SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT 99.1
This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of February 2, 2007,
among Verso Technologies, Inc., a Minnesota corporation (the “Company”), and each purchaser
identified on the signature pages hereto (each, including its successors and assigns, a
“Purchaser” and collectively the “Purchasers”).
WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant to
Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Rule 506
promulgated thereunder, the Company desires to issue and sell to each Purchaser, and each
Purchaser, severally and not jointly, desires to purchase from the Company, securities of the
Company as more fully described in this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for
other good and valuable consideration the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged,
the Company and each Purchaser agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Definitions. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, for
all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section
1.1:
“Action” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(j).
“Additional Purchasers” shall mean those purchasers signatory to an Other Purchase
Agreement.
“Affiliate” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person as such terms
are used in and construed under Rule 144 under the Securities Act. With respect to a Purchaser,
any investment fund or managed account that is managed on a discretionary basis by the same
investment manager as such Purchaser will be deemed to be an Affiliate of such Purchaser.
“Business Day” means any day except Saturday, Sunday, any day which shall be a federal
legal holiday in the United States or any day on which banking institutions in the State of New
York are authorized or required by law or other governmental action to close.
“Closing” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to
Section 2.1.
“Closing Date” means the Trading Day when all of the Transaction Documents have been
executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all conditions precedent to (i) the
Purchasers’ obligations to pay the Subscription Amount and (ii) the Company’s obligations to
deliver the Securities have been satisfied or waived.
“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share, and
any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed
into.
“Common Stock Equivalents” means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries
which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock, including, without
limitation, any debt, preferred stock, rights, options, warrants or other instrument that is at any
time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof
to receive, Common Stock.
“Company Counsel” means Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx LLP, with offices located at 2700
International Tower, 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx XX, Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000.
“Disclosure Schedules” means the Disclosure Schedules of the Company delivered
concurrently herewith.
“Effective Date” means the date that the initial Registration Statement filed by the
Company pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement is first declared effective by the
Commission.
“Evaluation Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(r).
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Exempt Issuance” means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock or options to
employees, officers, consultants or directors of the Company or any Subsidiary pursuant to any
stock or option plan duly adopted for such purpose, by a majority of the non-employee members of
the Board of Directors of the Company or a majority of the members of a committee of non-employee
directors established (provided, however, any such issuances to consultants shall not exceed
250,000 shares of Common Stock and Common Stock Equivalents, in the aggregate, in any 12 month
period), (b) securities upon the exercise or exchange of or conversion of any Securities issued
hereunder, securities issuable pursuant to the terms of any convertible securities outstanding on
the date of this Agreement, and/or other securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible
into shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date of this Agreement, provided that
such securities have not been amended since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of
such securities or to decrease the exercise, exchange or conversion price of such securities, (c)
securities issued pursuant to acquisitions or strategic transactions approved by a majority of the
disinterested directors of the Company, provided that any such issuance shall only be to a Person
which is either an individual owner of, or an entity that is, itself or through its subsidiaries,
an operating company in a business synergistic with the business of the Company and in which the
Company receives benefits in addition to the investment of funds, but shall not include a
transaction in which the Company is issuing securities primarily for the purpose of raising capital
or to an entity whose primary business is investing in securities, and (d) up to an amount of
Common Stock and warrants equal to the difference between $3,000,000 and the aggregate Subscription
Amounts hereunder, on substantially the same terms and conditions as hereunder, with “accredited
investors” executing
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definitive agreements for the purchase of such securities and such transactions having closed
on or before February 9, 2007.
“GAAP” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).
“Indebtedness” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(aa).
“Intellectual Property Rights” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(o).
“January 30, 2007 Purchase Agreement” shall mean that certain Securities Purchase
Agreement dated January 30, 2007 among the Company and the purchasers signatory thereto.
“Legend Removal Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.1(c).
“Liens” means a lien, charge, security interest, encumbrance, right of first refusal,
preemptive right or other restriction.
“Material Adverse Effect” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.1(b).
“Material Permits” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(m).
“Other Closing Date” shall mean the closing date under an Other Purchase
Agreement.
“Other Purchase Agreement” shall mean the January 30, 2007 Purchase Agreement and each
other definitive securities purchase agreement pursuant to which the Company sells securities
pursuant to clause (d) of the definition of Exempt Issuances herein.
“Other Securities” shall mean the securities purchased by the Additional Purchasers
under the Other Purchase Agreements.
“Other Subscription Amount” shall mean, as to each Additional Purchaser, the aggregate
amount paid for the Other Securities purchased by it under the applicable Other Purchase Agreement,
as specified below such Additional Purchaser’s name on the signature page of such Other Purchase
Agreement and next to the heading “Subscription Amount,” in United States dollars and in
immediately available funds.
“Participation Maximum” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.13.
“Per Share Purchase Price” equals $1.00, subject to adjustment for reverse and forward
stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common
Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.
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“Person” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or
unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company,
government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.
“Pre-Notice” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.13.
“Proceeding” means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding (including,
without limitation, an investigation or partial proceeding, such as a deposition), whether
commenced or threatened.
“Purchaser Party” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.9.
“Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated the
date hereof, among the Company and the Purchasers, in the form of Exhibit A attached
hereto.
“Registration Statement” means a registration statement meeting the requirements set
forth in the Registration Rights Agreement and covering the resale by the Purchasers of the Shares
and the Warrant Shares.
“Required Approvals” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(e).
“Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities
Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter
adopted by the Commission having substantially the same effect as such Rule.
“SEC Reports” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).
“Securities” means the Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable to each Purchaser
pursuant to this Agreement.
“Short Sales” means all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under
the Exchange Act (but shall not be deemed to include the location and/or reservation of borrowable
shares of Common Stock).
“Subscription Amount” means, as to each Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be paid for
Shares and Warrants purchased hereunder as specified below such Purchaser’s name on the signature
page of this Agreement and next to the heading “Subscription Amount,” in United States dollars and
in immediately available funds.
“Subsequent Financing” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.13.
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“Subsequent Financing Notice” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in
Section 4.13.
“Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Company as set forth on Schedule
3.1(a).
“Trading Day” means a day on which the Common Stock is traded on a Trading Market.
“Trading Market” means the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is
listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the American Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq
Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock
Exchange or the OTC Bulletin Board.
“Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, the Warrants, the Registration Rights
Agreement and any other documents or agreements executed in connection with the transactions
contemplated hereunder.
“Transfer Agent” means American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, with a mailing address
of 00 Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000 and a facsimile number of (000) 000-0000, and any successor
transfer agent of the Company.
“VWAP” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses
that applies: (a) if the Common Stock is then listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the daily
volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on
the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted for trading as reported by
Bloomberg L.P. (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York
City time); (b) if the OTC Bulletin Board is not a Trading Market, the volume weighted average
price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the OTC Bulletin Board;
(c) if the Common Stock is not then quoted for trading on the OTC Bulletin Board and if prices for
the Common Stock are then reported in the “Pink Sheets” published by Pink Sheets, LLC (or a similar
organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price
per share of the Common Stock so reported; or (d) in all other cases, the fair market value of a
share of Common Stock as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the
Purchaser and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be paid by
the Company.
“Warrants” means collectively the Common Stock purchase warrants delivered to the
Purchasers at the Closing in accordance with Section 2.2(a) hereof, which Warrants shall be
exercisable immediately and have a term of exercise equal to five years, in the form of Exhibit
B attached hereto.
“Warrant Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the
Warrants.
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ARTICLE II.
PURCHASE AND SALE
2.1 Closing. On the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set
forth herein, substantially concurrent with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the
parties hereto, the Company agrees to sell, and each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, agrees
to purchase, an aggregate of, up to $3,000,000 of Shares and Warrants. Each Purchaser shall
deliver to the Company, via wire transfer or a certified check, immediately available funds equal
to its Subscription Amount and the Company shall deliver to each Purchaser its respective Shares
and a Warrant as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a), and the Company and each Purchaser shall
deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at the Closing. Upon satisfaction of
the conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3, the Closing shall occur at the offices of the
Company, or such other location as the parties shall mutually agree.
