INVESTMENT
AGREEMENT
INVESTMENT AGREEMENT (this "AGREEMENT"), dated
as of August 27, 2009 by and between Green Energy Live, Inc., a
Nevada corporation (the "Company"), and Dutchess Equity Fund, LP, a
Delaware Limited Partnership (the "Investor").
WHEREAS, the parties desire that,
upon the terms and subject to the conditions contained herein, the
Investor shall invest up to Twenty Million dollars ($20,000,000) to
purchase the Company's Common Stock, $.001 par value per share (the
"Common Stock");
WHEREAS, such investments will be
made in reliance upon the provisions of Section 4(2) under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), Rule 506 of
Regulation D, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder,
and/or upon such other exemption from the registration requirements
of the 1933 Act as may be available with respect to any or all of
the investments in Common Stock to be made hereunder;
and
WHEREAS, contemporaneously with the
execution and delivery of this Agreement, the parties hereto are
executing and delivering a Registration Rights Agreement
substantially in the form attached hereto (the "Registration Rights
Agreement") pursuant to which the Company has agreed to provide
certain registration rights under the 1933 Act, and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder, and applicable state securities
laws.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of
the foregoing recitals, which shall be considered an integral part
of this Agreement, the covenants and agreements set forth
hereafter, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt
and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Company and
the Investor hereby agree as follows:
As used in this Agreement, the following terms
shall have the following meanings specified or indicated below, and
such meanings shall be equally applicable to the singular and
plural forms of such defined terms.
“ 1933 Act ” shall have the
meaning set forth in the preamble of this agreement.
“ 1934 Act ” shall mean the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as it may be amended.
“ Affiliate ” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 5(H), below.
“ Agreement ” shall mean this
Investment Agreement.
“ Best Bid” shall mean the
highest posted bid price of the Common Stock during a given period
of time.
“ By-laws ” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 4(C).
“ Certificate of Incorporation
” shall have the meaning specified in Section
4(C).
“ Closing ” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 2(G).
“ Closing Date ” shall mean
no more than seven (7) Trading Days following the Put Notice Date,
for each tranche.
“ Common Stock ” shall have
the meaning set forth in the preamble of this Agreement.
“ Control ” or “
Controls ” shall have the meaning specified in Section
5(H).
“ Effective Date ” shall mean
the date the SEC declares effective under the 1933 Act the
Registration Statement covering the Securities.
“ Environmental Laws ” shall
have the meaning specified in Section 4(M).
“Equity Line Transaction
Documents ” shall
mean this Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement.
“ Execution Date ” shall mean
the date indicated in the preamble to this Agreement.
“ Indemnities ” shall have
the meaning specified in Section 11.
“ Indemnified Liabilities ”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.
“ Ineffective Period
” shall mean any period of time that the Registration
Statement or any Supplemental Registration Statement (as defined in
the Registration Rights Agreement between the parties) becomes
ineffective or unavailable for use for the sale or resale, as
applicable, of any or all of the Registrable Securities (as defined
in the Registration Rights Agreement) for any reason (or in the
event the prospectus under either of the above is not current and
deliverable) during any time period required under the Registration
Rights Agreement.
“ Investor ” shall have the
meaning indicated in the preamble of this Agreement.
“ Material Adverse Effect ”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 4(A).
“ Maximum Common Stock Issuance
” shall have the meaning specified in Section
2(H).
“ Minimum Acceptable
Price ” with respect to any Put Notice Date shall mean
seventy-five percent (75%) of the lowest closing bid prices for the
ten (10) Trading Day period immediately preceding such Put Notice
Date.
“ Open Market Adjustment Amount
” shall have the meaning specified in Section
2(I).
" Open Market Purchase " shall have the
meaning specified in Section 2(I)
“ Open Market Share Purchase
” shall have the meaning specified in Section
2(I).
“ Open Period ”
shall mean the period beginning on and including the Trading Day
immediately following the Effective Date and ending on the earlier
to occur of (i) the date which is thirty-six (36) months
from the Effective Date; or (ii) termination of the
Agreement in accordance with Section 9, below.
“ Pricing Period ” shall mean
the period beginning on the Put Notice Date and ending on and
including the date that is five (5) Trading Days after such Put
Notice Date.
