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Exhibit 4.9
[ * ] = Certain confidential
information contained in this document, marked by brackets, is
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule
24b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
THIS WARRANT, THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE
UPON EXERCISE HEREOF AND ANY FAILURE PAYMENT SHARES HAVE NOT BEEN
REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE
“SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAW, AND
MAY NOT BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED, ASSIGNED, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED
OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF OR EXERCISED UNLESS (I) A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT REGISTERING SUCH SECURITIES UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS SHALL HAVE
BECOME EFFECTIVE, OR (II) THE COMPANY HAS RECEIVED AN OPINION
OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY TO IT THAT SUCH TRANSFER MAY LAWFULLY
BE MADE WITHOUT REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR
QUALIFICATION UNDER APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR
(III) SUCH SECURITIES ARE SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 OR RULE
144A.
AN INVESTMENT IN THESE SECURITIES
INVOLVES A HIGH DEGREE OF RISK. HOLDERS MUST RELY ON THEIR OWN
ANALYSIS OF THE INVESTMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF THE RISKS
INVOLVED.
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Warrant to Purchase Common
Stock
of
EXELIXIS,
INC.
THIS CERTIFIES that ____________ or any
subsequent holder hereof has the right to purchase from EXELIXIS,
INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), ________
(
) fully paid and nonassessable shares, of the Company’s
common stock, $0.001 par value per share (“Common
Stock”), subject to adjustment as provided herein, at a price
equal to the Exercise Price as defined in Section 3 below, at
any time during the Term (as defined below).
Holder agrees with the Company that this
Warrant to Purchase Common Stock of the Company (this
“Warrant” or this “Agreement”) is issued
and all rights hereunder shall be held subject to all of the
conditions, limitations and provisions set forth herein.
1. Date of Issuance and
Term.
This Warrant shall be deemed to be
issued on _____, 2008 (“Date of Issuance”). The term of
this Warrant begins on the Date of Issuance and ends at 5:00 p.m.,
New York City time, on the date that is six (6) years after
the Date of Issuance (the “Term”). This Warrant was
issued in conjunction with that certain Facility Agreement (the
“Facility Agreement”) and the Registration Rights
Agreement (“Registration Rights Agreement”) by and
between the Company and __________, each dated _____, 2008, entered
into in conjunction herewith.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, the Company shall not issue to the Holder, and the Holder
may not acquire, a number of shares of Common Stock upon exercise
of this Warrant to the extent that, upon such exercise, the number
of shares of Common Stock then beneficially owned by the Holder and
its Affiliates and any other persons or entities whose beneficial
ownership of Common Stock would be aggregated with the
Holder’s for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) (including
shares held by any “group” of which the Holder is a
member, but excluding shares beneficially owned by virtue of the
ownership of securities or rights to acquire securities that have
limitations on the right to convert, exercise or purchase similar
to the limitation set forth herein) would exceed 9.98% of the total
number of shares of Common Stock then issued and outstanding (the
“9.98% Cap”). For purposes hereof, “group”
has the meaning set forth in Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act
and applicable regulations of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “SEC”), and the percentage held by the
Holder shall be determined in a manner consistent with the
provisions of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act. Upon the
written request of the Holder, the Company shall, within two
(2) Trading Days confirm orally and in writing to the Holder
the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding.
[ * ] = Certain confidential information
contained in this document, marked by brackets, is filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 24b-2 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Affiliate” means any person
or entity that, directly or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common
control with a person or entity, as such terms are used in and
construed under Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “Securities Act”). With respect to a
Holder of Warrants, any investment fund or managed account that is
managed on a discretionary basis by the same investment manager as
such Holder will be deemed to be an Affiliate of such
Holder.
“Business Day” means a day
on which banks are open for business in The City of New York and
San Francisco.
“Grace Period” shall have
the meaning set forth in the Registration Rights
Agreement.
“Holder” means ______ and
any transferee or assignee pursuant to the terms of this
Warrant.
“Initial Filing Deadline”
shall have the meaning set forth in the Registration Rights
Agreement.
