Exhibit
10.33
SECURITIES PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “
Agreement ”) is dated as of July 30, 2009, between
NewCardio, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company
”), and each purchaser identified on the signature pages
hereto (each, including its successors and assigns, a “
Purchaser ” and collectively, the “
Purchasers ”).
WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions set
forth in this Agreement and pursuant to Section 4(2) of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities
Act ”), and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder, the Company
desires to issue and sell to each Purchaser, and each Purchaser,
severally and not jointly, desires to purchase from the Company,
securities of the Company as more fully described in this
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 each Purchaser agree as
follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Definitions
. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this
Agreement: (a) capitalized terms that are not otherwise defined
herein have the meanings given to such terms in the Debentures (as
defined herein), and (b) the following terms have the meanings set
forth in this Section 1.1:
“ Acquiring Person ” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.7.
“ Action ” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(j).
“ Advance ” means the amount
of funds actually advanced by the Purchasers to the Company
pursuant to the Debenture.
“ 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 405 under the Securities Act.
“ Board of Directors ” means
the board of directors of the Company.
“ Business Day ” means any
day except any Saturday, any Sunday, any day which is a federal
legal holiday in the United States or any day on which banking
institutions in the State of New York are authorized or required by
law or other governmental action to close.
“ Closing ” means the closing
of the purchase and sale of the Securities on the Closing
Date.
“ Closing Date ” means the
Trading Day on which all of the Transaction Documents have been
executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all
conditions precedent to (i) the Purchasers’ obligations to
make the Advances at any future date and (ii) the Company’s
obligations to deliver the Securities, in each case, have been
satisfied or waived.
“ Commission ” means the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
“ Common Stock ” means the
common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share, and any
other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter
be reclassified or changed.
“ Common Stock Equivalents ”
means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries which would
entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock,
including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, rights,
options, warrants or other instrument that is at any time
convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise
entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock.
“ Company Counsel ” means
Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP, with offices located at 61
Broadway, 32 nd Floor, New York, NY 10006.
“ Debentures ” means
the 12% Secured Revolving Debentures due, subject to the terms
therein, March 31, 2011, issued by the Company to the Purchasers
hereunder, in the form of Exhibit A attached
hereto.
“ Disclosure Schedules ”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1.
“ Draw-Down ” means the
funding of each Advance pursuant to Section 2.1.
“ Draw-Down Date(s) ” means
the Trading Day on which all of conditions precedent to (i) the
Purchasers’ obligations to make such Advance and (ii) the
Company’s obligations pursuant to Section 2.3, in each case,
have been satisfied or waived.
“ Effective Date ” means the
earlier of the date that (a) all of the Warrant Shares have been
registered for resale by the holders thereof pursuant to a
registration statement(s) declared effective by the Commission and
(b) all of the Warrant Shares have been sold pursuant to Rule 144
or, after the six month anniversary of the date hereof, may be sold
pursuant to Rule 144 without the requirement for the Company to be
in compliance with the current public information required under
Rule 144 and without volume or manner-of-sale
restrictions.
“ Evaluation Date ” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(r).
“ Exchange Act ” means the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder.
“ GAAP ” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).
“ Indebtedness ” shall have
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(aa).
“ Intellectual Property Rights
” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(o).
“ Legend Removal Date ” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.1(c).
“ Liens ” means a lien,
charge, security interest, encumbrance, right of first refusal,
preemptive right or other restriction.
“ Majority Purchaser ” means
Vision Opportunity Master Fund, LTD.
“ Material Adverse Effect ”
shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.1(b).
“ Material Permits ” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(m).
“ Maximum Rate ” shall have
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 5.17.
“ 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.
“ PIPE Investors ” shall mean
the purchasers of the Company’s securities in connection with
any PIPE Transaction.
“ PIPE Securities ” shall
mean the convertible preferred stock and warrants purchased by the
PIPE Investors in connection with a PIPE Transaction.
“ PIPE Transaction ” shall
mean any issuance of securities by the Company that may occur
within 45 days after the date hereof.
“ Principal Amount ” means,
at any date, an amount equal to 100% of the aggregate outstanding
Advances on such date. The maximum Principal Amount of
the Debentures among all of the holders of the Debentures as issued
pursuant to this Agreement shall be equal to $3,000,000, in the
aggregate.
“ Proceeding ” means an
action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding (including,
without limitation, an informal investigation or partial
proceeding, such as a deposition), whether commenced or
threatened.
“ Public Information Failure
” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.3(b).
“ Public Information Failure
Payments ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term
in Section 4.3(b).
“ Purchaser Party ” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.10.
“ Registration Statement ”
means a registration statement covering the resale of the Warrants
Shares by each Purchaser.
“ Required Approvals ”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(e).
“ 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.
“ Rule 424 ” means Rule 424
promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as
such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any
similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission
having substantially the same purpose and effect as such
Rule.
“ SEC Reports ” shall have
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).
“ Securities ” means the
Debentures, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares.
“ Securities Act ” means the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder.
“ Security Agreement ”
means the Security Agreement, dated the date hereof, among the
Company and the Purchasers, in the form of Exhibit C
attached hereto.
“ Security Documents ” shall
mean the Security Agreement, the Subsidiary Guarantees and any
other documents and filing required thereunder in order to grant
the Purchasers a first priority security interest in the assets of
the Company and the Subsidiaries as provided in the Security
Agreement, including all UCC-1 filing receipts.
“ Series I Warrants ” means,
collectively, the Series I Common Stock purchase warrants delivered
to the Purchasers at the Closing in accordance with Section 2.2(a)
hereof, which Warrants shall be exercisable immediately and have a
term of exercise equal to five years and an exercise price equal to
$0.01 per share, subject to adjustment therein, in the form of
Exhibit B attached hereto.
“ Series II Warrants ” means,
collectively, the Series II Common Stock purchase warrants to be
delivered to the Purchasers at each Draw-Down in accordance with
Section 2.3(a) hereof, which Warrants shall be exercisable
immediately and have a term of exercise equal to five years from
the date of issuance and have an exercise price equal to 100% of
the average of the VWAPs for the five Trading Days immediately
prior to the date of issuance of each Series II Warrant, subject to
adjustment therein, in the form of Exhibit B attached
hereto.
“ Short Sales ” means
all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation
SHO under the Exchange Act (but shall not be deemed to include the
location and/or reservation of borrowable shares of Common
Stock).
“ Subsidiary ” means any
subsidiary of the Company as set forth on Schedule 3.1(a)
and shall, where applicable, also include any direct or indirect
subsidiary of the Company formed or acquired after the date
hereof.
“ Subsidiary Guarantee ”
means the Subsidiary Guarantee, dated the date hereof, by each
Subsidiary in favor of the Purchasers, in the form of Exhibit
D attached hereto.
“ Trading Day ” means a day
on which the principal Trading Market is open for
trading.
“ Trading Market ” means any
of the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is
listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE
AMEX, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the
Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange or the OTC
Bulletin Board (or any successors to any of the
foregoing).
“ Transaction Documents
” means this Agreement, the Debentures, the Warrants, the
Security Agreement, the Subsidiary Guarantee, all exhibits and
schedules thereto and hereto and any other documents or agreements
executed in connection with the transactions contemplated
hereunder.
“ Transfer Agent ” means
Action Stock Transfer Corp., the current transfer agent of the
Company, with a mailing address of 7069 S. Highland Drive, Suite
300, Salt Lake City, Utah 84121 and a facsimile number of
810.274.1099, and any successor transfer agent of the
Company.
“ VWAP ” means, for any
date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses
that applies: (a) if the Common Stock is then listed or quoted on a
Trading Market, the daily volume weighted average price of the
Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the
Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted
as reported by Bloomberg L.P. (based on a Trading Day from 9:30
a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time)),
(b) if the OTC Bulletin Board is not a Trading Market, the
volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or
the nearest preceding date) on the OTC Bulletin Board, (c) if the
Common Stock is not then listed or quoted for trading on the OTC
Bulletin Board and if prices for the Common Stock are then reported
in the “Pink Sheets” published by Pink OTC Markets,
Inc. (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its
functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share
of the Common Stock so reported, or (d) in all other cases,
the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as determined by
an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the Purchasers
of a majority in interest of the Securities then outstanding and
reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of
which shall be paid by the Company.
“ Warrants ” means the Series
I Warrants and Series II Warrants.
“ Warrant Shares ” means the
shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the
Warrants.
“ WS ” means Weinstein Smith
LLP with offices located at 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 2620, New
York, New York 10170-0002.
ARTICLE II.
PURCHASE AND SALE
(a) Closing .
On the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions
set forth herein, substantially concurrent with the execution and
delivery of this Agreement by the parties hereto, the Company
agrees to sell, and the Purchasers, severally and not jointly,
agree to purchase, up to an aggregate of $3,000,000 in Principal
Amount of the Debentures. The Company shall deliver to
each Purchaser its respective Debenture and Series I Warrants, as
determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a), and the Company and each
Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2
deliverable at the Closing. Upon satisfaction of the
covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.4, the
Closing shall occur at the offices of WS or such other location as
the parties shall mutually agree.
(b) Draw-Downs
. On each Draw-Down Date, upon the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth herein, each Purchaser shall deliver to the
Company via wire transfer of immediately available funds an amount
equal to such Purchaser’s pro rata share of the Advance and
the Company shall deliver to each Purchaser its respective Series
II Warrants, as determined pursuant to Section 2.3, and the Company
and each Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in
Section 2.3 deliverable at each Draw-Down. Upon
satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections
2.3 and 2.4, each Draw-Down shall occur at the offices of WS or
such other location as the parties shall mutually agree.
(a) On or prior to the
Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to
each Purchaser the following:
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this Agreement
duly executed by the Company;
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(ii) a Debenture with a
principal amount equal to such Purchaser’s aggregate
Advances, registered in the name of such Purchaser;
(iii) a Series I Warrant
registered in the name of such Purchaser to purchase up to an
aggregate number of shares of Common Stock equal to 750,000;
and
(iv) the Security
Agreement, duly executed by the Company and each Subsidiary, along
with all of the Security Documents, including the Subsidiary
Guarantee, duly executed by the parties thereto.
