Exhibit 10.1
ECO2 PLASTICS,
INC.
CONVERTIBLE NOTE AND WARRANT
PURCHASE AGREEMENT
September 2, 2008
This Convertible Note and Warrant Purchase
Agreement (the “ Agreement ”) is made as
of September 2, 2008 (the “ Effective Date
”), by and among ECO2 PLASTICS, INC., a Delaware corporation
(the “ Company ”), and each of those
persons and entities, severally and not jointly, listed as a
Purchaser on the Schedule of Purchasers attached as Schedule
I hereto. Such persons and entities
are hereinafter collectively referred to herein as “
Purchasers ” and each individually as a “
Purchaser . ”
Whereas on August 22, 2008 and on August 28,
2008, the Company issued convertible secured promissory notes
(collectively, the “ Aug08 Notes ”) and
warrants (collectively, “the “ Aug08
Warrants ”) to certain Purchasers, as more
specifically set forth on Schedule I attached hereto, and
the parties thereto desire such Aug08 Notes and Aug08 Warrants to
be governed by the terms of, and considered issued pursuant to,
this Agreement.
AGREEMENT
In consideration of the mutual covenants
contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the
Company and each Purchaser (severally and not jointly) hereby agree
as follows:
1. The Loans;
Closing; Delivery .
(a) The Notes
. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each
Purchaser proposes to lend to the Company the amount set forth
opposite such Purchaser’s name under the column heading,
“Loan Amount” on Schedule I attached
hereto. The loans shall be evidenced by convertible
secured promissory notes (together with the Aug08 Notes, the
“ Notes ”), in substantially the form
attached hereto as Exhibit A dated the date set forth on
Schedule I . The loans made in accordance
with this Section 1, including the loans evidenced by the Aug08
Notes, shall be referred to herein as the “
Loans .” The maximum amount of Notes that may
be issued under this Agreement shall be five million dollars
($5,000,000).
(b) The
Warrants . Subject to the terms and conditions
hereof, the Company agrees to issue to each Purchaser a warrant, in
substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B
(collectively, together with the Aug08 Warrants, the “
Warrants ”), to purchase, at an exercise price
of $0.015 per share, that number of shares of common stock of the
Company, par value $0.001 per share (the “ Common
Stock ”), equal to 33.3333333 multiplied by the
principal amount of such Purchaser’s loan, as more
specifically set forth opposite each Purchaser’s name under
the column heading, “Warrant Shares” on Schedule
I attached hereto.
(c) Place and Date
of Closing . The closing of the transactions
provided for herein shall take place at the offices of Latham
&Watkins LLP, 140 Scott Drive, Menlo Park, California 94025, at
not later than 5:00 p.m. (PDT) on September 2, 2008 (the
“ Initial Closing ”), or at
such date as the Purchasers and the Company may agree upon, such
time and date of delivery against payment being herein referred to
as the “ Initial Closing Date
.” References herein to the “ Closing
Date ” herein shall mean the Initial Closing Date or
the date of any Additional Closing (as defined below), as
applicable.
(d) Delivery
. At each Closing, the Notes and Warrants in definitive
form evidencing the Loans and Warrants that the Purchasers have
agreed to purchase pursuant to this Agreement shall be delivered by
or on behalf of the Company, against delivery by or on behalf of
each of the Purchasers of the amount set forth opposites each
Purchaser’s name under the column heading, “Loan
Amount” on Schedule I by check or wire transfer of
immediately available funds to the account of the Company
previously designated by it in writing.
(e) Subsequent
Closings . The Purchasers understand and agree that
at any time and from time to time during the period following the
Initial Closing Date but not later than September 15, 2008, the
Company may, at one or more additional closings (each, an “
Additional Closing ”), without obtaining the
signature, consent or permission of any of the Purchasers, offer
and sell any authorized but unsold Notes and Warrants to such
persons as shall be acceptable to the Board of Directors of the
Company on the terms and conditions set forth
herein. The term “ Closing ”
as used herein shall refer to the “ Initial
Closing ” and/or each “ Additional
Closing ,” as appropriate.
(f) No Usury
. This Agreement and each Note issued pursuant to the
terms of this Agreement are hereby expressly limited so that in no
event whatsoever, whether by reason of deferment or advancement of
loan proceeds, acceleration of maturity of the loan evidenced
hereby, or otherwise, shall the amount paid or agreed to be paid to
the Purchasers hereunder for the loan, use, forbearance or
detention of money exceed the maximum interest rate permitted by
the laws of the State of California. If at any time the
performance of any provision hereof or any Note involves a payment
exceeding the limit of the price that may be validly charged for
the loan, use, forbearance or detention of money under applicable
law, then automatically and retroactively, ipso facto, the
obligation to be performed shall be reduced to such limit, it being
the specific intent of the Company and the Purchasers hereof that
all payments under this Agreement or any Note are to be credited
first to interest as permitted by law, but not in excess of
(i) the agreed rate of interest set forth in the Note, or
(ii) that permitted by law, whichever is the lesser, and the
balance toward the reduction of principal. The
provisions of this Section 1(f) shall never be superseded or waived
and shall control every other provision of this Agreement and any
Note.
(g) Security
Agreement . The Company and the Purchasers agree to
execute the Amended and Restated Security Agreement, dated as of
the date hereof, in substantially the form attached hereto as
Exhibit E (the “ Security Agreement
”), whereby the Purchasers will receive a security interest
in the collateral of the Company described in the Security
Agreement, pursuant to the terms of the Security
Agreement. It is agreed that all the Company’s
indebtedness, whether outstanding on the date hereof or
subsequently incurred or assumed, except all indebtedness secured
by perfected security interests granted by the Company in
connection with the Senior Debt (as such term is defined in the
Security Agreement), shall be junior in right of payment to the
indebtedness and other obligations of the Company pursuant to the
Notes.
(h) Securities and
Disclosure . The Notes and Warrants are referred to
herein as the “ Securities
.” The Securities will be offered and sold to the
Purchasers without such offers and sales being registered under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (together with the rules and
regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “
SEC ”) promulgated thereunder, the “
Securities Act ”), in reliance on exemptions
therefrom.
In connection with the sale of the Securities,
the Company has made available (including electronically via the
SEC's EDGAR system) to Purchasers its periodic and current reports,
forms, schedules, proxy statements and other documents (including
exhibits and all other information incorporated by reference) filed
with the SEC under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the “ Exchange Act ”). These
reports, forms, schedules, statements, documents, filings and
amendments, are collectively referred to as the “ SEC
Documents . ” All references in this
Agreement to financial statements and schedules and other
information which is “contained,”
“included” or “stated” in the SEC Documents
(or other references of like import) shall be deemed to mean and
include all such financial statements and schedules, documents,
exhibits and other information which is incorporated by reference
in the SEC Documents.
This Agreement, the Notes, the Warrants and the
Security Agreement are sometimes herein collectively referred to as
the “ Transaction Documents
.” The shares of Common Stock issuable upon
exercise of the Warrants are referred to herein as the “
Warrant Conversion Shares .” The Warrant
Conversion Shares and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion of the Series C Convertible Preferred Stock are herein
collectively referred to as the “ Conversion
Shares .”
