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Exhibit 4.8
EXHIBIT D
Form of Warrant
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 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. 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.
COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT
LIGHTPATH TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
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Warrant Shares: [
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Initial Exercise Date:
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THIS 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 the date hereof (the " Initial
Exercise Date ") and on or prior to the close of business on
the 5 year anniversary of the Initial Exercise Date (the "
Termination Date ") but not thereafter, to subscribe for and
purchase from Lightpath Technologies, Inc., 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 August 1, 2008, among the
Company and the purchasers signatory thereto.
Section 2 . Exercise .
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 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.
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
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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 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 2 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 $ [
] 1 , subject to
adjustment hereunder (the " Exercise Price ").
c) Cashless Exercise . If at any time after the earlier
of (i) the one year anniversary of the Initial Exercise Date
and (ii) the completion of the then-applicable holding period
required by Rule 144, or any successor provision then in effect,
there is no effective Registration Statement registering, or no
current prospectus available for, the resale of the Warrant Shares
by the Holder, then this Warrant may also be exercised 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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(A)
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the VWAP on the Trading Day immediately preceding
the date of such election;
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(B)
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the Exercise Price of this Warrant, as adjusted;
and
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(X)
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the number of Warrant Shares issuable upon
exercise of this Warrant in accordance with the terms of this
Warrant by means of a cash exercise rather than a cashless
exercise.
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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) Exercise Limitations .
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i.
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Holder’s
Restrictions . 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
person or entity 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
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Greater of (i) 100% of the
closing bid price of the Common Stock on December 30, 2008 and
(ii) $0.87.
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number of shares of Common Stock which would be
issuable upon (A) exercise of the remaining, nonexercised
portion of this Warrant beneficially owned by the Holder or any of
its Affiliates and (B) 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(d)(i),
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(d)(i) 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(d)(i), 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, as the case
may be, (B) a more recent public announcement by the Company
or (C) any other 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 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(d)(i), 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(d)(i)
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(d)(i) to correct this paragraph (or any portion
hereof) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended
Beneficial
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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.
e) 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 resale of the
Warrant Shares by the Holder or (B) the shares are eligible
for resale 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 within 3 Trading
Days from the delivery to the Company of the Notice of Exercise
Form, surrender of this Warrant (if required) and payment of the
aggregate Exercise Price as set forth above (the " Warrant Share
Delivery Date ") (unless a delay is a result of a Force
Majeure, provided the Company continues to use commercially
reasonable efforts to ultimately perform its obligations
hereunder). This Warrant shall be deemed to have been exercised on
the date the Exercise Price is received by 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 by 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(e)(vi) prior to the issuance of such shares, have
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 second Trading Day following 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 second Trading Day following the Warrant
Share Delivery Date until such certificates are delivered.
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(e)(i) by the 4 th
Trading Day following the Warrant Share Delivery
Date, then, the Holder will have the right to rescind such
exercise.
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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 fourth 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 (A) pay in cash to the Holder the
amount 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 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 ot
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