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Exhibit
10.23
TRX, INC.
WARRANT
AGREEMENT
This Warrant Agreement (the
“Agreement”) is entered into as of the 16th day of
November, 2001 (the “Effective Date”), by and between
TRX, Inc., a Georgia corporation (the “Company”) and
Sabre Investments, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(“Holder”).
W I T N E S S E T
H:
WHEREAS, the Company has
agreed to grant to Holder warrants (the “Warrants”) to
purchase shares of Common Stock, $.01 par value per share, of the
Company (the “Common Stock”) in the amounts and subject
to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth;
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in
consideration of the premises and mutual promises herein contained,
and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are acknowledged, the parties agree as
follows:
(a) Subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein, the Company hereby grants to Holder
the right to purchase from the Company the number of validly
issued, fully paid and nonassessable shares of common stock of the
Company (“ Common Stock ”) in the amount set
forth in Section l(b)(i) below at an initial exercise price per
share equal to Eleven Dollars and Three Hundred Twenty Six/10000
($11.0326) (the “ Exercise Price ”). The number
of shares of Common Stock purchasable under this Warrant and the
Exercise Price are subject to adjustment as provided
below.
(b) Determination of the
Number of Shares Represented by this Warrant and Adjustment
of Exercise Price .
(i) The number of shares of
Common Stock that may be purchased upon the exercise of this
Warrant shall be 640,285 shares (the “Warrant
Shares”).
(ii) In the case that the
Company shall, after the date hereof, issue or enter into an
agreement to issue additional shares of Common Stock, or securities
convertible into Common Stock (except for (A) shares of capital
stock issued upon conversion of any shares of the Company’s
preferred stock, (B) shares of capital stock issued or issuable
pursuant to options or purchase agreements, warrants, capital
appreciation rights, calls, convertible shares, convertible debt
securities or other rights to acquire the Company’s
authorized and unissued capital stock which are outstanding on the
date hereof, (C) shares issued to options granted pursuant to the
2000 Stock Incentive Plan with an exercise price of greater than
$5.51, (D) shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to a subdivision
of the Common Stock or stock dividend pursuant to which the number
of shares for which this Warrant is exercisable and the purchase
price therefore are adjusted pursuant to Section 7 hereof, (E)
shares of capital stock issued pursuant to the exchange, conversion
or exercise of any securities convertible into Common Stock that
have previously been incorporated into computations hereunder on
the date when such
convertible securities were
issued) (a “ Dilutive Issuance ”) at a purchase
price per share for which Common Stock is issuable less than the
Exercise Price then in effect, then (I) the Warrant Shares for
which the Warrants are exercisable shall be adjusted to equal the
number determined by multiplying the Warrant Shares for which the
Warrants are exercisable immediately prior to such adjustment by a
fraction (the “Adjustment Fraction”), of which (x) the
numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance plus the number of
shares of Common Stock in which such Dilutive Issuance is
convertible and (y) the denominator shall be (1) the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such
Dilutive Issuance plus (2) the number of shares of Common Stock
which the aggregate amount of consideration, if any, received by
the Company for the total number of such additional shares of
Common Stock so issued or sold in such Dilutive Issuance would
purchase at the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such
Dilutive Issuance; and (II) the Exercise Price shall be adjusted to
equal the price obtained by dividing the Exercise Price immediately
prior to such adjustment by the Adjustment Fraction; provided, that
such adjustments shall be made only if the number of Warrant Shares
for which the Warrants are exercisable determined from such
adjustment shall be greater than the number of Warrant Shares for
which the Warrants are exercisable in effect immediately prior to
the Dilutive Issuance.
(iii) Promptly after any
adjustment in the Exercise Price pursuant to this Section 1, the
Company shall give written notice to the Holders of the Exercise
Price following such adjustment, together with a schedule of
computations of such adjustment and confirmation from the
Company’s auditors of such adjustment.
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Exercise of Warrants . |
(a) General . Upon
satisfaction of the conditions set forth herein, the Warrants may
be exercised by Holder’s delivery to the Secretary of the
Company of a written notice of exercise executed by Holder (the
“Notice of Exercise”). The Notice of Exercise shall be
substantially in the form set forth as Exhibit A, attached hereto
and made a part hereof, and shall identify the number of Warrants
that are being exercised.
(b) Partial Exercise .
