Exhibit 10.1
FORM OF SECURITIES PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
This Securities Purchase Agreement
(this “ Agreement ”), dated June 5, 2009,
is entered into by and among China Biologic Products, Inc., a
Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”),
Siu Ling Chan (the “ Controlling Stockholder
”) and the purchasers identified on the signature pages
hereto (the “ Purchasers ”).
RECITALS
A.
The Purchasers desire to purchase
from the Company, and the Company desires to issue to the
Purchasers, or their designees, senior secured convertible notes in
the aggregate principal amount of $9,554,140 (the “
Notes ”), convertible into shares of common
stock of the Company (the “ Conversion Shares
”) and warrants (the “ Warrants ”
and together with the Notes, the “ Subscribed
Securities ”) to purchase 1,194,268 shares of common
stock of the Company (the “ Warrant Shares
” and together with the Conversion Shares, the “
Underlying Securities ”) (the
“ Transaction ”). The Subscribed
Securities and the Underlying Securities are collectively referred
as the “ Securities .”
B.
The Company and the Purchasers are
executing and delivering this Agreement in reliance upon the
exemption from securities registration afforded by the provisions
of Regulation D (“ Regulation D
”) promulgated by the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
“ Securities Act ”).
C.
The Controlling Stockholder owns
6,862,624 shares of the Company’s common stock, which
represent in the aggregate 32.0% of the outstanding shares in the
Company. As consideration for the Purchasers’ agreement
to purchase the Subscribed Securities, the Controlling Stockholder
will pledge 3,000,000 of her shares (the “ Pledged
Shares ”) to secure the Company’s obligations
under the Transaction Documents, pursuant to a Guarantee and Pledge
Agreement in the form attached as Exhibit D, to be entered
into as of the date hereof, among the Controlling Stockholder and
the Purchasers (the “ Guarantee and
Pledge Agreement ”).
D.
Contemporaneously with the Closing
of the Transaction, the parties hereto will execute and deliver (i)
a Registration Rights Agreement (the “ Registration
Rights Agreement ”) substantially in the form of
Exhibit A attached hereto, to provide for certain
registration rights with respect to the Underlying Securities; (ii)
the Notes, substantially in the form of Exhibit B attached
hereto; (iii) the Warrants, substantially in the form of Exhibit
C ; and (iv) the Guarantee and Pledge Agreement. This
Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Notes, the
Warrants and the Pledge Agreement, are collectively referred to as
the “ Transaction Documents .”
AGREEMENT
NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of
the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other
good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which
are hereby acknowledged, the Company and the Purchasers agree as
follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
1.1
Definitions . In addition to the terms
defined elsewhere in this Agreement, for all purposes of this
Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated in
this Section 1.1:
“ Agreement
” has the meaning set forth in the first paragraph of this
Agreement.
“ Action ”
means any action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding
(including any partial proceeding such as a deposition) or
investigation pending or threatened in writing against or affecting
the Company, any Subsidiary or any of their respective properties
before or by any court, arbitrator, governmental or administrative
agency, regulatory authority (federal, state, county, local or
foreign), stock market, stock exchange or trading
facility.
“ Affiliate
” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one
or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under
common control with a Person, as such terms are used in and
construed under Rule 144 (as defined below).
“ Board ”
means the board of directors of the Company.
“ Business Day
” means any day except Saturday, Sunday and any day which
shall be (i) a United States federal legal holiday, (ii) a day on
which banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized
or required by law or other governmental action to close, or (iii)
a PRC legal holiday.
“ CFC ”
means a controlled foreign corporation as defined in the
Code.
“ Circular 75
” has the meaning set forth in Section
3.1(oo)(iv).
“ Closing
” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the
Securities pursuant to Article II .
“ Closing
Date ” has the meaning set forth in Section
2.1.
“ Company
” has the meaning set forth in the first paragraph of this
Agreement.
“ Code ”
means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.
“ Collateral
” means all of the Pledged Shares pledged to the holders of
the Notes pursuant to the Guarantee and Pledge
Agreement.
“ Commission
” means the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission.
“ Common Stock
” means the common stock of the Company, $0.0001 par value
per share.
“ Controlling
Stockholder ” has the meaning set forth in the first
paragraph of this Agreement.
“ Conversion
Shares ” has the meaning set forth in paragraph A of
the recitals herein.
“ Dalin ”
has the meaning set forth in Section 4.5.