“ Principal Market ” shall
mean the American Stock Exchange, Inc., the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc. Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board, the
NASDAQ National Market System or the NASDAQ SmallCap Market,
whichever is the principal market on which the Common Stock is
listed.
“ Prospectus ” shall mean the
prospectus, preliminary prospectus and supplemental prospectus used
in connection with the Registration Statement.
“ Purchase Amount ” shall
mean the total amount being paid by the Investor on a particular
Closing Date to purchase the Securities.
“ Purchase Price ” shall mean
ninety-three percent (93%) of the lowest closing Best Bid price of
the Common Stock during the Pricing Period.
“ Put ” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 2(B)(1) hereof.
“ Put Amount ” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 2(B)(1) hereof.
“ Put Notice ” shall mean a
written notice sent to the Investor by the Company stating the Put
Amount in U.S. dollars the Company intends to sell to the Investor
pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and stating the current
number of Shares issued and outstanding on such date.
“ Put Notice Date ” shall
mean the Trading Day, as set forth below, immediately following the
day on which the Investor receives a Put Notice, however a Put
Notice shall be deemed delivered on (a) the Trading Day it
is received by facsimile or otherwise by the Investor if such
notice is received prior to 9:00 am Eastern Time, or (b) the
immediately succeeding Trading Day if it is received by facsimile
or otherwise after 9:00 am Eastern Time on a Trading
Day. No Put Notice may be deemed delivered on a day that
is not a Trading Day.
“ Put Restriction ” shall
mean the days between the beginning of the Pricing Period and
Closing Date. During this time, the Company shall not be
entitled to deliver another Put Notice.
“ Put Shares Due ” shall have
the meaning specified in Section 2(I).
“ Registration Period ” shall
have the meaning specified in Section 5(C), below.
“ Registration Rights Agreement
” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals,
above.
“ Registration Statement ”
means the registration statement of the Company filed under the
1933 Act covering the Common Stock issuable hereunder.
“ Related Party ” shall have
the meaning specified in Section 5(H).
“ Resolution ” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 8(E).
“ SEC ” shall mean the U.S.
Securities & Exchange Commission.
“ SEC Documents ” shall have
the meaning specified in Section 4(F).
“ Securities ” shall mean the
shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to the terms of the
Agreement.
“ Shares ” shall mean the
shares of the Company’s Common Stock.
“ Subsidiaries ” shall have
the meaning specified in Section 4(A).
“ Trading Day ” shall mean
any day on which the Principal Market for the Common Stock is open
for trading, from the hours of 9:30 am until 4:00 pm.
SECTION 2. PURCHASE AND SALE OF
COMMON STOCK.
(A) PURCHASE AND SALE OF COMMON
STOCK. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the
Company shall issue and sell to the Investor, and the Investor
shall purchase from the Company, up to that number of Shares having
an aggregate Purchase Price of Twenty Million dollars
($20,000,000).
(B) DELIVERY OF PUT
NOTICES.
(I) Subject to the terms and
conditions of the Equity Line Transaction Documents, and from time
to time during the Open Period, the Company may, in its sole
discretion, deliver a Put Notice to the Investor which states the
dollar amount (designated in U.S. Dollars) (the "Put Amount"),
which the Company intends to sell to the Investor on a Closing Date
(the "Put"). The Put Notice shall be in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit C and incorporated herein by reference. The amount that the
Company shall be entitled to Put to the Investor (the "Put Amount")
shall be equal to, at the Company's election, either: (A) Two
Hundred percent (200%) of the average daily volume (U.S. market
only) of the Common Stock for the Three (3) Trading Days prior to
the applicable Put Notice Date, multiplied by the average of the
three (3) daily closing bid prices immediately preceding the Put
Date, or (B) two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000). During
the Open Period, the Company shall not be entitled to submit a Put
Notice until after the previous Closing has been completed. The
Purchase Price for the Common Stock identified in the Put Notice
shall be equal to ninety-three percent (93%) of the lowest closing
Best Bid price of the Common Stock during the Pricing
Period.
(C) COMPANY’S RIGHT TO
WITHDRAWAL. The Company shall reserve the right, but not the
obligation, to withdraw that portion of the Put that is below the
Minimum Acceptable Price, by submitting to the Investor, in
writing, a notice to cancel that portion of the Put. Any
shares above the Minimum Acceptable price due to the Investor shall
be carried out by the Company under the terms of this
Agreement.