2.2 Deliveries.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to
each Purchaser the following:
(i) this Agreement duly executed by the Company;
(ii) a legal opinion of Company Counsel, substantially in the form of Exhibit B
to the January 30, 2007 Purchase Agreement, with such changes as Company Counsel
deems necessary in the circumstances.
(iii) subject to section 4.16 hereof, a certificate evidencing a number of Shares equal to
such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount divided by the Per Share Purchase Price, registered in the
name of such Purchaser;
(iv) subject to section 4.16 hereof, a Warrant registered in the name of such Purchaser to
purchase up to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to 50% of such Purchaser’s Subscription
Amount divided by $1.00, with an exercise price equal to $1.25, subject to adjustment therein; and
(v) the Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by the Company.
(b) On or prior to the Closing Date, each Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be delivered to
the Company the following:
(i) this Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser;
(ii) such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount by wire transfer to the account as specified in
writing by the Company; and
(iii) the Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser.
2.3 Closing Conditions.
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(a) The obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the
following conditions being met:
(i) the accuracy in all material respects when made and on the Closing Date of the
representations and warranties of the Purchasers contained herein;
(ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Purchasers required to be performed at
or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and
(iii) the delivery by the Purchasers of the items set forth in Section 2.2(b) of this
Agreement.
(b) The respective obligations of the Purchasers hereunder in connection with the Closing are
subject to the following conditions being met:
(i) the accuracy in all material respects on the Closing Date of the representations and
warranties of the Company contained herein;
(ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company required to be performed at or
prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed;
(iii) the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2(a) of this Agreement;
(iv) there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company since the
date hereof; and
(v) from the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have been
suspended by the Commission or the Company’s principal Trading Market (except for any suspension of
trading of limited duration agreed to by the Company, which suspension shall be terminated prior to
the Closing), and, at any time prior to the Closing Date, trading in securities generally as
reported by Bloomberg L.P. shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not
have been established on securities whose trades are reported by such service, or on any Trading
Market, nor shall a banking moratorium have been declared either by the United States or New York
State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities
or other national or international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material
adverse change in, any financial market which, in each case, in the reasonable judgment of each
Purchaser, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Shares at the Closing.
ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
3.1 Representations and Warranties of the Company. Except as set forth in the
Disclosure Schedules which Disclosure Schedules shall be deemed a part hereof and shall qualify any
representation or otherwise made herein to the extent of the disclosure contained in the
corresponding section of the Disclosure Schedules, the Company hereby makes the following
representations and warranties to each Purchaser:
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(a) Subsidiaries. All of the direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Company are set
forth on Schedule 3.1(a). The Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of the capital
stock or other equity interests of each Subsidiary free and clear of any Liens, and all of the
issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of each Subsidiary are validly issued and are fully
paid, non-assessable and free of preemptive and similar rights to subscribe for or purchase
securities. If the Company has no subsidiaries, then all other references to the Subsidiaries or
any of them in the Transaction Documents shall be disregarded.
(b) Organization and Qualification. The Company and each of the Subsidiaries is an
entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization (as applicable), with the requisite
power and authority to own and use its properties and assets and to carry on its business as
currently conducted. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in violation or default of any of
the provisions of its respective certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other
organizational or charter documents. Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified to
conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in each
jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes such
qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the
case may be, could not have or reasonably be expected to result in (i) a material adverse effect on
the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse
effect on the results of operations, assets, business or condition (financial or otherwise) of the
Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s
ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction
Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material Adverse Effect”) and no Proceeding has
been instituted in any such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke,
limit or curtail such power and authority or qualification.
(c) Authorization; Enforcement. The Company has the requisite corporate power and
authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by each of the Transaction
Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and
delivery of each of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary action on
the part of the Company and no further action is required by the Company, its board of directors or
its stockholders in connection therewith other than in connection with the Required Approvals.
Each Transaction Document has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company
and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and
binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms
except (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific
performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and
contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.
(d) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction
Documents by the Company, the issuance and sale of the Shares and the consummation by the Company
of the other transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will not (i)
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conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s certificate or
articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents, or (ii) conflict
with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a
default) under, result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the
Company or any Subsidiary, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or
cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit facility,
debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company or Subsidiary debt or otherwise) or other
understanding to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any property or asset
of the Company or any Subsidiary is bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals,
conflict with or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction,
decree or other restriction of any court or governmental authority to which the Company or a
Subsidiary is subject (including federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by which
any property or asset of the Company or a Subsidiary is bound or affected; except in the case of
each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect.
(e) Filings, Consents and Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any
consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration
with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority or other Person in
connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction
Documents, other than (i) filings required pursuant to Section 4.4 of this Agreement, (ii) the
filing with the Commission of the Registration Statement, (iii) application(s) to each applicable
Trading Market for the listing of the Securities for trading thereon in the time and manner
required thereby and (iv) the filing of Form D with the Commission and such filings as are required
to be made under applicable state securities laws (collectively, the “Required Approvals”).
(f) Issuance of the Securities. The Securities are duly authorized and, when issued
and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly
issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company other than
restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents. The Warrant Shares, when
issued in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents, will be validly issued, fully
paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company. The Company has
reserved from its duly authorized capital stock the maximum number of shares of Common Stock
issuable pursuant to this Agreement and the Warrants.
(g) Capitalization. The capitalization of the Company is as set forth on Schedule
3.1(g), which Schedule 3.1(g) shall also include the number of shares of Common Stock
owned beneficially, and of record, by Affiliates of the Company as of the date hereof. The Company
has not issued any capital stock since its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange
Act, other than pursuant to the exercise of employee stock options under the Company’s stock option
plans, the issuance of shares of Common Stock to employees pursuant to the Company’s employee stock
purchase plan and pursuant to the conversion or exercise of Common Stock Equivalents outstanding as
of the date of the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act. No Person has any
right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to
participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Except as a result of
the purchase and sale of the Securities, there are
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no outstanding options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any
character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or
exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to subscribe for or acquire, any
shares of Common Stock, or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the
Company or any Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional shares of Common Stock or
Common Stock Equivalents. The issuance and sale of the Securities will not obligate the Company to
issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any Person (other than the Purchasers) and will
not result in a right of any holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise, conversion,
exchange or reset price under any of such securities. All of the outstanding shares of capital
stock of the Company are validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in
compliance with all federal and state securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was
issued in violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase
securities. No further approval or authorization of any stockholder, the Board of Directors of the
Company or others is required for the issuance and sale of the Securities. There are no
stockholders agreements, voting agreements or other similar agreements with respect to the
Company’s capital stock to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company,
between or among any of the Company’s stockholders.
(h) SEC Reports; Financial Statements. The Company has filed all reports, schedules,
forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act
and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, for the two years
preceding the date hereof (or such shorter period as the Company was required by law or regulation
to file such material) (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents
incorporated by reference therein, being collectively referred to herein as the “SEC
Reports”) on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has
filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such extension. As of their respective
dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities
Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any
untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances
under which they were made, not misleading. The financial statements of the Company included in
the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the
rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing.
Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted
accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”),
except as may be otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and except
that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and fairly
present in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated
subsidiaries as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the
periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial, year-end
audit adjustments.
