SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT
This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “
Agreement ”) is dated as of September ___, 2009,
between Hythiam, 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. With respect to a
Purchaser, any investment fund or managed account that is managed
on a discretionary basis by the same investment manager as such
Purchaser will be deemed to be an Affiliate of such
Purchaser.
“ 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, but in no event later than the third Trading
Day following the date hereof.
“ Commission ” means the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
“ 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
Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP, with offices located at
601 S. Figueroa Street, Suite 3900, Los Angeles, CA 90017,
Attention: John C. Kirkland, Esq.
“ 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 employees,
officers or directors of the Company pursuant to any stock or
option 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 (except as a result of
anti-dilution provisions therein), and (c) securities issued
pursuant to acquisitions or strategic transactions approved by a
majority of the disinterested directors of the Company, provided
that any such issuance shall only be to a Person (or to the
equityholders of a Person) which is, itself or through its
subsidiaries, an operating company or an asset in a business
synergistic with the business of the Company and shall provide to
the Company additional benefits in addition to the investment of
funds, but shall not include a transaction in which the Company is
issuing securities primarily for the purpose of raising capital or
to an entity whose primary business is investing in
securities.
“ 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).
“ 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.
“ 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 $_____, 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, or proceeding (including, without limitation,
a partial proceeding, such as a deposition).
“ Prospectus ” means the
final prospectus filed for 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 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.
333-158407 which registers the sale of the Shares, the Warrants and
the Warrant Shares by the Purchasers.
“ Required Approvals ” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(d).
“ 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
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 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
American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the current transfer
agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 59 Maiden Lane, New
York, New York 10038 and a facsimile number of (718) 765-8724, and
any successor transfer agent of the Company.
“ Variable Rate Transaction ”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.12(b).
“ 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 be exercisable ____________ and have a term of
exercise equal to ___ years, 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 $___,000,000 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 Company Counsel 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, substantially in the form of
Exhibit B attached hereto;
(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 ___% of such
Purchaser’s Shares, with an exercise price equal to $_____,
subject to adjustment therein (such Warrant certificate may be
delivered within three Trading Days of the Closing Date);
and
(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.
(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 on the Closing Date of the
representations and warranties of the Purchasers contained herein
(unless as of a specific date therein, or to the extent they relate
to an earlier date, in which case such representations and
warranties shall have been true and accurate on and as of such
earlier date);
(ii) all
obligations, covenants and agreements of each Purchaser required to
be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been
performed;
(iii) no
statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree, ruling,
injunction, action, proceeding, or interpretation shall have been
enacted, entered, promulgated, endorsed or adopted by any court or
governmental authority of competent jurisdiction or any self
regulatory organization or the staff of any foregoing, having
authority over the matter contemplated hereby which questions the
validity of, or challenges or prohibits the consummation of, any of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and
(iv) 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, or to the extent they
relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and
warranties shall have been true and accurate on and as of such
earlier date);
(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 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 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 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, which shall be
correct as of the date of this Agreement, except as to any
representation or warranty which expressly relates to an earlier
date, which only need be correct as of such earlier
date:
(a)
Subsidiaries . All of the direct and indirect
subsidiaries of the Company are set forth on Schedule
3.1(a). Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, 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 corporate power and corporate 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 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;
provided , however , that “Material Adverse
Effect” shall not be deemed to include (i) any adverse effect
on the Company occurring either prior to, or after the Closing Date
resulting from any change in the general economic conditions
relating to the market in which the Company operates, or (ii)
rumor, public announcement or closing relating to the negotiation
and execution of this Agreement and the transactions described
herein.
