Exhibit 10-e
SERIES B WARRANT
NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR THE SECURITIES FOR
WHICH THIS SECURITY IS EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF
ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES
ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT
PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A
TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE
SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES
LAWS AND, UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 OR RULE 144A UNDER SAID
ACT, AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR
TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY
ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY. THIS SECURITY AND THE
SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE PLEDGED
IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED
BY SUCH SECURITIES.
COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT
ADVANCED BATTERY TECHNOLOGIES,
INC.
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Warrant Shares: _________
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Initial Exercise Date: June 12, 2009
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THIS COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT
(the “ Warrant ”) certifies that, for value
received, ____________________________ (the “ Holder
”) is entitled, upon the terms and subject to the limitations
on exercise and the conditions hereinafter set forth, at any time
on or after the date hereof (the “ Initial Exercise
Date ”) and on or prior to the close of business
on the later of (A) the 180 day anniversary of the
Initial Exercise Date and (B) the 30 day anniversary of the later of (y) the
Effective Date and (z) the date the Company receives the Authorized
Share Approval (the “ Termination Date ”) but
not thereafter, to subscribe for and purchase from Advanced Battery
Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “
Company ”), up to _________ shares (the “
Warrant Shares ”) of Common Stock. The
purchase price of one share of Common Stock under this Warrant
shall be equal to the Exercise Price, as defined in Section
2(b).
Section 1 .
Definitions . Capitalized terms used and not
otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in that
certain Securities Purchase Agreement (the “ Purchase
Agreement ”), dated June 12, 2009, among the Company and
the purchasers signatory thereto.
a)
Exercise of Warrant . Exercise of the purchase
rights represented by this Warrant may be made, in whole or in
part, at any time or times on or after the Initial Exercise Date
and on or before the Termination Date by delivery to the Company
(or such other office or agency of the Company as it may designate
by notice in writing to the registered Holder at the address of the
Holder appearing on the books of the Company) of a duly executed
facsimile copy of the Notice of Exercise Form annexed hereto; and,
within three (3) Trading Days of the date said Notice of Exercise
is delivered to the Company, the Company shall have
received payment of the aggregate Exercise Price of the
shares thereby purchased by wire transfer or cashier’s check
drawn on a United States bank or, if available, pursuant to the
cashless exercise procedure specified in Section 2(c)
below. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary,
the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this
Warrant to the Company until the Holder has purchased all of the
Warrant Shares available hereunder and the Warrant has been
exercised in full, in which case, the Holder shall surrender this
Warrant to the Company for cancellation within three (3) Trading
Days of the date the final Notice of Exercise is delivered to the
Company. Partial exercises of this Warrant resulting in
purchases of a portion of the total number of Warrant Shares
available hereunder shall have the effect of lowering the
outstanding number of Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder in an
amount equal to the applicable number of Warrant Shares
purchased. The Holder and the Company shall maintain
records showing the number of Warrant Shares purchased and the date
of such purchases. The Company shall deliver any
objection to any Notice of Exercise Form within 1 Business Day of
receipt of such notice. In the event of any dispute or
discrepancy, the records of the Holder shall be controlling and
determinative in the absence of manifest error. The Holder and
any assignee, by acceptance of this Warrant, acknowledge and agree
that, by reason of the provisions of this paragraph, following the
purchase of a portion of the Warrant Shares hereunder, the number
of Warrant Shares available for purchase hereunder at any given
time may be less than the amount stated on the face
hereof.
b)
Exercise Price . The exercise price per share of
the Common Stock under this Warrant shall be $4.00 , subject
to adjustment hereunder (the “ Exercise Price
”).
c)
Cashless Exercise . If at any time after the six
(6) month anniversary of the date this Warrant was issued to the
Holder, there is no effective Registration Statement registering,
or no current prospectus available for, the resale of the Warrant
Shares by the Holder, then this Warrant may also be exercised, in
whole or in part, at such time by means of a “cashless
exercise” in which the Holder shall be entitled to receive a
certificate for the number of Warrant Shares equal to the quotient
obtained by dividing [(A-B) (X)] by (A), where:
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the VWAP on the Trading Day immediately
preceding the date on which Holder elects to exercise this Warrant
by means of a “cashless exercise,” as set forth in the
applicable Notice of Exercise;
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the Exercise Price of this Warrant, as adjusted
hereunder; and
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the number of Warrant Shares that would be
issuable upon exercise of this Warrant in accordance with the terms
of this Warrant if such exercise were by means of a cash exercise
rather than a cashless exercise.