“Initial Registration
Deadline” shall have the meaning set forth in the
Registration Rights Agreement.
“Initial Registration
Statement” shall have the meaning set forth in the
Registration Rights Agreement.
“Registrable Securities”
shall have the meaning set forth in the Registration Rights
Agreement.
“Registration” shall have
the meaning set forth in the Registration Rights
Agreement.
“Registration Period” shall
have the meaning set forth in the Registration Rights
Agreement.
“Registration Statement”
shall have the meaning set forth in the Registration Rights
Agreement.
“Trading Day” means any day
on which the Common Stock is traded for at least two hours on
NASDAQ, or on the principal securities exchange or other securities
market on which the Common Stock is then being traded.
2. Exercise .
(a) Manner of Exercise. During
the Term, this Warrant may be Exercised as to all or any lesser
number of full shares of Common Stock covered hereby (the
“Warrant Shares” or the “Shares”) upon
surrender of this Warrant, with the Exercise Form attached hereto
as Exhibit A (the “Exercise Form”) duly
completed and executed, together with the full Exercise Price (as
defined below, which may be satisfied by a Cash Exercise, a
Cashless Exercise, a Cashless Major Exercise or a Cashless Default
Exercise, as each is defined below) for each share of Common Stock
as to which this Warrant is Exercised, at the office of the
Company, Exelixis, Inc., 170 Harbor Way, P.O. Box 511, South San
Francisco, CA 94083; Fax: (680) 837-7951, or at such other
office or agency as the Company may designate in writing, by
overnight mail, with an advance copy of the Exercise Form sent to
the Company and the transfer agent for the Common Stock
(“Transfer Agent”) by facsimile (such surrender and
payment of the Exercise Price hereinafter called the
“Exercise” of this Warrant).
(b) Date of Exercise. If any
portion of the Exercise Price is satisfied by a Cash Exercise (as
defined below), the “Date of Exercise” of the Warrant
shall be defined as the later of (A) the date that the
Exercise Form attached hereto as Exhibit A , completed and
executed, is sent by facsimile to the Company, provided that the
original Warrant and Exercise Form are received by the Company,
each as soon as practicable thereafter (or, the date the original
Exercise Form is received by the Company, if Holder has not sent
advance notice by facsimile) and (B) the date that the
Exercise Price is received by the Company. If no portion of the
Exercise Price is satisfied by a Cash Exercise, the “Date of
Exercise” of the Warrant shall be defined as the date that
the Exercise Form attached hereto as Exhibit A , completed
and executed, is sent by facsimile to the Company, provided that
the original Warrant and Exercise Form are received by the Company,
each as soon as practicable thereafter (or, the date the original
Exercise Form is received by the Company, if Holder has not sent
advance notice by facsimile).
(c) Delivery of Common Stock Upon
Exercise. Within three (3) Trading Days after any Date of
Exercise, or in the case of a Cashless Major Exercise or a Cashless
Default Exercise (each as defined in Section 5(c)(i) below),
within the period provided in Section 5(c)(iii) or
Section 3(a)(iv), as applicable (the “Delivery
Period”), the Company shall issue and deliver (or cause its
Transfer Agent to so issue and deliver) in accordance with the
terms hereof to or upon the order of the Holder that number of
shares of Common Stock (“Exercise Shares”) for the
portion of this Warrant exercised as shall be determined in
accordance herewith. Upon the Exercise of this
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[ * ] = Certain confidential information
contained in this document, marked by brackets, is filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 24b-2 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Warrant or any part thereof, the Company
shall, at its own cost and expense, take all reasonable steps,
including obtaining and delivering, an opinion of counsel to assure
that the Transfer Agent shall issue stock certificates in the name
of Holder (or its nominee) or such other persons as designated by
Holder and in such denominations to be specified at Exercise
representing the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon
such Exercise.
