NEITHER THIS
SECURITY NOR THE ISSUANCE TO THE HOLDER OF THE SECURITIES INTO
WHICH THIS SECURITY IS CONVERTIBLE OR WHICH ARE ISSUABLE UPON
REDEMPTION OF THIS SECURITY HAS BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED
(THE “ 1933
ACT ” ), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD
EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
1933 ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A
TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE
1933 ACT.
THIS NOTE
DOES NOT REQUIRE PHYSICAL SURRENDER OF THIS NOTE IN THE EVENT OF A
PARTIAL CONVERSION OR REDEMPTION. AS A RESULT, FOLLOWING ANY
CONVERSION OR REDEMPTION OF ANY PORTION OF THIS NOTE, THE
OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT REPRESENTED BY THIS NOTE MAY BE LESS
THAN THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT STATED ON THE FACE OF THIS
NOTE.
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CONVERTIBLE NOTE DUE 2005-2008
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED , ZIX CORPORATION , a Texas
corporation (the “Company”), hereby promises to pay to
or upon the order of [NAME OF REGISTERED HOLDER], or its
registered assigns or successors-in-interest (the
“Holder”), the principal sum of Ten Million Dollars
($10,000,000.00), in installments on the Installment Maturity Dates
and on the Final Maturity Date, and to pay interest thereon at the
Applicable Rate from the date hereof on the Interest Payment Dates
until the same becomes due and payable, whether at maturity or upon
acceleration or by redemption or repurchase in accordance with the
terms hereof, or otherwise. Interest on this Note shall be computed
on the basis of a 360-day year of 30-day months and actual days
elapsed. Unless otherwise
determined by
the Holder or required by applicable law, payments will be applied
first to any unpaid collection costs, then to unpaid interest and
fees and any remaining amount to unpaid principal.
All
payments of principal of and interest on this Note shall be made in
lawful money of the United States of America or, as required by
Section 2(d) and subject to the provisions of this Note, principal
of this Note shall be redeemed through issuance of shares of Common
Stock in accordance with Section 2(c), and interest payable on
the Interest Payment Dates may be paid in whole or in part in fully
paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock. All cash payments by
the Company shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available
funds to such account as the Holder may from time to time designate
by written notice in accordance with the provisions of this Note.
This Note may not be prepaid in whole or in part except as
specifically provided herein. Whenever any amount expressed to be
due by the terms of this Note is due on any day which is not a
Business Day (as defined below), 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 that 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 in determining the amount of interest due on
such date.
The
obligations of the Company under this Note shall rank in right of
payment on parity with all other unsubordinated obligations of the
Company for indebtedness for borrowed money or the purchase price
of property. This Note is issued pursuant to the Purchase Agreement
and the Holder of this Note and this Note are subject to the terms
and entitled to the benefits of the Purchase Agreement. Payment and
performance of the Company’s obligations under this Note and
the other Transaction Documents is secured pursuant to the Security
Agreement.
This
Note amends and restates a Convertible Note due 2005-2008 issued on
the Issuance Date pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. This Note is
one of a duly authorized issue of the Company’s Amended and
Restated Convertible Notes due 2005-2008 limited to an aggregate
principal amount of $20,000,000 (excluding Amended and Restated
Convertible Notes due 2005-2008 issued in replacement of lost,
stolen, destroyed or mutilated notes or issued on transfer of such
notes).
The
following terms and conditions shall apply to this Note:
(a) Capitalized
terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the
meanings set forth in the Purchase Agreement.
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(b) All
the agreements or instruments herein defined shall mean such
agreements or instruments as the same may from time to time be
supplemented or amended or the terms thereof waived or modified to
the extent permitted by, and in accordance with, the terms thereof
and of this Note.
(c) For
purposes hereof the following terms shall have the meanings
ascribed to them below:
“Acquisition
Transaction” means a transaction in which the Company
acquires another business or its tangible or intangible
assets.
“Affiliate”
means, with respect to any Person, any other Person that directly,
or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is
controlled by or is under common control with the subject Person.
For purposes of this definition, “control” (including,
with correlative meaning, the terms “controlled by” and
“under common control with”), as used with respect to
any Person, shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of
the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and
policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting
securities or by contract or otherwise.
“Aggregation
Party” means a person whose beneficial ownership of Common
Stock would be aggregated with the beneficial ownership of Common
Stock by the Holder for purposes of determining whether a
“group” exists or for purposes of determining the
Holder’s beneficial ownership of Common Stock for purposes of
Section 13(d) of the 1934 Act and Regulation 13D-G
thereunder.
“Allocated
Redemption Percentage” means with respect to a particular
Share Redemption the product obtained by multiplying
20 percent by a fraction, of which the numerator is the
original principal amount of the principal installment of this Note
that is being redeemed in such Share Redemption, as identified in
the applicable Share Redemption Notice, and the denominator is the
aggregate original principal amount of the principal installments
of this Note and the Other Note being redeemed in, or
contemporaneously with, such Share Redemption, as identified in the
applicable Share Redemption Notice and the applicable notice given
to the holder of the Other Note; provided however, that if
all of the outstanding principal amount of such installment of
principal of this Note is being redeemed in such Share Redemption,
as identified in the applicable Share Redemption Notice, and less
than all of the outstanding principal amount of such principal
installment of the Other Note is being redeemed contemporaneously
with such Share Redemption, as identified in the applicable notice
given to the holder of the Other Note, then the Allocated
Redemption Percentage of this Note shall be the product obtained by
multiplying 20 percent by a fraction, of which the numerator
is the principal amount of such installment of this Note being
redeemed in such Share Redemption, as identified in the applicable
Share Redemption Notice, and the
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denominator is
the aggregate principal amount of such principal installments of
this Note and the Other Note being redeemed in or contemporaneously
with such Share Redemption, as identified in the applicable Share
Redemption Notice and the applicable notice given to the holder of
the Other Note (and the Allocated Redemption Percentage shall be
analogously determined if less than all of such principal
installment of this Note and all of such principal installment of
the Other Note are being redeemed contemporaneously with such Share
Redemption, as so identified in such notices).
“AMEX”
means the American Stock Exchange, Inc.
“Applicable
Rate” means for each Interest Period a rate per annum equal
to LIBOR for such Interest Period, plus three percent (or such
lesser rate as shall be the highest rate permitted by applicable
law) or, if an Event of Default shall occur, then so long as any
Event of Default shall continue, the Default Rate.
“Board
of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the
Company.
“Board
Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been
duly adopted by the Board of Directors, or duly authorized
committee thereof (to the extent permitted by applicable law), and
to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification,
and delivered to the Holder.
“Business
Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on
which commercial banks in The City of New York, New York or Dallas,
Texas are authorized or required by law or executive order to
remain closed.
“Cash
and Cash Equivalents Balances” of any Person on any date
shall be determined on an unconsolidated basis from such
Person’s books maintained in accordance with Generally
Accepted Accounting Principles, and means, without duplication, the
sum of (1) the cash held by such Person on such date and
available for use by such Person on such date, (2) all assets
which would, on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such
date in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles,
be classified as cash equivalents; provided, however, that
(x) for purposes of computing the Cash and Cash Equivalents
Balances as of any date, no amount shall be included as cash or a
cash equivalent if such amount is subject to any lien, charge,
equity or encumbrance in favor of any other Person or is subject to
any agreement, arrangement or understanding by the Company with any
other Person to maintain the amount thereof or which restricts the
use thereof by the Company (in any such case, other than as
provided in Section 3(m) of this Note and the Other Note and other
than the lien and security interest in favor of the Collateral
Agent arising under the Security Agreement) and (y) cash and
cash equivalents described in the preceding clauses (1) and
(2) that are held at any time
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as Collateral
under the Security Agreement and in which the Collateral Agent has
a perfected first priority security interest and which are not
subject to any lien, charge, equity or encumbrance in favor of any
other Person shall be included in determining the amount of Cash
and Cash Equivalents Balances at such time.
“Closing
Date” shall have the meaning provided in the Purchase
Agreement.
“Collateral
Agent” means Law Offices of Brian W Pusch, as collateral
agent pursuant to the Security Agreement, and from time to time its
duly appointed and acting successor or successors.
“Common
Stock” means the Common Stock, $0.01 par value, or any shares
of capital stock of the Company into which such shares shall be
changed or reclassified after the Closing Date.
“Common
Stock Equivalent” means any warrant, option, subscription or
purchase right with respect to shares of Common Stock, any security
convertible into, exchangeable for, or otherwise entitling the
holder thereof to acquire, shares of Common Stock or any warrant,
option, subscription or purchase right with respect to any such
convertible, exchangeable or other security.
“Company
Certificate” means a certificate of the Company signed by an
Officer.
“Company
Conversion Date” means the conversion date set forth in the
Company Conversion Notice and selected by the Company in accordance
with Section 6(d)(2).
“Company
Conversion Notice” means a Company Conversion Notice in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit F .
“Company
Notice” means a Company Notice in the form attached as
Exhibit C .
