EXHIBIT 10.1
COMMON STOCK AND WARRANT
PURCHASE AGREEMENT
THIS COMMON STOCK AND WARRANT
PURCHASE AGREEMENT (the “ Agreement ”) is
entered into as of December 7, 2006, by and among SUPER VISION
INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “
Company ”), with its principal executive offices
located at 8210 Presidents Drive, Orlando, Florida 32809, and the
purchasers (collectively, the “ Purchasers ” and
each a “ Purchaser ”) set forth on
Schedule 1 hereof, with regard to the
following:
RECITALS
A. The Company and Purchasers are
executing and delivering this Agreement in reliance upon the
exemption from securities registration afforded by the provisions
of Regulation D (“ Regulation D ”), as
promulgated by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
(the “ SEC ”) under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended (the “ Securities Act ”).
B. The Purchasers desire to
(a) purchase, upon the terms and conditions stated in this
Agreement, shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock,
$.001 par value (the “ Class A Common Stock ”)
and (b) purchase, upon the terms and conditions stated in this
Agreement, the Class A Common Stock Purchase Warrants (the
“ Warrants ”) to purchase shares of the
Company’s Class A Common Stock, in the forms attached
hereto as Exhibit A and Exhibit B (the “
Base Warrants ” and the “ Additional
Warrants ,” respectively, and collectively, the “
Warrants” ). The shares of Class A Common Stock
issuable upon exercise of or otherwise pursuant to the Warrants are
referred to herein as the “ Warrant Shares .”
The Class A Common Class, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares
are collectively referred to herein as the “
Securities ”.
C. Contemporaneously with the
execution and delivery of this Agreement, the parties hereto are
executing and delivering a Registration Rights Agreement in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit C (the “
Registration Rights Agreement ,” and collectively with
this Agreement, the Warrants and any other documents or agreements
executed in connection with the transactions contemplated
hereunder, the “ Transaction Documents ”),
pursuant to which the Company has agreed to provide certain
registration rights under the Securities Act, the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder and applicable state securities
laws.
AGREEMENTS
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
their respective promises contained herein and other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are
hereby acknowledged, the Company and Purchasers hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE I
PURCHASE AND SALE OF CLASS A COMMON
STOCK AND WARRANTS
1.1 Purchase of Class A
Common Stock and Warrants . Subject to the terms and conditions
of this Agreement, the issuance, sale and purchase of the
Class A Common Stock and Warrants shall be consummated in a
“ Closing .” The purchase price (the “
Purchase Price ”) per Unit shall be equal to the
product obtained by multiplying (a) 100, by (b) the
closing bid price of the Class A Common Stock on the NASDAQ
Stock Market on the last trading day immediately preceding the
Closing Date (provided that if the Closing occurs after 4:00 PM
Eastern Time on a trading day, then the price shall be the closing
bid price of the Class A Common Stock on the Closing Date) and
adding $.11 to the result. The Company shall not sell Units having
an aggregate Purchase Price of more than NINE MILLION DOLLARS
($9,000,000). Each “ Unit ” will consist of
(a) one hundred (100) shares of Class A Common
Stock, (b) a Base Warrant for the purchase of 60 Warrant
Shares at an exercise price per share of 1% of the Purchase Price,
with a term of five (5) years and (c) an Additional
Warrant for the purchase of Warrant Shares at an exercise price of
$3.00 per Warrant Share. The number of shares for which the
Additional Warrant will be exercisable is set forth in the
following table:
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Purchase Price of the
Unit
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Warrant Shares
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$200
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0
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$201-210
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5
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$211-220
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10
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$221-230
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15
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$231-240
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20
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$241-250
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On the date of the Closing, subject
to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in
ARTICLES VI and VII hereof, the Company shall issue and sell
to each Purchaser, and each Purchaser severally agrees to purchase
from the Company, the number of shares of Class A Common
Stock, a Base Warrant to purchase the number of Warrant Shares and
an Additional Warrant to the purchase the number of Warrant Shares
as set forth opposite such Purchaser’s name on Schedule
1 hereto. Each Purchaser’s obligation to purchase
Class A Common Stock and Warrants hereunder is distinct and
separate from each other Purchaser’s obligation to purchase,
and no Purchaser shall be required to purchase hereunder more than
the number of shares of Class A Common Stock and Warrants set
forth on Schedule 1 hereto. The obligations of the Company
with respect to each Purchaser shall be separate from the
obligations of each other Purchaser and shall not be conditioned as
to any Purchaser upon the performance of obligations of any other
Purchaser. The Purchase Price will be paid into Escrow pursuant to
an Escrow Agreement between the Company and RBC Centura Bank, as
escrow agent (the “Escrow Agreement”).