“ Dalin/Huitian
Acquisitions ” has the meaning set forth in Section
4.5.
“ Disclosure
Materials ” has the meaning set forth in Section
3.1(i).
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“ Employee Benefit
Plan ” has the meaning set forth in Section
3.1(r)(i).
“ Enforceability
Exceptions ” has the meaning set forth in Section
3.1(c).
“ Environmental
Laws ” has the meaning set forth in Section
3.1(x).
“ Exchange Act
” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
“ Fee Deduction
” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2(c)(v).
“ Foreign Exchange
Authorizations ” has the meaning set forth in Section
3.1(oo)(iv).
“ GAAP ”
has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(i).
“ Governmental
Authority ” means any nation or government or any
federation, province or state or any other political subdivision
thereof; any entity, authority or body exercising executive,
legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or
pertaining to government, including any government authority,
agency, department, board, commission or instrumentality of the
People’s Republic of China (“ PRC ”
or “ China ”) or any other country, or
any political subdivision thereof, or any court.
“ Group ”
means the Company and its Subsidiaries.
“ G roup Company
Security Holder ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 3.1(oo)(iv).
“ Guarantee and Pledge
Agreement ” has the meaning set forth in paragraph C
of the recitals herein.
“ Hazardous
Materials ” has the meaning set forth in Section
3.1(x).
“ Huitian
” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.5.
“ Indemnifying
Party ” has the meaning set forth in Section
4.10(b).
“ Intellectual Property
Right ” has the meaning set forth in Section
3.1(w).
“ Investor Party
” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.10(a).
“ Losses ”
has the meaning set forth in Section 4.10(a).
“ Majority
Holder ” has the meaning set forth in Section
4.12.
“ Material
Adverse Effect ” means any material adverse
effect on the business, properties, assets, operations, results of
operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the
Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or on the
transactions contemplated hereby or in the other Transaction
Documents, or on the authority or ability of the Company to perform
its obligations under the Transaction Documents.
“ Notes ”
has the meaning set forth in paragraph A of the recitals
herein.
“ Lien ”
means any lien, charge, encumbrance, security interest, right of
first refusal or other restrictions of any kind.
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“ OTCBB ”
means the Over-the-counter Bulletin Board maintained by the
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
“ Person ”
means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust,
incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited
liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or
subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.
“ Pledged Shares
” has the meaning set forth in paragraph C of the recitals
herein.
“ PFIC ”
means a passive foreign investment company as defined in the
Code.
“ Proceeding
” means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding
(including, without limitation, an investigation or partial
proceeding, such as a deposition), whether commenced or
threatened.
“ Public
Official ” means any employee of a Governmental
Authority, member of a political party, political candidate,
officer of a public international organization, or officer or
employee of a state-owned enterprise, including a PRC state-owned
enterprise.
“ Purchase
Price ” means $1,000 for each $1,000 of
principal amount of the Notes to be purchased by the Purchasers at
the Closing, which aggregate amount is set forth on Schedule
A hereto.
“ Purchasers
” has the meaning set forth in the first paragraph of this
Agreement.
“ Registration Rights
Agreemen t ” has the meaning set forth in
paragraph D of the recitals herein.
“ Registration
Statement ” means a registration statement meeting
the requirements set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement and
covering the resale by the Purchasers of the Registrable Securities
(as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement).
“ Regulation
D ” has the meaning set forth in paragraph B of
the recitals herein.
“
Representatives ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 3.1(ee).
“ Rule 144
” means Rule 144 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to
the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time,
or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the
Commission having substantially the same effect as such
Rule.
“ SAFE ”
has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(oo)(i).
“ Securities
” has the meaning set forth in paragraph A of the recitals
herein.
“ Securities Act
” has the meaning set forth in paragraph B of the recitals
herein.
“ SEC Reports
” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(i).
“ Subject Share
s ” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.11.
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“ Subsidiary
” means any subsidiary, joint venture or any entity in which
the Company, directly or indirectly, owns greater than 50% of the
capital stock or equity or similar interests.
“ Subscribed
Securities ” has the meaning set forth in paragraph A
of the recitals herein.
