Exhibit 4.6
EXHIBIT A
LIMITED GUARANTY, PLEDGE AND
VOTING AGREEMENT
This LIMITED GUARANTY, PLEDGE AND VOTING
AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement ”) is entered
into and effective as of August 14, 2008, by
__________________________, an individual residing at
______________________________, as guarantor and pledgor (“
Guarantor ”), in favor of AROTECH CORPORATION, a
Delaware corporation with its principal place of business located
at 1229 Oak Valley Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108, or its
registered assigns, as secured party (“ Secured Party
”).
RECITALS
A.
Reference is made to that certain 10% Senior
Subordinated Convertible Note (including each additional 10% Senior
Subordinated Convertible Note issued in accordance with
Section 11(d) of said 10% Senior Subordinated Convertible
Note, the “ Note ”) issued on the date hereof to
the initial Secured Party by DEI Services Corporation, a Florida
corporation with its principal place of business located at 7213
Sandscove Court, Suite One, Winter Park, Florida 32792 (the “
Company ”), in the principal amount of
$2,500,000.
B.
Guarantor is the record and beneficial owner of certain
shares of Common Stock, no par value per share, of the Company (the
“ Common Stock ”), as set forth on
Schedule I attached hereto.
C.
As a condition to the granting of financial assistance
to the Company by the initial Secured Party as evidenced by the
Note, the Guarantor has agreed to execute, deliver and perform this
Agreement in favor of Secured Party in order to guaranty and secure
with the Collateral (as defined below) the obligations of the
Company under the Note to Secured Party (the “
Obligations ”), and to agree to vote his shares for
the election of designees of Secured Party to the Company’s
board of directors as set forth herein (the “ Voting
Arrangement ”).
D.
Guarantor acknowledges and confirms that, as an owner
of Common Stock of the Company, (a) he will benefit from the
financial assistance provided by the initial Secured Party in
connection with Secured Party’s purchase of the Note; (b)
each of the guaranty of the Obligations, the pledge of Collateral
in respect thereof and the Voting Arrangement by Guarantor
hereunder is intended to be an inducement to the initial Secured
Party to purchase the Note; and (c) Secured Party is relying
upon the guaranty of the Obligations, the pledge of Collateral in
respect thereof and the Voting Arrangement by Guarantor hereunder
in providing financial assistance to the Company in connection with
its purchase of the Note.
Accordingly, for good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, and as an inducement for Secured Party to provide
financial assistance to the Company in connection with its purchase
of the Note, Guarantor, intending to be legally bound, hereby
agrees as follows for the benefit of Secured Party:
SECTION 1
DEFINITIONS
1.1.
Definitions . Capitalized terms used herein and
not otherwise defined shall have the meanings assigned to such
terms in the Note. Whenever the context so requires,
each reference to gender includes the masculine and feminine, the
singular number includes the plural and vice versa. This
Agreement shall mean such agreement as the same now exists or may
hereafter be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed,
restated or replaced, from time to time. References in
this Agreement to any Person shall include such Person and its
successors and permitted assigns.
1.2.
Defined Terms . In this Agreement, the following
terms shall mean as follows:
“ Bankruptcy Code ” shall
mean the Federal Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 (11 U.S.C.
§101, et seq.), as amended and in effect from time to time and
the regulations issued from time to time thereunder.
“ Collateral ” shall mean (i)
the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock owned or held of
record by Guarantor on the date hereof as set forth on Schedule
I hereto, which shares are represented by stock certificates
duly executed and delivered by the Company; (ii) all other
shares of Common Stock and shares of any other series or class of
capital stock of the Company owned or held of record by Guarantor
at any time (and the certificates representing such shares); and
(iii) any and all replacements, products and proceeds of, and
dividends, distributions in property or securities, returns of
capital or other distributions made on or with respect to, any of
the foregoing.
SECTION 2
LIMITED GUARANTY
2.1.