(d) Delivery Failure. In addition
to any other remedies which may be available to the Holder, in the
event that the Company fails for any reason to effect delivery of
the Exercise Shares by the end of the Delivery Period (a
“Delivery Failure”), the Holder will be entitled to
revoke all or part of the relevant Exercise Form by delivery of a
notice to such effect to the Company whereupon the Company and the
Holder shall each be restored to their respective positions
immediately prior to the delivery of such notice, except that the
liquidated damages described herein shall be payable through the
date notice of revocation or rescission is given to the
Company.
(i) Restrictive Legend . The
Holder understands that this Warrant, the Exercise Shares and the
Failure Payment Shares (as defined in Section 10 hereof) have
not been registered on the Date of Issuance, under the Securities
Act. The Holder understands that until such time as (i) this
Warrant has been registered under the Securities Act and/or
(ii) the Exercise Shares and/or the Failure Payment Shares, as
applicable, have been registered under the Securities Act as
contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement, or otherwise may
be sold pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act or an
exemption from registration under the Securities Act without any
restriction as to the number of securities as of a particular date
that can then be immediately sold, (A) this Warrant will bear
a restrictive legend in substantially the form set forth on the
first page of this Warrant (and a stop-transfer order may be placed
against transfer of such securities) and (B) the Exercise
Shares and the Failure Payment Shares will bear a restrictive
legend in substantially the following form (and a stop-transfer
order may be placed against transfer of the certificates for such
securities):
“THE SECURITIES
REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES
LAWS. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED, ASSIGNED,
PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF AN
EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER SAID ACT
OR PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER SAID ACT
INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, PURSUANT TO RULES 144 OR 144A UNDER
SAID ACT OR PURSUANT TO A PRIVATE SALE EFFECTED UNDER APPLICABLE
FORMAL OR INFORMAL SEC INTERPRETATION OR GUIDANCE, SUCH AS A
SO-CALLED “4(1) AND A HALF” SALE, SUBJECT TO DELIVERY
OF AN OPINION, AS PROVIDED IN THE WARRANT.
“THE SALE, TRANSFER OR
ASSIGNMENT OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE ARE
SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF A CERTAIN REGISTRATION
RIGHTS AGREEMENT DATED AS OF June 4, 2008, AS AMENDED FROM
TIME TO TIME. COPIES OF SUCH AGREEMENT MAY BE OBTAINED AT NO COST
BY WRITTEN REQUEST MADE BY THE HOLDER OF RECORD OF THIS CERTIFICATE
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE COMPANY.”
(ii) Removal of Restrictive
Legends . This Warrant and certificates evidencing the Exercise
Shares and any Failure Payment Shares shall not contain any legend
restricting the transfer thereof (including any legend set forth
above in subsection 2(e)(i)): (A) while a registration
statement (including a Registration Statement) covering the sale or
resale of such security is effective under the Securities Act, or
(B) following any sale of such Warrant, Exercise Shares and/or
Failure Payment Shares pursuant to Rule 144, or (C) if such
Warrant, Exercise Shares and/or Failure Payment Shares are eligible
for sale under Rule 144(b)(1), or (D) if such legend is not
required under any other applicable requirements of the Securities
Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued
by the staff of the SEC) and the Company shall have received an
opinion of counsel to the Holder in form reasonably acceptable to
the Company to such effect, which, in the case of a so-called
“4(1) and a half” sale, shall be in the form of Exhibit
C hereto (collectively, the “Unrestricted Conditions”).
If the Unrestricted Conditions are met, the Company shall cause its
counsel to issue a legal opinion to the Transfer Agent if required
by the Company’s transfer agent to effect the issuance of the
Exercise Shares or any Failure Payment Shares, as applicable,
without a restrictive legend or removal of the legend hereunder. If
the Unrestricted Conditions are met at the time of issuance of this
Warrant, the Exercise Shares and/or any Failure Payment Shares,
then this Warrant, the Exercise Shares and/or any Failure Payment
Shares, as applicable, shall be issued free of all legends. The
Company agrees that at such time as the Unrestricted Conditions are
met or such legend is otherwise no longer required under this
Section 2(e), it will, no later than three (3) Trading
Days following the delivery (the “Unlegended Shares Delivery
Deadline”) by the Holder to the Company or the Transfer Agent
of this Warrant and a certificate representing Exercise Shares or
Failure Payment Shares, as applicable, issued with a restrictive
legend (such third Trading Day, the “Legend Removal
Date”), deliver or cause to be delivered to such Holder this
Warrant and/or a certificate (or electronic transfer) representing
such shares that is free from all restrictive and other
legends.
