EXHIBIT 3
WARRANT AGREEMENT
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To Purchase Shares of the Common Stock of
STARTECH Environmental Corporation,
The Holder shall have the right to receive one warrant for every one share of
Common share purchased by the holder in conjunction with Company's Private
Placement Memorandum issued February 20, 2004.
THIS CERTIFIES THAT Ardent Research Partners, LP Or its successors or
assigns (the "Warrant holder" or "Holder"), is entitled to 132,744 warrants upon
the due exercise hereof, and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, at any
time after the date hereof, and subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 below,
before the close of business on February 20, 2007 ("Expiration Date"), to
purchase from Startech Environmental Corporation (the "Company") all or any part
of fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock, no par value (the
"Common Stock") of the Company, upon surrender hereof, with the exercise form
and warrant agreement annexed hereto duly filled out, at the office of the
Company or any transfer agent for the Company's Common Stock, and upon
simultaneous payment therefore in cash or by certified or official bank check,
payable to the order of the Company in New York Clearing House funds, at the
price equal to the following traunches. 1/3 of the warrants granted shall be
exercised at a price per share of $4.89 (the "Exercise Price"), 1/3 of the
warrants granted shall be exercised at a price per share of $5.89 (the "Exercise
Price") and the final 1/3 of the warrants granted shall be exercised at a price
per share of $6.89 (the "Exercise Price").
1. No resale of the Warrants or of any Underlying Stock will be made
unless such resale is registered pursuant to a Registration Statement filled by
the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") or
exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Act"). By acceptance of this agreement, the Warrant
Holder agrees, for himself and all subsequent holders, that prior to making any
disposition of any Warrants or of any Common Stock purchasable upon the exercise
thereof ("Underlying Stock"), the Holder of the Warrants evidenced by this
agreement shall give written notice to the Company describing briefly the
proposed disposition; and no such disposition shall be made unless and until (i)
the Company has notified such holder that, in the opinion of counsel
satisfactory to it, no Registration Statement and no other action under the Act
is required with respect to such disposition (which opinion may be conditioned
upon the transferee's assuming the Warrant holder's obligation hereunder); or
(ii) a Registration Statement has been filed by the Company and declared
effective by the Commission or other such action has been taken.
2. Unless this Warrant and payment are tendered as herein provided before
the close of business on the Expiration Date, this Warrant will become wholly
void and all rights evidenced hereby will terminate.
3. Subsequent to the provisions of paragraph 1 above, this Warrant may be
exchanged for a number of shares of Common Stock of the Company as are
purchasable upon the exercise of this Warrant, upon surrender hereof at the
office of the Company or any transfer agent of the Company's Common Stock and
written instructions as to the exchange.
If this Warrant is exercised for less than all the shares purchasable upon
the exercise hereof, the Holder shall be entitled to receive Warrants of the
same tenor as this Warrant for the purchase in the aggregate of the number of
shares in respect of which this Warrant shall not have been exercised.
4. The Exercise price per Share and the number of shares of Common Stock
of the Company issuable pursuant to such exercise is subject to adjustment as
follows:
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(a) In case the Company shall at any time declare a stock dividend or
stock split on the outstanding shares of Common Stock in shares of its Common
Stock, then the Exercise Price, and the number and kind of shares receivable
upon exercise, in effect at the time of such dividend shall be proportionately
adjusted so that the holder of any Warrant exercised after such time shall be
entitled to receive the aggregate number and kind of shares which if such
Warrant had been exercised immediately prior to such time, he or she would have
owned upon such exercise and been entitled to receive by virtue of such
dividend.
(b) In any case the Company shall at any time subdivide or combine the
outstanding shares of the Common Stock, the share exercise price initial or
adjusted, in effect immediately prior to such subdivision or combination shall
forthwith be proportionately decreased in the case of subdivision or increased
in the case of combination.
