1,150,000 Shares of Common Stock ACORN ENERGY, INC. Common Stock (par value $0.01) PLACEMENT AGENT AGREEMENT
1,150,000
Shares of Common Stock
Common
Stock (par value $0.01)
December
17, 2010
Dear
Sirs:
1. Introduction. Acorn
Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes
to issue and sell to the purchasers, pursuant to the terms and conditions of
this Placement Agent Agreement (this “Agreement”) and the
Subscription Agreements in the form of Exhibit A attached
hereto (the “Subscription
Agreements”) entered into with the purchasers identified therein (each a
“Purchaser”
and, collectively, the “Purchasers”), up to
an aggregate of 1,150,000 shares (the “Shares” or “Securities”), $0.01
par value per share (the “Common Stock”) of the
Company. The Company hereby confirms its agreement that HFP Capital
Markets LLC, (the “Placement Agent”) act
as the placement agent in accordance with the terms and conditions
hereof.
2. Agreement to Act as
Placement Agent; Placement of Shares. On the basis of the
representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein contained, and
subject to all the terms and conditions of this Agreement:
2.1 The
Company has authorized and hereby acknowledges that the Placement Agent has been
engaged to act as its agent to solicit offers for the purchase of all or part of
the Shares from the Company in connection with the proposed offering of the
Shares (the “Offering”). Until
the Closing Date, the Company shall not without prior written consent of the
Placement Agent solicit or accept offers for the sale of Shares.
2.2 The
Placement Agent, as agent of the Company, shall use its commercially reasonable
best efforts to solicit offers to purchase the Shares from the Company on the
terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Prospectus (as defined
below). The Placement Agent shall use commercially reasonable efforts
to assist the Company in obtaining performance by each Purchaser whose offer to
purchase Shares was solicited by the Placement Agent and accepted by the
Company, but the Placement Agent shall not, except as otherwise provided in this
Agreement, be obligated to disclose the identity of any potential purchaser or
have any liability to the Company in the event any such purchase is not
consummated for any reason. The Placement Agent shall have each
Purchaser execute a confidentiality agreement substantially in the form of
Exhibit B attached hereto prior to such solicitation. Under no circumstances
will the Placement Agent be obligated to underwrite or purchase any Shares for
its own account and, in soliciting purchases of Shares, the Placement Agent
acted solely as the Company’s agent and not as
principal. Notwithstanding the foregoing and except as otherwise
provided in Section 2.3, it is understood and agreed that the Placement Agent
(or its affiliates) may, solely at its discretion and without any obligation to
do so, purchase Shares from the Company as principal and any such purchases by
the Placement Agent (or its affiliates) shall be disclosed to the Company
(including the identity of such purchaser).
2.3 Subject
to the provisions of this Section 2, offers for the purchase of Shares were
solicited by the Placement Agent as agent for the Company at such times and in
such amounts as the Placement Agent deemed advisable and consistent with the
current market price. The Placement Agent communicated to the
Company, orally or in writing, each reasonable offer to purchase Shares received
by it as agent of the Company. The Company shall have the sole right
in its absolute discretion to accept offers to purchase the Shares and to reject
any such offer, in whole or in part. The Placement Agent has the
right, in its discretion reasonably exercised, subject to giving prior notice to
the Company, to reject any offer to purchase Shares received by it, in whole or
in part, and any such rejection shall not be deemed a breach of this
Agreement.
2.4 The
Shares are being sold to the Purchasers at a price of $3.50 per
share. The purchases of the Shares by the Purchasers shall be
evidenced by the execution of the Subscription Agreements by the parties
thereto.
2.5 As
compensation for services rendered, on the Closing Date (as defined in Section 4
hereof), the Company shall pay to the Placement Agent by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to an account or accounts designated by the
Placement Agent, an aggregate amount equal seven percent (7.0%) of the gross
proceeds received by the Company from the sale of the Shares on such Closing
Date, as well as issue the Placement Agent a warrant exercisable for the
purchase of that number of shares equal to seven percent (7.0%) of
the Shares sold in the offering substantially in the form annexed as
Exhibit C (collectively, the “Placement
Fee”). No portion of the Placement Fee shall be payable if the
closing shall not occur.
2.6 No
Shares which the Company has agreed to sell pursuant to this Agreement and the
Subscription Agreements shall be deemed to have been purchased and paid for, or
sold by the Company, until such Shares shall have been delivered to the
Purchaser thereof against payment by such Purchaser. If the Company
shall default in its obligations to deliver the Shares to a Purchaser with whom
it has entered into a binding Subscription Agreement, the Company shall
indemnify and hold the Placement Agent harmless against any loss, claim, damage
or expense arising from or as a result of such default by the Company in
accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 8(c)
herein.
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3. Representations and
Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants
to, and agrees with, the Placement Agent and the Purchasers that:
(a) The
Company has prepared and filed in conformity with the requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and
published rules and regulations thereunder (the “Rules and
Regulations”) adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“Commission”) a
“shelf” Registration Statement (as hereinafter defined) on Form S-3 (File No.
333-169434), which became effective as of October 27, 2010 (the “Effective Date”),
including a base prospectus relating to the Shares (the “Base Prospectus”),
and such amendments and supplements thereto as may have been required to the
date of this Agreement. The term “Registration
Statement” as used in this Agreement means the registration statement
(including all exhibits, financial schedules and all documents and information
deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430A of the
Rules and Regulations), as amended and/or supplemented to the date of this
Agreement, including the Base Prospectus. The Registration Statement
is effective under the Securities Act and no stop order preventing or suspending
the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or suspending or preventing the
use of the Prospectus has been issued by the Commission and no proceedings for
that purpose have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, are
threatened by the Commission. The Company, if required by the Rules
and Regulations of the Commission, will file the Prospectus (as defined below),
with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and
Regulations. The term “Prospectus” as used
in this Agreement means the prospectus, in the form in which it is to be filed
with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations, or, if
the prospectus is not to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b),
the prospectus in the form included as part of the Registration Statement as of
the Effective Date, except that if any revised prospectus or prospectus
supplement shall be provided to the Placement Agent by the Company for use in
connection with the offering and sale of the Shares which differs from the
Prospectus (whether or not such revised prospectus or prospectus supplement is
required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Rules and
Regulations), the term “Prospectus” shall refer to such revised prospectus or
prospectus supplement, as the case may be, from and after the time it is first
provided to the Placement Agent for such use. Any preliminary
prospectus or prospectus subject to completion included in the Registration
Statement or filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 of the Rules and
Regulations is hereafter called a “Preliminary
Prospectus.” Any reference herein to the Registration
Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer
to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item
12 of Form S-3 which were filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the “Exchange
Act”), on or before the last to occur of the Effective Date, the date of
the Preliminary Prospectus, or the date of the Prospectus, and any reference
herein to the terms “amend,” “amendment,” or “supplement” with respect to the
Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be
deemed to refer to and include (i) the filing of any document under the Exchange
Act after the Effective Date, the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the
date of the Prospectus, as the case may be, which is incorporated by reference
and (ii) any such document so filed. If the Company has filed an
abbreviated registration statement to register additional securities pursuant to
Rule 462(b) under the Rules and Regulations (the “462(b) Registration
Statement”), then any reference herein to the Registration Statement
shall also be deemed to include such 462(b) Registration Statement.
(b) The
conditions to the use of Form S-3 in connection with the offering and sale of
the Securities as contemplated hereby have been satisfied. The
Registration Statement meets, and the offering and sale of the Securities as
contemplated hereby complies with, in all material respects, the requirements of
Rule 415 under the Securities Act (including, without limitation, Rule 415(a)(4)
and (a)(5) of the Rules and Regulations).
(c) As
of the Applicable Time (as defined below) and as of the Closing Date, neither
(i) any General Use Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below) issued at or
prior to the Applicable Time, and the Pricing Prospectus (as defined below) and
the information included on Schedule A hereto,
all considered together (collectively, the “General Disclosure
Package”), (ii) any individual Limited Use Free Writing Prospectus (as
defined below) issued at or prior to the Applicable Time nor (iii) the bona fide
electronic road show (as defined in Rule 433(h)(5) of the Rules and
Regulations), if any, that has been made available without restriction to any
person, when considered together with the General Disclosure Package, included
or will include, any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or as of the
Closing Date will omit, to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no
representations or warranties as to information contained in or omitted from any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, in reliance upon, and in conformity with,
written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agent if any
specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree
is limited to the Placement Agent’s Information (as defined in Section
17). As used in this paragraph (b) and elsewhere in this
Agreement:
“Applicable Time”
means 5:00 P.M., New York time, on the date of this Agreement.
“General Use Free Writing
Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is identified
on Schedule A
to this Agreement.
“Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in
Rule 433 of the Rules and Regulations relating to the Shares in the form filed
or required to be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in
the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g) of the Rules
and Regulations.
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“Limited Use Free Writing
Prospectuses” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not a
General Use Free Writing Prospectus.
“Pricing Prospectus”
means the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, and the Base Prospectus, each as
amended and supplemented immediately prior to the Applicable Time, including any
document incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed
to be a part thereof.
(d) No
order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus relating to the Offering has been
issued by the Commission, and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to
Section 8A of the Securities Act has been instituted or, to the knowledge of the
Company, threatened by the Commission, and each Preliminary Prospectus (if any),
at the time of filing thereof, conformed in all material respects to the
requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations, and did not
contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in
the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
provided, however, that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to
information contained in or omitted from any Preliminary Prospectus, in reliance
upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by
the Placement Agent specifically for inclusion therein, which information the
parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agent’s Information (as defined
in Section 17).
(e) At
the time the Registration Statement became effective, at the date of this
Agreement and at the Closing Date, the Registration Statement conformed and will
conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and
the Rules and Regulations and did not and will not contain any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; the
Prospectus, at the time the Prospectus was issued and at the Closing Date,
conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the
Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and did not and will not contain an
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary
in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the foregoing
representations and warranties in this paragraph (e) shall not apply to
information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information
furnished to the Company by the Placement Agent specifically for inclusion
therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement
Agent’s Information (as defined in Section 17).
(f) Each
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if any, as of its issue date and at all
subsequent times through the completion of the public offer and sale of the
Shares or until any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the
Placement Agent as described in Section 5(e), did not, does not and will not
include any information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the
information contained in the Registration Statement, Pricing Prospectus or the
Prospectus, including any document incorporated by reference therein and any
prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof that has not been superseded
or modified, or includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or
would omit 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 foregoing sentence does not
apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in
reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the
Company by the Placement Agent specifically for inclusion therein, which
information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agent’s
Information (as defined in Section 17).
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(g) The
documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when they became
effective or were filed with the Commission, as the case may be, conformed in
all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange
Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder
and none of such documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by
reference in the Prospectus, when such documents become effective or are filed
with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in all material respects
to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable,
and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and will not contain
any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading.
(h) The
Company has not, directly or indirectly, distributed and will not distribute any
offering material in connection with the Offering other than any Preliminary
Prospectus, the Prospectus and other materials, if any, permitted under the
Securities Act and consistent with Section 5(b) below. The Company is
not an “ineligible issuer” in connection with the offering pursuant to Rules
164, 405 and 433 under the Securities Act. The Company will file with
the Commission all Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses (other than a “road show,”
as defined in Rule 433(d)(8) of the Rules and Regulations), if any, in the time
and manner required under Rules 163(b)(2) and 433(d) of the Rules and
Regulations.
(i)
The Company and each of its subsidiaries (as defined in
Section 15) have been duly organized and are validly existing as corporations in
good standing (or the foreign equivalent thereof) under the laws of their
respective jurisdictions of organization. The Company and each of its
subsidiaries are duly qualified to do business and are in good standing as
foreign corporations in each jurisdiction in which their respective ownership or
lease of property or the conduct of their respective businesses requires such
qualification and have all power and authority (corporate or other) necessary to
own or hold their respective properties and to conduct the businesses in which
they are engaged, except where the failure to so qualify or have such power or
authority (i) would not have, singularly or in the aggregate, a material adverse
effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, assets,
or business of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, or (ii) impair
in any material respect the ability of the Company to perform its obligations
under this Agreement or to consummate any transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (any such effect as
described in clauses (i) or (ii), a “Material Adverse
Effect”). Except as set forth on Exhibit D, the Company does
not own or control, directly or indirectly, any corporation, partnership,
limited liability partnership, limited liability company, association or other
entity which is a Significant Subsidiary (as defined in Section 3(ff)
below).
(j)
The Company has the full right, power and
authority to enter into this Agreement and each of the Subscription Agreements
and to perform and to discharge its obligations hereunder and thereunder; and
this Agreement and each of the Subscription Agreements has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Company, and constitutes a valid and binding
obligation of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as
enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally
and except as enforceability may be subject to general principles of equity
(regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in
equity or at law).
(k) The
Shares to be issued and sold by the Company to the Purchasers hereunder and
under the Subscription Agreements have been duly and validly authorized and,
when issued and delivered against payment therefor as provided herein and in the
Subscription Agreements will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and
non-assessable and free of any preemptive or similar rights and will conform to
the description thereof contained in the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus.
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(l)
The Company has an authorized capitalization as
set forth in the Pricing Prospectus, and all of the issued and outstanding
shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and
issued, are fully paid and non-assessable, have been issued in compliance in all
material respects with federal and state securities laws, and conform to the
description thereof contained in the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus. As of December 17 2010, there were 16,116,005 shares of
Common Stock issued and outstanding and 1,737,427 shares of Common Stock were
issuable upon the exercise of all options, warrants and convertible securities
outstanding as of such date. The Company does not have any authorized
Preferred Stock. Since December 17, 2010, the Company has not issued any
securities, other than Common Stock of the Company issued pursuant to the
exercise of stock options previously outstanding under the Company’s stock
option plans or the issuance of Common Stock pursuant to employee stock purchase
plans. All of the Company’s options, warrants and other rights to
purchase or exchange any securities for shares of the Company’s capital stock
have been duly authorized and validly issued and were issued in compliance in
all material respects with U.S. federal and state securities
laws. None of the outstanding shares of Common Stock was issued in
violation of any preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other similar
rights to subscribe for or purchase securities of the Company, except for such
rights as may have been fully satisfied or waived. There are no
authorized or outstanding shares of capital stock, options, warrants, preemptive
rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase, or equity or debt
securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, any capital
stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries other than those described above
or accurately described in the General Disclosure Package. The
description of the Company’s stock option, stock bonus and other stock plans or
arrangements, and the options or other rights granted thereunder, as described
in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, accurately and fairly
present in all material respects the information required to be shown with
respect to such plans, arrangements, options and rights.
(m) All
the outstanding shares of capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company have
been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable and,
except to the extent set forth in the General Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus, are owned by the Company directly or indirectly through one or more
wholly-owned subsidiaries, free and clear of any claim, lien, encumbrance,
security interest, restriction upon voting or transfer or any other claim of any
third party.
