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EX-10.15
FORM OF
NOTE
NEITHER THIS SECURED CONVERTIBLE PROMISSORY NOTE (THE "NOTE") NOR THE
SECURITIES
INTO WHICH THIS NOTE IS CONVERTIBLE HAVE
BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES
ACT"), OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE FEDERAL
OR STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND HAVE BEEN
ISSUED AND SOLD, OR WILL BE ISSUED UPON
CONVERSION, IN RELIANCE UPON EXEMPTIONS
FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF
SUCH LAWS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, THE EXEMPTION
CONTAINED IN SECTION
4(2) OF THE SECURITIES ACT. NEITHER THIS NOTE NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH
THIS
NOTE IS CONVERTIBLE MAY BE
SOLD OR TRANSFERRED
UNLESS (1) A REGISTRATION
STATEMENT HAS BECOME AND IS THEN EFFECTIVE WITH RESPECT TO SUCH
SECURITIES, (2)
THIS NOTE OR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH
THIS NOTE IS CONVERTIBLE ARE TRANSFERRED
PURSUANT TO RULE 144 PROMULGATED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT (OR ANY SUCCESSOR
RULE) OR (3) THE
COMPANY HAS RECEIVED
AN OPINION OF
COUNSEL REASONABLY
SATISFACTORY TO IT, TO THE EFFECT THAT THE
PROPOSED SALE OR TRANSFER OF SUCH
SECURITIES IS EXEMPT FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND ALL OTHER
APPLICABLE FEDERAL OR STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
12% SECURED
CONVERTIBLE NOTE DUE 2006
OF
SHEERVISION, INC.
$_____________
New York, New York
September 13, 2005
SHEERVISION, INC., a California corporation (the
"COMPANY"), for value
received, hereby promises
unconditionally to pay
to the order
of
____________________, a
_____________, or such person's assigns
(collectively,
the "HOLDER"), at the address set forth in Section 12 hereof, in
lawful money of
the United States of America ("DOLLARS" or "$") and
in immediately available
funds, the principal
amount of ___________________ THOUSAND
DOLLARS
($_____,000.00) (the "PRINCIPAL"), plus any accrued and unpaid Interest
(as
defined below), in full, on the Maturity Date (as defined below).
The following
is a statement of the
rights of the Holder and the
conditions to which this Note is subject, and to which the Holder hereof, by
the
acceptance of this Note, agrees:
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1. DEFINITIONS. For the purposes of this
Note:
"AFFILIATE(S)"
means, with respect to any given
Person other
than a partnership or limited
liability company, any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with
such Person
and with respect to a partnership, the partners of such partnership
and with
respect to a limited liability company,
the members of such limited liability
company.
"BUSINESS
DAY" means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or
a legal holiday in the State of New York.
"COLLATERAL" means all
the Company's right, title and interest
in, to and under all assets, properties, accounts receivable, accounts, chattel
paper, all claims, causes of
action, choices in action, rights of
recovery and
rights of setoff of any kind, deposit accounts,
documents, equipment, general
intangibles (including, without
limitation, patents, trademarks,
tradenames,
domain names, service marks, copyrights,
trade secrets, software
(including,
without limitation, object and source code), any applications or
registrations
therefor and continuations thereof,
and any good will associated
therewith),
goods, instruments, inventory, investment property, letter of credit rights,
all
books and records
pertaining to any of the foregoing
collateral, and all
proceeds and products of, and accessions to, any of the foregoing collateral,
in
each case, whether now owned or
hereafter acquired and wherever located.
For
purposes of this Note, each category of
the above-described Collateral
shall
have the meaning ascribed to it in Article 9 of the UCC, as amended, if defined
therein.
"COMMON
STOCK" means the common stock, no
par value share, of
the Company.
"CONVERSION PRICE"
means $2.70, subject to
adjustment as
provided herein.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT"
shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 4.
"FAMILY
MEMBER" means, with respect to any Person, any parent,
spouse, child, brother,
sister or any other relative with a relationship (by
blood, marriage or adoption) not more remote than first cousin to such Person.
"GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY" means any
Federal, state, local,
foreign or other court, governmental department,
commission, board, bureau,
agency or instrumentality.
"HOLDER
MAJORITY" means the holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Notes.
