SECURITIES PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “
Agreement ”), dated as of June 10, 2009, is entered
into by and between CyberDefender Corporation, a California
corporation (the “ Company ”), and Shimski L.P.,
a California Limited Partnership (the “ Purchaser
”).
WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions set
forth in this Agreement and pursuant to Section 4(2) of the
Securities Act and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder, the board of
directors of the Company has authorized the sale and issuance to
the Purchaser of 632,500 shares of Common Stock, for a purchase
price of $1.75 per share, subject to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement (the “ Offering ”).
NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual
covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are
hereby acknowledged, the Company and the Purchaser agree as
follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
1.1
Definitions . In addition to the terms defined
elsewhere in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings
indicated in this Section 1.1:
“ 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 144 under the Securities Act. With respect to
the Purchaser, any investment fund or managed account that is
managed on a discretionary basis by the same investment manager as
the Purchaser will be deemed to be an Affiliate of the
Purchaser.
“ Business Day ” means any
day except Saturday, Sunday, any day which shall be 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 or any day that the
Common Stock is not traded on the Trading Market.
“ Closing ” means the
closing of the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to
Section 2.1.
“ Closing Date ” means the
Business Day when all of the Transaction Documents have been
executed and delivered by the Company and the Purchaser, and all
conditions precedent to (i) the Purchaser’s obligations to
pay the Subscription Amount and (ii) the Company’s
obligations to deliver the Securities have been satisfied or
waived.
“ Commission ”
means the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission.
“ Common Stock ” means the
common stock of the Company, no par value per share, and any other
class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be
reclassified or changed into.
“ Common Stock Equivalents ”
means any securities of the Company 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.
“ 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).
“ Liens ” means a lien,
charge, security interest, encumbrance, right of first refusal,
preemptive right or other restriction.
“ Material Adverse Effect ”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(b).
“ Offering ” has the
meaning set forth in the recitals hereof.
“ 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.
“ Proceeding ” means an
action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding (including,
without limitation, an investigation or partial proceeding, such as
a deposition), whether commenced or threatened.
“ Registration Statement ”
means a registration statement covering the resale of the
Securities filed with the Commission pursuant to the
Company’s obligations under Section 4.3 of this
Agreement.
“ 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.
“ Securities ” means the
shares of Common Stock sold to the Purchaser pursuant to this
Agreement.
“ Securities Act ” means the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations
promulgated hereunder.
“ Subscription Amount ” means
$1,106,875 United States Dollars in immediately available
funds.
“ Trading Market ” means the
following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed
or quoted for trading on the date in question: the American Stock
Exchange, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the
Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange or the OTC
Bulletin Board.
“ Transaction Documents ”
means this Agreement and any other documents, instruments or
agreements executed in connection with the transactions
contemplated hereby.
ARTICLE II.
PURCHASE AND SALE
2.1
Closing . On the Closing Date, upon the terms and
subject to the conditions set forth herein and substantially
concurrent with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the
parties hereto, the Company agrees to sell and the Purchaser agrees
to purchase the Securities. At or prior to the Closing,
the Purchaser shall deliver the Subscription Amount to the Company
by wire transfer in accordance with the Company’s written
wire instructions to be provided to Purchaser. On the
Closing Date, the Company shall deliver to the Purchaser a
certificate issued in the name of the Purchaser representing the
Securities, and the Company and the Purchaser shall deliver the
other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at the Closing.
The Closing shall occur upon satisfaction of the conditions set
forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3.
(a) On
the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be
delivered to the Purchaser the following:
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this Agreement
duly executed by the Company; and
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(ii) a
certificate for 632,500 shares of Common Stock issued in the name
of the Purchaser; provided, however, that the Company may provide
to Purchaser, and for the purposes of consummating the Closing the
Purchaser shall accept, an electronic “pdf” copy such
certificate, with the original certificate to be delivered to the
Purchaser no later than two Business Days following the Closing
Date.
(b) On
the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be
delivered to the Company the following:
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this Agreement
duly executed by the Purchaser; and
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(ii) the
Subscription Amount.
(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 Purchaser contained
herein;
(ii) all
obligations, covenants and agreements of the Purchaser required to
be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been
performed; and
(iii) the
delivery by the Purchaser to the Company of the items set forth in
Section 2.2(b) of this Agreement.
