EXHIBIT 4.6
NOVABAY PHARMACEUTICALS,
INC.
and
________, AS WARRANT
AGENT
FORM OF PREFERRED
STOCK
WARRANT AGREEMENT
DATED AS OF
_______
NOVABAY PHARMACEUTICALS,
INC.
FORM OF PREFERRED STOCK WARRANT
AGREEMENT
Preferred Stock Warrant
Agreement (this “
Agreement ”), dated as of
between NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a California corporation (the
“ Company ”) and
, a [corporation] [national banking association] organized and
existing under the laws of
and having a corporate trust office in
, as warrant agent (the “ Warrant Agent
”).
Whereas,
the Company proposes to sell [
if Warrants are sold with other securities - [title
of such other securities being offered] (the “ Other
Securities ”) with] warrant certificates evidencing one
or more warrants (the “ Warrants ” or,
individually, a “ Warrant ”) representing the
right to purchase [title of Preferred Stock purchasable through
exercise of Warrants] (the “ Warrant Securities
”), such warrant certificates and other warrant certificates
issued pursuant to this Agreement being herein called the “
Warrant Certificates ”; and
Whereas,
the Company desires the Warrant
Agent to act on behalf of the Company, and the Warrant Agent is
willing so to act, in connection with the issuance, registration,
transfer, exchange, exercise and replacement of the Warrant
Certificates, and in this Agreement wishes to set forth, among
other things, the form and provisions of the Warrant Certificates
and the terms and conditions on which they may be issued,
registered, transferred, exchanged, exercised and
replaced.
Now
Therefore, in
consideration of the premises and of the mutual agreements herein
contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE 1
ISSUANCE OF WARRANTS AND
EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF WARRANT CERTIFICATES
1.1 Issuance
of Warrants. [ If
Warrants alone - Upon issuance, each Warrant Certificate
shall evidence one or more Warrants.] [ If Other Securities
and Warrants – Warrant Certificates shall be
[initially] issued in connection with the issuance of the Other
Securities [but shall be separately transferable on and after
(the “ Detachable Date ”)] [and shall not be
separately transferable] and each Warrant Certificate shall
evidence one or more Warrants.] Each Warrant evidenced thereby
shall represent the right, subject to the provisions contained
herein and therein, to purchase one Warrant Security. [ If
Other Securities and Warrants - Warrant Certificates shall
be initially issued in units with the Other Securities and each
Warrant Certificate included in such a unit shall evidence
Warrants for each [$
principal amount] [
shares] of Other
Securities included in such unit.]
1.2 Execution
And Delivery Of Warrant Certificates. Each Warrant Certificate, whenever issued, shall
be in registered form substantially in the form set forth in
Exhibit A hereto, shall be dated the date of its
countersignature by the Warrant Agent and may have such letters,
numbers, or other marks of identification or designation and such
legends or endorsements printed, lithographed or engraved thereon
as the officers of the Company executing the same may approve
(execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and
as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement, or
as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or
regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of
any securities exchange on which the Warrants may be listed, or to
conform to usage. The Warrant Certificates shall be signed on
behalf of the Company by any of its present or future chief
executive officers, presidents, senior vice presidents, vice
presidents, chief financial officers, chief legal officers,
treasurers, assistant treasurers, controllers, assistant
controllers, secretaries or assistant secretaries under its
corporate seal reproduced thereon. Such signatures may be manual or
facsimile signatures of such authorized officers and may be
imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Warrant Certificates. The
seal of the Company may be in the form of a facsimile thereof and
may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the
Warrant Certificates.
No Warrant Certificate shall be valid for any
purpose, and no Warrant evidenced thereby shall be exercisable,
until such Warrant Certificate has been countersigned by the manual
signature of the Warrant Agent. Such signature by the Warrant Agent
upon any Warrant Certificate executed by the Company shall be
conclusive evidence that the Warrant Certificate so countersigned
has been duly issued hereunder.
