SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT
Exhibit 10.1
This
Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as
of November 6, 2020, between GT Biopharma, Inc., a Delaware
corporation and includes any successor Company thereto (the
“Company”), and each
purchaser identified on the signature pages hereto (each, including
its successors and permitted assigns, a “Purchaser” and
collectively, the “Purchasers”).
WHEREAS, subject to
the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant
to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
“Securities
Act”), and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder, the
Company desires to issue and sell to each Purchaser, and each
Purchaser, severally and not jointly, desires to purchase in not
more than two closings from the Company, securities of the Company
as more fully described in this Agreement (the “Offering”).
NOW,
THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in
this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company
and each Purchaser agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Definitions. In addition to the
terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement: (a) capitalized terms
that are not otherwise defined herein have the meanings given to
such terms in the Notes (as defined herein), and (b) the following
terms have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.1:
“Accredited Investor”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.2(c).
“Acquiring Person” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.7.
“Action” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(j).
“Affiliate” means any
Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common
control with a Person, as such terms are used in and construed
under Rule 405 under the Securities Act.
“Applicable Law” shall
mean any law, rule or regulation of any governmental authority or
jurisdiction applicable to any party to this Agreement, as the case
may be.
“Board of Directors” means
the board of directors of the Company.
“Business
Day” means any day except any Saturday, any Sunday,
any day which is a federal legal holiday in the United States or
any day on which banking institutions in the State of New York are
required by law or other governmental action to close.
“Buy-In” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.1(h).
“Closing”
means the closing of the purchase and
sale of the Securities pursuant to Section 2.1.
“Closing Date”
means, with respect to any Closing,
the date of such Closing.
“Commission” means the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Common Stock” means the
common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share, and any
other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter
be reclassified or changed.
“Common Stock Equivalents”
means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries which would
entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock,
including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, right,
option, warrant or other instrument that is at any time convertible
into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the
holder thereof to receive, Common Stock.
“Conversion Price” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Notes.
“Debentures” means those
certain 10% Senior Convertible Debentures of the Company issued on
August 2, 2018, September 7, 2018, September 24, 2018, May 22,
2019, August 16, 2019, December 18, 2019, January 30, 2020, April
20, 2020, May 7, 2020, June 19, 2020, July 7, 2020, September 16,
2020 and the Senior Convertible Notes issued on February 4,
2019.
“DGCL” means the Delaware
General Corporation Law.
“Disclosure Schedules”
means the Disclosure Schedules of the Company delivered
concurrently herewith.
“Disqualification Event”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(oo).
“Effective
Date” means the earliest of the date that (a) a
Registration Statement has been declared effective by the
Commission with respect to all of the Underlying Shares (as defined
herein) and has been continuously effective for not less than sixty
(60) Business Days, or (b) (i) all of the Underlying Shares have
been sold pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold by the holders
thereof (other than Affiliates of the Company) pursuant to Rule 144
without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with
the current public information required under Rule 144 and without
volume or manner-of-sale restrictions, and (c) Company counsel has
delivered to the Transfer Agent and Purchasers a standing written
unqualified opinion that resales may then be made by such holders
of the Underlying Shares (other than Affiliates of the Company)
pursuant to an effective Registration Statement or the exemption
described in (b)(ii) above, which opinion shall be in form and
substance reasonably acceptable to such Purchasers.
“End Date” means the first
date that (i) less than 10% of the aggregate amount of Note
principal is outstanding, and (ii) no Event of Default (as defined
in the Note) nor an event which with the passage of time or the
giving of notice could become an Event of Default is
pending.
“Equity Line of Credit”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.13.
“Event
of Default” shall have the meaning ascribed to such
term in the Note.
“Exchange Act” means the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Exempt Issuance” means
the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock or options to employees,
officers or directors of the Company pursuant to any stock or
option plan duly adopted for such purpose, by a majority of the
non-employee members of the Board of Directors or a majority of the
members of a committee of non-employee directors established for
such purpose and only as disclosed on Schedule 3.1(g), (b) securities
exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into shares of
Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date of this Agreement,
provided that such securities and any term thereof have not been
amended since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of
such securities or to decrease the issue price, exercise price,
exchange price or conversion price of such securities and which
securities and the principal terms thereof are set forth on
Schedule 3.1(g),
and described in the SEC Reports, (c) securities issued pursuant to
acquisitions or strategic transactions approved by a majority of
the disinterested directors of the Company, provided that any such
issuance shall only be to a Person (or to the equity holders of a
Person) which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an operating
company or an owner of an asset in a business synergistic with the
business of the Company and shall be intended to provide to the
Company substantial additional benefits in addition to the
investment of funds, but shall not include a transaction in which
the Company is issuing securities primarily for the purpose of
raising capital or to an entity whose primary business is investing
in securities, (
d) as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g), and (e)
securities issued or issuable to the Purchasers and their assigns
pursuant to this Agreement, the Notes and other Transaction
Documents including without limitation, Section 4.16 and Section
4.22 herein, or upon exercise, conversion or exchange of any such
securities.
“FCPA” means the Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.
“FDA” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(jj).
“GAAP” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).
“Indebtedness” shall have
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(aa).
“Intellectual Property
Rights” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term
in Section 3.1(o).
“Issuer
Covered Person” means the Company, any of its
predecessors, any affiliated issuer, any director, executive
officer, other officer of the Company participating in the
Offering, any beneficial owner of 20% or more of the
Company’s outstanding voting equity securities, calculated on
the basis of voting power, and any promoter (as that term is
defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) connected with the
Company in any capacity at the time of sale.
“Legend
Removal Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to such
term in Section 4.1(d).
“Liens” means a lien,
charge, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, right of first
refusal, preemptive right or other restriction.
“Listing Default” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.11(b).
“Majority in Interest”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
5.5.
“Material Adverse Effect”
shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.1(b).
“Material Permits” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(m).
“Maximum Rate” shall have
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 5.17.
“Money Laundering
Laws” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(qq).
“Notes” means the
convertible notes issuable pursuant to this Agreement, in the form
of Exhibit A
hereto.
“OFAC” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(nn).
“Participation Maximum”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.16(a).
“Permitted Indebtedness”
means (a) the Indebtedness evidenced by the Notes and the
Debentures all as set forth on Schedule 3.1(aa), (b) any
liabilities for borrowed money or amounts owed not in excess of
$10,000 in the aggregate (other than trade accounts payable
incurred in the ordinary course of business), (c) all guaranties,
endorsements and other contingent obligations in respect of
indebtedness of others, whether or not the same are or should be
reflected in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet (or the
notes thereto) not affecting more than $10,000 in the aggregate,
except guaranties by endorsement of negotiable instruments for
deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary
course of business; (d) the present value of any lease payments not
in excess of $100,000 due under leases required to be capitalized
in accordance with GAAP; and (e) any liabilities for borrowed money
that are junior to the Debentures pursuant to an intercreditor
agreement acceptable to Purchasers, and the holders of which are
not granted any security interest.
“Permitted Lien” means the
individual and collective reference to the following: (a) Liens for
taxes, assessments and other governmental charges or levies not yet
due or Liens for taxes, assessments and other governmental charges
or levies being contested in good faith and by appropriate
proceedings for which adequate reserves (in the good faith judgment
of the management of the Company) have been established in
accordance with GAAP, (b) Liens imposed by law which were incurred
in the ordinary course of the Company’s business, such as
carriers’, warehousemen’s and mechanics’ Liens,
statutory landlords’ Liens, and other similar Liens arising
in the ordinary course of the Company’s business, and which
(x) do not individually or in the aggregate materially detract from
the value of such property or assets or materially impair the use
thereof in the operation of the business of the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries or (y) are being contested in good faith
by appropriate proceedings, which proceedings have the effect of
preventing for the foreseeable future the forfeiture or sale of the
property or asset subject to such Liens, and (c) Liens in
connection with Permitted Indebtedness under clauses (a), (b) and
(c) thereunder.
“Person”
means an individual, corporation or Company, partnership, trust,
incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited
liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or
subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.
“Pre-Notice” shall have
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.16(b).
“Proceeding”
means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding
(including, without limitation, an informal investigation or
partial proceeding, such as a deposition), whether commenced or
threatened.
“Pro-Rata Portion” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.16(e).
“Public
Information Failure” shall have the meaning ascribed
to such term in Section 4.3(b).
“Public Information Failure
Payments” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term
in Section 4.3(b).
“Purchaser Party” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.10.
“Registration Statement”
means a registration statement declared effective by the Commission
allowing the public resale of not less than all of the Underlying
Shares by the Purchaser, at the time such registration statement is
effective and the prospectus contained therein is
current.
“Required Approvals” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(e).
“Required Minimum” means,
as of any date, 150% of the maximum aggregate number of shares of
Common Stock then issued or potentially issuable in the future
pursuant to the Transaction Documents, including any Underlying
Shares issuable upon conversion in full of all Notes, ignoring any
conversion or exercise limits set forth therein.
“Rule 144” means Rule 144
promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as
such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any
similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission
having substantially the same purpose and effect as such
Rule.
“SEC Reports” shall have
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).
“Securities” means the
Notes and the Underlying Shares.
“Securities Act” means the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
“Short Sales” means
“short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO
under the Exchange Act and all types of direct and indirect stock
pledges, forward sale contracts, options, puts, calls, swaps and
similar arrangements (including on a total return basis) whether
such transactions are made through U.S. or non-U.S. broker dealers
or foreign regulated brokers.
“Stock Option Plans” means
the Stock Option Plan of the Company in effect as the date of this
Agreement, the principal terms of which have been disclosed in the
SEC Reports.
“Subscription Amount”
means, as to each Purchaser, the
aggregate amount to be paid for
the Notes purchased hereunder at the Closing as specified below
such Purchaser’s name on the signature page of this Agreement
and next to the heading “Subscription Amount,” in
United States dollars and in immediately available
funds.
“Subsequent Financing”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.16(a).
“Subsequent Financing
Notice” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term
in Section 4.16(b).
“Subsidiary” means
with respect to any entity at any
date, any direct or indirect Person, limited or general
partnership, limited liability company, trust, estate, association,
joint venture or other business entity of which (A) more than
50% of (i) the outstanding capital stock having (in the
absence of contingencies) ordinary voting power to elect a majority
of the board of directors or other managing body of such entity,
(ii) in the case of a partnership or limited liability
company, the interest in the capital or profits of such partnership
or limited liability company or (iii) in the case of a trust,
estate, association, joint venture or other entity, the beneficial
interest in such trust, estate, association or other entity
business is, at the time of determination, owned or controlled
directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, by such
entity, or (B) is under the actual control of the
Company.
“Termination
Date” means October 1, 2020.
“Trading Day” means a day
on which the principal Trading Market is open for trading for three
or more hours, or if there is no applicable Trading Market, Trading
Day shall mean Business Day.
“Trading Market” means the
first listed of any of the following markets or exchanges on which
the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in
question: the NYSE American, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq
Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock
Exchange, the OTC Bulletin Board, the OTCQB, or the OTCQX (or any
successors to any of the foregoing).
“Transaction Documents”
means this Agreement, the Notes, t, all exhibits and schedules
thereto and hereto and any other documents or agreements executed
by any party hereto in connection with the transactions
contemplated hereunder.
“Transfer Agent” means
Computershare, the current transfer agent of the Company, with a
mailing address of 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000 Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx
00000, and a facsimile number of (000) 000-0000, and any successor
transfer agent of the Company.
“Underlying Shares” means
the shares of Common Stock issued and issuable upon conversion of
the Notes and issued and issuable in lieu of the cash payment of
interest on the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and
any other shares of Common Stock issued or issuable to a Purchaser
in connection with or pursuant to the Securities or Transaction
Documents.
“Unlegended Shares” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.1(d).
“Variable Priced Equity Linked
Instruments” shall have the meaning ascribed to such
term in Section 4.13.
“Variable Rate
Transaction” shall have
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.13.
“VWAP”
means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the
following clauses that applies: (a) if the Common Stock is then
listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the daily volume weighted
average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest
preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is
then listed or quoted as reported by Bloomberg L.P. (based on a
Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New
York City time)), (b) if the Common Stock is not then listed
or quoted for trading on a Trading Market but is then reported on
the OTC Pink Marketplace maintained by the OTC Markets Group, Inc.
