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Exhibit
10.34
THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY MAY
NOT BE TRANSFERRED UNLESS (I) SUCH SECURITIES HAVE BEEN
REGISTERED FOR SALE PURSUANT TO THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED, (II) SUCH SECURITIES MAY BE SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144
WITHOUT RESTRICTION, OR (III) THE COMPANY HAS RECEIVED AN OPINION
OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO IT THAT SUCH TRANSFER MAY
LAWFULLY BE MADE WITHOUT REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933 OR QUALIFICATION UNDER APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN
CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN OR
FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THE SECURITIES PROVIDED THAT SUCH
PLEDGE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE OR RESULT IN A TRANSFER OF THE
SECURITIES UNDER ANY APPLICABLE LAWS, RULES OR
REGULATIONS.
No.
GEORESOURCES,
INC.
WARRANT TO PURCHASE
SHARES OF
COMMON STOCK, PAR VALUE
$0.01 PER SHARE
For VALUE RECEIVED,
(“ Warrantholder ”), is entitled to purchase,
subject to the provisions of this Warrant, from GEORESOURCES,
INC. , a Colorado corporation (“ Company ”),
at any time not earlier than the date that is six months after the
date hereof (the “ Initial Exercise Date ”) and
not later than 5:00 P.M., Eastern time, on June 9, 2013 (the
“ Expiration Date ”), at an exercise price per
share equal to $32.43 (the “ Exercise Price ”),
shares (“ Warrant Shares ”) of the
Company’s Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (“
Common Stock ”). The number of Warrant Shares
purchasable upon exercise of this Warrant and the Exercise Price
shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as described
herein.
Section 1.
Registration . The Company shall maintain books for the
transfer and registration of this Warrant. Upon the initial
issuance of this Warrant, the Company shall issue and register this
Warrant in the name of the Warrantholder.
Section 2. Transfers .
As provided herein, this Warrant may be transferred only pursuant
to a registration statement filed under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), or an
exemption from such registration. Subject to such restrictions, the
Company shall transfer this Warrant from time to time upon the
books to be maintained by the Company for that purpose, upon
surrender thereof for transfer, properly endorsed or accompanied by
appropriate instructions for transfer and such other documents as
may be reasonably required by the Company, including, if required
by the Company, an opinion of its counsel to the effect that such
transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the
Securities Act, to establish that such transfer is being made in
accordance with the terms hereof, and a new Warrant shall be issued
to the transferee and the surrendered Warrant shall be canceled by
the Company.
Section 3. Exercise of
Warrant .
(a) This Warrant may be
exercised in whole or in part at any time on or after the Initial
Exercise Date and prior to the Expiration Date upon delivery of the
notice of exercise form attached hereto as Appendix A
(the “ Notice of Exercise ”) and payment by
cash, certified check or wire transfer (or, in certain
circumstances, by cashless exercise as provided in
Section 3(d) ) for the aggregate Exercise Price for
that number of Warrant Shares then being purchased, to the Company
during normal business hours on any day other than a Saturday or
Sunday on which banks are open for business in New York City (a
“ Business Day ”) at the Company’s
principal executive offices (or such other office or agency of the
Company as the Company may designate by notice to the
Warrantholder). The Warrant Shares so purchased shall be deemed to
be issued to the Warrantholder or the Warrantholder’s
designee, as the record owner of such shares, as of 5:00 P.M. New
York City time on the date on which the aggregate Exercise Price
shall have been paid and the completed Notice of Exercise shall
have been delivered. Certificates for the Warrant Shares so
purchased, representing the aggregate number of shares specified in
the Notice of Exercise, shall be transmitted by the Company’s
transfer agent by crediting the account of the
Warrantholder’s prime broker with The Depository Trust
Company (“ DTC ”) through its Deposit /
Withdrawal At Custodian (“ DWAC ”) system if the
Company is a participant in such system, and otherwise by physical
delivery to the address specified by the Warrantholder in the
Notice of Exercise, within a reasonable time, not exceeding three
(3) Trading Days (as defined below) after this Warrant shall
have been so exercised, including payment of the aggregate Exercise
Price and the delivery of a completed Notice of Exercise (the