(i) Material Changes; Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments. Since the date
of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, except as specifically
disclosed in a subsequent SEC Report filed prior to the date hereof, (i) there has been no event,
occurrence or development that has had or that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect, (ii) the Company has not incurred any liabilities (contingent
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or otherwise) other than (A) trade payables and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary
course of business consistent with past practice and (B) liabilities not required to be reflected
in the Company’s financial statements pursuant to GAAP or disclosed in filings made with the
Commission, (iii) the Company has not altered its method of accounting, (iv) the Company has not
declared or made any dividend or distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders or
purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital stock
and (v) the Company has not issued any equity securities to any officer, director or Affiliate,
except pursuant to existing Company stock option plans. The Company does not have pending before
the Commission any request for confidential treatment of information. Except for the issuance of
the Securities contemplated by this Agreement or as set forth on Schedule 3.1(i), no event,
liability or development has occurred or exists with respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or
their respective business, properties, operations or financial condition, that would be required to
be disclosed by the Company under applicable securities laws at the time this representation is
made that has not been publicly disclosed at least one Trading Day prior to the date that this
representation is made.
(j) Litigation. There is no action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding or
investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the
Company, any Subsidiary or any of their respective properties before or by any court, arbitrator,
governmental or administrative agency or regulatory authority (federal, state, county, local or
foreign) (collectively, an “Action”) which (i) adversely affects or challenges the
legality, validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents or the Securities or (ii)
could, if there were an unfavorable decision, have or reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor any director or officer
thereof, is or has been the subject of any Action involving a claim of violation of or liability
under federal or state securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty. There has not been,
and to the knowledge of the Company, there is not pending or contemplated, any investigation by the
Commission involving the Company or any current or former director or officer of the Company. The
Commission has not issued any stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of any
registration statement filed by the Company or any Subsidiary under the Exchange Act or the
Securities Act.
(k) Labor Relations. No material labor dispute exists or, to the knowledge of the
Company, is imminent with respect to any of the employees of the Company which could reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’
employees is a member of a union that relates to such employee’s relationship with the Company, and
neither the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party to a collective bargaining agreement, and
the Company and its Subsidiaries believe that their relationships with their employees are good.
No executive officer, to the knowledge of the Company, is, or is now expected to be, in violation
of any material term of any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary
information agreement or non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any
restrictive covenant, and the continued employment of each such executive officer does not subject
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any liability with respect to any of the foregoing
matters. The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all U.S. federal, state, local
and foreign laws and regulations relating to employment and employment practices, terms and
conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where
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the failure to be in compliance could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(l) Compliance. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary (i) is in default under or in
violation of (and no event has occurred that has not been waived that, with notice or lapse of time
or both, would result in a default by the Company or any Subsidiary under), nor has the Company or
any Subsidiary received notice of a claim that it is in default under or that it is in violation
of, any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any other agreement or instrument to which it is a
party or by which it or any of its properties is bound (whether or not such default or violation
has been waived), (ii) is in violation of any order of any court, arbitrator or governmental body,
or (iii) is or has been in violation of any statute, rule or regulation of any governmental
authority, including without limitation all foreign, federal, state and local laws applicable to
its business and all such laws that affect the environment, except in each case as could not have
or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(m) Regulatory Permits. The Company and the Subsidiaries possess all certificates,
authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory
authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports,
except where the failure to possess such permits could not have or reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect (“Material Permits”), and neither the Company nor any
Subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any
Material Permit.
(n) Title to Assets. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiaries own any real property.
The Company and the Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in all personal property owned by
them that is material to the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries, in each case free and
clear of all Liens, except for Liens as do not materially affect the value of such property and do
not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company
and the Subsidiaries and Liens for the payment of federal, state or other taxes, the payment of
which is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties. Any real property and facilities held under
lease by the Company and the Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable
leases with which the Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance.
(o) Patents and Trademarks. The Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have rights to
use, all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade
names, trade secrets, inventions, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property rights and
similar rights necessary or material for use in connection with their respective businesses as
described in the SEC Reports and which the failure to so have could have a Material Adverse Effect
(collectively, the “Intellectual Property Rights”). Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary
has received a notice (written or otherwise) that the Intellectual Property Rights used by the
Company or any Subsidiary violates or infringes upon the rights of any Person. To the knowledge of
the Company, all such Intellectual Property Rights are enforceable and there is no existing
infringement by another Person of any of the Intellectual Property Rights which could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable
security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of
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their intellectual properties, except where failure to do so could not, individually or in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(p) Insurance. The Company and the Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized
financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and
customary in the businesses in which the Company and the Subsidiaries are engaged, including, but
not limited to, directors and officers insurance coverage at least equal to the aggregate
Subscription Amount. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will
not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain
similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business without a
significant increase in cost.
(q) Transactions With Affiliates and Employees. Except as set forth in the SEC
Reports, none of the officers or directors of the Company and, to the knowledge of the Company,
none of the employees of the Company is presently a party to any transaction with the Company or
any Subsidiary (other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any
contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by,
providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or
from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any entity in
which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer,
director, trustee or partner, in each case in excess of $60,000 other than for (i) payment of
salary or consulting fees for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf
of the Company and (iii) other employee benefits, including stock option agreements under any stock
option plan of the Company.
(r) Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx; Internal Accounting Controls. The Company is in material
compliance with all provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 which are applicable to it as of
the Closing Date. The Company and the Subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting
controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in
accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as
necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain
asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s
general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with
the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any
differences. The Company has established disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange
Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and designed such disclosure controls and
procedures to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports it
files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the
time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms. The Company’s certifying officers have
evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of
the period covered by the Company’s most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act
(such date, the “Evaluation Date”). The Company presented in its most recently filed
periodic report under the Exchange Act the conclusions of the certifying officers about the
effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on their evaluations as of the
Evaluation Date. Since the Evaluation Date, there have been no changes in the Company’s internal
control over financial reporting (as such
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term is defined in the Exchange Act) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to
materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
(s) Certain Fees. No brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions are or will be payable
by the Company to any broker, financial advisor or consultant, finder, placement agent, investment
banker, bank or other Person with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents. The Purchasers shall have no obligation with respect to any fees or with respect to any
claims made by or on behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this Section that
may be due in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
(t) Private Placement. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers representations and
warranties set forth in Section 3.2, no registration under the Securities Act is required for the
offer and sale of the Securities by the Company to the Purchasers as contemplated hereby. The
issuance and sale of the Securities hereunder does not contravene the rules and regulations of the
Trading Market.
(u) Investment Company. The Company is not, and is not an Affiliate of, and
immediately after receipt of payment for the Securities, will not be or be an Affiliate of, an
“investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The
Company shall conduct its business in a manner so that it will not become subject to the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(v) Registration Rights. Other than each of the Purchasers, no Person has any right
to cause the Company to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the
Company.
(w) Listing and Maintenance Requirements. The Company’s Common Stock is registered
pursuant to Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action
designed to, or which to its knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the
registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any
notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration. The Company has
not, in the 12 months preceding the date hereof, received notice from any Trading Market on which
the Common Stock is or has been listed or quoted to the effect that the Company is not in
compliance with the listing or maintenance requirements of such Trading Market. The Company is, and
has no reason to believe that it will not in the foreseeable future continue to be, in compliance
with all such listing and maintenance requirements.
(x) Application of Takeover Protections. The Company and its board of directors have
taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition,
business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other
similar anti-takeover provision under the Company’s certificate of incorporation (or similar
charter documents) or the laws of its state of incorporation that is or could become applicable to
the Purchasers as a result of the Purchasers and the Company fulfilling their obligations or
exercising their rights under the Transaction Documents, including without limitation as a result
of the Company’s issuance of the Securities and the Purchasers’ ownership of the Securities.
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(y) Disclosure. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company confirms that neither it nor
any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Purchasers or their agents or counsel
with any information that it believes constitutes or might constitute material, non-public
information. The Company understands and confirms that the Purchasers will rely on the foregoing
representation in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. All disclosure furnished by
or on behalf of the Company to the Purchasers regarding the Company, its business and the
transactions contemplated hereby, including the Disclosure Schedules to this Agreement, is true and
correct and does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material
fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading. The press releases disseminated by the Company during the
twelve months preceding the date of this Agreement taken as a whole do not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary in order to make the statements, in light of the circumstances under which they were made
and when made, not misleading. The Company acknowledges and agrees that no Purchaser makes or has
made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other
than those specifically set forth in Section 3.2 hereof.
