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NOTE PURCHASE AND LINE OF CREDIT AGREEMENT

Note Purchase Agreement

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Title: NOTE PURCHASE AND LINE OF CREDIT AGREEMENT
Governing Law: California     Date: 8/25/2005

NOTE PURCHASE AND LINE OF CREDIT AGREEMENT, Parties: cypress semiconductor corporation , sunpower corporation
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Exhibit 10.22

 

AMENDMENT NO. 1

 

TO

 

NOTE PURCHASE AND LINE OF CREDIT AGREEMENT

 

This AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO NOTE PURCHASE AND LINE OF CREDIT AGREEMENT (as amended, restated and otherwise modified from time to time, this “Amendment”) is entered into as of May 25, 2004 and effective as of March 3, 2003 (the “Effective Date”), by and between SUNPOWER CORPORATION a California corporation (“ Company ”) with its principal executive office at 430 Indio Way, Sunnyvale, California 94085 and CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION , a Delaware corporation (“ Purchaser ”).

 

RECITALS

 

WHEREAS , Purchaser and Company are party to that certain Note Purchase and Line of Credit Agreement, dated as of May 30, 2002 (as amended, restated or modified from time to time, the “Agreement”), pursuant to which, among other things: (i) Purchaser agreed to purchase certain unsecured senior convertible promissory notes from Company (each a “ Note ” and collectively the “ Notes ”) under the terms set forth in Section 1 of the Agreement; (ii) Purchaser agreed to provide Company with cash borrowings, capital equipment, lines of credit or guarantees, up to an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $25,000,000 (the “ Maximum Amount ”), as provided in Section 2 of the Agreement; and (iii) Company agreed to issue one or more warrants to purchase equity securities of Company under the terms and conditions set forth in the Agreement.

 

WHEREAS , as of the date hereof, Company has issued nine Notes in favor of Purchaser in an aggregate principal amount of $3,600,000 and pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, Company is no longer able to request borrowings from Purchaser pursuant to Section 1 of the Agreement.

 

WHEREAS , Purchaser has previously extended amounts pursuant to Section 2 of the Agreement pursuant to demand notes (the “ Demand Notes ”), which amounts are in the aggregate, in excess of the Maximum Amount, and now Company and Purchaser desire to amend certain provisions of the Agreement to: (i) increase the Maximum Amount to $30,000,000; (ii) provide for the amendment and restatement of the Demand Notes into a single new note (as amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Line of Credit Note ”) to reflect the increase in the Maximum Amount, and to revise and supplement certain other terms of the Demand Notes; (iii) provide for the issuance of a warrant to purchase common stock of Company relating to the increase in the Maximum Amount and in replacement of any warrants previously issued under the Agreement and no longer outstanding; and (iv) make certain other amendments and modifications to the Agreement to reflect the terms of the lending arrangements between Company and Purchaser.

 

AGREEMENT

 

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, and the representations, covenants and conditions set forth below, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

 

1. Defined Terms . Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings, if any, assigned to such terms in the Agreement.

 


2. Amendment of Agreement . Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, effective as of the Effective Date, the Agreement is amended as follows:

 

(a) Recital B to the Agreement is hereby amended by replacing “$25,000,000” in the third line of the recital with “$30,000,000 (the “ Maximum Principal Amount ).”.

 

(b) Section 1(a) of the Agreement is hereby amended by replacing the words “ Exhibit A ” at the end of the third line, with the language “ Exhibit A-1 ”.

 

(c) Section 2(a) of the Agreement is hereby amended by: (i) deleting the first sentence and replacing it with the following, “In addition to the Notes referred to in Section 1 hereof, Purchaser may in its sole discretion, to the extent requested by Company: (i) provide cash advances to Company; (ii) provide Company with capital equipment for Company’s planned manufacturing facility (“ Capital Equipment ”); (iii) provide Company with a line of credit, on commercially reasonable terms, to purchase Capital Equipment; (iv) provide guarantees to the Company for (A) one or more lines of credit for Company to purchase Capital Equipment or (B) other purposes to be permitted in the sole discretion of the Purchaser; or (v) any combination of the foregoing. Each of the foregoing types of advances (each an “ Advance ” and collectively the “ Advances ”) shall count towards the Maximum Principal Amount and shall be valued at the face or actual amount, including any guarantees, which shall reflect the face amount of the underlying obligations.”; and (ii) deleting the remainder of Section 2(a).