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1.2. Closing Fee . The
Purchaser acknowledges that the Company has engaged Great American
Investors, Inc. as the exclusive placement agent (the “
Placement Agent ”) in connection with the offering of
the Units (the “ Offering ”) and, as
consideration for its services, has agreed to pay to the Placement
Agent at the Closing a cash commission equal to seven percent
(7%) of the gross proceeds received by the Company from the
sale of Units in the Offering and to issue to the Placement Agent
and/or its designees a Base Warrant (the “ Placement Agent
Warrant ”) to purchase that number of shares of Class A
Common Stock equal to eight percent (8%) of the quotient obtained
by dividing (a) the aggregate gross proceeds received by the
Company from the sale of the Units, by (b) the exercise price of
the Base Warrants issued to Purchasers hereunder. The Placement
Agent Warrant will have the same terms and conditions as the Base
Warrants issued to the Purchasers hereunder. At or before the
Closing, the Company will also reimburse the Placement Agent for
all expenses incurred by such Placement Agent, subject to any
limitations set forth in any agreements between the Company and the
Placement Agent. The Company hereby agrees to indemnify and hold
harmless the Placement Agent and its officers, directors,
employees, agents and shareholders, individually and collectively
(“ Placement Agent Indemnified Person(s) ”) from
and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, damages, costs
and reasonable expenses incurred by any Placement Agent Indemnified
Person (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel)
which are related to or arising out of: (i) any untrue
statement of any material fact made by the Company; or
(ii) any omission of material fact necessary to make any
statement not misleading, made by the Company. The Company will not
however, be responsible for any claims, liabilities, losses,
damages, or expenses, which resulted directly or indirectly from
the Placement Agent’s gross negligence or willful
misconduct.
1.3 Closing Date . Subject to
the satisfaction (or waiver) of the conditions set forth in
ARTICLES VI and VII below, the date and time of the issuance,
sale and purchase of the Class A Common Stock and Warrants
pursuant to this Agreement shall be on or before 5:00 p.m.
Orlando, Florida time, on December 7, 2006.
ARTICLE II
PURCHASER’S REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
Each Purchaser represents and
warrants to the Company, as of the date hereof and as of the
Closing, severally and not jointly, with respect to itself and its
purchase hereunder and not with respect to any other Purchaser or
the purchase hereunder by any other Purchaser, that the following
statements are true and correct:
2.1 Investment Purpose .
Purchaser is purchasing the Class A Common Stock and the
Warrants for Purchaser’s own account for investment only
and
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not with a view toward or in connection with the
public sale or distribution thereof. Purchaser will not, directly
or indirectly, offer, sell, pledge or otherwise transfer its
Class A Common Stock, Warrants or Warrant Shares or any
interest therein, except pursuant to transactions that are exempt
from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and/or
sales registered under the Securities Act. Purchaser understands
that Purchaser must bear the economic risk of this investment
indefinitely, unless the Securities are registered pursuant to the
Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or an
exemption from such registration is available, and that the Company
has no present intention of registering any such Securities other
than as contemplated by the Registration Rights
Agreement.
2.2 Accredited Investor
Status . Purchaser is an “accredited investor” as
that term is defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation
D.
2.3 Reliance on Exemptions .
Purchaser understands that the Securities are being offered and
sold to Purchaser in reliance upon specific exemptions from the
registration requirements of United States federal and state
securities laws and that the Company is relying upon the truth and
accuracy of, and Purchaser’s compliance with, the
representations, warranties, agreements, acknowledgments and
understandings of Purchaser set forth herein in order to determine
the availability of such exemptions and the eligibility of
Purchaser to acquire the Class A Common Stock and
Warrants.
2.4 Information . The Company
has made available to the Purchaser the documents publicly filed by
the Company with the SEC (such documents collectively, the “
SEC Documents ”). Purchaser has been afforded the
opportunity to ask questions of the Company, was permitted to meet
with the Company’s officers and has received what the
Purchaser believes to be complete and satisfactory answers to any
such inquiries. Except for the SEC Documents and the answers
received by Purchaser as a result of inquiries made by Purchaser to
Company officers, and except as otherwise provided in this
Agreement, the Purchaser is not relying upon any information,
representations or warranties of any other party. Neither such
inquiries nor any other due diligence investigation conducted by
Purchaser or any of its representations shall modify, amend or
affect Purchaser’s right to rely on the Company’s
representations and warranties contained in ARTICLE III.