In case any officer of the Company who shall
have signed any of the Warrant Certificates either manually or by
facsimile signature shall cease to be such officer before the
Warrant Certificates so signed shall have been countersigned and
delivered by the Warrant Agent, such Warrant Certificates may be
countersigned and delivered notwithstanding that the person who
signed Warrant Certificates ceased to be such officer of the
Company; and any Warrant Certificate may be signed on behalf of the
Company by such persons as, at the actual date of the execution of
such Warrant Certificate, shall be the proper officers of the
Company, although at the date of the execution of this Agreement
any such person was not such officer.
The term “ holder ” or
“ holder of a Warrant Certificate ” as used
herein shall mean any person in whose name at the time any Warrant
Certificate shall be registered upon the books to be maintained by
the Warrant Agent for that purpose [ If Other Securities and
Warrants are not immediately detachable— or upon the
registration of the Other Securities prior to the Detachable Date.
Prior to the Detachable Date, the Company will, or will cause the
registrar of the Other Securities to, make available at all times
to the Warrant Agent such information as to holders of the Other
Securities as may be necessary to keep the Warrant Agent’s
records up to date].
1.3 Issuance
Of Warrant Certificates. Warrant Certificates evidencing the right to
purchase Warrant Securities may be executed by the Company and
delivered to the Warrant Agent upon the execution of this Warrant
Agreement or from time to time thereafter. The Warrant Agent shall,
upon receipt of Warrant Certificates duly executed on behalf of the
Company, countersign such Warrant Certificates and shall deliver
such Warrant Certificates to or upon the order of the
Company.
ARTICLE 2
WARRANT PRICE, DURATION AND
EXERCISE OF WARRANTS
2.1 Warrant
Price. During the period
specified in Section 2.2, each Warrant shall, subject to the
terms of this Warrant Agreement and the applicable Warrant
Certificate, entitle the holder thereof to purchase the number of
Warrant Securities specified in the applicable Warrant Certificate
at an exercise price of $
per
Warrant Security, subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of
certain events, as hereinafter provided. Such purchase price per
Warrant Security is referred to in this Agreement as the “
Warrant Price .”
2.2 Duration
Of Warrants. Each Warrant
may be exercised in whole or in part at any time, as specified
herein, on or after [the date thereof] [
] and at or before [
]
p.m., [
]
time, on
or such later date as the Company may designate by notice to the
Warrant Agent and the holders of Warrant Certificates mailed to
their addresses as set forth in the record books of the Warrant
Agent (the “ Expiration Date ”). Each Warrant
not exercised at or before [
] p.m., [
]
time, on the Expiration Date shall become void, and all rights of
the holder of the Warrant Certificate evidencing such Warrant under
this Agreement shall cease.
2.3 Exercise
Of Warrants.
(a)
During the period specified in Section 2.2,
the Warrants may be exercised to purchase a whole number of Warrant
Securities in registered form by providing certain information as
set forth on the reverse side of the Warrant Certificate and by
paying in full, in lawful money of the United States of America,
[in cash or by certified check or official bank check in New York
Clearing House funds] [by bank wire transfer in immediately
available funds] the Warrant Price for each Warrant Security with
respect to which a Warrant is being exercised to the Warrant Agent
at its corporate trust office, provided that such exercise is
subject to receipt within five business days of such payment by the
Warrant Agent of the Warrant Certificate with the form of election
to purchase Warrant Securities set forth on the reverse side of the
Warrant Certificate properly completed and duly executed. The date
on which payment in full of the Warrant Price is received by the
Warrant Agent shall, subject to receipt of the Warrant Certificate
as aforesaid, be deemed to be the date on which the Warrant is
exercised; provided, however, that if, at the date of receipt of
such Warrant Certificates and payment in full of the Warrant Price,
the transfer books for the Warrant Securities purchasable upon the
exercise of such Warrants shall be closed, no such receipt of such
Warrant Certificates and no such payment of such Warrant Price
shall be effective to constitute the person so designated to be
named as the holder of record of such Warrant Securities on such
date, but shall be effective to constitute such person as the
holder of record of such Warrant Securities for all purposes at the
opening of business on the next succeeding day on which the
transfer books for the Warrant Securities purchasable upon the
exercise of such Warrants shall be opened, and the certificates for
the Warrant Securities in respect of which such Warrants are then
exercised shall be issuable as of the date on such next succeeding
day on which the transfer books shall next be opened, and until
such date the Company shall be under no duty to deliver any
certificate for such Warrant Securities. The Warrant Agent shall
deposit all funds received by it in payment of the Warrant Price in
an account of the Company maintained with it and shall advise the
Company by telephone at the end of each day on which a payment for
the exercise of Warrants is received of the amount so deposited to
its account. The Warrant Agent shall promptly confirm such
telephone advice to the Company in writing.
