These Securities Have Not Been Registered For Offer or Sale Under
The Securities Act Of 1933, As Amended, Or Any State securities
laws. They May Not Be Sold Or Offered For Sale Except
Pursuant To An Effective Registration Statement Under Said Act And
Any Applicable State Securities Law Or An Applicable Exemption From
Such Registration Requirements.
STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement
”), dated as of February 10, 2009, by and between Clean Power
Technologies, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “
Company ”), and The Quercus Trust, a California Trust
(the “ Purchaser ” and together with the
Company, the “Parties”).
W I T
N E S S E T H:
Whereas, the
Company and the Purchaser entered into that certain Securities
Purchase Agreement on July 10, 2008 providing for the purchase and
sale of the Company’s 8% Senior Secured Convertible
Promissory Note in the principal fare amount of $2,000,000
(“Debenture”) Class A Warrants and Class B Warrants
(the “July 2008 Offering”)
Whereas, the
Company desires to sell and issue to the Purchaser, and the
Purchaser wishes to purchase from the Company, shares of the
Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the
“ Common Stock ”) and Warrants to purchase
shares of the Company’s common stock ( the “
Warrants ” and together with the Common Stock, the
“ Securities ”), on the terms and conditions set
forth herein;
Whereas, the
Parties have agreed that the sale and purchase of the Securities
shall take place in two tranches as follows: (i) an initial
purchase of such shares of the Company’s Common Stock in the
aggregate amount of $1,000,000 at a price of $0.45 per share (the
“Initial Purchase”); and (ii) an additional secondary
purchase, subject to certain conditions, of such shares of the
Company’s Common Stock in the aggregate amount
of $2,000,000 at a purchase price of $0.45 per share
(the “Secondary Purchase”);
Whereas , the
Parties have agreed to proceed with the Initial Purchase by the
execution and delivery of this Agreement. Shares of
Common Stock to be sold to the Purchaser pursuant to the Secondary
Purchase shall be governed by such agreements to be entered into by
the Parties upon the accomplishment of (a) the classification of
the Company’s board of directors; and (b) the date of
demonstration to the reasonable satisfaction of the Purchaser that
the Company has achieved such technological milestones set forth in
Exhibit A hereof ((a) and (b) are referred to herein as the
“Secondary Purchase Milestones”). The
Company and the Purchaser shall close the Secondary Purchase within
fifteen (15) days of attaining the Secondary Purchase
Milestones
Whereas ,
pursuant to the terms hereof, the Purchaser will have registration
rights with respect to the Common Stock issued herein and such
Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants pursuant to
the terms of that certain Registration Rights Agreement to be
entered into between the Company and the Purchaser substantially in
the form of Exhibit B hereto (“ Registration Rights
Agreement ” and, together with the Agreement and the
Warrants (the “ Transaction Documents
”)
Now, Therefore , in
consideration of the foregoing premises and the covenants contained
herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
agree as follows:
Article
I.
Purchase
and Sale of Shares and Warrants
Section
1.1
Issuance of Common Stock . Upon the following
terms and conditions, the Company shall issue and sell to the
Purchaser, and the Purchaser shall purchase from the Company,
2,222,222 shares of the Company’s Common Stock (the
“Shares”).
Section
1.2
Purchase Price . The purchase price for
the Shares to be acquired by the Purchaser shall be $1,000,000 (the
“ Purchase Price ”).
Section
1.3
The Closing . Subject to the fulfillment or
waiver of the conditions set forth in Article V hereof, the initial
purchase and sale of the Shares shall take place on or about the
date hereof or such other date as the Purchaser and the Company may
agree upon (the “ Closing Date ”);
provided that the Closing Date shall be no later than
February 10, 2009. Within five (5) business days of the Closing
Date, the Company shall deliver to the Purchaser one or more
certificates representing the Shares registered in the name of each
Purchaser or its nominee. On or prior to the Closing
Date, the Purchaser shall deliver the Purchase Price (the “
Escrowed Funds ”) by certified check or by wire
transfer of immediately available funds:
Wire
transfers to the Escrow Agent shall be made as follows:
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addition, each party shall deliver all documents, instruments and
writings required to be delivered by such party pursuant to this
Agreement at or prior to the Closing. The Securities
will be fully owned and paid for by the Purchaser as of the Closing
Date. The account with Gersten Savage LLP shall be
referred to herein as the “ Escrow Account
”.
Section
1.4
Warrants . In addition to the
Shares, at the Closing, the Company will execute and deliver to
each Purchaser Warrants to purchase shares of Common stock,
substantially in the forms attached hereto as Exhibit D.
