Exhibit
4.1
EXHIBIT C-I
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 AND THE
TRANSFER AGENT. 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.
SERIES I COMMON STOCK PURCHASE
WARRANT
VIRNETX HOLDING
CORPORATION
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Warrant Shares:
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Issue Date: September __,
2009
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THIS SERIES I 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 March __,
2010 (the “ Initial Exercise Date ”) and on or
prior to the close of business on March __, 2015 (the “
Termination Date ”) but not thereafter, to subscribe
for and purchase from VirnetX Holding Corporation, 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 September 2, 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 acknowledge receipt
of a Notice of Exercise and deliver any objections to any Notice of
Exercise Form within 1 Business Days of receipt of such
notice. 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 $3.93 (the
“ Initial Exercise Price ”), subject to
adjustment hereunder (the “ Exercise Price
”).
c)
Cashless Exercise . If at any time after the six
(6) month anniversary of the Issue Date, there is no effective
Registration Statement registering the resale of the Warrant Shares
by the Holder, then this Warrant may also be exercised, in whole or
in part, by means of a “cashless exercise” in which the
Holder shall be entitled to receive a certificate (unless
electronic delivery is available) for the number of Warrant Shares
equal to the quotient obtained by dividing [(A-B) (X)] by (A),
where: |A
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(A) = 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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(B) = the
Exercise Price of this Warrant, as adjusted hereunder;
and
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(X) = 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 . Warrant
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.
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 the Warrant
certificate, at the time of delivery of the certificate or
certificates representing Warrant Shares, deliver to Holder a new
Warrant certificate evidencing the rights of Holder to purchase the
unpurchased Warrant Shares called for by this Warrant, which new
Warrant certificate 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 second Trading Day following 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 third Trading Day following 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 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.
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
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 or 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(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 or decrease will not be
effective until the 61 st day
after such notice is delivered to the Company. The
provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed and implemented
in a manner other than in strict conformity with the terms of this
Section 2(e) except as necessary 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.
b)
Subsequent Equity Sales . If the Company or any Subsidiary
thereof, as applicable, at any time while this Warrant is
outstanding, shall sell or grant any option to purchase, or sell or
grant any right to reprice, or otherwise dispose of or issue (or
announce any offer, sale, grant or any option to purchase or other
disposition) any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents entitling
any Person to acquire shares of Common Stock, at an effective price
per share less than the then Exercise Price (such lower price, the
“ |ABase Share Price ” and such issuances
collectively, a “ Dilutive Issuance ”) (if the
holder of the Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents so issued
shall at any time, whether by operation of purchase price
adjustments, reset provisions, floating conversion, exercise or
exchange prices or otherwise, or due to warrants, options or rights
per share which are issued in connection with such issuance, be
entitled to receive shares of Common Stock at an effective price
per share that is less than the Exercise Price, such issuance shall
be deemed to have occurred for less than the Exercise Price on such
date of the Dilutive Issuance), then, the Exercise Price shall be
reduced and only reduced to equal the Base Share Price and the
number of Warrant Shares issuable hereunder shall be increased such
that the aggregate Exercise Price payable hereunder, after taking
into account the decrease in the Exercise Price, shall be equal to
the aggregate Exercise Price prior to such adjustment; provided,
however, in no event shall the Exercise Price be reduced to less
than $3.17, subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock
splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar
transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this
Agreement. Such adjust
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