EX-10.1 5 dex101.htm FORM OF SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT
Exhibit 10.1
This Subscription Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of April 18, 2011 (the “Effective Date”), between ARCA biopharma, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and the purchaser identified on the signature page hereto (including its successors and assigns, the “Purchaser”).
WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the Company has authorized the sale and issuance to certain investors of up to an aggregate of 1,680,672 units (the “Units”), with each Unit consisting of: (1) one share of the Company’s common stock (the “Common Stock”) par value $0.001 per share (each a “Share, and, collectively, the “Shares”) and (2) one warrant (each a “Warrant” and, collectively, the “Warrants”) to purchase 1,176,471 shares of Common Stock, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, for a purchase price of $1.785 per Unit.
WHEREAS, the Company desires to issue and sell to the Purchaser, and the Purchaser desires to purchase from the Company, Units as more fully described in this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and the Purchaser agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Definitions. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, for all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.1:
“Action” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(j).
“Affiliate” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act.
“Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company.
“Business Day” means any day except any Saturday, any Sunday, any day which is a federal legal holiday in the United States or any day on which banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized or required by law or other governmental action to close.
“Closing” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the Shares and Warrants pursuant to Section 2.1.
“Closing Date” means the Trading Day on which all of the Transaction Documents have been executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all conditions precedent to (i) the Purchaser’s obligations to pay the Subscription Amount
and (ii) the Company’s obligations to deliver the Shares and Warrants, in each case, have been satisfied or waived, but in no event later than the third Trading Day following the Effective Date.
“Commission” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share, and any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed.
“Common Stock Equivalents” means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, rights, options, warrants or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock.
“Company Counsel” means ▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Exempt Issuance” means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock or options to employees, officers or directors of, or consultants to, the Company pursuant to any stock or option plan duly adopted by the Board of Directors for such purpose, including, but not limited to, the Company’s Amended and Restated 2004 Equity Incentive Plan and the Company’s Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan (b) securities upon the exercise or exchange of or conversion of any Securities issued hereunder and/or other securities issued and outstanding on the Effective Date that are exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into shares of Common Stock, provided that such securities have not been amended since the Effective Date to increase the number of such securities or to decrease the exercise price, exchange price or conversion price of such securities, and (c) securities issued pursuant to acquisitions or strategic transactions approved by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Company, provided that any such issuance shall only be to a Person (or to the equityholders of a Person) which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an operating company or an asset in a business synergistic with the business of the Company and shall provide to the Company additional benefits in addition to the investment of funds, but shall not include a transaction in which the Company is issuing securities primarily for the purpose of raising capital or to an entity whose primary business is investing in securities.
“BN” means ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, a professional corporation, counsel to the Placement Agent.
“GAAP” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).
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“Intellectual Property Rights” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(o).
“Liens” means a lien, charge, security interest, encumbrance, right of first refusal, preemptive right or other restriction.
“Material Adverse Effect” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(b).
“Material Permits” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(m).
“Person” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind, including without limitation, any Trading Market.
“Proceeding” means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding (including, without limitation, an informal investigation or partial proceeding, such as a deposition), whether commenced or threatened.
“Prospectus” means the prospectus filed with the Registration Statement, as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement.
“Prospectus Supplement” means the final prospectus supplement relating to the offer and sale of the Shares, Warrants (and upon exercise of any Warrant, the Warrant Shares) complying with Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act that is delivered by the Company to the Purchaser immediately prior to execution this Agreement and filed with the Commission.
“Purchaser Party” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8.
“Registration Statement” means the effective registration statement with Commission file No. 333-172686 which registers the sale of the Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares to the Purchaser.
“Required Approvals” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(e).
“Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same effect as such Rule.
“Rule 424” means Rule 424 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended
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or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.
“SEC Reports” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).
“Securities” means the Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Short Sales” means all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act.
“Subscription Amount” means the aggregate amount to be paid for Shares and Warrants purchased hereunder as specified below the Purchaser’s name on the signature page of this Agreement and next to the heading “Subscription Amount,” in United States dollars and in immediately available funds.
“Trading Day” means a day on which the principal Trading Market is open for trading.
“Trading Market” means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE Amex, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange or the OTC Bulletin Board (or any successors to any of the foregoing).
“Transaction Documents” means this Agreement and the Warrants.
“Transfer Agent” means Computershare Trust Company, N.A., the current transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, and any successor transfer agent of the Company.
“Warrant Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.
ARTICLE II.
PURCHASE AND SALE
2.1 Closing. Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, the Company agrees to sell, and the Purchaser agrees to purchase, on the Closing Date, the number of Units set forth on the signature page hereto. The Purchaser shall deliver to the
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Company, via wire transfer of immediately available funds equal to the Purchaser’s Subscription Amount as set forth on the signature page hereto executed by the Purchaser and the Company shall deliver to the Purchaser its respective Shares and a Warrant as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a), and the Company and the Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at the Closing. Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3, the Closing shall occur at the offices of BN or such other location as the parties shall mutually agree.
2.2 Deliveries.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Purchaser the following:
(i) this Agreement duly executed and delivered by the Company;
(ii) a copy of the irrevocable instructions to the Company’s transfer agent, duly executed and delivered by the Company, instructing the transfer agent to deliver via the Depository Trust Company Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission System (“DWAC”) Shares set forth on the signature page hereto, registered in the name of the Purchaser (which Shares shall be delivered at Closing;
(iii) a Warrant, duly executed by the Company, registered in the name of the Purchaser to purchase up to the number of Warrant Shares set forth on the signature page hereto, with an exercise price equal to $2.52, subject to adjustment therein (such Warrant certificate may be delivered within three Trading Days of the Closing Date);
(iv) the final Prospectus Supplement (which shall be delivered immediately prior to the execution of this Agreement and may be delivered in accordance with Rule 172 under the Securities Act); and
(v) the opinion of Company’s Counsel, dated as of the Closing Date, in the form previously provided to the Company.
(b) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Company the following:
(i) this Agreement duly executed by the Purchaser; and
(ii) the Purchaser’s Subscription Amount by wire transfer to the account as specified in writing by the Company; and
2.3 Closing Conditions.
(a) The obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:
(i) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Purchaser under this Agreement required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and
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(ii) the delivery by the Purchaser of the items set forth in Section 2.2(b) of this Agreement.
(b) The respective obligations of the Purchaser hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:
(i) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company under this Agreement required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and
(ii) the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2(a) of this Agreement.