(n) The
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Subscription
Agreements by the Company, the issue and sale of the Shares by the Company and
the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will not
(with or without notice or lapse of time or both) conflict with or result in a
breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, constitute a default
or Debt Repayment Triggering Event (as defined below) under, give rise to any
right of termination or other right or the cancellation or acceleration of any
right or obligation or loss of a benefit under, or give rise to the creation or
imposition of any lien, encumbrance, security interest, claim or charge upon any
property or assets of the Company or any subsidiary pursuant to, any indenture,
mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to
which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company
or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of
the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, nor will such actions result
in any violation of the provisions of (A) the charter or by-laws (or analogous
governing instruments, as applicable) of the Company or any of its subsidiaries
or (B) any law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any
court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction
over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their properties or
assets, except, with respect to clause (B), any violation which, singularly or
in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect. A “Debt Repayment Triggering
Event” means any event or condition that gives, or with the giving of
notice or lapse of time would give the holder of any note, debenture or other
evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the
right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of
such indebtedness by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
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(o) Except
for the registration of the Shares under the Securities Act and such consents,
approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required
under the Exchange Act and applicable state or foreign securities laws, the
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) and the
NASDAQ Global Market (“NASDAQ”) in
connection with the offering and sale of the Shares by the Company, no consent,
approval, authorization or order of, or filing, qualification or registration
with, any court or governmental agency or body, foreign or domestic, which has
not been made, obtained or taken and is not in full force and effect, is
required for the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the
Subscription Agreements by the Company, the offer or sale of the Shares or the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.
(p) Xxxxxxxxx
& Xxxxxxxxx, who has audited certain financial statements and related
schedules included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, is an independent registered
public accounting firm as required by the Securities Act and the Rules and
Regulations and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)
(the “PCAOB”). Except
as pre-approved in accordance with the requirements set forth in Section 10A of
the Exchange Act, Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxx has not been engaged by the Company
to perform any “prohibited activities” (as defined in Section 10A of the
Exchange Act).
(q) The
financial statements, together with the related notes and schedules, included or
incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package, the Prospectus and
in the Registration Statement fairly present in all material respects the
financial position and the results of operations and changes in financial
position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries and other consolidated
entities at the respective dates or for the respective periods therein
specified. Such statements and related notes and schedules have been
prepared in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles in the
United States (“GAAP”) applied on a
consistent basis throughout the periods involved except as may be set forth in
the related notes included or incorporated by reference in the General
Disclosure Package, and except that unaudited financial statements may not
contain footnotes or year-end adjustments required by GAAP. The
financial statements, together with the related notes and schedules, included or
incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus
comply in all material respects with the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, and
the Rules and Regulations and the rules and regulations under the Exchange
Act. No other financial statements or supporting schedules or
exhibits are required by the Securities Act or the Rules and Regulations to be
described, or included or incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus. There is
no pro forma or as adjusted financial information which is required to be
included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, or the
Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein in accordance with
the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations which has not been included or
incorporated as so required.
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(r) Neither
the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained, since the date of the
latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the
General Disclosure Package, any material loss or interference with its business
from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by
insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or
decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the General Disclosure
Package; and, since such date, there has not been any change in the capital
stock (other than Common Stock of the Company issued pursuant to the exercise of
stock options previously outstanding under the Company’s stock option plans or
the issuance of Common Stock pursuant to employee stock purchase plans) or
long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any material
adverse changes, or any development involving a prospective material adverse
change, in or affecting the business, assets, general affairs, management,
financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company
and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, otherwise than as set forth or
contemplated in the General Disclosure Package.
(s) Except
as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, there is no legal or
governmental action, suit, claim or proceeding pending to which the Company or
any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any property or assets of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries is the subject which is required to be
described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein and is not described
therein, or which, singularly or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to
the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would be likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect or prevent or adversely affect the ability of the Company to
perform its obligations under this Agreement or the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby; and to the Company’s knowledge, except as set
forth in the General Disclosure Package, no such proceedings are threatened or
contemplated by governmental authorities or threatened by others.
(t) Neither
the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in (i) violation of its charter or
by-laws (or analogous governing instrument, as applicable), (ii) default in any
respect, and no event has occurred which, with notice or lapse of time or both,
would constitute such a default, in the due performance or observance of any
term, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust,
loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or
by which it is bound or to which any of its property or assets is subject or
(iii) violation in any respect of any statute, law, ordinance, governmental
rule, regulation or court order, decree or judgment to which it or its property
or assets may be subject except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) of this
paragraph (t), for any violations or defaults which, singularly or in the
aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(u) The
Company and each of its subsidiaries possesses all licenses, certificates,
authorizations and permits issued by, and have made all declarations and filings
with, the appropriate local, state, federal or foreign regulatory agencies or
bodies which are necessary or desirable for the ownership of their respective
properties or the conduct of their respective businesses as described in the
General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (collectively, the “Governmental
Permits”) except where any failures to possess or make the same,
singularly or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its subsidiaries are in
compliance in all material respects with all such Governmental Permits; all such
Governmental Permits are valid and in full force and effect, except where the
validity or failure to be in full force and effect would not, singularly or in
the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. All such Governmental
Permits are free and clear of any restriction or condition that are in addition
to, or materially different from, those normally applicable to similar licenses,
certificates, authorizations and permits. Neither the Company nor any
subsidiary has received notification of any revocation or modification (or
proceedings related thereto) of any such Governmental Permit and the Company has
no reason to believe that any such Governmental Permit will not be renewed,
except as set forth in or contemplated by the General Disclosure
Package.
(v) Neither
the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is or, after giving effect to the
offering and sale of the Securities, including the issuance, offering and sale
of the Warrant Shares, and the application of the proceeds thereof as described
in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, will become an “investment
company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended,
and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.
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(w) Neither
the Company, its subsidiaries nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any of the
Company’s or its subsidiaries’ officers, directors or affiliates has taken or
will take, directly or indirectly, any action designed or intended to stabilize
or manipulate the price of any security of the Company, or which caused or
resulted in, or which might in the future reasonably be expected to cause or
result in, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the
Company.
(x) The
Company and its subsidiaries own or possess the right to use all material
patents, trademarks, trademark registrations, service marks, service xxxx
registrations, trade names, copyrights, licenses, inventions, software,
databases, know-how, Internet domain names, trade secrets and other unpatented
and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or
procedures, and other intellectual property (collectively, “Intellectual
Property”) necessary to carry on their respective businesses as currently
conducted, and as proposed to be conducted and described in the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and the Company is not aware of any claim
to the contrary or any challenge by any other person to the rights of the
Company and its subsidiaries with respect to the foregoing except for those that
would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. The Intellectual Property licenses described in the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are valid, binding upon, and enforceable
by or against the parties thereto in accordance with their respective
terms. To the Company’s knowledge, the Company and each of its
subsidiaries have complied in all material respects with, and are not in breach
nor have received any asserted or threatened claim of breach of, any
Intellectual Property license, except for any such breach that would not
individually or in the aggregate reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect, and the Company has no knowledge of any breach or anticipated
breach by any other person of any Intellectual Property license. To
the Company’s knowledge, the Company’s and each of its subsidiaries’ businesses
as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted do not and will not infringe or
conflict with any valid patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names,
copyrights, trade secrets, licenses or other Intellectual Property or franchise
right of any person. To its knowledge, no claim has been made against
the Company or any of its subsidiaries alleging the infringement by the Company
or any of its subsidiaries of any patent, trademark, service xxxx, trade name,
copyright, trade secret, license in or other intellectual property right or
franchise right of any person. The Company and each of its
subsidiaries has taken all reasonable steps to protect, maintain and safeguard
its rights in all Intellectual Property, including the execution of appropriate
nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements. The consummation of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not result in the loss or
impairment of or payment of any additional amounts with respect to, nor require
the consent of any other person in respect of, the Company’s or any of its
subsidiaries’ right to own, use, or hold for use any of the Intellectual
Property as owned, used or held for use in the conduct of the businesses as
currently conducted. With respect to the use of the software in the
Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ businesses as they are currently
conducted, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has experienced any
material defects in such software including any material error or omission in
the processing of any transactions other than defects which have been corrected,
and to the knowledge of the Company, no such software contains any device or
feature designed to disrupt, disable, or otherwise impair the functioning of any
software or is subject to the terms of any “open source” or other similar
license that provides for the source code of the software to be publicly
distributed or dedicated to the public. To the Company’s knowledge,
the Company and each of its subsidiaries has at all times complied with all
applicable laws relating to privacy, data protection, and the collection and use
of personal information collected, used, or held for use by the Company and any
of its subsidiaries in the conduct of the Company’s and its subsidiaries
businesses, except for any such breach that would not individually or in the
aggregate reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. To the Company’s knowledge, no claims have been asserted or
threatened against the Company or any of its subsidiaries alleging a violation
of any person’s privacy or personal information or data rights and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not breach or
otherwise cause any violation of any law related to privacy, data protection, or
the collection and use of personal information collected, used, or held for use
by the Company or any of its subsidiaries in the conduct of the Company’s or any
of its subsidiaries’ businesses. The Company and each of its
subsidiaries takes reasonable measures to ensure that such information is
protected against unauthorized access, use, modification, or other
misuse.
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(y) Neither
the Company nor its subsidiaries own any real property. The Company
and each of its subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to, or
have valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real or personal
property, as described in the General Disclosure Package, which are material to
the business of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, in each case
free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, security interests, claims and
defects that do not, singularly or in the aggregate, materially affect the value
of such property and do not interfere with the use made and proposed to be made
of such property by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, except for those
liens, encumbrances, security interests, claims and defects that would not have
a Material Adverse Effect; and all of the leases and subleases material to the
business of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, and
under which the Company or any of its subsidiaries holds properties described in
the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, are in full force and effect,
and neither the Company nor any subsidiary has received any notice of any
material claim of any sort that has been asserted by anyone adverse to the
rights of the Company or any subsidiary under any of the leases or subleases
mentioned above, or affecting or questioning the rights of the Company or such
subsidiary to the continued possession of the leased or subleased premises under
any such lease or sublease.
(z) No
labor disturbance by the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries
exists or, to the Company’s knowledge, is threatened or imminent, and the
Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the
employees of any of its or its subsidiaries’ principal suppliers, manufacturers,
customers or contractors, that could reasonably be expected, singularly or in
the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company is not
aware that any key employee or significant group of employees of the Company or
any subsidiary plans to terminate employment with the Company or any such
subsidiary.
(aa) No
“prohibited transaction” (as defined in Section 406 of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, including the regulations and published
interpretations thereunder (“ERISA”), or Section
4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time (the
“Code”)) or
“accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA) or any of
the events set forth in Section 4043(b) of ERISA (other than events with respect
to which the thirty (30)-day notice requirement under Section 4043 of ERISA has
been waived) has occurred or could reasonably be expected to occur with respect
to any employee benefit plan of the Company or any of its subsidiaries which
could reasonably be expected to, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material
Adverse Effect. Each employee benefit plan of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is in compliance in all material respects with applicable law,
including ERISA and the Code. The Company and its subsidiaries have
not incurred and could not reasonably be expected to incur liability under Title
IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of, or withdrawal from, any pension
plan (as defined in ERISA). Each pension plan for which the Company
or any of its subsidiaries would have any liability that is intended to be
qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified, and nothing has
occurred, whether by action or by failure to act, which could, singularly or in
the aggregate, cause the loss of such qualification.
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(bb) The
Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with all
applicable foreign, federal, state and local rules, laws and regulations
relating to the use, treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous or toxic
substances or waste and protection of health and safety or the environment which
are applicable to their businesses (“Environmental Laws”),
except where the failure to comply would not, singularly or in the aggregate,
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There has
been no storage, generation, transportation, handling, treatment, disposal,
discharge, emission, or other release of any kind of toxic or other wastes or
other hazardous substances by, due to, or caused by the Company or any of its
subsidiaries (or, to the Company’s knowledge, any other entity for whose acts or
omissions the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may otherwise be liable)
upon any of the property now or previously owned or leased by the Company or any
of its subsidiaries in violation of any law, statute, ordinance, rule,
regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit or which would, under any law,
statute, ordinance, rule (including rule of common law), regulation, order,
judgment, decree or permit, give rise to any liability on the part of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries, except for any violation or liability which
would not reasonably be expected to have, singularly or in the aggregate with
all such violations and liabilities, a Material Adverse Effect; and there has
been no disposal, discharge, emission or other release of any kind onto such
property or into the environment surrounding such property of any toxic or other
wastes or other hazardous substances with respect to which the Company has
knowledge, except for any such disposal, discharge, emission, or other release
of any kind which would not reasonably be expected to have, singularly or in the
aggregate with all such discharges and other releases, a Material Adverse
Effect. In the ordinary course of business, the Company and its
subsidiaries conduct periodic reviews of the effect of Environmental Laws on
their business and assets, in the course of which they identify and evaluate
associated costs and liabilities (including, without limitation, any capital or
operating expenditures required for clean-up, closure of properties or
compliance with Environmental Laws or Governmental Permits issued thereunder,
any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to
third parties). On the basis of such reviews, the Company and its
subsidiaries have reasonably concluded that such associated costs and
liabilities would not have, singularly or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse
Effect.
(cc) The
Company and its subsidiaries, each (i) has timely filed all necessary federal,
state, local and foreign tax returns that are required to be filed or has
requested extensions thereof, and all such returns were true, complete and
correct in all material respects, (ii) has paid all federal, state, local and
foreign taxes, assessments, governmental or other charges due and payable for
which it is liable, including, without limitation, all sales and use taxes and
all taxes which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is obligated to withhold
from amounts owing to employees, creditors and third parties, and (iii) does not
have any tax deficiency or claims outstanding or assessed or, to its knowledge,
proposed against any of them, except those, in each of the cases described in
clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph (dd), that would not, singularly
or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. Each of the Company and its subsidiaries has not engaged in
any transaction which is a corporate tax shelter or which could be characterized
as such by the Internal Revenue Service or any other taxing
authority. The accruals and reserves on the books and records of the
Company and its subsidiaries in respect of tax liabilities for any taxable
period not yet finally determined are adequate to meet any assessments and
related liabilities for any such period, and since December 31, 2009 each of the
Company and its subsidiaries has not incurred any liability for taxes other than
in the ordinary course.
(dd) The
Company and each of its subsidiaries carries, or is covered by, insurance
provided by recognized and reputable institutions with policies in such amounts
and covering such risks as the Company reasonably considers adequate for the
conduct of their respective businesses and the value of their respective
properties and as is customary for companies engaged in similar businesses in
similar industries. The Company has no reason to believe that it or
any subsidiary will not be able (i) to renew its existing insurance coverage as
and when such policies expire or (ii) to obtain comparable coverage from similar
institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now
conducted and at a cost that would not reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect.