(z) No Integrated Offering. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations
and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, neither the Company, nor any of its Affiliates, nor any
Person acting on its or their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any
security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would cause this
offering of the Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of the
Securities Act or any applicable shareholder approval provisions of any Trading Market on which any
of the securities of the Company are listed or designated.
(aa) Solvency. Based on the financial condition of the Company as of the Closing
Date, after giving effect to the receipt by the Company of the proceeds from the sale of the
Securities hereunder, (i) the fair saleable value of the Company’s assets exceeds the amount that
will be required to be paid on or in respect of the Company’s existing debts and other liabilities
(including known contingent liabilities) as they mature; (ii) the Company’s assets do not
constitute unreasonably small capital to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to
be conducted including its capital needs taking into account the particular capital requirements of
the business conducted by the Company, and projected capital requirements and capital availability
thereof; and (iii) the current cash flow of the Company, together with the proceeds the Company
would receive, were it to liquidate all of its assets, after taking into account all anticipated
uses of the cash, would be sufficient to pay all amounts on or in respect of its liabilities when
such amounts are required to be paid. The Company does not intend to incur debts beyond its
ability to pay such debts as they mature (taking into account the timing and amounts of cash to be
payable on or in respect of its debt). The Company has no knowledge of any facts or circumstances
which lead it to believe that it will file for reorganization or liquidation under the bankruptcy
or reorganization laws of any jurisdiction within one year from the Closing Date. Schedule 3.1(aa)
sets forth as of the dates thereof all outstanding secured and unsecured Indebtedness of the
Company or any Subsidiary, or for which the Company or any Subsidiary has commitments. For the
purposes of this Agreement, “Indebtedness” means (a) any liabilities for borrowed money or
amounts owed in excess of $50,000 (other than trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary
course of business), (b) all guaranties, endorsements and other
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contingent obligations in respect of Indebtedness of others, whether or not the same are or
should be reflected in the Company’s balance sheet (or the notes thereto), except guaranties by
endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the
ordinary course of business; and (c) the present value of any lease payments in excess of $50,000
due under leases required to be capitalized in accordance with GAAP. Neither the Company nor any
Subsidiary is in default with respect to any Indebtedness.
(bb) Tax Status. Except for matters that would not, individually or in the aggregate,
have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and each
Subsidiary has filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise tax returns and
has paid or accrued all taxes shown as due thereon, and the Company has no knowledge of a tax
deficiency which has been asserted or threatened against the Company or any Subsidiary.
(cc) No General Solicitation. Neither the Company nor any person acting on behalf of
the Company has offered or sold any of the Securities by any form of general solicitation or
general advertising. The Company has offered the Securities for sale only to the Purchasers and
certain other “accredited investors” within the meaning of Rule 501 under the Securities Act.
(dd) Foreign Corrupt Practices. Neither the Company, nor to the knowledge of the
Company, any agent or other person acting on behalf of the Company, has (i) directly or indirectly,
used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related
to foreign or domestic political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic
government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from
corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully any contribution made by the Company (or made by
any person acting on its behalf of which the Company is aware) which is in violation of law, or
(iv) violated in any material respect any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977,
as amended.
(ee) Accountants. The Company’s accounting firm is set forth on Schedule
3.1(ee) of the Disclosure Schedule. To the knowledge and belief of the Company, such
accounting firm (i) is a registered public accounting firm as required by the Exchange Act and (ii)
shall express its opinion with respect to the financial statements to be included in the Company’s
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006.
(ff) No Disagreements with Accountants and Lawyers. There are no disagreements of any
kind presently existing, or reasonably anticipated by the Company to arise, between the Company and
the accountants and lawyers formerly or presently employed by the Company and the Company is
current with respect to any fees owed to its accountants and lawyers.
(gg) Acknowledgment Regarding Purchasers’ Purchase of Securities. The Company
acknowledges and agrees that each of the Purchasers is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s
length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated
thereby. The Company further acknowledges that no Purchaser is acting as a financial advisor or
fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the
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Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by any
Purchaser or any of their respective representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction
Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the Purchasers’
purchase of the Securities. The Company further represents to each Purchaser that the Company’s
decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based solely on
the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company and its
representatives.
(hh) Acknowledgement Regarding Purchaser’s Trading Activity. Anything in this
Agreement or elsewhere herein to the contrary notwithstanding (except for Sections 3.2(f) and 4.15
hereof), it is understood and acknowledged by the Company (i) that none of the Purchasers have been
asked to agree, nor has any Purchaser agreed, to desist from purchasing or selling, long and/or
short, securities of the Company, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the
Company or to hold the Securities for any specified term; (ii) that past or future open market or
other transactions by any Purchaser, including Short Sales, and specifically including, without
limitation, Short Sales or “derivative” transactions, before or after the closing of this or future
private placement transactions, may negatively impact the market price of the Company’s
publicly-traded securities; (iii) that any Purchaser, and counter-parties in “derivative”
transactions to which any such Purchaser is a party, directly or indirectly, presently may have a
“short” position in the Common Stock, and (iv) that each Purchaser shall not be deemed to have any
affiliation with or control over any arm’s length counter-party in any “derivative” transaction.
The Company further understands and acknowledges that (a) one or more Purchasers may engage in
hedging activities at various times during the period that the Securities are outstanding,
including, without limitation, during the periods that the value of the Warrant Shares deliverable
with respect to Securities are being determined and (b) such hedging activities (if any) could
reduce the value of the existing stockholders’ equity interests in the Company at and after the
time that the hedging activities are being conducted. The Company acknowledges that such
aforementioned hedging activities do not constitute a breach of any of the Transaction Documents.
(ii) Regulation M Compliance. The Company has not, and to its knowledge no one acting
on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or to result in
the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the
sale or resale of any of the Securities, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or, paid any compensation
for soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any Person
any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the Company, other
than, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), compensation paid to the Company’s placement agent in
connection with the placement of the Securities.
(jj) Form S-3 Eligibility. The Company is eligible to register the resale of the
Securities for resale by the Purchaser on Form S-3 promulgated under the Securities Act.
3.2 Representations and Warranties of the Purchasers. Each Purchaser, for itself and
for no other Purchaser, hereby represents and warrants as of the date hereof and as of the Closing
Date to the Company as follows:
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(a) Organization; Authority. Such Purchaser is an entity duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization with full
right, corporate or partnership power and authority to enter into and to consummate the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations
hereunder and thereunder. The execution, delivery and performance by such Purchaser of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or
similar action on the part of such Purchaser. Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has
been duly executed by such Purchaser, and when delivered by such Purchaser in accordance with the
terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of such Purchaser,
enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except (i) as limited by general equitable
principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of
general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws
relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies
and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.
(b) Own Account. Such Purchaser understands that the Securities are “restricted
securities” and have not been registered under the Securities Act or any applicable state
securities law and is acquiring the Securities as principal for its own account and not with a view
to or for distributing or reselling such Securities or any part thereof in violation of the
Securities Act or any applicable state securities law, has no present intention of distributing any
of such Securities in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law and
has no direct or indirect arrangement or understandings with any other persons to distribute or
regarding the distribution of such Securities (this representation and warranty not limiting such
Purchaser’s right to sell the Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise in
compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws) in violation of the Securities Act or
any applicable state securities law. Such Purchaser is acquiring the Securities hereunder in the
ordinary course of its business.
(c) Purchaser Status. At the time such Purchaser was offered the Securities, it was,
and at the date hereof it is, and on each date on which it exercises any Warrants, it will be a
“qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A(a) under the Securities Act. Such
Purchaser is not required to be registered as a broker-dealer under Section 15 of the Exchange Act.
(d) Experience of Such Purchaser. Such Purchaser, either alone or together with its
representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and financial
matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment in the
Securities, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of such investment. Such Purchaser is able
to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Securities and, at the present time, is able to
afford a complete loss of such investment.