Purchaser understands that Purchaser’s investment in the
Securities involves a high degree of risk, including, without
limitation, the risks and uncertainties disclosed in the SEC
Documents.
2.5 Governmental Review .
Purchaser understands that no United States federal or state agency
or any other government or governmental agency has passed upon or
made any recommendation or endorsement of the
Securities.
2.6 Transfer or Resale .
Purchaser understands that (i) except as provided in the
Registration Rights Agreement, the Securities have not been and are
not being registered under the Securities Act or any state
securities laws, and may not be offered, sold, pledged or otherwise
transferred unless subsequently registered thereunder or an
exemption from such registration is available (which exemption the
Company expressly agrees may be established as contemplated in
clauses (b) and (c) of Section 5.1
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hereof); (ii) any sale of such Securities
made in reliance on Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or a
successor rule) (“ Rule 144 ”) may be made
only in accordance with the terms of Rule 144 and further, if
Rule 144 is not applicable, any resale of such Securities
without registration under the Securities Act under circumstances
in which the seller may be deemed to be an underwriter (as that
term is defined in the Securities Act) may require compliance with
some other exemption under the Securities Act or the rules and
regulations of the SEC thereunder in order for such resale to be
allowed, (iii) the Company is under no obligation to register
such Securities under the Securities Act or any state securities
laws or to comply with the terms and conditions of any exemption
thereunder (in each case, other than pursuant to this Agreement or
the Registration Rights Agreement) and (iv) the Company has
agreed to register the Class A Common Stock and Warrant Shares
as provided in the Registration Rights Agreement.
2.7 Legends . Purchaser
understands that, subject to ARTICLE V hereof, the
certificates for the Class A Common Stock and Warrants, and,
if the Warrants are exercised the certificates for the Warrant
Shares, until such time as the Class A Common Stock and the
Warrant Shares have been registered under the Securities Act as
contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement or otherwise may
be sold by Purchaser pursuant to Rule 144 (subject to and in
accordance with the procedures specified in ARTICLE V hereof),
will bear a restrictive legend (the “ Legend ”),
which will include language in substantially the following
form:
THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS
CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED, OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED
STATES. THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR
SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER APPLICABLE
SECURITIES LAWS OR UNLESS OFFERED, SOLD OR TRANSFERRED PURSUANT TO
AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THOSE
LAWS.
2.8 Authorization;
Enforcement . This Agreement and the Registration Rights
Agreement have been duly and validly authorized, executed and
delivered on behalf of Purchaser and are valid and binding
agreements of Purchaser enforceable in accordance with their
respective terms, except to the extent that such validity or
enforceability may be subject to or affected by any bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or similar laws
relating to, or affecting generally the enforcement of,
creditors’ rights or remedies of creditors generally, or by
other equitable principles of general application.
2.9 Residency . Purchaser is
a resident of the jurisdiction set forth under Purchaser’s
name on the signature page hereto executed by Purchaser.
2.10 Short Sales and
Confidentiality Prior To the Date Hereof . Other than the
transaction contemplated hereunder, such Purchaser has not directly
or indirectly, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant
to any understanding with
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such Purchaser, executed any disposition,
including short sales, in the securities of the Company during
the period commencing from the time that such Purchaser first
received a term sheet (written or oral) from the Company or any
other person setting forth the material terms of the transactions
contemplated hereunder until the date hereof. Other than to other
parties to this Agreement, such Purchaser has maintained the
confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with
this transaction (including the existence and terms of this
transaction).
2.11 General Solicitation .
No Purchaser is purchasing the Securities as a result of any
advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the
Securities published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or
broadcast over television or radio or presented at any seminar or
any other general solicitation or general advertisement.
ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF
THE COMPANY
The Company represents and warrants
to each Purchaser as of the date hereof and as of the Closing that
the following statements are true and correct, except as set forth
on the disclosure schedules indicated below and attached hereto
(the “ Company Disclosure Schedules ”) and
except as disclosed in the SEC Documents.
