STANDBY PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
This Standby
Purchase Agreement (this “ Agreement ”), dated
as of April 4, 2009, is entered into by and between BioMimetic
Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “
Company ”), and Novo A/S (the “ Standby
Purchaser ”), a Danish private limited liability
company.
WHEREAS, the
Company proposes, as soon as practicable after the Rights Offering
Registration Statement (as defined herein) becomes effective, to
commence an offering to each of the holders of its common stock,
$0.001 par value (the “ Common Stock ”), of
record as of the close of business on the record date to be
determined by the Company’s Board of Directors (the “
Record Date ”), of non-transferable rights (the
“ Rights ”) to subscribe for and purchase
additional shares of Common Stock (the “ New Shares
”) at a subscription price per share of $8.50 for an
aggregate offering amount of up to $17,000,000 (the “
Subscription Price ” and, such offering, the “
Rights Offering ”); and
WHEREAS, pursuant
to the Rights Offering, the Company will distribute to each of its
stockholders of record, at no charge, one Right for each share of
Common Stock held by the stockholder of record as of the Record
Date, and each Right will entitle the holder thereof to purchase
0.107 New Shares from the Company (with fractional shares rounded
up to the next whole number of shares) at the Subscription Price
(the “ Basic Subscription Privilege ”);
and
WHEREAS, each
holder of Rights who exercises its Basic Subscription Privilege in
full will be entitled to subscribe for, at the Subscription Price,
Unsubscribed Shares (as defined herein) to the extent that other
holders of Rights do not exercise all of their respective Basic
Subscription Privileges (the “ Over-Subscription
Privilege ”); and
WHEREAS, any
holder of Rights, after exercising in full its Basic Subscription
Privilege and Over-Subscription Privilege, who has a subscription
right to purchase a fractional share will be permitted to subscribe
for one additional full share in lieu of the fractional share that
would have been granted, without furnishing any additional rights
(the “ Step-Up Privilege ”); and
WHEREAS, in order
to facilitate the Rights Offering, the Company has requested the
Standby Purchaser to agree, and the Standby Purchaser has agreed,
subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, that, to the
extent New Shares are not purchased by the Company’s
stockholders pursuant to the exercise of Rights, the Standby
Purchaser shall be deemed to have exercised such Rights immediately
prior to the expiration of the Offering Period and shall purchase
such shares from the Company at the Subscription Price pursuant to
the exercise of such Rights (the “ Unsubscribed Shares
”), subject to a maximum total commitment of
$15,000,000.
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants herein
contained and other good and valuable consideration, the Company
and the Standby Purchaser, intending to be legally bound hereby,
agree as follows:
(a)
Certain Defined Terms. The following terms used herein shall
have the meanings set forth below:
(i)
“ Agreement ” has the meaning set forth in the
preamble hereto.
(ii)
“ Base Prospectus ” means the prospectus
relating to the Common Stock included with the Rights Offering
Registration Statement, including the documents incorporated by
reference therein.
(iii)
“ Basic Subscription Privilege ” has the meaning
set forth in the recitals hereto.
(iv)
“ Board ” means the board of directors of the
Company.
(v)
“ Business Day ” shall mean any day that is not
a Saturday, a Sunday, or a day on which banks are required or
permitted to be closed in the State of New York.
(vi)
“ Closing ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2(b).
(vii)
“ Closing Date ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2(b).
(viii)
“ Commission ” means the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission.
(ix)
“ Common Stock ” has the meaning set forth in
the recitals hereto.
(x)
“ Company ” has the meaning set forth in the
preamble hereto.
(xi)
“ Company Stockholder Approval ” means, in
compliance with Section 203 of the DGCL, approval of the
Company’s issuance of the New Shares to the Standby Purchaser
by 66 2/3% of the Company’s voting stock not owned by an
interested stockholder.
(xii)
“ DGCL ” means the Delaware General Corporation
Law.
