Ex. 10.13
WARRANT
THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS WARRANT HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED
UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES
LAWS. THE
SECURITIES HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED FOR INVESTMENT AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED
FOR SALE,
SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION
STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED, OR
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IN A
FORM REASONABLY
SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER
SAID ACT OR
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE
144 UNDER SAID
ACT.
GULF COAST OIL & GAS, INC.
WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK
Warrant No.: GCOG-5-5
Number of Shares:
2,833,333
Warrant Exercise Price:
$ 0.03
Expiration Date:
June 1, 2015
Date of Issuance: June 1, 2008
Gulf Coast Oil & Gas, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the
"COMPANY"), hereby
certifies that, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt
and sufficiency
of which are hereby acknowledged, YA GLOBAL INVESTMENTS, L.P. (the
"HOLDER"),
the registered holder hereof or its permitted assigns, is entitled,
subject to
the terms set forth below, to purchase from the Company upon
surrender of this
Warrant, at any time or times on or after the date hereof, but not
after 11:59
P.M. Eastern Time on the Expiration Date (as defined herein) up to
Two Million
Eight Hundred Thirty-Three Thousand Three hundred Thirty-Three
(2,833,333) fully
paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock (as defined herein)
of the Company
(the "WARRANT SHARES") at the exercise price per share provided in
Section 1(b)
below or as subsequently adjusted; provided, however, that in no
event shall the
holder be entitled to exercise this Warrant for a number of Warrant
Shares in
excess of that number of Warrant Shares which, upon giving effect
to such
exercise, would cause the aggregate number of shares of Common
Stock
beneficially owned by the holder and its affiliates to exceed 4.99%
of the
outstanding shares of the Common Stock following such exercise,
except within
sixty (60) days of the Expiration Date (however, such restriction
may be waived
by Holder (but only as to itself and not to any other holder) upon
not less than
65 days prior notice to the Company). For purposes of the foregoing
proviso, the
aggregate 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 the determination of
such proviso
is being made, but shall exclude shares of Common Stock which would
be issuable
upon (i) exercise of the remaining, unexercised Warrants
beneficially owned by
the holder and its affiliates and (ii) exercise or conversion of
the unexercised
or unconverted portion of any other securities of the Company
beneficially owned
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by the holder and its affiliates (including, without limitation,
any convertible
notes or preferred stock) subject to a limitation on conversion or
exercise
analogous to the limitation contained herein. Except as set forth
in the
preceding sentence, for purposes of this paragraph, beneficial
ownership shall
be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of
1934, as amended. For purposes of this Warrant, 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 (1) the
Company's most recent
Form 10-QSB or Form 10-KSB, as the case may be, (2) a more recent
public
announcement by the Company or (3) any other notice by the Company
or its
transfer agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding.
Upon the written request of any holder, the Company shall promptly,
but in no
event later than one (1) Business Day following the receipt of such
notice,
confirm in writing to any such 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 exercise of Warrants (as
defined below)
by such holder and its affiliates since the date as of which such
number of
outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported.
Section 1.
(a) This Warrant is issued pursuant to the Forebearance
Agreement dated the date hereof between the Company and the Holder
(the
"FOREBEARANCE AGREEMENT"), or issued in exchange or substitution
thereafter or
replacement thereof. Each Capitalized term used, and not otherwise
defined
herein, shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Securities
Purchase
Agreement dated February 1, 2006 entered into by and between the
Company and the
Buyers listed on Schedule I attached thereto (the "SECURITIES
PURCHASE
AGREEMENT").
(b) DEFINITIONS. The following words and terms as used in this
Warrant shall have the following meanings:
(i) "APPROVED STOCK PLAN" means a stock option plan
that has been approved by the Board of Directors of the Company
prior to the
date of the Securities Purchase Agreement, pursuant to which the
Company's
securities may be issued only to any employee, officer or director
for services
provided to the Company.
(ii) "BUSINESS
DAY" means any day other than
Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in the City
of New York
are authorized or required by law to remain closed.
(iii) "CLOSING BID PRICE" means the closing bid price
of Common Stock as quoted on the Principal Market (as reported by
Bloomberg
Financial Markets ("BLOOMBERG") through its "Volume at Price"
function).