The Warrant shall entitle the holder thereof to
purchase such shares of Common Stock equal to one hundred twenty
five percent (125%) of the Shares issued to the Purchaser at an
exercise price of $0.60 per share for the initial 60% of such
Warrants (the “$0.60 Warrants”) and at an exercise
price of $0.85 per share for the remaining 40% of such Warrants
(the “$0.85 Warrants”). On the Closing Date,
the Company shall issue to the Purchaser $0.60 Warrants to purchase
1,666,667 shares of Common Stock and $0.85 warrants to purchase
1,111,111 shares of common stock. The Warrants shall have a one (1)
year term from the date of issuance. The shares of
Common Stock that are issuable pursuant to the Warrants are
hereafter referred to as the “ Warrant Shares
”.
Section
1.5
Intentionally Deleted .
Representations
and Warranties
Section
1.6
Representations and Warranties of the Company
. The Company hereby makes the following representations
and warranties to the Purchaser as of the date hereof and the
Closing Date:
(a)
Organization and Qualification; Material Adverse Effect.
The Company is a corporation duly incorporated and
existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Nevada and
has the requisite corporate power to own its properties and to
carry on its business as now being conducted. The
Company does not have any subsidiaries other than the subsidiaries
listed on Schedule 2.1(a) attached hereto (“
Subsidiaries ”). Except where specifically
indicated to the contrary, all references in this Agreement to
subsidiaries shall be deemed to refer to all direct and indirect
subsidiaries of the Company. Each Subsidiary has been
duly incorporated and is in good standing under the laws of its
jurisdiction of incorporation. The Company and each
Subsidiary is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to do
business and is in good standing in every jurisdiction in which the
nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes such
qualification necessary other than those in which the failure so to
qualify would not have a Material Adverse
Effect. “ Material Adverse Effect ”
means any adverse effect on the business, operations, properties,
prospects or financial condition of the Company and its
subsidiaries, and which is (either alone or together with all other
adverse effects) material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, if
any, taken as a whole, and any material adverse effect on the
transactions contemplated under the Transaction
Documents.
(b)
Authorization; Enforcement. (i) The
Company has all requisite corporate power and authority to enter
into and perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents
and to issue the Shares and Warrants in accordance with the terms
hereof, (ii) the execution and delivery of the Transaction
Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the
issuance of the Shares and Warrants, have been duly authorized by
all necessary corporate action, and no further consent or
authorization of the Company or its Board of Directors (or any
committee or subcommittee thereof) or stockholders is required,
(iii) the Transaction Documents have been duly executed and
delivered by the Company, (iv) the Transaction Documents constitute
valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable against
the Company, except (A) as such enforceability may be limited by
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium,
liquidation or similar laws relating to, or affecting generally the
enforcement of creditors' rights and remedies or by other equitable
principles of general application, and (B) to the extent the
indemnification provisions contained in this Agreement and the
Registration Rights Agreement may be limited by applicable federal
or state securities laws and (v) the Shares, the Warrants and the
Warrant Shares issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants, have
been duly authorized and, upon issuance thereof and payment
therefor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will be
validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, free and clear of
any and all liens, claims and encumbrances.
(c)
Capitalization. As of December 19, 2008, the
authorized capital stock of the Company consists of 350,000,000
shares of Common Stock, of which as of the date hereof, 66,042,791
shares are issued and outstanding, 200,000,000 shares of preferred
stock consisting of 100,000,000 shares of Class A Preferred Stock
and 100,000,000 shares of Class B Preferred Stock, of which as of
the date hereof, no shares of preferred stock are issued and
outstanding and 2,500,000 shares are issuable and reserved for
issuance pursuant to the Company’s stock option plans and
certain outstanding contracts, or securities exercisable or
exchangeable for, or convertible into, shares of Common
Stock. All of such outstanding shares have been, or upon
issuance will be, validly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable. As of the date hereof, except as
disclosed in Schedule 2.1(c) , (i) no shares of the
Company’s capital stock are subject to preemptive rights or
any other similar rights or any liens or encumbrances suffered or
permitted by the Company, (ii) there are no outstanding debt
securities, and (iii) there are no outstanding options,
warrants,
scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any
character whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights
convertible into, any shares of capital stock of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries, or contracts, commitments, understandings or
arrangements by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or
may become bound to issue additional shares of capital stock of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or options, warrants, scrip,
rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character
whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights convertible into,
any shares of capital stock of the Company.
