Exhibit
10.1
THE SECURITIES EVIDENCED
BY THIS WARRANT OR ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE HEREOF ARE OR WILL BE
RESTRICTED SECURITIES AND MAY NOT BE SOLD OR OFFERED FOR SALE
EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED,
AND ALL APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
RENTECH,
INC.
WARRANT
To Purchase 5,000,000 Shares of
Common Stock
Warrant No.
W-4
Date of Issuance: June 23, 2009
VOID
AFTER June 23, 2014
THIS WARRANT (the “ Warrant
”) CERTIFIES THAT, for value received, ClearFuels Technology
Inc., or permitted registered assigns (the “
Holder ”), is entitled, upon the terms and subject to
the limitations on exercise and the conditions hereinafter set
forth, at any time during the applicable Exercise Period (defined
below), to subscribe for and purchase at the applicable Exercise
Price (defined below) from Rentech, Inc., a Colorado corporation
(the “ Company ”), up to 5,000,000 shares (the
“ Shares ”) of the common stock of the Company,
par value $0.01 per share (the “ Common Stock
”).
1. DEFINITIONS - As used
herein, the following terms shall have the following respective
meanings:
(A) “ Bloomberg ”
shall mean Bloomberg Financial Markets (or a comparable reporting
service of national reputation selected by the Company and
reasonably acceptable to the Holder if Bloomberg Financial Markets
is not then reporting sales prices of the Common Stock).
(B) “ Business Day
” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or a day
on which banks in New York City are authorized or required by law
to close.
(C) “ Construction
Financing ” shall mean the debt and/or equity financing
for the first commercial-scale facility (i.e. with an output of
1,000 or more barrels per day of synthetic fuels) using the
combined ClearFuels-Rentech process, pursuant to one or more loan
agreements and equity purchase agreements between the applicable
project entity and third-party lenders and investors approved by
the Company, which financing results in aggregate net proceeds
reasonably sufficient to the project entity for the construction of
such facility, provided such financing occurs on or prior to
December 31, 2013.
(D) “ Exercise Period
” shall mean, as applicable, the First Exercise Period, the
Second Exercise Period or the Third Exercise Period, each as
defined in Section 2 .
(E) “ Exercise Price
” shall mean (i) with respect to each of the Closing Shares,
$.60 per share, (ii) with respect to each of the Qualified
Financing Shares, the average of the daily Volume-Weighted Average
Prices of the Common Stock for the ten (10) consecutive Trading
Days immediately preceding (but not including) the closing date of
a Qualified Financing or a Construction Financing, as applicable,
and (iii) with respect to each of the Construction Financing
Shares, the average of the daily Volume-Weighted Average Prices of
the Common Stock for the ten (10) consecutive Trading Days
immediately preceding (but not including) the closing date of a
Construction Financing, in each case, subject to adjustment
pursuant to Section 5 below.
(F) “ Financing Deadline
” shall mean March 24, 2010, provided that, in the
event that the board of directors of ClearFuels Technology Inc.
delivers written notice to the Company prior to such date that it
has determined in good faith that the closing of a Qualified
Financing is reasonably likely to occur with the ninety (90) days
following such date and such closing actually occurs within such
ninety-day period, then the “Financing Deadline” shall
be extended to such closing of the Qualified Financing.
(G) “ Qualified
Financing ” shall mean one or more closings of a capital
raise or raises by ClearFuels Technology Inc. for aggregate gross
proceeds of at least $25,000,000 on terms acceptable to ClearFuels
Technology Inc.’s Board of Directors, provided such closings
occur on or prior to the Financing Deadline.
(H) “ Securities Act
” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.
(I) “ Trading Day
” shall mean (i) any day on which the Common Stock is listed
or quoted and traded on any eligible Trading Market, (ii) if
the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted and traded on any
eligible Trading Market, then a day on which trading occurs on the
OTC Bulletin Board (or any successor thereto), or (iii) if trading
does not occur on the OTC Bulletin Board (or any successor
thereto), any Business Day.
(J) “ Trading Market
” shall mean the NYSE Alternext US, New York Stock Exchange,
NASDAQ Capital Market, NASDAQ Global Market, NASDAQ Global Select
Market or other market or exchange on which the Common Stock is
listed or traded.
(K) “ Volume-Weighted
Average Price ” shall mean, with respect to any Trading
Day, the volume-weighted average sales price for the Common
Stock for such Trading Day on the NYSE Alternext US or other
Trading Market where such security is listed or traded as reported
by Bloomberg.
(L) “Warrant Shares
” shall mean, collectively, the Closing Shares, the Qualified
Financing Shares and Construction Financing Shares, each as defined
in Section 2 , in each case as adjusted in accordance with
the terms hereof.
2. EXERCISE PERIOD
2.1 CLOSING SHARES - Subject
to the terms and conditions hereof, this Warrant may be exercised
for 2,000,000 Shares (as such number of Shares may be adjusted
pursuant to Section 5, the “ Closing Shares ”),
at any time during the period (the “ First Exercise
Period ”) commencing on the Date of Issuance and ending
on the close of business on the fifth anniversary of the Date of
Issuance.
