NOTE PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
dated as of December 29,
2006
BERLINER COMMUNICATIONS,
INC.
THOSE INVESTORS SET FORTH IN
SCHEDULE A
SENIOR SUBORDINATED SECURED
CONVERTIBLE NOTES
COMMON STOCK PURCHASE
WARRANTS
BERLINER COMMUNICATIONS,
INC.
SENIOR SUBORDINATED SECURED
CONVERTIBLE NOTES
COMMON STOCK PURCHASE
WARRANTS
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2. PURCHASE AND SALE; PURCHASE
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3. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, COVENANTS, ETC.
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(a) Purchase for Investment
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4. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, COVENANTS, ETC.
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(a) Organization and Authority
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(d) Concerning the Shares and the Common
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(k) Absence of Certain
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(n) Absence of Certain Changes
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(o) Intellectual Property
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(w) Absence of Brokers, Finders,
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(z) Rights Agreement; Interested
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(a) Transfer Restrictions
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(j) Limitation on Certain
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(k) Right of the Buyers to Participate in
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6. CONDITIONS TO THE COMPANY’S OBLIGATION
TO SELL
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7. CONDITIONS TO THE BUYER’S OBLIGATION
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(a) Mandatory Registration
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9. INDEMNIFICATION AND
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(j) Assignment of Certain Rights and
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Form of Senior
Subordinated Secured Convertible Note
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Form of Common
Stock Purchase Warrant
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Form of
Security Agreement
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Form of
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Form of
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THIS NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENT, dated as of December 29,
2006 (this “Agreement”), by and between BERLINER
COMMUNICATIONS, INC. , a Delaware corporation (the
“Company”), with headquarters located at 20 Bushes
Lane, Elmwood Park, New Jersey, 07407, and THOSE INVESTORS SET
FORTH IN SCHEDULE A (each a “Buyer” and together
the “Buyers”).
WHEREAS , each Buyer wishes to purchase from the Company and
the Company wishes to sell to each Buyer, upon the terms and
subject to the conditions of this Agreement, a promissory note of
the Company having the aggregate principal amount set forth on
Schedule A of this Agreement opposite each Buyer’s name
and in connection with which the Company shall issue to each Buyer
warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock (such capitalized term
and all other capitalized terms used in this Agreement having the
meanings provided in Section 1);
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 parties agree as follows:
(a) As
used in this Agreement, the terms “Agreement”,
“Buyer”, “Buyers” and “Company”
shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the
introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
(b) All
the agreements or instruments herein defined shall mean such
agreements or instruments as the same may from time to time be
supplemented or amended or the terms thereof waived or modified to
the extent permitted by, and in accordance with, the terms thereof
and of this Agreement.
(c) The
following terms shall have the following meanings (such meanings to
be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the
terms defined):
“Additional
Financing” shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in Section
7(i) of this Agreement.
“Advisory
Fee” means $100,000 payable in cash and the Additional
Warrant.
“Additional
Warrant” means the warrant in the form of Annex III
hereto.
“Affiliate”
means, with respect to any Person, any other Person that directly,
or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls, is
Controlled by or is under common Control with the subject
Person.
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“Blackout
Period” means the period of up to 25 Trading Days (whether or
not consecutive) during any period of 365 consecutive days after
the date the Company notifies the Investors that they are required,
pursuant to Section 8(c)(4), to suspend offers and sales of
Registrable Securities as a result of an event or circumstance
described in Section 8(b)(5), provided ; however
, that the Blackout Period shall be extended to include any period
beginning upon the Company’s receipt of notice from the SEC
that any amendment to its Registration Statement is being reviewed
and ending on the date that the SEC has cleared such amended
Registration Statement for use by the Investors to conduct resales
of the Registrable Securities if, during such period, the Company
shall promptly respond to all SEC comments and inquiries. The
Company shall be deemed to have promptly responded to all SEC
comments and inquiries if they respond within the time period, if
any, specified by the SEC in any correspondence addressed to the
Company in such matters, without regard to any extension request by
the Company with respect thereto.
“Business
Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on
which commercial banks in The City of New York are authorized or
required by law or executive order to remain closed.
“Charter
Amendment” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 4(d).
“Claims”
means any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses,
including, without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of
legal counsel (joint or several), incurred by a Person.
“Closing
Date” means 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on
December 29, 2006 or such other mutually agreed to
time.
“Code”
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the
regulations thereunder and published interpretations
thereof.
“Common
Stock” means the Common Stock, par value $.00002 per share,
of the Company.
“Common
Stock Equivalent” means any warrant, option, subscription or
purchase right with respect to shares of Common Stock, any security
convertible into, exchangeable for, or otherwise entitling the
holder thereof to acquire, shares of Common Stock or any warrant,
option, subscription or purchase right with respect to any such
convertible, exchangeable or other security.
