COMMON STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT
COMMON STOCK
PURCHASE AGREEMENT (the "Agreement"), dated as of
July 22,
2008, by and between COMPETITIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., a Delaware
corporation (the
"Company," as
further defined in
Section 10), and FUSION CAPITAL FUND II, LLC,
an Illinois
limited liability company (the "Buyer").
Capitalized terms
used
herein and
not otherwise defined herein are defined in Section 10 hereof.
WHEREAS:
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the
Company wishes
to sell to the Buyer, and the Buyer wishes to buy from
the
Company, up to Five
Million Dollars ($5,000,000) of the Company's common stock,
par value $0.01 per share (the "Common
Stock"). The shares of
Common Stock to
be purchased
hereunder are referred to herein as the "Purchase Shares."
NOW
THEREFORE,
the Company and the Buyer hereby agree as follows:
1.
PURCHASE OF
COMMON STOCK.
Subject to
the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the
Company has the right
to sell to the Buyer, and the Buyer has the obligation to
purchase from
the Company, Purchase Shares as follows:
(a)
Commencement of
Purchases of Common
Stock. The purchase
and sale
of Purchase Shares
hereunder shall occur from time to time upon written notices
by the Company to the Buyer on the terms and conditions
as set forth herein
following the
satisfaction of the
conditions (the "Commencement") as set forth
in Sections
6 and 7 below (the date of satisfaction of such
conditions, the
"Commencement
Date").
(b)
The
Company's Right to Require Purchases. Any time on or after the
Commencement Date,
the Company shall have the right but
not the obligation to
direct the Buyer by its delivery to the Buyer of Base Purchase
Notices from time
to time to buy Purchase Shares (each such
purchase a "Base Purchase") in any
amount up to Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) per Base
Purchase Notice (the
"Base Purchase Amount") at the Purchase Price on the Purchase Date.
The Company
may deliver
multiple Base Purchase Notices to the Buyer so long as at
least
three (3) Business Days have passed since the most recent Base
Purchase was
completed.
Notwithstanding the
forgoing, any time on or after the Commencement
Date, the Company shall also have the right but not the obligation by
its
delivery to the Buyer
of Block Purchase Notices from time to time to direct the
Buyer to buy Purchase Shares (each such purchase a "Block
Purchase") in any
amount up to One Million Dollars
($1,000,000) per Block Purchase Notice at the
Block Purchase
Price on the Purchase Date as provided herein.
For a Block
Purchase Notice to be
valid the following conditions must be met: (1) the Block
Purchase Amount
shall not exceed One Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($100,000) per
Block Purchase
Notice, (2) the
Company must deliver the Purchase Shares before
11:00 a.m.
eastern time on the Purchase Date and (3) the Sale
Price of the
Common Stock
must not be below $3.00 (subject to
equitable adjustment for any
reorganization,
recapitalization,
non-cash dividend,
stock split or other
similar transaction)
during the Purchase
Date, the date of the delivery of the
Block Purchase
Notice and during the
Business Day prior to the delivery of the
Block Purchase Notice.
The Block Purchase
Amount may be increased to up to Two
Hundred Fifty Thousand
Dollars ($250,000) per Block Purchase Notice if the Sale
Price of the Common Stock is not below $6.00
(subject to equitable adjustment
for any reorganization, recapitalization, non-cash dividend, stock split or
other similar transaction) during the Purchase Date, the date of
the delivery of
the Block
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Purchase Notice
and during the
Business Day prior to the delivery of the Block
Purchase Notice.
The Block Purchase Amount may be increased to up to Five
Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($500,000) per Block Purchase Notice if the Sale Price
of the Common Stock is not below $10.00 (subject to equitable
adjustment for any
reorganization,
recapitalization,
non-cash dividend,
stock split or other
similar transaction)
during the Purchase
Date, the date of the delivery of the
Block Purchase
Notice and during the
Business Day prior to the delivery of the
Block Purchase Notice.
The Block Purchase
Amount may be increased to up to One
Million Dollars
($1,000,000) per Block Purchase Notice if the Sale Price of the
Common Stock
is not below $15.00 (subject to equitable adjustment for
any
reorganization,
recapitalization,
non-cash dividend,
stock split or other
similar transaction)
during the Purchase
Date, the date of the delivery of the
Block Purchase
Notice and during the
Business Day prior to the delivery of the
Block Purchase
Notice. As used herein, the term "Block
Purchase Price" shall
mean the lesser of (i) the lowest Sale Price of the Common Stock on
the Purchase
Date or (ii) the lowest Purchase Price during the
previous ten (10) Business
Days prior to the date
that the valid Block Purchase Notice was received by the
Buyer. However,
if at any time during the Purchase Date, the date of the
delivery of
the Block Purchase Notice or during
the Business Day prior to the
delivery of
the Block Purchase Notice, the Sale Price of
the Common Stock is
below the applicable Block Purchase
threshold price, such Block Purchase shall
be void and the Buyer's obligations to buy
Purchase Shares in respect of that
Block Purchase Notice
shall be terminated.
