Exhibit 10.1
SECURITIES
PURCHASE AGREEMENT
This Securities
Purchase Agreement (this “ Agreement ”) is dated
as of September 24, 2007, among Focus Enhancements, Inc., a
Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), and each
Purchaser identified on the signature pages hereto (each a “
Purchaser ” and collectively the “
Purchasers ”); the Company and each Purchaser are
individually referred to herein as a “party” and
collectively as the “parties”.
WHEREAS, the
Company has filed with the Commission a Registration Statement (as
defined below) relating to the offer and sale from time to time of
the Company’s securities, including shares of its Common
Stock and Warrants;
WHEREAS, subject
to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the
Company desires to issue and sell to the Purchasers pursuant to the
Registration Statement, and the Purchasers, severally and not
jointly, desire to purchase from the Company in the aggregate, up
to 3,863,637 shares of Common Stock and Warrants to purchase
965,910 shares of Common Stock on the Closing Date, each as set
forth in the respective amounts on the signature pages attached
hereto.
NOW, THEREFORE, IN
CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement,
and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and
adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and each
Purchaser agrees as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
1.1
Definitions. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in
this Agreement, for all purposes of this Agreement, the following
terms have the meanings indicated in this Section 1.1:
“ Action ” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(j).
“ Affiliate ” means any
Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common
control with a Person as such terms are used in and construed under
Rule 144. With respect to a Purchaser, any investment fund or
managed account that is managed on a discretionary basis by the
same investment manager as such Purchaser will be deemed to be an
Affiliate of such Purchaser.
“ Business Day ” means any
day except Saturday, Sunday and any day which shall be a federal
legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the State
of New York are authorized or required by law or other governmental
action to close.
“ Closing ” means the
closing of the purchase and sale of the Common Stock and the
Warrants pursuant to Section 2.1.
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“ Closing Date ” means the
Trading Day when all of the Transaction Documents have been
executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all
conditions precedent to the Purchasers’ obligations to pay
the Subscription Amount have been satisfied or waived.
“
Commission ” means the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
“ Common Stock ” means the
common stock of the Company, $0.01 par value per share, and any
securities into which such common stock may hereafter be
reclassified.
“ Common Stock Equivalents ”
means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries which would
entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock,
including without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, rights,
options, warrants or other instrument that is at any time
convertible into or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the
holder thereof to receive, Common Stock.
“ Company Counsel ” means
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP with offices located at 1001
Page Mill Road, Bldg. 2, Palo Alto, California
94304-1006.
“ Disclosure Schedules ”
means the Disclosure Schedules attached hereto.
“ Environmental Laws ” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(bb).
“ Evaluation Date” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(dd).
“ Exchange Act ” means the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“ GAAP ” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).
“ Intellectual Property Rights
” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(o).
“ Liens ” means a lien,
charge, security interest, encumbrance, right of first refusal,
preemptive right or other restriction.
“ Material Adverse Effect ”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(b).
“ Material Permits ” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(m).
“ Montauk Placement Agent
Fee” shall mean eight percent (8%) of the gross proceeds
from the sale of up to and including 3,863,637 Shares to the
Purchasers.
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“ Per Share Purchase Price ”
shall be $0.88, subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock
splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar
transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this
Agreement but prior to the Closing.
“ Person ” means an
individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or
unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability
company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or
subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.
“ Placement Agent” means
First Montauk Securities Corp. and any other placement agents used
as selling agents in connection with the sale of the
Securities.
“ Placement Agent Fee ”
shall mean the Montauk Cash Placement Agent Fee and any other fees
paid to the placement agents in connection with services provided
to the Company as selling agent in connection with the sale of the
Securities.
“ Registration Statement ”
means the registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-139224),
including a prospectus, relating to the offer and sale of certain
of the Company’s Common Stock, which was declared effective
by the Commission on December 20, 2006. References herein to
the term “Registration Statement” as of any date shall
mean such effective registration statement, as amended or
supplemented to such date, including all information and documents
incorporated by reference therein.