Holder may exercise Warrants to purchase fewer than all of the
Warrant Shares then exercisable, but such exercise may not be made
for (i) if prior to an IPO, less than 100,000 Warrant Shares or the
total remaining Warrant Shares subject to the Warrant, if less than
100,000 shares or (ii) if after an IPO, less than the maximum
amount of shares of Common Stock that could be sold by Holder
pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
during the calendar month of such exercise or the total remaining
Warrant Shares subject to the Warrant, if less than such maximum
amount.
(c) Fractional Shares or
Scrip . No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional
shares shall be issued upon the exercise of the Warrants. With
respect to any fraction of a share called for upon the exercise of
the Warrants, an amount equal to such fraction multiplied by the
current Warrant Price shall be paid in cash to Holder.
(d) Due Diligence .
Upon three days advance written notice, Holder shall be entitled to
perform reasonable due diligence of Company in connection with
Holder’s proposed exercise of Warrants. All due diligence
shall be performed during normal business hours and in a
manner
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so as to minimize disruption to Company.
All information obtained in due diligence shall be subject to a
confidentiality agreement reasonably acceptable to Company.
Holder’s right to conduct due diligence is personal to Holder
and nonassignable and may only be exercised by Holder three times
in any twelve-month period.
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Termination of Warrants . |
Notwithstanding any provision
contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the Warrants shall not
be exercisable either in whole or in part from and after 5:00 p.m.,
Atlanta, Georgia time, on the 10 th
anniversary
of the Effective Date.
If at any time the Company
proposes to (a) sell, lease, exchange or convey all or
substantially all of its property, business or assets to any other
entity, (b) liquidate, dissolve or wind up the Company, whether
voluntarily or involuntarily or (c) merge with or into any other
corporation or effect a reorganization in a transaction in which
the shareholders of the Company immediately before the transaction
own, directly or indirectly, immediately after the transaction less
than a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the
surviving entity (or its parent) (each of the events listed in
(a)-(c) shall be referred to individually as an “Early
Termination Event”), then the Company shall give Holder
twenty (20) days notice of the proposed effective date of any Early
Termination Event. All unexercised Warrants will terminate unless
exercised by the effective date of any Early Termination Event. In
the event the Company proposes to engage in an initial public
offering whereby the Common Stock will be available for purchase by
the public at a valuation of the Company at no less than
$150,000,000 and with aggregate cash proceeds to the Company of at
least $20 million (the “IPO”), then the Company may
purchase the Warrants at a purchase price determined in accordance
with Schedule 4. In the event (i) Holder has breached any material
provision of the Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note, Senior
Secured Convertible Note Purchase Agreement, Rights Agreement and
Security Agreement between the Company and Holder of even date
herewith, and has failed to cure such breach within 20 days after
receipt of written notice of such breach (the “Cure
Period”); or (ii) of a Section 11.2 Event (as defined in the
Rights Agreement by and between the Holder and the Company of even
date herewith), all unexercised Warrants will terminate
immediately. In addition, the Company may not exercise any
unexercised Warrants during the Cure Period.
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Assignment of Warrants . |
(a) General . Except
as otherwise provided in this Section 5, the Warrants are not
assignable or transferable by Holder.
(b) Assignments to
Affiliates . Subject to compliance with applicable laws, this
Warrant and all rights hereunder are transferable, in whole or in
part, at the office or agency of the Company, by Holder in person
or by duly authorized attorney, to any Affiliate of Holder other
than Travelocity.com L.P. or its successors, assigns or direct or
indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries upon surrender of this Warrant
and the Assignment Form attached hereto properly endorsed. For
purposes of this Agreement, the term “Affiliate” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Rule 405 of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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(c) Assignment to Third
Party . Subject to compliance with applicable laws, Holder may
transfer the Warrant and all rights hereunder in the event such
transfer is at least five years after the Effective Date and BCD
Technology S.A. (“BCD”) and its Affiliates in the
aggregate no longer own at least 51% of the capital stock of the
Company as follows:
(i) In the event that Sabre
desires to assign or transfer in whole or in part this Warrant and
rights hereunder (the “Sabre Offered Warrant”), unless
a transfer is permitted pursuant to Section 5(b), Sabre agrees to
