DELCATH SYSTEMS, INC.
a Delaware corporation
and
American Stock Transfer & Trust Company
Warrant Agent
and
Whale Securities Co., L.P.
Underwriter
WARRANT AGREEMENT
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1. Appointment of Warrant Agent.................................................................
2. Form of Warrant .............................................................................
3. Countersignature and Registration............................................................
4. Transfers and Exchanges .....................................................................
5. Exercise of Warrants; Payment of Warrant Solicitation Fee....................................
6. Payment of Taxes ............................................................................
7. Mutilated or Missing Warrants Warrants ......................................................
8. Reservation of Common Stock .................................................................
9. Warrant Price; Adjustments ..................................................................
10. Fractional Interest ........................................................................
11. Notices to Warrantholders ..................................................................
12. Disposition of Proceeds on Exercise of Warrants.............................................
13. Redemption of Warrants......................................................................
14. Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of
Warrant Agent...........................................................................
15. Duties of Warrant Agent.....................................................................
16. Change of Warrant Agent.....................................................................
17. Identity of Transfer Agent .................................................................
18. Notices ....................................................................................
20. New York Contract ..........................................................................
21. Benefits of this Agreement .................................................................
22. Successors .................................................................................
Exhibit A - Form of Warrant ..........................................................
WARRANT AGENT AGREEMENT dated as of October , 2000, by and among Delcath
Systems, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), Whale Securities Co.,
L.P. (the "Underwriter") and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant
agent (hereinafter called the "Warrant Agent").
WHEREAS, the Company proposes to issue and sell to the public up to
1,380,000 units (the "Units") each Unit consisting of one share of the common
stock of the Company, par value $.01 per share (hereinafter, together with the
stock of any other class to which such shares may hereafter have been changed,
called "Common Stock"), and one Common Stock Purchase Warrant (the "Warrants");
WHEREAS, each Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one share of
Common Stock;
WHEREAS, the Company desires the Warrant Agent to act on behalf of the
Company, and the Warrant Agent is willing to so act, in connection with the
issuance, registration, transfer, exchange and exercise of the Warrants;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements
herein set forth, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Section 1. Appointment of Warrant Agent. The Company hereby appoints the
Warrant Agent to act as Warrant Agent for the Company in accordance with the
instructions hereinafter set forth in this Agreement, and the Warrant Agent
hereby accepts such appointment.
Section 2. Form of Warrant. The text of the Warrants and of the form of
election to purchase Common Stock to be printed on the reverse thereof shall be
substantially as set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto. Each Warrant shall
entitle the registered holder thereof to purchase one share of Common Stock at a
purchase price of Six Dollars Sixty Cents ($6.60), at any time commencing on the
Separation Date (as hereinafter defined) until 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, on
October , 2005 (the "Warrant Exercise Period"). The securities comprising the
Units will become detachable and separately transferable commencing October ,
2005, or such earlier date as to which the Underwriter consents (the "Separation
Date"). The warrant price and the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon
exercise of the Warrants are subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of
certain events, all as hereinafter provided. The Warrants shall be executed on
behalf of the Company by the manual or facsimile signature of the present or any
future Chief Executive Officer, President or Vice President of the Company,
attested to by the manual or facsimile signature of the present or any future
Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Company.
Warrants shall be dated as of the issuance by the Warrant Agent either upon
initial issuance or upon transfer or exchange.
In the event the aforesaid expiration dates of the Warrants fall on a
Saturday or Sunday, or on a legal holiday on which the New York Stock Exchange
is closed, then the Warrants shall expire at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on the next
succeeding business day.
Section 3. Countersignature and Registration. The Warrant Agent shall
maintain books for the transfer and registration of the Warrants. Upon the
initial issuance of the Warrants, the Warrant Agent shall issue and register the
Warrants in the names of the respective holders thereof. The Warrants shall be
countersigned manually or by facsimile by the Warrant Agent (or
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by any successor to the Warrant Agent then acting as warrant agent under this
Agreement) and shall not be valid for any purpose unless so countersigned.
Warrants may, however, be so countersigned by the Warrant Agent (or by its
successor as Warrant Agent) and be delivered by the Warrant Agent,
notwithstanding that the persons whose manual or facsimile signatures appear
thereon as proper officers of the Company shall have ceased to be such officers
at the time of such countersignature or delivery.