 

(d) Section 2(b) is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

“(b) Line of Credit Note . The Advances referred to it Section 2(a), above, will be made pursuant to a promissory note to be executed by Company in favor of Purchaser in substantially the form of Exhibit A-2 to this Agreement (as amended, restated or modified from time to time, the “ Line of Credit Note ” and taken together with the Notes, the “ Company Notes ”), in an amount not to exceed the Maximum Principal Amount and containing such terms and conditions as more fully set forth in the Line of Credit Note.”

 

(e) Section 2(c) is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

“(c) Advances . Company may request Advances under the Line of Credit Note from time to time in writing. Company may request Advances through the earlier of March 1, 2005 or the occurrence of an Event of Default (as defined in the Line of Credit Note). Advances may be repaid at any time without penalty. Advances made under Section 2(a)(i) and Section 2(a)(ii) may not be repaid and reborrowed, however, Advances under Section 2(a)(iii), (iv) or (v) (except to the extent including a portion under Sections 2(a)(i) or Section 2(a)(ii)) may be repaid reborrowed at such time that the line of credit or the obligation underlying the guarantee is repaid, released and terminated in its entirety. “

 

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(f) A new Section 3 , is hereby added as follows, and the remaining Sections of the Agreement are correspondingly renumbered:

 

“3. Warrant .

 

Company shall issue Purchaser a warrant (the “Warrant”) to purchase Company common stock, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto. As more fully set forth in the Warrant, the Warrant shall be exercisable for that number of shares of Company common stock equal to the quotient obtained by dividing ten percent (10%) of the Maximum Principal Amount by $0.70, with a per share exercise price of $0.07.”

 

(g) Section 5 (as renumbered) is hereby amended to replace any references to “Note” or “Notes”, with references to “Company Notes” and with such grammatical changes as necessary to reflect such amended references.

 

(h) The preamble to Section 6 (as renumbered) is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows: “Purchaser’s obligation to purchase Notes at each Closing and to make any Advance under the Line of Credit Note under this Agreement, is subject to the satisfaction of all of the following conditions, any of which may be waived in whole or in part by the Purchaser:”.

 

(i) Section 6(b) (as renumbered) is hereby amended by replacing the term “Note” at the end of the Section with the language, “Company Note”.

 

(j) Section 6(c) (as renumbered) is hereby amended by: (i) replacing the word “Note” and the beginning of the second line with the following, “Company Note” and (ii) replacing the words “the Note” at the end of the second line with the following language, “each Company Note”.

 

(k) Section 6(d) (as renumbered) is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

 

“(d) Company Notes. Each Company Note being purchased pursuant to this Agreement, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A-1 or Exhibit A-2, respectively, shall have been duly executed and delivered by the Company.”

 

(l) Section 7 (as renumbered) is hereby amended replacing each reference to “Notes” with a reference to “Company Notes” with such grammatical changes as necessary to reflect such amended references.

 

(m) The heading to Exhibit A to the Agreement is hereby amended by replacing the words “Exhibit A” with the language “ Exhibit A-1 .

 

(n) A new Exhibit A-2 , the Line of Credit Note, is hereby added as Exhibit A-2 to the Agreement, in the form attached to this Amendment as Exhibit A .

 

(o) Exhibit B to the Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the form of Warrant attached as Exhibit B to this Amendment.

 

3. Line of Credit Note and Warrant . Concurrently with the execution of this Amendment, Purchaser and Company hereby agree to execute and deliver the Line of Credit Note and Company agrees to execute and deliver the Warrant.

