NEITHER THESE SECURITIES NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE
EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"),
AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE
EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS THEREUNDER AND IN COMPLIANCE
WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES OR BLUE SKY LAWS.
I-LINK INCORPORATED
WARRANT
Dated: July 28, 1998
I-Link Incorporated, a Florida corporation (the "Company"), hereby
certifies that, for value received, JNC Opportunity Fund Ltd., or its
registered assigns ("Holder"), is entitled, subject to the terms set forth
below, to purchase from the Company up to a total of 100,000 shares of Common
Stock, $.007 par value per share (the "Common Stock"), of the Company (each
such share, a "Warrant Share" and all such shares, the "Warrant Shares") at
an exercise price equal to $4.00 per share (as adjusted from time to time as
provided in Section 9, the "Exercise Price"), at any time and from time to
time from and after the date hereof and through and including July 28, 2003
(the "Expiration Date"), and subject to the following terms and conditions:
1. Registration of Warrant. The Company shall register this
Warrant, upon records to be maintained by the Company for that purpose (the
"Warrant Register"), in the name of the record Holder hereof from time to
time. The Company may deem and treat the registered Holder of this Warrant
as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of any exercise hereof or any
distribution to the Holder, and for all other purposes, and the Company shall
not be affected by notice to the contrary.
2. Registration of Transfers and Exchanges.
(a) The Company shall register the transfer of any portion of
this Warrant in the Warrant Register, upon surrender of this Warrant, with
the Form of Assignment attached hereto duly completed and signed, to the
Transfer Agent or to the Company at the office specified in or pursuant to
Section 3(b). Upon any such registration or transfer, a new warrant to
purchase Common Stock, in substantially the form of this Warrant (any such
new warrant, a "New Warrant"), evidencing the portion of this Warrant so
transferred shall be issued to the transferee and a New Warrant evidencing
the remaining portion of this Warrant not so transferred, if any, shall be
issued to the transferring Holder. The acceptance of the New Warrant by the
transferee thereof shall be deemed the acceptance of such transferee of all
of the rights and obligations of a holder of a Warrant.
(b) This Warrant is exchangeable, upon the surrender hereof
by the Holder to the office of the Company specified in or pursuant to
Section 3(b) for one or more New Warrants, evidencing in the aggregate the
right to purchase the number of Warrant Shares which may then be purchased
hereunder. Any such New Warrant will be dated the date of such exchange.
3. Duration and Exercise of Warrants.
(a) This Warrant shall be exercisable by the registered
Holder on any business day before 5:30 P.M., Eastern time, at any time and
from time to time on or after the date hereof to and including the Expiration
Date. At 5:30 P.M., Eastern time on the Expiration Date, the portion of this
Warrant not exercised prior thereto shall be and become void and of no value.
Prior to the Expiration Date, the Company may not call or otherwise redeem
this Warrant without the prior written consent of the Holder.
(b) Subject to Sections 2(b), 6 and 10, upon surrender of
this Warrant, with the Form of Election to Purchase attached hereto duly
completed and signed, to the Company at its address for notice set forth in
Section 12 and upon payment of the Exercise Price multiplied by the number
of Warrant Shares that the Holder intends to purchase hereunder, in lawful
money of the United States of America, in cash or by certified or official
bank check or checks, all as specified by the Holder in the Form of Election
to Purchase, the Company shall promptly (but in no event later than 3
business days after the Date of Exercise) issue or cause to be issued and
cause to be delivered to or upon the written order of the Holder and in such
name or names as the Holder may designate, a certificate for the Warrant
Shares issuable upon such exercise, free of restrictive legends other than as
required by applicable law. Any person so designated by the Holder to
receive Warrant Shares shall be deemed to have become holder of record of
such Warrant Shares as of the Date of Exercise of this Warrant.
A "Date of Exercise" means the date on which the Company shall
have received (i) this Warrant (or any New Warrant, as applicable), with the
Form of Election to Purchase attached hereto (or attached to such New
Warrant) appropriately completed and duly signed, and (ii) payment of the
Exercise Price for the number of Warrant Shares so indicated by the holder
hereof to be purchased.
