EXHIBIT
4.2
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.
SERIES C COMMON STOCK PURCHASE
WARRANT
HEPALIFE TECHNOLOGIES,
INC.
Warrant No. C-______
Warrant Shares:
_________
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Initial Exercise Date:
________________
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THIS SERIES C 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 second year anniversary of the Initial Exercise
Date (the “ Termination
Date ”) but not
thereafter, to subscribe for and purchase from HepaLife
Technologies, Inc., a Florida 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 Subscription Agreement (the “ Subscription
Agreement ”), the effective date of which is
______________ , between the Company and the subscriber
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 of a duly executed facsimile copy of the Notice of Exercise
Form annexed hereto (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); 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
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contrary,
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 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
$0.55, subject to
adjustment hereunder (the “ Exercise Price ”).
c)
Exercise Limitations .
i.
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 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 (x) the
Company’s most recent periodic or annual report, 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
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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 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.
d)
Mechanics of Exercise .
i. Delivery of
Certificates Upon Exercise . Certificates for shares purchased
hereunder shall be transmitted by the transfer agent of the Company
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 a participant in such system and there is an
effective Registration Statement permitting the resale of the
Warrant Shares by the Holder, 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
(“ Warrant Share
Delivery Date ”).
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 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), $5 per Trading Day (increasing to $10 per
Trading Day on the fifth Trading Day after such liquidated damages
begin to accrue) for each Trading Day after such 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 its transfer agent to transmit to the Holder a
certificate or certificates representing the Warrant Shares
pursuant to Section 2(e)(i) by the
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Warrant
Share Delivery Date, then the Holder will have the right to rescind
such exercise.
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 its transfer agent to transmit to the Holder
a certificate or certificates representing the Warrant Shares
pursuant to an exercise on or before 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 (1) 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 (A) the number of Warrant Shares that the
Company was required to deliver to the Holder in connection with
the exercise at issue times (B) the price at which the sell order
giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed, and (2) 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 (1) 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 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
the Warrant as required pursuant to the terms hereof.
v. No
Fractional Shares or Scrip . No fractional shares or scrip
representing fractional shares shall be issued upon the exercise of
this Warrant. As to any fraction of a share which Holder would
otherwise be entitled to purchase upon such exercise, the Company
shall at its election, either pay a cash adjustment in respect of
such final fraction in an amount equal to such fraction multiplied
by the Exercise Price or round up to the next whole
share.
vi. Charges,
Taxes and Expenses . Issuance of certificates for Warrant
Shares shall be made without charge to the Holder for any issue or
transfer tax or other incidental expense in respect of the issuance
of such certificate, all of which taxes and expenses shall be paid
by the Company, and such certificates shall be issued in the name
of the Holder or in such name or names as may be directed by the
Holder; provided
, however , that 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 executed by the Holder; and the Company may require, as
a condition thereto, the payment of a sum sufficient to reimburse
it for any transfer tax incidental thereto.
vii. Closing
of Books . The Company will
not close its stockholder books or records in any manner which
prevents the timely exercise of this Warrant, pursuant to the terms
hereof.
Section 3
. Certain Adjustments
.
a)
Stock Dividends and Splits . If the Company, at any time
while this Warrant is outstanding: (A) pays a stock dividend or
otherwise make a distribution or distributions on shares of
its
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Common
Stock or any other equity or equity equivalent securities payable
in shares of Common Stock (which, for avoidance of doubt, shall not
include any shares of Common Stock issued by the Company upon
exercise of this Warrant), (B) subdivides outstanding shares of
Common Stock into a larger number of shares, (C) combines
(including by way of reverse stock split) outstanding shares of
Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (D) issues by
reclassification of shares of the Common Stock any shares of
capital stock of the Company, then in each case the Exercise Price
shall be multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be
the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if
any) outstanding immediately before such event and of which the
denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding immediately after such event and the number of shares
issuable upon exercise of this Warrant shall be proportionately
adjusted such that the aggregate Exercise Price of this Warrant
shall remain unchanged. Any adjustment made pursuant to this
Section 3(a) shall become effective immediately after the record
date for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such
dividend or distribution and shall become effective immediately
after the effective date in the case of