3.1 Organization and
Qualification . The Company has no subsidiaries. The Company is
a corporation duly organized and existing in good standing under
the laws of the state of Delaware and has the requisite corporate
power to own its properties and to carry on its business as now
being conducted. The Company is duly qualified as a foreign
corporation to do business and is in good standing in every
jurisdiction where the failure so to qualify or be in good standing
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
“ Material Adverse Effect ” means any effect
which, individually or in the aggregate with all other effects,
reasonably would be expected to be materially adverse to the
business, operations, properties, financial condition, operating
results or prospects of the Company taken as a whole, or on the
transactions contemplated hereby.
3.2 Authorization;
Enforcement . (a) The Company has the requisite corporate
power and authority to enter into and perform under the Transaction
Documents, and to issue, sell and perform its obligations with
respect to the Securities in accordance with the terms hereof and
thereof and in accordance with the terms and conditions of the
Securities; (b) the execution, delivery and performance of the
Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of
the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including,
without limitation, the issuance of the Class A Common Stock
and the Warrants, and the reservation for issuance of the Warrant
Shares) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action
and no further consent or authorization of the Company, its board
of directors, or its stockholders or any other Person is required
with respect to any of the transactions contemplated hereby
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thereby except with respect to the Exchange (as
defined below); (c) this Agreement, the Registration Rights
Agreement, the Class A Common Stock, and the Warrants have
been duly executed and delivered by the Company; and (d) this
Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Class A
Common Stock, and the Warrants constitute legal, valid and binding
obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in
accordance with their respective terms, except (i) to the
extent that such validity or enforceability may be subject to or
affected by any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium,
liquidation or similar laws relating to, or affecting generally the
enforcement of, creditors’ rights or remedies of creditors
generally, or by other equitable principles of general application,
and (ii) as rights to indemnity and contribution under this
Agreement or the Registration Rights Agreement may be limited by
federal or state securities laws. “ Person ”
means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited
liability company, joint venture, trust, unincorporated
association, corporation, entity or government (whether federal,
state, county, city or otherwise, including, without limitation,
any instrumentality, division, agency or department
thereof).
3.3 Capitalization . The
capitalization of the Company as of November 15, 2006
including the authorized capital stock, the number of shares issued
and outstanding, the number of shares reserved for issuance
pursuant to the Company’s stock option plans, the number of
shares reserved for issuance pursuant to securities (other than the
Warrants) exercisable for, or convertible into or exchangeable for,
shares of any class of the Company’s Common Stock and the
number of shares to be reserved for issuance upon exercise of the
Warrants is set forth on Schedule 3.3 hereof. All of
such outstanding shares of capital stock have been, or upon
issuance will be, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. No
shares of capital stock of the Company (including the Class A
Common Stock and the Warrant Shares) are subject to preemptive
rights or any other similar rights of the stockholders of the
Company or any liens or encumbrances. Except with respect to the
Exchange (as defined below) or as disclosed in
Schedule 3.3 hereof, as of the date of this Agreement,
(i) there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip, rights
to subscribe for, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever
relating to, or securities or rights convertible into or
exercisable or exchangeable for, any shares of capital stock of the
Company, or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements
by which the Company is or may become bound to issue additional
shares of capital stock of the Company, (ii) issuance of the
Securities will not trigger anti-dilution rights for any other
outstanding or authorized securities of the Company, and
(iii) there are no agreements or arrangements under which the
Company is obligated to register the sale of any of its securities
under the Securities Act (except the Registration Rights
Agreement). The Company has made available to Purchaser true and
correct copies of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation,
as amended and in effect on the date hereof (“ Certificate
of Incorporation ”), and the Company’s By-laws, as
amended and in effect on the date hereof (the “
By-laws ”). The Company has set forth on
Schedule 3.3 hereof all instruments and agreements
(other than the Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws) governing
securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for any
class of its Common Stock (and the Company shall provide to
Purchaser copies thereof upon the request of Purchaser).
