Deutsche Bank Trust Company
Americas
KeyBank National
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Defined
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Warrant
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Issuance of
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Execution of
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Registration
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Transfers and
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Exercise of
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Adjustment of
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Consolidation,
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Notice of
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Payment of
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Mutilated or
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Reservation of
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Notices of
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Holders’
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Expenses
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Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the
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Registration
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Indemnification
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Notices to the
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Supplements and
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Successors
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Termination
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Governing Law;
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Benefits of
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Counterparts
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Enforcement
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Further
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Entire
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EXHIBIT A
— Form of Warrant Certificate
EXHIBIT B
— Allocation of Warrants
ii
WARRANT
AGREEMENT (this “ Warrant Agreement ”) dated as
of May 18, 2009 by and between Grubb & Ellis Company, a
Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), and the
Holders listed in Exhibit B.
WHEREAS,
the Company is issuing the Warrants in accordance with that certain
Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of the date
hereof (the “ Credit Facility ”), by and among
Company, the guarantors named therein, the lenders named therein,
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as syndication agent,
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as sole book-running manager and
sole lead arranger, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as
initial issuing bank, swing line bank and administrative agent;
and
WHEREAS,
the Warrants entitle the holders of such Warrants, upon proper
exercise, during the Exercise Period (as defined in
Section 1 ), to receive from the Company such number of
shares (the “ Warrant Shares ”) of
Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (each, a
“ Share ”) at a price of $0.01 per Share (the
“ Exercise Price ”), that, in the aggregate,
after giving effect to the Shares issuable upon the exercise of the
Warrants, on October 1, 2009, constitute fifteen percent (15%) of
the issued and outstanding Shares of the Company on a fully diluted
basis. The number of Warrant Shares and the Exercise Price shall be
subject to adjustment as provided herein. The Warrants shall be
allocated among the Holders as provided on Exhibit B
hereto.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual
agreements herein set forth, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
SECTION 1.
Defined Terms .
“
Affiliate ” shall mean, with respect to any specified
Person, any other Person that directly, or indirectly through one
or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under
common control with, such specified Person. The term
“control” (including the terms “controlled
by”, “controlling” and “under common
control with”) shall mean the possession, directly or
indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the
management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership
of voting securities, as trustee or executor, by contract or
otherwise, including, without limitation, the ownership, directly
or indirectly, of securities having the power to elect a majority
of the board of directors or similar body governing the affairs of
such Person.
“
Additional Shares ” shall mean all Shares issued or
sold by the Company on or after the date hereof.
“
Administrative Agent ” shall have the meaning set
forth in the Credit Facility.
“
Bank Holding Company Affiliate ” shall mean, with
respect to any Holder that is a BHCA Holder, (a) if such
Holder is a bank holding company, any company controlled by such
bank holding company or (b) the bank holding company that
controls such Holder and any other Person controlled by such bank
holding company.
“
BHCA Holder ” shall mean a bank holding company or a
subsidiary of a bank holding company.
“
Blackout Period ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 18.3 of this Warrant Agreement.
“
Business Day ” shall mean any day other than a
Saturday, Sunday or a day on which commercial banks in the City of
New York are authorized or required by law to close.
“
Capital Stock ” shall mean (a) with respect to
any Person that is a corporation, any and all shares, interests,
participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of
corporate stock; and (b) with respect to any other Person, any
and all partnership, membership or other equity interests of such
Person.
“
Code ” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended.
“
Commitments ” shall have the meaning set forth in the
Credit Facility.
“
Company ” shall have the meaning set forth in the
preamble hereto.
“
Credit Facility ” shall have the meaning set forth in
the preamble hereto.
“
Convertible Securities ” shall mean evidences of
indebtedness or Equity Interests which are convertible into or
exchangeable or exercisable for Additional Shares, either
immediately or upon the arrival of a specified date or the
happening of a specified event.
“
Convertible Security Value ” shall mean the fair
market value of a Convertible Security on the date of issuance,
determined in good faith by the Company on a reasonable basis, less
the proceeds received by the Company for such conversion or
exchange.
“
Current Market Price ” per Share on any date specified
herein, shall mean the average daily Market Price during the period
of the most recent twenty (20) days, ending on such date, on
which the national securities exchanges were open for trading,
except that if no Shares are then listed or admitted to trading on
any national securities exchange or quoted in the over-the-counter
market, the Current Market Price shall be the Market Price on such
date.
“
Demand for Registration ” shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 18.2 of this Warrant
Agreement.
“
Demand Registration ” shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 18.2 of this Warrant Agreement.
“
Demand Registration Statement ” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 18.2 of this Warrant
Agreement.