2. Representations
and Warranties of the Company . Except as set forth
in the SEC Documents and on the Disclosure Schedule attached hereto
and made a part hereof (the “
Disclosure Schedule ”), the Company represents
and warrants to and agrees with Purchasers as follows:
(a) Except as set
forth in Section 2(a) of the Disclosure Schedule, the Company has
filed in a timely manner all documents that the Company was
required to file with the SEC under the Exchange Act since becoming
subject to the requirements of the Exchange Act. The SEC
Documents as of their respective dates did not and will not as of
the Closing Date (after giving effect to any updated disclosures
therein), contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit
to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein,
in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. The SEC Documents and the documents
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein, at
the time they were filed or hereafter are filed with the SEC,
complied and will comply, at the time of filing, in all material
respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and/or the
Exchange Act, as the case may be, as applicable.
(b) The Company has no
subsidiaries. The Company has been duly incorporated
and is validly existing in good standing as a
corporation under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation,
with the requisite corporate power and authority to own its
properties and conduct its business as now conducted as described
in the SEC Documents and is duly qualified to do business as a
foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions
where the ownership or leasing of its properties or the conduct of
its business requires such qualification, except where the failure
to be so qualified would not, individually or in the aggregate,
have a material adverse effect on the business, condition
(financial or other), earnings, management, properties, prospects
or results of operations of the Company (any such event, a “
Material Adverse Effect ”); the Company does
not own directly or indirectly any of the capital stock or other
equity or long-term debt securities of or have any equity interest
in any other individual, corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, joint venture, trust or unincorporated
organization or a government or agency or political subdivision
thereof (a “ Person ”); all of the
outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly
authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable,
have been issued in compliance with all federal and state
securities laws, and were not issued in violation of or subject to
any preemptive or other rights to subscribe for or purchase
securities, and are owned free and clear of all liens,
encumbrances, equities, and restrictions on transferability (other
than those imposed by the Securities Act and the state securities
or “Blue Sky” laws); except as set forth in Section
2(b) of the Disclosure Schedule, no options, warrants or other
rights to purchase from the Company, agreements or other
obligations of the Company to issue or other rights to convert any
obligation into, or exchange any securities for, shares of capital
stock of or ownership interests in the Company are outstanding; and
there is no agreement, understanding or arrangement between the
Company and any of its stockholders or any other Person relating to
the ownership or disposition of any capital stock of the Company or
the election of directors of the Company or the governance of the
Company’s affairs, and, if any, such agreements,
understandings and arrangements will not be breached or violated as
a result of the execution and delivery of, or the consummation of
the transactions contemplated by, the Transaction Documents; there
are no bonds, debentures, notes or other indebtedness having
general voting rights (or convertible into securities having such
rights) (“ Voting Debt ”) of the Company
issued and outstanding; except as set forth in Section 2(b) of the
Disclosure Schedule, there are no existing options, warrants,
calls, subscriptions or other rights, agreements, arrangements or
commitments of any character, relating to the issued or unissued
capital stock of the Company, obligating the Company to issue,
transfer, sell, redeem, purchase, repurchase or otherwise acquire
or cause to be issued, transferred, sold, redeemed, purchased,
repurchased or otherwise acquired any capital stock or Voting Debt
of, or other equity interest in, the Company or securities or
rights convertible into or exchangeable for such shares or equity
interests or obligations of the Company to grant, extend or enter
into any such option, warrant, call, subscription or other right,
agreement, arrangement or commitment; the issuance of the Notes,
the Warrants or the Conversion Shares will not give rise to any
preemptive rights or rights of first refusal on behalf of any
Person or result in the triggering of any anti-dilution or other
similar right; except as set forth in Section 2(b) of the
Disclosure Schedule, there are no agreements or arrangements under
which the Company is obligated to register the sale of any of their
securities under the Securities Act; there are no securities,
agreements, documents or instruments containing anti-dilution
provisions that will be triggered by the issuance of the Notes, the
Warrants and the Conversion Shares; the Company has made available
to Purchasers a true, correct and complete copy of its certificate
of incorporation and bylaws, each as amended and as in effect on
the date hereof.
(c) The authorized
capital stock of the Company (immediately prior to the Closing
Date) consists of 1,500,000,000 shares of Common Stock and
700,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share
(the “ Preferred Stock ”), and
152,843,414 shares of Preferred Stock have been designated as the
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (the “ Series A
Preferred Stock ”), 336,240,039 shares of Preferred
Stock have been designated as Series B-1 Stock, and 10,916,547
shares of Preferred Stock have been designated as Series B-2
Stock. The issued and outstanding capital stock of the
Company, as of immediately prior to the Closing Date and as of the
Closing Date, is as set forth in Section 2(c) of the Disclosure
Schedule attached hereto (other than for subsequent issuances, if
any, pursuant to employee benefit plans described in the SEC
Documents or upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and
other convertible securities described in the SEC
Documents). Each share of Preferred Stock is convertible
into one share of Common Stock. Except for preemptive
rights or rights of first refusal which have been waived or
complied with, the issuance of the Securities will not give rise to
any preemptive rights, rights of first refusal, or similar rights
on behalf of any person. There are no securities,
agreements, documents or instruments containing anti-dilution
provisions that will be triggered by the issuance of the
Securities.
(d) The Company has
the requisite corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and
perform its obligations under the Transaction
Documents. Each of the Transaction Documents has been
duly and validly authorized by the Company and, when executed and
delivered by the Company, will constitute a valid and legally
binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company
in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency,
fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of
general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’
rights generally and to general principles of equity).
(e) The Warrant
Conversion Shares have been duly authorized and validly reserved
for issuance, and when issued upon exercise of the Warrants in
accordance with the terms of the Warrant, will have been validly
issued, fully paid and non-assessable. The shares of
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock (and the shares of Common
Stock issuable upon conversion thereof) issuable upon conversion of
the Notes shall be duly authorized and validly reserved for
issuance, and when issued upon conversion of the Notes in
accordance with the terms thereof, will have been validly issued,
fully paid and non-assessable. The Common Stock of the
Company conforms to the description thereof contained in the SEC
Documents. No stockholder of the Company or other Person
has any preemptive, co-sale rights, rights of first refusal or any
other similar rights with respect to the Warrants, the Notes or the
Common Stock, except for rights which have been waived or fully
complied with.
(f) No consent,
approval, order or authorization of, license, registration,
qualification, exemption or filing with any court or governmental
agency or body or third party is required for the performance of
the Transaction Documents by the Company or for the consummation by
the Company of the transactions contemplated thereby, or the
application of the proceeds of the issuance of the Securities as
described in this Agreement, except for such consents, approvals,
authorizations, licenses, qualifications, exemptions or orders
(i) as have been obtained on or prior to the Closing Date, or
(ii) as are not required to be obtained on or prior to the
Closing Date that will be obtained when required.
(g) The Company is not
(i) in violation of its certificate of incorporation,
certificates of designations or bylaws (or similar organizational
document), (ii) in breach or violation of any statute,
judgment, decree, order, rule or regulation applicable to it or any
of its properties or assets, or (iii) in default (nor has any
event occurred which with notice or passage of time, or both, would
constitute a default) in the performance or observance of any
obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any
contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, note,
lease, license, franchise agreement, permit, certificate or
agreement or instrument to which it is a party or to which it is
subject.
