COMMON STOCK PURCHASE
WARRANT
GENEREX BIOTECHNOLOGY
CORPORATION
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Warrant
Shares: n
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Issuance
Date: August 6, 2009
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THIS COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT (the “
Warrant ”) certifies that, for value received,
n (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
that is 183 days after date hereof (the “ Initial Exercise
Date ”) and on or prior to the close of business on the
five (5) year anniversary of the Initial Exercise Date (the “
Termination Date ”) but not thereafter, to subscribe
for and purchase from Generex Biotechnology Corporation, a Delaware
corporation (the “ Company ”), up to
n shares (the “ Warrant Shares
”) of Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share;
provided , however , that the five (5) year period
set forth above as the Termination Date shall be extended for the
number of days during such period in which (i) trading in the
Common Stock is suspended by any Trading Market, or (ii) the
Registration Statement is not effective but in no event later than
January 31, 2013. 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 August 6, 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 and, if this Warrant is exercised in full, the
Holder shall have surrendered this Warrant to the Company 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. 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. For this purpose, the Company’s
records shall be conclusively binding on any transferee or
assignee.
b)
Exercise Price . The exercise price per share of
the Common Stock under this Warrant shall be $0.79 , subject
to adjustment hereunder (the “ Exercise Price
”).
c)
Cashless Exercise . If at the time of exercise
hereof there is no effective registration statement registering, or
the prospectus contained therein is not available for the issuance
of the Warrant Shares to the Holder and all of the Warrant Shares
are not then registered for resale by the Holder into the market at
market prices from time to time on an effective registration
statement for use on a continuous basis (or the prospectus
contained therein is not available for use), 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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(X)
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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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“ VWAP ” means, for any date,
the price determined by the first of the following clauses that
applies: (a) if the Common Stock is then listed or quoted on a
Trading Market, the daily volume weighted average price of the
Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the
Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted
as reported by Bloomberg L.P. (based on a Trading Day from 9:30
a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time),
(b) if the Common Stock then is listed or quoted on the OTC
Bulletin Board and the OTC Bulletin Board is not a Trading Market,
the volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date
(or the nearest preceding date) on the OTC Bulletin Board, (c) if
the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted for trading on the
OTC Bulletin Board and if prices for the Common Stock are then
reported in the “Pink Sheets” published by Pink OTC
Markets, Inc. (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to
its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per
share of the Common Stock so reported, or (d) in all other
cases, the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as
determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by
the Holders of a majority in interest of the Securities then
outstanding and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and
expenses of which shall be paid by the Company.
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)
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 Holder or (B) this
Warrant is being exercised via cashless exercise, 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 (i) the delivery to the Company of the Notice of
Exercise Form, (ii) surrender of this Warrant (if required) and
(iii) payment of the aggregate Exercise Price as set forth above
(including by cashless exercise, if permitted) (such date, the
“ Warrant Share Delivery Date ”). If
all or any portion of a Warrant is exercised at a time when there
is an effective registration statement to cover the issuance or
resale of the Warrant Shares or is exercised using a
“cashless exercise” or if the legend is not required
under applicable securities laws, such Warrant Shares shall be
issued free of all legends. 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 (A) pay in
cash to the Holder the amount, if any, 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 (in which case such exercise
shall be deemed rescinded) 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 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 (but only to the
extent) that 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 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. 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(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 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) subdiv
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