EXHIBIT 10.1
SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT
SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT (the "AGREEMENT"), dated as of March 31,
2008, by and among Raptor Networks Technology, Inc., a Colorado corporation,
with headquarters located at ▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇ (the "COMPANY"), and the investors listed on the Schedule of Buyers
attached hereto (individually, a "BUYER" and collectively, the "BUYERS").
WHEREAS:
A. The Company and each Buyer is executing and delivering this
Agreement in reliance upon the exemption from securities registration afforded
by Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 ACT"), and
Rule 506 of Regulation D ("REGULATION D") as promulgated by the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") under the 1933 Act.
B. The Company has authorized a new series of senior secured
convertible notes of the Company which notes shall be convertible into the
Company's common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "COMMON STOCK"), in
accordance with the terms of the Notes (as defined below).
C. Each Buyer wishes to purchase, and the Company wishes to sell, upon
the terms and conditions stated in this Agreement, (i) that aggregate principal
amount of the Notes, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the
"NOTES"), set forth opposite such Buyer's name in column (3) on the Schedule of
Buyers attached hereto (which aggregate amount for all Buyers shall be
$3,125,000) (as converted, collectively, the "CONVERSION SHARES"), (ii)
warrants, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (the
"WARRANTS"), to acquire that number of shares of Common Stock set forth opposite
such Buyer's name in column (4) on the Schedule of Buyers (as exercised,
collectively, the "WARRANT SHARES") and (iii) that aggregate number of shares
(the "COMMON SHARES") of Common Stock, set forth opposite such Buyer's name in
column (5) on the Schedule of Buyers (which aggregate amount for all Buyers
shall be 3,125,000 shares).
D. Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Agreement,
the parties hereto are executing and delivering a Registration Rights Agreement,
substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C (the "REGISTRATION RIGHTS
AGREEMENT"), pursuant to which the Company has agreed to provide certain
registration rights with respect to the Registrable Securities (as defined in
the Registration Rights Agreement) under the 1933 Act and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder, and applicable state securities laws.
E. The Notes, the Conversion Shares, the Common Shares, the Warrants
and the Warrant Shares collectively are referred to herein as the "SECURITIES".
F. The Notes will rank senior to all outstanding and future
indebtedness of the Company, guaranteed by each of the Company's subsidiaries,
and will be secured by a first priority, perfected security interest in all of
the assets of the Company and the stock and assets of each of the Company's
subsidiaries, as evidenced by (i) a pledge agreement, in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit D (as amended or modified from time to time in accordance with
its terms, the "PLEDGE AGREEMENT"), (ii) a security agreement, in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit E (as amended or modified from time to time in
accordance with its terms, the "SECURITY AGREEMENT"), (iii) an intellectual
property security agreement, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F (as
amended or modified from time to time in accordance with its terms, the "IP
SECURITY AGREEMENT") and (iv) the guaranties of the subsidiaries of the Company
in the form attached hereto as Exhibit G (as amended or modified from time to
time in accordance with its terms, the "GUARANTY" and, together with the Pledge
Agreement, the Security Agreement, the IP Security Agreement and any ancillary
documents related thereto, collectively the "SECURITY DOCUMENTS"). All payments
due under the Notes shall rank pari passu with each other and the Other Notes.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Company and each Buyer hereby agree as follows:
1. PURCHASE AND SALE OF NOTES, WARRANTS AND COMMON SHARES.
(a) Purchase of Notes, Warrants and Common Shares. Subject to the
satisfaction (or waiver) of the conditions set forth in Sections 6 and 7 below,
the Company shall issue and sell to each Buyer, and each Buyer severally, but
not jointly, agrees to purchase from the Company on the Closing Date (as defined
below), (w) a principal amount of Notes as is set forth opposite such Buyer's
name in column (3) on the Schedule of Buyers and (x) Warrants to acquire that
number of Warrant Shares as is set forth opposite such Buyer's name in column
(4) on the Schedule of Buyers and (y) the number of Common Shares as is set
forth opposite such Buyer's name in column (5) on the Schedule of Buyers (the
"CLOSING").
(b) Purchase Price. The purchase price for each Buyer of the
Notes, the Warrants and the Common Shares to be purchased by each such Buyer at
the Closing (the "PURCHASE PRICE") shall be the amount set forth opposite such
Buyer's name in column (7) of the Schedule of Buyers. Each Buyer shall pay $1.00
for each $1.00 of principal amount of Notes and the related Warrants and Common
Shares to be purchased at the Closing. The Buyers and the Company agree that the
Notes, Common Shares and the Warrants constitute an "investment unit" for
purposes of Section 1273(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
(the "CODE"). The Buyers and the Company mutually agree that the allocation of
the issue price of such investment unit between the Notes, Common Shares and the
Warrants in accordance with Section 1273(c)(2) of the Code and Treasury
Regulation Section 1.1273-2(h) shall be an aggregate amount of $312,500
allocated to the Warrants, an aggregate of $468,750 allocated to the Common
Shares and the balance of the Purchase Price allocated to the Notes, and neither
the Buyers nor the Company shall take any position inconsistent with such
allocation in any tax return or in any judicial or administrative proceeding in
respect of taxes. The Buyers and the Company mutually agree that the foregoing
allocation of the issue price of such investment unit between the Notes, Common
Shares and the Warrants shall not be used to determine the anti-dilution
adjustments under the Prior Transaction Documents (as defined below).
(c) Closing Date. The date and time of the Closing (the "CLOSING
DATE") shall be 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date hereof after
notification of satisfaction (or waiver) of the conditions to the Closing set
forth in Sections 6 and 7 below (or such later date as is mutually agreed to by
the Company and each Buyer). The Closing shall occur on the Closing Date at the
offices of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇.
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(d) Form of Payment. On the Closing Date, (i) each Buyer shall pay
the Purchase Price to the Company for the Notes, the Warrants and the Common
Shares to be issued and sold to such Buyer at the Closing less its Prepaid
Interest (as defined below) and less, in the case of Castlerigg Master
Investments Ltd. ("CASTLERIGG"), the amounts withheld pursuant to Section 4(g),
by wire transfer of immediately available funds in accordance with the Company's
written wire instructions, and (ii) the Company shall deliver to each Buyer (A)
the Notes (in the principal amounts as set forth opposite such Buyer's name in
column (3) on the Schedule of Buyers) which such Buyer is then purchasing, (B)
the Warrants (in the amounts as set forth opposite such Buyer's name in column
(4) on the Schedule of Buyers) which such Buyer is purchasing and (C) one or
more stock certificates, free and clear of all restrictive and other legends
(except as expressly provided in Section 2(g) hereof), evidencing the number of
Common Shares which such Buyer is purchasing, in each case duly executed on
behalf of the Company and registered in the name of such Buyer or its designee
(so long as any such designee is an "accredited investor" as that term is
defined in Rule 501(d) of Regulation D).
(e) Prepaid Interest. The Company shall prepay the interest
payable under the Notes through the Maturity Date (as defined in the Notes) on
the Closing Date in such amount set forth opposite such Buyer's name in column
(6) of the Schedule of Buyers (for each such Buyer, its "PREPAID INTEREST")
which Prepaid Interest shall be nonrefundable.
2. BUYER'S REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.
Each Buyer represents and warrants with respect to only itself that:
(a) No Public Sale or Distribution. Such Buyer is (i) acquiring
the Notes, the Warrants and the Common Shares and (ii) upon conversion of the
Notes and exercise of the Warrants will acquire the Conversion Shares issuable
upon conversion of the Notes and the Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of
the Warrants, for its own account and not with a view towards, or for resale in
connection with, the public sale or distribution thereof, except pursuant to
sales registered or exempted under the 1933 Act; provided, however, that by
making the representations herein, such Buyer does not agree to hold any of the
Securities for any minimum or other specific term and reserves the right to
dispose of the Securities at any time in accordance with or pursuant to a
registration statement or an exemption under the 1933 Act. Such Buyer is
acquiring the Securities hereunder in the ordinary course of its business. Such
Buyer does not presently have any agreement or understanding, directly or
indirectly, with any Person (as defined herein) to distribute any of the
Securities.
(b) Accredited Investor Status. Such Buyer is an "accredited
investor" as that term is defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D.
(c) Reliance on Exemptions. Such Buyer understands that the
Securities are being offered and sold to it in reliance on specific exemptions
from the registration requirements of United States federal and state securities
laws and that the Company is relying in part upon the truth and accuracy of, and
such Buyer's compliance with, the representations, warranties, agreements,
acknowledgments and understandings of such Buyer set forth herein in order to
determine the availability of such exemptions and the eligibility of such Buyer
to acquire the Securities.
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(d) Information. Such Buyer and its advisors, if any, have been
furnished with all materials relating to the business, finances and operations
of the Company and materials relating to the offer and sale of the Securities
which have been requested by such Buyer. Such Buyer and its advisors, if any,
have been afforded the opportunity to ask questions of the Company. Neither such
inquiries nor any other due diligence investigations conducted by such Buyer or
its advisors, if any, or its representatives shall modify, amend or affect such
Buyer's right to rely on the Company's representations and warranties contained
herein. Such Buyer understands that its investment in the Securities involves a
high degree of risk. Such Buyer has sought such accounting, legal and tax advice
as it has considered necessary to make an informed investment decision with
respect to its acquisition of the Securities.
(e) No Governmental Review. Such Buyer understands that no United
States federal or state agency or any other government or governmental agency
has passed on or made any recommendation or endorsement of the Securities or the
fairness or suitability of the investment in the Securities nor have such
authorities passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the
Securities.
(f) Transfer or Resale. Such Buyer understands that except as
provided in the Registration Rights Agreement: (i) the Securities have not been
and are not being registered under the 1933 Act or any state securities laws,
and may not be offered for sale, sold, assigned or transferred unless (A)
subsequently registered thereunder, (B) such Buyer shall have delivered to the
Company an opinion of counsel, in a generally acceptable form, to the effect
that such Securities to be sold, assigned or transferred may be sold, assigned
or transferred pursuant to an exemption from such registration, or (C) such
Buyer provides the Company with reasonable assurance that such Securities can be
sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to Rule 144 or Rule 144A promulgated
under the 1933 Act, as amended, (or a successor rule thereto) (collectively,
"RULE 144"); (ii) any sale of the Securities made in reliance on Rule 144 may be
made only in accordance with the terms of Rule 144 and further, if Rule 144 is
not applicable, any resale of the Securities under circumstances in which the
seller (or the Person (as defined in Section 3(s)) through whom the sale is
made) may be deemed to be an underwriter (as that term is defined in the ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇) may require compliance with some other exemption under the 1933 Act or the
rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder; and (iii) neither the Company nor
any other Person is under any obligation to register the Securities under the
1933 Act or any state securities laws or to comply with the terms and conditions
of any exemption thereunder. The Securities may be pledged in connection with a
bona fide margin account or other loan or financing arrangement secured by the
Securities and such pledge of Securities shall not be deemed to be a transfer,
sale or assignment of the Securities hereunder, and no Buyer effecting a pledge
of Securities shall be required to provide the Company with any notice thereof
or otherwise make any delivery to the Company pursuant to this Agreement or any
other Transaction Document (as defined in Section 3(b)), including, without
limitation, this Section 2(f).
(g) Legends. Such Buyer understands that the certificates or other
instruments representing the Notes, the Warrants and the Common Shares and,
until such time as the resale of the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares
have been registered under the 1933 Act as contemplated by the Registration
Rights Agreement, the stock certificates representing the Conversion Shares and
the Warrant Shares, except as set forth below, shall bear any legend as required
by the "blue sky" laws of any state and a restrictive legend in substantially
the following form (and a stop-transfer order may be placed against transfer of
such stock certificates):
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[NEITHER THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS
CERTIFICATE NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE
[CONVERTIBLE] [EXERCISABLE] HAVE BEEN][THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY
THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN] REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE
SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR
ASSIGNED (I) IN THE ABSENCE OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED, OR (B) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, IN A GENERALLY ACCEPTABLE
FORM, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER SAID ACT OR (II)
UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 OR RULE 144A UNDER SAID ACT.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN
CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN OR
FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THE SECURITIES.