“ Required Approvals ” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(e).
“ Rule 144 ” means Rule 144
promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as
such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or
regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially
the same effect as such Rule.
“ SEC Reports ” shall have
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).
“
Securities ” means the Shares, the Warrants and the
Warrant Shares.
“ Securities Act ” means the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“ Shares ” means the shares
of Common Stock issued or issuable to each Purchaser pursuant to
this Agreement.
“ Subscription Amount ”
means, as to each Purchaser, the amounts set forth below such
Purchaser’s signature block on the signature page hereto, in
United States dollars and in immediately available
funds.
“ Subsidiary ” shall mean
the subsidiaries of the Company, if any, set forth on Schedule
3.1(a) or any business entity in which the Company now or in
the future owns or has the power to vote or control, at the time
such is determined, twenty percent (20%) or more of the equitable,
beneficial, legal or other ownership interests
thereof.
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“ Trading Day ” means (i) a
day on which the Common Stock is traded on a Trading Market, or
(ii) if the Common Stock is not listed on a Trading Market, a day
on which the Common Stock is traded on the over-the-counter market,
as reported by the OTC Bulletin Board, or (iii) if the Common Stock
is not quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board, a day on which the Common
Stock is quoted in the over-the-counter market as reported by the
National Quotation Bureau Incorporated (or any similar organization
or agency succeeding its functions of reporting prices); provided,
that in the event that the Common Stock is not listed or quoted as
set forth in (i), (ii) and (iii) hereof, then Trading Day shall
mean a Business Day.
“ Trading Market ” means the
following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed
or quoted for trading on the date in question: the American Stock
Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Global Market or
the Nasdaq Capital Market.
“ Transaction Documents ”
means this Agreement and the Warrants and any other documents or
agreements executed in connection with the transactions
contemplated hereunder.
“ Warrants ” means the
Common Stock Purchase Warrants, in the form of
Exhibit A , issuable to the Purchasers at the Closing,
which warrants shall have an exercise price equal to $1.05 per
share and shall be exercisable for a period of 5 years.
“ Warrant Shares ” means the
shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the
Warrants.
ARTICLE II.
PURCHASE AND SALE
2.1
Purchase of Common Stock .
(a)
At the Closing, each Purchaser shall purchase from the Company,
severally and not jointly, and the Company shall issue and sell to
each Purchaser, (a) a number of Shares equal to such
Purchaser’s Subscription Amount divided by the Per Share
Purchase Price and (b) the Warrants, registered in the name of each
Purchaser, pursuant to which such Purchaser shall have the right to
acquire up to the number of shares of Common Stock equal to 25% of
the Shares to be issued to such Purchaser at the Closing. The
aggregate number of Shares sold hereunder (when aggregated with the
aggregate number of Warrant Shares) shall, in no event,
exceed four million eight-hundred twenty-nine thousand five
hundred and forty-seven (4,829,547) shares. The offering and
sale of the Shares (the “Offering”) are being made
pursuant to (1) an effective Registration Statement on Form S-3
(including the Prospectus contained therein (the “Base
Prospectus”) and (2) a Prospectus Supplement (the
“Prospectus Supplement” and together with the Base
Prospectus, the “Prospectus”) containing certain
supplemental information regarding the Shares and terms of the
Offering that will be filed with the Commission and delivered to
the
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Purchaser (or made available to the Purchaser
by the filing by the Company of an electronic version thereof with
the Commission).
(b)
Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.2, (i)
each Purchaser shall deliver to the Company such Purchaser’s
Subscription Amount by wire transfer of immediately available funds
to an account designated by the Company as set forth on Schedule I
hereto, which funds will be delivered to the Company in
consideration of the Shares and the Warrants issued at the Closing
and (ii) the Company shall deliver to each Purchase r duly
executed certificates evidencing the Shares and the Warrants
provided however that the Company may deliver the Shares
through the Depository Trust Company Deposit/Withdrawal at
Custodian (“DWAC”) system to the account that the
Purchaser has specified in writing to the Company. Delivery
of the Shares may be by electronic book-entry at The Depository
Trust Company (“DTC”), registered in the
Purchaser’s name and address as set forth on Schedule
I , and released by the Company’s transfer agent to the
Purchaser at the Closing. The Closing shall occur at the
offices of Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP, or such other
location as the parties shall mutually agree.
