Exhibit 10.1
SECURITIES PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
This Securities Purchase Agreement
(this “ Agreement ”) is dated as of August 13,
2009, between BioSante Pharmaceuticals, 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 an effective
registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the “ Securities Act ”), 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, for all purposes of this Agreement,
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
4.5.
“ Action ” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(j).
“ 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 pursuant to
Section 2.1.
“ 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 pay the Subscription Amount 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.
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“ Common Stock ”
means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 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 Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP, with offices
located at Plaza VII, Suite 3300, 45 South Seventh Street,
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402.
“ Disclosure Schedules
” means the Disclosure Schedules of the Company delivered
concurrently herewith.
“ 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.
“ Exempt Issuance
” means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock or options
to current or former employees, officers, directors or independent
contractors of the Company pursuant to any stock-based compensation
plan duly adopted for such purpose, by a majority of the
non-employee members of the Board of Directors or a majority of the
members of a committee of non-employee directors established for
such purpose, (b) securities upon the exercise or exchange of or
conversion of any Securities issued hereunder and/or other
securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into
shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date of this
Agreement, provided that such securities have not been amended
since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of such
securities or to decrease the exercise price, exchange price or
conversion price of such securities, (c) securities issued pursuant
to stock splits, stock dividends or distributions,
recapitalizations and similar events affecting the Common Stock;
(d) shares of Common Stock or warrants to vendors of the Company
approved by a majority of the non-employee members of the Board of
Directors; (e) securities issued pursuant to mergers, acquisitions
or strategic transactions approved by a majority of the
disinterested directors of the Company; and (f) securities issued
after the completion of any merger, acquisition or strategic
transaction approved by a majority of the disinterested directors
of the Company upon the exercise or exchange of or conversion of
any securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into
shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date of
effectiveness of such merger, acquisition or strategic
transaction.
“ FDA ” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(gg).
“ FDCA ” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(gg).
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“ 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(z).
“ Intellectual Property
Rights ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in
Section 3.1(o).
“ Liens ” means a
lien, charge, security interest, encumbrance, right of first
refusal, preemptive right or other restriction, other than
restrictions imposed by securities laws.
“ 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).
“ Per Share Purchase
Price ” equals $2.00 , 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.
“ 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.
Pharmaceutical Product
” shall have the meaning
ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(gg).
“ 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.
“ Prospectus ”
means the base prospectus filed with the Registration
Statement.
“ Prospectus Supplement
” means the supplement to the Prospectus complying with Rule
424(b) of the Securities Act that is filed with the Commission and
delivered by the Company to each Purchaser prior to or at the
Closing.
“ Purchaser Party
” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.8.
“ Registration
Statement ” means the effective registration statement
with Commission file No. 333-159606 which registers the sale of the
Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares to the
Purchasers.
“ 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
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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 Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares.
“ Securities Act
” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“ Shares ” means
the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable to each Purchaser
pursuant to this Agreement.
“ 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).
“ Subscription Amount
” means, as to each Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be
paid for Shares and Warrants purchased hereunder as specified below
such Purchaser’s name on the signature page of this Agreement
and next to the heading “Subscription Amount,” in
United States dollars and in immediately available
funds.
“ 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.
“ 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 Warrants and any other documents
or agreements executed in connection with the transactions
contemplated hereunder.
“ Transfer Agent
” means Computershare Investor Services, the current transfer
agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 350 Indiana Street,
Suite 750, Golden CO 80401 and a facsimile number of 312.601.2312,
and any successor transfer agent of the Company.
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“ Warrants ”
means, collectively, the Common Stock purchase warrants delivered
to the Purchasers at the Closing in accordance with Section 2.2(a)
hereof, which Warrants shall have a term of exercise equal that
commences immediately and ends on August 12, 2014, in the form of
Exhibit A attached hereto.
“ 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
2.1
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 $13,400,000 of Shares and Warrants. Each
Purchaser shall deliver to the Company, via wire transfer or a
certified check of immediately available funds equal to such
Purchaser’s Subscription Amount as set forth on the signature
page hereto executed by such Purchaser and the Company shall
deliver to each Purchaser its respective Shares and a Warrant 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 2.3, the
Closing shall occur at the offices of WS or such other location as
the parties shall mutually agree.
2.2
Deliveries .
(a)
On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause
to be delivered to each Purchaser the following:
(i)
this Agreement duly executed by the Company;
(ii)
a legal opinion of Company Counsel, in the form to be mutually
agreed upon by the parties;
(iii)
a copy of the irrevocable instructions to the Company’s
transfer agent instructing the transfer agent to deliver via the
Depository Trust Company Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission System
(“ DWAC ”) Shares equal to such
Purchaser’s Subscription Amount divided by the Per Share
Purchase Price, registered in the name of such
Purchaser;
(iv)
a Warrant registered in the name of such Purchaser to purchase up
to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to 40% of such Purchaser’s
Shares, with an exercise price equal to $2.50 , subject to adjustment
therein (such Warrant certificate may be delivered within three
Trading Days of the Closing Date); and
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(v)
the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement (which may be delivered in
accordance with Rule 172 under the Securities Act).
