As Amended through March 13,
2009
BMP SUNSTONE CORPORATION
12.5% SECURED CONVERTIBLE NOTE DUE
JULY 1, 2011
THIS NOTE is one
of a series of duly authorized and issued notes of BMP Sunstone
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “ Company
”), designated as its 12.5% Secured Convertible Note due July
1, 2011, in the aggregate principal amount of up to $10,650,000
(the “ Notes ”).
FOR VALUE
RECEIVED, the Company promises to pay to the order of [ ] or his
registered assigns (the “ Holder ”), the
principal sum of [ ] Dollars ($[ ]) (the “ Original
Principal Amount ”), on July 1, 2011 (the “
Maturity Date ”), or such earlier date as the Notes
are required or permitted to be repaid as provided hereunder, and
to pay interest to the Holder on the then outstanding principal
amount of this Note in accordance with the provisions hereof.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company hereby unconditionally
promises to pay to the order of the Holder interest on any
principal or interest payable hereunder that shall not be paid in
full when due, whether at the time of any stated interest payment
date or maturity or by prepayment, acceleration or declaration or
otherwise, for the period from and including the due date of such
payment to but excluding the date the same is paid in full, at a
rate of 18% per annum (but in no event in excess of the maximum
rate permitted under applicable law).
Interest payable
under this Note shall be computed on the basis of a year of
360 days and actual days elapsed (including the first day but
excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which interest
is payable.
Payments of
principal and interest shall be made in lawful money of the United
States of America to the Holder at its address as provided in
Section 10 or by wire transfer to such account specified from
time to time by the Holder hereof for such purpose as provided in
Section 10.
1.
Definitions . In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in
this Note, (a) capitalized terms that are not otherwise defined
herein have the meanings given to such terms in the Note Exchange
Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the Company and the
Holder (the “ Note Exchange Agreement ”), and
(b) the following terms have the meanings
indicated:
“
Bankruptcy Event ” means that the Company or any
Subsidiary shall commence, or there shall be commenced against the
Company or any Subsidiary under any applicable bankruptcy or
insolvency laws as now or hereafter in effect or any successor
thereto, or the Company or any Subsidiary commences any other
proceeding under any reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of
debt, relief of debtors, dissolution, insolvency or liquidation or
similar law of any jurisdiction whether now or hereafter in effect
relating to the Company or any Subsidiary or there is commenced
against the Company or any Subsidiary any such bankruptcy,
insolvency or other proceeding which remains undismissed for a
period of sixty-one (61) days; or the Company or any
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Subsidiary is
adjudicated insolvent or bankrupt; or any order of relief or other
order approving any such case or proceeding is entered; or the
Company or any Subsidiary suffers any appointment of any custodian,
private or court appointed receiver or the like for it or any
substantial part of its property which continues undischarged or
unstayed for a period of sixty one (61) days; or the Company
or any Subsidiary makes a general assignment for the benefit of
creditors; or the Company or any Subsidiary shall fail to pay, or
shall state that it is unable to pay, or shall be unable to pay,
its debts generally as they become due; or the Company or any
Subsidiary shall call a meeting of its creditors with a view to
arranging a composition, adjustment or restructuring of its debts;
or the Company or any Subsidiary shall by any act or failure to act
expressly indicate its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in
any of the foregoing; or any corporate or other action is taken by
the Company or any Subsidiary for the purpose of effecting any of
the foregoing.
“
Business Day ” means any day except Saturday, Sunday
and any day that shall be a federal legal holiday or a day on which
banking institutions in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are
authorized or required by law or other governmental action to
close.
“ Change
of Control ” means the occurrence of (i) an
acquisition after the date hereof by an individual or legal entity
or “group” (as described in Rule 13d-5(b)(1)
promulgated under the Exchange Act) of effective control (whether
through legal or beneficial ownership of capital stock of the
Company, by contract or otherwise) of in excess of fifty percent
(50%) of the voting securities of the Company (except that the
acquisition of voting securities by the Holder or any current
holder of convertible securities of the Company shall not
constitute a Change of Control for purposes hereof); (ii) a
replacement at one time or over time of more than one-half of the
members of the board of directors of the Company which is not
approved by a majority of those individuals who are members of the
board of directors on the date hereof (or by those individuals who
are serving as members of the board of directors on any date whose
nomination to the board of directors was approved by a majority of
the members of the board of directors who are members on the date
hereof); (iii) the merger or consolidation of the Company with
or into another entity as a result of which the holders of the
voting securities of the Company immediately before such merger or
consolidation do not hold fifty percent (50%) or more of the voting
securities of the surviving or resulting entity; (iv) the sale
of fifty percent (50%) or more of the assets of the Company and its
subsidiaries on a consolidated basis; or (v) the execution by
the Company of an agreement to which the Company is a party or by
which it is bound, providing for any of the events set forth above
in (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv).
