EXHIBIT 4.5
NEITHER THESE SECURITIES NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE
EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR
THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES
ACT"), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN
EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN
AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE
SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO
SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE
COMPANY. THESE SECURITIES AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THESE
SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT SECURED
BY SUCH SECURITIES.
WARRANT
TO PURCHASE 131,577 SHARES OF COMMON STOCK
OF
NAVARRE CORPORATION
THIS CERTIFIES THAT, for good and valuable consideration, ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇
Capital Group LLC (the "Agent"), or its registered assigns, is entitled to
subscribe for and purchase from Navarre Corporation, a Minnesota corporation
(the "Company"), at any time after December 15, 2003 and up to and including
5:00 p.m. Minneapolis, Minnesota time on December 14, 2005 (the "Expiration
Date"), One Hundred Thirty-One Thousand Five Hundred Seventy-Seven (131,577)
fully paid and nonassessable shares of the Common Stock of the Company at the
price of $7.00 per share (the "Warrant Exercise Price"), subject to the
antidilution provisions of this Warrant. The shares which may be acquired upon
exercise of this Warrant are referred to herein as the "Warrant Shares." As used
herein, the term "Holder" means the Agent or any party who acquires all or a
part of this Warrant as a registered transferee of the Agent. As used herein,
the term "Common Stock" means and includes the Company's presently authorized
common stock, no par value per share, and shall also include any capital stock
of any class of the Company hereafter authorized which shall not be limited to a
fixed sum or percentage in respect of the rights of the Holders thereof to
participate in dividends or in the distribution of assets upon the voluntary or
involuntary liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Company.
This Warrant is subject to the following provisions, terms and
conditions:
1. Exercise: Transferability.
(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 3 hereof, the rights
represented by this Warrant may be exercised by the Holder hereof, in whole or
in part (but not as to a fractional share of Common Stock), by written notice of
exercise (in the form attached hereto) delivered to the Company at the principal
office of the Company prior to the Expiration Date and
accompanied or preceded by the surrender of this Warrant along with a check in
payment of the Warrant Exercise Price for such shares.
(b) Subject to the provisions of Section 7 hereof, this Warrant is
immediately assignable. Each successive holder of this Warrant, or of any
portion of the rights represented thereby, shall be bound by the terms and
conditions set forth herein.
2. Exchange and Replacement. Subject to Sections 1 and 7 hereof, this
Warrant is exchangeable upon the surrender hereof by the Holder to the Company
at its office for new Warrants of like tenor and date representing in the
aggregate the right to purchase the number of Warrant Shares purchasable
hereunder, each of such new Warrants to represent the right to purchase such
number of Warrant Shares (not to exceed the aggregate total number purchasable
hereunder) as shall be designated by the Holder at the time of such surrender.
Upon receipt by the Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of the
loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant, and, in case of loss,
theft or destruction, of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to it,
and upon surrender and cancellation of this Warrant, if mutilated, the Company
will make and deliver a new Warrant of like tenor, in lieu of this Warrant. This
Warrant shall be promptly canceled by the Company upon the surrender hereof in
connection with any exchange or replacement. The Company shall pay all expenses,
taxes (other than stock transfer taxes), and other charges payable in connection
with the preparation, execution and delivery of Warrants pursuant to this
Section 2.
3. Issuance of the Warrant Shares.
(a) The Company agrees that the shares of Common Stock purchased hereby
shall be and are deemed to be issued to the Holder as of the close of business
on the date on which this Warrant shall have been surrendered and the payment
made for such Warrant Shares as aforesaid. Subject to the provisions of the next
section, certificates for the Warrant Shares so purchased shall be delivered to
the Holder within a reasonable time, not exceeding fifteen (15) days after the
rights represented by this Warrant shall have been so exercised and, unless this
Warrant has expired, a new Warrant representing the right to purchase the number
of Warrant Shares, if any, with respect to which this Warrant shall not then
have been exercised shall also be delivered to the Holder within such time.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, the Company shall not be
required to deliver any certificate for Warrant Shares upon exercise of this
Warrant except in accordance with exemptions from the applicable securities
registration requirements or registrations under applicable securities laws.