(e) General Solicitation. Such Purchaser is not purchasing the Securities as a result
of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the Securities published in
any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television or radio or presented at any
seminar or any other general solicitation or general advertisement.
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(f) Short Sales and Confidentiality Prior To The Date Hereof. Other than the
transaction contemplated hereunder, such Purchaser has not, nor has any Person acting on behalf of
or pursuant to any understanding with such Purchaser, directly or indirectly executed any
transaction, including Short Sales, in the securities of the Company during the period commencing
from the time that such Purchaser first received a term sheet (written or oral) from the Company or
any other Person setting forth the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereunder until
the date hereof (“Discussion Time”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a
Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage
separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of
the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s
assets, the representation set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets
managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities
covered by this Agreement. Other than to other Persons party to this Agreement, such Purchaser has
maintained the confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with this transaction
(including the existence and terms of this transaction).
ARTICLE IV.
OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES
4.1 Transfer Restrictions.
(a) The Securities may only be disposed of in compliance with state and federal securities
laws. In connection with any transfer of Securities other than pursuant to an effective
registration statement or Rule 144, to the Company or to an Affiliate of a Purchaser or in
connection with a pledge as contemplated in Section 4.1(b), the Company may require the transferor
thereof to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor and reasonably
acceptable to the Company, the form and substance of which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory
to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does not require registration of such transferred
Securities under the Securities Act. As a condition of transfer, any such transferee shall agree
in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and shall have the rights of a Purchaser
under this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement.
(b) The Purchasers agree to the imprinting, so long as is required by this Section 4.1, of a
legend on any of the Securities in the following form:
THIS SECURITY HAS [NOT] BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”),
AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE
EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF
THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS
EVIDENCED BY A
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LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH
SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY. THIS SECURITY MAY BE PLEDGED IN
CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT WITH A REGISTERED BROKER-DEALER OR OTHER
LOAN WITH A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION THAT IS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN
RULE 501(a) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.
The Company acknowledges and agrees that a Purchaser may from time to time pledge pursuant to
a bona fide margin agreement with a registered broker-dealer or grant a security interest in some
or all of the Securities to a financial institution that is an “accredited investor” as defined in
Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and who agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement
and the Registration Rights Agreement and, if required under the terms of such arrangement, such
Purchaser may transfer pledged or secured Securities to the pledgees or secured parties. Such a
pledge or transfer would not be subject to approval of the Company and no legal opinion of legal
counsel of the pledgee, secured party or pledgor shall be required in connection therewith.
Further, no notice shall be required of such pledge. At the appropriate Purchaser’s expense, the
Company will execute and deliver such reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party of
Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or transfer of the Securities,
including, if the Securities are subject to registration pursuant to the Registration Rights
Agreement, the preparation and filing of any required prospectus supplement under Rule 424(b)(3)
under the Securities Act or other applicable provision of the Securities Act to appropriately amend
the list of Selling Stockholders thereunder.
(c) Certificates evidencing the Shares and Warrant Shares shall not contain any legend
(including the legend set forth in Section 4.1(b)), (i) while a registration statement (including
the Registration Statement) covering the resale of such security is effective under the Securities
Act, or (ii) following any sale of such Shares or Warrant Shares pursuant to Rule 144, or (iii) if
such Shares or Warrant Shares are eligible for sale under Rule 144(k), or (iv) if such legend is
not required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial
interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission). The Company shall cause
its counsel to issue a legal opinion to the Transfer Agent promptly after the Effective Date if
required by the Transfer Agent to effect the removal of the legend hereunder. If all or any
portion of a Warrant is exercised at a time when there is an effective registration statement to
cover the resale of the Warrant Shares, such Warrant Shares shall be issued free of all legends.
The Company agrees that following the Effective Date or at such time as such legend is no longer
required under this Section 4.1(c), it will, no later than three Trading Days following the
delivery by a Purchaser to the Company or the Transfer Agent of a certificate representing Shares
or Warrant Shares, as the case may be, issued with a restrictive legend (such third Trading Day,
the “Legend Removal Date”), deliver or cause to be delivered to such Purchaser a
certificate representing such shares that is free from all restrictive and other legends. The
Company may not make any notation on its records or give instructions to the Transfer Agent that
enlarge the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section. Certificates for Securities
subject to legend removal hereunder shall be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the Purchasers by
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crediting the account of the Purchaser’s prime broker with the Depository Trust Company
System.
(d) In addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to a
Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1,000 of Shares
or Warrant Shares (based on the VWAP of the Common Stock on the date such Securities are submitted
to the Transfer Agent) delivered for removal of the restrictive legend and subject to Section
4.1(c), $10 per Trading Day (increasing to $20 per Trading Day five (5) Trading Days after such
damages have begun to accrue) for each Trading Day after the Legend Removal Date until such
certificate is delivered without a legend. Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to
pursue actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver certificates representing any Securities
as required by the Transaction Documents, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all
remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific
performance and/or injunctive relief.
(e) Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees that the
removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing Securities as set forth in this
Section 4.1 is predicated upon the Company’s reliance that the Purchaser will sell any Securities
pursuant to either the registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable
prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and that if Securities are sold
pursuant to a Registration Statement, they will be sold in compliance with the plan of distribution
set forth therein.
4.2 Furnishing of Information. As long as any Purchaser owns Securities, the Company
covenants to timely file (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable
grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant to the
Exchange Act. As long as any Purchaser owns Securities, if the Company is not required to file
reports pursuant to the Exchange Act, it will prepare and furnish to the Purchasers and make
publicly available in accordance with Rule 144(c) such information as is required for the
Purchasers to sell the Securities under Rule 144. The Company further covenants that it will take
such further action as any holder of Securities may reasonably request, to the extent required from
time to time to enable such Person to sell such Securities without registration under the
Securities Act within the requirements of the exemption provided by Rule 144.
4.3 Integration. The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy
or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act)
that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities in a manner that would require
the registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Securities to the Purchasers or that
would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities for purposes of the rules and
regulations of any Trading Market such that it would require shareholder approval prior to the
closing of such other transaction unless shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of
such subsequent transaction.
4.4 Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall, by 5:30 p.m. (New York
City time) on the second Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, (i) issue a press
release disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby, and (ii) file
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Current Report on Form 8-K, disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated
hereby, and filing the Transaction Documents as exhibits thereto. The Company and each Purchaser
shall consult with each other in issuing any other press releases with respect to the transactions
contemplated hereby, and neither the Company nor any Purchaser shall issue any such press release
or otherwise make any such public statement without the prior consent of the Company, with respect
to any press release of any Purchaser, or without the prior consent of each Purchaser, with respect
to any press release of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed,
except if such disclosure is required by law, in which case the disclosing party shall promptly
provide the other party with prior notice of such public statement or communication.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of any Purchaser,
or include the name of any Purchaser in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or
Trading Market, without the prior written consent of such Purchaser, except (i) as required by
federal securities law in connection with (A) any registration statement contemplated by the
Registration Rights Agreement and (B) the filing of final Transaction Documents (including
signature pages thereto) with the Commission and (ii) to the extent such disclosure is required by
law or Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company shall provide the Purchasers with
prior notice of such disclosure permitted under this clause (ii).
4.5 Shareholder Rights Plan. No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or,
with the consent of the Company, any other Person, that any Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person”
under any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution
under a rights agreement) or similar anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter
adopted by the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such
plan or arrangement, by virtue of receiving Securities under the Transaction Documents or under any
other agreement between the Company and the Purchasers.
4.6 Non-Public Information. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions
of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company covenants and agrees
that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf will provide any Purchaser or its agents
or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public
information, unless prior thereto such Purchaser shall have executed a written agreement regarding
the confidentiality and use of such information. The Company understands and confirms that each
Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing representations in effecting transactions in securities
of the Company.
