SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT 10.1
THIS SECURITIES
PURCHASE AGREEMENT (this
“Agreement”), dated as of December 22, 2009 by and among ActiveWorlds Corp, a U.S. public reporting
company, (collectively with its predecessors, the “Company") and the investors listed on
the Schedule of Investors attached hereto as Schedule
I and identified on the signature pages hereto (each, an “Investor” and collectively,
the “Investors”).
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, upon closing of
the Reverse Acquisition, the Company will simultaneously issue and sell to each Investor, and
each Investor, severally and not jointly, will purchase from the Company certain
securities of the Company
(the “Common Stock”), set forth opposite such Investor’s name in Schedule
I hereto (which aggregate amount for all
Investors together shall be [·] shares of common stock and shall collectively be referred to herein
as the “Shares”) and (ii) warrants, in substantially
the form attached hereto as Exhibit
B (the “Warrants”), to acquire up to that number of
additional shares of Common Stock set forth opposite such Investor’s name in Schedule I hereto (as exercised, collectively,
the ”Warrant
Shares”).
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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, Dragon Lead and the Investors agree as
follows:
In
addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement and the Reverse
Acquisition Agreement, for all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms
shall have the following meanings:
"Action" means any action,
suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding (including any partial proceeding
such as a deposition) or investigation pending or threatened in writing against
or affecting the Company, any Subsidiary or any of their respective properties
before or by any court, arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency,
regulatory authority (federal, state, county, local or foreign), stock market,
stock exchange or trading facility.
"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 144.
"Business Day" means any day
except Saturday, Sunday and any day which is a federal legal holiday or a day on
which banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized or required
by law or other governmental action to close.
"Buy-In" has the meaning set
forth in Section 6.1(c).
"Closing" means the closing of
the purchase and sale of the Shares pursuant to Section 1.
"Closing Date" has the meaning
set forth in Section 1.2, on which all of the conditions set forth in Sections 2
hereof are satisfied, or such other date as the parties may agree.
"Commission" means the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Common Stock" means the
common stock of the Company, par value USD 0.001 per share, and any securities
into which such common stock may hereafter be reclassified.
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"Common Stock Equivalents"
means any securities of the Company or any Subsidiary which entitle the
holder thereof to acquire Common Stock at any time, including without
limitation, any debt, preferred stock, rights, options, warrants or other
instrument that is at any time convertible into or exchangeable for, or
otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock or other
securities that entitle the holder to receive, directly or indirectly, Common
Stock.
"Company Deliverables" has the
meaning set forth in Section 1.3(a).
"Disclosure Materials" has the
meaning set forth in Section 3.8 and attached as Disclosure Schedules
hereto.
"Effective Date" means the
date that the Registration Statement required by Section 2 of the Registration
Rights Agreement is first declared effective by the Commission.
"Evaluation Date" has the
meaning set forth in Section 3.19.
"Exchange Act" means the U.S.
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"U.S. GAAP" means U.S.
generally accepted accounting principles.
"Intellectual Property Rights"
has the meaning set forth in Section 3.16.
"Investment Amount" means,
with respect to each Investor, the Investment Amount indicated on such
Investor’s signature page to this Agreement.
"Investor Deliverables" has
the meaning set forth in Section 1.3(b).
"Investor Party" has the
meaning set forth in Section 6.7.
"Lien" means any lien, charge,
encumbrance, security interest, right of first refusal or other restrictions of
any kind.
"Losses" has the meaning set
forth in Section 6.7.
"Material Adverse Effect"
means, with respect to any person, any of (i) a material and adverse
effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document,
(ii) a material and adverse effect on the results of operations, assets,
prospects, business or condition (financial or otherwise) of such person and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) an adverse impairment to the Person's
ability to perform on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction
Document.
"Money Laundering Laws" has
the meaning set forth in Section 3.22.
"New York Courts" means the
state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of
Manhattan.
"OFAC" has the meaning set
forth in Section 3.31.