“Control”
(including, with correlative meaning, the terms “Controlled
by” and “under common Control with”), as used
with respect to any Person, shall mean the possession, directly or
indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the
management and policies of such Person, whether through the
ownership of voting securities or by contract or
otherwise.
“Conversion
Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion of the Notes.
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“Encumbrances”
means all mortgages, deeds of trust, claims, security interests,
liens, pledges, leases, subleases, charges, escrows, options,
proxies, rights of occupancy, rights of first refusal, preemptive
rights, covenants, conditional limitations, hypothecations, prior
assignments, easements, title retention agreements, indentures,
security agreements or any other encumbrances of any
kind.
“ERISA”
means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended, and the regulations thereunder and published
interpretations thereof.
“Event
of Default” shall have the meaning provided in the
Notes.
“Guaranty”
means the Guaranty of BCI Communications, Inc. in the form attached
hereto as Annex VI .
“Indebtedness”
shall have the meaning provided in the Notes.
“Indemnified
Party” means the Company, each of its directors, each of its
officers who signs the Registration Statement, each Person, if any,
who Controls the Company, any underwriter and any other stockholder
selling securities pursuant to the Registration Statement or any of
its directors or officers or any Person who Controls such
stockholder or underwriter.
“Indemnified
Person” means the Buyers and each other Investor who
beneficially owns or holds Registrable Securities and each other
Investor who sells such Registrable Securities in the manner
permitted under this Agreement, the directors, if any, of such
Investor, the officers or persons performing similar functions, if
any, of the Buyers and any such Investor, each Person, if any, who
Controls a Buyer or any such Investor, any underwriter (as defined
in the 1933 Act) acting on behalf of an Investor who participates
in the offering of Registrable Securities of such Investor in
accordance with the plan of distribution contained in the
Prospectus, the directors, if any, of such underwriter and the
officers, if any, of such underwriter, and each Person, if any, who
Controls any such underwriter.
“Inspector”
means any attorney, accountant or other agent retained by an
Investor for the purposes provided in
Section 8(b)(9).
“Intellectual
Property” means all franchises, patents, trademarks, service
marks, tradenames (whether registered or unregistered), copyrights,
corporate names, licenses, trade secrets, proprietary software or
hardware, proprietary technology, technical information,
discoveries, designs and other proprietary rights, whether or not
patentable, and confidential information (including, without
limitation, know-how, processes and technology) created or wholly
owned by the Company and material to the operation and conduct of
the business of the Company or any Subsidiary.
“Investor”
and “Investors” means the Buyer or Buyers, as the case
may be, and any transferee or assignee who agrees to become bound
by the provisions of Sections 5(a), 5(b), 8, 9, and 10 of this
Agreement.
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“Knowledge”
Where any representation or warranty contained in this Agreement is
expressly qualified by reference to the knowledge of the Person,
such reference shall be deemed to mean the actual knowledge or
information of any Person as to the matters that are the subject of
such representations and warranties, or such knowledge which any of
them would have obtained after reasonable inquiry into the matter
concerned. It is agreed between the parties that
“reasonableness” (as used in the foregoing sentence)
shall require that one or more of the Persons with the
responsibility to make an inquiry hereunder discuss the matter at
issue with a manager-level employee who has primary responsibility
for such matter.
“Margin
Stock” shall have the meaning provided in Regulation U
of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (12 C.F.R.
Part 221).
“Market
Price” shall have the meaning to be provided or provided in
the Note.
“Nasdaq”
means the Nasdaq Global Market, Global Select Market or the Nasdaq
Capital Market.
“NASD”
means the National Association of Securities Dealers,
Inc.
“1934
Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
“1933
Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“Notes”
means the Senior Subordinated Secured Convertible Notes of the
Company issued to the Buyers in the form attached as Annex I
.
“Person”
means any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, trust, incorporated organization, unincorporated
association or similar entity or any government, governmental
agency or political subdivision.
“Prospectus”
means the prospectus forming part of the Registration Statement at
the time the Registration Statement is declared effective and any
amendment or supplement thereto (including any information or
documents incorporated therein by reference).
“Purchase
Price” means the purchase price for the Notes set forth on
Schedule A of this Agreement.
“QIB”
means a qualified institutional buyer as defined in
Rule 144A.
“Record”
means all pertinent financial and other records, pertinent
corporate documents and properties of the Company subject to
inspection for the purposes provided in
Section 8(b)(9).
“register,”
“registered,” and “registration” refer to a
registration effected by preparing and filing a Registration
Statement or Statements in compliance with the 1933 Act
and
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pursuant to
Rule 415, and the declaration or ordering of effectiveness of
such Registration Statement by the SEC.