“
Equity Interests ” shall mean Capital Stock or
warrants, options or other rights to acquire Capital
Stock.
“
Exchange Act ” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended, and any similar or successor federal statute,
and the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder, all as the
same shall be in effect at any applicable time.
“
Exempt Issuances ” shall mean:
(a) the
grant or issuance of the Warrants or the issuance of any Warrant
Shares upon exercise of any Warrant; or
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(b) issuances
or grants which are approved by each Holder as not being subject to
the anti-dilution provisions set forth in this Warrant
Agreement.
“
Exercise Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 7.8 of this Warrant Agreement.
“
Exercise Period ” shall mean the period commencing on
October 1, 2009 and continuing until 5:00 p.m. New York City
time on September 30, 2019.
“
Exercise Price ” shall mean, on the date hereof, the
purchase price per Share as set forth in the recitals hereto, and
thereafter shall mean such dollar amount as shall result from the
adjustment specified in Section 8 .
“
Expiration Date ” shall mean the earlier of
(a) 5:00 p.m. New York City time on September 30, 2019,
or (b) if the Company completes the Recapitalization Plan, the
date such Recapitalization Plan was completed.
“
FINRA ” shall mean the Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority, Inc.
“
Holder ” shall mean any Person that is or Persons that
are the registered holder(s) of the Warrants or Warrant Shares as
registered on the Warrant register maintained by the Company in
accordance with this Warrant Agreement.
“
KV Agreement ” shall mean that certain registration
rights agreement dated as of April 28, 2006 by and among the
Company, Kojaian Ventures L.L.C. and Kojaian Holdings,
LLC.
“
KV Registration Rights ” shall mean those certain
registration rights with respect to the Company’s securities
as set forth in the KV Agreement.
“
Lender ” shall have the meaning set forth in the
Credit Facility.
“
Loans ” shall mean the aggregate principal amount of
loans made under the Credit Facility.
“
Majority Holders ” shall mean Holders of Warrants
evidencing a majority in number of the total number of Shares at
the time purchasable upon the exercise of all then outstanding
Warrants.
“
Market Price ” shall mean, on any date specified
herein, the amount per Share equal to (a) if Shares are then
listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange,
the last sale price of such Share on such date or, if no such sale
takes place on such date, the average of the closing bid and asked
prices thereof on such date, in each case as officially reported on
the principal national securities exchange on which the Shares are
then listed or admitted to trading, (b) if Shares are not then
listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange
but are designated as a national market system security by FINRA,
the last trading price of the Shares on such date, (c) if
there shall have been no trading on such date or if the Shares are
not so designated, the average of the closing bid and asked prices
of the Shares on such date as shown by FINRA automated quotation
system, or (d) if Shares are not then listed or admitted to
trading on any national exchange or quoted in the over-the-counter
market, the fair value thereof determined by a nationally
recognized investment bank selected by the Company and reasonably
acceptable to the Holders.
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Maximum Number of Demand Securities ” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 18.2 of this Warrant
Agreement.
“
Maximum Number of Securities ” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 18.1 of this Warrant
Agreement.
“
Officers ” shall mean, with respect to any Person, the
Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief
Financial Officer, the President, the Treasurer, any Assistant
Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary,
or any Vice-President.
“
Option ” shall mean any warrant, option or other right
to subscribe for or purchase Additional Shares or Convertible
Securities.
“
Other Securities ” shall mean any Shares (other than
Warrant Shares) and other Equity Securities of the Company or any
other Person (corporate or otherwise) which a Holder at any time
shall be entitled to receive, or shall have received, upon exercise
of the Warrants held by such Holder or pursuant to
Section 10 hereof, in lieu of or in addition to Warrant
Shares, or which at any time shall be issuable or shall have been
issued in exchange for or in replacement of Warrant Shares or Other
Securities received in an earlier exchange, exercise or replacement
of Warrant Shares.
“
Participating Demand Holders ” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 18.2 of this Warrant
Agreement.
“
Participating Piggy-Back Holders ” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 18.1 of this Warrant
Agreement.
“
Person ” shall include an individual, a corporation,
an association, a partnership, a limited liability company, a trust
or estate, a government, foreign or domestic, and any agency or
political subdivision thereof, or any other entity.
“
Piggy-Back Registration ” shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 18.1 of this Warrant
Agreement.
“
Piggy-Back Registration Statement ” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 18.1 of this Warrant
Agreement.
“
Qualified Purchaser ” shall mean any institutional
“Accredited Investor” as defined in
Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities
Act.
“
Recapitalization Plan ” shall have the meaning set
forth in the Credit Facility.