(or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of
reporting prices), the volume weighted average price of the Common
Stock on the first such facility (or a similar organization or
agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), or
(d) in all other cases, the fair market value of a share of
Common Stock as determined by an independent appraiser selected by
the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be paid by the
Company.
ARTICLE II.
PURCHASE AND SALE
2.1 Purchase and Sale of
Notes.
(a) Subject to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, each Purchaser agrees to
purchase and the Company agrees to sell and issue to each Purchaser
at the Closing (as defined below) the principal amount of Notes of
the Company as is set forth opposite such Purchaser’s name on
such Purchaser’s signature page hereto. The Notes issued to
the Purchasers pursuant to this Agreement (including any notes
issued at the Initial Closing and any Additional Notes, as defined
below) shall be referred to in this Agreement as the
“Notes.” Each Note shall
be in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A hereto.
(b) The initial
purchase and sale of the Notes shall take place remotely via the
electronic exchange of documents and signatures on the Business Day
on which all of the Transaction Documents have been executed and
delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all conditions
precedent to (i) the Purchasers’ obligation to pay the
Subscription Amount at such Closing, and (ii) the Company’s
obligations to deliver the Securities to be issued and sold at such
Closing, in each case, have been satisfied or waived, but in no
event later than the tenth Business Day following the date hereof
(such initial closing is referred to herein as the
“Initial
Closing”).
(c) After the Initial
Closing, the Company may sell, in one or more closings and on the
terms and conditions contained in this Agreement, Notes in the
aggregate principal amount of up to $6,000,000 (collectively, the
“Additional
Notes”), to one or more purchasers (the
“Additional
Purchasers”) reasonably acceptable to the Company,
provided that (A) such subsequent sale is consummated prior to
October 1, 2020 (the “Termination Date”), or
such date as the Company and a Majority in Interest may mutually
agree upon; and (B) each Additional Purchaser shall become a party
to the Transaction Documents by executing and delivering a
counterpart signature page to each of the Transaction Documents.
Signature pages shall be added to this Agreement to reflect the
amount of Additional Notes purchased at each such closing (an
“Additional
Closing” and together with the Initial Closing, each,
a “Closing”) and the parties
purchasing such Additional Notes.
(d) At
each Closing, the payment by a Purchaser of such Purchaser’s
Subscription Amount may be made via wire transfer or a certified
check in immediately available funds to the Company.
NO
MINIMUM AMOUNT OF NOTES MUST BE SOLD IN ORDER FOR THE COMPANY TO
ACCEPT ANY SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND ALL NET PROCEEDS OF THE OFFERING WILL
BE IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR COMPANY PURPOSES UPON
CLOSING.
2.2 Deliveries.
(a) On or prior to the
Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to
each Purchaser the following:
(i) this Agreement duly
executed by the Company;
(ii) a
Note with a principal amount as set forth on the signature page
hereto equal to each Purchaser’s Subscription Amount,
registered in the name of such Purchaser;
(iii) a
certificate executed on behalf of the Company by its Principal
Executive Officer or Chief Executive Officer (each as defined in
the Exchange Act) of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, in
which such officer shall certify that the conditions set forth in
Section 2.3(b) have
been fulfilled; and
(iv) a
certificate executed on behalf of the Company by its
Secretary’s certificate containing (i) copies of the text of
the resolutions by which the corporate action on the part of the
Company necessary to approve this Agreement and the other
Transaction Documents and the transactions and actions contemplated
hereby and thereby, which shall be accompanied by a certificate of
the corporate secretary or assistant corporate secretary of Company
dated as of the Closing Date certifying to the Purchasers that such
resolutions were duly adopted and have not been amended or
rescinded, (ii) an incumbency certificate dated as of the Closing
Date executed on behalf of Company by its corporate secretary or
one of its assistant corporate secretaries certifying the office of
each officer of Company executing this Agreement, or any other
agreement, certificate or other instrument executed pursuant
hereto, and (iii) copies of (A) the Company’s Certificate of
Incorporation and bylaws in effect on the Closing Date, and (B) the
certificate evidencing the good standing of Company as of a day
within five (5) Business Days prior to the Closing
Date.
(b) On or prior to the
Closing Date, each Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be delivered
to the Company the following:
(i) this Agreement duly
executed by such Purchaser;
(ii) such
Purchaser’s Subscription Amount;
(iii) Accredited
Investor Questionnaire duly executed by each Purchaser;
and
(iv)
2.3 Closing
Conditions.
(a) The obligations of
the Company hereunder to effect the Closing are subject to the
following conditions being met:
(i) the accuracy in all
material respects (determined without
regard to any materiality, Material Adverse Effect or other similar
qualifiers therein) on the date of this Agreement and the
Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the
Purchasers contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein
in which case they shall be accurate as of such date);
(ii) all
obligations, covenants and agreements of each Purchaser under this
Agreement required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date
shall have been performed in all material respects;
and
(iii) the
delivery by each Purchaser of the items set forth in Section 2.2(b)
of this Agreement.
(b) The respective
obligations of a Purchaser hereunder to effect the Closing, unless
waived by such Purchaser, are subject to the following conditions
being met:
(i) the accuracy in all
material respects (determined without
regard to any materiality, Material Adverse Effect or other similar
qualifiers therein) on the date of this Agreement and
Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Company
contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein in which
case they shall be accurate as of such date);
(ii) all
Required Approvals, obligations, covenants and agreements of the
Company under the Transaction Documents required to be performed or
obtained at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed
or obtained;
(iii) the
delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2(a) of
this Agreement;
(iv) there
shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to the
Company since the date hereof; and
(v) from the date
hereof to the Closing Date, and, at any time prior to the Closing
Date, trading in securities generally as reported by Bloomberg L.P.
shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall
not have been established on securities whose trades are reported
by such service, or on any Trading Market, nor shall a banking
moratorium have been declared either by the United States or New
York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material
outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or
international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any
material adverse change in, any financial market which, in each
case, in the reasonable judgment of such Purchaser, makes it
impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Securities at the
Closing.
ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
3.1 Representations
and Warranties of the Company. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports or
the Disclosure Schedules, which Disclosure Schedules shall be
deemed a part hereof and shall qualify any representation made
herein only to the extent of the disclosure contained in the
corresponding or cross-referenced section of the Disclosure
Schedules, the Company hereby makes the following representations
and warranties to each Purchaser:
(a) Subsidiaries. All of the direct
and indirect Subsidiaries of the Company and the Company’s
ownership interests therein are set forth on Schedule 3.1(a). The Company
owns, directly or indirectly, the capital stock or other equity
interests of each Subsidiary set forth on Schedule 3.1(a), free and clear
of any Liens, and all of the issued and outstanding shares of
capital stock of each Subsidiary are validly issued and are fully
paid, non-assessable and free of pre-emptive and similar rights to
subscribe for or purchase securities.
(b) Organization and Qualification.
The Company and each Subsidiary is an entity duly incorporated or
otherwise organized, validly existing and in good standing under
the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization,
with the requisite power and authority to own and use its
properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently
conducted. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in violation
nor default of any of the provisions of its respective certificate
or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or
charter documents. Each of the Company and each Subsidiary is duly
qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign
Person or other entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of
the business conducted or property owned by it makes such
qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so
qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, would not
reasonably be expected to result in: (i) a material adverse effect
on the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction
Document, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of
operations, assets, business, or condition (financial or otherwise)
of the Company and each Subsidiary, taken as a whole, or (iii) a
material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform
in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any
Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a
“Material Adverse
Effect”) and, no Proceeding has been instituted in any
such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to
revoke, limit or curtail such power and authority or
qualification.
(c) Authorization; Enforcement. The
Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter
into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents and otherwise
to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The
execution and delivery of this Agreement and each of the other
Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of
the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly
authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and
no further action is required by the Company, the Board of
Directors or the Company’s stockholders in connection
herewith or therewith other than in connection with the Required
Approvals. This Agreement and each other Transaction Document to
which it is a party has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly
executed by the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the
terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding
obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in
accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general
equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application
affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as
limited by laws relating to the availability of specific
performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and
(iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be
limited by Applicable Law.
(d) No Conflicts. The execution,
delivery and performance by the Company and all Persons other than
the Purchasers of this Agreement and the other Transaction
Documents, the issuance and sale of the Securities and the
consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby to which it is a party do not and will not: (i) conflict
with or violate any provision of the Company’s or any
Subsidiary’s or such other Person’s certificate or
articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or
charter documents, (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or
an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a
default) under, result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the
properties or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary, or give to
others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration,
adjustment, exchange, reset, exercise or cancellation (with or
without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit
facility, debt, equity or other instrument (evidencing Company or
Subsidiary equity, debt or otherwise) or other understanding to
which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any
property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary is bound or
affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with
or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order,
judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of any court or
governmental authority to which the Company or a Subsidiary or such
other Person is subject (including federal and state securities
laws and regulations), or by which any property or asset of the
Company or a Subsidiary is bound or affected; except in the case of
each of clause (iii), such as could not have or reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(e) Filings, Consents and
Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any
consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or
make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal,
state, local or other governmental authority or other Person in
connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the
Company of the Transaction Documents, other than: (i) the filings
required pursuant to Section 4.6 of this Agreement, (ii) the notice
and/or application(s) to each applicable Trading Market for the
issuance and sale of the Securities and the listing of the
Underlying Shares for trading thereon in the time and manner
required thereby and (iii) the filing of Form D with the Commission
and such filings as are required to be made under applicable state
securities laws (collectively, the “Required
Approvals”).
(f) Issuance of the Securities. The
Securities are duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in
accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents, will be duly
and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of
all Liens imposed by the Company other than restrictions on
transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents. The Underlying
Shares, when issued in accordance with the terms of the Transaction
Documents, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable,
free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company other than
restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction
Documents.
(g) Capitalization. Except as set
forth on Schedule 3.1(g), the
Company has not issued any capital stock since its most recently
filed annual report on Form 10-K. Except as set forth on
Schedule 3.1(g), no
Person has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of
participation, or any similar right to participate in the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Except as
disclosed on Schedule
3.1(g), there are no outstanding options, employee or
incentive stock option plans, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe
to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to,
or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or
exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to
subscribe for or acquire any shares of Common Stock, or contracts,
commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or
any Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional shares of
Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents. Except as set forth on
Schedule 3.1(g),
the issuance and sale of the Securities will not obligate the
Company to issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any
Person (other than the Purchasers) and will not result in a right
of any holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise,
conversion, exchange or reset price under any of such securities.
All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are
duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, have
been issued in material compliance with all federal and state
securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was issued in
violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe
for or purchase securities. Except as contemplated by Section
3.1(e), no further approval or authorization of any stockholder,
the Board of Directors or other Person is required for the issuance
and sale of the Securities and the Company’s compliance with
the terms of the Transaction Documents. There are no stockholders
agreements, voting agreements or other similar agreements with
respect to the Company’s capital stock to which the Company
is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among
any of the Company’s stockholders. Except as disclosed on
Schedule 3.1(g),
the Company is not a party to any Variable Rate Transaction and as
of Closing, there will not be outstanding any Equity Line of Credit
nor Variable Priced Equity Linked Instruments as of the
Closing.
(h) SEC Reports; Financial
Statements. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(h), the Company
has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other
documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities
Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or
15(d) thereof, for the three years preceding the date hereof (or
such shorter period as the Company was required by law or
regulation to file such material) (the foregoing materials,
including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by
reference therein, being collectively referred to herein as the
“SEC
Reports”) on a timely basis or has received a valid
extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports
prior to the expiration of any such extension. As of their
respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects
with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act,
as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained
any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order
to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances
under which they were made, not misleading. The Company has never
been an issuer subject to Rule 144(i) under the Securities Act. The
financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports
comply in all material respects with applicable accounting
requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with
respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing. Such financial
statements have been prepared in accordance with United States
generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent
basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”), except as may be
otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes
thereto and except that unaudited financial statements may not
contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and fairly present in all
material respects the financial position of the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries as of and for the dates thereof and the
results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended,
subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal,
immaterial, year-end audit adjustments.