“Computed
Price” means, with respect to a particular Trading Day in the
Share Redemption Computation Period for a particular Share
Redemption, 90 percent of the VWAP of the Common Stock for
such Trading Day.
“Conversion
Date” means the date on which a Conversion Notice is given in
accordance with Section 6(b)(1).
“Conversion
Delay Payments” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 6(b)(5)(C).
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“Conversion
Notice” means a duly executed Notice of Conversion of Amended
and Restated Convertible Note due 2005-2008 substantially in the
form of Exhibit A to this Note.
“Conversion
Price” means $6.00, subject to adjustment as provided in
Section 6(c).
“Current
Market Price” shall mean the arithmetic average of the daily
Market Prices per share of Common Stock for the ten consecutive
Trading Days immediately prior to the date in question;
provided, however, that
(1) if the
“ex” date (as hereinafter defined) for any event (other
than the issuance or distribution requiring such computation) that
requires an adjustment to the Conversion Price pursuant to
Section 6(c)(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), or (7), occurs
during such ten consecutive Trading Days, the Market Price for each
Trading Day prior to the “ex” date for such other event
shall be adjusted by multiplying such Market Price by the same
fraction by which the Conversion Price is so required to be
adjusted as a result of such other event,
(2) if the
“ex” date for any event (other than the issuance or
distribution requiring such computation) that requires an
adjustment to the Conversion Price pursuant to Section 6(c)(1),
(2), (3), (4), (5), (6), or (7), occurs on or after the
“ex” date for the issuance or distribution requiring
such computation and prior to the day in question, the Market Price
for each Trading Day on and after the “ex” date for
such other event shall be adjusted by multiplying such Market Price
by the reciprocal of the fraction by which the Conversion Price is
so required to be adjusted as a result of such other event,
and
(3) if the
“ex” date for the issuance or distribution requiring
such computation is prior to the day in question, after taking into
account any adjustment required pursuant to clause (1) or
(2) of this proviso, the Market Price for each Trading Day on
or after such “ex” date shall be adjusted by adding
thereto the amount of any cash and the fair market value (as
determined by the Board of Directors in a manner consistent with
any determination of such value for purposes of
Section 6(c)(4) or (6), whose determination shall be
conclusive and described in a Board Resolution) of the evidences of
indebtedness, shares of capital stock or assets being distributed
applicable to one share of Common Stock as of the close of business
on the day before such “ex” date.
For purposes of
any computation under Section 6(c)(4), the Current Market
Price of the Common Stock on any date shall be deemed to be the
arithmetic average of the
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daily Market
Prices per share of Common Stock for such day and the next two
succeeding Trading Days; provided, however, that if the
“ex” date for any event (other than the Tender Offer
requiring such computation) that requires an adjustment to the
Conversion Price pursuant to Section 6(c)(1), (2), (3), (4),
(5), (6), or (7), occurs on or after the Expiration Time for the
Tender Offer requiring such computation and prior to the day in
question, the Market Price for each Trading Day on and after the
“ex” date for such other event shall be adjusted by
multiplying such Market Price by the reciprocal of the fraction by
which the Conversion Price is so required to be adjusted as a
result of such other event. For purposes of this paragraph and the
definition of the term “VWAP”, the term
“ex” date, (1) when used with respect to any
issuance or distribution, means the first date on which the Common
Stock trades, regular way, on the relevant exchange or in the
relevant market from which the Market Price was obtained without
the right to receive such issuance or distribution, (2) when used
with respect to any subdivision or combination of shares of Common
Stock, means the first date on which the Common Stock trades,
regular way, on such exchange or in such market after the time at
which such subdivision or combination becomes effective, and
(3) when used with respect to any Tender Offer means the first
date on which the Common Stock trades, regular way, on such
exchange or in such market after the Expiration Time of such Tender
Offer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, whenever successive
adjustments to the Conversion Price are called for pursuant to
Section 6(c), such adjustments shall be made to the Current
Market Price as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the
intent of Section 6(c) and to avoid unjust or inequitable results
as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors.
“Default
Rate” means 16 percent per annum (or such lesser rate as
shall be the highest rate permitted by applicable law).
“DTC”
means The Depository Trust Company.
“DWAC”
means DTC’s Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission
system.
“Effective
Date” means the date on which a Registration Statement
covering all the Underlying Shares and other Registrable Securities
(as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) is first declared
effective by the SEC.
“Eligible
Bank” means a corporation organized or existing under the
laws of the United States or any other state, having combined
capital and surplus of at least $250 million and subject to
supervision by federal or state authority and which has a branch
located in New York, New York.
“Event
of Default” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 4(a).
“Exchange
Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
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“Excluded
Shares” means securities or rights to acquire securities that
entitle the holder or owner to acquire shares of Common Stock and
that have limitations on the holder’s or owner’s right
to convert, exercise or purchase similar to the limitations in
Section 6(h).
“Extended
Company Conversion Date” means with respect to any portion of
this Note to which Section 6(d)(3)(A) applies, the date that
is 30 Trading Days after the latest date on which the Restricted
Ownership Percentage no longer restricts the Holder’s right
to convert the remaining Inconvertible Portion, but in no event
later than the date that is 90 days after the Final Maturity
Date.
“Expiration
Time” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 6(c)(6).
“FAST”
means DTC’s Fast Automated Securities Transfer
program.
“Final
Maturity Date” means November 2, 2008.
“Fundamental
Change” means
(a) Any
consolidation or merger of the Company or any material Subsidiary
with or into another entity (other than a merger or consolidation
of a Subsidiary into the Company or a wholly-owned Subsidiary)
where the stockholders of the Company immediately prior to such
transaction do not collectively own at least 51% of the outstanding
voting securities of the surviving corporation of such
consolidation or merger immediately following such
transaction;
(b) The sale of
(i) all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and
the Subsidiaries in a single transaction or a series of
transactions or (ii) one or more Subsidiaries or the assets of
one or more Subsidiaries which sale individually or in the
aggregate is material to the Company and the subsidiaries taken as
a whole, in the case of the preceding clause (ii) other than
any such sale or sales which individually or in the aggregate could
not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on
(i) the business, properties, operations, condition (financial
or other), results of operation or financial prospects of the
Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (ii) the
validity or enforceability of, or the ability of the Company to
perform its obligations under, the Transaction Documents;
(iii) the rights and remedies of the Holder under the terms of
the Transaction Documents; or (iv) the Collateral or the first
priority perfected security interest in the Collateral granted to
the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Security Agreement;
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(c) The occurrence
of any transaction or event in connection with which all or
substantially all the Common Stock shall be exchanged for,
converted into, acquired for or constitute the right to receive
consideration (whether by means of an exchange offer, liquidation,
tender offer, consolidation, merger, combination, reclassification,
recapitalization or otherwise) which is not all or substantially
all capital stock which is (or will, upon consummation of or
immediately following such transaction or event, will be) listed on
a registered national securities exchange or approved for quotation
on Nasdaq or any similar United States system of automated
dissemination of transaction reporting of securities prices;
or
(d) The
acquisition by a Person or entity or group of Persons or entities
acting in concert as a partnership, limited partnership, syndicate
or group (as that term is defined for purposes of Section 13(d) of
the 1934 Act and Regulation 13D-G thereunder), as a result of
a tender or exchange offer, open market purchases, privately
negotiated purchases or otherwise, of beneficial ownership of
securities of the Company representing 50% or more of the combined
voting power of the outstanding voting securities of the Company
ordinarily (and apart from rights accruing in special
circumstances) having the right to vote in the election of
directors.
“Holder
Notice” means a Holder Notice in the form attached as
Exhibit D .
“Inconvertible
Portion” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 6(d)(3).
“Indebtedness”
means, when used with respect to any Person, without
duplication:
(1) all
indebtedness, obligations and other liabilities (contingent or
otherwise) of such Person for borrowed money (including obligations
of such Person in respect of overdrafts, foreign exchange
contracts, currency exchange agreements, currency purchase or
similar agreements, Interest Rate Protection Agreements, and any
loans or advances from banks, whether or not evidenced by notes or
similar instruments) or evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or
other instruments for the payment of money, or incurred in
connection with the acquisition of any property, services or assets
(whether or not the recourse of the lender is to the whole of the
assets of such Person or to only a portion thereof), other than any
account payable or other accrued current liability or obligation to
trade creditors incurred in the ordinary course of business in
connection with the obtaining of materials or services;
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(2) all
reimbursement obligations and other liabilities (contingent or
otherwise) of such Person with respect to letters of credit, bank
guarantees, bankers’ acceptances, surety bonds, performance
bonds or other guaranty of contractual performance;
(3) all
obligations and liabilities (contingent or otherwise) in respect of
(a) leases of such Person required, in conformity with
generally accepted accounting principles, to be accounted for as
capitalized lease obligations on the balance sheet of such Person
and (b) any lease or related documents (including a purchase
agreement) in connection with the lease of real property which
provides that such Person is contractually obligated to purchase or
cause a third party to purchase the leased property and thereby
guarantee a minimum residual value of the leased property to the
landlord and the obligations of such Person under such lease or
related document to purchase or to cause a third party to purchase
the leased property;
(4) all direct or
indirect guaranties or similar agreements by such Person in respect
of, and obligations or liabilities (contingent or otherwise) of
such Person to purchase or otherwise acquire or otherwise assure a
creditor against loss in respect of, indebtedness, obligations or
liabilities of another Person of the kind described in clauses
(1) through (3);
(5) any
indebtedness or other obligations described in clauses
(1) through (4) secured by any mortgage, pledge, lien or
other encumbrance existing on property which is owned or held by
such Person, regardless of whether the indebtedness or other
obligation secured thereby shall be payable by or shall have been
assumed by such Person; and
(6) any and all
deferrals, renewals, extensions and refundings of, or amendments,
modifications or supplements to, any indebtedness, obligation or
liability of the kind described in clauses (1) through
(5).
