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Exhibit 10.1
AGENCY AGREEMENT
March 27, 2008
IntelGenx Technologies Corp.
6425 Abrams
Ville St-Laurent, Quebec
H4S 1X9
Attention:
Horst G. Zerbe, President and
Chief Executive Officer
Dear Sirs:
The undersigned, Paradigm Capital
Inc. (the “ Agent ”), understands that
IntelGenx Technologies Corp. (the “ Company
”) proposes to issue and sell 4,001,000 units
(individually a “ Unit ” and, collectively,
the “ Units ”) having the terms described
herein, at a price of US$0.70 per Unit (the “ Issue
Price ”) for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company
of US$2,800,700. The offering of Units is hereinafter referred
to as the “ Offering ”. Each Unit shall be
comprised of one share of common stock, par value US$0.00001 of
the Company (a “ Unit Share ”) and one share
purchase warrant (each whole share purchase warrant being a
“ Warrant ”). Each Warrant will entitle the
holder thereof to purchase one share of common stock, par value
US$0.00001, of the Company (a “ Warrant Share
”) for a period of twenty-four (24) months following the
Closing Date (as defined below) at a price of US$1.02. In the
event that the Liquidity Conditions (as herein defined) are not
met on or before the Penalty Date (as hereinafter defined), each
Warrant shall entitle the holder thereof to purchase a Warrant
Share on the same terms but at a price of US$0.93 (in lieu of
US$1.02) per Warrant Share. In addition, if the Common
Shares, Warrant Shares, Broker Shares (as herein defined) and
Broker Warrant Shares (as herein defined) are not listed and
posted for trading on the TSX Venture Exchange (the “
Listing Condition ”) on or before that date that is
60 days (the “ Listing Deadline ”) following
the Closing Date (as herein defined), the Company shall pay to
each Purchaser (as herein defined) by way of certified cheque in
funds immediately available in Toronto, Ontario that amount
which is equal to 5% of the Issue Price paid by such Purchaser
pursuant to the terms of the Subscription Agreement (as herein
defined) within 30 days of the Listing Deadline and that amount
equal to 1% of the Issue Price paid by such Purchaser pursuant
to the terms of the Subscription Agreement if the Listing
Condition is not satisfied each calendar month thereafter, to a
maximum of 3 months, which shall be payable within 30 days of
the Company’s subsequent interim 3 month financial
period.
Upon and subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein, the Agent hereby agrees to act, and
upon acceptance hereof the Company hereby appoints the Agent, as
the Company's exclusive agent to offer for sale the Units on a
“best efforts” agency basis, without underwriter
liability, at the Issue Price, and agrees to arrange for
purchasers for the resident in the Selling Jurisdictions (as
hereinafter defined).
The Purchasers (as hereinafter
defined), Agent and other holders (including subsequent
transferees) of the Units (and any holders of Registrable
Securities (as hereinafter defined) will be entitled to the
benefits of the registration rights agreement, to be dated as of
the Closing Date (the “ Registration Rights
Agreement ”), among the Company and the Agent, in the
Form attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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In consideration of the services
to be rendered by the Agent in connection with the Offering, the
Company shall pay to the Agent the Commission (as hereinafter
defined) and issue to the Agent the Compensation Option as set
out in section 15 hereto.