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"Outside Date" means the
thirtieth (30th)
calendar day following the date of this Agreement; provided, that if
such day should fall on a day that is not a Business Day, the Outside Date shall
be deemed the next day that is a Business Day.
"Per Share Purchase Price"
equals $0.498.
"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.
"PRC" means the People’s
Republic of China, excluding Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
"Proceeding" means an action,
claim, suit, investigation or proceeding (including, without limitation, an
investigation or partial proceeding, such as a deposition), whether commenced or
threatened.
"Registration Rights Agreement"
means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of the date of this
Agreement, among the Company and the Investors, in the form of Exhibit B
hereto.
"Registration Statement" means
a registration statement meeting the requirements set forth in the Registration
Rights Agreement and covering the resale by the Investors of the
Shares.
"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 Rule
144.
"SEC Reports" has the meaning
set forth in Section 3.8.
"Securities Act" means the
U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"Securities" means the Shares,
the Warrants and the Warrant Shares.
"Share Delivery Date" has the
meaning set forth in Section 6.1(c).
"Shares" means the shares of
Common Stock issued or issuable, or transferable, to the Investors pursuant to
this Agreement.
"Short Sales" include, without
limitation, all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 promulgated under
Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act and all types of direct and indirect stock
pledges, forward sale contracts, options, puts, calls, swaps and similar
arrangements (including on a total return basis), and sales and other
transactions through non-U.S. broker dealers or foreign regulated
brokers.
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"Subsidiary" of any Person
shall mean any
“significant subsidiary” at such Person as defined in Rule 1-02(w) of the
Regulation S-X promulgated by the Commission under the Exchange
Act.
"Trading Day" means (i) a day
on which the Common Stock is traded on a Trading Market (other than the OTC
Bulletin Board), or (ii) if the Common Stock is not listed on a Trading Market
(other than the OTC Bulletin Board), a day on which the Common Stock is traded
in the over-the-counter market, as reported by the OTC Bulletin Board, or (iii)
if the Common Stock is not quoted on any Trading Market, a day on which the
Common Stock is quoted in the over-the-counter market as reported by the Pink
Sheets LLC (or any similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of
reporting prices); provided, that in the event that the Common Stock is not
listed or quoted as set forth in (i), (ii) and (iii) hereof, then Trading Day
shall mean a Business Day.
"Trading Market" means
whichever of the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the
NASDAQ Global Select Market, the NASDAQ Global Market, the NASDAQ Capital Market
or OTC Bulletin Board on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading
on the date in question.
"Transaction Documents" means
this Agreement, the Reverse Acquisition Agreement, the Warrants, the
Registration Rights Agreement and any other documents or agreements executed in
connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder.
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the mutual covenants and other agreements contained in this
Agreement, the Company, Dragon Lead, Wuhan Kingold and the Investors hereby
agree as follows:
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(ii) the
Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by the Company and the other parties
thereto;
(ii)
the Registration Rights Agreement
duly executed by
the
Investor;
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Except as set forth in the schedules
hereto (the parties understand and agree that an item disclosed
under a particular schedule shall only qualify the Section referenced in the
heading to such particular schedule, and shall not modify or qualify any other
Section not referenced in such schedule heading), each Investor represents and warrants to and agrees
with the Company, Wuhan
Kingold and Dragon Leads that:
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Except as
set forth in the schedules hereto (the parties understand and agree that an item
disclosed under a particular schedule shall only qualify the Section referenced
in the heading to such particular schedule, and shall not modify or qualify any
other Section not referenced in such schedule heading), the Company represents
and warrants to and agrees with each Investor that:
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Except as set forth in the schedules hereto (the parties understand and agree that
an item disclosed under a particular schedule shall only qualify the Section
referenced in the heading to such particular schedule, and shall not modify or
qualify any other Section not referenced in such schedule heading), Dragon Lead represents and warrants to and agrees
with each Investor that:
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4.7 Defaults. Dragon Lead is not in violation of its articles of
incorporation or bylaws. Dragon Lead is (i) not in default under or in
violation of any agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it
or any of its properties are bound or affected, which default or
violation would have a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) not in default with respect
to any order of any court, arbitrator or governmental body or subject to or
party to any order of any court or governmental authority arising out of any action, suit or
proceeding under any statute or other law respecting antitrust, monopoly,
restraint of trade, unfair competition or similar matters, or (iii) not in
violation of any statute, rule or regulation of any governmental
authority which violation would have a Material
Adverse Effect.
