THE OFFER AND
SALE OF THESE SECURITIES AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE
OF THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED
FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED, ASSIGNED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN
THE ABSENCE OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE
SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (B) AN AVAILABLE
EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN EACH CASE IN
ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR BLUE SKY LAWS
AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY
TO THE COMPANY AND ITS TRANSFER AGENT. 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 IN CONNECTION WITH ANY FORECLOSURE
OR TRANSFER OF THE SECURITIES, THE TRANSFEROR SHALL COMPLY WITH THE
PROVISIONS HEREIN, IN THE SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT AND THE
REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT, AND UPON FORECLOSURE OR TRANSFER OF
THE SECURITIES, SUCH FORECLOSING PERSON OR TRANSFEREE SHALL COMPLY
WITH ALL PROVISIONS CONTAINED HEREIN, IN THE SECURITIES PURCHASE
AGREEMENT AND THE REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT.
WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON
STOCK
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Warrant
No. 2010-[_______]
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Original Issue Date: September __,
2010
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Oncothyreon
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”),
hereby certifies that, for value received, ___________ or its
permitted registered assigns (the “ Holder ”),
is entitled to purchase from the Company up to a total of
__________ shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the
“ Common Stock ”), of the Company (each such
share, a “ Warrant Share ” and all such shares,
the “ Warrant Shares ”) at an exercise price per
share equal to $4.24 per share (as adjusted from time to time as
provided in Section 9 herein, the “ Exercise
Price ”), at any time and from time to time on or after
the six-month anniversary of the date hereof (the “
Original Issue Date ”) and through and including 5:30
P.M., New York City time, on the five (5) year anniversary of
the earlier of (a) the Effective Date whereby all Registrable
Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) may be
freely resold pursuant to a resale registration statement, and
(b) the date when all Registrable Securities (as defined in
the Registration Rights Agreement) can be sold under Rule 144
without any restriction or limitation and without the requirement
to be in compliance with Rule 144(c)(1) (the “
Expiration Date ”), and subject to the following terms
and conditions:
This Warrant
(this “ Warrant ”) is one of a series of similar
warrants issued pursuant to that certain Securities Purchase
Agreement, dated September 23, 2010 by and among the Company
and the Purchasers identified therein (the “ Purchase
Agreement ”). All such Warrants are referred to herein,
collectively, as the “ Warrants .”
1.
Definitions . In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in
this Warrant, capitalized terms that are not otherwise defined
herein have the meanings given to such terms in the Purchase
Agreement.
2.
Registration of Warrants . The Company shall register this
Warrant, upon records to be maintained by the Company for that
purpose (the “ Warrant Register ”), in the name
of the record Holder (which shall include the initial Holder or, as
the case may be, any registered assignee to which this Warrant is
permissibly assigned hereunder) from time to time. The Company may
deem and treat the registered Holder of this Warrant as the
absolute owner hereof for the purpose of any exercise hereof or any
distribution to the Holder, and for all other purposes, absent
actual notice to the contrary.
3.
Registration of Transfers . Subject to the restrictions on
transfer set forth in Section 4.1 of the Purchase Agreement and
compliance with all applicable securities laws, the Company shall
register the transfer of all or any portion of this Warrant in the
Warrant Register, upon surrender of this Warrant, with the Form of
Assignment attached as Schedule 2 hereto duly completed
and signed, to the Company at its address specified in the Purchase
Agreement and (x) delivery, at the request of the Company, of
an opinion of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Company to the
effect that the transfer of such portion of this Warrant may be
made pursuant to an available exemption from the registration
requirements of the Securities Act and all applicable state
securities or blue sky laws and (y) delivery by the transferee
of a written statement to the Company certifying that the
transferee is an “accredited investor” as defined in
Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and making the representations
and certifications set forth in Sections 3.2 of the Purchase
Agreement, to the Company at its address specified in the Purchase
Agreement. Upon any such registration or transfer, a new warrant to
purchase Common Stock in substantially the form of this Warrant
(any such new warrant, a “ New Warrant ”)
evidencing the portion of this Warrant so transferred shall be
issued to the transferee, and a New Warrant evidencing the
remaining portion of this Warrant not so transferred, if any, shall
be issued to the transferring Holder. The acceptance of the New
Warrant by the transferee thereof shall be deemed the acceptance by
such transferee of all of the rights and obligations in respect of
the New Warrant that the Holder has in respect of this Warrant. The
Company shall prepare, issue and deliver at its own expense any New
Warrant under this Section 3 .