"INTERCREDITOR
AGREEMENT" means the Intercreditor
Agreement,
dated as of the Issue Date, among the Company,
the Holder and the other holders
of Notes (as defined herein).
"INTEREST" shall have
the meaning assigned
to such term in
Section 2(b).
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"ISSUE DATE"
means September 13, 2005.
"LIEN" means
any mortgage, pledge, lien, security
interest or
other charge or encumbrance of any kind.
"MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT" shall have the
meaning assigned to
such term in Section 3(a).
"MATURITY
DATE" means the earlier of (i) August 31, 2006, (ii)
upon the consummation by the Company of a merger, business combination, sale of
all or substantially all of the Company's assets or other change
of control or
(iii) on the closing of an
equity or debt financing
in which the Company
receives at least $3,000,000 in gross proceeds.
"MEMORANDUM"
means the Confidential Private
Placement
Memorandum, dated August 24,
2005, of the Company,
relating to the private
offering and sale of the Notes.
"NOTE SHARES" means the shares of Common Stock
into which the
Principal of this Note may be converted in accordance with Section 7.
"NOTES" means this Note and
the other notes issued pursuant to
the Memorandum.
"PERSON"
means any individual, corporation,
limited liability
company, partnership, firm, joint venture, association,
joint stock company,
trust or other entity or organization,
including a government or
political
subdivision or an agency or instrumentality thereof.
"PROCEEDS" means
all proceeds of,
and all other profits,
products, rents or receipts, in whatever
form, arising from the sale, exchange,
assignment or other disposition of Collateral.
"QUALIFIED FACILITY" means a single revolving credit line or
term loan entered by the Company and one
commercial lender into between the
Issue Date and
the Maturity Date
with a principal amount
not to exceed
$1,000,000.
"SECURED OBLIGATIONS" means the
obligations of the Company
under this Note,
and the other
Transaction Documents, including
(i) all
Principal of, and Interest
(including, without
limitation, any Interest which
accrues after the commencement of any case, proceeding or other actions
relating
to the bankruptcy, insolvency or
reorganization of the Company and
any other
amounts owing hereunder) on, the Note,
(ii) all other amounts payable by
the
Company under this Note and the other Transaction Documents (including expenses
incurred in connection
with the enforcement
of each of
the Transaction
Documents) and (iii) any renewals or extensions of any of the foregoing.
"SECURITY INTEREST" means
the security interest
in the
Collateral granted hereunder securing the Secured Obligations.
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"TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS" means
this Note the Intercreditor
Agreement, the Registration Rights Letter between the Company and each Holder.
"UCC" means the Uniform Commercial
Code as in effect on the
date hereof in the State of New York;
PROVIDED, THAT if by reason of
mandatory
provisions of law, the perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection
of the Security Interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform
Commercial
Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than New York, "UCC" means
the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect in such
other jurisdiction for
purposes of the
provisions hereof relating
to such perfection or
effect of perfection or
non-perfection.
2. PRINCIPAL; INTEREST; AND PREPAYMENT.
(a) PRINCIPAL; PRINCIPAL
INCREASE. Unless earlier
converted in accordance with the provisions
hereof, the entire unpaid Principal
shall be paid in Dollars on the Maturity Date. Promptly following the payment
in
full of this Note, including all
accrued and unpaid Interest
and any other
amounts owing hereunder, the Holder shall surrender this Note to the Company
for
cancellation.
(b) INTEREST.
Interest on the Note ("INTEREST"), during
the period from the Issue Date through the Maturity Date, shall accrue at a
rate
equal to 12% per annum. Interest shall be
computed on the basis of a
360-day
year consisting of 12 equal months of 30 days applied to
actual days elapsed.
Unless the Interest on this Note is earlier converted
in part into shares of
Common Stock in accordance with the
provisions hereof, all accrued and unpaid
interest on this Note shall be due and payable in cash on the Maturity Date.
The
rate of interest payable
under the Note from time to
time shall in no event
exceed the maximum rate, if any,
permissible under applicable law.
If the rate
of interest payable under the Note is
ever reduced as a result of the preceding
sentence and at any time thereafter the maximum rate permitted by applicable
law
shall exceed the rate of interest provided hereunder, then the rate provided
for
hereunder shall be increased to the maximum rate permitted by applicable law
for
such period as required so that the total amount of interest received by the
Holder is that which
would have been
received by the Holder
but for the
operation of the preceding sentence.