DEFINITIONS
In this Agreement, in addition to
the terms defined above, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
“ Act ” means
the Securities Act (Ontario);
“ Accredited
Investor ” means an investor that is an
“accredited investor” within the meaning of Rule 501
of the U.S. Securities Act;
“ Affiliates ”
means the affiliates of the Agent, as such term is defined in
the Act;
“ Agent ”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term on the face page of
the Agreement;
“ Agreement ”
means the agreement resulting from the acceptance by the Company
of the offer made by the Agent hereby;
“ Broker Shares
” means the Common Shares issuable upon exercise of the
Broker Warrants;
“ Broker Warrant
Certificate ” means the certificate representing the
Broker Warrants and containing the terms thereof;
“ Broker Warrant
Shares ” means the Common Shares issuable upon due
exercise of the Broker Warrants;
“ Broker Warrants
” means the Warrants issuable upon due exercise of the
Compensation Option;
“ Business Day
” means a day which is not a Saturday, Sunday or statutory
or civic holiday in the City of Toronto, Ontario;
“ Canadian Accredited
Investor ” shall be defined in accordance with the
definition of “accredited investor” at s.1.1. of
National Instrument 45-106 – Prospectus and
Registration Exemptions ;
“ Closing ”
means the closing on the Closing Date of the transaction of
purchase and sale in respect of the Units as contemplated by
this Agreement and the Subscription Agreements;
“ Closing Date
” means March 27, 2008 or such other date as the Agent and
the Company may agree;
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“ Closing Time
” means 10:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on the Closing Date or
such other time on the Closing Date as the Company and the Agent
may agree;
“ Commission ”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in section 15
hereto;
“ Common Shares
” means the shares of common stock with a par value of
US$0.00001 in the capital of the Company;
“ Company ”
means IntelGenx Technologies Corp. which, for the purposes of
this Agreement, shall be deemed as having commenced its
existence on the Reverse Merger Date, and includes any successor
corporation to or of the Company;
“ Company's Auditors
” means RMS Richter LLP, or such other firm of chartered
accountants as the Company may have appointed or may from time
to time appoint as auditors of the Company;
“ Compensation
Option ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term
in section 15 hereto;
“ Compensation Option
Certificate ” means the certificate evidencing the
Compensation Option and containing the terms thereof;
“ Debt Instrument
” means any loan, bond, debenture, promissory note or
other instrument evidencing indebtedness (demand or otherwise)
for borrowed money or other liability;
“ Disclosure
Documents ” means collectively, the following filings
with the SEC and all exhibits thereto: the Corporation's annual
report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2006, and
all subsequent documents filed by the Company with the SEC
pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange
Act prior to the Closing Date, including the quarterly reports
filed on Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended September 30, 2007,
the current reports filed on Form 8-K since January 1, 2007 and
the proxy statement dated July 25, 2007;
“ Environmental Laws
” has the meaning ascribed in section
5(a)(xxxv);
“ Exchange Act
” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended;
“ Financial
Statements ” has the meaning ascribed in section
5(a)(vi);
“ including ”
means including without limitation;
“ Intellectual
Property ” means, collectively, all intellectual
property rights which pertain to the business of the Company or
the Material Subsidiaries of whatsoever nature, kind or
description including:
(a)
all trade-marks, service marks,
trade-mark and service mark registrations, trade mark and
service mark applications, rights under registered user
agreements, trade names and other trade-mark and service mark
rights;
(b)
all copyrights and applications
therefor, including all computer software and rights related
thereto;
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(c)
all patent rights;
(d)
all trade secrets and proprietary
and confidential information;
(e)
all industrial designs and
registrations thereof and applications therefor;
(f)
all renewals, modifications,
developments and extensions of any of the items listed in
clauses (a) through (e) above; and
(g)
all patterns, plans, designs,
research date, other proprietary know-how, processes, drawings,
technology, inventions, formulae, specifications, performance
data, quality control information, unpatented blue prints, flow
sheets, equipment and parts lists, instructions, manuals,
records and procedures, and all licenses, agreements and other
contracts and commitments relating to any of the
foregoing;
“ Institutional
Accredited Investor ” means an institution that is an
“accredited investor” within the meaning of Rule
501(a)(l), (2), (3) and (7) of the U.S. Securities
Act;
“ Investment Company
Act ” means the United States Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended;
“ Issue Price
” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term on the face
page of the Agreement;
“ Leased Premises
” means all premises which are material to the Company and
which the Company or a Material Subsidiary occupies as
tenant;
“ Liquidity
Conditions ” means the conditions to be satisfied on
or prior to the Penalty Date which shall be satisfied upon the
