Exhibit 10.1
SECURITIES PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
THIS SECURITIES PURCHASE
AGREEMENT , dated as of
September , 2009 (this
“Agreement”), is entered into by and between
O MNI
C OMM S YSTEMS , I NC ., a
Delaware corporation with headquarters located at 2101 W.
Commercial Blvd., Suite 4000, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309 (the
“Company”), and each individual or entity named on an
executed counterpart of the signature page hereto (each such
signatory is referred to as a “Buyer”) (each agreement
with a Buyer being deemed a separate and independent agreement
between the Company and such Buyer, except that each Buyer
acknowledges and consents to the rights granted to each other Buyer
(each, an “Other Buyer”) under such agreement and the
Transaction Agreements, as defined below, referred to
therein).
W I T N E S S E T H
:
WHEREAS , the Company and the Buyer are executing and
delivering this Agreement in reliance upon the exemption from
securities registration for offers and sales to accredited
investors afforded, inter alia , by Rule 506 under
Regulation D (“Regulation D”) as promulgated by the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“SEC”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the “1933 Act”), and/or Section 4(2) of the 1933
Act; and
WHEREAS , the Buyer wishes to lend to the Company,
subject to and upon the terms and conditions of this Agreement and
acceptance of this Agreement by the Company, the Purchase Price (as
defined below), the repayment of which will be represented by 12%
Secured Convertible Debentures Series 09 of the Company (the
“Debenture” or “Convertible Debenture” and
collectively with all Other Buyers the “Debentures” or
“Convertible Debentures”), which Convertible Debentures
will be convertible into shares of Common Stock, $0.001 par value
per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”), upon
the terms and subject to the conditions of such Convertible
Debentures, together with the Warrants (as defined below)
exercisable for the purchase of shares of Common Stock;
NOW THEREFORE
, in consideration of the premises
and the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are
hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:
1. AGREEMENT TO PURCHASE;
PURCHASE PRICE.
a. (i) Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement and the other Transaction Agreements, the undersigned
Buyer hereby agrees to loan to the Company the principal amount set
forth on the Buyer’s signature page of this Agreement (the
“Purchase Price”), out of the aggregate amount being
loaned by all Buyers of up to an aggregate of Two Million Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,500,000) (the “Aggregate
Purchase Price”) which amount will include the conversion of
currently issued and outstanding bridge notes issued in September
2009 not to exceed $1,200,000.
(ii) The obligation to repay the
loan from the Buyer shall be evidenced by the Company’s
issuance of one or more Convertible Debentures to the Buyer in the
aggregate principal amount equal to the Purchase Price (the
Convertible Debentures issued to the Buyer, the
“Debentures”). Each Debenture (a) shall provide
for a Conversion Price (as defined below), which price may be
adjusted from time to as provided in the Debenture, and
(b) shall have the terms and conditions of, and be
substantially in the form attached hereto as, Annex I and
(c) shall be secured pursuant to the terms of the Security
Interest Agreement substantially in the form annexed hereto as
Annex VI (the “Security Interest Agreement”)
.
(iii) On the Closing Date (as
defined below), the Purchase Price shall be paid by the Buyer and
the Company will deliver the Certificates (as defined below) to the
Escrow Agent, as provided in Section 1(c) hereof.
(iv) The loan to be made by the
Buyer and the issuance of the Debentures and the Warrants
(collectively, the “Purchased Securities”) to the Buyer
are sometimes referred to herein and in the other Transaction
Agreements as the purchase and sale of the Debentures and the
Warrants
b. Certain
Definitions. As used
herein, each of the following terms has the meaning set forth
below, unless the context otherwise requires:
“Affiliate” means, with
respect to a specific Person referred to in the relevant provision,
another Person who or which controls or is controlled by or is
under common control with such specified Person.
“Agreement Amount” means
the amount, if any (other than interest and principal due under the
Debentures), due to the Buyer or the Holder, as the case may be,
pursuant to any provision of the Transaction Agreements.
“Agreement Payment Date”
means the date the Buyer or the Holder, as the case may be, demands
payment of an Agreement Amount.
“Agreement Shares” means
the shares of Common Stock issuable in payment of Agreement
Amounts, if such Agreement Amounts may be paid in such shares;
provided, however, that any demand for Agreement Shares shall be
subject to the provisions of Section 4(C) of the Debenture, as
if such demand were a conversion of the Debenture and as if such
provision were set forth herein in full.
“Buyer Control Person”
means the Buyer and each such other Persons as may be deemed in
control of the Buyer pursuant to Rule 405 under the 1933 Act or
Section 20 of the 1934 Act (as defined below).
