EXHIBIT 10.6
NEITHER THE ISSUANCE AND SALE
OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE NOR THE
SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN
REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED
FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED (I) IN THE ABSENCE OF
(A) AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR (B) AN
OPINION OF COUNSEL (WHICH COUNSEL SHALL BE SELECTED BY THE HOLDER),
IN A GENERALLY ACCEPTABLE FORM, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED
UNDER SAID ACT OR (II) UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 OR
RULE 144A UNDER SAID ACT. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE
SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN
ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN OR FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THE
SECURITIES.
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Right to
Purchase 350,000 shares of Common Stock of Converted Organics
Inc.
(subject to adjustment as provided herein)
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CLASS D COMMON STOCK PURCHASE
WARRANT
No. 2009-D-001 Issue Date:
May 7, 2009
CONVERTED ORGANICS INC., a corporation organized
under the laws of the State of Delaware (the
“Company”), hereby certifies that, for value received,
IROQUOIS MASTER FUND LTD., 641 Lexington Avenue, 26th Floor, New
York, NY 10022, Fax: (212) 207-3452, or its assigns (the
“Holder”), is entitled, subject to the terms set forth
below, to purchase from the Company six months from the Issue Date
until 5:00 p.m., E.S.T on the fifth anniversary of the Issue Date
(the “Expiration Date”), up to 350,000 fully paid and
nonassessable shares of Common Stock at a per share purchase price
of $1.50. The aforedescribed purchase price per share, as adjusted
from time to time as herein provided, is referred to herein as the
“Purchase Price.” The number and character of such
shares of Common Stock and the Purchase Price are subject to
adjustment as provided herein. The Company may reduce the Purchase
Price for some or all of the Warrants, temporarily or permanently,
provided such reduction is made as to all outstanding Warrants for
all Holders of such Warrants. Capitalized terms used and not
otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in that
certain Subscription Agreement (the “Subscription
Agreement”), dated as of May 7, 2009, entered into by
the Company and the Holder.
As
used herein the following terms, unless the context otherwise
requires, have the following respective meanings:
(a) The term “Company” shall
mean Converted Organics Inc., a Delaware corporation, and any
corporation which shall succeed or assume the obligations of
Converted Organics Inc. hereunder.
(b) The term “Common Stock”
includes (i) the Company’s Common Stock, $0.0001 par
value per share, as authorized on the date of the Subscription
Agreement, and (ii) any other securities into which or for
which any of the securities described in (i) may be converted
or exchanged pursuant to a plan of recapitalization,
reorganization, merger, sale of assets or otherwise.
(c) The term “Other Securities”
refers to any stock (other than Common Stock) and other securities
of the Company or any other person (corporate or otherwise) which
the holder of the Warrant at any time shall be entitled to receive,
or shall have received, on the exercise of the Warrant, in lieu of
or in addition to Common Stock, or which at any time shall be
issuable or shall have been issued in exchange for or in
replacement of Common Stock or Other Securities pursuant to
Section 4 herein or otherwise.
(d) The term “Warrant Shares”
shall mean the Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this
Warrant.
1. Exercise of Warrant .
1.1.
Number of Shares Issuable upon Exercise . From and after the
Issue Date through and including the Expiration Date, the Holder
hereof shall be entitled to receive, upon exercise of this Warrant
in whole in accordance with the terms of subsection 1.2 or
upon exercise of this Warrant in part in accordance with
subsection 1.3, shares of Common Stock of the Company, subject
to adjustment pursuant to Section 4.
1.2.
Full Exercise . This Warrant may be exercised in full by the
Holder hereof by delivery of an original or facsimile copy of the
form of subscription attached as Exhibit A hereto (the
“Subscription Form”) duly executed by such Holder and
delivery within two days thereafter of payment, in cash, wire
transfer or by certified or official bank check payable to the
order of the Company, in the amount obtained by multiplying the
number of shares of Common Stock for which this Warrant is then
exercisable by the Purchase Price then in effect. The original
Warrant is not required to be surrendered to the Company until it
has been fully exercised.
1.3.