Section 4. Transfers and Exchanges. The Warrant Agent shall transfer, from
time to time, any outstanding Warrants upon the books to be maintained by the
Warrant Agent for that purpose, upon surrender thereof for transfer properly
endorsed or accompanied by appropriate instructions for transfer. Upon any such
transfer, a new Warrant shall be issued to the transferee and the surrendered
Warrant shall be cancelled by the Warrant Agent. Warrants so cancelled shall be
delivered by the Warrant Agent to the Company from time to time upon request.
Warrants may be exchanged at the option of the holder thereof, when surrendered
at the office of the Warrant Agent, for another Warrant, or other Warrants of
different denominations of like tenor and representing in the aggregate the
right to purchase a like number of shares of Common Stock.
Section 5. Exercise of Warrants; Payment of Warrant Solicitation Fee.
(a) Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, each registered holder of
Warrants shall have the right, which may be exercised commencing at the opening
of business on the first day of the Warrant Exercise Period, to purchase from
the Company (and the Company shall issue and sell to such registered holder of
Warrants) the number of fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock
specified in such Warrants upon surrender of such Warrants to the Company at the
office of the Warrant Agent, with the form of election to purchase on the
reverse
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thereof duly filled in and signed, and upon payment to the Company of the
warrant price, determined in accordance with the provisions of Sections 9 and 10
of this Agreement, for the number of shares of Common Stock in respect of which
such Warrants are then exercised. Payment of such warrant price shall be made in
cash or by certified check or bank draft to the order of the Company. Subject to
Section 6, upon such surrender of Warrants and payment of the warrant price, the
Company shall issue and cause to be delivered with all reasonable dispatch to or
upon the written order of the registered holder of such Warrants and in such
name or names as such registered holder may designate, a certificate or
certificates for the number of full shares of Common Stock so purchased upon the
exercise of such Warrants. Such certificate or certificates shall be deemed to
have been issued, and any person so designated to be named therein shall be
deemed to have become a holder of record of such shares of Common Stock, as of
the date of the surrender of such Warrants and payment of the warrant price as
aforesaid. The rights of purchase represented by the Warrants shall be
exercisable, at the election of the registered holders thereof, either as an
entirety or from time to time for a portion of the shares specified therein and,
in the event that any Warrant is exercised in respect of less than all of the
shares of Common Stock specified therein at any time prior to the date of
expiration of the Warrants, a new Warrant or Warrants will be issued to the
registered holder for the remaining number of shares of Common Stock specified
in the Warrant so surrendered, and the Warrant Agent is hereby irrevocably
authorized to countersign and to deliver the required new Warrants pursuant to
the provisions of this Section and of Section 3 of this Agreement and the
Company, whenever requested by the Warrant Agent, will supply the Warrant Agent
with Warrants duly executed on behalf of the Company for such purpose. Anything
in the foregoing to the contrary notwithstanding, no Warrant will be exercisable
unless at the time of exercise the Company has
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filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), covering the shares of
Common Stock issuable upon exercise of such Warrant and such shares have been so
registered or qualified or deemed to be exempt under the securities laws of the
state of residence of the holder of such Warrant. The Company shall use its best
efforts to have all shares so registered or qualified on or before the date on
which the Warrants become exercisable.
(b) If at the time of exercise of any Warrant after October , 2001 [one
year after the Effective Date] (i) the market price of the Company's Common
Stock is equal to or greater than the then purchase price of the Warrant, (ii)
the exercise of the Warrant is solicited by the Underwriter at such time while
the Underwriter is a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers,
Inc. ("NASD"), (iii) the Warrant is not held in a discretionary account, (iv)
disclosure of the compensation arrangement is made in documents provided to the
holders of the Warrants; and (v) the solicitation of the exercise of the Warrant
is not in violation of Regulation M (as such regulation or any successor
regulation or rule may be in effect as of such time of exercise) promulgated
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, then the Underwriter shall be
entitled to receive from the Company upon exercise of each of the Warrant(s) so
exercised a fee of five percent (5%) of the aggregate price of the Warrants so
exercised (the "Exercise Fee"). The procedures for payment of the warrant
solicitation fee are set forth in Section 5(c) below.
