INVESTOR
REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
THIS REGISTRATION
RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement
”), dated as of September 9, 2005, by and among CORD BLOOD
AMERICA, INC., a Florida corporation (the “
Company ”), and the undersigned investors listed on
Schedule I attached hereto (each, an “ Investor
” and collectively, the “ Investors
”).
WHEREAS:
A.
In connection with the
Securities Purchase Agreement by and among the parties hereto of
even date herewith (the “ Securities Purchase
Agreement ”), the Company has agreed, upon the terms and
subject to the conditions of the Securities Purchase Agreement, to
issue and sell to the Investors secured convertible debentures (the
“ Convertible Debentures ”) which shall be
convertible into that number of shares of the Company’s
common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “ Common
Stock ”), pursuant to the terms of the Securities
Purchase Agreement for an aggregate purchase price of up to
Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000). Capitalized terms not
defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the
Securities Purchase Agreement.
B.
To induce the Investors
to execute and deliver the Securities Purchase Agreement, the
Company has agreed to provide certain registration rights under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations
there under, or any similar successor statute (collectively,
the “ Securities Act ”), and applicable state
securities laws.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises
and the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are
hereby acknowledged, the Company and the Investors hereby agree as
follows:
1.
DEFINITIONS .
As used in this
Agreement, the following terms shall have the following
meanings:
(a)
“ Person
” means a corporation, a limited liability company, an
association, a partnership, an organization, a business, an
individual, a governmental or political subdivision thereof or a
governmental agency.
(b)
“ Register
,” “ registered ,” and “
registration ” refer to a registration effected by
preparing and filing one or more Registration Statements (as
defined below) in compliance with the Securities Act and pursuant
to Rule 415 under the Securities Act or any successor rule
providing for offering securities on a continuous or delayed basis
(“ Rule 415 ”), and the declaration or ordering
of effectiveness of such Registration Statement(s) by the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC
”).
(c)
“ Registrable
Securities ” means the shares of Common Stock issuable to
the Investors upon conversion of the Convertible Debentures
pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement and the Warrant
Shares, as this term is defined in the Securities Purchase
Agreement.
(d)
“ Registration
Statement ” means a registration statement under the
Securities Act which covers the Registrable Securities.
2.
REGISTRATION
.
(a)
Subject to the terms
and conditions of this Agreement, the Company shall prepare and
file, no later than thirty (30) days from the date hereof (the
“ Scheduled Filing Deadline ”), with the SEC a
registration statement on Form S-1 or SB-2 (or, if the Company is
then eligible, on Form S-3) under the Securities Act (the “
Initial Registration Statement ”) for the resale by
the Investors of the Registrable Securities, which includes at
least 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock to be issued upon
conversion of the Convertible Debentures and 7,000,000 Warrant
Shares having an exercise price of $0.35. The Company shall
cause the Registration Statement
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to remain effective
until all of the Registrable Securities have been sold. Prior
to the filing of the Registration Statement with the SEC, the
Company shall furnish a copy of the Initial Registration Statement
to the Investors for their review and comment. The Investors
shall furnish comments on the Initial Registration Statement to the
Company within twenty-four (24) hours of the receipt thereof from
the Company. Within thirty (30) days after the Company has
increased its authorized common stock to five hundred million
(500,000,000) shares, the Company shall prepare and file a
registration statement on Form S-1 or SB-2 (or, if the Company is
then eligible, on Form S-3) under the Securities Act (the “
Second Registration Statement ”) to register with the
SEC 7,285,000 Warrant Shares having an exercise price of $0.35 per
share and 8,285,000 Warrant Shares having an exercise price of
$0.40 per share. The Company shall cause the Second Registration
Statement to remain effective until all of these Registrable
Securities have been sold.
(b)
Effectiveness of the
Initial Registration Statement . The Company shall use its
best efforts (i) to have the Initial Registration Statement and the
Second Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC no
later than one hundred twenty (120) days after the date hereof and
one hundred fifty (150) days hereof respectively (the “
Scheduled Effective Deadlines ”) and (ii) to insure
that the Initial Registration Statement, the Second Registration
Statement and any subsequent Registration Statements remain in
effect until all of the Registrable Securities have been sold,
subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. It
shall be an event of default hereunder if the Initial Registration
Statement is not declared effective by the SEC within one hundred
fifty (150) days after the date hereof.