The legend set forth above shall be removed and the Company shall issue a
certificate without such legend to the holder of the Securities upon which it is
stamped or issue to such holder by electronic delivery at the applicable balance
account at DTC (as defined below), unless otherwise required by state securities
laws, (i) such Securities as are registered for resale under the 1933 Act, (ii)
in connection with a sale, assignment or other transfer of such Securities, in
the event that such holder provides the Company with an opinion of counsel, in a
generally acceptable form, to the effect that such sale, assignment or transfer
of the Securities may be made without registration under the applicable
requirements of the 1933 Act, or (iii) in the event that such holder provides
the Company with an opinion of counsel, in a generally acceptable form, to the
effect that the Securities can be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to Rule
144 or Rule 144A.
(h) Validity; Enforcement. This Agreement, the Registration Rights
Agreement and the Security Documents to which such Buyer is a party have been
duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered on behalf of such Buyer and
shall constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of such Buyer
enforceable against such Buyer in accordance with their respective terms, except
as such enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity or to
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation and
other similar laws relating to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of
applicable creditors' rights and remedies.
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(i) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by such
Buyer of this Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Security
Documents to which such Buyer is a party, and the consummation by such Buyer of
the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will not (i) result in a
violation of the organizational documents of such Buyer or (ii) conflict with,
or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both
would become a default) under, or give to others any rights of termination,
amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any agreement, indenture or
instrument to which such Buyer is a party, or (iii) result in a violation of any
law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree (including federal and state
securities laws) applicable to such Buyer, except in the case of clauses (ii)
and (iii) above, for such conflicts, defaults, rights or violations which would
not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material
adverse effect on the ability of such Buyer to perform its obligations
hereunder.
(j) Residency. Such Buyer is a resident of that jurisdiction
specified below its address on the Schedule of Buyers.
3. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.
The Company represents and warrants to each of the Buyers that:
(a) Organization and Qualification. Each of the Company and its
"SUBSIDIARIES" (which for purposes of this Agreement means any entity in which
the Company, directly or indirectly, owns any of the capital stock or holds an
equity or similar interest) are entities duly organized and validly existing in
good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which they are formed, and
have the requisite power and authorization to own their properties and to carry
on their business as now being conducted. Each of the Company and its
Subsidiaries is duly qualified as a foreign entity to do business and is in good
standing in every jurisdiction in which its ownership of property or the nature
of the business conducted by it makes such qualification necessary, except to
the extent that the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not
have a Material Adverse Effect. As used in this Agreement, "MATERIAL ADVERSE
EFFECT" means any material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets,
operations, results of operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or
prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or on the
transactions contemplated hereby and the other Transaction Documents or by the
agreements and instruments to be entered into in connection herewith or
therewith, or on the authority or ability of the Company to perform its
obligations under the Transaction Documents. The Company has no Subsidiaries
except as set forth on Schedule 3(a).
(b) Authorization; Enforcement; Validity. The Company has the
requisite power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under
this Agreement, the Notes, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Security
Documents, the Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions (as defined in Section
5(b) below), the Warrants, and each of the other agreements entered into by the
parties hereto in connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement (collectively, the "TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS") and, to issue the
Securities in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof. The execution and
delivery of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by the
Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including, without
limitation, the issuance of the Notes, the Warrants and the Common Shares, the
reservation for issuance and the issuance of the Conversion Shares issuable upon
conversion of the Notes and the reservation for issuance and issuance of Warrant
Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants and the granting of a security
interest in the Collateral (as defined in the Security Documents) have been duly
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authorized by the Company's Board of Directors and (other than (i) the filing of
appropriate UCC financing statements with the appropriate states and other
authorities pursuant to the Security Agreement, (ii) the filing with the SEC and
applicable state securities commissions of Form D and related filings, (iii) the
filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office
as may be required with respect to the perfection of a security interest against
the Company's patents, trademarks and copyrights, and (iv) the filing with the
SEC of one or more Registration Statements in accordance with the requirements
of the Registration Rights Agreement) no further filing, consent, or
authorization is required by the Company, its Board of Directors or its
stockholders. This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents of even date
herewith have been duly executed and delivered by the Company, and constitute
the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the
Company in accordance with their respective terms, except as such enforceability
may be limited by general principles of equity or applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or similar laws relating to,
or affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable creditors' rights and
remedies.
(c) Issuance of Securities. The issuance of the Notes, the
Warrants and the Common Shares are duly authorized and are free from all taxes,
liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof. As of the Closing, a number
of shares of Common Stock shall have been duly authorized and reserved for
issuance which equals at least the sum of (I) 130% of the maximum number of
shares of Common Stock issuable (i) upon conversion of the Notes and (ii) upon
exercise of the Warrants and (II) 100% of the number of Common Shares issued
hereunder. Upon conversion in accordance with the Notes or exercise in
accordance with the Warrants, as the case may be, the Conversion Shares and the
Warrant Shares, respectively, will be validly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable and free from all preemptive or similar rights, taxes, liens and
charges with respect to the issue thereof, with the holders being entitled to
all rights accorded to a holder of Common Stock. The offer and issuance by the
Company of the Securities is exempt from registration under the 1933 Act.
(d) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance of the
Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including, without limitation, the
issuance of the Notes, the Warrants and the Common Shares, and the reservation
for issuance and issuance of the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares) will
not (i) result in a violation of the Articles of Incorporation (as defined in
Section 3(r)) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any capital stock of
the Company or Bylaws (as defined in Section 3(r)) of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event which
with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or give to
others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of,
any agreement, indenture or instrument to which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is a party, or (iii) result in a violation of any law, rule,
regulation, order, judgment or decree (including federal and state securities
laws and regulations and the rules and regulations of the OTC Bulletin Board
(the "PRINCIPAL MARKET")) applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
or by which any property or asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is
bound or affected, except in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for such
conflicts, defaults, rights or violations which would not, individually or in
the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(e) Consents. Except as set forth in Section 3(b), neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is required to obtain any consent,
authorization or order of, or make any filing or registration with, any court,
governmental agency or any regulatory or self-regulatory agency or any other
Person in order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its obligations
under or contemplated by the Transaction Documents, in each case in accordance
with the terms hereof or thereof. All consents, authorizations, orders, filings
and registrations which the Company is required to obtain pursuant to the
preceding sentence have been obtained or effected on or prior to the Closing
Date, and the Company and its Subsidiaries are unaware of any facts or
circumstances which might prevent the Company from obtaining or effecting any of
the registration, application or filings pursuant to the preceding sentence. The
Company is not in violation of the listing requirements of the Principal Market
and has no knowledge of any facts which would reasonably lead to delisting or
suspension of the Common Stock in the foreseeable future.
(f) Acknowledgment Regarding Buyer's Purchase of Securities. The
Company acknowledges and agrees that each Buyer is acting solely in the capacity
of arm's length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and that no Buyer is (i) an officer
or director of the Company, (ii) to the Company's knowledge, an "affiliate" of
the Company (as defined in Rule 144) or (iii) to the knowledge of the Company, a
"beneficial owner" of more than 10% of the shares of Common Stock (as defined
for purposes of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the "1934 ACT")). The Company further acknowledges that no Buyer 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 hereby
and thereby, and any advice given by a Buyer or any of its representatives or
agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby is merely incidental to such Buyer's purchase of
the Securities. The Company further represents to each Buyer that the Company's
decision to enter into the Transaction Documents has been based solely on the
independent evaluation by the Company and its representatives.
(g) No General Solicitation; Placement Agent's Fees. Neither the
Company, nor any of its affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their
behalf, has engaged in any form of general solicitation or general advertising
(within the meaning of Regulation D) in connection with the offer or sale of the
Securities. The Company shall be responsible for the payment of any placement
agent's fees, financial advisory fees, or brokers' commissions (other than for
persons engaged by any Buyer or its investment advisor) relating to or arising
out of the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company shall pay, and hold
each Buyer harmless against, any liability, loss or expense (including, without
limitation, attorney's fees and out-of-pocket expenses) arising in connection
with any such claim. The Company acknowledges that it has engaged ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ &
Co., LLC, as placement agent (the "PLACEMENT AGENT") in connection with the sale
of the Securities. Other than the Placement Agent, the Company has not engaged
any placement agent or other agent in connection with the sale of the
Securities.
(h) No Integrated Offering. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries,
any of their affiliates, and any Person acting on 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 require registration of the
issuance of any of the Securities under the 1933 Act or cause this offering of
the Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes
of the 1933 Act or any applicable stockholder approval provisions, including,
without limitation, under the rules and regulations of any exchange or automated
quotation system on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or
designated. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries, their affiliates and any
Person acting on their behalf will take any action or steps referred to in the
preceding sentence that would require registration of the issuance of any of the
Securities under the 1933 Act or cause the offering of the Securities to be
integrated with other offerings.
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(i) Dilutive Effect. The Company understands and acknowledges that
the number of Conversion Shares issuable upon conversion of the Notes and the
Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants will increase in certain
circumstances. The Company further acknowledges that its obligation to issue
Conversion Shares upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with this Agreement
and the Notes and its obligation to issue the Warrant Shares upon exercise of
the Warrants in accordance with this Agreement and the Warrants, in each case,
is absolute and unconditional regardless of the dilutive effect that such
issuance may have on the ownership interests of other stockholders of the
Company.
(j) Application of Takeover Protections; Rights Agreement. The
Company and its 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 Articles of Incorporation or
the laws of the jurisdiction of its formation which is or could become
applicable to any Buyer as a result of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, including, without limitation, the Company's issuance of the
Securities and any Buyer's ownership of the Securities. The Company has not
adopted a stockholder rights plan or similar arrangement relating to
accumulations of beneficial ownership of Common Stock or a change in control of
the Company.
(k) SEC Documents; Financial Statements. Except as disclosed in
Schedule 3(k), during the two (2) years prior to the date hereof, the Company
has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required
to be filed by it with the SEC pursuant to the reporting requirements of the
1934 Act (all of the foregoing filed prior to the date hereof and all exhibits
included therein and financial statements, notes and schedules thereto and
documents incorporated by reference therein being hereinafter referred to as the
"SEC DOCUMENTS"). The Company has delivered to the Buyers or their respective
representatives true, correct and complete copies of the SEC Documents not
available on the ▇▇▇▇▇ system. As of their respective dates or as a result of
subsequent amendment or modification prior to the date hereof, the SEC Documents
complied in all material respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the
rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to the SEC
Documents, and none of the SEC Documents, as amended or modified, at the time
they were filed with the SEC or as a result of subsequent amendment or
modification prior to the date hereof, 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. As of their respective
dates, the financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Documents
complied as to form in all material respects with applicable accounting
requirements and the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect
thereto. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied, during the
periods involved (except (i) as may be otherwise indicated in such financial
statements or the notes thereto, or (ii) in the case of unaudited interim
statements, to the extent they may exclude footnotes or may be condensed or
summary statements) and fairly present in all material respects the financial
position of the Company as of the dates thereof and the results of its
operations and cash flows for the periods then ended (subject, in the case of
unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit adjustments). No other
information provided by or on behalf of the Company to the Buyers which is not
included in the SEC Documents, including, without limitation, information
referred to in Section 2(d) of this Agreement, contains any untrue statement of
a material fact or omits to state any material fact necessary in order to make
the statements therein, in the light of the circumstance under which they are or
were made, not misleading.