(c) (1) Within five (5) days of the last day of each month commencing with
October , 2001, the Warrant Agent will notify the Underwriter of each Warrant
Certificate which has been properly completed for exercise by holders of
Warrants during the last month. The Company and Warrant Agent shall determine,
in their sole and absolute discretion, whether a Warrant Certificate has been
properly completed. The Warrant Agent will provide the
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Underwriter with such information, in connection with the exercise of each
Warrant, as the Underwriter shall reasonably request.
(2) The Company hereby authorizes and instructs the Warrant Agent to
deliver to the Underwriter the Exercise Fee promptly after receipt by the
Warrant Agent from the Company of a check payable to the order of the
Underwriter in the amount of the Exercise Fee. In the event that an Exercise Fee
is paid to the Underwriter with respect to a Warrant which the Company or the
Warrant Agent determines is not properly completed for exercise or in respect of
which the Underwriter is not entitled to an Exercise Fee, the Underwriter will
promptly return such Exercise Fee to the Warrant Agent which shall forthwith
return such fee to the Company.
The Underwriter and the Company may at any time, after October , 2001, and
during business hours, examine the records of the Warrant Agent, including its
ledger of original Warrant certificates returned to the Warrant Agent upon
exercise of Warrants. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the
provisions of paragraphs 5(b) and 5(c) may not be modified, amended or deleted
without the prior written consent of the Underwriter.
Section 6. Payment of Taxes. The Company will pay any documentary stamp
taxes attributable to the initial issuance of Common Stock issuable upon the
exercise of Warrants; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required
to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the
issue or delivery of any certificates of shares of Common Stock in a name other
than that of the registered holder of Warrants in respect of which such shares
are issued, and in such case neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent shall be
required to issue or deliver any certificate for shares of Common Stock or any
Warrant until the person requesting the same has paid to the Company the amount
of such tax or has established to the Company's satisfaction that such tax has
been paid.
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Section 7. Mutilated or Missing Warrants. In case any of the Warrants shall
be mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company may, in its discretion,
issue and the Warrant Agent shall countersign and deliver in exchange and
substitution for and upon cancellation of the mutilated Warrant, or in lieu of
and in substitution for the Warrant lost, stolen or destroyed, a new Warrant of
like tenor and representing an equivalent right or interest, but only upon
receipt of evidence satisfactory to the Company and the Warrant Agent of such
loss, theft or destruction and, in case of a lost, stolen or destroyed Warrant,
indemnity, if requested, also satisfactory to them. Applicants for such
substitute Warrants shall also comply with such other reasonable regulations and
pay such reasonable charges as the Company or the Warrant Agent may prescribe.
Section 8. Reservation of Common Stock. There have been reserved, and the
Company shall at all times keep reserved, out of the authorized and unissued
shares of Common Stock, a number of shares of Common Stock sufficient to provide
for the exercise of the rights of purchase represented by the Warrants, and the
transfer agent for the shares of Common Stock and every subsequent transfer
agent for any shares of the Company's Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of
any of the rights of purchase aforesaid are irrevocably authorized and directed
at all times to reserve such number of authorized and unissued shares of Common
Stock as shall be required for such purpose. The Company agrees that all shares
of Common Stock issued upon exercise of the Warrants shall be, at the time of
delivery of the certificates of such shares, validly issued and outstanding,
fully paid and nonassessable and listed on any national securities exchange upon
which the other shares of Common Stock are then listed. So long as any unexpired
Warrants remain outstanding, the Company will file such post-effective
amendments to the registration statement (Form SB-2, Registration No. 333-39470)
(the "Registration
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Statement") filed pursuant to the Act with respect to the Warrants (or other
appropriate registration statements or post-effective amendment or supplements)
as may be necessary to permit it to deliver to each person exercising a Warrant,
a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10(a)(3) of the Act and
otherwise complying therewith, and will deliver such a prospectus to each such
person. To the extent that during any period it is not reasonably likely that
the Warrants will be exercised, due to market price or otherwise, the Company
need not file such a post-effective amendment during such period. The Company
will keep a copy of this Agreement on file with the transfer agent for the
shares of Common Stock and with every subsequent transfer agent for any shares
of the Company's Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the rights of
purchase represented by the Warrants. The Warrant Agent is irrevocably
authorized to requisition from time to time from such transfer agent stock
certificates required to honor outstanding Warrants. The Company will supply
such transfer agent with duly executed stock certificates for that purpose. All
Warrants surrendered in the exercise of the rights thereby evidenced shall be
cancelled by the Warrant Agent and shall thereafter be delivered to the Company,
and such cancelled Warrants shall constitute sufficient evidence of the number
of shares of Common Stock which have been issued upon the exercise of such
Warrants. Promptly after the date of expiration of the Warrants, the Warrant
Agent shall certify to the Company the total aggregate amount of Warrants then
outstanding, and thereafter no shares of Common Stock shall be subject to
reservation in respect of such Warrants which shall have expired.