2.4 Subscription Agreements; Purchasers. The Company proposes to enter into subscription agreements in substantially the form of this Agreement (collectively with this Agreement, the “Subscription Agreements”) with certain other investors (collectively with the Purchaser, the “Purchasers”) and expects to complete sales of Units to them.
2.5 Placement Agent. The Purchaser acknowledges that the Company has agreed to pay ▇▇▇▇ Capital Partners, LLC (the “Placement Agent”) in respect of the sales of the Units to the Purchaser.
ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
3.1 Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company hereby makes the following representations and warranties to the Purchaser as of the Effective Date:
(a) Subsidiaries. The Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of the capital stock or other equity interests of each of its direct and indirect subsidiaries free and clear of any Liens, and all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of each such subsidiary are validly issued and are fully paid, non-assessable and free of preemptive and similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities, except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(a) hereto. The Company or one of its subsidiaries has the unrestricted right to vote, and (subject to limitations imposed by applicable law) to receive dividends and distributions on, all capital securities of its subsidiaries as owned by the Company or such Subsidiary. If the Company has no subsidiaries, all other references to subsidiaries in the Transaction Documents shall be disregarded.
(b) Organization and Qualification. The Company and each of its subsidiaries is an entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, with the requisite power and authority to own and use its properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently conducted. Neither the Company nor any subsidiary is in violation nor default of any of the provisions of its respective certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents. Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly
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qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not have or reasonably be expected to result in: (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material Adverse Effect”) and no Proceeding has been instituted in any such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke, limit or curtail such power and authority or qualification.
(c) Authorization; Enforcement. The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by each of the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and no further action is required by the Company, the Board of Directors or the Company’s stockholders in connection therewith other than in connection with the Required Approvals. Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.
(d) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and sale of the Shares and Warrants and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby to which it is a party do not and will not (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s or any subsidiary’s certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents, or (ii) result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Company or any subsidiary, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of or conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company or subsidiary debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company or any subsidiary is a party or by which any property or asset of the Company or any subsidiary is bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of any Trading
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Market, court or governmental authority to which the Company or a subsidiary is subject (including federal and state securities laws and regulations and the regulations of any Trading Market), or by which any property or asset of the Company or a subsidiary is bound or affected; except in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(e) Filings, Consents and Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority or other Person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, other than: (i) the filings required pursuant to Section 4.5 of this Agreement, (ii) the filing with the Commission of the Prospectus Supplement, (iii) application(s) to each applicable Trading Market for the listing of the Shares and Warrant Shares for trading thereon in the time and manner required thereby and (iv) such filings as are required to be made under applicable state securities laws (collectively, the “Required Approvals”). All consents, authorizations, orders, filings and registrations which the Company is required to obtain at or prior to the Closing have been obtained or effected on or prior to the Closing Date, and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries are aware of any facts or circumstances which might prevent the Company from obtaining or effecting any of the registration, application or filings contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
(f) Issuance of the Securities; Registration. The Shares and Warrants are duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents (i) the Shares will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company and (ii) the Warrants will be duly and validly issued, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company. The Warrant Shares, when issued in accordance with the terms of the Warrants, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company. The Company has reserved from its duly authorized capital stock the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to this Agreement and the Warrants. The Company has prepared and filed the Registration Statement in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act, which became effective on April 4, 2011 (the “Effective Date”), including the base prospectus contained therein at the time of effectiveness (the “Base Prospectus”), and such amendments and supplements thereto as may have been required to the Effective Date. The Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act and no stop order preventing or suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or suspending or preventing the use of the Prospectus has been issued by the Commission and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, are threatened by the Commission. The Company, if required by the rules and regulations of the Commission, proposes to file the final Prospectus Supplement, with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b). At the time the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto became effective, at the Effective Date and at the Closing Date, the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, at time the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto was issued and at the Closing Date, conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and did not and will not contain an untrue statement of a
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material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Company meets all of the requirements for the use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act for the offering and sale of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, and the Commission has not notified the Company of any objection to the use of the form of the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 401(g)(1) under the Securities Act. The Registration Statement meets the requirements set forth in Rule 415(a)(1)(x) under the Securities Act. At the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) under the Securities Act) relating to any of the Securities, the Company was not and is not an “Ineligible Issuer” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act). The Company (i) has not distributed any offering material in connection with the offer or sale of any of the Securities and (ii) until the Purchaser no longer holds any of the Securities, shall not distribute any offering material in connection with the offer or sale of any of the Securities to, or by, the Purchaser (if required), in each case, other than the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Prospectus Supplement. The Company has made or caused to be made all filings required to be made with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority in connection with the offer and sale of the Securities hereunder.
(g) Capitalization. The Company has not issued any capital stock since its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act, other than pursuant to the exercise of stock options under the Company’s stock option plans, the issuance of shares of Common Stock to employees pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase plans and pursuant to the conversion and/or exercise of Common Stock Equivalents outstanding as of the date of the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act. No Person has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Except as described in the Company’s SEC Reports, there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to subscribe for or acquire, any shares of Common Stock, or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents, other than as a result of the purchase and sale of the Shares and Warrants or the exercise of the Warrants. The issuance and sale of the Shares and Warrants, and the issuance of Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrants, will not obligate the Company to issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any Person (other than the Purchasers) and will not result in a right of any holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price under any of such securities. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. No further approval or authorization of any stockholder, the Board of Directors or others is required for the issuance and sale of the Securities. There are no stockholders agreements, voting agreements or other similar agreements with respect to the Company’s capital stock to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the Company’s stockholders that are not described in the SEC Reports.
(h) SEC Reports; Financial Statements. The Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, for the two years preceding the Effective Date (or such shorter period as the Company was required by law or regulation to file such material) (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, together with the Prospectus and any Prospectus Supplement, being collectively referred to herein as the “SEC Reports”) on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such extension. As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of
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the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”), except as may be otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and except to the extent that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and such statements fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial, year-end audit adjustments.
(i) Material Changes; Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments. Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, except as specifically disclosed in a subsequent SEC Report filed prior to the Effective Date, (i) there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the Company has not incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade payables and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and (B) liabilities not required to be reflected in the Company’s financial statements pursuant to GAAP or disclosed in filings made with the Commission, (iii) the Company has not altered its method of accounting, (iv) the Company has not declared or made any dividend or distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders or purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital stock and (v) the Company has not issued any equity securities to any officer, director or Affiliate, except pursuant to existing Company stock option plans. The Company does not have pending before the Commission any request for confidential treatment of information. Except for the issuance of the Shares and Warrants contemplated by this Agreement, no event, liability, fact, circumstance, occurrence or development has occurred or exists or is reasonably expected to occur or exist with respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective business, prospects, properties, operations, assets or financial condition that would be required to be disclosed by the Company under applicable securities laws at the time this representation is made or deemed made that has not been publicly disclosed on or before the date that this representation is made.