latest to occur of the following: (i) the Common Shares, Unit
Shares, the Warrant Shares and the Broker Shares being listed
for trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange; or the TSX Venture
Exchange; and (ii) the declaration by the SEC of the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement;
“ Material Agreement
” means any material note, indenture, mortgage or other
form of indebtedness and any contract, commitment, agreement
(written or oral), instrument, lease or other document,
including licence agreements and agreements relating to
intellectual property, to which the Company is a party and which
is material to the Company;
“ Material
Subsidiaries ” shall have the meaning ascribed thereto
in section 5(a)(iii);
“ May 8-K ”
means the Form 8-K of the Company filed with the SEC on May 23,
2007;
“ misrepresentation
”, “ material fact ”, “
material change ”, “ subsidiary
”, “ affiliate ”, “
associate ”, and “ distribution
” have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the Act
or the U.S. Securities Act, as applicable;
“ Offering ”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term on the face page of
the Agreement;
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“ Penalty Date
” means, in connection with the Liquidity Conditions, that
date which is four months following the Closing Date;
“ person ”
means any individual (whether acting as an executor, trustee,
administrator, legal representative or otherwise), corporation,
firm, partnership, sole proprietorship, syndicate, joint
venture, trustee, trust, unincorporated organization or
association, and pronouns have a similar extended
meaning;
“ Personnel ”
has the meaning ascribed in section 13 hereto;
“ Purchasers ”
means the persons who, as purchasers, acquire Units by duly
completing, executing and delivering Subscription Agreements and
any other required documentation and permitted assignees or
transferees of such persons from time to time;
“ Qualifying
Province ” means the province of Ontario;
“ Registration Rights
Agreement ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such
term on the face page of the Agreement;
“ Registration
Statement ” means the registration statement of the
Company to be filed with the SEC in order, to register, or
register the resale of, the Registrable Securities, as
applicable, as such Registration Statement is amended from time
to time;
“ Registrable
Securities ” means the Unit Shares, the Warrants, the
Warrant Shares, the Broker Shares and the Broker Warrant
Shares;
“ Regulation D
” means Regulation D under the U.S. Securities
Act;
“ Regulation S
” means Regulation S under the U.S. Securities
Act;
“ Reverse Merger
Date ” means April 28, 2006, being the effective date
of the reverse merger transaction pursuant to a share exchange
agreement among Big Flash Corporation, 6544631 Canada Inc. and
IntelGenx Corp.;
“ Rule 144 ”
means Rule 144 under the U.S. Securities Act;
“ Rule 144A ”
means Rule 144A under the U.S. Securities Act;
“ SEC ” means
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission;
“ Securities Laws
” means, as applicable, the securities laws, regulations,
rules, rulings and orders in the Selling Jurisdictions, the
applicable policy statements issued by the securities regulators
in the Selling Jurisdictions, the securities laws of the United
States, any applicable States and any jurisdictions outside of
Canada and the United States, the regulations and rules
thereunder and the forms prescribed thereby and the rules of any
applicable stock exchange;
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“ Securities
Regulators ” means the securities commissions or other
securities regulatory authorities of the Selling Jurisdictions,
including the SEC, or, as the context may require, any one or
more of Selling Jurisdictions and the SEC;
“ Selling
Jurisdictions ” means the province of Ontario and such
other jurisdictions outside of Canada (including the United
States) as may be agreed to by the Agent and the Company as
evidenced by the Company's acceptance of a Subscription
Agreements with respect thereto;
“ Subscription
Agreements ” means the subscription agreements in the
form agreed upon by the Agent and the Company pursuant to which
Purchasers agree to subscribe for and purchase the Units herein
contemplated and shall include, for greater certainty, all
schedules thereto;
“ Taxes ”
shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in section
5(a)(ix);
“ Transaction
Documents ” means, collectively, this Agreement, the
Subscription Agreements, the Registration Rights Agreement, the
Warrant Certificates and the Compensation Option
Certificate;
“ Transfer Agent
” means StockTrans, Inc., 44 West Lancaster Ave, Ardmore,
PA 19003, Tel:610-649-7300;
“ Unit ” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term on the face page of this
Agreement;
“ Unit Shares
” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term on the face
page of this Agreement;
“ United States
” means the United States of America, its territories and
possessions, any state of the United States, and the District of
Columbia;
“ U.S. Securities
Act ” means the United States Securities Act of 1933,
as amended;
“ Warrant
Certificates ” mean the certificates evidencing the
Warrant and containing the terms thereof;
“ Warrant Shares
” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term on the face
page of the Agreement; and
“ Warrants ”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term on the face page of
the Agreement;
“ $ ” as used
herein means dollars of the United States.