Thereafter, the Company shall again
have the right to submit a Block Purchase Notice as set forth
herein by delivery
of a new Block Purchase Notice only if the Sale
Price of the Common Stock is
above the applicable Block Purchase threshold price during the date of the
delivery of
the Block Purchase
Notice and during the Business Day prior to the
delivery of
the Block Purchase
Notice. The Company
may deliver multiple Block
Purchase Notices
to the Buyer so long as at least two (2)
Business Days have
passed since
the most recent Block Purchase was completed.
(c)
Payment for Purchase Shares. The Buyer shall pay to the Company
an
amount equal to the Purchase Amount with respect to such Purchase
Shares as full
payment for
such Purchase Shares via wire transfer of immediately
available
funds on the same Business Day that the
Buyer receives such Purchase Shares if
they are received by
the Buyer before 11:00 a.m. eastern time or if received by
the Buyer after 11:00 a.m. eastern time, the next
Business Day. The
Company
shall not issue any fraction of a share of
Common Stock upon any purchase. If
the issuance
would result in the issuance of a fraction of a
share of Common
Stock, the
Company shall round such fraction of a
share of Common Stock up or
down to the nearest whole share.
All payments made
under this Agreement shall
be made in lawful money of the United States of America or
wire transfer of
immediately available funds to such account as the Company may from
time to time
designate by written notice in accordance with the provisions of
this Agreement.
Whenever any amount expressed to be due by the terms of this
Agreement is due on
any day that is not a Business Day, the same
shall instead be due on the next
succeeding day
that is a Business Day.
(d)
Purchase Price
Floor. The Company and the Buyer shall
not effect
any sales under this Agreement on any Purchase Date where the
Purchase Price for
any purchases
of Purchase Shares would be less than
the Floor Price.
"Floor
Price" means
$1.00, which shall be appropriately adjusted for any
reorganization,
recapitalization,
non-cash dividend,
stock split or other
similar
transaction.
(e)
Records of
Purchases.
The Buyer and the Company shall each
maintain records showing the remaining Available Amount at any give
time and the
dates and Purchase Amounts for each purchase or shall use
such other method,
reasonably
satisfactory to
the Buyer and the Company.
(f)
Taxes. The
Company shall pay any and all transfer, stamp or
similar taxes
that may be payable
with respect to the issuance and delivery of
any shares
of Common Stock to the Buyer made under this Agreement.
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(g)
Compliance
with Principal Market Rules. The
Company shall not effect
any sale under this Agreement and the Buyer shall not have the
right or the
obligation to purchase shares of Common Stock under this Agreement
to the extent
that after giving
effect to such purchase the "Exchange Cap" shall be deemed to
be reached.
The "Exchange Cap"
shall be deemed to have been reached if, at any
time prior
to the shareholders of the Company approving the transaction
contemplated by
this Agreement, upon a purchase under this Agreement, the
Purchase Shares and
Commitment Shares issuable pursuant to such purchase would,
together with all
Purchase Shares and Commitment Shares previously issued under
this Agreement, exceed 1,635,156 shares of Common Stock (19.99% of
the 8,179,872
outstanding shares
of Common Stock as of the date of this Agreement).
The
Company may,
but shall be under no obligation to,
request its shareholders to
approve the transaction contemplated by this Agreement. The Company
shall not be
required to
issue any shares of Common Stock under this Agreement if
such
issuance would
breach the Company's
obligations under the rules or regulations
of the Principal Market.
2.
BUYER'S
REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES.
The
Buyer represents and warrants to the Company that as of the date
hereof
and as of the Commencement Date:
(a)
Investment Purpose.
The Buyer is entering
into this Agreement and
acquiring the
Commitment
Shares, (as defined in Section 4(e)
hereof) and the
Purchase Shares
(collectively referred
to herein as the "Securities"), for its
own account
for investment only and not with a
view towards, or for resale in
connection with,
the public sale or
distribution thereof; provided however, by
making the
representations
herein, the Buyer does not agree to hold any of the
Securities for
any minimum or other specific term other than
as set forth in
Section 4(e)
with respect to the Commitment Shares.
(b)
Accredited Investor
Status. The Buyer is
an "accredited investor"
as that term is defined in Rule 501(a)(3) of Regulation D.
(c)
Reliance on
Exemptions. The Buyer
understands that the Securities
are being offered and sold to it in reliance on specific
exemptions from the
registration requirements of United States federal and state
securities laws and
that the Company is relying in part 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
the Securities.
