SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT
This
Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”), dated as
of October 20, 2010, is between Umami Sustainable Seafood Inc., a Nevada
corporation (the “Company”), and each
purchaser identified on the signature pages hereto (each, including its
successors and assigns, a “Purchaser” and
collectively, the “Purchasers”).
WHEREAS,
subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant to
Section 4(2) of the Securities Act (as defined below), and Rule 506 promulgated
thereunder, the Company desires to issue and sell to each Purchaser, and each
Purchaser, severally and not jointly, desires to purchase from the Company,
securities of the Company as more fully described in this
Agreement.
NOW,
THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement,
and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which
are hereby acknowledged, the Company and each Purchaser agree as
follows:
ARTICLE
I.
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Definitions. In
addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, for all purposes of
this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section
1.1:
“Acquiring Person”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.5.
“Action” shall have
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(j).
“Affiliate” means any
Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls
or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person, as such terms are
used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act.
“Agreement” shall have
the meaning ascribed to such term in the introduction, as the same may be
amended from time to time.
“BHCA” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(mm).
“Board of Directors”
means the board of directors of the Company.
“Business Day” means
any day except any Saturday, any Sunday, any day which is a federal legal
holiday in the United States or any day on which banking institutions in the
State of New York are authorized or required by law or other governmental action
to close.
“Closing” means the
closing of the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to Section
2.1.
“Closing Date” means
the Trading Day on which all of the Transaction Documents have been executed and
delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all conditions precedent to (i)
the Purchasers’ obligations to pay the Subscription Amount and (ii) the
Company’s obligations to deliver the Securities, in each case, have been
satisfied or waived, but in no event later than the third Trading Day following
the date hereof.
“Commission” means the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Common Stock” means
the common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share, and any other class
of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or
changed.
“Common Stock
Equivalents” means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries
which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock,
including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, right, option, warrant
or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or
exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common
Stock.
“Company” shall have
the meaning ascribed to such term in the introduction.
“Company Counsel”
means Loeb & Loeb LLP, with offices located at 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxx 00000.
“Disclosure Schedules”
shall mean those schedules delivered in connection with Section
3.1.
“Evaluation Date”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(r).
“Exchange Act” means
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
“Federal Reserve”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(mm).
“GAAP” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).
“Indebtedness” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(aa).
“Intellectual Property
Rights” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(o).
“Knowledge” means the
actual knowledge (i.e., the conscious awareness of facts and other information)
of the chief executive officer, chief financial officer and other key officers
of the Company, after undertaking a customary and reasonable investigation under
the circumstances.
“Legend Removal Date”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.1(c).
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“Liens” means a lien,
charge, security interest, encumbrance, right of first refusal, preemptive right
or other restriction.
“Material Adverse
Effect” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.1(b).
“Material Permits”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(m).
“OFAC” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(kk).
“Per Unit Purchase
Price” equals $1.50, subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock
splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions that
occur after the date of this Agreement.
“Person” means an
individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated
association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company,
government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any
kind.
“Public Information
Failure” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.2(b).
“Public Information Failure
Payments” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.2(b).
“Purchaser” and “Purchasers” shall
have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the introduction.
“Purchaser Party”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8.
“Required Approvals”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(e).
“Rule 144” means Rule
144 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule
may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter
adopted by the Commission having substantially the same effect as such
Rule.
“Rule 424” means Rule
424 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule
may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or
regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same
purpose and effect as such Rule.
“SEC Reports” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).
“Securities” means the
Common Stock and the Warrants (and including any shares of Common Stock issued
or issuable upon exercise of the Warrants).
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“Securities Act” means
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
“Shares” means the
shares of Common Stock issued or issuable to each Purchaser pursuant to this
Agreement and upon exercise of the Warrants.
“Short Sales” means
all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange
Act (but shall not be deemed to include the location and/or reservation of
borrowable shares of Common Stock).
“Subscription Amount”
means, as to each Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be paid for the Units
purchased hereunder as specified below such Purchaser’s name on the signature
page of this Agreement and next to the heading “Subscription Amount,” in United
States dollars and in immediately available funds.
“Subsidiary” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(a).
“Trading Day” means a
day on which the principal Trading Market for the Common Stock is open for
trading.
“Trading Market” means
any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or
quoted for trading on the date in question: the New York Stock Exchange, the
NYSE Amex, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq
Global Select Market, or the OTC Bulletin Board (or any successors to any of the
foregoing).
“Transaction
Documents” means this Agreement and all schedules thereto and hereto, the
Warrants, and any other documents or agreements executed in connection with the
transactions contemplated hereunder.
“Transfer Agent” means
National Stock Transfer, Inc., the current transfer agent of the Company, with a
mailing address of 0000 X 0000 X Xxx X. Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000 and a
facsimile number of (000) 000-0000, and any successor transfer agent of the
Company.
“Units” means the
units being issued to the Purchasers hereunder, each consisting of one share of
Common Stock and a Warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock.
“Warrants” mean the
warrants to purchase shares of the Common Stock at an initial exercise price of
$1.80 per share issuable to the Purchasers hereunder.
ARTICLE
II.
PURCHASE
AND SALE
2.1 Closing. On
the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein,
substantially concurrent with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by
the parties hereto, the Company agrees to sell, and the Purchasers, severally
and not jointly, agree to purchase, 1,000,000 Units. Each Purchaser
shall deliver to the Company, via wire transfer or a certified check of
immediately available funds, such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount as set
forth on the signature page hereto executed by such Purchaser, and the Company
shall deliver to each Purchaser its respective Units, and the Company and each
Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at
the Closing. Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set
forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3, the Closing shall occur remotely or at such
physical location as the parties shall mutually agree.
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2.2 Deliveries.
(a) On
or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered
to each Purchaser the following:
(i) this
Agreement duly executed by the Company;
(ii) the
opinion of Company Counsel, substantially in the form of Exhibit A
hereto;
(iii) a
copy of the irrevocable instructions to the Transfer Agent instructing the
Transfer Agent to deliver, on an expedited basis, a certificate evidencing the
number of shares of Common Stock issuable to such Purchaser hereunder,
registered in the name of such Purchaser; and
(iv) a
Warrant executed by the Company representing the right to purchase the number of
shares of Common Stock issuable to such Purchaser hereunder.
(b) On
or prior to the Closing Date, each Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be
delivered to the Company the following:
(i) this
Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser; and
(ii) such
Purchaser’s Subscription Amount by wire transfer to the account as specified in
writing by the Company.
2.3 Closing
Conditions.
(a) The
obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject
to the following conditions being met:
(i) the
accuracy in all material respects on the Closing Date of the representations and
warranties of the Purchasers contained herein (unless as of a specific date
therein, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true as of
such specified date);
(ii) all
obligations, covenants and agreements of each Purchaser required to be performed
at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and
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(iii) the
delivery by each Purchaser of the items set forth in Section 2.2(b) of this
Agreement.
(b) The
respective obligations of the Purchasers hereunder in connection with the
Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:
(i) the
accuracy in all material respects when made and on the Closing Date of the
representations and warranties of the Company contained herein (unless as of a
specific date therein, in which case such representations and warranties shall
be true as of such specified date);
(ii) all
obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company required to be performed at
or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed;
(iii) the
delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2(a) of this
Agreement;
(iv) there
shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company since the
date hereof;
(v) each
Purchaser shall have completed its due diligence of the Company to its own
satisfaction; and
(vi) from
the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have
been suspended by the Commission or the Company’s principal Trading Market
(except for any suspension of trading of limited duration agreed to by the
Company, which suspension shall be terminated prior to the Closing), and, at any
time prior to the Closing Date, trading in securities generally as reported by
Bloomberg L.P. shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall
not have been established on securities whose trades are reported by such
service, or on any Trading Market, nor shall a banking moratorium have been
declared either by the United States or New York State authorities nor shall
there have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other
national or international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any
material adverse change in, any financial market which, in each case, in the
reasonable judgment of each Purchaser, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to
purchase the Securities at the Closing.
