THIS WARRANT
AND THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS
WARRANT HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933,
AS AMENDED, OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS WARRANT AND THE
COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS WARRANT MAY NOT BE
SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE, PLEDGED OR HYPOTHECATED IN THE ABSENCE OF
AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AS TO THIS WARRANT UNDER SAID
ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR AN OPINION OF
COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO VERSO TECHNOLOGIES, INC. THAT
SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED.
Right to Purchase up to 600,000
Shares of Common Stock of
VERSO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(subject to adjustment as provided
herein)
COMMON STOCK PURCHASE
WARRANT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Issue Date: September 20,
2006
|
VERSO
TECHNOLOGIES, INC., a corporation organized under the laws of the
State of Minnesota (the “Company”), hereby certifies
that, for value received, LAURUS MASTER FUND, LTD., or assigns (the
“Holder”), is entitled, subject to the terms set forth
below, to purchase from the Company (as defined herein) from and
after the Issue Date of this Warrant and at any time or from time
to time, up to 600,000 fully paid and nonassessable shares of
Common Stock (as hereinafter defined), $0.01 par value per share,
at the applicable Exercise Price per share (as defined below). The
number and character of such shares of Common Stock and the
applicable Exercise Price per share are subject to adjustment as
provided herein.
As used herein the
following terms, unless the context otherwise requires, have the
following respective meanings:
(a) The term
“Company” shall include Verso Technologies, Inc. and
any person or entity which shall succeed, or assume the obligations
of, Verso Technologies, Inc. hereunder.
(b) The term
“Common Stock” includes (i) the Company’s
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share; and (ii) any other
securities into which or for which any of the securities described
in the preceding clause (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
“Exercise Price” applicable under this Warrant shall be
a price of $.01.
1.1
Number of Shares Issuable upon Exercise . From and after the
date hereof the Holder shall be entitled to receive, upon exercise
of this Warrant in whole or in part, by delivery of an original or
fax copy of an exercise notice in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A (the “Exercise Notice”), shares of
Common Stock of the Company, subject to adjustment pursuant to
Section 4.
1.2
Fair Market Value . For purposes hereof, 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 the American Stock
Exchange or another national exchange or is quoted on the National
or Capital Market of The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.
(“Nasdaq”), then the closing or last sale price,
respectively, reported for the last business day immediately
preceding the Determination Date.
(b) If the
Company’s Common Stock is not traded on the American Stock
Exchange or another national exchange or on the Nasdaq but is
traded on the NASD Over The Counter Bulletin Board, then the mean
of the average of the closing bid and asked prices reported for the
last business day immediately preceding the Determination
Date.
(c) Except as
provided in clause (d) below, if the Company’s Common
Stock is not publicly traded, then as the Holder and the Company
agree or in the absence of agreement by arbitration in accordance
with the rules then in effect 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.
(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 the
Warrant are outstanding at the Determination Date.
1.3
Company Acknowledgment . The Company will, at the time of
the exercise of this 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
2
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.
1.4
Trustee for Warrant Holders . In the event that a bank or
trust company shall have been appointed as trustee for the holders
of this Warrant pursuant to Subsection 3.2, such bank or trust
company shall have all the powers and duties of a warrant agent (as
hereinafter described) and shall accept, in its own name for the
account of the Company or such successor person as may be entitled
thereto, all amounts otherwise payable to the Company or such
successor, as the case may be, on exercise of this Warrant pursuant
to this Section 1.
2.
Procedure for Exercise .
2.1
Delivery of Stock Certificates, Etc., on Exercise . The
Company agrees that the shares of Common Stock purchased upon
exercise of this Warrant shall be deemed to be issued to the Holder
as the record owner of such shares as of the close of business on
the date on which this Warrant shall have been surrendered and
payment made for such shares in accordance herewith. 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,
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, 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 nonassessable
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, 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.
(a) Payment may be
made either (i) in cash or by certified or official bank check
payable to the order of the Company equal to the applicable
aggregate Exercise Price, (ii) by delivery of this Warrant, or
shares of Common Stock and/or Common Stock receivable upon exercise
of this Warrant in accordance with the formula set forth in
subsection (b) below, or (iii) by a combination of any of
the foregoing methods, for the number of Common Shares specified in
such Exercise Notice (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.
(b)
Notwithstanding any provisions herein to the contrary, if the Fair
Market Value of one share of Common Stock is greater than the
Exercise 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 exercised) by surrender of
this Warrant at the principal office of the Company together with
the properly endorsed Exercise Notice in which event the
3
Company shall
issue to the Holder a number of shares of Common Stock computed
using the following formula:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
X=
|
|
Y(A-B)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Where X
=
|
|
the number of
shares of Common Stock to be issued to the Holder
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Y =
|
|
the number of
shares of Common Stock purchasable under this Warrant or, if only a
portion of this Warrant is being exercised, the portion of this
Warrant being exercised (at the date of such
calculation)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A =
|
|
the Fair Market
Value of one share of the Company’s Common Stock (at the date
of such calculation)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
B =
|
|
the Exercise
Price per share (as adjusted to the date of such
calculation)
|
3. Effect
of Reorganization, Etc.; Adjustment of Exercise Price
.
3.1
Reorganization, Consolidation, Merger, Etc . In case at any
time or from time to time, the Company shall (a) effect a
reorganization, (b) consolidate with or merge into any other
person, or (c) transfer all or substantially all of its
properties or assets to any other person under any plan or
arrangement contemplating the dissolution of the Company, then, in
each such case, as a condition to the consummation of such a
transaction, proper and adequate provision shall be made by the
Company whereby the Holder, on the exercise hereof as provided in
Section 1 at any time after the consummation of such
reorganization, consolidation or merger or the effective date of
such dissolution, as the case may be, shall receive, in lieu of the
Common Stock (or Other Securities) issuable on such exercise prior
to such consummation or such effective date, the stock and other
securities and property (including cash) to which such Holder would
have been entitled upon such consummation or in connection with
such dissolution, as the case may be, if such Holder had so
exercised this Warrant, immediately prior thereto, all subject to
further adjustment thereafter as provided in
Section 4.
3.2
Dissolution . In the event of any dissolution of the Company
following the transfer of all or substantially all of its
properties or assets, the Company, concurrently with any
distributions made to holders of its Common Stock, shall at its
expense deliver or cause to be delivered to the Holder the stock
and other securities and property (including cash, where
applicable) receivable by the Holder pursuant to Section 3.1,
or, if the Holder shall so instruct the Company, to a bank or trust
company specified by the Holder and having its principal office in
New York, NY as trustee for the Holder.
3.3
Continuation of Terms . Upon any reorganization,
consolidation, merger or transfer (and any dissolution following
any transfer) referred to in this Section 3, this Warrant
shall continue in full force and effect and the terms hereof shall
be applicable to the shares of stock and other securities and
property receivable on the exercise of this Warrant after the
consummation of such reorganization, consolidation or merger or the
effective date of dissolution following any such transfer, as the
case may be, and shall be binding upon the issuer
4
of any such
stock or other securities, including, in the case of any such
transfer, the person acquiri
|