“
Registrable Securities ” shall mean any Warrant Shares
and any securities or class of securities issued or issuable with
respect to any Warrant Shares by way of a split, dividend, or other
division of securities, or in connection with a combination of
securities, conversion, exchange, replacement, recapitalization,
merger, consolidation, or other reorganization or
otherwise.
“
Registration Statement ” shall mean a Demand
Registration Statement, a Piggy-Back Registration Statement and/or
a Shelf Registration Statement, as the case may be.
“
Required Lenders ” shall have the meaning set forth in
the Credit Facility, except that “majority in interest”
shall be substituted with “66 2/3% in
interest.”
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“
SEC ” shall mean the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
“
Securities Act ” shall mean the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and any similar or successor federal statute, and
the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder, all as the same
shall be in effect at any applicable time.
“
Shares ” shall have the meaning set forth in the
preamble hereto.
“
Shelf Registration Statement ” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 18.2 of this Warrant
Agreement.
“
Total Holders’ Interest ” shall mean a special
economic interest in the Company entitling the Holders to receive
fifteen percent (15%) of the aggregate Shares in the Company, on
the fully diluted basis, as such number of Shares representing such
right is adjusted in accordance with Section 9 of this
Warrant Agreement.
“
Transfer ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 6.1 of this Warrant Agreement.
“
Transfer Agent ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 13.2 of this Warrant Agreement.
“
Voting Stock ” shall mean any equity security
entitling the holder of such security to vote at meetings of
shareholders except an equity security which entitles the holder of
such security to vote only upon the occurrence of some contingency,
unless that contingency shall have occurred and be
continuing.
“
Warrants ” shall mean the warrants issued pursuant to
this Warrant Agreement and represented by Warrant Certificates, and
all warrants issued upon transfer, division or combination of, or
in substitution thereof.
“
Warrant Agreement ” shall have the meaning set forth
in the preamble hereto.
“
Warrant Certificates ” shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 2 of this Warrant
Agreement.
“
Warrant Shares ” shall have the meaning set forth in
the preamble hereto.
SECTION 2.
Warrant Certificates . The certificates evidencing the
Warrants to be delivered pursuant to this Warrant Agreement shall
be in registered form only and shall be substantially in the form
set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto (“ Warrant
Certificates ”) and may have such letters, numbers, or
other marks of identification or designation and such legends or
endorsements printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as the
Officers of the Company executing the same may approve (with
execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and
as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Warrant
Agreement, or as may be required to comply with any applicable law
or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any
rule or regulation of any exchange, inter-dealer quotation system
or regulated quotation service on which the Warrants or the Shares
may be listed or quoted, as the case may be.
SECTION 3.
Issuance of Warrants . Upon issuance in accordance with
Section 6 , each Warrant Certificate shall evidence one or
more Warrants. Each Warrant evidenced thereby entitles the
Holder,
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upon proper
exercise to receive from the Company the stated number of Warrant
Shares at the Exercise Price, as adjusted as provided
herein.
SECTION 4.
Execution of Warrant Certificates .
4.1
Execution by an Officer of the Company . Warrant
Certificates shall be signed on behalf of the Company by any
Officer thereof under its corporate seal. The seal of the Company
may be in the form of a facsimile thereof and may be impressed,
affixed, imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Warrant
Certificates. The Warrant Certificates may be executed in any
number of original, facsimile or electronic counterparts and each
of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to be an
original, and all such counterparts shall together constitute but
one and the same instruments; provided, however if the
Warrant Certificate is executed in counterparts, the corporate seal
may be imprinted on only one such counterpart. Each such signature
upon any Warrant Certificate may be of the present or any future
Officer of the Company, notwithstanding the fact that at the time
any Warrant Certificate shall be delivered or disposed of by the
Company such Officer shall have ceased to hold such office, so long
as, and the Company hereby represents that, under the
Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws, any
Warrants or Warrant Shares so issued would be validly issued. Any
Warrant Certificate may be signed on behalf of the Company by any
Person who, at the actual date of the execution of such Warrant
Certificate, shall be a proper Officer of the Company to sign such
Warrant Certificate, although at the date of the execution of this
Warrant Agreement any such Person was not such Officer, so long as,
and the Company hereby represents that, under the Company’s
Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws, any Warrants or Warrant
Shares so issued would be validly issued.
4.2
Date of Warrant Certificate . Warrant Certificates shall be
dated the date of execution by the Company and shall represent one
or more whole Warrants.
SECTION 5.
Registration and Countersignature .
5.1
Warrant Register . The Company shall number and register the
Warrant Certificates in a Warrant register as they are issued by
the Company. The Warrant register will show the names and addresses
of the Holders, the numbers of Warrants and Warrant Shares
evidenced on the face of each Warrant Certificate and the date of
each Warrant Certificate.
