FORM OF WARRANT
Exhibit 4.5
FORM OF WARRANT
THIS WARRANT AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS WARRANT HAVE BEEN OFFERED AND SOLD IN AN “OFFSHORE TRANSACTION” IN RELIANCE UPON REGULATION S AS PROMULGATED BY THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. ACCORDINGLY, THE WARRANT AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS WARRANT HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE UNITED STATES, OR TO, OR FOR, THE ACCOUNT OF, OR BENEFIT OF, A U.S. PERSON, OTHER THAN DISTRIBUTORS (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S) OTHER THAN (1) IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S, (2) PURSUANT TO REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (3) PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, THE AVAILABILITY OF WHICH IS TO BE ESTABLISHED BY AN OPINION OF HOLDER’S COUNSEL TO THE COMPANY, OR OTHER EVIDENCE SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH EXEMPTION IF AVAILABLE.
WARRANT TO PURCHASE [ ] SHARES OF COMMON STOCK
October 23, 2008
THIS CERTIFIES THAT, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, [ ], or permitted assigns (“Holder”) is entitled to subscribe for and purchase from Xxxxxx, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), [ ] [( )] shares (as such number may be adjusted as provided herein) of fully paid and nonassessable common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company at the Warrant Price (as hereinafter defined), subject to the provisions and upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. As used herein, the term “Warrant Shares” shall mean the shares of Common Stock which Holder may acquire pursuant to this Warrant. This Warrant is one of several warrants issued by the Company to certain of its investors pursuant to the terms of that certain Stock Subscription and Registration Rights Agreement, dated on or about the date hereof, among the Company and the Investors referenced therein (the “Subscription Agreement”). Any capitalized term used herein but not defined herein, shall have the meaning given to such term in the Subscription Agreement.
3. Method of Exercise or Conversion; Payment; Issuance of Shares; Issuance of New Warrant.
(a) Cash Exercise. Subject to Section 2 hereof, the purchase right represented by this Warrant may be exercised by Holder hereof, in whole or in part, by the surrender of this Warrant (with a duly executed Notice of Exercise in the form attached hereto) during normal business hours on any Business Day (as defined below) at the principal office of Company (as set forth in Section 17 below) and by payment to Company, by cash, certified check, wire transfer or other immediately available funds, of an amount equal to the then applicable Warrant Price per share multiplied by the number of Warrant Shares then being purchased. In the event of any exercise of the rights represented by this Warrant, book-entry shares of stock (or certificated shares, if so requested by the Holder) so purchased shall be issued in the name of, and registered to, the account of Holder hereof, or as such Holder may direct (subject to the terms of transfer contained herein and upon payment by such Holder hereof of any applicable transfer taxes), on the records of the Company’s transfer agent for its Common Stock. Such registration shall be made within thirty (30) days after exercise of this Warrant and at Company’s expense and, unless this Warrant has been fully exercised or expired, a new Warrant having terms and conditions substantially identical to this Warrant and representing the portion of the Warrant Shares, if any, with respect to which this Warrant shall not have been exercised, shall also be issued to Holder hereof within ten (10) days after exercise of this Warrant. For purposes of this Agreement, “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which commercial banking institutions in New York, New York are required by law to be closed.
X = Y (A-B)/A
Where:
X = the number of Warrant Shares to be issued to Holder;
Y = the number of Warrant Shares purchasable under this Warrant or, if only a portion of this Warrant is being exercised, the portion of this Warrant being canceled (at the date of such calculation);
A = the Fair Market Value of one share of Company’s Common Stock (at the date of such calculation); and
B = Warrant Price (as adjusted to the date of such calculation).
