Exhibit 4.1
ANTARES PHARMA,
INC.
WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON
STOCK
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WARRANT NO. _________
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ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE: [______________],
2009
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Antares Pharma, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the “Company”), hereby certifies that, for
value received, [_________] or its permitted registered assigns
(the “Holder”), is entitled to purchase from the
Company up to a total of [_________] shares of common stock, $0.01
par value per share (the “Common Stock”), of the
Company (each such share, a “Warrant Share” and all
such shares, the “Warrant Shares”) at an exercise price
equal to $1.15 per share (as adjusted from time to time as provided
herein, the “Exercise Price”), at any time and from
time to time on or after [date to be six months following closing,
2009] (the “Original Exercisability Date”) and through
and including [date to be the fifth anniversary of the Original
Exercisability Date], (the “Expiration Date”), and
subject to the following terms and conditions:
This Warrant is being issued
pursuant to that certain Subscription Agreement, dated [_______],
2009, by and between the Company and the purchaser identified
therein (the “Subscription Agreement”). The
original issuance of the Warrant by the Company pursuant to the
Subscription Agreement has been registered pursuant to a
Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-158630) (the
“Registration Statement”).
1.
Definitions . In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in
this Warrant, capitalized terms that are not otherwise defined
herein have the meanings given to such terms in the Subscription
Agreement.
2. List
of Warrant Holders . The Company shall register this
Warrant, upon records to be maintained by the Company for that
purpose (the “Warrant Register”), in the name of the
record Holder (which shall include the initial Holder or, as the
case may be, any registered assignee to which this Warrant is
permissibly assigned hereunder from time to time). The
Company may deem and treat the registered Holder of this Warrant as
the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of any exercise hereof or
any distribution to the Holder, and for all other purposes, absent
actual notice to the contrary.
3. List
of Transfers; Restrictions on Transfer . The Company shall
register any such transfer of all or any portion of this Warrant in
the Warrant Register, upon surrender of this Warrant, with the Form
of Assignment attached hereto duly completed and signed, to the
Company at its address specified herein. Upon any such registration
or transfer, a new Warrant to purchase Common Stock, in
substantially the form of this Warrant (any such new Warrant, a
“New Warrant”), evidencing the portion of this Warrant
so transferred shall be issued to the transferee and a New Warrant
evidencing the remaining portion of this Warrant not so
transferred, if any, shall be issued
to the transferring Holder. The acceptance of the New Warrant by
the transferee thereof shall be deemed the acceptance by such
transferee of all of the rights and obligations in respect of the
New Warrant that the Holder has in respect of this
Warrant.
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4.
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Exercise and Duration of Warrant
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(a) All or
any part of this Warrant shall be exercisable by the registered
Holder in any manner permitted by Section 10 of this Warrant
at any time and from time to time on or after the Original
Exercisability Date and through and including the Expiration Date.
Subject to Section 11 hereof, at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on
the Expiration Date, the portion of this Warrant not exercised
prior thereto shall be and become void and of no value and this
Warrant shall be terminated and no longer outstanding.
(b) The
Holder may exercise this Warrant by delivering to the Company (i)
an exercise notice, in the form attached hereto (the
“Exercise Notice”), completed and duly signed, and (ii)
if such Holder is not utilizing the cashless exercise provisions
set forth in this Warrant, payment of the Exercise Price for the
number of Warrant Shares as to which this Warrant is being
exercised. The date such items are delivered to the Company
(as determined in accordance with the notice provisions hereof) is
an “Exercise Date.” The Holder shall not be required to
deliver the original Warrant in order to effect an exercise
hereunder, but if it is not so delivered then such exercise shall
constitute an agreement by the Holder to deliver the original
Warrant to the Company as soon as practicable thereafter.
Execution and delivery of the Exercise Notice shall have the same
effect as cancellation of the original Warrant and issuance of a
New Warrant evidencing the right to purchase the remaining number
of Warrant Shares.
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5.