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Except as set forth in the schedules
hereto (the parties understand and agree that an item disclosed under a
particular schedule shall only qualify the Section referenced in the heading to
such particular schedule,
and shall not modify or qualify any other Section not referenced in such
schedule heading), Wuhan
Kingold represents and
warrants to and agrees with each Investor that:
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6.1 (a) The
Shares may only be disposed of in compliance with state and federal securities
laws. In connection with any transfer of the Shares other than
pursuant to an effective registration statement, pursuant to Rule 144, to the
Company, to an Affiliate of an Investor or in connection with a pledge as
contemplated in Section 6.1(b), the Company may require the transferor thereof
to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor, 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 Shares under the Securities Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Company hereby consents to and agrees to register on the books of the Company
and with its transfer agent, without any such legal opinion, any transfer of
Shares by an Investor to an Affiliate of such Investor, provided that the
transferee certifies to the Company that it is an “accredited investor” as
defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and provided that such Affiliate
does not request any removal of any existing legends on any certificate
evidencing the Shares.
(b) Certificates
evidencing the Shares will contain the following legend, until such time as they
are not required under Section 6.1(c):
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THESE
SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN
EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE U.S. 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. THESE SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN
CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT SECURED BY SUCH
SECURITIES.
The
Company acknowledges and agrees that an Investor may from time to time pledge,
and/or grant a security interest in some or all of the Shares pursuant to a bona
fide margin agreement in connection with a bona fide margin account and, if
required under the terms of such agreement or account, such Investor may
transfer pledged or secured Shares to the pledgees or secured
parties. Such a pledge or transfer would not be subject to approval
or consent of the Company and no legal opinion of legal counsel to the pledgee,
secured party or pledgor shall be required in connection with the pledge, but
such legal opinion may be required in connection with a subsequent transfer
following default by the Investor transferee of the pledge. No notice
shall be required of such pledge. At the appropriate Investor’s
expense, the Company will execute and deliver such reasonable documentation as a
pledgee or secured party of Shares may reasonably request in connection with a
pledge or transfer of the Shares including the preparation and filing of any
required prospectus supplement under Rule 424(b)(3) of the Securities Act or
other applicable provision of the Securities Act to appropriately amend the list
of Selling Stockholders thereunder. Except as otherwise provided in
Section 6.1(c), any Shares subject to a pledge or security interest as
contemplated by this Section 6.1(b) shall continue to bear the legend set forth
in this Section 6.1(b) and be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth
in Section 6.1(a).
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(c) Certificates evidencing Shares shall not
contain any legend (including the legend set forth in Section
6.1(b)): (i) following a sale or transfer
of such Shares pursuant to an effective registration statement (including a
Registration Statement), or (ii) following a sale or transfer of such Shares
pursuant to Rule 144 (assuming the transferee is not an Affiliate of
the Company), or (iii) while such Shares are eligible for sale without volume
limitations pursuant to Rule 144. If an Investor shall make a sale or
transfer of Shares either (x) pursuant to Rule 144 or (y) pursuant to a registration statement and in each
case shall have delivered to the Company or the Company’s transfer agent the certificate
representing Shares containing a restrictive legend which are the subject of
such sale or transfer and a representation letter in customary form
(the date of such sale or transfer
and Share delivery being the “Share Delivery
Date”) and (1) the Company
shall fail to deliver or cause to be delivered to such Investor a certificate
representing such Shares that is free from all restrictive or other legends by the third
Trading Day following the Share Delivery Date and (2) following such third
Trading Day after the Share Delivery Date and prior to the time such Shares are
received free from restrictive legends, the Investor, or any third party on behalf of such Investor,
purchases (in an open market transaction or otherwise) shares of Common Stock to
deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Investor of such Shares (a "Buy-In"), then the Company shall pay in cash to
the Investor (for costs incurred either directly by such
Investor or on behalf of a third party) the amount by which the total purchase
price paid for Common Stock as a result of the Buy-In (including brokerage
commissions, if any) exceeds the proceeds received by such Investor as a result of the sale to which such
Buy-In relates. The Investor shall provide the Company written notice
indicating the amounts payable to the Investor in respect of the Buy-In. Payment
by the Company of amounts payable in respect of the Buy-In are in addition to any other remedies that an
Investor may have, under the Transaction Documents or otherwise, as a result of
the Company’s failure to deliver Share certificates
free from the restrictive legend as provided herein.