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(ee) The
Company maintains a system of internal accounting and other controls sufficient
to provide reasonable assurances 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 accountability for assets;
(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 existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is
taken with respect to any differences. Except as described in the
General Disclosure Package, since the end of the Company’s most recent audited
fiscal year, there has been (A) no material weakness in the Company’s internal
control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and (B) no change
in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially
affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal
control over financial reporting.
(ff) The
minute books of the Company and each of its subsidiaries that would be a
“significant subsidiary” within the meaning of Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X
under the Exchange Act (such a significant subsidiary of the Company, a “Significant
Subsidiary”) have been made available to the Placement Agent and counsel
for the Placement Agent, and such books (i) contain a complete summary of all
meetings and actions of the board of directors (including each board committee)
as of the date hereof and shareholders of the Company (or analogous governing
bodies and interest holders, as applicable), and each of its Significant
Subsidiaries since the time of its respective incorporation or organization
through the date of the latest meeting and action, and (ii) accurately in all
material respects reflect all transactions referred to in such
minutes. There are no material transactions, agreements or other
actions of the Company or of its subsidiaries that are not properly approved
and/or recorded in the minute books of the Company or of its subsidiaries, as
applicable.
(gg) There
is no franchise, lease, contract, agreement or document required by the
Securities Act or by the Rules and Regulations to be described in the General
Disclosure Package and in the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference
therein or to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement or a document
incorporated by reference therein which is not described or filed therein as
required; and all descriptions of any such franchises, leases, contracts,
agreements or documents contained in the Registration Statement or in a document
incorporated by reference therein are accurate and complete descriptions of such
documents in all material respects. Other than as described in the
General Disclosure Package, no such franchise, lease, contract or agreement has
been suspended or terminated for convenience or default by the Company or any of
its subsidiaries or any of the other parties thereto, and neither the Company
nor any of its subsidiaries has received notice nor does the Company have any
other knowledge of any such pending or threatened suspension, termination or
non-renewal, except for such pending or threatened suspensions, terminations or
non-renewals that would not reasonably be expected to, singularly or in the
aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(hh) No
relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company and any of
its subsidiaries on the one hand, and the directors, officers, stockholders (or
analogous interest holders), customers or suppliers of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries or any of their affiliates on the other hand, which is required to
be described in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or a document
incorporated by reference therein and which is not so described.
(ii) No
person or entity has the right to require registration of shares of Common Stock
or other securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries because of the
filing or effectiveness of the Registration Statement, except for persons and
entities who have expressly waived such right in writing or who have been given
timely and proper written notice and have failed to exercise such right within
the time or times required under the terms and conditions of such
right. Except as described in the General Disclosure Package, there
are no persons with registration rights or similar rights to have any securities
registered by the Company or any of its subsidiaries under the Securities
Act.
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(jj) Neither
the Company nor any of its subsidiaries own any “margin securities” as that term
is defined in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System (the “Federal
Reserve Board”), and none of the proceeds of the sale of the Shares will
be used, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any
margin security, for the purpose of reducing or retiring any indebtedness which
was originally incurred to purchase or carry any margin security or for any
other purpose which might cause any of the Shares to be considered a “purpose
credit” within the meanings of Regulation T, U or X of the Federal Reserve
Board.
(kk) Neither
the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any contract, agreement or
understanding with any person (other than this Agreement and any letter of
understanding between the Company and the Placement Agent) that would give rise
to a valid claim against the Company or the Placement Agent for a brokerage
commission, finder’s fee or like payment in connection with the offering and
sale of the Shares or any transaction contemplated by this Agreement, the
Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the
Prospectus.
(ll) No
forward-looking statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities
Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained in either the General
Disclosure Package or the Prospectus has been made or reaffirmed without a
reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in good faith.
(mm) The
Company is subject to and in compliance in all material respects with the
reporting requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange
Act. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the
Exchange Act and is listed on NASDAQ, and the Company has taken no action
designed to, or reasonably likely to have the effect of, terminating the
registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act or delisting the Common
Stock from NASDAQ, nor has the Company received any notification that the
Commission or NASDAQ is contemplating terminating such registration or
listing. No consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing,
notification or registration with, NASDAQ is required for the listing and
trading of the shares of Common Stock on NASDAQ, except for (i) a Notification
Form: Listing of Additional Shares and (ii) a Notification Form: Change in the
Number of Shares Outstanding.
(nn) The
Company is in compliance with all applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Act of 2002 and all applicable rules and regulations promulgated thereunder or
implementing the provisions thereof (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Act”).
(oo) The
Company has taken all necessary actions to ensure that it is in compliance with
all applicable corporate governance requirements set forth in the NASDAQ Rules
and Company Guide.
(pp) Neither
the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the best of the Company’s
knowledge, any employee or agent of the Company or any subsidiary, has not made
any contribution or other payment to any official of, or candidate for, any
federal, state, local or foreign office in violation of any law (including the
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended) or of the character required
to be disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or
the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein.
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(qq) There
are no transactions, arrangements or other relationships between and/or among
the Company, any of its affiliates (as such term is defined in Rule 405 of the
Securities Act) and any unconsolidated entity, including, but not limited to,
any structured finance, special purpose or limited purpose entity that could
reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the Company’s or any
of its subsidiaries’ liquidity or the availability of or requirements for their
capital resources required to be described in the General Disclosure Package and
the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein which have not
been described as required.
(rr) There
are no outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances for business expenses
in the ordinary course of business) or guarantees of indebtedness by the Company
or any of its subsidiaries to or for the benefit of any of the officers or
directors of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective
family members, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
(ss) The
statistical and market-related data included in the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are based on or derived from
sources that the Company believes to be reliable and accurate.
(tt) Neither
the Company nor any subsidiary nor any of their affiliates (within the meaning
of FINRA Conduct Rule 2720(b)(1)(a)) directly or indirectly controls, are
controlled by, or is under common control with, or is an associated person
(within the meaning of Article I, Section 1(ee) of the By-laws of FINRA) of, any
member firm of FINRA.
(uu) No
approval of the shareholders of the Company under the rules and regulations of
NASDAQ is required for the Company to issue and deliver to the Purchasers the
Shares.
(vv) The
Company and its subsidiaries maintain an effective system of “disclosure
controls and procedures” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that
is designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company
in reports that 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, including controls and procedures designed to
ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s
management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required
disclosure. The Company and its subsidiaries have carried out evaluations
of the effectiveness of their disclosure controls and procedures as required by
Rule 13a-15 of the Exchange Act.
(ww) The
operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at
all times in compliance in all material respects with applicable financial
recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign
Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of
all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or
similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by
any governmental agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering
Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or
governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company
or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws, to the
knowledge of the Company, is pending or threatened.
(xx) None
of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any
director, officer, agent, employee or Affiliate of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the
Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“OFAC”); and the
Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering of the
Shares hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds
to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the
purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S.
sanctions administered by OFAC.
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(yy) No
subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, under
any agreement or other instrument to which it is a party or is subject, from
paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such
subsidiary’s capital stock, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances
to such subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such
subsidiary’s properties or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the
Company, except for the lines of credit and other financing documents which have
been publically discussed by the Company and available on the Commission’s XXXXX
system.
(zz) No
person has the right to require the Company or any of its subsidiaries to
register any securities for sale under the Securities Act by reason of the
filing of the Registration Statement with the Commission or the issuance and
sale of the Shares.
Any
certificate signed by or on behalf of the Company and delivered to the Placement
Agent or to counsel for the Placement Agent shall be deemed to be a
representation and warranty by the Company to the Placement Agent and the
Purchasers as to the matters covered thereby.
4. The
Closing. The time and date of closing and delivery of the
documents required to be delivered to the Placement Agent pursuant to Sections 5
and 7 hereof shall be at 10:00 A.M., New York time, on the second business day
following the pricing or such other date as shall be specified by the
Company and the Placement Agent that is not later than December 21, 2010 (such
specified date, the “Closing Date”) at the
offices of the Company’s counsel, Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx LLP, 00 Xxxx 00xx Xx.,
00xx
Xx., Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx.
5. Further Agreements of the
Company. The Company agrees with the Placement Agent and the
Purchasers:
(a) To
prepare the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if necessary, in a form approved
by the Placement Agent and file such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement with the
Commission on the date hereof; to prepare the Prospectus in a form approved by
the Placement Agent containing information previously omitted at the time of
effectiveness of the Registration Statement in reliance on rules 430A, 430B and
430C of the Rules and Regulations and to file such Prospectus pursuant to Rule
424(b) of the Rules and Regulations not later than the second (2nd) business day
following the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if applicable, such
earlier time as may be required by Rule 430A of the Rules and Regulations; to
notify the Placement Agent immediately of the Company’s intention to file or
prepare any supplement or amendment to any Registration Statement or to the
Prospectus and to make no amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package or to the Prospectus to which the Placement Agent
shall reasonably object by notice to the Company after a reasonable period to
review; to advise the Placement Agent, promptly after it receives notice
thereof, of the time when any amendment to any Registration Statement has been
filed or becomes effective or any supplement to the General Disclosure Package
or the Prospectus or any amended Prospectus has been filed and to furnish the
Placement Agent copies thereof; to file promptly all material required to be
filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) or 163(b)(2),
as the case may be; to file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or
information statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to
the date of the Prospectus and for so long as the delivery of a prospectus (or
in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Rules and
Regulations) is required in connection with the offering or sale of the Shares;
to advise the Placement Agent, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the
issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order preventing or
suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus or the Prospectus, of the suspension of the qualification of the
Shares for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or
threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose, or of any request by the
Commission for the amending or supplementing of the Registration Statement, the
General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or for additional information; and,
in the event of the issuance of any stop order or of any order preventing or
suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus or the Prospectus or suspending any such qualification, and promptly
to use its best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of such order.
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(b) The
Company represents and agrees that it has not made and, unless it obtains the
prior consent of the Placement Agent, it will not, make any offer relating to
the Shares that would constitute a “free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule
405 of the Rules and Regulations unless the prior written consent of the
Placement Agent has been received (each, a “Permitted Free Writing
Prospectus”); provided that the prior written consent of the Placement
Agent hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus(es) included in Schedule A
hereto. The Company represents that it has treated and agrees that it
will treat each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, comply with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 of the Rules and
Regulations applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including the
requirements relating to timely filing with the Commission, legending and record
keeping and will not take any action that would result in the Placement Agent or
the Company being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d)
of the Rules and Regulations a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf
of the Placement Agent that the Placement Agent otherwise would not have been
required to file thereunder.
(c) If
at any time when a Prospectus relating to the Shares is required to be delivered
under the Securities Act, any event occurs or condition exists as a result of
which the Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented, would include any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order
to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading, or the Registration Statement, as then amended or
supplemented, would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading,
or if for any other reason it is necessary at any time to amend or supplement
any Registration Statement or the Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act
or the Exchange Act, the Company will promptly notify the Placement Agent, and
upon the Placement Agent’s request, the Company will promptly prepare and file
with the Commission, at the Company’s expense, an amendment to the Registration
Statement or an amendment or supplement to the Prospectus that corrects such
statement or omission or effects such compliance and will deliver to the
Placement Agent, without charge, such number of copies thereof as the Placement
Agent may reasonably request. The Company consents to the use of the
Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto by the Placement
Agent.
(d) If
the General Disclosure Package is being used to solicit offers to buy the Shares
at a time when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and
any event shall occur as a result of which, in the judgment of the Company or in
the reasonable opinion of the Placement Agent, it becomes necessary to amend or
supplement the General Disclosure Package in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading, or to make the statements therein not conflict with the information
contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement then on
file and not superseded or modified, or if it is necessary at any time to amend
or supplement the General Disclosure Package to comply with any applicable law,
the Company promptly will either (i) prepare, file with the Commission (if
required) and furnish to the Placement Agent and any dealers an appropriate
amendment or supplement to the General Disclosure Package or (ii) prepare and
file with the Commission an appropriate filing under the Exchange Act which
shall be incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package so that the
General Disclosure Package as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light
of the circumstances under which they were made, be misleading or conflict with
the Registration Statement then on file, or so that the General Disclosure
Package will comply with applicable law.
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(e) If
at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there
occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of which such Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus conflicted or will conflict with the information contained in
the Registration Statement, Pricing Prospectus or Prospectus, including any
document incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed
to be a part thereof and not superseded or modified or included or would include
an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit 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 Company has promptly notified or will promptly notify
the Placement Agent so that any use of the Issuer Free Writing Prospectus may
cease until it is amended or supplemented and has promptly amended or will
promptly amend or supplement, at its own expense, such Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement or
omission. The foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or
omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon, and in
conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by the Placement
Agent specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto
agree is limited to the Placement Agent’s Information (as defined in Section
17).
(f) To
the extent not available on the Commission’s XXXXX system, to furnish promptly
to the Placement Agent and to counsel for the Placement Agent a signed copy of
the Registration Statement as originally filed with the Commission, and of each
amendment thereto filed with the Commission, including all consents and exhibits
filed therewith.
(g) To
the extent not available on the Commission’s XXXXX system, to deliver promptly
to the Placement Agent in New York City such number of the following documents
as the Placement Agent shall reasonably request: (i) conformed copies of the
Registration Statement as originally filed with the Commission (in each case
excluding exhibits), (ii) each Preliminary Prospectus (if any), (iii) any Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus, (iv) the Prospectus (the delivery of the documents
referred to in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) of this paragraph (g) to be
made not later than 10:00 A.M., New York time, on the business day following the
execution and delivery of this Agreement), (v) conformed copies of any amendment
to the Registration Statement (excluding exhibits), (vi) any amendment or
supplement to the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (the delivery of
the documents referred to in clauses (v) and (vi) of this paragraph (g) to be
made not later than 10:00 A.M., New York time, on the business day following the
date of such amendment or supplement) and (vii) any document incorporated by
reference in the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (excluding
exhibits thereto) (the delivery of the documents referred to in clause (vi) of
this paragraph (g) to be made not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on
the business day following the date of such document).
(h) To
make generally available to its shareholders as soon as practicable, but in any
event not later than eighteen (18) months after the effective date of each
Registration Statement (as defined in Rule 158(c) of the Rules and Regulations),
an earnings statement of the Company and its subsidiaries (which need not be
audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and the Rules and
Regulations (including, at the option of the Company, Rule 158); and to furnish
to its shareholders as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year an
annual report (including a balance sheet and statements of income, shareholders’
equity and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries certified
by independent public accountants) and as soon as practicable after each of the
first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year (beginning with the first fiscal
quarter after the effective date of such Registration Statement), consolidated
summary financial information of the Company and its subsidiaries for such
quarter in reasonable detail.