(b) The
obligations of the Purchaser 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;
(ii) all
obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company required to be
performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been
performed;
(iii) the
delivery by the Company to the Purchaser 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 March 31, 2009; and
(v) from
the date hereof to the Closing Date, a banking moratorium shall not
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 the 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 SEC Documents or as
specifically disclosed herein, the Company hereby represents and
warrants, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, to the
Purchaser as follows:
(a)
Subsidiaries . The Company has no (and has never
had any) subsidiaries and does not presently own, or record or
beneficially, or control, directly or indirectly, any capital
stock, securities convertible into capital stock or other equity
interest in any corporation, association or business entity, nor is
the Company, directly or indirectly, a participant in any joint
venture, partnership or other entity.
(b)
Organization and Qualification . The Company is
an entity duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of the State of California, with the requisite power
and authority to own and use its properties and assets and to carry
on its business as currently conducted. The Company is
not in violation or default of any of the provisions of its
respective certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or
other organizational or charter documents. The Company
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, 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, its board of
directors or its stockholders in connection therewith other than in
connection with the Required Approvals. Each Transaction
Document 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 . Except as set forth on Schedule
3.1(d), the execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction
Documents by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the
other transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will
not: (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the
Company’s 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, 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 debt or
otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company is a party
or by which any property or asset of the Company is bound or
affected (or result in the imposition of any material Liens upon
any of the Company’s assets), 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 is subject (including federal and state securities laws and
regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company 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 filing with the Commission of a
Registration Statement as required by this Agreement, and (ii) 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
this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and
non-assessable.
(g)
Capitalization . Except as set forth on Schedule
3.1(g), the capitalization of the Company is as disclosed in its
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31,
2009. Except as a result of the purchase and sale of the
Securities or otherwise as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g) or in such
Quarterly Report, there are no outstanding options, warrants,
script 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 is or may become bound to
issue additional shares of Common Stock or Common Stock
Equivalents. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g), 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 Purchaser) 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. 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. All of the outstanding shares
of capital stock of the Company are validly issued, fully paid and
non-assessable, 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 of the Company or others is required for the issuance and
sale of the Securities. 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. Except as set
forth on Schedule 3.1(g) and except for (a) shares of Common Stock
or Common Stock Equivalents issued to employees, officers,
directors or consultants (other than any consultant which engages
in any business which is competitive with or provides any services
which are similar to the business of or services provided by the
Purchaser or any of its Affiliates as determined at the time of the
issuance) of the Company, (b) securities issued upon the exercise,
exchange, conversion or amendment of any securities
issued and outstanding on the date hereof, or (c) securities issued
pursuant to acquisitions or strategic transactions, since March 31,
2009, the Company has not sold or and issued any shares of Common
Stock or Common Stock Equivalents at a price per share (or
conversion or exercise price, as the case may be) of less than
$1.75.
(h)
SEC Documents . The Company hereby
makes reference to the following documents filed by the Company
with the Commission, which are available for review on the
Commission’s website, www.sec.gov (collectively, the
“ SEC Documents ”): (a) Annual Report on Form
10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008; (b) and the
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2009;
and any amendments thereto. As of their respective
dates, the SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the
requirements of the Exchange Act, as amended, and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder and none of the SEC Documents
contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to
state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading. The financial statements of
the Company included in the SEC Documents comply as to form in all
material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the
published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto,
have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States (“ GAAP ”)
(except, in the case of unaudited statements, as permitted by the
applicable form under the Exchange Act) applied on a consistent
basis during the periods involved (except as may be indicated in
the notes thereto) and fairly present the financial position of the
Company as of the dates thereof and its consolidated statements of
operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the
periods then ended (subject, in the case of unaudited statements,
to normal and recurring year-end audit adjustments which were and
are not expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. Except as and to the extent set forth on the
balance sheet of the Company as of March 31, 2009, including the
notes thereto, the Company has no liability or obligation of any
nature (whether accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise and
whether required to be reflected on a balance sheet or
not).
(i)
Material Changes . Since March 31, 2009, except
as disclosed as a subsequent event in the Company’s Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2009 (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.
(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 or any of its 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 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.
(k)
Compliance . Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(k), the
Company is not (i) 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
under), nor has the Company 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) in
violation of any order of any court, arbitrator or governmental
body, or (iii) in violation of any statute, rule 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.
(l)
Title to Assets . The Company has good and marketable title
in fee simple to all real property owned by it that is material to
the business of the Company and good and marketable title in all
personal property owned by it that is material to the business of
the Company, 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 wit
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