(i) Material Changes; Undisclosed Events,
Liabilities or Developments. Since the date of the latest
audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports,
except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(i) or as
specifically disclosed in a subsequent SEC Report filed prior to
the date hereof: (i) there has been no event, occurrence or
development that has had or that could reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the Company has not
incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A)
trade payables and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course
of business consistent with past practice and (B) liabilities not
required to be reflected in the Company’s financial
statements pursuant to GAAP or disclosed in filings made with the
Commission, (iii) the Company has not altered its method of
accounting, (iv) the Company has not declared or made any dividend
or distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders or
purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem
any shares of its capital stock and (v) the Company has not issued
any equity securities to any officer, director or Affiliate, except
pursuant to existing Company stock option plans. The Company does
not have pending before the Commission any request for confidential
treatment of information. Except for the issuance of the Securities
contemplated by this Agreement or as set forth on Schedule 3.1(i), no event,
liability, fact, circumstance, occurrence or development has
occurred or exists or is reasonably expected to occur or exist with
respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective
businesses, properties, operations, assets or financial condition,
that would be required to be disclosed by the Company under
applicable securities laws at the time this representation is made
or deemed made that has not been publicly disclosed at least one
(1) Trading Day prior to the date that this representation is
made.
(j) Litigation. Except as set forth
in Schedule 3.1(j),
there is no action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding
or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company,
threatened against or affecting the Company, any Subsidiary or any
of their respective properties before or by any court, arbitrator,
governmental or administrative agency or regulatory authority
(federal, state, county, local or foreign) (collectively, an
“Action”) which (i)
adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or
enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents or the
Securities or (ii) could, if there were an unfavorable decision,
have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor any director or
officer thereof, is or has been the subject of any Action involving
a claim of violation of or liability under federal or state
securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty. There has
not been, and to the knowledge of the Company, there is not pending
or contemplated, any investigation by the Commission involving the
Company or any current or former director or officer of the
Company. The Commission has not issued any stop order or other
order suspending the effectiveness of any registration statement
filed by the Company or any Subsidiary under the Exchange Act or
the Securities Act.
(k) Labor Relations. No labor
dispute exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent
with respect to any of the employees of the Company, which could
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. None
of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ employees is a
member of a union that relates to such employee’s
relationship with the Company or such Subsidiary, and neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to a collective
bargaining agreement, and the Company and its Subsidiaries believe
that their relationships with their employees are good. To the
knowledge of the Company, no executive officer of the Company or
any Subsidiary, is, or is now expected to be, in violation of any
material term of any employment contract, confidentiality,
disclosure or proprietary information agreement or non-competition
agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive
covenant in favor of any third party, and the continued employment
of each such executive officer does not subject the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries to any liability with respect to any of the
foregoing matters. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(k), the Company
and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all U.S. federal,
state, local and foreign laws and regulations relating to
employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of
employment and wages and hours, except where the failure to be in
compliance could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(l) Compliance.
Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(l), neither the
Company nor any Subsidiary: (i) is in default under or in violation
of (and no event has occurred that has not been waived that, with
notice or lapse of time or both, would result in a default by the
Company or any Subsidiary under), nor has the Company or any
Subsidiary received notice of a claim that it is in default under
or that it is in violation of, any indenture, loan or credit
agreement or any other agreement or instrument to which it is a
party or by which it or any of its properties is bound (whether or
not such default or violation has been waived), (ii) is in
violation of any judgment, decree or order of any court, arbitrator
or other governmental authority or (iii) is or has been in
violation of any statute, rule, ordinance or regulation of any
governmental authority, including without limitation all foreign,
federal, state and local laws relating to taxes, environmental
protection, occupational health and safety, product quality and
safety and employment and labor matters, except in each case as
could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect.
(m) Regulatory Permits. The Company
and the Subsidiaries possess all certificates, authorizations and
permits issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign
regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective
businesses, except where the failure to possess such permits could
not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect
(“Material
Permits”), and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary
has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation
or modification of any Material Permit.
(n) Title to Assets. The Company
and the Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple
to all real property owned by them and good and marketable title in
all personal property owned by them that is material to the
business of the Company and the Subsidiaries, in each case free and
clear of all Liens, except for (i) Liens as do not materially
affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere
with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the
Company and the Subsidiaries and (ii) Liens for the payment of
federal, state or other taxes, for which appropriate reserves have
been made therefor in accordance with GAAP and, the payment of
which is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties. Any real
property and facilities held under lease by the Company and the
Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and
enforceable leases with which the Company and the Subsidiaries are
in compliance.
(o) Intellectual Property. The
Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have rights to use, all
patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications,
service marks, trade names, trade secrets, inventions, copyrights,
licenses and other intellectual property rights and similar rights
as described in the SEC Reports as necessary or required for use in
connection with their respective businesses and which the failure
to so have could have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, the
“Intellectual
Property Rights”). None of, and neither the Company
nor any Subsidiary has received a notice (written or otherwise)
that any of, the Intellectual Property Rights has expired,
terminated or been abandoned, or is expected to expire or terminate
or be abandoned, within two (2) years from the date of this
Agreement. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received,
since the date of the latest audited financial statements included
within the SEC Reports, a written notice of a claim or otherwise
has any knowledge that the Intellectual Property Rights violate or
infringe upon the rights of any Person, except as could not have or
reasonably be expected to not have a Material Adverse Effect. To
the knowledge of the Company, all such Intellectual Property Rights
are enforceable and there is no existing infringement by another
Person of any of the Intellectual Property Rights. The Company and
its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable security measures to protect
the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their intellectual
properties, except where failure to do so could not, individually
or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(p) Insurance. The Company and each
Subsidiary maintain insurance coverage for Product/Human Clinical
Trial Liability, Professional Liability, General Liability,
Property and Directors and Officers.
(q) Transactions With Affiliates and
Employees. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports and on
Schedule 3.1(q),
none of the officers or directors of the Company or any Subsidiary
and, to the knowledge of the Company, none of the employees of the
Company or any Subsidiary is presently a party to any transaction
with the Company or any Subsidiary (other than for services as
employees, officers and directors), including any contract,
agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of
services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal
property to or from providing for the borrowing of money from or
lending of money to, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any
officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the
Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such
employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director,
trustee, stockholder, member or partner, in each case in excess of
$60,000 other than for: (i) payment of salary or consulting fees
for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on
behalf of the Company and (iii) other employee benefits, including
stock option agreements under any stock option plan of the
Company.
(r) Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx; Internal Accounting
Controls. The Company and the Subsidiaries are not in
compliance with any and all applicable requirements of the
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 that are effective as of the date
hereof, and any and all applicable rules and regulations
promulgated by the Commission thereunder that are effective as of
the date hereof and as of the Closing Date. The Company and the
Subsidiaries currently do not 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 authorizations, (ii)
transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of
financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset
accountability, (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 the existing assets at reasonable intervals and
appropriate action is taken with respect to any
differences.
(s) Certain Fees. No brokerage or
finder’s fees or commissions are or will be payable by the
Company or any Subsidiaries to any broker, financial advisor or
consultant, finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or
other Person with respect to the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents. The Purchasers shall have no obligation with
respect to any fees or with respect to any claims made by or on
behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this
Section that may be due in connection with the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
(t) Private Placement. Assuming the
accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties
set forth in Section 3.2, no registration under the Securities Act
is required for the offer and sale of the Securities by the Company
to the Purchasers as contemplated hereby. The issuance and sale of
the Securities hereunder does not contravene the rules and
regulations of the Trading Market.
(u) Investment Company. The Company
is not, and is not an Affiliate of, and immediately after receipt
of payment for the Securities, will not be or be an Affiliate of,
an “investment company” within the meaning of the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Company shall
conduct its business in a manner so that it will not become an
“investment company” subject to registration under the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(v) Registration Rights. No Person
has any right to cause the Company to effect the registration under
the Securities Act of any securities of the Company or any
Subsidiaries other than as set forth on Schedule 3.1(v).
(w) Listing and Maintenance
Requirements. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to
Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has
taken no action designed to, or which to its knowledge is likely to
have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common
Stock under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any
notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such
registration. The Company has not, in the 12 months preceding the
date hereof, received notice from any Trading Market on which the
Common Stock is or has been listed or quoted to the effect that the
Company is not in compliance with the listing or maintenance
requirements of such Trading Market. The Company is, and has no
reason to believe that it will not in the foreseeable future
continue to be, in compliance with all such listing and maintenance
requirements. The Common Stock is currently eligible for electronic
transfer through the Depository Trust Company or another
established clearing corporation and the Company is current in
payment of the fees to the Depository Trust Company (or such other
established clearing corporation) in connection with such
electronic transfer.
(x) Application of Takeover
Protections. The Company and the Board of Directors have
taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable
any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill
(including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other
similar anti-takeover provision under the Company’s
certificate of incorporation (or similar charter documents) or the
laws of its state of incorporation that is or could become
applicable to the Purchasers as a result of the Purchasers and the
Company fulfilling their obligations or exercising their rights
under the Transaction Documents, including without limitation as a
result of the Company’s issuance of the Securities and the
Purchasers’ ownership of the Securities.
(y) Disclosure. Except with respect
to the material terms and conditions of the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company confirms
that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has
provided any of the Purchasers or their agents or counsel with any
information that it believes constitutes or might constitute
material, non-public information. The Company understands and
confirms that the Purchasers will rely on the foregoing
representation in effecting transactions in securities of the
Company. All of the disclosure furnished by or on behalf of the
Company to the Purchasers regarding the Company and its
Subsidiaries, their respective businesses and the transactions
contemplated hereby, including the Disclosure Schedules to this
Agreement, is true and correct and does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact
necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The
Company acknowledges and agrees that no Purchaser makes or has made
any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions
contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in
Section 3.2 hereof.
(z) No Integrated Offering.
Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and
warranties set forth in Section 3.2, neither the Company, nor any
of its Affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf
has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any
security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under
circumstances that would cause this offering of the Securities to
be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of
(i) the Securities Act which would require the registration of any
such securities under the Securities Act, or (ii) any applicable
shareholder approval provisions of any Trading Market on which any
of the securities of the Company are listed or
designated.
(aa) Indebtedness.
Schedule 3.1(aa)
sets forth as of the date hereof all outstanding secured and
unsecured Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary, or for
which the Company or any Subsidiary has commitments. For the
purposes of this Agreement, “Indebtedness” means (x)
any liabilities for borrowed money or amounts owed in excess of
$10,000 (other than trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary
course of business), (y) all guaranties, endorsements and other
contingent obligations in respect of indebtedness of others,
whether or not the same are or should be reflected in the
Company’s consolidated balance sheet (or the notes thereto),
except guaranties by endorsement of negotiable instruments for
deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary
course of business; and (z) the present value of any lease payments
in excess of $10,000 due under leases required to be capitalized in
accordance with GAAP.
(bb) Solvency.
Based on the consolidated financial condition of the Company and
Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date, and the Company’s good
faith estimate of the fair market value of its assets, after giving
effect to the receipt by the Company of the proceeds from the sale
of the Securities hereunder: (i) the fair saleable value of the
Company’s assets exceeds the amount that will be required to
be paid on or in respect of the Company’s existing debts and
other liabilities (including known contingent liabilities) as they
mature, (ii) the Company’s assets do not constitute
unreasonably small capital to carry on its business as now
conducted and as proposed to be conducted including its capital
needs taking into account the particular capital requirements of
the business conducted by the Company, consolidated and projected
capital requirements and capital availability thereof, and (iii)
the current cash flow of the Company, together with the proceeds
the Company would receive, were it to liquidate all of its assets,
after taking into account all anticipated uses of the cash, would
be sufficient to pay all amounts on or in respect of its
liabilities when such amounts are required to be paid. The Company
does not intend to incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts
as they mature (taking into account the timing and amounts of cash
to be payable on or in respect of its debt). The Company has no
knowledge of any facts or circumstances which lead it to believe
that it will file for reorganization or liquidation under the
bankruptcy or reorganization laws of any jurisdiction within one
year from the Closing Date. Schedule 3.1(bb) sets forth as
of the date hereof all outstanding secured and unsecured
Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary, or for which the
Company or any Subsidiary has commitments. For the purposes of this
Agreement, “Indebtedness” means (x)
any liabilities for borrowed money or amounts owed in excess of
$50,000 in the aggregate (including trade accounts payable and
other liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business), (y)
all guaranties, endorsements and other contingent obligations in
respect of indebtedness of others, whether or not the same are or
should be reflected in the Company’s consolidated balance
sheet (or the notes thereto), except guaranties by endorsement of
negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar
transactions in the ordinary course of business; and (z) the
present value of any lease payments in excess of $50,000 due under
leases required to be capitalized in accordance with GAAP. Neither
the Company nor any Subsidiary is in default with respect to any
Indebtedness.