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(l) Absence of Certain Changes. Except as disclosed in Schedule
3(l), since the date of Company's most recently filed audited financial
statements contained in an Annual Report on Form 10-K, there has been no
material adverse change and no material adverse development in the business,
properties, operations, condition (financial or otherwise), results of
operations or prospects of the Company or its Subsidiaries. Except as disclosed
in Schedule 3(l), since the time the Company's most recently filed audited
financial statements contained in an Annual Report on Form 10-K were filed, the
Company has not (i) declared or paid any dividends, (ii) sold any assets,
individually or in the aggregate, in excess of $100,000 outside of the ordinary
course of business or (iii) had capital expenditures, individually or in the
aggregate, in excess of $100,000. The Company has not taken any steps to seek
protection pursuant to any bankruptcy law nor does the Company have any
knowledge or reason to believe that its creditors intend to initiate involuntary
bankruptcy proceedings or any actual knowledge of any fact which would
reasonably lead a creditor to do so. The Company is not as of the date hereof
after elimination of the debt owing to the Buyers, and after giving effect to
the transactions contemplated hereby to occur at the Closing, will not be
Insolvent (as defined below). For purposes of this Section 3(l), "INSOLVENT"
means with respect to any Person, (i) the present fair saleable value of such
Person's assets is less than the amount required to pay such Person's total
Indebtedness (as defined in Section 3(s)), (ii) such Person is unable to pay its
debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and
liabilities become absolute and matured, (iii) the Company intends to incur or
believes that it will incur debts that would be beyond its ability to pay as
such debts mature or (iv) such Person has unreasonably small capital with which
to conduct the business in which it is engaged as such business is now conducted
and is proposed to be conducted.
(m) No Undisclosed Events, Liabilities, Developments or
Circumstances. Except as contemplated by this Agreement or the Transaction
Documents, no event, liability, development or circumstance has occurred or
currently exists with respect to the Company, its Subsidiaries or their
respective business, properties, prospects, operations or financial condition,
that would be required to be disclosed by the Company under applicable
securities laws on a registration statement on Form SB-2 filed with the SEC
relating to an issuance and sale by the Company of its Common Stock and which
has not been publicly announced.
(n) Conduct of Business; Regulatory Permits. Neither the Company
nor its Subsidiaries is in violation of any term of or in default under any
certificate of designations of any outstanding series of preferred stock, its
Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws or their organizational charter or articles
of incorporation or bylaws, respectively. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries is in violation of any judgment, decree or order or any statute,
ordinance, rule or regulation applicable to the Company or its Subsidiaries, and
neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries will conduct its business in
violation of any of the foregoing, except for possible violations which would
not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company is not in violation of any
of the rules, regulations or requirements of the Principal Market and has no
knowledge of any facts or circumstances which would reasonably lead to delisting
or suspension of the Common Stock by the Principal Market in the foreseeable
future. During the two years prior to the date hereof, the Common Stock has been
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designated for quotation on the Principal Market. During the two years prior to
the date hereof, (i) trading in the Common Stock has not been suspended by the
SEC or the Principal Market and (ii) the Company has received no communication,
written or oral, from the SEC or the Principal Market regarding the suspension
or delisting of the Common Stock from the Principal Market. The Company and its
Subsidiaries possess all certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the
appropriate regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective
businesses, except where the failure to possess such certificates,
authorizations or permits would not have, individually or in the aggregate, a
Material Adverse Effect, and neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has
received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of
any such certificate, authorization or permit.
(o) Foreign Corrupt Practices. Neither the Company, nor any of its
Subsidiaries, nor any director, officer, agent, employee or other Person acting
on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has, in the course of its
actions for, or on behalf of, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (i) used
any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other
unlawful expenses relating to political activity; (ii) made any direct or
indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or
employee from corporate funds; (iii) violated or is in violation of any
provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended; or (iv)
made any unlawful bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other
unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee.
(p) ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act. The Company is in compliance with any and
all requirements of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act of 2002 that are effective and
applicable to the Company as of the date hereof, and any and all applicable
rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC thereunder that are effective as of
the date hereof.
(q) Transactions With Affiliates. Except as set forth on Schedule
3(q), none of the officers, directors or employees of the Company or any
Subsidiary is presently a party to any transaction with the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries (other than for ordinary course services as employees, officers
or 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, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any
such officer, director or employee or, to the knowledge of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries, any corporation, partnership, trust or other entity in which
any such officer, director, or employee has a substantial interest or is an
officer, director, trustee or partner.
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(r) Equity Capitalization. As of the date hereof, the authorized
capital stock of the Company consists of (i) 200,000,000 shares of Common Stock,
of which as of the date hereof, 65,042,394 are issued and outstanding, 3,000,000
shares are reserved for issuance pursuant to the Company's stock option and
purchase plans and 56,710,828 shares are reserved for issuance pursuant to
securities (other than the aforementioned options, the Notes and the Warrants)
exercisable or exchangeable for, or convertible into, shares of Common Stock and
(ii) 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, no par value of which as of the date
hereof, none are issued and outstanding. All of such outstanding shares have
been, or upon issuance will be, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
Except as disclosed in Schedule 3(r): (i) none of the Company's capital stock is
subject to preemptive rights or any other similar rights or any liens or
encumbrances suffered or permitted by the Company; (ii) there are no outstanding
options, warrants, scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any
character whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights convertible into, or
exercisable or exchangeable for, any capital stock of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound to issue
additional capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or options,
warrants, scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character
whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights convertible into, or exercisable
or exchangeable for, any capital stock of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries; (iii) there are no outstanding debt securities, notes, credit
agreements, credit facilities or other agreements, documents or instruments
evidencing Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound; (iv) there are no
financing statements securing obligations in any material amounts, either singly
or in the aggregate, filed in connection with the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries; (v) there are no agreements or arrangements under which the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is obligated to register the sale of any of
their securities under the 1933 Act (except pursuant to the Registration Rights
Agreement); (vi) there are no outstanding securities or instruments of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries which contain any redemption or similar
provisions, and there are no contracts, commitments, understandings or
arrangements by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become
bound to redeem a security of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (vii)
there are no securities or instruments containing anti-dilution or similar
provisions that will be triggered by the issuance of the Securities; (viii) the
Company does not have any stock appreciation rights or "phantom stock" plans or
agreements or any similar plan or agreement; and (ix) the Company and its
Subsidiaries have no liabilities or obligations required to be disclosed in the
SEC Documents but not so disclosed in the SEC Documents, other than those
incurred in the ordinary course of the Company's or its Subsidiaries' respective
businesses and which, individually or in the aggregate, do not or would not have
a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has furnished to the Buyers true, correct
and complete copies of the Company's Articles of Incorporation, as amended and
as in effect on the date hereof (the "ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION"), and the
Company's Bylaws, as amended and as in effect on the date hereof (the "BYLAWS"),
and the terms of all securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable
for, shares of Common Stock and the material rights of the holders thereof in
respect thereto.
(s) Indebtedness and Other Contracts. Except as disclosed in
Schedule 3(s), neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) has any
outstanding Indebtedness (as defined below), (ii) is a party to any contract,
agreement or instrument, the violation of which, or default (or an event which
with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under which, by the
other party(ies) to such contract, agreement or instrument would result in a
Material Adverse Effect, (iii) is in violation of any term of or in default
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under any contract, agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness, except
where such violations and defaults would not result, individually or in the
aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect, or (iv) is a party to any contract,
agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness, the performance of which,
in the judgment of the Company's officers, has or is expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect. Schedule 3(s) provides a detailed description of the material
terms of any such outstanding Indebtedness. For purposes of this Agreement: (x)
"INDEBTEDNESS" of any Person means, without duplication (A) all indebtedness for
borrowed money, (B) all obligations issued, undertaken or assumed as the
deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade payables
entered into in the ordinary course of business), (C) all reimbursement or
payment obligations with respect to letters of credit, surety bonds and other
similar instruments, (D) all obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures
or similar instruments, including obligations so evidenced incurred in
connection with the acquisition of property, assets or businesses, (E) all
indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement, or incurred as financing, in either case with respect to
any property or assets acquired with the proceeds of such indebtedness (even
though the rights and remedies of the seller or bank under such agreement in the
event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (F) all
monetary obligations under any leasing or similar arrangement which, in
connection with generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied
for the periods covered thereby, is classified as a capital lease, (G) all
indebtedness referred to in clauses (A) through (F) above secured by (or for
which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or
otherwise, to be secured by) any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security
interest or other encumbrance upon or in any property or assets (including
accounts and contract rights) owned by any Person, even though the Person which
owns such assets or property has not assumed or become liable for the payment of
such indebtedness, and (H) all Contingent Obligations in respect of indebtedness
or obligations of others of the kinds referred to in clauses (A) through (G)
above; (y) "CONTINGENT OBLIGATION" means, as to any Person, any direct or
indirect liability, contingent or otherwise, of that Person with respect to any
indebtedness, lease, dividend or other obligation of another Person if the
primary purpose or intent of the Person incurring such liability, or the primary
effect thereof, is to provide assurance to the obligee of such liability that
such liability will be paid or discharged, or that any agreements relating
thereto will be complied with, or that the holders of such liability will be
protected (in whole or in part) against loss with respect thereto; and (z)
"PERSON" means an individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a
joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization and a
government or any department or agency thereof.
(t) Absence of Litigation. There is no action, suit, proceeding,
inquiry or investigation before or by the Principal Market, any court, public
board, government agency, self-regulatory organization or body pending or, to
the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries, the Common Stock or the capital stock of any of the
Company's Subsidiaries or any of the Company's or its Subsidiaries' officers or
directors in their capacities as such, except as set forth in Schedule 3(t) or
except where the Company reasonably believes that such action, suit, proceeding,
inquiry or investigation is not expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(u) Insurance. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries are
insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses
and risks and in such amounts as management of the Company believes to be
prudent and customary in the businesses in which the Company and its
Subsidiaries are engaged. Neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has been
refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for and neither the Company nor
any such Subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew
its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain
similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its
business at a cost that would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(v) Employee Relations. (i) Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries is a party to any collective bargaining agreement or employs any
member of a union. The Company and its Subsidiaries believe that their relations
with their employees are good. No executive officer of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries has notified the Company or any such Subsidiary that such officer
intends to leave or otherwise terminate such officer's employment with the
Company or any such Subsidiary. No executive officer of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries, to the knowledge of the Company, is, or is now expected to be,
in violation of any material term of any employment contract, confidentiality,
disclosure or proprietary information agreement, non-competition agreement, or
any other contract or agreement or any restrictive covenant, 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.
(ii) The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with
all applicable federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations respecting
labor, employment and employment practices and benefits, terms and conditions of
employment and wages and hours, except where failure to be in compliance would
not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect.
(w) Title. Except as set forth on Schedule 3(w), the Company and
its Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all real
property and good and marketable title to all personal property owned by them
which is material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in each
case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and defects except such as do not
materially affect the value of such property and do not interfere with the use
made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and any of its
Subsidiaries. Any real property, buildings and facilities held under lease by
the Company and any of its Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting
and enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not material and do not
interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property, buildings
and facilities by the Company and its Subsidiaries.
(x) Intellectual Property Rights. The Company and its Subsidiaries
own or possess adequate rights or licenses to use all trademarks, trade names,
service marks, service ▇▇▇▇ registrations, service names, patents, patent
rights, copyrights, inventions, licenses, approvals, governmental
authorizations, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights
("INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS") necessary to conduct their respective
businesses as now conducted. Except as set forth in Schedule 3(x), none of the
Intellectual Property Rights of the Company or any Subsidiary have expired or
terminated, or are expected to expire or terminate, within three years from the
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date of this Agreement. The Company does not have any knowledge of any
infringement by the Company or its Subsidiaries of Intellectual Property Rights
of others. There is no claim, action or proceeding being made or brought, or to
the knowledge of the Company, being threatened, against the Company or its
Subsidiaries regarding its Intellectual Property Rights. The Company is unaware
of any facts or circumstances which would be reasonably expected to give rise to
any of the foregoing infringements or claims, actions or proceedings. The
Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable security measures to protect
the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their intellectual properties.