Guaranty of Obligations . Guarantor hereby irrevocably
guarantees the prompt and punctual payment and performance of the
Note and all Obligations thereunder, including, without limitation,
all amounts from time to time payable by the Company in connection
with the Note (including without limitation, all Principal,
Interest, Late Charges and all other monetary obligations,
including reasonable attorneys fees, costs, expenses and
indemnities, whether primary, secondary, contingent, fixed or
otherwise in connection with the Note), and all of the obligations,
terms, covenants and agreements of the Company to Secured Party
under the Note and of the Guarantor to Secured Party hereunder, in
any case whether according to the present terms thereof and hereof,
at any earlier or accelerated date or pursuant to any extension of
time or to any change therein now or at any time hereafter made or
granted (such obligations so guaranteed shall be collectively
referred to herein as the “ Guaranteed Obligations
”); provided that the Guaranteed Obligations of
Guarantor hereunder shall expressly be limited as set forth in
Section 2.3 hereof. The Guaranteed
Obligations include in all cases, subject to the limitations set
forth in Section 2.3 hereof, all such obligations that
arise after the filing of a bankruptcy petition with respect to the
Company or Guarantor and all such obligations that will become
payable but for the operation of any Bankruptcy Law involving the
Company or Guarantor, including, but not limited to, interest
accruing with respect to the Obligations after the filing of a
bankruptcy petition, whether or not allowed or allowable as a claim
in the bankruptcy proceeding.
(a) This
guaranty is a continuing guarantee of prompt and punctual payment
of the Guaranteed Obligations, whether at stated maturity, by
acceleration or otherwise, and not merely a guaranty of collection,
subject to the limitations set forth in Section 2.3
. Guarantor agrees that its obligations hereunder are
independent of the obligations of the Company or any other Person,
and shall be binding upon Guarantor and his heirs, administrators,
devisees, legatees, executors, successors and assigns, and are
irrevocable without regard to the genuineness, validity, legality
or enforceability of the Note or Obligations or the lack of power
or authority of the Company to enter into the Note or any
substitution, release or exchange of any other guaranty of or any
security for any of the Obligations or any other circumstances
(other than payment or performance) which might otherwise
constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor
and shall not be subject to any right of set-off or counterclaim
and are in no way conditioned upon any attempt to enforce
performance or compliance by the Company or any other event or
contingency, subject to the limitations set forth in
Section 2.3 .
(b) Guarantor
agrees that, if at any time all or any part of any payment
previously made to Secured Party to satisfy any Obligation must be
returned by Secured Party for any reason, whether by court order,
administrative order, or settlement, Guarantor shall remain liable
for the full amount returned, subject to the limitations set forth
in Section 2.3 , as if such amount had never been
received by Secured Party, notwithstanding any termination of this
Agreement or the Note or the cancellation of this Agreement or the
Note or any other agreement evidencing the Obligations or the
Guaranteed Obligations.
(c) Guarantor
hereby acknowledges that the Guaranteed Obligations are secured by
the Collateral and expressly waives any defenses or benefits
available to Guarantor as a result of the exercise by Secured Party
of nonjudicial or judicial remedies against the Company, any other
guarantor of the Obligations or any Collateral, and further
expressly waives any defenses or benefits arising out of or against
any Collateral. Guarantor hereby agrees, without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, that Secured Party shall
not be required to make any demand on any other guarantor of the
Obligations or otherwise pursue or exhaust its remedies against the
Company or any collateral securing the Obligations or any other
Person before enforcing its rights and remedies against Guarantor
hereunder, and any one or more successive and/or concurrent actions
may be brought against Guarantor in the same action brought against
any other guarantor of the Obligations, the Company or any other
Person or in separate actions, as often as Secured Party may deem
advisable, in its sole discretion. The Guaranteed
Obligations shall not in any way be affected by any action or
inaction of Secured Party, which action or inaction is hereby
consented and agreed to by Guarantor, or by the partial or complete
unenforceability or invalidity of any other guaranty, pledge,
assignment or lien for any of the Obligations or of the value,
genuineness, validity or enforceability of the Note, any of the
Obligations, this Agreement or any of the Guaranteed
Obligations.
2.3.
Non-Recourse . Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in this Agreement or the Note, the Secures
Party’s recovery against Guarantor in respect of the
Guaranteed Obligations shall be limited solely to the Collateral of
Guarantor. Guarantor shall not have any personal
liability in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations under this
Agreement for any of the Guaranteed Obligations, and no monetary or
deficiency judgment shall be sought or enforced against Guarantor
with respect thereto under this
Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing
contained in this Section 2.3 shall (x) impair the
validity of the Obligations or the Guaranteed Obligation,
(y) in any way affect or impair the rights of Secured Party to
enforce any other guaranty of the Obligations or (z) limit the
application of Section 2.7 .
2.4.