“By-laws” means the
by-laws of the Company (howsoever denominated), as amended to
date.
“Certificate of
Incorporation” means the certificate of incorporation,
articles of incorporation or other charter document (howsoever
denominated) of the Company, as amended to date.
“Certificates” means the
(x) the original manually-signed Debentures and (y) the
original manually-signed Warrants, each duly executed by the
Company and issued in the name of the Buyer on the Closing
Date.
“Closing Date” means the
date of the closing of the purchase and sale of the Purchased
Securities.
“Closing Price” means
the 4:00 P.M. closing bid price of the Common Stock on the
Principal Trading Market on the relevant Trading Day(s), as
reported by the Reporting Service for the relevant date.
“Company Control Person”
means each director, executive officer, promoter, and such other
Persons as may be deemed in control of the Company pursuant to Rule
405 under the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934
Act.
“Company Counsel” means
Schneider Weinberger & Beilly, LLP.
“Company’s SEC
Documents” means the Company’s filings on the
SEC’s EDGAR system which are listed on Annex IV
annexed hereto, to the extent available on EDGAR or otherwise
provided to the Buyer as indicated on said Annex IV.
“Conversion
Certificates” means certificates representing any one or more
of the following, if any: (i) Conversion Shares, or
(ii) Warrant Shares.
“Conversion Date” means
the date a Holder submits a Notice of Conversion, as provided in
the Debentures or makes a demand for an Agreement Amount which is
to be paid in Agreement Shares.
“Conversion Price” means
the Fixed Conversion Price or the Interest Conversion Price, as the
context may require.
“Conversion Shares”
means (i) the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon
conversion of the Debentures, (ii) the shares of Common Stock
issued or issuable in payment of accrued interest thereon, as
contemplated in the Debentures, (iii) the shares of Common
Stock issued or issuable in payment of an Agreement Amount which is
being paid in Agreement Shares, or (iv) any or all of them, as
the context may require.
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“Converting Holder”
means the Holder of Debentures or Warrants, as the case may be, who
or which has submitted a Notice of Conversion (as contemplated by
the Debentures) or a Notice of Exercise (as contemplated by the
Warrants) or a demand for Agreement Shares.
“Current Information
Reports” means all reports and material required to be filed
by the Company so that the conditions, if applicable, of Rule 144
that there is adequate current information with respect to the
Company will be satisfied.
“Delivery Date” means,
as the case may be, (x) the meaning ascribed to it, as may be
relevant, in the Debentures, the Warrants or other relevant
Transaction Agreement, as the case may be, or (y) the third
Trading Day after the Buyer or the Holder, as the case may be,
makes a demand for an Agreement Amount which is being paid in
Agreement Shares.
“Disclosure Annex” means
Annex II to this Agreement; provided, however, that the
Disclosure Annex shall be arranged in sections corresponding to the
identified Sections of this Agreement, but the disclosure in any
such section of the Disclosure Annex shall qualify other provisions
in this Agreement to the extent that it would be readily apparent
to an informed reader from a reading of such section of the
Disclosure Annex that it is also relevant to other provisions of
this Agreement.
“Escrow Agent” means
Schneider Weinberger & Beilly LLP, the escrow agent
identified in the Joint Escrow Instructions attached hereto as
Annex VII (the “Joint Escrow
Instructions”).
“Escrow Funds” means the
Purchase Price delivered to the Escrow Agent as contemplated by
Sections 1(c) and (d) hereof.
“Escrow Property” means
the Escrow Funds and the Certificates delivered to the Escrow
Agent, as contemplated by Section 1(c) hereof.
“Exercise Price” means
the per share exercise price of the Warrant.
“Fixed Conversion Price”
means the VWAP for the ten (10) Regular Trading Days ending on
the Trading Day immediately before the Closing Date.
“Holder” means the
Person holding the relevant Securities at the relevant
time.
“Interest Conversion
Price” has the meaning ascribed to in the
Debenture.
“Issue Date” means, with
respect each Debenture and each Warrant, the Closing Date on which
such instrument was initially issued to the Buyer.
“Issue Date Conversion
Shares” means, with respect to the Closing Date, the number
of shares of Common Stock equal to (x) the Purchase Price paid
by the Buyer on the Closing Date, divided by (y) the Fixed
Conversion Price (without regard to whether or not the Debentures
were convertible on such date in accordance with their
terms).
“Last Audited Date”
means December 31, 2008.
“Majority in Interest of the
Holders” means one or more Holders whose respective
outstanding principal amounts of the Debentures held by each of
them, as of the relevant date, aggregate at least fifty and 01/100
percent (50.01%) of the aggregate outstanding principal
amounts of the outstanding Debentures held by the Holder and all
other Holders on that date.