“Installment
Maturity Dates” mean November 2, 2005, November 2,
2006 and November 2, 2007.
“Interest
Payment Date” means each February 1, May 1, August
1 and November 1, commencing on the first such date after the
Issuance Date, and the Final Maturity Date.
“Interest
Payment Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issuable in
payment of interest on this Note in accordance with
Section 2(a).
“Interest
Period” means with respect to any outstanding principal of
this Note,
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(1) initially the
period commencing on the Issuance Date and ending on the date that
is six months thereafter; and
(2) thereafter
each period commencing on the last day of the next preceding
Interest Period and ending six months thereafter;
provided
that , all of the
foregoing provisions relating to Interest Periods are subject to
the limitation that any Interest Period for any installment of
principal that would otherwise extend beyond the Installment
Maturity Date or the Final Maturity Date, as the case may be, for
such installment shall end on such Installment Maturity Date or the
Final Maturity Date, as the case may be.
“Interest
Rate Protection Agreement” means, with respect to any Person,
any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap or collar
agreement or other financial agreement or arrangement designed to
protect such Person against fluctuations in interest rates, as in
effect from time to time.
“Interest
Share Price” means for any Interest Payment Date an amount
equal to 90 percent of the arithmetic average of the daily
VWAPs of the Common Stock for all of the Trading Days during the
period of ten consecutive Trading Days ending on and including the
Trading Day immediately preceding such Interest Payment
Date.
“Issuance
Date” means the “Closing Date” as defined in the
Purchase Agreement.
“LIBOR”
means, with respect to each Interest Period, the six month London
Interbank Offered Rate at 11:00 a.m., London time, on the date
that is two London banking days before the first day of such
Interest Period, as reported by Bloomberg Financial L.P., using the
BBAM function and the Official BBA LIBOR quote shown
thereby.
“Majority
Holders” means at any time, the holders of two-thirds of the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of this Note and the Other
Note.
“Market
Price” with respect to any security on any day shall mean the
closing bid price of such security on such day on the Nasdaq, the
NYSE or the AMEX, as applicable, or, if such security is not listed
or admitted to trading on the Nasdaq, the NYSE or the AMEX, on the
principal national securities exchange or quotation system on which
such security is quoted or listed or admitted to trading, in any
such case as reported by Bloomberg, L.P. (or if such source ceases
to be available, comparable source selected by the Majority Holders
and acceptable to the Company in its reasonable judgment) or, if
not quoted or listed or admitted to
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trading on any
national securities exchange or quotation system, the average of
the closing bid and asked prices of such security on the
over-the-counter market on the day in question, as reported by the
National Quotation Bureau, Incorporated, or a similar generally
accepted reporting service, or if not so available, in such manner
as furnished by any NYSE member firm selected from time to time by
the Board of Directors for that purpose, or a price determined in
good faith by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be
conclusive and described in a Board Resolution.
“Maximum
Share Amount Deficiency” shall have the meaning provided in
the Purchase Agreement.
“1934
Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
“1933
Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“Nasdaq”
means the Nasdaq National Market.
“Newly
Issued Shares” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 6(c)(7)(A).
“Note”
means this instrument as originally executed, or if later amended
or supplemented in accordance with its terms, then as so amended or
supplemented.
“NYSE”
means the New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
“Officer”
means the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the
President or the Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
“Optional
Redemption Consideration” means (1) an amount in cash
equal to the sum of (A) an amount equal to 105 percent of
the principal amount of this Note that is outstanding on the
applicable Optional Redemption Date plus (B) accrued
and unpaid interest on such principal amount to the applicable
Optional Redemption Date plus (C) accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, at the Default Rate on the amount referred to in
the immediately preceding clause (B) to the applicable
Optional Redemption Date and (2) a Redemption Warrant that
initially (I) entitles the holder thereof to purchase a number
of shares of Common Stock equal to 70 percent of the quotient
obtained by dividing (x) the principal amount of this Note
outstanding immediately prior to redemption of this Note on the
applicable Optional Redemption Date by (y) the
Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to redemption of this
Note on the applicable Optional Redemption Date and (II) has a
Purchase Price (as defined in the Redemption Warrant) equal to the
Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to redemption of this
Note on the applicable Optional Redemption Date, subject to
adjustment as provided in the Redemption
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“Optional
Redemption Date” means, with respect to a particular
redemption of this Note or a portion hereof under
Section 2(b), the Business Day, selected by the Company in
accordance with Section 2(b), on which this Note or such
portion hereof is to be redeemed pursuant to
Section 2(b).
“Optional
Redemption Notice” means an Optional Redemption Notice in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit B .
“Optional
Redemption Period” means the period that commences on the
date that is ten Trading Days after the Effective Date and ends on
the Final Maturity Date.
“Other
Note” means the Amended and Restated Convertible Note due
2005-2008 issued by the Company upon amendment and restatement of
the Company’s Convertible Note due 2005-2008 originally
issued pursuant to the Other Purchase Agreement, and any or all
such instruments issued upon transfer or split-up
thereof.
“Other
Purchase Agreement” means the Purchase Agreement, dated as of
November 1, 2004, by and between the Company and the original
holder of the Other Note or its predecessor instrument.
“Other
Redemption Warrants” means any Common Stock Purchase Warrants
issuable or issued by the Company upon optional redemption of the
Other Note pursuant to Section 2(b) thereof.
“Permitted
Indebtedness” means:
(1) Indebtedness
outstanding on the Issuance Date prior to issuance of this Note and
reflected in the Company’s financial statements included in
the SEC Filings;
(2) Indebtedness
evidenced by this Note and the Other Note;
(3) Indebtedness
outstanding on, or incurred after, the Issuance Date in an
aggregate amount not to exceed $5 million at any one time
outstanding so long as (A) such Indebtedness (x) is
incurred for the purpose of acquiring equipment owned or used or to
be owned or used by the Company or any Subsidiary (or for the
purpose of acquiring the capital stock or similar equity interests
of a Subsidiary that is formed for the limited purpose of owning
same and does not own or hold any other material assets) and does
not exceed the purchase price of the equipment, capital stock or
other equity
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interest so
acquired plus reasonable transaction expenses and (y) if
secured, is secured solely by the interest of the Company or one of
its Subsidiaries in the equipment so acquired and rights related
thereto or (B) is the reimbursement obligations and other
liabilities (contingent or otherwise) of the Company or any
Subsidiary with respect to letters of credit issued in lieu of cash
security deposits for leases of real property or equipment used by
the Company or any Subsidiary, or commercial or standby letters of
credit issued in the ordinary course of the business of the Company
and its Subsidiaries (the amount of which shall for this purpose be
deemed to be the maximum reimbursement obligations and other
liabilities (contingent or otherwise) with respect to such letters
of credit, whether or not a drawing thereunder has been
made);
(4) Indebtedness
incurred after the Issuance Date that is unsecured and that is
subordinated as to payment to the Indebtedness evidenced by this
Note and the Other Note on terms that have been approved in writing
by the Majority Holders before the incurrence of such
Indebtedness;
(5) endorsements
for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business;
and
(6) in the case of
any Subsidiary, Indebtedness owed by such Subsidiary to the
Company.
“Person”
means any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, trust, incorporated organization, unincorporated
association or similar entity or any government, governmental
agency or political subdivision.
“Principal
Market” means at any time Nasdaq or such other U.S. market or
exchange which is the principal market on which the Common Stock is
then listed for trading.
“Purchase
Agreement” means the Purchase Agreement, dated as of
November 1, 2004, by and between the Company and the original
holder of this Note or its predecessor instrument, pursuant to
which this Note, or its predecessor instrument was originally
issued, as amended by the Purchase Agreement Amendment.
“Purchase
Agreement Amendment” means Amendment No. 1 to Purchase
Agreement, dated as of April ___, 2005, by and between the Company
and the original holder of the Convertible Promissory Note due
2005-2008 that was amended and restated by this Note or this
Note’s predecessor instrument.
“QIB”
means a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in
Rule 144A.
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“Record
Date” shall mean, with respect to any dividend, distribution
or other transaction or event in which the holders of Common Stock
have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or
in which the Common Stock (or other applicable security) is
exchanged for or converted into any combination of cash, securities
or other property, the date fixed for determination of stockholders
entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property
(whether such date is fixed by the Board of Directors or by
statute, contract or otherwise).
