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Exhibit 2.4
NEITHER THIS WARRANT NOR THE WARRANT SHARES (AS HEREINAFTER DEFINED) HAVE BEEN
REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES
ACT OF 1933,
AS AMENDED (THE
"ACT"), OR THE
SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY
STATE. THIS WARRANT
AND THE WARRANT SHARES MAY BE SOLD,
OFFERED FOR
SALE, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN
COMPLIANCE WITH THE
ACT AND SUCH LAWS.
THIS LEGEND SHALL BE ENDORSED UPON ANY
WARRANT ISSUED IN EXCHANGE FOR THIS WARRANT.
Warrant No. ____
WARRANT
For the Purchase of Common Stock of
DGSE COMPANIES, INC.
a Nevada corporation
VOID AFTER 5:00 P.M., EASTERN STANDARD TIME, ON ________, 2014.
_________ Shares
_________, 2007
FOR
VALUE RECEIVED, DGSE
COMPANIES, INC., a
Nevada corporation
(together
with its successors, the "Company"), hereby certifies that STANFORD
INTERNATIONAL BANK LTD. (the "Holder") is entitled, subject to the
provisions of
this Warrant, to
purchase from the Company up to ___________ shares of common
stock (the "Common Shares"), par value $0.01 per share ("Common
Stock"), of the
Company, at an initial
exercise price equal to $______ per Common
Share (the
"Exercise Price"),
during the period
commencing ________,
2007 (the "Date of
Issuance") and expiring at 5:00 P.M., Eastern Standard time, on
________, 2014
(the "Expiration Date").
The
number of Common Shares to be received upon the exercise of this
Warrant may be adjusted from time to time as hereinafter
set forth.
The Common
Shares deliverable
upon such exercise,
or the entitlement thereto upon such
exercise, and as so
adjusted from time to time, are hereinafter sometimes
referred to as "Warrant Shares". The warrants issued on the same date hereof
bearing the same terms and conditions as this Warrant shall be collectively
referred to as the "Warrants".
The
Holder agrees with the Company that this Warrant is issued, and all
the
rights hereunder shall
be held subject to, all of the conditions, limitations
and provisions set forth herein.
1.
EXERCISE OF
WARRANT
(a) By Payment of Cash. This Warrant may be exercised by its
presentation and
surrender to the Company at its principal office (or such
office or agency of the Company as it may designate in writing to the Holder
hereof), commencing on
the Date of Issuance and expiring at 5:00 P.M., Eastern
Standard time, on the Expiration Date, with the Warrant
Exercise Form
attached
hereto duly completed and executed and accompanied by payment
(either in cash or
by certified or official bank check or by wire transfer, payable to
the order of
the Company) of the
Exercise Price for the
number of shares
specified in such
form.
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The
Company agrees that
the Holder hereof shall be deemed the record owner
of such Common
Shares as of the close
of business
on the date on which
this
Warrant shall have
been presented
and payment made for
such Common Shares
as
aforesaid whether or not the Company or its transfer agent is open
for business.
Certificates for the Common Shares so purchased shall be delivered
to the Holder
hereof within a
reasonable
time, not exceeding 15 days, after the rights
represented by this Warrant shall have been so exercised. If this
Warrant should
be exercised in part only, the Company shall, upon surrender of
this Warrant for
cancellation, execute
and deliver a new
Warrant of like tenor
evidencing the
rights of the Holder
hereof to purchase the
balance of the shares
purchasable
hereunder as soon as reasonably practicable.
Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary set forth above, each exercise of
this Warrant
shall cover at least
the lesser of (i) 10,000 Common Shares (as
adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, combinations and the
like), and (ii)
the total number of Common Shares then subject to the Warrant.
(b) Cashless
Exercise. In lieu of the payment method set forth in
Section 1(a) above, if
the Common Stock is then traded or listed on a Principal
Market (as defined below), the Holder may elect to exchange
all or some of this
Warrant for the Common
Shares equal to the
value of the amount of this Warrant
being exchanged on the
date of exchange. If
the Holder elects to exchange this
Warrant as provided in this Section 1(b), the Holder shall tender
to the Company
this Warrant for the amount being exchanged, along with the Warrant
Exercise
Form attached
hereto duly
completed and executed indicating the Holder's
election to exchange some or all of this Warrant, and the Company
shall issue to
the Holder the number of Common Shares computed using the following
formula:
X = Y x (A - B)
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A
Where: X =
The number
of Common Shares to be issued to the Holder.