Section 9. Warrant Price; Adjustments.
(a) The warrant price at which Common Stock shall be purchasable upon the
exercise of the Warrants shall be $6.60 per share or after adjustment, as
provided in this Section, shall be such price as so adjusted (the "Warrant
Price").
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(b) The Warrant Price shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as
follows:
(i) In case the Company shall at any time after the date hereof pay a
dividend in shares of Common Stock or make a distribution in shares of Common
Stock, then upon such dividend or distribution the Warrant Price in effect
immediately prior to such dividend or distribution shall forthwith be reduced to
a price determined by dividing:
(A) an amount equal to the total number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding immediately prior to such dividend or distribution multiplied by the
Warrant Price in effect immediately prior to such dividend or distribution, by
(B) the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
immediately after such issuance or sale.
For the purposes of any computation to be made in accordance with the
provisions of this Section 9(b)(i), the following provisions shall be
applicable: Common Stock issuable by way of dividend or other distribution on
any stock of the Company shall be deemed to have been issued immediately after
the opening of business on the date following the date fixed for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or other
distribution.
(ii) In case the Company shall at any time subdivide or combine the
outstanding Common Stock, the Warrant Price shall forthwith be proportionately
decreased in the case of subdivision or increased in the case of combination to
the nearest one cent. Any such adjustment shall become effective at the time
such subdivision or combination shall become effective.
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(iii) Within a reasonable time after the close of each quarterly fiscal
period of the Company during which the Warrant Price has been adjusted as herein
provided, the Company shall:
(A) file with the Warrant Agent a certificate signed by the Chief
Executive Officer, President or Vice President of the Company and by the
Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of
the Company, showing in detail the facts requiring all such adjustments
occurring during such period and the Warrant Price after each such adjustment;
and
(B) the Warrant Agent shall have no duty with respect to any such
certificate filed with it except to keep the same on file and available for
inspection by holders of Warrants during reasonable business hours, and the
Warrant Agent may conclusively rely upon the latest certificate furnished to it
hereunder. The Warrant Agent shall not at any time be under any duty or
responsibility to any holder of a Warrant to determine whether any facts exist
which may require any adjustment of the Warrant Price, or with respect to the
nature or extent of any adjustment of the Warrant Price when made, or with
respect to the method employed in making any such adjustment, or with respect to
the nature or extent of the property or securities deliverable hereunder. In the
absence of a certificate having been furnished, the Warrant Agent may
conclusively rely upon the provisions of the Warrants with respect to the Common
Stock deliverable upon the exercise of the Warrants and the applicable Warrant
Price thereof.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, no
adjustment of the Warrant Price shall be made if the amount of such adjustment
shall be less than $.05, but in such case any adjustment that would otherwise be
required then to be made shall be carried forward and shall be made at the time
and together with the next subsequent adjustment which, together with any
adjustment so carried forward, shall amount to not less than $.02.
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(v) In the event that the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock
is increased by a stock dividend payable in Common Stock or by a subdivision of
the outstanding Common Stock, then, from and after the time at which the
adjusted Warrant Price becomes effective pursuant to Subsection (b) of this
Section by reason of such dividend or subdivision, the number of shares of
Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of each Warrant shall be increased in
proportion to such increase in outstanding shares. In the event that the number
of shares of Common Stock outstanding is decreased by a combination of the
outstanding Common Stock, then, from and after the time at which the adjusted
Warrant Price becomes effective pursuant to this Section 9(b) by reason of such
combination, the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of
each Warrant shall be decreased in proportion to such decrease in the
outstanding shares of Common Stock.
