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Title: COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT
Governing Law: New York     Date: 6/19/2009

COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT, Parties: advaxis  inc.
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Exhibit 4.1

 

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 REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER SAID ACT OR (II) UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 OR RULE 144A UNDER SAID ACT.

 

Right to Purchase _________ shares of Common Stock of Advaxis, Inc. (subject to adjustment as provided herein)

 

COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT

 

No. ______________

 

Issue Date: ________ ___, 2009

 

ADVAXIS, INC., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “ Company ”), hereby certifies that, for value received, _____________________, or its assigns (the “ Holder ”), is entitled, subject to the terms set forth below, to purchase from the Company at any time after the Issue Date until 5:00 p.m., E.S.T on the fifth anniversary of the Issue Date (the “ Expiration Date ”), up to ________ fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock at a per share purchase price of $0.20.  The aforedescribed purchase price per share, as adjusted from time to time as herein provided, is referred to herein as the “ Exercise Price .”  The number and character of such shares of Common Stock and the Exercise Price are subject to adjustment as provided herein.  The Company may reduce the Exercise Price for some or all of the Warrants, temporarily or permanently.  Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in that certain Note Purchase Agreement (the “ Purchase Agreement ”), dated as of _______ __, 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 include Advaxis, Inc. and any corporation which shall succeed or assume the obligations of Advaxis, Inc. hereunder.

 

(b)           The term “ Common Stock ” means (a) the Company’s Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share, as authorized on the date of the Purchase Agreement and (b) any other securities into which or for which any of the securities described in (a) may be converted or exchanged pursuant to a plan of recapitalization, reorganization, merger, sale of assets or otherwise.

 

(c)           The term “ Common Stock Deemed Outstanding ” means, at any given time, the number of shares of Common Stock actually outstanding at such time, plus the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of all options or securities convertible into Common Stock.

 

 

 


 

 

(d)           The term “ Exempt Issuances ” means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock or options to employees, officers or directors of the Company pursuant to any stock or option plan duly adopted for such purpose by a majority of the non-employee members of the Board of Directors or a majority of the members of a committee of non-employee directors established for such purpose, (b) securities upon the exercise or exchange of or conversion of any securities issued under the Purchase Agreement and/or other securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date hereof, provided that such securities have not been amended since the date hereof to increase the number of such securities or to decrease the exercise, exchange or conversion price of such securities,  (c) securities pursuant to acquisitions or strategic transactions approved by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Company, provided that any such issuance shall only be to a person which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an operating company in a business synergistic with the business of the Company and in which the Company receives benefits in addition to the investment of funds, but shall not include a transaction in which the Company is issuing securities primarily for the purpose of raising capital or to an entity whose primary business is investing in securities and (d) shares of Common Stock with an aggregate value of no more than $150,000 issued to vendors of the Company valued based on the VWAP at the time of issuance.

 

(e)           The term “ Other Securities ” refers to any shares of capital 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 or otherwise.

 

(f)           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 whole 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 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 Exercise Price then in effect.  The original Warrant is not required to be surrendered to the Company until it has been fully exercised.

 

 

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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 Exercise 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 for the balance of.

 

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 listed on a national securities exchange, then the average of the closing or last sale prices, respectively, reported for the five trading days immediately preceding (but not including) the Determination Date;

 

(b)           If the Company’s Common Stock is not listed on a national securities exchange, but is quoted in the over-the-counter market or the “pink-sheets”, then the average of the closing bid prices reported for the five trading days immediately preceding (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 certificate of incorporation (as amended and/or restated from time to time, the “ 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.

 

 

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1.6.            Trustee for Warrant Holders . In the event that a bank or trust company shall have been appointed as trustee for the Holder of the Warrants pursuant to Subsection 3.2, such bank or trust company shall have all the powers and duties of a warrant agent (as hereinafter described) and shall accept, in its own name for the account of the Company or such successor person as may be entitled thereto, all amounts otherwise payable to the Company or such successor, as the case may be, on exercise of this Warrant pursuant to this Section 1.

 

1.7.            Delivery of Stock Certificates, etc. on Exercise . The Company agrees that 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 whole or in part, 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, 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.

 

2.            Cashless Exercise .

 

(a)           Payment upon exercise may be made at the option of the Holder either (i) in cash, wire transfer or by certified or official bank check payable to the order of the Company equal to the applicable aggregate Exercise 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 shares 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.

 

(b)           Subject to the provisions herein to the contrary, if the Fair Market Value of one share of Common Stock is greater than the Exercise 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 of Common Stock equal to the value (as determined below) of this Warrant (or the portion thereof being cancelled) by surrender of this Warrant at the principal office of the Company together with the properly endorsed Subscription Form, 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)

 

 

A=

the Fair Market Value of the Common Stock (determined as of the trading day immediately prior to, but not including, the Exercise Date)

 

 

B=

Exercise Price (as adjusted to the date of such calculation)

 

(c)           The Holder may employ the cashless exercise feature described in Section (b) above at any time.

 

For purposes of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, it is intended, understood and acknowledged that the Warrant Shares issued in a cashless exercise transaction shall be deemed to have been acquired by the Holder, and the holding period for the Warrant Shares shall be deemed to have commenced, on the date this Warrant was originally issued pursuant to the


 
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