Exhibit 10.3
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 _______ shares of Common Stock of Clear Skies Solar,
Inc. (subject to adjustment as provided herein)
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COMMON STOCK PURCHASE
WARRANT
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Issue Date: July ___,
2009
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CLEAR SKIES SOLAR, 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
third anniversary of the Issue Date (the “ Expiration
Date ”), up to _______ fully paid and non-assessable
shares of Common Stock at a per share purchase price of
$0.07. 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 July ___, 2009, entered into by
the Company, the Holder and the other signatories
thereto.
As used herein the following terms, unless the
context otherwise requires, have the following respective
meanings:
(a) The
term “ Company ” shall mean Clear Skies Solar,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, and any corporation which shall
succeed or assume the obligations of Clear Skies Solar, Inc.
hereunder.
(b) The
term “ Common Stock ” includes (i) the
Company's Common Stock, $0.001 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 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
Section 1.2 or upon exercise of this Warrant in part in
accordance with Section 1.3 , shares of Common Stock of
the Company, subject to adjustment pursuant to
Section 4 below and Sections 11.4 and
12(b) of the Subscription Agreement.
1.2.
Full Exercise . This Warrant may be exercised in
full by the Holder hereof by delivery to the Company 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
Section 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 . For purposes of this Warrant,
the 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 three (3) 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, 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,
within seven (7) business days after the Warrant Share Delivery
Date 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 immediately preceding
sentence, payment upon exercise may be made in the manner described
in Section 2(b) below commencing ninety-one (91) days after the
Issue Date, only with respect to Warrant Shares not included
for unrestricted public resale in an effective Registration
Statement on the date notice of exercise is given by the
Holder.
(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
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Where
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X=
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the number of
shares of Common Stock to be issued to the Holder
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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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Purchase Price
(as adjusted to the date of su
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