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ARTICLE
III.
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
3.1 Representations and
Warranties of the Company. Except as set forth in the Disclosure
Schedules, which Disclosure Schedules shall be deemed a part hereof and shall
qualify any representation or warranty made herein to the extent of the
disclosure contained in the corresponding section of the Disclosure Schedules,
the Company hereby makes the following representations and warranties to each
Purchaser:
(a) Subsidiaries. Bluefin
Acquisition Group, Inc., a New York corporation (“Bluefin”), and Kali
Tuna d.o.o., a Croatian limited liability company (“Kali”) (each of
Bluefin, Baja and Kali, a “Subsidiary” and
collectively, the “Subsidiaries”)
are direct or indirect subsidiaries of the Company. The Company owns
thirty-three percent (33%) of Baja Aqua-Farms S.A. de C.V., a Mexican company
(“Baja”). The
Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of the capital stock or other equity
interests of each Subsidiary held by it free and clear of any Liens other than
Liens that could not if enforced, individually or in the aggregate, result or
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect (as defined in
Section 3.1(b) below), and all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital
stock of each Subsidiary owned by the Company are validly issued and are fully
paid, non-assessable and free of preemptive and similar rights to subscribe for
or purchase securities.
(b) Organization and
Qualification. The Company and each of the Subsidiaries is an
entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or
organization, with the requisite power and authority to own and use its
properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently
conducted. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in violation or
nor default of any of the provisions of its respective certificate or articles
of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter
documents. Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified
to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other
entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or
property owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the
failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not
have or reasonably be expected to have or result in: (i) a material adverse
effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document,
(ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business,
or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken
as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to
perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any
Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material Adverse
Effect”) and no Action has been instituted in any such jurisdiction
revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke, limit or curtail such
power and authority or qualification; provided, however, that no
change, effect, event or occurrence to the extent arising or resulting from any
of the following, either alone or in combination, shall constitute or be taken
into account in determining whether there has been or will be a Material Adverse
Effect: (i) general business or economic conditions not specific or peculiar to
the Company or any Subsidiary, (ii) acts of war or terrorism or natural
disasters not specific or peculiar to the Company, a Subsidiary or a
jurisdiction in which any of them operates, (iii) catastrophic economic or
significant regulatory or political conditions or changes, (iv) changes in any
applicable accounting regulations or principles or the interpretations thereof,
(vi) changes in laws, or (vii) changes in the price or trading volume of the
Company’s stock.
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(c) Authorization;
Enforcement. The Company has the requisite corporate power and
authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by each
of the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations
hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of each of the
Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the issuance and sale of
the Securities, have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of
the Company and no further action is required by the Company, the Board of
Directors or the Company’s stockholders in connection therewith other than in
connection with the Required Approvals. Each Transaction Document to
which it is a party has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by
the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof,
will constitute the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable
against the Company in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by
general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting
enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to
the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable
remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be
limited by applicable law.
(d) No
Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the
Company of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and sale of the Securities
and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby
to which it is a party do not and will not: (i) conflict with or violate any
provision of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s certificate or articles of
incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents, (ii)
conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of
time or both would become a default) under, result in the creation of any Lien
upon any of the properties or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary, or give
to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation
(with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit
facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company or Subsidiary debt or
otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a
party or by which any property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary is
bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with or
result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction,
decree or other restriction of any court or governmental authority to which the
Company or a Subsidiary is subject (including federal and state securities laws
and regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company or a
Subsidiary is bound or affected; except in the case of each of clauses (ii) and
(iii), such as could not have or reasonably be expected to have or result in a
Material Adverse Effect.
(e) Filings, Consents and
Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any consent,
waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or
registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other
governmental authority or other Person in connection with the execution,
delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, other
than: (i) as set forth on Schedule 3.1(e), (ii)
the filings required pursuant to Section 4.4 of this Agreement, (iii) the filing
of a Form D with the Commission, and (iv) such filings as are required to be
made under applicable state securities laws (collectively, the “Required
Approvals”).
(f) Issuance of the
Securities. The Securities are duly authorized and, when
issued and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents,
will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of
all Liens imposed by the Company other than restrictions on transfer provided
for in the Transaction Documents.
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(g) Capitalization. The
capitalization of the Company is as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g),
which Schedule
3.1(g) shall also include the number of shares of Common Stock owned
beneficially, and of record, by Affiliates of the Company as of the date
hereof. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g), the
Company has not issued any capital stock since its most recently filed periodic
report under the Exchange Act, other than (i) pursuant to the exercise of
employee stock options under the Company’s stock option plans, (ii) the issuance
of shares of Common Stock to employees pursuant to the Company’s employee stock
purchase plans and (iii) the issuance of securities pursuant to the conversion
and/or exercise of Common Stock Equivalents outstanding as of the date of the
most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act. No Person
has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any
similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents. Except as a result of the purchase and sale of the
Securities or as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g),
there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls
or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or
obligations convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any
Person any right to subscribe for or acquire any shares of Common Stock, or
contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or
any Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional shares of Common Stock
or Common Stock Equivalents. The issuance and sale of the Securities
will not obligate the Company to issue shares of Common Stock or other
securities to any Person (other than the Purchasers) and will not result in a
right of any holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise, conversion,
exchange or reset price under any of such securities. All of the
outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are validly issued, fully
paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with all federal and
state securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was issued in
violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or
purchase securities. No further approval or authorization of any
stockholder, the Board of Directors or others is required for the issuance and
sale of the Securities. There are no stockholders agreements, voting
agreements or other similar agreements with respect to the Company’s capital
stock to which the Company is a party or, to the Knowledge of the Company,
between or among any of the Company’s stockholders.
(h) SEC Reports; Financial
Statements. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(h), the
Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents
required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange
Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, for the two years
preceding the date hereof (or such shorter period as the Company was required by
law or regulation to file such material) (the foregoing materials, including the
exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, being
collectively referred to herein as the “SEC Reports”) on a
timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has
filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such
extension. As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in
all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the
Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained
any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports
comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the
rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the
time of filing. Such financial statements have been prepared in
accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied
on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”), except as may
be otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and
except that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes
required by GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial
position of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of and for the
dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then
ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial,
year-end audit adjustments.
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(i) Material Changes;
Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments. Since the
date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports,
except as specifically disclosed in a subsequent SEC Report filed prior to the
date hereof or as set forth on Schedule 3.1(i): (i)
there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or that could
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the Company
has not incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade
payables and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practice and (B) liabilities not required to be reflected
in the Company’s financial statements pursuant to GAAP or disclosed in filings
made with the Commission, (iii) the Company has not altered its method of
accounting, (iv) the Company has not declared or made any dividend or
distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders or purchased,
redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital
stock and (v) the Company has not issued any equity securities to any officer,
director or Affiliate, except pursuant to existing Company stock option
plans. The Company does not have pending before the Commission any
request for confidential treatment of information. Except for the
issuance of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement or as set forth on
Schedule
3.1(i), no event, liability, fact, circumstance, occurrence or
development has occurred or exists, or is reasonably expected to occur or exist,
with respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective business,
properties, operations, assets or financial condition, that would be required to
be disclosed by the Company under applicable securities laws at the time this
representation is made or deemed made that has not been publicly disclosed at
least one (1) Trading Day prior to the date that this representation is made or
deemed made.