(D) INTENTIONALLY OMITTED
(E) CONDITIONS TO INVESTOR'S
OBLIGATION TO PURCHASE SHARES. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall not be entitled to
deliver a Put Notice and the Investor shall not be obligated to
purchase any Shares at a Closing (as defined in Section 2(G))
unless each of the following conditions are satisfied:
(I) a Registration Statement shall
have been declared effective and shall remain effective and
available for the resale of all the Registrable Securities (as
defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) at all times until
the Closing with respect to the subject Put Notice;
(II) at all times during the period
beginning on the related Put Notice Date and ending on and
including the related Closing Date, the Common Stock shall have
been listed on the Principal Market and shall not have been
suspended from trading thereon for a period of two (2) consecutive
Trading Days during the Open Period and the Company shall not have
been notified of any pending or threatened proceeding or other
action to suspend the trading of the Common Stock;
(III) the Company has complied with
its obligations and is otherwise not in breach of or in default
under, this Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement or any
other agreement executed in connection herewith which has not been
cured prior to delivery of the Investor’s Put Notice
Date;
(IV) no injunction shall have been
issued and remain in force, or action commenced by a governmental
authority which has not been stayed or abandoned, prohibiting the
purchase or the issuance of the Securities; and
(V) the issuance of the Securities
will not violate any shareholder approval requirements of the
Principal Market.
If any of the events described in
clauses (I) through (V) above occurs during a Pricing Period, then
the Investor shall have no obligation to purchase the Put Amount of
Common Stock set forth in the applicable Put Notice.
(G) MECHANICS OF PURCHASE OF SHARES
BY INVESTOR. Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set
forth in Sections 2(E), 7 and 8, the closing of the purchase by the
Investor of Shares (a "Closing") shall occur on the date which is
no later than seven (7) Trading Days following the applicable Put
Notice Date (each a "Closing Date"). Prior to each Closing Date,
(I) the Company shall deliver to the Investor pursuant to this
Agreement, certificates representing the Shares to be issued to the
Investor on such date and registered in the name of the Investor;
and (II) the Investor shall deliver to the Company the Purchase
Price to be paid for such Shares, determined as set forth in
Section 2(B). In lieu of delivering physical certificates
representing the Securities and provided that the Company's
transfer agent then is participating in The Depository Trust
Company ("DTC") Fast Automated Securities Transfer ("FAST")
program, upon request of the Investor, the Company shall use all
commercially reasonable efforts to cause its transfer agent to
electronically transmit the Securities by crediting the account of
the Investor's prime broker (as specified by the Investor within a
reasonably in advance of the Investor's notice) with DTC through
its Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission ("DWAC") system.
The Company understands that a delay
in the issuance of Securities beyond the Closing Date could result
in economic damage to the Investor. After the Effective Date, as
compensation to the Investor for such loss, the Company agrees to
make late payments to the Investor for late issuance of Securities
(delivery of Securities after the applicable Closing Date) in
accordance with the following schedule (where "No. of Days Late" is
defined as the number of trading days beyond the Closing Date, with
the Amounts being cumulative.):
NO. OF DAYS LATE
$10,000 WORTH OF COMMON STOCK
Over 10
$1,000 + $200 for each Business Day late beyond 10 days
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The Company shall make any payments
incurred under this Section in immediately available funds upon
demand by the Investor. Nothing herein shall limit the Investor's
right to pursue actual damages for the Company's failure to issue
and deliver the Securities to the Investor, except that such late
payments shall offset any such actual damages incurred by the
Investor, and any Open Market Adjustment Amount, as set forth
below.
(H) OVERALL LIMIT ON COMMON
STOCK ISSUABLE. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the
contrary, if during the Open Period the Company becomes listed on
an exchange that limits the number of shares of Common Stock that
may be issued without shareholder approval, then the number of
Shares issuable by the Company and purchasable by the Investor,
shall not exceed that number of the shares of Common Stock that may
be issuable without shareholder approval (the "Maximum Common Stock
Issuance"). If such issuance of shares of Common Stock
could cause a delisting on the Principal Market, then the Maximum
Common Stock Issuance shall first be approved by the Company's
shareholders in accordance with applicable law and the By-laws and
Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company,
if such issuance of shares of Common Stock could cause a delisting
on the Principal Market. The parties understand and agree that the
Company's failure to seek or obtain such shareholder approval shall
in no way adversely affect the validity and due authorization of
the issuance and sale of Securities or the Investor's obligation in
accordance with the terms and conditions hereof to purchase a
number of Shares in the aggregate up to the Maximum Common Stock
Issuance limitation, and that such approval pertains only to the
applicability of the Maximum Common Stock Issuance limitation
provided in this Section 2(H).