“Material Adverse
Effect” means an event or combination of events, which
individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to
(x) adversely affect the legality, validity or enforceability
of the Purchased Securities or any of the Transaction Agreements,
(y) have or result in a material adverse effect on the results
of operations, assets, or financial condition of the Company and
its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (z) adversely impair
the Company’s ability to perform fully on a timely basis its
material obligations under any of the Transaction Agreements or the
transactions contemplated thereby.
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“Maturity Date” has the
meaning ascribed to it in the Debentures.
“New Common Stock” means
shares of Common Stock and/or securities convertible into, and/or
other rights exercisable for, Common Stock, which are offered or
sold in a New Transaction.
“New Investor” means the
third party investor, purchaser or lender (howsoever denominated)
or, where relevant, an Existing Securityholder (as defined below)
in a New Transaction.
“New Transaction” means,
unless consented to by a Majority in Interest of the Holders (which
consent is in the sole discretion of the Holders and may be
withheld for any reason or for no reason whatsoever),
(i) the sale of New Common Stock by
or on behalf of the Company to a New Investor in connection with a
transaction which will provide funds to the Company (including, but
not necessarily limited to, any such transaction which is an
equity, debt, credit line or equity line transaction),
and/or
(ii) the grant of a security
interest in, or the pledge of, shares of the Company’s Common
Stock or securities convertible into or exercisable for the
Company’s Common Stock to any other party, or the pledge of
such shares or securities to any other party, whether such grant or
pledge is made by the Company or any other holder thereof, in
connection with a transaction in which the Company borrows or is
otherwise obligated to pay funds to a third party,
and/or
(iii) in exchange for the
forbearance, modification or relinquishment of any rights an
existing holder of any of the Company’s securities (each, an
“Existing Securityholder”), (x) the sale or
issuance to such Existing Securityholder of additional New Common
Stock and/or (y) the effectuation by the Company of, or the
other agreement of the Company to provide, more beneficial terms
with respect to any existing securities of the Company held by an
Existing Securityholder, and/or,
(iv) the effectuation by the Company
of, or the other agreement of the Company to provide, the reduction
of the conversion price of any security convertible into Common
Stock and/or the reduction of the exercise price of any right
exercisable for Common Stock held by an Existing
Securityholder
in a transaction consummated after
the date hereof; provided, however, that it is specifically
understood that the term “New Transaction”
(1) unless consented to otherwise by a Majority in Interest of
the Holders (which consent is in the sole discretion of the Holders
and may be withheld for any reason or for no reason whatsoever),
includes, but is not limited to, a sale of Common Stock or of a
security convertible into Common Stock or an equity or credit line
transaction, but (2) does not include (a) the issuance of
Common Stock upon the exercise or conversion of options, warrants
or convertible securities outstanding on the date hereof, or in
respect of any other financing agreements as in effect on the date
hereof and identified in the Disclosure Annex (provided the same is
not amended after the date hereof to a per share price below the
Conversion Price or the Exercise Price, as the case may be) or in
the Company’s SEC Documents (provided the same is not amended
after the date hereof to a per share price below the Conversion
Price or the Exercise Price, as the case may be), (b) the
issuance of an Employee Stock Compensation Plan (an
“ESCP”) of the Company, such ESCP having been properly
approved by the shareholders of the Company, (c) the issuance
of a non-employee director stock compensation plan of the Company,
(d) the issuance of Common Stock or issuance of Common Stock
upon the exercise of any options or warrants, referred to in the
preceding clauses of this paragraph (provided the same is not
amended after the date hereof), or (e) the issuance of Common
Stock in satisfaction of the Company’s employee
compensation.
“New Transaction Closing
Date” means the date a New Transaction is
consummated.
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“Person” means any
living person or any entity, such as, but not necessarily limited
to, a corporation, partnership or trust.
“Principal Trading
Market” means the Over the Counter Bulletin Board or such
other market on which the Common Stock is principally traded at the
relevant time, but shall not include the “pink
sheets.”
“Qualification State”
means a state, other than the State of Incorporation, in which the
Company is qualified.
“Registrable Securities”
means (i) shares of Common Stock previously issued to the
Holder under the terms of the Transaction Agreements and
(ii) shares of Common Stock issuable to the Holder (x) on
conversion of the Debentures (whether for principal or interest or
both), (y) on exercise of the Warrants or (z) pursuant to
any other provision of the Transaction Agreements as of the date of
the filing of the Registration Statement or any amendment
thereof.
“Registration Statement”
means a registration statement covering the resale by the Holder of
Registrable Securities.