(b)
The Warrant Agent shall, from time to time, as
promptly as practicable, advise the Company of (i) the number of
Warrant Securities with respect to which Warrants were exercised,
(ii) the instructions of each holder of the Warrant Certificates
evidencing such Warrants with respect to delivery of the Warrant
Securities to which such holder is entitled upon such exercise,
(iii) delivery of Warrant Certificates evidencing the balance, if
any, of the Warrants for the remaining Warrant Securities after
such exercise, and (iv) such other information as the Company shall
reasonably require.
(c)
As
soon as practicable after the exercise of any Warrant, the Company
shall issue to or upon the order of the holder of the Warrant
Certificate evidencing such Warrant the Warrant Securities to which
such holder is entitled, in fully registered form, registered in
such name or names as may be directed by such holder. If fewer than
all of the Warrants evidenced by such Warrant Certificate are
exercised, the Company shall execute, and an authorized officer of
the Warrant Agent shall manually countersign and deliver, a new
Warrant Certificate evidencing Warrants for the number of Warrant
Securities remaining unexercised.
(d)
The Company shall
not be required to pay any stamp or other tax or other governmental
charge required to be paid in connection with any transfer involved
in the issue of the Warrant Securities, and in the event that any
such transfer is involved, the Company shall not be required to
issue or deliver any Warrant Security until such tax or other
charge shall have been paid or it has been established to the
Company’s satisfaction that no such tax or other charge is
due.
(e)
Prior to the issuance of any
Warrants there shall have been reserved, and the Company shall at
all times through the Expiration Date keep reserved, out of its
authorized but unissued Warrant Securities, a number of shares
sufficient to provide for the exercise of the Warrants.
ARTICLE 3
OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO
RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF WARRANT CERTIFICATES
3.1 No
Rights As Warrant Securityholder Conferred By Warrants or Warrant
Certificates. No Warrant
Certificate or Warrant evidenced thereby shall entitle the holder
thereof to any of the rights of a holder of Warrant Securities,
including, without limitation, the right to receive the payment of
dividends or distributions, if any, on the Warrant Securities or to
exercise any voting rights, except to the extent expressly set
forth in this Agreement or the applicable Warrant
Certificate.
3.2 Lost,
Stolen, Mutilated or Destroyed Warrant Certificates.
Upon receipt by the Warrant Agent of
evidence reasonably satisfactory to it and the Company of the
ownership of and the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of any
Warrant Certificate and/or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the
Warrant Agent and the Company and, in the case of mutilation, upon
surrender of the mutilated Warrant Certificate to the Warrant Agent
for cancellation, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or
the Warrant Agent that such Warrant Certificate has been acquired
by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute, and an
authorized officer of the Warrant Agent shall manually countersign
and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of the lost, stolen,
destroyed or mutilated Warrant Certificate, a new Warrant
Certificate of the same tenor and evidencing Warrants for a like
number of Warrant Securities. Upon the issuance of any new Warrant
Certificate under this Section 3.2, the Company may require
the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any
other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Warrant
Agent) in connection therewith. Every substitute Warrant
Certificate executed and delivered pursuant to this
Section 3.2 in lieu of any lost, stolen or destroyed Warrant
Certificate shall represent an additional contractual obligation of
the Company, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Warrant
Certificate shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall
be entitled to the benefits of this Agreement equally and
proportionately with any and all other Warrant Certificates duly
executed and delivered hereunder. The provisions of this
Section 3.2 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent
lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the
replacement of mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed Warrant
Certificates.