(j) Litigation. There
is no action, claim, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding or
investigation pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against or
affecting the Company, any Subsidiary or any of their respective properties
before or by any court, arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency or
regulatory authority (federal, state, county, local or foreign) (collectively,
an “Action”)
which (i) adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or
enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents or the Securities or (ii)
could, if there were an unfavorable decision, have or reasonably be expected to
have or result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor
any Subsidiary, nor any director or officer thereof, is or has been the subject
of any Action involving a claim of violation of or liability under federal or
state securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty. There
has not been, and to the Knowledge of the Company, there is not pending or
contemplated, any investigation by the Commission involving the Company or any
current or former director or officer of the Company. The Commission
has not issued any stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of any
registration statement filed by the Company or any Subsidiary under the Exchange
Act or the Securities Act.
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(k) Labor
Relations. No material labor dispute exists or, to the
Knowledge of the Company, is imminent with respect to any of the employees of
the Company, which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect. None of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ employees is a
member of a union that relates to such employee’s relationship with the Company
or such Subsidiary, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a
party to a collective bargaining agreement, and the Company and its Subsidiaries
believe that their relationships with their employees are good. No
executive officer, 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 or
non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive
covenant in favor of any third party, and the continued employment of each such
executive officer does not subject the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any
liability with respect to any of the foregoing matters. The Company
and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all U.S. federal, state, local and
foreign laws and regulations relating to employment and employment practices,
terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where the failure
to be in compliance could not, individually or in the aggregate, have or
reasonably be expected to have or result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(l) Compliance. Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.1(l),
neither the Company nor any Subsidiary: (i) is in default under or in violation
of (and no event has occurred that has not been waived that, with notice or
lapse of time or both, would result in a default by the Company or any
Subsidiary under), nor has the Company or any Subsidiary received notice of a
claim that it is in default under or that it is in violation of, any indenture,
loan or credit agreement or any other agreement or instrument to which it is a
party or by which it or any of its properties is bound (whether or not such
default or violation has been waived), (ii) is in violation of any judgment,
decree, or order of any court, arbitrator or governmental body or (iii) is or
has been in violation of any statute, rule, ordinance or regulation of any
governmental authority, including without limitation all foreign, federal, state
and local laws relating to taxes, environmental protection, occupational health
and safety, product quality and safety and employment and labor matters, except
in each case with respect to clauses (i) through (iii) as could not have or
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(m) Regulatory
Permits. The Company and the Subsidiaries possess all
certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate federal,
state, local or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their
respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports, except where the failure
to possess such permits could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect (“Material Permits”),
and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice of
proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Material
Permit.
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(n) Title to
Assets. The Company and the Subsidiaries have good and
marketable title in fee simple to all real property owned by them and good and
marketable title in all personal property owned by them that is material to the
business of the Company and the Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all
Liens, except for Liens as do not materially affect the value of such property
and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of
such property by the Company and the Subsidiaries and Liens for the payment of
federal, state or other taxes, the payment of which is neither delinquent nor
subject to penalties. Any real property and facilities held under
lease by the Company and the Subsidiaries are held by them under valid,
subsisting and enforceable leases with which the Company and the Subsidiaries
are in compliance.
(o) Patents and
Trademarks. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(o), the
Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have rights to use, all patents, patent
applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names,
trade secrets, inventions, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property
rights and similar rights as described in the SEC Reports as necessary or
material for use in connection with their respective businesses and which the
failure to so have could have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, the
“Intellectual Property
Rights”). None of, and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary
has received a notice (written or otherwise) that any of, the Intellectual
Property Rights has expired, terminated or been abandoned, or is expected to
expire or terminate or be abandoned, within two (2) years from the date of this
Agreement. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received, since
the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC
Reports, a written notice of a claim or otherwise has any Knowledge that the
Intellectual Property Rights violate or infringe upon the rights of any Person,
except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. To the Knowledge
of the Company, all such Intellectual Property Rights are enforceable and there
is no existing infringement by another Person of any of the Intellectual
Property Rights. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken
reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value
of all of their intellectual properties, except where failure to do so could
not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(p) Insurance. The
Company and the Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial
responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent
and customary in the businesses in which the Company and the Subsidiaries are
engaged, including, but not limited to, directors and officers insurance
coverage at least equal to the aggregate Subscription Amount. Neither
the Company nor any 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 without a significant increase in cost.
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(q) Transactions With Affiliates
and Employees. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports or as
set forth on Schedule
3.1(q), none of the officers or directors of the Company and, to the
Knowledge of the Company, none of the employees of the Company is presently a
party to any transaction with the Company or any Subsidiary (other than for
services as employees, officers and directors), including any contract,
agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or
by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise
requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the
Knowledge of the Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such
employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or
partner, in each case in excess of $120,000 other than for: (i) payment of
salary or consulting fees for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses
incurred on behalf of the Company and (iii) other employee benefits, including
stock option agreements under any stock option plan of the Company.
(r) Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx; Internal
Accounting Controls. The Company is in compliance in all
material respects with any and all applicable requirements of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Act of 2002 that are effective as of the date hereof, and any and all applicable
rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder that are
effective as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date. Except as
set forth on Schedule
3.1(r), the Company and the 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 GAAP and to maintain
asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance
with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded
accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable
intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The
Company has established disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in
Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and designed such
disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that information required to be
disclosed by the Company in the reports it files or submits under the Exchange
Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods
specified in the Commission’s rules and forms. The Company’s
certifying officers have evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure
controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by the Company’s
most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act (such date, the
“Evaluation
Date”). The Company presented in its most recently filed
periodic report under the Exchange Act the conclusions of the certifying
officers about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based
on their evaluations as of the Evaluation Date. Since the Evaluation
Date, there have been no changes in the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act) that has
materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s
internal control over financial reporting.
(s) Certain
Fees. Except for a fee payable to Bedminster Financial Group,
Ltd., no brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions are or will be payable by the
Company to any broker, financial advisor or consultant, finder, placement agent,
investment banker, bank or other Person with respect to the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Purchasers shall have
no obligation with respect to any fees or with respect to any claims made by or
on behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this Section that
may be due in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents.
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(t) Private Placement.
Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties set
forth in Section 3.2, no registration under the Securities Act is required for
the offer and sale of the Securities by the Company to the Purchasers as
contemplated hereby. The issuance and sale of the Securities hereunder does not
contravene the rules and regulations of the Trading Market.
(u) Investment
Company. The Company is not, and is not an Affiliate of, and
immediately after receipt of payment for the Securities, will not be or be an
Affiliate of, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Company shall conduct its
business in a manner so that it will not become an “investment company” subject
to registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended.
(v) Registration
Rights. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(v), no
Person has any right to cause the Company to effect the registration under the
Securities Act of any securities of the Company.
(w) Listing and Maintenance
Requirements. The Company has not, in the twelve (12) months
preceding the date hereof, received notice from any Trading Market on which the
Common Stock is or has been listed or quoted to the effect that the Company is
not in compliance or has not complied with the listing or maintenance
requirements of such Trading Market. The Company is, and has no reason to
believe that it will not in the foreseeable future continue to be, in compliance
with all such listing and maintenance requirements.