(iv) "COMMON STOCK" means (i) the Company's common
stock, par value $0.001 per share, and (ii) any capital stock into
which such
Common Stock shall have been changed or any capital stock resulting
from a
reclassification of such Common Stock.
(v) "EVENT OF DEFAULT" means an event of default
under the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Convertible Debentures
issued in
connection therewith, or the Forebearance Agreement.
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(vi) "EXCLUDED SECURITIES" means, (a) shares issued
or deemed to have been issued by the Company pursuant to an
Approved Stock Plan,
(b) shares of Common Stock issued or deemed to be issued by the
Company upon the
conversion, exchange or exercise of any right, option, obligation
or security
outstanding on the date prior to date of the Securities Purchase
Agreement,
provided that the terms of such right, option, obligation or
security are not
amended or otherwise modified on or after the date of the
Securities Purchase
Agreement, and provided that the conversion price, exchange price,
exercise
price or other purchase price is not reduced, adjusted or otherwise
modified and
the number of shares of Common Stock issued or issuable is not
increased
(whether by operation of, or in accordance with, the relevant
governing
documents or otherwise) on or after the date of the Securities
Purchase
Agreement, and (c) the shares of Common Stock issued or deemed to
be issued by
the Company upon conversion of the Convertible Debentures or
exercise of the
Warrants.
(vii) "EXPIRATION DATE" means the date set forth on
the first page of this Warrant.
(viii) "ISSUANCE DATE" means the date hereof.
(ix) "OPTIONS" means any rights, warrants or options
to subscribe for or purchase Common Stock or Convertible
Securities.
(x) "PERSON" means an individual, a limited liability
company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a trust,
an
unincorporated organization and a government or any department or
agency
thereof.
(xi) "PRIMARY MARKET" means on any of (a) the
American Stock Exchange, (b) New York Stock Exchange, (c) the
Nasdaq Global
Select Market, (d) the Nasdaq Global Market, (e) the Nasdaq Capital
Market, or
(e) the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board ("OTCBB")
(xii) "SECURITIES ACT" means the Securities Act of
1933, as amended.
(xiii) "WARRANT" means this Warrant and all Warrants
issued in exchange, transfer or replacement thereof.
(xiv) "WARRANT EXERCISE PRICE" shall be $0.03 or as
subsequently adjusted as provided in Section 8 hereof.
(c) Other Definitional Provisions.
(i) Except as otherwise specified herein, all
references herein (A) to the Company shall be deemed to include the
Company's
successors and (B) to any applicable law defined or referred to
herein shall be
deemed references to such applicable law as the same may have been
or may be
amended or supplemented from time to time.
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(ii) When used in this Warrant, the words "HEREIN",
"HEREOF", and "HEREUNDER" and words of similar import, shall refer
to this
Warrant as a whole and not to any provision of this Warrant, and
the words
"SECTION", "SCHEDULE", and "EXHIBIT" shall refer to Sections of,
and Schedules
and Exhibits to, this Warrant unless otherwise specified.
(iii) Whenever the context so requires, the neuter
gender includes the masculine or feminine, and the singular number
includes the
plural, and vice versa.
Section 2. EXERCISE OF WARRANT.
Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, this Warrant may be
exercised by the holder hereof then registered on the books of the
Company, pro
rata as hereinafter provided, at any time on any Business Day on or
after the
opening of business on such Business Day, commencing with the first
day after
the date hereof, and prior to 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time on the
Expiration Date (i)
by delivery of a written notice, in the form of the subscription
notice attached
as EXHIBIT A hereto (the "EXERCISE NOTICE"), of such holder's
election to
exercise this Warrant, which notice shall specify the number of
Warrant Shares
to be purchased, payment to the Company of an amount equal to the
Warrant
Exercise Price(s) applicable to the Warrant Shares being purchased,
multiplied
by the number of Warrant Shares (at the applicable Warrant Exercise
Price) as to
which this Warrant is being exercised (plus any applicable issue or
transfer
taxes) (the "AGGREGATE EXERCISE PRICE") in cash or wire transfer of
immediately
available funds and the surrender of this Warrant (or an
indemnification
undertaking with respect to this Warrant in the case of its loss,
theft or
destruction) to a common carrier for overnight delivery to the
Company as soon
as practicable following such date.