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[ * ] = Certain confidential information
contained in this document, marked by brackets, is filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 24b-2 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
(iii) Sale of Unlegended Shares .
Holder agrees that the removal of the restrictive legend from this
Warrant and any certificates representing securities as set forth
in Section 2(e) above is predicated upon the Company’s
reliance that the Holder would sell, transfer, assign, pledge,
hypothecate or otherwise dispose of this Warrant, any Exercise
Shares and/or any Failure Payment Shares pursuant to either the
registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any
applicable prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption
therefrom, and that if such securities are sold pursuant to a
Registration Statement, they will be sold in compliance with the
plan of distribution set forth therein.
(f) Cancellation of Warrant. This
Warrant shall be canceled upon the full Exercise of this Warrant or
upon full redemption of this Warrant. As soon as practical after
the Date of Exercise, Holder shall be entitled to receive Common
Stock for the number of shares purchased upon such Exercise of this
Warrant as set forth in Section 2(c), and if this Warrant is
not Exercised in full, Holder shall be entitled to receive a new
Warrant (containing terms identical to this Warrant) representing
any unexercised portion of this Warrant in addition to such Common
Stock.
(g) Holder of Record. Each person
in whose name any Warrant for shares of Common Stock is issued
shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be the Holder of record of
such shares on the Date of Exercise of this Warrant, irrespective
of the date of delivery of the Common Stock purchased upon the
Exercise of this Warrant or the date such Common Stock is credited
to the Holder’s DTC account, as the case may be. Nothing in
this Warrant shall be construed as conferring upon Holder any
rights as a stockholder of the Company.
(h) Delivery of Electronic
Shares. In lieu of delivering physical certificates
representing the Common Stock issuable upon Exercise or legend
removal or representing Failure Payment Shares, provided the
Company’s Transfer Agent is participating in the Depository
Trust Company (“DTC”) Fast Automated Securities
Transfer (“FAST”) program, upon written request of the
Holder, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts
to cause its Transfer Agent to electronically transmit the Common
Stock issuable to the Holder by crediting the account of the
Holder’s prime broker with DTC through its Deposit Withdrawal
Agent Commission (DWAC) system. The time periods for delivery and
penalties described herein shall apply to the electronic
transmittals described herein. Any delivery not effected by
electronic transmission shall be effected by delivery of physical
certificates.
(i) Buy-In. In addition to any
other rights available to the Holder, if the Company fails to cause
its Transfer Agent to transmit to the Holder a certificate or
certificates representing the Exercise Shares pursuant to an
Exercise on or before the Delivery Period (other than a failure
caused by any incorrect or incomplete information provided by
Holder to the Company hereunder, and if after such date the Holder
is required by its broker to purchase (in an open market
transaction or otherwise) or the Holder’s brokerage firm
otherwise purchases shares of Common Stock to deliver in
satisfaction of a sale by the Holder of the Exercise Shares which
the Holder anticipated receiving upon such Exercise (a
“Buy-In”), then the Company shall (1) pay in cash
to the Holder the amount by which (x) the Holder’s total
purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the
shares of Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the amount
obtained by multiplying (A) the number of Exercise Shares that
the Company was required to deliver to the Holder in connection
with the Exercise at issue times and (B) the price at which
the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation was
executed, and (2) at the option of the Holder, either
reinstate the portion of the Warrant and equivalent number of
Exercise Shares for which such Exercise was not honored or deliver
to the Holder certificate(s) representing the number of shares of
Common Stock that would have been issued had the Company timely
complied with its Exercise and delivery obligations hereunder. For
example, if the Holder purchases Common Stock having a total
purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an
attempted Exercise to cover the sale of Common Stock with an
aggregate sale price giving rise to such purchase obligation of
$10,000, under subsection (1) of the immediately preceding
sentence the Company shall be required to pay the Holder $1,000.