(j) Litigation. (i) There is no action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company, any subsidiary or any of their respective properties before or by any court, arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency or regulatory authority (federal, state, county, local or foreign) (collectively, an “Action”); (ii) neither the Company nor any subsidiary, nor any director or officer thereof, is or has been the subject of any Action involving a claim of violation of or liability under federal or state securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty and (iii) there has not been, and to the knowledge of the Company, there is not pending or contemplated, any investigation by the Commission involving the Company or any current or former director or officer of the Company, which, in any case of clauses (i), (ii) or (iii), (A) adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents or the Securities or (B) could, if there were an unfavorable decision, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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(k) Labor Relations. No material labor dispute exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent with respect to any of the employees of the Company that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ employees is a member of a union that relates to such employee’s relationship with the Company or such subsidiary, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to a collective bargaining agreement, and the Company and its Subsidiaries believe that their relationships with their employees are good. No executive officer, to the knowledge of the Company, is, or is now expected to be, in violation of any material term of any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement or non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive covenant in favor of any third party, and the continued employment of each such executive officer does not subject the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any liability with respect to any of the foregoing matters. The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all U.S. federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations relating to employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where the failure to be in compliance could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(l) Compliance. Neither the Company nor any subsidiary: (i) is in default under or in violation of (and no event has occurred that has not been waived that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would result in a default by the Company or any subsidiary under), nor has the Company or any subsidiary received notice of a claim that it is in default under or that it is in violation of, any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties is bound (whether or not such default or violation has been waived), (ii) is in violation of any judgment, decree or order of any court, arbitrator or governmental body or (iii) is or has been in violation of any statute, rule, ordinance or regulation of any governmental authority, including without limitation all foreign, federal, state and local laws applicable to its business and all such laws that affect the environment, except in each case as could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(m) Regulatory Permits. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, the Company and the Subsidiaries possess all certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports, except where the failure to possess such permits could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect (“Material Permits”), and neither the Company nor any subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Material Permit.
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(n) Title to Assets. The Company and the Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property owned by them and good and marketable title to all personal property owned by them that is material to the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all Liens, except for Liens as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and the Subsidiaries and Liens for the payment of federal, state or other taxes, the payment of which is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties. Any real property and facilities held under lease by the Company and the Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with which the Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance with such exceptions as are not material and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property and facilities by the Company and its Subsidiaries.
(o) Patents and Trademarks. The Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have rights to use, all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names, trade secrets, inventions, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property rights and similar rights necessary or material for use in connection with their respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports and which the failure to so have could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, the “Intellectual Property Rights”). Neither the Company nor any subsidiary has received a notice (written or otherwise) that any of the Intellectual Property Rights used by the Company or any subsidiary violates or infringes upon the rights of any Person. To the knowledge of the Company, all such Intellectual Property Rights are enforceable and there is no existing infringement by another Person of any of the Intellectual Property Rights. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their intellectual properties, except where the failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(p) Insurance. The Company and the Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the businesses in which the Company and the Subsidiaries are engaged, including, but not limited to, directors and officers insurance coverage at least equal to the aggregate Subscription Amount. Neither the Company nor any subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business without a significant increase in cost.
(q) Transactions With Affiliates and Employees. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, none of the officers or directors of the Company and, to the knowledge of the Company, none of the employees of the Company is presently a party to any transaction with the Company or any subsidiary (other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or
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personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner, in each case in excess of $120,000 other than for (i) payment of salary or consulting fees for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company and (iii) other employee benefits, including stock option agreements under any stock option plan of the Company.
(r) ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇. The Company is in material compliance with all provisions of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act of 2002 that are applicable to it as of the Closing Date.
(s) Certain Fees. Except as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement, no brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions are or will be payable by the Company to any broker, financial advisor or consultant, finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or other Person with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Purchaser shall have no obligation with respect to any fees or with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this Section that may be due in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
(t) Investment Company. The Company is not, and immediately after receipt of payment for the Shares and Warrants, will not be an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(u) Registration Rights. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, no Person has any right to cause the Company to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the Company as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(v) Listing and Maintenance Requirements. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or that to its knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, the Company has not, in the 12 months preceding the Effective Date, received notice from any Trading Market on which the Common Stock is or has been listed or quoted to the effect that the Company is not in compliance with the listing or maintenance requirements of such Trading Market. The Company is in compliance with all such listing and maintenance requirements.
(w) Application of Takeover Protections. The Company and the Board of Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Company’s certificate of incorporation (or similar charter documents) or the laws of its state of incorporation that is or could become applicable to the Purchaser as a result of the Purchaser and the Company fulfilling their obligations or exercising their rights under the
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Transaction Documents, including without limitation as a result of the Company’s issuance of the Shares and Warrants and the Purchaser’s ownership of the Shares and Warrants.
(x) Disclosure. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company confirms that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided the Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that it believes constitutes or might constitute material, non-public information. The Company understands and confirms that the Purchaser will rely on the foregoing representation in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Purchaser does not make or has not made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in Section 3.2 hereof.
(y) Tax Status. Except for matters that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and each subsidiary has timely filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise tax returns and has timely paid or accrued all taxes shown as due thereon, and the Company has no knowledge of a tax deficiency which has been asserted or threatened against the Company or any subsidiary.
(z) Foreign Corrupt Practices. Neither the Company, nor to the knowledge of the Company, any agent or other person acting on behalf of the Company, has (i) directly or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully any contribution made by the Company (or made by any person acting on its behalf of which the Company is aware) which is in violation of law, or (iv) violated in any material respect any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.
(aa) Accountants. The Company’s independent registered public accounting firm is identified in the Prospectus and such accounting firm is a registered public accounting firm as required by the Exchange Act.
(bb) Acknowledgment Regarding Purchaser’s Purchase of Securities. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Purchaser is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby. The Company further acknowledges that the Purchaser is not acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by the Purchaser or any of its respective representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the Purchaser’s purchase of the Securities. The Company further represents to the Purchaser that the Company’s decision to enter into this Agreement and
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the other Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company and its representatives.