(vi) In case of any reorganization or reclassification of the
outstanding Common Stock (other than a change in par value, or from par value to
no par value, or as a result of a subdivision or combination), or in case of any
consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company into, another
corporation (other than a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the
continuing corporation and which does not result in any reclassification of the
outstanding Common Stock), or in case of any sale or conveyance to another
corporation of the property of the Company as an entirety or substantially as an
entirety, the holder of each Warrant then outstanding shall thereafter have the
right to purchase the kind and amount of shares of Common Stock and other
securities and property receivable upon such reorganization, reclassification,
consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance by a holder of the number of shares of
Common Stock which the holder of such Warrant shall then be entitled to
purchase; such adjustments shall apply with respect to all such changes
occurring between the date of this Warrant Agreement and the date of exercise of
such Warrant.
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(vii) Subject to the provisions of this Section 9, in case the Company
shall, at any time prior to the exercise of the Warrants, make any distribution
of its assets to holders of its Common Stock as a liquidating or a partial
liquidating dividend, then the holder of Warrants who exercises its Warrants
after the record date for the determination of those holders of Common Stock
entitled to such distribution of assets as a liquidating or partial liquidating
dividend shall be entitled to receive for the Warrant Price per Warrant, in
addition to each share of Common Stock, the amount of such distribution (or, at
the option of the Company, a sum equal to the value of any such assets at the
time of such distribution as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company
in good faith), which would have been payable to such holder had he been the
holder of record of the Common Stock receivable upon exercise of its Warrant on
the record date for the determination of those entitled to such distribution.
(viii) In case of the dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the
Company, all rights under the Warrants shall terminate on a date fixed by the
Company, such date to be no earlier than ten (10) days prior to the
effectiveness of such dissolution, liquidation or winding up and not later than
five (5) days prior to such effectiveness. Notice of such termination of
purchase rights shall be given to the last registered holder of the Warrants, as
the same shall appear on the books of the Company maintained by the Warrant
Agent, by registered mail at least thirty (30) days prior to such termination
date.
(ix) In case the Company shall, at any time prior to the expiration of
the Warrants and prior to the exercise thereof, offer to the holders of its
Common Stock any rights to subscribe for additional shares of any class of the
Company, then the Company shall
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give written notice thereof to the last registered holder thereof not less than
thirty (30) days prior to the date on which the books of the Company are closed
or a record date is fixed for the determination of the stockholders entitled to
such subscription rights. Such notice shall specify the date as to which the
books shall be closed or record date fixed with respect to such offer of
subscription and the right of the holder thereof to participate in such offer of
subscription shall terminate if the Warrant shall not be exercised on or before
the date of such closing of the books or such record date.
(x) Any adjustment pursuant to the aforesaid provisions of this Section
9 shall be made on the basis of the number of shares of Common Stock which the
holder thereof would have been entitled to acquire by the exercise of the
Warrant immediately prior to the event giving rise to such adjustment.
(xi) Irrespective of any adjustments in the Warrant Price or the number
or kind of shares purchasable upon exercise of the Warrants, Warrants previously
or thereafter issued may continue to express the same price and number and kind
of shares as are stated in the similar Warrants initially issuable pursuant to
this Warrant Agreement.
(xii) The Company may retain a firm of independent public accountants
(who may be any such firm regularly employed by the Company) to make any
computation required under this Section 9, and any certificate setting forth
such computation signed by such firm shall be conclusive evidence of the
correctness of any computation made under this Section 9.
(xiii) If at any time, as a result of an adjustment made pursuant to
Section 9(b)(vi) above, the holders of a Warrant or Warrants shall become
entitled to purchase any securities other than shares of Common Stock,
thereafter the number of such securities so
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purchasable upon exercise of each Warrant and the Warrant Price for such shares
shall be subject to adjustment from time to time in a manner and on terms as
nearly equivalent as practicable to the provisions with respect to the Common
Stock contained in Sections 9(b)(ii) through (v).
Section 10. Fractional Interest. The Warrants may only be exercised to
purchase full shares of Common Stock and the Company shall not be required to
issue fractions of shares of Common Stock on the exercise of Warrants. However,
if a Warrant holder exercises all Warrants then owned of record by it and such
exercise would result in the issuance of a fractional share, the Company will
pay to such Warrant holder, in lieu of the issuance of any fractional share
otherwise issuable, an amount of cash based on the market value of the Common
Stock of the Company on the last trading day prior to the exercise date.