(x) Application of Takeover
Protections. The Company and the Board of Directors have taken
all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share
acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under
a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Company’s
certificate of incorporation (or similar charter documents) or the laws of its
state of incorporation that is or could become applicable to the Purchasers as a
result of the Purchasers and the Company fulfilling their obligations or
exercising their rights under the Transaction Documents, including without
limitation as a result of the Company’s issuance of the Securities and the
Purchasers’ ownership of the Securities.
(y) Disclosure. Except
with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company confirms that neither it
nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Purchasers or
their agents or counsel with any information that it believes constitutes or
might constitute material, non-public information. The Company
understands and confirms that the Purchasers will rely on the foregoing
representation in effecting transactions in securities of the
Company. All of the disclosure furnished by or on behalf of the
Company to the Purchasers regarding the Company, its business and the
transactions contemplated hereby, including the Disclosure Schedules to this
Agreement, is true and correct and does not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the
statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading. The press releases disseminated by the Company during the
twelve (12) months preceding the date of this Agreement taken as a whole do not
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 light of the circumstances under which they were made and when made,
not misleading. The Company acknowledges and agrees that no Purchaser
makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the
transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in
Section 3.2 hereof.
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(z) No Integrated
Offering. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and
warranties set forth in Section 3.2, neither the Company, nor any of its
Affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf has, directly or
indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to
buy any security, under circumstances that would cause this offering of the
Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of
(i) the Securities Act which would require the registration of any such
securities under the Securities Act, or (ii) any applicable shareholder approval
provisions of any Trading Market on which any of the securities of the Company
are listed or designated.
(aa) Solvency. Based
on the consolidated financial condition of the Company as of the Closing Date,
after giving effect to the receipt by the Company of the proceeds from the sale
of the Securities hereunder: (i) the fair saleable value of the Company’s assets
exceeds the amount that will be required to be paid on or in respect of the
Company’s existing debts and other liabilities (including known contingent
liabilities) as they mature, (ii) the Company’s assets do not constitute
unreasonably small capital to carry on its business as now conducted and as
proposed to be conducted including its capital needs taking into account the
particular capital requirements of the business conducted by the Company, and
projected capital requirements and capital availability thereof, and (iii) the
current cash flow of the Company, together with the proceeds the Company would
receive, were it to liquidate all of its assets, after taking into account all
anticipated uses of the cash, would be sufficient to pay all amounts on or in
respect of its liabilities when such amounts are required to be
paid. The Company does not intend to incur debts beyond its ability
to pay such debts as they mature (taking into account the timing and amounts of
cash to be payable on or in respect of its debt). The Company has not
determined to file for reorganization or liquidation under the bankruptcy or
reorganization laws of any jurisdiction, and does not currently anticipate doing
so. Schedule 3.1(aa) sets
forth as of the date hereof all outstanding secured and unsecured Indebtedness
of the Company or any Subsidiary, or for which the Company or any Subsidiary has
commitments. For the purposes of this Agreement, “Indebtedness” means
(x) any liabilities for borrowed money or amounts owed in excess of $50,000
(other than trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business),
(y) all guaranties, endorsements and other contingent obligations in respect of
indebtedness of others, whether or not the same are or should be reflected in
the Company’s balance sheet (or the notes thereto), except guaranties by
endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar
transactions in the ordinary course of business; and (z) the present value of
any lease payments in excess of $50,000 due under leases required to be
capitalized in accordance with GAAP. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(aa),
neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in default with respect to any
Indebtedness.
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(bb) Tax
Status. Except for matters that could not, individually or in
the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to have or result in a Material
Adverse Effect, the Company and each Subsidiary (i) has made or filed all United
States federal and state income and all foreign income and franchise tax
returns, reports and declarations required by any jurisdiction to which it is
subject, (ii) has paid all taxes and other governmental assessments and charges
that are material in amount, shown or determined to be due on such returns,
reports and declarations, except those being contested in good faith in
appropriate proceedings, and (iii) has set aside on its books provision
reasonably adequate for the payment of all material taxes for periods subsequent
to the periods to which such returns, reports or declarations
apply. There are no unpaid taxes in any material amount claimed to be
due by the taxing authority of any jurisdiction, and the officers of the Company
or of any Subsidiary know of no basis for any such claim.
(cc) No General
Solicitation. Neither the Company nor any person acting on
behalf of the Company has offered or sold any of the Securities by any form of
general solicitation or general advertising. The Company has offered
the Securities for sale only to the Purchasers.
(dd) Foreign Corrupt
Practices. Neither the Company, nor to the Knowledge of the
Company, any agent or other person acting on behalf of the Company, has: (i)
directly or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts,
entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic
political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic
government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political
parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully any
contribution made by the Company (or made by any person acting on its behalf of
which the Company is aware) which is in violation of law or (iv) violated in any
material respect any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as
amended.
(ee) Accountants. The
Company’s accounting firm is Xxxxxxx International. To the Knowledge
and belief of the Company, such accounting firm: (i) is a registered public
accounting firm as required by the Exchange Act and (ii) shall express its
opinion with respect to the financial statements to be included in the Company’s
Annual Report for the year ending June 30, 2010.
(ff) No Disagreements with
Accountants and Lawyers. There are no disagreements of any
kind presently existing between the Company and the accountants and lawyers
formerly or presently employed by the Company and the Company is current with
respect to any fees owed to its accountants and lawyers which could affect the
Company’s ability to perform any of its obligations under any of the Transaction
Documents.
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(gg)
Acknowledgment
Regarding Purchasers’ Purchase of Securities. The Company
acknowledges and agrees that each of the Purchasers is acting solely in the
capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents
and the transactions contemplated thereby. The Company further acknowledges that
no Purchaser is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in
any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the
transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by any Purchaser or any
of their respective representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction
Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the
Purchasers’ purchase of the Securities. The Company further
represents to each Purchaser that the Company’s decision to enter into this
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based solely on the
independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company
and its representatives.
(hh) Acknowledgment Regarding
Purchaser’s Trading Activity. Anything in this
Agreement or elsewhere herein to the contrary notwithstanding (except for Sections 3.2(f) and 4.11 hereof), it is
understood and acknowledged by the Company that: (i) none of the Purchasers
have been asked by the Company to
agree, nor has any Purchaser agreed, to
desist from purchasing or selling, long and/or short, securities of the Company,
or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the Company or to hold
the Securities for any specified term, (ii) past or
future open market or other transactions by any Purchaser, specifically
including, without limitation, Short Sales or “derivative” transactions, before
or after the closing of this or future private placement transactions, may
negatively impact the market price of the Company’s publicly-traded securities, (iii) any Purchaser, and counter-parties in
“derivative” transactions to which any such Purchaser is a party, directly or
indirectly, may presently have a “short” position in the Common Stock and (iv)
each Purchaser shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or control over
any arm’s length counter-party in any “derivative”
transaction. The Company further understands and acknowledges
that (y) one or more Purchasers may engage in hedging activities at various
times during the period that the Securities are outstanding, and (z) such
hedging activities (if any) could reduce the value of the existing stockholders'
equity interests in the Company at and after the time that the hedging
activities are being conducted. The Company acknowledges that such
aforementioned hedging activities do not constitute a breach of any of the
Transaction Documents.
(ii) Regulation M
Compliance. The Company has not, and to its Knowledge no one acting
on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to
cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any
security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the
Securities, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or paid any compensation for
soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay
to any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other
securities of the Company, other than, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii),
compensation paid to the Company’s placement agent in connection with the
placement of the Securities.