The Holder shall provide the Company written notice indicating the
amounts payable to the Holder in respect of the Buy-In, together
with applicable confirmations and other evidence reasonably
requested by the Company. Nothing herein shall limit a
Holder’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it
hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a
decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with
respect to the Company’s failure to timely deliver
certificates representing shares of Common Stock upon Exercise of
the Warrant as required pursuant to the terms hereof.
3. Payment of Warrant Exercise
Price .
(a) Exercise Price. The Exercise
Price (“Exercise Price”) shall initially equal $____
per share subject to adjustment pursuant to the terms hereof,
including but not limited to Section 5 below.
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[ * ] = Certain confidential information
contained in this document, marked by brackets, is filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 24b-2 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Payment of the Exercise Price may be
made by either of the following, or a combination thereof, at the
election of Holder:
(i) Cash Exercise: The Holder may
exercise this Warrant in cash, bank or cashier’s check or
wire transfer (a “Cash Exercise”); or
(ii) Cashless Exercise . The
Holder, at its option, may exercise this Warrant in a cashless
exercise transaction. In order to effect a Cashless Exercise, the
Holder shall surrender this Warrant at the principal office of the
Company together with the Exercise Form attached hereto as Exhibit
A indicating that the Holder is exercising the Warrant pursuant to
a cashless election, in which event the Company shall issue Holder
a number of shares of Common Stock computed using the following
formula (a “Cashless Exercise”):
X = Y (A-B)/A
where: X = the number of shares of
Common Stock to be issued to Holder.
Y = the number of shares of
Common Stock for which this Warrant is being Exercised.
A = the Market Price of one
(1) share of Common Stock (for purposes of this
Section 3(a)(ii), where “Market Price,” as of any
date, means the Volume Weighted Average Price (as defined herein)
of the Company’s Common Stock during the ten
(10) consecutive Trading Day period immediately preceding the
date in question.
B = the Exercise
Price.
As used herein, the
“Volume Weighted Average Price” for any security as of
any date means the volume weighted average sale price on the NASDAQ
Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market
(“NASDAQ”) as reported by, or based upon data reported
by, Bloomberg Financial Markets or an equivalent, reliable
reporting service mutually acceptable to and hereafter designated
by holders of a majority in interest of the Warrants and the
Company (“Bloomberg”) or, if NASDAQ is not the
principal trading market for such security, the volume weighted
average sale price of such security on the principal securities
exchange or trading market where such security is listed or traded
as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no volume weighted average sale
price is reported for such security, then the last closing trade
price of such security as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no last
closing trade price is reported for such security by Bloomberg, the
average of the bid prices of any market makers for such security
that are listed in the over the counter market by the National
Association of Securities Dealers or in the “pink
sheets” by the National Quotation Bureau, Inc. If the Volume
Weighted Average Price cannot be calculated for such security on
such date in the manner provided above, the volume weighted average
price shall be the fair market value as determined in good faith by
the Company’s board of directors.
(iii) Cashless Major
Exercise: To the extent the Holder shall exercise this
Warrant or any portion thereof as a Cashless Major Exercise
pursuant to Section 5(c)(i) below, the Holder shall surrender
this Warrant at the principal office of the Company together with
the Exercise Form indicating that the Holder is exercising this
Warrant (or such portion thereof) pursuant to a Cashless Major
Exercise, in which event the Company shall issue a number of shares
of Common Stock equal to the Black-Scholes Value (as defined in
Section 5(c)(iii) below) of the remaining unexercised portion
of this Warrant (or such applicable portion being exercised)
divided by [ * ] of the closing price of the Common Stock on the
principal securities exchange or other securities market on which
the Common Stock is then traded on the Trading Day immediately
preceding the date on which the applicable Major Transaction is
consummated.
(iv) Cashless Default Exercise .
