Exhibit 4.4
THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE
HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “ACT”). THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD,
TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER SAID ACT, OR AN OPINION OF
COUNSEL IN FORM, SUBSTANCE AND SCOPE CUSTOMARY FOR OPINIONS OF
COUNSEL IN COMPARABLE TRANSACTIONS THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT
REQUIRED UNDER SAID ACT OR UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 OR
REGULATION S UNDER SAID ACT.
CONVERTIBLE NOTE
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Plymouth
Meeting, Pennsylvania
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, 200
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$
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED
, LITHIUM TECHNOLOGY
CORPORATION , a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the
“Borrower”), hereby promises to pay to the order of
or registered assigns (the “Holder”) the sum of
($
), on
(the “Maturity Date”), and to pay interest on the
unpaid principal balance hereof at the rate of eight percent (8%)
per annum from
(the “Issue Date”) until the same becomes due and
payable, whether at maturity or upon acceleration or by prepayment
or otherwise. Interest shall commence accruing on the issue date,
shall be computed on the basis of a 365-day year and the actual
number of days elapsed and shall be payable annually in shares of
common stock, $.01 per value per share, of the Borrower (the
“Common Stock”) valued at the then applicable
Conversion Price (as herein defined) on December 31 of each year
beginning on December 31, 2004, or at the time of conversion of the
principal to which such interest relates in accordance with Article
I below.
All payments due hereunder (to the
extent not converted into Common Stock in accordance with the terms
hereof) shall be made in shares of Common Stock of the Borrower
valued at the then applicable Conversion Price. All payments shall
be made at such address as the Holder shall hereafter give to the
Borrower by written notice made in accordance with the provisions
of this Note.
Whenever any amount expressed to be
due by the terms of this Note is due on any day which is not a
business day, the same shall instead be due on the next succeeding
day which is a business day and, in the case of any interest
payment date which is not the date on which this Note is paid in
full, the extension of the due date thereof shall not be taken into
account for purposes of determining the amount of interest due on
such date. As used in this Note, the term “business
day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a
day on which commercial banks in the city of New York, New York are
authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed.
Each capitalized term used herein, and not otherwise defined, shall
have the meaning ascribed thereto in that certain Subscription
Agreement and the Borrower to which this Note relates, as amended
from time to time, pursuant to which the Holder subscribed to
purchase
shares of Series B Preferred Stock of the
Borrower and thereafter elected to receive this Note in lieu of
such shares of Series B Preferred Stock (the “Subscription
Agreement”).
This Note is free from all taxes,
liens, claims and encumbrances with respect to the issue thereof
and shall not be subject to preemptive rights or other similar
rights of shareholders of the Borrower and will not impose personal
liability upon the Holder thereof.
The following terms shall apply to
this Note:
The Holder shall have the following
conversion rights with respect to this Note (the “Conversion
Rights”):
A. Right to Convert . At any
time on or after the date on the Note, the Holder may, at such
Holder’s option, elect to convert (a “Voluntary
Conversion”) all or any portion of this Note into a number of
fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock equal to the
quotient of (i) $1,000 divided by (ii) the Conversion Price (as
defined below) then in effect as of the date of the delivery by the
Holder of its notice of election to convert. In the event of a
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, the
Conversion Rights shall terminate at the close of business on the
last full day preceding the date fixed for the payment of any such
amounts distributable on such event to any security holder of the
Company. In the event of such a liquidation, dissolution or winding
up, the Company shall provide to the Holder notice of such
liquidation, dissolution or winding up, which notice shall be sent
at least fifteen (15) days prior to the termination of the
Conversion Rights.
B. Mechanics of Voluntary
Conversion . The Voluntary Conversion of this Note shall be
conducted in the following manner:
1. Holder’s Delivery
Requirements . To convert this Note into full shares of Common
Stock on any date (the “Voluntary Conversion Date”),
the Holder thereof shall (A) transmit by facsimile (or otherwise
deliver), for receipt on or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York time on
such date, a copy of a fully executed notice of conversion in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit I (the “Conversion
Notice”), to the Company, and (B) surrender to a common
carrier for delivery to the Company as soon as practicable
following such Voluntary Conversion Date but in no event later than
three (3) business days after such date this Note and the
originally executed Conversion Notice.
2. Company’s Response .
Upon receipt by the Company of a copy of the fully executed
Conversion Notice, the Company or its designated transfer agent
(the “Transfer Agent”), as applicable, shall, within
three (3) business days following the date of receipt by the
Company of the fully executed Conversion Notice (so long as this
Note and original Conversion Notice are received by the Company on
or before such third business day), issue and deliver to the Holder
as specified in the Conversion Notice, registered in the name of
the Holder or its designee, the number of shares of Common Stock to
which the Holder shall be entitled.
3. Dispute Resolution . In
the case of a dispute as to the arithmetic calculation of the
number of shares of Common Stock to be issued upon conversion, the
Company shall cause its Transfer Agent to promptly issue to the
Holder the number of shares of Common Stock that is not disputed
and shall submit the arithmetic calculations to the Holder via
facsimile as soon as possible, but in no event later than two (2)
business days after receipt of such Holder’s Conversion
Notice. If such Holder and the Company are unable to agree upon the
arithmetic calculation of the number of shares of Common Stock to
be issued upon such conversion within one (1) business day of such
disputed arithmetic calculation being submitted to the Holder, then
the Company shall within one (1) business day submit via facsimile
the disputed arithmetic calculation of the number of shares of
Common Stock to be issued upon such conversion to the
Company’s independent, outside accountant. The Company shall
cause the accountant to perform the calculations and notify the
Company and the Holder of the results no later than seventy-two
(72) hours from the time it receives the disputed calculations.
