EXHIBIT 10.24
THIS WARRANT WAS
ORIGINALLY ISSUED ON SEPTEMBER 2, 2004, AND HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, AND MAY NOT BE
TRANSFERRED IN VIOLATION OF SUCH ACT, THE RULES AND REGULATIONS
THEREUNDER OR THE PROVISIONS OF THIS WARRANT. THIS WARRANT IS
ALSO SUBJECT TO A WARRANT AGREEMENT DATED AS OF JANUARY 10,
2002 BY AND BETWEEN THE ISSUER HEREOF (THE “ COMPANY
”) AND THE ORIGINAL HOLDER HEREOF. A COPY OF SUCH
AGREEMENT WILL BE FURNISHED WITHOUT CHARGE BY THE COMPANY TO THE
HOLDER HEREOF UPON REQUEST.
STOCK PURCHASE
WARRANT
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Date of Issuance:
September 2, 2004
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Certificate No. W-50
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For
value received, GARDENBURGER, INC., an Oregon corporation (the
“ Company ”), hereby grants to ANNEX HOLDINGS I
LP (the “ Initial Purchaser ”), or its
transferees and assigns, the right to purchase from the Company a
total of 557,981 Warrant Shares (as defined herein) at a price
equal to $0.28 per share (such price per share, the “
Initial Exercise Price ”). This Warrant is one
of the warrants (including any warrants issued in exchange or
substitution therefor, collectively, the “ Warrants
”) issued pursuant to the terms of the Warrant Agreement,
dated as of January 10, 2002 (as amended, restated or modified
from time to time, the “ Warrant Agreement ”),
by and between the Company and the Initial Purchaser, as transferee
of this Warrant from DRESDNER KLEINWORT BENSON PRIVATE EQUITY
PARTNERS LP, a Delaware limited liability partnership. The
Initial Purchaser agrees to be bound by all of the terms and
provisions of the Warrant Agreement under that certain Instrument
of Adherence dated September 2, 2004. The exercise price and
number of Warrant Shares (and the amount and kind of other
securities) for which this Warrant is exercisable shall be subject
to adjustment as provided herein. Certain capitalized terms
used herein are defined in Section 5 hereof.
This Warrant is subject to the following
provisions:
SECTION 1. Exercise of Warrant
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A.
Exercise Period . The purchase rights represented by
this Warrant may be exercised, in whole or in part, at any time and
from time to time after the date hereof to and including
5:00 p.m., New York time, on January 10, 2012 or, if such
day is not a business day, on the next preceding business day (the
“ Exercise Period ”).
B.
Exercise Procedure .
(i)
This Warrant shall be deemed to have been exercised when all of the
following items have been delivered to the Company (the “
Exercise Time ”):
(a)
a completed Exercise Agreement, as described in
Section 1C below, executed by the Person exercising all
or part of the purchase rights represented by this Warrant (the
“ Purchaser ”);
(b)
this Warrant; and
(c)
either (i) a check payable to the Company in an amount equal
to the product of the Exercise Price (as defined in
Section 2 ) multiplied by the number of Warrant Shares
being purchased upon such exercise (the “ Aggregate
Exercise Price ”), (ii) the surrender to the Company
of securities of the Company or its subsidiaries having a value
equal to the Aggregate Exercise Price of the Warrant Shares being
purchased upon such exercise (which value in the case of debt
securities shall be deemed to be equal to the aggregate
outstanding
principal amount thereof plus all accrued and
unpaid interest thereon, and in the case of shares of Common Stock
shall be the Fair Market Value thereof), or (iii) the delivery
of a notice to the Company that the Purchaser is exercising the
Warrant by authorizing the Company to reduce the number of Warrant
Shares subject to the Warrant by the number of shares having an
aggregate Fair Market Value equal to the Aggregate Exercise
Price.
(ii)
Certificates for Warrant Shares purchased upon exercise of this
Warrant shall be delivered by the Company to the Purchaser within
five days after the date of the Exercise Time together with any
cash payable in lieu of a fraction of a share pursuant to
Section 13 hereof. Unless this Warrant has
expired or all of the purchase rights represented hereby have been
exercised, the Company shall prepare a new Warrant, substantially
identical hereto, representing the rights formerly represented by
this Warrant which have not expired or been exercised and shall,
within such five-day period, deliver such new Warrant to the Person
designated for delivery in the Exercise Agreement.
(iii)
The Warrant Shares issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant shall
be deemed to have been issued to the Purchaser at the Exercise
Time, and the Purchaser shall be deemed for all purposes to have
become the Registered Holder of such Warrant Shares at the Exercise
Time.
(iv)
The issuance of certificates for Warrant Shares upon exercise of
this Warrant shall be made without charge to the Registered Holder
or the Purchaser for any issuance tax in respect thereof or other
cost incurred by the Company in connection with such exercise and
the related issuance of Warrant Shares.