(cc) Acknowledgement Regarding Purchaser’s Trading Activity. Anything in this Agreement or elsewhere herein to the contrary notwithstanding (except for Sections 3.2(e) and 4.14 hereof), it is understood and acknowledged by the Company that: (i) the Purchaser has not been asked by the Company to agree, nor has the Purchaser agreed, to desist from purchasing or selling, long and/or short, securities of the Company, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the Company or to hold the Securities for any specified term; (ii) past or future open market or other transactions by the Purchaser, specifically including, without limitation, Short Sales or “derivative” transactions, before or after the closing of this or future private placement transactions, may negatively impact the market price of the Company’s publicly-traded securities; (iii) the Purchaser, and counter-parties in “derivative” transactions to which the Purchaser is a party, directly or indirectly, presently may have a “short” position in the Common Stock, and (iv) the Purchaser shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or control over any arm’s length counter-party in any “derivative” transaction. The Company further understands and acknowledges that (y) the Purchaser may engage in hedging activities at various times during the period that the Securities are outstanding, including, without limitation, during the periods that the value of the Warrant Shares deliverable with respect to Securities are being determined, and (z) such hedging activities (if any) could reduce the value of the existing stockholders’ equity interests in the Company at and after the time that the hedging activities are being conducted. The Company acknowledges that such aforementioned hedging activities do not constitute a breach of any of the Transaction Documents.
(dd) Regulation M Compliance. The Company has not, and to its knowledge no one acting on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Securities, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or, paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the Company, other than, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), compensation paid to the Placement Agent in connection with the placement of the Securities.
(ee) No Integrated Offering. None of the Company, its subsidiaries or any of their affiliates, nor any Person acting on their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would cause this offering of the Securities to require approval of stockholders of the Company under any applicable stockholder approval provisions, including, without limitation, under the rules and regulations of any exchange or automated quotation system on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated for quotation.
3.2 Representations and Warranties of the Purchaser. The Purchaser hereby represents and warrants as of the Effective Date and as of the Closing Date to the Company as follows (unless as of a specific date therein):
(a) Organization; Authority. The Purchaser is either an individual or an entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization with full right, corporate or partnership power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and performance by the Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership, limited liability company or
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similar action, as applicable, on the part of the Purchaser. Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been duly executed by the Purchaser, and when delivered by the Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of the Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.
(b) The Purchaser (i) is knowledgeable, sophisticated and experienced in making, and is qualified to make decisions with respect to, investments in shares presenting an investment decision like that involved in the purchase of the Units, including investments in securities issued by the Company and investments in comparable companies and (ii) in connection with its decision to purchase the number of Shares and Warrants set forth on the Purchaser’s signature page hereto, has received and is relying only upon the Base Prospectus, as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement, and the documents incorporated by reference therein and additional information regarding the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, which may include price information whether transmitted through the Prospectus Supplement, orally or in any other form permitted by the Securities Act.
(c) The Purchaser understands that nothing in this Agreement, the Prospectus or any other materials presented to the Purchaser in connection with the purchase and sale of the Units constitutes legal, tax or investment advice. The Purchaser has consulted such legal, tax and investment advisors and made such investigation as it, in its sole discretion, has deemed necessary or appropriate in connection with its purchase of Units. The Purchaser also understands that there is no established public trading market for the Warrants being offered pursuant to this Agreement, and that the Company does not expect such a market to develop. In addition, the Company does not intend to apply for listing the Warrants on any securities exchange. Without an active market, the liquidity of the Warrants will be limited.
(d) Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. Other than consummating the transactions contemplated hereunder, the Purchaser has not, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with the Purchaser, directly or indirectly executed any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the securities of the Company during the period commencing as of the time that the Purchaser was first contacted by the Company or the Placement Agent, as applicable, regarding the specific investment in the Company contemplated by this Agreement and ending immediately prior to the execution hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case the Purchaser is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of the Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of the Purchaser’s assets, the representation set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement. Other than to other Persons party to this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents, the Purchaser has maintained the confidentiality of the existence and terms of this transaction.
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The Company acknowledges and agrees that the representations contained in Section 3.2, including, without limitation, section 3.2 (b), shall not modify, amend or affect the Purchaser’s right to rely on the Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any representations and warranties contained in any other Transaction Document or any other document or instrument executed and/or delivered in connection with this Agreement or the consummation of the transaction contemplated hereby.
ARTICLE IV.
OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES
4.1 Warrant Shares. If all or any portion of a Warrant is exercised at a time when there is an effective registration statement to cover the issuance of the Warrant Shares, the Warrant Shares issued pursuant to any such exercise shall be issued free of all legends. If at any time following the Effective Date the Registration Statement (or any subsequent registration statement registering the issuance of the Warrant Shares) is not effective or is not otherwise available for the issuance of the Warrant Shares, the Company shall immediately notify the holders of the Warrants in writing that such registration statement is not then effective and thereafter shall promptly notify such holders when the registration statement is effective again and available for the issuance of the Warrant Shares (it being understood and agreed that the foregoing shall not limit the ability of the Company to issue, or the Purchaser to sell, any of the Warrant Shares in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws). The Company shall use its best efforts to keep a registration statement (including the Registration Statement) registering the issuance of the Warrant Shares effective during the term of the Warrants. Upon a cashless exercise of a Warrant, Warrant Shares issued pursuant to any exercise shall be issued free of all legends.
4.2 Prospectus Supplement and Blue Sky. Immediately prior to execution of this Agreement, the Company shall have delivered, and as soon as practicable after execution of this Agreement the Company shall file, the Prospectus Supplement with respect to the Securities as required under, and in conformity with, the Securities Act, including Rule 424(b) thereunder. If required, the Company, on or before the Closing Date, shall take such action as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary in order to obtain an exemption for, or to, qualify the Securities for sale to the Purchaser at the Closing pursuant to this Agreement under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States (or to obtain an exemption from such qualification), and shall provide evidence of any such action so taken to the Purchaser on or prior to the Closing Date. Without limiting any other obligation of the Company under this Agreement, the Company shall timely make all filings and reports relating to the offer and sale of the Securities required under all applicable securities laws (including, without limitation, all applicable federal securities laws and all applicable “Blue Sky” laws), and the Company shall comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws, statutes, rules, regulations and the like relating to the offering and sale of the Securities to the Purchaser.
