrant
Price per Warrant, in addition to each share of Common Stock, the amount of such
distribution (or, at the option of the Company, a sum equal to the value of any
such assets at the time of such distribution as determined by the Board of
Directors of the Company in good faith), which would have been payable to such
holder had he been the holder of record
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of the Common Stock receivable upon exercise of its Warrant on the record date
for the determination of those entitled to such distribution.
(viii) In case of the dissolution,
liquidation or winding up of the Company, all rights under the Warrants shall
terminate on a date fixed by the Company, such date to be no earlier than ten
(10) days prior to the effectiveness of such dissolution, liquidation or winding
up and not later than five (5) days prior to such effectiveness. Notice of such
termination of purchase rights shall be given to the last registered holder of
the Warrants, as the same shall appear on the books of the Company maintained by
the Warrant Agent, by registered mail at least thirty (30) days prior to such
termination date.
(ix) In case the Company shall, at any time
prior to the expiration of the Warrants and prior to the exercise thereof, offer
to the holders of its Common Stock any rights to subscribe for additional shares
of any class of the Company, then the Company shall give written notice thereof
to the last registered holder thereof not less than thirty (30) days prior to
the date on which the books of the Company are closed or a record date is fixed
for the determination of the stockholders entitled to such subscription rights.
Such notice shall specify the date as to which the books shall be closed or
record date fixed with respect to such offer of subscription and the right of
the holder thereof to participate in such offer of subscription shall terminate
if the Warrant shall not be exercised on or before the date of such closing of
the books or such record date.
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(x) Any adjustment pursuant to the aforesaid
provisions of this Section 9 shall be made on the basis of the number of shares
of Common Stock which the holder thereof would have been entitled to acquire by
the exercise of the Warrant immediately prior to the event giving rise to such
adjustment.
(xi) Irrespective of any adjustments in the
Warrant Price or the number or kind of shares purchasable upon exercise of the
Warrants, Warrants previously or thereafter issued may continue to express the
same price and number and kind of shares as are stated in the similar Warrants
initially issuable pursuant to this Warrant Agreement.
(xii) The Company may retain a firm of
independent public accountants (who may be any such firm regularly employed by
the Company) to make any computation required under this Section 9, and any
certificate setting forth such computation signed by such firm shall be
conclusive evidence of the correctness of any computation made under this
Section 9.
(xiii) If at any time, as a result of an
adjustment made pursuant to Section 9(b)(vi) above, the holders of a Warrant or
Warrants shall become entitled to purchase any securities other than shares of
Common Stock, thereafter the number of such securities so purchasable upon
exercise of each Warrant and the Warrant Price for such shares shall be subject
to adjustment from time to time in a manner and on terms as nearly equivalent as
practicable to the provisions with respect to the Common Stock contained in
Sections 9(b)(ii) through (v).
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Section 10. Fractional Interest. The Warrants may only be
exercised to purchase full shares of Common Stock and the Company shall not be
required to issue fractions of shares of Common Stock on the exercise of
Warrants. However, if a Warrant holder exercises all Warrants then owned of
record by it and such exercise would result in the issuance of a fractional
share, the Company will pay to such Warrant holder, in lieu of the issuance of
any fractional share otherwise issuable, an amount of cash based on the market
value of the Common Stock of the Company on the last trading day prior to the
exercise date.
Section 11. Notices to Warrantholders.
(a) Upon any adjustment of the Warrant Price and
the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of a Warrant, then
and in each such case the Company shall give written notice thereof to the
Warrant Agent, which notice shall state the Warrant Price resulting from such
adjustment and the increase or decrease, if any, in the number of shares
purchasable at such price upon the exercise of a Warrant, setting forth in
reasonable detail the method of calculation and the facts upon which such
calculation is based. The Company shall also mail such notice to the holders of
the Warrants at their addresses appearing in the Warrant register. Failure to
give or mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the validity
of the adjustments.