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Delivery of Warrant Shares.
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(a) Upon
exercise of this Warrant, the Company shall promptly (but in no
event later than three business days after the Exercise Date)
issue, or cause to be issued, and cause to be delivered a
certificate for the Warrant Shares issuable upon such exercise,
free of restrictive legends, in the name of the Holder or, upon the
written order of the Holder, in such name or names as the Holder
may designate. The Holder, or any person permissibly so designated
by the Holder to receive Warrant Shares, shall be deemed to have
become the holder of record of such Warrant Shares as of the
Exercise Date. The Company shall, upon the written request of
the Holder, use its best efforts to deliver, or cause to be
delivered, Warrant Shares hereunder electronically through the
Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation or another established
clearing corporation performing similar functions, if available;
provided that the Company may, but will not be required to, change
its transfer agent if its current transfer agent cannot deliver
Warrant Shares electronically through the Depository Trust and
Clearing Corporation.
(b) If, by
the close of the third business day after delivery of an Exercise
Notice and the payment of the aggregate exercise price in any
manner permitted by Section 10 of this Warrant, the Company fails
to deliver to the Holder a certificate representing the required
number of Warrant Shares in the manner required pursuant to Section
5(a), and if, after such third business day and prior to the
receipt of such Warrant Shares, the Holder or the Holder’s
brokerage firm purchases (in an open market transaction or
otherwise) shares of Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a
sale by the Holder of the Warrant Shares which the
Holder
anticipated receiving upon such
exercise (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall, within
three business days after the Holder’s request and in the
Holder’s sole discretion, either (i) pay in cash to the
Holder an amount equal to the Holder’s total purchase price
(including brokerage commissions, if any) for the shares of Common
Stock so purchased (the “Buy-In Price”), at which point
the Company’s obligation to deliver such certificate (and to
issue such Warrant Shares) shall terminate or (ii) promptly honor
its obligation to deliver to the Holder a certificate or
certificates representing such Warrant Shares and pay cash to
the Holder in an amount equal to the excess (if any) of the Buy-In
Price over the product of (A) such number of Warrant Shares, times
(B) the closing bid price on the date of the event giving rise to
the Company’s obligation to deliver such
certificate.
(c) To the
extent permitted by law, the Company’s obligations to issue
and deliver Warrant Shares in accordance with the terms hereof are
absolute and unconditional, irrespective of any action or inaction
by the Holder to enforce the same, any waiver or consent with
respect to any provision hereof, the recovery of any judgment
against any person or any action to enforce the same, or any
setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, limitation or termination, or any
breach or alleged breach by the Holder or any other person of any
obligation to the Company or any violation or alleged violation of
law by the Holder or any other person, and irrespective of any
other circumstance that might otherwise limit such obligation of
the Company to the Holder in connection with the issuance of
Warrant Shares. Nothing herein shall limit a Holder’s right
to pursue any other remedies available to it hereunder, at law or
in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific
performance and/or injunctive relief with respect to the
Company’s failure to timely deliver certificates representing
shares of Common Stock upon exercise of the Warrant as required
pursuant to the terms hereof.
6.
Charges, Taxes and Expenses . Issuance and delivery of
certificates for shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this
Warrant shall be made without charge to the Holder for any issue or
transfer tax, withholding tax, transfer agent fee or other
incidental tax or expense in respect of the issuance of such
certificates, all of which taxes and expenses shall be paid by the
Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required
to pay any tax that may be payable in respect of any transfer
involved in the registration of any certificates for Warrant Shares
or the Warrants in a name other than that of the Holder. The Holder
shall be responsible for all other tax liability that may arise as
a result of holding or transferring this Warrant or receiving
Warrant Shares upon exercise hereof.
7.