Partial Exercise . This Warrant may be exercised in part
(but not for a fractional share) by delivery of a Subscription Form
in the manner and at the place provided in subsection 1.2
except that the amount payable by the Holder on such partial
exercise shall be the amount obtained by multiplying (a) the
number of whole shares of Common Stock designated by the Holder in
the Subscription Form by (b) the Purchase Price then in
effect. On any such partial exercise provided the Holder has
surrendered the original Warrant, the Company, at its expense, will
forthwith issue and deliver to or upon the order of the Holder
hereof a new Warrant of like tenor, in the name of the Holder
hereof or as such Holder (upon payment by such Holder of any
applicable transfer taxes) may request, the whole number of shares
of Common Stock for which such Warrant may still be
exercised.
1.4.
Fair Market Value . Fair Market Value of a share of Common
Stock as of a particular date (the “Determination
Date”) shall mean:
(a) If the Company’s Common Stock is
traded on an exchange or is quoted on the NASDAQ Global Market,
NASDAQ Global Select Market, the NASDAQ Capital Market, the New
York Stock Exchange or the American Stock Exchange, LLC, then the
average of the closing sale prices of the Common Stock for the five
(5) Trading Days immediately prior to (but not including) the
Determination Date;
(b) If the Company’s Common Stock is
not traded on an exchange or on the NASDAQ Global Market, NASDAQ
Global Select Market, the NASDAQ Capital Market, the New York Stock
Exchange or the American Stock Exchange, Inc., but is traded on the
OTC Bulletin Board or in the over-the-counter market or Pink
Sheets, then the average of the closing bid and ask prices reported
for the five (5) Trading Days immediately prior to (but not
including) the Determination Date;
(c) Except as provided in clause
(d) below and Section 3.1, if the Company’s Common
Stock is not publicly traded, then as the Holder and the Company
agree, or in the absence of such an agreement, by arbitration in
accordance with the rules then standing of the American Arbitration
Association, before a single arbitrator to be chosen from a panel
of persons qualified by education and training to pass on the
matter to be decided; or
(d) If the Determination Date is the date
of a liquidation, dissolution or winding up, or any event deemed to
be a liquidation, dissolution or winding up pursuant to the
Company’s charter, then all amounts to be payable per share
to holders of the Common Stock pursuant to the charter in the event
of such liquidation, dissolution or winding up, plus all other
amounts to be payable per share in respect of the Common Stock in
liquidation under the charter, assuming for the purposes of this
clause (d) that all of the shares of Common Stock then
issuable upon exercise of all of the Warrants are outstanding at
the Determination Date.
1.5.
Company Acknowledgment . The Company will, at the time of
the exercise of the Warrant, upon the request of the Holder hereof,
acknowledge in writing its continuing obligation to afford to such
Holder any rights to which such Holder shall continue to be
entitled after such exercise in accordance with the provisions of
this Warrant. If the Holder shall fail to make any such request,
such failure shall not affect the continuing obligation of the
Company to afford to such Holder any such rights.
1.6.
Delivery of Stock Certificates, etc. on Exercise . The
Company agrees that, provided the full purchase price listed in the
Subscription Form is received as specified in Section 1.2, the
shares of Common Stock purchased upon exercise of this Warrant
shall be deemed to be issued to the Holder hereof as the record
owner of such shares as of the close of business on the date on
which delivery of a Subscription Form shall have occurred and
payment made for such shares as aforesaid. As soon as practicable
after the exercise of this Warrant in full or in part, and in any
event within five (5) business days thereafter (“Warrant
Share Delivery Date”), the Company at its expense (including
the payment by it of any applicable issue taxes) will cause to be
issued in the name of and delivered to the Holder hereof, or as
such Holder (upon payment by such Holder of any applicable transfer
taxes) may direct in compliance with applicable securities laws, a
certificate or certificates for the number of duly and validly
issued, fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock (or
Other Securities) to which such Holder shall be entitled on such
exercise, plus, in lieu of any fractional share to which such
Holder would otherwise be entitled, at the Company’s
discretion either an extra share of Common Stock or cash equal to
such fraction multiplied by the then Fair Market Value of one full
share of Common Stock, together with any other stock or other
securities and property (including cash, where applicable) to which
such Holder is entitled upon such exercise pursuant to
Section 1 or otherwise. The Company understands that a delay
in the delivery of the Warrant Shares after the Warrant Share
Delivery Date could result in economic loss to the Holder. As
compensation to the Holder for such loss, the Company agrees to pay
(as liquidated damages and not as a penalty) to the Holder for late
issuance of Warrant Shares upon exercise of this Warrant the
proportionate amount of $100 per business day after the Warrant
Share Delivery Date for each $10,000 of Purchase Price of Warrant
Shares for which this Warrant is exercised which are not timely
delivered. The Company shall pay any payments incurred under this
Section in immediately available funds upon demand. Furthermore, in
addition to any other remedies which may be available to the
Holder, in the event that the Company fails for any reason to
effect delivery of the Warrant Shares by the Warrant Share Delivery
Date, the Holder may revoke all or part of the relevant Warrant
exercise by delivery of a notice to such effect to the Company,
whereupon the Company and the Holder shall each be restored to
their respective positions immediately prior to the exercise of the
relevant portion of this Warrant, except that the liquidated
damages described above shall be payable through the date notice of
revocation or rescission is given to the Company.