“ Trading Day
” means (i) a day on which the Common Stock is traded on a
Trading Market, or (ii) if the Common Stock is not listed on a
Trading Market, a day on which the Common Stock is traded in the
over-the-counter market, as reported by the OTCBB, or (iii) if the
Common Stock is not quoted on any Trading Market, or on the OTCBB,
a day on which the Common Stock is quoted in the over-the-counter
market as reported by the Pink Sheets, LLC (or any similar
organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting
prices), or (iv) in the event that the Common Stock is not listed
or quoted as set forth in (i), (ii) and (iii) hereof, a Business
Day.
“ Trading
Market ” means whichever of The New York Stock
Exchange, the NYSE Amex, The NASDAQ Capital Market, The NASDAQ
Global Market or The NASDAQ Global Select Market on which the
Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in
question.
“ Transaction
” has the meaning set forth in paragraph A of the recitals
herein.
“ Transaction
Documents ” has the meaning set forth in
paragraph D of the recitals herein.
“ Underlying
Securities ” has the meaning set forth in
paragraph A of the recitals herein.
“ Warrants
” has the meaning set forth in paragraph A of the recitals
herein.
“ Warrant Shares
” has the meaning set forth in paragraph A of the recitals
herein.
ARTICLE II.
PURCHASE AND SALE
2.1
Closing . Subject to the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement, at the Closing the Company
shall issue and sell to the Purchasers, and the Purchasers shall
purchase from the Company, the Subscribed Securities set forth on
the signature pages hereto at a purchase price equal to the
purchase price specified on the signature pages hereto. The
Closing shall take place via the exchange of documents and
signatures as soon as practicable after all closing conditions
specified in Section 2.2 hereof have been satisfied or otherwise
waived by the Majority Holder, or at such time and place as the
Company and the Purchasers shall mutually agree upon orally or in
writing (the “ Closing Date
”).
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2.2
Closing Deliveries and Conditions
to Closing .
(a)
The obligations of the Purchasers
to close the purchase of the Subscribed Securities shall be subject
to the delivery, fulfillment or satisfaction of, each of the
following:
(i)
The legal opinion of Pillsbury
Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, special US counsel to the Company, in
substantially the form attached as Exhibit E ,
addressed to the Purchasers;
(ii)
The representations and warranties
made by the Company in Article III and the representations and
warranties made by the Controlling Stockholder in Sections 3.1(a)
through 3.1(f) shall be true and correct in all material respects
(except for those representations and warranties that are qualified
by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, which shall be true and
correct in all respects) as of the date when made and as of the
Closing Date as though made at that time (except for
representations and warranties that speak as of a specific date,
which shall be true and correct as of such specified date), all
covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to
be performed or complied with by the Company and the Controlling
Stockholder prior to the Closing shall have been performed or
complied with (or waived by the Purchasers), and the Company and
the Controlling Stockholder shall have obtained any approvals,
consents and qualifications necessary to perform their respective
obligations hereunder;
(iii)
The Company shall have delivered to
the Purchasers copies of each of the following, in each case
certified by the Secretary of the Company to be in full force and
effect on the date of the Closing:
(A)
the certificate of incorporation of
the Company as of the Closing certified by the Secretary of
State of the State of Delaware as of a date not more than ten days
prior to the Closing;
(B)
a good standing certificate with
respect to the Company certified by the Secretary of State of the
State of Delaware as of a date not more than ten days prior to the
Closing;
(C)
the by-laws of the Company;
and
(D)
resolutions of the Board, and, as
necessary, the requisite shareholders of the Company, authorizing
the execution, delivery and performance of each of the Transaction
Documents to which the Company is a party, and the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby, including the issuance and sale of
the Securities and the reservation of the Underlying
Securities.
(iv)
The Controlling Stockholder shall
have delivered to the Purchasers the irrevocable proxy set forth in
Section 4.11 for the benefit of the holders of the
Notes.
(v)
All authorizations, approvals or
permits of, or filings with any governmental authority, including
state securities or “Blue Sky” offices, that are
required by law in connection with the lawful sale and issuance of
the Securities shall have been duly obtained by the Company, and
shall be effective as of the Closing;
(vi)
All corporate and other proceedings
in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents, and all documents and instruments incident to such
transactions, shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the
Purchasers, and the Purchasers shall have received at or prior to
the Closing all such documents as the Purchasers shall have
requested;
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(vii)
There shall have been no Material
Adverse Effect in the financial condition or results of operations
of any member of the Group since executing this
Agreement;
(viii)
The Purchasers shall have received
delivery from the Company’s existing investors holding any
participation, preemptive or related rights of a writing evidencing
their waiver or non-exercise of such rights in relation to the
Transaction;
(ix)
The Purchasers shall have received
each of the Closing deliveries provided in Section 2.2(c) below;
and
(x)
The Company shall have delivered to
the Purchasers at the Closing a certificate signed on its behalf by
its Chief Executive Officer certifying that the conditions
specified in this Section 2.2(a) hereof have been
fulfilled.