“ Warrant Share Delivery Date ”). The
certificates so delivered shall be in such denominations as may be
requested by the Warrantholder and shall be registered in the name
of the Warrantholder or such other name as shall be designated by
the Warrantholder in the Notice of Exercise. In addition to any
other rights available to the Warrantholder, if the Company fails
to deliver to the Warrantholder a certificate or certificates
representing the Warrant Shares pursuant to an exercise on or
before this Warrant Share Delivery Date, and if after such date the
Warrantholder is required by its broker to purchase (in an open
market transaction or otherwise) shares of Common Stock to deliver
in satisfaction of a sale by the Warrantholder of the Warrant
Shares which the Warrantholder anticipated receiving upon such
exercise (a “ Buy-In ”), then the Company shall
either (i) pay cash to the Warrantholder in an amount equal to
the Warrantholder ‘s total purchase price (including
brokerage commissions, if any) for the shares of Common Stock so
purchased (the “ Buy-In Price ”), at which point
the Company’s obligation to deliver such certificate (and to
issue such shares of Common Stock) or credit such Holder’s
balance account with DTC shall terminate, or (ii) promptly
honor its obligation to deliver to the Warrantholder a certificate
or certificates representing such shares of Common Stock or credit
such Warrantholder’s balance account with DTC and pay cash to
the Warrantholder in an amount equal to the excess (if any) of the
Buy-In Price over the product of (A) such number of shares of
Common Stock, times (B) the Closing Bid Price on the date of
exercise. Warrantholder shall provide the Company written notice
indicating the amounts payable to the Warrantholder in respect to
the Buy-In, together with applicable confirmations and other
evidence reasonably requested by the Company. Nothing herein shall
limit a Warrantholder’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 this Warrant as required pursuant to the terms hereof.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Warrantholder
shall not be required to physically surrender this Warrant to the
Company until
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the Warrantholder has purchased all of
the Warrant Shares available hereunder and this Warrant has been
exercised in full, in which case, the Warrantholder 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 Warrantholder 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 one Business Day of receipt of such notice. In
the event of any dispute or discrepancy, the records of the
Company’s transfer agent shall be controlling and
determinative in the absence of manifest error. The Warrantholder
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 purposes of this Warrant (i) a “
Trading Day ” means (A) a day on which the Common
Stock is traded on a Trading Market (as defined below), or
(B) if the Common Stock is not listed on a Trading Market, a
day on which the Common Stock is traded on the over the counter
market, as reported by the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. OTC Bulletin Board (the “ Bulletin Board
”), or (C) if the Common Stock is not quoted on the
Bulletin Board, a day on which prices for the Common Stock are
reported in the Pink Sheets published by Pink Sheets LLC (or any
similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of
reporting prices); provided, that in the event that the Common
Stock is not listed, quoted or reported as set forth in (A),
(B) and (C) hereof, then Trading Day shall mean a
Business Day and (ii) “ Trading Market ”
means the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock
is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NASDAQ
Global Select Market, the NASDAQ Global Market, The NASDAQ Capital
Market, the American Stock Exchange or the New York Stock
Exchange.
In addition to any other
rights available to the Warrantholder, if the Company fails to
deliver to the Warrantholder a certificate or certificates
representing the Warrant Shares pursuant to an exercise on or
before the Warrant Share Delivery Date, the Company shall be liable
to the Warrantholder for liquidated damages in an amount equal to
1.5% of the aggregate Exercise Price of the Warrant Shares issuable
pursuant to such exercise for each thirty (30) day period (or
pro rata for any portion thereof) beyond the Warrant Share
Delivery Date.
(b) If this Warrant shall
have been exercised in part, the Company shall, at its own expense
and at the time of delivery of the certificate or certificates
representing Warrant Shares, deliver to the Warrantholder a new
Warrant evidencing the rights of the Warrantholder to purchase the
unpurchased Warrant Shares called for by this Warrant, which new
Warrant shall in all other respects be identical to this
Warrant.