(c) This Warrant shall be exercisable, either in its entirety
or, from time to time, for a portion of the number of Warrant Shares. If
less than all of the Warrant Shares which may be purchased under this Warrant
are exercised at any time, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued, at
its expense, a New Warrant evidencing the right to purchase the remaining
number of Warrant Shares for which no exercise has been evidenced by this
Warrant.
4. Piggyback Registration Rights. During the term of this
Warrant, the Company may not file any registration statement with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (other than registration statements of the
Company filed on Form S-8 or Form S-4, each as promulgated under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), pursuant to which
the Company is registering securities pursuant to a Company employee benefit
plan or pursuant to a merger, acquisition or similar transaction including
supplements thereto, but not additionally filed registration statements in
respect of such securities) at any time when there is not an effective
registration statement covering the resale of the Warrant Shares and naming
the Holder as a selling stockholder thereunder, unless the Company provides
the Holder with not less than 20 days notice of its intention to file such
registration statement and provides the Holder the option to include any or
all of the applicable Warrant Shares therein. The piggyback registration
rights granted to the Holder pursuant to this Section shall continue until
all of the Holder's Warrant Shares have been sold in accordance with an
effective registration statement or upon the Expiration Date. The Company
will pay all registration expenses in connection therewith.
5. Demand Registration Rights. At any time during the term of
this Warrant when the Warrant Shares are not registered pursuant to an
effective registration statement, the Holder may make a written request for
the registration under the Securities Act (a "Demand Registration"), of all
of the Warrant Shares (the "Registrable Securities"), and the Company shall
use its best efforts to effect such Demand Registration as promptly as
possible, but in any case within 90 days thereafter. Any request for a
Demand Registration shall specify the aggregate number of Registrable
Securities proposed to be sold and shall also specify the intended method of
disposition thereof. The right to cause a registration of the Registrable
Securities under this Section 5 shall be limited to one such registration.
In any registration initiated as a Demand Registration, the Company will pay
all of its registration expenses in connection therewith. A Demand
Registration shall not be counted as a Demand Registration hereunder until
the registration statement filed pursuant to the Demand Registration has been
declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission and maintained
continuously effective for a period of at least 360 days or such shorter
period when all Registrable Securities included therein have been sold in
accordance with such registration statement, provided, however that any days
on which such registration statement is not effective or on which the Holder
is not permitted by the Company or any governmental authority to sell Warrant
Shares under such registration statement shall not count towards such 360 day
period.
6. Payment of Taxes. The Company will pay all documentary stamp
taxes attributable to the issuance of Warrant Shares upon the exercise of
this Warrant; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to
pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the
registration of any certificates for Warrant Shares or Warrants in a name
other than that of the Holder, and the Company shall not be required to issue
or cause to be issued or deliver or cause to be delivered the certificates
for Warrant Shares unless or until the person or persons requesting the
issuance thereof shall have paid to the Company the amount of such tax or
shall have established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has
been paid. The Holder shall be responsible for all other tax liability that
may arise as a result of holding or transferring this Warrant or receiving
Warrant Shares upon exercise hereof.
7. Replacement of Warrant. If this Warrant is mutilated, lost,
stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in
exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation hereof, or in lieu of and
substitution for this Warrant, a New Warrant, but only upon receipt of
evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or
destruction and indemnity, if requested, satisfactory to it. Applicants for
a New Warrant under such circumstances shall also comply with such other
reasonable regulations and procedures and pay such other reasonable charges
as the Company may prescribe.
8. Reservation of Warrant Shares. The Company covenants that it
will at all times reserve and keep available out of the aggregate of its
authorized but unissued Common Stock, solely for the purpose of enabling it
to issue Warrant Shares upon exercise of this Warrant as herein provided, the
number of Warrant Shares which are then issuable and deliverable upon the
exercise of this entire Warrant, free from preemptive rights or any other
actual contingent purchase rights of persons other than the Holder (taking
into account the adjustments and restrictions of Section 9). The Company
covenants that all Warrant Shares that shall be so issuable and deliverable
shall, upon issuance and the payment of the applicable Exercise Price in
accordance with the terms hereof, be duly and validly authorized, issued and
fully paid and nonassessable.