2.2 QUALIFIED FINANCING
SHARES . In addition to the Closing Shares and
subject to the terms and conditions hereof, this Warrant may be
exercised for an additional 1,500,000 Shares (as such number of
Shares may be adjusted pursuant to Section 5 , the “
Qualified Financing Shares ”), at any time during the
period (the “ Second Exercise Period ”)
commencing on the closing date of a Qualified Financing and ending
on the close of business on the fifth anniversary of the Date of
Issuance; provided that if the closing date of a Qualified
Financing does not occur on or prior to the Financing Deadline,
then the Second Exercise Period shall not commence and the Holder
shall have no right hereunder to exercise the Warrant for the
Qualified Financing Shares, except as provided for in Section
2.3 .
2.3 CONSTRUCTION FINANCING
SHARES . In addition to the Closing Shares and, if
the Second Exercise Period has commenced pursuant to Section
2.2 above, the Qualified Financing Shares, and subject to the
terms and conditions hereof, this Warrant may be exercised for the
remaining 1,500,000 Shares (as such number of Shares may be
adjusted pursuant to Section 5 , the “ Construction
Financing Shares ”), and, if the Second Exercise Period
has not commenced pursuant to Section 2.2 above, for the
Qualified Financing Shares at any time during the period (the
“ Third Exercise Period ”) commencing on the
closing date of the Construction Financing and ending on the close
of business on the fifth anniversary of the Date of Issuance;
provided that if the closing date of the Construction
Financing does not occur on or prior to December 31, 2013, then the
Third Exercise Period shall not commence and the Holder shall have
no right hereunder to exercise the Warrant for the Construction
Financing Shares (or for the Qualified Financing Shares if the
Second Exercise Period has not previously commenced pursuant to
Section 2.2 above).
Upon expiration of any Exercise Period, the
right to exercise this Warrant for the applicable Warrant Shares
shall terminate and shall be of no further force or effect (except
with respect to the Second Exercise Period as provided above in
this Section 2.3 ). Upon expiration of all of the
Exercise Periods, this Warrant shall terminate in its entirety and
shall be of no further force or effect.
3. EXERCISE OF
WARRANT
3.1 EXERCISE . The
rights represented by this Warrant may be exercised in whole or in
part at any time during the applicable Exercise Period, by delivery
of the following to the Company at its address set forth below (or
at such other address as the Company may designate by notice in
writing to the Holder):
(A) An executed and duly completed
Notice of Exercise in the form attached hereto;
(B) Payment of the applicable
Exercise Price in cash or pursuant to a cashless exercise as
provided for in Section 3.2 ; and
Each exercise of this Warrant shall be
irrevocable. Execution and delivery of the Notice of
Exercise 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, in
accordance with the terms and conditions of this
Warrant.
Upon issuance for cash in accordance with this
Section 3.1 , it is anticipated that the Warrant Shares
would be “restricted securities” under Rule 144(a)
under the Securities Act or any successor provision and all Warrant
Shares delivered to Holder shall be in certificated form and bear
restrictive legends in compliance with the Securities
Act.
3.2 CASHLESS
EXERCISE
In lieu of a cash payment for the Exercise Price
in Section 3.1 above, the Holder may provide written notice
for a cashless election, in which event the Company shall issue to
the Holder a number of Warrant Shares computed using the following
formula:
X = Y (A-B)
A
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the number of
Shares to be issued to the Holder
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the number of
Shares purchasable under this Warrant or, if only a portion of this
Warrant is being exercised, the portion of this Warrant being
canceled (at the date of such calculation)
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the fair market
value of one share of the Company’s Common Stock (at the date
of such calculation)
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Exercise Price
(as adjusted to the date of such calculation)
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For purposes of the above calculation, the
“fair market value” of one share of Common Stock shall
mean (i) the average of the Volume-Weighted Average Prices for
the Shares for the ten (10) consecutive Trading Days
immediately preceding (but not including) the applicable Exercise
Date, or (ii) if the foregoing does not apply, the volume-weighted
average sales price of the Shares during the same period in the
over-the-counter market on the pink sheets or bulletin board for
such security as reported by Bloomberg, or if no sales price is so
reported for the Shares, the last bid price of the Shares as
reported by Bloomberg or (iii) if none of the foregoing applies,
the fair market value shall be as determined by the Board of
Directors of the Company in the exercise of its good faith
judgment.
The Company shall provide to the Holder prompt
written notice if the Company is unable to issue the Warrant Shares
via Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission (“DWAC”)
transfer (or otherwise without restrictive legend), in which case
the Warrant Shares would be “restricted securities”
under Rule 144(a) under the Securities Act or any successor
provision.
For purposes of Rule 144(d) promulgated under
the Securities Act, as in effect on the date hereof, it is intended
that the Warrant Shares issued in a Cashless Exercise shall be
deemed to have been acquired by the Holder, and the holding period
for the Warrant Shares shall be deemed to have commenced, on the
date this Warrant was originally issued.
3.3 EFFECT OF EXERCISE
. This Warrant shall be deemed to have been exercised on
the date this Warrant is surrendered and the applicable Exercise
Price and a duly completed Notice of Exercise are 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
Warrant Shares for all purposes, as of the date this Warrant has
been exercised irrespective of the date of delivery of such
certificate or certificates, except that, if the date of such
surrender and payment is a date when the stock transfer
books of the Company are closed, such person shall be deemed
to have become the holder of such shares at the close of business
on the next succeeding date on which the stock transfer books are
open. In the event certificates for Warrant Shares are
to be issued in a name other than the name of the Holder, this
Warrant when surrendered for exercise shall be accompanied by the
Assignment Form attached hereto duly