Defenses of the Company Waived . The Note shall
remain fully enforceable irrespective of any defenses which the
Company, Guarantor or any other Person may assert under the Note,
including, but not limited to, failure of consideration, breach of
warranty, payment, statute of frauds, statute of limitations,
accord and satisfaction and usury (other than prior indefeasible
payment in full in cash of the Obligations (except contingent
Obligations for which no claim has been made) by the
Company).
2.5.
Liability of Guarantor . Guarantor agrees that
Secured Party, shall have the full right and power, in its sole
discretion and without any notice to or consent from Guarantor and
without affecting or discharging, in whole or in part, the
liability of Guarantor under this Agreement or the Note, to deal in
any manner with the Guaranteed Obligations, Collateral and any
security or guaranties therefor. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the occurrence of any one or more of
the following shall not affect Guarantor’s obligations
hereunder or under the Note: (a) new agreements or
obligations of the Company with or to Secured Party or increases,
amendments, extensions, modification, renewals or waivers of
default as to any existing or future agreements or obligations of
the Company, with or to Secured Party or extensions of credit by
Secured Party to the Company; (b) adjustments, compromises or
releases of any obligations to or of the Company, any other
guarantor of the Obligations or other Persons, or exchanges,
releases of sales of any security or collateral of the Company,
Guarantor or other Persons; (c) errors, omissions, invalidity
or unenforceability of this Agreement or the Note;
(d) reorganization, extensions, moratoria or other relief
granted to the Company pursuant to any law presently in force or
hereafter enacted; (e) interruptions in the business relations
between or among Secured Party, the Company and/or Guarantor;
(f) the release or exchange, in whole or in part, of any other
guarantor of the Obligations from such Person’s guaranty of
the Obligations or any security or collateral therefor or any
action or inaction by Secured Party with respect thereto;
(g) the failure of any Person to sign any similar guaranty;
(h) subsequent reorganization, merger or consolidation of the
Company or any other change any of the foregoing’s structure,
nature, personnel or location; or (i) any impairment,
modification, change, release or limitation of the liability of the
Company, any other guarantor of the Obligations or any other Person
or their respective estates in bankruptcy resulting from the
operation of any present or future provision of any Bankruptcy
Laws, or from the decision of any court.
2.6.
Event of Default . If an Event of Default shall
occur and be continuing, Secured Party or any assignee thereof
shall be entitled to receive hereunder from Guarantor, upon demand
therefor, all of the Guaranteed Obligations, subject to the
limitations set forth in Section 2.3
hereof. For the purposes of this Agreement, an Event of
Default shall not be deemed to have occurred with respect to any
Curable Event of Default until the expiration of any Applicable
Cure Period relating thereto.
2.7.
Subordination of Certain Rights . Upon payment by
Guarantor of any sums to Secured Party, for its benefit, all rights
of Guarantor against the Company arising as a result thereof by way
of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or otherwise
shall in all respects be subordinate and junior in right of payment
to the prior indefeasible payment in full in cash and performance
of all the remaining Obligations (except contingent Obligations for
which no claim has been made), subject to the limitations set forth
in Section 2.3 hereof. If any amount shall
erroneously be paid to Guarantor for any reason, such amount shall
be held in trust for the benefit of Secured Party and shall
forthwith be paid to Secured Party to be credited against the
Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the
terms of the Note. Guarantor shall have no right of
subrogation whatever with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations or
to any Collateral or other collateral therefor until all of the
Obligations (except contingent Obligations for which no claim has
been made) have been irrevocably and indefeasibly paid in full in
cash (and/or converted into shares of Common Stock in accordance
with the terms and conditions of the Note) and performed in full
and the Note and this Agreement have been irrevocably terminated,
subject to the limitations set forth in Section 2.3
hereof.
(a) It
is the intent of Guarantor and Secured Party that Guarantor’s
maximum obligations hereunder shall be up to, but not in excess of,
the maximum amount which would not otherwise cause the Guaranteed
Obligations to be avoidable or unenforceable against Guarantor
under (i) Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code (in any case
commenced by or against Guarantor within one (1) year from the date
on which any of the Guaranteed Obligations are incurred),
(ii) any state fraudulent transfer or fraudulent conveyance
act or statute applied in any case or proceeding by virtue of
Section 544 of the Bankruptcy Code, or (iii) any law, statute
or regulation other than the Bankruptcy Code (including, without
limitation, any receivership, readjustment of debt, dissolution,
liquidation or similar Bankruptcy Law) including, without
limitation, any state fraudulent transfer or fraudulent conveyance
act or statute applied in any case or proceeding of any nature
commenced by or against Guarantor. (The substantive laws
under which the possible avoidance or unenforceability of the
Guaranteed Obligations shall be determined in any such case or
proceeding shall be referred to herein as the “ Avoidance
Provisions ”).