(xiii)
“ Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated
by the Commission thereunder.
(xiv)
“ Intellectual Property ” has the meaning set
forth in Section 5(n).
(xv)
“ Interwest Partners ” means InterWest Partners
X, LP.
(xvi)
“ InterWest Purchase Agreement ” has the meaning
set forth in Section 6(a)(vii).
(xvii)
“ Issuer Free Writing Prospectus ” means each
“free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405
of the Securities Act) prepared by or on behalf of the Company or
used or referred to by the Company in connection with the Rights
Offering.
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(xviii)
“ Losses ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 10(a)(i).
(xix)
“ Material Adverse Effect ” means the
occurrence, either individually or in the aggregate, of any
material adverse effect on the earnings, business, management,
properties, assets, rights, operations, condition (financial or
otherwise) or prospects of the Company and of the Subsidiaries
taken as a whole, except any of the following, either alone or in
combination, shall not be deemed a Material Adverse Effect:
(i) effects caused by changes or circumstances affecting
general market conditions in the U.S. economy or that are generally
applicable to the industry in which the Company operates, provided
that such effects do not adversely affect the Company in a
disproportionate manner, (ii) effects resulting from or
relating to the announcement or disclosure of the sale of the
Rights Offering or other transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, or (iii) effects caused by any event, occurrence or
condition resulting from or relating to the taking of any action in
accordance with this Agreement.
(xx)
“ New Shares ” shall have the meaning set forth
in the recitals hereto.
(xxi)
“ Offering Period ” means the period of time
from the Record Date until the expiration date of the Rights
Offering.
(xxii)
“ Over-Subscription Privilege ” has the meaning
set forth in the recitals hereto.
(xxiii)
“ Person ” means an individual, corporation,
partnership, association, joint stock company, limited liability
company, joint venture, trust, governmental entity, unincorporated
organization or other legal entity.
(xxiv)
“ Preliminary Prospectus ” means the preliminary
prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus relating to the Rights
Offering, filed with the Commission, pursuant to Rule 424
under the Securities Act, together with the Base Prospectus,
including the documents incorporated by reference
therein.
(xxv)
“ Products ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 5(n).
(xxvi)
“ Prospectus ” means the final prospectus
supplement to the Base Prospectus relating to the Rights Offering
filed with the Commission, pursuant to Rule 424 under the
Securities Act, together with the Base Prospectus, including the
documents incorporated by reference therein.
(xxvii)
“ Proxy Statement ” means the definitive proxy
statement filed with the Commission relating to the Company
Stockholder Approval and the transactions contemplated hereunder,
together with all amendments, supplements and exhibits
thereto.
(xxviii) “
Record Date ” has the meaning set forth in the
recitals hereto.
(xxix)
“ Rights ” has the meaning set forth in the
recitals hereto.
(xxx)
“ Rights Offering ” has the meaning set forth in
the recitals hereto.
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(xxxi)
“ Rights Offering Expiration Date ” means the
date on which the subscription period under the Rights Offering
expires.
(xxxii)
“ Rights Offering Registration Statement ” means
the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 under the
Securities Act or such other appropriate form under the Securities
Act, pursuant to which the shares of Common Stock underlying the
Rights will be registered pursuant to the Securities
Act.
(xxxiii)
“ Rules and Regulations ” means the rules and
regulations promulgated under the Securities Act.
(xxxiv)
“ Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of
1933, as amended and the rules and regulations promulgated by the
Commission thereunder.
(xxxv)
“ Shelf Base Prospectus ” means the prospectus
relating to the Common Stock included with the Shelf Registration
Statement, including the documents incorporated by reference
therein.
(xxxvi)
“ Shelf Prospectus ” means the final prospectus
supplement to the Shelf Base Prospectus relating to the Shelf
Registration Statement filed with the Commission, pursuant to Rule
424 under the Securities Act, together with the Shelf Base
Prospectus, including the documents incorporated by reference
therein.