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d)
Mechanics of Exercise .
i.
Delivery of Certificates Upon Exercise
. Certificates for shares purchased hereunder shall be
transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the Holder by crediting the
account of the Holder’s prime broker with the Depository
Trust Company through its Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission
(“ DWAC ”) system if the Company is then a
participant in such system and either (A) there is an effective
Registration Statement permitting the issuance of the Warrant
Shares to or resale of the Warrant Shares by the Holder or (B) the
shares are eligible for resale by the Holder without volume or
manner-of-sale limitations pursuant to Rule 144, and otherwise by
physical delivery to the address specified by the Holder in the
Notice of Exercise by the date that is three (3) Trading Days after
the latest of (A) the delivery to the Company of the Notice of
Exercise Form, (B) surrender of this Warrant (if required), and (C)
payment of the aggregate Exercise Price as set forth above
(including by cashless exercise, if permitted) (such date, the
“ Warrant Share Delivery Date
”). This Warrant shall be deemed to have been
exercised on the first date on which all of the foregoing have been
delivered to the Company. The Warrant Shares shall be
deemed to have been issued, and Holder or any other person so
designated to be named therein shall be deemed to have become a
holder of record of such shares for all purposes, as of the date
the Warrant has been exercised, with payment to the Company of the
Exercise Price (or by cashless exercise, if permitted) and all
taxes required to be paid by the Holder, if any, pursuant to
Section 2(d)(vi) prior to the issuance of such shares, having been
paid. If the Company fails for any reason to deliver to
the Holder certificates evidencing the Warrant Shares subject to a
Notice of Exercise by the Warrant Share Delivery Date, the Company
shall pay to the Holder, in cash, as liquidated damages and not as
a penalty, for each $1,000 of Warrant Shares subject to such
exercise (based on the VWAP of the Common Stock on the date of the
applicable Notice of Exercise), $10 per Trading Day (increasing to
$20 per Trading Day on the fifth Trading Day after such liquidated
damages begin to accrue) for each Trading Day after such Warrant
Share Delivery Date until such certificates are delivered or Holder
rescinds such exercise.
ii.
Delivery of New Warrants Upon Exercise . If this
Warrant shall have been exercised in part, the Company shall, at
the request of a Holder and upon surrender of this Warrant
certificate, at the time of delivery of the certificate or
certificates representing Warrant Shares, deliver to Holder a new
Warrant evidencing the rights of Holder to purchase the unpurchased
Warrant Shares called for by this Warrant, which new Warrant shall
in all other respects be identical with this Warrant.
iii.
Rescission Rights . If the Company fails to cause
the Transfer Agent to transmit to the Holder a certificate or the
certificates representing the Warrant Shares pursuant to Section
2(d)(i) by the Warrant Share Delivery Date, then, the Holder will
have the right to rescind such exercise.
iv.
Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver
Certificates Upon Exercise . In addition to any
other rights available to the Holder, if the Company fails to cause
the Transfer Agent to transmit to the Holder a certificate or the
certificates representing the Warrant Shares pursuant to an
exercise on or before the Warrant Share Delivery Date, and if after
such date the Holder is required by its broker to purchase (in an
open market transaction or otherwise) or the Holder’s
brokerage firm otherwise purchases, 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 (3) Trading Days after the Holder's request and in the
Holder's discretion, either (i) pay cash to the Holder in 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 or credit such Holder's balance account with The Depository
Trust Company (" DTC ")) shall terminate, or (ii) promptly
honor its obligation to deliver to the Holder a certificate or
certificates representing such Warrant Shares or credit such
Holder's balance account with DTC 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 shares of Common Stock, times (B) the
VWAP on the date of exercise. The Holder shall provide
the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to the
Holder in respect of the Buy-In and, upon request of the Company,
evidence of the amount of such loss. 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.
v.