In the event of any exercise of the rights represented by this
Warrant
in compliance with this Section 2, the Company shall on or before
the fifth
(5th) Business Day following the date of receipt of the Exercise
Notice, the
Aggregate Exercise Price and this Warrant (or an indemnification
undertaking
with respect to this Warrant in the case of its loss, theft or
destruction) and
the receipt of the representations of the holder specified in
Section 6 hereof,
if requested by the Company (the "EXERCISE DELIVERY DOCUMENTS"),
and if the
Common Stock is DTC eligible, credit such aggregate number of
shares of Common
Stock to which the holder shall be entitled to the holder's or its
designee's
balance account with The Depository Trust Company; provided,
however, if the
holder who submitted the Exercise Notice requested physical
delivery of any or
all of the Warrant Shares, or, if the Common Stock is not DTC
eligible then the
Company shall, on or before the fifth (5th) Business Day following
receipt of
the Exercise Delivery Documents, issue and surrender to a common
carrier for
overnight delivery to the address specified in the Exercise Notice,
a
certificate, registered in the name of the holder, for the number
of shares of
Common Stock to which the holder shall be entitled pursuant to such
request.
Upon delivery of the Exercise Notice and Aggregate Exercise Price
referred to in
clause (i) or (ii) above the holder of this Warrant shall be deemed
for all
corporate purposes to have become the holder of record of the
Warrant Shares
with respect to which this Warrant has been exercised. In the case
of a dispute
as to the determination of the Warrant Exercise Price, the Closing
Bid Price or
the arithmetic calculation of the Warrant Shares, the Company shall
promptly
issue to the holder the number of Warrant Shares that is not
disputed and shall
submit the disputed determinations or arithmetic calculations to
the holder via
facsimile within one (1) Business Day of receipt of the holder's
Exercise
Notice.
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(a) If the holder and the Company are unable to agree upon the
determination of the Warrant Exercise Price or arithmetic
calculation of the
Warrant Shares within one (1) day of such disputed determination or
arithmetic
calculation being submitted to the holder, then the Company shall
immediately
submit via facsimile (i) the disputed determination of the Warrant
Exercise
Price or the Closing Bid Price to an independent, reputable
investment banking
firm or (ii) the disputed arithmetic calculation of the Warrant
Shares to its
independent, outside accountant. The Company shall cause the
investment banking
firm or the accountant, as the case may be, to perform the
determinations or
calculations and notify the Company and the holder of the results
no later than
forty-eight (48) hours from the time it receives the disputed
determinations or
calculations. Such investment banking firm's or accountant's
determination or
calculation, as the case may be, shall be deemed conclusive absent
manifest
error.
(b) Unless the rights represented by this Warrant shall have
expired or shall have been fully exercised, the Company shall, as
soon as
practicable and in no event later than five (5) Business Days after
any exercise
and at its own expense, issue a new Warrant identical in all
respects to this
Warrant exercised except it shall represent rights to purchase the
number of
Warrant Shares purchasable immediately prior to such exercise under
this Warrant
exercised, less the number of Warrant Shares with respect to which
such Warrant
is exercised.
(c) No fractional Warrant Shares are to be issued upon any pro
rata exercise of this Warrant, but rather the number of Warrant
Shares issued
upon such exercise of this Warrant shall be rounded up or down to
the nearest
whole number.
(d) If the Company or its Transfer Agent shall fail for any
reason or for no reason to issue to the holder within ten (10) days
of receipt
of the Exercise Delivery Documents, a certificate for the number of
Warrant
Shares to which the holder is entitled or to credit the holder's
balance account
with The Depository Trust Company for such number of Warrant Shares
to which the
holder is entitled upon the holder's exercise of this Warrant, the
Company
shall, in addition to any other remedies under this Warrant or
otherwise
available to such holder, pay as additional damages in cash to such
holder on
each day the issuance of such certificate for Warrant Shares is not
timely
effected an amount equal to 0.025% of the product of (A) the sum of
the number
of Warrant Shares not issued to the holder on a timely basis and to
which the
holder is entitled, and (B) the Closing Bid Price of the Common
Stock for the
trading day immediately preceding the last possible date which the
Company could
have issued such Common Stock to the holder without violating this
Section 2.