(c) In case of any capital reorganization, sale of substantially all the
assets of the Company, or any reclassification of the shares of Common Stock of
the Company, or in case of any consolidation with or merger of the Company into
or with another corporation, then as a part of such reorganization sale
reclassification, consolidation or merger, as the case may be, provision shall
be made so that the registered owner of the Warrants evidenced hereby shall have
the right thereafter to receive upon the exercise thereof the kind and amount of
shares of stock or other securities or property which he would have been
entitled to receive. If immediately prior to such reorganization,
reclassification, consolidation or merger, he had held the number of shares of
Common stock which were then issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants
evidenced hereby, to the end that the provisions set forth (including provisions
with respect to adjustments of the Exercise Price) shall thereafter be
applicable, as nearly as
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reasonably may be, in relation to any shares of stock or other property
thereafter deliverable upon the exercise of such Warrants.
(d) If the Company at any time makes any spin-off, split-off, or
distribution of assets upon or with respect to its Common Stock, as a
liquidating or partial liquidating dividend, spin-off, or by way of return of
capital, or other than as dividend payable out of earnings or any surplus
legally available for dividends under the laws of the State of Colorado, the
holder of each Warrant then outstanding shall, upon the exercise of the Warrant,
receive, in addition to the shares of Common Stock then issuable on exercise of
the Warrant, the amount of such assets (or, at the option of the Company, a sum
equal to the value thereof at the time of the distributions) which would have
been payable to such holder had he or she exercised the Warrant immediately
prior to the record date for such distribution.
(e) No adjustment of the Exercise Price per Share shall be made if the
amount of such adjustment shall be less than $.05 per share. When any adjustment
is required to be made in the Exercise Price Per Share, the number of shares of
Common Stock issuable shall be determined as provided for in paragraph (f)
hereof. No fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued upon the exercise
of Warrants evidenced hereby, but in lieu thereof the Company shall pay to the
order of the holder of such warrants an amount in cash equal to the same
fraction of the Exercise Price of one share of Common Stock on the date of
exercise.
(f) Whenever the Exercise price Per Share is adjusted as provided above,
the number of shares of Common Stock Shares purchasable upon exercise of this
Warrant immediately prior to such adjustment shall be increased, effective
simultaneously with such adjustment, by a number of shares of Common Stock
computed by multiplying such number of shares of Common Stock by a fraction, the
numerator of which is the Exercise Price per Share in
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effect immediately prior to such adjustment and the denominator of which is the
Exercise Price per Share in effect upon such adjustment, and the number of
shares of Common Stock arrived at by making said computation shall be added to
the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrant
immediately prior to such adjustment. The total number of shares arrived at by
making the computation provided for in the immediately preceding sentence shall
thereupon be the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise Price
Per Share, initial or adjusted, the Company shall forthwith determine the new
Exercise Price Per Share, and (a) prepare a statement describing in reasonable
detail the method used in arriving at the new Exercise price per Share; and (b)
cause a copy of such statement to be mailed to the registered owner of the
Warrants evidenced hereby as of a date within twenty (20) days after the date
when the circumstance giving rise to the adjustments occurred.
5. As soon as practicable after the exercise hereof, the company shall
deliver a certificate or certificates for the number of full shares of Common
Stock issuable upon such exercise, all of which shall be fully paid and
nonassessable, to the person or persons entitled to receive the same provided
No sale, offer to sell or transfer of these Shares or of this
Certificate, or of any shares or other securities issued in exchange
for or in respect of such shares, shall be made unless a
Registration Statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
with respect to such shares, is in effect or an exemption from the
registration requirements of such Act is applicable to such shares.
Dated: 2/20 2004 Startech Environmental Corp.
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By: executed
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Warrant Holder:
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EXERCISE FORM
The undersigned irrevocably exercises this Warrant to the extent of ____________
shares of the Common Stock of Startech Environment Corp., called for hereby, and
hereby makes payment thereof, all at the price and on the terms and
conditions specified herein.
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