“Regular Trading Day”
means the regular trading hours of a Trading Day on the Principal
Trading Market shall be open for business (as of the date of this
Agreement, such hours are, for most Trading Days, approximately
9:00 or 9:30AM to approximately 4PM Eastern Time; provided,
however, that certain Trading Days may have shorter regular trading
hours; and provided, further, that the regular trading hours may be
subsequently changed for the Principal Trading Market).
“Reporting Service”
means Bloomberg LP or if that service is not then reporting the
relevant information regarding the Common Stock, a comparable
reporting service of national reputation selected by a Majority in
Interest of the Holders and reasonably acceptable to the
Company.
“Rule 144” means, as may
be in effect from time to time, (i) Rule 144 promulgated under
the 1933 Act or (ii) any other similar rule or regulation of
the SEC that may at any time permit Holder to sell securities of
the Company to the public without registration under the 1933
Act.
“Securities” means the
Purchased Securities and the Shares.
“Shares” means the
shares of Common Stock representing any or all of the Conversion
Shares and the Warrant Shares.
“State of Incorporation”
means Delaware.
“Subsidiary” means, as
of the relevant date, any subsidiary of the Company (whether or not
included in the Company’s SEC Documents) whether now existing
or hereafter acquired or created.
“Trading Day” means any
day during which the Principal Trading Market shall be open for
business.
“Transaction Agreements”
means this Agreement, each issued Debenture, the Joint Escrow
Instructions, each issued Warrant, the Security Interest Agreement,
and the Disclosure Annex and includes all ancillary documents
referred to in those agreements.
“Transaction End Date”
means the date which is the later of (x) the date on which all
of the Debentures have been converted or have been paid in full or
(y) the date on which all of the Warrants have been fully
exercised or have expired.
“Transfer Agent” means,
at any time, the transfer agent for the Company’s Common
Stock.
“VWAP” means the volume
weighted average price of the Common Stock on the Principal Trading
Market for the relevant Regular Trading Day(s), as reported by the
Reporting Service.
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“Warrant Shares” means
shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon exercise of the
Warrants.
“Wire Instructions”
means the Purchase Price Wire Instructions as provided in Annex
V annexed hereto.
c. Form of Payment; Delivery of
Certificates.
(i) The Buyer shall pay the Purchase
Price by delivering immediately available good funds in United
States Dollars to the Escrow Agent no later than the date prior to
the Closing Date.
(ii) Within three (3) Trading
Days after the Company is notified that the Escrow Agent has on
deposit cleared funds from or on behalf of one or more Buyers an
aggregate amount equal to the Aggregate Purchase Price and the
Company shall have accepted the Buyer’s subscription
hereunder, but in no event later than the Closing Date, the Company
will deliver the Certificates to the Escrow Agent. Such
Certificates shall be held in escrow by the Escrow Agent until
released as provided in the Joint Escrow Instructions.
(iii) By signing this Agreement,
each of the Buyer and the Company, subject to acceptance by the
Escrow Agent, agrees to all of the terms and conditions of, and
becomes a party to, the Joint Escrow Instructions, all of the
provisions of which are incorporated herein by this reference as if
set forth in full.
d. Method of Payment.
Payment into escrow of the Purchase
Price shall be made to the Escrow Agent as provided in the Wire
Instructions.
2. BUYER REPRESENTATIONS,
WARRANTIES, ETC.; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; INDEPENDENT
INVESTIGATION.
The Buyer represents and warrants
to, and covenants and agrees with, the Company, as of the date
hereof and, except as otherwise noted, as of each Closing Date, as
follows:
a. Without limiting Buyer's right to sell the
Securities pursuant to an effective registration statement or
otherwise in compliance with the 1933 Act, the Buyer is purchasing
the Securities for the Buyer’s own account for investment
only and not with a view towards the public sale or distribution
thereof and not with a view to or for sale in connection with any
distribution thereof.
b. The Buyer is (i) an “accredited
investor” as that term is defined in Rule 501 of the General
Rules and Regulations under the 1933 Act, (ii) experienced in
making investments of the kind described in this Agreement and the
other Transaction Agreements, (iii) able, by reason of the
business and financial experience of the Buyer and the
Buyer’s professional advisors (who are not affiliated with or
compensated in any way by the Company or any of its Affiliates or
selling agents), to protect the Buyer’s own interests in
connection with the transactions described in this Agreement and
the other Transaction Agreements, and to evaluate the merits and
risks of an investment in the Securities, and (iv) able to
afford the entire loss of its investment in the
Securities.