“Registrable
Securities” means (1) the Shares, (2) if the Common
Stock is changed, converted or exchanged by the Company or its
successor, as the case may be, into any other stock or other
securities on or after the date hereof, such other stock or other
securities which are issued or issuable in respect of or in lieu of
the Shares and (3) if any other securities are issued to
holders of the Common Stock (or such other shares or other
securities into which or for which the Common Stock is so changed,
converted or exchanged as described in the immediately preceding
clause (2)) upon any reclassification, share combination, share
subdivision, share dividend, merger, consolidation or similar
transaction or event, such other securities which are issued or
issuable in respect of or in lieu of the Common Stock.
“Registration
Default Period” means the period during which any
Registration Event occurs and is continuing.
“Registration
Event” means the occurrence of any of the following
events:
(i) the Company
fails to file with the SEC the Registration Statement on or before
the date by which the Company is required to file the Registration
Statement pursuant to Section 8(a)(1),
(ii) the
Registration Statement covering Registrable Securities is not
declared effective by the SEC on or before the Required Effective
Date,
(iii) after the
SEC Effective Date, sales cannot be made pursuant to the
Registration Statement (including without limitation by reason of a
stop order of any untrue statement of a material fact or omission
of a material fact in the Registration Statement, or the
Company’s failure to update the Registration Statement) but
except as excused pursuant to Section 8(b)(5), other than
closure of the trading markets for the Common Stock,
(iv) after the
date on which securities of the Company are listed or included for
quotation on a Trading Market, the Common Stock generally or the
Registrable Securities specifically are not listed or included for
quotation on a Trading Market, or trading of the Common Stock is
suspended or halted for a period exceeding 5 days on the
Trading Market which at the time constitutes the principal market
for the Common Stock, or
(v) the Company
fails, refuses or is otherwise unable timely to issue Conversion
Shares upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with the terms of
the Notes or Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrants in
accordance with the terms of the Warrants, or certificates therefor
as required under the Transaction Documents or the Company fails,
refuses or is otherwise unable timely to transfer any Shares as and
when required by the Transaction Documents.
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“Registration
Period” means the period from the SEC Effective Date to the
earlier of (A) the date that is three (3) years after the
Closing Date, (B) such date after which each Investor may sell
all of its Registrable Securities without registration under the
1933 Act pursuant to Rule 144 (k), or (D) the date on
which the Investors beneficially own, in the aggregate, less than
ten percent (10%) of the Registrable Securities.
“Registration
Statement” means a registration statement on Form S-1, Form
SB-2, Form S-3 or such other form as may be available to the
Company to be filed with the SEC under the 1933 Act relating to the
Registrable Securities and which names the Investors as selling
stockholders.
“Regulation D”
means Regulation D under the 1933 Act.
“Repurchase
Event” shall have the meaning to be provided or provided in
the Note.
“Required
Effective Date” means June 15, 2007.
“Required
Information” means, with respect to each Investor, all
information regarding such Investor, the Registrable Securities
held by such Investor or which such Investor has the right to
acquire and the intended method of disposition of the Registrable
Securities held by such Investor or which such Investor has the
right to acquire as shall be required by the 1933 Act to effect the
registration of the resale by such Investor of such Registrable
Securities.
“Rule 144”
means Rule 144 promulgated under the 1933 Act or any other
similar rule or regulation of the SEC that may at any time provide
a “safe harbor” exemption from registration under the
1933 Act so as to permit a holder to sell securities of the Company
to the public without being deemed an “underwriter” for
purposes of the 1933 Act.
“Rule 144A”
means Rule 144A under the 1933 Act or any successor rule
thereto.
“SEC”
means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“SEC
Effective Date” means the date the Registration Statement is
declared effective by the SEC.
“SEC
Filing Date” has the meaning set forth in
Section 8(a).
“SEC
Reports” means the Company’s (1) Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2006,
(2) Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on October 25,
2006, (3) Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
September 30, 2006, (4) Current Reports on Form 8-K filed
with the SEC on October 16, 2006, September 22, 2006,
September 13, 2006, August 4, 2006 and July 26,
2006, and (5) all other periodic and other reports filed by the
Company with the SEC pursuant to the 1934 Act subsequent to
September 30, 2006, and prior to the date hereof, in each case
as filed with the SEC and including the information and documents
(other than exhibits) incorporated therein by reference.
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“Securities”
means, collectively, the Notes, the Shares and the
Warrants.
“Security
Agreement” means the Security Agreement attached hereto as
Annex III.
“Senior
Lender” shall mean Presidential Financial Corporation of
Delaware Valley.
“Shares”
means the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares.
“Sigma”
means Sigma Opportunity Fund, LLC.
