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Exhibit 4.1
Execution Copy
WARRANT
THE SECURITIES EVIDENCED BY THIS
WARRANT HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE " SECURITIES ACT "), OR ANY OTHER
APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS AND HAVE BEEN ISSUED IN RELIANCE UPON AN
EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT
AND SUCH OTHER SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY
INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD,
ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED, HYPOTHECATED OR
OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF, EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO A TRANSACTION
WHICH IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH
REGISTRATION.
DECEMBER 15, 2008
Warrant to Purchase up to 300,000 shares of Common Stock of
BioSante Pharmaceuticals Inc. (the " Company ").
In consideration for Kingsbridge Capital Limited (the "
Investor ") agreeing to enter into that certain Common Stock
Purchase Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the
Investor and the Company (the " Agreement "), the Company
hereby agrees that the Investor or any other Warrant Holder (as
defined below) is entitled, on the terms and conditions set forth
below, to purchase from the Company at any time during the Exercise
Period (as defined below) up to 300,000 fully paid and
non-assessable shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share,
of the Company (the " Common Stock ") at the Exercise Price
(as defined below), as the same may be adjusted from time to time
pursuant to Section 6 hereof. The resale of the shares
of Common Stock or other securities issuable upon exercise or
exchange of this Warrant is subject to the provisions of the
Registration Rights Agreement. Capitalized terms used herein
and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings given them in the
Agreement.
Section 1.
Definitions .
" Affiliate " shall mean any Person that,
directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls
or is controlled by, or is under direct or indirect common control
with any other Person. For the purposes of this definition, "
control ," when used with respect to any Person, means the
power to direct the management and policies of such Person,
directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by contract or otherwise, and the term "
controls " and " controlled " have meanings
correlative to the foregoing.
" Closing Price " as of any particular day shall mean the
closing price per share of the Common Stock as reported by the
Principal Market on such day.
" Exercise Period " shall mean that period beginning six
months after the date of this Warrant and continuing until the
earlier of (i) the expiration of the five-year period
thereafter, or (ii) a Funding Default, subject in each case to
earlier termination in accordance with Section 6 hereof.
" Exercise Price " as of the date hereof shall mean $4.00
per Share, as the same may be adjusted in accordance with the terms
hereof.
" Funding Default " shall mean a failure by Investor to
accept a Draw Down Notice made by the Company and to acquire and
pay for the Shares in accordance therewith within three
(3) Trading Days following the delivery of such Shares to the
Investor, provided such Draw Down Notice was made in accordance
with the terms and conditions of the Agreement (including the
satisfaction or waiver of the conditions to the obligation of the
Investor to accept a Draw Down set forth in Article VII of the
Agreement), provided further, that such failure was reasonably
within the control of the Investor.
" Per Share Warrant Value " shall mean the difference
resulting from subtracting the Exercise Price from the average of
the Closing Prices on the five Trading Days immediately preceding
the Exercise Date.
" Person " shall mean an individual, a corporation, a
partnership, a limited liability company, an association, a trust
or other entity or organization, including a government or
political subdivision or an agency or instrumentality thereof.
" Principal Market " shall mean the NASDAQ Global Select
Market, the NASDAQ Global Market, the NASDAQ Capital Market, the
American Stock Exchange or the New York Stock Exchange, whichever
is at the time the principal trading exchange or market for the
Common Stock.
" SEC " shall mean the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission.
" Trading Day " shall mean any day other than a Saturday
or a Sunday on which the Principal Market is open for trading in
equity securities.
" Warrant Holder " shall mean the Investor or any
permitted assignee or permitted transferee of all or any portion of
this Warrant.
" Warrant Shares " shall mean those shares of Common
Stock received or to be received upon exercise of this Warrant.
Section 2.
Exercise .