3.3 Holder
of Warrant Certificate May Enforce Rights. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this
Agreement, any holder of a Warrant Certificate, without the consent
of the Warrant Agent, the holder of any Warrant Securities or the
holder of any other Warrant Certificate, may, in such
holder’s own behalf and for such holder’s own benefit,
enforce, and may institute and maintain any suit, action or
proceeding against the Company suitable to enforce, or otherwise in
respect of, such holder’s right to exercise the Warrants
evidenced by such holder’s Warrant Certificate in the manner
provided in such holder’s Warrant Certificate and in this
Agreement.
(a)
In
case the Company shall at any time subdivide its outstanding shares
of [title of Preferred Stock purchasable through exercise of
Warrants] into a greater number of shares, the Warrant Price in
effect immediately prior to such subdivision shall be
proportionately reduced and the number of Warrant Securities
purchasable under the Warrants shall be proportionately increased.
Conversely, in case the outstanding shares of [title of Preferred
Stock purchasable through exercise of Warrants] of the Company
shall be combined into a smaller number of shares, the Warrant
Price in effect immediately prior to such combination shall be
proportionately increased and the number of Warrant Securities
purchasable under the Warrants shall be proportionately
decreased.
(b)
If at any time or from time to time the holders
of [title of Preferred Stock purchasable through exercise of
Warrants] (or any shares of stock or other securities at the time
receivable upon the exercise of the Warrants) shall have received
or become entitled to receive, without payment
therefore,
(i)
[title of Preferred Stock purchasable through
exercise of Warrants] or any shares of stock or other securities
which are at any time directly or indirectly convertible into or
exchangeable for [title of Preferred Stock purchasable through
exercise of Warrants], or any rights or options to subscribe for,
purchase or otherwise acquire any of the foregoing by way of
dividend or other distribution;
(ii)
any cash paid or payable otherwise
than in accordance with the terms of [title of Preferred Stock
purchasable through exercise of Warrants] or otherwise than as a
cash dividend paid or payable out of the Company’s current or
retained earnings;
(iii)
any evidence of the Company’s
indebtedness or rights to subscribe for or purchase the
Company’s indebtedness; or
(iv)
[title of Preferred Stock
purchasable through exercise of Warrants] or additional stock or
other securities or property (including cash) by way of spinoff,
split-up, reclassification, combination of shares or similar
corporate rearrangement (other than shares of [title of Preferred
Stock purchasable through exercise of Warrants] issued as a stock
split or adjustments in respect of which shall be covered by the
terms of Section 3.4(a) above), then and in each such case,
the holder of each Warrant shall, upon the exercise of the Warrant,
be entitled to receive, in addition to the number of Warrant
Securities receivable thereupon, and without payment of any
additional consideration therefore, the amount of stock and other
securities and property (including cash and indebtedness or rights
to subscribe for or purchase indebtedness) which such holder would
hold on the date of such exercise had he been the holder of record
of such Warrant Securities as of the date on which holders of
[title of Preferred Stock purchasable through exercise of Warrants]
received or became entitled to receive such shares or all other
additional stock and other securities and property.
