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EXHIBIT 10.2
WARRANT
THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS WARRANT HAVE
NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE
SECURITIES HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED FOR INVESTMENT AND MAY NOT BE
OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE
OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE
SECURITIES LAWS, OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IN A FORM REASONABLY
SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED
UNDER SAID ACT OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR UNLESS
SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER SAID ACT.
ARIEL WAY, INC.
Warrant To Purchase Common Stock
Warrant No.: AWYI-2-2
Number of Shares:
500,000,000
Warrant Exercise Price:
$0.001
Expiration Date:
April 21, 2013
Date of Issuance: April 21, 2008
Ariel Way, Inc., a Florida corporation (the
“ Company ”), hereby certifies that, for good
and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which
are hereby acknowledged, YA Global Investments, L.P. (the
“ Holder ”), the registered holder hereof or
its permitted assigns, is entitled, subject to the terms set
forth below, to purchase from the Company upon surrender of this
Warrant, at any time or times on or after the date hereof, but
not after 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time on the Expiration Date
(as defined herein) up to Five Hundred Million (500,000,000)
fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock (as defined
herein) of the Company (the “ Warrant Shares
”) at the exercise price per share provided in
Section 1(b) below or as subsequently adjusted; provided,
however, that in no event shall the holder be entitled to
exercise this Warrant for a number of Warrant Shares in excess
of that number of Warrant Shares which, upon giving effect to
such exercise, would cause the aggregate number of shares of
Common Stock beneficially owned by the holder and its affiliates
to exceed 4.99% of the outstanding shares of the Common Stock
following such exercise, except within sixty (60) days of the
Expiration Date (however, such restriction may be waived by
Holder (but only as to itself and not to any other holder) upon
not less than 65 days prior notice to the Company). For
purposes of the foregoing proviso, the aggregate number of
shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the holder and its
affiliates shall include the number of shares of Common Stock
issuable upon exercise of this Warrant with respect to which the
determination of such proviso is being made, but shall exclude
shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon
(i) exercise of the remaining, unexercised Warrants
beneficially owned by the holder and its affiliates and
(ii) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or
unconverted portion of any other securities of the Company
beneficially owned by the holder and its affiliates (including,
without limitation,
any convertible notes or preferred stock)
subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to
the limitation contained herein. Except as set forth in
the preceding sentence, for purposes of this paragraph,
beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with
Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. For purposes of this Warrant, in determining the
number of outstanding shares of Common Stock a holder may rely
on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected
in (1) the Company’s most recent Form 10-QSB or Form
10-KSB, as the case may be, (2) a more recent public
announcement by the Company or (3) any other notice by the
Company or its transfer agent setting forth the number of shares
of Common Stock outstanding. Upon the written request of
any holder, the Company shall promptly, but in no event later
than one (1) Business Day following the receipt of such notice,
confirm in writing to any such holder the number of shares of
Common Stock then outstanding. In any case, the number of
outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be determined after
giving effect to the exercise of Warrants (as defined below) by
such holder and its affiliates since the date as of which such
number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported.
Section 1.
(a)
This Warrant is issued pursuant to the
Forebearance Agreement (“ Forebearance Agreement
”) dated the date hereof between the Company, the Holder
and Montgomery Equity Partners, Ltd. or issued in exchange or
substitution thereafter or replacement thereof. Each
Capitalized term used, and not otherwise defined herein, shall
have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Transaction Documents
(as such term is defined in the Forebearance Agreement).
(b)
Definitions . The following words
and terms as used in this Warrant shall have the following
meanings:
(i)
“ Approved Stock Plan ” means
a stock option plan that has been approved by the Board of
Directors of the Company prior to the date of the Forebearance
Agreement, pursuant to which the Company’s securities may
be issued only to any employee, officer or director for services
provided to the Company.
(ii)
“ Business Day ” means
any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which
commercial banks in the City of New York are authorized or
required by law to remain closed.
(iii)
“ Closing Bid Price ” means
the closing bid price of Common Stock as quoted on the Principal
Market (as reported by Bloomberg Financial Markets (“
Bloomberg ”) through its “Volume at
Price” function).