(y) Environmental Laws. The Company and its Subsidiaries (i) are
in compliance with any and all applicable Environmental Laws (as hereinafter
defined), (ii) have received all permits, licenses or other approvals required
of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective
businesses and (iii) are in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such
permit, license or approval where, in each of the foregoing clauses (i), (ii)
and (iii), the failure to so comply could be reasonably expected to have,
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. The term
"ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS" means all federal, state, local or foreign laws relating to
pollution or protection of human health or the environment (including, without
limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface
strata), including, without limitation, laws relating to emissions, discharges,
releases or threatened releases of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, or toxic
or hazardous substances or wastes (collectively, "HAZARDOUS MATERIALS") into the
environment, or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing, distribution,
use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials,
as well as all authorizations, codes, decrees, demands or demand letters,
injunctions, judgments, licenses, notices or notice letters, orders, permits,
plans or regulations issued, entered, promulgated or approved thereunder.
(z) Subsidiary Rights. Except as set forth in Schedule 3(z), the
Company or one of its Subsidiaries has the unrestricted right to vote, and
(subject to limitations imposed by applicable law) to receive dividends and
distributions on, all capital securities of its Subsidiaries as owned by the
Company or such Subsidiary.
(aa) Investment Company Status. The Company is not, and upon
consummation of the sale of the Securities will not be, an "investment company,"
a company controlled by an "investment company" or an "affiliated person" of, or
"promoter" or "principal underwriter" for, an "investment company" as such terms
are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(bb) Tax Status. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries (i) has
made or filed all foreign, federal and state income and all other 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, except those being contested in good faith and (iii) has set aside
on its books provision reasonably adequate for the payment of all 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 know of no
basis for any such claim.
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(cc) Internal Accounting and Disclosure Controls. The Company and
each of its Subsidiaries 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 generally accepted accounting principles and to
maintain asset and liability accountability, (iii) access to assets or
incurrence of liabilities is permitted only in accordance with management's
general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for
assets and liabilities is compared with the existing assets and liabilities at
reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any
difference. The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such
term is defined in Rule 13a-14 under the ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇) that are effective in
ensuring that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports
that it files or submits under the 1934 Act is recorded, processed, summarized
and reported, within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the
SEC, including, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure
that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it
files or submits under the 1934 Act is accumulated and communicated to the
Company's management, including its principal executive officer or officers and
its principal financial officer or officers, as appropriate, to allow timely
decisions regarding required disclosure.
(dd) Off Balance Sheet Arrangements. There is no transaction,
arrangement, or other relationship between the Company and an unconsolidated or
other off balance sheet entity that is required to be disclosed by the Company
in its SEC Documents and is not so disclosed or that otherwise would be
reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(ee) Ranking of Notes. Except as set forth on Schedule 3(ee), no
Indebtedness of the Company is senior to or ranks PARI PASSU with the Notes in
right of payment, whether with respect of payment of redemptions, interest,
damages or upon liquidation or dissolution or otherwise.
(ff) Form SB-2 Eligibility. The Company is eligible to register the
Conversion Shares, the Warrant Shares and the Common Shares for resale by the
Buyers using Form SB-2 promulgated under the 1933 Act, subject to the
limitations of Rule 415 of the 1933 Act.
(gg) Transfer Taxes. On the Closing Date, all stock transfer or
other taxes (other than income or similar taxes) which are required to be paid
in connection with the sale and transfer of the Securities to be sold to each
Buyer hereunder will be, or will have been, fully paid or provided for by the
Company, and all applicable laws imposing such taxes will be or will have been
complied with, except where the failure to comply would not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(hh) Manipulation of Price. 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) other than the Placement Agent, sold, bid for,
purchased, or paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the
Securities, or (iii) other than the Placement Agent, paid or agreed to pay to
any person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other
securities of the Company.
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(ii) Acknowledgement Regarding Buyers' Trading Activity. Except
pursuant to Section 4(s) hereto, it is understood and acknowledged by the
Company (i) that none of the Buyers have been asked to agree, nor has any Buyer
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 (except as to the SEC
position that short sales "against the box" prior to the effective date of a
registration statement may not be covered with shares registered under such
registration statement); (ii) that any Buyer, and counter parties in
"derivative" transactions to which any such Buyer is a party, directly or
indirectly, presently may have a "short" position in the Common Stock, and (iii)
that each Buyer shall not be deemed by the Company 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 (a) one or more Buyers may
engage in hedging and/or trading activities at various times during the period
that the Securities are outstanding, including, without limitation, during the
periods that the value of the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares
deliverable with respect to Securities are being determined and (b) such hedging
and/or trading activities, if any, can reduce the value of the existing
stockholders' equity interest in the Company both at and after the time the
hedging and/or trading activities are being conducted. The Company acknowledges
that such aforementioned hedging and/or trading activities do not constitute a
breach of this Agreement, the Notes, the Warrants or any of the documents
executed in connection herewith.
(jj) U.S. Real Property Holding Corporation. The Company is not,
nor has ever 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 any Buyer's request.
(kk) No Additional Agreements. The Company does not have any
agreement or understanding with any Buyer with respect to the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents other than as specified in the
Transaction Documents.
(ll) 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 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.
(mm) Shell Company Status. The Company is not, and has never been,
an issuer identified in Rule 144(i)(1)
(nn) Disclosure. The Company confirms that neither it, nor to the
Company's knowledge, any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of
the Buyers or their agents or counsel with any information that constitutes or
could reasonably be expected to constitute material, nonpublic information. The
Company understands and confirms that each of the Buyers will rely on the
foregoing representations in effecting transactions in securities of the
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Company. All disclosure provided by the Company, its Subsidiaries, its officers
or directors, its agents or its counsel to the Buyers regarding the Company, its
business and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the 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 the light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading. Each press release issued by the Company during the
twelve (12) months preceding the date of this Agreement did not at the time of
release contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit 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 are made,
not misleading. No event or circumstance has occurred or information exists with
respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or its or their business,
properties, prospects, operations or financial conditions, which, under
applicable law, rule or regulation, requires public disclosure or announcement
by the Company but which has not been so publicly announced or disclosed, except
where the failure to make any such filing or report would not have a Material
Adverse Effect.
4. COVENANTS.
(a) Best Efforts. Each party shall use its best efforts timely to
satisfy each of the conditions to be satisfied by it as provided in Sections 6
and 7 of this Agreement.
(b) Form D and Blue Sky. The Company agrees to file a Form D with
respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy
thereof to each Buyer reasonably promptly after such filing. The Company shall,
reasonably promptly (and in no event later than 15 days) after the Closing Date,
take such action as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary (taking
into account The National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996, as
amended), in order to obtain an exemption for or to qualify the Securities for
sale to the Buyers at the Closing pursuant to this Agreement under applicable
securities or "Blue Sky" laws of the states of the United States (or to obtain
an exemption from such qualification), and shall provide evidence of any such
action so taken to the Buyers reasonably promptly after such filing. The Company
shall make all filings and reports relating to the offer and sale of the
Securities required under applicable securities or "Blue Sky" laws of the states
of the United States following the Closing Date. The Company shall have no
obligations with respect to the securities laws of any jurisdiction outside of
the United States, regardless of the foreign residence of such Buyer.
(c) Reporting Status. Until the date on which the Investors (as
defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) shall have sold all the Conversion
Shares, Warrant Shares and Common Shares and none of the Notes, Warrants or
Common Shares is outstanding (the "REPORTING PERIOD"), the Company shall file
all reports required to be filed with the SEC pursuant to the 1934 Act, and the
Company shall not terminate its status as an issuer required to file reports
under the 1934 Act even if the 1934 Act or the rules and regulations thereunder
would otherwise permit such termination.
(d) Use of Proceeds. The Company will use the proceeds from the
sale of the Securities for the payment of the Prepaid Interest and general
corporate purposes, including general and administrative expenses, and not for
(i) the repayment of any outstanding Indebtedness of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or (ii) the redemption or repurchase of any of its or its
Subsidiaries' equity securities.
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(e) Financial Information. The Company agrees to send the
following to each Investor (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement)
during the Reporting Period (i) unless the following are filed with the SEC
through ▇▇▇▇▇ and are available to the public through the ▇▇▇▇▇ system, within
one (1) Business Day after the filing thereof with the SEC, a copy of its Annual
Reports on Form 10-K or 10-KSB, any Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or 10-QSB, any
Current Reports on Form 8-K and any registration statements (other than on Form
S-8) or amendments filed pursuant to the 1933 Act, (ii) on the same day as the
release thereof, facsimile or e-mailed copies of all press releases issued by
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and (iii) copies of any notices and
other information made available or given to the stockholders of the Company
generally, contemporaneously with the making available or giving thereof to the
stockholders. As used herein, "BUSINESS DAY" means any day other than Saturday,
Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York are
authorized or required by law to remain closed.
(f) Listing. The Company shall promptly secure the listing of all
of the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement)
upon the Principal Market and each national securities exchange and automated
quotation system, if any, upon which the Common Stock is then listed (subject to
official notice of issuance) and shall thereafter maintain such listing of all
Registrable Securities from time to time issuable under the terms of the
Transaction Documents. The Company shall maintain the Common Stock's
authorization for quotation on the Principal Market. Neither the Company nor any
of its Subsidiaries shall take any action which would be reasonably expected to
result in the delisting or suspension of the Common Stock on the Principal
Market. The Company shall pay all fees and expenses in connection with
satisfying its obligations under this Section 4(f).
(g) Fees. The Company shall reimburse each Buyer or its
designee(s) (in addition to any other expense amounts paid to any Buyer prior to
the date of this Agreement) for all reasonable costs and expenses incurred in
connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents
(including all reasonable legal fees and disbursements in connection therewith,
documentation and implementation of the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents and due diligence in connection therewith), which amount
shall be withheld by such Buyer from its Purchase Price at the Closing. The
Company shall be responsible for the payment of any placement agent's fees,
financial advisory fees, or broker's commissions (other than for Persons engaged
by any Buyer) relating to or arising out of the transactions contemplated
hereby, including, without limitation, any fees or commissions payable to the
Placement Agent. The Company shall pay, and hold each Buyer harmless against,
any liability, loss or expense (including, without limitation, reasonable
attorney's fees and out-of-pocket expenses) arising in connection with any claim
relating to any such payment, other than for Persons engaged by any Buyer.
Except as otherwise set forth in the Transaction Documents, each party to this
Agreement shall bear its own expenses in connection with the sale of the
Securities to the Buyers.
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(h) Pledge of Securities. The Company acknowledges and agrees that
the Securities may be pledged by an Investor (as defined in the Registration
Rights Agreement) in connection with a bona fide margin agreement or other loan
or financing arrangement that is secured by the Securities. The pledge of
Securities shall not be deemed to be a transfer, sale or assignment of the
Securities hereunder, and no Investor effecting a pledge of Securities shall be
required to provide the Company with any notice thereof or otherwise make any
delivery to the Company pursuant to this Agreement or any other Transaction
Document, including, without limitation, Section 2(f) hereof; provided that an
Investor and its pledgee shall be required to comply with the provisions of
Section 2(f) hereof in order to effect a sale, transfer or assignment of
Securities to such pledgee. The Company hereby agrees to execute and deliver
such documentation as a pledgee of the Securities may reasonably request in
connection with a pledge of the Securities to such pledgee by an Investor.