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6.3 Integration. The Company shall not, and
shall use its best efforts to ensure that no Affiliate of the Company shall,
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 Shares in a manner that would
require the registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Shares to the Investors, or
that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Shares for purposes of
the rules and regulations of any Trading Market in a manner that would require
stockholder approval of the sale of the securities to the Investors.
6.4 Subsequent
Registrations. Other than pursuant to the
Registration Rights Agreement, prior to the first to occur of (a) the Effective
Date of a Registration Statement resulting in all Registrable Securities (as
defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) being registered for resale
pursuant to one or more effective Registration Statements or (b) such time as
all Registrable Securities may be sold by the Investors without volume
restrictions pursuant to Rule 144, the Company may not file any registration statement (other than on Form
S-8) with the Commission with respect to any securities of the
Company.
6.5 Securities
Laws Disclosure; Publicity. By 9:00 a.m. (New York
time) on the Trading Day following the execution of this Agreement, and by
9:00 a.m. (New York time)
on the Trading Day following the Closing Date, the Company shall issue press
releases disclosing the transactions contemplated hereby and the
Closing. On the Trading Day following the execution of this Agreement
the Company will file a Current Report on Form 8-K
disclosing the material terms of the Transaction Documents (and attach as
exhibits thereto the Transaction Documents), and on the Trading Day following
the Closing Date the Company will file an additional Current Report
on Form 8-K to disclose the
Closing. In addition, the Company will make such other filings and
notices in the manner and time required by the Commission and the Trading Market
on which the Common Stock is listed. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of
any Investor, or include the name of any Investor in any filing with the
Commission (other than a Registration Statement and any exhibits to filings made
in respect of this transaction in accordance with periodic filing requirements under the Exchange Act)
or any regulatory agency or Trading Market, without the prior written consent of
such Investor, except to the extent such disclosure is required by law or
Trading Market regulations.
6.6 Indemnification
of Investors. In
addition to the indemnity provided in the Registration Rights Agreement, the
Company will indemnify and hold the Investors and their directors, officers,
shareholders, partners, employees and agents (each, an “Investor
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
(collectively, “Losses”) that any such Investor Party may suffer or incur as a
result of or relating to any misrepresentation, breach or inaccuracy of any
representation, warranty, covenant or agreement made by the Company in any
Transaction Document.