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(i)
To take promptly from time to time such actions as the
Placement Agent may reasonably request to qualify the Shares for offering and
sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions (domestic or
foreign) as the Placement Agent may designate and to continue such
qualifications in effect, and to comply with such laws, for so long as required
to permit the offer and sale of the Securities in such jurisdictions; provided
that the Company and its subsidiaries shall not be obligated to qualify as
foreign corporations in any jurisdiction in which they are not so qualified or
to file a general consent to service of process in any
jurisdiction.
(j)
To the extent not available on the
Commission’s XXXXX system, upon request, during the period of five (5) years
from the date hereof, to deliver to the Placement Agent upon request, (i) as
soon as they are available, copies of all reports or other communications
furnished to shareholders, and (ii) as soon as they are available, copies of any
reports and financial statements furnished or filed with the Commission or any
national securities exchange or automatic quotation system on which the Common
Stock is listed or quoted.
(k) [Intentionally
omitted]
(l)
To supply the Placement Agent
with copies of all correspondence to and from, and all documents issued to and
by, the Commission in connection with the registration of the Shares under the
Securities Act or the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the
Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto or document incorporated by
reference therein.
(m) Prior
to the Closing Date, to furnish to the Placement Agent, as soon as they have
been prepared, copies of any unaudited interim consolidated financial statements
of the Company for any periods subsequent to the periods covered by the
financial statements appearing in or incorporated by reference into the
Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
(n) Prior
to the Closing Date, not to issue any press release or other communication
directly or indirectly or hold any press conference with respect to the Company,
its condition, financial or otherwise, or earnings, business affairs or business
prospects (except for routine oral marketing communications in the ordinary
course of business and consistent with the past practices of the Company and of
which the Placement Agent is notified), without the prior written consent of the
Placement Agent, unless in the judgment of the Company and its counsel, and
after notification to the Placement Agent, such press release or communication
is required by law.
(o) Until
the Placement Agent shall have notified the Company of the completion of the
offering of the Shares, that the Company will not, and will cause its affiliated
purchasers (as defined in Regulation M under the Exchange Act) not to, either
alone or with one or more other persons, bid for or purchase, for any account in
which it or any of its affiliated purchasers has a beneficial interest, any
Shares, or attempt to induce any person to purchase any Shares and not to, and
to cause its affiliated purchasers not to, make bids or purchase for the purpose
of creating actual, or apparent, active trading in or of raising the price of
the Shares.
(p) Not
to take any action prior to the Closing Date which would require the Prospectus
to be amended or supplemented pursuant to Section 5.
(q) To
at all times comply with all applicable provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act in
effect from time to time.
(r)
To apply the net proceeds from the
sale of the Shares as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General
Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the heading “Use of
Proceeds.”
(s) To
use its best efforts to list, effect and maintain, subject to notice of
issuance, the Common Stock on NASDAQ.
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(t)
To use its best efforts to assist the Placement Agent and its counsel with any
filings with FINRA and obtaining clearance from FINRA as to the amount of
compensation allowable or payable to the Placement Agent.
(u) To
use its best efforts to do and perform all things required to be done or
performed under this Agreement by the Company prior to the Closing Date and to
satisfy all conditions precedent to the delivery of the Shares.
6. Payment of
Expenses. The Company agrees to pay, or reimburse if paid by
the Placement Agent: (a) the costs incident to the authorization, issuance,
sale, preparation and delivery of the Shares to the Purchasers and any taxes
payable in that connection; (b) the costs incident to the Registration of the
Shares under the Securities Act; (c) the costs incident to the preparation,
printing and distribution of the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus,
any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the General
Disclosure Package, the Prospectus, any amendments, supplements and exhibits
thereto or any document incorporated by reference therein and the costs of
printing, reproducing and distributing any transaction document by mail, telex
or other means of communications; (d) if applicable, the fees and expenses
incurred in connection with securing any required review by FINRA of the terms
of the sale of the Shares and any filings made with FINRA; (e) any applicable
listing, quotation or other fees; (f) the reasonable fees and expenses of
qualifying the Shares under the securities laws of the several jurisdictions as
provided in Section 5(i) and of preparing, printing and distributing wrappers,
Blue Sky Memoranda and Legal Investment Surveys; (g) the cost of preparing and
printing stock certificates; (h) all fees and expenses of the registrar and
transfer agent of the Shares; (i) legal fees and related expenses incurred by
the Placement Agent related to the offering and this Agreement up to $8,000, and
(j) any other costs and expenses incident to the offering of the Shares or the
performance of the obligations of the Company under this Agreement which the
Company shall have authorized and agreed to reimburse provided that, except to
the extent otherwise provided in this Section 6 and in Sections 8 and 10, the
Placement Agent shall pay its own costs and expenses, including the fees and
expenses of its counsel. No expenses shall be payable to the
Placement Agent if the Closing shall not have occurred.
7. Conditions to the
Obligations of the Placement Agent and the Purchasers, and the Sale of the
Shares. The respective obligations of the Placement Agent
hereunder and the Purchasers under the Subscription Agreements, and the Closing
of the sale of the Shares, are subject to the accuracy, when made and as of the
Applicable Time and on the Closing Date, of the representations and warranties
of the Company contained herein, to the accuracy of the statements of the
Company made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the
performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and to each of the
following additional terms and conditions:
(a) No
stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any
part thereof, preventing or suspending the use of any Base Prospectus, any
Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus
or any part thereof shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose
or pursuant to Section 8A under the Securities Act shall have been initiated or
threatened by the Commission, and all requests for additional information on the
part of the Commission (to be included or incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied
with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Placement Agent; the Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement, if any, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if any, and
the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable
time period prescribed for such filing by, and in compliance with, the Rules and
Regulations and in accordance with Section 5(a), and the Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement, if any, shall have become effective immediately upon its
filing with the Commission; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the
fairness and reasonableness of the terms of this Agreement or the transactions
contemplated hereby.
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(b) The
Placement Agent shall not have discovered and disclosed to the Company on or
prior to the Closing Date that the Registration Statement or any amendment or
supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of a fact which, in the opinion
of counsel for the Placement Agent, is material or omits to state any fact
which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is required to be stated
therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that
the General Disclosure Package, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the
Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement
of fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material or omits to state any
fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is necessary in
order to make the statements, in the light of the circumstances in which they
were made, not misleading.
(c) All
corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the authorization,
form and validity of each of this Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, the
Shares, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, each Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus, if any, and the Prospectus and all other legal matters
relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be
reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the Placement
Agent, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel all documents and
information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such
matters.
(d) Xxxxxxxxx
& Xxxxxx LLP and Xxx X. Xxxxxxx as in-house counsel shall have furnished to
the Placement Agent such counsel’s written opinion and negative assurances
statement, as counsel to the Company, addressed to the Placement Agent, dated
the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Placement
Agent.
(e) [Intentionally
omitted]
(f) [Intentionally
omitted]
(g) [Intentionally
omitted]
(h) The
Company shall have furnished to the Placement Agent a certificate, dated the
Closing Date, of its Chief Executive Officer, its President or a Vice President
and its Chief Financial Officer stating that (i) such officers have carefully
examined the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, any
Permitted Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and, in their opinion, the
Registration Statement and each amendment thereto, at the Applicable Time and as
of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date did not include any
untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading, and the General Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time and as
of the Closing Date, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as of its date and as
of the Closing Date, the Prospectus and each amendment or supplement thereto, as
of the respective date thereof and as of the Closing Date, did not include any
untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, (ii) since the effective
date of the initial Registration Statement, no event has occurred which should
have been set forth in a supplement or amendment to the Registration Statement,
the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, (iii) to the their knowledge,
as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company in
this Agreement are true and correct and the Company has complied in all material
respects with all agreements and satisfied in all material respects all
conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the
Closing Date, and (iv) there has not been, subsequent to the date of the most
recent audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the
General Disclosure Package, any material adverse change in the financial
position or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a
whole, or any change or development that, singularly or in the aggregate, would
involve a material adverse change or a prospective material adverse change, in
or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations,
business or assets of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, except
as set forth in the Prospectus.
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(i)
Since the date of the latest audited financial
statements included in the General Disclosure Package or incorporated by
reference in the General Disclosure Package as of the date hereof, (a) neither
the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have sustained any loss or
interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity,
whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or
governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth in the General
Disclosure Package, and (b) there shall not have been any change in the capital
stock (other than Common Stock of the Company issued pursuant to the exercise of
stock options previously outstanding under the Company’s stock option plans or
the issuance of Common Stock pursuant to employee stock purchase plans) or
long-term debt of the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, or any change, or any
development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business,
general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results
of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, otherwise
than as set forth in the General Disclosure Package, the effect of which, in any
such case described in clause (a) or (b) of this paragraph (i), is, in the
judgment of the Placement Agent, so material and adverse as to make it
impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale or delivery of the Shares
on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the General Disclosure
Package.
(j)
No action shall have been taken and no law,
statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by
any governmental agency or body which would prevent the issuance or sale of the
Shares or materially and adversely affect or potentially materially and
adversely affect the business or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries
taken as a whole; and no injunction, restraining order or order of any other
nature by any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction shall have been
issued which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Shares or materially and
adversely affect or potentially materially and adversely affect the business or
operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.
(k) Subsequent
to the execution and delivery of this Agreement there shall not have occurred
any of the following: (i) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock
Exchange, Amex or NASDAQ or in the over-the-counter market, or trading in any
securities of the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market,
shall have been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum prices or
maximum range for prices shall have been established on any such exchange or
such market by the Commission, by such exchange or market or by any other
regulatory body or governmental authority having jurisdiction, (ii) a banking
moratorium shall have been declared by Federal or state authorities or a
material disruption has occurred in commercial banking or securities settlement
or clearance services in the United States, (iii) the United States shall have
become engaged in hostilities, or the subject of an act of terrorism, or there
shall have been an outbreak of or escalation in hostilities involving the United
States, or there shall have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by
the United States or (iv) there shall have occurred such a material adverse
change in general economic, political or financial conditions (or the effect of
international conditions on the financial markets in the United States shall be
such) as to make it, in the judgment of the Placement Agent, impracticable or
inadvisable to proceed with the sale or delivery of the Shares on the terms and
in the manner contemplated in the General Disclosure Package and the
Prospectus.
(l)
The Company shall have filed a
Notification Form: Listing of Additional Shares with NASDAQ and shall have
received no objection thereto from NASDAQ.
(m) The
Company shall have entered into Subscription Agreements with each of the
Purchasers and such agreements shall be in full force and
effect.
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(n) The
Placement Agent shall have received clearance from FINRA as to the amount of
compensation allowable or payable to the Placement Agent as described in the
Pricing Prospectus.
(o) Prior
to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Placement Agent
such further information, opinions, certificates (including a Secretary’s
Certificate), letters or documents as the Placement Agent shall have reasonably
requested.
All
opinions, letters, evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in
this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof
only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for
the Placement Agent.
8. Indemnification and
Contribution.
(a) The
Company shall indemnify and hold harmless the Placement Agent, its affiliates
and each of its and their respective directors, officers, members, employees,
representatives, agents, and any sub-placement agent engaged and identified by
the Placement Agent to and approved as such by the Company and each
person, if any, who controls the Placement Agent within the meaning of Section
15 of the Securities Act of or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (collectively, the
“Placement Agent
Indemnified Parties,” and each a “Placement Agent Indemnified
Party”) against any loss, claim, damage, expense or liability whatsoever
(or any action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof), joint or
several, to which such Placement Agent Indemnified Party may become subject,
under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage,
expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding arises out of or is
based upon (A) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material
fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to
Rule 433(d) of the Rules and Regulations, any Registration Statement or the
Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto or document incorporated
by reference therein, (B) the omission or alleged omission to state in any
Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer
information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the Rules
and Regulations, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any
amendment or supplement thereto or document incorporated by reference therein, a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading, in light of the circumstances in which they were made or
(C) any breach of the representations and warranties of the Company contained
herein, or the failure of the Company to perform its obligations hereunder or
pursuant to any law, and shall reimburse the Placement Agent Indemnified Party
promptly upon demand for any legal fees or other expenses reasonably incurred by
that Placement Agent Indemnified Party in connection with investigating, or
preparing to defend, or defending against, or appearing as a third party witness
in respect of, or otherwise incurred in connection with, any such loss, claim,
damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding, as such fees
and expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company shall not be
liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, expense
or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged
untrue statement in, or omission or alleged omission from any Preliminary
Prospectus, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or any such amendment
or supplement thereto, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus made in reliance
upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the
Placement Agent specifically for use therein, which information the parties
hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agent’s Information (as defined in
Section 17). This indemnity agreement is not exclusive and will be in addition
to any liability, which the Company might otherwise have and shall not limit any
rights or remedies which may otherwise be available at law or in equity to each
Placement Agent Indemnified Party.
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(b) The
Placement Agent shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its directors,
its officers who signed the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who
controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or
Section 20 of the Exchange Act (collectively, the “Company Indemnified
Parties,” and each a “Company Indemnified
Party”) against any loss, claim, damage, expense or liability whatsoever
(or any action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof), joint or
several, to which such Company Indemnified Party may become subject, under the
Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, expense,
liability, action, investigation or proceeding arises out of or is based upon
(i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any
“issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of
the Rules and Regulations, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in
any amendment or supplement thereto, or (ii) the omission or alleged omission to
state in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any
“issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) of
the Rules and Regulations, any Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in
any amendment or supplement thereto, a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, but in each case only to
the extent that the untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or
alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agent specifically for use
therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement
Agent’s Information as defined in Section 17, and shall reimburse the Company
for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection
with investigating or preparing to defend or defending against or appearing as
third party witness in connection with any such loss, claim, damage, liability,
action, investigation or proceeding, as such fees and expenses are
incurred. This indemnity agreement is not exclusive and will be in
addition to any liability, which the Placement Agent might otherwise have and
shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available at law
or in equity to each Company Indemnified Party. Notwithstanding the provisions
of this Section 8(b), in no event shall any indemnity by the Placement Agent
under this Section 8(b) exceed the total compensation received by the Placement
Agent in accordance with Section 2.5.