(a)
Method of Exercise . This Warrant may be exercised in
whole or in part (but not as to a fractional share of Common
Stock), at any time and from time to time during the Exercise
Period, by the Warrant Holder by surrender of this Warrant, with
the form of exercise attached hereto as Exhibit A
completed and duly executed by the Warrant Holder (the "
Exercise Notice "), to the Company at the address set forth
in Section 10.4 of the Agreement, accompanied by payment of
the Exercise Price multiplied by the number of shares of Common
Stock for which this Warrant is being exercised (the " Aggregate
Exercise Price "). The later of the date on which an
Exercise Notice or payment of the Aggregate Exercise Price (unless
this Warrant is exercised in accordance with
Section 2(c) below) is received by the Company in
accordance with this clause (a) shall be deemed an "
Exercise Date ."
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(b)
Payment of Aggregate Exercise Price . Subject to
paragraph (c) below, payment of the Aggregate Exercise Price
shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an
account designated by the Company. If the amount of the
payment received by the Company is less than the Aggregate Exercise
Price, the Warrant Holder will be notified of the deficiency and
shall make payment in that amount within three (3) Trading
Days. In the event the payment exceeds the Aggregate Exercise
Price, the Company will refund the excess to the Warrant Holder
within five (5) Trading Days of receipt.
(c)
Cashless Exercise . In the event that the Warrant
Shares to be received by the Warrant Holder upon exercise of the
Warrant may not be resold pursuant to an effective registration
statement or an exemption to the registration requirements of the
Securities Act and applicable state laws, the Warrant Holder may,
as an alternative to payment of the Aggregate Exercise Price upon
exercise in accordance with paragraph (b) above, elect to
effect a cashless exercise by so indicating on the Exercise Notice
and including a calculation of the number of shares of Common Stock
to be issued upon such exercise in accordance with the terms hereof
(a " Cashless Exercise "). If a registration statement
on Form S-3 under the Securities Act or such other form as
deemed appropriate by counsel to the Company for the registration
for the resale by the Warrant Holder of (x) the shares of
Common Stock of the Company that may be purchased under the
Agreement, (y) the Warrant Shares, or (z) any securities
issued or issuable with respect to any of the foregoing by way of
exchange, stock dividend or stock split or in connection with a
combination of shares, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or
other reorganization or otherwise, has been declared effective by
the SEC and remains effective, the Company may, in its sole
discretion, permit the Warrant Holder to effect a Cashless Exercise
or require the Warrant Holder to pay the Exercise Price of the
Warrant Shares being purchased by the Warrant Holder under this
Warrant. In the event of a Cashless Exercise, the Warrant
Holder shall receive that number of shares of Common Stock
determined by (i) multiplying the number of Warrant Shares for
which this Warrant is being exercised by the Per Share Warrant
Value and (ii) dividing the product by the average of
the Closing Prices on the five Trading Days immediately preceding
the Exercise Date, rounded to the nearest whole share. The
Company shall cancel the total number of Warrant Shares equal to
the excess of the number of the Warrant Shares for which this
Warrant is being exercised over the number of Warrant Shares to be
received by the Warrant Holder pursuant to such Cashless
Exercise.
(d)
Replacement Warrant . In the event that the Warrant is
not exercised in full, the number of Warrant Shares shall be
reduced by the number of such Warrant Shares for which this Warrant
is exercised, and the Company, at its expense, shall forthwith
issue and deliver to or upon the order of the Warrant Holder a new
Warrant of like tenor in the name of the Warrant Holder, reflecting
such adjusted number of Warrant Shares.
Section 3.
Ten Percent Limitation . The Warrant Holder may not
exercise this Warrant such that the number of Warrant Shares to be
received pursuant to such exercise aggregated with all other shares
of Common Stock that are then beneficially owned or deemed to be
beneficially owned by the Warrant Holder would result in
(i) the Warrant Holder owning more than 9.9% of all of such
Common Stock as would be outstanding on such Exercise Date, as
determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the
Exchange Act or (ii) the Company being
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required to file any notification or report
forms under the Hart Scott Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of
1976, as amended.