Replacement of Warrant . If this Warrant is mutilated,
lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be
issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation
hereof, or in lieu of and substitution for this Warrant, a New
Warrant, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory
to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction and customary and
reasonable indemnity, if requested. Applicants for a New Warrant
under such circumstances shall also comply with such other
reasonable regulations and procedures and pay such other reasonable
third-party costs as the Company may prescribe. If a New Warrant is
requested as a result of a mutilation of this Warrant, then the
Holder shall deliver such mutilated Warrant to the Company as a
condition precedent to the Company’s obligation to issue the
New Warrant.
8.
Reservation of Warrant Shares . The Company covenants that
it will at all times reserve and keep available out of the
aggregate of its authorized but unissued and otherwise
unreserved Common Stock, solely for
the purpose of enabling it to issue Warrant Shares upon exercise of
this Warrant as herein provided, the number of Warrant Shares that
are then issuable and deliverable upon the exercise of this entire
Warrant, free from preemptive rights or any other contingent
purchase rights of persons other than the Holder (taking into
account the adjustments and restrictions of Section 9). The Company
covenants that all Warrant Shares so issuable and deliverable
shall, upon issuance and the payment of the applicable Exercise
Price in accordance with the terms hereof, be duly and validly
authorized, issued and fully paid and nonassessable.
9.
Certain Adjustments . The Exercise Price and number of
Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant are subject
to adjustment from time to time as set forth in this Section
9.
(a) Stock
Dividends and Splits . If the Company, at any time while this
Warrant is outstanding, (i) pays a stock dividend on its Common
Stock or otherwise makes a distribution on any class of capital
stock that is payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides
outstanding shares of Common Stock into a larger number of shares,
(iii) combines outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller
number of shares, or (iv) issues by reclassification of the Common
Stock any shares of capital stock of the Company, then in each such
case the Exercise Price shall be multiplied by a fraction of which
the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding immediately before such event and of which the
denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding immediately after such event. Any adjustment made
pursuant to clause (i) of this paragraph shall become effective
immediately after the record date for the determination of
stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or distribution, and
any adjustment pursuant to clause (ii), (iii) or (iv) of this
paragraph shall become effective immediately after the effective
date of such subdivision, combination or
reclassification.
(b) Pro
Rata Distributions . If the Company, at any time while
this Warrant is outstanding, distributes to all holders of Common
Stock for no consideration (i) evidences of its indebtedness, (ii)
any security (other than a distribution of Common Stock covered by
the preceding paragraph), (iii) rights, options or warrants to
subscribe for or purchase any security, or (iv) any other asset
(including cash and cash dividends) (in each case,
“Distributed Property”), then, upon any exercise of
this Warrant that occurs after the record date fixed for
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such
distribution, the Holder shall be entitled to receive, in addition
to the Warrant Shares otherwise issuable upon such exercise (if
applicable), the Distributed Property that such Holder would have
been entitled to receive in respect of such number of Warrant
Shares had the Holder been the record holder of such Warrant Shares
immediately prior to such record date.
(c)
Fundamental Transactions . If, at any time while this
Warrant is outstanding (i) the Company effects (A) any merger
of the Company with (but not into) another entity, or (B) any
merger or consolidation of the Company into another entity, (ii)
the Company effects any sale, lease, license, assignment transfer,
conveyance, or other distribution of all or substantially all of
its assets in one or a series of related transactions, (iii) any
direct or indirect purchase offer, tender offer or exchange offer
is completed pursuant to which holders of at least a majority of
the outstanding Common Stock tender or exchange their shares for
other securities, cash or property, (iv) the Company, directly or
indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects
any
reorganization, recapitalization or
reclassification of the Common Stock or any compulsory share
exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is effectively
converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property,
or (v) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related
transactions consummates a stock or share purchase agreement or
other business combination (including, without limitation, a
reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off or scheme of
arrangement) with another person whereby such other person acquires
more than 50% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (not
including any shares of Common Stock held by the other person or
other persons making or party to, or associated or affiliated with
the other persons making or party to, such stock or share purchase
agreement or other business combination) (each, a
“Fundamental Transaction”), then the Holder
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