(cc) Tax
Status. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(cc) and for
matters that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the
Company and its Subsidiaries each (i) has made or filed all United
States federal, state and local income and all foreign income and
franchise tax returns, reports and declarations required by any
jurisdiction to which it is subject, (ii) has paid all taxes and
other governmental assessments and charges that are material in
amount, shown or determined to be due on such returns, reports and
declarations and (iii) has set aside on its books provision
reasonably adequate for the payment of all material taxes for
periods subsequent to the periods to which such returns, reports or
declarations apply. There are no unpaid taxes in any material
amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any
jurisdiction, and the officers of the Company or of any Subsidiary
know of no basis for any such claim.
(dd) No
General Solicitation. Neither the Company nor any person
acting on behalf of the Company has offered or sold any of the
Securities by any form of general solicitation or general
advertising. The Company has offered the Securities for sale only
to the Purchasers and certain other “accredited
investors” within the meaning of Rule 501 under the
Securities Act.
(ee) Foreign
Corrupt Practices. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary,
nor to the knowledge of the Company or any Subsidiary, any agent or
other person acting on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary,
has: (i) directly or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful
contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses
related to foreign or domestic political activity, (ii) made any
unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or
employees or to any foreign or domestic political parties or
campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully any
contribution made by the Company or any Subsidiary (or made by any
person acting on its behalf of which the Company is aware) which is
in violation of law or (iv) violated in any material respect any
provision of FCPA.
(ff) Accountants.
The Company’s accounting firm is set forth on Schedule 3.1(ff) of the
Disclosure Schedules. To the knowledge and belief of the Company,
such accounting firm: (i) is a registered public accounting firm as
required by the Exchange Act and (ii) shall express its opinion
with respect to the financial statements to be included in the
Company’s Annual Report for the fiscal year ending December
31, 2018.
(gg) Seniority.
As of the Closing Date, except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(gg), no
Indebtedness or other claim against the Company is senior to the
Debentures and Notes in right of payment, whether with respect to
interest or upon liquidation or dissolution, or otherwise, other
than indebtedness secured by purchase money security interests
(which is senior only as to underlying assets covered thereby) and
capital lease obligations (which is senior only as to the property
covered thereby).
(hh) No
Disagreements with Accountants and Lawyers. There are no
disagreements of any kind presently existing, or reasonably
anticipated by the Company to arise, between the Company and the
accountants and lawyers formerly or presently employed by the
Company.
(ii) Acknowledgment
Regarding Purchasers’ Purchase of Securities. The
Company acknowledges and agrees that each of the Purchasers is
acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser
with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions
contemplated thereby. The Company further acknowledges that no
Purchaser is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the
Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the
Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby and
any advice given by any Purchaser or any of their respective
representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction
Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely
incidental to the Purchasers’ purchase of the Securities. The
Company further represents to each Purchaser that the
Company’s decision to enter into this Agreement and the other
Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent
evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company
and its representatives.
(jj) Acknowledgment
Regarding Purchaser’s Trading Activity. Anything in this Agreement or elsewhere
herein to the contrary notwithstanding (except for Sections 3.2(f)
and 4.15 hereof), it is understood and acknowledged by the Company
that: (i) none of the Purchasers has been asked by the Company to
agree, nor has any Purchaser agreed, to desist from purchasing or
selling, long and/or short, securities of the Company, or
“derivative” securities based on securities issued by
the Company or to hold the Securities for any specified term, (ii)
past or future open market or other transactions by any Purchaser,
specifically including, without limitation, Short Sales or
“derivative” transactions, before or after the closing
of this or future private placement transactions, may negatively
impact the market price of the Company’s publicly-traded
securities, (iii) any Purchaser, and counter-parties in
“derivative” transactions to which any such Purchaser
is a party, directly or indirectly, may presently have a
“short” position in the Common Stock and (iv) each
Purchaser shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or
control over any arm’s length counter-party in any
“derivative” transaction. The Company further
understands and acknowledges that (y) one or more Purchasers may
engage in hedging activities at various times during the period
that the Securities are outstanding, including, without limitation,
during the periods that the value of the Underlying Shares
deliverable with respect to Securities are being determined, and
(z) such hedging activities (if any) could reduce the value of the
existing stockholders' equity interests in the Company at and after
the time that the hedging activities are being conducted. The
Company acknowledges that such aforementioned hedging activities do
not constitute a breach of any of the Transaction
Documents.
(kk) Regulation
M Compliance. The Company has not, and to its
knowledge no one acting on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or
indirectly, any action designed to cause or to result in the
stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the
Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Securities,
(ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or paid any compensation for
soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid or
agreed to pay to any Person any compensation for soliciting another
to purchase any other securities of the Company, other than, in the
case of clauses (ii) and (iii), compensation paid to the
Company’s placement agent in connection with the placement of
the Securities.
(ll) FDA.
As to each product subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration (“FDA”) under the Federal
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, as amended, and the regulations
thereunder (“FDCA”) that is
manufactured, packaged, labeled, tested, distributed, sold, and/or
marketed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (each such
product, a “Pharmaceutical Product”),
such Pharmaceutical Product is being manufactured, packaged,
labeled, tested, distributed, sold and/or marketed by the Company
in compliance with all applicable requirements under FDCA and
similar laws, rules and regulations relating to registration,
investigational use, premarket clearance, licensure, or application
approval, good manufacturing practices, good laboratory practices,
good clinical practices, product listing, quotas, labeling,
advertising, record keeping and filing of reports, except where the
failure to be in compliance would not have a Material Adverse
Effect. There is no pending, completed or, to the Company's
knowledge, threatened, action (including any lawsuit, arbitration,
or legal or administrative or regulatory proceeding, charge,
complaint, or investigation) against the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, and none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
has received any notice, warning letter or other communication from
the FDA or any other governmental entity, which (i) contests the
premarket clearance, licensure, registration, or approval of, the
uses of, the distribution of, the manufacturing or packaging of,
the testing of, the sale of, or the labeling and promotion of any
Pharmaceutical Product, (ii) withdraws its approval of, requests
the recall, suspension, or seizure of, or withdraws or orders the
withdrawal of advertising or sales promotional materials relating
to, any Pharmaceutical Product, (iii) imposes a clinical hold on
any clinical investigation by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, (iv) enjoins production at any facility of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (v) enters or proposes to enter
into a consent decree of permanent injunction with the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries, or (vi) otherwise alleges any violation of
any laws, rules or regulations by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, and which, either individually or in the aggregate,
would have a Material Adverse Effect. The properties, business and
operations of the Company have been and are being conducted in all
material respects in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and
regulations of the FDA. The Company has not been informed by
the FDA that the FDA will prohibit the marketing, sale, license or
use in the United States of any product proposed to be developed,
produced or marketed by the Company nor has the FDA expressed any
concern as to approving or clearing for marketing any product being
developed or proposed to be developed by the Company.
(mm) Stock
Option Plans. Each stock option granted by the Company under
the Company’s stock option plan was granted (i) in accordance
with the terms of the Company’s stock option plan and (ii)
with an exercise price at least equal to the fair market value of
the Common Stock on the date such stock option would be considered
granted under GAAP and applicable law. No stock option granted
under the Company’s stock option plan has been backdated. The
Company has not knowingly granted, and there is no and has been no
Company policy or practice to knowingly grant, stock options prior
to, or otherwise knowingly coordinate the grant of stock options
with, the release or other public announcement of material
information regarding the Company or its Subsidiaries or their
financial results or prospects.
(nn) Office
of Foreign Assets Control. Neither the Company nor any
Subsidiary nor, to the Company's knowledge, any director, officer,
agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any Subsidiary is
currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office
of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department
(“OFAC”).
(oo) U.S.
Real Property Holding Corporation. The Company is not and
has never been a U.S. real property holding corporation within the
meaning of Section 897 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended, and the Company shall so certify upon Purchaser’s
request.
(pp) Bank
Holding Company Act. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliates is subject to the Bank Holding Company
Act of 1956, as amended (the “BHCA”) and to regulation
by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the
“Federal
Reserve”). Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliates owns or controls, directly or
indirectly, five percent (5%) or more of the outstanding shares of
any class of voting securities or twenty-five percent or more of
the total equity of a bank or any entity that is subject to the
BHCA and to regulation by the Federal Reserve. Neither the Company
nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates exercises a controlling
influence over the management or policies of a bank or any entity
that is subject to the BHCA and to regulation by the Federal
Reserve.
(qq) Money
Laundering. The operations of the Company and its
Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance
with applicable financial record-keeping and reporting requirements
of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as
amended, applicable money laundering statutes and applicable rules
and regulations thereunder (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 Subsidiary with respect to the Money Laundering
Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company or any
Subsidiary, threatened.
(rr) Other
Covered Persons. The Company is not aware of any person
(other than any Issuer Covered Person) that has been or will be
paid (directly or indirectly) remuneration for solicitation of
purchasers in connection with the sale of any Regulation D
Securities.
(ss) Notice
of Disqualification Events. The Company will notify the
Purchasers in writing, prior to the Closing Date of (i) any
Disqualification Event relating to any Issuer Covered Person and
(ii) any event that would, with the passage of time, become a
Disqualification Event relating to any Issuer Covered
Person.
(tt) Survival.
The foregoing representations and warranties shall survive the
Closing.
3.2 Representations and Warranties of the
Purchasers. Each Purchaser, for itself and for no other
Purchaser, hereby represents and warrants as of the date hereof and
as of the Closing Date to the Company as follows (unless as of a
specific date therein):
(a) Organization; Authority. Such
Purchaser is either an individual or an entity duly incorporated or
formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation with full right,
corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar power
and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry
out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and
delivery of the Transaction Documents and performance by such
Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate,
partnership, limited liability company or similar action, as
applicable, on the part of such Purchaser. Each Transaction
Document to which it is a party has been duly executed by such
Purchaser, and when delivered by such Purchaser in accordance with
the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding
obligation of such Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance
with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable
principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium and other laws of general application affecting
enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited
by laws relating to the availability of specific performance,
injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as
indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by
Applicable Law.
(b) Understandings or Arrangements.
Such Purchaser understands that the Securities are
“restricted securities” and have not been registered
under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law and
is acquiring the Securities as principal for its own account and
not with a view to or for distributing or reselling such Securities
or any part thereof in violation of the Securities Act or any
applicable state securities law, has no present intention of
distributing any of such Securities in violation of the Securities
Act or any applicable state securities law and has no direct or
indirect arrangement or understandings with any other persons to
distribute or regarding the distribution of such Securities in
violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities
law (this representation and warranty not limiting such
Purchaser’s right to sell the Securities pursuant to any
registration statement or otherwise in compliance with applicable
federal and state securities laws). Such Purchaser is acquiring the
Securities hereunder in the ordinary course of its
business.
(c) Purchaser Status. At the time
such Purchaser was offered the Securities, it was, and as of the
date hereof it is, and on each date on which it converts any Notes
it will be either: (i) an accredited investor (“Accredited Investor”) as
defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(7) or (a)(8) under
the Securities Act or (ii) a “qualified institutional
buyer” as defined in Rule 144A(a) under the Securities Act.
Such Purchaser is not required to be registered as a broker-dealer
under Section 15 of the Exchange Act. Such Purchaser has the
authority and is duly and legally qualified to purchase and own the
Securities. Such Purchaser is able to bear the risk of such
investment for an indefinite period and to afford a complete loss
thereof. The information set forth on the signature pages hereto
regarding such Purchaser is true and complete in all respects.
Except as disclosed, such Purchaser has had no position, office or
other material relationship within the past three years with the
Company or Persons (as defined below) known to such Purchaser to be
affiliates of the Company, and is not a member of the Financial
Industry Regulatory Authority or an “associated person”
(as such term is defined under the FINRA Membership and
Registration Rules Section 1011).