TERMS AND
CONDITIONS
1.
(a)
Sale on Exempt Basis.
The Agent will offer for
sale and sell the Units in the Selling Jurisdictions on a
“private placement” basis in those jurisdictions
where they may lawfully be offered for sale or sold and only at
the Issue Price. The Agent will offer the Units to persons who
it reasonably believes, after customary inquiry, are Accredited
Investors, or Canadian Accredited Investors, in transactions
which comply with the exemptions from registration, including
but not limited to Regulation S, or do not require the filing of
a prospectus or offering memorandum with respect to those Units
under the laws of any Selling Jurisdiction.
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(b)
Filings. The Company undertakes to file or cause to be filed all
forms or undertakings required to be filed by the Company in the
Selling Jurisdictions in connection with the purchase and sale
of the Units so that the distribution of the Units and the
issuance of the Units may lawfully occur without the necessity
of filing a prospectus, a registration statement (other than the
Registration Statement) or an offering memorandum in Canada or
the United States (but on terms that will permit the Units and
the Units acquired by the Purchasers in the Selling
Jurisdictions to be sold by such Purchasers at any time in the
Selling Jurisdictions subject to the terms of this Agreement and
applicable securities laws, including, but not limited to,
compliance with applicable hold periods), and the Agent
undertakes to cause Purchasers of Units to complete any forms
required by the Securities Laws. All fees payable in connection
with such filings shall be at the expense of the
Company.
(c)
No Offering
Memorandum. Neither the
Company nor the Agent shall (i) provide to prospective
purchasers of the Units any document or other material that
would constitute an offering memorandum or future oriented
financial information within the meaning of Securities Laws in
Canada or in the United States or any state or territory
thereof; or (ii) engage in any form of general solicitation or
general advertising in connection with the offer and sale of the
Units, including but not limited to, causing the sale of the
Units to be advertised in any newspaper, magazine, printed
public media, printed media or similar medium of general and
regular paid circulation, broadcast over radio, television or
telecommunications, including electronic display, or conduct any
seminar or meeting relating to the offer and sale of the Units
whose attendees have been invited by general solicitation or
advertising.
2 .
Description of the
Units.
(a)
Each Unit is comprised of one
Unit Share and one Warrant. Each Warrant entitles the holder
thereof to purchase one Warrant Share for a period of
twenty-four months following the Closing Date at a price of
US$1.02.
(b)
If any of the Liquidity
Conditions have not been satisfied on or prior to 5:00 p.m.
(Toronto time) on Penalty Date each Warrant shall thereafter be
convertible into one (1) Warrant Share at a price of US$0.93 (in
lieu of US$1.02 per Warrant Share).
3 .
(a)
Covenants.