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(jj) Stock Option
Plans. Each stock option granted by the Company under the
Company’s stock option plan was granted (i) in accordance with the terms of the
Company’s stock option plan and (ii) with an exercise price at least equal to
the fair market value of the Common Stock on the date such stock option would be
considered granted under GAAP and applicable law. No stock option granted under
the Company’s stock option plan has been backdated. The Company has
not knowingly granted, and there is no and has been no Company policy or
practice to knowingly grant, stock options prior to, or otherwise knowingly
coordinate the grant of stock options with, the release or other public
announcement of material information regarding the Company or its Subsidiaries
or their financial results or prospects.
(kk) Office of Foreign Assets
Control. Neither the Company nor, to the Company's Knowledge,
any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company is currently
subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets
Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”).
(ll) U.S. Real Property Holding
Corporation. The Company is not and has never been a U.S. real
property holding corporation within the meaning of Section 897 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Company shall so certify upon
Purchaser’s request.
(mm) Bank Holding Company
Act. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliates is subject to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended (the
“BHCA”) and to
regulation by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal
Reserve”). Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliates owns or controls, directly or indirectly, five percent (5%) or more
of the outstanding shares of any class of voting securities or twenty-five
percent (25%) 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/or to regulation by the Federal Reserve.
(nn) Money
Laundering. The operations of the Company are and have been
conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial record-keeping
and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting
Act of 1970, as amended, applicable money laundering statutes and applicable
rules and regulations thereunder, and no action, suit or proceeding by or before
any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving
the Company with respect to the such laws is pending or, to the Knowledge of the
Company, threatened.
(oo) Shell Company Status.
The Company ceased being a shell company, as that term is defined in Rule 405 of
the Securities Act and Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act, through its acquisition
of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Bluefin, the sole stockholder of
Kali, on June 30, 2010 and filed its Form 10 information regarding such
transaction in a current report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on July 7,
2010.
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3.2 Representations and
Warranties of the Purchasers. Each Purchaser, for itself and
for no other Purchaser, hereby represents and warrants as of the date hereof and
as of the Closing Date to the Company as follows (unless as of a specific
date therein):
(a) Organization;
Authority. Such Purchaser is either an individual or an entity
duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its organization with full right, corporate or partnership power
and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by
the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder
and thereunder. The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and
performance by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate,
partnership, limited liability company or similar action, as applicable, on the
part of such Purchaser. Each Transaction Document to which it is a
party has been duly executed by such Purchaser, and when delivered by such
Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and
legally binding obligation of such Purchaser, enforceable against it in
accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable
principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and
other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights
generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific
performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as
indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable
law.
(b) Own
Account. Such Purchaser understands that the Securities are
“restricted securities” and have not been registered under the Securities Act or
any applicable state securities law and is acquiring the Securities as principal
for its own account and not with a view to or for distributing or reselling such
Securities or any part thereof in violation of the Securities Act or any
applicable state securities law, has no present intention of distributing any of
such Securities in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state
securities law and has no direct or indirect arrangement or understandings with
any other persons to distribute or regarding the distribution of such Securities
in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law (this
representation and warranty not limiting such Purchaser’s right to sell the
Securities in compliance with applicable federal and state securities
laws). Such Purchaser is acquiring the Securities hereunder in the
ordinary course of its business.
(c) Purchaser
Status. At the time such Purchaser was offered the Securities,
it was, and as of the date hereof it is either: (i) an “accredited investor” as
defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(7) or (a)(8) under the Securities
Act or (ii) a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A(a) under
the Securities Act. Such Purchaser is not required to be registered
as a broker-dealer under Section 15 of the Exchange Act.
(d) Experience of Such
Purchaser. Such Purchaser, either alone or together with its
representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business
and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of
the prospective investment in the Securities, and has so evaluated the merits
and risks of such investment. Such Purchaser is able to bear the
economic risk of an investment in the Securities and, at the present time, is
able to afford a complete loss of such investment.
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(e) General
Solicitation. Such Purchaser is not purchasing the Securities
as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication
regarding the Securities published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media
or broadcast over television or radio or presented at any seminar or any other
general solicitation or general advertisement.
(f) Certain
Transactions
and Confidentiality. Other than consummating the transactions
contemplated hereunder, such Purchaser has not directly or indirectly, nor
has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with such
Purchaser, executed any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the
securities of the Company during the period commencing as of the time that such
Purchaser first received a term sheet (written or oral) as of the Company or any
other Person representing the Company setting forth the material terms of the
transactions contemplated hereunder and ending immediately prior to the
execution hereof. Other than to other Persons party to this Agreement, such
Purchaser has maintained the confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in
connection with this transaction (including the existence and terms of this
transaction). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for avoidance of doubt, nothing
contained herein shall constitute a representation or warranty, or preclude any
actions, with respect to the identification of the availability of, or securing
of, available shares to borrow in order to effect Short Sales or similar
transactions in the future.
The
Company acknowledges and agrees that the representations contained in Section
3.2 shall not modify, amend or affect such Purchaser’s right to rely on the
Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any
representations and warranties contained in any other Transaction Document or
any other document or instrument executed and/or delivered in connection with
this Agreement or the consummation of the transaction contemplated
hereby.
ARTICLE
IV.
OTHER
AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES
4.1 Transfer
Restrictions.
(a) The
Securities may only be disposed of in compliance with state and federal
securities laws. In connection with any transfer of Securities other
than pursuant to an effective registration statement or Rule 144, to the Company
or to an Affiliate of a Purchaser or in connection with a pledge as contemplated
in Section 4.1(b), the Company may require the transferor thereof to provide to
the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor and reasonably
acceptable to the Company, the form and substance of which opinion shall be
reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does
not require registration of such transferred Securities under the Securities
Act. As a condition of transfer, any such transferee shall agree in
writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and shall have the rights and
obligations of a Purchaser under this Agreement.
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(b) The
Purchasers agree to the imprinting, so long as is required by this Section 4.1,
of a legend on any of the Securities in the following form:
THIS
SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN
EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE
“SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT
TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO
AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO
THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY
ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY. THIS SECURITY MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION
WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT WITH A REGISTERED BROKER-DEALER OR OTHER LOAN
WITH A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION THAT IS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE
501(a) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH
SECURITIES.
The
Company acknowledges and agrees that a Purchaser may from time to time pledge
pursuant to a bona fide margin agreement with a registered broker-dealer or
grant a security interest in some or all of the Securities to a financial
institution that is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the
Securities Act and who agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement
and, if required under the terms of such arrangement, such Purchaser may
transfer pledged or secured Securities to the pledgees or secured
parties. Such a pledge or transfer would not be subject to approval
of the Company. Further, no notice shall be required of such
pledge. At the appropriate Purchaser’s expense, the Company will
execute and deliver such reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party
of Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or transfer of
the Securities, including, if the Securities are then registered for resale, the
preparation and filing of any required prospectus supplement under Rule
424(b)(3) under the Securities Act or other applicable provision of the
Securities Act to appropriately amend the list of selling
stockholders.