(b)
The obligations of the Company to
close the purchase and sale of the Subscribed Securities shall be
subject to the fulfillment or satisfaction of, the
following:
(i)
the representations and warranties
of the Purchasers shall be true and correct in all material
respects (except for those representations and warranties that are
qualified by materiality, which shall be true and correct in all
respects) as of the date when made and as of the Closing Date as
though made at that time (except for representations and warranties
that speak as of a specific date, which shall be true and correct
as of such specified date), and the Purchasers shall have
performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with the
covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Agreement to
be performed, satisfied or complied with by the Purchasers at or
prior to the Closing Date; and
(ii)
the Company shall have received each
of the Closing deliveries provided in Section 2.2(d)
below.
(c)
At Closing, the Company shall
deliver or cause to be delivered to the Purchasers each of the
following:
(i)
the Notes duly executed by the
Company evidencing the principal amount of the Notes set forth
below the Purchasers’ names on the signature pages
hereto;
(ii)
the Warrants duly executed by the
Company evidencing the number of Warrants set forth below the
Purchasers’ names on the signature pages hereto;
(iii)
the Registration Rights Agreement
duly executed by the Company;
(iv)
the Guarantee and Pledge Agreement
duly executed by the Controlling Stockholder, and the Controlling
Stockholder shall have taken all actions required thereunder to
perfect the security interests to be granted under the Pledge
Agreement; and
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(v)
the fees and expenses of the
Majority Holder payable by the Company under Section 4.12, in
United States dollars and in immediately available funds, by wire
transfer to the account set forth on Schedule A hereto or to
such other account designated in writing by the Majority Holder for
such purpose; provided that the Company shall have the option to
authorize the Majority Holder to deduct such fees and expenses from
the purchase price payable under Section 4(d)(i) (“ Fee
Deduction ”).
(d)
At Closing, the Purchasers shall
deliver or cause to be delivered to the Company each of the
following:
(i)
the aggregate amount of the purchase
price set forth below the Purchasers’ names on the signature
pages hereto (less their proportionate share of the Fee Deduction,
if applicable), in United States dollars and in immediately
available funds, by wire transfer to the account set forth on
Schedule A hereto or to such other account designated in
writing by the Company for such purpose;
(ii)
the Registration Rights Agreement
duly executed by the Purchasers; and
(iii)
the Guarantee and Pledge Agreement
duly executed by the Purchasers to the extent the Purchasers are a
party thereto.
(e)
Notwithstanding anything contained
in this Article II, the Closing shall be deemed to have occurred
upon the Company’s fulfillment of the obligations set forth
in Section 2.2(a) and upon the Company’s receipt from the
Majority Holder of the Closing deliveries provided in Section
2.2(d); and upon the Majority Holder’s fulfillment of the
obligations set forth in Section 2.2(b) and upon the Majority
Holder’s receipt from the Company of the Closing deliveries
provided in Section 2.2(c).
ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
3.1
Representations and Warranties of
the Company . The Company hereby makes
the following representations and warranties to the Purchasers, and
the Controlling Stockholder hereby makes the representations and
warranties under Sections 3.1(a) through 3.1(f) to the
Purchasers:
(a)
Organization and
Qualification . Each of the Company and its
Subsidiaries is an entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization (as applicable),
with the requisite power and authority to own and use its
properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently
conducted. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in
violation of any of the provisions of its respective certificate of
incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents.
Each of the Company and each Subsidiary is duly qualified to
conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation
or other entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the
business conducted or property owned by it makes such qualification
necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good
standing, as the case may be, could not, individually or in the
aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in any Material
Adverse Effect.
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(b)
Subsidiaries . The Company has no direct or
indirect Subsidiaries other than those listed in Schedule
3.1(b) . Except as disclosed in Schedule 3.1(b) ,
the Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of the capital stock
of each Subsidiary free and clear of any and all Liens, and all the
issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of each Subsidiary
are validly issued and are fully paid, non-assessable and free of
preemptive and similar rights.
(c)
Authorization;
Enforcement .