(c)
It is the Purchaser’s responsibility to (A) make the
necessary wire transfer or confirm the proper account balance in a
timely manner and (B) if the Shares are to be delivered through the
DWAC system, arrange for settlement by way of DWAC in a timely
manner. If the Purchaser does not deliver the aggregate
Subscription Amount for the Shares or does not make proper
arrangements for settlement in a timely manner, as applicable, the
Shares may not be delivered at Closing to the Purchaser or the
Purchaser may be excluded from the Closing altogether.
2.2
Closing Conditions; Deliveries .
(a)
Conditions to the Purchasers’ Obligations . The
obligation of each Purchaser to purchase the Shares and Warrants at
the Closing is subject to the fulfillment to the Purchasers’
reasonable satisfaction, on or prior to the Closing Date, of the
following conditions, any of which may be waived in writing by the
Purchasers:
(i)
The representations and warranties made by the Company in Section
3.1 hereof shall be true and correct except where the failure to be
so true and correct does not have a Material Adverse Effect.
The Company shall have performed in all material respects all
obligations and conditions herein required to be performed or
observed by it on or prior to the Closing Date.
(ii)
The Company shall have obtained in a timely fashion any and all
material consents, permits, approvals, registrations and waivers
necessary or appropriate for consummation of the purchase and sale
of the Shares and Warrants, all of which shall be and remain so
long as necessary in full force and effect.
(iii)
No judgment, writ, order, injunction, award or decree of or by any
court, or judge, justice or magistrate, including any bankruptcy
court or judge, or any order of or by any governmental authority,
shall have been issued, and no action or proceeding shall have been
instituted by any governmental authority, or self-regulatory
organization enjoining or
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preventing the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby or in the other Transaction
Documents.
(iv)
The Company shall have delivered a Certificate, executed on behalf
of the Company by its Chief Executive Officer or its Chief
Financial Officer, dated as of the Closing Date, certifying to the
fulfillment of the conditions specified in subsections (i), (ii),
(iii) and(vii) of this Section 2.2(a).
(v)
The Company shall have delivered a Certificate, executed on behalf
of the Company by its Secretary, dated as of the Closing Date,
certifying the resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the
Company approving the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
and the other Transaction Documents and the issuance of the Shares
and Warrants, certifying the current versions of the Certificate of
Incorporation and Bylaws of the Company and certifying as to the
signatures and authority of persons signing the Transaction
Documents and related documents on behalf of the
Company.
(vi)
The Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission pursuant
to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act within the applicable time
period prescribed for such filing; no stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof
shall have been issued and no proceeding for that purpose shall
have been initiated or threatened by the Commission; no stop order
or suspension of trading shall have been imposed by any Person with
respect to public trading in the Common Stock; and the Purchaser
shall have received the Prospectus in accordance with the federal
securities laws.
(vii)
The Company’s Common Stock (including the Shares and the
Warrant Shares) shall be eligible for inclusion on the Nasdaq
Capital Market and listed and admitted and authorized for trading
on the Nasdaq Capital Market.
(b)
Conditions to Obligations of the Company . The
Company’s obligation to sell and issue the Shares and
Warrants at the Closing is subject to the fulfillment to the
satisfaction of the Company on or prior to the Closing Date of the
following conditions, any of which may be waived by the
Company:
(i)
The representations and warranties made by each of the Purchasers
in Section 3.2 hereof shall be true and correct in all material
respects when made, and shall be true and correct in all material
respects on the Closing Date with the same force and effect as if
they had been made on and as of said date. The Purchasers
shall have performed in all material respects all obligations and
conditions herein required to be performed or observed by them on
or prior to the Closing Date.
(ii)
Each of the Purchasers shall have delivered such Purchaser’s
Subscription Amount by wire transfer to the account set forth on
Schedule I attached hereto.