“ Closing
Market Price ” means the quoted sale price of the Common
Shares as of the close of trading on the Nasdaq Global Market or
any other national securities exchange, market or trading or
quotation facility on which the Common Shares is then listed or
quoted.
“
Majority in Interest ” means the holders of greater
than fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate principal amount of Notes
then outstanding.
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“
Prepayment Price ” for any Notes which shall be
subject to prepayment pursuant to Section 6, means the amount
equal to the sum of the then outstanding principal amount of this
Note being prepaid pursuant to Section 6 plus all accrued but
unpaid interest on such outstanding principal amount of this
Note.
“
Qualified Offering ” shall mean the issuance after the
date hereof of equity securities of the Company or securities
convertible into equity securities in one or more offerings to
investors resulting in the receipt of proceeds, net of all
commissions, by the Company in an aggregate amount of at least
twelve million six hundred seventy two thousand four hundred sixty
three dollars ($12,672,463).
“
Subsidiary ” means (i) any “significant
subsidiary,” as defined in Item 1-02(w) of
Regulation S-X promulgated by the Securities and Exchange
Commission, of the Company and (ii) Sunstone China Limited
(formerly named Hong Kong Fly International Health Care Limited), a
Hong Kong corporation (“Sunstone China”).
2.
Interest . The Company shall pay interest to the Holder on
the aggregate then outstanding principal amount of this Note at the
rate of 12.5% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears on each
April 1, July 1, October 1 and January 1, except if
such date is not a Business Day, in which case such interest shall
be payable on the next succeeding Business Day (each, an “
Interest Payment Date ”). The first Interest Payment
Date shall be April 1, 2009.
3.
Ranking and Covenants .
(a) Other
than the 10.0% Senior Secured Promissory Notes Due May 1,
2009, no indebtedness of the Company is senior to this Note in
right of payment, whether with respect to interest, damages or upon
liquidation or dissolution or otherwise. The Company will not, and
will not permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter
into, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any indebtedness of
any kind, on or with respect to any of its property or assets now
owned or hereafter acquired or any interest therein or any income
or profits therefrom, that is not subordinated in all respects to
the Company’s obligations under the Notes, other than (i)
indebtedness secured by purchase money security interests (which
will be senior only as to the underlying assets covered thereby),
(ii) indebtedness under capital lease obligations (which will
be senior only as to the assets covered thereby),
(iii) indebtedness to any commercial bank or other
institutional lender of commercial loans, (iv) the Notes,
12.5% March Exchange Secured Convertible Note due July 1,
2011, 12.5% March Cash Secured Convertible Note due July 1,
2011 or the 10.0% Senior Secured Promissory Notes Due May 1,
2009,, or (v) any renewal, refinancing or replacement of
indebtedness contemplated by clause (i) through
(iv) above; provided, however, in no event shall the terms of
any renewal, refinancing or replacement of the 10.0% Senior Secured
Promissory Notes Due May 1, 2009 be more favorable than the
terms of this Note.
(b) So long
as any Notes are outstanding, the Company shall maintain in an
escrow account established pursuant to the terms of the Interest
Escrow Agreement (as defined in the Note Exchange Agreement),
(i) at all times after the date of transfer of the applicable
funds as contemplated by Section 1.2.4 of the Note Exchange
Agreement until April 1, 2009, an amount equal to the amount
transferred pursuant to Section 1.2.4 of the Note Exchange
Agreement, (ii)
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at all times
after April 1, 2009 until the earlier of the closing date of a
Qualified Offering or July 1, 2009, an amount equal to
(A) the amount transferred pursuant to Section 1.2.4 of
the Note Exchange Agreement minus (B) the amount to be paid
pursuant to Section 1.2.3 of the Note Exchange Agreement and
(iii) at all times after the earlier of the closing date of a
Qualified Offering or July 1, 2009, an amount equal to the
interest to be paid with respect to all the Notes then outstanding
on the next two succeeding Interest Payment Dates.
(c) So long
as any Notes are outstanding, (i) the Company shall own 100%
of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock or equity
securities of Sunstone China, and (ii) Sunstone China shall
own 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock or
equity securities of Sunstone Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a Hong Kong
corporation.
(d) So long
as any Notes are outstanding, the Company shall not declare or pay
any cash dividend or distribution without the prior written consent
of a Majority in Interest.