(b) On or prior to the
Closing Date, each Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be delivered
to the Company the following:
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this Agreement
duly executed by such Purchaser; and
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(ii) the Security
Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser.
2.3 Draw-Down
Deliveries .
(a) On or prior to
each Draw-Down Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be
delivered to each Purchaser a Series II Warrant to purchase up to
an aggregate number of shares of Common Stock equal to 100% of such
Purchaser’s Advance divided by $1.00; and the monthly cash
flow budget for the Company for both (A) the year to date
immediately preceding the date of such Advance and (B) the 12 month
period immediately following the date of such Advance.
(b) On or prior to
each Draw-Down Date, each Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be
delivered to the Company such Purchaser’s Advance by wire
transfer to the account as specified in writing by the
Company.
(a) The obligations of
the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing and each
Draw-Down are subject to the following conditions being
met:
(i) the accuracy in
all material respects on the Closing Date and on each Draw-Down
Date of the representations and warranties of the Purchasers
contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein);
(ii) all obligations,
covenants and agreements of each Purchaser required to be performed
at or prior to the Closing Date or the applicable Draw-Down Date
shall have been performed;
(iii) as to the Closing
only, delivery by each Purchaser of the items set forth in Section
2.2(b) of this Agreement; and
(iv) as to each
Draw-Down only, the delivery by each Purchaser of the items set
forth in Section 2.3(b) of this Agreement.
(b) The respective
obligations of the Purchasers hereunder in connection with the
Closing and in connection with each Draw-Down are subject to the
following conditions being met:
(i) the accuracy in
all material respects when made and on the Closing Date and each
Draw-Down Date of the representations and warranties of the Company
contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein);
(ii) all obligations,
covenants and agreements of the Company required to be performed at
or prior to the Closing Date and each Draw-Down Date shall have
been performed;
(iii) as to the Closing
only, the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section
2.2(a) of this Agreement;
(iv) as to each
Draw-Down Date, the delivery by the Company of the item set forth
in Section 2.3(a) of this Agreement;
(v) for the Closing
and each draw-Down Date, there shall have been no Material Adverse
Effect with respect to the Company since the date
hereof;
(vi) on each Draw-Down
Date, no Event of Default (as such term is defined in a Debenture)
shall have occurred and shall be continuing;
(vii) all of the due
diligence has been completed to the satisfaction of the Majority
Purchaser at or prior to the Closing Date and each Draw-Down
Date;
(viii) as to the Closing
only, written confirmation of the resolution of the Put Agreement
with Platinum-Montaur Life Sciences, LLC;
(ix) as of the Closing
and on each Draw-Down Date, each Purchaser shall have received a
certificate or certificates executed by the president, chief
executive officer or chief financial officer of the Company
covering such matters as the Purchasers may require, including
without limitation the following: (A) all conditions to closing
contained herein have been satisfied, (B) all representations and
warranties contained herein and in the other Transaction Documents
are true and correct in all material respects, and (C) no Default
or Event of Default exists; and
(x) from the date
hereof to the Closing Date and each Draw-Down Date, trading in the
Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the
Commission or the Company’s principal Trading
Market (except for any suspension of trading of limited duration
agreed to by the Company, which suspension shall be terminated
prior to the Closing Date or the Draw-Down Date), and, at any time
prior to the Closing Date and each Draw-Down Date, trading in
securities generally as reported by Bloomberg L.P. shall not have
been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not have been
established on securities whose trades are reported by such
service, or on any Trading Market, nor shall a banking moratorium
have been declared either by the United States or New York State
authorities nor shall there have occurred any material outbreak or
escalation of hostilities or other national or international
calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material
adverse change in, any financial market which, in each case, in the
reasonable judgment of each Purchaser, makes it impracticable or
inadvisable to purchase the Securities at the Closing or to make
the Advance to be made on each Draw-Down Date.
2.5 Draw-Down
Conversion . After the consummation of the PIPE
Transaction, if the Company delivers a notice requesting a
Draw-Down then a copy of such request (the “ PIPE Investor
Notice ”) shall be delivered to each PIPE Investor within
five (5) Trading Days after such request, , in which event, each
PIPE Investor shall have the one-time right, at that time, to
elect, by written notice to such effect delivered to the Company
within five (5) Trading Days after delivery of the PIPE Investor
Notice, to exchange its PIPE Securities for the Securities, in the
same dollar amount, based upon the purchase price of such PIPE
Investor’s PIPE Securities and the principal amount of the
Debenture to be exchanged.
ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
3.1
Representations and Warranties of
the Company . Except as set forth in the
Disclosure Schedules, which Disclosure Schedules shall be deemed a
part hereof and shall qualify any representation or otherwise made
herein to the extent of the disclosure contained in the
corresponding section of the Disclosure Schedules, the Company
hereby makes the following representations and warranties to each
Purchaser as of each Closing Date and the date of each
Advance:
(a)
Subsidiaries . All of the direct and indirect
subsidiaries of the Company are set forth on Schedule 3.1(a)
. The Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of the
capital stock or other equity interests of each Subsidiary free and
clear of any Liens, and all of 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 to
subscribe for or purchase securities. If the Company has
no subsidiaries, all other references to the Subsidiaries or any of
them in the Transaction Documents shall be disregarded.
(b) Organization
and Qualification . The Company and each of the
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, 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 nor default of any of the provisions of its respective
certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other
organizational or charter documents. Each of the Company
and the Subsidiaries 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 have or reasonably be expected to result in:
(i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or
enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse
effect on the results of operations, assets, business, prospects or
condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect
on the Company’s ability to perform in any material respect
on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction Document
(any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “ Material Adverse
Effect ”) and no Proceeding has been instituted in any
such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to
revoke, limit or curtail such power and authority or
qualification.
(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 and
otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and
thereunder. The execution and delivery of each of the
Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of
the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly
authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and
no further action is required by the Company, the Board of
Directors or the Company’s stockholders in connection
therewith other than in connection with the Required
Approvals. Each Transaction Document to which it is a
party has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by
the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof
and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation of
the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its
terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and
other laws of general application affecting enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating
to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or
other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and
contribution provisions may be limited by applicable
law.
(d) No
Conflicts . The execution, delivery and performance
by the Company of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and sale
of the Securities and the consummation by it of the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby to which it is a party do not and
will not: (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the
Company’s or any Subsidiary’s certificate or articles
of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter
documents, (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event
that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default)
under, result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the
properties or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary, 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
(evidencing a Company or Subsidiary debt or otherwise) 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) subject to the Required Approvals,
conflict with or 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 each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not have or
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(e) Filings,
Consents and Approvals . The Company is not 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 of the Transaction Documents, other
than: (i) the filings required pursuant to Section 4.6 of this
Agreement, (ii) the notice and/or application(s) to each applicable
Trading Market for the issuance and sale of the Securities and the
listing of the Warrant Shares for trading thereon in the time and
manner required thereby and (iii) the filing of Form D with the
Commission and such filings as are required to be made under
applicable state securities laws (collectively, the “
Required Approvals ”).
(f) Issuance of the
Securities . The Securities are duly authorized and,
when issued and paid for in accordance with the applicable
Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid
and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the
Company other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the
Transaction Documents. The Warrant Shares, when issued
in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents, will be
validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all
Liens imposed by the Company other than restrictions on transfer
provided for in the Transaction Documents. The Company
has reserved from its duly authorized capital stock the maximum
number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the
Warrants.
(g)
Capitalization . The capitalization of the
Company is as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g) , which
Schedule 3.1(g) shall also include the number of shares of
Common Stock owned beneficially, and of record, by Affiliates of
the Company as of the date hereof. The Company has not issued any
capital stock since its most recently filed periodic report under
the Exchange Act, other than pursuant to the exercise of employee
stock options under the Company’s stock option plans, the
issuance of shares of Common Stock to employees pursuant to the
Company’s employee stock purchase plans and pursuant to the
conversion and/or exercise of Common Stock Equivalents outstanding
as of the date of the most recently filed periodic report under the
Exchange Act. No Person has any right of first refusal,
preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to
participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents. Except as a result of the purchase and sale
of the Securities, there are no outstanding options, warrants,
scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character
whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations
convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any
Person any right to subscribe for or acquire any shares of Common
Stock, or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by
which the Company or any Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue
additional shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents. The
issuance and sale of the Securities will not obligate the Company
to issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any Person
(other than the Purchasers) and will not result in a right of any
holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise, conversion,
exchange or reset price under any of such securities. All of the
outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are validly
issued, fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in
compliance with all federal and state securities laws, and none of
such outstanding shares was issued in violation of any preemptive
rights or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase
securities. No further approval or authorization of any
stockholder, the Board of Directors or others is required for the
issuance and sale of the Securities. Except as set forth
on Schedule 3.1(g) , there are no stockholders agreements,
voting agreements or other similar agreements with respect to the
Company’s capital stock to which the Company is a party or,
to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the
Company’s stockholders.
(h) SEC Reports;
Financial Statements . The Company has filed all
reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required
to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the
Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof,
for the two years preceding the date hereof (or such shorter period
as the Company was required by law or regulation to file such
material) (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto
and documents incorporated by reference therein, being collectively
referred to herein as the “ SEC Reports ”) on a
timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of
filing and has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration
of any such extension. As of their respective dates, the
SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements
of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none
of the SEC Reports, when filed, 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 the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading. The Company has never been an
issuer subject to Rule 144(i) under the Securities Act. 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 United
States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a
consistent basis during the periods involved (“ GAAP
”), except as may be otherwise specified in such financial
statements or the notes thereto and except that unaudited financial
statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, 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.