Section 11. Notices to Warrantholders.
(a) Upon any adjustment of the Warrant Price and the number of shares of
Common Stock issuable upon exercise of a Warrant, then and in each such case the
Company shall give written notice thereof to the Warrant Agent, which notice
shall state the Warrant Price resulting from such adjustment and the increase or
decrease, if any, in the number of shares purchasable at such price upon the
exercise of a Warrant, setting forth in reasonable detail the method of
calculation and the facts upon which such calculation is based. The Company
shall also mail such notice to the holders of the Warrants at their addresses
appearing in the Warrant register. Failure to give or mail such notice, or any
defect therein, shall not affect the validity of the adjustments.
(b) In case at any time:
(i) the Company shall pay dividends payable in stock upon its Common
Stock or make any distribution (other than regular cash dividends) to the
holders of its Common Stock; or
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(ii) the Company shall offer for subscription pro rata to the holders
of its Common Stock any additional shares of stock of any class or other rights;
or
(iii) there shall be any capital reorganization or reclassification of
the capital stock of the Company, or consolidation or merger of the Company
with, or sale or substantially all of its assets to, another corporation; or
(iv) there shall be a voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation
or winding up of the Company; then in any one or more of such cases, the Company
shall give written notice in the manner set forth in Section 11(a) of the date
on which (A) a record shall be taken for such dividend, distribution or
subscription rights, or (B) such reorganization, reclassification,
consolidation, merger, sale, dissolution, liquidation or winding up shall take
place, as the case may be. Such notice shall also specify the date as of which
the holders of Common Stock of record shall participate in such dividend,
distribution or subscription rights, or shall be entitled to exchange their
Common Stock for securities or other property deliverable upon such
reorganization, reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, dissolution,
liquidation or winding up as the case may be. Such notice shall be given at
least thirty (30) days prior to the action in question and not less than thirty
(30) days prior to the record date in respect thereof. Failure to give such
notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of any
of the matters set forth in this Section 11(b).
(c) The Company shall cause copies of all financial statements and reports,
proxy statements and other documents that are sent to its stockholders to be
sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid, on the date of mailing to such
stockholders, to each registered holder of Warrants at his address appearing in
the warrant register as of the record date for the determination of the
stockholders entitled to such documents.
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Section 12. Disposition of Proceeds on Exercise of Warrants.
(i) The Warrant Agent shall promptly forward to the Company all monies
received by the Warrant Agent for the purchase of shares of Common Stock through
the exercise of such Warrants; provided, however, that the Warrant Agent may
retain an amount equal to the Exercise Fee, if any, until the Company has
satisfied its obligations under Section 5(c)(2).
(ii) The Warrant Agent shall keep copies of this Agreement available
for inspection by holders of Warrants during normal business hours.
Section 13. Redemption of Warrants. The Warrants are redeemable by the
Company, in whole or in part, on not less than thirty (30) days' prior written
notice at a redemption price of $.10 per Warrant at any time commencing on the
Separation Date; provided that (i) the closing bid quotation of the Common Stock
on all twenty (20) trading days ending on the third trading day prior to the day
on which the Company gives notice (the "Call Date") of redemption has been at
least 150% of the then effective exercise price of the Warrants (the "Target
Redemption Price") and the Company obtains the written consent of the
Underwriter with respect to such redemption prior to the Call Date and (ii) the
Warrants are currently exercisable. The redemption notice shall be mailed to the
holders of the Warrants at their addresses appearing in the Warrant register.
Holders of the Warrants will have exercise rights until the close of business on
the date fixed for redemption.
Section 14. Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of Warrant Agent. Any
corporation or company which may succeed to the corporate trust business of the
Warrant Agent by any merger or consolidation or otherwise shall be the successor
to the Warrant Agent
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hereunder without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of any of the parties hereto, provided that such corporation would be
eligible to serve as a successor Warrant Agent under the provisions of Section
16 of this Agreement. In case at the time such successor to the Warrant Agent
shall succeed to the agency created by this Agreement, any of the Warrants shall
have been countersigned but not delivered, any such successor to the Warrant
Agent may adopt the countersignature of the original Warrant Agent and deliver
such Warrants so countersigned.