The Company hereby covenants to the Agent
and to the Purchasers and their permitted assigns, and
acknowledges that each of them is relying on such covenants,
that the Company shall:
(i)
promptly from time to time take
such action requested by the Agent to qualify the Units, Unit
Shares, Warrants and Warrant Shares for offering and sale under
the securities laws of such jurisdictions, by way of exceptions
or exemptions from the prospectus and registration requirements,
as the Agent and the Company may agree and to comply with such
laws as to permit the continuance of sales and dealings therein
in such jurisdictions for as long as may be necessary to
complete the distribution of the Units, provided that in
connection therewith the Company shall not be required, except
as otherwise provided herein, to file a prospectus or
registration statement, to qualify as a foreign corporation or
to file a general consent to service in jurisdiction;
(ii)
allow the Agent and their
representatives the opportunity to conduct all due diligence
which the Agent may require to be conducted prior to (i) the
Closing Time, and (ii) the date of the Registration Statement in
order to fulfil their obligations as Agent under Securities
Laws;
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(iii)
duly execute and deliver the
Transaction Documents at the Closing Time, and comply with and
satisfy all terms, conditions and covenants therein contained to
be complied with or satisfied by the Company;
(iv)
use its best efforts to fulfil or
cause to be fulfilled, at or prior to the Closing Date, each of
the conditions set out in section 9;
(v)
ensure that the Unit Shares and
Warrants shall be duly and validly created, authorized and
issued and shall have the respective attributes corresponding in
all material respects to the description thereof set forth in
this Agreement and the Subscription Agreements;
(vi)
ensure that at all times prior to
the expiry of the Warrants, a sufficient number of Warrant
Shares are allotted and reserved for issuance and upon the
exercise of the Warrants, shall be duly and validly issued as
fully paid and non-assessable securities of the
Company;
(vii)
ensure that the Unit Shares shall
be duly issued as fully paid and non-assessable securities in
the capital of the Company, free of any pre-emptive rights upon
the payment therefor;
(viii)
ensure that the Compensation
Option shall be duly and validly created, authorized and
issued;
(ix)
ensure that the Broker Shares and
Broker Warrants shall be duly and validly created, authorized
and issued upon the exercise or deemed exercise of the
Compensation Option and shall have the attributes corresponding
in all material respects to the description thereof in this
Agreement and the Compensation Option Certificate;
(x)
ensure that at all times prior to
the expiry of the Compensation Option, a sufficient number of
Broker Shares and Broker Warrants are allotted, created and
reserved for issuance upon the due exercise of the Compensation
Option, as the case may be and upon such due exercise, such
securities shall be duly issued as fully paid and non-assessable
securities in the capital of the Company;
(xi)
ensure that at all times prior to
the expiry of the Broker Warrants, a sufficient number of Broker
Warrant Shares, are allotted and reserved for issuance, and upon
exercise of the Broker Warrants, shall be duly issued as fully
paid and non-assessable securities in the capital of the
Company;
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(xii)
use its best efforts to satisfy
the Liquidity Conditions promptly following closing and in any
event prior to the Penalty Date;
(xiii)
not to issue, offer, sell,
contract to sell, announce the intention or otherwise dispose of
any additional securities until 120 days following the Closing
Date, without the prior written consent of the Agent, such
consent not to be unreasonably withheld, except in conjunction
with: (A) securities issued pursuant to the Offering, the
exercise of the Warrants, the Compensation Option and the Broker
Warrants; (B) the grant or exercise of stock options and other
similar issuances pursuant to the existing share incentive plan
of the Company and other existing share compensation
arrangements; (C) outstanding convertible securities at the
Closing Date; (D) the acquisition by the Company of any
intellectual property rights or licenses, interests or other
assets; (E) a business combination by the Company with another
company or entity; and (F) any obligations to issue securities
existing at the date hereof, which have been disclosed to the
Agent;
(xiv)
execute and file with the
Securities Regulators all forms, notices and certificates
required to be filed pursuant to the Securities Laws in the time
required by the applicable Securities Laws, including, not later
than 15 days after the Closing Date, file five copies of a
notice on Form D under the U.S. Securities Act (one of which
will be manually signed by a person duly authorized by the
Company); to otherwise comply with the requirements of Rule 503
under the U.S. Securities Act; and to furnish promptly to the
Agent evidence of each such required timely filing (including a
copy thereof);
(xv)
not, for a period of two years
from the Closing Date affect or become a party to any
“inversion” transaction or any other transaction
that would have the effect of, or result in: (i) the Company or
any successor or resulting entity of the Company continuing
into, or becoming organized under, the laws of Canada or any
Canadian province or territory, or (ii) the Company becoming a
subsidiary owned, either directly or indirectly, by any entity
incorporated or otherwise existing pursuant to the laws of
Canada or any Canadian province or territory, without the
written consent of Paradigm Capital Inc.;
(xvi)
not to be or become, at any time
prior to the expiration of two years after the Closing Time, an