(i) Disclosure of Transactions and Other Material Information. On
or before 8:30 a.m., New York City time, on the first Business Day following the
date of this Agreement, the Company shall issue a press release and file a
Current Report on Form 8-K describing the terms of the transactions contemplated
by the Transaction Documents in the form required by the 1934 Act and attaching
the material Transaction Documents (including, without limitation, this
Agreement, the Security Documents, the form of the Notes, the form of Warrant,
and the form of the Registration Rights Agreement), as exhibits to such filing
(including all attachments, the "8-K FILING"). From and after the filing of the
8-K Filing with the SEC, no Buyer shall be in possession of any material,
nonpublic information received from the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any
of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents, that is not
disclosed in the 8-K Filing. The Company shall not, and shall cause each of its
Subsidiaries and its and each of their respective officers, directors, employees
and agents, not to, provide any Buyer with any material, nonpublic information
regarding the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from and after the filing of
the 8-K Filing with the SEC without the express written consent of such Buyer.
If a Buyer has, or believes it has, received any such material, nonpublic
information regarding the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, it shall promptly
provide the Company with written notice thereof. The Company shall, within five
(5) Trading Days of receipt of such notice, make public disclosure of such
material, nonpublic information. In the event of a breach of the foregoing
covenant by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of its or their
respective officers, directors, employees and agents, in addition to any other
remedy provided herein or in the Transaction Documents, a Buyer shall have the
right to make a public disclosure, in the form of a press release, public
advertisement or otherwise, of such material, nonpublic information without the
prior approval by the Company, its Subsidiaries, or any of its or their
respective officers, directors, employees or agents. No Buyer shall have any
liability to the Company, its Subsidiaries, or any of its or their respective
officers, directors, employees, stockholders or agents for any such disclosure,
except where, as a result of the willful misconduct or gross negligence of such
Buyer, any such disclosure contains an untrue statement of a material fact or
omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which
they were made, not misleading. Subject to the foregoing, neither the Company,
its Subsidiaries nor any Buyer shall issue any press releases or any other
public statements with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby;
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provided, however, that the Company shall be entitled, without the prior
approval of any Buyer, to make any press release or other public disclosure with
respect to such transactions (i) in substantial conformity with the 8-K Filing
and contemporaneously therewith and (ii) as is required by applicable law and
regulations (provided that in the case of clause (i) each Buyer shall be
consulted by the Company in connection with any such press release or other
public disclosure prior to its release). Without the prior written consent of
any applicable Buyer, and except as contemplated by the prior subsection (i) or
as required by applicable law or regulation, neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries or affiliates shall disclose the name of such Buyer in any filing,
announcement, release or otherwise.
(j) Restriction on Redemption and Cash Dividends. So long as any
Notes are outstanding, the Company shall not, directly or indirectly, redeem, or
declare or pay any cash dividend or distribution on, the Common Stock without
the prior express written consent of the holders of Notes representing not less
than a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes.
(k) Additional Notes; Variable Securities; Dilutive Issuances. So
long as any Buyer beneficially owns any Securities, the Company will not issue
any Notes other than to the Buyers as contemplated hereby and the Company shall
not issue any other securities that would cause a breach or default under the
Notes. For so long as any Notes or Warrants remain outstanding, the Company
shall not, in any manner, issue or sell any rights, warrants or options to
subscribe for or purchase Common Stock or directly or indirectly convertible
into or exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock at a price which varies or
may vary with the market price of the Common Stock, including by way of one or
more reset(s) to any fixed price unless the conversion, exchange or exercise
price of any such security cannot be less than the then applicable Conversion
Price (as defined in the Notes) with respect to the Common Stock into which any
Note is convertible or the then applicable Exercise Price (as defined in the
Warrants) with respect to the Common Stock into which any Warrant is
exercisable. For so long as any Notes or Warrants remain outstanding, the
Company shall not, in any manner, enter into or affect any Dilutive Issuance (as
defined in the Notes) if the effect of such Dilutive Issuance is to cause the
Company to be required to issue upon conversion of any Note or exercise of any
Warrant any shares of Common Stock in excess of that number of shares of Common
Stock which the Company may issue upon conversion of the Notes and exercise of
the Warrants without breaching the Company's obligations under the rules or
regulations of the Principal Market or any applicable Eligible Market (as
defined in the Registration Rights Agreement).
(l) Corporate Existence. So long as any Buyer beneficially owns
any Securities, the Company shall not be party to any Fundamental Transaction
(as defined in the Notes) unless the Company is in compliance with the
applicable provisions governing Fundamental Transactions set forth in the Notes
and the Warrants.
(m) Reservation of Shares. So long as any Buyer owns any
Securities, the Company shall take all action necessary to at all times have
authorized, and reserved for the purpose of issuance, no less than 130% of the
sum of the number of shares of Common Stock issuable (i) upon conversion of the
Notes, and (ii) upon exercise of the Warrants then outstanding (without taking
into account any limitations on the conversion of the Notes or exercise of the
Warrants set forth in the Notes and Warrants, respectively).
(n) Conduct of Business. The business of the Company and its
Subsidiaries shall not be conducted in violation of any applicable law,
ordinance or regulation of any governmental entity, except where such violations
would not result, either individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse
Effect.
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(o) Additional Issuances of Securities.
(i) For purposes of this Section 4(o), the following
definitions shall apply.
(1) "CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES" means any stock or
securities (other than Options) convertible into or exercisable or
exchangeable for shares of Common Stock.
(2) "OPTIONS" means any rights, warrants or options to
subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock or Convertible
Securities.
(3) "COMMON STOCK EQUIVALENTS" means, collectively,
Options and Convertible Securities.
(ii) From the date hereof until the date that is twelve (12)
months from the Closing Date (the "TRIGGER Date"), the Company will not, (i)
directly or indirectly, offer, sell, grant any option to purchase, or otherwise
dispose of (or announce any offer, sale, grant or any option to purchase or
other disposition of) any of its or its Subsidiaries' debt, equity or equity
equivalent securities, including without limitation any debt, preferred stock or
other instrument or security that is, at any time during its life and under any
circumstances, convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares of
Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents (any such offer, sale, grant,
disposition or announcement being referred to as a "SUBSEQUENT PLACEMENT"),
other than to one or more of the Buyers provided the Company provides each of
the Buyers a right to participate in such Subsequent Placement pro rata based on
the aggregate principal amount of Notes purchased hereunder and does not give
any other Person the right to participate in such Subsequent Placement or (ii)
be party to any solicitations, negotiations or discussions with regard to the
foregoing.
(iii) Until the earlier of (I) later of the date (i) that is
three (3) years after the Closing Date and (ii) the Notes are no longer
outstanding and (II) the date the Company redeems the entire portion of the
Notes not previously converted by the Buyers in full in cash in accordance with
the terms of the Notes (the "PARTICIPATION RIGHTS TERMINATION DATE"), the
Company will not, directly or indirectly, effect any Subsequent Placement unless
the Company shall have first complied with this Section 4(o)(iii).
(1) The Company shall deliver to each Buyer written
notice (the "OFFER NOTICE") of any proposed or intended issuance or sale
or exchange (the "OFFER") of the securities being offered (the "OFFERED
SECURITIES") in a Subsequent Placement, which Offer Notice shall (w)
identify and describe the Offered Securities, (x) describe the price and
other terms upon which they are to be issued, sold or exchanged, and the
number or amount of the Offered Securities to be issued, sold or
exchanged, (y) identify the persons or entities (if known) to which or
with which the Offered Securities are to be offered, issued, sold or
exchanged and (z) offer to issue and sell to or exchange with such Buyers
all of the Offered Securities, allocated among such Buyers (a) based on
such Buyer's pro rata portion of the aggregate principal amount of Notes
purchased hereunder (the "BASIC AMOUNT"), and (b) with respect to each
Buyer that elects to purchase its Basic Amount, any additional portion of
the Offered Securities attributable to the Basic Amounts of other Buyers
as such Buyer shall indicate it will purchase or acquire should the other
Buyers subscribe for less than their Basic Amounts (the "UNDERSUBSCRIPTION
AMOUNT").
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(2) To accept an Offer, in whole or in part, such
Buyer must deliver a written notice to the Company prior to the end of the
tenth (10th) Business Day after such Buyer's receipt of the Offer Notice
(the "OFFER PERIOD"), setting forth the portion of such Buyer's Basic
Amount that such Buyer elects to purchase and, if such Buyer shall elect
to purchase all of its Basic Amount, the Undersubscription Amount, if any,
that such Buyer elects to purchase (in either case, the "NOTICE OF
ACCEPTANCE"). If the Basic Amounts subscribed for by all Buyers are less
than the total of all of the Basic Amounts, then each Buyer who has set
forth an Undersubscription Amount in its Notice of Acceptance shall be
entitled to purchase, in addition to the Basic Amounts subscribed for, the
Undersubscription Amount it has subscribed for; provided, however, that if
the Undersubscription Amounts subscribed for exceed the difference between
the total of all the Basic Amounts and the Basic Amounts subscribed for
(the "AVAILABLE UNDERSUBSCRIPTION AMOUNT"), each Buyer who has subscribed
for any Undersubscription Amount shall be entitled to purchase only that
portion of the Available Undersubscription Amount as the Basic Amount of
such Buyer bears to the total Basic Amounts of all Buyers that have
subscribed for Undersubscription Amounts, subject to rounding by the
Company to the extent it deems reasonably necessary.
(3) The Company shall have ten (10) Business Days from
the expiration of the Offer Period above to offer, issue, sell or exchange
all or any part of such Offered Securities as to which a Notice of
Acceptance has not been given by the Buyers (the "REFUSED SECURITIES"),
but only to the offerees described in the Offer Notice (if so described
therein) and only upon terms and conditions (including, without
limitation, unit prices and interest rates) that are not more favorable to
the acquiring person or persons or less favorable to the Company than
those set forth in the Offer Notice.
(4) In the event the Company shall propose to sell
less than all the Refused Securities (any such sale to be in the manner
and on the terms specified in Section 4(o)(iii)(3) above), then each Buyer
may, at its sole option and in its sole discretion, reduce the number or
amount of the Offered Securities specified in its Notice of Acceptance to
an amount that shall be not less than the number or amount of the Offered
Securities that such Buyer elected to purchase pursuant to Section
4(o)(iii)(2) above multiplied by a fraction, (i) the numerator of which
shall be the number or amount of Offered Securities the Company actually
proposes to issue, sell or exchange (including Offered Securities to be
issued or sold to Buyers pursuant to Section 4(o)(iii)(3) above prior to
such reduction) and (ii) the denominator of which shall be the original
amount of the Offered Securities. In the event that any Buyer so elects to
reduce the number or amount of Offered Securities specified in its Notice
of Acceptance, the Company may not issue, sell or exchange more than the
reduced number or amount of the Offered Securities unless and until such
securities have again been offered to the Buyers in accordance with
Section 4(o)(iii)(1) above.
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(5) Upon the closing of the issuance, sale or exchange
of all or less than all of the Refused Securities, the Buyers shall
acquire from the Company, and the Company shall issue to the Buyers, the
number or amount of Offered Securities specified in the Notices of
Acceptance, as reduced pursuant to Section 4(o)(iii)(3) above if the
Buyers have so elected, upon the terms and conditions specified in the
Offer. The purchase by the Buyers of any Offered Securities is subject in
all cases to the preparation, execution and delivery by the Company and
the Buyers of a purchase agreement relating to such Offered Securities
reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Buyers and their
respective counsel.
(6) Any Offered Securities not acquired by the Buyers
or other persons in accordance with Section 4(o)(iii)(3) above may not be
issued, sold or exchanged until they are again offered to the Buyers under
the procedures specified in this Agreement.