5.2
Absolute Ownership . The Company may deem and treat the
Holders as the absolute owner(s) of the Warrant Certificates
(notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing thereon
made by anyone), for all purposes, and the Company shall not be
affected by any notice to the contrary.
SECTION 6.
Transfers and Exchanges.
6.1
Limitation on Transfers.
(a) A
Holder may not transfer, assign or encumber all or any part of this
Warrant (including through the grant of participation interests) (a
“ Transfer ”).
(b) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, a Holder may Transfer all or any portion of this
Warrant to (i) any of its Affiliates or (ii) any
Qualified Purchaser who is also a Lender under the Credit Facility;
provided however that any such transfer pursuant to
clause (b)(ii) would not, after giving effect to such transfer,
result in such transferee owning a greater or a lesser percentage
of outstanding Warrants than such transferee’s pro rata share
of Commitments under the Credit Facility, and provided
further that in each case (i) and (ii) above the
transferee shall agree in writing to be bound by the terms of
this
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Warrant
Agreement, and such transfer shall be in compliance with
Section 23A of the Federal Reserve Act and the Securities Act
or any state (or other jurisdiction) securities or “blue
sky” laws applicable to the Company or the Warrants.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) upon receipt of the consent
of the Administrative Agent and Required Lenders or (y) so long as
all obligations under the Credit Facility have been repaid or
terminated, a Holder may transfer all or any portion of this
Warrant to any Qualified Purchaser without any limitations on the
number of Warrants so transferred imposed by clause (b)(ii)
above.
(c) Any
purported Transfer other than in accordance with the terms of this
Warrant Agreement shall be null and void, and the Company shall
refuse to recognize any such Transfer for any purpose and shall not
reflect in its records any change in record ownership pursuant to
any such Transfer.
6.2
Registration of Transfers . The Company shall from time to
time register the transfer of any outstanding Warrant Certificates
upon the records to be maintained by it for that purpose, upon
surrender thereof accompanied by a written instrument or
instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, duly
executed by the Holders thereof or by the duly appointed legal
representative thereof or by a duly authorized attorney. Upon any
such registration of transfer, a new Warrant Certificate shall be
issued to the transferee(s) and the surrendered Warrant Certificate
shall be cancelled by the Company. Cancelled Warrant Certificates
shall thereafter be disposed of by or at the direction of the
Company in accordance with applicable law.
6.3
Exchange of Warrant Certificates . Warrant Certificates may
be exchanged at the option of the Holder(s), when surrendered to
the Company during normal business hours for another Warrant
Certificate or other Warrant Certificates of like tenor and
representing in the aggregate a like number of Warrants. Warrant
Certificates surrendered for exchange shall be cancelled by the
Company. Such cancelled Warrant Certificates shall then be disposed
of by the Company in accordance with applicable law.
SECTION 7.
Exercise of Warrants .
7.1
Exercise of Warrants . A Warrant may be exercised upon
surrender to the Company of the Warrant Certificate or Warrant
Certificates evidencing the Warrants to be exercised with the form
of election to purchase on the reverse thereof duly completed and
signed, and upon payment to the Company of the Exercise Price, as
adjusted from time to time as provided herein, for each Warrant
Share then purchased. Payment of the aggregate Exercise Price for
all Warrant Shares being purchased in respect of a Warrant shall be
made (a) by wire transfer of immediately available funds in
United States Dollars or (b) by certified or official bank
check for United States Dollars made payable to the order of the
Company. Each Warrant not exercised prior to the Expiration Date
shall become void and all rights thereunder and all rights in
respect thereof under this Warrant Agreement shall cease as of such
time.
7.2
Issuance of Certificates Representing Shares . Upon such
surrender of Warrants and payment of the aggregate Exercise Price,
the Company shall issue and cause to be delivered promptly to or
upon the written order of the Holder and in such name or names, as
the Holder may designate, a certificate or certificates for the
number of full Warrant Shares issuable upon the exercise of such
Warrants. Such certificate or certificates shall be deemed to have
been issued and any person so designated to be named therein shall
be deemed to have become a Holder of such Warrant Shares as of the
date of the surrender of such Warrants and payment of the aggregate
Exercise Price.
7.3
Issuance of New Warrant Certificates . The Warrants shall be
exercisable at the election of the Holders either in full or from
time to time in part (in whole Warrant Shares) and, in the event
that a Warrant Certificate evidencing Warrants is exercised in
respect of fewer than all of the
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Warrant Shares
issuable on such exercise at any time prior to the Expiration Date,
a new Warrant Certificate evidencing the remaining Warrant or
Warrants will be promptly issued, and the Company, whenever
required under this Warrant Agreement, will provide Warrant
Certificates duly executed on behalf of the Company for such
purpose.