 

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4. Reservation of Rights . Company acknowledges and agrees that neither the execution nor delivery by Purchaser of this Amendment shall be deemed to create a course of dealing or otherwise obligate Purchaser to execute similar amendments under the same or similar circumstances in the future.

 

5. Limited Amendment/Execution . Except as expressly stated herein above, Company and Purchaser intend that the terms and provisions of the Agreement remain unchanged and in full force and effect.

 

6. Miscellaneous .

 

(a) This Amendment shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and thereto and their respective successors and assigns. No third party beneficiaries are intended in connection with this Amendment.

 

(b) This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts together shall constitute but one and the same instrument. Transmission of signatures of any party by facsimile shall for all purposes be deemed the delivery of original, executed counterparts thereof.

 

(c) This Amendment may not be amended except in accordance with the provisions of Section 6(a) of the Agreement.

 

(d) If any term or provision of this Amendment shall be deemed prohibited by or invalid under any applicable law, such provision shall be invalidated without affecting the remaining provisions of this Amendment or the Agreement, respectively.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Amendment to be duly executed and delivered by their proper and duly authorized officers as of the date first written above and effective as of the Effective Date.

 

COMPANY:

SUNPOWER CORPORATION

a California corporation

By:   /s/ Jay Peir
Name:   Jay Peir
Title:   Chief Financial Officer
PURCHASER:
CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
By:   /s/ Neil H. Weiss
Name:   Neil H. Weiss
Title:   Vice President, Treasurer

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

FORM OF LINE OF CREDIT NOTE

 


THIS NOTE AND THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED. THEY MAY NOT BE SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE, PLEDGED OR HYPOTHECATED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AS TO THE SECURITIES UNDER SAID ACT OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO COMPANY THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS’ NOT REQUIRED.

 

SUNPOWER CORPORATION

 

LINE OF CREDIT NOTE

 

This line of credit note (this “Note”) amends and restates in their entirety each of those certain demand notes dated as of March 3, 2003, April 1, 2003, April 23, 2003, June 10, 2003, July 9, 2003, August 7, 2003, September 10, 2003, October 22, 2003 and January 26, 2004, issued by Company (as defined below) in favor of Holder (as defined below). This Note is the “Line of Credit Note” under the Note Purchase Agreement (as defined below) and is effective as of May 30, 2002 (the “Effective Date”).

 


 

$30,000,000   

May 25, 2004

San Jose, California

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, SUNPOWER CORPORATION, a California corporation (“Company”) promises to pay to CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (“Holder”), or its registered assigns, the aggregate principal amount of Thirty Million Dollars ($30,000,000) (the “Maximum Principal Amount”) or such lesser amount outstanding as of the date of payment, together with accrued interest thereon as provided in Section 3 of this Note. The aggregate outstanding principal amount of this Note plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon shall be due and payable on the earlier to occur of the Maturity Date or such time when the Obligations are accelerated in accordance with the terms of this Note following an Event of Default hereunder.

 

The parties hereto may from time to time indicate each Advance on Schedule I to this Note, but which shall not be dispositive evidence as to the outstanding indebtedness hereunder without the written confirmation of Holder.

 

1. Definitions . As used in this Note, the following capitalized terms have the following meanings:

 

(a) “ Advance ” has the meaning given to such term in the Note Purchase Agreement.

 

(b) “ Affiliate ,” with respect to any Person, means (i) any director, officer or employee of such Person, (ii) any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under

 


direct or indirect common control with such Person, and (iii) any Person beneficially owning or holding 5% or more of any class of voting securities of such Person or any corporation of which such Person beneficially owns or holds, in the aggregate, 5% or more of any class of voting securities. The term “control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.

 

(c) “ Event of Default ” has the meaning given to such term in Section 6 hereof.

 

(d) “ Holder ” shall mean the Person specified in the Recitals to this Note or any Person who shall at the time be the registered holder of this Note.

