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 .
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 a
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