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(c) Promptly
after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 8 of notice of the
commencement of any action, the indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect
thereof is to be made against an indemnifying party under this Section 8, notify
such indemnifying party in writing of the commencement of that action; provided,
however, that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it
from any liability which it may have under this Section 8 except to the extent
it has been materially prejudiced by such failure; and, provided, further, that
the failure to notify an indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any
liability which it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under this
Section 8. If any such action shall be brought against an indemnified
party, and it shall notify the indemnifying party thereof, the indemnifying
party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it
wishes, jointly with any other similarly notified indemnifying party, to assume
the defense of such action with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the
indemnified party (which counsel shall not, except with the written consent of
the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party). After
notice from the indemnifying party to the indemnified party of its election to
assume the defense of such action, except as provided herein, the indemnifying
party shall not be liable to the indemnified party under Section 8 for any legal
or other expenses subsequently incurred by the indemnified party in connection
with the defense of such action other than reasonable costs of investigation;
provided, however, that any indemnified party shall have the right to employ
separate counsel in any such action and to participate in the defense of such
action but the fees and expenses of such counsel (other than reasonable costs of
investigation) shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the
employment thereof has been specifically authorized in writing by the Company in
the case of a claim for indemnification under Section 8(a) or Section 2.6 or the
Placement Agent in the case of a claim for indemnification under Section 8(b),
(ii) such indemnified party shall have been advised by its counsel that there
may be one or more legal defenses available to it which are different from or
additional to those available to the indemnifying party, or (iii) the
indemnifying party has failed to assume the defense of such action and employ
counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party within a reasonable
period of time after notice of the commencement of the action or the
indemnifying party does not diligently defend the action after assumption of the
defense, in which case, if such indemnified party notifies the indemnifying
party in writing that it elects to employ separate counsel at the expense of the
indemnifying party, the indemnifying party shall not have the right to assume
the defense of (or, in the case of a failure to diligently defend the action
after assumption of the defense, to continue to defend) such action on behalf of
such indemnified party and the indemnifying party shall be responsible for legal
or other expenses subsequently reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in
connection with the defense of such action; provided, however, that the
indemnifying party shall not, in connection with any one such action or separate
but substantially similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising
out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be liable for the fees and
expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys at any time for all such
indemnified parties (in addition to any local counsel), which firm shall be
designated in writing by the Placement Agent if the indemnified parties under
this Section 8 consist of any Placement Agent Indemnified Party or by the
Company if the indemnified parties under this Section 8 consist of any Company
Indemnified Parties. Subject to this Section 8(c), the amount payable by an
indemnifying party under Section 8 shall include, but not be limited to, (x)
reasonable legal fees and expenses of counsel to the indemnified party and any
other reasonable expenses in investigating, or preparing to defend or defending
against, or appearing as a third party witness in respect of, or otherwise
incurred in connection with, any action, investigation, proceeding or claim, and
(y) all amounts paid in settlement of any of the foregoing. No indemnifying
party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties,
settle or compromise or consent to the entry of judgment with respect to any
pending or threatened action or any claim whatsoever, in respect of which
indemnification or contribution could be sought under this Section 8 (whether or
not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties thereto), unless
such settlement, compromise or consent (i) includes an unconditional release of
each indemnified party in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such
indemnified party from all liability arising out of such action or claim and
(ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or
a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party. Subject to the
provisions of the following sentence, no indemnifying party shall be liable for
settlement of any pending or threatened action or any claim whatsoever that is
effected without its written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld or delayed), but if settled with its written consent, if its consent
has been unreasonably withheld or delayed or if there be a judgment for the
plaintiff in any such matter, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless any indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by
reason of such settlement or judgment. In addition, if at any time an
indemnified party shall have requested that an indemnifying party reimburse the
indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel, such indemnifying party
agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of the nature contemplated
herein effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered
into more than forty-five (45) days after receipt by such indemnifying party of
the request for reimbursement, (ii) such indemnifying party shall have received
notice of the terms of such settlement at least thirty (30) days prior to such
settlement being entered into and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have
reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the
date of such settlement.
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(d) If
the indemnification provided for in this Section 8 is unavailable or
insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under Section 8(a) or Section
8(b), then each indemnifying party shall, in lieu of indemnifying such
indemnified party, contribute to the amount paid, payable or otherwise incurred
by such indemnified party as a result of such loss, claim, damage, expense or
liability (or any action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof), as
incurred, (i) in such proportion as shall be appropriate to reflect the relative
benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Placement Agent on the
other hand from the offering of the Shares, or (ii) if the allocation provided
by clause (i) of this Section 8(d) is not permitted by applicable law, in such
proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred
to in clause (i) of this Section 8(d) but also the relative fault of the Company
on the one hand and the Placement Agent on the other with respect to the
statements, omissions, acts or failures to act which resulted in such loss,
claim, damage, expense or liability (or any action, investigation or proceeding
in respect thereof) as well as any other relevant equitable
considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the
one hand and the Placement Agent on the other with respect to such offering
shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the
offering of the Shares purchased under this Agreement (before deducting
expenses) received by the Company bear to the total Placement Fee received by
the Placement Agent in connection with the Offering, in each case as set forth
in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus. The relative fault
of the Company on the one hand and the Placement Agent on the other shall be
determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged
untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state
a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the one hand
or the Placement Agent on the other, the intent of the parties and their
relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent
such untrue statement, omission, act or failure to act; provided that the
parties hereto agree that the written information furnished to the Company by
the Placement Agent for use in any Preliminary Prospectus, any Registration
Statement or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto, consists
solely of the Placement Agent’s Information as defined in Section
17. The Company and the Placement Agent agree that it would not be
just and equitable if contributions pursuant to this Section 8(d) were to be
determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation that does
not take into account the equitable considerations referred to
herein. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a
result of the loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or
proceeding referred to above in this Section 8(d) shall be deemed to include,
for purposes of this Section 8(d), any legal or other expenses reasonably
incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating, preparing
to defend or defending against or appearing as a third party witness in respect
of, or otherwise incurred in connection with, any such loss, claim, damage,
expense, liability, action, investigation or
proceeding. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 8(d), the
Placement Agent shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the
total compensation received by the Placement Agent in accordance with Section
2.5 less the amount of any damages which the Placement Agent has otherwise paid
or become liable to pay by reason of any untrue or alleged untrue statement,
omission or alleged omission, act or alleged act or failure to act or alleged
failure to act. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation
(within the meaning of Section 1 1(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled
to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent
misrepresentation.
9. Termination. The
obligations of the Placement Agent and the Purchasers hereunder and under the
Subscription Agreements may be terminated by the Placement Agent, in its
absolute discretion by notice given to the Company prior to delivery of and
payment for the Shares if, prior to that time, any of the events described in
Sections 7(i), 7(j) or 7(k) have occurred or if the Purchasers shall decline to
purchase the Shares for any reason permitted under this Agreement or the
Subscription Agreements.
10. Reimbursement of Placement
Agent’s Expenses. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
this Agreement, if this Agreement shall have been terminated and the
sale of the Shares is not consummated because of the refusal, inability or
failure on the part of the Company to perform any agreement herein or to satisfy
any condition or to comply with the provisions hereof, then the Company shall
reimburse the Placement Agent for its fees and expenses including fees of the
Placement Agent’s counsel up to $8,000 and for such other out-of-pocket expenses
as shall have been approved by the Company in connection with this Agreement and
the proposed purchase of the Shares, and upon demand the Company shall pay the
full amount thereof to the Placement Agent.
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11. Absence of Fiduciary
Relationship. The Company acknowledges and agrees
that:
(a) the
Placement Agent’s responsibility to the Company is solely contractual in nature,
the Placement Agent has been retained solely to act as Placement Agent in
connection with the Offering and no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship
between the Company and the Placement Agent has been created in respect of any
of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, irrespective of whether the
Placement Agent has advised or is advising the Company on other
matters;
(b) the
price of the Shares set forth in this Agreement was established by the Company
following discussions and arms-length negotiations with the Placement Agent, and
the Company is capable of evaluating and understanding, and understands and
accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement;
(c) it
has been advised that the Placement Agent and its affiliates are engaged in a
broad range of transactions which may involve interests that differ from those
of the Company and that the Placement Agent has no obligation to disclose such
interests and transactions to the Company by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory
or agency relationship; and
(d) it
waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims it may have against
the Placement Agent for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary
duty and agrees that the Placement Agent shall have no liability (whether direct
or indirect) to the Company in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim or to any
person asserting a fiduciary duty claim on behalf of or in right of the Company,
including stockholders, employees or creditors of the Company.
12. Successors; Persons Entitled
to Benefit of Agreement. This Agreement shall inure to the
benefit of and be binding upon the Placement Agent, the Company, and their
respective successors and assigns. This Agreement shall also inure to
the benefit of the Purchasers, and each of their respective successors and
assigns and any sub-placement agent engaged and identified by
the Placement Agent to and approved as such by the Company which
shall be third party beneficiaries hereof. Nothing expressed or
mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any
person, other than the persons mentioned in the preceding sentences, any legal
or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement, or
any provisions herein contained, this Agreement and all conditions and
provisions hereof being intended to be and being for the sole and exclusive
benefit of such persons and for the benefit of no other person; except that the
representations, warranties, covenants, agreements and indemnities of the
Company contained in this Agreement shall also be for the benefit of the
Placement Agent Indemnified Parties and the indemnities of the Placement Agent
shall be for the benefit of the Company Indemnified Parties. It is
understood that the Placement Agent’s responsibility to the Company is solely
contractual in nature and the Placement Agent does not owe the Company, or any
other party, any fiduciary duty as a result of this Agreement.
13. Survival of Indemnities,
Representations, Warranties, etc. The respective indemnities,
covenants, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the
Company and the Placement Agent, as set forth in this Agreement or made by them
respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect,
regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Placement Agent, the
Company, the Purchasers or any person controlling any of them and shall survive
delivery of and payment for the Shares. Notwithstanding any
termination of this Agreement, including without limitation any termination
pursuant to Section 9, the indemnity and contribution agreements contained in
Section 8 and the covenants, representations, warranties set forth in this
Agreement shall not terminate and shall remain in full force and effect at all
times.
14. Notices. All
statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing,
and:
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(a) if
to the Placement Agent, shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex, or facsimile
transmission to HFP Capital Markets LLC 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx,
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Xxxxxx Mikolasto, Managing Director –
Investment Banking; and
if to the
Company, shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex, or facsimile transmission to
Acorn Energy, Inc., 0 X. Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, X.X. Xxx 0, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000,
Attention: Xxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xx., Facsimile: (000) 000-0000, with a copy to:
Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx LLP, 00 Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx,
00xx
Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Esq. Facsimile: (000)
000-0000.
provided,
however, that any notice to the Placement Agent pursuant to Section 8 shall be
delivered or sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to the Placement
Agent at its address set forth above, which address will be supplied to any
other party hereto by the Placement Agent upon request. Any such
statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect at the time of
receipt thereof, except that any such statement, request, notice or agreement
delivered or sent by email shall take effect at the time of confirmation of
receipt thereof by the recipient thereof.
15. Definition of Certain
Terms. For purposes of this Agreement, (a) “business day”
means any day on which the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. is open for trading and
(b) “subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 of the Rules and
Regulations.
16. Governing Law, Agent for
Service and Jurisdiction. This Agreement shall be governed by
and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, including
without limitation Section 5-1401 of the New York General Obligations
Law. No legal proceeding may be commenced, prosecuted or continued in
any court other than the courts of the State of New York located in the City and
County of New York or in the United States District Court for the Southern
District of New York, which courts shall have jurisdiction over the adjudication
of such matters, and the Company and the Placement Agent each hereby consent to
the jurisdiction of such courts and personal service with respect
thereto. The Company and the Placement Agent each hereby consent to
personal jurisdiction, service and venue in any court in which any legal
proceeding arising out of or in any way relating to this Agreement is brought by
any third party against the Company or the Placement Agent. The
Company and the Placement Agent each hereby waive all right to trial by jury in
any legal proceeding (whether based upon contract, tort or otherwise) in any way
arising out of or relating to this Agreement. The Company agrees that
a final judgment in any such legal proceeding brought in any such court shall be
conclusive and binding upon the Company and the Placement Agent and may be
enforced in any other courts in the jurisdiction of which the Company is or may
be subject, by suit upon such judgment.
17. Placement Agent’s
Information. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that,
for all purposes of this Agreement, the Placement Agent’s Information consists
solely of the following information in the Prospectus: the statements concerning
the Placement Agent contained in the first and last paragraphs under the heading
“Plan of Distribution.”
18. Partial
Unenforceability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any
section, paragraph, clause or provision of this Agreement shall not affect the
validity or enforceability of any other section, paragraph, clause or provision
hereof. If any section, paragraph, clause or provision of this
Agreement is for any reason determined to be invalid or unenforceable, there
shall be deemed to be made such minor changes (and only such minor changes) as
are necessary to make it valid and enforceable.
19. General. This
Agreement, the Subscription Agreement and the investment banking agreement as
amended constitutes the entire agreement of the parties to this Agreement and
supersedes all prior written or oral and all contemporaneous oral agreements,
understandings and negotiations with respect to the subject matter
hereof. In this Agreement, the masculine, feminine and neuter genders
and the singular and the plural include one another. The section
headings in this Agreement are for the convenience of the parties only and will
not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement. This
Agreement may be amended or modified, and the observance of any term of this
Agreement may be waived, only by a writing signed by the Company and the
Placement Agent.
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20. Counterparts. This
Agreement may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an
original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon
the same instrument and such signatures may be delivered by
facsimile.
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If the
foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of the agreement between the
Company and the Placement Agent, kindly indicate your acceptance in the space
provided for that purpose below.
Very
truly yours,
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SCHEDULE
A
General
Use Free Writing Prospectuses
None.
EXHIBIT
A
Form of
Subscription Agreement
FORM
OF
SUBSCRIPTION
AGREEMENT
December
17, 2010
0 X.
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
X.X. Xxx
0
Xxxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention:
Xxxx X. Xxxxx, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
Gentlemen:
The
undersigned (the “Investor”) hereby
confirms its agreement with Acorn Energy, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), as
follows:
1. This
Subscription Agreement, including the Terms and Conditions for Purchase of
Common Stock attached hereto as Annex I (collectively, this
“Agreement”) is
made as of the date set forth below between the Company and the
Investor.
2. The
Company has authorized the sale and issuance to certain investors of up to a
maximum of one million one hundred fifty thousand (1,150,000) shares, subject to
adjustment by the Company’s Board of Directors or a committee thereof, of its
common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), for a
purchase price of $3.50 per share (the “Purchase
Price”)
3. The
offering and sale of the Common Stock (the “Offering”) are being
made pursuant to (a) an effective Registration Statement on Form S−3, No.
333-169434 (the “Registration
Statement”) filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “Commission”),
including the Prospectus contained therein (the “Base Prospectus”),
(b) if applicable, certain “free writing prospectuses” (as that term is defined
in Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”)), that have
been or will be filed, if required, with the Commission and delivered to the
Investor on or prior to the date hereof (the “Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus”), containing certain supplemental information regarding the
terms of the Offering and the Company and (c) a final Prospectus Supplement (the
“Prospectus
Supplement” and, together with the Base Prospectus, the “Prospectus”)
containing only certain supplemental information regarding the terms of the
Offering that will be filed with the Commission and delivered to the Investor
prior to the Closing.