Section 4.
Delivery of Warrant Shares .
(a)
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Warrant, as soon as
practicable after the exercise of this Warrant in full or in part,
and in any event within ten (10) Trading Days thereafter, the
Company at its expense (including, without limitation, the payment
by it of any applicable issue taxes) will cause to be deposited
with the Depositary Trust Company via book-entry, the number of
validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable Warrant Shares to
which the Warrant Holder shall be entitled on such exercise,
together with any other stock or other securities or property
(including cash, where applicable) to which the Warrant Holder is
entitled upon such exercise in accordance with the provisions
hereof.
(b)
This Warrant may not be exercised as to fractional shares of Common
Stock. In the event that the exercise of this Warrant, in
full or in part, would result in the issuance of any fractional
share of Common Stock, then in such event the Warrant Holder shall
receive the number of shares rounded down to the nearest whole
share.
Section 5.
Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Company
.
(a)
The Warrant Shares, when issued in accordance with the terms
hereof, will be duly authorized and, when paid for and issued in
accordance with the terms hereof, shall be validly issued, fully
paid and non-assessable.
(b)
The Company shall take all commercially reasonable action and
proceedings as may be required and permitted by applicable law,
rule and regulation for the legal and valid issuance of this
Warrant and the Warrant Shares to the Warrant Holder.
(c)
The Company has authorized and reserved for issuance to the Warrant
Holder the requisite number of shares of Common Stock to be issued
pursuant to this Warrant. The Company shall at all times
reserve and keep available, solely for issuance and delivery as
Warrant Shares hereunder, such shares of Common Stock as shall from
time to time be issuable as Warrant Shares.
(d)
From the date hereof through the last date on which this Warrant is
exercisable, the Company shall take all commercially reasonable
action to ensure that the Common Stock remains listed or quoted on
the Principal Market.
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Section 6.
Adjustment of the Exercise Price . The Exercise Price
and, accordingly, the number of Warrant Shares issuable upon
exercise of the Warrant, shall be subject to adjustment from time
to time upon the happening of certain events as
follows:
(a)
Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger, Mandatory Share
Exchange, Sale or Transfer .
(i)
Upon occurrence of any of the events specified in subsection
(a)(ii) below (the " Adjustment Events ") while this
Warrant is unexpired and not exercised in full, the Warrant Holder
may in its sole discretion require the Company, or any successor or
purchasing corporation, as the case may be, without payment of any
additional consideration therefor, upon surrender by the Warrant
Holder of the Warrant to be replaced, to execute and deliver to the
Warrant Holder a new Warrant providing that the Warrant Holder
shall have the right to exercise such new Warrant (upon terms not
less favorable to the Warrant Holder than those then applicable to
this Warrant) and to receive upon such exercise, in lieu of each
share of Common Stock theretofore issuable upon exercise of this
Warrant, the kind and amount of shares of stock, other securities,
money or property receivable upon such Adjustment Event by the
holder of one share of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this
Warrant had this Warrant been exercised immediately prior to such
Adjustment Event, and the Exercise Price shall be proportionately
adjusted, as applicable, such that the aggregate amount to be paid
by the Warrant Holder to acquire all of the Warrant Shares upon
exercise after such Adjustment Event shall be equal to the
aggregate amount to be paid by the Warrant Holder to acquire all of
the Warrant Shares upon exercise prior to such Adjustment
Event. Such new Warrant shall provide for adjustments that
shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the
adjustments provided for in this Section 6.
(ii)
The Adjustment Events shall be (1) any reclassification or
change of Common Stock (other than a change in par value, as a
result of a subdivision or combination of Common Stock or in
connection with an Excluded Merger or Sale), and (2) any
consolidation, merger or mandatory share exchange of the Company
with or into another corporation (other than a merger or
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