Y = The number
of Common Shares for which this Warrant is
being exercised (as adjusted to
the date of such calculation).
A = The Market
Price (as defined below) of one Common
Share.
B = The Exercise
Price (as adjusted to the date of
such calculation).
The
Warrant exchange shall
take place on the date specified in the form of
notice or if the date the notice is received by the Company is later than the
date specified in the notice, on the date the notice is received by
the Company.
As
used herein, the term "Market Price" at any date shall be the
arithmetic
mean of the last
reported sale price or
closing price for the most recent five
consecutive Trading
Days ending on such date (or, if such date is not a Trading
Day, the next preceding Trading Day) on which trading occurred on
such Principal
Market in the Common
Stock; the term
"Trading Day" means
any day other than a
Saturday or a Sunday on which the Company's Principal Market is
open for trading
in equity securities;
and the term
"Principal Market" means the Nasdaq Capital
Market, the New York
Stock Exchange,
the Nasdaq Global
Market, the American
Stock Exchange, the OTC Bulletin Board or any other national
securities exchange
registered under
Section 6 of the
Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended
(the "Exchange Act"),
whichever is at the time the principal trading exchange,
market or inter-dealer or automated quotation system for the Common
Stock.
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(c) "Easy Sale"
Exercise. In lieu of
the payment method set
forth in
Section 1(a) above, when permitted by law and applicable
regulations
(including
rules of the Nasdaq and National Association of Securities
Dealers ("NASD")),
the Holder may pay the aggregate Exercise Price (the "Exercise
Amount") through
a "same day sale"
commitment from the Holder (and if applicable a broker-dealer
that is a member of the NASD (an "NASD Dealer")), whereby the
Holder irrevocably
elects to exercise this Warrant and to sell a portion of the shares
so purchased
to pay the Exercise
Amount and the Holder (or, if applicable, the NASD Dealer)
commits upon sale (or,
in the case of the NASD Dealer, upon receipt) of such
shares to forward the Exercise Amount directly to the Company.
2.
COVENANTS BY THE COMPANY
The
Company covenants and agrees as follows:
(a) Reservation
of Shares.
During the period
within which the rights
represented by this Warrant may be exercised, the Company shall, at all times,
reserve and keep available out of its authorized capital stock, solely for the
purposes of issuance upon exercise of this Warrant, such number of its Common
Shares as shall be issuable upon the exercise of this
Warrant. If at any time
the number of
authorized Common
Shares shall not be
sufficient to effect
the
exercise of this Warrant, the Company will take such
corporate action as may be
necessary to increase its authorized but unissued Common Shares to such number
of shares as shall be
sufficient for such
purpose. The Company shall have
analogous obligations
with respect to any other securities or property issuable
upon exercise of this Warrant.
(b) Valid Issuance,
etc. All Common Shares which may be issued
upon
exercise of the rights represented by this Warrant included herein
will be, upon
payment in full thereof, validly issued, fully paid, non-assessable and free
from all liens of the Company.
(c) Taxes. All
original issue taxes payable in respect of the issuance
of Common Shares upon
the exercise of the
rights represented
by this Warrant
shall be borne by the Company, but in no event shall the Company
be responsible
or liable for income
taxes or transfer
taxes upon the
issuance or transfer of
this Warrant or the Warrant Shares. The Company shall not be
required to pay any
tax or other charge
imposed in connection
with any transfer involved in the
issuance of any certificate for Common Shares in any name other
than that of the
Holder of this
Warrant, and in such
case the Company shall
not be required to
issue or deliver
any stock certificate or security until such tax or other
charge has been paid, or it has been established to the Company's reasonable
satisfaction that no tax or other charge is due.
(d) Fractional
Shares. The Company shall not be required to issue
certificates
representing fractions of Common Shares. In lieu of any
fractional
interests, the Company
shall make a cash
payment equal to the
Exercise Price
multiplied by such fraction.
3.
EXCHANGE OR
ASSIGNMENT OF WARRANT
This
Warrant is exchangeable, without expense, at the option of the
Holder,
upon presentation and surrender hereof to the Company for other
warrants of like
tenor but different
denominations,
entitling the Holder to purchase in the
aggregate the same number of Common Shares then purchasable
hereunder.