4.3 Furnishing of Information. Until the date on which no Warrants are outstanding, the Company shall timely file all reports required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act, and the Company shall not terminate its status as an issuer required to file reports under the Exchange Act even if the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder would no longer require or otherwise permit such termination.
4.4 Integration. The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities for purposes of the rules
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and regulations of any Trading Market such that it would require shareholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.
4.5 Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall by 8:30 a.m. (New York City time) on the Effective Date, (i) issue a press release disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby and (ii) file a Current Report on Form 8-K disclosing the material terms of the transaction and including the Transaction Documents as exhibits thereto. From and after the issuance of such press release, the Company shall have publicly disclosed all material, non-public information delivered to the Purchaser by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents (including, without limitation, the Placement Agent) in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Company and the Purchaser shall consult with each other in issuing any other press releases with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and neither the Company nor the Purchaser shall issue any such press release nor otherwise make any such public statement without the prior consent of the Company, with respect to any press release of the Purchaser, or without the prior consent of the Purchaser, with respect to any press release of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, except if such disclosure is required by law, in which case the disclosing party shall promptly provide the other party with prior notice of such public statement or communication. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of the Purchaser or any of its Affiliates, or include the name of the Purchaser or any of its Affiliates in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or Trading Market, without the prior written consent of the Purchaser, except (a) as required by federal securities law in connection with the filing of final Transaction Documents (including signature pages thereto) with the Commission and (b) to the extent such disclosure is required by law or Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company shall provide the Purchaser with prior notice of such disclosure permitted under this clause (b).
4.6 Shareholder Rights Plan. No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or, with the consent of the Company, any other Person, that the Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person” under any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or similar anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by the Company, or that the Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such plan or arrangement, by virtue of receiving Shares and Warrants under the Transaction Documents or under any other agreement between the Company and the Purchaser.
4.7 Non-Public Information. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company covenants and agrees that neither it, nor any other Person acting on its behalf will provide the Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information, unless prior thereto the Purchaser shall have executed a written agreement with the Company regarding the confidentiality and use of such information. The Company understands and confirms that the Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.
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4.8 Use of Proceeds. The Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities solely for general working capital purposes as described in the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement(s).
4.9 Indemnification of Purchaser. Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.9, the Company will indemnify and hold the Purchaser and its directors, officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who controls the Purchaser (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members, partners or employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a “Purchaser Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (a) any material breach of any representation or warranty made by the Company in any of the Transaction Documents, (b) any material breach of any covenant, agreement or obligation of the Company contained in any of the Transaction Documents or (c) any action, suit or claim instituted against the Purchaser in any capacity, or any of them or their respective Affiliates, by any stockholder of the Company or other third party, in each case who is not an Affiliate of the Purchaser, resulting from or relating to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (except to the extent, and only to the extent, such action is based upon a material breach of the Purchaser’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents, a material breach of any agreements or understandings the Purchaser may have with any such stockholder or material violations by the Purchaser of state or federal securities laws, or any conduct by the Purchaser which constitutes fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or malfeasance). If any action shall be brought against any Purchaser Party in respect of which indemnity is required pursuant to this Agreement, such Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party. Any Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of counsel, a material conflict on any material issue between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party, in which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such separate counsel for all Purchaser Parties of all Purchasers. The Company will not be liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by a Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the extent, but only to the extent that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents. The Company shall not, without the prior written consent of the Purchaser Party, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement or other compromise which does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such Purchaser Party of a release from all liability in respect to such action or litigation, and such settlement shall not include any admission as to fault on the part of the Purchaser Party.
4.10 Reservation of Common Stock. As of the Effective Date, the Company has reserved and the Company shall continue to reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue Shares pursuant to this Agreement and Warrant Shares pursuant to any exercise of the Warrants (without regard to any limitations on the exercise of the Warrants set forth therein).
4.11 Listing of Common Stock. The Company hereby agrees to use best efforts to maintain the listing or quotation of the Common Stock on the Trading Market on which it is currently listed, and the Company shall promptly secure the listing of all of the Shares and the Warrant Shares on such Trading Market (but in no event later than the Closing Date). The Company further agrees, if the Company applies to have the Common Stock traded on any other Trading Market, it will then include in such application all of the Shares and Warrant Shares, and will take such other action as is necessary to cause all of the Shares and the Warrant Shares to be listed or quoted on such other Trading Market as promptly as possible. The Company will then take all action reasonably necessary to continue the listing and trading of its Common Stock on a Trading Market and will comply in all respects with the Company’s reporting, filing and other obligations under the bylaws or rules of the Trading Market.
4.12 Company Lock-Up.
(a) From the Effective Date until 90 days after the Closing Date, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary shall issue, enter into any agreement to issue or announce the issuance or proposed issuance of any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents.
(b) From the Effective Date until the third anniversary of the Closing Date, the Company shall be prohibited from effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents for cash consideration (or a combination of units hereof) involving a Variable Rate Transaction. “Variable Rate Transaction” means a transaction in which the Company (i) issues or sells any debt or equity securities that are convertible into, exchangeable or exercisable for, or include the right to receive additional shares of Common Stock either (A) at a conversion price, exercise price or exchange rate or other price that is based upon and/or varies with the trading prices of or quotations for the shares of Common Stock at any time after the initial issuance of such debt or equity securities, or (B) with a conversion, exercise or exchange price that is subject to being reset at some future date after the initial issuance of such debt or equity security or upon the occurrence of specified or contingent events directly or indirectly related to the business of the Company or the market for the Common Stock (but not including any routine anti-dilution protections in any warrant or convertible security) or (ii) enters into any agreement (including, without limitation, an “equity line of credit” or an “at the market offering”) whereby the Company or any Subsidiary may sell securities at a future determined price (other than standard and customary “preemptive” or “participation” rights); provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may effect either of the following transactions without restriction hereunder (each a “Permitted ATM”): (A) after the six month anniversary of the Closing Date, the Company may conduct an “at the market offering” (as defined in Rule 415(a)(4) promulgated under the Securities Act) so long as no shares of Common Stock are sold in such offering for less than $3.50 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock combinations and other similar transactions occurring after the date of this Agreement) and (B) after the one-year anniversary of the Closing Date, the Company may conduct an “at the market offering” (as defined in Rule 415(a)(4) promulgated under the Securities Act) so long as no shares of Common Stock are sold in such offering for price per share that is less than the Exercise Price (as defined in the Warrant) (as adjusted for stock splits, stock combinations and other similar transactions occurring after the date of this Agreement). The Purchaser shall be entitled to obtain injunctive relief against the Company to preclude any such issuance, which remedy shall be in addition to any right to collect damages.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, Sections 4.12(a) and (b) shall not apply in respect of an Exempt Issuance and no Variable Rate Transaction shall be an Exempt Issuance.