(xxxvii)
“ Shelf Registration Statement ” shall mean the
Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 under the
Securities Act or such other appropriate form under the Securities
Act, pursuant to which, among other securities, the Standby
Purchase Commitment will be registered pursuant to the Securities
Act.
(xxxviii)
“ Specified Courts ” has the meaning set forth
in Section 11(f).
(xxxix)
“ Standby Purchase Commitment ” means the number
of New Shares allocated to the Standby Purchaser by the Company at
the Standby Purchase Commitment Price following the close of the
Offering Period pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
(xl)
“ Standby Purchase Commitment Price ” means the
Subscription Price.
(xli)
“ Standby Purchaser ” has the meaning set forth
in the preamble hereto.
(xlii)
“ Step-Up Privilege ” has the meaning set forth
in the recitals hereto.
(xliii)
“ Subscription Agent ” has the meaning set forth
in Section 6(a).
(xliv)
“ Subscription Price ” has the meaning set forth
in the recitals hereto.
(xlv)
“ Subsidiary ” or “ Subsidiaries
” has the meaning set forth in Section 5(a).
(xlvi)
“ Unsubscribed Shares ” has the meaning set
forth in the recitals hereto.
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Section 2. Standby Purchase Commitment.
(a)
Standby Purchase Commitment.
(i) If
and to the extent Unsubscribed Shares are not purchased by the
Company’s other stockholders pursuant to the exercise of
Rights (including the Basic Subscription Privilege and the
Over-Subscription Privilege) under the Rights Offering, the Standby
Purchaser shall be deemed to have exercised such Rights immediately
prior to the expiration of the Rights Offering and shall be
entitled to and hereby agrees to purchase from the Company, and the
Company hereby agrees to sell to the Standby Purchaser, at the
Subscription Price, all such remaining New Shares, subject to a
maximum total commitment of the Standby Purchaser of $15,000,000,
including any New Shares purchased by the Standby Purchaser in the
Rights Offering pursuant to its Basic Subscription
Privilege.
(ii) The
Standby Purchaser and the Company hereby agree that it is the
intent of both parties that the Standby Purchaser, by virtue of
acting hereunder, shall not be deemed an “underwriter”
within the definition of Section 2(a)(11) of the Securities
Act or deemed to be engaged in broker-dealer activity requiring
registration under Section 15 of the Exchange Act, and the
Standby Purchaser and Company shall in the fulfillment of their
obligations hereunder act in accordance with this mutual
understanding.
(b)
Closing. On the basis of the representations and warranties
and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the
closing of the purchase and sale of the Standby Purchase Commitment
(the “ Closing ”) shall take place at the
offices of Morrison & Foerster LLP, at 10:00 a.m., New
York City time, on or before the third Business Day after the
Rights Offering Expiration Date; provided , that the Closing
may take place at such other place, time or date as shall be
mutually agreed upon by the Company and the Standby Purchaser (the
date of the Closing, the “ Closing Date
”).
(c)
Deliveries at Closing.
(i) At
the Closing, the Company shall deliver to the Standby Purchaser the
following:
(1) A
certificate or certificates in book-entry form, registered in the
name of the Standby Purchaser, representing the Standby Purchase
Commitment that is allocated to the Standby Purchaser. The
certificate or certificates for the Standby Purchase Commitment
shall be registered in such names and in such denominations as the
Standby Purchaser may request not less than two Business Days prior
to the Closing Date.
(2) A
certificate of an officer of the Company on its behalf to the
effect that the representations and warranties of the Company
contained in this Agreement are true and correct in all material
respects as of the date hereof, and that as of the Closing Date the
Company has complied with all covenants and other obligations of
the Company set forth in this Agreement.
(3) A
legal opinion of counsel to the Company substantially in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit A .