(I) If, by the third
(3rd) business day after the Closing Date, the Company fails to
deliver any portion of the shares of the Put to the Investor (the
"Put Shares Due") and the Investor purchases, in an open market
transaction or otherwise, shares of Common Stock necessary to make
delivery of shares which would have been delivered if the full
amount of the shares to be delivered to the Investor by the Company
(the "Open Market Share Purchase") , then the Company shall pay to
the Investor, in addition to any other amounts due to Investor
pursuant to the Put, and not in lieu thereof, the Open Market
Adjustment Amount (as defined below). The "Open Market
Adjustment Amount" is the amount equal to the excess, if any, of
(x) the Investor's total purchase price (including brokerage
commissions, if any) for the Open Market Share Purchase minus (y)
the net proceeds (after brokerage commissions, if any) received by
the Investor from the sale of the Put Shares Due. The
Company shall pay the Open Market Adjustment Amount to the Investor
in immediately available funds within five (5) business days of
written demand by the Investor. By way of illustration
and not in limitation of the foregoing, if the Investor purchases
shares of Common Stock having a total purchase price (including
brokerage commissions) of $11,000 to cover an Open Market Purchase
with respect to shares of Common Stock it sold for net proceeds of
$10,000, the Open Market Purchase Adjustment Amount which the
Company will be required to pay to the Investor will be
$1,000.
(J) LIMITATION ON AMOUNT OF
OWNERSHIP. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Agreement, in no event shall the Investor be entitled to purchase
that number of Shares, which when added to the sum of the number of
shares of Common Stock beneficially owned (as such term is defined
under Section 13(d) and Rule 13d-3 of the 1934 Act), by the
Investor, would exceed 4.99% of the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding on the Closing Date, as determined in accordance
with Rule 13d-1(j) of the 1934 Act.
SECTION 3. INVESTOR'S
REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS.
The Investor represents and warrants
to the Company, and covenants, that:
(A) SOPHISTICATED INVESTOR. The
Investor has, by reason of its business and financial experience,
such knowledge, sophistication and experience in financial and
business matters and in making investment decisions of this type
that it is capable of (I) evaluating the merits and risks of an
investment in the Securities and making an informed investment
decision; (II) protecting its own interest; and (III) bearing the
economic risk of such investment for an indefinite period of
time.
(B) AUTHORIZATION; ENFORCEMENT. This
Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and
delivered on behalf of the Investor and is a valid and binding
agreement of the Investor enforceable against the Investor in
accordance with its terms, subject as to enforceability to general
principles of equity and to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium, liquidation and other similar laws
relating to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable
creditors' rights and remedies.
(C) SECTION 9 OF THE 1934 ACT.
During the term of this Agreement, the Investor will comply with
the provisions of Section 9 of the 1934 Act, and the rules
promulgated thereunder, with respect to transactions involving the
Common Stock. The Investor agrees not to sell the Company's stock
short, either directly or indirectly through its affiliates,
principals or advisors, the Company's common stock during the term
of this Agreement.
(D) ACCREDITED INVESTOR. Investor is
an "Accredited Investor" as that term is defined in Rule 501(a) of
Regulation D of the 1933 Act.
(E) NO CONFLICTS. The execution,
delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents by the
Investor and the consummation by the Investor of the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby will not result in a violation of
Partnership Agreement or other organizational documents of the
Investor.
(F) OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS. The
Investor has received all materials relating to the Company's
business, finance and operations which it has requested. The
Investor has had an opportunity to discuss the business, management
and financial affairs of the Company with the Company's
management.
(G) INVESTMENT PURPOSES. The
Investor is purchasing the Securities for its own account for
investment purposes and not with a view towards distribution and
agrees to resell or otherwise dispose of the Securities solely in
accordance with the registration provisions of the 1933 Act (or
pursuant to an exemption from such registration
provisions).
