EXHIBIT 10.7
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 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
CAPITAL GROWTH SYSTEMS,
INC.
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Warrant
Shares:
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Issuance
Date:
July __, 2009
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THIS COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT (the
“Warrant”) certifies that, for value received,
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(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 Authorized Share Approval date
(the “Initial Exercise Date”) and on or prior to the
close of business on the five year anniversary of the date the
Authorized Share Approval is received and effective (the
“Termination Date”) but not thereafter, to subscribe
for and purchase from Capital Growth Systems, Inc., a Florida
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
July __, 2009, among the Company and the purchasers signatory
thereto.
Section
2.
Exercise
(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 date the Authorized
Share Approval has been received and is effective 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 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. 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 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 2 Business Days 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 $0.24 , subject
to adjustment hereunder (the “Exercise
Price”).
(c)
Cashless Exercise . If at any time after the
earlier of (i) the six month anniversary of the date of the
Purchase Agreement and (ii) the completion of the then-applicable
holding period required by Rule 144, or any successor provision
then in effect, 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 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 of such
election;
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(B)
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the Exercise
Price of this Warrant, as adjusted; and
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(X)
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the number of
Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant in accordance
with the terms of this Warrant by means of a cash exercise rather
than a cashless exercise.
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Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, on the Termination Date, this
Warrant shall be automatically exercised via cashless exercise
pursuant to this Section 2(c).
(d)
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 until the Authorized Share
Approval Date. 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 person
or entity 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 (A) exercise of the remaining, nonexercised
portion of this Warrant beneficially owned by the Holder or any of
its Affiliates and (B) 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(d),
beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section
13(d) of 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(d) 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(d), 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, as the case may be, (B) a more recent
public announcement by the Company or (C) any other 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 not less than 61
days’ prior notice to the Company, may increase or decrease
the Beneficial Ownership Limitation provisions of this Section
2(d), 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(d) shall continue to
apply. Any such increase or decrease will not be
effective until the 61st 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(d) 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. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained herein, the Beneficial Ownership Limitations
with respect to this Section 4(c) shall not apply to David Lies,
Aequitas or their respective affiliates.
(e)
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 resale of the Warrant Shares by the Holder
or (B) the shares are eligible for resale 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 within 3 Trading Days from the delivery to the
Company of the Notice of Exercise Form, surrender of this Warrant
(if required) and payment of the aggregate Exercise Price as set
forth above (the “Warrant Share Delivery
Date”). This Warrant shall be deemed to have been
exercised on the date the Exercise Price is received by 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 by 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(e)(vi) prior to the
issuance of such shares, have 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 seventh
Trading Day after such liquidated damages begin to accrue) for each
Trading Day after such Warrant Share Delivery Date until such
certificates are delivered. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained herein, if at any time prior to
the Senior Creditor Repayment (as defined in the Senior Lender
Intercreditor Agreement) the Company is prohibited from paying, and
the Holder is prohibited from receiving, cash payments of
liquidated damages pursuant to this Section, at the option of the
Holder upon written notice to the Company, such amounts otherwise
payable in cash pursuant to this Section shall either accrue, or be
payable in the form of shares of Common Stock. The price
at which shares of Common Stock issuable in lieu of the cash
payment of liquidated damages hereunder shall be equal to the
lesser of (x) 90% of the average of the 5 consecutive VWAPs
immediately prior to the date of the applicable Warrant Share
Delivery Date, (y) 90% of the average of the 5 consecutive VWAPs
immediately prior to the date such shares are actually issued or
(z) the then applicable Conversion Price.
(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(e)(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 (A) pay in cash to
the Holder the amount by which (x) the Holder’s total
purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the
shares of Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the amount obtained
by multiplying (1) the number of Warrant Shares that the Company
was required to deliver to the Holder in connection with the
exercise at issue times (2) the price at which the sell order
giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed, and (B) at
the option of the Holder, either reinstate the portion of the
Warrant and equivalent number of Warrant Shares for which such
exercise was not honored or deliver to the Holder the number of
shares of Common Stock that would have been issued had the Company
timely complied with its exercise and delivery obligations
hereunder. For example, if the Holder purchases Common
Stock having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In
with respect to an attempted exercise of shares of Common Stock
with an aggregate sale price giving rise to such purchase
obligation of $10,000, under clause (A) of the immediately
preceding sentence the Company shall be required to pay the Holder
$1,000. 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 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
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