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4.13 Participation Right. From the date hereof through the one year anniversary of the Closing Date, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall, directly or indirectly, issue, offer, sell, grant any option or right to purchase, or otherwise dispose of (or announce any issuance, offer, sale, grant of any option or right to purchase or other disposition of) any equity security or any equity-linked or related security (including, without limitation, any “equity security” (as that term is defined under Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act), any Common Stock Equivalent, any debt (other pursuant to agreements involving credit extended by a bank or comparable financial institution), any preferred stock or any purchase rights) (any such issuance, offer, sale, grant, disposition or announcement is referred to as a “Subsequent Placement”) unless the Company shall have first complied with this Section 4.13. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the right set forth in this Section 4.13 is a right granted by the Company, separately, to the Purchaser.
(a) At least one (1) Trading Day prior to the execution and delivery of the documentation relating to any proposed or intended Subsequent Placement (other than the Subsequent Placements described in Section 00 below), the Company shall deliver to the Purchaser a written notice of its proposal or intention to effect a Subsequent Placement (each such notice, a “Pre-Notice”), which Pre-Notice shall not contain any information (including, without limitation, material, non-public information) other than: (i) a statement that the Company proposes or intends to effect a Subsequent Placement and (ii) a statement informing the Purchaser that it is entitled to receive a Subsequent Placement Notice (as defined below) with respect to such Subsequent Placement upon its written request. Upon the written request of the Purchaser within one (1) Trading Day after the Company’s delivery to the Purchaser of such Pre-Notice, and only upon a timely written request by the Purchaser, the Company shall promptly, but no later than eight hours after delivery of such request, deliver to the Purchaser an irrevocable written notice (the “Subsequent Placement Notice”) of any proposed or intended issuance or sale or exchange of the securities being offered (the “New Securities”) in a Subsequent Placement, which Subsequent Placement Notice shall (w) identify and describe the New Securities, (x) describe the price and other terms upon which they are to be issued, sold or exchanged, and the number or amount of the New Securities to be issued, sold or exchanged, (y) identify the Persons (if known) to which or with which the New Securities are to be offered, issued, sold or exchanged and (z) offer to issue and sell to or exchange with the Purchaser the percentage of the New Securities equal to the product of (A) 50% (or 25% solely if such Subsequent Placement is a Firm Commitment Offering (as defined below)) (as applicable) multiplied by (B) the quotient of (X) the Purchaser’s Subscription Amount divided by (Y) the aggregate purchase prices of the Purchaser under this Agreement and the other Purchasers under the other Subscription Agreements (the “Purchaser’s Amount”). The Purchaser shall deliver a written notice to the Company within twelve hours after delivery of the Subsequent Placement Notice setting forth the amount of the Purchaser’s Amount that the Purchaser elects to purchase in such Subsequent Placement (a “Participation Notice”). If the Purchaser fails to timely respond to a Pre-Notice or to timely deliver a Participation Notice, then the Purchaser shall have no right to participate in such Subsequent Placement and will be deemed to have waived all rights to participate in such Subsequent Placement.
(b) With respect to any Subsequent Placement that is an underwritten public offering or “registered direct” offering of the Company’s securities, the Company shall comply with the terms of Section 4.13(a) with the following modifications: (i) the Company will not be required to deliver a Pre-Notice to the Purchaser, (ii) the Company will deliver the Subsequent Placement Notice to the Purchaser (without any request by Purchaser) within two hours following the final pricing of the New Securities with respect to such Subsequent Placement, (iii) the Subsequent Placement Notice will not be required to include the identity of the proposed purchasers of the New Securities, (iv) the Purchaser will only have the right to participate in such Subsequent Placement at the closing of such Subsequent Placement, (v) the Purchaser will be required to deliver its Participation Notice by 11:59 p.m. (New York time) on the day the Purchaser receives such Subsequent Placement Notice if such Subsequent Placement Notice was received by the Purchaser at or prior to 6:00 p.m. on such date of receipt or by 8:30 a.m. on the Trading Day immediately following the date on which the Purchaser receives such Subsequent Placement Notice if such Subsequent Placement Notice was received by the Purchaser after 6:00 p.m. on such date of receipt (as applicable) and (vi) if such Subsequent Placement is an underwritten offering, the Purchaser will acquire the New Securities from the underwriter(s) rather than from the Company.
(c) The Company shall have three (3) Trading Days from the delivery of the applicable Subsequent Placement Notice (i) to offer, issue, sell or exchange all or any part of such New Securities as to which a Participation Notice has not been timely given by the Purchaser (the “Refused Securities”) (or with respect to an underwritten offering, to offer, issue, sell or exchange all or any part of such New Securities to the underwriters of such offering) pursuant to a definitive agreement(s) (the “Subsequent Placement Agreement”), but only to the offerees described in the Subsequent Placement Notice (if so described therein) (or in an underwritten offering to the underwriters thereof) and only upon terms and conditions (including, without limitation, unit prices and interest rates) that are not materially more favorable to the acquiring Person or Persons or less favorable to the Company (or the underwriters, as applicable) than those set forth in the Subsequent Placement Notice and (ii) to publicly announce (a) the execution of such Subsequent Placement Agreement, and (b) either (x) the consummation of the transactions contemplated by such Subsequent Placement Agreement or (y) the termination of such Subsequent Placement Agreement, which shall be filed with the Commission on a Current Report on Form 8-K with such Subsequent Placement Agreement and any documents contemplated therein filed as exhibits thereto.
(d) In the event the Company shall propose to sell less than all the Refused Securities in the applicable Subsequent Placement, then the Purchaser may, at its sole option and in its sole discretion, reduce the number or amount of the New Securities specified in its Participation Notice to an amount that shall be not less than the number or amount of the New Securities that the Purchaser elected to purchase pursuant to Section 4.13(a) or Section 4.13(b) above (as applicable) multiplied by a fraction, (i) the numerator of which shall be the number or amount of New Securities the Company actually proposes to issue, sell or exchange (including New Securities to be issued or sold to Purchasers pursuant to this Section 4.13 and Section 4.13 of the other Subscription Agreements prior to such reduction) and (ii) the denominator of which shall be the original amount of the New Securities. In the event that the Purchaser so elects to reduce the number or amount of New Securities specified in its Participation Notice, the Company may not issue, sell or exchange more than the reduced number or amount of the New Securities unless and until such securities have again been offered to the Purchaser in accordance with Section 4.13(a) above.