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(ii) At
the Closing, the Standby Purchaser shall deliver to the Company the
following:
(1) The
Standby Purchase Commitment Price for the Standby Purchase
Commitment, which shall be paid by the Standby Purchaser to the
Company in U.S. federal (same day) funds to an account designated
in writing by the Company at least two Business Days prior to the
Closing Date.
(2) A
certificate of the Standby Purchaser to the effect that the
representations and warranties of the Standby Purchaser are true
and correct in all material respects on and as of the date
hereof.
Section 3. Representations and Warranties of the Standby
Purchaser. The Standby Purchaser represents and warrants to the
Company, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, as
follows:
(a)
Organization. The Standby Purchaser is a limited liability
company duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under
the laws of its jurisdiction of formation and has the requisite
limited liability company power and authority to carry on its
business as it is now being conducted.
(b) Due
Authorization. The Standby Purchaser has the requisite limited
liability company power and authority to enter into this Agreement
and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and the
execution and delivery by the Standby Purchaser of this Agreement,
the purchase of the Standby Purchase Commitment and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby (a) are within
the limited liability company power and authority of the Standby
Purchaser and (b) have been duly authorized by all necessary
limited liability company action of the Standby Purchaser. This
Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by the
Standby Purchaser. Assuming the due authorization, execution and
delivery by the Company of this Agreement, this Agreement
constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Standby Purchaser
enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except as such
enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar laws relating to enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally, and general equitable principles
relating to the availability of remedies and the public policy
underlying such laws.
(c) No
Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement by the Standby Purchaser, the purchase of the Standby
Purchase Commitment and the consummation by the Standby Purchaser
of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the
compliance by the Standby Purchaser with the terms of this
Agreement do not and will not conflict with or do not result and
will not result in any breach or violation of any of the terms or
provisions of, or do not constitute or will not constitute a
default under, do not cause or will not cause (or do not permit or
will not permit) the maturation or acceleration of any liability or
obligation or the termination of any right under, or do not result
in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance
upon, any property or assets of the Standby Purchaser pursuant to
the terms of (i) the charter or bylaws or other applicable
organizational documents of the Standby Purchaser; (ii) any
indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, voting trust agreement,
stockholders’ agreement, note agreement or other agreement or
instrument to which the Standby
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Purchaser is a
party or by which it is bound or to which its respective property
is subject; or (iii) any statute, judgment, decree, order,
rule or regulation applicable to the Standby Purchaser of any
government, arbitrator, court, regulatory body or administrative
agency or other governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign,
having jurisdiction over the Standby Purchaser or its activities or
properties, which materially and adversely affects the business or
properties of the Standby Purchaser.
(d) No
Consent. No authorization, approval, consent or license of any
government, governmental instrumentality or court, domestic or
foreign (other than under the Securities Act and the securities or
blue sky laws of the various states) is required for the purchase
of the shares underlying the Standby Purchase Commitment, if any,
to be purchased by the Standby Purchaser hereunder and the
consummation by such Standby Purchaser of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement.
(e)
Information. The Standby Purchaser and its advisers have
been furnished with all materials relating to the business,
finances and operations of the Company and materials relating to
the offer and sale of the Standby Purchase Commitment which have
been requested by such Standby Purchaser or its advisers. The
Standby Purchaser is familiar with the business in which the
Company is engaged, and based upon its knowledge and experience in
financial and business matters, the Standby Purchaser is familiar
with the investments of the type that it is undertaking to
purchase; is fully aware of the problems and risks involved in
making an investment of this type; and is capable of evaluating the
merits and risks of this investment.
(f)
Confidentiality. The Standby Purchaser and its affiliates
acknowledge that, in receiving information about the terms of this
Agreement and about the Company in connection with this Agreement,
they may have received material non-public information within the
meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws. As such, if and to the
extent that the Standby Purchaser or its affiliates have received
material non-public information within the meaning of the U.S.
federal securities laws, neither the Standby Purchaser nor its
affiliates has and none of them will purchase (other than in
connection with the Standby Purchase Commitment) or sell any
securities of the Company, in a transaction that would violate
applicable U.S. federal securities laws as a result of the Standby
Purchaser or its affiliates having any such material non-public
information, from the date of this Agreement until after the
Closing Date or the earlier termination of the Standby
Purchaser’s obligations under Section 2 of this
Agreement.