(h) The execution,
delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction
Documents and the consummation by the Company of the transactions
contemplated thereby and the fulfillment of the terms thereof will
not (a) violate, conflict with or constitute or result in a
breach of or a default under (or an event that, with notice or
lapse of time, or both, would constitute a breach of or a default
under) any of (i) the terms or provisions of any contract,
indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, note, lease,
license, franchise agreement, permit, certificate or agreement or
instrument to which the Company is a party or to which any of its
properties or assets are subject, (ii) its certificate of
incorporation, certificates of designations or bylaws (or similar
organizational document) or (iii) any statute, judgment,
decree, order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental
agency or other body applicable to the Company or any of its
properties or assets or (b) result in the imposition of any
lien upon or with respect to any of the properties or assets now
owned or hereafter acquired by the Company; with respect to (a)(i),
(a)(iii) and (b) only, which violation, conflict, breach, default
or lien would, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(i) The audited
financial statements included in the SEC Documents present fairly
the financial position, results of operations, cash flows and
changes in shareholders’ equity of the Company, at the dates
and for the periods to which they relate and have been prepared in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles applied on
a consistent basis; the interim un-audited financial statements
included in the SEC Documents present fairly the financial
position, results of operations and cash flows of the Company, at
the dates and for the periods to which they relate subject to
year-end audit adjustments and have been prepared in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a
consistent basis with the audited financial statements included
therein; the selected financial and statistical data included in
the SEC Documents present fairly the information shown therein and
have been prepared and compiled on a basis consistent with the
audited financial statements included therein, except as otherwise
stated therein; and each of the auditors previously engaged by the
Company or to be engaged in the future by the Company is an
independent certified public accountant as required by the
Securities Act. Except as set forth in the SEC
Documents, since the date of the latest interim un-audited balance
sheet of the Company included in the SEC Documents, (i) there has
been no material change in total liabilities of the Company and
(ii) there have been no liabilities incurred outside of the
ordinary course of business. Except as set forth in the
SEC Documents, immediately after the Closing Date, the Company will
not have any indebtedness, except the Loans and indebtedness
incurred in the ordinary course of business and consistent with
past practices. The Company is not a guarantor or
indemnitor of any indebtedness of any third party.
(j) There is not
pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, any
action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation, governmental or
otherwise, to which the Company is a party, or to which its
properties or assets are subject, before or brought by any court,
arbitrator or governmental agency or body, that, if determined
adversely to the Company, would, individually or in the aggregate,
have a Material Adverse Effect or that seeks to restrain, enjoin,
prevent the consummation of or otherwise challenge the issuance or
sale of the Securities to be sold hereunder or the application of
the proceeds therefrom or the other transactions described in the
SEC Documents. The Company is not a party to or subject to the
provisions of any injunction, judgment, decree or order of any
court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental
agency or body.
(k) Intellectual
Property.
(i)
General. Section 2(k)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule sets
forth with respect to the Company Intellectual Property Rights: (A)
for each patent and patent application, the patent number or
application serial number for each jurisdiction in which the patent
or application has been filed, the date filed or issued and the
present status thereof; (B) for each registered trademark, trade
name or service mark, the application serial number or registration
number for each applicable country, province and/or state and the
class of goods covered; (C) for each URL or domain name, the
registration date, any renewal date and name of registry; and (D)
for each registered copyrighted work, the number and date of
registration for each by country, province and/or state in which a
copyright application has been registered. In addition,
true and correct copies of all applications filed and registrations
(including all pending applications and application related
documents) related to the Intellectual Property Rights listed on
Section 2(k)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule have been provided or
made available to Purchasers.
(ii)
Sufficiency. The Intellectual Property Rights and
Technology owned or licensed by the Company constitute all
Intellectual Property Rights and Technology necessary for the
conduct of the Company’s business as presently conducted,
including the design, manufacture, license and sale of all products
currently under development or in production.
(iii) Royalties and
Licenses. Except pursuant to the licenses listed in
Section 2(k)(iii) of the Disclosure Schedule, the Company has no
obligation to compensate or account to any person for the use of
any of the Intellectual Property Rights or Technology used by the
Company in the conduct of the business. Section
2(k)(iii) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth all third party
components, whether hardware, firmware or software, that are
incorporated in or provided by the Company with its products, or
that are otherwise necessary for the manufacture of the
Company’s products. Section 2(k)(iii) of the
Disclosure Schedule lists all in-licenses of the Intellectual
Property Rights and Technology applicable to the Company’s
products, other than standard, off-the-shelf software commercially
available on standard terms from third-party vendors.
(iv)
Ownership. The Company (A) owns all right, title and
interest in and to the Company Intellectual Property Rights and
Company Technology, including the Intellectual Property Rights and
Technology listed in Section 2(k)(iv) of the Disclosure Schedule,
free and clear of any liens, claims or encumbrances and (B) has a
valid and enforceable right or license to use all other
Intellectual Property Rights and Technology used in the conduct of
the business, and all such licensed Intellectual Property Rights
and rights to use Technology will not cease to be valid and
enforceable rights of the Company by reason of the execution,
delivery and performance of this Agreement or the consummation of
the transactions contemplated hereby. Without limiting
the foregoing, the Company Intellectual Property Rights and Company
Technology have been: (1) developed by employees of the Company
within the scope of their employment and who have assigned their
rights to the Company pursuant to enforceable written agreements;
(2) developed by independent contractors or agents who have
assigned their rights to the Company pursuant to enforceable
written agreements or (3) otherwise acquired by the Company from a
third party who has assigned all the Intellectual Property Rights
and ownership of all Technology it has developed on the
Company’s behalf to the Company.
(v) Absence of Claims;
Non-infringement. No claim or legal proceeding has been
instituted or is pending against the Company, or, to the knowledge
of the Company, is threatened, that challenges the right of the
Company with respect to the use or ownership of the Company
Intellectual Property Rights or Company
Technology. Without limiting the foregoing, no
interference, opposition, reissue, reexamination, legal proceeding
or other proceeding is or has been pending or, to the best of the
Company’s knowledge, threatened, in which the scope, validity
or enforceability of any of the Company Intellectual Property
Rights is being, has been or could reasonably be expected to be
contested or challenged. The Company’s past and
present use of the Company Intellectual Property Rights or Company
Technology does not infringe upon, misappropriate, breach or
otherwise conflict with the rights of any other Person anywhere in
the world. The Company has not received any notice
alleging, and otherwise has no knowledge of (A) the invalidity of,
or any limitation on the Company’s right to use, any of the
Company Intellectual Property Rights or Company Technology or of
(B) the alleged infringement, misappropriation or breach of any
Intellectual Property Rights of others by the
Company. The Company Intellectual Property Rights and
Company Technology are not subject to any judgment, decree, order,
writ, award, injunction or determination of an arbitrator, court or
other governmental authority affecting the rights of the Company
with respect thereto. To the knowledge of the Company,
no person has interfered with, infringed upon or misappropriated
any of the Company Intellectual Property Rights, or is currently
doing so.
(vi) Licenses to Third
Parties. Section 2(k)(vi) of the Disclosure Schedule
lists all of the contracts pursuant to which any person has been
granted any license under, or otherwise has received or acquired
any right (whether or not currently exercisable) or interest in,
any Company Intellectual Property Rights or Company
Technology. The Company is not bound by, and no Company
Intellectual Property Rights are subject to, any contract
containing any covenant or other provision that in any way limits
or restricts the ability of the Company to use, exploit, assert or
enforce any of its Intellectual Property Rights anywhere in the
world. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company has
not granted any exclusive licenses to the Company Intellectual
Property Rights or Company Technology.