(v)
The Company shall not close its books against the transfer of this
Warrant or of any Warrant Shares issued or issuable upon the
exercise of this Warrant in any manner which interferes with the
timely exercise of this Warrant.
(vi)
The Company shall assist and cooperate with the Registered Holder
or any Purchaser required to make any governmental filings or
obtain any governmental approvals prior to or in connection with
any exercise of this Warrant.
(vii)
Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, if an exercise of any
portion of this Warrant is to be made in connection with a public
offering or a Sales Event, such exercise may at the election of the
Registered Holder be conditioned upon the consummation of such
transaction, in which case such exercise shall not be deemed to be
effective until immediately prior to the consummation of such
transaction.
(viii)
The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available out of
its authorized but unissued Common Stock solely for the purpose of
issuance upon the exercise of the Warrants, the maximum number of
Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of all outstanding
Warrants. All Warrant Shares which are so issuable shall,
when issued and upon the payment of the applicable Exercise Price,
be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free
from all taxes, liens, adverse claims and charges. The
Company shall take all such actions as may be necessary to ensure
that all such Warrant Shares may be so issued without violation by
the Company of any applicable law or governmental regulation or any
requirements of any domestic or foreign securities exchange upon
which shares of Common Stock, or other securities constituting
Warrant Shares, may be listed (except for official notice of
issuance which shall be immediately delivered by the Company upon
each such issuance). The Company shall use its best efforts
to cause the Warrant Shares, immediately upon such exercise, to be
listed on any domestic or foreign securities exchange upon which
shares of Common Stock, or other securities constituting Warrant
Shares, are listed at the time of such exercise. The Company
shall not take any action which would cause the number of
authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock to be less than the
number of shares required to be reserved hereunder for issuance
upon exercise of the Warrants.
(ix)
If the Warrant Shares issuable by reason of exercise of this
Warrant are convertible into or exchangeable for any other stock or
securities of the Company, the Company shall, at the
Purchaser’s option and upon surrender of this Warrant by such
Purchaser as provided above together with any notice, statement or
payment required to effect such conversion or exchange of Warrant
Shares, deliver to such Purchaser (or as otherwise specified by
such Purchaser) a certificate or certificates representing the
stock or
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securities into which the Warrant Shares
issuable by reason of such conversion are convertible or
exchangeable, registered in such name or names and in such
denomination or denominations as such Purchaser has
specified.
(x)
The Company shall not, and shall not permit its subsidiaries to,
directly or indirectly, by any action (including, without
limitation, reincorporating in a jurisdiction other than Oregon or
Delaware, amending its Articles of Incorporation or through any
Organic Change (as defined in Section 2D ), the
issuance or sale of securities or any other voluntary action) avoid
or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms
of this Warrant (except for any action which ratably affects all
Warrant Shares and shares of Common Stock), but shall at all times
in good faith assist in the carrying out of all such terms of this
Warrant. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
the Company shall (a) obtain all such authorizations,
exemptions or consents from any public regulatory body having
jurisdiction thereof as may be necessary to enable the Company to
perform its obligations under this Warrant and (b) not
undertake any reverse stock split, combination, reorganization or
other reclassification of its capital stock which would have the
effect of making this Warrant exercisable for less than one share
of Common Stock. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Registered Holders may waive any of their rights under this
Warrant, including without limitation, the antidilution rights set
forth in Section 2 below.
C.
Exercise Agreement . Upon any exercise of this
Warrant, the Purchaser shall deliver to the Company an Exercise
Agreement in substantially the form set forth in
Exhibit I hereto, except that if the Warrant Shares are
not to be issued in the name of the Registered Holder, the Exercise
Agreement shall also state the name of the Person to whom the
certificates for the Warrant Shares are to be issued, and if the
number of Warrant Shares to be issued does not include all of the
Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder, it shall also state the name
of the Person to whom a new Warrant for the unexercised portion of
the rights hereunder is to be issued.
D.
Automatic Exercise .
(i)
This Warrant shall be deemed to have been exercised in full
automatically in a cashless exercise as described in
Section 1B(i)(c)(iii) above upon the closing of a
transaction constituting a Sales Event.
(ii)
If a Sales Event occurs in which the proceeds to the holder of this
Warrant exceed the aggregate Exercise Price for the Warrant Shares,
the exercise of this Warrant will be deemed to occur, and the
Exercise Time will be deemed to be, immediately prior to the
closing of such Sales Event; provided, that this Warrant shall be
cancelled in the event that the proceeds to the holder of this
Warrant would be less than or equal to the aggregate Exercise Price
for the Warrant Shares. The provisions of
Section 1B(ii) through (x) will apply to such
exercise.
SECTION 2. Adjustment of Exercise
Price and Number of Shares . In order to prevent dilution
of the rights granted under this Warrant, the Initial Exercise
Price shall be subject to adjustment from time to time as provided
in this Section 2 (as so adjusted, the “
Exercise Price ”), and the number of Warrant Shares
obtainable upon exercise of this Warrant shall be subject to
adjustment from time to time, each as provided in this
Section 2 .
