SECURED CONVERTIBLE PROMISSORY
NOTE
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$475,500
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December 13, 2006
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FOR VALUE
RECEIVED , the undersigned, Sutura, Inc. , a Delaware
corporation (the “ Maker ”), hereby
promises to pay to the order of Whitebox Hedged High Yield
Partners, L.P. , a British Virgin Islands limited partnership,
or its assigns (the “ Payee ”), at such
place as the Payee may designate in writing, the principal sum of
Four Hundred Seventy-Five Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($475,500)
under the terms set forth herein. This Note is one of a series of
four Notes (together, the
“Series Notes” ) being issued by
Maker on the date hereof.
1.
Interest . The unpaid principal balance hereof from
time to time outstanding shall bear interest from the date hereof
at the rate of eight percent (8%) per annum.
2.
Payment . Except as otherwise provided herein, and
subject to any default hereunder, the principal and interest hereof
is payable as follows:
(a) Interest
only is payable in cash or stock (as provided below) quarterly in
arrears on the last day of each calendar quarter, beginning
March 31, 2007.
(i) The
parties hereby agree that the Company may pay interest due
hereunder, or any portion thereof, by issuing to the Payee fully
paid and nonassessable shares of Maker’s Common Stock, par
value $0.001 per share, in lieu of cash. The number of shares of
Common Stock issuable upon payment of any portion of an interest
payment hereunder in stock shall be computed by dividing each such
applicable portion of the interest payment to be paid in shares of
Common Stock by the Conversion Rate (as defined below ) in effect
at such time.
(ii) The
Conversion Rate shall be equal to the greater of (i) $0.045 per
share; or (ii) the average of the daily closing bid prices for the
Company’s Common Stock over a period of 30 consecutive
Trading Days. The last day of such 30 day period will be the
Trading Day immediately prior to the day in which a interest
payment is due. A “ Trading Day ” is (x) a
day on which the Common Stock is traded on the New York Stock
Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ National Market,
the NASDAQ SmallCap Market or OTC Bulletin Board (all “
Trading Markets ”), or (y) if the Common Stock is not
quoted on any Trading Market, a day on which the Common Stock is
quoted in the over-the-counter market as reported by the Pink
Sheets, LLC (or any similar organization or agency succeeding to
its function of reporting prices).
(iii) Any
Common Stock issued in payment of any portion of the interest
payments shall have those registration rights set forth in the
Registration Rights Agreement.
(b) On
June 30, 2008 (the “Maturity Date”
), the remaining outstanding principal balance of this Note will be
due and payable in cash, together with all then-accrued but unpaid
interest.
(c) Except as
provided herein, the Maker will have no right of early prepayment
on this Note.
(a) At any
time while any portion of the principal or interest of this Note is
outstanding, the Payee may give the Maker written notice (the
“ Payee Notice ”) of its intention to
convert all or any portion of the outstanding principal and/or
accrued but unpaid interest on this Note into shares of the
Maker’s Common Stock based on a conversion rate as described
below (the “ Conversion Rate ”). The
number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon payment of any
portion of the outstanding principal and/or accrued but unpaid
interest on this Note shall be computed by dividing each such
applicable portion of the payment to be paid in shares of Common
Stock by the Conversion Rate in effect at such time. Upon receipt
of the Payee Notice, the Maker shall immediately cause certificates
dated the Payee Notice date and representing these shares to be
delivered to Payee within 20 days of, and payment shall be
deemed to have been made on, the date of the Payee
Notice.
(b) The
Conversion Rate shall initially be equal to $0.045.
(c) The
Conversion Rate (and, as applicable, the factors above used to
compute it) shall be adjusted proportionally for any subsequent
stock dividend or split, stock combination or other similar
recapitalization, reclassification or reorganization of or
affecting Maker’s Common Stock. In case of any consolidation
or merger to which the Maker is a party other than a merger or
consolidation in which the Maker is the continuing corporation, or
in case of any sale or conveyance to another corporation of the
property of the Maker as an entirety or substantially as an
entirety, or in the case of any statutory exchange of securities
with another corporation (including any exchange effected in
connection with a merger of a third corporation into the Maker),
then instead of receiving shares of Maker’s Common Stock,
Payee shall have the right thereafter to receive the kind and
amount of shares of stock and other securities and property which
the Payee would have owned or have been entitled to receive
immediately after such consolidation, merger, statutory exchange,
sale or conveyance had the same portion of this Note been
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