“Redemption
Delay Payments” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2(c)(6)(C).
“Redemption
Warrant” means any Common Stock Purchase Warrant in the form
attached as Exhibit E issuable or issued as part of the
Optional Redemption Consideration.
“Registration
Statement” shall have the meaning set forth in the
Registration Rights Agreement.
“Repurchase
Event” means the occurrence of any one or more of the
following events:
(a) For any period
of five consecutive Trading Days following the date hereof there
shall be no reported sale price of the Common Stock on any of
Nasdaq, the NYSE or the AMEX;
(b) The Common
Stock ceases to be listed for trading on Nasdaq, the NYSE or the
AMEX for a period of five consecutive Trading Days;
(c) Any
Fundamental Change;
(d) The adoption
of any amendment to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation
(other than any certificate designating a series of preferred stock
of the Company) which materially and adversely affects the rights
of the Holder or the taking of any other action by the Company
which materially and adversely affects the rights of the Holder in
respect of the Holder’s interest in the Common Stock in a
different and more adverse manner than it affects the rights of
holders of Common Stock generally;
(e) The inability
of the Holder or holders of any Other Note for 30 Trading Days
(whether or not consecutive) during any period of 365 consecutive
days occurring on or after the SEC Effective Date to sell shares of
Common Stock issued or issuable upon conversion of this Note or the
Other Note or exercise of the Warrants or issued as Interest
Payment Shares
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pursuant to the
Registration Statement (1) by reason of the requirements of
the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act or any of the rules or regulations under
either thereof or (2) due to the Registration Statement
containing any untrue statement of material fact or omitting to
state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading or other failure of the
Registration Statement to comply with the rules and regulations of
the SEC, excluding any such inability to sell that results from an
untrue statement of a material fact in such Registration Statement
or Prospectus or omission to state a material fact required to be
stated in such Registration Statement or Prospectus in order to
make the statements therein not misleading, which misstatement or
omission was made by the Holder in written information it furnished
to the Company specifically for inclusion in such Registration
Statement or Prospectus which such information was substantially
relied upon by the Company in preparation of the Registration
Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto,
unless the Company shall have failed timely to amend or supplement
such Registration Statement or Prospectus after the Holder shall
have corrected such misstatement or omission; or
(f) The
Registration Statement required by Section 2(a)(i) of the
Registration Rights Agreement is not declared effective by the SEC
within 95 days (or 125 days if the SEC staff determines
to review such Registration Statement) following the Closing Date,
or the Registration Statement required by Section 2(a)(ii) of
the Registration Rights Agreement is not declared effective by the
SEC within 95 days (or 125 days if the SEC staff
determines to review such Registration Statement) following demand
of the Holder pursuant to the Registration Rights
Agreement.
“Repurchase
Price” means with respect to any repurchase pursuant to
Section 5 an amount in cash equal to the greater of
(1) the sum of (A) the outstanding principal amount of
this Note that the Holder has elected to be repurchased plus
(B) accrued and unpaid interest on such principal amount to
the date of such repurchase plus (C) accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, at the Default Rate on the amount referred to in
the immediately preceding clause (B) to the date of such
repurchase and (2) the product obtained by multiplying
(A) the Current Market Price on the date the Repurchase Event
occurs, the date the Company gives the Company Notice to the
Holder, the date the Holder gives the Holder Notice to the Company
or the applicable repurchase date pursuant to Section 5, whichever
such Current Market Price is the highest, times (B) the
number of shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon
conversion of the principal amount of this Note (and interest
thereon as provided in Section 6(a)) to be repurchased by
reason of the occurrence of such Repurchase Event (determined
without regard to any limitation on conversion contained in
Section 6) if such conversion were made on the date for which,
pursuant to the immediately preceding clause (A), the
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Current Market
Price is used for the computation of the Repurchase Price pursuant
to this clause (2).
“Required
Cash Amount” means for any date the amount set forth below
with respect to such date:
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Date
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Amount
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Issuance Date through November 2,
2007
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$
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10,000,000.00
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$
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5,000,000.00
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; provided,
however, that the reduction shown in the foregoing table shall
occur only if all installments of principal due on or before the
date of such scheduled reduction have been paid and all
installments of principal required by Section 2(d) to be redeemed
on or before the date of such scheduled reduction have been
redeemed in accordance with Section 2(d); provided further,
however, that if the Company redeems in full in accordance with
Section 2(d)(2) the installments of principal of this Note
scheduled to be due on November 2, 2005 and November 2,
2008 on or before the respective redemption dates therefor
specified in Section 2(d)(2), then thereafter through
November 2, 2006 the Required Cash Amount shall be
$9,000,000.00, subject to the next succeeding proviso, and, if the
Company also pays in accordance with Section 2(d)(1) the full
amount of the installment of principal due on November 2, 2006
then thereafter the Required Cash Amount shall be $5,000,000.00;
and provided further, however, that if the Company redeems
in full in accordance with Section 2(d)(2) the installments of
principal of this Note scheduled to be due on November 2, 2005
and November 2, 2008 on or before the respective redemption
dates therefor specified in Section 2(d)(2), and thereafter
the Holder or the holder of the Other Note requires the Company to
redeem all or any portion of this Note in accordance with
Section 6.16(b)(2) of the Purchase Agreement or the Other
Purchase Agreement, as the case may be, then to the extent any such
redemption reduces the aggregate outstanding principal amount of
this Note and the Other Note to an amount less than $9,000,000.00,
then immediately following such redemption the Required Cash Amount
shall be reduced to the aggregate outstanding principal amount of
this Note and the Other Note immediately after such
redemption.
“Restricted
Ownership Percentage” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 6(h).
“Rule 144A”
means Rule 144A as promulgated under the 1933 Act or any
successor rule thereto.
“SEC”
means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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“SEC
Filings” shall have the meaning provided in the Purchase
Agreement.
“Security
Agreement” means the Security Agreement, dated as of
November 2, 2004, by and between the Company and the
Collateral Agent.
“Share
Interest Payment Limitation” means, with respect to any
Interest Payment Date, a number of Interest Payment Shares equal to
50% of the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock traded on the
Principal Market on all of the Trading Days during the period from
and including the date that is 29 Trading Days prior to such
Interest Payment Date to and including the date that is 20 Trading
Days prior to such Interest Payment Date (as reported by Bloomberg,
L.P. or if such source ceases to be available, a comparable source
selected by the Majority Holders at the request of the Company and
acceptable to the Company in its reasonable judgment), equitably
adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends and similar events that
are reflected in the trading market for the Common Stock during
such period, unless the Majority Holders consent in writing to a
higher number of shares with respect to any particular Interest
Payment Date.
“Share
Interest Payment Option” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2(a)(1).
“Share
Redemption” means a redemption of this Note or a portion
hereof pursuant to Section 2(c).
“Share
Redemption Computation Period” means, with respect to a
particular Share Redemption, the period of 15 consecutive Trading
Days ending on and including the Trading Day immediately preceding
the applicable Share Redemption Date for such Share
Redemption.
“Share
Redemption Daily Amount” means, with respect to a particular
Trading Day in the Share Redemption Computation Period for a
particular Share Redemption, the lesser of following
amounts:
(1) an amount
equal to one-fifteenth of the Share Redemption Price stated in the
applicable Share Redemption Notice for such Share Redemption,
and
(2) the Share
Redemption Daily Limitation for such Trading Day.
“Share
Redemption Daily Limitation” means, with respect to a
particular Trading Day in the Share Redemption Computation Period
for a particular Share Redemption, the sum of
(x) 105 percent of the product obtained by multiplying
(A) the product obtained by multiplying (i) the Allocated
Redemption
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Percentage for
such Share Redemption times (ii) the number of shares
of Common Stock traded on such Trading Day, as reported by
Bloomberg Financial, L.P., based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m.,
Eastern Time, to 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time, using the AQR Function
for such Trading Day times (B) the Computed Price ,
plus (y) accrued and unpaid interest on an amount equal
to 100 percent of the product of the amount in clause
(A) in the immediately preceding clause (x) times the
amount in clause (B) in the immediately preceding clause
(x) to the applicable Share Redemption Date, computed as if
the amount on which such interest were being calculated were
principal of this Note to be redeemed on the applicable Share
Redemption Date plus (z) accrued and unpaid interest,
if any, computed at the Default Rate on the amount specified in the
immediately preceding clause (y).
“Share
Redemption Date” means, with respect to a particular
redemption of this Note or a portion hereof under
Section 2(c), the Trading Day selected by the Company in
accordance with Section 2(c), on which this Note or such
portion hereof is to be redeemed pursuant to
Section 2(c).
“Share
Redemption Notice” means a Share Redemption Notice in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit G .
“Share
Redemption Period” means the period that commences three
Trading Days after the Company files the Current Report on Form 8-K
contemplated by Section 6.3 of the Purchase Agreement
Amendment and ends on December 31, 2005.