c. All subsequent offers and sales of the
Securities by the Buyer shall be made pursuant to registration of
the relevant Securities under the 1933 Act or pursuant to an
exemption from such registration.
d. The Buyer understands and agrees that the
Securities have not been registered under the 1933 Act or any
applicable state securities laws, by reason of their issuance in a
transaction that does not require registration under the 1933 Act
(based in part on the accuracy of the representations and
warranties of the Buyer contained herein), and that such Securities
must be held indefinitely unless a subsequent disposition is
registered under the 1933 Act or any applicable state securities
laws or is exempt from such registration. The Buyer understands
that the Securities are being offered and sold to the Buyer in
reliance on specific exemptions from the registration requirements
of the 1933 Act and state securities laws and that the Company is
relying upon the truth and accuracy of, and the Buyer’s
compliance with, the representations, warranties, agreements,
acknowledgments and understandings of the Buyer set forth herein in
order to determine the availability of such exemptions and the
eligibility of the Buyer to acquire the Securities.
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e. The Buyer and the Buyer’s advisors, if
any, have been furnished with or have been given access to all
materials relating to the business, finances and operations of the
Company and materials relating to the offer and sale of the
Purchased Securities which have been requested by the Buyer,
including those set forth in any annex attached hereto. The Buyer
and the Buyer’s advisors, if any, have been afforded the
opportunity to ask questions of the Company and its management and
have received complete and satisfactory answers to any such
inquiries. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
Buyer has also had the opportunity to obtain and to review the
Company’s SEC Documents.
f. The Buyer understands that its investment in the
Securities involves a high degree of risk.
g. The Buyer hereby represents that, in connection
with the Buyer’s investment or the Buyer’s decision to
purchase the Securities, the Buyer has not relied on any statement
or representation of any Person, including any such statement or
representation by the Company or any of their respective
controlling Persons, officers, directors, partners, agents and
employees or any of their respective attorneys, except as
specifically set forth herein.
h. The Buyer understands that no United States
federal or state agency or any other government or governmental
agency has passed on or made any recommendation or endorsement of
the Securities or the suitability of the investment in the
Securities nor have any such authorities passed upon or endorsed
the merits of the offering of the Securities.
i. This Agreement and each of the other Transaction
Agreements to which the Buyer is a party, and the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby, have been duly and validly
authorized by the Buyer. This Agreement has been executed and
delivered by the Buyer, and this Agreement is, and each of the
other Transaction Agreements to which the Buyer is a party, when
executed and delivered by the Buyer (if necessary), will be valid
and binding obligations of the Buyer enforceable in accordance with
their respective terms, subject as to enforceability to general
principles of equity and to bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium and
other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’
rights generally.
j. The offer to sell the Securities was directly
communicated to the Buyer by the Company. At no time was the Buyer
presented with or solicited by any leaflet, newspaper or magazine
article, radio or television advertisement, or any other form of
general advertising or solicited or invited to attend a promotional
meeting otherwise than in connection and concurrently with such
communicated offer.
k. The execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement and the consummation by the Buyer of the transactions
contemplated hereby or relating hereto do not and will not conflict
with, or constitute a default (or an event which 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 of any agreement, indenture or instrument or
obligation to which the Buyer is a party or by which its properties
or assets are bound, or result in a violation of any law, rule, or
regulation, or any order, judgment or decree of any court or
governmental agency applicable to such Buyer or its properties
(except for such conflicts, defaults and violations as would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on
the Buyer’s ability to fulfill its obligations under this
Agreement or the other Transaction Agreements). The Buyer is not
required to obtain any consent, authorization or order of, or make
any filing or registration with, any court or governmental agency
in order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its
obligations under this Agreement or to purchase the Securities in
accordance with the terms hereof, provided that for purposes of the
representation made in this sentence, the Buyer is assuming and
relying upon the accuracy of the relevant representations and
agreements of the Company herein.
3. COMPANY REPRESENTATIONS,
ETC. The Company
represents and warrants to the Buyer as of the date hereof and as
of each Closing Date that, except as otherwise provided in the
Disclosure Annex or in the Company’s SEC
Documents:
a. Rights of Others Affecting the
Transactions. There are
no preemptive rights of any stockholder of the Company to acquire
the Securities. No other party has a currently exercisable right of
first refusal which would be applicable to any or all of the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Agreements. Except as
set forth in the Disclosure Annex or the SEC Documents, no Person
has, and as of the Closing Date, no Person shall have, any demand,
“piggy-back” or other rights to cause the Company to
file any registration statement under the 1933 Act relating to any
of its securities or to participate in any such registration
statement.
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b. Status.