(d)
Issuance and Ownership of Securities . Upon
issuance in accordance with this Agreement, the Shares, the
Warrants and the Warrant Shares will be validly issued, fully paid
and nonassessable and free from all taxes, liens and charges with
respect to the issue thereof. The Company owns all
outstanding shares of the Subsidiaries, free and clear of any liens
and other encumbrances
(e)
No
Conflicts . Except as disclosed in Schedule
2.1(e) , the execution, delivery and performance of the
Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by the
Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and
issuance of the Shares and Warrant, and Warrant Shares underlying
the Warrant (i) result in a violation of its Certificate of
Incorporation, any certificate of designations, preferences and
rights of any outstanding series of preferred stock of the Company
or its By-laws; (ii) 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 to which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is a party, or (iii) to the Company’s knowledge
result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment
or decree (including United States federal and state securities
laws and regulations and the rules and regulations of the OTC
Bulletin Board (“ Principal Market ”) or other
principal securities exchange or trading market on which the Common
Stock is traded or listed) applicable to the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, or by which any property or asset of the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries is bound or affected, except in the case of
clause (ii), such conflicts that would not have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(f)
SEC
Documents . Since the filing of its Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31,2008, the Company has
filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents
required to be filed by it with the SEC pursuant to the reporting
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the “ 1934 Act ”) (all of the foregoing filed
prior to the date hereof and all exhibits included therein and
financial statements and schedules thereto and documents
incorporated by reference therein being hereinafter referred to as
the “ SEC Documents ”). To the
Company’s knowledge, as of their respective dates, the SEC
Documents complied in all material respects with the requirements
of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC
promulgated thereunder applicable to the SEC Documents. Since the
date of the respective filings, the Company has not incurred any
liabilities except in the ordinary course of business or as
reflected in the SEC Documents.
(g)
Absence of Litigation . There is no action, suit,
proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or by any court, public
board, government agency, self-regulatory organization or body
pending or, to the knowledge of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, threatened against or affecting the Company, the
Shares or any officers or directors of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries in their capacities as such, except as set forth in
SEC Documents which were filed at least 10 days before the date
hereof.
(h)
No
Integrated Offering . Neither the Company, nor any
of its affiliates, nor 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, aside for the
July 2008 Offering, under circumstances that would cause this
offering of the Securities to the Purchaser to be integrated with
prior offerings by the Company for purposes of the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (“1933 Act” or “Securities
Act”) or any applicable stockholder approval provisions,
including, without limitation, under the rules and regulations of
the Principal Market or other Approved Market, nor will the Company
take any action or steps that would cause the offering of the
Securities to be integrated with other offerings.
(i)
Employee Relations . Neither the Company
nor any of its Subsidiaries is not involved in any labor dispute
nor, to the knowledge of the Company, is any such dispute
threatened, the effect of which would be reasonably likely to
result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(j)
Intellectual Property Rights . The Company and
its Subsidiaries own or possess adequate rights or licenses to use
all trademarks, trade names, service marks, service mark
registrations, service names, patents, patent rights, copyrights,
inventions, licenses, approvals, governmental authorizations, trade
secrets and rights necessary to conduct their respective businesses
as now conducted. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries have any knowledge of any infringement by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries of trademark, trade name rights,
patents, patent rights, copyrights, inventions, licenses, service
names, service marks, service mark registrations, trade secret or
other similar rights of others, or of any such development of
similar or identical trade secrets or technical information by
others and there is no claim, action or proceeding being made or
brought against, or to the Company’s knowledge, being
threatened against, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
regarding trademarks, trade name rights, patents, patent rights,
inventions, copyrights, licenses, service names, service marks,
service mark registrations, trade secrets or other
infringement. The Company has no knowledge of any
pending or threatened infringement of its intellectual property
rights.
(k)
Compliance with Law . The business of the Company
has been and is presently being conducted so as to comply with all
applicable material federal, state and local governmental laws,
rules, regulations and ordinances.
(l)
Environmental Laws . The Company and its
Subsidiaries (i) are, to the Company’s knowledge, in
compliance with any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and
local laws and regulations relating to the protection of human
health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances
or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (“ Environmental
Laws ”), (ii) has received all permits, licenses or other
approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to
conduct their respective businesses and (iii) is in compliance
with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or
approval where such noncompliance or failure to receive permits,
licenses or approvals referred to in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii)
above could have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material
Adverse Effect.
(m)
Disclosure. No representation or warranty by the Company in
this Agreement, nor in any certificate, schedule, document, exhibit
or other instrument delivered or to be delivered pursuant to this
Agreement or otherwise in connection with the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents, contains or will contain
any untrue statement of material fact or omits or will omit to
state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained
herein or therein not misleading or necessary to in order fully and
fairly to provide the information required to be provided in any
such certificate, schedule, document, exhibit or other
instrument. To the knowledge of the Company at the time
of the execution of this Agreement, there is no information
concerning the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or its respective
businesses which has not heretofore been disclosed to the Purchaser
(or disclosed in the Company's filings made with the SEC under the
1934 Act) that would have a Material Adverse Effect.
(n)
Title . The Company and its Subsidiaries have
good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property and
good and marketable title to all personal property owned by it
which is material to the business of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all liens,
encumbrances and defects or such as do not materially and adversely
affect the value of such property and do not interfere with the use
made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and
its Subsidiaries. Any real property and facilities
held under lease by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are held
by it under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with such
exceptions as are not material and do not interfere with the use
made and proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the
Company and its Subsidiaries.