open-end investment company, unit investment trust, closed-end
investment company or face-amount certificate company that is or
is required to be registered under Section 8 of the
Investment Company Act ;
(xvii)
the Company will comply with the
U.S. Securities Act so as to permit the completion of the
distribution of the Unit Shares and Warrants contemplated hereby
and in the Transaction Documents.;
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(xviii)
to furnish to the holders of the
Unit Shares and Warrants, as soon as practicable after the end
of each fiscal year an annual report (including a balance sheet
and statements of income, stockholders' equity and cash flows of
the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries certified by
independent public accountants), which requirement will be
satisfied by the filing of the Company's Annual Report on Form
10-KSB (or any applicable successor thereto under the Exchange
Act), with the SEC on Edgar and, as soon as practicable after
the end of each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year
(beginning with the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2008),
consolidated summary financial information of the Company and
its subsidiaries for such quarter in reasonable detail, which
requirement will be satisfied by the filing of the Company's
Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB (or any applicable successor
thereto under the Exchange Act) with the SEC on
Edgar;
(xix)
the Company will use its best
efforts to cause all directors, senior officers and principal
shareholders holding more than 10% of the issued and outstanding
voting securities of the Company and their associates and
affiliates to execute and deliver "lock-up" agreements in favour
of the Agent agreeing not to sell, transfer, loan, pledge or
assign any securities of the Company owned, directly or
indirectly, for a period of four months and one day following
Closing Date, without the prior written consent of the Agent,
such consent not to be unreasonably withheld;
(xx)
use its best efforts to effect
the listing of the Common Shares, Unit Shares, Warrant Shares,
Broker Shares and the Broker Warrant Shares on the Toronto Stock
Exchange or the TSX Venture Exchange prior to the Listing
Deadline; and
(xxi)
the Company covenants that it
will not register any transfer of the securities issued pursuant
to the terms of this Agreement unless such transfer is made (i)
in accordance with the provisions of Regulation S under the U.S.
Securities Act, (ii) pursuant to registration under the U.S.
Securities Act, or (iii) pursuant to an available exemption from
the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities
Act.
(b)
The Agent hereby covenants and
agrees to conduct its activities in connection with the sale of
the Units in compliance with all applicable laws, including but
not limited to Regulation S and to obtain from each Purchaser a
completed and executed Subscription Agreement (including all
certifications, forms and other documentation contemplated
thereby or as may be required by applicable Securities
Regulators) in a form acceptable to the Company and the Agent
relating to the Offering.
4 .
Material Changes During
Offering. The Company will promptly
notify the Agent in writing until the satisfaction of the
Liquidity Conditions:
(a)
if the Company becomes aware of
any material fact not previously disclosed, any material change
or change in a material fact (in either case, whether actual,
anticipated, contemplated or threatened and other than a change
of fact relating solely to the Agent) or any event or
development involving a prospective material change or change in
a material fact in any or all of the business of the Company and
its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or any other change which is
of such a nature as to result in, or could result in, the
Disclosure Documents, or the Registration Statement (and any
amendment or supplement thereto) containing an untrue statement
of a material fact or omitting to state a material fact required
to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which
they were made, not misleading, or which could render any of the
foregoing not in compliance with any Securities Laws;
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(b)
with full particulars of any such
actual, anticipated, contemplated, threatened or prospective
change of which it becomes aware referred to in the first
preceding paragraph and the Company will, to the reasonable
satisfaction of the Agent, issue or file, as applicable,
promptly and, in any event, within all applicable time
limitation periods with the Securities Regulators, in the case
of a material change, a new or amended Registration Statement,
as the case may be, or press release, material change report or
Current Report on Form 8-K as may be required under Securities
Laws and shall comply with all other applicable filing and other
requirements under the Securities Laws including, without
limitation, any requirements necessary to register with the SEC
or qualify the issuance and distribution of the Unit Shares,
Warrants, Warrant Shares, Broker Shares and Broker Warrant
Shares, as the case may be;
(c)
will in good faith discuss with
the Agent as promptly as possible any circumstance or event
which is of such a nature that there is or ought to be
consideration given as to whether there may be a material change
or change in a material fact described in paragraphs
(a) and (b) above;
(d)
if during the period of
distribution of the Unit Shares and Warrants comprising the
Units or during the time that the Registration Statement is
outstanding, there shall be any change in Securities Laws or
other applicable securities laws which in the opinion of counsel
to the Company or counsel to the Agent requires the filing of an
amendment to the Registration Statement.