(H) NO REGISTRATION AS A DEALER. The
Investor is not and will not be required to be registered as a
"dealer" under the 1934 Act, either as a result of its execution
and performance of its obligations under this Agreement or
otherwise.
(I) GOOD
STANDING. The Investor is a Limited Partnership, duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing in the Cayman
Islands.
(J) TAX
LIABILITIES. The Investor understands that it is liable
for its own tax liabilities.
(K) REGULATION M. The
Investor will comply with Regulation M under the 1934 Act, if
applicable.
SECTION 4. REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.
Except as set forth in the Schedules
attached hereto, or as disclosed on the Company's SEC Documents,
the Company represents and warrants to the Investor
that:
(A) ORGANIZATION AND QUALIFICATION.
The Company is a corporation duly organized and validly existing in
good standing under the laws of the State of Nevada, USA and has
the requisite corporate power and authorization to own its
properties and to carry on its business as now being conducted.
Both the Company and the companies it owns or controls
(“Subsidiaries”) are duly qualified to do business and
are in good standing in every jurisdiction in which its ownership
of property or the nature of the business conducted by it makes
such qualification necessary, except to the extent that the failure
to be so qualified or be in good standing would not have a Material
Adverse Effect. As used in this Agreement, "Material Adverse
Effect" means any material adverse effect on the business,
properties, assets, operations, results of operations, financial
condition or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries, if any,
taken as a whole, or on the transactions contemplated hereby or by
the agreements and instruments to be entered into in connection
herewith, or on the authority or ability of the Company to perform
its obligations under the Equity Line Transaction Documents (as
defined in Section 1 and 4(B), below).
(B) AUTHORIZATION; ENFORCEMENT;
COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER INSTRUMENTS.
(I) The Company has the requisite
corporate power and authority to enter into and perform this
Investment Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement
(collectively, the "Equity Line Transaction Documents"), and to
issue the Securities in accordance with the terms hereof and
thereof.
(II) The execution and delivery of
the Equity Line Transaction Documents by the Company and the
consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby, including without limitation the reservation for issuance
and the issuance of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement, have
been duly and validly authorized by the Company's Board of
Directors and no further consent or authorization is required by
the Company, its Board of Directors, or its
shareholders.
(III) The Equity Line Transaction
Documents have been duly and validly executed and delivered by the
Company.
(IV) The Equity Line Transaction
Documents constitute the valid and binding obligations of the
Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their
terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by general
principles of equity or applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or similar laws relating
to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of creditors' rights
and remedies.
(C) CAPITALIZATION. As of the date
hereof, the authorized capital stock of the Company consists of
1,500,000,000 shares of Common Stock with $.0001 par value per
share, of which as of the date hereof, 627,047,295 shares are
issued and outstanding.
Except as disclosed in the Company's
publicly available filings with the SEC:
(I) no shares of the Company's
capital stock are subject to preemptive rights or any other similar
rights or any liens or encumbrances suffered or permitted by the
Company; (II) there are no outstanding debt securities; (III) there
are no outstanding shares of capital stock, options, warrants,
scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any
character whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights
convertible into, any shares of capital stock of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries, or contracts, commitments, understandings or
arrangements by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or
may become bound to issue additional shares of capital stock of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or options, warrants, scrip,
rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character
whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights convertible into,
any shares of capital stock of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries; (IV) there are no agreements or arrangements under
which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is obligated to
register the sale of any of their securities under the 1933 Act
(except the Registration Rights Agreement); (V) there are no
outstanding securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
which contain any redemption or similar provisions, and there are
no contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound to
redeem a security of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (VI)
there are no securities or instruments containing anti-dilution or
similar provisions that will be triggered by the issuance of the
Securities as described in this Agreement; (VII) the Company does
not have any stock appreciation rights or "phantom stock" plans or
agreements or any similar plan or agreement; and (VIII) there is no
dispute as to the classification of any shares of the Company's
capital stock.
The Company has furnished to the Investor, or
the Investor has had access through EDGAR to, true and correct
copies of the Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation, as in effect on the date hereof (the "Certificate of
Incorporation"), and the Company's By-laws, as in effect on the
date hereof (the "By-laws"), and the terms of all securities
convertible into or exercisable for Common Stock and the material
rights of the holders thereof in respect thereto.