7.4
Cancellation of Warrant Certificates . All Warrant
Certificates surrendered upon exercise of Warrants shall be
cancelled and disposed of by the Company in accordance with
applicable law.
7.5
Warrant Agreement . The Company shall keep copies of this
Warrant Agreement and any notices given or received hereunder
available for inspection by the Holders of the Warrants during
normal business hours at its office. The Company shall supply the
Holder from time to time with such numbers of copies of this
Warrant Agreement as the Holders may request.
7.6
Alternative Cashless Exercise . Notwithstanding any
provision herein to the contrary, in lieu of exercising a Warrant
as set forth above, a Holder may exercise a Warrant by electing to
receive that number of Shares as determined below by surrendering
to the Company such Warrant, with the applicable election to
purchase Shares duly completed and signed by the Holder, in which
event the Company shall issue to the Holder the number of Shares
computed using the following formula:
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“ CS
” equals the number of Shares to be issued to the
Holder;
“ WCS
” equals the number of Warrant Shares purchasable under the
Warrant or, if only a portion of the Warrant is being exercised,
the portion of the Warrant being exercised;
“ MP
” equals the Current Market Price per Share; and
“ PP
” equals the Exercise Price.
Following the
surrender of any Warrant pursuant to this Section 7.6 ,
the Company shall promptly record the name of the Holder in the
Warrant register for that number of Shares, as calculated above in
such name or names as may be designated by such Holder.
7.7
Fractional Shares . The Company shall not be required to
issue fractional Warrant Shares on the exercise of any Warrant. If
more than one Warrant shall be presented for exercise in full at
the same time by the same Holder, the number of full Warrant Shares
which shall be issuable upon the exercise thereof shall be computed
on the basis of the aggregate number of Warrant Shares purchasable
on exercise of the Warrants so presented. If any fraction of a
Warrant Share would, except for the provisions of this
Section 7.7 be issuable on the exercise of any Warrants
(or specified portion thereof), the Company shall pay an amount in
cash equal to the Market Price multiplied by such
fraction.
7.8
When Exercise Effective . The exercise of any Warrant shall
be deemed to have been effective immediately prior to the close of
business on the Business Day on which such Warrant is surrendered
to and the Exercise Price is received by the Company as provided in
this Section 7 (the
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“
Exercise Date ”) and the Person in whose name the
Shares shall be issuable upon such exercise shall be deemed to be
the Holder of such Shares for all purposes on the Exercise
Date.
7.9
Continued Validity . A Holder of Shares issued upon the
exercise of any Warrant, in whole or in part, shall continue to be
entitled to all of the rights and subject to all of the obligations
set forth in the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and
By-Laws.
7.10
BHCA Holders . If a Holder is a BHCA Holder, unless such
Holder is a financial holding company and exercises such Warrant in
reliance on, and in compliance with, the merchant banking exemption
set forth in Regulation Y, such Holder shall not, and shall
not permit any of its Bank Holding Company Affiliates to, exercise
any Warrant if, after giving effect to such exercise, (a) such
Holder and its Bank Holding Company Affiliates would own more than
five percent (5%) of the total issued and outstanding Shares on a
fully-diluted basis or (b) such Holder would be deemed under
Regulation Y to have the power to exercise, directly or
indirectly, a controlling influence over the management or policies
of, or would otherwise control, the Company. For purposes of clause
(b) of this Section 7.10 , a reasoned opinion of
counsel to such Holder delivered to such Holder (which is based on
facts and circumstances deemed appropriate by such counsel) to the
effect that such Holder does not have the power to exercise such a
controlling influence or otherwise control the Company shall be
conclusive.
SECTION 8.
Adjustment of Number of Warrant Shares Purchasable and Exercise
Price . The number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon exercise
of the Warrants and the Exercise Price shall be subject to
adjustment from time to time as set forth in this
Section 8 . All of the adjustments referred to in this
Section 8 shall only apply to Warrants which have not
yet been exercised and shall not apply to Exempt Issuances. The
Company shall not create any class of Shares which carries any
rights to dividends or assets differing in any respect from the
rights of the Shares, except as such classes of Shares, if any, may
be in existence on the date hereof.