No Fractional Shares or Scrip . No fractional
shares or scrip representing fractional shares shall be issued upon
the exercise of this Warrant. As to any fraction of a
share which the Holder would otherwise be entitled to purchase upon
such exercise, the Company shall, at its election, either pay a
cash adjustment in respect of such final fraction in an amount
equal to such fraction multiplied by the Exercise Price or round up
to the next whole share.
vi.
Charges, Taxes and Expenses . Issuance of
certificates for Warrant Shares shall be made without charge to the
Holder for any issue or transfer tax or other incidental expense in
respect of the issuance of such certificate, all of which taxes and
expenses shall be paid by the Company, and such certificates shall
be issued in the name of the Holder or in such name or names as may
be directed by the Holder; provided , however , that
in the event certificates for Warrant Shares are to be issued in a
name other than the name of the Holder, this Warrant when
surrendered for exercise shall be accompanied by the Assignment
Form attached hereto duly executed by the Holder and the Company
may require, as a condition thereto, the payment of a sum
sufficient to reimburse it for any transfer tax incidental
thereto.
vii.
Closing of Books . The Company will not close its
stockholder books or records in any manner which prevents the
timely exercise of this Warrant, pursuant to the terms
hereof.
e)
Holder’s Exercise Limitations . The Company
shall not effect any exercise of this Warrant, and a Holder shall
not have the right to exercise any portion of this Warrant,
pursuant to Section 2 or otherwise, to the extent that after giving
effect to such issuance after exercise as set forth on the
applicable Notice of Exercise, the Holder (together with the
Holder’s Affiliates, and any other Persons acting as a group
together with the Holder or any of the Holder’s Affiliates),
would beneficially own in excess of the Beneficial Ownership
Limitation (as defined below). For purposes of the foregoing
sentence, the 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 such determination is being made, but shall exclude the
number of shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (i)
exercise of the remaining, nonexercised portion of this Warrant
beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its Affiliates and (ii)
exercise or conversion of the unexercised or nonconverted portion
of any other securities of the Company (including, without
limitation, any other Common Stock Equivalents) subject
to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the
limitation contained herein beneficially owned by the Holder or any
of its Affiliates. Except as set forth in the preceding
sentence, for purposes of this Section 2(e), beneficial ownership
shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “
Exchange Act ”) and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder, it being acknowledged by the Holder that
the Company is not representing to the Holder that such calculation
is in compliance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the
Holder is solely responsible for any schedules required to be filed
in accordance therewith. To the extent that the
limitation contained in this Section 2(e) applies, the
determination of whether this Warrant is exercisable (in relation
to other securities owned by the Holder together with any
Affiliates) and of which portion of this Warrant is exercisable
shall be in the sole discretion of the Holder, and the submission
of a Notice of Exercise shall be deemed to be the Holder’s
determination of whether this Warrant is exercisable (in relation
to other securities owned by the Holder together with any
Affiliates) and of which portion of this Warrant is exercisable, in
each case subject to the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, and the
Company shall have no obligation to verify or confirm the accuracy
of such determination. In addition, a
determination as to any group status as contemplated above shall be
determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and
the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. For
purposes of this Section 2(e), 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 (A) the
Company’s most recent periodic or annual report filed with
the Commission, as the case may be, (B) a more recent public
announcement by the Company or (C) a more recent written notice by
the Company or the Transfer Agent setting forth the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding. Upon the written or oral
request of a Holder, the Company shall within two Trading Days
confirm orally and in writing to the 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 conversion or exercise of securities of the Company,
including this Warrant, by the Holder or its Affiliates since the
date as of which such number of outstanding shares of Common Stock
was reported. The “ Beneficial Ownership
Limitation ” shall be 4.99% of the number of shares of
the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the
issuance of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this
Warrant. The Holder upon written notice to the Company,
may increase or decrease the Beneficial Ownership Limitation
provisions of this Section 2(e), provided that the Beneficial
Ownership Limitation in no event exceeds 9.99% of the number of
shares of the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving
effect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of
this Warrant held by the Holder and the provisions of this Section
2(e) shall continue to apply. Any such increase will not
be effective until the 61 st day after such notice is delivered to the
Company. The provisions of this paragraph shall be
construed and implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict
conformity with the terms of this Section 2(e) to correct this
paragraph (or any portion hereof) which may be defective or
inconsistent with the intended Beneficial Ownership Limitation
herein contained or to make changes or supplements necessary or
desirable to properly give effect to such limitation. The
limitations contained in this paragraph shall apply to a successor
holder of this Warrant.