(c)
Failure to File or
Obtain Effectiveness of the Registration Statement
. In the event the
Registration Statements are not filed on their Scheduled Filing
Deadlines or are not declared effective by the SEC on or before the
Scheduled Effective Dates, or if after the Registration Statements
have been declared effective by the SEC, sales cannot be made
pursuant to the Registration Statements (whether because of a
failure to keep the Registration Statements effective, failure to
disclose such information as is necessary for sales to be made
pursuant to the Registration Statements, failure to register
sufficient shares of Common Stock or otherwise then as partial
relief for the damages to any holder of Registrable Securities by
reason of any such delay in or reduction of its ability to sell the
underlying shares of Common Stock (which remedy shall not be
exclusive of any other remedies at law or in equity), the Company
will pay as liquidated damages (the “ Liquidated
Damages ”) to the holder, at the holder’s option,
either a cash amount or shares of the Company’s Common Stock
within three (3) business days, after demand therefore, equal to
two percent (2%) of the liquidated value of the Convertible
Debentures outstanding as Liquidated Damages for each thirty (30)
day period after the Scheduled Filing Deadlines or the Scheduled
Effective Dates as the case may be.
(d)
Liquidated
Damages .
The Company and the Investor hereto acknowledge and agree
that the sums payable under subsection 2(c) above shall constitute
liquidated damages and not penalties and are in addition to all
other rights of the Investor, including the right to call a
default. The parties further acknowledge that (i) the amount
of loss or damages likely to be incurred is incapable or is
difficult to precisely estimate, (ii) the amounts specified in such
subsections bear a reasonable relationship to, and are not plainly
or grossly disproportionate to, the probable loss likely to be
incurred in connection with any failure by the Company to obtain or
maintain the effectiveness of a Registration Statement, (iii) one
of the reasons for the Company and the Investor reaching an
agreement as to such amounts was the uncertainty and cost of
litigation regarding the question of actual damages, and (iv) the
Company and the Investor are sophisticated business parties and
have been represented by sophisticated and able legal counsel and
negotiated this Agreement at arm’s length.
3.
RELATED
OBLIGATIONS .
(a)
The Company shall keep
the Registration Statement effective pursuant to Rule 415 at
all times until the date on which the Investor shall have sold all
the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement
(the “ Registration Period ”), which
Registration Statement (including any amendments or supplements
thereto and prospectuses contained therein) shall not contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact required to be stated therein, or necessary to make the
statements therein, in light of the circumstances in which they
were made, not misleading.
(b)
The Company shall
prepare and file with the SEC such amendments (including
post-effective amendments) and supplements to a Registration
Statement and the prospectus used in connection with
such
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Registration Statement,
which prospectus is to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 promulgated
under the Securities Act, as may be necessary to keep such
Registration Statement effective at all times during the
Registration Period, and, during such period, comply with the
provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the disposition of
all Registrable Securities of the Company covered by such
Registration Statement until such time as all of such Registrable
Securities shall have been disposed of in accordance with the
intended methods of disposition by the seller or sellers thereof as
set forth in such Registration Statement. In the case of
amendments and supplements to a Registration Statement which are
required to be filed pursuant to this Agreement (including pursuant
to this Section 3(b)) by reason of the Company’s filing a
report on Form 10-KSB, Form 10-QSB or Form 8-K or any analogous
report under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“ Exchange Act ”), the Company shall incorporate
such report by reference into the Registration Statement, if
applicable, or shall file such amendments or supplements with the
SEC on the same day on which the Exchange Act report is filed which
created the requirement for the Company to amend or supplement the
Registration Statement.
(c)
The Company shall
furnish to each Investor whose Registrable Securities are included
in any Registration Statement, without charge, (i) at least one (1)
copy of such Registration Statement as declared effective by the
SEC and any amendment(s) thereto, including financial statements
and schedules, all documents incorporated therein by reference, all
exhibits and each preliminary prospectus, (ii) ten (10) copies of
the final prospectus included in such Registration Statement and
all amendments and supplements thereto (or such other number of
copies as such Investor may reasonably request) and (iii) such
other documents as such Investor may reasonably request from time
to time in order to facilitate the disposition of the Registrable
Securities owned by such Investor.
(d)
The Company shall use
its best efforts to (i) register and qualify the Registrable
Securities covered by a Registration Statement under such other
securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions in
the United States as any Investor reasonably requests,
(ii) prepare and file in those jurisdictions, such amendments
(including post-effective amendments) and supplements to such
registrations and qualifications as may be necessary to maintain
the effectiveness thereof during the Registration Period, (iii)
take such other actions as may be necessary to maintain such
registrations and qualifications in effect at all times during the
Registration Period, and (iv) take all other actions reasonably
necessary or advisable to qualify the Registrable Securities for
sale in such jurisdictions; provided, however, that the Company
shall not be required in connection therewith or as a condition
thereto to (w) make any change to its articles of incorporation or
by-laws, (x) qualify to do business in any jurisdiction where it
would not otherwise be required to qualify but for this Section
3(d), (y) subject itself to general taxation in any such
jurisdiction, or (z) file a general consent to service of process
in any such jurisdiction. The Company shall promptly notify
each Investor who holds Registrable Securities of the receipt by
the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of
the registration or qualification of any of the Registrable
Securities for sale under the securities or “blue sky”
laws of any jurisdiction in the United States or its receipt of
actual notice of the initiation or threat of any proceeding for
such purpose.