(i) Material
Changes; Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments
. Since the date of the latest audited financial
statements included within the SEC Reports, except as specifically
disclosed in a subsequent SEC Report filed prior to the date
hereof: (i) there has been no event, occurrence or development that
has had or that could reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the Company has not incurred any
liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade payables
and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practice and (B) liabilities not required to
be reflected in the Company’s financial statements pursuant
to GAAP or disclosed in filings made with the Commission, (iii) the
Company has not altered its method of accounting, (iv) the Company
has not declared or made any dividend or distribution of cash or
other property to its stockholders or purchased, redeemed or made
any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital
stock and (v) the Company has not issued any equity securities to
any officer, director or Affiliate, except pursuant to existing
Company stock option plans. The Company does not have pending
before the Commission any request for confidential treatment of
information. Except for the issuance of the Securities
contemplated by this Agreement or as set forth on Schedule
3.1(i) , no event, liability, fact, circumstance, occurrence or
development has occurred or exists or is reasonably expected to
occur or exist with respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or
their respective business, properties, operations, assets or
financial condition, that would be required to be disclosed by the
Company under applicable securities laws at the time this
representation is made or deemed made that has not been publicly
disclosed at least 1 Trading Day prior to the date that this
representation is made.
(j) Litigation
. There is no action, suit, inquiry, notice of
violation, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge
of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company, any
Subsidiary or any of their respective properties before or by any
court, arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency or
regulatory authority (federal, state, county, local or foreign)
(collectively, an “ Action ”) which (i)
adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or
enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents or the
Securities or (ii) could, if there were an unfavorable decision,
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. 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) Labor
Relations . No material labor dispute exists or, to
the knowledge of the Company, is imminent with respect to any of
the employees of the Company, which could reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect. None of the
Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ employees is a member of
a union that relates to such employee’s relationship with the
Company or such Subsidiary, and neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries is a party to a collective bargaining agreement, and
the Company and its Subsidiaries believe that their relationships
with their employees are good. No executive officer, to
the knowledge of the Company, is, or is now expected to be, in
violation of any material term of any employment contract,
confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement or
non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or
any restrictive covenant in favor of any third party, and the
continued employment of each such executive officer does not
subject the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any liability
with respect to any of the foregoing matters. The
Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all U.S.
federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations relating to
employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of
employment and wages and hours, except where the failure to be in
compliance could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(l) Compliance
. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary: (i) is in
default under or in violation of (and no event has occurred that
has not been waived that, with notice or lapse of time or both,
would result in a default by the Company or any Subsidiary under),
nor has the Company or any Subsidiary received notice of a claim
that it is in default under or that it is in violation of, any
indenture, loan or credit agreement or any other agreement or
instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its
properties is bound (whether or not such default or violation has
been waived), (ii) is in violation of any judgment, decree or order
of any court, arbitrator or governmental body or (iii) is or has
been in violation of any statute, rule, ordinance or regulation of
any governmental authority, including without limitation all
foreign, federal, state and local laws applicable to its business
and all such laws that affect the environment, except in each case
as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect.
(m) Regulatory
Permits . The Company and the Subsidiaries possess
all certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the
appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory authorities
necessary to conduct their respective businesses as described in
the SEC Reports, except where the failure to possess such permits
could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect (“ Material Permits ”), and neither the
Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings
relating to the revocation or modification of any Material
Permit.
(n) Title to
Assets . The Company and the Subsidiaries have good
and marketable title in fee simple to all real property owned by
them and good and marketable title in all personal property owned
by them that is material to the business of the Company and the
Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all Liens, except for
Liens as do not materially affect the value of such property and do
not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made
of such property by the Company and the Subsidiaries and Liens for
the payment of federal, state or other taxes, the payment of which
is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties. Any real
property and facilities held under lease by the Company and the
Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and
enforceable leases with which the Company and the Subsidiaries are
in compliance.
(o) Patents and
Trademarks . The Company and the Subsidiaries have,
or have rights to use, all patents, patent applications,
trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names,
trade secrets, inventions, copyrights, licenses and other
intellectual property rights and similar rights as described in the
SEC Reports as necessary or material for use in connection with
their respective businesses and which the failure to so have could
have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, the “
Intellectual Property Rights ”). Neither
the Company nor any Subsidiary has received a notice (written or
otherwise) that any of the Intellectual Property Rights used by the
Company or any Subsidiary violates or infringes upon the rights of
any Person. To the knowledge of the Company, all such Intellectual
Property Rights are enforceable and there is no existing
infringement by another Person of any of the Intellectual Property
Rights. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken
reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy,
confidentiality and value of all of their intellectual properties,
except where failure to do so could not, individually or in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(p) Insurance
. The Company and the Subsidiaries are insured by
insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses
and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the
businesses in which the Company and the Subsidiaries are engaged,
including, but not limited to, directors and officers insurance
coverage at least equal to the aggregate Subscription
Amount. Neither the Company nor any 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 without a significant increase in
cost.
(q) Transactions
With Affiliates and Employees . Except as set forth
in the SEC Reports, none of the officers or directors of the
Company and, to the knowledge of the Company, none of the employees
of the Company is presently a party to any transaction with the
Company or any Subsidiary (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 entity in
which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial
interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner, in each
case in excess of $120,000 other than for: (i) payment of salary or
consulting fees for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for
expenses incurred on behalf of the Company and (iii) other employee
benefits, including stock option agreements under any stock option
plan of the Company.
(r) Sarbanes-Oxley;
Internal Accounting Controls . The Company is in
material compliance with all provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
of 2002 which are applicable to it as of each Closing
Date. 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
accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in
accordance with management’s general or specific
authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is
compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and
appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The
Company has established disclosure controls and procedures (as
defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the
Company and designed such disclosure controls and procedures to
ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in
the reports it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded,
processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods
specified in the Commission’s rules and forms. The
Company’s certifying officers have evaluated the
effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and
procedures as of the end of the period covered by the
Company’s most recently filed periodic report under the
Exchange Act (such date, the “ Evaluation Date
”). The Company presented in its most recently
filed periodic report under the Exchange Act the conclusions of the
certifying officers about the effectiveness of the disclosure
controls and procedures based on their evaluations as of the
Evaluation Date. Since the Evaluation Date, there have
been no changes in the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act)
that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially
affect, the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting.
(s) Certain
Fees . 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 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.
(t) Private
Placement . Assuming the accuracy of the
Purchasers’ representations and warranties set forth in
Section 3.2, no registration under the Securities Act is required
for the offer and sale of the Securities by the Company to the
Purchasers as contemplated hereby. The issuance and sale of the
Securities hereunder does not contravene the rules and regulations
of the Trading Market.
(u) Investment
Company . The Company is not, and is not an Affiliate of, and
immediately after receipt of payment for the Securities, will not
be or be an Affiliate of, an “investment company”
within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended. The Company shall conduct its business in a
manner so that it will not become an “investment
company” subject to registration under the Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended.
(v) Registration
Rights . No Person has any right to cause the
Company to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any
securities of the Company.
(w) Maintenance
Requirements . The Company has not, in the 12 months
preceding the date hereof, received notice from any Trading Market
on which the Common Stock is or has been listed or quoted to the
effect that the Company is not in compliance with the listing or
maintenance requirements of such Trading Market. The Company is,
and has no reason to believe that it will not in the foreseeable
future continue to be, in compliance with all such listing and
maintenance requirements.
(x) Application of
Takeover Protections . The Company and the 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
Company’s certificate of incorporation (or similar charter
documents) or the laws of its state of incorporation that is or
could become applicable to the Purchasers as a result of the
Purchasers and the Company fulfilling their obligations or
exercising their rights under the Transaction Documents, including
without limitation as a result of the Company’s issuance of
the Securities and the Purchasers’ ownership of the
Securities.
(y) Disclosure
. Except with respect to the material terms and
conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents and except for any information provided to Jess Jones in
his capacity as a director of the Company, the Company confirms
that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has
provided any of the Purchasers or their agents or counsel with any
information that it believes constitutes or might constitute
material, non-public information. The Company
understands and confirms that the Purchasers will rely on the
foregoing representation in effecting transactions in securities of
the Company. All of the disclosure furnished by or on
behalf of the Company to the Purchasers regarding the Company, its
business and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the
Disclosure Schedules to this Agreement, is true and correct and
does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements
made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading. The press releases
disseminated by the Company during the twelve months preceding the
date of this Agreement taken as a whole do not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit 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 and when made, not misleading. The Company
acknowledges and agrees that no Purchaser makes or has made any
representations or warranties with respect to the transactions
contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in
Section 3.2 hereof.
(z) No Integrated
Offering . Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’
representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, neither
the Company, nor any of its Affiliates, nor any Person acting on
its or 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 cause this offering of the
Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for
purposes of (i) the Securities Act which would require the
registration of any such securities under the Securities Act, or
(ii) any applicable shareholder approval provisions of any Trading
Market on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or
designated.
(aa) Solvency
. As of the date hereof and as of the date of each
Advance, Company does not intend to incur debts beyond its ability
to pay such debts as they mature (taking into account the timing
and amounts of cash to be payable on or in respect of its
debt). The Company has no knowledge of any facts or
circumstances which lead it to believe that it will file for
reorganization or liquidation under the bankruptcy or
reorganization laws of any jurisdiction within one year from the
Closing Date and each Draw-Down Date. Schedule
3.1(aa) sets forth as of the date hereof all outstanding
secured and unsecured Indebtedness of the Company or any
Subsidiary, or for which the Company or any Subsidiary has
commitments. For the purposes of this Agreement, “
Indebtedness ” means (x) any liabilities for borrowed
money or amounts owed in excess of $50,000 (other than trade
accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (y)
all guaranties, endorsements and other contingent obligations in
respect of indebtedness of others, whether or not the same are or
should be reflected in the Company’s balance sheet (or the
notes thereto), except guaranties by endorsement of negotiable
instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in
the ordinary course of business; and (z) the present value of any
lease payments in excess of $50,000 due under leases required to be
capitalized in accordance with GAAP. Neither the Company
nor any Subsidiary is in default with respect to any
Indebtedness.