(b) In case at any time:
(i) the Company shall pay dividends payable
in stock upon its Common Stock or make any distribution (other than regular cash
dividends) to the holders of its Common Stock; or
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(ii) the Company shall offer for subscription
pro rata to the holders of its Common Stock any additional shares of stock of
any class or other rights; or
(iii) there shall be any capital
reorganization or reclassification of the capital stock of the Company, or
consolidation or merger of the Company with, or sale or substantially all of its
assets to, another corporation; or
(iv) there shall be a voluntary or involuntary
dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company; then in any one or more
of such cases, the Company shall give written notice in the manner set forth in
Section 11(a) of the date on which (A) a record shall be taken for such
dividend, distribution or subscription rights, or (B) such reorganization,
reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, dissolution, liquidation or
winding up shall take place, as the case may be. Such notice shall also specify
the date as of which the holders of Common Stock of record shall participate in
such dividend, distribution or subscription rights, or shall be entitled to
exchange their Common Stock for securities or other property deliverable upon
such reorganization, reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, dissolution,
liquidation or winding up as the case may be. Such notice shall be given at
least thirty (30) days prior to the action in question and not less than thirty
(30) days prior to the record date in respect thereof. Failure to give such
notice,
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or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of any of the
matters set forth in this Section 11(b).
(c) The Company shall cause copies of all financial
statements and reports, proxy statements and other documents that are sent to
its stockholders to be sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid, on the date of
mailing to such stockholders, to each registered holder of Warrants at his
address appearing in the warrant register as of the record date for the
determination of the stockholders entitled to such documents.
Section 12. Disposition of Proceeds on Exercise of Warrants.
(i) The Warrant Agent shall promptly forward
to the Company all monies received by the Warrant Agent for the purchase of
shares of Common Stock through the exercise of such Warrants; provided, however,
that the Warrant Agent may retain an amount equal to the Exercise Fee, if any,
until the Company has satisfied its obligations under Section 5(c)(ii).
(ii) The Warrant Agent shall keep copies of
this Agreement available for inspection by holders of Warrants during normal
business hours.
Section 13. Redemption of Warrants. The Warrants are
redeemable by the Company, in whole or in part, on not less than thirty (30)
days' prior written notice at a redemption price of $.10 per Warrant at any time
commencing _________, 1998; provided that (i) the closing bid quotation of the
Common Stock on all twenty (20) trading days ending on the third trading day
prior to the day on which the Company gives notice (the "Call Date") of
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redemption has been at least 150% of the then effective exercise price of the
Warrants (the "Target Redemption Price") and the Company obtains the written
consent of the Underwriter with respect to such redemption prior to the Call
Date and (ii) the Warrants are currently exercisable. The redemption notice
shall be mailed to the holders of the Warrants at their addresses appearing in
the Warrant register. Holders of the Warrants will have exercise rights until
the close of business on the date fixed for redemption.
Section 14. Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of
Warrant Agent. Any corporation or company which may succeed to the corporate
trust business of the Warrant Agent by any merger or consolidation or otherwise
shall be the successor to the Warrant Agent hereunder without the execution or
filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto,
provided that such corporation would be eligible to serve as a successor Warrant
Agent under the provisions of Section 16 of this Agreement. In case at the time
such successor to the Warrant Agent shall succeed to the agency created by this
Agreement, any of the Warrants shall have been countersigned but not delivered,
any such successor to the Warrant Agent may adopt the countersignature of the
original Warrant Agent and deliver such Warrants so countersigned.
In case at any time the name of the Warrant Agent shall be
changed and at such time any of the Warrants shall have been countersigned but
not delivered, the Warrant Agent may adopt the countersignature under its prior
name and deliver Warrants so
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countersigned. In all such cases such Warrants shall have the full force
provided in the Warrants and in the Agreement.
Section 15. Duties of Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent
undertakes the duties and obligations imposed by this Agreement upon the
following terms and conditions, by all of which the Company and the holders of
Warrants, by their acceptance thereof, shall be bound:
(a) The statements of fact and recitals contained
herein and in the Warrants shall be taken as statements of the Company, and the
Warrant Agent assumes no responsibility for the correctness of any of the same
except such as describe the Warrant Agent or action taken or to be taken by it.