To the extent the Holder exercises this Warrant as a Cashless
Default Exercise pursuant to Section 11(b)(i) below, the
Holder shall surrender this Warrant to the principal office of the
Company together with the Exercise Form indicating that the Holder
is exercising this Warrant pursuant to a Cashless Default Exercise,
in which event, unless the Company has exercised its right to
effect a Mandatory Redemption in accordance with
Section 11(b)(i), the Company shall issue to the Holder,
within five (5) Trading Days of the delivery of such Exercise
Form, a number of shares of Common Stock (which shares shall be
valued at [ * ] of the Volume Weighted Average Price for the five
(5) Trading Days prior to the applicable Default Notice) equal
to the greater of (A) the Black-Scholes value (determined by
use of the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model using the criteria
set forth on Schedule 1 hereto) of the remaining unexercised
portion of this Warrant on the date of delivery of such Exercise
Form and (B) the Black-Scholes value (determined by use of the
Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model using the criteria set forth on
Schedule 1 hereto) of the remaining unexercised portion of this
Warrant on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date that the
applicable Exercise Shares are issued to the Holder.
4. Transfer and Registration
.
(a) Transfer Rights. Subject to
the provisions of Section 8 of this Warrant, this Warrant may
be transferred on the books of the Company, in whole or in part, in
person or by attorney, upon surrender of this Warrant properly
completed and endorsed. This Warrant shall be canceled upon such
surrender and, as soon as practicable thereafter, the person to
whom such transfer is made shall be entitled to receive a new
Warrant or Warrants as to the portion of this Warrant transferred,
and Holder shall be entitled to receive a new Warrant as to the
portion hereof retained.
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contained in this document, marked by brackets, is filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 24b-2 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
(b) Registrable Securities. The
Exercise Shares and the Failure Payment Shares have registration
rights pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.
5. Adjustments Upon Certain
Events .
(a) Participation . The Holder,
as the holder of this Warrant, shall be entitled to receive such
dividends paid and distributions of any kind made to the holders of
Common Stock of the Company to the same extent as if the Holder had
Exercised this Warrant into Common Stock (without regard to any
limitations on exercise herein or elsewhere and without regard to
whether or not a sufficient number of shares are authorized and
reserved to effect any such exercise and issuance) and had held
such shares of Common Stock on the record date for such dividends
and distributions. Payments under the preceding sentence shall be
made concurrently with the dividend or distribution to the holders
of Common Stock.
(b) Recapitalization or
Reclassification. If the Company shall at any time effect a
stock split, recapitalization, reclassification or other similar
transaction of such character that the shares of Common Stock shall
be changed into or become exchangeable for a larger or smaller
number of shares, then upon the effective date thereof, the number
of shares of Common Stock which Holder shall be entitled to
purchase upon Exercise of this Warrant shall be increased or
decreased, as the case may be, in direct proportion to the increase
or decrease in the number of shares of Common Stock by reason of
such stock split, recapitalization, reclassification or similar
transaction, and the Exercise Price shall be, in the case of an
increase in the number of shares, proportionally decreased and, in
the case of decrease in the number of shares, proportionally
increased. The Company shall give Holder the same notice it
provides to holders of Common Stock of any transaction described in
this Section 5(b).