“Share
Redemption Price” means an amount equal to the sum of
(1) 105 percent of the principal amount of this Note that
is to be redeemed on the applicable Share Redemption Date
plus (2) accrued and unpaid interest on such principal
amount to the applicable Share Redemption Date plus (3)
accrued and unpaid interest, if any, at the Default Rate on the
amount referred to in the immediately preceding clause (2) to
the applicable Share Redemption Date.
“Share
Redemption Share Amount” means, with respect to a particular
Share Redemption, an amount determined by computing for each
Trading Day in the Share Redemption Computation Period for such
Share Redemption the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the
Share Redemption Daily Amount for such Trading Day by
(y) the Computed Price for such Trading Day and then computing
the sum of such quotients for all of the Trading Days in such Share
Redemption Computation Period.
“Tender
Offer” means a tender offer or exchange offer.
“Trading
Day” means at any time a day on which the Principal Market is
open for the general trading of securities.
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“Transaction
Documents” means this Note, the Other Note, the Purchase
Agreement, the Purchase Agreement Amendment, the Other Purchase
Agreement, the Security Agreement, the Warrants, the Redemption
Warrant and the Other Redemption Warrants.
“Transfer
Agent” shall mean the institution acting as transfer agent
for the Common Stock.
“Trigger
Event” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 6(c)(4).
“Underlying
Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable
upon conversion of, or in lieu of cash payment of interest on, this
Note in accordance with the terms hereof and the Purchase
Agreement.
“VWAP”
of any security on any Trading Day or for any period of Trading
Days means the volume-weighted average price of such security on
such Trading Day or for such period of Trading Days on the
Principal Market, as reported by Bloomberg Financial, L.P., based
on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m., Eastern Time, to 4:00 p.m.,
Eastern Time, using the AQR Function, for such Trading Day or for
such period of Trading Days; provided, however, that during
any period that the daily VWAP is being determined or for any
period for which the VWAP is being determined, such VWAP shall be
subject to equitable adjustments from time to time on terms
consistent with Section 6(c) and otherwise reasonably acceptable to
the Majority Holders for (i) stock splits, (ii) stock
dividends, (iii) combinations, (iv) capital
reorganizations, (v) issuance to all holders of Common Stock
of rights or warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock,
(vi) distribution by the Company to all holders of Common
Stock of evidences of indebtedness of the Company or cash (other
than regular quarterly cash dividends), (vii) Tender Offers by
the Company or any Subsidiary for, or other repurchases of shares
of, Common Stock in one or more transactions which, individually or
in the aggregate, result in the purchase of more than ten percent
of the Common Stock outstanding, and (viii) similar events
relating to the Common Stock, in each case which occur, or with
respect to which the “ex” date occurs, during such
period.
“Warrants”
means Common Stock Purchase Warrants of the Company issued to the
original Holder of this Note or its predecessor instrument pursuant
to the Purchase Agreement and issued to the original holders of the
Other Note or their predecessor instruments pursuant to the Other
Purchase Agreement, as amended pursuant to the Purchase Agreement
Amendment and the like amendments to the Other Purchase
Agreement.
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Section 2. Payment of Certain Interest in Common Stock;
Optional Redemption.
(a) Issuance of Common Stock in Lieu of Cash
Interest . (1) If the Company exercises its option to
make a payment of interest on this Note wholly or partly in Common
Stock (the “Share Interest Payment Option”), the
issuance of Interest Payment Shares upon such exercise of the Share
Interest Payment Option shall have been authorized by the Board of
Directors of the Company.
(2) The
Company shall not be permitted to exercise the Share Interest
Payment Option with respect to any payment of interest on this Note
if:
(i) on the date
the Company notifies the Holder of the Company’s election to
exercise the Share Interest Payment Option or on the date the
Company is required to deliver the Interest Payment Shares, the
number of shares of Common Stock authorized, unissued and
unreserved for all purposes, or held in the Company’s
treasury, is insufficient to pay the portion of such interest to be
paid in Common Stock;
(ii) the issuance
or delivery of Interest Payment Shares or the public resale of such
Interest Payment Shares by the Holder would require registration or
filing with or approval of any governmental authority under any law
or regulation, and such registration, filing or approval has not
been effected or obtained by or is not in effect on the date the
Company notifies the Holder of the Company’s election to
exercise the Share Interest Payment Option or at any time
thereafter to and including the later of (A) such Interest
Payment Date and (B) the date the Company delivers such
Interest Payment Shares to the Holder, the Registration Statement
(x) is unavailable for use by the Holder for the resale of the
Interest Payment Shares or (y) is not expected to be available
for such use for at least 15 Trading Days after the date the
Company delivers such Interest Payment Shares to the Holder and in
either case in the preceding clause (x) or (y) the
Interest Payment Shares are ineligible for resale by the Holder
under Rule 144(k) under the 1933 Act, unless in any such case
described in this clause (ii) the Holder notifies the Company
that it will accept such Interest Payment Shares notwithstanding
the failure to satisfy this clause (ii);
(iii) the
outstanding shares of Common Stock are neither (A) listed or
admitted for trading on a national securities exchange nor
(B) quoted on the Nasdaq; or the Interest Payment Shares shall
not at the time of issuance have been authorized for listing, upon
official notice of issuance, on the Principal Market;
(iv) the Interest
Share Price for the Interest Payment Shares is less
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than the par
value of the Common Stock;
(v) an
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date the
Company makes such election or on the applicable Interest Payment
Date; or
(vi) on
the date the Company notifies the Holder of the Company’s
election to exercise the Share Interest Payment Option or at any
time thereafter to and including the later of (A) such
Interest Payment Date and (B) the date the Company delivers
such Interest Payment Shares to the Holder a Maximum Share Amount
Deficiency exists.
(3)
(A) The Company may exercise its right to elect the Share
Interest Payment Option with respect to any Interest Payment Date
only by giving notice of such election to the Holder not less than
15 or more than 19 Trading Days prior to such Interest Payment
Date, which notice shall state the percentage of the interest
payable on such Interest Payment Date which is to be paid in
Interest Payment Shares. Time shall be of the essence in the giving
of such notice. The Company shall have the right to elect the Share
Interest Payment Option with respect to this Note only if the
Company also elects the similar option which it has with respect to
the Other Note for the interest due thereon on the date which is
such Interest Payment Date and in each such case pro rata among
this Note and the Other Note, based on the amounts of interest due
on such date hereon and thereon. If the Company elects the Share
Interest Payment Option with respect to a particular Interest
Payment Date, the Company shall issue to the Holder in respect of
such Interest Payment Date the aggregate number of whole shares of
Common Stock determined by dividing the per share Interest Share
Price of the Common Stock on the applicable Interest Payment Date
into an amount equal to the total amount of lawful money of the
United States of America which the Holder would receive if the
aggregate amount of interest due on this Note which is being paid
in Common Stock were being paid in such lawful money.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Note, in no event may
the Company issue in respect of the interest payable on this Note
and the Other Note on any Interest Payment Date an aggregate number
of Interest Payment Shares in excess of the Share Interest Payment
Limitation and any interest on this Note not paid in Interest
Payment Shares due to the Share Interest Payment Limitation shall
be paid in cash.