8.1
Share Dividends, Subdivisions and Combinations. If at any
time the Company shall:
(a) declare
or pay a dividend payable in Additional Shares;
(b) subdivide
or reclassify its outstanding Shares into a greater number of
Shares; or
(c) combine
or reclassify its outstanding Shares into a smaller number of
Shares;
then the number
of Warrant Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Warrants
immediately after the occurrence of any such event shall be
adjusted to equal the number of Warrant Shares which a record
holder of the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon exercise of
the Warrants immediately prior to the happening of such event would
own or be entitled to receive after the happening of such
event.
8.2
Issuance of Additional Shares . If at any time the Company
shall (except as hereinafter provided) issue or sell any Additional
Shares in exchange for consideration in an amount per Additional
Share less than the Current Market Price at the time the Additional
Shares are issued, then the number of Warrant Shares thereafter
purchasable upon exercise of the Warrants shall be adjusted to that
number determined by multiplying the number of Warrant Shares
purchasable upon exercise of the Warrants immediately prior to such
adjustment by a fraction (a) the numerator of which shall be
the number of Shares outstanding immediately prior to the issuance
of such Additional Shares plus the number of such Additional
Shares so issued, and (b) the denominator of which shall be
the number of Shares outstanding immediately prior to the issuance
of such Additional Shares plus the number of
Shares
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which the
aggregate consideration for the total number of such Additional
Shares so issued would purchase at the Current Market Price. For
purposes of this Section 8.2 , for all issuances of
Shares except for those Shares issued in connection with an
acquisition of assets or securities, a tender or exchange offer, a
merger or other business combination, the date as of which the
Current Market Price shall be computed shall be the earlier of
(i) the date on which the Company shall enter into a firm
contract for the issuance of such Additional Shares and
(ii) the date of actual issuance of such Additional Shares.
Subject to Section 8.5 hereof, no further adjustment of
the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon exercise of the
Warrants shall be made under this Section 8.2 upon the
issuance of any Additional Shares:
(a) for
which an adjustment is provided under Section 8.1
hereof;
(b) which
are issued pursuant to the exercise of any Options or the
conversion, exchange or exercise of any Convertible Securities, if
any such adjustment shall previously have been made upon the
issuance of such Options or Convertible Securities (or upon the
issuance of any Option therefor) pursuant to
Section 8.3 or 8.4 hereof; or
(c) as
a distribution or a dividend which is distributed or declared and
paid in accordance with Section 9.2 hereof.
8.3
Issuance of Options . If at any time the Company shall issue
or sell, or shall fix a record date for the determination of
holders of any class of securities entitled to receive, any
Options, whether or not the rights to purchase thereunder are
immediately exercisable, and the consideration received by the
Company in payment for such Options (determined in accordance with
Section 8.6(a) hereof) shall be less than the Current
Market Price in effect on the date of and immediately prior to such
issuance, sale or fixing of a record date, then the number of
Warrant Shares thereafter purchasable upon exercise of the Warrants
shall be adjusted as provided in Section 8.2 hereof on
the basis that (a) the maximum number of Additional Shares
issuable pursuant to all such Options shall be deemed to have been
issued as of (and, accordingly, the date as of which the Current
Market Price shall be computed shall be) the computation date
specified in the next succeeding sentence of this
Section 8.3 , and (b) the aggregate consideration
for such maximum number of Additional Shares shall be (subject to
Section 8.5 hereof) the consideration received by the
Company for the issuance or sale of such Additional Shares pursuant
to the terms of such Options or pursuant to the terms of such
Convertible Securities. For purposes of this
Section 8.3 , the computation date for clause
(a) above shall be the earlier of (i) the date on which the
Company shall take a record of the holders of its Shares for the
purpose of entitling them to receive any such Options,
(ii) the date on which the Company shall enter into a firm
contract for the issuance or sale of such Options and
(iii) the date on which the Company shall issue or sell such
Options. No further adjustment of the number of Warrant Shares
purchasable upon exercise of the Warrants shall be made under this
Section 8.3 upon the issuance or sale of any Options to
subscribe for or purchase any Additional Shares or any Convertible
Securities or upon the subsequent issue or sale of Additional
Shares upon the exercise of such Options, if any such adjustment
shall previously have been made upon the issuance or sale of such
Option or upon the setting of a record date therefor, or upon any
deemed issuance or sale of such Additional Shares, as a
distribution or a dividend which is distributed or declared and
paid in accordance with Section 9.2 hereof.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any issuance of an Option which is
issued together with a debt security of the Company, as a unit,
shall be treated for the purpose of this Section 8 as
the issuance of a Convertible Security.