(bb) Tax Status
.
Except for matters that would not, individually or in the
aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect, the Company and each Subsidiary has filed all
necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise tax
returns and has paid or accrued all taxes shown as due thereon, and
the Company has no knowledge of a tax deficiency which has been
asserted or threatened against the Company or any
Subsidiary.
(cc) No General
Solicitation . Neither the Company nor any person acting on
behalf of the Company has offered or sold any of the Securities by
any form of general solicitation or general
advertising. The Company has offered the Securities for
sale only to the Purchasers and certain other “accredited
investors” within the meaning of Rule 501 under the
Securities Act.
(dd) Foreign Corrupt
Practices . Neither the Company, nor to the
knowledge of the Company, any agent or other person acting on
behalf of the Company, has: (i) directly or indirectly, used any
funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other
unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic political
activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic
government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic
political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed
to disclose fully any contribution made by the Company (or made by
any person acting on its behalf of which the Company is aware)
which is in violation of law or (iv) violated in any
material respect any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
of 1977, as amended.
(ee) Accountants
. The Company’s accounting firm is set forth on
Schedule 3.1(ee) of the Disclosure Schedules. To
the knowledge and belief of the Company, such accounting firm: (i)
is a registered public accounting firm as required by the Exchange
Act and (ii) shall express its opinion with respect to the
financial statements to be included in the Company’s Annual
Report for the year ending December 31, 2009.
(ff) Seniority
. As of the Closing Date and each Draw-Down Date, no
Indebtedness or other claim against the Company is senior to the
Debentures in right of payment, whether with respect to interest or
upon liquidation or dissolution, or otherwise, other than
indebtedness secured by purchase money security interests (which is
senior only as to underlying assets covered thereby) and capital
lease obligations (which is senior only as to the property covered
thereby).
(gg) No
Disagreements with Accountants and Lawyers . There
are no disagreements of any kind presently existing, or reasonably
anticipated by the Company to arise, between the Company and the
accountants and lawyers formerly or presently employed by the
Company and the Company is current with respect to any fees owed to
its accountants and lawyers which could affect the Company’s
ability to perform any of its obligations under any of the
Transaction Documents.
(hh) Acknowledgment
Regarding Purchasers’ Purchase of Securities
. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each of the
Purchasers is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s
length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the
transactions contemplated thereby. The Company further
acknowledges that no Purchaser is 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
thereby and any advice given by any Purchaser or any of their
respective representatives or agents in connection with the
Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is
merely incidental to the Purchasers’ purchase of the
Securities. The Company further represents to each
Purchaser that the Company’s decision to enter into this
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based solely
on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated
hereby by the Company and its representatives.
(ii) Acknowledgment
Regarding Purchaser’s Trading Activity
. Anything in this Agreement or elsewhere herein to the
contrary notwithstanding (except for Sections 3.2(f) and 4.13
hereof), it is understood and acknowledged by the Company that: (i)
none of the Purchasers have been asked by the Company to
agree, nor has any Purchaser agreed, to desist from purchasing or
selling, long and/or short, securities of the Company, or
“derivative” securities based on securities issued by
the Company or to hold the Securities for any specified term, (ii)
past or future open market or other transactions by any Purchaser,
specifically including, without limitation, Short Sales or
“derivative” transactions, before or after the closing
of this or future private placement transactions, may negatively
impact the market price of the Company’s publicly-traded
securities, (iii) any Purchaser, and counter-parties in
“derivative” transactions to which any such Purchaser
is a party, directly or indirectly, may presently have a
“short” position in the Common Stock and (iv) each
Purchaser shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or
control over any arm’s length counter-party in any
“derivative” transaction. The Company
further understands and acknowledges that (y) one or more
Purchasers may engage in hedging activities at various times during
the period that the Securities are outstanding, including, without
limitation, during the periods that the value of the Warrant Shares
deliverable with respect to Securities are being determined, and
(z) such hedging activities (if any) could reduce the value of the
existing stockholders' equity interests in the Company at and after
the time that the hedging activities are being conducted. The
Company acknowledges that such aforementioned hedging activities do
not constitute a breach of any of the Transaction
Documents.
(jj) Regulation M
Compliance . The Company has not, and to its knowledge no
one acting on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly,
any action designed to cause or to result in the stabilization or
manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to
facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Securities, (ii) sold,
bid for, purchased, or paid any compensation for soliciting
purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay
to any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase
any other securities of the Company, other than, in the case of
clauses (ii) and (iii), compensation paid to the Company’s
placement agent in connection with the placement of the
Securities.
(kk) Stock Option
Plans . Each stock option granted by the Company under the
Company’s stock option plan was granted (i) in accordance
with the terms of the Company’s stock option plan and (ii)
with an exercise price at least equal to the fair market value of
the Common Stock on the date such stock option would be considered
granted under GAAP and applicable law. No stock option granted
under the Company’s stock option plan has been
backdated. The Company has not knowingly granted, and
there is no and has been no Company policy or practice to knowingly
grant, stock options prior to, or otherwise knowingly coordinate
the grant of stock options with, the release or other public
announcement of material information regarding the Company or its
Subsidiaries or their financial results or prospects.
3.2 Representations
and Warranties of the Purchasers . Each
Purchaser, for itself and for no other Purchaser, hereby represents
and warrants as of the date hereof and as of each Closing Date and
the date of each Advance to the Company as follows (unless as of a
specific date therein):
(a) Organization;
Authority . Such Purchaser is either an individual
or an entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization with full
right, corporate or partnership power and authority to enter into
and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and
thereunder. The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents
and performance by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated
by the Transaction Documents have been duly authorized by all
necessary corporate, partnership, limited liability company or
similar action, as applicable, on the part of such
Purchaser. Each Transaction Document to which it is a
party has been duly executed by such Purchaser, and when delivered
by such Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof, will
constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of such
Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms,
except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and
other laws of general application affecting enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating
to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or
other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and
contribution provisions may be limited by applicable
law.
(b) Own Account
. Such Purchaser understands that the Securities are
“restricted securities” and have not been registered
under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law and
is acquiring the Securities as principal for its own account and
not with a view to or for distributing or reselling such Securities
or any part thereof in violation of the Securities Act or any
applicable state securities law, has no present intention of
distributing any of such Securities in violation of the Securities
Act or any applicable state securities law and has no direct or
indirect arrangement or understandings with any other persons to
distribute or regarding the distribution of such Securities in
violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities
law (this representation and warranty not limiting such
Purchaser’s right to sell the Securities pursuant to a
Registration Statement or otherwise in compliance with applicable
federal and state securities laws). Such Purchaser is
acquiring the Securities hereunder in the ordinary course of its
business.
(c) Purchaser
Status . At the time such Purchaser was offered the
Securities, it was, and as of the date hereof it is, and on each
date on which it exercises any Warrants it will be either: (i) an
“accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a)(1),
(a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(7) or (a)(8) under the Securities Act or (ii) a
“qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule
144A(a) under the Securities Act. Such Purchaser is not
required to be registered as a broker-dealer under Section 15 of
the Exchange Act.
(d) Experience of
Such Purchaser . Such Purchaser, either alone or
together with its representatives, has such knowledge,
sophistication and experience in business and financial matters so
as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the
prospective investment in the Securities, and has so evaluated the
merits and risks of such investment. Such Purchaser is
able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Securities
and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete loss of such
investment.
(e) General
Solicitation . Such Purchaser is not purchasing the
Securities as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or
other communication regarding the Securities published in any
newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television
or radio or presented at any seminar or any other general
solicitation or general advertisement.
(f) Certain
Transactions and Confidentiality . Other than
consummating the transactions contemplated hereunder, such
Purchaser has not directly or indirectly, nor has any Person acting
on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with such Purchaser,
executed any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the
securities of the Company during the period commencing as of the
time that such Purchaser first received a term sheet (written or
oral) from the Company or any other Person representing the Company
setting forth the material terms of the transactions contemplated
hereunder and ending immediately prior to the execution
hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a
Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby
separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such
Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct
knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio
managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets,
the representation set forth above shall only apply with respect to
the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made
the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this
Agreement. Other than to other Persons party to this
Agreement, such Purchaser has maintained the confidentiality of all
disclosures made to it in connection with this transaction
(including the existence and terms of this transaction).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, for avoidance of doubt, nothing
contained herein shall constitute a representation or warranty, or
preclude any actions, with respect to the identification of the
availability of, or securing of, available shares to borrow in
order to effect Short Sales or similar transactions in the
future.
The Company
acknowledges and agrees that the representations contained in
Section 3.2 shall not modify, amend or affect such
Purchaser’s right to rely on the Company’s
representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any
representations and warranties contained in any other Transaction
Document or any other document or instrument executed and/or
delivered in connection with this Agreement or the consummation of
the transaction contemplated hereby.
ARTICLE IV.
OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE
PARTIES
4.1 Transfer
Restrictions .
(a) The Securities may
only be disposed of in compliance with state and federal securities
laws. In connection with any transfer of Securities
other than pursuant to an effective registration statement or Rule
144, to the Company or to an Affiliate of a Purchaser or in
connection with a pledge as contemplated in Section 4.1(b), the
Company may require the transferor thereof to provide to the
Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor and
reasonably acceptable to the Company, the form and substance of
which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to
the effect that such transfer does not require registration of such
transferred Securities under the Securities Act. As a
condition of transfer, any such transferee shall agree in writing
to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and shall have the
rights and obligations of a Purchaser under this
Agreement.
(b) The Purchasers
agree to the imprinting, so long as is required by this Section
4.1, of a legend on any of the Securities in the following
form:
[NEITHER] THIS
SECURITY [NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THIS SECURITY IS
EXERCISABLE] HAS [NOT] BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN
RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND,
ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN
EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR
PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT
SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND
IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY
A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE
SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE
COMPANY. THIS SECURITY [AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON
EXERCISE OF THIS SECURITY] MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA
FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT WITH A REGISTERED BROKER-DEALER OR OTHER LOAN
WITH A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION THAT IS AN “ACCREDITED
INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(A) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.