The Warrant Agent assumes no responsibility with respect to the distribution of
the Warrants except as herein expressly provided.
(b) The Warrant Agent shall not be responsible for
any failure of the Company to comply with any of the covenants in this Agreement
or in the Warrants to be complied with by the Company.
(c) The Warrant Agent may consult at any time with
counsel satisfactory to it (who may be counsel for the Company) and the Warrant
Agent shall incur no liability or responsibility to the Company or to any holder
of any Warrant in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it
hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion or the advice of such
counsel.
(d) The Warrant Agent shall incur no liability or
responsibility to the Company or to any holder of any Warrant for
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any action taken in reliance on any notice, resolution, waiver, consent, order,
certificate or other instrument believed by it to be genuine and to have been
signed, sent or presented by the proper party or parties.
(e) The Company agrees to pay to the Warrant Agent
reasonable compensation for all services rendered by the Warrant Agent in the
execution of this Agreement, to reimburse the Warrant Agent for all expenses,
taxes and governmental charges and other charges incurred by the Warrant Agent
in the execution of this Agreement and to indemnify the Warrant Agent and save
it harmless against any and all liabilities, including judgments, costs and
reasonable counsel fees, for anything done or omitted by the Warrant Agent in
the execution of this Agreement except as a result of the Warrant Agent's
negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith.
(f) The Warrant Agent shall be under no obligation to
institute any action, suit or legal proceeding or to take any other action
likely to involve expenses unless the Company or one or more registered holders
of Warrants shall furnish the Warrant Agent with reasonable security and
indemnity for any costs and expenses which may be incurred, but this provision
shall not affect the power of the Warrant Agent to take such action as the
Warrant Agent may consider proper, whether with or without any such security or
indemnity. All rights of action under this Agreement or under any of the
Warrants may be enforced by the Warrant Agent without the possession of any of
the Warrants or the production thereof at any trial or other proceeding,
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and any such action, suit or proceeding instituted by the Warrant Agent shall be
brought in its name as Warrant Agent, and any recovery of judgment shall be for
the ratable benefit of the registered holders of the Warrants, as their
respective rights and interests may appear.
(g) The Warrant Agent and any stockholder, director,
officer, partner or employee of the Warrant Agent may buy, sell or deal in any
of the Warrants or other securities of the Company or become pecuniarily
interested in any transaction in which the Company may be interested, or
contract with or lend money to or otherwise act as fully and freely as though it
were not the Warrant Agent under this Agreement. Nothing herein shall preclude
the Warrant Agent from acting in any other capacity for the Company or for any
other legal entity.
(h) The Warrant Agent shall act hereunder solely
as agent and its duties shall be determined solely by the provisions hereof.
(i) The Warrant Agent may execute and exercise any of
the rights or powers hereby vested in it or perform any duty hereunder either
itself or by or through its attorneys, agents or employees, and the Warrant
Agent shall not be answerable or accountable for any such attorneys, agents or
employees or for any loss to the Company resulting from such neglect or
misconduct, provided reasonable care had been exercised in the selection and
continued employment thereof.
(j) Any request, direction, election, order or
demand of the Company shall be sufficiently evidenced by an
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instrument signed in the name of the Company by its Chief Executive Officer,
President or a Vice President or its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or its
Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer (unless other evidence in respect thereof be
herein specifically prescribed); and any resolution of the Board of Directors
may be evidenced to the Warrant Agent by a copy thereof certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company.
Section 16. Change of Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent may
resign and be discharged from its duties under this Agreement by giving to the
Company notice in writing, and to the holders of the Warrants notice by mailing
such notice to the holders at their addresses appearing on the Warrant register,
of such resignation, specifying a date when such resignation shall take effect.