(d)
Information. The
Buyer has been furnished with all materials
relating to
the business, finances
and operations of the Company and materials
relating to
the offer and sale of the Securities that have been
reasonably
requested by
the Buyer, including, without limitation, the
SEC Documents (as
defined in
Section 3(f) hereof).
The Buyer understands
that its investment in
the Securities
involves a high degree of risk.
The Buyer (i) is able
to bear
the economic
risk of an investment in the Securities
including a total loss,
(ii) has such knowledge and experience in financial and business
matters that it
is capable of
evaluating the merits and risks of the proposed investment in
the
Securities and
(iii) has had an opportunity to ask questions of
and receive
answers from the
officers of the Company concerning the financial condition and
business of
the Company and others matters related to an investment
in the
Securities. Neither
such inquiries nor any other due
diligence investigations
conducted by the Buyer
or its representatives shall modify, amend or affect the
Buyer's right to rely
on the Company's representations and warranties contained
in Section
3 below. The Buyer has sought such accounting,
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legal and tax advice as it has considered necessary to make an informed
investment decision
with respect to its acquisition of the Securities.
(e) No Governmental Review. 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 or the
fairness or
suitability
of the investment in the Securities nor have such
authorities passed
upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the
Securities.
(f)
Transfer or Sale. The
Buyer understands that except as provided in
the Registration
Rights Agreement (as
defined in Section 4(a) hereof): (i) the
Securities have not
been and are not being registered under the 1933 Act or any
state securities
laws, and may not be offered for sale, sold, assigned
or
transferred unless
(A) subsequently registered thereunder
or (B) an exemption
exists permitting
such Securities to be sold, assigned or
transferred without
such registration;
(ii) any sale of the Securities made in reliance on Rule 144
may be made only in accordance with the
terms of Rule 144 and further, if Rule
144 is not applicable, any resale of the Securities under circumstances
in
which the seller (or
the person through whom the sale is made) may be deemed to
be an underwriter (as that term is defined in the 1933 Act) may require
compliance with
some other exemption under the 1933 Act or the rules and
regulations of
the SEC thereunder;
and (iii) neither the Company nor any other
person is under any
obligation to register the Securities under the 1933 Act or
any state securities laws or to comply with the terms and
conditions of any
exemption
thereunder.
(g)
Validity; Enforcement.
This Agreement has been duly and validly
authorized, executed
and delivered on behalf of the Buyer and is a
valid and
binding agreement of
the Buyer enforceable against the Buyer in accordance with
its terms,
subject as to
enforceability to general principles of equity and to
applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium, liquidation and
other similar
laws relating to, or affecting generally, the
enforcement of
applicable creditors'
rights and remedies.
(h)
Residency. The
Buyer is a resident of the State of Illinois.
(i)
No
Prior Short Selling. The Buyer represents and warrants
to the
Company that
at no time prior to the date of this Agreement has
any of the
Buyer, its agents,
representatives or affiliates engaged in or effected, in any
manner whatsoever, directly or indirectly, any (i) "short sale" (as
such term is
defined in
Section 242.200 of
Regulation SHO of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (the "1934 Act")) of the Common Stock or (ii) hedging
transaction, which
establishes a net
short position with respect to the Common
Stock.
3.
REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
OF THE COMPANY.
The
Company represents and warrants to the Buyer that as of the date
hereof
and as of the Commencement Date:
(a)
Organization and Qualification. The Company and its
"Subsidiaries"
(which for
purposes of this Agreement means any entity in
which the Company,
directly or indirectly, owns 50% or more of the voting stock or
capital stock or
other similar
equity interests) are corporations duly organized and
validly
existing in
good standing under
the laws of the jurisdiction in which they are
incorporated, and have
the requisite corporate power and authority to own their
properties and
to carry on their
business as now being conducted. Each of the
Company and
its Subsidiaries is duly qualified as
a foreign corporation to do
business and is in good standing in every jurisdiction in which its
ownership of
property or the nature
of the business conducted by it makes such qualification
necessary, except
to the extent that
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the failure
to be so qualified or be in good
standing could not reasonably be
expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect. As used in this Agreement,
"Material Adverse
Effect" means any
material adverse effect on any of: (i) the
business, properties,
assets, operations, results of operations or
financial
condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries, if any, taken as a
whole, or (ii)
the authority
or ability of the Company to perform its
obligations under the
Transaction Documents
(as defined in Section
3(b) hereof). The
Company has no
Subsidiaries except
as set forth on Schedule 3(a).
(b)
Authorization;
Enforcement; Validity.