(vii) Protection of
Intellectual Property Rights. All of the registrations
and pending applications to governmental or regulatory bodies with
respect to the Company Intellectual Property Rights have been
timely and duly filed, prosecution for such applications has been
attended to, all maintenance and related fees have been paid and
the Company has taken all other actions required to maintain their
validity and effectiveness. The Company has taken all
steps reasonably necessary or appropriate (including, entering into
written confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements with officers,
directors, subcontractors, employees, licensees and customers) to
safeguard the Company Intellectual Property Rights and maintain the
secrecy and confidentiality of trade secrets that are material to
the Company. Without limiting the foregoing, (A) there
has been no misappropriation of any trade secrets or other
confidential Intellectual Property Rights or Technology used in
connection with the business by any person; (B) no employee,
independent contractor or agent of the Company has misappropriated
any trade secrets of any other person in the course of performance
as an employee, independent contractor or agent of the business and
(C) no employee, independent contractor or agent of the Company is
in default or breach of any term of any employment agreement,
nondisclosure agreement, assignment of invention agreement or
similar agreement or contract relating in any way to the
protection, ownership, development, use or transfer of the Company
Intellectual Property Rights and Company Technology.
(viii) Funding;
Certification with Standards Bodies. Except as set forth in Section
2(k)(viii) of the Disclosure Schedule, no funding, facilities or
personnel of any governmental entity or educational institution
were used, directly or indirectly, to develop or create, in whole
or in part, any of the Company Intellectual Property Rights or
Company Technology. The Company has not made any
submission or suggestion to, or otherwise participated in, and is
not subject to any agreement with, government, any standards bodies
or other entities that could obligate the Company to grant licenses
to or otherwise impair its control of Company Intellectual Property
Rights.
(ix) “
Intellectual Property Rights ” means all (A)
United States and foreign patents and patent applications and
disclosures relating thereto (and any patents that issue as a
result of those patent applications), and any renewals, reissues,
reexaminations, extensions, continuations, continuations-in-part,
divisions and substitutions relating to any of the patents and
patent applications; (B) United States and foreign trademarks,
service marks, trade dress, logos, 800 numbers, trade names and
corporate names, whether registered or unregistered, and the
goodwill associated therewith, together with any registrations and
applications for registration thereof; (C) United States and
foreign copyrights and rights under copyrights, whether registered
or unregistered, including moral rights, and any registrations and
applications for registration thereof; (D) rights in databases and
data collections (including knowledge databases, customer lists and
customer databases) under the laws of the United States or any
other jurisdiction, whether registered or unregistered, and any
applications for registration therefor; (E) trade secrets and other
rights in know-how and confidential or proprietary information
(including any business plans, designs, technical data, customer
data, financial information, pricing and cost information, bills of
material or other similar information); (F) URL and domain name
registrations; (G) inventions (whether or not patentable) and
improvements thereto; (H) all claims and causes of action arising
out of or related to infringement or misappropriation of any of the
foregoing and (I) other proprietary or intellectual property rights
now known or hereafter recognized in any jurisdiction.
(x) “
Technology ” means tangible embodiments of the
Intellectual Property Rights, whether in electronic, written or
other media, including software, technical documentation,
specifications, designs, bills of material, build instructions,
test reports, schematics, algorithms, application programming
interfaces, user interfaces, routines, formulae, databases, lab
notebooks, processes, prototypes, samples, studies or other
know-how and other works of authorship.
(l) The Company
possesses all licenses, permits, certificates, consents, orders,
approvals and other authorizations from, and has made all
declarations and filings with, all federal, state, local and other
governmental authorities (including, but not limited to, those that
may be required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the
“ FDA ”)), all self-regulatory
organizations and all courts and other tribunals presently required
or necessary to own or lease, as the case may be, and to operate
its properties and to carry on its business as now or proposed to
be conducted as set forth in the SEC Documents (“
Permits ”), except where the failure to obtain
such Permits would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a
Material Adverse Effect. Each of such Permits is
in full force and effect, and the Company has not received any
notice of any proceeding relating to revocation or modification of
any such Permit, except where such revocation or modification would
not, individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.
(m) The Company holds
and is operating in compliance with such exceptions, permits,
licenses, franchises, authorizations and clearances of the FDA
and/or any committee thereof required, for the conduct of its
business as currently conducted (collectively, the “
FDA Permits ”), and all such FDA Permits are in
full force and effect. The Company has fulfilled and
performed all of its obligations with respect to the FDA Permits,
and, no event has occurred which allows, or after notice or lapse
of time would allow, revocation or termination thereof or results
in any other impairment of the rights of the holder of any FDA
Permit.
(n) The Company:
(i) is and at all times has been in material compliance with
all statutes, rules, regulations, or guidance applicable to the
ownership, testing, development, manufacture, packaging,
processing, use, distribution, marketing, labeling, promotion,
sale, offer for sale, storage, import, export or disposal of any
product under development, manufactured or distributed by the
Company (“ Applicable Laws ”);
(ii) has not received any FDA Form 483, notice of adverse
finding, warning letter, untitled letter or other correspondence or
notice from the FDA or any other federal, state, local or foreign
governmental or regulatory authority alleging or asserting
noncompliance with any Applicable Laws or any licenses,
certificates, approvals, clearances, authorizations, permits and
supplements or amendments thereto required by any such Applicable
Laws (“ Authorizations ”); (iii) has
not received notice of any claim, action, suit, proceeding,
hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action
from the FDA or any other federal, state, local or foreign
governmental or regulatory authority or third party alleging that
any product operation or activity is in violation of any Applicable
Laws or Authorizations and has no knowledge that the FDA or any
other federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory
authority or third party is considering any such claim, litigation,
arbitration, action, suit, investigation or proceeding;
(iv) has not received notice that the FDA or any other
federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory
authority has taken, is taking or intends to take action to limit,
suspend, modify or revoke any Authorizations and has no knowledge
that the FDA or any other federal, state, local or foreign
governmental or regulatory authority is considering such action;
(v) has filed, obtained, maintained or submitted all reports,
documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims,
submissions and supplements or amendments as required by any
Applicable Laws or Authorizations and that all such reports,
documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims,
submissions and supplements or amendments were complete and correct
on the date filed (or were corrected or supplemented by a
subsequent submission); and (vi) has not, either voluntarily
or involuntarily, initiated, conducted, or issued or caused to be
initiated, conducted or issued, any recall, market withdrawal or
replacement, safety alert, post sale warning, “dear
doctor” letter, or other notice or action relating to the
alleged lack of safety or efficacy of any product or any alleged
product defect or violation and, to the Company’s knowledge,
no third party has initiated, conducted or intends to initiate any
such notice or action.