(c)
Authorization; Enforcement . The Company has the
corporate power and corporate authority to enter into and to
consummate the transactions contemplated by each of the Transaction
Documents to which it is a party and otherwise to carry out its
obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and
delivery of each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a
party 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 the
Company 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 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
4.4 of this Agreement, (ii) the filing with the Commission of the
Prospectus 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 federal and
state securities laws (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 and paid for 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 with the requirements of the
Securities Act, which became effective on September 11, 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 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, 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 capitalization of the
Company as of December 31, 2008, is as set forth in the most recent
applicable SEC Reports, increased as set forth in the next
sentence. 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,
the issuance of shares of Common Stock 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. Except as
set forth in the SEC Reports, 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 set forth in the SEC
Reports 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 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
in the SEC Reports, or in filings with the Commission under
Sections 13 or 16 of the Exchange Act, 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 twelve months 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, together with the Prospectus and the Prospectus
Supplement, 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. Within the past twelve months 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, 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 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 . Except as may be disclosed in the
SEC Reports, 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,
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor to
the knowledge of the Company, 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 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 generally
good. To the knowledge of the Company, (i) no executive
officer is in violation of any material term of any employment
contract, confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information
agreement or non-competition agreement relating to the Company,
and, to the knowledge of the Company, or any other contract or
agreement or any restrictive covenant in favor of any third party,
and (ii) 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 which could
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect. The Company and its Subsidiaries are in
substantial 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 . Except as disclosed in the SEC
Reports, 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 in
material 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,
except in each case as could not have or reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect. The representations
and warranties set forth in this Section 3.1(l) do not apply to
Labor Relations, Regulatory Permits, Sarbanes-Oxley, Tax Status,
Foreign Corrupt Practices and FDA, which are addressed in Sections
3.1(i), 3.1(k), 3.1(r), 3.1(aa), 3.1(bb) and 3.1(ff),
respectively.
(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 currently conducted, 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 own no 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 as do not materially affect the value of
such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and
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 that are material to the business of 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 necessary or
material for use in connection with their respective businesses as
described in the SEC Reports and which the failure to so have could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect
(collectively, the “ Intellectual Property Rights
”). Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has
received a notice 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.
(q)
Transactions With Affiliates and Employees
. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports or the
Prospectus Supplement, none of the executive 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 . To
the Company’s knowledge, the Company is in material
compliance with all provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
which are applicable to it as of the Closing Date. The
Company and the Subsidiaries maintain a system of internal
accounting controls reasonably designed 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
reasonably 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 . Except as set forth in the
Prospectus Supplement, 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 such fees or with respect to any claims made by or
on behalf of any broker, financial advisor, consultant, finder,
placement agent or investment banker to the Company for fees of a
type contemplated in this Section that may be due in connection
with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents.
(t)
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.
(u)
Registration Rights . Except as provided in the
SEC Reports, no Person has any right to cause the Company to effect
the registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the
Company.
(v)
Listing and Maintenance Requirements . The Common
Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the
Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or
which to its knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating
the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act nor has
the Company received any notification that the Commission is
contemplating terminating such registration. As set
forth in the SEC Reports, including without limitation the Form 8-K
filed August 28, 2009, the Company has, in the 12 months preceding
the date hereof, received notice from a 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; and the Company is not, and
has reason to believe that it will not in the foreseeable future
continue to be, in compliance with all such listing and maintenance
requirements.
(w)
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.
(x)
Disclosure . Except with respect to the material
terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents, 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
reasonably believes would constitute material, non-public
information which is not otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus
Supplement. 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
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.
(y)
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,
to the knowledge of the Company, 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
any applicable shareholder approval provisions of any Trading
Market on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or
designated.
(z)
Solvency . Based on the consolidated financial
condition of the Company as of the Closing Date, after giving
effect to the receipt by the Company of the proceeds from the sale
of the Securities hereunder, (i) the fair saleable value of the
Company’s assets exceeds the amount that will be required to
be paid on or in respect of the Company’s existing debts and
other liabilities (including known contingent liabilities) as they
mature, (ii) the Company’s assets do not constitute
unreasonably small capital to carry on its business as now
conducted and as proposed to be conducted including its capital
needs taking into account the particular capital requirements of
the business conducted by the Company, and projected capital
requirements and capital availability thereof, and (iii) the
current cash flow of the Company, together with the proceeds the
Company would receive, were it to liquidate all of its assets,
after taking into account all anticipated uses of the cash, would
be sufficient to pay all amounts on or in respect of its
liabilities when such amounts are required to be
paid. The 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. Schedule 3.1(z) 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, which are not contained within the SEC
Reports. For the purposes of this Agreement, “
Indebtedness ” means (x) any liabilities for borrowed
money or amounts owed in excess of $100,000 (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 $100,000 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.
(aa)
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.
(bb)
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.
(cc)
Accountants . The Company’s accounting firm
is set forth on Schedule 3.1(cc) 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 on Form 10-K for the year ending
December 31, 2009.