(iv) The restrictions contained in subsections (ii) and (iii)
of this Section 4(o) shall not apply in connection with the issuance of any
Excluded Securities (as defined in the Notes).
(p) Additional Registration Statements. Except as permitted in the
Registration Rights Agreement, from the date hereof until the earlier of (i) the
Effective Date (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) and (ii) date
when all Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights
Agreement) are freely tradeable without the requirement to be in compliance with
Rule 144(c)(1) and otherwise without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule
144, the Company will not file a registration statement (other than on Form S-8)
under the 1933 Act relating to securities that are not the Securities or were
not issued to any Buyer or Placement Agent pursuant to this Agreement, the
Securities Purchase Agreement dated as of July 30, 2006, as amended by the
Amended and Restated Amendment and Exchange Agreements dated as of January 22,
2007 (the "AMENDMENT AND EXCHANGE AGREEMENTS") (as amended, the "2006 EXISTING
PURCHASE AGREEMENT"), the Securities Purchase Agreement dated as of July 31,
2007 (the "2007 EXISTING PURCHASE AGREEMENT", and together with the 2006
Existing Purchase Agreement, the "EXISTING PURCHASE AGREEMENTS") or agreements
related hereto or thereto, without the prior written consent of the Buyers.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or the Transaction
Documents, the Company may file such supplements, amendments or other filings as
may be deemed reasonably necessary or appropriate by the Company to maintain the
effectiveness of its outstanding registration statements on Form SB-2.
(q) Collateral Agent.
(i) Each Buyer hereby (a) appoints Castlerigg as the
collateral agent hereunder and under the other Security Documents (in such
capacity, the "COLLATERAL AGENT"), and (b) authorizes the Collateral Agent (and
its officers, directors, employees and agents) to take such action on such
Buyer's behalf in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof. The Collateral
Agent shall not have, by reason hereof or any of the other Security Documents, a
fiduciary relationship in respect of any Buyer. Neither the Collateral Agent nor
any of its officers, directors, employees and agents shall have any liability to
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any Buyer for any action taken or omitted to be taken in connection hereof or
any other Security Document except to the extent caused by its own gross
negligence or willful misconduct, and each Buyer agrees to defend, protect,
indemnify and hold harmless the Collateral Agent and all of its officers,
directors, employees and agents (collectively, the "INDEMNITEES") from and
against any losses, damages, liabilities, obligations, penalties, actions,
judgments, suits, fees, costs and expenses (including, without limitation,
reasonable attorneys' fees, costs and expenses) incurred by such Indemnitee
("INDEMNITY COSTS"), arising from or in connection with the performance by such
Indemnitee of the duties and obligations of Collateral Agent pursuant hereto or
any of the Security Documents; provided, that, (i) the liability of any Buyer
pursuant to this Section 4(q) shall be several and not joint with any other
Buyer, and shall not exceed in the aggregate its pro rata percentage of such
Indemnity Costs (based on the percentage of Securities that such Buyer shall
acquire at the Closing as a percentage of all Securities sold at the Closing)
and (ii) no Buyer shall be obligated under this Section 4 (q) for any indirect
or consequential Indemnity Costs.
(ii) The Collateral Agent shall be entitled to rely upon any
written notices, statements, certificates, orders or other documents or any
telephone message believed by it reasonably and in good faith to be genuine and
correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person, and with
respect to all matters pertaining to this Agreement or any of the other
Transaction Documents and its duties hereunder or thereunder, upon advice of
counsel selected by it.
(iii) The Collateral Agent may resign from the performance of
all its functions and duties hereunder and under the Notes and the Security
Documents at any time by giving at least ten (10) Business Days prior written
notice to the Company and each holder of the Notes. Such resignation shall take
effect upon the acceptance by a successor Collateral Agent of appointment as
provided below. Upon any such notice of resignation, the holders of a majority
of the outstanding principal under the Notes shall appoint a successor
Collateral Agent. Upon the acceptance of the appointment as Collateral Agent,
such successor Collateral Agent shall succeed to and become vested with all the
rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Collateral Agent, and the
retiring Collateral Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations
under this Agreement, the Notes and the other Security Documents. After any
Collateral Agent's resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Section 4(q)
shall inure to its benefit. If a successor Collateral Agent shall not have been
so appointed within said ten (10) Business Day period, the retiring Collateral
Agent shall then appoint a successor Collateral Agent who shall serve until such
time, if any, as the holders of a majority of the outstanding principal under
the Notes appoint a successor Collateral Agent as provided above.
(r) Stockholder Approval.
(i) If the Common Stock is listed on an Eligible Market (as
defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) other than the Principal Market
(the "NEW PRINCIPAL MARKET") and the issuance of the Conversion Shares, Warrant
Shares and Common Shares as contemplated under the Transaction Documents would
exceed that number of shares of Common Stock which the Company may issue without
breaching the Company's obligations under the rules or regulations of the New
Principal Market, then the Company shall obtain the approval of its stockholders
as required by the applicable rules of the New Principal Market for issuances of
the Conversion Shares, Warrant Shares and Common Shares in excess of such
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amount. At such time, the Company shall provide each stockholder entitled to
vote at a special or annual meeting of stockholders of the Company (the
"STOCKHOLDER MEETING"), which shall be promptly called and held not later than
75 days after the earlier of (i) the New Principal Market indication of and (ii)
the Company becoming aware of, any limitation imposed by the New Principal
Market on the issuance of Conversion Shares, Warrant Shares or Common Shares
(the "STOCKHOLDER MEETING DEADLINE"), a proxy statement, substantially in the
form which has been previously reviewed by the Buyers and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇
LLP, at the expense of the Company, soliciting each such stockholder's
affirmative vote at the Stockholder Meeting for approval of resolutions
providing for the Company's issuance of all of the Securities as described in
the Transaction Documents in accordance with applicable law and the rules and
regulations of the New Principal Market and such affirmative approval being
referred to herein as the "STOCKHOLDER APPROVAL"), and the Company shall use its
reasonable best efforts to (i) solicit its stockholders' approval of such
resolutions and to (ii) cause the Board of Directors of the Company to recommend
to the stockholders that they approve such resolutions. The Company shall be
obligated to use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the Stockholder Approval
by the Stockholder Meeting Deadline. If, despite the Company's reasonable best
efforts the Stockholder Approval is not obtained on or prior to the Stockholder
Meeting Deadline, the Company shall cause an additional Stockholder Meeting to
be held every six (6) months thereafter until such Stockholder Approval is
obtained or the Notes and the Warrants are no longer outstanding.
(s) Trading Restrictions. Neither the Buyer, nor any affiliate of
the Buyer that is controlled by the Buyer or is otherwise aware of this
restriction, may purchase, sell or enter into any put option, short position or
similar arrangement with respect to securities of the Company that violates
Current Securities Laws (as defined below) or otherwise trade in the securities
of the Company in violation of applicable Current Securities Laws. In addition,
during each Company Conversion Measuring Period (as defined in the Notes)
neither the Buyer, nor any affiliate of the Buyer that is controlled by the
Buyer or is otherwise aware of this restriction, may engage in a Restricted
Activity other than the sale of shares of Common Stock received upon a Company
Conversion, a Mandatory Conversion or an Optional Conversion (as such terms are
defined in the Notes), upon a conversion, amortization or redemption of Notes or
any other notes previously issued by the Company to the Buyers (the "OTHER
NOTES"), pursuant to terms contained therein, upon exercise of any Warrants, or
any other warrants (the "OTHER WARRANTS") issued by the Company to the Buyers,
or the transfer of any Notes or Warrants or Other Notes or Other Warrants as
permitted by their terms. "RESTRICTED ACTIVITY" means, (a) any Acquisition or
Disposition, in open market transactions of (i) any shares of Common Stock or
(ii) any securities convertible into or exchangeable for or derivative of shares
of Common Stock and (b) any other action taken intentionally for the purpose of
manipulating the price of shares of Common Stock. "ACQUISITION" means any direct
or indirect voluntary acquisition or purchase (other than by merger,
consolidation, combination, recapitalization or other reorganization, or by
operation of law). "DISPOSITION" means any direct or indirect voluntary sale, or
monetization, including through a subsidiary or by means of an equity offering
by any such subsidiary, but shall not include, any of the actions contemplated
by Section 4(h) or any disposition thereunder. "CURRENT SECURITIES LAWS" means
the rules and regulations, as then in effect, of the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act,
in each case as are set forth in currently disseminated interpretations by the
SEC in writing, through rules, regulations, releases, no-action letters or
published telephone interpretations.
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(t) Public Information. At any time during the period commencing
from the six (6) month anniversary of the Closing Date and ending at such time
that all of the Securities can be sold either pursuant to a Registration
Statement may be sold without the requirement to be in compliance with Rule
144(c)(1) and otherwise without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144,
including, if applicable, Rule 144(i), if a registration statement is not
available for the resale of all of the Securities and the Company shall fail for
any reason to satisfy the current public information requirement under Rule 144
(a "PUBLIC INFORMATION FAILURE") then, as partial relief for the damages to any
holder of Securities by reason of any such delay in or reduction of its ability
to sell the Securities (which remedy shall not be exclusive of any other
remedies available at law or in equity), the Company shall pay to each such
holder an amount in cash equal to two percent (2.0%) of the aggregate Purchase
Price of such holder's Securities on the day of a Public Information Failure and
on every thirtieth day (pro rated for periods totaling less than thirty days)
thereafter until the earlier of (i) the date such Public Information Failure is
cured and (ii) such time that such public information is no longer required
pursuant to Rule 144. The payments to which a holder shall be entitled pursuant
to this Section 4(q) 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 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.
(u) Additional Relief. If the Company shall fail for any reason or
for no reason to issue to the Buyer unlegended certificates or issue such Common
Shares to such Buyer by electronic delivery at the applicable balance account at
DTC within three (3) Trading Days after the receipt of documents necessary for
the removal of the legend set forth in Section 2(g) above (the "REMOVAL DATE"),
then in addition to all other remedies available to the Buyer, if on or after
the Trading Day immediately following such three Trading Day period, the Buyer
purchases (in an open market transaction or otherwise) shares of Common Stock to
deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Buyer of such Common Shares that the
Buyer anticipated receiving without legend from the Company (a "BUY-IN"), then
the Company shall, within five (5) Business Days after the Buyer's request and
in the Buyer's discretion, either (i) pay cash to the Buyer in an amount equal
to the Buyer's total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any)
for the shares of Common Stock so purchased (the "BUY-IN PRICE"), at which point
the Company's obligation to deliver such unlegended Common Shares shall
terminate, or (ii) promptly honor its obligation to deliver to the Buyer such
unlegended Common Shares as provided above and pay cash to the Buyer in an
amount equal to the excess (if any) of the Buy-In Price over the product of (A)
such number of shares of Common Stock, times (B) the Closing Bid Price (as
defined in the Warrants) on the Removal Date.
(v) Closing Documents. On or prior to fourteen (14) calendar days
after the Closing Date, the Company agrees to deliver, or cause to be delivered,
to each Buyer and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLP executed copies of the Transaction
Documents, Securities and any other document required to be delivered by the
Company to any party pursuant to Section 7 hereof.
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(w) Waiver of Conflict with Existing Purchase Agreements and Other
Notes. The Buyers and the Company hereby acknowledge and agree that prior to the
Participation Rights Termination Date, the provisions of Section 4(o) hereof
shall supersede the provisions of Section 4(o) of each of the Existing Purchase
Agreements; provided, however, that after the Participation Rights Termination
Date, nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to effect, waive or amend any
Buyer's rights to participate in any Subsequent Placement pursuant to the terms
of any Prior Transaction Document then in effect and applicable to such
Subsequent Placement. The Buyers and the Company hereby acknowledge and agree
that for purposes of each of the Other Notes, the Notes issued hereunder shall
be deemed to be Permitted Senior Indebtedness and the security interest created
by the Security Documents shall be deemed to be a Permitted Lien.