(o) (i) The Company is
not in material violation of any federal, state, local or foreign
statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, policy or rule of
common law or any judicial or administrative interpretation
thereof, including any judicial or administrative order, consent,
decree or judgment, relating to pollution or protection of human
health, the environment (including, without limitation, ambient
air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface
strata), natural resources or wildlife, including, without
limitation, laws and regulations relating to the release or
threatened release of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes,
toxic substances, hazardous substances, petroleum, petroleum
products or by-products, asbestos-containing materials or mold
(collectively, “ Hazardous Materials ”)
or to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment,
storage, disposal, transport or handling of, or exposure to,
Hazardous Materials (collectively, “ Environmental
Laws ”), including, without limitation, to the best
of the Company’s knowledge, the handling, transport, and
disposal of the by-product generated by the Company’s
recycling operations, (ii) the Company has all permits,
authorizations and approvals required under any applicable
Environmental Laws for the operation of its business and facilities
(“ Environmental Permits ”) and is in
material compliance with their requirements, (iii) no material
expenditures will be required to maintain compliance with
applicable Environmental Laws or Environmental Permits; (iv) there
are no pending or threatened administrative, regulatory or judicial
actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of
noncompliance or violation, investigation or proceedings relating
to any Environmental Law against the Company and (v) there are no
events or circumstances that would reasonably be expected to form
the basis of an order for clean-up or remediation, or an action,
suit or proceeding by any private party or governmental body or
agency, against or affecting the Company relating to Hazardous
Materials or Environmental Laws, including, without limitation, the
Company’s leasing of facilities located at the Riverbank Army
Ammunition Plant Superfund site (EPA ID# CA7210020759).
(p) Subsequent to the
respective dates as of which information is given in the SEC
Documents, (i) the Company has not incurred any material
liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent, or entered into
any material transactions not in the ordinary course of business or
(ii) the Company has not purchased any of its outstanding
capital stock, or declared, paid or otherwise made any dividend or
distribution of any kind on any of its capital stock or otherwise,
(iii) there has not been any material increase in the
indebtedness of the Company, (iv) there has not occurred any
event or condition, individually or in the aggregate, that has had
a Material Adverse Effect, (v) the Company has not sustained
any material loss or interference with respect to its business or
properties from fire, flood, hurricane, earthquake, accident or
other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any
labor dispute or any legal or governmental proceeding; (vi) the
Company has not received any notice from the SEC in connection with
any investigation or action by the SEC that seeks to, or could
reasonably be expected to result in, the restatement by the Company
of any of its current or previously disclosed financial statements;
(vii) there has not been any material change in compensation
agreement or arrangement with any executive officer or director of
the Company; (viii) there has not been any loan or guarantees made
by the Company to or for the benefit of its employees, officer or
directors or any members of their immediate families, other than
travel advances and other advances made in the ordinary course of
business and consistent with past practice; and (ix) the Company
has not altered its method of accounting or changed its
auditors. The Company has not taken any steps to seek
protection pursuant to any bankruptcy law nor does the Company have
any knowledge or reason to believe that its creditors intend to
initiate involuntary bankruptcy proceedings or any actual knowledge
of any fact, which would reasonably lead a creditor to do
so. Based on the financial condition of the Company as
of the Closing Date, after giving effect to transactions
contemplated hereby to occur on the Closing Date, the Company
reasonably expects to have sufficient cash on hand to pay all of
its currently foreseeable expenses for at least the next four
months.
(q) There are no
material legal or governmental proceedings nor are there any
material contracts or other documents required by the Securities
Act to be described in a prospectus that are not described in the
SEC Documents. The Company is not in default under any
of the contracts described in the SEC Documents, has not received a
notice or claim of any such default and does not have knowledge of
any breach of such contracts by the other party or parties thereto,
except for such defaults or breaches as would not, individually or
in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(r) The Company has
good and marketable title to all real property described in the SEC
Documents as being owned by it and good and marketable title to the
leasehold estate in the real property described therein as being
leased by it, free and clear of all liens, charges, encumbrances or
restrictions, except, in each case, as would not, individually or
in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. All
material leases, contracts and agreements to which the Company is a
party or by which it is bound are valid and enforceable against the
Company, are, to the knowledge of the Company, valid and
enforceable against the other party or parties thereto and are in
full force and effect.
(s) The Company has
filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise
tax returns, except where the failure to so file such returns would
not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse
Effect, and has paid all taxes shown as due thereon; and other than
tax deficiencies which the Company is contesting in good faith and
for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, there is no
material tax deficiency that has been asserted against the
Company.
(t) The Company is
not, and immediately after the Closing Date will not be, required
to register as an “investment company” or a company
“controlled by” an “investment company”
within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended (the “ Investment Company Act
”).
(u) None of the
Company or, to the knowledge of the Company, any of its directors,
officers, employees, agents or controlling persons, has taken,
directly or indirectly, any action designed, or that might
reasonably be expected, to cause or result in the stabilization or
manipulation of the price of the Common Stock.
(v) None of the
Company or any of its affiliates (as defined in Rule 501(b) of
Regulation D under the Securities Act) directly, or through
any agent, engaged in any form of general solicitation or general
advertising (as those terms are used in Regulation D under the
Securities Act) in connection with the offering of the Securities
or engaged in any other conduct that would cause such offering to
be constitute a public offering within the meaning of
Section 4(2) of the Securities Act. Assuming the
accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Purchasers in
Section 5 hereof, it is not necessary in connection with the
offer, sale and delivery of the Securities to the Purchasers in the
manner contemplated by this Agreement to register any of the
Securities under the Securities Act.
(w) There is no
strike, labor dispute, slowdown or work stoppage with the employees
of the Company which is pending or, to the knowledge of the
Company, threatened.
(x) The Company
maintains insurance underwritten by insurers of recognized
financial responsibility covering its properties, operations,
personnel and businesses comparable to other companies of its size
and similar business, including, without limitation, appropriate
general business, environmental and directors’ and
officers’ liability insurance. All such insurance
is in full force and effect.
(y) The Company
maintains internal accounting controls which provide reasonable
assurance that (A) transactions are executed in accordance
with management’s authorization, (B) transactions are
recorded as necessary to permit preparation of its financial
statements and to maintain accountability for its assets,
(C) access to its material assets is permitted only in
accordance with management’s authorization and (D) the
values and amounts reported for its material assets are compared
with its existing assets at reasonable intervals.
(z) Except as
disclosed in the SEC Documents, the Company maintains
disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule
13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that comply with the requirements of
the Exchange Act; such disclosure controls and procedures have been
designed to ensure that material information relating to the
Company is made known to the Company’s principal executive
officer and principal financial officer by others within those
entities; and such disclosure controls and procedures are
effective.
(aa) No Person has or
will have a claim for services, either in the nature of a
finder’s fee or financial advisory fee, with respect to the
offering of the Securities and the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents.
(bb) The Common Stock
is traded on the National Association of Securities Dealers OTC
Bulletin Board (the “ OTC Bulletin Board
”). The Company currently is not in violation of,
and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents will not violate, any rule of the OTC
Bulletin Board.
(cc) The Company is
eligible to use Form S-1 for the resale of the Conversion Shares
by Purchasers or their transferees. The
Company has no reason to believe that it is not capable of
satisfying the registration or qualification requirements (or an
exemption therefrom) necessary to permit the resale of the
Conversion Shares under the securities or “blue
sky” laws of any jurisdiction within the United
States.
(dd) None of the
Company, any of its affiliates, or any Person acting on their
behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any
security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under
circumstances that would require registration of any of the
Securities under the Securities Act or cause this offering of the
Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for
purposes of the Securities Act or any applicable stockholder
approval provisions, including without limitation, under the rules
and regulations of the OTC Bulletin Board.
(ee) The Company and
its Board of Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, to
render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business
combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights
agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the
Company’s charter documents or the laws of its state of
incorporation that is applicable to any of the Purchasers as a
result of the Purchasers and the Company fulfilling their
obligations or exercising their rights under the Transaction
Documents, including, without limitation, as a result of the
Company’s issuance of the Securities and the
Purchasers’ ownership of the Securities.