(c)
In case of (i) any reclassification, capital
reorganization, or change in the [title of Preferred Stock
purchasable through the exercise of the Warrants] of the Company
(other than as a result of a subdivision, combination or stock
dividend provided for in Section 3.4(a) or Section 3.4(b)
above), (ii) share exchange, merger or similar transaction of the
Company with or into another person or entity (other than a share
exchange, merger or similar transaction in which the Company is the
acquiring or surviving corporation and which does not result in any
change in the [title of Preferred Stock purchasable through the
exercise of the Warrants] other than the issuance of additional
shares of [title of Preferred Stock purchasable through the
exercise of the Warrants]) or (iii) the sale, exchange, lease,
transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the
properties and assets of the Company as an entirety (in any such
case, a “ Reorganization Event ”), then, as a
condition of such Reorganization Event, lawful provisions shall be
made, and duly executed documents evidencing the same from the
Company or its successor shall be delivered to the holders of the
Warrants, so that the holders of the Warrants shall have the right
at any time prior to the expiration of the Warrants to purchase, at
a total price equal to that payable upon the exercise of the
Warrants, the kind and amount of shares of stock and other
securities and property receivable in connection with such
Reorganization Event by a holder of the same number of shares of
[title of Preferred Stock purchasable through the exercise of the
Warrants] as were purchasable by the holders of the Warrants
immediately prior to such Reorganization Event. In any such case
appropriate provisions shall be made with respect to the rights and
interests of the holders of the Warrants so that the provisions
hereof shall thereafter be applicable with respect to any shares of
stock or other securities and property deliverable upon exercise
the Warrants, and appropriate adjustments shall be made to the
Warrant Price payable hereunder provided the aggregate purchase
price shall remain the same. In the case of any transaction
described in clauses (ii) and (iii) above, the Company shall
thereupon be relieved of any further obligation hereunder or under
the Warrants, and the Company as the predecessor corporation may
thereupon or at any time thereafter be dissolved, wound up or
liquidated. Such successor or assuming entity thereupon may cause
to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name
of the Company, any or all of the Warrants issuable hereunder which
heretofore shall not have been signed by the Company, and may
execute and deliver securities in its own name, in fulfillment of
its obligations to deliver Warrant Securities upon exercise of the
Warrants. All the Warrants so issued shall in all respects have the
same legal rank and benefit under this Agreement as the Warrants
theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement as though all of such Warrants had been issued at
the date of the execution hereof. In any case of any such
Reorganization Event, such changes in phraseology and form (but not
in substance) may be made in the Warrants thereafter to be issued
as may be appropriate. The Warrant Agent may receive a
written opinion of legal counsel as conclusive evidence that any
such Reorganization Event complies with the provisions of this
Section 3.4.
(d)
The Company may, at its option, at any time
until the Expiration Date, reduce the then current Warrant Price to
any amount deemed appropriate by the Board of Directors of the
Company for any period not exceeding twenty consecutive days (as
evidenced in a resolution adopted by such Board of Directors), but
only upon giving the notices required by Section 3.5 at least
ten days prior to taking such action.
(e)
Except as herein otherwise expressly provided,
no adjustment in the Warrant Price shall be made by reason of the
issuance of any securities of the Company or for any other reason
whatsoever.
(f)
No fractional Warrant Securities shall be issued
upon the exercise of Warrants. If more than one Warrant shall be
exercised at one time by the same holder, the number of full
Warrant Securities which shall be issuable upon such exercise shall
be computed on the basis of the aggregate number of Warrant
Securities purchased pursuant to the Warrants so exercised. Instead
of any fractional Warrant Security which would otherwise be
issuable upon exercise of any Warrant, the Company shall pay a cash
adjustment in respect of such fraction in an amount equal to the
same fraction of the last reported sale price (or bid price if
there were no sales) per Warrant Security, in either case as
reported on the principal registered national securities exchange
on which the Warrant Securities are listed or admitted to trading
on the business day that next precedes the day of exercise or, if
the Warrant Securities are not then listed or admitted to trading
on any registered national securities exchange, the average of the
closing high bid and low asked prices as reported on the
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