The Company is a corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
the State of Incorporation and has the requisite corporate power to
own its properties and to carry on its business as now being
conducted. The Company is duly qualified as a foreign corporation
to do business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction where
the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes
such qualification necessary, other than those jurisdictions in
which the failure to so qualify would not have or result in a
Material Adverse Effect. The Company has registered its stock and
is obligated to file reports pursuant to Section 12 or
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the “1934 Act”). The Common Stock is quoted on
the Principal Trading Market. The Company has received no notice,
either oral or written, with respect to the continued eligibility
of the Common Stock for quotation on the Principal Trading Market,
and the Company has maintained all requirements on its part for the
continuation of such quotation.
c. Authorized
Shares.
(i) The capitalization of the
Company (including the number of shares of each class of stock
which is authorized and the number of such shares which are
outstanding) is as indicated in the consolidated balance sheet of
the Company as included in the most recently filed quarterly or
annual report included in the Company’s SEC Documents and
there has been no material change to such capitalization since the
filing of that report.
(ii) Except as set forth in the
Company’s SEC Documents, there are no outstanding securities
which are exercisable for, exchangeable for or convertible into
shares of Common Stock or exercisable for, exchangeable for or
convertible into instruments which are convertible into shares of
Common Stock, whether such exercise, exchange or conversion is
currently exercisable or exercisable only upon some future date or
the occurrence of some event in the future. If any such securities
are listed on the Disclosure Annex, the number or amount of each
such outstanding convertible security and the conversion terms are
set forth in said Disclosure Annex.
(iii) All issued and outstanding
shares of Common Stock have been duly authorized and validly issued
and are fully paid and non-assessable. The Company has sufficient
authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock as may be necessary
to effect the issuance of the Shares on the Closing Date, were the
Debentures fully converted and were the Warrant fully exercised on
that date. In addition, the Company has sufficient authorized and
unissued shares of Common Stock as may be necessary to effect the
issuance of any other shares of Common Stock in connection with any
other securities previously issued by the Company that are
convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock.
(iv) The Shares have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the
Company, and, when issued on conversion of, or in payment of
interest on, the Debentures or upon exercise of the Warrants, in
each case in accordance with their respective terms, will have been
duly and validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and will not
subject the Holder thereof to personal liability by reason of being
such Holder.
d. Transaction Agreements and
Stock. This Agreement and
each of the other Transaction Agreements, and the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby, have been duly and validly
authorized by the Company. This Agreement has been duly executed
and delivered by the Company and this Agreement is, and each of the
Debentures, the Warrants and each of the other Transaction
Agreements, when executed and delivered by the Company (if
necessary), will be, valid and binding obligations of the Company
enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, subject as
to enforceability to general principles of equity and to
bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, and other similar laws
affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights
generally.
e. Non-contravention.
The execution and delivery of this
Agreement and each of the other Transaction Agreements by the
Company, the issuance of the Securities in accordance with the
terms hereof, and the consummation by the Company of the other
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Debentures, the
Warrants and the other Transaction Agreements do not and will not
conflict with or result in a breach by the Company of any of the
terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under (i) the
Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws, each as currently in
effect, (ii) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, or other
material agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or
by which it or any of its properties or assets are bound, including
any listing
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agreement for the Common Stock except as herein
set forth, or (iii) to its knowledge, any existing applicable
law, rule, or regulation or any applicable decree, judgment, or
order of any court, United States federal or state regulatory body,
administrative agency, or other governmental body having
jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties or assets,
except such conflict, breach or default which would not have or
result in a Material Adverse Effect. The timely payment of interest
on the Debentures is not prohibited by the Certificate of
Incorporation or By-Laws, or any agreement, contract, document or
other undertaking to which the Company is a party.
f. Securities Law Matters;
Approvals.
(i) No authorization, approval or
consent of any court, governmental body, regulatory agency,
self-regulatory organization, or stock exchange or market or the
stockholders of the Company is required to be obtained by the
Company for the issuance and sale of the Securities to the Buyer as
contemplated by this Agreement, except such authorizations,
approvals and consents that have been obtained.
(ii) Assuming the accuracy of the
representations and warranties of the Buyer set forth in
Section 2, the offer and sale by the Company of the Purchased
Securities is exempt from (A) the registration and prospectus
delivery requirements of the 1933 Act and the rules and regulations
of the SEC thereunder and (B) the registration and/or
qualification provisions of all applicable state and provincial
securities and “blue sky” laws.
g. Filings.