(i) The Company has the
requisite corporate
power and authority to enter into and perform its
obligations under this Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement
and each of
the other agreements entered into by the parties on the
Commencement Date and
attached hereto
as exhibits to this Agreement
(collectively, the "Transaction
Documents"), and to issue the Securities in accordance with the
terms hereof and
thereof, (ii)
the execution and delivery of the Transaction
Documents by the
Company and
the consummation by it
of the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby, including without limitation, the issuance of the
Commitment Shares and
the reservation for
issuance and the issuance of the Purchase Shares (up to the
Exchange Cap)
issuable under this Agreement, have been
duly authorized by the
Company's Board of Directors and no further consent or
authorization is required
by the Company, its Board of Directors or its shareholders, (iii)
this Agreement
has been, and each other Transaction Document shall be on the
Commencement Date,
duly executed and
delivered by the Company and (iv) this Agreement constitutes,
and each other Transaction Document upon its execution on behalf of
the Company,
shall constitute,
the valid and binding
obligations of the Company enforceable
against the
Company in accordance with their terms, except as such
enforceability may
be limited by general principles of equity or
applicable
bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or similar
laws
relating to,
or affecting generally, the
enforcement of creditors' rights and
remedies. The
Board of Directors of the Company has
approved the resolutions
(the "Signing
Resolutions")
substantially in the
form as set forth as Exhibit
C-1 attached
hereto to authorize this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated hereby.
The Signing Resolutions are valid, in full force and
effect and
have not been modified
or supplemented in any respect other than by
the resolutions
set forth in Exhibit C-2 attached hereto regarding the
registration statement
referred to in Section 4 hereof. The Company has
delivered to
the Buyer a true and correct copy of a
unanimous written consent
adopting the Signing
Resolutions executed by all of the members of the Board of
Directors of the Company. No other approvals or consents of
the Company's Board
of Directors
and/or shareholders is necessary under applicable laws
and the
Company's Certificate
of Incorporation and/or Bylaws to authorize the execution
and delivery
of this Agreement or
any of the transactions contemplated hereby,
including, but
not limited to, the issuance of the Commitment
Shares and the
issuance of
the Purchase Shares up to the Exchange Cap.
(c)
Capitalization. As
of the date hereof, the authorized capital
stock of the Company consists of (i) 20,000,000 shares of Common
Stock, of which
as of the date hereof, 8,179,872 shares are
issued and outstanding, none are
held as treasury shares, 806,325 shares are reserved for
issuance pursuant to
the Company's
stock option plans of which only approximately
182,000 shares
remain available for future grants and no other shares are issuable
and reserved
for issuance pursuant to securities (other than stock options
issued pursuant to
the Company's
stock option plans) exercisable or exchangeable for, or
convertible into,
shares of Common Stock and (ii) 35,920
shares of
Preferred
Stock, $25.00
par value of which as of the date hereof 2,427 shares are
issued and
outstanding.
All of such outstanding shares have been, or upon
issuance will
be, validly issued and
are fully paid and nonassessable. Except
as disclosed in
Schedule 3(c), (i) no shares of the Company's capital stock are
subject to
preemptive
rights or any other similar rights or any liens or
encumbrances suffered or permitted by the Company, (ii) there are
no outstanding
debt securities, (iii) there are no outstanding options, warrants,
scrip, rights
to subscribe
to, calls or
commitments of any character whatsoever relating to,
or securities
or rights convertible into, any shares of
capital stock of the
Company or
any of its Subsidiaries,
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or contracts,
commitments,
understandings or arrangements by which the Company
or any of its
Subsidiaries is or may become bound to issue additional shares
of
capital stock
of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or options, warrants,
scrip, rights to
subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever
relating to,
or securities or rights convertible into, any
shares of capital
stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iv) there are no
agreements or
arrangements under
which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is obligated to
register the
sale of any of their securities under the 1933
Act (except the
Registration Rights
Agreement),
(v) there are no outstanding securities or
instruments of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which contain any
redemption or
similar provisions, and there are no contracts, commitments,
understandings or
arrangements by which
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
is or may become bound to redeem a security of the Company or any of
its
Subsidiaries, (vi)
there are no securities or instruments containing
anti-dilution or
similar provisions that will be triggered
by the issuance of
the Securities
as described in this Agreement and (vii) the
Company does not
have any stock appreciation rights or "phantom stock" plans or
agreements or any
similar plan
or agreement. The Company has furnished to the Buyer true
and
correct copies of the
Company's Certificate of Incorporation, as amended and as
in effect on the date hereof (the "Certificate of
Incorporation"), and the
Company's By-laws,
as amended and as in effect on the date hereof (the
"By-laws"), and
summaries of the terms of all securities
convertible into or
exercisable for Common Stock, if any, and copies of any documents
containing the
material rights
of the holders thereof in respect thereto.
(d)
Issuance of
Securities.