(iii)
No judgment, writ, order, injunction, award or decree of or by any
court, or judge, justice or magistrate, including any bankruptcy
court or judge, or any order of or by any governmental authority,
shall have been issued, and no action or proceeding shall have been
instituted by any governmental authority, or self-regulatory
organization enjoining or
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preventing the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby or in the other Transaction
Documents.
(c)
Termination of Obligations to Effect Closing; Effects
.
(i)
The obligations of the Company, on the one hand, and the
Purchasers, on the other hand, to effect the Closing shall
terminate as follows:
(A)
Upon the mutual written consent of the Company and the
Purchasers;
(B)
By the Company if any of the conditions set forth in Section 2.2(b)
shall have become incapable of fulfillment, and shall not have been
waived by the Company;
(C)
By a Purchaser (with respect to itself only) if any of the
conditions set forth in Section 2.2(a) shall have become incapable
of fulfillment, and shall not have been waived by such Purchaser;
or
(D)
By either the Company or any Purchaser (with respect to itself
only) if the Closing has not occurred on or prior to September 28,
2007;
provided, however, that, except in the case of
clause (A) above, the party seeking to terminate its obligation to
effect the Closing shall not then be in breach of any of its
representations, warranties, covenants or agreements contained in
this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents if such breach
has resulted in the circumstances giving rise to such party’s
seeking to terminate its obligation to effect the
Closing.
(ii)
Nothing in this Section 2.2(c) shall be deemed to release any party
from any liability for any breach by such party of the terms and
provisions of this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents or
to impair the right of any party to compel specific performance by
any other party of its obligations under this Agreement or the
other Transaction Documents.
(iii)
In the event of termination by a Purchaser of its obligations to
effect the Closing pursuant to this Section 2.2(c), written notice
thereof shall forthwith be given by the Company to the other
Purchasers and the other Purchasers shall have the right to
terminate their obligations to effect the Closing upon written
notice to the Company.
ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
3.1
Representations and Warranties of the Company. Except
as set forth under the corresponding section of the Disclosure
Schedules delivered concurrently herewith, the Company hereby makes
the following representations and warranties as of the date hereof
and as of the Closing Date to each Purchaser:
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(a)
Subsidiaries . Except as set forth on Schedule
3.1(a) , the Company has no direct or indirect
subsidiaries. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(a) ,
the Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of the capital stock
or other equity interests of each Subsidiary free and clear of any
Liens, and all the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock
of each Subsidiary are validly issued and are fully paid,
non-assessable and free of preemptive and similar rights. If
the Company has no subsidiaries, then references in the Transaction
Documents to the Subsidiaries will be disregarded.
(b)
Organization and Qualification . Each of the Company
and the Subsidiaries is an entity duly incorporated or otherwise
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization (as
applicable), with the requisite power and authority to own and use
its properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently
conducted. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in
violation of any of the provisions of its respective certificate or
articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or
charter documents. Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries
is duly qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a
foreign corporation or other entity in each jurisdiction in which
the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes
such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so
qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not have
or reasonably be expected to result in (i) a material adverse
effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any
Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results
of operations, assets, business or financial condition of the
Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material
adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform in any
material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any
Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “
Material Adverse Effect ”).
(c)
Authorization; Enforcement . The Company has the
requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to
consummate the transactions contemplated by each of the Transaction
Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations
thereunder. The execution and delivery of each of the
Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of
the transactions contemplated thereby have been duly authorized by
all necessary action on the part of the Company and no further
action is required by the Company in connection therewith other
than in connection with the Required Approvals. Each
Transaction Document has been (or upon delivery will have been)
duly executed by the Company and, when delivered in accordance with
the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation
of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with
its terms except (i) as limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general
application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights
generally and (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability
of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable
remedies.