(e) If within ten (10) days after the Company's receipt of the
Exercise Delivery Documents, the Company fails to deliver a new
Warrant to the
holder for the number of Warrant Shares to which such holder is
entitled
pursuant to Section 2 hereof, then, in addition to any other
available remedies
under this Warrant, or otherwise available to such holder, the
Company shall pay
as additional damages in cash to such holder on each day after such
tenth (10th)
day that such delivery of such new Warrant is not timely effected
in an amount
equal to 0.25% of the product of (A) the number of Warrant Shares
represented by
the portion of this Warrant which is not being exercised and (B)
the Closing Bid
Price of the Common Stock for the trading day immediately preceding
the last
possible date which the Company could have issued such Warrant to
the holder
without violating this Section 2.
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Section 3. COVENANTS AS TO COMMON STOCK. The Company hereby
covenants
and agrees as follows:
(a) This Warrant is, and any Warrants issued in substitution
for or replacement of this Warrant will upon issuance be, duly
authorized and
validly issued.
(b) All Warrant Shares which may be issued upon the exercise
of the rights represented by this Warrant will, upon issuance, be
validly
issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free from all taxes, liens
and charges
with respect to the issue thereof.
(c) During the period within which the rights represented by
this Warrant may be exercised, the Company will at all times have
authorized and
reserved at least one hundred percent (100%) of the number of
shares of Common
Stock needed to provide for the exercise of the rights then
represented by this
Warrant and the par value of said shares will at all times be less
than or equal
to the applicable Warrant Exercise Price. If at any time the
Company does not
have a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock authorized and
available,
then the Company shall call and hold a special meeting of its
stockholders
within sixty (60) days of that time for the sole purpose of
increasing the
number of authorized shares of Common Stock.
(d) If at any time after the date hereof the Company shall
file a registration statement, the Company shall include the
Warrant Shares
issuable to the holder, pursuant to the terms of this Warrant and
shall
maintain, so long as any other shares of Common Stock shall be so
listed, such
listing of all Warrant Shares from time to time issuable upon the
exercise of
this Warrant; and the Company shall so list on each national
securities exchange
or automated quotation system, as the case may be, and shall
maintain such
listing of, any other shares of capital stock of the Company
issuable upon the
exercise of this Warrant if and so long as any shares of the same
class shall be
listed on such national securities exchange or automated quotation
system.
(e) The Company will not, by amendment of its Articles of
Incorporation or through any reorganization, transfer of assets,
consolidation,
merger, dissolution, issue or sale of securities, or any other
voluntary action,
avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the
terms to be
observed or performed by it hereunder, but will at all times in
good faith
assist in the carrying out of all the provisions of this Warrant
and in the
taking of all such action as may reasonably be requested by the
holder of this
Warrant in order to protect the exercise privilege of the holder of
this Warrant
against dilution or other impairment, consistent with the tenor and
purpose of
this Warrant. The Company will not increase the par value of any
shares of
Common Stock receivable upon the exercise of this Warrant above the
Warrant
Exercise Price then in effect, and (ii) will take all such actions
as may be
necessary or appropriate in order that the Company may validly and
legally issue
fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock upon the
exercise of this
Warrant.
(f) This Warrant will be binding upon any entity succeeding to
the Company by merger, consolidation or acquisition of all or
substantially all
of the Company's assets.
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Section 4. TAXES. The Company shall pay any and all taxes, except
any
applicable withholding, which may be payable with respect to the
issuance and
delivery of Warrant Shares upon exercise of this Warrant.
Section 5. WARRANT HOLDER NOT DEEMED A STOCKHOLDER. Except as
otherwise
specifically provided herein, no holder, as such, of this Warrant
shall be
entitled to vote or receive dividends or be deemed the holder of
shares of
capital stock of the Company for any purpose, nor shall anything
contained in
this Warrant be construed to confer upon the holder hereof, as
such, any of the
rights of a stockholder of the Company or any right to vote, give
or withhold
consent to any corporate action (whether any reorganization, issue
of stock,
reclassification of stock, consolidation, merger, conveyance or
otherwise),
receive notice of meetings, receive dividends or subscription
rights, or
otherwise, prior to the issuance to the holder of this Warrant of
the Warrant
Shares which he or she is then entitled to receive upon the due
exercise of this
Warrant. In addition, nothing contained in this Warrant shall be
construed as
imposing any