“Sigma
Advisors” means Sigma Capital Advisors, LLC, the managing
member of Sigma.
“Subsidiary”
means any corporation or other entity of which a majority of the
capital stock or other ownership interests having ordinary voting
power to elect a majority of the board of directors or other
persons performing similar functions are at the time directly or
indirectly owned by the Company.
“Trading
Day” means at any time a day on which any of a national
securities exchange, Nasdaq, or such other securities market as at
such time constitutes the principal securities market for the
Common Stock is open for general trading of securities.
“Trading
Market” means the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board, the
American Stock Exchange, Inc., the Nasdaq, or the New York Stock
Exchange, Inc.
“Transaction
Documents” means, collectively, this Agreement, the
Securities, the Security Agreement, the Guaranty and the other
agreements, instruments and documents contemplated hereby and
thereby.
(i) any
untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
contained in the Registration Statement or any post-effective
amendment thereof or the omission or alleged omission to state
therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary
to make the statements therein not misleading,
(ii) any
untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
contained in any Prospectus (as amended or supplemented, if the
Company files any amendment thereof or supplement thereto with the
SEC) or the omission or alleged omission to state therein any
material fact necessary to make the statements made therein, in
light of the circumstances under which the statements therein were
made, not misleading,
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(iii) any
violation or alleged violation by the Company of the 1933 Act, the
1934 Act, any state securities law or any rule or regulation under
the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act or any state securities law,
or
(iv) any
breach or alleged breach by any Person other than the Buyers of any
representation, warranty, covenant, agreement or other term of any
of the Transaction Documents.
“Warrants”
means the Common Stock Purchase Warrants in the form attached
hereto as Annex II .
“Warrant
Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issuable upon
exercise of the Warrants and the Additional Warrants.
2. PURCHASE AND SALE; PURCHASE PRICE.
(a) Purchase. Upon the terms and subject to the
conditions of this Agreement, each Buyer hereby agrees to purchase
from the Company, and the Company hereby agrees to sell to each
Buyer, on the Closing Date, a Note in the principal amount set
forth on Schedule A of this Agreement opposite each
Buyer’s name and having the terms and conditions as set forth
in the form of the Note attached hereto as Annex I for the
Purchase Price. In connection with the purchase of the Notes by the
Buyers, the Company shall issue to each Buyer at the closing on the
Closing Date Warrants initially entitling the holder to purchase
one-half of a share of Common Stock for each $1.00 principal amount
of the Note purchased by Buyer.
(b) Form of Payment. Payment by the Buyers of the
Purchase Price to the Company on the Closing Date shall be made by
wire transfer of immediately available funds to:
Interchange
Bank
444 Boulevard
Elmwood Park, NJ 07407
ABA No.: 021205871
For Credit
to:
Berliner Communications, Inc.
20 Bushes Lane
Elmwood Park, New Jersey 07407
Account number:
(c) Closing. The issuance and sale of the Notes and the
issuance of the Warrants and the Additional Warrants shall occur on
the Closing Date at Moomjian, Waite, Wactlar & Coleman, LLP,
100 Jericho Quadrangle, Jericho, New York 11753. At the closing,
upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement,
(1) the Company shall issue and deliver to the Buyers the
Notes and the Warrants and to Sigma Advisors the Additional
Warrants against payment by the Buyers to the Company of an amount
equal to the Purchase Price and (2)
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the Buyers
shall pay to the Company an amount equal to the Purchase Price
against delivery by the Company to the Buyers of the Notes and the
Warrants and to Sigma Advisors of the Additional
Warrants.
3. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, COVENANTS, ETC. OF THE
BUYERS.