The Company acknowledges and agrees that a
Purchaser may from time to time pledge pursuant to a bona fide
margin agreement with a registered broker-dealer or grant a
security interest in some or all of the Securities to a financial
institution that is an “accredited investor” as defined
in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and who agrees to be bound
by the provisions of this Agreement and, if required under the
terms of such arrangement, such Purchaser may transfer pledged or
secured Securities to the pledgees or secured
parties. Such a pledge or transfer would not be subject
to approval of the Company and no legal opinion of legal counsel of
the pledgee, secured party or pledgor shall be required in
connection therewith. Further, no notice shall be
required of such pledge. At the appropriate
Purchaser’s expense, the Company will execute and deliver
such reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party of
Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or
transfer of the Securities, including, if the Securities are
subject to registration, the preparation and filing of any required
prospectus supplement under Rule 424(b)(3) under the Securities Act
or other applicable provision of the Securities Act to
appropriately amend the list of selling stockholders
thereunder.
(c) Certificates
evidencing the Warrant Shares shall not contain any legend
(including the legend set forth in Section 4.1(b) hereof): (i)
while a registration statement covering the resale of such security
is effective under the Securities Act, (ii) following any sale of
such Warrant Shares pursuant to Rule 144, (iii) if such Warrant
Shares are eligible for sale under Rule 144, without the
requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current
public information required under Rule 144 as to such Warrant
Shares and without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or (iv) if
such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the
Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and
pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission). After the
delivery of any required documentation from a Purchaser or its
prime broker, the Company shall cause its counsel to issue a legal
opinion to the Transfer Agent promptly after the Effective Date if
required by the Transfer Agent to effect the removal of the legend
hereunder. If all or any portion of a Warrant is
exercised at a time when there is an effective registration
statement to cover the resale of the Warrant Shares, or if such
Warrant Shares may be sold under Rule 144 and the Company is then
in compliance with the current public information required under
Rule 144, or if such Warrant Shares may be sold under Rule 144
without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with
the current public information required under Rule 144 as to such
Warrant Shares and without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or
if such legend is not otherwise required under applicable
requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial
interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the
Commission) then such Warrant Shares shall be issued free of all
legends. The Company agrees that following the Effective
Date or at such time as such legend is no longer required under
this Section 4.1(c), it will, no later than three Trading Days
following the delivery by a Purchaser to the Company or the
Transfer Agent of a certificate representing Warrant Shares, as
applicable, issued with a restrictive legend (such third Trading
Day, the “ Legend Removal Date ”), deliver or
cause to be delivered to such Purchaser a certificate representing
such shares that is free from all restrictive and other
legends. The Company may not make any notation on its
records or give instructions to the Transfer Agent that enlarge the
restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section
4. Certificates for Warrant Shares subject to legend
removal hereunder shall be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the
Purchaser by crediting the account of the Purchaser’s prime
broker with the Depository Trust Company System as directed by such
Purchaser.
(d) In addition to
such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall
pay to a Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not
as a penalty, for each $1,000 of Warrant Shares (based on the VWAP
of the Common Stock on the date such Securities are submitted to
the Transfer Agent) delivered for removal of the restrictive legend
and subject to Section 4.1(c), $10 per Trading Day (increasing to
$20 per Trading Day five (5) Trading Days after such damages have
begun to accrue) for each Trading Day after the Legend Removal Date
until such certificate is delivered without a legend, after the
delivery of any required documentation from a Purchaser or its
prime broker. Nothing herein shall limit such
Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the
Company’s failure to deliver certificates representing any
Securities as required by the Transaction Documents, and such
Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to
it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of
specific performance and/or injunctive relief.
(e) Each Purchaser,
severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees with
the Company that such Purchaser will sell any Securities pursuant
to either the registration requirements of the Securities Act,
including any applicable prospectus delivery requirements, or an
exemption therefrom, and that if Securities are sold pursuant to a
Registration Statement, they will be sold in compliance with the
plan of distribution set forth therein, and acknowledges that the
removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing
Securities as set forth in this Section 4.1 is predicated upon the
Company’s reliance upon this understanding.
4.2 Acknowledgment
of Dilution . The Company acknowledges that the
issuance of the Securities may result in dilution of the
outstanding shares of Common Stock, which dilution may be
substantial under certain market conditions. The Company
further acknowledges that its obligations under the Transaction
Documents, including, without limitation, its obligation to issue
the Warrant Shares pursuant to the Transaction Documents, are
unconditional and absolute and not subject to any right of set off,
counterclaim, delay or reduction, regardless of the effect of any
such dilution or any claim the Company may have against any
Purchaser and regardless of the dilutive effect that such issuance
may have on the ownership of the other stockholders of the
Company.
4.3 Furnishing of
Information; Public Information .
(a) Until the earliest
of the time that (i) no Purchaser owns Securities or (ii) the
Warrants have expired, the Company covenants to timely file (or
obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable
grace period) all periodic reports (i.e. 10-K, 10-Q and 8-Ks)
required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant
to the Exchange Act even if the Company is not then subject to the
reporting requirements of the Exchange
Act. As long as any Purchaser owns
Securities, if the Company is not required to file reports pursuant
to the Exchange Act, it will prepare and furnish to the Purchasers
and make publicly available in accordance with Rule 144(c) such
information as is required for the Purchasers to sell the
Securities, including without limitation, under Rule
144. The Company further covenants that it will take
such further action as any holder of Securities may reasonably
request, to the extent required from time to time to enable such
Person to sell such Securities without registration under the
Securities Act, including without limitation, within the
requirements of the exemption provided by Rule 144.
(b) At
any time during the period commencing from the six (6) month
anniversary of the date hereof and ending at such time that all of
the Securities may be sold without the requirement for the Company
to be in compliance with Rule 144(c)(1) and otherwise without
restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144, if the Company
shall fail for any reason to satisfy the current public information
requirement under Rule 144(c) (a “ Public Information
Failure ”) then, in addition to such Purchaser’s
other available remedies, the Company shall pay to a Purchaser, in
cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, by reason
of any such delay in or reduction of its ability to sell the
Securities, an amount in cash equal to two percent (2.0%) of the
aggregate Subscription Amount of such Purchaser’s Securities
on the day of a Public Information Failure and on every thirtieth
(30 th
) day (pro rated for periods
totaling less than thirty days) thereafter until the earlier of (a)
the date such Public Information Failure is cured and (b) such time
that such public information is no longer required for the
Purchasers to transfer the Warrant Shares pursuant to Rule
144. The payments to which a Purchaser shall be entitled
pursuant to this Section 4.3(b) are referred to herein as “
Public Information Failure Payments .” Public
Information Failure Payments shall be paid on the
earlier of (i) the last day of the calendar month during which such
Public Information Failure Payments are incurred and
(ii) the third (3 rd )
Business Day after the event or failure giving rise to the Public
Information Failure Payments is cured. In the
event the Company fails to make Public Information Failure
Payments in a timely manner, such Public Information
Failure Payments shall bear interest at the rate of
1.5% per month (prorated for partial months) until paid in full.
Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue
actual damages for the Public Information Failure, and such
Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to
it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of
specific performance and/or injunctive relief.
4.4 Integration
. The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit
offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as
defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be
integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities in a manner
that would require the registration under the Securities Act of the
sale of the Securities or that would be integrated with the offer
or sale of the Securities for purposes of the rules and regulations
of any Trading Market such that it would require shareholder
approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless
shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of such
subsequent transaction.
4.5 Exercise
Procedures . Each of the form of Notice of Exercise
included in the Warrants set forth the totality of the procedures
required of the Purchasers in order to exercise the
Warrants. No additional legal opinion, other information
or instructions shall be required of the Purchasers to exercise
their Warrants. The Company shall honor exercises of the
Warrants and shall deliver Warrants Shares in accordance with the
terms, conditions and time periods set forth in the Transaction
Documents.
4.6 Securities Laws
Disclosure; Publicity . The Company shall, by 8:30
a.m. (New York City time) on the Trading Day immediately following
the date hereof, issue a Current Report on Form 8-K and press
release disclosing the material terms of the transactions
contemplated hereby, and including the Transaction Documents as
exhibits thereto. From and after the issuance of such
press release, the Company shall have publicly disclosed all
material, non-public information delivered to any of the Purchasers
by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any of their
respective officers, directors, employees or agents in connection
with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
The Company and each Purchaser shall consult with each other in
issuing any other press releases with respect to the transactions
contemplated hereby, and neither the Company nor any Purchaser
shall issue any such press release nor otherwise make any such
public statement without the prior consent of the Company, with
respect to any press release of any Purchaser, or without the prior
consent of each Purchaser, with respect to any press release of the
Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or
delayed, except if such disclosure is required by law, in which
case the disclosing party shall promptly provide the other party
with prior notice of such public statement or
communication. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Company shall not publicly disclose the name of any Purchaser, or
include the name of any Purchaser in any filing with the Commission
or any regulatory agency or Trading Market, without the prior
written consent of such Purchaser, except: (a) as required by
federal securities law in connection with the filing of final
Transaction Documents (including signature pages thereto) with the
Commission and (b) to the extent such disclosure is required by law
or Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company shall
provide the Purchasers with prior notice of such disclosure
permitted under this clause (b).
4.7 Shareholder
Rights Plan . No claim will be made or enforced by
the Company or, with the consent of the Company, any other Person,
that any Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person” under any
control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill
(including any distribution under a rights agreement) or similar
anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by
the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the
provisions of any such plan or arrangement, by virtue of receiving
Securities under the Transaction Documents or under any other
agreement between the Company and the Purchasers.
4.8 Non-Public
Information . Except with respect to the material
terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents, and the provision of the budgets required by
Section 2.3(a), the Company covenants and agrees that neither it,
nor any other Person acting on its behalf, will provide any
Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that the
Company believes constitutes material non-public information,
unless prior thereto such Purchaser shall have executed a written
agreement with the Company regarding the confidentiality and use of
such information. The Company understands and confirms
that each Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in
effecting transactions in securities of the Company.