(b) To
the extent set forth in subsections (i), (ii), and (iii)
above , but only to the extent that the Guaranteed Obligations
would otherwise be subject to avoidance under the Avoidance
Provisions, if Guarantor is not deemed to have received valuable
consideration or reasonably equivalent value for the Guaranteed
Obligations, or if the Guaranteed Obligations would render
Guarantor insolvent, or cause Guarantor to have incurred debts
beyond its ability to pay such debts as they mature, in each case
as of the time any of the Guaranteed Obligations are deemed to have
been incurred under the Avoidance Provisions and after giving
effect to the contribution by Guarantor, the maximum Guaranteed
Obligations for which Guarantor shall be liable hereunder shall be
reduced to that amount which, after giving effect thereto, would
not cause the Guaranteed Obligations, as so reduced, to be subject
to avoidance under the Avoidance Provisions. This
Section 2.8 is intended solely to preserve the rights
of Secured Party and neither Guarantor nor any other Person shall
have any right or claim under this Section 2.8 against
Secured Party that would not otherwise be available to such person
under the Avoidance Provisions.
SECTION 3
COLLATERAL
(a) As
security for the due and punctual payment and performance by
Guarantor and the Company of all the Guaranteed Obligations,
Guarantor hereby pledges and assigns to Secured Party, for its
benefit and grants to Secured Party, for its benefit, a continuing
first priority security interest in and lien on, the Collateral and
all of Guarantor’s right, title and interest in and to the
Collateral.
(b) Guarantor
(x) has delivered to Escrow Agent (as defined below) for the
benefit of Secured Party all certificates representing the
Collateral described in clause (i) of the definition of Collateral,
and (y) will deliver to Escrow Agent for the benefit of
Secured Party, all certificates representing the Collateral
described in clauses (ii) and (iii) of the definition of Collateral
within five (5) Business Days after Guarantor’s acquisition
of such Collateral, in each case registered in the name of
Guarantor, duly endorsed in blank or accompanied by a stock power
duly executed by Guarantor in blank, in form and substance
satisfactory to Secured Party in its reasonable judgment, with any
and all documents necessary to cause Secured Party, for its benefit
to have a good, valid and perfected continuing first priority
pledge of and lien on the Collateral (free and clear of any other
liens), including, without limitation, any necessary notations in
the corporate or other records books of the Company. At
any time following the occurrence and continuation of an Event of
Default, at the option of Secured Party, the Collateral or any part
thereof may be registered in the name of Secured Party or its
nominees, for its benefit, and Guarantor covenants that, following
the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default, upon demand
by Secured Party, Guarantor shall, and shall use his reasonable
best efforts to cause the Company to, effect such
registration.
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Voting
Rights, Dividends and Distributions .
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(a)
So long as no Event of Default has occurred, is continuing, would
result therefrom or be caused thereby, subject to the terms of this
Agreement, Guarantor shall be entitled to (i) exercise all
voting and/or consensual rights and powers relating to the
Collateral, and (ii) receive and retain cash dividends and/or
distributions payable on the Collateral.
(b) Guarantor
shall execute and deliver (or cause to be executed and delivered)
to Secured Party such proxies, powers of attorney, dividend orders
and other instruments as such other party may request for the
purpose of enabling it to exercise the voting and/or consensual
rights and powers that it is entitled to exercise pursuant to this
Agreement and/or to receive the dividends that it is authorized to
receive and retain pursuant to this Agreement.
(c) Upon
the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default, all rights
of Guarantor to exercise voting and/or consensual rights and powers
and/or to receive dividends that Guarantor is entitled to exercise
and/or receive pursuant to this Section 3.2 shall cease
immediately upon receipt of notice by Guarantor from Secured Party,
and all such rights thereupon shall become vested solely and
exclusively in Secured Party, for its benefit automatically without
any action by any Person. Guarantor hereby appoints
Secured Party, its attorney-in-fact, with full power of
substitution, which
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