5. REGISTER; TRANSFER AGENT INSTRUCTIONS.
(a) Register. The Company shall maintain at its principal
executive offices (or such other office or agency of the Company as it may
designate by notice to each holder of Securities), a register for the Notes, the
Warrants and the Common Shares in which the Company shall record the name and
address of the Person in whose name the Notes, the Warrants and the Common
Shares have been issued (including the name and address of each transferee), the
principal amount of Notes held by such Person, the number of Conversion Shares
issuable upon conversion of the Notes and Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise
of the Warrants held by such Person. The Company shall keep the register open
and available at all times during business hours for inspection of any Buyer or
its legal representatives.
(b) Transfer Agent Instructions. The Company shall issue
irrevocable instructions to its transfer agent, and any subsequent transfer
agent, to issue certificates or credit shares to the applicable balance accounts
at The Depository Trust Company ("DTC"), registered in the name of each Buyer or
its respective nominee(s), for the Conversion Shares, the Warrant Shares and
Common Shares issued at the Closing or upon conversion of the Notes or exercise
of the Warrants in such amounts as specified from time to time by each Buyer to
the Company upon conversion of the Notes or exercise of the Warrants in the form
of Exhibit H attached hereto (the "IRREVOCABLE TRANSFER AGENT INSTRUCTIONS").
The Company warrants that no instruction other than the Irrevocable Transfer
Agent Instructions referred to in this Section 5(b), and stop transfer
instructions to give effect to Section 2(g) hereof, will be given by the Company
to its transfer agent, and that the Securities shall otherwise be freely
transferable on the books and records of the Company as and to the extent
permitted by applicable federal and state securities laws and as provided in
this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents. If a Buyer effects a sale,
assignment or transfer of the Securities in accordance with Section 2(f), the
Company shall permit the transfer and shall promptly instruct its transfer agent
to issue one or more certificates or credit shares to the applicable balance
accounts at DTC in such name and in such denominations as specified by such
Buyer to effect such sale, transfer or assignment. In the event that such sale,
assignment or transfer involves Conversion Shares, Warrant Shares or Common
Shares sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to an effective registration
statement or pursuant to Rule 144, the transfer agent shall issue such
Securities to the Buyer, assignee or transferee, as the case may be, without any
restrictive legend. The Company acknowledges that a breach by it of its
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obligations hereunder will cause irreparable harm to a Buyer. Accordingly, the
Company acknowledges that the remedy at law for a breach of its obligations
under this Section 5(b) will be inadequate and agrees, in the event of a breach
or threatened breach by the Company of the provisions of this Section 5(b), that
a Buyer shall be entitled, in addition to all other available remedies, to an
order and/or injunction restraining any breach and requiring immediate issuance
and transfer, without the necessity of showing economic loss and without any
bond or other security being required.
6. CONDITIONS TO THE COMPANY'S OBLIGATION TO SELL.
Closing Date. The obligation of the Company hereunder to issue and
sell the Notes and the related Warrants and Common Shares to each Buyer at the
Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or before the Closing Date, of each
of the following conditions, provided that these conditions are for the
Company's sole benefit and may be waived by the Company at any time in its sole
discretion by providing each Buyer with prior written notice thereof:
(i) Such Buyer shall have executed each of the Transaction
Documents to which it is a party and delivered the same to the Company.
(ii) Such Buyer and each other Buyer shall have delivered to
the Company the Purchase Price set forth opposite such Buyer's and each other
Buyer's name in column (7) of the Schedule of Buyers less its Prepaid Interest
and less, in the case of Castlerigg, the amounts withheld pursuant to Section
4(g), for the Notes and the related Warrants and Common Shares being purchased
by such Buyer at the Closing by wire transfer of immediately available funds
pursuant to the wire instructions provided by the Company.
(iii) The representations and warranties of such Buyer shall
be true and correct in all material respects as of the date when made and as of
the Closing Date as though made at that time (except for representations and
warranties that speak as of a specific date, which shall be true and correct as
of such specified date), and such Buyer shall have performed, satisfied and
complied in all material respects with the covenants, agreements and conditions
required by this Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by such
Buyer at or prior to the Closing Date.
7. CONDITIONS TO EACH BUYER'S OBLIGATION TO PURCHASE.
Closing Date. The obligation of each Buyer hereunder to purchase the
Notes and the related Warrants and Common Shares at the Closing is subject to
the satisfaction, at or before the Closing Date, of each of the following
conditions, provided that these conditions are for each Buyer's sole benefit and
may be waived by such Buyer at any time in its sole discretion by providing the
Company with prior written notice thereof:
(i) The Company shall have executed and delivered to such
Buyer (A) each of the Transaction Documents, (B) the Notes (in such principal
amounts as set forth opposite such Buyer's name in column (3) of the Schedule of
Buyers) being purchased by such Buyer at the Closing pursuant to this Agreement,
(C) the Warrants (in such amounts as set forth opposite such Buyer's name in
columns (4) of the Schedule of Buyers) being purchased by such Buyer at the
Closing pursuant to this Agreement and (D) the related Common Shares (in such
amounts as set forth opposite such Buyer's name in columns (5) of the Schedule
of Buyers) being purchased by such Buyer at the Closing pursuant to this
Agreement.
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(ii) Such Buyer shall have received the opinion of in-house
counsel to the Company and ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, one of the Company's outside counsel,
dated as of the Closing Date, in substantially the form of Exhibit I attached
hereto.
(iii) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a copy of
the Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions, in the form of Exhibit H attached
hereto, which instructions shall have been delivered to and acknowledged in
writing by the Company's transfer agent.
(iv) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a
certificate evidencing the formation and good standing of the Company and each
of its Subsidiaries in such entity's jurisdiction of formation issued by the
Secretary of State (or comparable office) of such jurisdiction, as of a date
within 10 days of the Closing Date.
(v) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a
certificate evidencing the Company's qualification as a foreign corporation and
good standing issued by the Secretary of State (or comparable office) of each
jurisdiction in which the Company is required to be so qualified, as of a date
within 10 days of the Closing Date.
(vi) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a
certificate, executed by the Secretary of the Company and dated as of the
Closing Date, as to (i) the resolutions consistent with Section 3(b) as adopted
by the Company's Board of Directors in a form reasonably acceptable to such
Buyer, (ii) the Articles of Incorporation and (iii) the Bylaws, each as in
effect at the Closing, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit I.
(vii) The representations and warranties of the Company shall
be true and correct as of the date when made and as of the Closing Date as
though made at that time (except for representations and warranties that speak
as of a specific date, which shall be true and correct as of such specified
date) and the Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all
respects with the covenants, agreements and conditions required by the
Transaction Documents to be performed, satisfied or complied with by the Company
at or prior to the Closing Date. Such Buyer shall have received a certificate,
executed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing
Date, to the foregoing effect and as to such other matters as may be reasonably
requested by such Buyer in the form attached hereto as Exhibit J.
(viii) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer all
required notices setting forth the adjustment to the conversion and/or exercise
prices of the securities of the Company held by such Buyer as a result of the
transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Transaction Documents.
(ix) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a letter
from the Company's transfer agent certifying the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding as of a date within five days of the Closing Date.
(x) The Common Stock (I) shall be designated for quotation
or listed on the Principal Market and (II) shall not have been suspended, as of
the Closing Date, by the SEC or the Principal Market from trading on the
Principal Market nor shall suspension by the SEC or the Principal Market have
been threatened, as of the Closing Date, either (A) in writing by the SEC or the
Principal Market or (B) by falling below the minimum listing maintenance
requirements of the Principal Market.
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(xi) In accordance with the terms of the Security Agreement,
the Company shall have delivered to the Collateral Agent appropriate financing
statements on Form UCC-1 to be duly filed in such office or offices as may be
necessary or, in the opinion of the Collateral Agent, desirable to perfect the
security interests purported to be created by each Security Agreement.
(xii) Within six (6) Business Days prior to the Closing, the
Company shall have delivered or caused to be delivered to each Buyer (A)
certified copies of UCC search results, listing all effective financing
statements which name as debtor the Company or any of its Subsidiaries filed in
the prior five years to perfect an interest in any assets thereof, together with
copies of such financing statements, none of which, except as otherwise agreed
in writing by the Buyers, shall cover any of the Collateral (as defined in the
Security Agreement) and the results of searches for any tax lien and judgment
lien filed against such Person or its property, which results, except as
otherwise agreed to in writing by the Buyers shall not show any such Liens (as
defined in the Security Agreement); and (B) a perfection certificate, duly
completed and executed by the Company and each of its Subsidiaries, in form and
substance satisfactory to the Buyers.
(xiii) The Company shall have obtained all governmental,
regulatory or third party consents and approvals, if any, necessary for the sale
of the Securities.
(xiv) All rights of first refusal, participation, or similar
rights that would entitle any Person other than a Buyer to participate in the
transactions contemplated hereby shall have expired.
(xv) The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer such
other documents relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as
such Buyer or its counsel may reasonably request.
8. TERMINATION. In the event that the Closing shall not have occurred
with respect to a Buyer on or before five (5) Business Days from the date hereof
due to the Company's or such Buyer's failure to satisfy the conditions set forth
in Sections 6 and 7 above (and the nonbreaching party's failure to waive such
unsatisfied condition(s)), the nonbreaching party shall have the option to
terminate this Agreement with respect to such breaching party at the close of
business on such date without liability of any party to any other party;
provided, however, that if this Agreement is terminated pursuant to this Section
8 due to the Company's failure to satisfy the conditions set forth in Section 7
above, the Company shall remain obligated to reimburse the non-breaching Buyers
for the expenses described in Section 4(g) above.
9. MISCELLANEOUS.
(a) Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Jury Trial. All questions
concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this
Agreement shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of New York,
without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule
(whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause
the application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State of New
York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the
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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, and hereby irrevocably
waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim
that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that
such suit, action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum or that the
venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper. 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 to such
party at the address for such 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 manner permitted by law. EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY
WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE
ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF
THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
(b) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more
identical counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same
agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each
party and delivered to the other party; provided that a facsimile signature
shall be considered due execution and shall be binding upon the signatory
thereto with the same force and effect as if the signature were an original, not
a facsimile signature.
(c) Headings. The headings of this Agreement are for convenience
of reference and shall not form part of, or affect the interpretation of, this
Agreement.
(d) Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is prohibited
by law or otherwise determined to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of
competent jurisdiction, the provision that would otherwise be prohibited,
invalid or unenforceable shall be deemed amended to apply to the broadest extent
that it would be valid and enforceable, and the invalidity or unenforceability
of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of
this Agreement so long as this Agreement as so modified continues to express,
without material change, the original intentions of the parties as to the
subject matter hereof and the prohibited nature, invalidity or unenforceability
of the provision(s) in question does not substantially impair the respective
expectations or reciprocal obligations of the parties or the practical
realization of the benefits that would otherwise be conferred upon the parties.
The parties will endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the prohibited,
invalid or unenforceable provision(s) with a valid provision(s), the effect of
which comes as close as possible to that of the prohibited, invalid or
unenforceable provision(s).