Such Holder shall also provide the Company with written representations from the
Holder and the proposed transferee satisfactory to the Company regarding the
transfer or, at the election of the Company, an opinion of counsel reasonably
satisfactory to the Company to the effect that the proposed transfer of this
Warrant or disposition of shares may be effected without registration or
qualification (under any Federal or State law) of this Warrant or the Warrant
Shares. Upon receipt of such written notice and either such representations or
opinion by the Company, such Holder shall be entitled to transfer this Warrant,
or to exercise this Warrant in accordance with its terms and dispose of the
Warrant Shares, all in accordance with the terms of the notice delivered by such
Holder to the Company, provided that
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an appropriate legend, if any, respecting the aforesaid restrictions on transfer
and disposition may be endorsed on this Warrant or the certificates for the
Warrant Shares. Nothing herein, however, shall obligate the Company to effect
registration under federal or state securities laws, except as provided in
Section 9. If a registration is not in effect and if an exemption is not
available when the Holder seeks to exercise the Warrant, the Warrant exercise
period will be extended, if need be, to prevent the Warrant from expiring, until
such time as either registration becomes effective or an exemption is available,
and the Warrant shall then remain exercisable for a period of at least thirty
(30) calendar days from the date the Company delivers to the Holder written
notice of the availability of such registration or exemption. The Holder agrees
to execute such documents and make such representations, warranties and
agreements as may be required solely to comply with the exemption relied upon by
the Company, or the registration made, for the issuance of the Warrant Shares.
4. Covenants of the Company. The Company covenants and agrees that all
Warrant Shares will, upon issuance, be duly authorized and issued, fully paid,
nonassessable and free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the
issue thereof except for all taxes, liens and charges imposed on or with respect
to the property of the Holder. The Company further covenants and agrees that
during the period within which the rights represented by this Warrant may be
exercised, the Company will at all times have authorized and reserved for the
purpose of issue or transfer upon exercise of the subscription rights evidenced
by this Warrant a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock to provide for the
exercise of the rights represented by this Warrant.
5. Antidilution Adjustments. The provisions of this Warrant are subject
to adjustment as provided in this Section 5.
(a) The Warrant Exercise Price shall be adjusted from time to time such
that in case the Company shall hereafter:
(i) pay any dividends on any class of stock of the Company
payable in Common Stock or securities convertible into Common Stock;
(ii) subdivide its then outstanding shares of Common Stock
into a greater number of shares; or
(iii) combine outstanding shares of Common Stock, by
reclassification or otherwise;
then, in any such event, the Warrant Exercise Price in effect immediately prior
to such event shall (until adjusted again pursuant hereto) be adjusted
immediately after such event to a price (calculated to the nearest full cent)
determined by dividing (a) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
immediately prior to such event, multiplied by the then existing Warrant
Exercise Price, by (b) the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
immediately after such event (including in each case the maximum number of
shares of Common Stock issuable in respect of any securities convertible into
Common Stock), and the resulting quotient shall be the adjusted Warrant Exercise
Price per share. An adjustment made pursuant to this
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Subsection shall become effective immediately after the record date in the case
of a dividend or distribution and shall become effective immediately after the
effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or reclassification.
If, as a result of an adjustment made pursuant to this Subsection, the Holder of
any Warrant thereafter surrendered for exercise shall become entitled to receive
shares of two or more classes of capital stock or shares of Common Stock and
other capital stock of the Company, the Board of Directors (whose determination
shall be conclusive) shall determine the allocation of the adjusted Warrant
Exercise Price between or among shares of such classes of capital stock or
shares of Common Stock and other capital stock. All calculations under this
Subsection shall be made to the nearest cent or to the nearest 1/100 of a share,
as the case may be. In the event that at any time as a result of an adjustment
made pursuant to this Subsection, the Holder of any Warrant thereafter
surrendered for exercise shall become entitled to receive any shares of the
Company other than shares of Common Stock, thereafter the Warrant Exercise Price
of such other shares so receivable upon exercise of any Warrant shall be subject
to adjustment from time to time in a manner and on terms as nearly equivalent as
practicable to the provisions with respect to Common Stock contained in this
Section 5.
(b) Upon each adjustment of the Warrant Exercise Price pursuant to
Section 5(a) above, the Holder of each Warrant shall thereafter (until another
such adjustment) be entitled to purchase at the adjusted Warrant Exercise Price
the number of shares, calculated to the nearest full share, obtained by
multiplying the number of shares specified in such Warrant (as adjusted as a
result of all adjustments in the Warrant Exercise Price in effect prior to such
adjustment) by the Warrant Exercise Price in effect prior to such adjustment and
dividing the product so obtained by the adjusted Warrant Exercise Price.