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(i) Major Transaction. To the
extent that any Major Transaction will not be treated as an
Assumption pursuant to the next following paragraph, then
(1) in the case of a Cash-Out Major Transaction and in the
case of a Mixed Major Transaction to the extent of the percentage
of the cash consideration in the Mixed Major Transaction
(determined in accordance with the definition of a Mixed Major
Transaction below), the Holder shall have the right to require the
Company to redeem the Holder’s outstanding Warrants (or the
applicable portion in a Mixed Major Transaction) in accordance with
Section 5(c)(iii) below and (2) in the case of all other
Major Transactions and in the case of a Mixed Major Transaction to
the extent of the percentage of the consideration represented by
securities of a Successor Entity in the Mixed Major Transaction,
the Holder shall have the right to exercise this Warrant as a
Cashless Major Exercise. For the avoidance of doubt, in no event
shall the Holder have the right to treat a Major Transaction as an
Assumption unless the Company has elected to treat such Major
Transaction as an Assumption pursuant to the next following
paragraph. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, and
except as set forth in the next sentence, the Holder may elect to
waive its rights under this Section 5(c)(i) with respect to
any Major Transaction in which event none of the provisions
contained in this Section 5(c)(i) shall apply. In the event of
a Major Transaction in which all shares of Common Stock are
cancelled and converted into the right to receive cash and/or
securities of Another Entity (as defined below), then, any portion
of this Warrant that is neither redeemed, assumed or exercised
pursuant to the terms of this Warrant prior to the closing of such
Major Transaction, shall (A) automatically and immediately
convert into shares of Common Stock, and shall be deemed to have
been exercised pursuant to a Cashless Exercise, immediately prior
to the consummation of such Major Transaction if the aggregate
consideration to be received for the Common Stock in such Major
Transaction is greater than the aggregate Exercise Price for such
shares, or (B) be cancelled and terminated without further
action by the Holder or the Company upon consummation of such Major
Transaction if the aggregate consideration to be received for the
Common Stock in the Major Transaction is less than the aggregate
Exercise Price for such shares.
In the event of a Qualified Major
Transaction, the Company shall have the right to cause such
Qualified Major Transaction (or the applicable portion of a Mixed
Major Transaction) to be treated as an Assumption in accordance
with Section 5(c)(ii) below with respect to the percentage of
this Warrant then owned by the Holder equal to the percentage of
the consideration to be paid in the Major Transaction represented
by the securities of a Successor Entity. If the Successor Entity is
a Publicly Traded Successor Entity, the percentage of consideration
represented by securities of such Successor Entity shall be equal
to the percentage that the value of the aggregate anticipated
number of shares of the Publicly Traded Successor Entity to be
issued to holders of Common Stock of the Company represents of the
aggregate value of all consideration, including cash consideration,
in such Major Transaction, as such values are set forth in any
definitive agreement for the Major Transaction that has been
executed at the time of the first public announcement of the Major
Transaction or, if no such value is determinable from such
definitive agreement, based on the closing market price for shares
of the Publicly Traded Successor Entity on its principal securities
exchange on the Trading Day preceding the first public announcement
of the Major Transaction. If the Successor Entity is a Private
Successor Entity, the percentage of consideration represented by
securities of such Successor Entity shall be determined in
good-faith by the Company’s Board of Directors. Any election
by the Company to treat this Warrant as an Assumption pursuant to
the terms hereof shall be made in the Major Transaction Notice (as
defined in Section 5(a)(iii) below) in respect of such
Qualified Major Transaction.
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[ * ] = Certain confidential information
contained in this document, marked by brackets, is filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 24b-2 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Consummation of each of the following
events shall constitute a “Major
Transaction”:
(A) a consolidation, merger, exchange of
shares, recapitalization, reorganization, business combination or
other similar event (in each case other than an event provided for
in Section 5(b) above and other than a merger effected for
purposes of changing the Company’s state of incorporation),
(1) following which the holders of Common Stock immediately
preceding such consolidation, merger, exchange, recapitalization,
reorganization, combination or event either (a) no longer hold
a majority of the shares of Common Stock or (b) no longer have
the ability to elect a majority of the board of directors of the
Company or (2) as a result of which shares of Common Stock
shall be changed into (or the shares of Common Stock become
entitled to receive) the same or a different number of shares of
the same or another class or classes of stock or securities of
another entity (collectively, a “Change of Control
Transaction”);
(B) (1) the sale or transfer of
assets in one transaction or a series of related transactions for a
purchase price (excluding any consideration allocable to any
Excluded Transaction) of more than $[ * ] million (the
“Aggregate Consideration”) or (2) a sale or
transfer of more than [ * ] of the Company’s assets;
or
(C) a purchase, tender or exchange offer
made to the holders of outstanding shares of Common Stock, such
that following such purchase, tender or exchange offer a Change of
Control Transaction shall have occurred and is
consummated.