(ff) The Company has
described in, or filed as an exhibit to, the SEC Documents filed
prior to the date of this Agreement all of the following types of
documents, agreements, plans or arrangements that are required by
federal securities laws to be described in, or filed as an exhibit
to, the SEC Documents: employment agreements, consulting
agreements, deferred compensation, pension or retirement agreements
or arrangements (including all “employee pension benefit
plans” as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA, bonus, incentive
or profit-sharing plans or arrangements, or labor or collective
bargaining agreements in effect by the Company) (the “
ERISA Documents ”). Except for any
compliance failures that, individually or in the aggregate, are not
reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, (a) the
Company is in compliance in all material respects with all
applicable laws and regulations relating to labor, employment, fair
employment practices, terms and conditions of employment, and wages
and hours, and with the terms of the ERISA Documents; and (b) each
such ERISA Document is in compliance in all material respects with
all applicable requirements of ERISA. To the
Company’s knowledge, none of the Company’s employees
are obligated under any contract (including licenses, covenants or
commitments of any nature) or other agreement, or subject to any
judgment, decree or order of any court or administrative agency,
that would interfere with the use of his or her employment
obligations to the Company or that would conflict with the
Company’s business as now conducted or proposed to be
conducted, except for such contracts and other agreements,
judgments, decrees and orders that would not, individually or in
the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(gg) Except as
disclosed in the SEC Documents, no transaction has occurred: (A)
between or among the Company and any of its officers or directors,
stockholders or any affiliate of any such officer or director or
stockholder; and (B) to the Company’s knowledge, between or
among any stockholders of the Company.
3. Certain
Covenants of the Company . The Company covenants and
agrees with each Purchaser as follows:
(a) Use of
Proceeds . The proceeds of the issuance of the
Securities as described in this Agreement shall be used to purchase
new equipment and spare parts for the Company’s continuous
flow CO2 cleansing process and Pla.to pre-cleaning systems
(estimated at $1,200,000), reduce trade payables (estimated at
$800,000), fund operations through December 2008, with the
remainder of the proceeds to be available for growth initiatives
approved by the Board of Directors. None of the proceeds
of the Loans will be used to reduce or retire any existing debt of
the Company (other than for trade payables), except to the extent
any such notes or debt are being cancelled as consideration for
purchase of Securities by a Purchaser hereunder and as specifically
set forth on Schedule I hereto.
(b) No Integrated
Offering . None of the Company or any of its
affiliates will sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or
otherwise negotiate in respect of any “security” (as
defined in the Securities Act) that could be integrated with the
sale of the Securities in a manner which would require the
registration under the Securities Act of the Securities.
(c) Investment
Company Act Status . The Company will not become, at
any time prior to the expiration of three years after the Closing
Date, an open-end investment company, unit investment trust,
closed-end investment company or face-amount certificate company
that is or is required to be registered under the Investment
Company Act.
(d) Further
Action . The Company will use its best efforts to do
and perform all things required to be done and performed by it
under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and to
satisfy all conditions precedent on its part to the obligations of
the Purchasers to purchase and accept delivery of the
Securities.
(e) Stockholder
Approval . As soon as reasonably practicable
following the Initial Closing, the Company shall obtain the
approval and consent of a majority of the outstanding shares of its
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, as well as any other
stockholder approvals required in connection with the authorization
and designation of the shares of a newly created series of the
Company’s preferred stock (the “ Stockholder
Approvals ”), to be designated “Series C
Convertible Preferred Stock.” The Series C
Convertible Preferred Stock shall have the rights, preferences and
privileges as are set forth in the Form of Certificate of
Designations attached hereto as Exhibit C (the “
Series C Certificate of Designations
”).
(f) Investor Rights
Agreement . The Purchasers shall be entitled, with
respect to any shares of the Company’s capital stock issued
upon exercise of the Warrants and upon conversion of the Notes, as
the case may be, to all of the registration and other rights set
forth in the Company’s Investor Rights Agreement dated as of
June 4, 2008 (the “ Rights Agreement ”),
to the same extent and on the same terms and conditions as
possessed by the investors thereunder and as if such were included
in the definition of “Registrable Securities” in the
Rights Agreement. The Company shall take such action as
may be reasonably necessary, including amending the Rights
Agreement as soon as reasonably practicable following the Initial
Closing, to assure that the granting of such registration rights to
the Purchasers does not violate the provisions of the Rights
Agreement or any of the Company’s charter documents or rights
of prior grantees of registration rights.
(g) Further
Indebtedness . The Company hereby covenants and
agrees that so long as any principal amount and accrued interest
remains outstanding under the Notes issued pursuant to the terms of
this Agreement, that it shall not, without the written consent of
Purchasers holding Notes representing at least 60% of the principal
amount of all Notes then outstanding, incur, guaranty, assume or
otherwise become obligated to pay indebtedness, other than amounts
under equipment leases existing as of the Initial Closing Date,
accounts payable and other obligations incurred in the ordinary
course of business, other than pursuant to this
Agreement.
4. Conditions of
the Purchasers’ Obligations . The obligation
of each Purchaser to purchase and pay for the Securities at each
Closing Date is subject to the following conditions unless waived
by the Purchaser:
(a) The
representations and warranties of the Company contained in this
Agreement shall be true and correct on and as of the Closing Date.
The Company shall have complied in all material respects with all
agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed
or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date.
(b) None of the
issuance and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement or
any of the transactions contemplated by any of the other
Transaction Documents shall be enjoined (temporarily or
permanently) and no restraining order or other injunctive order
shall have been issued in respect thereof; and there shall not have
been any legal action, order, decree or other administrative
proceeding instituted or, to the Company’s knowledge,
threatened against the Company or against any Purchaser relating to
the issuance of the Securities or any Purchaser’s activities
in connection therewith or any other transactions contemplated by
this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents or the SEC
Documents.
(c) The Purchasers
shall have received certificates, dated the Closing Date and signed
by the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of
the Company, to the effect of Sections 4(a) and 4(b).
(d) The Purchasers
shall have received an opinion of legal counsel to the Company,
with respect to the Securities and other customary matters in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit D .
(e) The Major
Investors (as defined in Section 8 hereof) shall be satisfied, in
their sole discretion, with the results of their due diligence
investigation with respect to the Company.
(f) The
Company’s Board of Directors shall have approved the Series C
Certificate of Designations, in substantially the form as set forth
on Exhibit C hereto.
(g) The Company shall
have received all necessary governmental and third party waivers,
consents and approvals, other than the Stockholder Approval
referred to in Section 3(e) hereof.
(h) The Company shall
have complied with all applicable securities laws.
(i) On or prior to the
date of the Initial Closing, the Company shall have authorized the
filing of an amendment to the certificate of incorporation of the
Company as necessary to give effect to the provisions set forth
herein or in the Transaction Documents.
(j) The Security
Agreement shall have been duly executed by the Company and the
parties thereto.
(k) As soon as
reasonably practicable following the Initial Closing, the Company
shall receive a fairness opinion with regard to valuation
matters.
(l) As soon as
reasonably practicable following the Initial Closing, the Rights
Agreement shall be amended so as to satisfy the covenant set forth
in Section 3(f) hereof.