(c) Certificates
evidencing the Securities shall not contain any legend (including the legend set
forth in Section 4.1(b) hereof), (i) while a registration statement covering the
resale of such security is effective under the Securities Act or (ii) following
any sale of such Securities pursuant to Rule 144. At such time
as the Purchaser has sold all or any portion of the Securities, and assuming
that the conditions to resale set forth in Rule 144(i) are satisfied at the time
of such sale, the Company shall cause its counsel to issue a legal opinion to
the Transfer Agent if required by the Transfer Agent to effect the removal of
the legend hereunder with respect to the Securities sold. The Company
agrees that following the time as such legend is no longer required under this
Section 4.1(c), it will, no later than three (3) Trading Days following the
delivery by a Purchaser to the Company or the Transfer Agent of a certificate
representing Securities issued with a restrictive legend (such third Trading
Day, the “Legend
Removal Date”), deliver or cause to be delivered to such Purchaser a
certificate representing such securities that is free from all restrictive and
other legends. The Company may not make any notation on its records
or give instructions to the Transfer Agent that enlarge the restrictions on
transfer set forth in this Section 4. Certificates for Securities
subject to legend removal hereunder shall be transmitted by the Transfer Agent
to the Purchaser by crediting the account of the Purchaser’s prime broker with
the Depository Trust Company System as directed by such Purchaser.
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(d) In
addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to
a Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for
each $1,000 of Securities (based on the VWAP of the Common Stock on the date
such Securities are submitted to the Transfer Agent) delivered for removal of
the restrictive legend and subject to Section 4.1(c), $10 per Trading Day
(increasing to $20 per Trading Day five (5) Trading Days after such damages have
begun to accrue) for each Trading Day after the Legend Removal Date until such
certificate is delivered without a legend. Nothing herein shall limit such
Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver
certificates representing any Securities as required by the Transaction
Documents, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies
available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of
specific performance and/or injunctive relief.
(e) Each
Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees with the
Company that such Purchaser will sell any Securities pursuant to either the
registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable
prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and that if
Securities are sold pursuant to a registration statement, they will be sold in
compliance with the plan of distribution set forth therein, and acknowledges
that the removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing
Securities as set forth in this Section 4.1 is predicated upon the Company’s
reliance upon this understanding. In the event of the removal of legends
pursuant to Section 4.1(c), if the applicable registration statement is no
longer available for the resale of such Securities, each Purchaser hereby agrees
to return any unsold Securities to the Company so that legends may be placed on
certificates representing such Securities.
4.2 Furnishing of
Information;
Public Information.
(a) For
a period of two (2) years from the Closing Date, the Company covenants to use
its best efforts to timely file (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and
file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the
Company after the date hereof pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act even
if the Company is not then subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange
Act. As long as any Purchaser owns Securities, if the Company is not
required to file reports pursuant to the Exchange Act, it will prepare and
furnish to the Purchasers and make publicly available in accordance with Rule
144(c) such information as is required for the Purchasers to sell the
Securities, including without limitation, under Rule 144. The Company
further covenants that it will take such further action as any holder of
Securities may reasonably request, to the extent required from time to time to
enable such Person to sell such Securities without registration under the
Securities Act, including without limitation, within the requirements of the
exemption provided by Rule 144.
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(b) At
any time during the period commencing on the earlier of July 7, 2011 and the
date that any of the Securities are registered pursuant to Section 4.14 of this
Agreement and ending at such time that all of the Securities may be sold without
the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with Rule 144(c)(1) or
144(i) and otherwise without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144, if
the Company shall fail for any reason to satisfy the current public information
requirement under Rule 144(c) or 144(i)(2) (a “Public Information
Failure”) then, in addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies,
the Company shall pay to the Purchasers pro rata in accordance with their
original Subscription Amounts, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, by
reason of any such delay in or reduction of its ability to sell the Securities,
an amount in cash equal to one-half of one percent (0.5%) of the value of the
Securities then held by such Purchaser (based on the original purchase price of
such Securities) for each Business Day or part thereof during which a Public
Information Failure is in effect, up to an aggregate of $100,000. The
payments to which a Purchaser shall be entitled pursuant to this Section 4.2(b)
are referred to herein as “Public Information Failure
Payments.” Public Information Failure Payments shall be paid
within five (5) Business Days of the occurrence of the Public Information
Failure. 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 one and one-half percent (1.5%) per month (prorated for
partial months) until paid in full. Nothing herein shall limit such
Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Public Information Failure,
and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it
at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific
performance and/or injunctive relief.
4.3 Integration. The
Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise
negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities
Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities in a
manner that would require the registration under the Securities Act of the sale
of the Securities or that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the
Securities for purposes of the rules and regulations of any Trading Market such
that it would require shareholder approval prior to the closing of such other
transaction unless shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of such
subsequent transaction.
4.4 Securities Laws Disclosure;
Publicity. The Company shall, by 8:30 a.m. (New York City
time) on no later than the fourth Trading Day following the date hereof, issue a
Current Report on Form 8-K and press release disclosing the material terms of
the transactions contemplated hereby, and including the Transaction Documents as
exhibits thereto. From and after the issuance of such press release,
the Company shall have publicly disclosed all material, non-public information
delivered to any of the Purchasers by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or
any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents in connection
with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The
Company and each Purchaser shall consult with each other in issuing any other
press releases with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and neither
the Company nor any Purchaser shall issue any such press release nor otherwise
make any such public statement without the prior consent of the Company, with
respect to any press release of any Purchaser, or without the prior consent of
each Purchaser, with respect to any press release of the Company, which consent
shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, except if such disclosure is
required by law, in which case the disclosing party shall promptly provide the
other party with prior notice of such public statement or
communication. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not
publicly disclose the name of any Purchaser, or include the name of any
Purchaser in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or Trading
Market, without the prior written consent of such Purchaser, except: (a) as
required by federal securities law in connection with (i) any registration
statement contemplated by Section 4.14 and (ii) the filing of final Transaction
Documents (including signature pages thereto) with the Commission and (b) to the
extent such disclosure is required by law or Trading Market regulations, in
which case the Company shall provide the Purchasers with prior notice of such
disclosure permitted under this clause (b).
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4.5 Shareholder Rights
Plan. No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or,
with the consent of the Company, any other Person, that any Purchaser is an
“Acquiring Person” under any control share acquisition, business combination,
poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or similar
anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by the Company,
or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such plan
or arrangement, by virtue of receiving Securities under the Transaction
Documents or under any other agreement between the Company and the
Purchasers.
4.6 Non-Public
Information. Except with respect to the material terms and
conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the
Company covenants and agrees that neither it, nor any other Person acting on its
behalf, will provide any Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information
that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information, unless
prior thereto such Purchaser shall have executed a written agreement with the
Company regarding the confidentiality and use of such information. Each
Purchaser covenants and agrees to not request material non-public information
from the Company unless it has previously signed a written agreement with the
Company regarding the confidentiality and use of such
information. The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser
shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in
securities of the Company.
4.7 Use of
Proceeds. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.7 attached
hereto, the Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities
hereunder for working capital purposes and shall not use such proceeds for: (a)
the satisfaction of any portion of the Company’s debt (other than for use in
connection with the acquisition of Baja and the payment of trade payables in the
ordinary course of the Company’s business and prior practices), (b) the
redemption of any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents, (c) the settlement
of any outstanding litigation or (d) in violation of the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any regulations promulgated
thereunder, or any OFAC regulations.