(o)
Insurance . The Company is insured by insurers of
recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks
and in such amounts as management of the Company believes to be
prudent and customary in the businesses in which the Company is
engaged.
(p)
Permits. The Company and its Subsidiaries
own, hold, possess, or lawfully use in its business all material
approvals, authorizations, certifications, franchises, licenses,
permits, and similar authorities (“ Permits ”)
that are necessary for the conduct of their business as currently
conducted or the ownership and use of their assets or properties,
in compliance with all Laws. All of such material
Permits are listed on Schedule 2.1(p), and true, complete and
correct copies of each Permit listed on Schedule 2.1(p) have been
provided to the Purchaser. Neither the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries is in default under, or has received any notice of
any claim of default in respect of, any such Permits. To
the Company’s knowledge, after due inquiry, all such Permits
are renewable by their respective terms in the ordinary course of
business without the need to comply with any special qualification
procedures or to pay any amounts other than routine filing
fees.
(q)
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act . To the
Company’s knowledge, neither the Company, nor any director,
officer, agent, employee or other person acting on behalf of the
Company or any Subsidiary has, in the course of acting for, or on
behalf of, the Company, directly or indirectly used any corporate
funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other
unlawful expenses relating to political activity; directly or
indirectly made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any
foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate
funds; violated or is in violation of any provision of the U.S.
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any similar
treaties of the United States; or directly or indirectly made any
bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other
unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government or party
official or employee.
(r)
Tax
Status . The Company and its Subsidiaries have made
or filed all United States federal and state income and all other
tax returns, reports and declarations required by any jurisdiction
to which it is subject and all such returns, reports and
declarations are true, correct and accurate in all material
respects. The Company has paid all taxes and other
governmental assessments and charges, shown or determined to be due
on such returns, reports and declarations, except those being
contested in good faith, for which adequate reserves have been
established, in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles (“ GAAP ”).
(s)
Issuance
of Shares and/or Warrant Shares. The
Warrant Shares are duly authorized and reserved for issuance and,
upon exercise of the Warrants in accordance with the terms thereof,
the Warrant Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and
non-assessable, free and clear of any and all liens, claims and
encumbrances, and entitled to be traded on the Principal Market or
the New York Stock Exchange, or the American Stock Exchange or the
Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange
(collectively with the Principal Market, the “
Approved Markets ” ), and the holders of such
Warrant Shares shall be entitled to all rights and preferences
accorded to a holder of Common Stock. As of the date of
this Agreement, the outstanding shares of Common Stock are
currently listed on the Principal Market.
(t)
Financial Statements. Except as set forth in
Schedule 2.1(t) , the financial statements of the Company
included in the Forms 10-K and the Forms 10-Q of the Company duly
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission have been
prepared from the books and records of the Company, in accordance
with GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the
financial condition of the Company, as at their respective dates,
and the results of its operations and cash flows for the periods
covered thereby.
(u)
Internal Accounting and Disclosure Controls. The
Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls and
procedures that are sufficient to provide reasonable assurance (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 1934 Act Rules
13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and designed such
disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material
information relating to the Company is made known to the certifying
officers by others within those entities, particularly during the
period in which the Company’s Form 10-K or 10-Q, as the
case may be, is being prepared. The Company’s certifying
officers have evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s
controls and procedures in accordance with the 1934 Act for the
Company’s most recently ended fiscal quarter or fiscal
year-end (such date, the “ Evaluation Date ”).
The Company presented in its most recently filed Form 10-K or Form
10-Q 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 significant changes in the Company’s
internal controls over financial reporting (as defined in 34 Act
Rules 13a-15(f) and 15(d)-15(f)).
(v)
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements. There is
no transaction, arrangement, or other relationship between the
Company and an unconsolidated or other off balance sheet entity
that is required to be disclosed by the Company in its 1934 Act
filings and is not so disclosed or that otherwise would be
reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect.
(w)
No
Stabilization . The Company has not taken, directly
or indirectly, any action designed to or that could reasonably be
expected to cause or result in any stabilization or manipulation of
the price of the shares of Common Stock.
(x)
Investment Company Status . The Company is not
and, after giving effect to the offering and the application of the
proceeds as described in the Transaction Documents, will not be, an
“investment company” or an entity
“controlled” by an “investment company” as
such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.
(y)
Subsidiary Righ