first give written notice to BCD and Hogg Robinson Holdings BV
(“Hogg”) (the “Sabre First Offer Notice”)
of its intent to sell the Sabre Offered Warrant, and to negotiate
with BCD and Hogg in good faith the price and corresponding terms
of the pro rata purchase by BCD and Hogg of the Sabre
Offered Warrant. BCD and Hogg shall either jointly or individually
provide Sabre with a proposal as to the final price and terms of
such purchase by the forty-fifth (45) day after the Sabre First
Offer Notice. In the event Sabre accepts a proposal from BCD and/or
Hogg (such accepted proposal shall be the “Final Stakeholder
Proposal”), each of BCD and Hogg shall have the right to
participate pro rata in such purchase regardless of whether
it was such party’s proposal that was accepted. In the event
that either BCD or Hogg does not purchase its entire pro
rata portion of the Sabre Offered Warrant, the other of BCD or
Hogg shall be notified thereof and shall have three (3) days to
agree and provide notice in writing to purchase all or part of the
remaining Sabre Offered Warrant pursuant to the terms of the Final
Stakeholder Proposal. In the event that thereafter, BCD and Hogg
have not agreed to collectively purchase the entirety of the Sabre
Offered Warrant, Sabre shall provide notice to the Company thereof
and the Company shall have fifteen (15) days to agree and provide
notice in writing to purchase such remaining shares pursuant to the
terms of the Final Stakeholder Proposal. The transfer of the Sabre
Offered Warrant to BCD, Hogg and the Company hereunder shall be
free and clear of any liens, claims and encumbrances (other than
the terms of this Agreement) pursuant to such documentation as BCD,
Hogg and the Company, as applicable, shall reasonably require. The
Company covenants and agrees that in the event of a pro rata
purchase of the Sabre Offered Warrant by BCD and Hogg pursuant to
this Section 2(c), the Company shall issue such individual Warrants
as necessary to effect such purchase.
(ii) In the event Sabre does
not accept the joint or individual proposals from BCD and/or Hogg,
Sabre shall notify BCD and Hogg in writing within fifteen (15) days
after receipt of such proposals that their final price and terms
have been rejected. In the event such proposal(s) are rejected,
Sabre agrees to give written notice to the Company thereof (the
“Rejection Notice”) and shall negotiate with the
Company in good faith the price and corresponding terms of the
purchase by the Company of the Sabre Offered Warrant. The Company
shall provide Sabre with a proposal as to the final price and terms
of such purchase (the “Final Company Proposal”) by the
fifteenth (15) day after the Sabre Rejection Notice (the
“Sabre Third Party Date”). In the event Sabre accepts
the Final Company Proposal, the transfer of the Sabre Offered
Warrant to the Company hereunder shall be free and clear of any
liens, claims and encumbrances (other than the terms of this
Agreement) pursuant to such documentation as the Company shall
reasonably require. In the event Sabre does not accept the Final
Company Proposal, Sabre shall notify the Company in writing within
fifteen (15) days that its final price and terms have been
rejected.
(iii) In the event Sabre
rejects any and all proposals by BCD, Hogg and the Company as to
the final price and terms for the purchase of the Sabre Offered
Warrant, Sabre
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may sell the Sabre Offered
Warrant to a third party or parties (the “Sabre Third Party
Sale”); provided, however, that any Sabre Third Party Sale
must be evidenced by a letter of intent which must be signed within
six (6) months of the Sabre Third Party Date and the contemplated
transaction must be completed within one (1) year of the Sabre
Third Party Date. The Sabre Third Party Sale shall be for a price
not less than 95% of the highest proposal as to the final price and
terms offered by BCD and/or Hogg and the Company. In addition, the
transfer of the Sabre Offered Warrant to the third party or parties
may only be made as long as (i) the transfer does not have an
adverse regulatory or legal effect on the Company or any subsidiary
or related entity, and (ii) each transferee agrees in writing to be
bound by the terms of this Agreement.
(iv) If the consideration
offered by the third party or parties in the Sabre Third Party Sale
involves property other than cash, for purposes of Section 5(c),
such property shall be deemed to be cash in an amount equal to the
Equivalent Value of the property. Sabre and the Company shall
initially negotiate with each other to agree upon the Equivalent
Value within thirty (30) days of the date of the letter of intent
for such Sabre Third Party Sale. In the event that Sabre and the
Company cannot reach an agreement on the Equivalent Value within
such 30 day period, the Equivalent Value will be determined by two
appraisers, one chosen and paid for by Sabre and one chosen and
paid for by the Company. If the two appraisal values (the
“Appraisal”) differ by 10% or less (such percentage
difference to be computed by subtracting the lesser of the
Appraisals from the greater of the Appraisals and dividing that
difference by the greater of the Appraisals), then the Equivalent
Value of the property sh
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