(i) The closing price of such of a share of Common Stock on the NASDAQ Global Market or other U.S. trading market where the Common Stock is listed or traded as published in the Western Edition of the Wall Street Journal; or, if none of the foregoing are applicable, the ASX Price. “ASX Price” shall mean twenty (20) multiplied by Y and again multiplied by FX, where:
Y= the closing price (as displayed on the Australian Securities Exchange’s board) in respect of the Company’s CHESS Depositary Interests (“CDIs”) for the Business Day immediately before the date of determination;
FX = the US Dollar/AUD exchange rate published by the Reserve Bank of Australia on its website (xxx.xxx.xxx.xx) as at the close of trading (Sydney time) on the Business Day immediately before the date of determination; and
“US Dollars” and “USD” shall mean the currency of the United States of America and “AUD” shall mean the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia.
(ii) In the event of an exercise in connection with a merger, acquisition or other consolidation in which Company is not the surviving entity, in lie of any determination under 3(c)(i) above, the per share Fair Market Value for the Common Stock shall be the value to be received per share of Common Stock by all holders of the Common Stock in such transaction as determined by the Company’s board of directors of the Company; or
(iii) In the event the Fair Market Value of the Common Stock cannot be determined under 3(c)(i) or 3(c)(ii) above, the per share Fair Market Value for the Common Stock shall be as determined in the reasonable good faith judgment of Company’s board of directors.
In the event of 3(c)(ii) or 3(c)(iii), above, the Company shall prepare a certificate, to be signed by an authorized officer of Company, setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for and method of determination of the per share Fair Market Value of the Common Stock. The officer will also certify to Holder that this per share Fair Market Value will be applicable to all holders of Company’s Common Stock. Such certification must be made to Holder at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the proposed effective date of the merger, consolidation, sale, or other triggering event as defined in 3(c)(ii) or 3(c)(iii).
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company shall not be required to make any cash payments to Holder in lieu of issuance of the Warrant Shares.
(e) Treatment of Warrant Upon Acquisition of Company.
(iii) Asset Sale. In the event of an Acquisition (other than an Acquisition described in 3(e)(ii) above) by a third party that is not an Affiliate of Company (a “True Asset Sale”), Holder may either (a) exercise its conversion or purchase right under this Warrant and such exercise will be deemed effective immediately prior to the consummation of such Acquisition or (b) permit the Warrant to continue until the Expiration Date if Company continues as a going concern following the closing of any such True Asset Sale. Company shall provide Holder with written notice of any proposed asset sale together with such reasonable information as Holder may request in connection with such asset sale giving rise to such notice, which is to be delivered to Holder not less than ten (10) Business Days prior to the closing of the proposed asset sale. Any such exercise may be made prior to, but conditioned on, such asset sale.
(c) Australian resale. Holder acknowledges that an offer of the Securities for sale within twelve (12) months after their issue may require disclosure to investors under Part 6D.2 of the Corporations Xxx 0000 (Cth) (the “Corporations Act”). The Holder further acknowledges that if any of these Securities are subsequently sold, or offered for sale, within twelve (12) months after issue, there
is a risk that these Securities will be taken to be issued or acquired with the purposes referred to in section 707(3) of the Corporations Act.
(c) Holder Status. Holder (i) is not a “U.S. Person” and has not, and will not, acquire the Securities for the account of any “U.S. Person”, (ii) no director or executive officer of Holder is a national or citizen of the United States and (iii) Holder is not otherwise deemed to be a “U.S. Person.” Holder is either a “Sophisticated Investor” within the meaning of section 708(8) or a “Professional Investor” within the meaning of section 708(11) of the Corporations Act.
(d) Opportunity To Discuss. Holder has had an opportunity to discuss Company’s business, management and financial affairs with its management and an opportunity to review Company’s facilities. Holder understands that such discussions, as well as the written information issued by Company, were intended to describe the aspects of Company’s business and prospects which Company believes to be material but were not necessarily a thorough or exhaustive description.
(f) Hedging Transactions. Holder agrees that it will not engage in any hedging transition with respect to the Securities, except in compliance with the Securities Act.