In case at any time the name of the Warrant Agent shall be changed and at
such time any of the Warrants shall have been countersigned but not delivered,
the Warrant Agent may adopt the countersignature under its prior name and
deliver Warrants so countersigned. In all such cases such Warrants shall have
the full force provided in the Warrants and in the Agreement.
Section 15. Duties of Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent undertakes the
duties and obligations imposed by this Agreement upon the following terms and
conditions, by all of which the Company and the holders of Warrants, by their
acceptance thereof, shall be bound:
(a) The statements of fact and recitals contained herein and in the
Warrants shall be taken as statements of the Company, and the Warrant Agent
assumes no responsibility for the correctness of any of the same except such as
describe the Warrant Agent or action taken or to be taken by it. The Warrant
Agent assumes no responsibility with respect to the distribution of the Warrants
except as herein expressly provided.
(b) The Warrant Agent shall not be responsible for any failure of the
Company to comply with any of the covenants in this Agreement or in the Warrants
to be complied with by the Company.
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(c) The Warrant Agent may consult at any time with counsel satisfactory
to it (who may be counsel for the Company) and the Warrant Agent shall incur no
liability or responsibility to the Company or to any holder of any Warrant in
respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith
and in accordance with the opinion or the advice of such counsel.
(d) The Warrant Agent shall incur no liability or responsibility to the
Company or to any holder of any Warrant for any action taken in reliance on any
notice, resolution, waiver, consent, order, certificate or other instrument
believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or presented by the
proper party or parties.
(e) The Company agrees to pay to the Warrant Agent reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by the Warrant Agent in the execution of
this Agreement, to reimburse the Warrant Agent for all expenses, taxes and
governmental charges and other charges incurred by the Warrant Agent in the
execution of this Agreement and to indemnify the Warrant Agent and save it
harmless against any and all liabilities, including judgments, costs and
reasonable counsel fees, for anything done or omitted by the Warrant Agent in
the execution of this Agreement except as a result of the Warrant Agent's
negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith.
(f) The Warrant Agent shall be under no obligation to institute any
action, suit or legal proceeding or to take any other action likely to involve
expenses unless the Company or one or more registered holders of Warrants shall
furnish the Warrant Agent with reasonable security and indemnity for any costs
and expenses which may be incurred, but this provision shall not affect the
power of the Warrant Agent to take such action as the Warrant Agent may consider
proper, whether with or without any such security or indemnity. All rights
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of action under this Agreement or under any of the Warrants may be enforced by
the Warrant Agent without the possession of any of the Warrants or the
production thereof at any trial or other proceeding, and any such action, suit
or proceeding instituted by the Warrant Agent shall be brought in its name as
Warrant Agent, and any recovery of judgment shall be for the ratable benefit of
the registered holders of the Warrants, as their respective rights and interests
may appear.
(g) The Warrant Agent and any stockholder, director, officer, partner
or employee of the Warrant Agent may buy, sell or deal in any of the Warrants or
other securities of the Company or become pecuniarily interested in any
transaction in which the Company may be interested, or contract with or lend
money to or otherwise act as fully and freely as though it were not the Warrant
Agent under this Agreement. Nothing herein shall preclude the Warrant Agent from
acting in any other capacity for the Company or for any other legal entity.
(h) The Warrant Agent shall act hereunder solely as agent and its
duties shall be determined solely by the provisions hereof.
(i) The Warrant Agent may execute and exercise any of the rights or
powers hereby vested in it or perform any duty hereunder either itself or by or
through its attorneys, agents or employees, and the Warrant Agent shall not be
answerable or accountable for any such attorneys, agents or employees or for any
loss to the Company resulting from such neglect or misconduct, provided
reasonable care had been exercised in the selection and continued employment
thereof.
(j) Any request, direction, election, order or demand of the Company
shall be sufficiently evidenced by an instrument signed in the name of the
Company by its Chief Executive Officer, President or a Vice President or its
Secretary or an Assistant
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Secretary or its Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer (unless other evidence in
respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any resolution of the
Board of Directors may be evidenced to the Warrant Agent by a copy thereof
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company.