9. Certain Adjustments. The Exercise Price and number of Warrant
Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant are subject to adjustment from
time to time as set forth in this Section 9. Upon each such adjustment of
the Exercise Price pursuant to this Section 9, the Holder shall thereafter
prior to the Expiration Date be entitled to purchase, at the Exercise Price
resulting from such adjustment, the number of Warrant Shares obtained by
multiplying the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such adjustment
by the number of Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant
immediately prior to such adjustment and dividing the product thereof by the
Exercise Price resulting from such adjustment.
(a) If the Company, at any time while this Warrant is
outstanding, (i) shall pay a stock dividend (except scheduled dividends paid
on outstanding preferred stock as of the date hereof which contain a stated
divided rate) or otherwise make a distribution or distributions on shares of
its Common Stock (as defined below) or on any other class of capital stock
and not the Common Stock) payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivide
outstanding shares of Common Stock into a larger number of shares, or (iii)
combine outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares,
the Exercise Price shall be multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator
shall be the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if
any) outstanding before such event and of which the denominator shall be the
number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if any)
outstanding after such event. Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section
shall become effective immediately after the record date for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or
distribution and shall become effective immediately after the effective date
in the case of a subdivision or combination, and shall apply to successive
subdivisions and combinations.
(b) In case of any reclassification of the Common Stock, any
consolidation or merger of the Company with or into another person, the sale
or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or any
compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is converted
into other securities, cash or property, then the Holder shall have the right
thereafter to exercise this Warrant only into the shares of stock and other
securities and property receivable upon or deemed to be held by holders of
Common Stock following such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale,
transfer or share exchange, and the Holder shall be entitled upon such event
to receive such amount of securities or property equal to the amount of
Warrant Shares such Holder would have been entitled to had such Holder
exercised this Warrant immediately prior to such reclassification,
consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange. The terms of any
such consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange shall include
such terms so as to continue to give to the Holder the right to receive the
securities or property set forth in this Section 9(b) upon any exercise
following any such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or
share exchange.
(c) If the Company, at any time while this Warrant is
outstanding, shall distribute to all holders of Common Stock (and not to
holders of this Warrant) evidences of its indebtedness or assets or rights or
warrants to subscribe for or purchase any security (excluding those referred
to in Sections 9(a), (b) and (d)), then in each such case the Exercise Price
shall be determined by multiplying the Exercise Price in effect immediately
prior to the record date fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to
receive such distribution by a fraction of which the denominator shall be the
Exercise Price determined as of the record date mentioned above, and of which
the numerator shall be such Exercise Price on such record date less the then
fair market value at such record date of the portion of such assets or
evidence of indebtedness so distributed applicable to one outstanding share
of Common Stock as determined by the Company's independent certified public
accountants that regularly examines the financial statements of the Company
(an "Appraiser").
(d) If, at any time while this Warrant is outstanding, the
Company shall issue or cause to be issued rights or warrants to acquire or
otherwise sell or distribute shares of Common Stock to all holders of Common
Stock for a consideration per share less than the Exercise Price then in
effect, then, forthwith upon such issue or sale, the Exercise Price shall be
reduced to the price (calculated to the nearest cent) determined by
multiplying the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior thereto by a
fraction, the numerator of which shall be the sum of (i) the number of shares
of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such issuance, and (ii) the
number of shares of Common Stock which the aggregate consideration received
(or to be received, assuming exercise or conversion in full of such rights,
warrants and convertible securities) for the issuance of such additional
shares of Common Stock would purchase at the Exercise Price, and the
denominator of which shall be the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding immediately after the issuance of such additional shares. Such
adjustment shall be made successively whenever such an issuance is made.
(e) For the purposes of this Section 9, the following clauses
shall also be applicable:
(i) Record Date. In case the Company shall take a
record of the holders of its Common Stock for the purpose of entitling them
(A) to receive a dividend or other distribution payable in Common Stock or in
securities convertible or exchangeable into shares of Common Stock, or (B) to
subscribe for or purchase Common Stock or securities convertible or
exchangeable into shares of Common Stock, then such record date shall be
deemed to be the date of the issue or sale of the shares of Common Stock
deemed to have been issued or sold upon the declaration of such dividend or
the making of such other distribution or the date of the granting of such
right of subscription or purchase, as the case may be.
