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EXHIBIT 4.4
October 11, 2000
LBI Group Inc.
0 Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Dear Sirs:
Reference is made to that certain Preferred Stock Purchase
Agreement, dated as of February 11, 2000, by and between Chromatics Color
Sciences International, Inc. (the "Company") and LBI Group Inc. (the
"Purchaser"), that certain Warrant Agreement, dated as of February 11, 2000 (the
"2000 Warrant Agreement"), by and between the Company and the Purchaser, that
certain Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 11, 1999, by and
between the Company and the Purchaser, that certain Warrant Agreement, dated as
of June 11, 1999 (the "1999 Warrant Agreement"), by and between the Company and
the Purchaser, that certain Letter Agreement, dated as of August 16, 2000, by
and between the Company and the Purchaser (the "Xxxxxx Letter Agreement"), and
the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (the "Certificate of
Incorporation" and, together with the 0000 Xxxxxxx Agreement and the 1999
Warrant Agreement, the "Xxxxxx Agreements"). Capitalized terms used but not
defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Xxxxxx
Agreements.
The Company proposes to enter into a purchase and sale agreement
(the "Crescent Agreement") with Crescent International Ltd. ("Crescent"),
pursuant to which the Company would issue and sell to Crescent, and Crescent
would purchase, shares of a newly-authorized series of preferred stock of the
Company (the "Crescent Preferred") for an aggregate purchase price of up to
Four Million Dollars ($4,000,000).
With respect to the foregoing, the Company and the Purchaser agree
as follows:
1. Amendment to the Purchase Agreements. The Company and the
Purchaser hereby agree to amend Section 6.1(d) of each of the Purchase
Agreements to read in full as follows:
"(d) If (i) the Registration Statement is not (A) filed
with the SEC on or before the Filing Date or (B) declared
effective by the SEC on or before the Effectiveness Date (or in
the case of delay in the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement caused by "plain english" comments on the Registration
Statement from the staff of the SEC, the thirtieth (30th) day
after the Effectiveness Date), (ii) on any day after the
Registration Statement has been declared effective by the SEC (A)
sales of the Registrable Securities required to be included on the
Registration Statement cannot be made pursuant to the Registration
Statement (including, without limitation, because of a failure to
keep the Registration Statement effective, to disclose such
information as is necessary for sales to be made pursuant to the
Registration Statement, or to
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register sufficient shares of Common Stock) or (ii) Seller shall
otherwise fail to file the Registration Statement (each such event
specified in (i), (ii) and (iii) above, an "Event"), then as partial
relief for the damages to Purchaser by reason of any such delay in or
reduction of its ability to sell the Registrable Securities (which
remedy shall not be exclusive of any other remedies available at law
or in equity). (y) Seller shall pay to Purchaser an amount in cash
(a "Registration Delay Payment") equal to two percent (2%) of the
product of (I) the number of Shares held by Purchaser and (II) $100,
multiplied by the sum of: (i) the number of months (prorated for
partial months) after the end of the Effectiveness Date and prior to
the date the Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC;
provided, however, that there shall be excluded from such period any
delays which are solely attributable to changes required by Purchaser
in the Registration Statement with respect to information relating to
Purchaser and (ii) the number of months (prorated for partial months)
that sales cannot by made pursuant to the Registration Statement
after the Registration Statement has been declared effective; and (z)
the Conversion Price (as defined in the Certificate of Amendment) of
the Shares and the Exercise Price (as defined in the Warrant
Agreement) shall be decreased 2% on the date of such Event and shall
be decreased an additional 2% as of each monthly anniversary of the
date of such Event. Seller shall pay any required Registration Delay
Payment to Purchaser in cash on the last business day of each month
during which an Event has occurred and is continuing. In the event
seller fails to make a Registration Delay Payment in a timely manner
such Registration Delay Payment shall bear interest at the rate of
2.0% per month (prorated for partial months) until paid in full."
2. Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation. The Company and
Purchaser hereby agree to amend the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company
as it pertains to the Class B Series 2 Convertible Preferred Stock and Class B
Series 3 Convertible Preferred Stock, in the forms attached hereto as Exhibit A
and Exhibit B, upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the parties
hereto.
3. Waiver. The Purchaser hereby irrevocably agrees to waive any right
claim that it may have to decrease the Conversion Price of the Series 2
Preferred Stock, the Conversion Price of the Series 3 Preferred Stock and the
Exercise Price per Warrant Share solely in connection with (i) the issuance of
the Crescent Preferred pursuant to the transaction contemplated by the Crescent
Agreement, (ii) the issuance of the New Warrants (hereinafter defined) and
(iii) the Warrant Shares vesting and becoming exercisable on the First Vesting
Date (as such terms are defined in the Adjustable Warrant, dated August 16,
2000 (the "Adjustable Warrant"), issued by the Company to Millennium Partners,
L.P. ("Millennium")). The Purchaser further irrevocably agrees to waive any
right or claim that it may have to deem or define the
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exercise price with respect to the Warrant Shares vesting and becoming
exercisable on the Second Vesting Date (as such term is defined in the
Adjustable Warrant) to be other than the greater of (i) $1.00 and (ii) the
exercise price calculated in the manner set forth in Paragraph 1 of the
Xxxxxx Letter Agreement.
4. Warrants. In consideration of the Purchaser's promises and
covenants contained herein, the Company agrees to issue to the Purchaser 200,000
five-year warrants (the "New Warrants") to purchase the Common Stock of the
Company, at an exercise price of $1.50 per share, in substantially such form and
content as the Warrants issued to the Purchaser pursuant to the 0000 Xxxxxxx
Agreement and the 2000 Warrant Agreement.
5. Ratification of the Purchase Agreements. By the execution and
delivery hereof, each of the parties hereto hereby ratifies and confirms the
terms of the Purchase Agreements as hereby amended.
6. Effectiveness. The effectiveness of the agreements set forth
herein shall be subject to and conditioned upon (i) the closing of the
transactions contemplated by the Crescent Agreement (the "Transaction"),
pursuant to which Crescent will make an investment in the Company of not less
than $2,000,000, (ii) the Company's securing from the National Association of
Security Dealers, Inc. confirmation of its acceptance of the Company's proposal
for remaining listed on the Nasdaq Small Cap Market and (iii) the Company's
entering into letter agreements with Millennium and the holders of the Company's
outstanding 14% Senior Convertible Debentures, due April 15, 2002, pertaining to
(A) the restructuring of certain debt obligations to such parties as equity
obligations for purpose of removing such items from the liability side of the
Company's consolidated balance sheets and (B) the waiver of certain antidilution
rights of such parties in connection with the Transaction. If each of the
foregoing conditions has not been satisfied on or prior to 5:00 p.m. New York
time on November 1, 2000, this Agreement shall be void and of no further force
or effect.
7. Entire Agreement This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement
and supersedes all prior agreements and undertakings, both written and oral,
between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof.
8. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, construed and
enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without
reference to the choice of law provisions thereof.
9. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which
together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
If you agree to the foregoing, please so indicate by signing the
enclosed counterpart of this Agreement and returning it to the undersigned,
whereupon this Agreement shall become a binding contract between the parties
hereto.
Very truly yours,
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CHROMATICS COLOR SCIENCES
INTERNATIONAL, INC.
By:
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Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Chairperson of the Board
ACCEPTED AND AGREED TO
THIS ___ DAY OF OCTOBER, 2000:
LB I GROUP INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
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