(D) ISSUANCE OF SHARES. The Company
has reserved 182,192,188 Shares for issuance pursuant to this
Agreement, which have been duly authorized and reserved those
Shares for issuance (subject to adjustment pursuant to the
Company's covenant set forth in Section 5(F) below) pursuant to
this Agreement. Upon issuance in accordance with this Agreement,
the Securities will be validly issued, fully paid for and
non-assessable and free from all taxes, liens and charges with
respect to the issue thereof. In the event the Company cannot
register a sufficient number of Shares for issuance pursuant to
this Agreement, the Company will use its best efforts to authorize
and reserve for issuance the number of Shares required for the
Company to perform its obligations hereunder as soon as reasonably
practicable.
(E) NO CONFLICTS. The execution,
delivery and performance of the Equity Line Transaction Documents
by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will not (I) result in
a violation of the Certificate of Incorporation, any Certificate of
Designations, Preferences and Rights of any outstanding series of
preferred stock of the Company or the By-laws; or (II) conflict
with, or constitute a material default (or an event which with
notice or lapse of time or both would become a material default)
under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment,
acceleration or cancellation of, any material agreement, contract,
indenture mortgage, indebtedness or instrument to which the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries is a party, or to the Company's
knowledge result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation,
order, judgment or decree (including United States federal and
state securities laws and regulations and the rules and regulations
of the Principal Market or principal securities exchange or trading
market on which the Common Stock is traded or listed) applicable to
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which any property or
asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or
affected. Except as disclosed in Schedule 4(e), neither the Company
nor its Subsidiaries is in violation of any term of, or in default
under, the Certificate of Incorporation, any Certificate of
Designations, Preferences and Rights of any outstanding series of
preferred stock of the Company or the By-laws or their
organizational charter or by-laws, respectively, or any contract,
agreement, mortgage, indebtedness, indenture, instrument, judgment,
decree or order or any statute, rule or regulation applicable to
the Company or its Subsidiaries, except for possible conflicts,
defaults, terminations, amendments, accelerations, cancellations
and violations that would not individually or in the aggregate have
or constitute a Material Adverse Effect. The business of the
Company and its Subsidiaries is not being conducted, and shall not
be conducted, in violation of any law, statute, ordinance, rule,
order or regulation of any governmental authority or agency,
regulatory or self-regulatory agency, or court, except for possible
violations the sanctions for which either individually or in the
aggregate would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as
specifically contemplated by this Agreement and as required under
the 1933 Act or any securities laws of any states, to the Company's
knowledge, the Company is not required to obtain any consent,
authorization, permit or order of, or make any filing or
registration (except the filing of a registration statement as
outlined in the Registration Rights Agreement between the Parties)
with, any court, governmental authority or agency, regulatory or
self-regulatory agency or other third party in order for it to
execute, deliver or perform any of its obligations under, or
contemplated by, the Equity Line Transaction Documents in
accordance with the terms hereof or thereof. All consents,
authorizations, permits, orders, filings and registrations which
the Company is required to obtain pursuant to the preceding
sentence have been obtained or effected on or prior to the date
hereof and are in full force and effect as of the date hereof.
Except as disclosed in Schedule 4(e), the Company and its
Subsidiaries are unaware of any facts or circumstances which might
give rise to any of the foregoing. The Company is not, and will not
be, in violation of the listing requirements of the Principal
Market as in effect on the date hereof and on each of the Closing
Dates and is not aware of any facts which would reasonably lead to
delisting of the Common Stock by the Principal Market in the
foreseeable future.