Each
Buyer, severally and not jointly, represents and warrants as to
itself to, and covenants and agrees with, the Company as
follows:
(a) Purchase for Investment. The Buyer is purchasing
the Note and acquiring the Warrants for its own account for
investment and not with a view towards the public sale or
distribution thereof within the meaning of the 1933 Act; and in the
event that the Buyer shall acquire any Shares prior to the SEC
Effective Date of a Registration Statement covering the resale of
such Shares, such acquisition by the Buyer shall be for its own
account for investment and not with a view towards the public sale
or distribution thereof within the meaning of the 1933 Act prior to
the SEC Effective Date; and the Buyer has no intention of making
any distribution, within the meaning of the 1933 Act, of the Shares
except in compliance with the registration requirements of the 1933
Act or pursuant to an exemption therefrom;
(b) Accredited Investor. The Buyer is an
“accredited investor” as that term is defined in
Rule 501 of Regulation D under the 1933 Act;
(c) Reoffers and Resales. The Buyer will not, directly
or indirectly, offer, sell, pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose
of (or solicit any offers to buy, purchase or otherwise acquire or
take a pledge of) any of the Securities unless registered under the
1933 Act, pursuant to an exemption from registration under the 1933
Act or in a transaction not requiring registration under the 1933
Act;
(d) Company Reliance. The Buyer understands that
(1) the Note is being offered and sold and the Warrants are
being issued to the Buyer, (2) upon conversion of the Notes,
the Conversion Shares will be issued to the Buyer and (3) upon
exercise of the Warrants, the Warrant Shares will be sold to the
Buyer, in each such case in reliance on one or more exemptions from
the registration requirements of the 1933 Act, including, without
limitation, Regulation D, and exemptions from state securities
laws and that the Company is relying upon the truth and accuracy
of, and the Buyer’s compliance with, the representations,
warranties, agreements, acknowledgments and understandings of the
Buyer set forth herein, in order to determine the availability of
such exemptions and the eligibility of the Buyer to acquire or
receive an offer to acquire the Securities;
(e) Information Provided. The Buyer and its advisors,
if any, have requested, received and considered all information
relating to the business, properties, operations, condition
(financial or other), results of operations or prospects of the
Company and information relating to the offer and sale of the Note
and the Warrants and the offer of the Conversion Shares and the
Warrant Shares deemed relevant by them ( assuming the accuracy and
completeness of the SEC Reports and the Company’s responses
to the Buyer’s requests); the
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Buyer and its
advisors, if any, have been afforded the opportunity to ask
questions of the Company concerning the terms of the offering of
the Securities and the business, properties, operations, condition
(financial or other), results of operations and prospects of the
Company and its Subsidiaries and have received satisfactory answers
to any such inquiries; without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the Buyer has had the opportunity to obtain and to
review the SEC Reports; in connection with its decision to purchase
the Note and to acquire the Warrants, the Buyer has relied
exclusively upon (i) the SEC Reports, (ii) the
representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of the
Company set forth in this Agreement and to be contained in the
other Transaction Documents, as well as any
(iii) investigation of the Company completed by the Buyer or
its advisors; the Buyer understands that its investment in the
Securities involves a high degree of risk; and the Buyer
understands that the offering of the Note, the Warrants and the
Additional Warrants is being made to the Buyer as part of an
offering without any minimum or maximum amount of the offering
(subject, however, to the right of the Company at any time prior to
execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company, in its
sole discretion, to accept or reject an offer by the Buyer to
purchase the Note and to acquire the Warrants or the Additional
Warrants);
(f) Absence of Approvals. The Buyer understands that no
United States federal or state agency or any other government or
governmental agency has passed on or made any recommendation or
endorsement of the Securities;
(g) Note Purchase Agreement. The Buyer has all
requisite power and authority, corporate or otherwise, to execute,
deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement and the
other agreements executed by the Buyer in connection herewith and
to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby; and
this Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, duly executed
and delivered by the Buyer and, assuming due execution and delivery
by the Company, is a valid and binding agreement of the Buyer
enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as the
enforceability hereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar
laws now or hereafter in effect relating to or affecting
creditors’ rights generally and general principles of equity,
regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in
equity or at law; and
(h) Buyer Status. The Buyer is not a
“broker” or “dealer” as those terms are
defined in the 1934 Act nor is it required to be registered with
the SEC pursuant to Section 15 of the 1934 Act.
4. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, COVENANTS, ETC. OF THE
COMPANY.
The
Company represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with,
the Buyers as follows:
(a) Organization and Authority. The Company and each of
the Subsidiaries is a corporation duly organized, validly existing
and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
incorporation, and (i) each of the Company and the
Subsidiaries has all
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requisite
corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its
properties and to carry on its business as described in the SEC
Reports and as currently conducted, and (ii) the Company has
all requisite corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and
perform its obligations under this Agreement and the other
Transaction Documents to be executed and delivered by the Company
in connection herewith, and to consummate the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby. The Company does not have any
equity investment in any other Person other than the Subsidiaries
listed in Schedule 4(a) hereto.
(b) Qualifications. The Company and each of the
Subsidiaries are duly qualified to do business as foreign
corporations and are in good standing in all jurisdictions where
failure so to qualify could have a material adverse effect on the
business, properties, operations, condition (financial or other),
results of operations or prospects of the Company and the
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(c) Capitalization. As of the date hereof, (1) The
authorized capital stock of the Company consists of
(A) 20,000,000 shares of Common Stock, of which 17,035,357
shares are issued and outstanding, and (B) 2,000,000 shares of
Preferred Stock, $.00002 par value, none of which are issued and
outstanding. Schedule 4(c) hereto discloses all
outstanding options or warrants for the purchase of, or rights to
purchase or subscribe for, or securities convertible into,
exchangeable for, or otherwise entitling the holder to acquire,
Common Stock or other capital stock of the Company, or any
contracts or commitments to issue or sell Common Stock or other
capital stock of the Company or any such options, warrants, rights
or other securities.