4. Exercise
and Duration of Warrants .
(a) All or
any part of this Warrant shall be exercisable by the registered
Holder in any manner permitted by Section 10 of this
Warrant at any time and from time to time on or after the six-month
anniversary of the Original Issue Date and through and including
5:30 P.M., New York City time, on the Expiration Date, subject to
the conditions and restrictions contained in this Warrant. At 5:30
P.M., New York City time, on the Expiration Date, the portion of
this Warrant not exercised prior thereto shall be and become void
and of no value and this Warrant shall be terminated and no longer
outstanding.
(b) The
Holder may exercise this Warrant by delivering to the Company
(i) an exercise notice, in the form attached as
Schedule 1 hereto (the “ Exercise Notice
”), completed and duly signed, and (ii) payment of the
Exercise Price for the number of Warrant Shares as to which this
Warrant is being exercised (which may take the form of a
“cashless exercise” if so indicated in the Exercise
Notice and if a “cashless exercise” may occur at such
time pursuant to Section 10 below). The date on which
the Exercise Notice is delivered to the Company (as determined in
accordance with the notice provisions hereof) is an “
Exercise Date .” Within two (2) days following
the delivery of the Exercise Notice (the “ Payment
Deadline ”), the Holder shall make
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payment with
respect to the Exercise Price for the number of Warrant Shares as
to which this Warrant is being exercised; provided that the
Company’s obligations to deliver such Warrant Shares shall be
delayed on a day-for-day basis each day after the Payment Deadline
such payment of the Exercise Price is not paid. The delivery by (or
on behalf of) the Holder of the Exercise Notice and the applicable
Exercise Price, except to the extent this Warrant is exercised by a
“cashless” exercise pursuant to Section 10 hereto,
as provided above shall constitute the Holder’s certification
to the Company that its representations contained in
Sections 3.2(a), (b), (d), (f), (g), (k), (l) and
(q) of the Purchase Agreement are true and correct as of the
Exercise Date as if remade in their entirety (or, in the case of
any transferee Holder that is not a party to the Purchase
Agreement, such transferee Holder’s certification to the
Company that such representations are true and correct as to such
transferee Holder as of the Exercise Date). The Holder shall not be
required to physically surrender this Warrant to the Company until
the Holder has purchased all of the 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 three (3) Trading Days of the date the final
Exercise Notice is delivered to the Company. Execution and delivery
of the Exercise Notice shall have the same effect as cancellation
of the original Warrant and issuance of a New Warrant evidencing
the right to purchase the remaining number of Warrant Shares, if
any.
5. Delivery
of Warrant Shares .
(a) Subject
to Section 4(b) , upon exercise of this Warrant, the
Company shall promptly (but in no event later than 5:30 P.M., New
York City time, on the third (3 rd )
Trading Day after the Exercise Date (or the fourth (4
th ) Trading Day if the last of the Exercise
Notice, the Exercise Price (if applicable) and opinion of counsel
referred to below in this Section 5(a) (if applicable)
is delivered after 5:00 P.M., New York City time, on the Exercise
Date) (such time, the “ Delivery Deadline ”)
issue or cause to be issued and cause to be delivered to or upon
the written order of the Holder and in such name or names as the
Holder may designate (provided that, if the Registration Statement
is not effective and the Holder directs the Company to deliver a
certificate for the Warrant Shares in a name other than that of the
Holder or an Affiliate of the Holder, it shall deliver to the
Company on the Exercise Date an opinion of counsel reasonably
satisfactory to the Company to the effect that the issuance of such
Warrant Shares in such other name may be made pursuant to an
available exemption from the registration requirements of the
Securities Act and all applicable state securities or blue sky
laws), (i) a certificate for the Warrant Shares issuable upon
such exercise, free of restrictive legends, or (ii) an
electronic delivery of the Warrant Shares to the Holder’s
account at the Depository Trust Company (“ DTC
”) or a similar organization, unless in the case of clause
(i) and (ii) a registration statement covering the resale
of the Warrant Shares and naming the Holder as a selling
stockholder thereunder is not then effective or the Warrant Shares
are not freely transferable without volume and manner of sale
restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act, in
which case such Holder shall receive a certificate for the Warrant
Shares issuable upon such exercise with appropriate restrictive
legends. The Holder, or any Person permissibly so designated by the
Holder to receive Warrant Shares, shall be deemed to have become
the holder of record of such Warrant Shares as of the Exercise Date
with respect thereto. If the Warrant Shares can be issued without
restrictive legends, the Company shall, upon the written request of
the Holder, use its commercially reasonable efforts to deliver, or
cause to be delivered, Warrant Shares hereunder electronically
through DTC or another established clearing corporation performing
similar functions, if available.