(e) Upon the closing of the issuance, sale or exchange of all or less than all of the Refused Securities, the Purchaser shall acquire from the Company, and the Company shall issue to the Purchaser, the number or amount of New Securities specified in its Participation Notice (except that in an underwritten offering, the New Securities will be acquired from the underwriter thereof). The purchase by the Purchaser of any New Securities is subject in all cases to the preparation, execution and delivery by the Company and the Purchaser of a separate purchase agreement relating to such New Securities reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Purchaser and its counsel. The Company and the Purchaser agree that if the Purchaser elects to purchase any New Securities, none of the transaction documents related thereto shall include any term or provision whereby the Purchaser shall be required to agree to any restrictions on trading as to any securities of the Company or be required to consent to any amendment to or termination of, or grant any waiver or release or the like under or in connection with, any agreement previously entered into with the Company or any instrument received from the Company. Notwithstanding the delivery of any Pre-Notice or Subsequent Placement Notice, (i) the Company shall have the right to terminate or delay the applicable Subsequent Placement as it may determine in its sole discretion and (ii) the final terms and conditions of each Subsequent Placement are subject to the approval of the Company in its sole discretion (and in any underwritten offering, by the underwriter as well) (it being expressly understood and agreed by the Company that nothing contained in this sentence shall modify, or otherwise relieve the Company from, any of the Company’s obligations (including, without limitation, compliance therewith) under this Section 4.13).
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(f) Any New Securities not acquired by the Purchaser or other Persons in accordance with this Section 4.13 may not be issued, sold or exchanged until they are again offered to the Purchaser under the procedures specified in this Agreement.
(g) The Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that, upon its receipt of a Subsequent Placement Notice, the Purchaser shall be deemed to be in receipt of material non-public information regarding the Company with respect to such Subsequent Placement and agrees to hold such information in confidence and not to disclose such information to any other Person and not to effect any transactions in the Common Stock (other than the purchase of the New Securities) during the period commencing at the time the Purchaser receives such Subsequent Placement Notice and ending at the time the Purchaser no longer is in possession of material, non-public information as set forth below in this Section 4.13(g). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4.13 and unless otherwise agreed to by the Purchaser, the Company shall either confirm in writing to the Purchaser that the transaction with respect to the Subsequent Placement has been abandoned or shall publicly disclose its intention to issue the New Securities, in either case, in such a manner such that the Purchaser will not be in possession of any material, non-public information, by the third (3rd) Trading Day following delivery of the Subsequent Placement Notice. If by such third (3rd) Trading Day, no public disclosure regarding a transaction with respect to the New Securities has been made, and no notice regarding the abandonment of such transaction has been received by the Purchaser, such transaction shall be deemed to have been abandoned and the Purchaser shall not be in possession of any material, non-public information with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Should the Company decide to pursue such transaction with respect to the New Securities, the Company shall provide the Purchaser with additional notices in accordance with, and subject to, the terms of this Section 4.13 and the Purchaser will again have the right of participation set forth in this Section 4.13.
(h) The restrictions contained in this Section 4.13 shall not apply in connection with any Exempt Issuance, issuance of shares of Common Stock in a Permitted ATM or the issuance of securities pursuant to the other Subscription Agreements. The Company shall not circumvent the provisions of this Section 4.13 of this Agreement or Section 4.13 of the other Subscription Agreements by providing terms or conditions to one Purchaser that are not provided to all Purchasers. “Firm Commitment Offering” means the issuance of shares of Common Stock pursuant to a bona fide firm commitment underwritten public offering with a nationally recognized underwriter that generates gross proceeds to the Company in excess of $12,000,000 (but expressly excluding “at-the-market offerings” (as defined in Rule 415(a)(4) under the Securities Act), “equity lines of credit” and “confidentially marketed public offerings”).
4.14 Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. The Purchaser covenants that neither it nor any Affiliate acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it will execute any purchases or sales, including Short Sales of any of the Company’s securities during the period commencing with the execution of this Agreement and ending at such time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced by the Company (it being understood and agreed that for all purposes of this Agreement, and without implication that the contrary would otherwise be true, transactions, purchases and sales shall not include the location and/or reservation of borrowable shares of Common Stock). The Purchaser covenants that until such time as the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are publicly disclosed by the Company, the Purchaser will maintain the confidentiality of the existence and terms of this transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that (i) the Purchaser makes no representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in effecting transactions in any securities of the Company after the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced by the Company, (ii) the Purchaser shall not be restricted or prohibited from effecting any transactions in any securities of the Company in accordance with applicable securities laws from and after the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced by the Company and (iii) the Purchaser shall have no duty of confidentiality to the Company or its Subsidiaries after the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced by the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case the Purchaser is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of the Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no actual knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of the Purchaser’s assets, the covenant set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary and without implication that the contrary would otherwise be true, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that the Purchaser shall not have (unless expressly agreed to by the Purchaser after the date hereof in a written definitive and binding agreement executed by the Company and the Purchaser or as expressly contemplated by the first sentence of Section 0), any duty of confidentiality with respect to, or a duty not to trade on the basis of, any information regarding the Company or any of its subsidiaries.
4.15 Other Terms. The Company represents, warrants and covenants that the Company has not entered into, and will not enter into, any agreement or instrument with, or for the benefit of, any of the other Purchasers or any other third party purchaser of securities of the Company substantially concurrent with the Closing on terms or conditions which are more favorable to any such other Purchaser or third party purchaser than the terms and conditions provided to, or for the benefit of, the Purchaser (other than the Company agreed to pay to Iroquois Master Fund Ltd. a non-accountable amount equal to $20,000 for various costs and expenses, which may be withheld by Iroquois Master Fund Ltd. from its subscription amount to be paid at Closing). To the extent the Company enters into any agreement or instrument with, or for the benefit of, any of such other Purchasers or any such third party purchaser that contains any terms or conditions which are more favorable to any of such other Purchasers or any such third party purchaser than the terms and conditions provided to, or for the benefit of, the Purchaser, then the Purchaser, at its option, shall be entitled to the benefit of such more favorable terms or conditions (as the case may be) and this Agreement shall be automatically amended to reflect such more favorable terms or conditions (as the case may be).