(B) If
the Company elects the Share Interest Payment Option with respect
to an Interest Payment Date, the Interest Payment Shares for such
Interest Payment Date shall become issuable on such Interest
Payment Date and the Company shall deliver, or cause to be
delivered, the appropriate number of shares of Common Stock to the
Holder within three Trading Days after the applicable Interest
Payment Date. If in any case the Company shall fail to deliver or
cause to be delivered such number of shares of Common Stock to the
Holder within such
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period of three
Trading Days, then in addition to any other liabilities the Company
may have hereunder and under applicable law (1) the Company
shall pay or reimburse the Holder on demand for all out-of-pocket
expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable fees and
expenses of legal counsel, incurred by the Holder as a result of
such failure, (2) if as a result of such failure the Holder
shall suffer any direct damages or liabilities from such failure
(including, without limitation, margin interest and the cost of
purchasing securities to cover a sale (whether by the Holder or the
Holder’s securities broker) or borrowing of shares of Common
Stock by the Holder for purposes of settling any trade involving a
sale of shares of Common Stock made by the Holder during the period
beginning on the date the Company notified the Holder of the
Company’s election of the Share Interest Payment Option and
ending on the date the Company delivers or causes to be delivered
to the Holder the shares of Common Stock issuable in respect
thereof), then the Company shall upon demand of the Holder pay to
the Holder an amount equal to the actual direct, out-of-pocket
damages and liabilities suffered by the Holder by reason thereof
which the Holder documents to the reasonable satisfaction of the
Company, and (3) the Holder may by written notice (which may
be given by mail, courier, personal service or telephone line
facsimile transmission) or oral notice (promptly confirmed in
writing), given at any time prior to delivery to the Holder of the
shares of Common Stock issuable in connection with such exercise of
the Share Interest Payment Option, require payment in cash of the
interest in respect of which the Company exercised the Share
Interest Payment Option, in which case the amount of such interest
shall be immediately due and payable, with interest thereon, if
any, at the Default Rate from the applicable Interest Payment Date
until paid in full, and the Company shall not be obligated or
entitled to issue such Interest Payment Shares in respect of such
Interest Payment Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing the Company
shall not be liable to the Holder under clause (2) of the
immediately preceding sentence to the extent the failure of the
Company to deliver or to cause to be delivered such shares of
Common Stock results from fire, flood, storm, earthquake,
shipwreck, strike, war, acts of terrorism, crash involving
facilities of a common carrier, acts of God, or any similar event
outside the control of the Company (it being understood that the
action or failure to act of the Transfer Agent shall not be deemed
an event outside the control of the Company except to the extent
resulting from fire, flood, storm, earthquake, shipwreck, strike,
war, acts of terrorism, crash involving facilities of a common
carrier, acts of God, or any similar event outside the control of
the Transfer Agent or the bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization
of the Transfer Agent under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other
similar law). The Holder shall notify the Company in writing (or by
telephone conversation, confirmed in writing) as promptly as
practicable following the third Trading Day after such Interest
Payment Date if the Holder becomes aware that shares of Common
Stock so issuable have not been received as provided herein but any
failure to give such notice shall not affect the Holder’s
rights under this Note or otherwise. If the Company shall have
exercised the Share Interest Payment Option with respect to a
particular Interest Payment Date and either (1) the
Company
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shall notify
the Holder on or after such Interest Payment Date that the Interest
Payment Shares might not be delivered within three Trading Days
after such Interest Payment Date or (2) the Holder learns
after the date which is three Trading Days after such Interest
Payment Date that the Holder has not received such Interest Payment
Shares, then, without releasing the Company of its obligations with
respect thereto, from and after the Trading Day next succeeding the
earlier of the events described in the preceding clauses
(1) and (2) of this sentence the Holder shall make
reasonable efforts not to sell shares of Common Stock in
anticipation of receipt of such Interest Payment Shares in a manner
which is likely to increase materially the liability of the Company
under clause (2) of the second preceding sentence. No
fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued in payment of
interest on this Note. In lieu thereof, the Company may, at its
option, issue a number of shares of Common Stock which reflects a
rounding up to the next whole number or may pay lawful money of the
United States of America in lieu of issuance of such fractional
share.
(4) If
the Company elects the Share Interest Payment Option with respect
to a payment of interest on this Note with respect to a particular
Interest Payment Date, the Company shall deliver to the Holder, on
or prior to the date on which Interest Payment Shares for such
payment of interest on this Note are to be received by the Holder,
a Company Certificate setting forth (i) the total amount of
the cash interest payment to which the Holder is entitled,
(ii) the portion of such interest payment being made in
Interest Payment Shares, expressed in dollars and as a percentage,
(iii) the number of Interest Payment Shares allocable to such
payment, as calculated pursuant to this Section 2(a),
(iv) any rounding adjustment to such number or any payment
necessary to be made pursuant to Section 2(a)(3), (v) a
brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment, and (vi) a
representation and warranty, which, if false or misleading, shall
be an Event of Default under Section 4(a)(5), that none of the
conditions set forth in Section 2(a)(2) has occurred and is
existing and that all of the requirements of this Section 2(a) have
been met. Such Company Certificate shall be conclusive evidence of
the correctness of the calculation of the number of Interest
Payment Shares allocable to the payments to which such Company
Certificate relates and of any adjustments to such number made
pursuant to this Section 2(a) in the absence of manifest error. The
Interest Payment Shares shall be duly issued in the name of the
Holder or its nominee. On or before the applicable Interest Payment
Date, the Company shall issue, or cause the Transfer Agent to
prepare and issue, the Interest Payment Shares in the name of the
Holder or its nominee before being so delivered by the Company on
such Interest Payment Date.
(5) The
Interest Payment Shares, when issued pursuant to and in compliance
with this Section 2(a), shall be, and for all purposes shall be
deemed to be, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable shares
of Common Stock; the issuance and delivery thereof is in all
respects hereby authorized; and the issuance
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thereof,
together with lawful money of the United States of America, if any,
paid in lieu of fractional shares of Common Stock, will be, and for
all purposes shall be deemed to be, in full discharge and
satisfaction of the Company’s obligation to pay the interest
on this Note to which such Interest Payment Shares
relate.
(6) Any
amount of interest not paid in Interest Payment Shares shall be due
and payable in cash on the applicable Interest Payment
Date.
(b) Optional and Mandatory Redemption.
(1) At any time during the Optional Redemption Period, the
Company shall have the right to redeem the principal installments
stated in Section 2(d)(1) to be due on November 2, 2006
and November 2, 2007 in whole or from time to time in part,
and on the respective dates specified in Section 2(d)(2), the
Company shall have the obligation to redeem the then remaining
outstanding amounts of the principal installments stated in
Section 2(d)(1) to be due on November 2, 2005 and
November 2, 2008 in full, in each such case by payment of the
Optional Redemption Consideration pursuant to this Section 2(b) on
the applicable Optional Redemption Date, so long as the following
conditions precedent are satisfied:
(A) on the date a
particular Optional Redemption Notice is given and at all times
thereafter to and including the applicable Optional Redemption
Date, no Event of Default and no event which, with notice or
passage of time, or both, would become an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing (unless, by reason of such redemption,
the requirements of this clause (A) will be satisfied
immediately after the redemption of this Note and the Other Note on
the applicable Optional Redemption Date and the Company shall
furnish Company Certificates to the Holder to such effect on the
date such Optional Redemption Notice is given to the Holder and on
the applicable Optional Redemption Date);
(B) on the date
such Optional Redemption Notice is given and at all times
thereafter to and including the applicable Optional Redemption
Date, no Repurchase Event has occurred with respect to which the
Holder has the right to exercise repurchase rights pursuant to
Section 5 or with respect to which the Holder has exercised such
repurchase rights and the Repurchase Price has not been paid to the
Holder and no event which, with notice or passage of time, or both,
would become a Repurchase Event has occurred and is
continuing;
(C) on the date
such Optional Redemption Notice is given and at all times
thereafter to and including the applicable Optional Redemption
Date, the Registration Statement shall be effective and available
for use by the Holder, the holders of the Other Note and the
holders of the Warrants for the resale of the shares of Common
Stock issued and issuable upon conversion of
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this Note and
the Other Note and issued or issuable upon exercise of the
Warrants, as the case may be, and is reasonably expected to remain
effective and available for such use for at least 30 days
after the applicable Optional Redemption Date, and the Company
shall be in compliance in all material respects with its
obligations under the Registration Rights Agreement;
(D) on the date
such Optional Redemption Notice is given and at all times
thereafter to and including the applicable Optional Redemption Date
one or more registration statements under the 1933 Act covering the
resale of the shares of Common Stock issuable to the Holder upon
exercise of the Redemption Warrants issuable to the Holder in
payment of a portion of the Optional Redemption Consideration on
the applicable Optional Redemption Date and any Redemption Warrants
previously issued to the Holder shall be effective under the 1933
Act and available for use by the Holder for the resale of such
shares of Common Stock and each such registration statement shall
reasonably be expected to remain available for such use for at
least 30 Trading Days after the applicable Optional Redemption
Date;
(E) on the date
such Optional Redemption Notice is given, the Company has funds
available to pay the cash portion of the Optional Redemption
Consideration payable on the applicable Optional Redemption
Date;
(F) other than in
the case of a redemption required by Section 2(d)(2) or by
Section 6.16(b)(2) of the Purchase Agreement, the Optional
Redemption Date selected by the Company in accordance with this
Section 2(b) and set forth in such Optional Redemption Notice shall
be at least 365 days after any earlier Optional Redemption
Date;
(G) except as
otherwise provided in Section 6.16(b)(2) of the Purchase
Agreement, on the date such Optional Redemption Notice is given and
at all times thereafter to and including the applicable Optional
Redemption Date no Maximum Share Amount Deficiency exists (unless,
by reason of such redemption, the requirements of this clause
(G) will be satisfied immediately after the redemption of this
Note and the Other Note on the applicable Optional Redemption Date
and the Company shall furnish Company Certificates to the Holder to
such effect on the date such Optional Redemption Notice is given to
the Holder and on the applicable Optional Redemption Date);
and
(H) during the
period beginning five days prior to the date the Company gives such
Optional Redemption Notice and ending on the applicable Optional
Redemption Date the Company shall not have been engaged in
discussions or negotiations concerning, or entered in to
an
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agreement or
received any proposal for, any transaction that might result in a
Fundamental Change, and the Company shall not enter into any
agreement or accept any proposal for, any transaction that might
result in a Fundamental Change for a period of 60 days after the
applicable Optional Redemption Date.