Since January 1, 2007, the
Company has filed all annual and quarterly reports and all proxy
statements required to be filed by the Company with the SEC under
Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the 1934 Act. The financial
statements of the Company included in the Company’s SEC
Documents, as of the dates of such documents, were true and
complete in all material respects and complied with applicable
accounting requirements and the published rules and regulations of
the Commission with respect thereto, were prepared in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States
(“GAAP”) (except in the case of unaudited statements
permitted by Form 10-QSB or 10-Q under the 1934 Act) applied on a
consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be
indicated in the notes thereto) and fairly presented the
consolidated financial position of the Company and its Subsidiaries
as of the dates thereof and the consolidated results of their
operations and cash flows for the periods then ended (subject, in
the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit
adjustments that in the aggregate are not material and to any other
adjustment described therein).
h. Absence of Certain
Changes. Since the Last
Audited Date, there has been no Material Adverse Effect, except as
disclosed in the Company’s SEC Documents. Since the Last
Audited Date, except as provided in the Company’s SEC
Documents, the Company has not (i) incurred or become subject
to any material liabilities (absolute or contingent) except
liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent
with past practices; (ii) discharged or satisfied any material
lien or encumbrance or paid any material obligation or liability
(absolute or contingent), other than current liabilities paid in
the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices;
(iii) declared or made any payment or distribution of cash or
other property to stockholders with respect to its capital stock,
or purchased or redeemed, or made any agreements to purchase or
redeem, any shares of its capital stock; (iv) sold, assigned
or transferred any other material tangible assets, or canceled any
material debts owed to the Company by any third party or material
claims of the Company against any third party, except in the
ordinary course of business consistent with past practices;
(v) waived any rights of material value, whether or not in the
ordinary course of business, or suffered the loss of any material
amount of existing business; (vi) made any increases in
employee compensation, except in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practices; or (vii) experienced any
material problems with labor or management in connection with the
terms and conditions of their employment.
i. Full Disclosure.
There is no fact known to the
Company (other than conditions known to the public generally or as
disclosed in the Company’s SEC Documents) that has not been
disclosed in writing to the Buyer that would reasonably be expected
to have or result in a Material Adverse Effect.
j. Absence of
Litigation. There is no
action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or by any
court, public board or body pending or, to the knowledge of the
Company, threatened against or affecting the Company before or by
any governmental authority or non-governmental department,
commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality or any other
person, wherein an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding would
have a Material Adverse Effect or which would adversely affect the
validity or enforceability of, or the authority or ability of the
Company to perform its obligations under, any of the Transaction
Agreements. The Company is not aware of any valid basis for any
such claim that (either individually or in the aggregate with all
other such events and
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circumstances) could reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no outstanding or
unsatisfied judgments, orders, decrees, writs, injunctions or
stipulations to which the Company is a party or by which it or any
of its properties is bound, that involve the transaction
contemplated herein or that, alone or in the aggregate, could
reasonably be expect to have a Material Adverse Effect.
k. Absence of Events of
Default. Except as set
forth in Section 3(e) hereof, no Event of Default (or its
equivalent term), as defined in the respective agreement to which
the Company or its Subsidiary is a party, and no event which, with
the giving of notice or the passage of time or both, would become
an Event of Default (or its equivalent term) (as so defined in such
agreement), has occurred and is continuing, which would have a
Material Adverse Effect.
l. Absence of Certain Company
Control Person Actions or Events. To the Company’s knowledge, none of the
following has occurred during the past five (5) years with
respect to a Company Control Person:
(1) A petition under the federal
bankruptcy laws or any state insolvency law was filed by or
against, or a receiver, fiscal agent or similar officer was
appointed by a court for the business or property of such Company
Control Person, or any partnership in which he was a general
partner at or within two years before the time of such filing, or
any corporation or business association of which he was an
executive officer at or within two years before the time of such
filing;
(2) Such Company Control Person was
convicted in a criminal proceeding or is a named subject of a
pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other
minor offenses);
(3) Such Company Control Person was
the subject of any order, judgment or decree, not subsequently
reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent
jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily enjoining him from, or
otherwise limiting, the following activities:
(i) acting, as an investment
advisor, underwriter, broker or dealer in securities, or as an
affiliated person, director or employee of any investment company,
bank, savings and loan association or insurance company, as a
futures commission merchant, introducing broker, commodity trading
advisor, commodity pool operator, floor broker, any other Person
regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
(“CFTC”) or engaging in or continuing any conduct or
practice in connection with such activity;
(ii) engaging in any type of
business practice; or
(iii) engaging in any activity in
connection with the purchase or sale of any security or commodity
or in connection with any violation of federal or state securities
laws or federal commodities laws;
(4) Such Company Control Person was
the subject of any order, judgment or decree, not subsequently
reversed, suspended or vacated, of any federal or state authority
barring, suspending or otherwise limiting for more than 60 days the
right of such Company Control Person to engage in any activity
described in paragraph (3) of this item, or to be associated
with Persons engaged in any such activity; or
(5) Such Company Control Person was
found by a court of competent jurisdiction in a civil action or by
the CFTC or SEC to have violated any federal or state securities
law, and the judgment in such civil action or finding by the CFTC
or SEC has not been subsequently reversed, suspended, or
vacated.