(a) Legend. Book-entry shares representing the Warrant Shares shall bear the following legend:
“THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE BEEN OFFERED AND SOLD IN AN “OFFSHORE TRANSACTION” IN RELIANCE UPON REGULATION S AS PROMULGATED BY THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. ACCORDINGLY, THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE UNITED STATES, OR TO, OR FOR, THE ACCOUNT OF, OR BENEFIT OF, A U.S. PERSON, OTHER THAN DISTRIBUTORS (AS DEFINED IN
REGULATION S) OTHER THAN IN (1) ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S, (2) PURSUANT TO REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (3) PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, THE AVAILABILITY OF WHICH IS TO BE ESTABLISHED BY AN OPINION OF HOLDER’S COUNSEL TO THE COMPANY, OR OTHER EVIDENCE SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH EXEMPTION IF AVAILABLE.”
The Company need not enter into its stock records a transfer of Warrant Shares unless the conditions specified in the foregoing legend are satisfied. The Company may also instruct its transfer agent not to allow the transfer of any of the Warrant Shares unless the conditions specified in the foregoing legend are satisfied.
Company and the transferee shall receive and accept a Warrant, of like tenor and date, executed by Company.
(a) Reclassification or Merger. In case of (i) any reclassification or change of securities of the class issuable upon exercise of this Warrant (other than a change in par value, or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par value, or as a result of a subdivision or combination), (ii) any merger of Company with or into another corporation (other than a merger with another corporation in which Company is the acquiring and the surviving corporation and which does not result in any reclassification or change of outstanding securities issuable upon exercise of this Warrant), or (iii) any sale of all or substantially all of the assets of Company, Company, or such successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, shall duly execute and deliver to Holder a new Warrant (in form and substance satisfactory to Holder of this Warrant), or Company shall make appropriate provision without the issuance of a new Warrant, so that Holder shall have the right to receive, at a total purchase price not to exceed that payable upon the exercise of the unexercised portion of this Warrant, and in lieu of the Warrant Shares theretofore issuable upon exercise or conversion of this Warrant, the kind and amount of shares of stock, other securities, money and property receivable upon such reclassification, change, merger or sale by a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock then purchasable under this Warrant, or in the case of such a merger or sale in which the consideration paid consists all or in part of assets other than securities of the successor or purchasing corporation, at the option of Holder, the securities of the successor or purchasing corporation having a value at the time of the transaction equivalent to the value of the Warrant Shares purchasable upon exercise of this Warrant at the time of the transaction. Any new Warrant shall provide for adjustments that shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Section 7. The provisions of this subparagraph (a) shall similarly apply to successive reclassifications, changes, mergers and transfers.
such date of determination by a fraction (A) the numerator of which shall be the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such dividend or distribution, and (B) the denominator of which shall be the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such dividend or distribution; or (ii) make any other distribution with respect to Common Stock (except any distribution specifically provided for in Sections 7(a) and 7(b)), then, in each such case, provision shall be made by Company such that Holder shall receive upon exercise of this Warrant a proportionate share of any such dividend or distribution as though it were Holder of the Warrant Shares as of the record date fixed for the determination of the shareholders of Company entitled to receive such dividend or distribution.
issuance of such shares, all of which taxes and expenses shall be paid by Company, and such shares shall be issued in the name of Holder.
12. No Stockholder Rights Until Exercise.
14. Loss, Theft, Destruction or Mutilation of Warrant. Upon receipt by Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant, and, in the case of loss, theft, or destruction, of indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it, and, if mutilated, upon surrender and cancellation of this Warrant, Company will execute and deliver a new Warrant, having terms and conditions substantially identical to this Warrant, in lieu hereof.
15. Miscellaneous. |
(b) Successors. This Warrant shall be binding upon any successors or assigns of Company.
(d) Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays. If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall be a Saturday or a Sunday or shall be a legal holiday in the State of New York, then such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding day not a legal holiday.
If to Company: | Xxxxxx, Inc. | |
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000 | ||
Attn: Chief Financial Officer | ||
With a copy to: | Xxxxxx &Watkins LLP | |
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx | ||
Xxxxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000 | ||
Attn: B. Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
All correspondence to Holder shall be sent to Holder at address set forth below such Holder’s signature on the signature page to this Warrant.