(dd)
Acknowledgment Regarding Purchasers’ Purchase of
Securities . Based upon the assumption that the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement are consummated in all
material respects in conformity with the Transaction Documents, 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.
(ee)
Acknowledgement Regarding Purchaser’s Trading Activity
. Anything in this Agreement or elsewhere herein to the
contrary notwithstanding (except for Sections 3.2(e) and 4.14
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,
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, presently
may 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.
(ff)
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.
(gg)
FDA . To the knowledge of the Company and except
as set forth in the SEC Reports, there is no product subject to the
jurisdiction of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“
FDA ”) under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act,
as amended, and the regulations thereunder (“ FDCA
”) that is manufactured, packaged, labeled, tested,
distributed, sold, and/or marketed by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries (each such product, a “ Pharmaceutical
Product ”). There is no pending, completed or,
to the Company's knowledge, threatened, action (including any
lawsuit, arbitration, or legal or administrative or regulatory
proceeding, charge, complaint, or investigation) against the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and none of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries has received any notice, warning letter or
other communication from the FDA or any other governmental entity,
which (i) imposes a clinical hold on any clinical investigation by
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) enters or proposes to
enter into a consent decree of permanent injunction with the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iii) otherwise alleges any
violation of any laws, rules or regulations by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries, and which, either individually or in the
aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have or result in a
Material Adverse Effect. The properties, business and
operations of the Company have been and are being conducted in a
manner reasonably designed to comply in all material respects in
accordance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations of the
FDA. The Company has not been informed by the FDA that the
FDA will prohibit the marketing, sale, license or use in the United
States of any product proposed to be developed, produced or
marketed by the Company nor has the FDA expressed any concern as to
approving or clearing for marketing any product being developed or
proposed to be developed by the Company.
Each Purchaser
acknowledges and agrees that the Company does not make or has not
made any representations or warranties with respect to the
transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set
forth in this Section 3.1.
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 the
Closing Date to the Company as follows , which shall be correct as
of the date of this Agreement, except as to any representation or
warranty which expressly relates to an earlier date, which only
need be correct as of such earlier date:
(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 this Agreement and otherwise to carry out its
obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of
this Agreement and performance by such Purchaser of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement 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 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
any law, including the Securities Act or any applicable state
securities law (this representation and warranty not limiting such
Purchaser’s right to sell the Securities immediately pursuant
to the 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)
Litigation . There is no action pending, or to
its knowledge, threatened, to which such Purchaser is a party that
is reasonably likely to prevent, enjoin, alter or delay the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(d)
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.
(e)
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.
(f)
Certain Transactions and Confidentiality . Other
than consummating the transactions contemplated hereunder, such
Purchaser has not, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or
pursuant to any understanding with such Purchaser, directly or
indirectly 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) as of 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 each Purchaser does not make or has
not made any representations or warranties with respect to the
transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set
forth in this Section 3.2.
ARTICLE IV.
OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE
PARTIES
4.1
Warrant Shares . If all or any portion of a
Warrant is exercised at a time when there is an effective
registration statement to cover the issuance or resale of the
Warrant Shares or if the Warrant is exercised via cashless
exercise, the Warrant Shares issued pursuant to any such exercise
shall be issued free of all legends. If at any time
following the date hereof the Registration Statement (or any
subsequent registration statement registering the sale or resale of
the Warrant Shares) is not effective or is not otherwise available
for the sale or resale of the Warrant Shares, the Company shall
immediately notify the holders of the Warrants in writing that such
registration statement is not then effective and thereafter shall
promptly notify such holders when the registration statement is
effective again and available for the sale or resale of the Warrant
Shares (it being understood and agreed that the foregoing shall not
limit the ability of the Company to issue, or any Purchaser to
sell, any of the Warrant Shares in compliance with applicable
federal and state securities laws). The Company shall
use best efforts to keep a registration statement (including the
Registration Statement) registering the issuance or resale of the
Warrant Shares effective during the term of the
Warrants.
4.2
Furnishing of Information . Until the earliest of
the time that (i) no Purchaser owns Securities it is not eligible
to dispose of pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) the Warrants have
expired, the Company covenants to use reasonable best efforts to
timely file (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file
within the applicable grace period) all reports 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 use reasonable best efforts to make publicly
available in accordance with Rule 144(c) such information as is
required for the Purchasers to sell the Securities 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
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