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3.4 No Conflicts . Except as
set forth in Schedule 3.4 , the execution, delivery and
performance of the Transaction Documents by the Company, and the
consummation by the Company of transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby (including, without limitation, the issuance and
reservation for issuance, as applicable, of the Securities) do not
and will not (a) result in a violation of the Certificate of
Incorporation or By-laws or (b) conflict with, or constitute a
default (or an event which, 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 of, any
agreement, indenture or instrument to which the Company is a party,
or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order,
judgment or decree (including U.S. federal and state securities
laws) applicable to the Company or by which any property or asset
of the Company is bound or affected (except for such possible
conflicts, defaults, terminations, amendments, accelerations,
cancellations and violations as would not, individually or in the
aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect). The Company is not in
violation of its Certificate of Incorporation or other
organizational documents. The Company is not in default (and no
event has occurred which has not been waived which, with notice or
lapse of time or both, could reasonably be expected to put the
Company in default) under, nor has there occurred any event giving
others (with notice or lapse of time or both) any rights of
termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any
agreement, indenture or instrument to which the Company is a party,
except for possible violations, defaults or rights as would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
The businesses of the Company is not being conducted, and shall not
be conducted so long as a Purchaser owns any of the Securities, in
violation of any law, ordinance or regulation of any governmental
entity, except for possible violations the sanctions for which
either individually or in the aggregate would not have a Material
Adverse Effect. Except (A) such as may be required under the
Securities Act in connection with the performance of the
Company’s obligations under the Registration Rights
Agreement, (B) filing of a Form D with the SEC,
(C) such as may be required in compliance with the state
securities or Blue Sky laws of applicable jurisdictions and
(D) such as may be required in compliance with the rules and
regulations of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.
(“NASD”) and The NASDAQ Stock Market, the Company is
not required to obtain any consent, authorization or order of, or
make any filing or registration with, any court or governmental
agency or any regulatory or self-regulatory agency in order for it
to execute, deliver or perform any of its obligations under this
Agreement or the Registration Rights Agreement or to perform its
obligations in accordance with the terms hereof or
thereof.
3.5 Consents . Except as set
forth in Schedule 3.5 , the execution, delivery and
performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents and the
offer, issuance and sale of the Securities require no consent of,
action by or in respect of, or filing with, any Person,
governmental body, agency, or official other than (i) filings
that have been made pursuant to applicable state securities laws,
(ii) post-sale filings pursuant to applicable state and
federal securities laws, (iii) filings with the NASD and
(iv) any consent, action or filing that either individually or
in the aggregate would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Subject
to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of each
Purchaser set forth in ARTICLE II hereof, the Company has taken all
action necessary to exempt (i) the issuance and sale of the
Class A Common Stock, (ii) the
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issuance of the Warrants, and (iii) the
issuance of the Warrant Shares , from the provisions of any
stockholder rights plan or other “poison pill”
arrangement, any anti-takeover, business combination or control
share law or statute binding on the Company or to which the Company
or any of its assets and properties may be subject and any
provision of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation or
By-laws that is or could reasonably be expected to become
applicable to the Purchasers as a result of the transactions
contemplated hereby, including without limitation, the issuance of
the Securities and the ownership, disposition or voting of the
Securities by the Purchasers or the exercise of any right granted
to the Purchasers pursuant to this Agreement or the other
Transaction Documents.
3.6 SEC Documents; Financial
Statements . Since November 14, 2006, the Company has
timely filed the SEC Documents required to be filed by it with the
SEC pursuant to the reporting requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act
”). The Company has made available to each Purchaser true and
complete copies of the SEC Documents. As of their respective dates,
the SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the
requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of
the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to the SEC Documents, and
none of the SEC Documents, at the time they were filed with the
SEC, 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. None of
the statements made in any such SEC Documents which is required to
be updated or amended under applicable law has not been so updated
or amended. The financial statements of the Company included in the
SEC Documents have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally
accepted accounting principles, consistently applied, and the rules
and regulations of the SEC during the periods involved (except
(i) as may be otherwise indicated in such financial statements
or the notes thereto, or (ii) in the case of unaudited interim
statements, to the extent they do not include footnotes or are
condensed or summary statements) and present accurately and
completely the financial position of the Company as of the dates
thereof and the results of its operations and cash flows for the
periods then ended (subject, in the case of unaudited statements,
to normal year-end audit adjustments). Except as set forth in a
manner clearly evident to a sophisticated institutional investor in
the financial statements or the notes thereto of the Company
included in the SEC Documents, the Company has no liabilities,
contingent or otherwise, other than (i) liabilities incurred
in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice
subsequent to the date of such financial statements and
(ii) obligations under contracts and commitments incurred in
the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and
not required under generally accepted accounting principles to be
reflected in such financial statements. To the extent required by
the rules of the SEC applicable thereto, the SEC Documents contain
a complete and accurate list of all material undischarged written
or oral contracts, agreements, leases or other instruments to which
the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound or to which
any of the properties or assets of the Company is subject (each a
“ Contract ”). None of the Company or, to the
Company’s Knowledge, any of the other parties thereto, is in
breach or violation of any Contract, which breach or violation
would have a Material Adverse Effect. No event, occurrence or
condition exists which, with the lapse of time, the giving of
notice,
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or both, could become a default by the Company
which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. For purposes of this Agreement, “ Company’s
Knowledge ” means the actual knowledge of the executive
officers (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of the
Company, after due inquiry.