m. No Undisclosed Liabilities or
Events. The Company has
no liabilities or obligations other than those disclosed in the
Transaction Agreements or the Company's SEC Documents or those
incurred in the ordinary course of the Company’s business
since the Last Audited Date, or which individually or in the
aggregate, do not or would not have a Material Adverse Effect. No
event or circumstance has occurred or exists with respect to the
Company or its properties, business, operations, condition
(financial or otherwise), or results of operations, which, under
applicable law, rule or regulation, requires public disclosure or
announcement prior
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to the date hereof by the Company but which has
not been so publicly announced or disclosed. There are no proposals
currently under consideration or currently anticipated to be under
consideration by the Board of Directors or the executive officers
of the Company which proposal would (x) change the Certificate
of Incorporation or the By-laws, each as currently in effect, with
or without stockholder approval, which change would reduce or
otherwise adversely affect the rights and powers of the
stockholders of the Common Stock or (y) materially or
substantially change the business, assets or capital of the
Company, including its interests in subsidiaries.
n. No Integrated
Offering. Neither the
Company nor any of its Affiliates nor any Person acting on its or
their behalf has, directly or indirectly, at any time since
January 1, 2007, made any offer or sales of any security or
solicited any offers to buy any security under circumstances that
would eliminate the availability of the exemption from registration
under Regulation D in connection with the offer and sale of the
Securities as contemplated hereby.
o. Dilution.
Each of the Company and its
executive officers and directors is aware that the number of shares
issuable on conversion of the Debentures, upon exercise of the
Warrants or pursuant to the other terms of the Transaction
Agreements may have a dilutive effect on the ownership interests of
the other stockholders (and Persons having the right to become
stockholders) of the Company. The Company specifically acknowledges
that its obligation to issue the Conversion Shares upon conversion
of the Debentures and the Warrant Shares upon exercise of the
Warrants or any shares pursuant to any other terms of any of the
Transaction Agreements is binding upon the Company and enforceable
regardless of the dilution such issuance may have on the ownership
interests of other stockholders of the Company, and the Company
will honor such obligations, including, but not necessarily limited
to, honoring every Notice of Conversion (as contemplated by the
Debentures) and every Notice of Exercise (as contemplated by the
Warrants), unless the Company is subject to an injunction (which
injunction was not sought by the Company) prohibiting the Company
from doing so.
p. Fees to Brokers, Finders and
Others. The Company has
taken no action which would give rise to any claim by any Person
for brokerage commission, placement agent or finder’s fees or
similar payments by Buyer relating to this Agreement or the
transactions contemplated hereby. Except for such fees arising as a
result of any agreement or arrangement entered into by the Buyer
without the knowledge of the Company (a “Buyer’s
Fee”), Buyer shall have no obligation with respect to such
fees or with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other
Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this paragraph that may
be due in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby. The
Company shall indemnify and hold harmless each of Buyer, its
employees, officers, directors, agents, and partners, and their
respective Affiliates, from and against all claims, losses,
damages, costs (including the costs of preparation and
attorney’s fees) and expenses suffered in respect of any such
claimed or existing fees (other than a Buyer’s
Fee).
q. Tax Returns.
The Company and each of its
Subsidiaries has made and filed all federal and state income and
all other tax returns, reports and declarations required by any
jurisdiction to which it is subject and (unless and only to the
extent that the Company and each of its Subsidiaries has set aside
on its books provisions reasonably adequate for the payment of all
unpaid and unreported taxes) has paid all taxes and other
governmental assessments and charges that are material in amount,
shown or determined to be due on such returns, reports and
declarations, except those being contested in good faith and has
set aside on its books provision reasonably adequate for the
payment of all taxes for periods subsequent to the periods to which
such returns, reports or declarations apply. There are no unpaid
taxes in any material amount claimed to be due by the taxing
authority of any jurisdiction, and the officers of the Company know
of no basis for any such claim.
r. Disclosure.
All information relating to or
concerning the Company set forth in the Transaction Agreements or
in the Company’s public filings with the SEC is true and
correct in all material respects and the Company has not omitted to
state any material fa