8.4
Issuance of Convertible Securities . If at any time the
Company shall issue or sell any Convertible Securities, whether or
not the rights to exchange or convert thereunder are immediately
exercisable, and the consideration received by the Company in
payment for such Convertible Securities shall be less than the
Convertible Security Value thereof, then the number of Warrant
Shares thereafter purchasable upon exercise of the Warrants shall
be increased to a number of Shares having a value
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immediately
following the computation date (as established below) equal to the
value of the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon exercise of
the Warrants immediately before such increase. For this purpose,
the value before the increase will be the Current Market Price of
the Shares (determined as at the date immediately preceding such
increase) divided by the number of Shares outstanding
on a fully diluted basis, and the value immediately following the
computation date shall be the foregoing value, except that the
numerator shall be the Current Market Price plus the cash
amount paid to the Company for such Convertible Securities
less the Convertible Security Value of such Convertible
Securities on issuance and the denominator shall be increased by
the number of Additional Shares issuable on exercise of such
Convertible Securities. For purposes of this
Section 8.4 , the computation date shall be the
earliest of (i) the date on which the Company shall take a
record of the holders of its Shares for the purpose of entitling
them to receive any such Convertible Securities, (ii) the date on
which the Company shall enter into a firm contract for the issuance
or sale of such Convertible Securities and (iii) the date of
actual issuance or sale of such Convertible Securities. No further
adjustment of the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon
exercise of the Warrants shall be made under this
Section 8.4 upon the issuance or sale of any
Convertible Securities or the conversion or exchange of such
Convertible Securities into Additional Shares:
(a) which
are issued or sold pursuant to the exercise of any Option therefor,
if any such adjustment shall previously have been made upon the
issuance or sale of an Option relating to such Convertible
Securities pursuant to Section 8.3 hereof;
or
(b) if
any such adjustment in respect thereof shall previously have been
made upon the setting of a record date therefor, or upon any deemed
issuance or sale of such Convertible Securities; or
(c) as
a distribution or a dividend which is distributed or declared and
paid in accordance with Section 9.2 hereof.
8.5
Superseding Adjustment of Warrant Share . If, at any time
after any adjustment of the number of Warrant Shares purchasable
upon exercise of the Warrants shall have been made pursuant to
Section 8.3 or 8.4 hereof as a result of the
issuance of Options or Convertible Securities, or after any new
adjustment of the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon
exercise of the Warrants shall have been made pursuant to this
Section 8.5 , (a) such Options or the right of
conversion, exchange or exercise of such Convertible Securities
shall expire, and all or a portion of such Options or the right of
conversion, exchange or exercise with respect to all or a portion
of such Convertible Securities, as the case may be, shall not have
been exercised or treated as having been exercised or otherwise
canceled or acquired by the Company in connection with any
settlement (including, without limitation, any cash settlement) of
such Options or the rights of conversion, or exchange or exercise
of such convertible Securities, or (b) there has been any
change (whether by the passage of time or otherwise) in the number
of Shares issuable upon exercise, conversion or exchange of such
Options or Convertible Securities (including as a result of the
operation of anti-dilution provisions applicable thereto), or
(c) the consideration per Share, for which Additional Shares
are issuable pursuant to such Options or the terms of any
Convertible Securities, or the maturity of any such Convertible
Security, shall be changed (whether by the passage of time or
otherwise) then such previous adjustment shall be rescinded and
annulled and the Additional Shares which were deemed to have been
issued by virtue of the computation made in connection with the
adjustment so rescinded and annulled shall no longer be deemed to
have been issued by virtue of such computation. Thereupon, a
recomputation shall be made of the effect of such Options or
Convertible Securities on the basis of:
(a) treating
the number of Additional Shares, if any, theretofore actually
issued or sold pursuant to the previous exercise of such Options or
such right of conversion or exchange, as having
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been issued or
sold on the date or dates of such issuance as determined for
purposes of such previous adjustment and for the consideration
actually received therefor;
(b) treating
the maximum number of Additional Shares (A) issuable pursuant
to all Options which then remain outstanding and (B) necessary
to effect the conversion or exchange of all Convertible Securities
which then remain outstanding, as having been issued (subject,
however, to further adjustment under this Section 8.5
); and
(c) making
the computations called for in Section 8.4 hereof on
the basis of the revised terms of such Convertible Securities as if
the securities being subject to recomputation were newly issued as
of the relevant recomputation date and, if and to the extent called
for by the foregoing provisions of this Section 8 on
the basis aforesaid, a new adjustment of the number of Warrant
Shares purchasable upon exercise of the Warrants shall be made, and
such new adjustment shall supersede the previous adjustment so
rescinded and annulled.