(b) If by the
Delivery Deadline, the Company has failed to comply with
Section 5(a) , and if after such Delivery Deadline and
prior to the receipt of such Warrant Shares, the Holder
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purchases (in
an open market transaction) 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, within three
(3) Trading Days after the Company receives the Holder’s
written request and in the Holder’s sole discretion, either
(1) pay in cash to the Holder an amount equal to the
Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage
commissions, if any, that are reasonably documented in
Holder’s written request) for the shares of Common Stock so
purchased, at which point the Company’s obligation to deliver
and issue such Warrant Shares shall terminate or (2) promptly
honor its obligation to deliver to the Holder such Warrant Shares
and pay cash to the Holder in an amount equal to the excess (if
any) of Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage
commissions, if any, that are reasonably documented in
Holder’s written request) for the shares of Common Stock so
purchased in the Buy-In over the product of (A) the number of
shares of Common Stock purchased in the Buy-In, times (B) the
Closing Bid Price of a share of Common Stock on the Exercise
Date.
(c) To the
extent permitted by law, the Company’s obligations to issue
and deliver Warrant Shares in accordance with the terms hereof are
absolute and unconditional, irrespective of any action or inaction
by the Holder to enforce the same, any waiver or consent with
respect to any provision hereof, the recovery of any judgment
against any Person or any action to enforce the same. Nothing
herein shall limit the Holder’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 the Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrant as
required pursuant to the terms hereof.
6. Charges,
Taxes and Expenses . Issuance and delivery of the Warrant
Shares upon exercise of this Warrant shall be made without charge
to the Holder for any issue or transfer tax, transfer agent fee or
other incidental tax or expense in respect of the issuance of the
Warrant Shares, all of which taxes and expenses shall be paid by
the Company; provided, however , that the Company shall not
be required to pay any tax that may be payable in respect of any
transfer involved in the registration of Warrant Shares or the
Warrants in a name other than that of the Holder or an Affiliate
thereof. The Holder shall be responsible for all other tax
liabilities that may arise as a result of holding or transferring
this Warrant or receiving Warrant Shares upon exercise
hereof.
7.
Replacement of Warrant . If this Warrant is mutilated, lost,
stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued
in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation hereof, or
in lieu of and substitution for this Warrant, a New Warrant, but
only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the
Company of such loss, theft or destruction (in such case) and, in
each case, a customary and reasonable indemnity and surety bond, if
requested by the Company. Applicants for a New Warrant under such
circumstances shall also comply with such other reasonable
regulations and procedures and pay such other reasonable
third-party costs as the Company may prescribe. If a New Warrant is
requested as a result of a mutilation of this Warrant, then the
Holder shall deliver such mutilated Warrant to the Company as a
condition precedent to the Company’s obligation to issue the
New Warrant.
8.
Reservation of Warrant Shares . The Company covenants that
it will at all times reserve and keep available out of the
aggregate of its authorized but unissued and otherwise unreserved
Common Stock, solely for the purpose of enabling it to issue
Warrant Shares upon exercise of this Warrant as herein provided,
the number of Warrant Shares that are initially issuable and
deliverable upon the exercise of this entire Warrant, free from
preemptive rights or any other contingent purchase rights of
persons other than the Holder (taking into account the adjustments
and restrictions of Section 9 ). The Company covenants
that all Warrant Shares so issuable and deliverable shall, upon
issuance and the payment of the applicable Exercise Price (or upon
a
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“cashless
exercise” pursuant to Section 10 ) in accordance
with the terms hereof, be duly and validly authorized, issued and
fully paid and nonassessable. The Company will take all
commercially reasonable actions as may be necessary to assure that
such shares of Common Stock may be issued as provided herein
without violation of any applicable law or regulation, or of any
requirements of any securities exchange or automated quotation
system upon which the Common Stock may be listed.