4. The
Company and the Investor agree that the Investor will purchase from the Company
and the Company will issue and sell to the Investor shares of the Common Stock
set forth below for the aggregate purchase price set forth below. The
Common Stock shall be purchased pursuant to the Terms and Conditions for
Purchase of Common Stock attached hereto as Annex I and incorporated
herein by this reference as if fully set forth herein. The Investor
acknowledges that the Offering is not being underwritten by HFP Capital Markets
LLC (the “Placement
Agent”) and that there is no minimum offering amount.
5. The
settlement of the Common Stock purchased by the Investor shall be effected by
crediting the account of the Investor’s prime broker (as specified by such
Investor on Exhibit A
annexed hereto) with the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) through its
Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian (“DWAC”) system,
whereby Investor’s prime broker shall initiate a DWAC transaction on the Closing
Date using its DTC participant identification number, and the shares of Common
Stock shall be released by American Stock & Transfer Company, N.A., the
Company’s transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”), to
the account designated by such broker at the Company’s direction. NO LATER
THAN TWO (2) BUSINESS DAYS AFTER THE EXECUTION OF THIS AGREEMENT BY THE INVESTOR
AND THE COMPANY AND COMPLIANCE BY THE COMPANY WITH ALL CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO
CLOSING, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, RECEIPT OF APPROVAL BY THE NASDAQ GLOBAL
MARKET, THE INVESTOR SHALL:
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BY WIRE TRANSFER THE AMOUNT OF FUNDS EQUAL TO THE AGGREGATE PURCHASE PRICE
FOR THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK BEING PURCHASED BY THE INVESTOR TO THE
FOLLOWING ACCOUNT:
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THE BROKER−DEALER AT WHICH THE ACCOUNT OR ACCOUNTS TO BE CREDITED WITH THE
SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ARE MAINTAINED TO SET UP A DWAC INSTRUCTING THE
TRANSFER AGENT TO CREDIT SUCH ACCOUNT OR ACCOUNTS WITH THE SHARES OF
COMMON STOCK.
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IT IS THE
INVESTOR’S RESPONSIBILITY TO (A) MAKE THE NECESSARY WIRE TRANSFER OR CONFIRM THE
PROPER ACCOUNT BALANCE IN A TIMELY MANNER AND (B) ARRANGE FOR SETTLEMENT BY WAY
OF DWAC IN A TIMELY MANNER. IF THE INVESTOR DOES NOT DELIVER THE AGGREGATE
PURCHASE PRICE FOR THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK OR DOES NOT MAKE PROPER
ARRANGEMENTS FOR SETTLEMENT IN A TIMELY MANNER, THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK MAY
NOT BE DELIVERED AT CLOSING TO THE INVESTOR OR THE INVESTOR MAY BE EXCLUDED FROM
THE CLOSING ALTOGETHER.
6. The
Investor represents that, except as set forth below, (a) it has had no position,
office or other material relationship within the past three (3) years with the
Company or persons known to it to be affiliates of the Company, (b) it is not a
member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. or an Associated
Person (as such term is defined under the NASD Membership and Registration Rules
Section 1011) as of the Closing, and (c) neither the Investor nor any group of
Investors (as identified in a public filing made with the Commission) of which
the Investor is a part in connection with the Offering of the Common Stock,
acquired, or obtained the right to acquire, 20% or more of the Common Stock (or
securities convertible into or exercisable for Common Stock) or the voting power
of the Company on a post-transaction basis. Exceptions:
____________________________________________
(If no
exceptions, write “none.” If left blank, response will be deemed to be
“none.”)
7.
The Investor
represents that it has received (or otherwise had made available to it by the
filing by the Company of an electronic version thereof with the Commission) the
Base Prospectus, dated October 27, 2010, which is a part of the Company’s
Registration Statement and the documents incorporated by reference therein and
any free writing prospectus (collectively, the “Disclosure Package”),
prior to or in connection with the receipt of this Agreement. The Investor
acknowledges that, prior to the delivery of this Agreement to the Company, the
Investor will receive certain additional information regarding the Offering,
including pricing information (the “Offering
Information”). Such information may be provided to the Investor by
any means permitted under the Act, including the Prospectus Supplement, a free
writing prospectus and oral communications.
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8. No
offer by the Investor to buy the Common Stock will be accepted and no part of
the Purchase Price will be delivered to the Company until the Investor has
received the Offering Information and the Company has accepted such offer by
countersigning a copy of this Agreement, and any such offer may be withdrawn or
revoked, without obligation or commitment of any kind, at any time prior to the
Company (or the Placement Agent on behalf of the Company) sending (orally, in
writing or by electronic mail) notice of its acceptance of such offer. An
indication of interest will involve no obligation or commitment of any kind
until the Investor has been delivered the Offering Information and this
Agreement is accepted and countersigned by or on behalf of the
Company.
9. The
Company acknowledges that the only material, non-public information relating to
the Company it has provided to the Investor in connection with the Offering
prior to the date hereof is the existence of the Offering.
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of Page Intentionally Left Blank]
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Please
confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the agreement between us by
signing in the space provided below for that purpose.
Number
of Shares of Common Stock: __________________
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Price Per Share: $3.50
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Aggregate
Purchase Price:
$___________________________
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Agreed
and Accepted
as of the
date first above written:
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ANNEX I
Terms and
Conditions for Purchase of Common Stock
1. Authorization and Sale of Common
Stock. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the
Company has authorized the sale of the Common Stock.
2. Agreement to Sell and Purchase of
Common Stock; Placement Agent.
2.1. At
the Closing (as defined in Section 3.1), the
Company will sell to the Investor, and the Investor will purchase from the
Company, upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, the number of shares of
Common Stock set forth on the last page of the Agreement to which these Terms
and Conditions for Purchase of Common Stock are attached as Annex I (the “Signature Page”) for
the aggregate purchase price therefor set forth on the Signature
Page.
2.2. The
Company anticipates that other investors (the “Other Investors” will
participate in the Offering, and expects to complete sales of shares of Common
Stock to them. The Company agrees that such Other Investors will execute
substantially the same form of Subscription Agreement as this Agreement.
The Investor and the Other Investors are hereinafter sometimes collectively
referred to as the “Investors,” and this
Agreement and the Subscription Agreements executed by the Other Investors are
hereinafter sometimes collectively referred to as the “Agreements.”
2.3. Investor
acknowledges that the Company has agreed to pay the Placement Agent a cash fee
of not more than seven (7.0%) as well as issue the Placement Agent a warrant
exercisable for that number of securities equal to seven percent (7.0%) of the
gross proceeds of the offering (collectively, the “Placement Fee”) in
respect to the sale of Shares to the Investor.
2.4. The
Company has entered into a Placement Agent Agreement, dated December 17, 2010
(the “Placement
Agreement”), with the Placement Agent that contains certain
representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of the Company that may be
relied upon by the Investor, which shall be a third party beneficiary
thereof.
3. Closing and Delivery of the Shares of
Common Stock and Funds.
3.1. Closing. The
completion of the purchase and sale of the Common Stock (the “Closing”) shall occur
at a place and time (the “Closing Date”) to be
specified by the Company and the Placement Agent of which the Investors will be
notified in advance by the Placement Agent, in accordance with Rule 15c6-1
promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).
At the Closing, (a) the Company shall cause the Transfer Agent to deliver to the
Investor the number of shares of Common Stock set forth on the Signature Page
registered in the name of the Investor or, if so indicated on the Investor
Questionnaire attached hereto as Exhibit A, in the name of a
nominee designated by the Investor and (b) the aggregate purchase price for the
Common Stock being purchased by the Investor will be delivered by or on behalf
of the Investor to the Company.
3.2. Conditions to the
Obligations of the Parties.
(a) Conditions to the Company’s
Obligations. The Company’s obligation to issue and sell the Common
Stock to the Investor shall be subject to: (i) the receipt by the Company of the
purchase price for the shares of Common Stock being purchased hereunder as set
forth on the Signature Page and (ii) the accuracy of the representations and
warranties made by the Investor and the fulfillment of those undertakings of the
Investor to be fulfilled prior to the Closing Date.
(b) Conditions to the Investor’s
Obligations. The Investor’s obligation to purchase the shares of
Common Stock will be subject to (i) the representations and warranties made by
the Company in the Agreements and the Placement Agreement, which shall be true
and correct as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date and the Company
shall have fulfilled those undertakings of the Company required to be fulfilled
prior to the Closing Date, including without limitation, those contained in the
Placement Agreement, and (ii) that the Placement Agent shall not have: (A)
terminated the Placement Agreement pursuant to the terms thereof or (B)
determined that the conditions to the closing in the Placement Agreement have
not been satisfied. The Investor’s obligations are expressly not
conditioned on the purchase by any or all of the Other Investors of the shares
of Common Stock that they have agreed to purchase from the Company. The
Investor understands and agrees that, in the event that the Placement Agent in
its sole discretion determines that the conditions to closing in the Placement
Agreement have not been satisfied or if the Placement Agreement may be
terminated for any other reason permitted by such Agreement, then the Placement
Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, terminate such Agreement, which shall
have the effect of terminating this Subscription Agreement pursuant to Section 14
below. The Placement Agent shall not have the authority to amend or modify
the Company’s representations and warranties set forth in Section 3 of the
Placement Agreement or the closing conditions contained in Section 7 of the
Placement Agreement in a manner adverse to the Investor or waive any provisions
or conditions contained therein without the consent of the
Investor.
3.3. Delivery of Funds via
DWAC. The shares of Common Stock purchased by such Investor shall
be settled through DTC’s Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian (“DWAC”) delivery
system, on the Closing Date. The Investor shall remit by wire transfer the
amount of funds equal to the aggregate purchase price for the shares of Common
Stock being purchased by the Investor to the following account designated by the
Company:
Beneficiary
Bank:
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N.A.
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3.4. Delivery of Shares of Common
Stock via DWAC. No later than three (3) business days after the (a)
execution of this Agreement, and (b) delivery of proper DWAC account information
by the Investor to the Company and compliance by the Company with all conditions
precedent to Closing, including, without limitation, receipt of approval by the
NASDAQ Global Market, the Investor shall direct the broker-dealer at which the
account or accounts to be credited with the shares of Common Stock being
purchased by such Investor are maintained, which broker/dealer shall be a DTC
participant, to set up a DWAC instructing American Stock & Transfer Company,
N.A., the Company’s “Transfer Agent”, to
credit such account or accounts with the shares of Common Stock. Such DWAC
instruction shall indicate the settlement date for the deposit of the shares of
Common Stock, which date shall be provided to the Investor by the Placement
Agent. Simultaneously with the delivery to the Company of the funds held
pursuant to Section
3.3 above, the Company shall direct the Transfer Agent to credit the
Investor’s account or accounts with the shares of Common Stock pursuant to the
information contained in the DWAC. The cost of original issue tax stamps
and other transfer taxes, if any, in connection with the issuance and delivery
of the shares of Common Stock by the Company to the respective Purchasers shall
be borne by the Company.
4. Representations, Warranties and
Covenants of the Investor.
The
Investor acknowledges, represents and warrants to, and agrees with the Company
and the Placement Agent (as to itself), that:
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4.1. The
Investor (a) is knowledgeable, sophisticated and experienced in making, and is
qualified to make decisions with respect to, investments in shares presenting an
investment decision like that involved in the purchase of the Common Stock,
including investments in securities issued by the Company and investments in
comparable companies, (b) has answered all questions on the Signature Page and
the Investor Questionnaire and the answers thereto are true and correct as of
the date hereof and will be true and correct as of the Closing Date and (c) in
connection with its decision to purchase the number of shares of Common Stock
set forth on the Signature Page, has received and is relying only upon the
Disclosure Package and the documents incorporated by reference therein and the
Offering Information.
4.2. (a)
No action has been or will be taken in any jurisdiction outside the United
States by the Company or the Placement Agent that would permit an offering of
the Common Stock, or possession or distribution of offering materials in
connection with the issue of the shares of Common Stock in any jurisdiction
outside the United States where action for that purpose is required, (b) if the
Investor is outside the United States, it will comply with all applicable laws
and regulations in each foreign jurisdiction in which it purchases, offers,
sells or delivers shares of Common Stock or has in its possession or distributes
any offering material, in all cases at its own expense and (c) the Placement
Agent is not authorized to make and have not made any representation, disclosure
or use of any information in connection with the issue, placement, purchase and
sale of the Common Stock,
except as set forth or incorporated by reference in the Base Prospectus, the
Prospectus Supplement or any free writing prospectus.
4.3. (a)
The Investor has full right, power, authority and capacity to enter into this
Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and has taken
all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of
this Agreement, and (b) this Agreement constitutes a valid and binding
obligation of the Investor enforceable against the Investor in accordance with
its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ and
contracting parties’ rights generally and except as enforceability may be
subject to general principles of equity (regardless of whether such
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and except as
to the enforceability of any rights to indemnification or contribution that may
be violative of the public policy underlying any law, rule or regulation
(including any federal or state securities law, rule or
regulation).
4.4. The
Investor understands that nothing in this Agreement, the Prospectus, the
Disclosure Package, the Offering Information or any other materials presented to
the Investor in connection with the purchase and sale of the Common Stock
constitutes legal, tax or investment advice. The Investor has consulted
such legal, tax and investment advisors and made such investigation as it, in
its sole discretion, has deemed necessary or appropriate in connection with its
purchase of the Common Stock.
4.5. Since
the date on which the Placement Agent first contacted the Investor about the
Offering, the Investor has not disclosed any information regarding the Offering
to any third parties (other than its legal, accounting and other advisors) and
has not engaged in any purchases or sales involving the securities of the
Company (including, without limitation, any Short Sales involving the Company’s
securities). The Investor covenants that it will not engage in any
purchases or sales in the securities of the Company (including Short Sales)
prior to the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are
publicly disclosed. The Investor agrees that it will not use any of the
shares of Common Stock acquired pursuant to this Agreement to cover any short
position in the Common Stock if doing so would be in violation of applicable
securities laws. For purposes hereof, “Short Sales” include, without
limitation, all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 promulgated under
Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act, whether or not against the box, and all
types of direct and indirect stock pledges, forward sales contracts, options,
puts, calls, short sales, swaps, “put equivalent positions” (as defined in Rule
16a−1(h) under the Exchange Act) 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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5. Survival of Representations,
Warranties and Covenants; Third Party Beneficiary. Notwithstanding
any investigation made by any party to this Agreement or by the Placement Agent,
all covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Company
and the Investor herein will survive the execution of this Agreement, the
delivery to the Investor of the shares of Common Stock being purchased and the
payment therefore. The Placement Agent shall be a third party beneficiary
with respect to the representations, warranties and covenants of the Investor in
Section 4
hereof.