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5.1 Termination. This Agreement may be terminated by the Purchaser, as to the Purchaser’s obligations hereunder by written notice to the Company, if the Closing has not been consummated on or before April 22, 2011; provided, however, no such termination shall affect any obligation of the Company under this Agreement to reimburse the Purchaser for the expenses described in Section 5.2. Nothing contained in this Section 5.1 shall be deemed to release any party from any liability for any breach by such party of the terms and provisions of this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents or to impair the right of any party to compel specific performance by any other party of its obligations under this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents.
5.2 Fees and Expenses. Except as expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents to the contrary, each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees, stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Securities to the Purchaser. [The Company shall reimburse the Purchaser or its designee(s) for all costs and expenses incurred by it or its affiliates in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (including, without limitation, all legal fees and disbursements in connection therewith, structuring, documentation and implementation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and due diligence and regulatory filings in connection therewith) in a non-accountable amount equal to $20,000, which amount shall be withheld by the Purchaser from its Subscription Amount at the Closing or paid by the Company on demand by the Purchaser if the Purchaser terminates its obligations under this Agreement in accordance with Section 5.1 (as the case may be).]1
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5.3 Entire Agreement. This Agreement, the Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto, the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, contain the entire understanding of the parties solely with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, solely with respect to such subject matter, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and schedules; provided, however, nothing contained in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document shall (or shall be deemed to) (i) have any effect on any agreements the Purchaser has entered into with, or any instruments the Purchaser has received from, the Company or any of its subsidiaries prior to the date hereof with respect to any prior investment made by the Purchaser in the Company or (ii) waive, alter, modify or amend in any respect any obligations of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any rights of or benefits to the Purchaser or any other Person, in any agreement entered into prior to the date hereof between or among the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries and the Purchaser, or any instruments the Purchaser received from the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries prior to the date hereof, and all such agreements and instruments shall continue in full force and effect. As a material inducement for the Purchaser to enter into this Agreement, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that (i) no due diligence or other investigation or inquiry conducted by the Purchaser, any of its advisors or any of its representatives shall affect the Purchaser’s right to rely on, or shall modify or qualify in any manner or be an exception to any of, the Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, and (ii) nothing contained in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Prospectus Supplement shall affect the Purchaser’s right to rely on, or modify, qualify or be an exception to any of, the Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document.
5.4 Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of: (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the second (2nd)Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto.
5.5 Amendments; Waivers. Except as expressly contemplated by section 4.15, no provision of this Agreement may be waived, modified, supplemented or amended except in a written instrument signed by the Company and the Purchasers holding a majority of the Shares. Any provision of the Subscription Agreements may be amended and the provisions thereof waived by the Company and the Purchasers holding a majority of the Shares. No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.
5.6 Headings. The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.
5.7 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Purchaser (other than by merger). The Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom the Purchaser assigns or transfers any Securities as long as such Person agrees in writing prior to such transfer to be bound with respect to the transferred Securities as a Purchaser hereunder, in which event such assignee shall be deemed to be the Purchaser hereunder with respect to such assigned rights.
5.8 No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, except as otherwise set forth in Section 4.9.
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Documents shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. If either party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then, in addition to the obligations of the Company under Section 5.7, the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.
5.10 Survival. The representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and the delivery of the Shares and Warrants.
5.11 Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party, it being understood that both parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.
5.12 Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.
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5.13 Rescission and Withdrawal Right. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) any of the other Transaction Documents, whenever the Purchaser exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction Document and the Company does not timely perform its related obligations within the periods therein provided, then the Purchaser may rescind or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time upon written notice to the Company, any relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part without prejudice to its future actions and rights; provided, however, that in the case of a rescission of an exercise of a Warrant, the Purchaser shall be required to return any shares of Common Stock subject to any such rescinded exercise notice concurrently with the return to the Purchaser of the aggregate exercise price paid to the Company for such shares and the restoration of the Purchaser’s right to acquire such shares pursuant to the Purchaser’s Warrant (including, issuance of a replacement warrant certificate evidencing such restored right).
5.14 Replacement of Securities. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction. The applicant for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party costs (including customary indemnity) associated with the issuance of such replacement Securities.
5.15 Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchaser and the Company will be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agree to waive and not to assert in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.
5.16 Payment Set Aside. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to the Purchaser pursuant to any Transaction Document or the Purchaser enforces or exercises its rights thereunder, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the Company, a trustee, receiver or any other person under any law (including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to the extent of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.
5.17 Liquidated Damages. The Company’s obligations to pay any partial liquidated damages or other amounts owing under the Transaction Documents is a continuing obligation of the Company and shall not terminate until all unpaid partial liquidated damages
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and other amounts have been paid notwithstanding the fact that the instrument or security pursuant to which such partial liquidated damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been canceled.
5.18 Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc. If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Business Day, then such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding Business Day.
5.19 Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel has reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments hereto. No specific representation or warranty shall limit the generality or applicability of a more general representation or warranty. In addition, each and every reference to share prices and shares of Common Stock in any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the Effective Date.
5.20 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY, IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER TRIAL BY JURY.
5.21 Independent Nature of Purchaser’s Obligations and Rights. The obligations of the Purchaser under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Purchaser, and the Purchaser shall not be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any other Purchaser under any other Transaction Document. The decision of the Purchaser to purchase Securities pursuant to this Agreement has been made by the Purchaser independently of any other Purchaser. Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by the Purchaser pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchaser and the other Purchasers as, and the Company acknowledges that the Purchaser and the other Purchasers do not so constitute, a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of group or entity, or create a presumption that the Purchaser or any of the other Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group or entity with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or any matters, and the Company acknowledges that the Purchaser and the other Purchasers are not acting in concert or as a group, and the Company shall not assert any such claim, with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any of the other the Transaction Documents. The Purchaser acknowledges that no other Purchaser has acted as agent for the Purchaser in connection with making its investment hereunder and that no other Purchaser will be acting as agent of the Purchaser in connection with monitoring its investment hereunder. The Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of any other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. The use the same form of agreement with respect to the obligations of the Company contained herein was done solely for the convenience of the Company and not because it was required or requested to do so by the Purchaser or any other Purchaser. It is expressly understood and agreed that each provision contained in this Agreement and in each other Transaction Document is between the Company and the Purchaser, solely, and not between the Company and the Purchasers collectively and not between and among Purchasers. The Purchaser represents that it has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in its review and negotiations of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents.
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