(d) Experience of Such Purchaser.
Such Purchaser, either alone or together with its representatives,
has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and
financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and
risks of the prospective investment in the Securities, and has so
evaluated the merits and risks of such investment. Such Purchaser
is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the
Securities and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete
loss of such investment.
(e) Information on Company. Such
Purchaser has been furnished with or has had access to the SEC
Reports and Disclosure Schedules. Purchasers are not deemed to have
any knowledge of any information not included in the SEC Reports
and Disclosure Schedules unless such information is delivered in
the manner described in the next sentence. In addition,
such Purchaser may have received in writing from the Company such
other information concerning its operations, financial condition
and other matters as such Purchaser has requested, identified
thereon as OTHER WRITTEN INFORMATION (such other information is
collectively, the “Other
Written Information”), and considered all factors such
Purchaser deems material in deciding on the advisability of
investing in the Securities. Such Purchaser was afforded (i)
the opportunity to ask such questions as such Purchaser deemed
necessary of, and to receive answers from, representatives of the
Company concerning the merits and risks of acquiring the
Securities; (ii) the right of access to information about the
Company and its financial condition, results of operations,
business, properties, management and prospects sufficient to enable
such Purchaser to evaluate the Securities; and (iii) the
opportunity to obtain such additional information that the Company
possesses or can acquire without unreasonable effort or expense
that is necessary to make an informed investment decision with
respect to acquiring the Securities.
(f) Compliance with Securities Act;
Reliance on Exemptions. Such Purchaser understands and
agrees that the Securities have not been registered under the
Securities Act or any applicable state securities laws, by reason
of their issuance in a transaction that does not require
registration under the Securities Act, and that such Securities
must be held indefinitely unless a subsequent disposition is
registered under the Securities Act or any applicable state
securities laws or is exempt from such registration. Such Purchaser
understands and agrees that the Securities are being offered and
sold to such Purchaser in reliance on specific exemptions from the
registration requirements of United States federal and state
securities laws and regulations and that the Company is relying in
part upon the truth and accuracy of, and such Purchaser’s
compliance with, the representations, warranties, agreements,
acknowledgments and understandings of such Purchaser set forth
herein in order to determine the availability of such exemptions
and the eligibility of such Purchaser to acquire the
Securities.
(g) Communication of Offer. Such
Purchaser is not purchasing the Securities as a result of any
“general solicitation” or “general
advertising,” as such terms are defined in Regulation D,
which includes, but is not limited to, any advertisement, article,
notice or other communication regarding the Securities published in
any newspaper, magazine or similar media or on the internet or
broadcast over television, radio or the internet or presented at
any seminar or any other general solicitation or general
advertisement.
(h) No Governmental Review. Such
Purchaser understands that no United States federal or state agency
or any other governmental or state agency has passed on or made
recommendations or endorsement of the Securities or the suitability
of the investment in the Securities nor have such authorities
passed upon or endorsed the merits of the Offering.
(i) No Conflicts. The execution,
delivery and performance of this Agreement and performance under
the other Transaction Documents and the consummation by such
Purchaser of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby or
relating hereto or thereto do not and will not (i) result in a
violation of such Purchaser’s charter documents, bylaws or
other organizational documents, if applicable, (ii) conflict with
nor constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of
time or both would become a default) under any agreement to which
such Purchaser is a party, nor (iii) result in a violation of any
law, rule, or regulation, or any order, judgment or decree of any
court or governmental agency applicable to such Purchaser or its
properties (except for such conflicts, defaults and violations as
would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material
adverse effect on such Purchaser). Such Purchaser is not required
to obtain any consent, authorization or order of, or make any
filing or registration with, any court or governmental agency in
order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its obligations
under this Agreement or perform under the other Transaction
Documents nor to purchase the Securities in accordance with the
terms hereof, provided that for purposes of the representation made
in this sentence, such Purchaser is assuming and relying upon the
accuracy of the relevant representations and agreements of the
Company herein.
(j) Certain
Transactions and Confidentiality. Other than consummating
the transactions contemplated hereunder, such Purchaser has not
directly or indirectly, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or
pursuant to any understanding with such Purchaser, executed any
purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the securities of the
Company during the period commencing as of the time that such
Purchaser first received a written term sheet from the Company or
any other Person representing the Company setting forth the
material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby and ending
immediately prior to the execution hereof.
(k) Survival.
The foregoing representations and warranties shall survive the
Closing.
The
Company acknowledges and agrees that the representations contained
in Section 3.2 shall not modify, amend or affect such
Purchaser’s right to rely on the Company’s
representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any
representations and warranties contained in any other Transaction
Document or any other document or instrument executed and/or
delivered in connection with this Agreement or the consummation of
the transaction contemplated hereby.
ARTICLE IV.
OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES
4.1 (a) Transfer
Restrictions. The Securities may only be disposed of in
compliance with state and federal securities laws. In connection
with any transfer of Securities other than pursuant to an effective
registration statement or Rule 144, to the Company or to an
Affiliate of a Purchaser or in connection with a pledge as
contemplated in Section 4.1(c), the Company may require the
transferor thereof to provide to the Company, at the
Company’s expense, an opinion of counsel selected by the
transferor and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the form and
substance of which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the
Company, to the effect that such transfer does not require
registration of such transferred Securities under the Securities
Act. As a condition of such transfer, any such transferee shall
agree in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and
shall have the rights and obligations of a Purchaser under this
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.
(b) Legend.
The Purchasers agree to the imprinting, so long as is required by
this Section 4.1, of a legend on any of the Securities in the
following form:
[NEITHER] THIS
SECURITY [NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THIS SECURITY IS
[EXERCISABLE] [CONVERTIBLE]] HAS [NOT] BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF
ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES
ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT
PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A
TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE
SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES
LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR
TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY
ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY. THIS SECURITY [AND THE SECURITIES
ISSUABLE UPON [EXERCISE] [CONVERSION] OF THIS SECURITY] MAY BE
PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT WITH A
REGISTERED BROKER-DEALER OR OTHER LOAN WITH A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION
THAT IS AN ACCREDITED INVESTOR AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a) UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH
SECURITIES.
(c) Pledge.
The Company acknowledges and agrees that a Purchaser may from time
to time pledge pursuant to a bona fide margin agreement with a
registered broker-dealer or grant a security interest in some or
all of the Securities to a financial institution that is an
Accredited Investor and who agrees to be bound by the provisions of
this Agreement and, if required under the terms of such
arrangement, such Purchaser may transfer pledge or secure
Securities to the pledgees or secured parties. Such a pledge or
transfer would not be subject to approval of the Company and no
legal opinion of legal counsel of the pledgee, secured party or
pledgor shall be required in connection therewith. Further, no
notice shall be required of such pledge. At the appropriate
Purchaser’s expense, the Company will execute and deliver
such reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party of
Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or
transfer of the Securities, including, if the Securities are
subject to registration pursuant to Section 4.26 hereof, the
preparation and filing of any required prospectus supplement under
Rule 424(b)(3) under the Securities Act or other applicable
provision of the Securities Act to appropriately amend the list of
selling stockholders thereunder.
(d) Legend
Removal. Certificates evidencing the Underlying Shares shall
not contain any legend (“Unlegended
Shares”) (including the legend set forth in Section
4.1(b) hereof): (i) while a registration statement covering the
resale of such security is effective under the Securities Act, (ii)
following any sale of such Underlying Shares pursuant to Rule 144,
(iii) if such Underlying Shares are eligible for sale under Rule
144 (in the case of a non-Affiliate of the Company), without the
requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current
public information required under Rule 144 as to such Underlying
Shares and without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or (iv) if
such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the
Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and
pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission). The Company
shall cause its counsel, at the expense of the Company, to issue a
legal opinion to the Transfer Agent promptly after the Effective
Date if required by the Transfer Agent to effect the removal of the
legend hereunder. If all or any Notes are converted at a time when
there is an effective registration statement to cover the resale of
the Underlying Shares, or if such Underlying Shares may be sold
under Rule 144 or if such legend is not otherwise required under
applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial
interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the
Commission) then such Underlying Shares shall be issued free of all
legends. The Company agrees that following such time as such legend
is no longer required under this Section 4.1(c), it will, no later
than two (2) Trading Days following the delivery by a Purchaser to
the Company or the Transfer Agent of a certificate representing
Underlying Shares, as applicable, issued with a restrictive legend
(such second (2nd) Trading Day, the
“Legend Removal
Date”), deliver or cause to be delivered to such
Purchaser a certificate representing such shares that is free from
all restrictive and other legends. The Company may not make any
notation on its records or give instructions to the Transfer Agent
that enlarge the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section
4. Certificates for Underlying Shares subject to legend removal
hereunder shall be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the
Purchaser by crediting the account of the Purchaser’s prime
broker with the Depository Trust Company System as directed by such
Purchaser.
(e) Legend
Removal Default. In addition to such Purchaser’s other
available remedies, provided the conditions for legend removal set
forth in Section 4.1(d) exist, the Company shall pay to a
Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a
penalty, for each $1,000 of Underlying Shares (based on the higher
of the actual purchase price or VWAP of the Common Stock on the
date such Securities are submitted to the Transfer Agent) delivered
for removal of the restrictive legend and subject to Section
4.1(d), $10 per Trading Day for each Trading Day after the Legend
Removal Date (increasing to $20 per Trading Day after the fifth
Trading Day) until such certificate is delivered without a legend.
Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue
actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver
certificates representing any Securities as required by the
Transaction Documents, and such Purchaser shall have the right to
pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including,
without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or
injunctive relief.
(f) DWAC.
In lieu of delivering physical certificates representing the
Unlegended Shares, upon request of a Purchaser, so long as the
certificates therefor do not bear a legend and the Purchaser is not
obligated to return such certificate for the placement of a legend
thereon, the Company shall cause its transfer agent to
electronically transmit the Unlegended Shares by crediting the
account of Purchaser’s prime broker with the Depository Trust
Company through its Deposit Withdrawal At Custodian system,
provided that the Company’s Common Stock is DTC eligible and
the Company’s transfer agent participates in the Deposit
Withdrawal at Custodian system. Such delivery must be made on or
before the Legend Removal Date.
(g) Injunction.
In the event a Purchaser shall request delivery of Unlegended
Shares as described in this Section 4.1 and the Company is required
to deliver such Unlegended Shares, the Company may not refuse to
deliver Unlegended Shares based on any claim that such Purchaser or
anyone associated or affiliated with such Purchaser has not
complied with Purchaser’s obligations under the Transaction
Documents, or for any other reason, unless, an injunction or
temporary restraining order from a court, on notice, restraining
and or enjoining delivery of such Unlegended Shares shall have been
sought and obtained by the Company and the Company has posted a
surety bond for the benefit of such Purchaser in the amount of the
greater of (i) 120% of the amount of the aggregate purchase price
of the Underlying Shares to be subject to the injunction or
temporary restraining order, or (ii) the VWAP of the Common Stock
on the Trading Day before the issue date of the injunction
multiplied by the number of Unlegended Shares to be subject to the
injunction, which bond shall remain in effect until the completion
of arbitration/litigation of the dispute and the proceeds of which
shall be payable to such Purchaser to the extent Purchaser obtains
judgment in Purchaser’s favor.
(h) Buy-In.
In addition to any other rights available to Purchaser, if the
Company fails to deliver to a Purchaser Unlegended Shares as
required pursuant to this Agreement and after the Legend Removal
Date the Purchaser, or a broker on the Purchaser’s behalf,
purchases (in an open market transaction or otherwise) shares of
Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by such Purchaser
of the shares of Common Stock which the Purchaser was entitled to
receive in unlegended form from the Company (a
“Buy-In”),
then the Company shall promptly pay in cash to the Purchaser (in
addition to any remedies available to or elected by the Purchaser)
the amount, if any, by which (A) the Purchaser’s total
purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the
shares of Common Stock so purchased exceeds (B) the aggregate
purchase price of the shares of Common Stock delivered to the
Company for reissuance as Unlegended Shares together with interest
thereon at a rate of 15% per annum accruing until such amount and
any accrued interest thereon is paid in full (which amount shall be
paid as liquidated damages and not as a penalty). For example, if a
Purchaser purchases shares of Common Stock having a total purchase
price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to $10,000 of
purchase price of Underlying Shares delivered to the Company for
reissuance as Unlegended Shares, the Company shall be required to
pay the Purchaser $1,000, plus interest, if any. The Purchaser
shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts
payable to the Purchaser in respect of the
Buy-In.