5 .
(a)
Representations and Warranties
of the Company. The Company represents
and warrants to the Agent and to the Purchasers, and
acknowledges that each of them is relying upon such
representations and warranties, that:
(i)
the Company and the Material
Subsidiaries (as hereinafter defined) have been duly
incorporated and are in good standing under the laws of their
respective jurisdictions, and are current and up-to-date with
all filings required to be made by them in such jurisdiction,
have all requisite corporate power and authority and are duly
qualified and possess all certificates, authorizations, permits
and licences issued by the appropriate provincial, municipal,
federal regulatory agencies or bodies necessary (and has not
received or is aware of any modification or revocation to such
licences, authorizations, certificates or permits) to carry on
its business as now conducted and to own its properties and
assets and the Company and the Material Subsidiaries (as defined
below) have all requisite corporate power and authority to carry
out their respective obligations under the Transaction
Documents, as applicable;
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(ii)
other than as set out in the May
8-K, the Company has no subsidiaries other than as listed below
(the “ Material Subsidiaries ”) and the
Company beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, the
percentage indicated below of the issued and outstanding shares
in the capital of the Material Subsidiaries free and clear of
all mortgages, liens, charges, pledges, security interests,
encumbrances, claims or demands of any kind whatsoever, all of
such shares have been duly authorized and validly issued and are
outstanding as fully paid and non-assessable shares and no
person has any right, agreement or option, present or future,
contingent or absolute, or any right capable of becoming a
right, agreement or option, for the purchase from the Company of
any interest in any of such shares or for the issue or allotment
of any unissued shares in the capital of the Material
Subsidiaries or any other security convertible into or
exchangeable for any such shares:
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Name
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Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or
Continuance
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Beneficial
Equity/Voting
Ownership
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IntelGenx Corp.
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Canada
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100%
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6544631 Canada Inc. (1)
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Canada
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100%
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Note:
(1)
Provided an aggregate 10,991,000
special shares of 6544631 Canada Inc., which are exchangeable
for common shares of the Company are held by Horst Zerbe, Ingrid
Zerbe and Joel Cohen.
(iii)
all consents, approvals, permits,
authorizations or filings as may be required for the execution
and delivery of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and sale
of the Unit Shares and Warrants upon the issue and sale of the
Warrant Shares upon the exercise of the Warrants, the issuance
of the Compensation Option, the issuance of the Broker Shares
and Broker Warrants upon exercise or deemed exercise of the
Compensation Option, the issue and sale of the Broker Warrant
Shares upon the exercise of the Broker Warrants, all in
conformance with this Agreement, and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated in this Agreement, have been made or
obtained, as applicable, except for the filing of the
notification on Form D with the SEC required to be made within
15 days of closing;
(iv)
each of the execution and
delivery of the Transaction Documents, the performance by the
Company of its obligations hereunder or thereunder, the issuance
and sale of the Unit Shares and Warrants the issue and sale of
the Warrant Shares upon the exercise of the Warrants, the
issuance of the Compensation Option, the issuance of the Broker
Shares and Broker Warrants upon exercise or deemed exercise of
the Compensation Option, the issue and sale of the Broker
Warrant Shares upon the exercise of the Broker Warrants, and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement,
do not and will not conflict with or result in a breach or
violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a
default under, (whether after notice or lapse of time or both),
(A) any statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company
including, without limitation, Securities Laws or other
applicable securities laws; (B) the constating documents,
articles or resolutions of the Company which are in effect at
the date hereof; (C) any Debt Instruments, Material Agreement,
mortgage, note, indenture, contract, agreement, instrument,
lease or other document to which the Company is a party or by
which it is bound; or (D) any judgment, decree order, statute,
rule, law or regulation binding the Company or the property or
assets of the Company;
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(v)
the Disclosure Documents, when
they were or are filed with the SEC, conformed or will conform
in all material respects to the applicable requirements of the
Exchange Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC
thereunder and when read together did not and will not contain
an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
the statements therein not misleading;
(vi)
the audited financial statements
of the Company as at and for the year ended December 31, 2006
and unaudited interim financial statements as at and for the
nine month period ended September 30, 2007 (collectively, the
“ Financial Statements ”) have been prepared
in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in
the United States, as applicable, and present fairly, in all
material respects, the financial position (including the assets
and liabilities, whether absolute, contingent or otherwise) of
the Company as at such dates and results of operations of the
Company for the periods then ended and there has been no
material change in accounting policies or practices of the
Company or the Material Subsidiaries since December 31, 2006.