The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority
to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by
each of the Transaction Documents, as applicable, and otherwise to
carry out its obligations thereunder. The execution, delivery
and performance of each of the Transaction Documents by the Company
and the consummation by the Company of the transactions
contemplated thereby has been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate action on the part of the Company and its shareholders
and no further corporate action is required by the Company or its
shareholders in connection therewith. Each Transaction
Document has been duly executed by the Company and, when delivered
in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and
binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company
in accordance with its terms, except (i) as rights to indemnity and
contribution may be limited by state or federal securities laws or
the public policy underlying such laws, (ii) as enforceability may
be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ and
contracting parties’ rights generally and (iii) as
enforceability may be subject to general principles of equity
(regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law) (clauses (i)–(iii)
collectively, the “ Enforceability Exceptions
”).
(d)
The Subscribed Securities and
Security Interests . The Subscribed Securities
have been duly authorized by the Company and, when duly executed,
authenticated, and delivered as provided therein and paid for as
provided herein, will be duly and validly issued and will
constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable
against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to the
Enforceability Exceptions, and holders of the Subscribed Securities
will be entitled to the benefits therein. The Guarantee and
Pledge Agreement has been duly executed by the Controlling
Stockholder and delivered as provided therein will be valid and
binding obligations of the Controlling Stockholder, enforceable
against the Controlling Stockholder in accordance with its terms,
subject to the Enforceability Exceptions, and holders of the
Subscribed Securities will be entitled to the benefits
thereof.
(e)
No Conflicts . The execution, delivery and
performance of each of the Transaction Documents by the Company or
the Controlling Stockholder, as applicable, to which it is party
and the consummation by the Company or the Controlling Stockholder,
as applicable, of the transactions contemplated thereby, including
the issuance, sale and/or reservation of the Securities and grant
of the Security Interests, as applicable, do not and will not (i)
conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s or
any Subsidiary’s certificate of incorporation, bylaws or
other organizational or charter documents, or (ii) conflict with,
or constitute a default (or an event that 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
(with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement,
credit facility, debt or other instrument or other understanding to
which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any
property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary is bound or
affected, or (iii) result in a violation of any law, rule,
regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other
restriction of any court or governmental authority to which the
Company or a Subsidiary is subject (including federal and state
securities laws and regulations), or by which any property or asset
of the Company or a Subsidiary is bound or affected; except in the
case of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not, individually or
in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect.
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(f)
Filings, Consents and
Approvals .
Except as disclosed in Schedule 3.1(f) , neither of
the Company nor the Controlling Stockholder is required to obtain
any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to,
or make any filing or registration with, any court or other
federal, state, local or other governmental authority or other
Person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance
by the Company and the Controlling Stockholder of the Transaction
Documents, as applicable, including the issuance, sale and/or
reservation of the Securities, other than: (i) the filing
with the Commission of one or more Registration Statements in
accordance with the requirements of the Registration Rights
Agreement, (ii) notice filings required by state securities laws,
the failure of which to make will not affect the validity of the
Securities or the enforceability of this Agreement, and (iii) those
that have been made or obtained prior to the date of this
Agreement. The Company and its Subsidiaries are unaware of
any facts or circumstances that would reasonably be expected to
prevent the Company or the Controlling Stockholder from
obtaining or effecting any of the registration, application or
filings pursuant to the preceding sentence.
(g)
Issuance of Subscribed Securities
and Underlying Securities . The issuance of the
Subscribed Securities, upon issuance in accordance with the terms
of the Transaction Documents, will be free from all taxes, liens
and charges. The Underlying Securities have been duly authorized
and reserved for issuance upon conversion or exercise of the
Subscribed Securities by all necessary corporate action of the
Company. All Underlying Securities, when so issued in
accordance with the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation
and delivered upon such conversion or exercise in accordance with
the terms of the Subscribed Securities, will be duly authorized and
validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free and clear of
all liens, encumbrances, equities, claims or preemptive or similar
rights with the holders being entitled to all rights accorded to a
holder of Common Stock.
