Exhibit 4.1
NEITHER THIS WARRANT NOR ANY OF THE
SECURITIES ISSUABLE HEREUNDER HAVE 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 UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS SHALL HAVE
BECOME EFFECTIVE WITH REGARD THERETO, OR (II) AN EXEMPTION FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE
SECURITIES LAWS IS AVAILABLE IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH OFFER, SALE OR
TRANSFER.
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
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ISTA PHARMACEUTICALS,
INC.
THIS CERTIFIES that
or any subsequent holder hereof (“Holder”) has the
right to purchase from ISTA PHARMACEUTICALS, 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 September 26, 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 the initial Holder
and certain other parties, each dated September 26, 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, as amended (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.
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“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.
“Trading Day” shall mean
any day on which the Common Sock is traded for any period 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
whole 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 or a
Cashless 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, ISTA Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 15295 Alton Parkway,
Irvine, CA 92618; Phone: (949) 788-6000, Fax:
(949) 789-7744, 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 its
transfer agent (“Transfer Agent”) by facsimile (such
surrender and payment of the Exercise Price hereinafter called the
“Exercise” of this Warrant).
(b) Date of 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, and
the Exercise Price is satisfied pursuant to the terms set forth in
Section 3 below, provided that the original Warrant is
received by the Company within two Business Days after the Company
receives a facsimile copy of the Exercise Form. Alternatively, the
Date of Exercise shall be defined as the date the original Exercise
Form is received by the Company, if Holder has not sent advance
notice by facsimile. Upon receipt of the properly completed and
executed Exercise Form and the Exercise Price by the Company, the
Holder shall be deemed for all corporate purposes to have become
the holder of record of the Warrant Shares with respect to which
this Warrant has been Exercised, irrespective of the date such
Warrant Shares are credited to the Holder’s Depository Trust
Company (“DTC”) account or the date of delivery of the
certificates evidencing such Warrant Shares, as the case may
be.
(c) Delivery of Common Stock Upon Exercise .
Within three (3) Business 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) below), within the
period provided in Section 5(c)(iv) or Section 3(a)(iv),
as applicable (the “Delivery Period”), the Company
shall issue and deliver (or cause its Transfer Agent to 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
converted as shall be determined in accordance herewith. Upon the
Exercise of this Warrant or any part hereof, the Company shall, at
its own cost and expense, take all necessary action, 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. The
Company warrants that no instructions contrary to these
instructions have been or will be given to the Transfer Agent and
that, unless waived by the Holder, this Warrant and the Exercise
Shares will be free-trading, and freely transferable, and will not
contain a legend restricting the resale or transferability of the
Exercise Shares if the Unrestricted Conditions (as defined below)
are met.
(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 prior
to the receipt by the Holder of the Exercise Shares 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.
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(e) Legends .
(i) Restrictive Legend . The
Holder understands that until such time as this Warrant, the
Exercise Shares and the Failure Payment Shares 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, this Warrant, the Exercise Shares and the Failure Payment
Shares, as applicable, may 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 OR ASSIGNED 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.”
“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 SEPTEMBER 26, 2008, AS AMENDED FROM
TIME TO TIME, AMONG THE COMPANY AND A CERTAIN HOLDERS OF ITS
OUTSTANDING SECURITIES. 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 the certificates evidencing the
Exercise Shares and the Failure Payment Shares, as applicable,
shall not contain any legend restricting the transfer thereof
(including the legend set forth above in subsection 2(e)(i)):
(A) while a registration statement (including a Registration
Statement, as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement)
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 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 transaction” shall
be in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C (collectively, the
“Unrestricted Conditions”). The Company shall cause its
counsel to issue a legal opinion to the Transfer Agent if required
by the Transfer Agent to effect the issuance of this Warrant, the
Exercise Shares or the 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 or the Failure Payment Shares, then
such Warrant, Exercise Shares or 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
and/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.
(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 only sell,
transfer, assign, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of this
Warrant or any Exercise Shares and/or any Failure Payment Shares,
as applicable, 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.