4.2 Acknowledgment
of Dilution. The Company acknowledges that the issuance of
the Securities may result in dilution of the outstanding shares of
Common Stock, which dilution may be substantial under certain
market conditions. The Company further acknowledges that its
obligations under the Transaction Documents, including, without
limitation, its obligation to issue the Underlying Shares pursuant
to the Transaction Documents, are unconditional and absolute and
not subject to any right of set off, counterclaim, delay or
reduction, regardless of the effect of any such dilution or any
claim the Company may have against any Purchaser and regardless of
the dilutive effect that such issuance may have on the ownership of
the other stockholders of the Company.
4.3 Furnishing of Information; Public
Information.
(a) Until
no Purchaser owns Securities, the Company covenants to file all
periodic reports with the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act
and maintain the registration of the Common Stock under Section
12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act after such time as the Company
initially becomes subject to such requirements and to timely file
(or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the
applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the
Company after the date hereof pursuant to the Exchange Act and
timely file all reports that would be required to be filed by an
issuer subject to Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act even
if the Company is not then subject to the reporting requirements of
the Exchange Act.
(b) At
any time commencing on the Closing Date, and ending at such time
that all of the Securities may be sold by non-Affiliates of the
Company without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance
with Rule 144(c)(1) and otherwise without restriction or limitation
pursuant to Rule 144, if the Company shall fail for any reason to
satisfy the current public information requirement under Rule
144(c) (a “Public Information Failure”) then, in
addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the
Company shall pay to a Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated
damages and not as a penalty, by reason of any such delay in or
impairment of its ability to sell the Securities, an amount in cash
equal to 2.0% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes
outstanding and accrued interest thereon, and aggregate Conversion
Price of Underlying Shares (with respect to the Notes) held by such
Purchaser on the day of a Public Information Failure and on every
thirtieth (30th) day (pro-rated for periods totaling less than
thirty days) thereafter until the earlier of (a) the date such
Public Information Failure is cured and (b) such time that such
public information is no longer required for the Purchasers to
transfer the Underlying Shares pursuant to Rule 144. The payments
to which a Purchaser shall be entitled pursuant to this Section
4.3(b) are referred to herein as “Public Information Failure
Payments.” Public Information Failure Payments shall
be paid on the earlier of (i) the last day of the calendar month
during which such Public Information Failure Payments are incurred
and (ii) the third (3rd) Business Day after the event or failure
giving rise to the Public Information Failure Payments is cured. In
the event the Company fails to make Public Information Failure
Payments in a timely manner, such Public Information Failure
Payments shall bear interest at the rate of 1.5% per month
(prorated for partial months) until paid in full. Nothing herein
shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages
for the Public Information Failure, and such Purchaser shall have
the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in
equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific
performance and/or injunctive relief.
4.4 Integration.
The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy
or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in
Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the
offer or sale of the Securities in a manner that would require the
registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Securities
or that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the
Securities for purposes of the rules and regulations of any Trading
Market such that it would require shareholder approval prior to the
closing of such other transaction or to effectuate such other
transaction unless shareholder approval is obtained before the
earlier of the closing of such subsequent transaction or
effectuation of such other transaction.
4.5 Conversion
Procedures. The form of Notice of Conversion included in the
Notes set forth the totality of the procedures required of the
Purchasers in order to convert the Notes. No additional legal
opinion, other information or instructions shall be required of the
Purchasers to convert their Notes. The Company shall honor
conversions of the Notes and shall deliver Underlying Shares in
accordance with the terms, conditions and time periods set forth in
the Transaction Documents.
4.6 Securities
Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall, by 9:30 a.m.
(New York City time) on the first Trading Day following each
Closing Date, file a Current Report on Form 8-K including the
Transaction Documents as exhibits thereto with the Commission
within the time required by the Exchange Act (“Form 8-K”). From and
after the filing of the Form 8-K, the Company represents to the
Purchaser that it shall have publicly disclosed all material,
non-public information delivered to the Purchaser by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers,
directors, employees or agents in connection with the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Company and
Purchaser shall consult with each other in issuing any press
releases with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and
neither the Company nor Purchaser shall issue any press release nor
otherwise make any such public statement without the prior consent
of the Company, with respect to any press release of Purchaser, or
without the prior consent of Purchaser, with respect to any press
release of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be
withheld or delayed, except if such disclosure is required by law,
in which case the disclosing party shall promptly provide the other
party with prior notice of such public statement or communication.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly
disclose the name of Purchaser, or include the name of Purchaser in
any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or Trading
Market unless the name of Purchaser is already included in the body
of the Transaction Documents, without the prior written consent of
Purchaser, except: (a) as required by federal securities law in
connection with the filing of final Transaction Documents with the
Commission and (b) to the extent such disclosure is required by law
or Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company shall
provide the Purchaser with prior notice of such disclosure
permitted under this clause (b). The Company may file a Form 10-Q
in lieu of the Form 8-K provided such filing contains the content
required to be included in the Form 8-K and the Form 10-Q is filed
not later than the Trading Day after the Closing Date.
4.7 Shareholder
Rights Plan. No claim will be made or enforced by the
Company or, with the consent of the Company, any other Person, that
any Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person” under any
control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill
(including any distribution under a rights agreement) or similar
anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by
the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the
provisions of any such plan or arrangement, by virtue of receiving
Securities under the Transaction Documents or under any other
agreement between the Company and the Purchasers.
4.8 Non-Public
Information. Except with respect to the material terms and
conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents and as required hereunder, the Company covenants and
agrees that neither it, nor any other Person acting on its behalf,
will provide any Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any
information that the Company believes constitutes material
non-public information, unless prior thereto such Purchaser shall
have entered into a written agreement with the Company regarding
the confidentiality and use of such information. The Company
understands and confirms that each Purchaser shall be relying on
the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of
the Company.
4.9 Use
of Proceeds. The Company shall use the net proceeds from the
sale of the Securities hereunder substantially for the purposes set
forth on Schedule
4.9 hereto and shall not use such proceeds: (a) for the
satisfaction of any portion of the Company’s debt except as
disclosed on Schedule
4.9 (other than payment of trade payables in the ordinary
course of the Company’s business and consistent with prior
practices), (b) for the redemption of any Common Stock or Common
Stock Equivalents, (c) for the settlement of any outstanding
litigation or (d) in violation of FCPA or OFAC
regulations.
4.10 Indemnification
of Purchasers. Subject to the provisions of this Section
4.10, the Company will indemnify and hold each Purchaser and its
directors, officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and
agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role
of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such
title or any other title), each Person who controls such Purchaser
(within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section
20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders,
agents, members, partners or employees (and any other Persons with
a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles
notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such
controlling persons (each, a “Purchaser Party”)
harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims,
contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all
judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable
attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such
Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to
(a) any breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants
or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in the other
Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted against
Purchaser Parties in any capacity, or any of them or their
respective Affiliates, by any stockholder of the Company who is not
an Affiliate of such Purchaser Party, with respect to any of the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (unless such
action is based upon a breach of such Purchaser Party’s
representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction
Documents or any agreements or understandings such Purchaser Party
may have with any such stockholder or any violations by such
Purchaser Party of state or federal securities laws or any conduct
by such Purchaser Party which constitutes fraud, gross negligence,
willful misconduct or malfeasance). If any action shall be brought
against any Purchaser Party in respect of which indemnity may be
sought pursuant to this Agreement, such Purchaser Party shall
promptly notify the Company in writing, and the Company shall have
the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own
choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party. Any
Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in
any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the
fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such
Purchaser Party except to the extent that (i) the employment
thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company in writing,
(ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to
assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action
there is, in the reasonable opinion of counsel, a material conflict
on any material issue between the position of the Company and the
position of such Purchaser Party, in which case the Company shall
be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than
one such separate counsel. The Company will not be liable to any
Purchaser Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by a
Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written
consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or
(z) to the extent, but only to the extent that a loss, claim,
damage or liability is attributable to any Purchaser Party’s
breach of its material representations, warranties or covenants
under the Transaction Documents. The indemnification required by
this Section 4.10 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount
thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, as and
when bills are received or are incurred. The indemnity agreements
contained herein shall be in addition to any cause of action or
similar right of any Purchaser Party against the Company or others
and any liabilities the Company may be subject to pursuant to
law.
4.11 Reservation
and Listing of Securities.
(a) As of the date hereof, the Company, ignoring any
conversion or exercise limitations, has reserved for each Purchaser
and the Company shall continue to reserve and keep available at all
times, the “Required Minimum”, free of pre-emptive
rights. If, on any date, the number of authorized but
unissued (and otherwise unreserved) shares of Common Stock is less
than the Required Minimum on such date (an “Authorized Share
Failure”), then the Board of Directors shall use
commercially reasonable efforts to amend the Company’s
articles of incorporation to increase the number of authorized but
unissued shares of Common Stock to at least the Required Minimum
plus such other amount as may be required for the Company’s
other purposes, and reserve the Required Minimum on behalf of the
Purchaser, as soon as possible and in any event not later than the
60th day
after such date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the occurrence of
an Authorized Share Failure is an Event of Default.
(b) The Company shall,
if applicable: (i) in the time and manner required by the principal
Trading Market, prepare and file with such Trading Market an
additional shares listing application covering a number of shares
of Common Stock at least equal to the Required Minimum on the date
of such application, (ii) take all steps necessary to cause such
shares of Common Stock to be approved for listing or quotation on
such Trading Market as soon as possible thereafter, (iii) provide
to the Purchasers evidence of such listing or quotation and (iv)
maintain the listing or quotation of such Common Stock on any date
at least equal to the Required Minimum on such date on such Trading
Market or another Trading Market. The
Company will then take all action necessary to continue the listing
or quotation and trading of its Common Stock on a Trading Market
until the later of (i) at least six (6) years after the Closing
Date, and (ii) for so long as the Notes are outstanding, and will
comply in all respects with the Company’s reporting, filing
and other obligations under the bylaws or rules of the Trading
Market. In the event the aforedescribed listing is not
continuously maintained for six (6) years after the Closing Date
and for so long as Notes are outstanding (a “Listing Default”), then
in addition to any other rights the Purchasers may have hereunder
or under applicable law, on the first day of a Listing Default and
on each monthly anniversary of each such Listing Default date (if
the applicable Listing Default shall not have been cured by such
date) until the applicable Listing Default is cured, the Company
shall pay to each Purchaser an amount in cash, as partial
liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 2% of the
aggregate Subscription Amount of Notes, and Conversion Price of the
Conversion Shares held by such Purchaser on the day of a Listing
Default and on every thirtieth day (pro-rated for periods less than
thirty days) thereafter until the date such Listing Default is
cured. If the Company fails to pay any liquidated damages pursuant
to this Section in a timely manner, the Company will pay interest
thereon at a rate of 1.5% per month (pro-rated for partial months)
to the Purchaser.
4.12 Form
D; Blue Sky Filings. The Company agrees to timely file a
Form D with respect to the Securities as required under Regulation
D and to provide a copy thereof, promptly upon request of any
Purchaser. The Company shall take such action as the Company shall
reasonably determine is necessary in order to obtain an exemption
for, or to qualify the Securities for, sale to the Purchasers at a
Closing under Applicable Law, including “Blue Sky” laws
of the states of the United States, and shall provide evidence of
such actions promptly upon request of any Purchaser.