4.9 Use of
Proceeds . Except as set forth on Schedule
4.9 attached hereto, the Company shall use the net proceeds
from the sale of the Securities hereunder for working capital
purposes and shall not use such proceeds for: (a) the satisfaction
of any portion of the Company’s debt (other than payment of
trade payables in the ordinary course of the Company’s
business and prior practices), (b) the redemption of any Common
Stock or Common Stock Equivalents or (c) the settlement of any
outstanding litigation.
4.10 Indemnification
of Purchasers . Subject to the provisions of
this Section 4.10, the Company will indemnify and hold each
Purchaser and its directors, officers, shareholders, members,
partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a
functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles
notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each
Person who controls such Purchaser (within the meaning of Section
15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and
the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members, partners or
employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent
role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such
title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a
“ Purchaser Party ”) harmless from any and all
losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages,
costs and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in
settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and
costs of investigation that any such Purchaser Party may suffer or
incur as a result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the
representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the
Company in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or
(b) any action instituted against a Purchaser in any capacity, or
any of them or their respective Affiliates, by any stockholder of
the Company who is not an Affiliate of such Purchaser, with respect
to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents (unless such action is based upon a breach of such
Purchaser’s representations, warranties or covenants under
the Transaction Documents or any agreements or understandings such
Purchaser may have with any such stockholder or any violations by
such Purchaser of state or federal securities laws or
any conduct by such Purchaser which constitutes fraud, gross
negligence, willful misconduct or malfeasance). If any
action shall be brought against any Purchaser Party in respect of
which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, such
Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and
the Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with
counsel of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser
Party. Any Purchaser Party shall have the right to
employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the
defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be
at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the extent that
(i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the
Company in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable
period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or
(iii) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of
counsel, a material conflict on any material issue between the
position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party,
in which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable
fees and expenses of no more than one such separate
counsel. The Company will not be liable to any Purchaser
Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by a Purchaser
Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent,
which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the
extent, but only to the extent that a loss, claim, damage or
liability is attributable to any Purchaser Party’s breach of
any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements
made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement or in the other
Transaction Documents.
4.11 Reservation and
Listing of Securities .
(a) The Company shall
maintain a reserve from its duly authorized shares of Common Stock
for issuance upon exercise of the Warrants.
(b) The Company hereby
agrees to use best efforts to maintain the listing or quotation of
the Common Stock on the Trading Market on which it is currently
listed, and concurrently with each Closing, as applicable the
Company shall apply to list or quote all of the Warrant Shares on
such Trading Market and promptly secure the listing of all of the
Warrant Shares on such Trading Market. The Company further agrees,
if the Company applies to have the Common Stock traded on any other
Trading Market, it will then include in such application all of the
Warrant Shares, and will take such other action as is necessary to
cause all of the Warrant Shares to be listed or quoted on such
other Trading Market as promptly as possible. The
Company will then take all action reasonably necessary to continue
the listing or quotation and trading of its Common Stock on a
Trading Market and will comply in all respects with the
Company’s reporting, filing and other obligations under the
bylaws or rules of the Trading Market.
4.12 Equal Treatment
of Purchasers . No consideration (including any
modification of any Transaction Document) shall be offered or paid
to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of
any provision of any of the Transaction Documents unless the same
consideration is also offered to all of the parties to the
Transaction Documents. Further, the Company shall not make any
payment of principal on the Debentures in amounts which are
disproportionate to the respective principal amounts outstanding on
the Debentures at any applicable time. For clarification
purposes, this provision constitutes a separate right granted to
each Purchaser by the Company and negotiated separately by each
Purchaser, and is intended for the Company to treat the Purchasers
as a class and shall not in any way be construed as the Purchasers
acting in concert or as a group with respect to the purchase,
disposition or voting of Securities or otherwise.
4.13 Certain
Transactions and Confidentiality . Each Purchaser, severally
and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that neither
it, nor any Affiliate acting on its behalf or pursuant to any
understanding with it will execute any purchases or sales,
including Short Sales, of any of the Company’s securities
during the period commencing with the execution of this Agreement
and ending at such time that the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to the initial
press release as described in Section 4.6. Each Purchaser,
severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that
until such time as the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
are publicly disclosed by the Company pursuant to the initial press
release as described in Section 4.6, such Purchaser will maintain
the confidentiality of the existence and terms of this transaction
and the information included in the Transaction Documents and the
Disclosure Schedules. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and
notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the
contrary, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that (i) no
Purchaser makes any representation, warranty or covenant hereby
that it will not engage in effecting transactions in any securities
of the Company after the time that the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to the initial
press release as described in Section 4.6, (ii) no Purchaser shall
be restricted or prohibited from effecting any transactions in any
securities of the Company in accordance with applicable securities
laws from and after the time that the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to the initial
press release as described in Section 4.6 and (iii) no Purchaser
shall have any duty of confidentiality to the Company or its
Subsidiaries after the issuance of the initial press release as
described in Section 4.6. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in
the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle
whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of
such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no
direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio
managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets,
the covenant set forth above shall only apply with respect to the
portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the
investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this
Agreement.
4.14 Limitations on
PIPE Securities . The Company shall not permit the PIPE
Securities to include any adjustment provisions pursuant to which
the conversion price or exercise price of any such PIPE Securities,
or any price pursuant to which any of the PIPE Securities shall be
convertible, exchangeable or exercisable or the like, shall adjust
downward as a result of the issuance of any Series II Warrants
without the prior written consent of the Majority Purchaser. The
Company shall provide the Majority Purchaser with copies of the
final versions of all transaction documents for the PIPE
Transaction that include or relate to any such adjustment
provisions.
ARTICLE V.
MISCELLANEOUS
5.1 Termination
. This Agreement may be terminated by any Purchaser, as to
such Purchaser’s obligations hereunder only and without any
effect whatsoever on the obligations between the Company and the
other Purchasers, by written notice to the other parties, if the
Closing has not been consummated on or before July 31, 2009;
provided , however , that such termination will not
affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by the other
party (or parties).
5.2 Fees and
Expenses . At the Closing, the Company has agreed to
reimburse Vision Capital Advisors, LLC (“ Vision
Capital ”) the non-accountable sum of $25,000 for its
legal fees and expenses, none of which has been paid prior to the
Closing and of which shall be wired per the wire instructions set
forth on Schedule 5.2 attached hereto. Except as
expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents to the contrary,
each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisers,
counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other
expenses incurred by such party incident to the negotiation,
preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement. The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent
fees, stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection
with the delivery of any Securities to the Purchasers.
5.3 Entire
Agreement . The Transaction Documents, together with
the exhibits and schedules thereto, contain the entire
understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter
hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral
or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties
acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and
schedules.
5.4 Notices
. Any and all notices or other communications or
deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be
in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest
of: (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication
is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the
signature pages attached hereto prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City
time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the date of
transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via
facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages
attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than
5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the second
(2 nd
) Trading Day following the date of
mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier
service or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice
is required to be given. The address for such notices
and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages
attached hereto.
5.5 Amendments;
Waivers . No provision of this Agreement may be
waived, modified, supplemented or amended except in a written
instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Company and
the Purchasers holding at least a majority in interest of the
Securities then outstanding or, in the case of a waiver, by the
party against whom enforcement of any such waived provision is
sought. No waiver of any default with respect to any
provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be
deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any
subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or
requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to
exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of
any such right.
5.6 Headings
. The headings herein are for convenience only, do not
constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to
limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.
5.7 Successors and
Assigns . This Agreement shall be binding upon and
inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and
permitted assigns. The Company may not assign this
Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior
written consent of each Purchaser (other than by
merger). Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its
rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom such Purchaser
assigns or transfers any Securities, provided that such transferee
agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred
Securities, by the provisions of the Transaction Documents that
apply to the “Purchasers.”
5.8 No Third-Party
Beneficiaries . This Agreement is intended for the
benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and
permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any
provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, except as
otherwise set forth in Section 4.10.
5.9 Governing
Law . All questions concerning the construction,
validity, enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction
Documents shall be governed by and construed and enforced in
accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without
regard to the principles of conflicts of law
thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings
concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other
Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or
its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders,
employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state
and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each
party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of
the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York,
borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder
or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated
hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the
enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby
irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or
proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the
jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or
proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such
proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives
personal service of process and consents to process being served in
any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via
registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence
of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to
it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall
constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice
thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to
limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner
permitted by law. If either party shall commence
an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of the
Transaction Documents, then, in addition to the obligations of the
Company under Section 4.10, the prevailing party in such action or
proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its
reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses
incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of
such action or proceeding.
5.10 Survival
. The representations and warranties contained herein
shall survive each Closing and the delivery of the Securities and
the date of each Advance.
5.11 Execution
. This Agreement may be executed in two or more
counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered
one and the same agreement and shall become effective when
counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the
other party, it being understood that both parties need not sign
the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is
delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a
“.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a
valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose
behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect
as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an
original thereof.
5.12
Severability . If any term, provision, covenant or
restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the
remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set
forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no
way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto
shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ
an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same
result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or
restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the
intention of the parties that they would have executed the
remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without
including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid,
illegal, void or unenforceable.
5.13 Rescission and
Withdrawal Right . Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions
of) any of the other Transaction Documents, whenever any Purchaser
exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction
Document and the Company does not timely perform its related
obligations within the periods therein provided, then such
Purchaser may rescind or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time
to time upon written notice to the Company, any relevant notice,
demand or election in whole or in part without prejudice to its
future actions and rights; provided , however , that
in the case of a rescission of an exercise of a Warrant, the
applicable Purchaser shall be required to return any shares of
Common Stock subject to any such rescinded exercise notice
concurrently with the return to such Purchaser of the aggregate
exercise price paid to the Company for such shares and the
restoration of such Purchaser’s right to acquire such shares
pursuant to such Purchaser’s Warrant (including, issuance of
a replacement warrant certificate evidencing such restored
right).