(g) Short
Sales. Since being contacted by the Company, the Standby
Purchaser has not taken any action that has caused the Standby
Purchaser to have, directly or indirectly, sold or agreed to sell
any shares of Common Stock, effected any short sale, whether or not
against the box, established any “put equivalent
position” (as defined in Rule 16a-1(h) under the
Exchange Act) with respect to the Common Stock, granted any other
right (including, without limitation, any put or call option) with
respect to the Common Stock or with respect to any security that
includes, relates to or derived any significant part of its value
from the Common Stock.
(h)
Market Stabilization. The Standby Purchaser has not taken
and the Standby Purchaser will not take, directly or indirectly,
any action designed to or that might reasonably be expected to
result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of the shares
of Common Stock to facilitate the sale or resale of the Standby
Purchase Commitment.
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(i)
Control. The Standby Purchaser is acquiring the Standby
Purchase Commitment in the ordinary course of its business and not
with the purpose nor with the effect of changing or influencing the
control of the Company, nor in connection with or as a participant
in any transaction having such purpose or effect, including any
transaction subject to Rule 13d-3(b) under the Exchange
Act.
(j)
Accredited Investor Status. The Standby Purchaser was not
created for the purpose of acquiring the Standby Purchase
Commitment and is an “accredited investor,” as that
term is as defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the
Securities Act. The Standby 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 Standby Purchase Commitment, and has so evaluated the merits
and risks of such investment. The Standby Purchaser is able to bear
the economic risk of an investment in the Standby Purchase
Commitment and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete
loss of such investment. The Standby Purchaser understands that its
investment in the Standby Purchase Commitment involves a
significant degree of risk. Such Standby Purchaser is a
“qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in
Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act).
(k)
Acquisition for Investment. The Standby Purchaser is
acquiring the Standby Purchase Commitment as principal for its own
account for investment purposes only and not with a view to or for
distributing or reselling such Standby Purchase Commitment or any
part thereof, has no present intention of distributing any of such
Standby Purchase Commitment and has no arrangement or understanding
with any other Persons regarding the distribution of such Standby
Purchase Commitment; provided , however , that in
making such representation, the Standby Purchaser does not agree to
hold the Standby Purchase Commitment for any minimum or specific
term and reserves the right to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose
of the Standby Purchase Commitment at any time in accordance with
federal and state securities laws applicable to such sale, transfer
or disposition.
(l)
Relationship with Company. The Standby Purchaser has no
position or office with the Company and owns 3,326,159 shares of
the Company’s Common Stock as of the date of this
Agreement.
(m)
Standby Purchaser Activities. The Standby Purchaser is not a
broker-dealer and does not need to be registered as a
broker-dealer.
Section 4. Covenants of the Standby
Purchaser.
Neither the
Standby Purchaser nor any of its affiliates will contact or
communicate with any Rights holders regarding the Standby Purchase
Commitment without first notifying the Company.
Section 5. Representations and Warranties of the
Company. The Company hereby represents and warrants to the
Standby Purchaser as follows:
(a)
Organization and Qualification . The Company is a
corporation duly incorporated, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation with
corporate power and authority to own or lease its properties and
conduct its
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business as
described in the SEC Reports (as defined below) and the Company is
qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in each
jurisdiction in which qualification is required, except where
failure to so qualify would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The
Company’s subsidiaries (each a “ Subsidiary
” and collectively the “ Subsidiaries ”)
are listed on Exhibit B to this Agreement and are the only
subsidiaries, direct or indirect, of the Company. Each Subsidiary
is a direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.
