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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.
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SUNPOWER CORPORATION
a California corporation
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/s/ Jay Peir |
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Jay
Peir |
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Chief
Financial Officer |
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| PURCHASER: |
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| CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION |
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/s/ Neil H. Weiss |
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Neil H.
Weiss |
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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”).
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May 25, 2004
San Jose,
California
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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
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(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
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(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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