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4.8 Indemnification of
Purchasers. Subject to the provisions of this Section
4.8, the Company will indemnify and hold each Purchaser and its directors,
officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (and any other
Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles
notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who
controls such Purchaser (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act
and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders,
agents, members, partners or employees (and any other Persons with a
functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a
lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a
“Purchaser Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations,
claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments,
amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and
costs of investigation that any such Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a
result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the representations,
warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in
the other Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted against a Purchaser
in any capacity, or any of them or their respective Affiliates, by any
stockholder of the Company who is not an Affiliate of such Purchaser, with
respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents
(unless such action is based upon a breach of such Purchaser’s representations,
warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents or any agreements or
understandings such Purchaser may have with any such stockholder or any
violations by such Purchaser of state or federal securities laws or any conduct
by such Purchaser which constitutes fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct
or malfeasance). If any action shall be brought against any Purchaser
Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement,
such Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the
Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its
own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party. Any
Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such
action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such
counsel shall be at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the extent
that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company
in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to
assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in
the reasonable opinion of counsel, a material conflict on any material issue
between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party, in
which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses
of no more than one such separate counsel. The Company will not be
liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by a
Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which
shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the extent, but only to
the extent that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any
Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or
agreements made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement or in the other
Transaction Documents or any violations by such Purchaser Party of state or
federal securities laws or any conduct by such Purchaser Party that constitutes
fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct. The indemnification
required by this Section 4.8 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount
thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, as and when bills are
received or are incurred. The indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in
addition to any cause of action or similar right of any Purchaser Party against
the Company or others, and (y) any liabilities the Company may be subject to
pursuant to law.
4.9 Listing of Common
Stock. The Company hereby agrees to use best efforts to
maintain the listing or quotation of the Common Stock on the Trading
Market on which it is currently listed, and concurrently with the Closing,
the Company shall apply to list or quote all of the Shares on such Trading
Market (if applicable) and promptly secure the listing of all of the Shares on
such Trading Market. The Company further agrees, if the Company applies to
have the Common Stock traded on any other Trading Market, it will then include
in such application all of the Shares, and will take such other action as is
necessary to cause all of the Shares to be listed or quoted on such other
Trading Market as promptly as possible. The Company will then take
all action reasonably necessary to continue the listing or quotation and trading
of its Common Stock on a Trading Market and will comply in all respects with the
Company’s reporting, filing and other obligations under the bylaws or rules of
the Trading Market.
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4.10 Equal Treatment of
Purchasers. No consideration (including any modification of
any Transaction Document) shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or
consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any of the Transaction
Documents unless the same consideration is also offered to all of the parties to
the Transaction Documents. For clarification purposes, this provision
constitutes a separate right granted to each Purchaser by the Company and
negotiated separately by each Purchaser, and is intended for the Company to
treat the Purchasers as a class and shall not in any way be construed as the
Purchasers acting in concert or as a group with respect to the purchase,
disposition or voting of Securities or otherwise.
4.11 Certain
Transactions
and Confidentiality. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the
other Purchasers, covenants that neither it, nor any Affiliate acting on its
behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it will execute any purchases or
sales, including Short Sales, of any of the Company’s securities during the
period commencing with the execution of this Agreement and ending at such time
that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly
announced pursuant to the initial press release as described in Section
4.4. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers,
covenants that until such time as the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement are publicly disclosed by the Company pursuant to the initial press
release as described in Section 4.4, such Purchaser will maintain the
confidentiality of the existence and terms of this transaction and the
information included in the Transaction Documents and the Disclosure
Schedules. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and notwithstanding anything
contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company expressly acknowledges
and agrees that (i) no Purchaser makes any representation, warranty or covenant
hereby that it will not engage in effecting transactions in any securities of
the Company after the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
are first publicly announced pursuant to the initial press release as described
in Section 4.4, (ii) no Purchaser shall be restricted or prohibited from
effecting any transactions in any securities of the Company in accordance with
applicable securities laws from and after the time that the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to the
initial press release as described in Section 4.4 and (iii) no Purchaser shall
have any duty of confidentiality to the Company or its Subsidiaries after the
issuance of the initial press release as described in Section 4.4, provided,
that no Purchaser will engage in any Short Sales while it holds any of the
Shares.
4.12 Form D; Blue Sky
Filings. The Company agrees to timely file a Form D with
respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy
thereof, promptly upon request of any Purchaser. The Company shall take such
action as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary in order to obtain
an exemption for, or to qualify the Securities for, sale to the Purchasers at
the Closing under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the
United States, and shall provide evidence of such actions promptly upon request
of any Purchaser.
4.13 Delivery of Securities After
Closing. The Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered,
the respective Securities purchased by each Purchaser to such Purchaser within
three (3) Trading Days of the Closing Date.
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4.14 Piggyback Registration
Rights.
(a) If,
at any time after the Closing Date, the Company shall propose to file with the
Commission a registration statement under the Securities Act other than on Forms
S-4 or S-8 (or any successor to such forms) (each, a “Piggyback
Registration”), the Company shall give notice to each Purchaser and
include in such registration statement all or any part of the Securities that
such Purchaser requests to be registered; provided, however, that the Company
shall not be required to register any Shares pursuant to this Section 4.14 that
are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act without
any requirement for the Company to maintain current public information and
without any limitation on volume or manner of sale. The Company shall
use best efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective as
soon as practicable.
(b) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if the managing underwriter or underwriters for a Piggy-Back
Registration that is to be an underwritten offering advises the Company in
writing that the dollar amount or number of shares of the Common Stock which the
Company desires to sell, taken together with shares of Common Stock, if any, as
to which registration has been demanded pursuant to written contractual
arrangements with persons other than the holders of Shares hereunder, the Shares
as to which registration has been requested under this Section 4.14, and the
shares of Common Stock, if any, as to which registration has been requested
pursuant to the written contractual piggy-back registration rights of other
shareholders of the Company, exceeds the maximum dollar amount or maximum number
of shares that can be sold in such offering without adversely affecting the
proposed offering price, timing, distribution method, or probability of success
of such offering (such maximum dollar amount or maximum number of shares, as
applicable, the “Maximum Number of
Shares”), then the Company shall include in any such
registration:
(i) If
the registration is undertaken for the Company’s account: (A) first, the shares
or other securities that the Company desires to issue that can be sold without
exceeding the Maximum Number of Shares; (B) second, to the extent that the
Maximum Number of Shares has not been reached under the foregoing clause (A),
the shares of Common Stock, if any, including the Shares, as to which
registration has been requested pursuant to written contractual piggy-back
registration rights of security holders (pro rata in accordance with
the number of shares of Common Stock which each such Person has actually
requested to be included in such registration, regardless of the number of
shares with respect to which such Persons have the right to request such
inclusion) that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Shares;
and
(ii) If
the registration is a “demand” registration undertaken at the demand of persons
pursuant to written contractual arrangements of the Company with such Persons,
(A) first, the shares of Common Stock for the account of the demanding Persons
that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Shares; (B) second, to
the extent that the Maximum Number of Shares has not been reached under the
foregoing clause (A), the shares of Common Stock or other securities that the
Company desires to sell that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of
Shares; and (C) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Shares has not
been reached under the foregoing clauses (A) and (B), the shares of Common
Stock, if any, including the Shares, as to which registration has been requested
pursuant to written contractual piggy-back registration rights of security
holders (pro rata in
accordance with the number of shares of Common Stock which each such Person has
actually requested to be included in such registration, regardless of the number
of shares with respect to which such Persons have the right to request such
inclusion) that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of
Shares.
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ARTICLE
V.
MISCELLANEOUS
5.1 Termination.
This Agreement may be terminated by any Purchaser, as to such Purchaser’s
obligations hereunder only and without any effect whatsoever on the obligations
between the Company and the other Purchasers, by written notice to the other
parties, if the Closing has not been consummated on or before October 31, 2010;
provided, however, that such
termination will not affect the right of any party to xxx for any breach by the
other party (or parties).
5.2 Fees and
Expenses. At the Closing, the Company has agreed to reimburse
Seaside 88, LP the non-accountable sum of $25,000, which shall be deducted from
Seaside’s Subscription Amount. Except as expressly set forth in the Transaction
Documents to the contrary, each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its
advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses
incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution,
delivery and performance of this Agreement. The Company shall pay all
Transfer Agent fees, stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection
with the delivery of any Securities to the Purchasers.