(2) The
Company has duly reserved from its authorized and unissued shares
of Common Stock the full number of shares required for (A) all
options, warrants, convertible securities, exchangeable securities,
and other rights to acquire shares of Common Stock which are
outstanding and (B) all shares of Common Stock and options and
other rights to acquire shares of Common Stock which may be issued
or granted under the stock option and similar plans which have been
adopted by the Company or any Subsidiary; and, immediately
following the Closing Date, after giving effect to any antidilution
or similar adjustment arising by reason of issuance of the Notes,
the Warrants and the Additional Warrants, the total number of
shares of Common Stock reserved and required to be reserved from
the authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock for purposes of
all such options, warrants, convertible securities, other rights,
and stock option and similar plans (excluding the Notes, the
Warrants and the Additional Warrants) will be 2,872,956. Each
outstanding class or series of securities of the Company for which
any such antidilution adjustment will occur is identified on
Schedule 4(c) attached hereto, together with the amount
of such antidilution adjustment for each such class or series. The
outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company and outstanding
options, warrants, rights, and other securities entitling the
holders to purchase or otherwise acquire Common Stock have been
duly and validly authorized and issued. None of the outstanding
shares of Common Stock or options, warrants, rights, or other such
securities has been issued in violation of the preemptive rights of
any securityholder of the Company. The offers and sales of the
outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company and options,
warrants, rights, and other securities were at all relevant times
either registered under the 1933 Act and applicable state
securities laws or exempt from such requirements. Except for as set
forth on Schedule 4(c) attached hereto, no holder of
any of the Company’s securities has any rights,
“demand,” “piggy-back” or
otherwise,
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to have such
securities registered by reason of the intention to file, filing or
effectiveness of the Registration Statement.
(d) Concerning the Shares and the Common Stock. Upon
the approval of the Company’s stockholders of an amendment to
the Company’s certificate of incorporation to increase the
number of shares of authorized common stock from twenty million
(20,000,000) shares to 100,000,000 shares (the “Charter
Amendment”), the Shares will be duly authorized and the
Conversion Shares, when issued upon conversion of the Notes, and
the Warrant Shares, when issued upon exercise of the Warrants and
the Additional Warrants, will be duly and validly issued, fully
paid and non-assessable and will not subject the holder thereof to
personal liability solely by reason of being such holder. There are
no preemptive or similar rights of any stockholder of the Company
or any other Person to acquire any of the Shares or the Warrants.
Upon approval of the Charter Amendment, the Company will duly
reserve 4,377,273 shares of Common Stock (subject to antidilution
adjustment and adjustment for stock splits, combinations, and the
like) for issuance upon conversion of the Notes and exercise of the
Warrants, and such shares shall remain so reserved, and the Company
shall from time to time reserve such additional shares of Common
Stock as shall be required to be reserved pursuant to the Notes and
Warrants and the Additional Warrants, so long as the Notes and
Warrants and the Additional Warrants are outstanding. The Company
will effect the Charter Amendment on or before the SEC Filing Date.
The Common Stock is currently traded on the National Association of
Securities Dealers Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board, and the Company
knows of no reason that the Shares would be ineligible for
continued quotation on such Trading Market in the reasonably
foreseeable future.
(e) Corporate Authorization. This Agreement and the
other Transaction Documents to which the Company is or will be a
party have been duly and validly authorized by the Company; this
Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and,
assuming due execution and delivery by each Buyer, this Agreement
is, and the Notes, the Warrants and the Additional Warrants, and
the other Transaction Documents, will be when executed and
delivered by the Company, valid and binding obligations of the
Company enforceable in accordance with their respective terms,
except as the enforceability hereof or thereof may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar
laws now or hereafter in effect relating to or affecting
creditors’ rights generally and general principles of equity,
regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in
equity or at law.