(c) PREPAYMENT. The
Principal may be
prepaid by the
Company at any time without penalty, with Interest accrued hereunder to the
date
of such prepayment without the consent of the Holder.
3. COVENANTS.
(a) USE OF PROCEEDS. Without the prior
written consent of
a Holder Majority, the proceeds of this Note shall be used as
described in the
Memorandum.
(b) INCURRENCE OF INDEBTEDNESS. Except for the Qualified
Facility, neither the Company nor any subsidiary
shall, without the written
consent of a Holder Majority, (i) incur any
indebtedness pari passu with, or
senior to, the Notes for money borrowed or services performed,
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except for trade payables, or
taxes, fees, levies or charges incurred in the
ordinary course of business, leases or
subleases or licenses granted or entered
into in the ordinary course of
business, or equipment
leases or purchase
financing incurred in the ordinary course of business, or (ii) grant, or permit
to be created any Lien.
(c) RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS.
Neither the Company nor
any subsidiary shall (i) enter into directly or
indirectly any transaction
(including without limitation
the purchase, lease,
sale or exchange
of
properties of any kind or the rendering
of any service) with
any officer,
director, employee, or
stockholder, or any Affiliate or
Family Member of any
officer, director, employee or
stockholder without the prior written consent of
a Holder Majority or (ii) increase
the compensation payable (in the form of
salary, options, equity or otherwise) to any executive officer or director of
the Company without the written consent of a Holder Majority.
(d) RESTRICTED PAYMENTS.
The Company will not, directly
or indirectly (i) purchase, redeem, retire or otherwise acquire for value any
of
its capital stock or other securities now or hereafter outstanding,
return any
capital to its stockholders, or distribute any of its assets to its stockholders
or (ii) make any payment or declare any dividend on any of its capital stock or
other securities, in either
case, without the prior written
consent of the
Holder.
(e) INSURANCE. The
Company and its subsidiaries will
maintain customary insurance for general liabilities and other risks on terms
and in amounts customarily carried by
businesses similar to that of the Company
and the
subsidiaries, respectively, and
reasonably sufficient to
avoid a
material adverse change in the financial condition or results of operation of
the Company and the Subsidiaries.
(f) COMPLIANCE WITH
LAWS, ETC. The
Company and its
subsidiaries will comply with all
applicable laws, rules,
regulations and
orders, such compliance
to include, without limitation,
paying before they
become delinquent all taxes, assessments
and governmental charges imposed on it
or upon its property, except to the extent contested in good faith.
(g)
NO CHANGE IN BUSINESS. Neither
the Company nor any
subsidiary will, without the prior written consent of a Holder Majority, change
its respective line of business from that conducted by it as of the Issue Date.
(h) ACCESS TO
FACILITIES. The Company
will permit the
Holder (or any successor thereof),
upon reasonable notice and during normal
business hours, at such person's expense and accompanied by a
representative of
the Company, to:
(i) visit and inspect any of the properties
of
the Company;
(ii) examine the corporate and financial records
of the Company (unless such examination is not permitted by federal, state or
local law) and make copies thereof or extracts therefrom; and
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(iii) discuss the
affairs, finances and accounts
of the Company with the directors,
officers and independent
accountants of the
Company.
(i) TAXES.
The Company will promptly pay and
discharge,
or cause to be paid and discharged, when due and
payable, all lawful taxes,
assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon the income,
profits,
property or business of the
Company; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that any such tax,
assessment, charge or levy
need not be paid if the validity
thereof shall
currently be contested
in good faith by appropriate proceedings
and if the
Company shall have set
aside on its books adequate
reserves with respect
thereto, and PROVIDED,
FURTHER, that the Company
will pay all such taxes,
assessments, charges or levies forthwith upon the commencement of proceedings
to
foreclose any lien which may have attached as security therefor.
(j) FINANCIAL REPORTING.
At all times
during the
continuance of the Company, the Company
shall prepare and maintain separate
books of account for the Company that shall show a true and accurate
record of
all costs and expenses incurred, all charges made, all credits made and
received
and all income derived
in connection with the
operation of the Company's
business in accordance with US GAAP consistently applied. The Company shall (A)
prepare quarterly unaudited financial statements in accordance with US GAAP
(the
"QUARTERLY FINANCIALS") and shall deliver the Quarterly Financials to
the Holder
as soon
as practicable after
their preparation and in
any event within
forty-five (45) days after the end of
each three-month period and (B) prepare
annual audited financial
statements in accordance with US GAAP (the "ANNUAL
FINANCIALS") and shall deliver the Annual Financials to the Holder as soon as
practicable after their preparation
and in any event within ninety
(90) days
after the end of each annual period.