(c) Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary herein, the Warrantholder shall not have the right
to exercise any portion of this Warrant, pursuant to
Section 3 or otherwise, to the extent that after giving
effect to such issuance after exercise, the Warrantholder (together
with the Warrantholder’s affiliates), as set forth on the
applicable Notice of Exercise, would beneficially own in excess of
4.99% of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding
immediately after giving effect to such issuance. For purposes of
the foregoing sentence, the
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number of shares of Common Stock
beneficially owned by the Warrantholder and its affiliates shall
include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise
of this Warrant with respect to which the determination of such
sentence is being made, but shall exclude the 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 Warrantholder 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 shares of Common Stock or Warrants) subject to a limitation
on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained
herein beneficially owned by the Warrantholder or any of its
affiliates. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for
purposes of this Section 3(c) , beneficial ownership
shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the
Exchange Act, it being acknowledged by the Warrantholder that the
Company is not representing to the Warrantholder that such
calculation is in compliance with Section 13(d) of the
Exchange Act and the Warrantholder is solely responsible for any
schedules required to be filed in accordance therewith. For
purposes of this Section 3(c) , in determining the
number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, the Warrantholder may
rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as
reflected in the latest of (x) the Company’s most recent
Form 10-Q or Form 10-K, as the case may be, (y) a more recent
public announcement by the Company or (z) any other notice by
the Company or the Company’s transfer agent setting forth the
number of shares of Common Stock outstanding. Following the written
or oral request of the Warrantholder, the Company shall, or shall
cause its transfer agent to, within two Trading Days confirm orally
and in writing to the Warrantholder 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 Warrantholder or its Affiliates since the date
as of which such number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was
reported. The provisions of this Section 3(c) may be
waived by the Warrantholder, at the election of the Warrantholder,
upon not less than 61 days’ prior notice to the Company,
and the provisions of this Section 3(c) shall continue
to apply until such 61st day (or such later date, as determined by
the Warrantholder, as may be specified in such notice of
waiver).
(d) Notwithstanding any other
provision contained herein to the contrary, so long as the Company
is required under the Registration Rights Agreement dated as of
June 5, 2008 among the Company and the investors party thereto (the
“ Registration Rights Agreement ”) to have
effected the registration of the Warrant Shares for sale to the
public pursuant to a Registration Statement (as such term is
defined in the Registration Rights Agreement), if the Warrant
Shares may not be freely sold to the public for any reason
(including, but not limited to, the failure of the Company to have
effected the registration of the Warrant Shares, the failure to
have a current prospectus available for delivery or otherwise, or
during the period of any Allowable Grace Period (as defined in the
Registration Rights Agreement)), the Warrantholder may elect to
receive, without the payment by the Warrantholder of the aggregate
Exercise Price in respect of the shares of Common Stock to be
acquired, shares of Common Stock equal to the value of this Warrant
or any portion hereof by the surrender of this Warrant (or such
portion of this Warrant being so exercised) together with the Net
Issue Election Notice annexed hereto as Appendix B duly
executed, at the office of the Company. Thereupon, the Company
shall issue to the Warrantholder such number of fully paid, validly
issued and nonassessable shares of Common Stock as is computed
using the following formula:
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X = Y (A -
B)
A
where
X = the number of shares of
Common Stock which the Warrantholder has then requested be issued
to the Warrantholder;
Y = the number of Warrant
Shares covered by this Warrant that the Warrantholder is
surrendering at such time for cashless exercise (including both
shares to be issued to the Warrantholder and shares to be canceled
as payment therefor);
A = the Market Price (as
defined below) of one share of Common Stock as at the time the net
issue election is made; and
B = the Exercise Price in
effect under this Warrant at the time the net issue election is
made.
Section 4. Compliance with
the Securities Act of 1933 . If the Registration Statement is
not effective at any time that this Warrant is exercised,
(i) the Warrant Shares issued upon such exercise shall be
“restricted securities,” (ii) the stock
certificate evidencing the Warrant Shares shall bear a restrictive
legend set forth on the first page of this Warrant unless counsel
to the Company is of the opinion that such legend is not necessary.
In addition, as a condition precedent to issuance of the Warrant
Shares upon such exercise, the Warrantholder shall be required to
execute an investment representation statement in the form provided
by the Company as evidence of the Warrantholder’s
qualifications to purchase Common Stock in a “private
placement” that is exempt from registration pursuant to
Section 4(2) of the Securities Act.
Section 5. Payment of
Taxes . The Company will pay any documentary stamp taxes
attributable to the initial issuance of Warrant Shares issuable
upon the exercise of this Warrant; provided, however, that the
Company shall not be required to pay any tax or taxes which may be
payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issuance or
delivery of any certificates for Warrant Shares in a name other
than that of the Warrantholder in respect of which such shares are
issued, and in such case, the Company shall not be required to
issue or deliver any certificate for Warrant Shares or any Warrant
until the person requesting the same has paid to the Company the
amount of such tax or has established to the Company’s
reasonable satisfaction that such tax has been paid. The
Warrantholder shall be responsible for income taxes due under
federal, state or other law, if any such tax is due.