(ii) Treasury Shares. The number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding at any given time shall not include shares owned or held by
or for the account of the Company, and the disposition of any such shares
shall be considered an issue or sale of Common Stock.
(f) All calculations under this Section 9 shall be made to
the nearest cent or the nearest 1/100th of a share, as the case may be.
(g) Whenever the Exercise Price is adjusted pursuant to
Section 9(c) above, the Holder, after receipt of the determination by the
Appraiser, shall have the right to select an additional appraiser (which
shall be a nationally recognized accounting firm), in which case the
adjustment shall be equal to the average of the adjustments recommended by
each of the Appraiser and such appraiser. The Holder shall promptly mail or
cause to be mailed to the Company, a notice setting forth the Exercise Price
after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts
requiring such adjustment. Such adjustment shall become effective
immediately after the record date mentioned above.
(h) If:
(i) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any
other distribution) on its Common Stock; or
(ii) the Company shall declare a special
nonrecurring cash dividend on or a redemption
of its Common Stock; or
(iii) the Company shall authorize the granting to
all holders of the Common Stock rights or
warrants to subscribe for or purchase any
shares of capital stock of any class or of any
rights; or
(iv) the approval of any stockholders of the
Company shall be required in connection with
any reclassification of the Common Stock of
the Company, any consolidation or merger to
which the Company is a party, any sale or
transfer of all or substantially all of the
assets of the Company, or any compulsory share
exchange whereby the Common Stock is converted
into other securities, cash or property; or
(v) the Company shall authorize the voluntary
dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the
affairs of the Company,
then the Company shall cause to be mailed to each Holder at their last
addresses as they shall appear upon the Warrant Register, at least 30
calendar days prior to the applicable record or effective date hereinafter
specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record is to be taken for
the purpose of such dividend, distribution, redemption, rights or warrants,
or if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of Common
Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distributions, redemption,
rights or warrants are to be determined or (y) the date on which such
reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange is
expected to become effective or close, and the date as of which it is
expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange
their shares of Common Stock for securities, cash or other property
deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale,
transfer, share exchange, dissolution, liquidation or winding up; provided,
however, that the failure to mail such notice or any defect therein or in the
mailing thereof shall not affect the validity of the corporate action
required to be specified in such notice.
10. Payment of Exercise Price. The Holder may pay the Exercise
Price in one of the following manners:
(a) Cash Exercise. The Holder shall deliver immediately
available funds; or
(b) Cashless Exercise. The Holder shall surrender this
Warrant to the Company together with a notice of cashless exercise, in which
event the Company shall issue to the Holder the number of Warrant Shares
determined as follows:
X = Y (A-B)/A
where:
X = the number of Warrant Shares to be issued
to the Holder.
Y = the number of Warrant Shares with respect to which
this Warrant is being exercised.
A = the average of the closing sale prices of the Common
Stock for the five (5) trading days immediately prior to
(but not including) the Date of Exercise.
B = the Exercise Price.
For purposes of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act, it is
intended, understood and acknowledged that the Warrant Shares issued in a
cashless exercise transaction shall be deemed to have been acquired by the
Holder, and the holding period for the Warrant Shares shall be deemed to have
been commenced, on the issue date.
11. Fractional Shares. The Company shall not be required to issue
or cause to be issued fractional Warrant Shares on the exercise of this
Warrant. The number of full Warrant Shares which shall be issuable upon the
exercise of this Warrant shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate
number of Warrant Shares purchasable on exercise of this Warrant so
presented. If any fraction of a Warrant Share would, except for the
provisions of this Section 11, be issuable on the exercise of this Warrant,
the Company shall pay an amount in cash equal to the Exercise Price
multiplied by such fraction.
12. Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or
deliveries hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and
effective on the earliest of (i) the date of transmission, if such notice or
communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile telephone number
specified in this Section prior to 4:30 p.m. (Eastern time) on a business
day, (ii) the business day after the date of transmission, if such notice or
communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile telephone number
specified in this Section later than 4:30 p.m. (Eastern time) on any date and
earlier than 11:59 p.m. (Eastern time) on such date, (iii) the business day
following the date of mailing, if sent by nationally recognized overnight
courier service, or (iv) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice
is required to be given. The addresses for such communications shall be:
(i) if to the Company, to 00000 X. Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxx,
Xxxx 00000, Attention: Chief Financial Officer, or to facsimile no. (801) [
], or (ii) if to the Holder, to the Holder at the address or facsimile number
appearing on the Warrant Register or such other address or facsimile number
as the Holder may provide to the Company in accordance with this Section 12.