(F) SEC DOCUMENTS; FINANCIAL
STATEMENTS. As of the date hereof, the Company has filed all
reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required
to be filed by it with the SEC pursuant to the reporting
requirements of the 1934 Act (all of the foregoing filed prior to
the date hereof and all exhibits included therein and financial
statements and schedules thereto and documents incorporated by
reference therein being hereinafter referred to as the "SEC
Documents"). The Company has delivered to the Investor or its
representatives, or they have had access through EDGAR to, true and
complete copies of the SEC Documents. As of their respective filing
dates, the SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the
requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations of the
SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to the SEC Documents, and
none of the SEC Documents, at the time they were filed with the
SEC, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted
to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary
to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading. As of their respective dates,
the financial statements of the Company included in the SEC
Documents complied as to form in all material respects with
applicable accounting requirements and the published rules and
regulations of the SEC with respect thereto. Such financial
statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles, by a firm that is a member of the Public
Companies Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB") consistently
applied, during the periods involved (except (I) as may be
otherwise indicated in such financial statements or the notes
thereto, or (II) in the case of unaudited interim statements, to
the extent they may exclude footnotes or may be condensed or
summary statements) and fairly present in all material respects the
financial position of the Company as of the dates thereof and the
results of its operations and cash flows for the periods then ended
(subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end
audit adjustments). No other written information provided by or on
behalf of the Company to the Investor which is not included in the
SEC Documents, including, without limitation, information referred
to in Section 4(D) of this Agreement, contains any untrue statement
of a material fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to
make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstance under
which they are or were made, not misleading. Neither the Company
nor any of its Subsidiaries or any of their officers, directors,
employees or agents have provided the Investor with any material,
nonpublic information which was not publicly disclosed prior to the
date hereof and any material, nonpublic information provided to the
Investor by the Company or its Subsidiaries or any of their
officers, directors, employees or agents prior to any Closing Date
shall be publicly disclosed by the Company prior to such Closing
Date.
(G) ABSENCE OF CERTAIN CHANGES.
Except as otherwise set forth in the SEC Documents, the Company
does not intend to change the business operations of the Company in
any material way. The Company has not taken any steps, and does not
currently expect to take any steps, to seek protection pursuant to
any bankruptcy law nor does the Company or its Subsidiaries have
any knowledge or reason to believe that its creditors intend to
initiate involuntary bankruptcy proceedings.
(H) ABSENCE OF LITIGATION AND/OR
REGULATORY PROCEEDINGS. Except as set forth in the SEC Documents,
there is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation
before or by any court, public board, government agency,
self-regulatory organization or body pending or, to the knowledge
of the executive officers of Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
threatened against or affecting the Company, the Common Stock or
any of the Company's Subsidiaries or any of the Company's or the
Company's Subsidiaries' officers or directors in their capacities
as such, in which an adverse decision could have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(I) ACKNOWLEDGMENT REGARDING
INVESTOR'S PURCHASE OF SHARES. The Company acknowledges and agrees
that the Investor is acting solely in the capacity of an arm's
length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The Company further
acknowledges that the Investor is not acting as a financial advisor
or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with
respect to the Equity Line Transaction Documents and the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and any advice given
by the Investor or any of its respective representatives or agents
in connection with the Equity Line Transaction Documents and the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby is merely incidental
to the Investor's purchase of the Securities, and is not being
relied on by the Company. The Company further represents to the
Investor that the Company's decision to enter into the Equity Line
Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent
evaluation by the Company and its representatives.
(J) NO UNDISCLOSED EVENTS,
LIABILITIES, DEVELOPMENTS OR CIRCUMSTANCES. Except as set forth in
the SEC Documents, as of the date hereof, no event, liability,
development or circumstance has occurred or exists, or to the
Company's knowledge is contemplated to occur, with respect to the
Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective business,
properties, assets, prospects, operations or financial condition,
that would be required to be disclosed by the Company under
applicable securities laws on a registration statement filed with
the SEC relating to an issuance and sale by the Company of its
Common Stock and which has not been publicly announced.
(K) EMPLOYEE RELATIONS. Neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is involved in any union labor
dispute nor, to the knowledge of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, is any such dispute threatened. Neither the Company
nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to a collective bargaining
agreement, and the Company and its Subsidiaries believe that
relations with their employees are good. No executive officer (as
defined in Rule 501(f) of the 1933 Act) has notified the Company
that such officer intends to leave the Company's employ or
otherwise terminate such officer's employment with the
Company.
(L) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.
The Company and its Subsidiaries own or possess adequate rights or
licenses to use all trademarks, trade names, service marks, service
mark registrations, service names, patents, patent rights,
copyrights, inventions, licenses, approvals, governmental
authorizations, trade secrets and rights necessary to conduct their
respective businesses as now conducted. Except as set forth in the
SEC Documents, none of the Company's trademarks, trade names,
service ma