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7. Conditions
Precedent to Closing
7.1 Conditions Precedent to the
Obligations of the Investors to Purchase Shares. The
obligation of each Investor hereunder to purchase the shares of Common Stocks
and the related Warrants at the Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or
before the Closing Date, of each of the following conditions, provided that
these conditions are for each Investor’s sole benefit and may be waived by such
Investor at any time in its sole discretion by providing the Company with prior
written notice thereof:
(a) Representations
and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Company,
Dragon Lead and Wuhan Kingold contained herein shall be true and correct in all
material respects as of the date when made and as of the Closing as though made
on and as of such date, except that representations and warranties that are
qualified by materiality shall be true and correct as of the date when made and
as of the Closing as though made on and as of such date;
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(b) Performance. The
Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects
with all covenants, agreements and conditions required by the Transaction
Documents to be performed, satisfied or complied with by it at or prior to the
Closing;
(c) No
Injunction. No statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree,
ruling or injunction shall have been enacted, entered, promulgated or endorsed
by any court or governmental authority of competent jurisdiction that prohibits
the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents;
(d) Adverse
Changes. Since the date of execution of this Agreement, no event or
series of events shall have occurred that reasonably could have or result in a
Material Adverse Effect;
(e) No
Suspensions of Trading in Common Stock; Listing. Trading in the
Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the Commission or any Trading
Market (except for any suspensions of trading of not more than one Trading Day
solely to permit dissemination of material information regarding the Company) at
any time since the date of execution of this Agreement, and the Common Stock
shall have been at all times since such date listed for trading on a Trading
Market;
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Company Deliverables. The Company
shall have delivered the Company Deliverables in accordance with Section
1.3(a);
(g) No
Governmental Prohibition. The sale of the Shares by the Company shall
not be prohibited by any law or governmental order or regulation;
(h) No
Stop Order. No stop order or suspension of trading shall have been
imposed by the Trading Market, the SEC or any other government or regulatory
body with respect to public trading in the Common Stock; and
(i)
Termination. This Agreement shall not
have been terminated as to such Investor in accordance with Section
8.5.
7.2 Conditions Precedent to the
Obligations of the Company to issue and sell Shares. The
obligation of the Company hereunder to issue and sell the shares of Common
Stocks and the related Warrants to each Investor at the Closing is subject to
the satisfaction, at or before the Closing Date, of each of the following
conditions, provided that these conditions are for the Company's sole benefit
and may be waived by the Company at any time in its sole discretion by providing
each Investor with prior written notice thereof:
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(a) Representations
and Warranties. The representations and warranties of each Investor
contained herein shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the
date when made and as of the Closing Date as though made on and as of such
date;
(b) Performance. Each
Investor shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects
with all covenants, agreements and conditions required by the Transaction
Documents to be performed, satisfied or complied with by such Investor at or
prior to the Closing;
(c) No
Injunction. No statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree,
ruling or injunction shall have been enacted, entered, promulgated or endorsed
by any court or governmental authority of competent jurisdiction that prohibits
the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents;
(d) Investors
Deliverables. Each Investor shall have delivered its Investors
Deliverables in accordance with Section 1.3(b); and
(e) Termination. This
Agreement shall not have been terminated as to such Investor in accordance with
Section 8.5.
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8.3 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 (provided the sender receives a
machine-generated confirmation of successful transmission) at the facsimile
number specified in this Section prior to 6:30 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
specified in this Section on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 6:30
p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the 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 follows:
To the Company:
ActiveWorlds Corp.
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx
00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: President
with copies to:
Cyruli Xxxxxx Xxxx &
Zizmor, LLP
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 0000
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxxx,
Esq.
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To Wuhan Kingold:
x/x Xx. Xxx Xxxxxxx
Xx. 00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx and Technology Park, Jiangan
District
Wuhan Hubei Province, the
People’s Republic of China
430023
with copies to:
DLA Piper Hong Kong
40th
Floor Bank of China Tower
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Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxx
Xxxx
Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx,
Esq.
To an
Investor:
To the address set forth under such
Investor’s name on the signature pages
hereof; or such other address as may be designated in writing hereafter, in the
same manner, by such Person.
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written agreement of all of the Investors and the Company;
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(b) by
the Company or an Investor (as to itself but no other Investor) upon written
notice to the other, if the Closing shall not have taken place by 6:30 p.m.
Eastern time on the Outside Date; provided, that the
right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 8.5(b) shall not be
available to any Person whose failure to comply with its obligations under this
Agreement has been the cause of or resulted in the failure of the Closing to
occur on or before such time.
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In the
event of a termination pursuant to this Section 8.5(b), the Company shall
promptly notify all non-terminating Investors. Upon a termination in accordance
with this Section 8.5(b), the Company and the terminating Investor(s) shall not
have any further obligation or liability (including as arising from such
termination) to the other and no Investor will have any liability to any other
Investor under the Transaction Documents as a result therefrom.