Each Subsidiary is duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, with
corporate power and authority to own or lease its properties and
conduct its business as currently carried out, and is qualified to
do business as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which
qualification is required, except where failure to so qualify would
not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b)
Authorized Capital Stock. As of the date hereof, the
authorized, issued and outstanding share capital of the Company is
as set forth on Schedule 5(b) hereto. The issued and
outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly authorized and
validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued
in compliance with all federal and state securities laws, were not
issued in violation of or subject to any preemptive rights or other
rights to subscribe for or purchase securities. Other than employee
stock options, the Company does not have outstanding any options to
purchase, or any preemptive rights or other rights to subscribe for
or to purchase, any securities or obligations convertible into, or
any contracts or commitments to issue or sell, shares of its
capital stock or any such options, rights, convertible securities
or obligations. With respect to each of the Subsidiaries
(i) all the issued and outstanding shares of such
Subsidiary’s capital stock have been duly authorized and
validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued
in compliance with all federal and state securities laws, were not
issued in violation of or subject to any preemptive rights or other
rights to subscribe for or purchase securities, and are owned by
the Company free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and equities
and claims, and (ii) there are no outstanding options to
purchase, or any preemptive rights or other rights to subscribe for
or to purchase, any securities or obligations convertible into, or
any contracts or commitments to issue or sell, shares of such
Subsidiary’s capital stock or any such options, rights,
convertible securities or obligations.
(c)
Issuance, Sale and Delivery of the New Shares. The New
Shares will have been duly authorized (assuming Company Stockholder
Approval) and, when issued, delivered and paid for in the manner
set forth in this Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable. No preemptive rights or other rights to subscribe
for or purchase any shares of Common Stock of the Company exist
with respect to the issuance and sale of the New Shares by the
Company pursuant to this Agreement.
(d) Due
Execution, Delivery and Performance of the Agreements. The
Company has full legal right, corporate power and authority to
enter into this Agreement and perform the transactions contemplated
hereby. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company. This Agreement constitutes a legal, valid
and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the
Company in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may
be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or other laws of general application relating to or
affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights and the
application of equitable principles relating to the availability of
remedies, and except as rights to indemnity or contribution,
including but not limited to, indemnification provisions
set
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forth in
Section 9 of this Agreement may be limited by federal or state
securities law or the public policy underlying such laws. The
execution and performance of this Agreement by the Company and the
consummation of the transactions herein contemplated will not
violate any provision of the certificate of incorporation or bylaws
of the Company or the organizational documents of any Subsidiary
and will not result in the creation of any lien, charge, security
interest or encumbrance upon any assets of the Company or any
Subsidiary pursuant to the terms or provisions of, or will not
conflict with, result in the breach or violation of, or constitute,
either by itself or upon notice or the passage of time or both, a
default under any agreement, mortgage, deed of trust, lease,
franchise, license, indenture, permit or other instrument to which
any of the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any of
the Company or any Subsidiary or their respective properties may be
bound or affected and in each case that would have a Material
Adverse Effect or, to the Company’s knowledge, any statute or
any authorization, judgment, decree, order, rule or regulation of
any court or any regulatory body, administrative agency or other
governmental agency or body applicable to the Company or any
Subsidiary or any of their respective properties. No consent,
approval, authorization or other order of any court, regulatory
body, administrative agency or other governmental agency or body is
required for the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement,
except for compliance with the Blue Sky laws and federal securities
laws applicable to the offering of the New Shares.
(e)
Reporting Company; Form S-3. The Company is not an
“ineligible issuer” (as defined in Rule 405
promulgated under the Securities Act) and is eligible to register
the New Shares for resale by the Standby Purchaser on a
registration statement on Form S-3 under the Securities Act.