 

(e) “ Lien ” shall mean, with respect to any property, any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, claim, charge or other encumbrance in, of, or on such property or the income therefrom, including, without limitation, the interest of a vendor or lessor under a conditional sale agreement, capital lease or other title retention agreement, or any agreement to provide any of the foregoing, and the filing of any financing statement or similar instrument under the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of California or comparable law of any jurisdiction.

 

(f) “ Note Purchase Agreement ” shall mean the Note Purchase and Line of Credit Agreement, dated May 30, 2002, as amended, modified or, supplemented from time to time, entered into by and between Company and Holder.

 

(g) “ Obligations ” shall mean and include all loans, advances, debts, liabilities and obligations, howsoever arising, owed by Company to Holder of every kind and description (whether or not evidenced by any note or instrument and whether or not for the payment of money), now existing or hereafter arising under or pursuant to the terms of this Note and the Note Purchase Agreement, including all interest, fees, charges, expenses, attorneys’ fees and costs and accountants’ fees and costs chargeable to and payable by Company hereunder and thereunder, in each case, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, and whether or not arising after the commencement of a proceeding under Title 11 of the United States Code (11 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq), as amended from time to time (including post-petition interest) and whether or not allowed or allowable as a claim in any such proceeding.

 

(h) “ Person ” shall mean and include an individual, a partnership, a corporation (including a business trust), a joint stock company, a limited liability company, an unincorporated association, a joint venture or other entity or a governmental authority.

 

(i) “ Senior Indebtedness ” shall mean the principal of (and premium, if any), unpaid interest on and amounts reimbursable, fees, expenses, costs of enforcement and other amounts due in connection with, (i) indebtedness of Company to banks, commercial finance lenders, insurance companies, leasing or equipment financing institutions or other lending institutions regularly engaged in the business of lending money (excluding venture capital, investment banking or similar institutions which sometimes engage in lending activities but which are primarily engaged in investments in equity securities), which is for money borrowed, or purchase or leasing of equipment in the case of lease or other equipment financing, whether or not secured, and (ii) any such

 

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indebtedness or any debentures, notes or other evidence of indebtedness issued in exchange for such Senior Indebtedness, or any indebtedness arising from the satisfaction of such Senior Indebtedness by a guarantor.

 

(j) “ SVB Agreement ” shall mean the Loan and Security Agreement dated as of September 25, 2003, entered into by and between Holder and Silicon Valley Bank.

 

2. Advances . Company may request and Holder shall make an Advance as provided in the Note Purchase Agreement. In no event will Holder be obligated to make any Advance (i) if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and/or (ii) after March 31, 2005 and/or (ii) to the extent the aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Advances would exceed the Maximum Principal Amount.

 

3. Interest .

 

(a) General . Interest shall accrue on the outstanding principal amount of this Note at an annual rate of seven percent simple interest, until the outstanding principal amount of this Note shall be paid in full.

 

(b) Guarantees . Advances constituting guarantees made pursuant to Section 2(a)(iv) of the Note Purchase Agreement shall not bear interest (but shall be considered part of the aggregate principal amount hereof for all other purposes) with respect to a particular guarantee for so long as such guarantee remains undrawn and Holder is not required to make any payment or otherwise advance funds with respect thereto. At such time as Holder is required to make any payment or other advance of funds with respect such guaranty, the entire amount paid or advanced by Holder shall bear interest as provided in Section 3(a), above.

 

4. Payment . From the Effective Date through May 1, 2004, interest will accrue on this Note as provided in Section 3 hereof. Beginning on June 1, 2004 and on the first business day of each month thereafter through May 1, 2007, Company will make payments to Holder of accrued interest on the outstanding aggregate principal amount of this Note (subject to Section 3(b)) for the preceding month, based on a month of thirty-days and a year of twelve thirty-day months. Thereafter, the outstanding principal balance under this Note plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon (subject to Section 3(b)) shall be fully amortized and payable in sixty (60) consecutive equal monthly payments. Each such principal and interest payment shall be payable on the first business day of each month commencing June 2007 with the last payment to be made on the first business day of May 2012.