(h)
Capitalization
. The authorized
capital stock of the Company consists solely of 100,000,000 shares
of Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share and 10,000,000 shares
of preferred stock. As of the date hereof prior to Closing:
(i) the number of shares of Common Stock set forth on Schedule
3.1(h) hereto are issued and outstanding and no shares of
Common Stock are held in treasury, (ii) the number of shares of
Common Stock set forth on Schedule 3.1(h) hereto are
reserved for future issuance pursuant to the Company’s equity
incentive plan, pursuant to outstanding warrants and the Securities
as indicated in such schedule, (iii) no shares of preferred stock
are issued and outstanding and (iv) the number of shares of Common
Stock set forth on Schedule 3.1(h) are reserved for issuance
pursuant to securities exercisable or exchangeable for, or
convertible into, shares of Common Stock. All outstanding
shares of Common Stock are validly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable.
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Except as disclosed in Schedule
3.1(h) , (i) none of the Company’s capital stock is
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 options, warrants, scrip, rights to
subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever
relating to, or securities or rights convertible into, or
exercisable or exchangeable for, any capital stock of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries, or contracts, commitments,
understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is or may become bound to issue additional 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, or exercisable or exchangeable for, any capital
stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (iii) there are no
outstanding debt securities, notes, credit agreements, credit
facilities or other agreements, documents or instruments evidencing
indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound which
are required to be disclosed in any SEC Report but not so disclosed
in the SEC Reports, (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 Securities
Act; (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 or reservation of the Securities;
(vii) the Company does not have any stock appreciation rights or
“phantom stock” plans or agreements or any similar plan
or agreement; (viii) the Company and its Subsidiaries have no
liabilities or obligations required to be disclosed in the SEC
Reports but not so disclosed in the SEC Reports, other than those
incurred in the ordinary course of the Company’s or its
Subsidiaries’ respective businesses and which, individually
or in the aggregate, do not or would not have a Material Adverse
Effect; and (ix) there are no financing statements securing
obligations in any material amounts, either singly or in the
aggregate, filed in connection with the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries. The Company has filed in its SEC Reports with
the Commission true, correct and complete copies of the
Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended and as in
effect on the date hereof, and the Company’s Bylaws, as
amended and as in effect on the date hereof, and the form of all
securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for,
shares of Common Stock.
(i)
SEC Reports; Financial
Statements .
Since February 29, 2008, the Company has filed all reports,
schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be
filed by it under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act,
including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof (the foregoing
materials including all exhibits and schedules thereto, being
collectively referred to herein as the “ SEC
Reports ” and, together with the Schedules to this
Agreement, and any other materials prepared by the Company and
delivered to the Purchasers in writing, the “
Disclosure Materials ”). The Company has
delivered to the Purchasers or their representatives, true, correct
and complete copies of the SEC Reports not available on the EDGAR
system. As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports
complied in all material respects with the requirements of the
Securities Act and the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations
of the Commission promulgated thereunder, and, except to the extent
superseded by an amended SEC Report filed at least five Business
Days prior to the date hereof, none of the SEC Reports or the other
Disclosure Materials, when filed or prepared, as applicable,
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. The financial
statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all
material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the
rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in
effect at the time of filing. Such financial statements have
been prepared in accordance with GAAP, except as may be otherwise
specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto, and
fairly present in all material respects the financial position of
the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of and for the
dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the
periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements,
to normal, immaterial, year-end audit adjustments or as otherwise
disclosed in the SEC Reports. No other information provided
by or on behalf of the Company to the Purchasers which is not
included in the SEC Reports and that has not been subsequently
modified, corrected, supplemented or superceded in writing,
including, without limitation, information referred to in any
schedules to this Agreement, contains any untrue statement of a
material fact or omits to state any material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstance under which they are or were made not
misleading.
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(j)
Litigation . Except as disclosed in
Schedule 3.1(j) or in the SEC Reports, there is no Action
pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any of the Company’s
Subsidiaries or any of the Company’s or its
Subsidiaries’ officers or directors that (i) adversely
affects or challenges the legality, validity or enforceability of
any of the Transaction Documents or the Notes or (ii) could, if
there were an unfavorable decision, individually or in the
aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor any
director or officer thereof, is or has been the subject of any
Action involving a claim of violation of or liability under federal
or state securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty and
there has not been, and to the knowledge of the Company there is
not pending or contemplated, any investigation by the Commission
involving the Company or any current or former director or officer
of the Company. The Commission has not issued any stop order
or other order suspending the effectiveness of any registration
statement filed by the Company or any Subsidiary under the Exchange
Act or the Securities Act.
(k)
Transactions with Affiliates and
Employees .
Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(k) or in the SEC
Reports, none of the officers, directors or employees of the
Company or any of Subsidiary is presently a party to any
transaction with the Company or any Subsidiary (other than for
ordinary course services as employees, officers and directors)
where the amount involved exceeded or exceeds the lesser of
$120,000 or one percent of the average of the total assets of the
Company at year end for the last three completed fiscal years,
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 entity in which any officer,
director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an
officer, director, trustee or partner.
(l)
Internal Accounting and Disclosure
Controls .
Except as disclosed in Schedule 3.1(l) or in the SEC
Reports, the Company and the Subsidiaries maintain a system of
internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable
assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii)
transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of
financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset
and liability accountability, (iii) access to assets or incurrence
of liabilities is permitted only in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the
recorded accountability for assets and liabilities is compared with
the existing assets and liabilities at reasonable intervals and
appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports, the Company maintains
disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule
13a-14 under the Exchange Act) that are effective in ensuring that
information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports
that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded,
processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods
specified in the rules and forms of the Commission, including,
without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that
information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports
that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and
communicated to the Company’s management, including its
principal executive officer or officers and its principal financial
officer or officers, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions
regarding required disclosure. Except as disclosed in
Schedule 3.1(l) , since September 4, 2007, neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have received any notice or
correspondence from any accountant relating to any material
weakness in any part of the system of internal accounting controls
of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
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(m)
Certain Fees . Except for fees and other
consideration payable to Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., no brokerage
or finder’s fees or commissions are or will be payable by the
Company to any broker, financial advisor or consultant, finder,
placement agent, investment banker, bank or other Person with
respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents. The Purchasers shall have no obligation with
respect to any fees or with respect to any claims (other than such
fees or commissions owed by the Purchasers pursuant to written
agreements executed by the Purchasers which fees or commissions
shall be the sole responsibility of the Purchasers) made by or on
behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this
Section that may be due in connection with the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Except for the
engagement of Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. and fees incurred in
connection with such engagement, neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries has engaged any placement agent or other agent in
connection with the sale of the Subscribed Securities and has not
incurred any placement agent’s fees, financial advisory fees,
or broker’s commissions relating to or arising out of the
transactions contemplated hereby.
(n)
Certain Registration
Matters .
Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’
representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2(c) through
(g), no registration under the Securities Act is required for the
offer, sale and/or reservation of the Securities by the
Company and the pledge of the Pledged Shares by the Controlling
Stockholder to the Purchasers under the Transaction Documents.
The Company has not offered the Securities by means of any
form of general solicitation or general advertising, including but
not limited to the following: (A) any advertisement, article,
notice or other communication published in a newspaper or magazine
or similar media or broadcast over television or radio whether
closed circuit or generally available or (B) any seminar, meeting
or industry investor conference whose attendees were invited by any
general solicitation or general advertising.
(o)
No Integrated Offering
. None of the
Company, its Subsidiaries, any of their Affiliates, and any Person
acting on their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers
or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any
security, under circumstances that would require registration of
the issuance of any of the Securities under the Securities Act,
whether through integration with prior offerings or otherwise.
None of the Company, its Subsidiaries, their Affiliates and
any Person acting on their behalf will take any action or steps
referred to in the preceding sentence that would require
registration of the issuance of any of the Subscribed Securities
under the Securities Act or cause the offering of the Subscribed
Securities to be integrated with other offerings for purposes of
any such applicable stockholder approval provisions.
(p)
Investment Company
. The Company is
not, and upon consummation of the sale of the Subscribed
Securities, will not be, an “investment company,” a
company controlled by an “investment company” or an
“affiliated person” of, or “promoter” or
“principal underwriter” for, an “investment
company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended.
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(q)
No Additional Agreements
. The Company does
not have any agreement or understanding with the Purchasers with
respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents other than as specified in this Agreement.
(r)
ERISA; Employee Relations
.
(i)
Each employee benefit plan (as
defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) and any other plan,
agreement or arrangement for the benefit of any director, officer
or employee of the Company (each, an “ Employee Benefit
Plan ”) has been operated in material compliance with
its terms and with all applicable laws, including, but not limited
to, ERISA and the Code. All contributions due and payable on
or before the Closing in respect of any Employee Benefit Plan have
been made in full.