4.7 Use of Proceeds. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.7 attached hereto, the
Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder for working capital
purposes and shall not use such proceeds for the satisfaction of any portion of the Company’s debt
(other than payment of trade payables in the ordinary course of the Company’s business and prior
practices), or to redeem any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents or to settle any outstanding
litigation.
4.8 Reimbursement. If any Purchaser becomes involved in any capacity in any
Proceeding by or against any Person who is a stockholder of the Company (except as a result of
sales, pledges, margin sales and similar transactions by such Purchaser to or with any other
stockholder), solely as a result of such Purchaser’s acquisition of the Securities under this
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Agreement, the Company will reimburse such Purchaser for its reasonable legal and other
expenses (including the cost of any investigation preparation and travel in connection therewith)
incurred in connection therewith, as such expenses are incurred. The reimbursement obligations of
the Company under this paragraph shall be in addition to any liability which the Company may
otherwise have, shall extend upon the same terms and conditions to any Affiliates of the Purchasers
who are actually named in such action, proceeding or investigation, and partners, directors,
agents, employees and controlling persons (if any), as the case may be, of the Purchasers and any
such Affiliate, and shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of any successors, assigns,
heirs and personal representatives of the Company, the Purchasers and any such Affiliate and any
such Person. The Company also agrees that neither the Purchasers nor any such Affiliates,
partners, directors, agents, employees or controlling persons shall have any liability to the
Company or any Person asserting claims on behalf of or in right of the Company solely as a result
of acquiring the Securities under this Agreement, except if such claim arises primarily from a
breach of such Purchaser’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents
or any agreements or understandings such Purchaser may have with any such stockholder or any
violations by the Purchaser of state or federal securities laws or any conduct by such Purchaser
which constitutes fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or malfeasance.
4.9 Indemnification of Purchasers. Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.9,
the Company will indemnify and hold each Purchaser and its directors, officers, shareholders,
members, partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role
of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each
Person who controls such Purchaser (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and
Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members,
partners or employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person
holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling
persons (each, a “Purchaser Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities,
obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments, amounts
paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any
such Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the
representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in
the other Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted against a Purchaser, or any of them or
their respective Affiliates, by any stockholder of the Company who is not an Affiliate of such
Purchaser, with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents
(unless such action is based upon a breach of such Purchaser’s representations, warranties or
covenants under the Transaction Documents or any agreements or understandings such Purchaser may
have with any such stockholder or any violations by the Purchaser of state or federal securities
laws or any conduct by such Purchaser which constitutes fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct
or malfeasance). If any action shall be brought against any Purchaser Party in respect of which
indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, such Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the
Company in writing, and the Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel
of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party. Any Purchaser Party shall have
the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but
the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the
extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company in writing,
(ii) the Company has failed after a
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reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action
there is, in the reasonable opinion of such separate counsel, a material conflict on any material
issue between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party, in which case
the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such
separate counsel. The Company will not be liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (i)
for any settlement by a Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which
shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (ii) to the extent, but only to the extent that a
loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the
representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement
or in the other Transaction Documents.
4.10 Reservation of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, the Company has reserved and
the Company shall continue to reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, a
sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue Shares
pursuant to this Agreement and Warrant Shares pursuant to any exercise of the Warrants.
4.11
Listing of Common Stock. (a) The Company hereby agrees to use best efforts to
maintain the listing of the Common Stock on a Trading Market, and as soon as reasonably practicable
following the Closing (but not later than the earlier of the Effective Date and the first
anniversary of the Closing Date) to list all of the Shares and Warrant Shares on such Trading
Market. The Company further agrees, if the Company applies to have the Common Stock traded on any
other Trading Market, it will include in such application all of the Shares and Warrant Shares, and
will take such other action as is necessary to cause all of the Shares and Warrant Shares to be
listed on such other Trading Market as promptly as possible. The Company will take all action
reasonably necessary to continue the listing and trading of its Common Stock on a Trading Market
and will comply in all respects with the Company’s reporting, filing and other obligations under
the bylaws or rules of the Trading Market.
4.12 Equal Treatment of Purchasers. No consideration shall be offered or paid to any
Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any of the Transaction
Documents unless the same consideration is also offered to all of the parties to the Transaction
Documents. For clarification purposes, this provision constitutes a separate right granted to each
Purchaser by the Company and negotiated separately by each Purchaser, and is intended for the
Company to treat the Purchasers as a class and shall not in any way be construed as the Purchasers
acting in concert or as a group with respect to the purchase, disposition or voting of Securities
or otherwise.
4.13 Participation in Future Financing.
(a) From the date hereof until the date that is the 12 month anniversary of the
Effective Date, upon any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Common Stock
or Common Stock Equivalents for cash consideration (a “Subsequent Financing”), each
Purchaser shall have the right to participate in up to an amount of the Subsequent
Financing equal to 50% of the Subsequent Financing (the “Participation
Maximum”) on the same terms, conditions and price provided for in the Subsequent
Financing.
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(b) At least 5 Trading Days prior to the closing of the Subsequent Financing, the
Company shall deliver to each Purchaser a written notice of its intention to effect a
Subsequent Financing (“Pre-Notice”), which Pre-Notice shall ask such Purchaser if it
wants to review the details of such financing (such additional notice, a “Subsequent
Financing Notice”). Upon the request of a Purchaser, and only upon a request by such
Purchaser, for a Subsequent Financing Notice, the Company shall promptly, but no later than
1 Trading Day after such request, deliver a Subsequent Financing Notice to such Purchaser.
The Subsequent Financing Notice shall describe in reasonable detail the proposed terms of
such Subsequent Financing, the amount of proceeds intended to be raised thereunder and the
Person or Persons through or with whom such Subsequent Financing is proposed to be effected
and shall include a term sheet or similar document relating thereto as an attachment.
(c) Any Purchaser desiring to participate in such Subsequent Financing must provide
written notice to the Company by not later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the
5th Trading Day after all of the Purchasers have received the Pre-Notice that the
Purchaser is willing to participate in the Subsequent Financing, the amount of the
Purchaser’s participation, and that the Purchaser has such funds ready, willing, and
available for investment on the terms set forth in the Subsequent Financing Notice. If the
Company receives no notice from a Purchaser as of such 5th Trading Day, such
Purchaser shall be deemed to have notified the Company that it does not elect to
participate.
(d) If by 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the 5th Trading Day after all of
the Purchasers (and the Additional Purchasers having the same participation rights as set
forth in this Section 4.13 pursuant to their respective Other Purchase Agreement) have
received the Pre-Notice, notifications by the Purchasers (and such Additional Purchasers) of
their willingness to participate in the Subsequent Financing (or to cause their designees to
participate) is, in the aggregate, equal to or less than the total amount of the
Participation Maximum of such Subsequent Financing, then the Company may effect the
remaining portion of such unused portion of the Participation Maximum (if any) of such
Subsequent Financing and the balance of such Subsequent Financing on the terms and with the
Persons set forth in the Subsequent Financing Notice.
(e) If by 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the 5th Trading Day after all of
the Purchasers (and the Additional Purchasers) have received the Pre-Notice, the Company
receives responses to a Subsequent Financing Notice from the Purchasers (and such Additional
Purchasers having the same participation rights as set forth in this Section 4.13 pursuant
to their respective Other Purchase Agreement (or their respective designees)) seeking to
purchase more than the aggregate amount of the Participation Maximum, then each such
Purchaser and Additional Purchaser shall have the right to purchase its Pro Rata Portion (as
defined below) of the Participation Maximum. “Pro Rata Portion” means the ratio of
(x) the Subscription Amount of Securities purchased on the Closing Date by a Purchaser
participating under this Section 4.13 and (y) the sum of the aggregate Subscription Amounts
of Securities purchased on the Closing Date by all
Purchasers participating under this Section 4.13 plus the aggregate Other Subscription
Amount of Other Securities purchased on an Other Closing Date by all Additional Purchasers
participating in the Subsequent Financing upon the exercise by them of
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participation rights
granted to them under Section 4.13 of their respective Other Purchase Agreement.