(iv)
“ Common Stock ” means
(i) the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per
share, and (ii) any capital stock into which such Common
Stock shall have been changed or any capital stock resulting
from a reclassification of such Common Stock.
(v)
“ Excluded Securities ”
means, (a) shares issued or deemed to have been issued by the
Company pursuant to an Approved Stock Plan, (b) shares of Common
Stock issued or deemed to be issued by the Company upon the
conversion, exchange or exercise of any
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right, option, obligation or security
outstanding on the date prior to date of the Forebearance
Agreement, provided that the terms of such right, option,
obligation or security are not amended or otherwise modified on
or after the date of the Forebearance Agreement, and provided
that the conversion price, exchange price, exercise price or
other purchase price is not reduced, adjusted or otherwise
modified and the number of shares of Common Stock issued or
issuable is not increased (whether by operation of, or in
accordance with, the relevant governing documents or otherwise)
on or after the date of the Forebearance Agreement, and
(c) the shares of Common Stock issued or deemed to be
issued by the Company upon conversion of the Convertible
Debentures or exercise of the Warrants.
(vi)
“ Expiration Date ” means
April 21, 2013.
(vii)
“ Issuance Date ” means the
date hereof.
(viii)
“ Options ” means any rights,
warrants or options to subscribe for or purchase Common Stock or
Convertible Securities.
(ix)
“ Person ” means an
individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a joint
venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization
and a government or any department or agency thereof.
(x)
“ Primary Market ” means on
any of (a) the American Stock Exchange, (b) New York Stock
Exchange, (c) the Nasdaq Global Select Market, (d) the Nasdaq
Global Market, (e) the Nasdaq Capital Market, or (e) the
Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (“ OTCBB
”)
(xi)
“ Securities Act ” means the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(xii)
“ Warrant ” means this
Warrant and all Warrants issued in exchange, transfer or
replacement thereof.
(xiii)
“ Warrant Exercise Price ”
shall be $0.001 or as subsequently adjusted as provided in
Section 8 hereof.
(b)
Other Definitional Provisions.
(i)
Except as otherwise specified herein, all
references herein (A) to the Company shall be deemed to
include the Company’s successors and (B) to any
applicable law defined or referred to herein shall be deemed
references to such applicable law as the same may have been or
may be amended or supplemented from time to time.
(ii)
When used in this Warrant, the words “
herein ”, “ hereof ”, and
“ hereunder ” and words of similar
import, shall refer to this Warrant as a whole and not to any
provision of this Warrant, and the words “ Section
”, “ Schedule ”, and “
Exhibit ” shall refer to Sections of, and Schedules
and Exhibits to, this Warrant unless otherwise specified.
(iii)
Whenever the context so requires, the neuter
gender includes the masculine or feminine, and the singular
number includes the plural, and vice versa.
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Section 2.
Exercise of Warrant .
(a)
Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, this
Warrant may be exercised by the holder hereof then registered on
the books of the Company, pro rata as hereinafter provided, at
any time on any Business Day on or after the opening of business
on such Business Day, commencing with the first day after the
date hereof, and prior to 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time on the
Expiration Date (i) by delivery of a written notice, in the form
of the subscription notice attached as Exhibit A hereto
(the “ Exercise Notice ”), of such
holder’s election to exercise this Warrant, which notice
shall specify the number of Warrant Shares to be
purchased, payment to the Company of an amount equal to the
Warrant Exercise Price(s) applicable to the Warrant Shares being
purchased, multiplied by the number of Warrant Shares (at
the applicable Warrant Exercise Price) as to which this Warrant
is being exercised (plus any applicable issue or transfer
taxes) (the “ Aggregate Exercise Price ”) in
cash or wire transfer of immediately available funds and the
surrender of this Warrant (or an indemnification undertaking
with respect to this Warrant in the case of its loss, theft or
destruction) to a common carrier for overnight delivery to the
Company as soon as practicable following such date (“
Cash Basis ”) or (ii) if at the time of exercise,
the Warrant Shares are not subject to an effective registration
statement, by delivering an Exercise Notice and in lieu of
making payment of the Aggregate Exercise Price in cash or wire
transfer, elect instead to receive upon such exercise the
“Net Number” of shares of Common Stock determined
according to the following formula (the “ Cashless
Exercise ”):
Net Number = (A x B) – (A x C)
B
For purposes of the foregoing formula:
A
= the total number of Warrant Shares with respect to which this
Warrant is then being exercised.