(c) In case of any consolidation or merger to which the Company is a
party, other than a merger or consolidation in which the Company is the
continuing corporation, or in case of any sale or conveyance to another
corporation of the property of the Company as an entirety or substantially as an
entirety, or in the case of any statutory exchange of securities with another
corporation (including any exchange effected in connection with a merger of a
third corporation into the Company), there shall be no adjustment under
Subsection (a) of this Section but the Holder of each Warrant then outstanding
shall have the right thereafter to convert such Warrant into the kind and amount
of shares of stock and other securities and property which such Holder would
have owned or have been entitled to receive immediately after such
consolidation, merger, statutory exchange, sale, or conveyance had such Warrant
been converted immediately prior to the effective date of such consolidation,
merger, statutory exchange, sale, or conveyance and, in any such case, if
necessary, appropriate adjustment shall be made in the application of the
provisions set forth in this Section with respect to the rights and interests
thereafter of any Holders of the Warrant, to the end that the provisions set
forth in this Section shall thereafter correspondingly be made applicable, as
nearly as may reasonably be, in relation to any shares of stock and other
securities and property thereafter deliverable on the exercise of the Warrant.
The provisions of this Subsection shall similarly apply to successive
consolidations, mergers, statutory exchanges, sales or conveyances.
(d) Upon any adjustment of the Warrant Exercise Price, then and in each
such case, the Company shall within ten (10) days after the date when the
circumstances giving rise to the
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adjustment occurred give written notice thereof, by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, addressed to the Holder as shown on the books of the Company, which
notice shall state the Warrant Exercise Price resulting from such adjustment and
the increase or decrease, if any, in the number of shares of Common Stock
purchasable at such price upon the exercise of this Warrant, setting forth in
reasonable detail the method of calculation and the facts upon which such
calculation is based.
6. No Voting Rights. This Warrant shall not entitle the Holder to any
voting rights or other rights as a shareholder of the Company for any purpose
whatsoever until and unless this Warrant is duly exercised.
7. Notice of Transfer of Warrant or Resale of the Warrant Shares.
(a) Subject to the sale, assignment, hypothecation or other transfer
restrictions set forth in Section 1 hereof, the Holder, by acceptance hereof,
agrees to give written notice to the Company before transferring this Warrant or
transferring any Warrant Shares of such ▇▇▇▇▇▇'s intention to do so, describing
briefly the manner of any proposed transfer. Promptly upon receiving such
written notice, the Company shall present copies thereof to the Company's
counsel and to counsel to the original purchaser of this Warrant. If in the
opinion of each such counsel, the proposed transfer may be effected without
registration or qualification (under any federal or state securities laws), the
Company, as promptly as practicable, shall notify the Holder of such opinion,
whereupon the Holder shall be entitled to transfer this Warrant or to dispose of
Warrant Shares received upon the previous exercise of this Warrant, all in
accordance with the terms of the notice delivered by the Holder to the Company;
provided that an appropriate legend may be endorsed on this Warrant or the
certificates for such Warrant Shares respecting restrictions upon transfer
thereof necessary or advisable in the opinion of counsel to the Company and
satisfactory to the Company to prevent further transfers which would be in
violation of Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933
Act"), and applicable state securities laws; and provided further that the
Holder and prospective transferee or purchaser shall execute such documents and
make such representations, warranties, and agreements as may be required solely
to comply with the exemptions relied upon by the Company for the transfer or
disposition of the Warrant or Warrant Shares.
(b) If in the opinion of either of the counsel referred to in this
Section 7, the proposed transfer or disposition of this Warrant or such Warrant
Shares described in the written notice given pursuant to this Section 7 may not
be effected without registration or qualification of this Warrant or such
Warrant Shares, the Company shall promptly give written notice thereof to the
Holder, and the Holder will limit its activities in respect to such as, in the
opinion of both such counsel, are permitted by law.
8. Fractional Shares. Fractional shares shall not be issued upon the
exercise of this Warrant, but in any case where the Holder would, except for the
provisions of this Section, be entitled under the terms hereof to receive a
fractional share, the Company shall, upon the exercise of this Warrant for the
largest number of whole shares then called for, pay a sum in cash equal to the
same fraction of the market price per share of Common Stock on the day of
exercise.
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9. Registration Rights.