Section 3 .
Certain Adjustments .
a)
Stock Dividends and Splits . If the Company, at any time
while this Warrant is outstanding: (i) pays a stock dividend or
otherwise makes a distribution or distributions on shares of its
Common Stock or any other equity or equity equivalent securities
payable in shares of Common Stock (which, for avoidance of doubt,
shall not include any shares of Common Stock issued by the Company
upon exercise of this Warrant), (ii) subdivides outstanding shares
of Common Stock into a larger number of shares, (iii) combines
(including by way of reverse stock split) outstanding shares of
Common Stock into a smaller number of shares or (iv) issues by
reclassification of shares of the Common Stock any shares of
capital stock of the Company, then in each case the Exercise Price
shall be multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be
the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if
any) outstanding immediately before such event and of which the
denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding immediately after such event, and the number of shares
issuable upon exercise of this Warrant shall be proportionately
adjusted such that the aggregate Exercise Price of this Warrant
shall remain unchanged. Any adjustment made pursuant to
this Section 3(a) shall become effective immediately after the
record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to
receive such dividend or distribution and shall become effective
immediately after the effective date in the case of a subdivision,
combination or re-classification.
c)
Subsequent Rights Offerings . If the Company, at
any time while the Warrant is outstanding, shall issue rights,
options or warrants to all holders of Common Stock (and not to the
Holders) entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares of
Common Stock at a price per share less than the VWAP on the record
date mentioned below, then, the Exercise Price shall be multiplied
by a fraction, of which the denominator shall be the number of
shares of the Common Stock outstanding on the date of issuance of
such rights, options or warrants plus the number of additional
shares of Common Stock offered for subscription or purchase, and of
which the numerator shall be the number of shares of the Common
Stock outstanding on the date of issuance of such rights, options
or warrants plus the number of shares which the aggregate offering
price of the total number of shares so offered (assuming receipt by
the Company in full of all consideration payable upon exercise of
such rights, options or warrants) would purchase at such
VWAP. Such adjustment shall be made whenever such
rights, options or warrants are issued, and shall become effective
immediately after the record date for the determination of
stockholders entitled to receive such rights, options or
warrants.
d)
Pro Rata Distributions . If the Company, at any
time while this Warrant is outstanding, shall distribute to all
holders of Common Stock (and not to the Holders) evidences of its
indebtedness or assets (including cash and cash dividends) or
rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any security other
than the Common Stock), then in each such case the Exercise Price
shall be adjusted by multiplying the Exercise Price in effect
immediately prior to the record date fixed for determination of
stockholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction of
which the denominator shall be the VWAP determined as of the record
date mentioned above, and of which the numerator shall be such VWAP
on such record date less the then per share fair market value at
such record date of the portion of such assets or evidence of
indebtedness or rights or warrants so distributed applicable to one
outstanding share of the Common Stock as determined by the Board of
Directors in good faith. In either case the adjustments
shall be described in a statement provided to the Holder of the
portion of assets or evidences of indebtedness so distributed or
such subscription rights applicable to one share of Common
Stock. Such adjustment shall be made whenever any such
distribution is made and shall become effective immediately after
the record date mentioned above.
e)
Fundamental Transaction . If, at any time while this Warrant
is outstanding, in one or more related transactions (i)
the
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