The Warrant Agent may be removed by like notice to the Warrant Agent from the
Company and the like mailing of notice to the holders of the Warrants. If the
Warrant Agent shall resign or be removed or shall otherwise become incapable of
acting, the Company shall appoint a successor to the Warrant Agent. If the
Company shall fail to make such appointment within a period of thirty (30) days
after such removal or after it has been notified in writing of such resignation
or incapacity by the resigning or incapacitated Warrant Agent or after the
Company has received such notice from a registered holder of a Warrant (who
shall, with such notice, submit his Warrant for inspection by the Company), then
the registered holder of any Warrant may apply to any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a
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successor to the Warrant Agent. Any successor Warrant Agent, whether appointed
by the Company or by such a court, shall be a bank or trust company, in good
standing, incorporated under New York or federal law. After appointment, the
successor Warrant Agent shall be vested with the same powers, rights, duties and
responsibilities as if it had been originally named as Warrant Agent without
further act or deed and the former Warrant Agent shall deliver and transfer to
the successor Warrant Agent all cancelled Warrants, records and property at the
time held by it hereunder, and execute and deliver any further assurance or
conveyance necessary for the purpose. Failure to file or mail any notice
provided for in this Section, however, or any defect therein, shall not affect
the validity of the resignation or removal of the Warrant Agent or the
appointment of the successor Warrant Agent, as the case may be.
Section 17. Identity of Transfer Agent. Forthwith upon the
appointment of any transfer agent for the shares of Common Stock or of any
subsequent transfer agent for the shares of Common Stock or other shares of the
Company's Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the rights of purchase
represented by the Warrants, the Company will file with the Warrant Agent a
statement setting forth the name and address of such transfer agent.
Section 18. Notices. Any notice pursuant to this Agreement to
be given by the Warrant Agent, by the Underwriter or by the registered holder of
any Warrant to the Company, shall be sufficiently given if sent by first-class
mail, postage prepaid,
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addressed (until another is filed in writing by the Company with the Warrant
Agent) as follows:
On Stage Entertainment, Inc.
0000 Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx #0
Xxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xx. Xxxx X. Xxxxxx, President
and a copy thereof to:
Xxxxxx, Xxxxx & Bockius, LLP
000 Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxx 00000-0000
Attention: Xxxxx X. XxXxxxxx, Esq.
Any notice pursuant to this Agreement to be given by the
Company, by the Underwriter or by the registered holder of any Warrant to the
Warrant Agent shall be sufficiently given if sent by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed in writing by the Warrant
Agent with the Company) as follows:
American Stock Transfer & Trust Company
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xx. Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Any notice pursuant to this Agreement to be given by the
Warrant Agent or by the Company to the Underwriter shall be sufficiently given
if sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed (until another address
if filed in writing with the Warrant agent) as follows:
Whale Securities Co., L.P.
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xx. Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
and a copy thereof to:
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx LLP
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Esq.
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Section 19. Supplements and Amendments. The Company and the
Warrant Agent may from time to time supplement or amend this Agreement in order
to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision contained herein
which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to
make any other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising hereunder
which the Company and the Warrant Agent may deem necessary or desirable and
which shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of the Warrants and which
shall not adversely affect the interest of the holders of Warrants.
Section 20. New York Contract. This Agreement and each Warrant
issued hereunder shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the
State of New York and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of New York
applicable to agreements to be performed wholly within New York.
Section 21. Benefits of this Agreement. Nothing in this
Agreement shall be construed to give to any person or corporation other than the
Company, the Warrant Agent and the registered holders of the Warrants any legal
or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Agreement; but this Agreement
shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Company, the Warrant Agent
and the registered holders of the Warrants.
Section 22. Successors. All the covenants and provisions of
this Agreement by or for the benefit of the Company, the
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Warrant Agent or the Underwriter shall bind and inure to the benefit of their
respective successors and assigns hereunder.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have entered into this
Agreement on the date first above written.
ON STAGE ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
By:____________________________________________
Name:
Title:
AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY
By:____________________________________________
Name:
Title:
WHALE SECURITIES CO., L.P.
By: Whale Securities Corp.,
General Partner
By:____________________________________________
Name:
Title:
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