(m) On or prior to the
date of the Initial Closing, the Company shall have filed (or
authorized the filing of) all UCC and similar financing statements
in form and substance satisfactory to the Purchasers at the
appropriate offices to create a valid and perfected security
interest in the Collateral (as defined in the Security
Agreement).
(n) On or prior to the
Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Major
Investors such additional information, certificates and documents
as they may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling them to
pass upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as contemplated
herein, or to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations
or warranties, or the fulfillment of any of the conditions, herein
contained, or otherwise in connection with the transaction
contemplated hereby; and all opinions and certificates mentioned
above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be reasonably
satisfactory in form and substance to the Major
Investors.
5. Representations
and Warranties of the Purchasers .
(a) Each Purchaser
represents and warrants to the Company that the Securities to be
acquired by it hereunder (including the Conversion Shares that it
may acquire upon conversion thereof) are being acquired for its own
account for investment and with no present intention of
distributing or reselling such Securities (including the Conversion
Shares that it may acquire upon conversion thereof) or any part
thereof or interest therein in any transaction which would be in
violation of the securities laws of the United States of America or
any State. Nothing in this Agreement, however, shall
prejudice or otherwise limit a Purchaser’s right to sell or
otherwise dispose of all or any part of such Conversion Shares
under an effective registration statement under the Securities Act
and in compliance with applicable state securities laws or under an
exemption from such registration.
(b) Each Purchaser
understands that the Securities and Conversion Shares have not been
registered under the Securities Act and may not be offered, resold,
pledged or otherwise transferred except (a) pursuant to an
exemption from registration under the Securities Act (and, if
requested by the Company, based upon an opinion of counsel
acceptable to the Company) or pursuant to an effective registration
statement under the Securities Act and (b) in accordance with
all applicable securities laws of the states of the United States
and other jurisdictions.
Each Purchaser agrees to the imprinting, so long
as appropriate, of the following legend on the Securities
(including the Conversion Shares that it may acquire upon
conversion thereof):
THE
SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE
UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "1933 ACT"),
OR UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS,
BUT HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED BY THE REGISTERED HOLDER HEREOF FOR PURPOSES
OF INVESTMENT AND IN RELIANCE ON STATUTORY EXEMPTIONS UNDER THE
1933 ACT, AND UNDER ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES
LAWS. THESE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD, PLEDGED,
TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED EXCEPT IN A TRANSACTION WHICH IS EXEMPT
UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE 1933 ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE
SECURITIES LAWS OR PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT.
The legend set forth above may be removed if and
when the Securities or Conversion Shares are disposed of pursuant
to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or,
in the opinion of counsel to the Company experienced in the area of
United States Federal securities laws, such legends are no longer
required under applicable requirements of the Securities
Act. The Company agrees that it will provide each
Purchaser, upon request, with a substitute certificate, not bearing
such legend at such time as such legend is no longer
applicable.
(c) Each Purchaser is
an “accredited investor” within the meaning of Rule
501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act. None of
the Purchasers learned of the opportunity to acquire Securities or
any other security issuable by the Company through any form of
general advertising or public solicitation.
(d) Each Purchaser
represents and warrants to the Company that it has such knowledge,
sophistication and experience in business and financial matters so
as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the
prospective investment in the Securities, having been represented
by counsel, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of such
investment and is able to bear the economic risk of such investment
and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete loss of such
investment.
(e) Each Purchaser
represents and warrants to the Company that the purchase of the
Securities to be purchased by it has been duly and properly
authorized and this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered
by it or on its behalf and constitutes the valid and legally
binding obligation of the Purchaser, enforceable against the
Purchaser in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and
similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting
creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of
equity.
(f) Each Purchaser
represents and warrants to the Company that neither it nor any of
its directors, officers, employees, agents, partners, members, or
controlling persons has taken, or will take, directly or
indirectly, any actions designed, or that might reasonably be
expected to cause or result in, the destabilization or manipulation
of the price of the Common Stock.
(g) Each Purchaser
acknowledges it or its representatives have reviewed the SEC
Documents and further acknowledges that it or its representatives
have been afforded (i) the opportunity to ask such questions
as it has deemed necessary of, and to receive answers from,
representatives of the Company concerning the terms and conditions
of the offering of the Securities and the merits and risks of
investing in the Securities; and (ii) access to information
about the Company and the Company’s financial condition,
results of operations, business, properties, management and
prospects sufficient to enable it to evaluate its investment in the
Securities.
(h) Each Purchaser
represents and warrants to the Company that it has based its
investment decision solely upon the information contained in the
SEC Documents and such other information as may have been provided
to it or its representatives by the Company in response to its
inquiries, and has not based its investment decision on any
research or other report regarding the Company prepared by any
third party (“ Third Party Reports
”). Each Purchaser understands and acknowledges
that (i) the Company does not endorse any Third Party Reports
and (ii) its actual results may differ materially from those
projected in any Third Party Report.
(i) Each Purchaser
understands and acknowledges that (i) any forward-looking
information included in the SEC Documents is subject to risks and
uncertainties, including those risks and uncertainties set forth in
the SEC Documents; and (ii) the Company’s actual results
may differ materially from those projected by the Company or its
management in such forward-looking information.
(j) Each Purchaser
understands and acknowledges that (i) the Securities are
offered and sold without registration under the Securities Act in a
private placement that is exempt from the registration provisions
of the Securities Act and (ii) the availability of such
exemption depends in part on, and that the Company and its counsel
will rely upon, the accuracy and truthfulness of the foregoing
representations and Purchaser hereby consents to such
reliance. Each Purchaser also understands that there is
no assurance that any exemption from registration under the
Securities Act will be available and that, even if available, such
exemption may not allow Purchaser to transfer all or any portion of
the Securities or Conversion Shares under the circumstances, in the
amounts or at the times Purchaser might propose.
(k) None of the
Purchasers is a broker or dealer registered pursuant to
Section 15 of the Exchange Act (a “ registered
broker-dealer ”) or is affiliated with a registered
broker-dealer.
6. Covenants of
Purchasers .
(a) No Short
Sale . Purchasers, on behalf of themselves and their
affiliates and the permitted assignee of any Conversion Shares,
hereby covenant and agree not to, directly or indirectly, offer to
“short sell”, contract to “short sell” or
otherwise “short sell” any securities of the Company
prior to the Closing Date.
(b) Agreement to
Convert or Subordinate Notes . All Notes may be
converted or subordinated at any time upon approval of the same by
holders of at least 60% of the principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding. In the event of such conversion of the
Notes pursuant to this Section 6(b), the Notes shall immediately
accrue the full amount of interest that would otherwise be payable
as of March 31, 2009, as if such Notes were outstanding on
such date, notwithstanding the fact such Notes would have been
converted prior to that date.
7. No Original
Issue Discount . The Company and the Purchasers
hereby acknowledge and agree that each Warrant is part of an
investment unit within the meaning of Section 1273(c)(2) of the
Internal Revenue Code, which includes the Note issued to each
respective Purchaser. The Company and the Purchasers further agree
as between the Company and each Purchaser, that the fair market
value of the Warrant issued to such Purchaser is equal to 0.1% of
the principal amount of the Notes purchased by such Purchaser, as
more specifically set forth opposite such Purchaser’s name
under the column heading, “Warrant Shares Purchase
Price” on Schedule I attached hereto. The
Company and the Purchaser agree to prepare their federal income tax
returns in a manner consistent with the foregoing agreement and,
pursuant to Treas. Reg. §1.1273, the original issue discount
on the Notes shall be considered to be zero.