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(f) Cancellation of Warrant . This Warrant
shall be canceled upon the full Exercise of this Warrant, and, 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, 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. 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 Transfer Agent is participating in the
DTC Fast Automated Securities Transfer (“FAST”) program
and provided further that the Holder provides the Transfer Agent
with information required in order to issue shares of Common Stock
to the Holder electronically, upon written request of the Holder,
the Company shall use its best efforts to cause its Transfer Agent
to electronically transmit the Common Stock issuable upon Exercise
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, or
electronic shares through DWAC, 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 was entitled to receive 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 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 clause (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 $1.41 per
share, subject to adjustment pursuant to the terms hereof,
including but not limited to Section 5 below.
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
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(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 notice of 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 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 Financial
Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. or in the “pink
sheets” by the Pink OTC Market, 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 mutually determined by the
Company and the Holders of a majority in interest of the Warrants
being Exercised for which the calculation of the volume weighted
average price is required in order to determine the Exercise Price
of such Warrants.
For purposes of Rule 144 and
sub-section (d)(3)(ii) thereof, it is intended, understood and
acknowledged that the Common Stock issuable upon Exercise of this
Warrant in a Cashless Exercise transaction shall be deemed to have
been acquired at the time this Warrant was issued. Moreover, it is
intended, understood and acknowledged that the holding period for
the Common Stock issuable upon Exercise of this Warrant in a
Cashless Exercise transaction shall be deemed to have commenced on
the date this Warrant was issued.
(iii) Cashless Major
Exercise. The Holder may exercise this Warrant in a Cashless
Major Exercise pursuant to Section 5(c)(i) below. In order to
effect a Cashless Major Exercise, 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 Warrant (or such applicable
portion being exercised) divided by 95% 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 . The Holder may exercise this Warrant in a Cashless
Default Exercise pursuant to Section 11(b)(i) below. In order
to effect a Cashless Default Exercise, 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
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which event the Company shall issue to the
Holder, within five (5) Trading Days of the applicable Default
Notice, a number of shares of Common Stock (which shares shall be
valued at 95% 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 I hereto) of the remaining unexercised
portion of this Warrant on the date of such Default Notice and
(B) the Black-Scholes value (determined by use of the
Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model using the criteria set forth on
Schedule I hereto) of the remaining unexercised portion of this
Warrant on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date that the
Mandatory Redemption Amount is paid to the Holder.
(b) Dispute Resolution . In the case of a
dispute as to the determination of the closing price or the Volume
Weighted Average Price of the Company’s Common Stock or the
arithmetic calculation of the Exercise Price, Market Price or any
Major Transaction Warrant Early Termination Price, the Company
shall submit the disputed determinations or arithmetic calculations
via facsimile within two (2) Business Days of receipt, or
deemed receipt, of the Exercise Notice or Major Transaction Early
Termination Notice, or other event giving rise to such dispute, as
the case may be, to the Holder. If the Holder and the Company are
unable to agree upon such determination or calculation within two
(2) Business Days of such disputed determination or arithmetic
calculation being submitted to the Holder, then the Company shall,
within two (2) Business Days submit via facsimile (i) the
disputed determination of the closing price or the Volume Weighted
Average Price of the Company’s Common Stock to an
independent, reputable investment bank selected by the Company and
approved by the Holder, which approval shall not be unreasonably
withheld or (ii) the disputed arithmetic calculation of the
Exercise Price, Market Price or any Major Transaction Warrant Early
Termination Price to the Company’s independent, outside
accountant. The Company shall cause the investment bank or the
accountant, as the case may be, to perform the determinations or
calculations and notify the Company and the Holder of the results
no later than five (5) Business Days from the time it receives
the disputed determinations or calculations. If the determination
or calculation of such investment bank or accountant is equal to
the determination or calculation of the Company, then the expenses
of the investment bank or accountant shall be borne by the Holder.
Otherwise such expenses shall be borne by the Company. Such
investment bank’s or accountant’s determination or
calculation, as the case may be, shall be binding upon all parties
absent demonstrable error.
4. Transfer and Registration
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(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.
(b) Registrable Securities . The Common Stock
issuable upon the Exercise of this Warrant has 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, payment of
stock dividend, 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, payment of stock dividend, recapitalization,
reclassification or similar transaction, and the Exercise Price
shall be, in the case of an
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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).
(c) Rights Upon Major
Transaction .
(i) Major Transaction . In
the event that a Major Transaction (as defined below) occurs, 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 may require early termination of the
Holder’s outstanding Warrants 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. The Holder may waive its rights under this
Section 5(c) with respect to any Major Transaction.