6. Notices. All notices,
requests, consents and other communications hereunder will be in writing, will
be mailed (a) if within the domestic United States by first-class registered or
certified airmail, or nationally recognized overnight express courier, postage
prepaid, or by facsimile or (b) if delivered from outside the United States, by
International Federal Express or facsimile, and (c) will be deemed given (i) if
delivered by first-class registered or certified mail domestic, three (3)
business days after so mailed, (ii) if delivered by nationally recognized
overnight carrier, one (1) business day after so mailed, (iii) if delivered by
International Federal Express, two (2) business days after so mailed and (iv) if
delivered by facsimile, upon electronic confirmation of receipt and will be
delivered and addressed as follows:
(a) if
to the Company, to:
0 X.
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
X.X. Xxx
0
Xxxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention:
Xxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xx.
Facsimile: (000)
000-0000
with
copies to:
Xxxxxxxxx
& Xxxxxx LLP
00 Xxxx
00xx
Xxxxxx, 00xx
Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx,
XX 00000
Attention:
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Esq.
Facsimile:
(000) 000-0000
(b) if
to the Investor, at its address on the Signature Page hereto, or at such other
address or addresses as may have been furnished to the Company in
writing.
7. Changes. This Agreement
may not be modified or amended except pursuant to an instrument in writing
signed by the Company and the Investor.
8. Headings. The headings
of the various sections of this Agreement have been inserted for convenience of
reference only and will not be deemed to be part of this Agreement.
9. Severability. In case
any provision contained in this Agreement should be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions contained herein will not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby.
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10. Governing Law. This
Agreement will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the internal
laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to the principles of
conflicts of law that would require the application of the laws of any other
jurisdiction.
11. Counterparts. This
Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which will
constitute an original, but all of which, when taken together, will constitute
but one instrument, and will become effective when one or more counterparts have
been signed by each party hereto and delivered to the other parties. The
Company and the Investor acknowledge and agree that the Company shall deliver
its counterpart to the Investor along with the Prospectus Supplement (or the
filing by the Company of an electronic version thereof with the
Commission).
12. Confirmation of Sale.
The Investor acknowledges and agrees that such Investor’s receipt of the
Company’s signed counterpart to this Agreement, together with the Prospectus
Supplement (or the filing by the Company of an electronic version thereof with
the Commission), shall constitute written confirmation of the Company’s sale of
the Common Stock to such Investor.
13. Press Release. The
Company and the Investor agree that the Company shall, prior to the opening of
the financial markets in New York City on the business day immediately after the
date hereof, (a) issue a press release announcing the Offering and disclosing
all material information regarding the Offering and (b) file a Current Report on
Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission including a form of this
Agreement as an exhibit thereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Company shall not publicly disclose the name of the Investor or any affiliate or
investment adviser of the Investor, or include the name of the Investor or any
affiliate or investment adviser of any Investor in any press release or filing
with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any regulatory agency or trading
market, without the prior written consent of such Investor, except (i) as
required by federal securities law and (ii) to the extent such disclosure is
required by law or trading market regulations, in which case the Company shall
provide the Investor with prior written notice of such disclosure permitted
under this sub-clause (ii). From and after the issuance of the press
release described above, the Investor shall not be in possession of any
material, non public information received from the Company, any subsidiary of
the Company or any of their respective officers, directors or
employees.
14. Termination. In the
event that the Placement Agreement is terminated by the Placement Agent pursuant
to the terms thereof, this Agreement shall terminate without any further action
on the part of the parties hereto. The Investor shall have the right
to terminate this agreement if the Closing has not occurred on or before
December 31, 2010.
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EXHIBIT
A
Investor
Questionnaire
Pursuant
to Section 3 of
Annex I to the
Agreement, please provide us with the following information:
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EXHIBIT
B
Form of
Confidentiality Agreement
December
__, 2010
Re: Confidentiality
Agreement
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
We have
been discussing with ________ (the “Recipient” or “you”) a potential investment
in ______________ (the “Company”), which has engaged HFP Capital Markets LLC
(“HFP” or “we”) as exclusive placement agent for the sale of up to one million
three hundred seventy-five thousand (1,375,000) shares of the Company’s common
stock. In that regard, we may provide the Recipient with certain
information and data which is material non-public information and which the
Company wishes to keep confidential, including, but not limited to, information
regarding Company’s governance, board of directors, management, plans,
strategies, business, finances or operations, including information relating to
financial statements, evaluations, plans, programs, customers, plants, equipment
and other assets, products, processes, manufacturing, marketing, research and
development, know-how and technology, intellectual property and trade secrets
and information which Company has obtained from third parties and with respect
to which Company is obligated to maintain confidentiality (collectively,
“Confidential Information”). Except as provided in this Letter
Agreement, the Recipient hereby agrees that the Recipient will not (a) disclose
any Confidential Information to third parties or use any Confidential
Information other than in connection with services on behalf of the Company in
each instance without securing the prior written consent of Company or HFP or
(b) engage in any purchases, sales or other transactions involving the Company’s
securities while in possession of material non-public information relating to
the Company.
Nothing
contained in this Letter Agreement prevents the Recipient from disclosing
Confidential Information to, if applicable, (i) officers or directors of the
Recipient or (ii) to the Recipient’s counsel, accountants or
advisors.
If the
Recipient is requested or becomes legally compelled (by deposition,
interrogatory, request for documents, subpoena, civil investigative demand or
similar process) to disclose any Confidential Information, the Recipient will
use reasonable best efforts to provide HFP and Company with notice of such
request or requirement so that HFP or Company may seek a protective order or
other appropriate remedy and/or waive compliance with the terms of this Letter
Agreement. In the event that a protective order or other remedy is
not obtained, or that Company waives compliance, the Recipient may furnish such
portion of the Confidential Information that the Recipient is legally required
to disclose and will use reasonable efforts to obtain assurance that
confidential treatment will be accorded the Confidential
Information.
This
Letter Agreement shall be governed and construed under the laws of the State of
New York, without regard to conflict of laws principles.
Very
truly yours,
HFP
Capital Markets LLC
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EXHIBIT
C
Form of
Warrant
THIS
WARRANT AND THE SHARES ISSUABLE UPON THE EXERCISE OF THIS WARRANT HAVE NOT BEEN
REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED. NEITHER THIS
WARRANT NOR ANY OF SUCH SHARES MAY BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE
ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR SUCH SECURITIES UNDER SAID
ACT OR, AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, IN FORM, SUBSTANCE AND SCOPE, CUSTOMARY FOR
OPINIONS OF COUNSEL IN COMPARABLE TRANSACTIONS, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT
REQUIRED UNDER SUCH ACT OR UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 OR REGULATION S
UNDER SUCH ACT.
COMMON
STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT
Right to
Purchase 80,500 Shares of Common Stock
par value
$0.01 per share, of Acorn Energy, Inc.
THIS CERTIFIES THAT, for value
received, HFP CAPITAL MARKETS LLC or its registered assigns, is entitled to
purchase from ACORN ENERGY, INC., a Delaware corporation
(the “Company”), at any time or from time to time through December 21, 2015,
Eighty Thousand Five Hundred (80,500) fully paid and nonassessable shares of the
Company’s Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), at an
exercise price per share equal to Three Dollars and Sixty-Eight Cents
($3.68)(the “Exercise Price”). The term “Warrant Shares,” as used herein, refers
to the shares of Common Stock purchasable hereunder. The Warrant
Shares and the Exercise Price are subject to adjustment as provided in Paragraph
4 hereof.
This
Warrant is subject to the following terms, provisions, and
conditions:
Manner of
Exercise; Issuance of Certificates; Payment for Shares.
This Warrant may be exercised by the holder hereof, in whole or in part, by the
surrender of this Warrant, together with a completed exercise agreement in the
form attached hereto (the “Exercise Agreement”), to the Company during normal
business hours on any business day at the Company’s principal executive offices
(or such other office or agency of the Company as it may designate by notice to
the holder hereof), and upon (i) payment to the Company in cash, by certified or
official bank check or by wire transfer for the account of the Company of the
Exercise Price for the Warrant Shares specified in the Exercise Agreement or
(ii) delivery to the Company of a written notice of an election to effect a
“Cashless Exercise” (as defined in Section 11(c) below) for the Warrant Shares
specified in the Exercise Agreement. The Warrant Shares so purchased
shall be deemed to be issued to the holder hereof or such holder’s designee, as
the record owner of such shares, as of the close of business on the date on
which this Warrant shall have been surrendered, the completed Exercise Agreement
shall have been delivered, and payment shall have been made for such shares as
set forth above. Certificates for the Warrant Shares so purchased,
representing the aggregate number of shares specified in the Exercise Agreement,
shall be delivered to the holder hereof within a reasonable time, not exceeding
three (3) business days, after this Warrant shall have been so
exercised. The certificates so delivered shall be in such
denominations as may be requested by the holder hereof and shall be registered
in the name of such holder or such other name as shall be designated by such
holder. If this Warrant shall have been exercised only in part, then,
unless this Warrant has expired, the Company shall, at its expense, at the time
of delivery of such certificates, deliver to the holder a new Warrant
representing the number of shares with respect to which this Warrant shall not
then have been exercised.
Notwithstanding
anything in this Warrant to the contrary, in no event shall the holder of this
Warrant be entitled to exercise a number of Warrants (or portions thereof) in
excess of the number of Warrants (or portions thereof) upon exercise of which
the sum of (i) the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the
holder and its affiliates (other than shares of Common Stock which may be deemed
beneficially owned through the ownership of the unexercised Warrants and the
unexercised or unconverted portion of any other securities of the Company
subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation
contained herein) and (ii) the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon
exercise of the Warrants (or portions thereof) with respect to which the
determination described herein is being made, would result in beneficial
ownership by the holder and its affiliates of more than 4.999% of the
outstanding shares of Common Stock. For purposes of the immediately
preceding sentence, beneficial ownership shall be determined in accordance with
Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Regulation
13D-G thereunder, except as otherwise provided in clause (i) of the preceding
sentence. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein,
the limitation on exercise of this Warrant set forth herein may not be amended
without (i) the written consent of the holder hereof and the Company and (ii)
the approval of a majority of shareholders of the Company.
Period of
Exercise. This Warrant is
exercisable at any time or from time to time on or after the date on which this
Warrant is issued and delivered pursuant to the terms of the Securities Purchase
Agreement and before 6:00 p.m., New York, New York time on the fifth (5th)
anniversary of the date of issuance (the “Exercise Period”).
Certain Agreements of the
Company. The
Company hereby covenants and agrees as follows:
(a) Shares to
be Fully Paid. All Warrant
Shares will, upon issuance in accordance with the terms of this Warrant, be
validly issued, fully paid, and nonassessable and free from all taxes, liens,
and charges with respect to the issue thereof.
(b) Reservation
of Shares. During the
Exercise Period, the Company shall at all times have authorized, and reserved
for the purpose of issuance upon exercise of this Warrant, a sufficient number
of shares of Common Stock to provide for the exercise of this
Warrant.
(c) Listing. The Company shall
promptly secure the listing of the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise
of the Warrant upon each national securities exchange or automated quotation
system, if any, upon which shares of Common Stock are then listed (subject to
official notice of issuance upon exercise of this Warrant) and shall maintain,
so long as any other shares of Common Stock shall be so listed, such listing of
all shares of Common Stock from time to time issuable upon the exercise of this
Warrant; and the Company shall so list on each national securities exchange or
automated quotation system, as the case may be, and shall maintain such listing
of, any other shares of capital stock of the Company issuable upon the exercise
of this Warrant if and so long as any shares of the same class shall be listed
on such national securities exchange or automated quotation
system.
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(d) Certain
Actions Prohibited. The Company will
not, by amendment of its charter or through any reorganization, transfer of
assets, consolidation, merger, dissolution, issue or sale of securities, or any
other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of
any of the terms to be observed or performed by it hereunder, but will at all
times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all the provisions of this
Warrant and in the taking of all such action as may reasonably be requested by
the holder of this Warrant in order to protect the exercise privilege of the
holder of this Warrant against dilution or other impairment, consistent with the
tenor and purpose of this Warrant. Without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, the Company (i) will not increase the par value of any shares of
Common Stock receivable upon the exercise of this Warrant above the Exercise
Price then in effect, and (ii) will take all such actions as may be necessary or
appropriate in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid
and nonassessable shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of this
Warrant.
(e) Successors
and Assigns. This Warrant will
be binding upon any entity succeeding to the Company by merger, consolidation,
or acquisition of all or substantially all the Company’s assets.
Antidilution
Provisions.
During the Exercise Period, the Exercise Price and the number of Warrant Shares
shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as provided in this Paragraph
4. In the event that any adjustment of the Exercise Price as required
herein results in a fraction of a cent, such Exercise Price shall be rounded up
to the nearest cent.
(a) Subdivision
or Combination of Common Stock. If the Company at
any time subdivides (by any stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization,
reorganization, reclassification or otherwise) the shares of Common Stock
acquirable hereunder into a greater number of shares, then, after the date of
record for effecting such subdivision, the Exercise Price in effect immediately
prior to such subdivision will be proportionately reduced. If the
Company at any time combines (by reverse stock split, recapitalization,
reorganization, reclassification or otherwise) the shares of Common Stock
acquirable hereunder into a smaller number of shares, then, after the date of
record for effecting such combination, the Exercise Price in effect immediately
prior to such combination will be proportionately increased.
(b) Adjustment
in Number of Shares. Upon each
adjustment of the Exercise Price pursuant to the provisions of this Paragraph 4,
the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant
shall be adjusted by multiplying a number equal to the Exercise Price in effect
immediately prior to such adjustment by the number of shares of Common Stock
issuable upon exercise of this Warrant immediately prior to such adjustment and
dividing the product so obtained by the adjusted Exercise Price.
(c) Consolidation,
Merger or Sale. In case of any
consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company into any other
corporation, or in case of any sale or conveyance of all or substantially all of
the assets of the Company other than in connection with a plan of complete
liquidation of the Company, then as a condition of such consolidation, merger or
sale or conveyance, adequate provision will be made whereby the holder of this
Warrant will have the right to acquire and receive upon exercise of this Warrant
in lieu of the shares of Common Stock immediately theretofore acquirable upon
the exercise of this Warrant, such shares of stock, securities or assets as may
be issued or payable with respect to or in exchange for the number of shares of
Common Stock immediately theretofore acquirable and receivable upon exercise of
this Warrant had such consolidation, merger or sale or conveyance not taken
place. In any such case, the Company will make appropriate provision
to insure that the provisions of this Paragraph 4 hereof will thereafter be
applicable as nearly as may be in relation to any shares of stock or securities
thereafter deliverable upon the exercise of this Warrant. The Company
will not effect any consolidation, merger or sale or conveyance unless prior to
the consummation thereof, the successor corporation (if other than the Company)
assumes by written instrument the obligations under this Paragraph 4 and the
obligations to deliver to the holder of this Warrant such shares of stock,
securities or assets as, in accordance with the foregoing provisions, the holder
may be entitled to acquire.