In order to
exercise its right of redemption under this Section 2(b) the
Company shall give the particular Optional Redemption Notice to the
Holder not less than 20 Trading Days or more than 40 Trading Days
prior to the applicable Optional Redemption Date, stating that:
(1) the Company is exercising its right to redeem this Note in
accordance with this Section 2(b); (2) the principal
amount of this Note to be redeemed; (3) the amount of the cash
portion of the Optional Redemption Consideration payable on such
Optional Redemption Date (assuming no conversion of this Note from
the date the Company gives such Optional Redemption Notice to the
applicable Optional Redemption Date); (4) the number of shares
of Common Stock and the purchase price therefor to be contained in
the Redemption Warrant included in such Optional Redemption
Consideration (assuming no conversion of this Note from the date
the Company gives such Optional Redemption Notice to the applicable
Optional Redemption Date); (5) the Optional Redemption Date;
and (6) that all of the conditions of this Section 2(b)
entitling the Company to call this Note for redemption have been
met. On the Optional Redemption Date (or such later date as the
Holder surrenders this Note to the Company) the Company shall
(x) pay to or upon the order of the Holder, by wire transfer
of immediately available funds to such account as shall be
specified for such purpose by the Holder at least one Business Day
prior to the applicable Optional Redemption Date, an amount equal
to the cash portion of the Optional Redemption Consideration and
(y) issue and deliver to the Holder the portion of such
Optional Redemption Consideration consisting of the Redemption
Warrant, which will be deemed for all purposes to have been issued
to the Holder on the applicable Optional Redemption Date, unless
the Company shall have failed to pay the amount specified in the
immediately preceding clause (x) when due.
(2) The
Company shall not be entitled to give an Optional Redemption Notice
or to redeem any portion of this Note with respect to which the
Holder has given a Conversion Notice on or prior to the date the
Company gives such Optional Redemption Notice. Notwithstanding the
giving of a particular Optional Redemption Notice, the Holder shall
be entitled to convert all or any portion of this Note, in
accordance with the terms of this Note, by giving a Conversion
Notice at any time on or prior to the later of (1) the date
which is one Trading Day prior to the applicable Optional
Redemption Date and (2) if the Company fails to pay and
deliver to the Holder, or deposit in accordance with
Section 7(k), the Optional Redemption Consideration payable on
the applicable Optional Redemption Date on or before the applicable
Optional Redemption Date, the date on which the Company pays and
delivers to the Holder, or deposits in
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accordance with
Section 7(k), such Optional Redemption Consideration. If after
giving effect to any such conversion of this Note that occurs after
the date the Company gives a particular Optional Redemption Notice
to the Holder, the principal amount of this Note remaining
outstanding is less than the amount thereof to be redeemed as
stated in the applicable Optional Redemption Notice, then the
Optional Redemption Consideration set forth in the Optional
Redemption Notice shall be adjusted to reflect the reduced
outstanding principal amount of this Note and related accrued
interest (and interest, if any, thereon at the Default Rate) on the
applicable Optional Redemption Date resulting from any such
conversions of this Note after the Company gives such Optional
Redemption Notice to the Holder. Any redemption of this Note
pursuant to this Section 2(b), other than a redemption
required by Section 2(d)(2), shall be applied to the
installments of principal outstanding on the applicable Optional
Redemption Date first to the principal installment stated in
Section 2(d)(1) to be due on November 2, 2007, second to
the principal installment stated in Section 2(d)(1) to be due
on November 2, 2006 and thereafter to the remaining principal
installments in the inverse order of their maturity stated in
Section 2(d)(1), and any redemption of this Note pursuant to
this Section 2(b) that is required by Section 2(d)(2) shall be
applied to the installment of principal outstanding on the
applicable Optional Redemption Date that is required by
Section 2(d)(2) to be redeemed under this Section 2(b) on such
Optional Redemption Date.
(3) In
order that the Company shall not discriminate among the Holder and
the holders of the Other Note, the Company agrees that each
redemption of this Note pursuant to this Section 2(b) shall be made
at the same time as a redemption by the Company of the Other Note
and that such redemption shall be made pro rata based on the
principal amounts of this Note and the Other Note outstanding on
the date the Company gives the particular Optional Redemption
Notice. In order that the Company not discriminate among the Holder
and the holders of the Other Note, the Company agrees that it shall
not redeem any of the Other Note pursuant to the provisions thereof
similar to this Section 2(b) or repurchase or otherwise acquire any
of the Other Note (other than a mandatory redemption pursuant to
provisions of the Other Note comparable to Section 5 or as
provided in Sections 6.2 and 6.16 of the Purchase Agreement
and the Other Purchase Agreement) unless the Company offers
simultaneously to redeem, repurchase or otherwise acquire a pro
rata portion (based on outstanding principal amount) of this Note
for cash at the same unit price as the Other Note or Other
Note.
(c) Share Redemption. (1) During the Share
Redemption Period, the Company shall, as provided in
Sections 2(d)(2) and 2(d)(3), redeem the principal
installments of this Note due on November 2, 2005 and
November 2, 2008 in whole or from time to time in part, in
each such case by issuing the number of shares of
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Common Stock to
the Holder determined as provided in Section 2(c)(2), so long
as the following conditions precedent are satisfied:
(A) on the date a
particular Share Redemption Notice is given and at all times
thereafter to and including the applicable Share Redemption Date,
no Event of Default and no event which, with notice or passage of
time, or both, would become an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing (unless, by reason of such redemption, the requirements
of this clause (A) will be satisfied immediately after the
redemption of this Note and the Other Note on the applicable Share
Redemption Date and the Company shall furnish Company Certificates
to the Holder to such effect on the date such Share Redemption
Notice is given to the Holder and on the applicable Share
Redemption Date);
(B) on the date
such Share Redemption Notice is given and at all times thereafter
to and including the applicable Share Redemption Date, no
Repurchase Event has occurred with respect to which the Holder has
the right to exercise repurchase rights pursuant to Section 5 or
with respect to which the Holder has exercised such repurchase
rights and the Repurchase Price has not been paid to the Holder and
no event which, with notice or passage of time, or both, would
become a Repurchase Event has occurred and is
continuing;
(C) on the date
such Share Redemption Notice is given and at all times thereafter
to and including the applicable Share Redemption Date, the
Registration Statement shall be effective and available for use by
the Holder, the holders of the Other Note and the holders of the
Warrants for the resale of the shares of Common Stock issued and
issuable upon such Share Redemption and issued or issuable upon
conversion of this Note and the Other Note and issued or issuable
upon exercise of the Warrants, as the case may be, and is
reasonably expected to remain effective and available for such use
for at least 30 days after the applicable Share Redemption
Date, and the Company shall be in compliance in all material
respects with its obligations under the Registration Rights
Agreement;
(D) on the date
such Share Redemption Notice is given, the Company has authorized
and unissued shares of Common Stock not reserved for any purpose
other than Share Redemption of this Note in an amount sufficient to
satisfy the applicable Share Redemption Price by issuance of shares
of Common Stock;
(E) the Share
Redemption Date selected by the Company in accordance with this
Section 2(c) and set forth in such Share Redemption Notice shall be
at least 24 Trading Days after any earlier Share
Redemption
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(F) the Company
shall have complied with Section 3(o) with respect to all Share
Redemptions occurring prior to the giving of such Share Redemption
Notice;
(G) on the date
such Share Redemption Notice is given and at all times thereafter
to and including the applicable Share Redemption Date no Maximum
Share Amount Deficiency exists and no Maximum Share Amount
Deficiency would result from such Share Redemption or the
contemporaneous redemption of the Other Note pursuant to Section
2(c) thereof;
(H) during the
period beginning five days prior to the date the Company gives such
Share Redemption Notice and ending on the applicable Share
Redemption Date the Company shall not have been engaged in
discussions or negotiations concerning, or entered in to an
agreement or received any proposal for, any transaction that might
result in a Fundamental Change, and the Company shall not enter
into any agreement or accept any proposal for, any transaction that
might result in a Fundamental Change for a period of 60 days
after the applicable Share Redemption Date; and
(I) the Computed
Price for such Share Redemption is not less than the par value of
the Common Stock.