The Company is subject to the reporting requirements of the
Exchange Act, and has filed all reports required thereby. Provided
neither the Standby Purchaser nor any holder of common stock is
deemed to be an underwriter with respect to any shares, to the
Company’s knowledge, there exist no facts or circumstances
(including without limitation any required approvals or waivers or
any circumstances that may delay or prevent the obtaining of
accountant’s consents) that reasonably could be expected to
prohibit or delay the preparation and filing of the Rights Offering
Registration Statement or the Shelf Registration Statement that
will be available for the resale of the New Shares by the Standby
Purchaser.
(f)
Rights Offering Registration Statement and Prospectus and Shelf
Registration Statement and Shelf Prospectus. At the time each
of the Rights Offering Registration Statement and Shelf
Registration Statement becomes effective, such registration
statement will comply in all material respects with the
requirements of the Securities Act and will not contain an untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading. The Prospectus, at the time the Rights
Offering Registration Statement becomes effective and at the
Closing Date, and the Shelf Prospectus, at the time the Shelf
Registration Statement becomes effective, will not include 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;
provided , however , that the representations and
warranties in this subsection shall not apply to statements in or
omissions from the Rights Offering Registration Statement or the
Prospectus, or the Shelf Registration Statement or the Shelf
Prospectus, made in reliance upon and in conformity with the
information furnished to the Company in writing by the Standby
Purchaser for use in the Rights Offering Registration Statement or
in the Prospectus, or in the
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Shelf
Registration Statement or the Shelf Prospectus. The documents
incorporated by reference into each of the Prospectus and the Shelf
Prospectus, when they become effective or at the time they are
filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will comply in all
material respects with the applicable provisions of the Exchange
Act.
(g) Proxy
Statement. The Proxy Statement will not, on the date it is
first mailed to stockholders of the Company, contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they
are made, not misleading and will not, at the time of the Company
Stockholder Approval, omit to state any material fact necessary to
correct any statement in any earlier communication from the Company
with respect to the solicitation of proxies for the Company
Stockholder Approval which shall have become false or misleading in
any material respect. The Proxy Statement will comply as to form in
all material respects with the applicable requirements of the
Exchange Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company makes no
representation or warranty with respect to information furnished to
the Company in writing by the Standby Purchaser for inclusion or
incorporation by reference in any of the foregoing
documents.
(h)
Accountants. Ernst & Young LLP, who has expressed its
opinion with respect to the consolidated financial statements
contained in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the year ended December 31, 2008, which will be
incorporated by reference into the (A) Rights Offering
Registration Statement and the Prospectus that forms a part
thereof, and the (B) Shelf Registration Statement and the
Shelf Prospectus that forms a part thereof, are registered
independent public accountants as required by the Securities Act
and the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission
thereunder and by the rules of the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board.
(i) No
Defaults or Consents. Neither the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement by the Company nor the consummation
of any of the transactions contemplated hereby (including, without
limitation, the issuance and sale by the Company of the New Shares)
will give rise to a right to terminate or accelerate the due date
of any payment due under, or conflict with or result in the breach
of any term or provision of, or constitute a default (or an event
which with notice or lapse of time or both would constitute a
default) under, except such defaults that individually or in the
aggregate would not cause a Material Adverse Effect, or require any
consent or waiver under, or result in the execution or imposition
of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any properties or assets of
the Company or its subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of, any
indenture, mortgage, deed of trust or other agreement or instrument
to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by
which either the Company or its subsidiaries or any of their
properties or businesses is bound, or any franchise, license,
permit, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or regulation
applicable to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or violate any
provision of the charter or by-laws of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries, except for such consents or waivers which have
already been obtained and are in full force and effect.
(j)
Contracts. The material contracts to which the Company is a
party that are filed pursuant to the Securities Act or the Exchange
Act, with the Commission by the Company have been duly and validly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and constitute
the legal, valid and binding agreements of the Company, enforceable
by and against it in accordance
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with their
respective terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar
laws relating to enforcement of creditors’ rights generally,
and general equitable principles relating to the availability of
remedies, and except as rights to indemnity or contribution may be
limited by federal or state securities laws and the public policy
underlying such laws.