(ii)
Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries is a party to any collective bargaining agreement or
employs any member of a union. The Company and its
Subsidiaries believe that their relations with their employees are
good, except where such failure to have good relations would not,
either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect. No executive officer of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (as defined in Rule 501(f)
of the Securities Act) has notified the Company or any such
Subsidiary that such officer intends to leave the Company or any
such Subsidiary or otherwise terminate such officer’s
employment with the Company or any such Subsidiary. No
executive officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, is, or
is now reasonably expected to be, in violation of any material term
of any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or
proprietary information agreement, non-competition agreement, or
any other similar contract or agreement or any restrictive
covenant, and the continued employment of each such executive
officer would not reasonably be expected to subject the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries to any liability with respect to any of the
foregoing matters.
(iii)
The Company and its Subsidiaries are
in compliance with all federal, state, local and foreign laws and
regulations respecting labor, employment and employment practices
and benefits, terms and conditions of employment and wages and
hours, except where failure to be in compliance would not, either
individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect.
(s)
Tax .
(i)
The Company and each of its
Subsidiaries have filed all foreign, federal, state and local tax
reports and returns required by any law or regulation to be filed
by it, and such returns are true and correct, except where such
failure would not, either individually or in the aggregate,
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
The Company and each of its Subsidiaries have paid all taxes,
interest and penalties, if any, reflected on such tax returns or
otherwise due and payable by it, except where such failure would
not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Each of the
Company and each of its Subsidiaries have 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. Any deficiencies proposed as a result of
any governmental audits or such tax returns have been paid or
settled, and there are no present disputes as to taxes payable by
the Company. The Company has not elected pursuant to the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “
Code ”), to be treated as a Subchapter S
corporation or a collapsible corporation pursuant to Section
1362(a) or Section 341(f) of the Code, respectively, nor has it
made any other elections pursuant to the Code (other than elections
that relate solely to methods of accounting, depreciation or
amortization) that would have a material adverse effect on the
Company, its financial condition, its business as presently
conducted or proposed to be conducted or any of its properties or
material assets. The Company has withheld or collected from
each payment made to each of its employees, the amount of all taxes
(including, but not limited to, federal income taxes, Federal
Insurance Contribution Act taxes and Federal Unemployment Tax Act
taxes) required to be withheld or collected therefrom, and has paid
the same to the proper tax receiving officers or authorized
depositories, except where such failure would not, either
individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result
in a Material Adverse Effect.
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(ii)
Except as disclosed in Schedule
3.1(s) , no member of the Group is a CFC or expects to become,
as a result of the transactions contemplated hereby and by each of
the other Transaction Documents, a CFC, or an “investment
company” as such term is defined under the United States
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. No member of the
Group anticipates that it will become a PFIC or CFC for the current
taxable year or any future taxable year.
(t)
Application of Takeover Protections;
Rights Agreement . The Company and its Board
of Directors have taken 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 Delaware
which is or could become applicable to any Purchaser as a result of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including, without
limitation, the Company’s issuance of the Subscribed
Securities and any Purchaser’s ownership of the Securities.
The Company and its Board of Directors have taken all
necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any
stockholder rights plan or similar arrangement relating to
accumulations of beneficial ownership of Common Stock or a change
in control of the Company.
(u)
Absence of Certain
Changes .
Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(u) hereof, since
December 31, 2008, there has been no material adverse changes or
developments in the business, properties, operations, condition
(financial or otherwise), results of operations or prospects of the
Company or its Subsidiaries that have resulted, or could reasonably
be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect. Except
with respect to the dividends declared by Shandong Taibang
Biological Products Co. Ltd., since December 31, 2008, the Company
has not (i) declared or paid any dividends or (ii) sold any assets,
individually or in the aggregate, in excess of $500,000 outside of
the ordinary course of business. Neither the Company nor any
of its Subsidiaries has taken any steps to seek protection pursuant
to any bankruptcy law nor does the Company have any knowledge or
reason to believe that its creditors intend to initiate involuntary
bankruptcy proceedings or any actual knowledge of any fact that
would reasonably lead a creditor to do so. The Company and
its Subsidiaries, individually and on a consolidated basis, are not
as of the date hereof, and after giving effect to the transactions
contemplated hereby to occur at the Closing, will not be Insolvent
(as defined below). For purposes of this Section 3.1(u),
“ Insolvent ” means, with respect to any
Person, (i) the present fair saleable value of such Person’s
assets is less than the amount required to pay such Person’s
total Indebtedness (as def