(f) The Company must provide the Purchasers with a second Subsequent Financing Notice,
and the Purchasers will again have the right of participation set forth above in this
Section 4.13, if the Subsequent Financing subject to the initial Subsequent Financing Notice
is not consummated for any reason on the terms set forth in such Subsequent Financing Notice
within 60 Trading Days after the date of the initial Subsequent Financing Notice.
(g) Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 4.13 shall not apply in respect of (i)
an Exempt Issuance or (ii) an underwritten public offering of Common Stock.
4.14 Subsequent Equity Sales.
(a) From the date hereof until 60 days after the Effective Date, neither the Company
nor any Subsidiary shall issue shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents at an
effective price below $1.10 per share (adjusted for any stock splits, reverse splits and
similar capital adjustments occurring after the date hereof); provided,
however, the 60 day period set forth in this Section 4.14 shall be extended for the
number of Trading Days during such period in which (i) trading in the Common Stock is
suspended by any Trading Market, or (ii) following the Effective Date, the Registration
Statement is not effective or the prospectus included in the Registration Statement may not
be used by the Purchasers for the resale of the Shares and Warrant Shares.
(b) From the date hereof until such time as no Purchaser holds any of the Securities,
the Company shall be prohibited from effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any
Subsequent Financing involving a Variable Rate Transaction. “Variable Rate
Transaction” means a transaction in which the Company issues or sells (i) any debt or
equity securities that are convertible into, exchangeable or exercisable for, or include the
right to receive additional shares of Common Stock either (A) at a conversion, exercise or
exchange rate or other price that is based upon and/or varies with the trading prices of or
quotations for the shares of Common Stock at any time after the initial issuance of such
debt or equity securities, or (B) with a conversion, exercise or exchange price that is
subject to being reset at some future date after the initial issuance of such debt or equity
security or upon the occurrence of specified or contingent events directly or indirectly
related to the business of the Company or the market for the Common Stock (for purposes of
clarification, this clause does not prohibit the issuance of securities with customary
“weighted average” or “full ratchet” anti-dilution adjustments which adjust a fixed
conversion or exercise price of securities sold by the Company in the future) or (ii) enters
into any agreement, including, but not limited to, an equity line of credit, whereby the
Company may sell securities at a future determined price (provided that this clause (ii)
shall not apply to transactions that would constitute an Exempt Issuance pursuant to clause
(c) of the definition thereof, where the value of the securities to be issued in an
Exempt Issuance described in clause (c) of such definition is determined at the
consummation of such transaction and not at the time of the entry into material definitive
agreements). Any Purchaser shall be entitled to obtain injunctive relief against the
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Company to preclude any such issuance, which remedy shall be in addition to any right to
collect damages.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 4.14 shall not apply in respect of an
Exempt Issuance, except that no Variable Rate Transaction shall be an Exempt Issuance.
4.15 Short Sales and Confidentiality After The Date Hereof. Each Purchaser severally
and not jointly with the other Purchasers covenants that neither it nor any Affiliate acting on its
behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it will execute any Short Sales during the period
commencing at the Discussion Time and ending at the time that the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement are first publicly announced as described in Section 4.4. Each Purchaser, severally and
not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that until such time as the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement are publicly disclosed by the Company as described in Section 4.4,
such Purchaser will maintain the confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with
this transaction (including the existence and terms of this transaction). Each Purchaser
understands and acknowledges, severally and not jointly with any other Purchaser, that the
Commission currently takes the position that coverage of short sales of shares of the Common Stock
“against the box” prior to the Effective Date of the Registration Statement with the Securities is
a violation of Section 5 of the Securities Act, as set forth in Item 65, Section A, of the Manual
of Publicly Available Telephone Interpretations, dated July 1997, compiled by the Office of Chief
Counsel, Division of Corporation Finance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Purchaser makes any
representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in Short Sales in the
securities of the Company after the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are
first publicly announced as described in Section 4.4. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case
of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers
manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct
knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of
such Purchaser’s assets, the covenant set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion
of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the
Securities covered by this Agreement.
4.16 Delivery of Securities After Closing. The Company shall deliver, or cause to be
delivered, the respective Securities purchased by each Purchaser to such Purchaser within 3 Trading
Days of the Closing Date.
4.17 Form D; Blue Sky Filings. The Company agrees to timely file a Form D with
respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy thereof, promptly
upon request of any Purchaser. The Company shall take such action as the Company shall reasonably
determine is necessary in order to obtain an exemption for, or to qualify the Securities for, sale
to the Purchasers at the Closing under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of
the United States, and shall provide evidence of such actions promptly upon request of any
Purchaser.
4.18 Capital Changes. Until the one year anniversary of the Effective Date, the
Company shall not undertake a reverse or forward stock split or reclassification of the Common
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Stock without the prior written consent of the Purchasers holding a majority in interest of the
Shares.
ARTICLE V.
MISCELLANEOUS
5.1 Termination. This Agreement may be terminated by any Purchaser, as to such
Purchaser’s obligations hereunder only and without any effect whatsoever on the obligations between
the Company and the other Purchasers, by written notice to the other parties, if the Closing has
not been consummated on or before February 6, 2007; provided, however, that no such
termination will affect the right of any party to xxx for any breach by the other party (or
parties).
5.2 Fees and Expenses. The Company shall deliver, prior to the Closing, a completed
and executed copy of the Closing Statement, attached hereto as Annex A. Except as
expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents to the contrary, each party shall pay the fees and
expenses of its advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses
incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement. The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees, stamp taxes and
other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Securities to the Purchasers.
5.3 Entire Agreement. The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and
schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject
matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect
to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and
schedules.
5.4 Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or
permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on
the earliest of (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via
facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto prior to 5:30
p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the date of
transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number
set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than
5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the 2nd Trading Day following the
date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (d) upon
actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such
notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto.
5.5 Amendments; Waivers. No provision of this Agreement may be waived or amended
except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Company and each
Purchaser or, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement of any such waived
provision is sought. No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or
requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the
future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or
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requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in
any manner impair the exercise of any such right.
5.6 Headings. The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part
of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.
5.7 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the
benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company may not assign this
Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each
Purchaser (other than by merger). Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this
Agreement to any Person to whom such Purchaser assigns or transfers any Securities, provided such
transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the
provisions of the Transaction Documents that apply to the “Purchasers.”
5.8 No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the
parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of,
nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, except as otherwise set forth in
Section 4.9.
5.9 Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement
and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall be governed by and construed and enforced in
accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of
conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the
interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any
other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates,
directors, officers, shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state
and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the
exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, borough of
Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any
transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of
any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any
suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any
such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such
proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to
process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via
registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the
address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall
constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein
shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by
law. The parties hereby waive all rights to a trial by jury. If either party shall commence an
action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then the prevailing
party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable
attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and
prosecution of such action or proceeding.
5.10 Survival. The representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the
Closing and the delivery of the Shares and Warrant Shares.
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5.11 Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of
which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective
when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party, it being
understood that both parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature
is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such
signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf
such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature
page were an original thereof.
5.12 Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement
is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the
remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in
full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties
hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to
achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision,
covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties
that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without
including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.
5.13 Rescission and Withdrawal Right. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) any of the other Transaction
Documents, whenever any Purchaser exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction
Document and the Company does not timely perform its related obligations within the periods therein
provided, then such Purchaser may rescind or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time
upon written notice to the Company, any relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part
without prejudice to its future actions and rights; provided, however, in the case
of a rescission of an exercise of a Warrant, the Purchaser shall be required to return any shares
of Common Stock delivered in connection with any such rescinded exercise notice.
5.14 Replacement of Securities. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any
Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued
in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in
lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of
evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction. The applicant
for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable
third-party costs (including customary indemnity) associated with the issuance of such replacement
Securities.