4. EVENTS
OF DEFAULT. If one or more of the following
events
("EVENTS OF DEFAULT") shall have occurred and be continuing:
(a) the Company shall fail to pay when due any Principal
of, or
Interest on, this
Note, or any fees or any
other amount payable
hereunder;
(b) the
Company shall fail to observe
or perform any
covenant or agreement of this Note or any of the other Transaction
Documents
within ten (10) days following the receipt of written notice thereof from, or
on
behalf of, the Holder;
(c) any
representation, warranty, certification or
statement made by the Company in any
Transaction Document, or in any document
delivered pursuant to any
Transaction Document shall
prove to have
been
incorrect in any material respect when made (or deemed made);
(d) a
judgment or order
for the payment of money in
excess of $300,000 shall be
rendered against the Company and
such judgment or
order shall continue unsatisfied and unstayed for a period of ten (10) days;
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(e) the Company shall commence a voluntary case or other
proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect
to
itself or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now
or
hereafter in effect
or seeking the
appointment of a
trustee, receiver,
liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part
of
its property, or shall consent to any
such relief or to the appointment of or
taking possession by
any such official
in an involuntary case
or other
proceeding commenced against
it, or shall make a general
assignment for the
benefit of creditors, or shall fail
generally to pay its debts as they become
due, or shall take any corporate action to authorize any of the foregoing;
(f) an
involuntary case or other
proceeding shall be
commenced against the Company
seeking liquidation, reorganization or other
relief with respect to it or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or
other
similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee,
receiver, liquidator, custodian
or other similar
official of it
or any
substantial part of its property, and
such involuntary case or other proceeding
shall remain undismissed for a period of 60 days; or an order for
relief shall
be entered against the Company
under the federal bankruptcy
laws as now or
hereafter in effect; or
(g) the Security Interest
shall, for any reason (other
than (i) the Holder's failure to renew the filing of any Uniform Commercial
Code
financing statement or (ii) pursuant to the Subordination Agreement in the
event
the Company issues
Future Notes), cease to be a first priority,
perfected
security interest in and to any Collateral and such event is not remedied
within
ten (10) days following receipt of written notice from,
or on behalf of, the
Holder;
then, and in every such event, the Holder may, by written notice to the
Company,
declare the Principal (together
with accrued Interest thereon and all other
amounts owing hereunder)
to be, and the Principal
(together with accrued
Interest thereon and all other amounts owing hereunder) shall thereupon become,
immediately due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other
notice
of any kind, all of which are hereby
waived by the Company; PROVIDED, THAT in
the case of any of the Events of Default
specified in clause (e) or (f)
above,
without any notice to the Company or any other act by the Holder, the Principal
(together with accrued Interest thereon and all other amounts owing
hereunder)
shall become immediately due and payable without presentment, demand, protest
or
other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Company.
5. PAYMENTS; EXTENSION OF MATURITY. Unless
otherwise converted in
accordance with the terms of this
Note, all payments of Principal and
Interest
(and all other amounts owing hereunder)
to be made by the Company in respect of
this Note shall be made in Dollars by wire transfer to an account designated by
the Holder by written notice to the Company. All amounts payable under this
Note
shall be paid free and clear of, and
without reduction by
reason of, any
deduction, setoff, or
counterclaim. If the Principal and accrued and unpaid
Interest become due and
payable on any day other than
a Business Day,
the
Maturity Date shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and to
such
payable amounts shall be added the Interest which shall have accrued during
such
extension period at the rate per annum herein specified.
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6. REPLACEMENT OF NOTE.
Upon receipt by the Company of evidence
satisfactory to it of the loss,
theft, destruction or mutilation
of this Note,
and (in case of loss, theft or destruction) of indemnity reasonably
satisfactory
to it, and upon
reimbursement to the Company
of all reasonable
expenses
incidental thereto, and (if mutilated) upon surrender and
cancellation of this
Note,