(f) Non-contravention. The execution and delivery of
the Transaction Documents by the Company and any Subsidiary and the
consummation by the Company of the issuance of the Securities as
contemplated by this Agreement and consummation by the Company any
Subsidiary of the other transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents do not and will not, with or without the
giving of notice or the lapse of time, or both, (i) result in
any violation of any term or provision of the certificate of
incorporation (including all certificates of designation) or bylaws
of the Company or any Subsidiary, (ii) conflict with or result
in a breach by the Company or any Subsidiary of any of the terms or
provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the
modification of, or result in the creation or imposition of any
lien, security interest, charge or encumbrance upon any of the
properties or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary pursuant to,
or affect the validity or enforceability of or the ability of
the
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Company or any
Subsidiary to perform its obligations under the Transaction
Documents pursuant to, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or
other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any
Subsidiary is a party or by which the Company or any Subsidiary or
any of their respective properties or assets are bound or affected,
(iii) violate or contravene any applicable law, rule or
regulation or any applicable decree, judgment or order of any
court, United States federal or state regulatory body,
administrative agency or other governmental body having
jurisdiction over the Company or any Subsidiary or any of their
respective properties or assets, in any such case which would be
reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the
business, properties, operations, condition (financial or other),
results of operations or prospects of the Company and the
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or the validity or enforceability
of, or the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under,
the Transaction Documents, or (iv) have any material adverse
effect on any permit, certification, registration, approval,
consent, license or franchise necessary for the Company or any
Subsidiary to own or lease and operate any of its properties and to
conduct any of its business or the ability of the Company or any
Subsidiary to make use thereof.
(g) Approvals, Filings, Etc. No authorization, approval
or consent of, or filing with, any United States or foreign court,
governmental body, regulatory agency, self-regulatory organization,
or stock exchange or market, or the stockholders of the Company, or
any other Person, is required to be obtained or made by the Company
or any Subsidiary for (x) the execution, delivery and
performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents,
(y) the issuance and sale of the Securities as contemplated by
this Agreement and the terms of the Notes, the Warrants and the
Additional Warrants and (z) the performance by the Company of
its obligations under the Transaction Documents, other than
(1) registration of the resale of the Shares under the 1933
Act as contemplated by Section 8, (2) as may be required
under applicable state securities or “blue sky” laws,
(3) filing of one or more Forms D with respect to the
Securities as required under Regulation D, (4) as may be
required in connection with the Charter Amendment, and (5) the
approval of the Senior Lender (which has been received prior to
Closing).
(h) Information Provided. The SEC Reports, the
Transaction Documents and the instruments delivered by the Company
to the Buyers in connection with the closing on the Closing Date do
not and will not on the date of execution and delivery of this
Agreement nor on the Closing Date contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order
to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances
under which they are made, not misleading, it being understood that
for purposes of this Section 4(h), any statement contained in
such information shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for
purposes of this Section 4(h) to the extent that a statement in any
document included in such information which was prepared and
furnished to the Buyers on a later date or filed with the SEC on a
later date modifies or replaces such statement, whether or not such
later prepared or filed statement so states.
(i) Conduct of Business. Except as set forth on
Schedule 4(i) , since June 30, 2006, neither the
Company nor any Subsidiary has (i) incurred any material
obligation or liability (absolute or contingent) other than in the
ordinary course of business; (ii) canceled, without payment in
full, any material notes, loans or other obligations receivable or
other debts
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or claims held
by it other than in the ordinary course of business;
(iii) sold, assigned, transferred, abandoned, mortgaged,
pledged or subjected to lien any of its material properties,
tangible or intangible, or rights under any material contract,
permit, license, franchise or other agreement; (iv) conducted
its business in a manner materially different from its business as
conducted on such date; (v) declared, made or paid or set aside for
payment any cash or non-cash distribution on any shares of its
capital stock; or (vi) consummated, or entered into any
agreement with respect to, any transaction or event which would
constitute a Repurchase Event. The Company and each Subsidiary
owns, possesses or has obtained all governmental, administrative
and third party licenses, permits, certificates, registrations,
approvals, consents and other authorizations necessary to own or
lease (as the case may be) and operate its properties, whether
tangible or intangible, and to conduct its business or operations
as currently conducted, except such licenses, permits,
certificates, registrations, approvals, consents and authorizations
the failure of which to obtain would not have a material adverse
effect on the business, properties, operations, condition
(financial or other), results of operations or prospects of the
Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(j) SEC Filings. For the preceding twelve months, the
Company has timely filed all reports required to be filed under the
1934 Act and any other material reports or documents required to be
filed with the SEC.
(k) Absence of Certain Proceedings. Other than as set forth
in Schedule 4(k), t here is no action, suit, proceeding,
inquiry or investigation before or by any court, public board or
body or governmental agency pending or, to the knowledge of the
Company or any Subsidiary, threatened against or affecting the
Company or any Subsidiary, in any such case wherein an unfavorable
decision, ruling or finding would have a material adverse effect on
the business, properties, operations, condition (financial or
other), results of operations or prospects of the Company and the
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or the transactions contemplated by
the Transaction Documents or which could adversely affect the
validity or enforceability of, or the authority or ability of the
Company to perform its obligations under, the Transaction
Documents; the Company does not have pending before the SEC any
request for confidential treatment of information and, to the best
of the Company’s knowledge, no such request will be made by
the Company prior to the SEC Effective Date; and to the best of the
Company’s knowledge there is not pending or contemplated any,
and there has been no, investigation by the SEC involving the
Company or any current or former director or officer of the
Company.