Such accountant’s calculation shall be binding upon all
parties absent manifest error. The reasonable expenses of such
accountant in making such determination shall be paid by the
Company, in the event the Holder’s calculation was correct,
or by the Holder, in the event the Company’s calculation was
correct, or equally by the Company and the Holder in the event that
neither the Company’s or the Holder’s calculation was
correct. The period of time in which the Company is required to
effect conversions under this Certificate of Designation shall be
tolled with respect to the subject conversion pending resolution of
any dispute by the Company made in good faith and in accordance
with this Section.
4. Record Holder . The person
or persons entitled to receive the shares of Common Stock issuable
upon a conversion of this Note shall be treated for all purposes as
the record holder or holders of such shares of Common Stock on the
Conversion Date.
C. Mandatory Conversion
.
1. If this Note is outstanding in
whole or in part on the Mandatory Conversion Date it shall
automatically and without any action on the part of the Holder,
convert into a number of fully paid and nonassessable shares of
Common Stock equal to the quotient of (i) $1,000 divided by (ii)
the Conversion Price in effect on the Mandatory Conversion
Date.
2. As used herein, “Mandatory
Conversion Date” shall be the date that is three years after
the date of issuance of this Note. The Mandatory Conversion Date
and the Voluntary Conversion Date collectively are referred to
herein as the “Conversion Date.”
3. On the Mandatory Conversion Date,
any amounts outstanding under this Note shall be converted
automatically without any further action by the Holder and whether
or not this Note surrendered to the Company or its Transfer Agent;
provided , however , that the Company shall not be
obligated to issue the shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion of this Note unless this Note is either delivered to the
Company or the Holder notifies the Company that such Note has been
lost, stolen, or destroyed, and executes an agreement satisfactory
to the Company to indemnify the Company from any loss incurred by
it in connection therewith. Upon the occurrence of the automatic
conversion of this Note pursuant to this Section, the Holder shall
surrender this Note to the Company and the Company shall
cause
its Transfer Agent to deliver the
shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion (in the same
manner set forth in Section I C.2.) to the Holder within three (3)
business days of the Holder’s delivery of this
Note.
D. Conversion Price . The
term “Conversion Price” shall mean the Variable
Conversion Price (as defined herein) (subject to adjustments as set
forth herein). The “Variable Conversion Price” shall
mean the Applicable Percentage (as defined herein) multiplied by
the Market Price (as defined herein). “Market Price”
means the average of the average Trading Prices (as defined below)
for the Common Stock during the twenty (20) Trading Day (as defined
below) period ending one Trading Day prior to the date the
Conversion Notice is sent by the Holder to the Company via
facsimile (the “Conversion Date”). “Trading
Price” means, for any security as of any date, the intraday
trading price on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (the
“OTCBB”) as reported by a reliable reporting service
mutually acceptable to and hereafter designated by holders of a
majority the Notes and the Company or, if the OTCBB is not the
principal trading market for such shares of Common Stock, the
intraday trading price of such security on the principal securities
exchange or trading market where such security is listed or traded
or, if no intraday trading price of such security is available in
any of the foregoing manners, the average of the intraday trading
prices of any market makers for such security that are listed in
the “pink sheets” by the National Quotation Bureau,
Inc. If the Trading Price cannot be calculated for such security on
such date in the manner provided above, the Trading Price shall be
the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company and the
holders of a majority of the shares of Notes being converted for
which the calculation of the Trading Price is required in order to
determine the Conversion Price of such Notes. “Trading
Day” shall mean any day on which the Common Stock is traded
for any period on the OTCBB, or on the principal securities
exchange or other securities market on which the Common Stock is
then being traded. “Applicable Percentage” shall mean
80.0%.
E. Adjustments of Conversion
Price .
1. Adjustment for Certain
Dividends and Distributions . If the Company shall at any time
or from time to time after the date of this Note, make or issue or
set a record date for the determination of holders of Common Stock
entitled to receive a dividend or other distribution payable in
securities of the Company other than shares of Common Stock, then,
and in each event, an appropriate revision to the applicable
Conversion Price shall be made and provision shall be made (by
adjustments of the Conversion Price or otherwise) so that the
holder of this Note shall receive upon conversions thereof, in
addition to the number of shares of Common Stock receivable
thereon, the number of securities of the Company which they would
have received had their Note been converted into Common Stock on
the date of such event and had thereafter, during the period from
the date of such event to and including the Conversion Date,
retained such Note (together with any distributions payable thereon
during such period), giving application to all adjustments called
for during such period under this Section with respect to the
rights of the Holder of this Note; provided , however
, that if such record date shall have been fixed and such dividend
is not fully paid or if such distribution is not fully made on the
date fixed therefor, the Conversion Price shall be adjusted
pursuant to this paragraph as of the time of actual payment of such
dividends or distributions; and provided further ,
however, that no such adjustment shall be made if the Holder of
this Note simultaneously receives a dividend or other distribution
of shares of Common Stock in a number equal to the number of shares
of Common
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