5.15 Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein
or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will be
entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary
damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of
obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agrees to waive and
not to assert in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a
remedy at law would be adequate.
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5.16 Payment Set Aside. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to
any Purchaser pursuant to any Transaction Document or a Purchaser enforces or exercises its rights
thereunder, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any
part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside,
recovered from, disgorged by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the
Company, a trustee, receiver or any other person under any law (including, without limitation, any
bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to the extent
of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be
revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such
enforcement or setoff had not occurred.
5.17 Independent Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of
each Purchaser under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations of any
other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any way for the performance or
non-performance of the obligations of any other Purchaser under any Transaction Document. Nothing
contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser
pursuant thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a
joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any
way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently
protect and enforce its rights, including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this
Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other
Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser
has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in their review and negotiation of the
Transaction Documents. The Company has elected to provide all Purchasers with the same terms and
Transaction Documents for the convenience of the Company and not because it was required or
requested to do so by the Purchasers.
5.18 Liquidated Damages. The Company’s obligations to pay any partial liquidated
damages or other amounts owing under the Transaction Documents is a continuing obligation of the
Company and shall not terminate until all unpaid partial liquidated damages and other amounts have
been paid notwithstanding the fact that the instrument or security pursuant to which such partial
liquidated damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been canceled.
5.19 Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel
has reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal
rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting
party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments
hereto.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be
duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.
VERSO TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | Address for Notice: | |||
By:
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/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx | Verso Technologies, Inc. | ||
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000 | |||
Title: CFO | Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000 | |||
Attn: Chief Financial Officer | ||||
With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice): | Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx LLP | |||
2700 International Tower | ||||
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx XX | ||||
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000 | ||||
Attn: Xxxxxx X. Hussle, Esq. |
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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO VRSO SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly
executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.
Name of Purchaser: |
Arcadia Securities LLC | |
Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser: |
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Name of Authorized Signatory: |
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx | |
Title of Authorized Signatory: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | |
Email Address of Purchaser: |
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx | |
Fax Number of Purchaser: |
(000) 000-0000 | |
Address for Notice of Purchaser: |
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx,
00xx xx Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000 |
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Address for Delivery of Securities for Purchaser (if not same as above):
Subscription
Amount: $300,000
Shares:
Warrant Shares:
Shares:
Warrant Shares:
EIN Number: [PROVIDE THIS UNDER SEPARATE COVER]
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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO VRSO SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly
executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.
Name of Purchaser: |
Cranshire Capital, LP | |
Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser: |
/s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Prossar | |
Name of Authorized Signatory: |
Xxxxxxxx X. Prossar | |
Title of Authorized Signatory: |
CFO – Dowusview Capital, Inc. – the General Partner | |
Email Address of Purchaser: |
xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx | |
Fax Number of Purchaser: |
000-000-0000 | |
Address for Notice of Purchaser: |
0000 Xxxxxx Xx. Xxxxx 000 Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000 |
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Address
for Delivery of Securities for Purchaser (if not same as above): same
Subscription
Amount: $250,000.00
Shares: 250,000
Warrant Shares: 125,000
Shares: 250,000
Warrant Shares: 125,000
EIN Number: [PROVIDE THIS UNDER SEPARATE COVER]
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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO VRSO SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly
executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.
Name of Purchaser: |
Xxxxxx Bay Fund LP | |
Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser: |
/s/ Xxxx Xxxx | |
Name of Authorized Signatory: |
Xxxx Xxxx | |
Title of Authorized Signatory: |
Principal and Portfolio Manager | |
Email Address of Purchaser: |
xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx,
xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx, xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx, xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx |
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Fax Number of Purchaser: |
000-000-0000 | |
Address for Notice of Purchaser: |
000 Xxxxxxxx, 00xx xxxxx Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000 |
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Address
for Delivery of Securities for Purchaser (if not same as above): same
as above
Subscription
Amount: $235,000
Shares: 235,000
Warrant Shares: 117,500
Shares: 235,000
Warrant Shares: 117,500
EIN Number: [PROVIDE THIS UNDER SEPARATE COVER]
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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO VRSO SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly
executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.
Name of Purchaser: |
Xxxxxx Bay Overseas Fund LTD | |
Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser: |
/s/ Xxxx Xxxx | |
Name of Authorized Signatory: |
Xxxx Xxxx | |
Title of Authorized Signatory: |
Principal and Portfolio Manager | |
Email Address of Purchaser: |
xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx,
xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx, xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx, xxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx |
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Fax Number of Purchaser: |
000-000-0000 | |
Address for Notice of Purchaser: |
000 Xxxxxxxx, 00xx xxxxx Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000 |
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Address
for Delivery of Securities for Purchaser (if not same as above): same
as above
Subscription
Amount: $265,000
Shares: 265,000
Warrant Shares: 132,500
Shares: 265,000
Warrant Shares: 132,500
EIN Number: [PROVIDE THIS UNDER SEPARATE COVER]
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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO VRSO SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly
executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.
Name of Purchaser: |
Iroquois Master Fund, LTD. | |
Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser: |
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | |
Name of Authorized Signatory: |
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | |
Title of Authorized Signatory: |
Authorized Signatory | |
Email Address of Purchaser: |
xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx | |
Fax Number of Purchaser: |
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Address for Notice of Purchaser: |
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx xxxxx Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000 |
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Address for Delivery of Securities for Purchaser (if not same as above):
Subscription
Amount: $500,000
Shares: 500,000
Warrant Shares: 250,000
Shares: 500,000
Warrant Shares: 250,000
EIN Number: [PROVIDE THIS UNDER SEPARATE COVER]
[SIGNATURE PAGES CONTINUE]
[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO VRSO SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly
executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.
Name of Purchaser: |
Portside Growth and Opportunity Fund | |
Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxx | |
Name of Authorized Signatory: |
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx | |
Title of Authorized Signatory: |
Authorized Signatory | |
Email Address of Purchaser: |
xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx | |
Fax Number of Purchaser: |
(000) 000-0000 | |
Address for Notice of Purchaser: |
c/o Ramius Capital Group, LLC 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000 |
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Address for Delivery of Securities for Purchaser (if not same as above): |
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Account Manager Prime Brokerage Equity Finance Citigroup Global Markets Inc. 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000 |
Subscription
Amount: $250,000
Shares: 250,000
Warrant Shares: 125,000 @ $1.25
Shares: 250,000
Warrant Shares: 125,000 @ $1.25
EIN Number: [PROVIDE THIS UNDER SEPARATE COVER]
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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO VRSO SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly
executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.
Name of Purchaser: |
Satellite Strategic Finance Associates, LLC | |
Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser: |
/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxx | |
Name of Authorized Signatory: |
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx | |
Title of Authorized Signatory: |
General Counsel | |
Email Address of Purchaser: |
xxxxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx-xx.xxx | |
Fax Number of Purchaser: |
000-000-0000 | |
Address for Notice of Purchaser: |
Satellite Asset Management, L.P. 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx xxxxx Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000 |
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Address for Delivery of Securities for Purchaser (if not same as above):
Subscription
Amount: $200,000.00
Shares: 200,000
Warrant Shares: 100,000
Shares: 200,000
Warrant Shares: 100,000
EIN Number: [PROVIDE THIS UNDER SEPARATE COVER]
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Annex A
CLOSING STATEMENT
Pursuant to the attached Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of February 2, 2007, the
purchasers shall purchase up to $3,000,000 of Common Stock and Warrants from Verso Technologies,
Inc. (the “Company”).
Disbursement Date: February __, 2007
I. PURCHASE PRICE |
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Gross Proceeds to be Received |
$ | |||||||
II. DISBURSEMENTS |
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$ | ||||||||
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$ | ||||||||
$ | ||||||||
$ | ||||||||
Total Amount Disbursed: |
$ |
WIRE INSTRUCTIONS:
To: _____________________________________
To: _____________________________________
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