(l) Financial Statements; Liabilities. The financial
statements included in the SEC Reports present fairly the financial
position, results of operations and cash flows of the Company and
the Subsidiaries, at the dates and for the periods covered thereby,
have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods
covered thereby, and include all adjustments (consisting only of
normal recurring adjustments) necessary to present fairly the
financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the
Company and the Subsidiaries at the dates and for the periods
covered thereby. Except as and to the extent disclosed, reflected
or reserved against in the financial statements of the Company and
the notes thereto included in the SEC Reports, neither the Company
nor any Subsidiary has any liability, debt or obligation, whether
accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise, and whether due or to
become due which, individually or in the
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aggregate, are
material to the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
Since June 30, 2006, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary
has incurred any liability, debt or obligation of any nature
whatsoever which, individually or in the aggregate are material to
the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, other than
those incurred in the ordinary course of their respective
businesses. A detailed description and the amount of the
Indebtedness of the Company and Subsidiaries that will be
outstanding on the Closing Date appear on Schedule 4(l)
attached hereto.
(m) Material Losses. Since June 30, 2006, neither
the Company nor any Subsidiary has sustained any loss or
interference with its business or properties from fire, flood,
hurricane, accident or other calamity, whether or not covered by
insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental
action, order or decree, which loss or interference could be
material to the business, properties, operations, condition
(financial or other), results of operations or prospects of the
Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(n) Absence of Certain Changes. Since June 30,
2006, there has been no material adverse change and no material
adverse development in the business, properties, operations,
condition (financial or other), results of operations or prospects
of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. The Company
has not received any notice that any customer intends, and to its
knowledge no customer intends, to cease doing business with the
Company or decrease in any material respect the amount of business
that it does with the Company. Since June 30, 2006, the
Company has not (i) declared or paid any dividends,
(ii) sold any assets outside of the ordinary course of
business consistent with past practice, (iii) had capital
expenditures outside of the ordinary course of business consistent
with past practice, (iv) engaged in any transaction with any
Affiliate in which the amount involved exceed $60,000 except as set
forth in the SEC Reports or (v) engaged in any other transaction
outside of the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice. Except as set forth in Schedule 4(n) ,
neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has 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. The
Company is not as of the date hereof, and after giving effect to
the Additional Financing and the transactions contemplated hereby
to occur on the Closing Date, Insolvent (as defined below). For
purposes of this Section 4(n), “Insolvent” means
(i) the present fair saleable value of the Company’s
assets as a going concern is less than the amount required to pay
the Company’s total indebtedness, contingent or otherwise,
(ii) the Company is unable to pay its debts and liabilities,
subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and
liabilities become absolute and matured, (iii) the Company
intends to incur or believes that it will incur debts that would be
beyond its ability to pay as such debts mature or (iv) the
Company has unreasonably small capital with which to conduct the
business in which it is engaged as such business is now conducted
and is proposed to be conducted.
(o) Intellectual Property. Except as set forth on
Schedule 4(o ): (1) the Company holds all
Intellectual Property, free and clear of all Encumbrances and
restrictions on use or transfer, whether or not recorded, and has
sole title to and ownership of or has the full, exclusive right to
use, for the life of the proprietary right all Intellectual
Property; (2) the use of the Intellectual Property by the
Company or any Subsidiary does not, to the knowledge of
the
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Company after
due inquiry, violate or infringe on the rights of any other Person;
(3) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any
notice of any conflict between the asserted rights of others and
the Company or any Subsidiary with respect to any Intellectual
Property; (4) the Company and the Subsidiaries are in
compliance with all terms and conditions of their agreements
relating to the Intellectual Property; (5) neither the Company
nor any Subsidiary is or has been a defendant in any action, suit,
investigation or proceeding relating to infringement or
misappropriation by the Company or any Subsidiary of any
Intellectual Property; (6) neither the Company nor any
Subsidiary has been notified of any alleged claim of infringement
or misappropriation by the Company or any Subsidiary of any
Intellectual Property; (7) the Company has no knowledge of any
claim of infringement or misappropriation by the Company or any
Subsidiary of any Intellectual Property; (8) to the knowledge
(after due inquiry) of the Company, none of the products the
Company and the Subsidiaries are researching, developing, propose
to research and develop, make, have made, use, or sell, infringes
or misappropriates any Intellectual Property right of any third
party; (9) none of the trademarks and service marks used by
the Company or any Subsidiary, to the knowledge of the Company
after due inquiry, infringes the trademark or service mark rights
of any third party; (10) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has
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