Subject
to the provisions of this Warrant and the receipt by the Company of
any required
representations and
agreements,
upon surrender of this
Warrant to the Company
with the Warrant
Assignment Form annexed hereto duly completed and executed and
funds sufficient to pay any transfer tax or charge, the Company shall, without
additional charge, execute and deliver a new warrant in the name of
the assignee
named in such
instrument of
assignment
and this Warrant shall promptly be
canceled. In the event of a partial assignment of this Warrant, the
new warrants
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issued to the assignee and the Holder shall in the aggregate be
exercisable for
the same number of
Common Shares as the
number of Common
Shares purchasable
under this Warrant at the time of the partial assignment.
4.
RIGHTS OF THE
HOLDER
The
Holder shall not, by virtue hereof, be entitled to any voting or
other
rights of a
stockholder of the
Company, either at law or in equity,
and the
rights of the Holder are limited to those expressed in this
Warrant.
5.
ADJUSTMENT OF
EXERCISE PRICE
(a) Common Stock Dividends; Common Stock Splits; Reclassification. If
the Company,
at any time while this
Warrant is
outstanding,
shall (a) pay a
stock dividend on its Common Stock, (b) split or subdivide
outstanding shares of
Common Stock into a
larger number of
shares (or reverse
split or combine
the
outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares)
or (c) issue
by reclassification of shares of Common Stock any shares of capital
stock of the
Company, then (i) the
Exercise Price shall
be multiplied
by a fraction,
the
numerator of which
shall be the number of
shares of Common Stock
outstanding
prior to such event and the denominator of which shall be the number of
shares
of Common Stock
outstanding
after such event and
(ii) the number of shares of
the Warrant Shares
shall be multiplied
by a fraction,
the numerator of
which
shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
immediately after such
event and the denominator of which shall be the number of shares of
Common Stock
outstanding
immediately prior to
such event. Any
adjustment made
pursuant to
this Section 5(a) shall become effective immediately after the record date for
the determination
of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or
distribution or, in the case of a subdivision or re-classification,
shall become
effective immediately after the effective date thereof.
(b) Rights; Options;
Warrants or Other Securities. If the Company, at
any time while this
Warrant is
outstanding,
shall fix a record
date for the
issuance of rights, options, warrants or other securities to
all the holders of
its Common Stock
entitling them to subscribe for or purchase, convert to,
exchange for or otherwise acquire shares of Common Stock for no
consideration or
at a price per share less than the Exercise Price, the Exercise Price shall be
multiplied by a
fraction, the
numerator of which shall be the number of shares
of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such issuance
or sale plus the
number of shares of Common Stock which the aggregate consideration received by
the Company (including the exercise price paid for Convertible
Securities) would
purchase at the Exercise Price, and the denominator of which shall
be the number
of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such issuance date
plus the number of additional shares of Common Stock offered for
subscription,
purchase, conversion,
exchange or acquisition, as the case may be. Such
adjustment shall be
made whenever
such rights, options, warrants or other
securities are issued,
and shall become effective immediately after the record
date for the
determination of
stockholders
entitled to receive
such rights,
options, warrants or other securities.
(c) Subscription Rights. If the Company, at any time while this
Warrant
is outstanding, shall
fix a record date for the distribution to holders of its
Common Stock,
evidence of its indebtedness or assets or rights, options,
warrants or other security (excluding those referred to in Sections
5(a) or 5(b)
above and excluding
Excluded Securities) entitling them to subscribe for or
purchase, convert to,
exchange for or otherwise acquire any security, then in
each such case the Exercise Price at which this Warrant shall thereafter be
exercisable shall be
determined by
multiplying
the Exercise
Price in effect
immediately prior to
such record date by a
fraction, the
numerator of which
shall be the per-share
Market Price on such record date less the then fair
market value at such
record date of the portion of such assets
or evidence of
indebtedness so distributed applicable to one outstanding
share of Common Stock
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as determined by the Board of Directors in good faith, and the denominator of
which shall be the per-share Market Price as of such record
date.
(d) Rounding. All
calculations
under this Section 5
shall be made to
the nearest 1/10th of a cent or the nearest l/100th of a share, as the case
may
be.
(e) Notice of
Adjustment. Whenever
the Exercise Price is adjusted
pursuant to this Section 5, the Company shall promptly deliver to the Holder a
notice setting forth the Exercise Price after such adjustment and setting forth
a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment. Such notice shall be
signed by the chairman, chief executive officer, chief operating officer or
chief financial officer of the Company.