B
= the Closing Bid Price of the Common Stock on the date of exercise
of the Warrant.
C
= the Warrant Exercise Price then in effect for the applicable
Warrant Shares at the time of such exercise.
In the event of any exercise of the rights
represented by this Warrant in compliance with this Section 2,
the Company shall on or before the fifth (5th) Business Day
following the date of receipt of the Exercise Notice, the
Aggregate Exercise Price and this Warrant (or an indemnification
undertaking with respect to this Warrant in the case of its
loss, theft or destruction) and the receipt of the
representations of the holder specified in Section 6 hereof, if
requested by the Company (the “ Exercise Delivery
Documents ”), and if the Common Stock is DTC eligible,
credit such aggregate number of shares of Common Stock to which
the holder shall be entitled to the holder’s or its
designee’s balance account with The Depository Trust
Company; provided, however, if the holder who submitted the
Exercise Notice requested physical delivery of any or all of the
Warrant Shares, or, if the Common Stock is not DTC eligible
then the Company shall, on or before the fifth (5
th ) Business Day following receipt of the Exercise
Delivery Documents, issue and surrender to a common carrier for
overnight
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delivery to the address specified in the
Exercise Notice, a certificate, registered in the name of the
holder, for the number of shares of Common Stock to which the
holder shall be entitled pursuant to such request. Upon
delivery of the Exercise Notice and Aggregate Exercise Price
referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above the holder of this
Warrant shall be deemed for all corporate purposes to have
become the holder of record of the Warrant Shares with respect
to which this Warrant has been exercised. In the case of a
dispute as to the determination of the Warrant Exercise Price,
the Closing Bid Price or the arithmetic calculation of the
Warrant Shares, the Company shall promptly issue to the holder
the number of Warrant Shares that is not disputed and shall
submit the disputed determinations or arithmetic calculations to
the holder via facsimile within one (1) Business Day of receipt
of the holder’s Exercise Notice.
(b)
If the holder and the Company are unable to
agree upon the determination of the Warrant Exercise Price or
arithmetic calculation of the Warrant Shares within one (1) day
of such disputed determination or arithmetic calculation being
submitted to the holder, then the Company shall immediately
submit via facsimile (i) the disputed determination of the
Warrant Exercise Price or the Closing Bid Price to an
independent, reputable investment banking firm or (ii) the
disputed arithmetic calculation of the Warrant Shares to its
independent, outside accountant. The Company shall cause
the investment banking firm or the accountant, as the case may
be, to perform the determinations or calculations and notify the
Company and the holder of the results no later than forty-eight
(48) hours from the time it receives the disputed determinations
or calculations. Such investment banking firm’s or
accountant’s determination or calculation, as the case may
be, shall be deemed conclusive absent manifest error.
(c)
Unless the rights represented by this Warrant
shall have expired or shall have been fully exercised, the
Company shall, as soon as practicable and in no event later than
five (5) Business Days after any exercise and at its own
expense, issue a new Warrant identical in all respects to this
Warrant exercised except it shall represent rights to purchase
the number of Warrant Shares purchasable immediately prior to
such exercise under this Warrant exercised, less the number of
Warrant Shares with respect to which such Warrant is
exercised.
(d)
No fractional Warrant Shares are to be issued
upon any pro rata exercise of this Warrant, but rather the
number of Warrant Shares issued upon such exercise of this
Warrant shall be rounded up or down to the nearest whole
number.