1.7.
Buy-In . In addition to any other rights available to the
Holder, if the Company fails to deliver to a Holder the Warrant
Shares as required pursuant to this Warrant, and the Holder or a
broker on the Holder’s behalf, purchases (in an open market
transaction or otherwise) shares of common stock to deliver in
satisfaction of a sale by such Holder of the Warrant Shares which
the Holder was entitled to receive from the Company (a
“Buy-In”), then the Company shall pay in cash to the
Holder (in addition to any remedies available to or elected by the
Holder) the amount by which (A) the Holder’s total
purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the
shares of common stock so purchased exceeds (B) the aggregate
Purchase Price of the Warrant Shares required to have been
delivered together with interest thereon at a rate of 15% per
annum, accruing until such amount and any accrued interest thereon
is paid in full (which amount shall be paid as liquidated damages
and not as a penalty). For example, if a Holder purchases shares of
Common Stock having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a
Buy-In with respect to $10,000 of Purchase Price of Warrant Shares
to have been received upon exercise of this Warrant, the Company
shall be required to pay the Holder $1,000, plus interest. The
Holder shall provide the Company written notice indicating the
amounts payable to the Holder in respect of the Buy-In.
2. Cashless Exercise .
(a) Payment upon exercise may be made at
the option of the Holder either in (i) cash, wire transfer or
by certified or official bank check payable to the order of the
Company equal to the applicable aggregate Purchase Price,
(ii) by delivery of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the
Warrants in accordance with Section (b) below or
(iii) by a combination of any of the foregoing methods, for
the number of Common Stock specified in such form (as such exercise
number shall be adjusted to reflect any adjustment in the total
number of shares of Common Stock issuable to the holder per the
terms of this Warrant) and the holder shall thereupon be entitled
to receive the number of duly authorized, validly issued,
fully-paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock (or Other
Securities) determined as provided herein. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Holder shall not be permitted to utilize the
“cashless” exercise provisions set forth in Section
2(b) below at any time during which the resale of the Common Stock
underlying the Warrants is registered for public resale pursuant to
the Act.
(b) Subject to the provisions herein to the
contrary, if the Fair Market Value of one share of Common Stock is
greater than the Purchase Price (at the date of calculation as set
forth below), in lieu of exercising this Warrant for cash, the
holder may elect to receive shares equal to the value (as
determined below) of this Warrant (or the portion thereof being
cancelled) by delivery of a properly endorsed Subscription Form
delivered to the Company by any means described in Section 13,
in which event the Company shall issue to the holder a number of
shares of Common Stock computed using the following
formula:
X=
Y (A-B) A
Where
X= the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to the
holder
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Y= the number
of shares of Common Stock purchasable under the Warrant or, if only
a portion of the Warrant is being exercised, the portion of the
Warrant being exercised (at the date of such
calculation)
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A=
B=
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Fair Market
Value
Purchase Price (as adjusted to the date of such
calculation)
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For
purposes of Rule 144 prom