In order to
exercise its right of redemption under this Section 2(c) the
Company shall give the particular Share Redemption Notice to the
Holder not less than 17 Trading Days or more than 19 Trading Days
prior to the applicable Share Redemption Date, stating:
(1) that the Company is exercising its right to redeem this
Note in accordance with this Section 2(c), (2) the
principal amount of this Note to be redeemed (assuming no
conversion of this Note from the date the Company gives such Share
Redemption Notice to the applicable Share Redemption Date and that
the Share Redemption Share Amount for such Share Redemption will be
computed based on the entire such principal amount), (3) the
amount of the Share Redemption Price payable on such Share
Redemption Date (assuming no conversion of this Note from the date
the Company gives such Share Redemption Notice to the applicable
Share Redemption Date and that the Share Redemption Share Amount
for such Share Redemption will be computed based on the entire
principal amount included such Share Redemption Price),
(4) the principal installment to which such Share Redemption
shall be applied, (5) the applicable Share Redemption Date and
(6) that all of the conditions of this Section 2(c) entitling
the Company to call this Note for redemption have been met. As
promptly as practicable, but in no event later than three Trading
Days, after the applicable Share Redemption Date, the Company shall
issue and shall deliver to the Holder or the Holder’s
designee the
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number of full
shares of Common Stock issuable upon such Share Redemption of this
Note or portion hereof in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 2(c) and deliver a check or cash in respect of any
fractional interest in respect of a share of Common Stock arising
upon such redemption, as provided in Section 2(c)(7). In lieu
of delivering physical certificates for the shares of Common Stock
issuable upon any such redemption of this Note, provided the
Transfer Agent is participating in FAST, upon request of the
Holder, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to
cause the Transfer Agent electronically to transmit such shares of
Common Stock issuable upon redemption to the Holder (or its
designee), by crediting the account of the Holder’s (or such
designee’s) broker or other participant with DTC through DWAC
(provided that the same time periods herein as for stock
certificates shall apply). The Holder shall have the right,
exercisable by notice given to the Company from time to time after
the Company gives a Share Redemption Notice for a particular Share
Redemption, to require the Company to deliver to the Holder a
portion of the shares of Common Stock issuable in connection with a
particular Share Redemption in advance of the date that is three
Trading Days after the applicable Share Redemption Date, in which
case the shares so requested shall be delivered within three
Trading Days after the Holder gives such notice to the Company. The
aggregate number of shares of Common Stock required to be so
delivered in advance of a particular Share Redemption Date may not
exceed the sum for the elapsed Trading Days in the applicable Share
Redemption Computation Period of quotient obtained by dividing
(1) the Share Redemption Daily Amount for each such Trading
Day by (2) the Computed Price for such Trading
Day.
(2) The
number of shares of Common Stock issuable by the Company in respect
of each Share Redemption shall be the Share Redemption Share Amount
for such Share Redemption. Notwithstanding the principal amount of
this Note to be redeemed as stated in the Share Redemption Notice
for a particular Share Redemption, the principal amount actually
redeemed shall be the sum, for all of the Trading Days in the Share
Redemption Computation Period for such Share Redemption, of
(x) the principal amount of this Note included in the amount
specified in clause (1) of the definition of Share Redemption
Daily Amount for each Trading Day in such Share Redemption
Computation Period for which the Share Redemption Daily Amount for
such Trading Day is computed under clause (1) of such
definition, or (y) the product obtained by multiplying
(i) the amount set forth in subclause (A) of the
definition of Share Redemption Daily Limitation times
(ii) the amount set forth in subclause (B) of the
definition of Share Redemption Daily Limitation for each Trading
Day in such Share Redemption Computation Period for which the Share
Redemption Daily Amount for such Trading Day is computed under
clause (2) of such definition.
(3) The
Company shall not be entitled to give a Share Redemption Notice or
to redeem any portion of this Note with respect to which the Holder
has given a Conversion Notice on or prior to the date the Company
gives such Share
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Redemption
Notice. Notwithstanding the giving of a particular Share Redemption
Notice, the Holder shall be entitled to convert all or any portion
of this Note, in accordance with the terms of this Note, to be
redeemed by reason of the giving of such Share Redemption Notice by
giving a Conversion Notice at any time on or prior to the later of
(1) the date which is one Trading Day prior to the applicable
Share Redemption Date and (2) if the Company fails to issue or
deliver to the Holder the shares of Common Stock issuable in
satisfaction of such Share Redemption Price on or before the due
date therefor, the date on which the Company issues and delivers to
the Holder such shares of Common Stock. If after giving effect to
any such conversion of this Note that occurs after the date the
Company gives a particular Share Redemption Notice to the Holder,
the principal amount of a particular principal installment of this
Note remaining outstanding is less than the amount thereof to be
redeemed as stated in the applicable Share Redemption Notice, then
the Share Redemption Share Amount for such Share Redemption shall
be reduced form what it otherwise would be to reflect the reduced
outstanding principal amount of this Note and related accrued
interest (and interest, if any, thereon at the Default Rate) on the
applicable Share Redemption Date resulting from any such
conversions of this Note after the Company gives such Share
Redemption Notice to the Holder. Such reduction of the Share
Redemption Share amount shall be made by reducing the Share
Redemption Daily Amounts used to calculate the Share Redemption
Share Amount for such Share Redemption in the inverse of their
chronological order to the extent necessary to reduce the principal
amount reflected in such Share Redemption Share Amount by the
principal amount so converted. Any redemption of this Note pursuant
to this Section 2(c) that is required by Section 2(d)(2) shall
be applied to the installments of principal outstanding on the
applicable Share Redemption Date first to the principal installment
stated by Section 2(d)(1) to be due on November 2, 2005
and then to the principal installment stated by
Section 2(d)(1) to be due on November 2, 2008.
(4) Each
redemption of this Note (or portion hereof) pursuant to this
Section 2(c) shall be deemed to have been effected on the
applicable Share Redemption Date, and the person in whose name any
certificate or certificates for shares of Common Stock shall be
issuable upon such redemption shall be deemed to have become on
such Share Redemption Date the holder of record of the shares
represented thereby; provided, however, that if a Share
Redemption Date is a date on which the stock transfer books of the
Company shall be closed such redemption shall constitute the person
in whose name the certificates are to be issued as the record
holder thereof for all purposes on the next succeeding day on which
such stock transfer books are open. Upon redemption of this Note or
any portion hereof pursuant to this Section 2(c), the accrued
and unpaid interest on this Note (or portion hereof) so redeemed to
(but excluding) the applicable Share Redemption Date shall be
deemed to be paid to the Holder of this Note through receipt of
such number of shares of Common Stock issued upon redemption of
this Note or portion
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hereof as shall
have an aggregate Current Market Price on the Trading Day
immediately preceding such Share Redemption Date equal to the
amount of such accrued and unpaid interest.
(5) The
Company shall not be required to pay any tax which may be payable
in respect of any transfer involved in the issuance and delivery of
shares of Common Stock or other securities or property on
redemption of this Note pursuant to this Section 2(c) in a name
other than that of the Holder, and the Company shall not be
required to issue or deliver any such shares or other securities or
property unless and until the person or persons requesting the
issuance thereof shall have paid to the Company the amount of any
such tax or shall have established to the satisfaction of the
Company that such tax has been paid. The Holder shall be
responsible for the amount of any income or withholding tax payable
in connection with any such redemption of this Note.
(6)
(A) If the Company shall have given a Share Redemption Notice
in accordance with the terms of this Note, the Company’s
obligation to issue and deliver the shares of Common Stock upon
such redemption on the terms and subject to the conditions of this
Note shall be absolute and unconditional, irrespective of any
action or inaction by the Holder to enforce the same, any waiver or
consent with respect to any provision hereof, the recovery of any
judgment against any person or any action to enforce the same, any
failure or delay in the enforcement of any other obligation of the
Company to the Holder, or any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment,
limitation or termination, or any breach or alleged breach by the
Holder or any other person of any obligation to the Company or any
violation or alleged violation of law by the Holder or any other
Person, and irrespective of any other circumstance which might
otherwise limit such obligation of the Company to the Holder in
connection with such redemption; provided, however, that
nothing herein shall limit or prejudice the right of the Company to
pursue any such claim in any other manner permitted by applicable
law.
(B) If
in any case the Company shall fail to issue and deliver the shares
of Common Stock to the Holder in connection with a particular
redemption of this Note within three Trading Days after the due
date therefor, in addition to any other liabilities the Company may
have hereunder and under applicable law (i) the Company shall
pay or reimburse the Holder on demand for all out-of-pocket
expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable fees and
expenses of legal counsel, incurred by the Holder as a result of
such failure and (ii) if as a result of such failure the
Holder shall suffer any direct damages or liabilities from such
failure (including, without limitation, margin interest and the
cost of purchasing securities to cover a sale (whether by the
Holder or the Holder’s securities broker) or borrowing of
shares of Common Stock by the Holder for purposes of settling any
trade involving a sale of shares of Common Stock made by the Holder
during the period beginning on the Issuance Date and ending on the
date the Company
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delivers or
causes to be delivered to the Holder such shares of Common Stock),
then the Company shall upon demand of the Holder pay to the Holder
an amount equal to the actual direct, out-of-pocket damages and
liabilities suffered by the Holder by reason thereof which the
Holder documents to the reasonable satisfaction of the Company.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be liable to
the Holder under clause (ii) of the immediately preceding
sentence to the extent the failure of the Company to deliver or to
cause to be delivered such shares of Common Stock results from
fire, flood, storm, earthquake, shipwreck, strike, war, acts of
terrorism, crash involving facilities of a common carrier, acts of
God, or any similar event outside the control of the Company (it
being understood that the action or failure to act of the Transfer
Agent shall not be deemed an event outside the control of the
Company except to the extent resulting from fire, flood, storm,
earthquake, shipwreck, strike, war, acts of terrorism, crash
involving facilities of a common carrier, acts of God, or any
similar event outside the control of the Transfer Agent or the
bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization of the Transfer Agent
under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law). In the case
of the Company’s failure to issue and deliver or cause to be
delivered the shares of Common Stock
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