5.14 Replacement of
Securities . If any certificate or instrument
evidencing any Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed,
the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and
substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of
mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new
certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence
reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or
destruction. The applicant for a new certificate or
instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable
third-party costs (including customary indemnity) associated with
the issuance of such replacement Securities.
5.15 Remedies
. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights
provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages,
each of the Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to specific
performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties
agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for
any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations contained
in the Transaction Documents and hereby agree to waive and not to
assert in any action for specific performance of any such
obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be
adequate.
5.16 Payment Set
Aside . To the extent that the Company makes a payment or
payments to any Purchaser pursuant to any Transaction Document or a
Purchaser enforces or exercises its rights thereunder, and such
payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise
or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be
fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged by
or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the
Company, a trustee, receiver or any other person under any law
(including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, state or
federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to the
extent of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof
originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued
in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or
such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.
5.17 Usury
. To the extent it may lawfully do so, the Company
hereby agrees not to insist upon or plead or in any manner
whatsoever claim, and will resist any and all efforts to be
compelled to take the benefit or advantage of, usury laws wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, in connection with
any claim, action or proceeding that may be brought by any
Purchaser in order to enforce any right or remedy under any
Transaction Document. Notwithstanding any provision to
the contrary contained in any Transaction Document, it is expressly
agreed and provided that the total liability of the Company under
the Transaction Documents for payments in the nature of interest
shall not exceed the maximum lawful rate authorized under
applicable law (the “ Maximum Rate ”), and,
without limiting the foregoing, in no event shall any rate of
interest or default interest, or both of them, when aggregated with
any other sums in the nature of interest that the Company may be
obligated to pay under the Transaction Documents exceed such
Maximum Rate. It is agreed that if the maximum contract
rate of interest allowed by law and applicable to the Transaction
Documents is increased or decreased by statute or any official
governmental action subsequent to the date hereof, the new maximum
contract rate of interest allowed by law will be the Maximum Rate
applicable to the Transaction Documents from the effective date
thereof forward, unless such application is precluded by applicable
law. If under any circumstances whatsoever, interest in
excess of the Maximum Rate is paid by the Company to any Purchaser
with respect to indebtedness evidenced by the Transaction
Documents, such excess shall be applied by such Purchaser to the
unpaid principal balance of any such indebtedness or be refunded to
the Company, the manner of handling such excess to be at such
Purchaser’s election.
5.18 Independent
Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights
. The obligations of each Purchaser under any
Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations
of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in
any way for the performance or non-performance of the obligations
of any other Purchaser under any Transaction
Document. Nothing contained herein or in any other
Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant
thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a
partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of
entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way
acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or
the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to
independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without
limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the
other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any
other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any
proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser has been
represented by its own separate legal counsel in their review and
negotiation of the Transaction Documents. For reasons of
administrative convenience only, each Purchaser and its respective
counsel have chosen to communicate with the Company through
WS. WS does not represent any of the Purchasers and only
represents Vision Capital. The Company has elected to provide all
Purchasers with the same terms and Transaction Documents for the
convenience of the Company and not because it was required or
requested to do so by any of the Purchasers.
5.19 Liquidated
Damages . The Company’s obligations to pay any
partial liquidated damages or other amounts owing under the
Transaction Documents is a continuing obligation of the Company and
shall not terminate until all unpaid partial liquidated damages and
other amounts have been paid notwithstanding the fact that the
instrument or security pursuant to which such partial liquidated
damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been
canceled.
5.20 Saturdays,
Sundays, Holidays, etc
. If
the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the
expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a
Business Day, then such action may be taken or such right may be
exercised on the next succeeding Business Day.
5.21
Construction . The parties agree that each of them and/or
their respective counsel has reviewed and had an opportunity to
revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of
construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved
against the drafting party shall not be employed in the
interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments
hereto. In addition, each and every reference to share prices and
shares of Common Stock in any Transaction Document shall be subject
to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock
dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the
Common Stock that occur after the date of this
Agreement.
5.22
WAIVER OF JURY
TRIAL . IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING
IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY,
THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY,
UNCONDITIONALLY, IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER TRIAL BY
JURY.
(Signature Pages
Follow)
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have
caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by
their respective authorized signatories as of the date first
indicated above.
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NEWCARDIO,
INC.
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Address for
Notice:
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2350 Mission
College Blvd. Suite 1175
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By: /s/
Richard D. Brounstein
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Santa Clara, CA
95054
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Name: Richard
D. Brounstein
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Title: Chief
Financial Officer
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Email:
rbrounstain@newcardio.com
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With a copy to
(which shall not constitute notice):
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[REMAINDER OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY
LEFT BLANK
SIGNATURE PAGE FOR PURCHASER
FOLLOWS]
[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO NWCI
SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused
this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their
respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated
above.
Name of
Purchaser:
_____________________________________________________________________
Signature of
Authorized Signatory of Purchaser :
______________________________________________
Name of
Authorized Signatory:
_____________________________________________________________
Title of
Authorized Signatory:
______________________________________________________________
Email Address
of Authorized Signatory:
_______________________________________________________
Facsimile
Number of Authorized Signatory:
____________________________________________________
Address for
Notice of Purchaser:
Address for
Delivery of Securities for Purchaser (if not same as address for
notice):
Subscription
Amount: _____________
[Principal
Amount (_______ x Subscription Amoun t):
_____________
Warrant Shares:
_________________
EIN
Number: [PROVIDE THIS UNDER SEPARATE
COVER]
[SIGNATURE PAGES
CONTINUE]
Schedule 5.2
– Wire Instructions
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NAME:
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WEINSTEIN SMITH
LLP OPERATING ACCOUNT
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BANK:
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SIGNATURE
BANK
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565 Fifth
Avenue
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New York,
NY 10017
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Contact:
Timothy F. Collins – (646) 822-1940
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ACCOUNT:
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1501119438
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ABA:
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026013576
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SWIFT
CODE:
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SIGNUS33
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Reference:
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Vision
Capital/New Cardio
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NewCardio, Inc.
Cap Table
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7/23/2009
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Stock
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Authorized
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Avialable for resale, i.e.
"registered"
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Shares
Outstanding
Fully Diluted
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STOCK
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COMMON
STOCK - NewCardio investors
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99,000,000
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1/4/2009
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10,667,300
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- Marine
investors
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In float today
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1,554,985
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PREFERRED
STOCK/converted at close
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1/4/2009
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7,155,206
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DEBT/converted
at close
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1/4/2009
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860,031
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Total
outstanding @ reverse merger
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20,237,522
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Subsequent
stock issued - dividends
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1/4/2009
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277,218
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Subsequent
stock issued - option exercises
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In float today
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315,440
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Subsequent stock issued - restricted
shares
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6 mos or 1/4/09
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3,032,599
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COMMON
STOCK - NewCardio investors
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23,862,779
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PREFERRED
STOCK A, PIPE investors
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10,000,000
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S-1, summer'08
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-
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RSUs
outstanding
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1,575,000
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PREFERRED
STOCK B, PIPE investors
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16,435,000
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Total
Stock :
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41,872,779
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RIGHTS TO
ACQUIRE STOCK:
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2004
Equity Incentive Plan, 12/31/07
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10,300,106
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Options
Outstanding
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S-8, on exercise
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8,662,644
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Options
Available
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S-8 on issue
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51,230
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Options
Exercised or Granted Outright
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-1,586,232
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Plan
Total :
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8,713,874
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2009
Equity Incentive Plan
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8,000,000
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Options
Outstanding
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0
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RSUs
Outstanding
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above
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Reserved
shares available
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6,425,000
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Options
Exercised, RSUs or Granted Outright
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-1,575,000
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Plan
Total :
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6,425,000
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PIPE
WARR ANTS, "A", "J-A", FEE
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1/4/09
cashless
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5,299,790
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-
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WARR ANTS -
NewCardio investors
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1/4/2009
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2,373,475
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7,673,265
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Total
Rights of outstanding options/warrants
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16,335,909
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Total
Diluted Shares (Minus Options Available):
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58,208,688
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Total
including option reserves:
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64,684,918
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Schedules to Securities
Purchase Agreement
3.1
(g)
Cap table to be
furnished by separate document.
Agreements
requiring the issuance of securities include the Company’s
agreements with
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Leerink Swan
LLC, (2) Benchmark Company, LLC, and (3) Thomas Weisel
Partners.
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3.1
(i)
None
3.1
(aa)
None
3.1
(ee)
RBSM,
LLP
4.9
None
EXHIBIT A
THIS SECURITY
HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN
EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY
NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE
EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE
WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL
OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE
OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE
COMPANY. THIS SECURITY MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH
A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH
SECURITIES.
Original Issue
Date: ________________________
$________
12% SECURED REVOLVING
DEBENTURE
DUE MARCH 31, 2011
THIS 12%
SECURED REVOLVING DEBENTURE is one of a series of duly authorized
and validly issued 12% Secured Revolving Debentures of NewCardio,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, (the “ Company ”),
having its principal place of business at 2350 Mission College
Blvd., Suite 1175, Santa Clara CA 95054, designated as its 12%
Secured Revolving Debenture due March 31, 2011 (this debenture, the
“ Debenture ” and, collectively with the other
debentures of such series, the “ Debentures
”).
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the Company promises to pay
to ________________________ or its registered assigns (the “
Holder ”), or shall have paid pursuant to the terms
hereunder, by the Stated Maturity, $_________, or if less than that
amount is then outstanding, 100% of the aggregate Principal Amount
of the Advances made hereunder and then outstanding and to pay
interest to the Holder on the aggregate outstanding Principal
Amount of this Debenture in accordance with the provisions
hereof. This Debenture is subject to the following
additional provisions:
Section
1 .