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(d) Distribution
of Assets. In case the
Company shall declare or make any distribution of its assets (including cash) to
holders of Common Stock as a partial liquidating dividend, by way of return of
capital or otherwise, then, after the date of record for determining
shareholders entitled to such distribution, but prior to the date of
distribution, the holder of this Warrant shall be entitled upon exercise of this
Warrant for the purchase of any or all of the shares of Common Stock subject
hereto, to receive the amount of such assets which would have been payable to
the holder had such holder been the holder of such shares of Common Stock on the
record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to such
distribution.
(e) Notice of
Adjustment. Upon the
occurrence of any event which requires any adjustment of the Exercise Price,
then, and in each such case, the Company shall give notice thereof to the holder
of this Warrant, which notice shall state the Exercise Price resulting from such
adjustment and the increase or decrease in the number of Warrant Shares
purchasable at such price upon exercise, setting forth in reasonable detail the
method of calculation and the facts upon which such calculation is
based. Such calculation shall be certified by the Chief Financial
Officer of the Company.
(f) No
Fractional Shares. No fractional
shares of Common Stock are to be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant, but
the Company shall issue a whole share in respect of any fractional share which
would otherwise be issuable.
(g) Other
Notices. In case at any
time:
(i) the
Company shall declare any dividend upon the Common Stock payable in shares of
stock of any class or make any other distribution (including dividends or
distributions payable in cash out of retained earnings) to the holders of the
Common Stock;
(ii) the
Company shall offer for subscription pro rata to the holders of the Common Stock
any additional shares of stock of any class or other rights;
(iii) there
shall be any capital reorganization of the Company, or reclassification of the
Common Stock, or consolidation or merger of the Company with or into, or sale of
all or substantially all its assets to, another corporation or entity;
or
(iv) there
shall be a voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of
the Company;
then, in
each such case, the Company shall give to the holder of this Warrant (a) notice
of the date on which the books of the Company shall close or a record shall be
taken for determining the holders of Common Stock entitled to receive any such
dividend, distribution, or subscription rights or for determining the holders of
Common Stock entitled to vote in respect of any such reorganization,
reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, dissolution, liquidation or
winding-up and (b) in the case of any such reorganization, reclassification,
consolidation, merger, sale, dissolution, liquidation or winding-up, notice of
the date (or, if not then known, a reasonable approximation thereof by the
Company) when the same shall take place. Such notice shall also
specify the date on which the holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to
receive such dividend, distribution, or subscription rights or to exchange their
Common Stock for stock or other securities or property deliverable upon such
reorganization, reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, dissolution,
liquidation, or winding-up, as the case may be. Such notice shall be
given at least 30 days prior to the record date or the date on which the
Company’s books are closed in respect thereto. Failure to give any
such notice or any defect therein shall not affect the validity of the
proceedings referred to in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)
above.
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(h) Certain
Events. If any event
occurs of the type contemplated by the adjustment provisions of this Paragraph 4
but not expressly provided for by such provisions, the Company will give notice
of such event as provided in Paragraph 4 hereof, and the Company’s Board of
Directors will make an appropriate adjustment in the Exercise Price and the
number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon exercise of this Warrant so
that the rights of the holder shall be neither enhanced nor diminished by such
event.
Issue
Tax. The
issuance of certificates for Warrant Shares upon the exercise of this Warrant
shall be made without charge to the holder of this Warrant or such shares for
any issuance tax or other costs in respect thereof, provided that the Company
shall not be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any
transfer involved in the issuance and delivery of any certificate in a name
other than the holder of this Warrant.
No Rights or Liabilities as
a Shareholder. This
Warrant shall not entitle the holder hereof to any voting rights or other rights
as a shareholder of the Company. No provision of this Warrant, in the
absence of affirmative action by the holder hereof to purchase Warrant Shares,
and no mere enumeration herein of the rights or privileges of the holder hereof,
shall give rise to any liability of such holder for the Exercise Price or as a
shareholder of the Company, whether such liability is asserted by the Company or
by creditors of the Company.
7. Transfer, Exchange, and
Replacement of Warrant.
(a) Restriction
on Transfer. This Warrant and
the rights granted to the holder hereof are transferable, in whole or in part,
upon surrender of this Warrant, together with a properly executed assignment in
the form attached hereto, at the office or agency of the Company referred to in
Paragraph 7(e) below. Until due presentment for registration of
transfer on the books of the Company, the Company may treat the registered
holder hereof as the owner and holder hereof for all purposes, and the Company
shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary.
(b) Warrant
Exchangeable for Different Denominations. This Warrant is
exchangeable, upon the surrender hereof by the holder hereof at the office or
agency of the Company referred to in Paragraph 7(e) below, for new Warrants of
like tenor representing in the aggregate the right to purchase the number of
shares of Common Stock which may be purchased hereunder, each of such new
Warrants to represent the right to purchase such number of shares as shall be
designated by the holder hereof at the time of such surrender.
(c) Replacement
of Warrant. Upon receipt of
evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of the loss, theft, destruction,
or mutilation of this Warrant and, in the case of any such loss, theft, or
destruction, upon delivery of an indemnity agreement reasonably satisfactory in
form and amount to the Company, or, in the case of any such mutilation, upon
surrender and cancellation of this Warrant, the Company, at its expense, will
execute and deliver, in lieu thereof, a new Warrant of like
tenor.
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(d) Cancellation;
Payment of Expenses. Upon the
surrender of this Warrant in connection with any transfer, exchange, or
replacement as provided in this Paragraph 7, this Warrant shall be promptly
canceled by the Company. The Company shall pay all taxes (other than
securities transfer taxes) and all other expenses (other than legal expenses, if
any, incurred by the holder or transferees) and charges payable in connection
with the preparation, execution, and delivery of Warrants pursuant to this
Paragraph 7.
(e) Register. The Company shall
maintain, at its principal executive offices (or such other office or agency of
the Company as it may designate by notice to the holder hereof), a register for
this Warrant, in which the Company shall record the name and address of the
person in whose name this Warrant has been issued, as well as the name and
address of each transferee and each prior owner of this Warrant.
(f) Exercise
or Transfer Without Registration. If, at the time
of the surrender of this Warrant in connection with any exercise, transfer, or
exchange of this Warrant, this Warrant (or, in the case of any exercise, the
Warrant Shares issuable hereunder), shall not be registered under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and under applicable state
securities or blue sky laws, the Company may require, as a condition of allowing
such exercise, transfer, or exchange, (i) that the holder or transferee of this
Warrant, as the case may be, furnish to the Company a written opinion of
counsel, which opinion and counsel are acceptable to the Company, to the effect
that such exercise, transfer, or exchange may be made without registration under
said Act and under applicable state securities or blue sky laws, (ii) that the
holder or transferee execute and deliver to the Company an investment letter in
form and substance acceptable to the Company and (iii) that the transferee be an
“accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) promulgated under the Securities
Act; provided that no such opinion, letter or status as an “accredited investor”
shall be required in connection with a transfer pursuant to Rule 144 under the
Securities Act. The first holder of this Warrant, by taking and
holding the same, represents to the Company that such holder is acquiring this
Warrant for investment and not with a view to the distribution
thereof.
Notices.
All
notices, requests, and other communications required or permitted to be given or
delivered hereunder to the holder of this Warrant shall be in writing, and shall
be personally delivered, or shall be sent by certified or registered mail or by
recognized overnight mail courier, postage prepaid and addressed, to such holder
at the address shown for such holder on the books of the Company, or at such
other address as shall have been furnished to the Company by notice from such
holder. All notices, requests, and other communications required or
permitted to be given or delivered hereunder to the Company shall be in writing,
and shall be personally delivered, or shall be sent by certified or registered
mail or by recognized overnight mail courier, postage prepaid and addressed, to
the office of the Company at the most recent address on the Company’s filings
with the , or at such other address as shall have been furnished to the holder
of this Warrant by notice from the Company. Any such notice, request,
or other communication may be sent by facsimile, but shall in such case be
subsequently confirmed by a writing personally delivered or sent by certified or
registered mail or by recognized overnight mail courier as provided
above. All notices, requests, and other communications shall be
deemed to have been given either at the time of the receipt thereof by the
person entitled to receive such notice at the address of such person for
purposes of this Paragraph 9, or, if mailed by registered or certified mail or
with a recognized overnight mail courier upon deposit with the United States
Post Office or such overnight mail courier, if postage is prepaid and the
mailing is properly addressed, as the case may be.
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Governing
Law. THIS
WARRANT SHALL BE ENFORCED, GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS
OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED
ENTIRELY WITHIN SUCH STATE, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF
LAWS. THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY SUBMIT TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION
OF THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL COURTS LOCATED IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK WITH RESPECT
TO ANY DISPUTE ARISING UNDER THIS WARRANT, THE AGREEMENTS ENTERED INTO IN
CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY. BOTH
PARTIES IRREVOCABLY WAIVE THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE
MAINTENANCE OF SUCH SUIT OR PROCEEDING. BOTH PARTIES FURTHER AGREE
THAT SERVICE OF PROCESS UPON A PARTY MAILED BY FIRST CLASS MAIL SHALL BE DEEMED
IN EVERY RESPECT EFFECTIVE SERVICE OF PROCESS UPON THE PARTY IN ANY SUCH SUIT OR
PROCEEDING. NOTHING HEREIN SHALL AFFECT EITHER PARTY’S RIGHT TO SERVE
PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW. BOTH PARTIES AGREE THAT
A FINAL NON-APPEALABLE JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH SUIT OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE
CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON SUCH JUDGMENT
OR IN ANY OTHER LAWFUL MANNER. THE PARTY WHICH DOES NOT PREVAIL IN
ANY DISPUTE ARISING UNDER THIS WARRANT SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL FEES AND
EXPENSES, INCLUDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES, INCURRED BY THE PREVAILING PARTY IN
CONNECTION WITH SUCH DISPUTE.
10. Miscellaneous.
(a) Amendments. This Warrant and
any provision hereof may only be amended by an instrument in writing signed by
the Company and the holder hereof.
(b) Descriptive
Headings. The descriptive
headings of the several paragraphs of this Warrant are inserted for purposes of
reference only, and shall not affect the meaning or construction of any of the
provisions hereof.
(c) Cashless
Exercise. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Warrant, this Warrant may be
exercised by presentation and surrender of this Warrant to the Company at its
principal executive offices with a written notice of the holder’s intention to
effect a cashless exercise, including a calculation of the number of shares of
Common Stock to be issued upon such exercise in accordance with the terms hereof
(a “Cashless Exercise”). In the event of a Cashless Exercise, in lieu
of paying the Exercise Price in cash, the holder shall surrender this Warrant
for that number of shares of Common Stock determined by multiplying the number
of Warrant Shares to which it would otherwise be entitled by a fraction, the
numerator of which shall be the difference between the then current market price
per share of the Common Stock and the Exercise Price, and the
denominator of which shall be the then current market price per share of Common
Stock. For example, if the holder is exercising this Warrant with a
purchase of 50,000 shares of Common Stock with a per Warrant exercise price of
$3.68 per share through a cashless exercise when the Common Stock’s current
market price per share is $6.00 per share, then upon such Cashless Exercise the
holder will receive 19,334 shares of Common Stock.
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(d) Remedies. The
Company acknowledges that a breach by it of its obligations hereunder will cause
irreparable harm to the holder, by vitiating the intent and purpose of the
transaction contemplated hereby. Accordingly, the Company
acknowledges that the remedy at law for a breach of its obligations under this
Warrant will be inadequate and agrees, in the event of a breach or threatened
breach by the Company of the provisions of this Warrant, that the holder shall
be entitled, in addition to all other available remedies at law or in equity,
and in addition to the penalties assessable herein, to an injunction or
injunctions restraining, preventing or curing any breach of this Warrant and to
enforce specifically the terms and provisions thereof, without the necessity of
showing economic loss and without any bond or other security being
required.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
Company has caused this Warrant to be signed by its duly authorized
officer.
ACORN
ENERGY, INC.,
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a
Delaware Corporation
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By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Dated as
of December21, 2010
FORM
OF EXERCISE AGREEMENT
Dated: ________
__, 201_
To: ______________________
The
undersigned, pursuant to the provisions set forth in the within Warrant, hereby
agrees to purchase ________ shares of Common Stock covered by such Warrant, and
makes payment herewith in full therefor at the price per share provided by such
Warrant in cash or by certified or official bank check in the amount of $____ or
by surrender of securities issued by the Company (including a portion of the
Warrant) having a market value (in the case of a portion of this Warrant,
determined in accordance with Section 11(c) of the Warrant) equal to
$_________. Please issue a certificate or certificates for such
shares of:
Name:
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Signature:
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Address:
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Note:
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The
above signature should correspond exactly with the name on the face of the
within Warrant, if
applicable.
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and, if
said number of shares of Common Stock shall not be all the shares purchasable
under the within Warrant, a new Warrant is to be issued in the name of said
undersigned covering the balance of the shares purchasable thereunder less any
fraction of a share paid in cash.
FORM
OF ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the
undersigned hereby sells, assigns, and transfers all the rights of the
undersigned under the within Warrant, with respect to the number of shares of
Common Stock covered thereby set forth hereinbelow, to:
Name of Assignee
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Address
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No of Shares
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, and
hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints ___________________________________
as agent and attorney-in-fact to transfer said Warrant on the books of the
within-named corporation, with full power of substitution in the
premises.
Dated: ________
__, 201_
In
the presence of:
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Name:
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Signature:
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Title
of Signing Officer or Agent (if
any):
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Address:
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Note:
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The
above signature should correspond exactly with the name on the face of the
within Warrant, if
applicable.
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EXHIBIT
D
List of
Subsidiaries of Acorn Energy, Inc.
Subsidiary
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Jurisdiction
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Ownership
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DSIT
Solutions Ltd.
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Israel
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84%
including 26% by Xxxx & Valley
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Xxxx
& Valley Systems Ltd.
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Israel
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100%
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DSIT
Sonar and Acoustics Ltd.
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Israel
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100%
by DSIT Solutions
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Coreworx
Inc.
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Ontario
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100%
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CoaLogix
Inc.
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Delaware
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77%
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CoaLogix
Tech LLC
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Delaware
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100%
by CoaLogix Inc.
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CoaLogix
Solutions Inc.
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Delaware
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100%
by CoaLogix Inc.
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CoaLogix
Technology Holdings Inc.
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Delaware
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100%
by CoaLogix Inc.
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SCR-Tech,
LLC
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North
Carolina
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100%
by CoaLogix Solutions
Inc.
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