8.
Indemnification . The Company agrees to indemnify
and hold harmless each of Tom Hutton, David Buzby, Hutton Living
Trust, dated 12-10-96 and funds associated with Trident Capital,
Inc. (the “ Major Investors ”), any
affiliates of the Major Investors, and each Person, if any, who
controls, is controlled by or under common control with any Major
Investor within the meaning of the Securities Act (each, an “
Indemnified Party ”), against any losses,
claims, actions, damages, liabilities or expenses (collectively,
“ Losses ”), joint or several, to which
such Indemnified Party may become subject under the Securities Act,
the Exchange Act, or any other federal or state statutory law or
regulation, or at common law or otherwise (including in settlement
of any litigation, if such settlement is effected with the written
consent of the Company), insofar as such Losses (or actions in
respect thereof as contemplated below) arise out of or are based in
whole or in part on any inaccuracy in the representations and
warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement or any
failure of the Company to perform its obligations hereunder, and
will reimburse each Indemnified Party for any legal and other
expenses reasonably incurred as such expenses are incurred by such
Indemnified Party in connection with investigating, defending,
settling, compromising or paying any such Loss; provided ,
however , that the Company will not be liable in any such
case to the extent that any such Loss arises out of or is based
upon the inaccuracy of any representations made by such Indemnified
Party herein.
(a) This Agreement may
be terminated by the Major Investors by notice to the Company given
in the event that (i) the Company shall have failed, refused
or been unable to satisfy all material conditions on its part to be
performed or satisfied hereunder on or prior to the Closing Date or
(ii) if after the date of this Agreement but prior to the
Closing Date, trading in securities of the Company on the OTC
Bulletin Board shall have been suspended and the Company ceases to
be publicly traded.
(b) This Agreement may
be terminated by mutual written consent of the Company and the
Major Investors.
10. Notices
. All communications hereunder shall be in writing and
shall be hand delivered, mailed by first-class mail, couriered by
next-day air courier or by facsimile and confirmed in writing
(i) if to the Company, at the addresses set forth below, or
(ii) if to a Purchaser, to the address set forth for such
party on the signature pages hereto, with a copy to Latham
&Watkins LLP, 140 Scott Drive, Menlo Park, California 94025,
Attention: Patrick Pohlen, Esq.
680 Second
Street, Suite 200
San Francisco,
California 94107
Attention: Chief Executive
Officer
601 Union
Street, Suite 4500
Seattle,
Washington 98101
All such notices and communications shall be
deemed to have been duly given: (i) when delivered
by hand, if personally delivered; (ii) five business days
after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed
certified mail, return receipt requested; (iii) one business
day after being timely delivered to a next-day air courier
guaranteeing overnight delivery; (iv) the date of transmission
if sent via facsimile to the facsimile number as set forth in this
Section or the signature page hereof prior to 5:00 pm in the time
zone of the recipient on a business day, with confirmation of
successful transmission or (v) the business day following the
date of transmission if sent via facsimile at a facsimile number
set forth in this Section or on the signature page hereof after
5:00 p.m. in the time zone of the recipient or on a date that is
not a business day. Change of a party’s address or
facsimile number may be designated hereunder by giving notice to
all of the other parties hereto in accordance with this
Section.
11. Survival
Clause . The respective representations, warranties,
agreements and covenants of the Company and the Purchasers set
forth in this Agreement shall survive until the first anniversary
of the Closing.
12. Fees and
Expenses . Promptly in connection with a Closing
where at least an aggregate principal amount of $4,000,000 in Notes
has been issued by the Company, the Company shall pay, by wire
transfer of immediately available funds (i) to an account or
accounts designated by Latham & Watkins LLP, at least
$288,916.81 for Purchasers’ legal and other transaction
expenses incurred in connection with the preparation and
negotiation of the Transaction Documents and the Company’s
previously completed Series B Preferred Stock financing; and (ii)
to an account or accounts designated by the Otto Law Group PLLC,
the amount of $171,905.82 for the Company’s legal and other
transaction expenses incurred in connection with the preparation
and negotiation of the Transaction Documents, the Company’s
previously completed Series B Preferred Stock financing, and other
general corporate, securities, and transactional work previously
performed on behalf of the Company.
13. Enforcement
. If any action at law or in equity is necessary to
enforce or interpret the terms of this Agreement or the
Certificates of Designations, the prevailing party or parties shall
be entitled to receive from the other party or parties reasonable
attorneys’ fees, costs and necessary disbursements in
addition to any other relief to which the prevailing party or
parties may be entitled.
14. Successors and
Assigns . This Agreement shall inure to the benefit
of and be binding upon Purchasers and the Company and their
respective successors and legal representatives. Neither
the Company nor any Purchaser may assign this Agreement or any
rights or obligation hereunder without the prior written consent of
the other party.
15. Amendment and
Waiver . Except as otherwise expressly
provided herein, this Agreement may be amended or modified, and any
obligations of the Company and rights of the Purchasers hereunder
may waived, in each case only upon the written consent of (i) the
Company and (ii) the holders of at least 60% of the principal
amount of then outstanding Notes; provided , however
, that no amendment of this Agreement shall materially and
adversely affect the rights of a Purchaser in a manner that
materially and disproportionately discriminates against such
Purchaser by its express terms in relation to the other Purchasers
without such Purchaser's written
consent. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
herein, Schedule I hereto may be amended and revised by the Company
in connection with Additional Closings (as defined in Section 1(e)
above) without requiring the consent of any of the other parties
hereto. Any amendment or waiver effected in accordance
with this Section 15 shall be binding upon each Purchaser, each
future Purchaser, and the Company. The Purchasers and
their respective successors and assigns acknowledge that by the
operation of this Section 15, the holders of at least 60% of the
Notes then outstanding, acting in conjunction with the Company,
will have the right and power to diminish or eliminate any or all
rights pursuant to this Agreement.
16. Entire
Agreement; No Third Party Beneficiary . This
Agreement, together with the other Transaction Documents,
constitutes the entire agreement among the parties hereto and
supersedes all prior agreements, understandings and arrangements,
oral or written, among the parties hereto with respect to the
subject matter hereof and thereof. Disclosure by the
Company in any Schedule to this Agreement shall be deemed
applicable to all applicable provisions hereof. This
Agreement is not intended to confer upon any Person not a party
hereto (or their successors and permitted assigns) any rights or
remedies hereunder, except as provided in Section 8
hereof.
17. Aug08 Notes and
Aug08 Warrants . The Company and those certain
Purchasers party to the Aug08 Notes and Aug08 Warrants hereby
acknowledge and agree that the Aug08 Notes and Aug08 Warrants shall
hereafter be governed by the terms of, and considered issued
pursuant to, this Agreement.
18.
Severability . If any provision of this Agreement
is held to be invalid or unenforceable in any respect, the validity
and enforceability of the remaining terms and provisions of this
Agreement shall not in any way be affected or impaired
thereby.
19. APPLICABLE
LAW . THE VALIDITY AND INTERPRETATION OF THIS
AGREEMENT, AND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH HEREIN SHALL BE
GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO PROVISIONS RELATING TO
CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF
ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY. THE
PARTIES HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREE THAT ACTIONS,
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