Consummation of each of the
following events shall constitute a “Major
Transaction”:
(A) any (i) merger, reverse
merger, reorganization, consolidation, exchange of shares,
recapitalization, business combination, or other similar
transaction involving the Company, other than any such transaction
in which (1) the holders of the outstanding Common Stock
immediately prior to such transaction continue (i) to hold, in
the aggregate, shares of Common Stock possessing more than fifty
percent (50%) of the total combined voting power of all
outstanding voting securities of the Company or of the surviving
entity (or the parent of the surviving entity) immediately after
such transaction and (ii) to have the ability to elect a
majority of the Board of Directors of the Company and (2) as a
result of which the shares of Common Stock are not exchanged for or
changed into the same or a different number of shares of the same
or another class or classes of stock or securities of the Company
or another entity; or (ii) sale, transfer, issuance or other
disposition of, or the acquisition by any person or group (within
the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) of, the
beneficial ownership of fifty percent (50%) or more of the
total combined voting power of all outstanding equity securities of
the Company or any of its subsidiaries, in a single transaction or
series of related transactions (collectively, a “Change of
Control Transaction”);
(B) the sale or transfer of assets
of the Company, in a single transaction or series of related
transactions, to another Person for a purchase price of more than
50% of the value of the Company’s assets as shown on the most
recent financial statements of the Company filed with the
SEC;
(C) an issuance or series of related
issuances by the Company after the date of this Warrant to any
person or group of persons acting in concert (regardless of whether
such persons constitute a group within the meaning of
Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), of an aggregate number
of shares of Common Stock in excess of 35% of the Company’s
outstanding Common Stock immediately prior to the date of such
issuance;
(D) the liquidation, bankruptcy,
insolvency, dissolution or winding-up (or the occurrence of any
analogous proceeding) affecting the Company; or
(E) the shares of Common Stock cease
to be listed, traded or publicly quoted on NASDAQ and are not
promptly re-listed or requoted on either the New York Stock
Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ Global Select
Market or the NASDAQ Capital Market.
(ii) [Intentionally
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(iii) Notice; Major Transaction
Early Termination Right; Notice of Cashless Major Exercise . At
least thirty (30) days prior to the consummation of any Major
Transaction, but, in any event, within five Business Days following
the first to occur of (x) the date of the public announcement
of such Major Transaction if such announcement is made before 4:00
p.m., New York City time, or (y) the day following the public
announcement of such Major Transaction if such announcement is made
on and after 4:00 p.m., New York City time, the Company shall
deliver written notice thereof via facsimile and overnight courier
to the Holder (a “Major Transaction
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Notice”). At any time during the period
beginning after the Holder’s receipt of a Major Transaction
Notice and ending five (5) Trading Days prior to the
consummation of such Major Transaction (the “Early
Termination Period”), the Holder may require an early
termination (an “Early Termination Upon Major
Transaction”) of all or any portion of this Warrant not
eligible to be treated as a Cashless Major Exercise (without taking
into consideration the 9.98% Cap) by delivering written notice
thereof (“Major Transaction Early Termination Notice”)
to the Company, which Major Transaction Early Termination Notice
shall indicate the portion of the Warrant that the Holder is
electing to be subject to an Early Termination Upon Major
Transaction. The portion of this Warrant subject to early
termination pursuant to this Section 5(c)(iii) (the
“Terminated Portion”), shall be terminated by the
Company at a price (the “Major Transaction Warrant Early
Termination Price”) payable to the Holder in cash equal to
the “Black Scholes Value” of the Terminated Portion
determined by use of the Black Scholes Option Pricing Model using
the criteria set forth in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Black
Scholes Value”).
To the extent the Holder shall elect
to effect a Cashless Major Exercise in respect of a Major
Transaction, the Holder shall deliver its exercise notice in
accordance with Section 3(a)(iii), within the Early
Termination Period.
(iv) Escrow; Payment of Major
Transaction Warrant Early Termination Price . Following the
receipt of a Major Transaction Early Termination Notice or a
Cashless Major Exercise from the Holder, the Company shall not
effect a Major Transaction that is being treated as an early
termination or is eligible to be treated as a Cashless Major
Exercise unless it either obtains the written agreement of the
Successor Entity that payment of the Major Transaction Warrant
Early Termination Price and/or applicable Exercise Shares shall be
made to the Hold