4.13 Subsequent
Equity Sales. From the date hereof until the End Date, the
Company and each Subsidiary will not, without the consent of a
Majority in Interest, enter into any Equity Line of Credit or
similar agreement, issue or agree to issue floating or Variable
Priced Equity Linked Instruments nor issue or agree to issue any of
the foregoing or equity with price reset rights (subject to
adjustment for stock splits, distributions, dividends,
recapitalizations and the like) (collectively, a
“Variable Rate
Transaction”). For purposes hereof,
“Equity Line of
Credit” shall include any transaction involving a
written agreement between the Company and an investor or
underwriter whereby the Company has the right to “put”
its securities to the investor or underwriter over an agreed period
of time and at an agreed price or price formula, and
“Variable Priced
Equity Linked Instruments” shall include: (A) any debt
or equity securities which are convertible into, exercisable or
exchangeable for, or carry the right to receive additional shares
of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents or any of the foregoing
at a price that can be reduced either (1) at any conversion,
exercise or exchange rate or other price that is based upon and/or
varies with the trading prices of or quotations for Common Stock at
any time after the initial issuance of such debt or equity
security, or (2) with a fixed conversion, exercise or exchange
price that is subject to being reset at some future date at any
time after the initial issuance of such debt or equity security due
to a change in the market price of the Company’s Common Stock
since date of initial issuance, or upon the issuance of any debt,
equity or Common Stock Equivalent, and (B) any amortizing
convertible security which amortizes prior to its maturity date,
where the Company is required or has the option to (or any investor
in such transaction has the option to require the Company to) make
such amortization payments in shares of Common Stock which are
valued at a price that is based upon and/or varies with the trading
prices of or quotations for Common Stock at any time after the
initial issuance of such debt or equity security (whether or not
such payments in stock are subject to certain equity conditions).
For purposes of determining the total consideration for a
convertible instrument (including a right to purchase equity of the
Company) issued, subject to an original issue or similar discount
or which principal amount is directly or indirectly increased after
issuance, the consideration will be deemed to be the actual net
cash amount received by the Company in consideration of the
original issuance of such convertible instrument. Until the End
Date, the Company will not, without the consent of a Majority in
Interest, issue any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents nor
issue or amend the terms of any securities or Common Stock
Equivalents or of any agreement outstanding or in effect as of the
date of this Agreement pursuant to which same were or may be
acquired without the consent of a Majority in Interest, if the
result of such issuance or amendment would be at an effective price
per share of Common Stock less than the Conversion Price in effect
at the time of such issuance or amendment; all subject to
adjustment as described in Section 5.23 hereof. The restrictions
and limitations in this Section 4.13 are in addition to and shall
apply whether or not a Purchaser exercises its rights pursuant to
Section 4.16 and Section 4.22.
4.14 Equal
Treatment of Purchasers. No consideration (including any
modification of any Transaction Document) shall be offered or paid
to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of
any provision of any of this Agreement unless the same
consideration is also offered on a ratable basis to all of the
parties to this Agreement. For clarification purposes, this
provision constitutes a separate right granted to each Purchaser by
the Company and negotiated separately by each Purchaser, and is
intended for the Company to treat the Purchasers as a class and
shall not in any way be construed as the Purchasers acting in
concert or as a group with respect to the purchase, disposition or
voting of Securities or otherwise.
4.15 Capital
Changes. Until the one (1) year anniversary of the Closing
Date, the Company shall not undertake a reverse or forward stock
split or reclassification of the Common Stock without five (5) days
prior written notice to the Purchasers. In no event will the
Company increase the par value of the Common Stock to an amount
greater than the Conversion Price, then in effect.
4.16 Participation
in Future Financing.
(a) Until the End Date,
upon any proposed issuance by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries of Common Stock, Common Stock Equivalents,
Indebtedness or a combination thereof, other than (i) a rights
offering to all holders of Common Stock which does not include
extending such rights offering to holders of Notes, or (ii) an
Exempt Issuance (each a “Subsequent Financing”),
the Purchasers shall have the right to participate in up to an
amount of the Subsequent Financing equal to 100% of the Subsequent
Financing (the “Participation Maximum”)
pro rata to each other in proportion to their Subscription Amounts
on the same terms, conditions and price provided for in the
Subsequent Financing, unless the Subsequent Financing is an
underwritten public offering, in which case the Company shall
notify each Purchaser of such public offering when it is lawful for
the Company to do so, but no Purchaser shall be entitled to
purchase any particular amount of such public offering without the
approval of the lead underwriter of such underwritten public
offering.
(b) At least ten (10)
Trading Days prior to the closing of the Subsequent Financing, the
Company shall deliver to each Purchaser a written notice of its
intention to effect a Subsequent Financing (“Pre-Notice”), which
Pre-Notice shall ask such Purchaser if it wants to review the
details of such financing (such additional notice, a
“Subsequent
Financing Notice”). Upon the request of a Purchaser,
and only upon a request by such Purchaser, for a Subsequent
Financing Notice, the Company shall promptly, but no later than one
(1) Trading Day after such request, deliver a Subsequent Financing
Notice to such Purchaser. The requesting Purchaser shall be deemed
to have acknowledged that the Subsequent Financing Notice may
contain material non-public information. The Subsequent Financing
Notice shall describe in reasonable detail the proposed terms of
such Subsequent Financing, the amount of proceeds intended to be
raised thereunder and the Person or Persons through or with whom
such Subsequent Financing is proposed to be effected and shall
include a term sheet or similar document relating thereto as an
attachment.
(c) Any Purchaser
desiring to participate in such Subsequent Financing must provide
written notice to the Company by not later than 5:30 p.m. (New York
City time) on the tenth (10th) Trading Day after
all of the Purchasers have received the Pre-Notice that the
Purchaser is willing to participate in the Subsequent Financing,
the amount of such Purchaser’s participation, and
representing and warranting that such Purchaser has such funds
ready, willing, and available for investment on the terms set forth
in the Subsequent Financing Notice. If the Company receives no such
notice from a Purchaser as of such tenth (10th Trading Day, such
Purchaser shall be deemed to have notified the Company that it does
not elect to participate.
(d) If by 5:30 p.m.
(New York City time) on the fifteenth (15th ) Trading Day after
all of the Purchasers have received the Pre-Notice, notifications
by the Purchasers of their willingness to participate in the
Subsequent Financing (or to cause their designees to participate)
is, in the aggregate, less than the total amount of the
Participation Maximum of the Subsequent Financing, then the Company
may affect the remaining portion of such Subsequent Financing on
the terms and with the Persons set forth in the Subsequent
Financing Notice and the Purchasers shall simultaneously affect
their portion of such Subsequent Financing as set forth in their
notifications to the Company consistent with the terms set forth in
the Subsequent Financing Notice.
(e) If by 5:30 p.m.
(New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Trading Day after
all of the Purchasers have received the Pre-Notice, the Company
receives responses to a Subsequent Financing Notice from Purchasers
seeking to purchase more than the aggregate amount of the
Participation Maximum, each such Purchaser shall have the right to
purchase its Pro Rata Portion (as defined below) of the
Participation Maximum. “Pro Rata Portion” means
the ratio of (x) the principal amount of Notes purchased hereunder
by a Purchaser participating under this Section 4.16 and (y) the
sum of the aggregate principal amounts of Notes purchased hereunder
by all Purchasers participating under this Section
4.16.
(f) The Company must
provide the Purchasers with a second Subsequent Financing Notice,
and the Purchasers will again have the right of participation set
forth above in this Section 4.16, if the Subsequent Financing
subject to the initial Subsequent Financing Notice is not
consummated for any reason on the terms set forth in such
Subsequent Financing Notice within sixty (60) Trading Days after
the date of the initial Subsequent Financing Notice.
(g) The Company and
each Purchaser agree that if any Purchaser elects to participate in
the Subsequent Financing, the transaction documents related to the
Subsequent Financing shall not include any term or provision
whereby such Purchaser shall be required to agree to any
restrictions on trading as to any of the Securities purchased
hereunder (for avoidance of doubt, the securities purchased in the
Subsequent Financing shall not be considered securities purchased
hereunder) or be required to consent to any amendment to or
termination of, or grant any waiver, release or the like under or
in connection with, this Agreement, without the prior written
consent of such Purchaser.
(h) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Section 4.16 and unless otherwise
agreed to by such Purchaser, the Company shall either confirm in
writing to such Purchaser that the transaction with respect to the
Subsequent Financing has been abandoned or shall publicly disclose
its intention to issue the securities in the Subsequent Financing,
in either case in such a manner such that such Purchaser will not
be in possession of any material, non-public information, by the
seventeenth (17th) Trading Day
following delivery of the Subsequent Financing Notice. If by such
seventeenth (17th) Trading Day, no
public disclosure regarding a transaction with respect to the
Subsequent Financing has been made, and no notice regarding the
abandonment of such transaction has been received by such
Purchaser, such transaction shall be deemed to have been abandoned
and such Purchaser shall not be deemed to be in possession of any
material, non-public information with respect to the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries.
4.17 Purchaser’s
Exercise Limitations. The Company shall not effect exercise
of the rights granted in Sections 4.16 and 4.22 of this Agreement,
and a Purchaser shall not have the right to exercise any portion of
such rights granted in Sections 4.16 and 4.22 only to the extent
that after giving effect to such exercise, the Purchaser, would
beneficially own in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation
(as defined in the Note), applied in the manner set forth in the
Note. In such event the right by Purchaser to benefit from such
rights or receive shares in excess of the Beneficial Ownership
Limitation shall be held in abeyance until such times as such
excess shares shall not exceed the Beneficial Ownership Limitation,
provided the Purchaser complies with the Purchaser’s other
obligations in connection with the exercise by Purchaser of its
rights pursuant to Sections 4.16 and 4.22, and with respect to
Section 4.16, provided that the Company receives the purchase price
for any purchased securities in compliance with the terms of such
Subsequent Financing.
4.18 Maintenance
of Property/Insurance. The Company shall and shall cause
each Subsidiary to keep all of its property, which is necessary or
useful to the conduct of its business, in good working order and
condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and insured by insurers
of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and
risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary for the
businesses of the Company and Subsidiary.
4.19 Preservation
of Corporate Existence. The Company shall preserve and
maintain its corporate existence, rights, privileges and franchises
in the jurisdiction of its incorporation, and qualify and remain
qualified, as a foreign entity in each jurisdiction in which such
qualification is necessary in view of its business or operations
and where the failure to qualify or remain qualified might
reasonably have a Material Adverse Effect upon the financial
condition, business or operations of the Company taken as a
whole.
4.20
DTC
Program. At all times that
Notes are outstanding after the listing required by Section 4.11(b)
is completed, the Company shall employ as the transfer agent for
its Common Stock and Underlying Shares a participant in the
Depository Trust Company Automated Securities Transfer Program and
cause the Common Stock and Underlying Shares to be transferable
pursuant to such program.
4.21
Reimbursement. If
any Purchaser becomes involved in any capacity in any Proceeding by
or against any Person who is a stockholder of the Company (except
as a result of sales, pledges, margin sales and similar
transactions by such Purchaser to or with any current stockholder),
solely as a result of such Purchaser’s acquisition of the
Securities under this Agreement, the Company will reimburse such
Purchaser for its reasonable legal and other expenses (including
the cost of any investigation preparation and travel in connection
therewith) incurred in connection therewith, as such expenses are
incurred. The reimbursement obligations of the Company under this
paragraph shall be in addition to any liability which the Company
may otherwise have, shall extend upon the same terms and conditions
to any Affiliates of the Purchasers who are actually named in such
action, proceeding or investigation, and partners, directors,
agents, employees and controlling persons (if any), as the case may
be, of the Purchasers and any such Affiliate, and shall be binding
upon and inure to the benefit of any successors, assigns, heirs and
personal representatives of the Company, the Purchasers and any
such Affiliate and any such Person. The Company also agrees that
neither the Purchasers nor any such Affiliates, partners,
directors, agents, employees or controlling persons shall have any
liability to the Company or any Person asserting claims on behalf
of or in right of the Company solely as a result of acquiring the
Securities under this Agreement.
4.22
Most Favored Nation
Provision. From the date hereof and for so long as a
Purchaser holds any Securities, in the event that the Company
issues or sells any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents, if a
Purchaser then holding outstanding Securities reasonably believes
that any of the terms and conditions appurtenant to such issuance
or sale are more favorable to such investors than are the terms and
conditions granted to the Purchasers hereunder, upon notice to the
Company by such Purchaser within five (5) Trading Days after
disclosure of such issuance or sale, the Company shall amend the
terms of this transaction as to such Purchaser only so as to give
such Purchaser the benefit of such more favorable terms or
conditions. This Section 4.22 shall not apply with respect to an
Exempt Issuance. The Company shall provide each Purchaser with
notice of any such issuance or sale not later than ten (10) Trading
Days before such issuance or sale.