Definitions . For the purposes hereof, in
addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Debenture, (a)
capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the
meanings set forth in the Purchase Agreement, and (b) the following
terms shall have the following meanings:
“ Advance ” means the amount
of funds actually advanced by the Holders to the Company pursuant
to Section 3(a) of this Debenture.
“ Advance End Date ” means
June 30, 2010.
“ Bankruptcy Event ” means
any of the following events: (a) the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation
S-X) thereof commences a case or other proceeding under any
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debt, relief
of debtors, dissolution, insolvency or liquidation or similar law
of any jurisdiction relating to the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary thereof, (b) there is commenced against the Company or
any Significant Subsidiary thereof any such case or proceeding that
is not dismissed within 60 days after commencement, (c) the Company
or any Significant Subsidiary thereof is adjudicated insolvent or
bankrupt or any order of relief or other order approving any such
case or proceeding is entered, (d) the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary thereof suffers any appointment of any custodian or the
like for it or any substantial part of its property that is not
discharged or stayed within 60 calendar days after such
appointment, (e) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary thereof
makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, (f) the
Company or any Significant Subsidiary thereof calls a meeting of
its creditors with a view to arranging a composition, adjustment or
restructuring of its debts or (g) the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary thereof, by any act or failure to act, expressly
indicates its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any of the
foregoing or takes any corporate or other action for the purpose of
effecting any of the foregoing.
“ Change of Control
Transaction ” means the occurrence after the date hereof
of any of (a) an acquisition after the date hereof by an individual
or legal entity or “group” (as described in Rule
13d-5(b)(1) promulgated under the Exchange Act) of effective
control (whether through legal or beneficial ownership of capital
stock of the Company, by contract or otherwise) of in excess of 33%
of the voting securities of the Company, (b) the Company merges
into or consolidates with any other Person, or any Person merges
into or consolidates with the Company and, after giving effect to
such transaction, the stockholders of the Company immediately prior
to such transaction own less than 66% of the aggregate voting power
of the Company or the successor entity of such transaction, (c) the
Company sells or transfers all or substantially all of its assets
to another Person and the stockholders of the Company immediately
prior to such transaction own less than 66% of the aggregate voting
power of the acquiring entity immediately after the transaction,
(d) a replacement at one time or within a three year period of more
than one-half of the members of the Board of Directors which is not
approved by a majority of those individuals who are members of the
Board of Directors on the Original Issue Date (or by those
individuals who are serving as members of the Board of Directors on
any date whose nomination to the Board of Directors was approved by
a majority of the members of the Board of Directors who are members
on the date hereof), or (e) the execution by the Company of an
agreement to which the Company is a party or by which it
is bound, providing for any of the events set forth in clauses (a)
through (d) above.
“ Debenture Register ” shall
have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b).
“ Event of Default ” shall
have the meaning set forth in Section 6(a).
“ Fundamental Transaction ”
means any of the following transactions: (A) the Company effects
any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another
Person, (B) the Company effects any sale of all or substantially
all of its assets in one transaction or a series of related
transactions, (C) any tender offer or exchange offer (whether by
the Company or another Person) is completed pursuant to which
holders of Common Stock are permitted to tender or exchange their
shares for other securities, cash or property, or (D) the Company
effects any reclassification of the Common Stock or any compulsory
share exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is effectively
converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or
property.
“ Mandatory Default Amount
” means the sum of (a) the outstanding Principal Amount, plus
100% of accrued and unpaid interest hereon, and (b) all other
amounts, costs, expenses and liquidated damages due in respect of
this Debenture.
“ Maximum Funded Amount ”
means $3,000,000, in the aggregate among all of the holders of this
Debenture as issued pursuant to the Purchase Agreement.
“ New York Courts ”
shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(d).
“ Original Issue Date ” means
the date of the first issuance of the Debentures, regardless of any
transfers of any Debenture and regardless of the number of
instruments which may be issued to evidence such
Debentures.
“ Permitted Indebtedness ”
means (a) the indebtedness evidenced by the Debentures and (b) the
Indebtedness existing on the Original Issue Date and set forth on
Schedule 3.1(aa) attached to the Purchase
Agreement.
“ Permitted Lien ” means the
individual and collective reference to the following: (a) Liens for
taxes, assessments and other governmental charges or levies not yet
due or Liens for taxes, assessments and other governmental charges
or levies being contested in good faith and by appropriate
proceedings for which adequate reserves (in the good faith judgment
of the management of the Company) have been established in
accordance with GAAP, (b) Liens imposed by law which were incurred
in the ordinary course of the Company’s business, such as
carriers’, warehousemen’s and mechanics’ Liens,
statutory landlords’ Liens, and other similar Liens arising
in the ordinary course of the Company’s business, and which
(x) do not individually or in the aggregate materially detract from
the value of such property or assets or materially impair the use
thereof in the operation of the business of the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries or (y) are being contested in good faith
by appropriate proceedings, which proceedings have the effect of
preventing for the foreseeable future the forfeiture or sale of the
property or asset subject to such Lien, (c) Liens incurred in
connection with Permitted Indebtedness under clauses (a) and (b)
thereunder.
“ Principal Amount ” means,
at any date, an amount equal to 100% of the aggregate outstanding
Advances on such date. The maximum Principal Amount of
this Debenture among all of the holders of this Debenture as issued
pursuant to the Purchase Agreement is equal to $3,000,000, in the
aggregate.
“ Purchase Agreement ” means
the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of July __, 2009 among
the Company and the original Holders, as amended, modified or
supplemented from time to time in accordance with its
terms.
“ Stated Maturity ” means
March 31, 2011 or such earlier date as this Debenture is required
or permitted to be repaid as provided hereunder.
“ Trading Day ” means a day
on which the principal Trading Market is open for
trading.
“ Trading Market ” means any
of the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is
listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE
AMEX, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the
Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange or the OTC
Bulletin Board (or any successors to any of the
foregoing).
a) Payment of
Interest in Cash . The Company shall pay interest to the Holder
on the aggregate outstanding Principal Amount at the rate of 12%
per annum, in cash, on the date that is the Stated
Maturity.
b) Interest
Calculations . Interest shall be calculated on the basis of a
360-day year, consisting of twelve 30 calendar day periods, and
shall accrue daily commencing on the Original Issue Date until
payment in full of the outstanding Principal Amount, together with
all accrued and unpaid interest, liquidated damages and other
amounts which may become due hereunder, has been
made. Interest hereunder will be paid to the Person in
whose name this Debenture is registered on the records of the
Company regarding registration and transfers of this Debenture (the
“ Debenture Register ”).
c) Late Fee
. All overdue accrued and unpaid interest to be paid
hereunder shall entail a late fee at an interest rate equal to the
lesser of 18% per annum or the maximum rate permitted by applicable
law (the “ Late Fees ”) which shall accrue daily
from the date such interest is due hereunder through and including
the date of actual payment in full.
d) Prepayment
. The Company may prepay all or any portion of the
outstanding Principal Amount upon at least two Trading Days’
notice to the Holder by paying the outstanding Principal Amount
desired to be prepaid together with all outstanding interest
payable thereunder. Any Principal Amount hereof that is
prepaid may not be reborrowed.
e) Method of
Payment . The Company shall make all payments of the Principal
Amount and interest hereunder in accordance with the Holder’s
instructions.
Section 3.
Advances . At any time on or after September 1, 2009
(provided, however, for any Draw Down on September 1, 2009, the
Company shall provide written notice to the Holder no less than 10
Trading Days prior to such date), upon the satisfaction of the
conditions set forth in the Purchase Agreement, the Company may
request up to six (6) Advances from the Holder from the Original
Issue Date through the Advance End Date, in an aggregate Principal
Amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the Maximum Funded
Amount. The Holder shall not make an Advance if the sum
of the aggregate Principal Amount of the outstanding Advances plus
the Principal Amount of such requested Advance would exceed an
amount equal to the Maximum Funded Amount. Each Advance
shall be in an amount not greater than $500,000 and shall be made
on at least ten (10) Trading Days’ prior written notice from
the Company to the Holder. Each request for an Advance
(a “ Notice of Borrowing ”) shall be made by
telephonic or written communication by the Company to the Holder
and shall certify that the closing conditions specified in the
Purchase Agreement shall be met on or prior to the date set for
such Advance. The Notice of Borrowing shall specify the
proposed amount of such Advance and the Trading Day on which such
Advance shall be made. Prior to the Trading Day on which
an Advance is requested to be made in a Notice of Borrowing, the
Holder shall notify the Company whether it will make the requested
Advance, and, if the Holder states that it will not make such
Advance, shall specify the reasons therefor. If the
Holder notifies the Company that it will make a requested Advance,
then on the Trading Day specified in the Notice of Borrowing and
upon fulfillment of the applicable terms and conditions hereof, the
Holder will make the proceeds of such Advance available to the
Company by wire transfer to such account of the Company as the
Company shall specify to the Holder. The Principal
Amount of any Advance prepaid or repaid hereunder may not be
reborrowed.
Section 4.
Registration of Transfers and Exchanges .
a) Different
Denominations . This Debenture is exchangeable for an equal
aggregate Principal Amount of Debentures of different authorized
denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the
same. No service charge will be payable for such
registration of transfer or exchange.
b) Investment
Representations . This Debenture has been issued subject to
certain investment representations of the original Holder set forth
in the Purchase Agreement and may be transferred or exchanged only
in compliance with the Purchase Agreement and applicable federal
and state securities laws and regulations.
c) Reliance on
Debenture Register . Prior to due presentment for transfer to
the Company of this Debenture, the Company and any agent of the
Company may treat the Person in whose name this Debenture is duly
registered on the Debenture Register as the owner hereof for the
purpose of receiving payment as herein provided and for all other
purposes, whether or not this Debenture is overdue, and neither the
Company nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the
contrary. The Holder’s records regarding the amount of
Advances made and the amount of all payments and prepayments made
hereunder shall be conclus
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