SECURED CONVERTIBLE PROMISSORY
NOTE
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$2,000,000
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September 17, 2004
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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
Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000), under the terms set forth herein.
This Note is one of a series of six 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 twelve percent (12%) per annum.
2.
Payment . Subject to earlier mandatory prepayment
under Section 5 below or any default hereunder, the principal
and interest hereof is payable as follows:
(a) Payments
of $60,000 in cash of interest only are payable in arrears on
December 17, 2004 and on each of March 17, June 17,
September 17 and December 17, 2005; and
(b) On
March 17, 2006, the entire outstanding principal balance of
this Note will be due in a single lump sum together with all then
accrued, but unpaid interest (including any then accrued, but
unpaid Contingent Additional Interest, as defined
below).
(c) In the
event that, after the date hereof, Maker consummates its proposed
merger (the “ Merger ”) into Millenium
Holding Group, Inc., a Nevada corporation (“
Millenium ”), pursuant to an Agreement and Plan
of Merger dated July 9, 2004 (the “ Merger
Agreement ”) and thereafter fails:
(A) 15 days
after the date that certain registration statement to be filed
after the Merger by Millenium under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “ Securities Act ”),
covering the issuance of its securities to Fusion Capital Fund II,
LLC is declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, or
(B) 120 days
after the effective date of the Merger
to file a
registration statement (the “ Payee Registration
Statement ”) under the Securities Act pursuant to
Section 2.1 of a Registration Rights Agreement of this date
among Maker, Payee and others (the “ Registration
Rights Agreement ”), and/or
(ii) within
seven (7) months after the effective date of the Merger to
obtain effectiveness under the Securities Act and applicable state
securities laws of the Payee Registration Statement, then for each
full month (prorated for partial months) that either or both of
these failures continue (as aggregated together, the “
Failure Term ”), Maker shall pay in
arrears in
cash, with each next otherwise scheduled payment under Sections
2(a) or (b) above (or if the last scheduled payment under
Section 2(b) has been made, then on the same day of each succeeding
month), additional interest (the “ Contingent
Additional Interest ”) at a rate equal to 0.5% per
month for the first aggregated two months of the Failure Term, and
1% per month for any portion of the Failure Term thereafter, of the
original principal balance of this Note.
(d) Except as
provided by Section 5 below, the Maker will have no right of
early prepayment of 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 ”). Upon
receipt of the Payee’s 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) Prior to
the earliest of (i) March 1, 2005, (ii) the
effective date of the proposed Merger of the Maker into Millenium
pursuant to the Merger Agreement (at which time this Note and the
rights and obligations of Maker hereunder shall be assigned to and
assumed by Millenium and thereafter the term “Maker”
shall mean and refer to Millenium) or (iii) the date that
Maker or its controlling stockholders enter into any definitive
agreement (other than the Merger Agreement) relating to the sale,
license or other disposition of all or substantially all of the
Maker’s assets, the sale or exchange of a majority of the
voting stock of Maker or the merger or consolidation of Maker into
or with any other entity (a “ Sale Transaction
,” with the date of the definitive agreement for the Sale
Transaction being the “ Sale Agreement Date
”), the Conversion Rate shall be computed as
follows:
CR =
$250,000,000 / N, where
“
CR ” is the Conversion Rate and
“
N ” is the number of shares of Common Stock of
Maker outstanding on the date of the Payee Notice, assuming the
exercise or conversion of all then outstanding options, warrants or
other rights to acquire shares of Maker’s Common Stock or
securities convertible or exchangeable for Common Stock (or
convertible or exchangeable for securities themselves convertible
or exchangeable for Common Stock), but without assuming
(i) the conversion of this Note or any other Notes that are
part of this Series (together, the “
Series Notes ”) or (ii) the exercise
of warrants to purchase Common Stock of Maker being issued
contemporaneously herewith to the Payee and to the other holders of
Notes in this Series (together, the “
Series Warrants ”).
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(c) If on or
before February 28, 2005, Maker has not consummated the Merger
or entered into a definitive agreement for a Sale Transaction, the
Conversion Rate commencing on March 1, 2005 shall thereafter
be computed as follows:
For the
purposes of this subsection 3(c), “ N ” is the
number of shares of Common Stock of Maker outstanding as of
February 28, 2005, assuming the exercise or conversion of all
then outstanding options, warrants or other rights to acquire
shares of Maker’s Common Stock or securities convertible or
exchangeable for Common Stock (or convertible or exchangeable for
securities themselves convertible or exchangeable for Common
Stock), but without assuming (i) the conversion of the
Series Notes or (ii) the exercise of the
Series Warrants.
(d) If on or
before February 28, 2005, Maker consummates the Merger, then
the Conversion Rate
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