Section 6. Mutilated or
Missing Warrants . In case this Warrant shall be mutilated,
lost, stolen, or destroyed, the Company shall issue in exchange and
substitution of and upon cancellation of the mutilated Warrant, or
in lieu of and substitution for this Warrant lost, stolen or
destroyed, a new Warrant of like tenor and for the purchase of a
like number of Warrant Shares, but only upon receipt of evidence
reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or
destruction of this Warrant, and with respect to a lost, stolen or
destroyed Warrant, reasonable indemnity or bond with respect
thereto, if requested by the Company.
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Section 7. Reservation of
Common Stock . The Company hereby represents and warrants that
there have been reserved, and the Company shall at all applicable
times keep reserved until issued (if necessary) as contemplated by
this Section 7 , out of the authorized and unissued
shares of Common Stock, sufficient shares to provide for the
exercise of the rights of purchase represented by this Warrant. The
Company agrees that all Warrant Shares issued upon due exercise of
this Warrant shall be, at the time of delivery of the certificates
for such Warrant Shares, duly authorized, validly issued, fully
paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock of the
Company.
Section 8. Adjustments
. The Exercise Price and number of Warrant Shares subject to this
Warrant shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as set
forth in this Section 8 .
(a) If the Company shall, at
any time or from time to time while this Warrant is outstanding,
pay a dividend or make a distribution on its Common Stock in shares
of Common Stock, subdivide its outstanding shares of Common Stock
into a greater number of shares or combine its outstanding shares
of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares or issue by
reclassification of its outstanding shares of Common Stock any
shares of its capital stock (including any such reclassification in
connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is
the continuing corporation), then the number of Warrant Shares
purchasable upon exercise of this Warrant and the Exercise Price in
effect immediately prior to the date upon which such change shall
become effective, shall be adjusted by the Company so that the
Warrantholder thereafter exercising this Warrant shall be entitled
to receive the number of shares of Common Stock or other capital
stock which the Warrantholder would have received if this Warrant
had been exercised immediately prior to such event upon payment of
an Exercise Price that has been adjusted to reflect a fair
allocation of the economics of such event to the Warrantholder.
Such adjustments shall be made successively whenever any event
listed above shall occur.
(b) If any capital
reorganization, reclassification of the capital stock of the
Company, consolidation or merger of the Company with another
corporation in which the Company is not the survivor, or sale,
transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the
Company’s assets to another corporation shall be effected
(each, a “ Fundamental Transaction ”), then, as
a condition of such Fundamental Transaction, lawful and adequate
provision shall be made whereby each Warrantholder shall thereafter
have the right to exercise this Warrant and receive upon the basis
and upon the terms and conditions herein specified and in lieu of
the Warrant Shares immediately theretofore issuable upon exercise
of this Warrant, such shares of stock, securities or assets as
would have been issuable or payable with respect to or in exchange
for a number of Warrant Shares equal to the number of Warrant
Shares immediately theretofore issuable upon exercise of this
Warrant, had this Warrant been exercised in full immediately prior
to such Fundamental Transaction (the “ Transaction
Consideration ”), and in any such case appropriate
provision (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of
the Company) shall be made with respect to the rights and interests
of each Warrantholder to the end that the provisions hereof
(including, without limitation, provision for adjustment of the
Exercise Price) shall thereafter be applicable, as nearly
equivalent as may be practicable in relation to any Transaction
Consideration deliverable upon the exercise hereof. The Company
shall not effect any such Fundamental Transaction unless prior to
or simultaneously with the consummation thereof the successor
corporation or entity (if other than the Company) resulting from
such
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consolidation or merger, or the
corporation or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring such assets
or other appropriate corporation or entity shall assume the
obligation to deliver to the Warrantholder, at the last address of
the Warrantholder appearing on the books of the Company, such
Transaction Consideration as, in accordance with the foregoing
provisions, the Warrantholder may be entitled to receive upon
exercise hereof, and the other obligations under this Warrant.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the terms of any
agreement pursuant to which a Fundamental Transaction is effected
shall include terms requiring any such successor or surviving
entity to comply with the provisions of this
Section 8(b) and insuring that this Warrant (or
any such replacement security) will be similarly adjusted upon any
subsequent transaction analogous t
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