The Commitment Shares have been duly
authorized and,
upon issuance in accordance with the terms hereof, the
Commitment Shares shall be (i) validly issued, fully paid and
non-assessable and
(ii) free from all taxes, liens and charges
with respect to the issue thereof.
1,500,000 shares
of Common Stock have been duly authorized and
reserved for
issuance upon
purchase under this Agreement. 42,187 shares of Common Stock
(subject to
equitable adjustment for any reorganization,
recapitalization,
non-cash dividend,
stock split or other similar transaction) have
been duly
authorized and
reserved for issuance as Additional Commitment Shares in
accordance with
Section 4(e) this Agreement. Upon issuance and payment therefor
in accordance
with the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
the Purchase
Shares shall
be validly issued,
fully paid and nonassessable and free from all
taxes, liens
and charges with respect to the issue thereof,
with the holders
being entitled
to all rights accorded to a holder of Common Stock.
(e)
No
Conflicts. Except as
disclosed in Schedule 3(e), the execution,
delivery and
performance
of the Transaction Documents by the
Company and the
consummation by the
Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby
(including, without limitation, the reservation for issuance and
issuance of the
Purchase Shares
up to the Exchange Cap) will not (i)
result in a violation of
the Certificate
of Incorporation, any
Certificate of Designations, Preferences
and Rights
of any outstanding series of
preferred stock of the Company or the
By-laws or
(ii) conflict with, or
constitute a default (or an event which with
notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or
give to others
any rights
of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any
agreement, indenture
or instrument to which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is a
party, or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation,
order, judgment
or decree (including federal and state securities laws and
regulations and the
rules and regulations of the Principal Market applicable to
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) or by which any property or
asset of the
Company or
any of its
Subsidiaries is bound or affected, except in the case of
conflicts, defaults,
terminations, amendments, accelerations, cancellations and
violations under
clause (ii), which
could not reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect. Except as disclosed in Schedule
3(e), neither the
Company nor its
Subsidiaries is in violation of any term of or in default under
its Certificate
of Incorporation, any Certificate of
Designation, Preferences
and Rights
of any outstanding series of preferred stock of the Company
or
By-laws or
their organizational charter or by-laws, respectively.
Except as
disclosed in
Schedule 3(e), neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is
in violation
of any term of or is in default under any material
contract,
agreement,
mortgage,
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indebtedness,
indenture, instrument,
judgment, decree or order or any statute,
rule or regulation applicable to the Company or its
Subsidiaries, except for
possible conflicts,
defaults, terminations or amendments which could not
reasonably be
expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect. The business of the
Company and its Subsidiaries is not being conducted, and shall not
be conducted,
in violation
of any law, ordinance, regulation of any governmental
entity,
except for
possible violations,
the sanctions for which either individually or
in the aggregate could not reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse
Effect. Except
as specifically contemplated by this
Agreement and as required
under the 1933 Act or applicable state securities laws, the Company
is not
required to obtain any consent, authorization or order of, or make
any filing or
registration with,
any court or governmental agency or any regulatory or
self-regulatory agency in order for it to execute, deliver or
perform any of its
obligations under
or contemplated by the Transaction Documents in
accordance
with the terms hereof or thereof. Except as disclosed in Schedule
3(e), all
consents, authorizations, orders, filings and registrations which
the Company is
required to
obtain pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be
obtained or
effected on
or prior to the Commencement Date.
Except as listed in
Schedule
3(e), since
January 1, 2007, the Company has not received nor
delivered any
notices or correspondence from or to the Principal Market.
The Principal
Market
has not commenced any delisting proceedings against the Company.
(f)
SEC
Documents;
Financial Statements. Except as disclosed in
Schedule 3(f), since
January 1, 2007, the Company has timely filed all reports,
schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be
filed by it with
the SEC pursuant to the reporting requirements of the 1934 Act (all
of the
foregoing filed
prior to the date
hereof and all exhibits included therein and
financial statements
and schedules thereto and documents incorporated by
reference therein
being hereinafter referred to as the "SEC Documents"). As of
their respective
dates (except as they have been correctly
amended), the SEC
Documents complied
in all material respects with the
requirements of the 1934
Act and the rules and regulations of the
SEC promulgated thereunder applicable
to the SEC Documents, and none of the SEC Documents, at the time
they were filed
with the SEC (except as they may have been properly
amended), contained any
untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material
fact required
to be stated therein or necessary in order to
make the statements therein, in
light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading. As of
their respective
dates (except as they have been properly amended), the
financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Documents
complied as to
form in all material respects with applicable
accounting requirements and the
published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto.