(d)
No Conflicts . The execution, delivery and performance
of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by
the Company of the transactions contemplated thereby do not and
will not (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the
Company’s or any Subsidiary’s certificate or articles
of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter
documents, or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or
an
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event that with notice or lapse of time or both
would become a default) under, or give to others any rights of
termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation (with or
without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit
facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company or
Subsidiary debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the
Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any property or
asset of the Company or any Subsidiary is bound or affected, or
(iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with or result in
a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment,
injunction, decree or other restriction of any court or
governmental authority to which the Company or a Subsidiary is
subject (including federal and state securities laws and
regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company or a
Subsidiary is bound or affected, or (iv) conflict with or violate
the terms of any agreement by which the Company or any Subsidiary
is bound or to which any property or asset of the Company or any
Subsidiary is bound or affected; except in the case of each of
clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not have or reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(e)
Filings, Consents and Approvals . The Company is not
required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of,
give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any
court or other federal, state, local or other governmental
authority or other Person in connection with the execution,
delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction
Documents, other than (i) filings required pursuant to Section 4.1
of this Agreement, (ii) application(s) to each applicable Trading
Market for the listing of additional shares with respect to the
Shares and Warrant Shares for trading thereon in the time and
manner required thereby, and (iii) such filings as are required to
be made under applicable state securities laws, with each of the
items listed in clauses (i)-(iii) inclusive being deemed a “
Required Approval ”).
(f) Issuance of the Securities
. The Shares and Warrants are duly authorized and, when
issued and paid for in accordance with the Transaction Documents,
will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free
and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company. The Warrant
Shares, when issued in accordance with the terms of the Transaction
Documents, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable,
free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company. The
Company has reserved from its duly authorized capital stock the
maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to this
Agreement and the Warrants.
(g)
Capitalization . The authorized capital stock of the
Company consists of 150,000,000 shares of Common Stock
and 3,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock. The Company has not
issued any capital stock since such filing other than pursuant to
the exercise of employee stock options under the Company’s
stock option plans, the issuance of shares of Common Stock to
employees pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase
plan and pursuant to the conversion or exercise of outstanding
Common Stock Equivalents. No Person has any right of first
refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar
right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents. Except as a result of the purchase and
sale of the Securities, there are no outstanding options, warrants,
script rights to subscribe to, calls or
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commitments of any character whatsoever
relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into
or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to subscribe
for or acquire, any shares of Common Stock, or contracts,
commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or
any Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional shares of
Common Stock, or securities or rights convertible or exchangeable
into shares of Common Stock, other than as set forth in the SEC
Reports, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or in
connection with the Company’s stock option plans. The
issue and sale of the Securities will not obligate the Company to
issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any Person
(other than the Purchasers) and will not result in a right of any
holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise, conversion,
exchange or reset price under such securities. All of the
outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are validly
issued, fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in
compliance with all federal and state securities laws, and none of
such outstanding shares was issued in violation of any preemptive
rights or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase
securities. No further approval or authorization of any
stockholder, the Board of Directors of the Company or others is
required for the issuance and sale of the Securities. Except
as disclosed in the SEC Reports, the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus, there are no stockholders agreements, voting agreements
or other similar agreements with respect to the Company’s
capital stock to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge
of the Company, between or among any of the Company’s
stockholders.
(h)
SEC Reports; Financial Statements . The Company has
filed all reports required to be filed by it under the Securities
Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or
15(d) thereof, for the two years preceding the date hereof (or such
shorter period as the Company was required by law to file such
material) (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto,
being collectively referred to herein as the “ SEC
Reports ”) on a timely basis or has received a valid
extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports
prior to the expiration of any such extension. As of their
respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects
with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act
and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated
thereunder, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any
untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make
the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which
they were made, not misleading. The financial statements of
the Company included in the SEC Reports and the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus comply in all material respects with
applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of
the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of
filing. Such financial statements have been prepared in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles applied on
a consistent basis during the periods involved (“ GAAP
”), except as may be otherwise specified in such financial
statements or the notes thereto and except that unaudited financial
statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and
fairly present in all material respects the financial position of
the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of and for the
dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the
periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements,
to normal, immaterial, year-end audit adjustments.
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