(e)
As promptly as
practicable after becoming aware of such event or development, the
Company shall notify each Investor in writing of the happening of
any event as a result of which the prospectus included in a
Registration Statement, as then in effect, includes an untrue
statement of a material fact or omission 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 (provided that in no event shall such notice contain
any material, nonpublic information), and promptly prepare a
supplement or amendment to such Registration Statement to correct
such untrue statement or omission, and deliver ten (10) copies of
such supplement or amendment to each Investor. The Company
shall also promptly notify each Investor in writing (i) when a
prospectus or any prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment
has been filed, and when a Registration Statement or any
post-effective amendment has become effective (notification of such
effectiveness shall be delivered to each Investor by facsimile on
the same day of such effectiveness), (ii) of any request by the SEC
for amendments or supplements to a Registration Statement or
related prospectus or related information, and (iii) of the
Company’s reasonable determination that a post-effective
amendment to a Registration Statement would be
appropriate.
(f)
The Company shall use
its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order or other
suspension of effectiveness of a Registration Statement, or the
suspension of the qualification of any of the Registrable
Securities for sale in any jurisdiction within the United States of
America and, if such an order or suspension is issued, to obtain
the withdrawal of such order or suspension at the earliest possible
moment and to
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notify each Investor
who holds Registrable Securities being sold of the issuance of such
order and the resolution thereof or its receipt of actual notice of
the initiation or threat of any proceeding for such
purpose.
(g)
At the reasonable
request of any Investor, the Company shall furnish to such
Investor, on the date of the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement and thereafter from time to time on such dates as an
Investor may reasonably request (i) a letter, dated such date, from
the Company’s independent certified public accountants in
form and substance as is customarily given by independent certified
public accountants to underwriters in an underwritten public
offering, and (ii) an opinion, dated as of such date, of counsel
representing the Company for purposes of such Registration
Statement, in form, scope and substance as is customarily given in
an underwritten public offering, addressed to the
Investors.
(h)
The Company shall make
available for inspection by (i) any Investor and (ii) one (1)
firm of accountants or other agents retained by the Investors
(collectively, the “ Inspectors ”) all pertinent
financial and other records, and pertinent corporate documents and
properties of the Company (collectively, the “ Records
”), as shall be reasonably deemed necessary by each
Inspector, and cause the Company’s officers, directors and
employees to supply all information which any Inspector may
reasonably request; provided, however, that each Inspector shall
agree, and each Investor hereby agrees, to hold in strict
confidence and shall not make any disclosure (except to an
Investor) or use any Record or other information which the
Company determines in good faith to be confidential, and of which
determination the Inspectors are so notified, unless (a) the
disclosure of such Records is necessary to avoid or correct a
misstatement or omission in any Registration Statement or is
otherwise required under the Securities Act, (b) the release of
such Records is ordered pursuant to a final, non-appealable
subpoena or order from a court or government body of competent
jurisdiction, or (c) the information in such Records has been made
generally available to the public other than by disclosure in
violation of this or any other agreement of which the Inspector and
the Investor has knowledge. Each Investor agrees that it
shall, upon learning that disclosure of such Records is sought in
or by a court or governmental body of competent jurisdiction or
through other means, give prompt notice to the Company and allow
the Company, at its expense, to undertake appropriate action to
prevent disclosure of, or to obtain a protective order for, the
Records deemed confidential.
(i)
The Company shall hold
in confidence and not make any disclosure of information concerning
an Investor provided to the Company unless (i) disclosure of such
information is necessary to comply with federal or state securities
laws, (ii) the disclosure of such information is necessary to avoid
or correct a misstatement or omission in any Registration
Statement, (iii) the release of such information is ordered
pursuant to a subpoena or other final, non-appealable order from a
court or governmental body of competent jurisdiction, or (iv) such
information has been made generally available to the public other
than by disclosure in violation of this Agreement or any other
agreement. The Company agrees that it shall, upon learning
that disclosure of such information concerning an Investor is
sought in or by a court or governmental body of competent
jurisdiction or through other means, give prompt written notice to
such Investor and allow such Investor, at the Investor’s
expense, to undertake appropriate action to prevent disclosure of,
or to obtain a protective order for, such information.
(j)
The Company shall use
its best efforts either to cause all the Registrable Securities
covered by a Registration Statement (i) to be listed