(e)
If the Company or its Transfer Agent shall fail
for any reason or for no reason to issue to the holder within
ten (10) days of receipt of the Exercise Delivery
Documents, a certificate for the number of Warrant Shares to
which the holder is entitled or to credit the holder’s
balance account with The Depository Trust Company for such
number of Warrant Shares to which the holder is entitled upon
the holder’s exercise of this Warrant, the Company shall,
in addition to any other remedies under this Warrant or
otherwise available to such holder, pay as additional damages in
cash to such holder on each day the issuance of such certificate
for Warrant Shares is not timely effected an amount equal to
0.025% of the product of (A) the sum of the number of Warrant
Shares not issued to the holder on a timely basis and to which
the holder is entitled, and (B) the Closing Bid Price of the
Common Stock for the trading day immediately preceding the last
possible date which the Company could have issued such Common
Stock to the holder without violating this Section 2.
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(f)
If within ten (10) days after the
Company’s receipt of the Exercise Delivery Documents, the
Company fails to deliver a new Warrant to the holder for the
number of Warrant Shares to which such holder is entitled
pursuant to Section 2 hereof, then, in addition to any other
available remedies under this Warrant, or otherwise available to
such holder, the Company shall pay as additional damages in cash
to such holder on each day after such tenth (10 th )
day that such delivery of such new Warrant is not timely
effected in an amount equal to 0.25% of the product of
(A) the number of Warrant Shares represented by the portion
of this Warrant which is not being exercised and (B) the
Closing Bid Price of the Common Stock for the trading day
immediately preceding the last possible date which the Company
could have issued such Warrant to the holder without violating
this Section 2.
Section 3.
Covenants as to Common Stock . The
Company hereby covenants and agrees as follows:
(a)
This Warrant is, and any Warrants issued in
substitution for or replacement of this Warrant will upon
issuance be, duly authorized and validly issued.
(b)
All Warrant Shares which may be issued upon the
exercise of the rights represented by this Warrant will, upon
issuance, be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and
free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue
thereof.
(c)
During the period within which the rights
represented by this Warrant may be exercised, the Company will
at all times have authorized and reserved at least one hundred
percent (100%) of the number of shares of Common Stock needed to
provide for the exercise of the rights then represented by this
Warrant and the par value of said shares will at all times be
less than or equal to the applicable Warrant Exercise Price.
If at any time the Company does not have a sufficient
number of shares of Common Stock authorized and available, then
the Company shall call and hold a special meeting of its
stockholders within sixty (60) days of that time for the
sole purpose of increasing the number of authorized shares of
Common Stock.
(d)
If at any time after the date hereof the Company
shall file a registration statement, the Company shall include
the Warrant Shares issuable to the holder, pursuant to the terms
of this Warrant and shall maintain, so long as any other shares
of Common Stock shall be so listed, such listing of all Warrant
Shares from time to time issuable upon the exercise of this
Warrant; and the Company shall so list on each national
securities exchange or automated quotation system, as the case
may be, and shall maintain such listing of, any other shares of
capital stock of the Company issuable upon the exercise of this
Warrant if and so long as any shares of the same class shall be
listed on such national securities exchange or automated
quotation system.
(e)
The Company will not, by amendment of its
Articles of Incorporation or through any reorganization,
transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, dissolution, issue or
sale of securities, or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek
to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms to be
observed or performed by it hereunder, but will at all times in
good faith assist in the carrying out of all the provisions of
this Warrant and in the taking of all such action as may
reasonably be requested by the holder of this Warrant in order
to protect the exercise privilege of the holder of this Warrant
against dilution or other impairment, consistent with the
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tenor and purpose of this Warrant. The
Company will not increase the par value of any shares of Common
Stock receivable upon the exercise of this Warrant above the
Warrant Exercise Price then in effect, and (ii) will take
all such actions as may be necessary or appropriate in order
that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and
nonassessable shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of this
Warrant.
(f)
This Warrant will be binding upon any entity
succeeding to the Company by merger, consolidation or
acquisition of all or substantially all of the Company’s
assets.
Section 4.
Taxes . The Company shall pay any
and all taxes, except any applicable withholding, which may be
payable with respect to the issuance and delivery of Warrant
Shares upon exercise of this Warrant.
Section 5.
Warrant Holder Not Deemed a Stockholder .
Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, no
holder, as such, of this
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