If the maximum aggregate consideration
payable in a transaction or series of related transactions
described in Section 5(c)(i)(B)(1) above (i) includes
contingent payments related to future events, and (ii) exceeds
the Aggregate Consideration ([ * ] described below), then for
purposes of determining whether the Aggregate Consideration has
been reached, the [ * ] of such contingent payments shall be
determined prior to the public announcement of such transaction [ *
] the Company and the initial Holder hereof.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of
the following (an “Excluded Transaction”) shall
constitute a Major Transaction:
(x) entering into any collaborative
arrangement, licensing agreement, [ * ] providing for the research,
development or commercial exploitation of compounds, products or
services that provides for the payments received therefrom or the
Company’s income or profits to be shared with another Person,
including, without limitation, (1) the grant, to an entity
engaged in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, of a
license or option to obtain a license to any of the Company’s
intellectual property or other assets, provided that [ * ] from
such entity [ * ] by such entity in consideration of such grant
(other than any payments [ * ], which consideration may, but need
not, include (without limitation) upfront, milestone, royalty and
profit-sharing payments, and (2) the grant of a license or
option to obtain a license to, [ * ], the Company’s
intellectual property or other assets to any entity that intends to
research and develop or commercialize products or services covered
by such intellectual property or embodying or arising from such
other assets, whether directly or through the Company or another
entity, provided that the Company or a wholly owned subsidiary of [
* ] or has the [ * ] that reasonably reflects the [ * ];
or
(y) the incurrence, grant or existence
of, or any sale or transfer of any assets in connection with, any
Permitted Lien (as defined in the Facility Agreement).
For purposes hereof:
“Another Entity” shall mean
an entity in which the holders of a majority of the shares of
Common Stock of the Company immediately prior to the consummation
of a Major Transaction do not hold a majority of the equity
securities in such entity.
“Cashless Default Exercise”
shall mean an exercise of this Warrant as a “Cashless Default
Exercise” in accordance with Section 3(a)(iv) and 11(b)
hereof.
“Cashless Major Exercise”
shall mean an exercise of this Warrant or portion thereof as a
“Cashless Major Exercise” in accordance with
Section 3(a)(iii) and 5(c)(i) hereof.
“Cash-Out Major Transaction”
means a Major Transaction in which the consideration payable to
holders of Common Stock in connection with the Major Transaction
consists solely of cash.
“Eligible Market” means the
over the counter Bulletin Board, the New York Stock Exchange, Inc.,
the NYSE Arca, the NASDAQ Capital Market, the NASDAQ Global Market,
the NASDAQ Global Select Market or the American Stock
Exchange.
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[ * ] = Certain confidential information
contained in this document, marked by brackets, is filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 24b-2 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Mixed Major Transaction”
means a Major Transaction in which the consideration payable to
holders of Common Stock consists partially of cash and partially of
securities of a Successor Entity. If the Successor Entity is a
Publicly Traded Successor Entity, the percentage of consideration
represented by securities of such Successor Entity shall be equal
to the percentage that the value of the aggregate anticipated
number of shares of the Publicly Traded Successor Entity to be
issued to holders of Common Stock of the Company represents of the
aggregate value of all consideration, including cash consideration,
in such Mixed Major Transaction, as such values are set forth in
any definitive agreement for the Mixed Major Transaction that has
been executed at the time of the first public announcement of the
Major Transaction or, if no such value is determinable from such
definitive agreement, based on the closing market price for shares
of the Publicly Traded Successor Entity on its principal securities
exchange on the Trading Day preceding the first public announcement
of the Mixed Major Transaction. If the Successor Entity is a
Private Successor Entity, the percentage of consideration
represented by securities of such Successor Entity shall be
determined in good-faith by the Company’s Board of
Directors.
A “Parent Entity” of a
Person means an entity that, directly or indirectly, controls the
applicable Person and whose common stock or equivalent equity
security is quoted or listed on an Eligible Market, or, if there is
more than one such Person or Parent Entity, the Person or Parent
Entity with the largest public market capitalization as of the date
of consummation of a Major Transaction.
“Person” means an
individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a joint
venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization,
any other entity and a government or any department
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