EXHIBIT 4.1
FORM OF COMMON STOCK PURCHASE
WARRANT
THIS WARRANT
AND THE COMMON STOCK SHARES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS WARRANT
HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”). THIS WARRANT AND THE
COMMON STOCK SHARES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS WARRANT MAY NOT
BE SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE, PLEDGED OR HYPOTHECATED IN THE ABSENCE
OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR
AN OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO ACCELERIZE NEW
MEDIA, INC. THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED
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Right to
Purchase 1,200,000 shares of Common Stock of Accelerize New Media,
Inc. (subject to adjustment as provided herein)
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FORM OF COMMON STOCK PURCHASE
WARRANT
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No. RW -_
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Issue Date: March 23,
2009
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ACCELERIZE NEW MEDIA, INC., a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the
“Company”), hereby certifies that, for value received
Strategic Growth International, Inc. 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 (the “Issue Date”) until 5:00 p.m., E.S.T on the
fifth (5th) anniversary of the Issue Date (the “Expiration
Date”), one million two hundred thousand (1,200,000) fully
paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock at a per share
purchase price of $0.35. 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 without the consent of the Holder.
As used herein the following terms, unless the
context otherwise requires, have the following respective
meanings:
(a) The
term “Company” shall include Accelerize New Media, Inc.
and any corporation which shall succeed or assume the obligations
of Accelerize New Media, Inc. hereunder.
(b) The
term “Common Stock” includes (a) the Company’s
Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share, and (b) any other
securities into which or for which any of the securities described
in (a) 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 herein 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 subsection
1.2 or upon exercise of this Warrant in part in accordance with
subsection 1.3, one million two hundred thousand (1,200,000) shares
of Common Stock of the Company, subject to adjustment pursuant to
Section 4.
1.2.
Full Exercise . This Warrant may be exercised in
full by the Holder hereof by delivery of an original or facsimile
copy of the form of subscription attached as hereto Exhibit A (the
“Subscription Form”) duly executed by such Holder and
surrender of the original Warrant within four (4) days of exercise,
to the Company at its principal office or at the office of its
Warrant Agent (as provided hereinafter), accompanied by 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.
1.3.
Partial Exercise . This Warrant may be exercised
in part (but not for a fractional share) by surrender of this
Warrant in the manner and at the place provided in subsection 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, 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 . 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 Stock Market, Inc., then the last sale price
reported for the last business day immediately preceding the
Determination Date;
(b) If
the Company’s Common Stock is not traded on an exchange or
quoted on the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. but is traded in the
over-the-counter market, then the average of the closing bid and
ask 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 in writing, or in the absence of such 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 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 this Warrant shall
have been surrendered 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, 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 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 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.
(a) Except
as described below, if a Registration Statement (as herein after
defined) is effective and the Holder may sell its Warrant Shares
upon exercise hereof pursuant to the Registration Statement, this
Warrant may be exercisable in whole or in part for cash only as set
forth in this Section 1. If no such Registration Statement is
available, then 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 cashless exercise
in accordance with Section (b) below or (iii) by a combination of
any of the foregoing methods, for the number of Warrant Shares
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.
(b) 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 surrender
of this Warrant at the principal office of the Company together
with the properly endorsed Subscription Form 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)
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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
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