If mailed by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, and postage prepaid, notice shall be deemed to be given five (5) days after being sent, and if sent by overnight courier, by hand or by messenger, notice shall be deemed to be given when delivered (if on a Business Day, and if not, on the next Business Day).
(a) Subject to Section 18(b) below, this Warrant and any term hereof may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated only by an instrument in writing signed by each of Company and Holder.
(b) No amendment may be made to this Warrant and the rights of a Holder except in accordance with and in the manner (if any) stipulated in the ASX Listing Rules.
INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS WARRANT OR THE WARRANT SHARES.
20. GOVERNING LAW. THIS WARRANT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW THEREOF. THE PARTIES HEREBY UNCONDITIONALLY AND IRREVOCABLY SUBMIT TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION AND VENUE OF THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LOCATED IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR ANY ACTIONS, SUITS OR PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
XXXXXX, INC. | ||||||
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Dated as of October 23, 2008.
NOTICE OF EXERCISE
To:
XXXXXX, INC.
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1. The undersigned Warrant holder (“Holder”) elects to acquire shares of the common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), of Xxxxxx, Inc. (the “Company”), pursuant to the terms of the Stock Purchase Warrant dated , 2008 (the “Warrant”).
2. Holder exercises its rights under the Warrant as set forth below:
( ) Holder elects to purchase shares of Common Stock as provided in Section 3(a) and tenders payment herewith in cash, certified check, wire transfer or other immediately available funds in the amount of US$ as payment of the purchase price.
( ) Holder elects to convert the purchase rights into shares of Common Stock as provided in Section 3(b) of the Warrant.
3. Holder surrenders the Warrant with this Notice of Exercise.
Please issue the shares of the Common Stock in the name of Holder or in such other name as is specified below:
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Address: | ||||
Taxpayer I.D.: |
If the Exercise Amount is less than all of the shares of Common Stock purchasable hereunder, please issue a new Warrant representing the remaining balance of such shares, as follows:
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Taxpayer I.D.: |
4. Holder represents that (i) the shares of Common Stock are being acquired for the account of the undersigned for investment and not with a view to, or for resale in connection with, the distribution thereof and that the undersigned has no present intention of distributing or reselling such shares; (ii) the undersigned is aware of the Company’s business affairs and financial condition and has acquired sufficient information about the Company to reach an informed and knowledgeable decision regarding its investment in the Company; (iii) the undersigned is experienced in making investments of this type and has such knowledge and background in financial and business matters that the undersigned is capable of evaluating the merits and risks
of this investment and protecting the undersigned’s own interests; (iv) the undersigned understands that Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), by reason of a specific exemption from the registration provisions of the Securities Act, which exemption depends upon, among other things, the bona fide nature of the investment intent as expressed herein, and, because such securities have not been registered under the Securities Act, they must be held indefinitely unless subsequently registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is available; (v) the undersigned is aware that the aforesaid Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrant may not be sold pursuant to Rule 144 adopted under the Securities Act unless certain conditions are met and until the undersigned has held the shares for the number of years prescribed by Rule 144, that among the conditions for use of the Rule is the availability of current information to the public about the Company and the Company has not made such information available and has no present plans to do so; and (vi) the undersigned agrees not to make any disposition of all or any part of the aforesaid shares of Common Stock acquired upon exercise of this Warrant unless and until there is then in effect a registration statement under the Securities Act covering such proposed disposition and such disposition is made in accordance with said registration statement, and, if requested by the Company, the undersigned has provided the Company with an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Company, stating that such registration is not required.
5. Holder acknowledges that an offer of shares of Common Stock for sale within twelve (12) months after their issue may require disclosure to investors under Part 6D.2 of the Corporations Xxx 0000 (Cth) (the “Corporations Act”). The Holder further acknowledges that if any of the shares of Common Stock issued upon exercise of this Warrant is subsequently sold, or offered for sale, within twelve (12) months after issue, there is a risk that these securities will be taken to be issued or acquired with the purposes referred to in section 707(3) of the Corporations Act.
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