(k) No
Actions. There are no legal or governmental actions, suits or
proceedings pending or, to the Company’s knowledge,
threatened against the Company or any Subsidiary before or by any
court, regulatory body or administrative agency or any other
governmental agency or body, domestic, or foreign, which actions,
suits or proceedings, individually or in the aggregate, might
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and no
labor disturbance by the employees of the Company exists or, to the
Company’s knowledge, is imminent, that might reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor
any Subsidiary is a party to or subject to the provisions of any
injunction, judgment, decree or order of any court, regulatory
body, administrative agency or other governmental agency or body
that might have a Material Adverse Effect.
(l)
Properties. The Company and each Subsidiary has good and
marketable title to all the properties and assets described as
owned by it in the consolidated financial statements, free and
clear of all liens, mortgages, pledges, or encumbrances of any kind
except (i) those, if any, reflected in such consolidated
financial statements, or (ii) those that are not material in
amount and do not adversely affect the use made and proposed to be
made of such property by the Company or its Subsidiaries. The
Company and each Subsidiary holds its leased properties under valid
and binding leases. The Company and any Subsidiary owns or leases
all such properties as are necessary to its operations as now
conducted.
(m) No
Material Adverse Change. Except as set forth on
Schedule 5(m) , since December 31, 2008, (i) the
Company and its Subsidiaries have not incurred any material
liabilities or obligations, indirect, or contingent, or entered
into any material agreement or other transaction that is not in the
ordinary course of business or that could reasonably be expected to
result in a material reduction in the future earnings of the
Company; (ii) the Company and its Subsidiaries have not
sustained any material loss or interference with their businesses
or properties from fire, flood, windstorm, accident or other
calamity not covered by insurance; (iii) the Company and its
Subsidiaries have not paid or declared any dividends or other
distributions with respect to their capital stock and none of the
Company or any Subsidiary is in default in the payment of principal
or interest on any outstanding debt obligations; (iv) there
has not been any change in the capital stock of the Company or its
Subsidiaries other than the sale of the Shares hereunder and shares
or options issued pursuant to employee equity incentive plans or
purchase plans approved by the Board, or indebtedness material to
the Company or its Subsidiaries (other than in the ordinary course
of business and any required scheduled payments); and
(v) there has not occurred any event that has caused or could
reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse
Effect.
(n)
Intellectual Property. To the Company’s knowledge, the
Company owns, or has obtained valid and enforceable licenses for,
or other legal rights to use, the inventions, patent applications,
patents, utility models, industrial property, trademarks (both
registered and unregistered), trade names, service marks (both
registered and unregistered), service names,
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copyrights,
trade secrets, customer lists, designs, manufacturing or other
processes, computer software, systems, data compilations, research
results, know-how or other proprietary rights and information owned
or licensed by the Company, or used in the Company’s business
as presently conducted with respect to the research, development,
testing and marketing of Augment Bone Graft, Augment Injectable
Bone Graft, and the other product candidates (collectively, the
“ Products ”), except as set forth on
Schedule 5(n) or where the failure to own, license or
otherwise enjoy such rights would not, individually or in the
aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, “
Intellectual Property ”). To the Company’s
knowledge, all of such patents, registered trademarks and
registered copyrights owned or licensed by the Company have been
duly registered in, filed in or issued by the United States Patent
and Trademark Office (the “ USPTO ”), the United
States Copyright Office or the corresponding offices of other
jurisdictions and have been maintained and renewed in accordance
with all applicable provisions of law and administrative
regulations in the United States and all such other jurisdictions,
except where the failure to do so, individually or in the
aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company
has taken all steps required in accordance with sound business
practice and business judgment to establish and preserve its
ownership of or rights to all material Intellectual Property.
Except as set forth on Schedule 5(n) , to the
Company’s knowledge, there are no third parties who have or
will be able
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