9. Certain
Adjustments . The Exercise Price and number of Warrant Shares
issuable upon exercise of this Warrant are subject to adjustment
from time to time as set forth in this Section 9
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(a) Stock
Dividends and Splits . If the Company, at any time while this
Warrant is outstanding, (i) pays a stock dividend on its
Common Stock or otherwise makes a distribution on any class of
capital stock that is payable in shares of Common Stock,
(ii) subdivides its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a
larger number of shares, or (iii) combines its outstanding
shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, then in
each such case, the Exercise Price shall be multiplied by a
fraction, the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding immediately before such event and the
denominator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding immediately after such event. Any adjustments made
pursuant to clause (i) of this paragraph shall become
effective immediately after the record date for the determination
of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or distribution,
and any adjustment pursuant to clause (ii) or (iii) of
this paragraph shall become effective immediately after the
effective date of such subdivision or combination.
(b) Pro
Rata Distributions . If the Company, at any time while this
Warrant is outstanding, distributes to all holders of Common Stock
for no consideration (i) evidences of its indebtedness,
(ii) any security (other than a distribution of Common Stock
covered by the preceding paragraph) or (iii) rights or
warrants to subscribe for or purchase any security, or
(iv) any other asset, including cash dividends (in each case,
“ Distributed Property ”), then, upon any
exercise of this Warrant that occurs after the record date fixed
for determination of stockholders entitled to receive such
distribution, the Holder shall be entitled to receive, in addition
to the Warrant Shares otherwise issuable upon such exercise (if
applicable), the Distributed Property that such Holder would have
been entitled to receive in respect of such number of Warrant
Shares had the Holder been the record holder of such Warrant Shares
immediately prior to such record date without regard to any
limitation on exercise contained therein. Notwithstanding anything
herein to the contrary, the foregoing provisions in this
Section 9(b) shall not apply to, or be triggered by,
any rights issued by the Company (either separately or that attach
to any securities of the Company) in connection with any
stockholders rights agreement, poison pill or other similar
anti-takeover provision under the Company’s certificate of
incorporation, bylaws or other documents.
(c)
Fundamental Transactions .
(i) It shall be a
condition to the Company’s entry into a Fundamental
Transaction that (i) if the Successor Entity (or the Successor
Entity’s Parent Entity) is a publicly traded entity whose
common stock is quoted on or listed for trading on an U.S. national
securities exchange, the Successor Entity (or Parent Entity, if
applicable) assumes in writing (or remains bound by) all of the
obligations of the Company under this Warrant in accordance with
the provisions of this Section 9(c), including agreements (if
necessary) to deliver to each holder of the Warrants in exchange
for such Warrants a security of the Successor Entity (or Parent
Entity, if applicable) evidenced by a written instrument
substantially similar in form and substance to this Warrant,
including, without
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limitation, an
adjusted (if necessary) exercise price equal to the value for the
shares of Common Stock reflected by the terms of such Fundamental
Transaction, and exercisable for a corresponding number of shares
of capital stock equivalent to the shares of Common Stock
acquirable and receivable upon exercise of this Warrant (without
regard to any limitations on the exercise of this Warrant) prior to
such Fundamental Transaction, and (ii) if the Successor Entity
is not a publicly traded entity whose common stock is quoted on or
listed for trading on an U.S. national securities exchange, the
Successor assumes in writing (or remains bound by) all of the
obligations of the Company under this Warrant pursuant to written
agreements, including (if necessary) agreements to deliver to each
holder of Warrants in exchange for such Warrants a security of the
Successor Entity evidenced by a written instrument substantially
similar in form and substance to this Warrant exercisable for the
consideration that would have been issuable in the Fundamental
Transaction in respect of the Warrant Shares had this Warrant been
exercised immediately prior to the consummation of the Fundamental
Transaction. Upon the occurrence of any such Fundamental
Transaction, the Successor Entity (or Parent Entity, if applicable)
shall succeed to, and be substituted for (so that from and after
the date of such Funda
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