Such financial
statements have
been prepared in
accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles, consistently applied, during the periods involved
(except (i) as may
be otherwise indicated in such financial statements or the notes
thereto or (ii)
in the case of unaudited interim statements, to the extent
they may exclude
footnotes or
may be condensed or
summary statements) and fairly present in all
material respects the
financial position of the Company as of the dates thereof
and the results of its operations and cash flows for the
periods then ended
(subject, in
the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit
adjustments). Except
as listed in Schedule 3(f), the Company has
received no
notices or
correspondence from
the SEC since January 1, 2007. The SEC has not
commenced any
enforcement
proceedings
against the Company or any of its
subsidiaries.
(g)
Absence of Certain
Changes. Except as
disclosed in Schedule 3(g),
since March 31, 2008, there has been no material adverse change in
the business,
properties,
operations, financial
condition or results of operations of the
Company or its
Subsidiaries. The
Company has not taken any steps, and does not
currently expect
to take any steps, to seek protection pursuant to any
Bankruptcy Law
nor does the Company or any of its Subsidiaries have any
knowledge or reason to believe that its creditors intend to
initiate involuntary
bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings. The Company is financially solvent
and is
generally able
to pay its debts as they become due.
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(h)
Absence of Litigation. Except as disclosed
on Schedule 3(h), there is
no action,
suit, proceeding, inquiry or
investigation before or by any court,
public board,
government
agency,
self-regulatory organization or body pending
or, to the knowledge of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, threatened
against or
affecting the Company, the Common Stock or any of the
Company's
Subsidiaries or any of
the Company's or the Company's Subsidiaries' officers or
directors in
their capacities as such, which could reasonably be
expected to
have a Material
Adverse Effect. A description of each action, suit, proceeding,
inquiry or
investigation
before or by any court, public board,
government
agency,
self-regulatory
organization or
body which, as of the date of this
Agreement, is pending or threatened in writing against or affecting
the Company,
the Common Stock or any of the Company's Subsidiaries or any of the
Company's or
the Company's
Subsidiaries' officers
or directors in their capacities as such,
is set forth in Schedule 3(h).
(i)
Acknowledgment
Regarding Buyer's Status. The Company acknowledges
and agrees
that the Buyer is acting solely in the capacity of
arm's length
purchaser with
respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions
contemplated hereby
and thereby. The Company further acknowledges that the
Buyer is not acting as a financial advisor or
fiduciary of the Company (or in
any similar
capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the
transactions
contemplated hereby
and thereby and any advice given by the Buyer
or any of its representatives or agents in connection with the
Transaction
Documents and
the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby is merely
incidental to
the Buyer's purchase of the Securities. The Company further
represents to
the Buyer that the Company's decision to enter into the
Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent
evaluation by the
Company and
its representatives and advisors.
(j)
No
General Solicitation. Neither the Company, nor any of its
affiliates, nor
any person acting on its or their behalf, has
engaged in any
form of general solicitation or general advertising (within the meaning
of
Regulation D
under the 1933 Act) in connection with the
offer or sale of the
Securities.
(k)
Intellectual
Property Rights. The
Company and its Subsidiaries own or
possess adequate rights or licenses to use all material trademarks,
trade names,
service marks,
service mark registrations, service names, patents, patent
rights, copyrights,
inventions,
licenses, approvals, governmental
authorizations, trade
secrets and rights
necessary to conduct their respective
businesses as
now conducted. Except
as set forth on Schedule 3(k), none of the
Company's material
trademarks,
trade names, service marks, service mark
registrations, service
names, patents, patent rights,
copyrights, inventions,
licenses, approvals,
government
authorizations,
trade secrets or other
intellectual property
rights have expired or terminated, or, by
the terms and
conditions thereof,
could expire or terminate within two years from the date of
this Agreement.
The Company and its Subsidiaries do
not have any knowledge of
any infringement
by the Company or its
Subsidiaries of any material trademark,
trade name
rights, patents, patent rights, copyrights,
inventions, licenses,
service names, service
marks, service mark registrations, trade secret or other
similar rights
of others, or of any such development of
similar or identical
trade secrets
or technical information by others and, except
as set forth on
Schedule 3(k),
there is no claim, action or proceeding
being made or brought
against, or to the Company's knowledge, being threatened against,
the Company or
its Subsidiaries
regarding trademark, trade name, patents, patent rights,
invention, copyright,
license, service names, service marks, service mark
registrations, trade
secret or other infringement, which could
reasonably be
expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.
(l)
Environmental Laws.
The Company and its Subsidiaries (i) are
in
compliance with
any and all applicable foreign,
federal, state and local laws
and regulations
relating to the protection of human health and safety,
the
environment or
hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or
contaminants ("Environmental Laws"), (ii) have received all
permits, licenses or
other approvals
required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct
their respective
businesses
and (iii) are in compliance with all
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terms and conditions of any such permit,
license or approval, except where, in
each of the three foregoing clauses, the failure to so comply could not
reasonably be
expected to have, individually or in the
aggregate, a Material
Adverse Effect.