Section 16. Change of Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent may resign and
be discharged from its duties under this Agreement by giving to the Company
notice in writing, and to the holders of the Warrants notice by mailing such
notice to the holders at their addresses appearing on the Warrant register, of
such resignation, specifying a date when such resignation shall take effect. The
Warrant Agent may be removed by like notice to the Warrant Agent from the
Company and the like mailing of notice to the holders of the Warrants. If the
Warrant Agent shall resign or be removed or shall otherwise become incapable of
acting, the Company shall appoint a successor to the Warrant Agent. If the
Company shall fail to make such appointment within a period of thirty (30) days
after such removal or after it has been notified in writing of such resignation
or incapacity by the resigning or incapacitated Warrant Agent or after the
Company has received such notice from a registered holder of a Warrant (who
shall, with such notice, submit his Warrant for inspection by the Company), then
the registered holder of any Warrant may apply to any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor to the Warrant Agent. Any
successor Warrant Agent, whether appointed by the Company or by such a court,
shall be a bank or trust company, in good standing, incorporated under New York
or federal law. After appointment, the successor Warrant Agent shall be vested
with the same powers, rights, duties and responsibilities as if it had been
originally named as Warrant Agent without further act or deed and the former
Warrant Agent shall deliver and transfer to the successor Warrant Agent all
cancelled Warrants, records and property at the time held by it
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hereunder, and execute and deliver any further assurance or conveyance necessary
for the purpose. Failure to file or mail any notice provided for in this
Section, however, or any defect therein, shall not affect the validity of the
resignation or removal of the Warrant Agent or the appointment of the successor
Warrant Agent, as the case may be.
Section 17. Identity of Transfer Agent. Forthwith upon the appointment
of any transfer agent for the shares of Common Stock or of any subsequent
transfer agent for the shares of Common Stock or other shares of the Company's
Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the rights of purchase represented by
the Warrants, the Company will file with the Warrant Agent a statement setting
forth the name and address of such transfer agent.
Section 18. Notices. Any notice pursuant to this Agreement to be given
by the Warrant Agent, by the Underwriter or by the registered holder of any
Warrant to the Company, shall be sufficiently given if sent by first-class mail,
postage prepaid, addressed (until another is filed in writing by the Company
with the Warrant Agent) as follows:
Delcath Systems, Inc.
00000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: X.X. Xxxx
Chief Executive Officer
and a copy thereof to:
Morse, Zelnick, Rose & Lander LLP
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Esq.
Any notice pursuant to this Agreement to be given by the
Company, by the Underwriter or by the registered holder of any Warrant to the
Warrant Agent shall be sufficiently
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given if sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed (until another
address is filed in writing by the Warrant Agent with the Company) as follows:
American Stock Transfer & Trust Company
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Any notice pursuant to this Agreement to be given by the Warrant Agent
or by the Company to the Underwriter shall be sufficiently given if sent by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed (until another address if filed in
writing with the Warrant agent) as follows:
Whale Securities Co., L.P.
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
and a copy thereof to:
Blank Rome Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx LLP
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Esq.
Section 19. Supplements and Amendments. The Company and the Warrant
Agent may from time to time supplement or amend this Agreement in order to cure
any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision contained herein which
may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any
other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising hereunder which the
Company and the Warrant Agent may deem necessary or desirable and which shall
not be inconsistent with the provisions of the Warrants and which shall not
adversely affect the interest of the holders of Warrants.
Section 20. New York Contract. This Agreement and each Warrant issued
hereunder shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of
New York and
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shall be construed in accordance with the laws of New York applicable to
agreements to be performed wholly within New York.
Section 21. Benefits of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall
be construed to give to any person or corporation other than the Company, the
Warrant Agent and the registered holders of the Warrants any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under this Agreement; but this Agreement shall be for the
sole and exclusive benefit of the Company, the Warrant Agent and the registered
holders of the Warrants.
Section 22. Successors. All the covenants and provisions of this
Agreement by or for the benefit of the Company, the Warrant Agent or the
Underwriter shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors
and assigns hereunder.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have entered into this Agreement on the
date first above written.
DELCATH SYSTEMS, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY
By:
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Name:
Title:
WHALE SECURITIES CO., L.P.
By: Whale Securities Corp.,
General Partner
By:
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