8.6
Other Provisions Applicable to Adjustments Under this
Section 8 . The following provisions shall be applicable
to the making of adjustments of the number of Warrant Shares
purchasable upon exercise of the Warrants hereinbefore provided for
in this Section 8 , irrespective of the accounting
treatment of any consideration described below:
(a)
Computation of Consideration . To the extent that any
Additional Shares, any Options or any Convertible Securities shall
be issued for cash consideration, the consideration received by the
Company therefor shall be deemed to be the amount of cash received
by the Company therefor, or, if such Additional Shares, Options or
Convertible Securities are offered by the Company for subscription,
the subscription price, or, if such Additional Shares, Options or
Convertible Securities are sold to underwriters or dealers for
public offering without a subscription offering, the initial public
offering price. To the extent that such issuance or sale shall be
for consideration other than cash, then the amount of such
consideration shall be deemed to be the fair market value of such
consideration at the time of such issuance, as determined in good
faith by the board of directors of the Company, whose determination
shall be described in a duly adopted resolution certified by the
Company’s Secretary or Assistant Secretary. The consideration
for any Additional Shares issuable pursuant to any Option to
subscribe for or purchase the same shall be the consideration
received or receivable by the Company for the sale or issuance of
such Option plus the additional consideration payable to the
Company upon the exercise thereof in full. The consideration for
any Additional Shares issuable pursuant to the terms of any
Convertible Securities shall be the consideration paid or payable
to the Company in respect of the subscription for, sale or issuance
of such Convertible Securities plus the additional consideration
payable to the Company upon the conversion or exchange thereof in
full. In case of the issuance at any time of any Additional Shares
in payment or satisfaction of any dividend upon any class of
securities other than Shares, the Company shall be deemed to have
received for such Additional Shares consideration equal to the
amount of such dividend so paid or satisfied.
(b)
When Adjustments to be Made . The adjustments required by
this Section 8 shall be made whenever and as often as any
specified event requiring an adjustment shall occur. For the
purpose of any adjustment, any specified event shall be deemed to
have occurred at the close of business on the date of its
occurrence.
(c)
Fractional Interests . In computing adjustments under this
Section 8 , fractional interests in Shares shall be
taken into account to the nearest one-hundredth of a
Share.
(d)
When Adjustment Not Required . If the Company shall take a
record of the holders of its Shares for the purpose of entitling
them to receive a dividend or distribution or
subscription
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or purchase
rights and shall, thereafter and before the distribution thereof to
the holders of the Shares of the Company, legally abandon its plan
to pay or deliver such dividend, distribution, subscription or
purchase rights, then no adjustment shall be required by reason of
the taking of such record and any such adjustment previously made
in respect thereof shall be rescinded and annulled, and no
adjustment in the number of Warrant Shares thereafter purchasable
upon exercise of the Warrants under Section 8.2 ,
8.3 or 8.4 hereof shall be made in respect of the
Warrants held by such Holder.
8.7
Adjustments of Exercise Price . Whenever the number of
Warrant Shares purchasable upon the exercise of the Warrant is
adjusted, as herein provided, the Exercise Price per Warrant Share
payable upon exercise of the Warrant shall be adjusted (calculated
to the nearest $.0001) so that it shall equal the price determined
by multiplying the Exercise Price immediately prior to such
adjustment by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the
aggregate number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon the exercise of
the Warrant immediately prior to such adjustment, and the
denominator of which shall be the aggregate number of Warrant
Shares so purchasable immediately thereafter.
SECTION 9.
Consolidation, Merger, Equity Exchange, Distributions . The
provisions set forth in this Section 9 shall only apply
to Warrants which have not yet been exercised.
9.1
Consolidation, Merger, Equity Exchange, etc . In case a
consolidation, merger or equity exchange of the Company shall be
effected with another Person after the date hereof and the Company
shall not be the surviving entity, or the Company shall be the
surviving entity but its Shares shall be changed into securities or
other property of another Person, or the sale, lease or transfer of
all or substantially all of its assets to another Person shall be
effected after the date hereof, then, as a condition of such
consolidation, merger, equity exchange, sale, lease or transfer,
lawful and adequate provision shall be made whereby each Holder
shall thereafter have the right to purchase and receive, upon the
exercise of its Warrants, on the basis and the terms and conditions
specified herein (and in lieu of each Warrant Share immediately
theretofore purchasable and receivable upon the exercise of the
Warrants), such securities, cash or other property receivable upon
such consolidation, merger, equity exchange, sale, lease or
transfer as such Holder would have been entitled to receive if its
Warrants had been exercised immediately prior to such event. In any
such case, appropriate and equitable provision also shall be made
with respect to the rights and interests of each Holder to the end
that the provisions hereof (including Section 8 hereof)
shall thereafter be applicable, as nearly as may be, in relation to
any securities, cash or other property thereafter deliverable upon
the exe
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