(e) Entire Agreement; Amendments. This Agreement and the other
Transaction Documents supersede all other prior oral or written agreements
between the Buyers, the Company, their affiliates and Persons acting on their
behalf with respect to the matters discussed herein, and this Agreement, the
other Transaction Documents and the instruments referenced herein and therein
contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the matters
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covered herein and therein and, except as specifically set forth herein or
therein, neither the Company nor any Buyer makes any representation, warranty,
covenant or undertaking with respect to such matters. No provision of this
Agreement may be amended other than by an instrument in writing signed by the
Company and the holders of at least a majority of the aggregate number of
Registrable Securities issued and issuable hereunder, and any amendment to this
Agreement made in conformity with the provisions of this Section 9(e) shall be
binding on all Buyers and holders of Securities, as applicable. No provision
hereof may be waived other than by an instrument in writing signed by the party
against whom enforcement is sought. No such amendment shall be effective to the
extent that it applies to less than all of the holders of the applicable
Securities then outstanding. No consideration shall be offered or paid to any
Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any
of the Transaction Documents unless the same consideration also is offered to
all of the parties to the Transaction Documents, holders of Notes or holders of
the Warrants, as the case may be. The Company has not, directly or indirectly,
made any agreements with any Buyers relating to the terms or conditions of the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents except as set forth in
the Transaction Documents. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company confirms
that, except as set forth in this Agreement, no Buyer has made any commitment or
promise or has any other obligation to provide any financing to the Company or
otherwise.
(f) Notices. Any notices, consents, waivers or other
communications required or permitted to be given under the terms of this
Agreement must be in writing and will be deemed to have been delivered: (i) upon
receipt, when delivered personally; (ii) upon receipt, when sent by facsimile
(provided confirmation of transmission is mechanically or electronically
generated and kept on file by the sending party); or (iii) one Business Day
after deposit with an overnight courier service, in each case properly addressed
to the party to receive the same. The addresses and facsimile numbers for such
communications shall be:
If to the Company:
Raptor Networks Technology, Inc.
▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Telephone: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Facsimile: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
With a copy (for informational purposes only) to:
▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇, LLP
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇., ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Telephone: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Facsimile: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇, Esq.
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If to the Transfer Agent:
First American Stock Transfer
▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Telephone: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Facsimile: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
If to a Buyer, to its address and facsimile number set forth on the Schedule of
Buyers, with copies to such Buyer's representatives as set forth on the Schedule
of Buyers,
with a copy (for informational purposes only) to:
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLP
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Telephone: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Facsimile: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇, Esq.
or to such other address and/or facsimile number and/or to the attention of such
other Person as the recipient party has specified by written notice given to
each other party five (5) days prior to the effectiveness of such change.
Written confirmation of receipt (A) given by the recipient of such notice,
consent, waiver or other communication, (B) mechanically or electronically
generated by the sender's facsimile machine containing the time, date, recipient
facsimile number and an image of the first page of such transmission or (C)
provided by an overnight courier service shall be rebuttable evidence of
personal service, receipt by facsimile or receipt from an overnight courier
service in accordance with clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, respectively.
(g) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon
and inure to the benefit of the parties and their respective successors and
assigns, including any purchasers of the Notes or the Warrants. The Company
shall not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without
the prior written consent of the holders of at least a majority of the aggregate
number of Registrable Securities issued and issuable hereunder, including by way
of a Fundamental Transaction (unless the Company is in compliance with the
applicable provisions governing Fundamental Transactions set forth in the Notes
and the Warrants). A Buyer may assign some or all of its rights hereunder
without the consent of the Company, in which event such assignee shall be deemed
to be a Buyer hereunder with respect to such assigned rights.
(h) No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for
the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and
assigns, and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced
by, any other Person.
(i) Survival. Unless this Agreement is terminated under Section 8,
the representations and warranties of the Company and the Buyers contained in
Sections 2 and 3 and the agreements and covenants set forth in Sections 4, 5 and
9 shall survive the Closing. Each Buyer shall be responsible only for its own
representations, warranties, agreements and covenants hereunder.
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(j) Further Assurances. Each party shall do and perform, or cause
to be done and performed, all such further acts and things, and shall execute
and deliver all such other agreements, certificates, instruments and documents,
as any other party may reasonably request in order to carry out the intent and
accomplish the purposes of this Agreement and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby.
(k) Indemnification. In consideration of each Buyer's execution
and delivery of the Transaction Documents and acquiring the Securities
thereunder and in addition to all of the Company's other obligations under the
Transaction Documents, the Company shall defend, protect, indemnify and hold
harmless each Buyer and each other holder of the Securities and all of their
stockholders, partners, members, officers, directors, employees and direct or
indirect investors and any of the foregoing Persons' agents or other
representatives (including, without limitation, those retained in connection
with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement) (collectively, the
"INDEMNITEES") from and against any and all actions, causes of action, suits,
claims, losses, costs, penalties, fees, liabilities and damages, and expenses in
connection therewith (irrespective of whether any such Indemnitee is a party to
the action for which indemnification hereunder is sought), and including
reasonable attorneys' fees and disbursements (the "INDEMNIFIED LIABILITIES"),
incurred by any Indemnitee as a result of, or arising out of, or relating to (a)
any misrepresentation or breach of any representation or warranty made by the
Company in the Transaction Documents or any other certificate, instrument or
document contemplated hereby or thereby, (b) any breach of any covenant,
agreement or obligation of the Company contained in the Transaction Documents or
any other certificate, instrument or document contemplated hereby or thereby or
(c) any cause of action, suit or claim brought or made against such Indemnitee
by a third party (including for these purposes a derivative action brought on
behalf of the Company) and arising out of or resulting from (i) the execution,
delivery, performance or enforcement of the Transaction Documents or any other
certificate, instrument or document contemplated hereby or thereby, (ii) any
transaction financed or to be financed in whole or in part, directly or
indirectly, with the proceeds of the issuance of the Securities, (iii) any
disclosure made by such Buyer pursuant to Section 4(i), or (iv) the status of
such Buyer or holder of the Securities as an investor in the Company pursuant to
the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. To the extent that
the foregoing undertaking by the Company may be unenforceable for any reason,
the Company shall make the maximum contribution to the payment and satisfaction
of each of the Indemnified Liabilities which is permissible under applicable
law. Except as otherwise set forth herein, the mechanics and procedures with
respect to the rights and obligations under this Section 9(k) shall be the same
as those set forth in Section 6 of the Registration Rights Agreement. This
Section 9(k) shall not apply to any Indemnified Liabilities to the extent that
such Indemnified Liabilities result from or relate to the willful misconduct or
gross negligence of any Buyer.
(l) Series M-1 and M-2 Warrant Amendment. The Company and Buyers
agree that the Series M-1 Warrants, dated as of July 31, 2006 (the "SERIES M-1
WARRANTS") and Series M-2 Warrants, dated as of January 19, 2007 (the "SERIES
M-2 WARRANTS", and together with the Series M-1 Warrant, the "SERIES M
WARRANTS") issued pursuant to the Amendment and Exchange Agreements are hereby
amended to (i) delete in its entirety the last sentence of Section 1(a) of each
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of the Series M Warrants and (ii) delete the defined term "Maximum Eligibility
Number", such that each of the Series M Warrants, subject to Section 1(f)
therein, is currently exercisable in full. Notwithstanding anything contained
herein to the contrary, except as otherwise set forth in such Series M Warrants,
the Company shall not be obligated to issue any additional Series M Warrants to
any Buyer pursuant to the terms of the Existing Purchase Agreements or the
notes, warrants and all other agreements related thereto (the "PRIOR TRANSACTION
DOCUMENTS").
(m) No Strict Construction. The language used in this Agreement
will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties to express their mutual
intent, and no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party.
(n) Remedies. Each Buyer and each holder of the Securities shall
have all rights and remedies set forth in the Transaction Documents and all
rights and remedies which such holders have been granted at any time under any
other agreement or contract and all of the rights which such holders have under
any law. Any Person having any rights under any provision of this Agreement
shall be entitled to enforce such rights specifically (without posting a bond or
other security), to recover damages by reason of any breach of any provision of
this Agreement and to exercise all other rights granted by law. Furthermore, the
Company recognizes that in the event that it fails to perform, observe, or
discharge any or all of its obligations under the Transaction Documents, any
remedy at law may prove to be inadequate relief to the Buyers. The Company
therefore agrees that the Buyers shall be entitled to seek temporary and
permanent injunctive relief in any such case without the necessity of proving
actual damages and without posting a bond or other security.
(o) Rescission and Withdrawal Right. Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) the
Transaction Documents, whenever any Buyer 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 Buyer may
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.
(p) Payment Set Aside. To the extent that the Company makes a
payment or payments to the Buyers hereunder or pursuant to any of the other
Transaction Documents or the Buyers enforce or exercise their rights hereunder
or 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, foreign, 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.
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(q) Independent Nature of Buyers' Obligations and Rights. The
obligations of each Buyer under any Transaction Document are several and not
joint with the obligations of any other Buyer, and no Buyer shall be responsible
in any way for the performance of the obligations of any other Buyer under any
Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction
Document, and no action taken by any Buyer pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be
deemed to constitute the Buyers as a partnership, an association, a joint
venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Buyers are
in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or
the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and the Company
acknowledges that, to the Company's knowledge, the Buyers are not acting in
concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Buyer confirms that it has
independently participated in the negotiation of the transaction contemplated
hereby with the advice of its own counsel and advisors. Each Buyer shall be
entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without
limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of any other
Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Buyer to be
joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their
respective signature page to this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly
executed as of the date first written above.
COMPANY:
RAPTOR NETWORKS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their
respective signature page to this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly
executed as of the date first written above.
BUYERS:
CASTLERIGG MASTER INVESTMENTS LTD.
BY: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ASSET MANAGEMENT CORP.
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇'▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇'▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Chief Financial Officer
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their
respective signature page to this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly
executed as of the date first written above.
BUYERS:
CEDAR HILL CAPITAL PARTNERS ONSHORE, LP
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Principal
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their
respective signature page to this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly
executed as of the date first written above.
BUYERS:
CEDAR HILL CAPITAL PARTNERS OFFSHORE,
LTD.
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Principal
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SCHEDULE OF BUYERS
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
AGGREGATE
PRINCIPAL NUMBER OF NUMBER OF
ADDRESS AND AMOUNT OF WARRANT COMMON -PREPAID PURCHASE LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE'S
BUYER FACSIMILE NUMBER NOTES SHARES SHARES INTEREST PRICE ADDRESS AND FACSIMILE NUMBER
c/o Sandell Asset Management $2,125,000 4,250,000 2,125,000 $425,000 $2,125,000 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLP
CASTLERIGG ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
MASTER ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
INVESTMENTS ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Esq.
LTD. Attention: Cem Facsimile: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Hacioglu/▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Telephone: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Fax: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Telephone: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Residence: British Virgin
Islands
CEDAR HILL ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ $450,000 900,000 450,000 $90,000 $450,000 ▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
PARTNERS Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
ONSHORE, LP Facsimile: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ Attention: ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Esq.
Telephone: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ Facsimile: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Residence: New York Telephone: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
CEDAR HILL ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ $550,000 1,100,000 550,000 $110,000 $550,000 ▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
PARTNERS Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
OFFSHORE, Facsimile: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ Attention: ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, Esq.
LTD. Telephone: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ Facsimile: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Residence: Cayman Islands Telephone: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
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EXHIBITS
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Exhibit A Form of Notes
Exhibit B Form of Warrants
Exhibit C Registration Rights Agreement
Exhibit D Form of Pledge Agreement
Exhibit E Form of Security Agreement
Exhibit F IP Security Agreement
Exhibit G Form of Guaranty
Exhibit H Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions
Exhibit I Form of Company Counsel Opinion
Exhibit J Form of Secretary's Certificate
Exhibit K Form of Officer's Certificate
SCHEDULES
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Schedule 3(a) Subsidiaries
Schedule 3(k) SEC Documents; Financial Statements
Schedule 3(l) Absence of Certain Changes
Schedule 3(q) Transactions with Affiliates
Schedule 3(r) Capitalization
Schedule 3(s) Indebtedness and Other Contracts
Schedule 3(w) Title
Schedule 3(t) Litigation
Schedule 3(x) Intellectual Property
Schedule 3(z) Subsidiary Rights
Schedule 3(ee) Ranking of Notes
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