13. Warrant Agent.
(a) The Company shall serve as warrant agent under this
Warrant. Upon thirty (30) days' notice to the Holder, the Company may
appoint a new warrant agent.
(b) Any corporation into which the Company or any new warrant
agent may be merged or any corporation resulting from any consolidation to
which the Company or any new warrant agent shall be a party or any
corporation to which the Company or any new warrant agent transfers
substantially all of its corporate trust or shareholders services business
shall be a successor warrant agent under this Warrant without any further
act. Any such successor warrant agent shall promptly cause notice of its
succession as warrant agent to be mailed (by first class mail, postage
prepaid) to the Holder at the Holder's last address as shown on the Warrant
Register.
14. Miscellaneous.
(a) This Warrant shall be binding on and inure to the benefit
of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns.
This Warrant may be amended only in writing signed by the Company and the
Holder.
(b) Subject to Section 14(a), above, nothing in this Warrant
shall be construed to give to any person or corporation other than the
Company and the Holder any legal or equitable right, remedy or cause under
this Warrant. This Warrant shall inure to the sole and exclusive benefit of
the Company and the Holder.
(c) This Warrant shall be governed by and construed and
enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York
without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof.
(d) The headings herein are for convenience only, do not
constitute a part of this Warrant and shall not be deemed to limit or affect
any of the provisions hereof.
(e) In case any one or more of the provisions of this Warrant
shall be invalid or unenforceable in any respect, the validity and
enforceability of the remaining terms and provisions of this Warrant shall
not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and the parties will attempt
in good faith to agree upon a valid and enforceable provision which shall be
a commercially reasonable substitute therefor, and upon so agreeing, shall
incorporate such substitute provision in this Warrant.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant to be duly
executed by its authorized officer as of the date first indicated above.
I-LINK INCORPORATED
By:___________________________________
Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: President
FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE
(To be executed by the Holder to exercise the right to purchase shares of
Common Stock under the foregoing Warrant)
To I-Link Incorporated:
In accordance with the Warrant enclosed with this Form of Election to
Purchase, the undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to purchase
_____________ shares of Common Stock ("Common Stock"), $.007 par value per
share, of I-Link Incorporated and , if such Holder is not utilizing the
cashless exercise provisions set forth in this Warrant, encloses herewith
$________ in cash, certified or official bank check or checks, which sum
represents the aggregate Exercise Price (as defined in the Warrant) for the
number of shares of Common Stock to which this Form of Election to Purchase
relates, together with any applicable taxes payable by the undersigned
pursuant to the Warrant.
The undersigned requests that certificates for the shares of Common
Stock issuable upon this exercise be issued in the name of
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER
_____________________________________________________________________________
(Please print name and address)
If the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon this exercise
shall not be all of the shares of Common Stock which the undersigned is
entitled to purchase in accordance with the enclosed Warrant, the undersigned
requests that a New Warrant (as defined in the Warrant) evidencing the right
to purchase the shares of Common Stock not issuable pursuant to the exercise
evidenced hereby be issued in the name of and delivered to:
___________________________________________________________________________
(Please print name and address)
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
Dated:_________,_________ Name of Holder:
(Print)__________________________________
(By:)____________________________________
(Name:)
(Title:)
(Signature must conform in all respects
to name of holder as specified on the
face of the Warrant)
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT
[To be completed and signed only upon transfer of Warrant]
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto ________________________________ the right represented by the within
Warrant to purchase ____________ shares of Common Stock of I-Link
Incorporated to which the within Warrant relates and appoints
________________ attorney to transfer said right on the books of I-Link
Incorporated with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated: _______________, ____
_______________________________________
(Signature must conform in all respects to name of
holder as specified on the face of the Warrant)
_______________________________________
Address of Transferee
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
In the presence of:
__________________________