(m)
Title. The
Company and its Subsidiaries have good and
marketable
title in fee simple to all real property and
good and marketable title to all
personal property owned by them which is material to the business
of the Company
and its Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all liens,
encumbrances and
defects except
such as are described in Schedule 3(m) or such as do not
materially affect
the value of such
property and do not interfere with the use
made and proposed to be made of such property by the
Company and any of its
Subsidiaries. Any
real property and
facilities held under lease by the Company
and any of its Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting
and
enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not material and do
not interfere
with the use made and
proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the
Company and
its Subsidiaries.
(n)
Insurance. The Company
and each of its Subsidiaries are insured by
insurers of
recognized
financial
responsibility against such losses and risks
and in such amounts as management of the Company believes
to be prudent and
customary in
the businesses in which the Company and its Subsidiaries
are
engaged. Neither
the Company nor any such Subsidiary has been refused
any
insurance coverage
sought or applied for and neither the
Company nor any such
Subsidiary has
any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew
its
existing insurance
coverage as and when such coverage expires or to
obtain
similar coverage
from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue
its
business at a cost that would not materially and adversely affect
the condition,
financial or
otherwise, or the
earnings, business or operations of the Company
and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(o)
Regulatory Permits. The Company and its Subsidiaries
possess all
material certificates,
authorizations
and permits issued by the appropriate
federal, state
or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct
their
respective businesses,
and neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has
received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or
modification of
any such certificate, authorization or permit.
(p)
Tax
Status. The Company and each of its
Subsidiaries has made or
filed all federal and state income and all
other material tax returns, reports
and declarations required by any jurisdiction to which it is
subject (unless and
only to the extent that the Company and
each of its Subsidiaries has set aside
on its books provisions reasonably adequate for
the payment of all unpaid and
unreported taxes) and
has paid all taxes and other governmental assessments and
charges that
are material in amount, shown or determined to be due on
such
returns, reports
and declarations, except those being
contested in good faith
and has set aside on
its books provision reasonably adequate for the payment of
all taxes for periods subsequent to the
periods to which such returns, reports
or declarations apply.
There are no unpaid taxes in any material amount claimed
to be due by the taxing authority of any
jurisdiction, and the officers of the
Company know
of no basis for any such claim.
(q)
Transactions With Affiliates. Except as set forth on Schedule
3(q)
and other than the grant or exercise of stock options
disclosed on Schedule
3(c), none of the
officers, directors, or employees of the Company is presently
a party to any transaction with the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries (other
than for services as employees, officers and directors), including
any contract,
agreement or
other arrangement providing for the
furnishing of services to or
by, providing
for rental of real or
personal property to or from, or otherwise
requiring payments to
or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the
knowledge of the Company, any corporation, partnership, trust or
other entity in
which any officer, director, or any such employee has an interest or
is an
officer, director,
trustee or partner.
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(r)
Application
of Takeover Protections. The Company and its board of
directors have
taken or will take
prior to the Commencement Date all necessary
action, if
any, in order to
render inapplicable any control share acquisition,
business combination,
poison pill (including any distribution under
a rights
agreement) or
other similar anti-takeover provision under the
Certificate of
Incorporation or
the laws of the state of its
incorporation which is or could
become applicable
to the Buyer as a
result of the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement,
including,
without limitation, the Company's issuance
of the
Securities and
the Buyer's ownership of the Securities.
(s)
Foreign Corrupt
Practices.
Neither the Company, nor any of its
Subsidiaries, nor any
director, officer, agent, employee or other person acting
on behalf of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries has, in the course of its
actions for,
or on behalf of, the Company, used any
corporate funds for any
unlawful contribution,
gift, entertainment or
other unlawful expenses relating
to political
activity; made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to
any
foreign or
domestic government official or employee from corporate funds;
violated or
is in violation of any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act
of 1977, as amended;
or made any unlawful bribe, rebate, payoff,
influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment to any
foreign or domestic
government official
or employee.
4.
COVENANTS.
(a)
Filing of Form 8-K and
Registration Statement. The Company agrees
that it shall, within the time required under the 1934 Act file a
Report on Form
8-K disclosing
this Agreement and the transaction contemplated
hereby. The
Company shall also file within ten (10) Business Days from the date
hereof a new
registration statement
covering the sale of the Securities in
accordance with
the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement between the Company and
the
Buyer, dated
as of the date hereof ("Registration Rights Agreement").