5.3 Entire
Agreement. The Transaction Documents, together with the
schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect
to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and
understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties
acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and
schedules.
5.4 Notices. Any
and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to
be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and
effective on the earliest of: (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or
communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on
the signature pages attached hereto prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a
Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such
notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set
forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day
or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the
second (2nd)
Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized
overnight courier service or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such
notice is required to be given. The address for such notices and
communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached
hereto.
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5.5 Amendments;
Waivers. No provision of this Agreement may be waived,
modified, supplemented or amended except in a written instrument signed, in the
case of an amendment, by the Company and the Purchasers holding at least fifty
percent (50%) of the Shares then outstanding or, in the case of a waiver, by the
party against whom enforcement of any such waived provision is
sought. No waiver of any default with respect to any provision,
condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing
waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any
other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or
omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the
exercise of any such right.
5.6 Headings. The
headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this
Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions
hereof.
5.7 Successors and
Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the
benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted
assigns. The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or
obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Purchaser (other
than by merger). Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights
under this Agreement to any Person to whom such Purchaser assigns or transfers
any Securities, provided that such transferee agrees in writing to be bound,
with respect to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of the Transaction
Documents that apply to the “Purchasers.”
5.8 No Third-Party
Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of
the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is
not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other
Person, except as otherwise set forth in Section 4.8.
5.9 Governing
Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity,
enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall be governed by
and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of
New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law
thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the
interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a
party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders,
employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal
courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to
the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City
of New York, borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder
or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or
discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the
Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert
in any 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
improper or is an inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each party
hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process
being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof
via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of
delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this
Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient
service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall
be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner
permitted by law. If either party shall commence an action or
proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then in
addition to the obligations of the Company under Section 4.8, the prevailing
party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for
its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the
investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or
proceeding.
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5.10 Survival. The
representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and
the delivery of the Securities.
5.11 Execution. This
Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken
together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become
effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the
other party, it being understood that both parties need not sign the same
counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by
facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such
signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or
on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if
such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.
5.12 Severability. If
any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a
court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable,
the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth
herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected,
impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially
reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same
or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision,
covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the
intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms,
provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be
hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.
5.13 Replacement of
Securities. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any
Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or
cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation
thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a
new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably
satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction. The
applicant for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall
also pay any reasonable third-party costs (including customary indemnity)
associated with the issuance of such replacement Securities.
5.14 Remedies. In
addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by
law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will
be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction
Documents. The parties agree that monetary damages may not be
adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of
obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agree to waive and
not to assert in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the
defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.
5.15 Payment Set
Aside. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or
payments to any Purchaser pursuant to any Transaction Document or a Purchaser
enforces or exercises its rights thereunder, and such payment or payments or the
proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any part thereof are subsequently
invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered
from, disgorged by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored
to the Company, a trustee, receiver or any other person under any law
(including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common
law or equitable cause of action), then to the extent of any such restoration
the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be
revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been
made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.
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5.16 Independent Nature of
Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each
Purchaser under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the
obligations of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any
way for the performance or non-performance of the obligations of any other
Purchaser under any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or
in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant
thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an
association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a
presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group
with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to
independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without limitation, the
rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents,
and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an
additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser
has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in their review and
negotiation of the Transaction Documents.
5.17 Liquidated
Damages. The Company’s obligations to pay any partial
liquidated damages or other amounts owing under the Transaction Documents is a
continuing obligation of the Company and shall not terminate until all unpaid
partial liquidated damages and other amounts have been paid notwithstanding the
fact that the instrument or security pursuant to which such partial liquidated
damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been
canceled.
5.18 Saturdays, Sundays,
Holidays, etc. If the last or appointed day for the taking of
any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not
be a Business Day, then such action may be taken or such right may be exercised
on the next succeeding Business Day.
5.19 Construction. The
parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel has reviewed and
had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the
normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be
resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation
of the Transaction Documents or any amendments hereto. In addition, each
and every reference to share prices and shares of Common Stock in any
Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward
stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions
of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.
5.20 WAIVER OF
JURY TRIAL. IN ANY
ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY
OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY,
IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER TRIAL BY JURY.
(Signature
Pages Follow)
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Securities Purchase
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of
the date first indicated above.
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Address for Notice:
000
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
00xx
Xxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention:
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By:__________________________________________
Name:
Oli Valur Steindorsson
Title: President
and Chief Executive Officer
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Facsimile:
(212)
Email:
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With
a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):
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Loeb
& Loeb LLP
000
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention:
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Esq.
Facsimile:
(212)
Email:
xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx
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[REMAINDER
OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK
SIGNATURE
PAGE FOR PURCHASER FOLLOWS]
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[PURCHASER
SIGNATURE PAGES TO SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement
to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date
first indicated above.
Name
of Purchaser:
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Seaside 88, LP
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Signature of Authorized
Signatory of Purchaser:
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Name
of Authorized Signatory:
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Title
of Authorized Signatory:
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Manager
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Email
Address of Authorized Signatory:
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Facsimile
Number of Authorized Signatory:
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(000) 000-0000
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Address
for Notice of Purchaser:
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000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
Address
for Delivery of Securities for Purchaser (if not same as address for
notice):
Same as above
Subscription
Amount:
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$1,500,000
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Shares:
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1,000,000
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Warrants:
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1,000,000
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EIN
Number: [PROVIDE
THIS UNDER SEPARATE COVER]
[SIGNATURE
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Exhibit
A
1. The
Company is a corporation duly organized under the General Corporation Law of the
State of Nevada, with corporate power and authority to enter into the Agreement
and the other Transaction Documents and perform its obligations thereunder. The
Company is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Nevada and is qualified to do business and in good standing under the laws of
____________ and _________, the only states where the failure to be so qualified
and in good standing could have a Material Adverse Effect.
2. The
execution and delivery of the Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and
the issuance and sale of the Securities thereunder has been duly authorized by
all necessary corporate action of the Company, no further action is required by
the Company or its stockholders in connection therewith, and each of the
Agreement and each other Transaction Document has been duly executed and
delivered by the Company and is enforceable against the Company in accordance
with its terms.
3. The
Securities have been duly authorized and, when issued and delivered in
accordance with the terms of the Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid
and non-assessable, and the issuance of such Securities will not be subject to
any preemptive or similar rights set forth in the Company’s Certificate of
Incorporation or Bylaws (or similar organizational documents) or any agreement
known to us or filed as an exhibit to any SEC Report.
4. The
execution and delivery by the Company of, and the performance by the Company of
its obligations under, the Agreement (including the issuance and sale of the
Securities) and the other Transaction Documents will not contravene any
provision of any statute, law, rule or regulation applicable to the Company, any
agreement filed as an exhibit to any SEC Report, or any judgment, order or
decree of any governmental body, agency or court having jurisdiction over the
Company that is applicable to the Company or its properties.
5. No
consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or
with any court or arbitrator or governmental body, regulatory authority or
Trading Market is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the
Company of its obligations under the Agreement or any other Transaction
Document, other than the Required Approvals, including but not limited to all
notice filings as are required to be made in connection with the Closing Date
under applicable federal and state securities laws.
6. The
Company is not, and will not be after consummation of the Agreement, the sale of
the Securities to the Purchasers and the application of the proceeds thereof, an
“investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended.
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