 

5. Prepayment .

 

(a) General . Upon ten (10) days prior written notice to Holder, Company may prepay this Note in whole or in part without penalty or premium; provided, however, that Company may not make partial prepayments more frequently than once in any given calendar quarter. Any prepayment shall include the interest accumulated since the last payment under the Note on the principal being prepaid. Amounts prepaid may not be reborrowed except as provided in the Note Purchase Agreement.

 

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(b) Optional Prepayment Upon an Equity Financing . If after the Effective Date Company raises in an equity financing gross proceeds in excess of Ten Million Dollars ($ 10,000,000) (excluding therefrom proceeds attributable to the sale of equity to Holder or any of its successors, assigns or Affiliates), then, upon the election of Holder made within ten (10) days of notice by Company to Holder of the closing of such financing, such amount of the outstanding principal balance of this Note as may be determined in the sole discretion of Holder, but not to exceed fifty percent (50%) of the net proceeds received by Company from such equity financing, shall be prepaid within five (5) days after receipt by Company of Holder’s election. As used in this Section 5(b) “net proceeds” means the proceeds received by Company after deducting the fees and costs incurred by Company and paid or payable to investment banking, legal, and accounting professionals in connection with the equity financing.

 

6. Events of Default . The occurrence of any of the following shall constitute an “Event of Default” under this Note:

 

(a) Failure to Pay . Company shall fail to pay when due any principal or interest payment and such payment shall not have been made within five (5) days thereafter;

 

(b) Other Notes . A default or event of default shall occur and be continuing under any other Company Note (as defined in the Note Purchase Agreement);

 

(c) Voluntary Bankruptcy or Insolvency Proceedings . Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall (i) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, liquidator or custodian of itself or of all or a substantial part of its property, (ii) be unable, or admit in writing its inability, to pay its debts generally as they mature, (iii) make a general assignment for the benefit of its or any of its creditors, (iv) be dissolved or liquidated, (v) become insolvent (as such term may be defined or interpreted under any applicable statute), (vi) commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to itself or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession of its property by any official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or (vii) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing;

 

(d) Involuntary Bankruptcy or Insolvency Proceedings . Proceedings for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, liquidator or custodian of Company or any of its Subsidiaries or of all or a substantial part of the property thereof, or an involuntary case or other proceedings seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the debts thereof under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect shall be commenced and an order for relief entered or such proceeding shall not be dismissed or discharged within thirty (30) days of commencement;

 

(e) SVB Agreement Covenant Default . Company causes Holder to default on its SVB Agreement due to violating a covenant in Section 7 of the SVB Agreement; or

 

(f) Acquisition . If (i) Company merges with or into or consolidates with another Person in which Company is not the surviving entity (other than a merger effectuated solely for the

 

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purpose of changing Company’s jurisdiction of formation), (ii) Company sells, exclusively licenses or leases all or substantially all of Company’s assets and properties, or (iii) any other form of corporate reorganization occurs in which the shareholders of Company immediately prior to such corporate reorganization do not own a majority of the outstanding shares of the surviving corporation by virtue of their shares in Company.

 

7. Rights of Holder upon Default . Upon the occurrence or existence of any Event of Default other than described in Section 6(c) or Section 6(d), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such Event of Default, Holder may by written notice to Company, declare all outstanding Obligations payable by Company hereunder to be immediately due. Upon the occurrence or existence of any Event of Default described in Section 6(c) or Section 6(d), immediately and without notice, all outstanding Obligations payable by Company hereunder shall automatically become immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or any other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived, anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding. In addition to the foregoing remedies, upon the occurrence or existence of any Event of Default, Holder may exercise any other right power or remedy granted to it by this Note or otherwise permitted to it by law, either by suit in equity or by action at law, or both.

 

8. No Subordination . Except for Company’s obligations for the Senior Indebtedness (as specifically defined in this Note), to which the indebtedness evidenced by this Note is expressly subo


 
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