(f) Treasury
Shares. For purposes of this Section 5, the number of
shares of Common Stock
outstanding at any
given time shall not include shares
owned or held by or for the account of the Company, and the disposition of any
shares so owned or held shall be considered an issue or sale of
Common Stock by
the Company.
(g) Change of Control;
Compulsory Share
Exchange. In case of
(A) any
Change of Control
Transaction (as
defined below) or (B) any compulsory share
exchange pursuant to
which the Common Stock is converted into other securities,
cash or property (each, an "Event"), lawful provision shall be made (which
may
be conditioned upon
the surrender and exchange of this Warrant for a warrant of
like tenor,
subject to such
adjustments
as may be reasonably necessary to
account for the applicable transaction, including proportionate
adjustments to
the Exercise
Price) so that the
Holder shall have the right thereafter to
exercise this
Warrant for shares of stock and other securities, cash and
property receivable
upon or deemed to be held by holders of Common Stock
following such
Event, and the Holder shall be entitled upon such Event to
receive upon
exercise hereof such amount of shares of stock and other
securities, cash or
property as the shares
of the Common Stock of
the Company
into which this
Warrant could have
been exercised
immediately
prior to such
Event (without
taking into
account any
limitations
or restrictions on the
exercisability of this Warrant) would have been entitled.
The terms of any
such
Event shall include such terms so as to continue to give to the
Holder the right
to receive the securities, cash or property set forth in this
Section 5(g) upon
any exercise or redemption following such Event, and, in the case of an Event
specified in clause (A) above, the successor corporation or other entity (if
other than
the Company) resulting from such reorganization, merger or
consolidation, or the
person acquiring the properties and assets, or such other
controlling corporation or entity as may be appropriate,
shall expressly
assume
the obligation
to deliver the
securities
or other assets which
the Holder is
entitled to
receive hereunder. The provisions of this Section 5(g) shall
similarly apply to successive Events. "Change of Control Transaction"
means the
occurrence of any (i)
merger or consolidation of the Company with or into
another entity, unless the holders of the Company's securities
immediately prior
to such transaction or
series of transactions
continue to hold at least 50% of
such securities following such transaction or series of
transactions, or (ii)
a
sale, conveyance,
lease, transfer or disposition of all or substantially all of
the assets of the Company in one or a series of related
transactions.
(h) Issuances Below
Exercise Price.
Subject to the last
paragraph of
this Section
5(h), if the Company, at any time while this Warrant is
outstanding:
(i) issues or sells,
or is deemed to have issued or sold, any
Common Stock (other than any Excluded Securities (as defined
below));
(ii) in any manner
grants, issues or
sells any rights,
options,
warrants, options to
subscribe for or to purchase Common Stock or any stock or
other securities
convertible into or
exchangeable for Common Stock (other than
any Excluded
Securities) (such rights, options or warrants being herein
called
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"Options" and such convertible or exchangeable stock or securities being
herein
called "Convertible
Securities") or reprices of any of the Company's issued and
outstanding Options or Convertible Securities (other than reprices
triggered by
the issuance of this
Warrant or any other
warrants being issued on the date
hereof); or
(iii) in any manner
issues or sells any Convertible Securities
(other than any Excluded Securities);
for (a) with respect
to paragraph
(i) above,
a price per share,
or (b) with
respect to paragraphs
(ii) or (iii) above,
a price per share for
which Common
Stock is issuable upon the exercise of such Options (together with
the price per
optioned share,
if any, paid for the issuance of such Options) or upon
conversion or exchange of such Convertible Securities; in either case, which is
less than the Exercise
Price in effect
immediately prior to
such issuance or
sale, then,
immediately after such issuance, sale or grant, the Exercise
Price
shall be adjusted
by multiplying the Exercise Price then in effect by a
fraction, (x) the
numerator of which shall be the sum of (1) the
number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such issue
or sale, plus
(2) the number
of shares of Common
Stock which the aggregate consideration
received by the
Company for such Common Stock or Convertible Securities,
together with any
consideration
receivable upon the
exercise or conversion of
such Convertible
Securities,
then issued would
purchase at the Exercise Price
then in effect; and
(y) the denominator of
which shall be the number of shares
of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such issue or sale
plus