(b)
Blue
Sky. The Company shall take such action, if any, as is
reasonably necessary
in order to obtain an
exemption for or to qualify (i) the
initial sale of the Commitment Shares and any Purchase Shares to
the Buyer under
this Agreement
and (ii) any subsequent sale of the
Commitment Shares and any
Purchase Shares by the Buyer, in each case, under applicable
securities or "Blue
Sky" laws of the states of the United States in
such states as is reasonably
requested by the Buyer from time to time, and shall provide
evidence of any such
action so taken to the Buyer.
(c)
Listing. The
Company shall promptly secure the listing
of all of
the Purchase Shares and Commitment Shares upon each national
securities exchange
and automated
quotation system, if any, upon which shares
of Common Stock are
then listed
(subject to official
notice of issuance) up to an amount that does
not exceed
the Exchange Cap and
shall maintain, so long as any other shares of
Common Stock
shall be so listed,
such listing of all such securities from time
to time issuable under the terms of the Transaction
Documents. The
Company
shall maintain
the Common Stock's
authorization for quotation on the Principal
Market. Neither
the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries shall take any action
that would
be reasonably expected to result in
the delisting or suspension of
the Common Stock on the Principal Market. The Company shall promptly, and in
no
event later than the
following Business Day, provide to the Buyer copies of any
notices it
receives from the Principal Market regarding the continued
eligibility of
the Common Stock for
listing on such automated quotation system
or securities
exchange. The Company shall pay all fees and expenses in
connection with
satisfying
its obligations under this Section.
(d)
Limitation on
Short Sales and Hedging Transactions. The Buyer
agrees that
beginning on the date of this Agreement and
ending on the date of
termination of
this Agreement as provided in Section
11(k), the Buyer and its
agents,
representatives and
affiliates
shall not in any manner whatsoever
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enter into or effect, directly or indirectly, any (i) "short sale"
(as such term
is defined
in Section 242.200 of
Regulation SHO of the 1934 Act) of the Common
Stock or (ii) hedging transaction, which
establishes a net short position with
respect to
the Common Stock.
(e)
Issuance of
Commitment
Shares; Limitation on
Sales of Commitment
Shares. Immediately
upon the execution of this Agreement, the Company
shall
issue to the Buyer as consideration for the
Buyer entering into this Agreement
63,280 shares of
Common Stock (the "Initial Commitment Shares"). In connection
with each purchase of
Purchase Shares hereunder, the Company agrees to issue to
the Buyer a number of shares of Common Stock (the "Additional
Commitment Shares"
and together with the
Initial Commitment Shares, the "Commitment Shares") equal
to the product of (x) 42,187 and (y) the Purchase Amount Fraction.
The
"Purchase Amount
Fraction" shall mean a fraction, the numerator of which is the
Purchase Amount purchased by the Buyer with respect to such
purchase of Purchase
Shares and
the denominator of
which is Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000). The
Additional Commitment Shares shall be equitably adjusted for any
reorganization,
recapitalization,
non-cash dividend,
stock split or other similar transaction.
The Initial Commitment
Shares shall be issued in certificated form and (subject
to Section
5 hereof) shall bear only the following restrictive legend:
THE SECURITIES
REPRESENTED
BY THIS CERTIFICATE
HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE
SECURITIES LAWS. THE
SECURITIES HAVE
BEEN ACQUIRED FOR INVESTMENT AND MAY
NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE,
SOLD, TRANSFERRED
OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT FOR
THE SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR
APPLICABLE STATE
SECURITIES
LAWS, UNLESS SOLD
PURSUANT TO: (1) RULE 144 UNDER
THE SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED, OR (2) AN OPINION OF HOLDER'S COUNSEL,
IN A CUSTOMARY FORM, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER SAID ACT OR
APPLICABLE STATE
SECURITIES
LAWS.
The
Buyer agrees that the Buyer shall not transfer or sell the
Commitment
Shares until the earlier of 480 Business Days (24 Monthly Periods)
from the date
hereof or the date on which this Agreement has been terminated,
provided,
however, that
such restrictions shall not apply: (i) in connection with
any
transfers to or among affiliates (as defined in the 1934 Act), (ii)
in the event
that the Commencement does not occur on or before
October 1, 2008, due to the
failure of the Company to satisfy the conditions set forth in
Section 7 or (iii)
if an Event of Default has occurred, or any event
which, after notice and/or
lapse of time, would become an Event of Default,
including any failure by the
Company to
timely issue Purchase
Shares under this Agreement. Notwithstanding
the forgoing, the Buyer may transfer Commitment Shares to a third
party in order
to settle a sale made by the Buyer where the Buyer reasonably
expects the
Company to deliver
Purchase Shares to the Buyer under this Agreement so long as
the Buyer maintains ownership of the same overall number of
shares of Common
Stock by "replacing" the Commitment Shares
so transferred with Purchase Shares
when the Purchase Shares are actually issued by the Company to the Buyer.
(g)
Due
Diligence.
The Buyer shal