8.6 Construction. 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. The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the
language chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and no rules of
strict construction will be applied against any party. This Agreement
shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties, and no presumption or
burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the
authorship of any provisions of this Agreement or any of the Transaction
Documents.
8.7 Successors and
Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the
benefit of the parties and their respective successors and assigns, including
any purchasers of the Common Stocks or the Warrants. The Company
shall not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without
the prior written consent of the holders of Common Stocks representing at least
a majority of the number of the Common Stocks, including by merger or
consolidation. An Investor may assign some or all of its rights
hereunder without the consent of the Company, in which event such assignee shall
be deemed to be an Investor hereunder with respect to such assigned
rights.
8.8 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 6.7 (as to each Investor
Party).
8.9 Governing
Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity,
enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement 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 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, employees or agents) shall be
commenced exclusively in the New York Courts. Each party hereto
hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the New York Courts
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 the any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby
irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any Proceeding, any claim that
it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such New York Court, or
that such Proceeding has been commenced in an improper or inconvenient
forum. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives personal service
of process and consents to process being served in any such 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 manner permitted by law. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably
waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to
trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this
Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. If either party
shall commence a Proceeding to enforce any provisions of a Transaction Document,
then the prevailing party in such 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
Proceeding.
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8.10 Survival. The
representations, warranties, covenants, and agreements contained herein shall
survive the Closing and the delivery of the Shares.
8.11 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, 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 signature page
were an original thereof.
8.12 Severability. If
any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable in any
respect, the validity and enforceability of the remaining terms and provisions
of this Agreement shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and the
parties will attempt to agree upon a valid and enforceable provision that is a
reasonable substitute therefor, and upon so agreeing, shall incorporate such
substitute provision in this Agreement.
8.13 Rescission and Withdrawal
Right. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
(and without limiting any similar provisions of) the Transaction Documents,
whenever any Investor exercises a right, election, demand or option under a
Transaction Document and the Company does not timely perform its related
obligations within the periods therein provided, then such Investor may rescind
or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time upon written notice to the
Company, any relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part without
prejudice to its future actions and rights.
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8.14 Replacement of
Shares. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any Shares
is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be
issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof, or in
lieu of and substitution therefore, a new certificate or instrument, but only
upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss,
theft or destruction and customary and reasonable indemnity, if
requested. The applicants for a new certificate or instrument under
such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party costs associated
with the issuance of such replacement Shares. If a replacement
certificate or instrument evidencing any Shares is requested due to a mutilation
thereof, the Company may require delivery of such mutilated certificate or
instrument as a condition precedent to any issuance of a
replacement.
8.15 Remedies. In
addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by
law, including recovery of damages, each of the Investors 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 described in the foregoing sentence and hereby agrees to waive in
any action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a
remedy at law would be adequate.
8.16 Payment Set
Aside. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or
payments to any Investor pursuant to any Transaction Document or an Investor
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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8.17 Independent Nature of
Investors’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each
Investor under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the
obligations of any other Investor, and no Investor shall be responsible in any
way for the performance of the obligations of any other Investor under any
Transaction Document. The decision of each Investor to purchase
Shares pursuant to the Transaction Documents has been made by such Investor
independently of any other Investor. Nothing contained herein or in
any Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Investor pursuant thereto,
shall be deemed to constitute the Investors as a partnership, an association, a
joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the
Investors 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 Investor acknowledges that no other Investor has
acted as agent for such Investor in connection with making its investment
hereunder and that no Investor will be acting as agent of such Investor in
connection with monitoring its investment in the Shares or enforcing its rights
under the Transaction Documents. Each Investor 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 Investor to be joined as an
additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. The Company
acknowledges that each of the Investors has been provided with the same
Transaction Documents for the purpose of closing a transaction with multiple
Investors and not because it was required or requested to do so by any
Investor.