3.7 Absence of Certain
Changes . Since December 31, 2005, there has been no
material adverse change and no material adverse development in the
business, properties, operations, financial condition, results of
operations or prospects of the Company, not clearly evident to a
sophisticated institutional investor from the SEC Documents,
including, without limitation:
(i) any change in the assets,
liabilities, financial condition or operating results of the
Company from that reflected in the financial statements included in
the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2005, except for changes in the
ordinary course of business which have not and could not reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, individually or in
the aggregate;
(ii) any declaration or payment of
any dividend, or any authorization or payment of any distribution,
on any of the capital stock of the Company, or any redemption or
repurchase of any securities of the Company;
(iii) any material damage,
destruction or loss, whether or not covered by insurance to any
assets or properties of the Company;
(iv) any waiver, not in the ordinary
course of business, by the Company of a material right or of a
material debt owed to it;
(v) any satisfaction or discharge of
any lien, claim or encumbrance or payment of any obligation by the
Company, except in the ordinary course of business and which is not
material to the assets, properties, financial condition, operating
results or business of the Company (as such business is presently
conducted and as it is proposed to be conducted);
(vi) any change or amendment to the
Company’s Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws, or
material change to any material contract or arrangement by which
the Company is bound or to which any of its assets or properties is
subject;
(vii) any material labor
difficulties or labor union organizing activities with respect to
employees of the Company;
(viii) any material transaction
entered into by the Company other than in the ordinary course of
business;
(ix) the loss of the services of any
key employee, or material change in the composition or duties of
the senior management of the Company;
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(x) the loss or threatened loss of
any customer which has had or could reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect; or
(xi) any other event or condition of
any character that has had or could reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect.
3.8 Absence of Litigation .
Except as disclosed in Schedule 3.8 hereof or as
disclosed in the Company’s SEC Documents filed by it with the
SEC, there is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation
before or by any court, public board, government agency, or
self-regulatory organization or body pending or, to the
Company’s Knowledge, threatened against or affecting the
Company or any of its directors or officers in their capacities as
such which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. There are no facts known to the Company which, if known by
a potential claimant or governmental authority, could reasonably be
expected to give rise to a claim or proceeding which, if asserted
or conducted with results unfavorable to the Company could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
3.9 Tax Matters . The Company
has timely prepared and filed all tax returns required to have been
filed by the Company with all appropriate governmental agencies and
timely paid all taxes shown thereon or otherwise owed by it. The
charges, accruals and reserves on the books of the Company in
respect of taxes for all fiscal periods are adequate in all
material respects, and there are no material unpaid assessments
against the Company nor, to the Company’s Knowledge, any
basis for the assessment of any additional taxes, penalties or
interest for any fiscal period or audits by any federal, state or
local taxing authority except for any assessment which is not
material to the Company. All taxes and other assessments and levies
that the Company is required to withhold or to collect for payment
have been duly withheld and collected and paid to the proper
governmental entity or third party when due. There are no tax liens
or claims pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened
against the Company or any of its assets or property. There are no
outstanding tax sharing agreements or other such arrangements
between the Company and any other corporation or entity.
3.10 Transactions with
Affiliates . Except as disclosed in the SEC Documents, none of
the officers or directors of the Company and, to the
Company’s Knowledge, none of the employees of the Company is
presently a party to any transaction with the Company (other than
as holders of stock options and/or warrants, and for services as
employees, officers, consultants and directors), including any
contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the
furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or
personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or
from any officer, director or such employee or, to the
Company’s Knowledge, any entity in which any officer,
director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an
officer, director, trustee or partner.
3.11 Internal Controls . The
Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls
sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that
(i) transactions are executed in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorizations,
(ii)
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transactions are recorded as necessary to permit
preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally
accepted accounting principles (“ GAAP ”) and to
maintain asset accountability,