(e) So long
as any Notes are outstanding, the Company shall not issue to the
executive officers or directors of the Company (i) any options
or warrants on shares of common stock of the Company with an
exercise price less than $3.00 per share or (ii) any shares of
common stock of the Company, if, at the time of such issuance, the
most recent closing price on The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (“
Nasdaq ”) of shares of common stock of the Company was
less than $3.00
4.
Registration of Notes . The Company shall register the Notes
upon records to be maintained by the Company for that purpose (the
“ Note Register ”) in the name of each record
holder thereof from time to time. The Company may deem and treat
the registered Holder of this Note as the absolute owner hereof for
the purpose of any payment of interest or principal hereon, and for
all other purposes, absent actual notice to the
contrary.
5.
Registration of Transfers and Exchanges . The Company shall
register the transfer of any portion of this Note in the Note
Register upon surrender of this Note to the Company at its address
for notice set forth herein. Upon any such registration or
transfer, a new Note, in substantially the form of this Note (any
such new Note, a “ New Note ”), evidencing the
portion of this Note so transferred shall be issued to the
transferee and a New Note evidencing the remaining portion of this
Note not so transferred, if any, shall be issued to the
transferring Holder. The acceptance of the New Note by the
transferee thereof shall be deemed the acceptance by such
transferee of all of the rights and obligations of a holder of a
Note. This Note is exchangeable for an equal aggregate principal
amount of Notes of different authorized denominations, as requested
by the Holder surrendering the same. No service charge or other fee
will be imposed in connection with any such registration of
transfer or exchange. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, the Company shall not be required at any time to register
any transfer to a transferee and any transfer shall be void and of
no force or effect unless the Note has been registered under the
Securities Act or the Company has received an opinion of counsel
reasonably acceptable to it stating that such transfer is exempt
from the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the
Securities Act.
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(a) At any
time on or following a Change of Control and delivery of a written
notice to the Company (the date such notice is delivered to the
Company, the “ Notice Date ”), the Noteholder
shall be entitled to demand prepayment of all or any portion of the
outstanding principal amount of this Note plus any accrued and
unpaid interest thereon for an amount in cash equal to the
Prepayment Price.
(b) The
Prepayment Price shall be due on the fifteenth Business Day
immediately following the Notice Date. If any portion of the
Prepayment Price shall not be timely paid by the Company, interest
shall accrue thereon at the rate of 18% per annum (or the maximum
rate permitted by applicable law, whichever is less) until the
Prepayment Price plus all such interest is paid in full, which
payment shall constitute liquidated damages and not a
penalty.
(a) “
Event of Default ” means any one of the following
events (whatever the reason and whether it shall be voluntary or
involuntary or effected by operation of law or pursuant to any
judgment, decree or order of any court, or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(i)
(A) any default in the payment of any principal amount of the
Notes, as and when the same becomes due and payable (whether on a
date specified for the payment of interest or the date on which the
obligations under the Note mature or by acceleration, redemption,
prepayment or otherwise), (B) any default in the payment of
interest in respect of any Notes, no later than the third Business
Day after such interest become due and payable (whether on a date
specified for the payment of interest or the date on which the
obligations under the Note mature or by acceleration, redemption,
prepayment or otherwise), (C) any default by the Company in
the performance of its covenants set forth in paragraphs 3(b) or
3(c) of this Note or (D) any default by the Company in the
performance of any of its other covenants and obligations under
this Note not listed in clauses (A), (B) or (C) above,
which defaults remain uncured fifteen (15) Business Days after
the Company receives written notice thereof from the Holder or a
representative of the Holder;
(ii)
the Company or any Subsidiary defaults in any of its obligations
under any other note or any mortgage, credit agreement or other
facility, indenture agreement, factoring agreement or other
instrument under which there may be issued, or by which there may
be secured or evidenced, any indebtedness for borrowed money or
money due under any long term leasing or factoring arrangement of
the Company or any Subsidiary in an amount exceeding $1,000,000,
whether such indebtedness now exists or is hereafter created, and
such default results in such indebtedness becoming or being
declared due and payable prior to the date on which it would
otherwise become due and payable;
(iii)
any default by the Company of any of its obligations pursuant to
the Note Exchange Agreement, the Pledge Agreement, the Interest
Escrow Agreement or the Share Escrow Agreement; or
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(iv)
the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event.
(b) At any
time or times that an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, (1) the full unpaid principal amount of this Note,
together with interest and other amounts owing in respect thereof,
to the date of acceleration shall become immediately due and
payable in cash, and (2)
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