4.23
Indebtedness. For
so long as any Note is outstanding, the Company will not incur any
Indebtedness other than Permitted Indebtedness.
4.24
Notice of Disqualification
Events. The Company will notify the Purchasers in writing,
prior to the Closing Date of (i) any Disqualification Event
relating to any Issuer Covered Person and (ii) any event that
would, with the passage of time, become a Disqualification Event
relating to any Issuer Covered Person not otherwise disclosed
herein or in the SEC Reports.
4.25
Duration of
Undertakings. Unless otherwise stated in this Article IV,
all of the Company’s undertakings, obligations and
responsibilities set forth in Article IV of this Agreement shall
remain in effect for so long as any Securities remain
outstanding.
ARTICLE V.
MISCELLANEOUS
5.1 Termination.
This Agreement may be terminated by any Purchaser, as to such
Purchaser’s obligations hereunder only and without any effect
whatsoever on the obligations between the Company and the other
Purchasers, by written notice to the other parties, if the final
Closing has not been consummated on or before July 7, 2020;
provided,
however, that such
termination will not affect the right of any party to xxx for any
breach by any other party (or parties).
5.2 Fees
and Expenses. Except as expressly set forth in the
Transaction Documents and on Schedule 3.1(s), each party
shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisers, counsel,
accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses
incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation,
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. The Company
shall pay all Transfer Agent fees (including, without limitation,
any fees required for same-day processing of any instruction letter
delivered by the Company and any conversion or exercise notice
delivered by a Purchaser), stamp taxes and other taxes and duties
levied in connection with the delivery of any Securities to the
Purchasers. All of the Purchasers acknowledge that they have been
advised to seek the advice of their own attorneys.
5.3 Entire
Agreement. The Transaction Documents, together with the
exhibits and schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of
the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof
and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or
written, with respect to such matters, which the parties
acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and
schedules.
5.4 Notices.
All notices, demands, requests,
consents, approvals, and other communications required or permitted
hereunder shall be in writing and, unless otherwise specified
herein, shall be (i) personally served, (ii) deposited in the mail,
registered or certified, return receipt requested, postage prepaid,
(iii) delivered by reputable air courier service with charges
prepaid, or (iv) transmitted by hand delivery, telegram, or
facsimile, addressed as set forth below or to such other address as
such party shall have specified most recently by written notice.
Any notice or other communication required or permitted to be given
hereunder shall be deemed effective (a) upon hand delivery or
delivery by facsimile, with accurate confirmation generated by the
transmitting facsimile machine, at the address or number designated
below (if delivered on a business day during normal business hours
where such notice is to be received), or the first business day
following such delivery (if delivered other than on a business day
during normal business hours where such notice is to be received)
or (b) on the second business day following the date of mailing by
express courier service, fully prepaid, addressed to such address,
or upon actual receipt of such mailing, whichever shall first
occur. The addresses for such communications shall be: (i) if to
the Company, to: GT Biopharma, Inc., 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 000,
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000, Attn: Chief Executive Officer, with a copy
to (which shall not constitute notice): Xxxx X. Xxxxxx, Esq., X.X.
Xxx 000, Xxxxxx, XX 00000, email: xxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx, and
(ii) if to the Purchasers, to: the addresses and fax numbers
indicated on the signature pages hereto.
5.5 Amendments;
Waivers. No provision of this Agreement or any other
Transaction Document may be waived, modified, supplemented or
amended except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an
amendment, by the Company and the Purchasers holding at least a
majority in interest of the affected Securities then outstanding
or, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement
of any such waived provision is sought. No waiver of any default
with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this
Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future
or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other
provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or
omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner
impair the exercise of any such right.
5.6 Headings.
The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a
part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect
any of the provisions hereof.
5.7 Successors
and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure
to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted
assigns. The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or
obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each
Purchaser (other than by merger). Following a Closing, any
Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement
to any Person to whom such Purchaser assigns or transfers any
Securities, provided that such transferee agrees in writing to be
bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the
provisions of the Transaction Documents that apply to the
“Purchasers.”
5.8 No
Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for
the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors
and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any
provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, except as
otherwise set forth in Section 4.10.
5.9 Governing
Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity,
enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall
be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the
internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the
principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all
legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and
defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any
other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto
or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders,
partners, members, employees or agents) shall be commenced
exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of
New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of
New York, Borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute
hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction
contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to
the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby
irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any action, suit or
proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the
jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or
proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such
proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service
of process and consents to process being served in any such suit,
action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or
certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to
such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this
Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and
sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained
herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve
process in any other manner permitted by law. If either party shall
commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of the
Transaction Documents, then, in addition to the obligations of the
Company under Section 4.10, the prevailing party in such action,
suit or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its
reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses
incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of
such action or proceeding.
5.11 Execution.
This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of
which when taken together shall be considered one and the same
agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been
signed by each party and delivered to each other party, it being
understood that the parties need not sign the same counterpart. In
the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission
or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file,
such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the
party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed)
with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or
“.pdf” signature page were an original
thereof.
5.12 Severability.
If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement
is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,
illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms,
provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall
remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected,
impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their
commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative
means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that
contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It
is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the
parties that they would have executed the remaining terms,
provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of
such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or
unenforceable.
5.13 Rescission
and Withdrawal Right. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions
of) any of the other Transaction Documents, whenever any Purchaser
exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction
Document and the Company does not timely perform its related
obligations within the periods therein provided, then such
Purchaser may, at any time prior to the Company’s performance
of such obligations, rescind or withdraw, in its sole discretion
from time to time upon written notice to the Company, any relevant
notice, demand or election in whole or in part without prejudice to
its future actions and rights; provided, however, that in the case of a
rescission of a conversion of a Note, the applicable Purchaser
shall be required to return any shares of Common Stock subject to
any such rescinded conversion.
5.14 Replacement
of Securities. If any certificate or instrument evidencing
any Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company
shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for
and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in
lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument,
but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the
Company of such loss, theft or destruction. The applicant for a new
certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay
any reasonable third-party costs (including customary indemnity)
associated with the issuance of such replacement
Securities.
5.15 Remedies.
In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided
herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of
the Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to specific
performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that
monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss
incurred by reason of any breach of obligations contained in the
Transaction Documents and hereby agree to waive and not to assert
in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the
defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.
5.16 Payment
Set Aside. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or
payments to any Purchaser pursuant to any Transaction Document or a
Purchaser enforces or exercises its rights thereunder, and such
payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise
or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be
fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged by
or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the
Company, a trustee, receiver or any other Person under any law
(including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, state or
federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to the
extent of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof
originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued
in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or
such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.
5.17 Usury.
To the extent it may lawfully do so, the Company hereby agrees not
to insist upon or plead or in any manner whatsoever claim, and will
resist any and all efforts to be compelled to take the benefit or
advantage of, usury laws wherever enacted, now or at any time
hereafter in force, in connection with any claim, action or
proceeding that may be brought by any Purchaser in order to enforce
any right or remedy under any Transaction Document. Notwithstanding
any provision to the contrary contained in any Transaction
Document, it is expressly agreed and provided that the total
liability of the Company under the Transaction Documents for
payments in the nature of interest shall not exceed the maximum
lawful rate authorized under Applicable Law (the
“Maximum
Rate”), and, without limiting the foregoing, in no
event shall any rate of interest or default interest, or both of
them, when aggregated with any other sums in the nature of interest
that the Company may be obligated to pay under the Transaction
Documents exceed such Maximum Rate. It is agreed that if the
maximum contract rate of interest allowed by law and applicable to
the Transaction Documents is increased or decreased by statute or
any official governmental action subsequent to the date hereof, the
new maximum contract rate of interest allowed by law will be the
Maximum Rate applicable to the Transaction Documents from the
Closing Date thereof forward, unless such application is precluded
by Applicable Law. If under any circumstances whatsoever, interest
in excess of the Maximum Rate is paid by the Company to any
Purchaser with respect to indebtedness evidenced by the Transaction
Documents, such excess shall be applied by such Purchaser to the
unpaid principal balance of any such indebtedness or be refunded to
the Company, the manner of handling such excess to be at such
Purchaser’s election.
5.18 Independent
Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights. The
obligations of each Purchaser under any Transaction Document are
several and not joint with the obligations of any other Purchaser,
and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any way for the
performance or non-performance of the obligations of any other
Purchaser under any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein
or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any
Purchaser pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute
the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or
any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the
Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with
respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to
independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without
limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the
other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any
other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any
proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser has been represented by
its own separate legal counsel in its review and negotiation of the
Transaction Documents. The Company has elected to provide all
Purchasers with the same terms and Transaction Documents for the
convenience of the Company and not because it was required or
requested to do so by any of the Purchasers. It is expressly
understood and agreed that each provision contained in this
Agreement and in each other Transaction Document is between the
Company and a Purchaser, solely, and not between the Company and
the Purchasers collectively and not between and among the
Purchasers.
5.19 Liquidated
Damages. The Company’s obligations to pay any partial
liquidated damages or other amounts owing under the Transaction
Documents is a continuing obligation of the Company and shall not
terminate until all unpaid partial liquidated damages and other
amounts have been paid notwithstanding the fact that the instrument
or security pursuant to which such partial liquidated damages or
other amounts are due and payable shall have been
canceled.
5.20 Saturdays,
Sundays, Holidays, etc. If the last or appointed day for the
taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or
granted herein shall not be a Business Day or Trading Day, as the
case may be, then such action may be taken or such right may be
exercised on the next succeeding Business Day or Trading Day, as
the case may be.
5.21 Construction.
The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel
have reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction
Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to the
effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting
party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the
Transaction Documents or any amendments thereto. In addition, each
and every reference to share prices and shares of Common Stock in
any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse
and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and
other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the
date of this Agreement.
5.22 WAIVER
OF JURY TRIAL. IN ANY
ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY
PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND
INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW,
HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY, IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY
WAIVES FOREVER TRIAL BY JURY.
5.23 Equitable
Adjustment. Trading volume amounts, price/volume amounts,
the amount of shares of Common Stock identified in this Agreement,
Conversion Price, Underlying Shares and similar figures in the
Transaction Documents shall be equitably adjusted (but without
duplication) to offset the effect of stock splits, similar events
and as otherwise described in this Agreement and Note.
(Signature Pages Follow)
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Securities
Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective
authorized signatories as of the date first indicated
above.
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Address
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0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
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By:__________________________________________
Name:
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Chief Financial Officer
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[REMAINDER
OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK
SIGNATURE
PAGE FOR PURCHASER FOLLOWS]
[PURCHASER
SIGNATURE PAGE TO GT BIOPHARMA, INC.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities
Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective
authorized signatories as of the date first indicated
above.
Name of
Purchaser: __________________________________________________________
Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser:
__________________________________
Name of
Authorized Signatory: ________________________________________________
Title
of Authorized Signatory: _____________________________________________________
Email
Address of Authorized Signatory: ______________________________________________
Facsimile
Number of Authorized Signatory:
__________________________________________
State
of Residence of Purchaser: ___________________________________________________
Address
for Notice to Purchaser:
Address
for Delivery of Securities to Purchaser (if not same as address for
notice):
Cash
Subscription Amount: US$___________
Total
Note principal amount: ___________________
EIN
Number, if applicable, will be provided under separate
cover
Date:
___________________________
[SIGNATURE
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Annex A
CLOSING STATEMENT
Pursuant
to the attached Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of the date
hereto, the purchasers shall purchase $_____________ of Debentures
from GT Biopharma, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
“Company”). All funds will
be wired into an account maintained by the Company. All funds will
be disbursed in accordance with this Closing
Statement.
Disbursement Date:
November 5,
2020
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EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES
Exhibit
A
Form of Note
Schedule
3.1(a)
Schedule
3.1(g)
Schedule
3.1(h)
Schedule
3.1(i)
Schedule
3.1(j)
Schedule
3.1(k)
Schedule
3.1(l)
Schedule
3.1(q)
Schedule
3.1(s)
Schedule
3.1(aa)
Schedule
3.1(bb)
Schedule
3.1(cc)
Schedule
3.1(ff)
Schedule
3.1(gg)
Schedule
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