[SIGNATURE
PAGES FOLLOW]
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SIGNATURE PAGE TO
SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT
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.
ActiveWorlds
Corp
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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As to Section 2 and 4 only:
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Dragon Lead Group
Limited
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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As to Section 2 and 5 only:
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WUHAN KINGOLD JEWELRY CO.,
LTD.
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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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.
NAME
OF INVESTOR
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Investment Amount: $
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Tax ID No.:
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ADDRESS
FOR NOTICE
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c/o:
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Street:
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City/State/Zip:
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Attention:
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Tel:
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Fax:
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DELIVERY
INSTRUCTIONS
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(if
different from above)
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c/o:
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Street:
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City/State/Zip:
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Attention:
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Tel:
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Schedule I
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List of Investors and Shares
purchased
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Schedule II
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Accredited Investor
Status
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Exhibit A
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Form of Registration Rights
Agreement
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Exhibit B
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Form of
Warrant
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SCHEDULE
I LIST OF INVESTORS AND SHARES
PURCHASED
Investor
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Investment
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Shares
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Warrants
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Whitebox
Combined Partners, LP
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$ | 1,680,000 | 3,73,494 | 674,699 | ||||||||
Whitebox
Intermarket Partners, LP
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$ | 320,000 | 642,570 | 128,514 | ||||||||
Wallington
Investment Holding Ltd
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$ | 1,150,000 | 2,309,237 | 461,847 | ||||||||
Parkland
Ltd.
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$ | 500,000 | 1,004,016 | 200,803 | ||||||||
Jayhawk
Private Equity Fund II, LP
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$ | 500,000 | 1,004,016 | 200,803 | ||||||||
Trillion
Growth China Limited Partnership
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$ | 250,000 | 502,008 | 100,402 | ||||||||
Great
Places LLC
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$ | 250,000 | 502,008 | 100,402 | ||||||||
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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$ | 75,000 | 150,602 | 30,120 | ||||||||
Xxx
X. Xxxxxx
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$ | 50,000 | 100,402 | 20,080 | ||||||||
Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
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$ | 50,000 | 100,402 | 20,080 | ||||||||
Xxxxxxx
Xxx
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$ | 50,000 | 100,402 | 20,080 | ||||||||
Silicon
Prairie Partners
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$ | 50,000 | 100,402 | 20,080 | ||||||||
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Esq.
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$ | 25,000 | 50,201 | 10,040 | ||||||||
Xx
Xxx
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$ | 150,000 | 301,206 | 60,240 |
SCHEDULE
II ACCREDITED INVESTOR STATUS
Please initial below the items which
apply to your status as an Accredited Investor.
__________
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An
individual having a net worth with spouse (excluding automobiles,
principal residence and furnishings) at the time of purchase, individually
or jointly, in excess of
$1,000,000.
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__________
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An
individual whose individual net income was in excess of $200,000 in each
of the two most recent years, or whose joint net income with his or her
spouse was in excess of $300,000 in each of those years, and who
reasonably expects his individual or joint income with such investor’s
spouse to reach such level in the current
year.
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__________
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A
corporation or partnership, not formed for the specific purpose of
acquiring the purchased securities, having total assets in excess of
$5,000,000.
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__________
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A
small business investment company licensed by the U.S. Small Business
Administration under section 301(c) or (d) of the Small Business
Investment Act of 1958.
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__________
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A
self-directed benefit plan within the meaning of ERISA, with investment
decisions made solely by persons who are accredited investors as defined
in Rule 501(2) of Regulations D.
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__________
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A
trust with total assets in excess of $5,000,000 not formed for the
specific purpose of acquiring the purchased securities, whose purchase is
directed by a sophisticated person (i.e., a person who has such knowledge
and experience in financial and business matters that he, she or it is
capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an investment in the
purchased securities).
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__________
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An
entity in which all of the equity owners are accredited
investors.
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__________
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Other (describe):
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DISCLOSURE
SCHEDULES
NONE