A.
Adjustment of Exercise Price and Number of Shares upon Issuance
of Common Stock .
(i)
If and whenever, on or after the Date of Issuance, the Company
issues or sells, or in accordance with Section 2B is
deemed to have issued or sold (other than pursuant to a Permitted
Issuance) any shares of Common Stock for a consideration per share
less than the per share Exercise Price immediately prior to such
issuance or sale, then immediately upon such issuance or sale, the
Exercise Price shall be reduced to a price (calculated to the
nearest cent) determined by multiplying the Exercise Price in
effect immediately prior to such issuance or sale by a fraction,
(a) the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of
Common Stock Deemed Outstanding immediately prior to such issuance
or sale plus the number of shares of Common Stock which the
aggregate consideration received by the Company for the total
number of additional shares of Common Stock actually so issued
would purchase at the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to
such issuance or sale, and (b) the denominator of which will
be the number of shares of Common Stock Deemed Outstanding
immediately prior to such issuance or sale plus the number of
additional shares of Common Stock actually so issued.
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(ii)
Upon each such adjustment of the Exercise Price hereunder, the
number of Warrant Shares acquirable upon exercise of this Warrant
shall be adjusted to equal the number of shares determined by
multiplying the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such
adjustment by the number of Warrant Shares acquirable upon exercise
of this Warrant immediately prior to such adjustment and dividing
the product thereof by the Exercise Price resulting from such
adjustment.
B.
Effect on Exercise Price of Certain Events . For
purposes of determining the adjusted Exercise Price under
Section 2A , the following shall be applicable:
(i)
Issuance of Rights or Options . If after the Date of
Issuance the Company in any manner grants any rights or options
(other than pursuant to a Permitted Issuance) to subscribe for or
to purchase Common Stock or any stock or other securities
convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock (including
without limitation convertible common stock) (such rights or
options being herein called “ Options ” and such
convertible or exchangeable stock or securities being herein called
“ Convertible Securities ”) and the price per
share for which Common Stock is issuable upon the exercise of such
Options or upon conversion or exchange of such Convertible
Securities is less than the Exercise Price then in effect, then the
total maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the
exercise of such Options or upon conversion or exchange of the
total maximum amount of such Convertible Securities issuable upon
the exercise of such Options shall be deemed to be outstanding and
to have been issued and sold by the Company for such price per
share. For purposes of this paragraph, the “price per
share for which Common Stock is issuable upon exercise of such
Options or upon conversion or exchange of such Convertible
Securities” is determined by dividing (A) the total
amount, if any, received or receivable by the Company as
consideration for the granting of such Options, plus the minimum
aggregate amount of additional consideration payable to the Company
upon the exercise of all such Options, plus in the case of such
Options which relate to Convertible Securities, the minimum
aggregate amount of additional consideration, if any, payable to
the Company upon the issuance or sale of such Convertible
Securities and the conversion or exchange thereof, by (B) the
total maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon
exercise of such Options or upon the conversion or exchange of all
such Convertible Securities issuable upon the exercise of such
Options. No further adjustment of the Exercise Price shall be
made upon the actual issuance of such Common Stock or of such
Convertible Securities upon the exercise of such Options or upon
the actual issuance of such Common Stock upon conversion or
exchange of such Convertible Securities.
(ii)
Issuance of Convertible Securities . If after the Date
of Issuance the Company in any manner issues or sells any
Convertible Securities (other than pursuant to a Permitted
Issuance) and the price per share for which Common Stock is
issuable upon such conversion or exchange thereof is less than the
Exercise Price then in effect, then the maximum number of shares of
Common Stock issuable upon conversion or exchange of such
Convertible Securities shall be deemed to be outstanding and to
have been issued and sold by the Company for such price per
share. For the purposes of this paragraph, the “price
per share for which Common Stock is issuable upon such conversion
or exchange thereof” is determined by dividing (A) the
total amount received or receivable by the Company as consideration
for the issuance or sale of such Convertible Securities, plus the
minimum aggregate amount of additional consideration, if any,
payable to the Company upon the conversion or exchange thereof, by
(B) the total maximum number of shares of Common Stock
issuable upon the conversion or exchange of all such Convertible
Securities. No further adjustment of the Exercise Price shall
be made upon the actual issue of such Common Stock upon conversion
or exchange of such Convertible Securities, and if any such
issuance or sale of such Convertible Securities is made upon
exercise of any Options for which adjustments of the Exercise Price
have been or are to be made pursuant to other provisions of this
Section 2B , no further adjustment of the Exercise
Price shall be made by reason of such issuance or sale.
(iii)
Change in Option Price or Conversion Rate . If the
purchase price provided for in any Options, the additional
consideration, if any, payable upon the issue, conversion or
exchange of any Convertible Securities, or the rate at which any
Convertible
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