All disclosures in the Disclosure Documents regarding
“non-GAAP financial measures” (as such term is
defined by the rules and regulations of the SEC) comply in all
material respects to U.S. securities laws, to the extent
applicable;
(vii)
there has been no adverse
material change to the Company or the Material Subsidiaries
(actual, proposed or prospective, whether financial or
otherwise) in the business, affairs, operations, assets,
liabilities (contingent or otherwise) or shareholders' equity of
the Company or the Material Subsidiaries since December 31,
2006, which has not been generally disclosed to the public and,
in all material respects, the business of the Company and the
Material Subsidiaries have been carried on in the usual and
ordinary course consistent with past practice since December 31,
2006;
(viii)
there are no material off-balance
sheet transactions, arrangements, obligations (including
contingent obligations) or other relationships of the Company or
its Material Subsidiaries with unconsolidated entities or other
persons;
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(ix)
all taxes (including income tax,
capital tax, payroll taxes, employer health tax, workers'
compensation payments, property taxes, custom and land transfer
taxes), duties, royalties, levies, imposts, assessments,
deductions, charges or withholdings and all liabilities with
respect thereto including any penalty and interest payable with
respect thereto (collectively, “ Taxes ”) due
and payable or required to be collected or withheld and
remitted, by the Company and the Material Subsidiaries have been
paid, collected or withheld and remitted, as applicable. All tax
returns, declarations, remittances and filings required to be
filed by the Company and the Material Subsidiaries have been
filed with all appropriate governmental authorities and all such
returns, declarations, remittances and filings are complete and
accurate and no material fact or facts have been omitted
therefrom which would make any of them misleading. To the
knowledge of the Company, no examination of any tax return of
the Company or the Material Subsidiaries is currently in
progress and there are no issues or disputes outstanding with
any governmental authority respecting any taxes that have been
paid, or may be payable, by the Company and the Material
Subsidiaries. There are no agreements, waivers or other
arrangements with any taxation authority providing for an
extension of time for any assessment or reassessment of taxes
with respect to the Company and the Material
Subsidiaries;
(x)
the auditors who audited the
Financial Statements of the Company and the Material
Subsidiaries for the year ended December 31, 2006 and the year
ended December 31, 2005 and who provided their audit report
thereon are independent public accountants as required under
applicable securities laws in Canada, the U.S. Securities Act
and the Exchange Act;
(xi)
there has never been a
“reportable event” (within the meaning of National
Instrument 51-102) with the present or former auditors of the
Company;
(xii)
except as disclosed in the
Disclosure Documents, no holder of outstanding securities of the
Company will be entitled to any pre-emptive or any similar
rights to subscribe for any of the Common Shares or other
securities of the Company and no rights, warrants or options to
acquire, or instruments convertible into or exchangeable for,
any shares in the capital of the Company are outstanding. Other
than the holders of the Units there are no persons with
registration rights or other similar rights to have any
securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement or
otherwise registered by the Company under the
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