(b)
On or prior to the Closing Date, each Purchaser shall deliver or
cause to be delivered to the Company the following:
(i)
this Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser; and
(ii)
such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount by wire transfer to the
account as specified in writing by the Company.
2.3
Closing Conditions .
(a)
The obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the
Closing are subject to the following conditions being
met:
(i)
the accuracy in all material respects when made and on the Closing
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 shall have
been performed in all material respects; and
(iii)
the delivery by each Purchaser of the items set forth in Section
2.2(b) of this Agreement.
(b)
The respective obligations of the Purchasers hereunder in
connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions
being met:
(i)
the accuracy in all material respects when made and on the Closing
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 shall have been
performed in all material respects;
(iii)
the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section
2.2(a) of this Agreement;
(iv)
there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to
the Company since the date hereof; and
(v)
from the date hereof to the Closing 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
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Closing), and, at
any time prior to the Closing 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.
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 warranty made herein to the extent of such
disclosure contained in the corresponding section of the Disclosure
Schedules, the Company hereby makes the following representations
and warranties to each Purchaser:
(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, would not result
in: (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or
enforceability of any Transaction Document with respect to the
Company, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of
operations, assets, business 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 its obligations under any Transaction
Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material Adverse
Effect”) and no
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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, or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an
event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a
default) under, 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 would not have 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
4.4 of this Agreement, (ii) the filing with the Commission of the
Prospectus
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Supplement, (iii) application(s) to
each applicable Trading Market for the listing of the Securities
for trading thereon in the time and manner required thereby and
(iv) such filings as are required to be made under applicable state
securities laws and FINRA (collectively, the “Required
Approvals”).
(f)
Issuance of the Securities; Registration . 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. The Warrant Shares, when
issued in accordance with the terms of the Warrants, will be
validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all
Liens imposed by the Company. The Company has reserved from
its duly authorized capital stock the maximum number of shares of
Common Stock issuable pursuant to this Agreement and the Warrants.
The Company has prepared and filed the Registration Statement in
conformity in all material respects with the requirements of the
Securities Act, which Registration Statement became effective on
June 9, 2009 (the “Effective Date”), including the
Prospectus, and such amendments and supplements thereto as may have
been required to the date of this Agreement. The Registration
Statement is effective under the Securities Act and to the actual
knowledge of the Company, no stop order preventing or suspending
the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or suspending or
preventing the use of the Prospectus has been issued by the
Commission and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted
or, to the knowledge of the Company, are threatened by the
Commission. The Company, if required by the rules and
regulations of the Commission, proposes to file the Prospectus
Supplement, with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b). At
the time the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto
became effective, at the date of this Agreement and at the Closing
Date, the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto
conformed and will conform in all material respects to the
requirements of the Securities Act and did not and will not contain
any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
the statements therein not misleading; and the Prospectus and any
amendments or supplements thereto, at time the Prospectus or any
amendment or supplement thereto was issued and at the Closing Date,
conformed and will conform in all material respects to the
requirements of the Securities Act and did not and will not contain
an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading.
(g)
Capitalization . The authorized capitalization of the
Company is as set forth on Schedule 3.1(f) . 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 stock options under the Company’s
stock-based compensation 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 disclosed in the SEC Reports or
Schedule 3.1(f) or 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
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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 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 all material respects 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 disclosed in
any SEC Report, including any exhibit thereto, 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
complied in all material respects with requirements to file all
reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required
to be filed by the Company under 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 is not an issuer currently
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,
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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 would result in a Material Adverse
Effect, (ii) the Company has not incurred any material 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
required to be disclosed in filings made with the Commission, (iii)
the Company has not materially 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-based compensation 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 in the SEC Reports or on Schedule 3.1(i) , no event,
liability or development has occurred with respect to the Company
or its Subsidiaries or their respective business, properties,
operations 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 prior to the date that this representation is
made.
(j)
Litigation . Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports or
on Schedule 3.1(j) , 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) would, if there were an unfavorable decision,
have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as disclosed in the
SEC Reports or on Schedule 3.1(j) , neither the Company nor
any Subsidiary, nor to the Company’s actual knowledge,
director or officer thereof, is or during the past 12 months 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 to the
Company’s knowledge, any current director or officer of the
Company during the past 12 months. 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 actual knowledge of the Company, is imminent with respect to
any of the employees of the Company, which would have 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
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officer, to the
knowledge of the Company, is, 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 would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in 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 would not 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
would not 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 do
not own any real property. The Company and the Subsidiaries have
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 created under license or collaboration agreements relating to
the Company’s products or Intellectual Property Rights and
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 with the provisions thereof, except where such
non-compliance would not result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
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(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 necessary or
material for use in connection with their respective businesses as
described in the SEC Reports and which the failure to so have would
not result in 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 actual 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 which would result in a Material Adverse
Effect. 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 would not, individually or in the
aggregate, result in 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 for companies of similar size as the Company in the
businesses in which the Company and the Subsidiaries are engaged,
including, but not limited to, directors and officers
insur