(a) If at any time prior to the expiration of two (2) years from the
date hereof, the Company proposes to register under the 1933 Act (except for a
registration under a Form S-4 or Form S-8 Registration Statement or any
successor forms thereto) or qualify for a public distribution under Section 3(b)
of the 1933 Act, any of its equity securities or debt with equity features, it
will give written notice to all Holders of this Warrant, any Warrants issued
pursuant to Section 2 and/or Section 3(a) hereof, and any Warrant Shares of its
intention to do so and, on the written request of any such Holder given within
twenty (20) days after receipt of any such notice (which request shall specify
the Warrant Shares intended to be sold or disposed of by such Holder and
describe the nature of any proposed sale or other disposition thereof), the
Company will use its best efforts to cause all such Warrant Shares, the Holders
of which shall have requested the registration or qualification thereof, to be
included in such registration statement proposed to be filed by the Company;
provided, however, that nothing herein shall prevent the Company from, at any
time, abandoning or delaying any registration. If any registration pursuant to
this Section 9(a) is underwritten in whole or in part, the Company may require
that the Warrant Shares requested for inclusion pursuant to this Section 9(a) be
included in the underwriting on the same terms and conditions as the securities
otherwise being sold through the underwriters. If a greater number of Warrant
Shares is offered for participation in the proposed offering than in the
reasonable opinion of the managing underwriter of the proposed offering can be
accommodated without adversely affecting the proposed offering, then the amount
of Warrant Shares proposed to be offered by such Holders for registration, as
well as the number of securities of any other selling shareholders participating
in the registration, shall be proportionately reduced to a number deemed
satisfactory by the managing underwriter.
(b) With respect to each inclusion of securities in a registration
statement pursuant to this Section 9, the Company shall bear the following fees,
costs and expenses: all registration, filing and NASD fees, printing expenses,
fees and disbursements of counsel and accountants for the Company, fees and
disbursements of counsel for the underwriter or underwriters of such securities
(if the offering is underwritten and the Company is required to bear such fees
and disbursements), all internal expenses, the premiums and other costs of
policies of insurance against liability arising out of the public offering, and
legal fees and disbursements and other expenses of complying with state
securities laws of any jurisdictions in which the securities to be offered are
to be registered or qualified. Fees and disbursements of special counsel and
accountants for the selling Holders, underwriting discounts and commissions and
transfer taxes for selling Holders and any other expenses relating to the sale
of securities by the selling Holders not expressly included above shall be borne
by the selling Holders.
(c) The Company hereby indemnifies each of the Holders of this Warrant
and of any Warrant Shares, and the officers and directors, if any, who control
such Holders, within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act, against all
losses, claims, damages and liabilities caused by (1) any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration
Statement or Prospectus prepared in connection with any registration statement
pursuant to this Section 9 (and as amended or supplemented if the Company shall
have furnished any amendments thereof or supplements thereto), any Preliminary
Prospectus or any state securities law filings; (2) any omission or alleged
omission to state therein a material fact
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required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading except insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities are
caused by any untrue statement or omission contained in information furnished in
writing to the Company by such Holder expressly for use therein; and each such
Holder by its acceptance hereof severally agrees that it will indemnify and hold
harmless the Company, each of its officers who signs such Registration
Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company, within the meaning
of Section 15 of the 1933 Act, with respect to losses, claims, damages or
liabilities which are caused by any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement
or omission or alleged omission contained in information furnished in writing to
the Company by such ▇▇▇▇▇▇ expressly for use therein.
(d) If the Warrant Shares are included in a registration statement
filed pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement dated as of December 15,
2003 (the "Rights Agreement"), the registration rights and obligations of the
Company and the Holders will be the registration rights as set forth in the
Rights Agreement.
10. Mandatory Exercise. If the average closing price of the Company's
Common Stock as quoted on the Nasdaq stock market (or the exchange on which the
Company's Common Stock is then traded) is equal to or greater than one hundred
and fifty percent (150%) of the Warrant Exercise Price then in effect for any
thirty (30) consecutive trading days (the "Event"), then the Company will have
the right to require all Holders to exercise their Warrants in full within ten
business days of receipt of a notice from the Company that the Event has been
achieved. Any such notice must be given by the Company within thirty (30) days
of the Event.
11. Miscellaneous. The Company will not, by amendment of its Articles
of Incorporation or through reorganization, consolidation, merger, dissolution
or sale of assets, or by any other voluntary act or deed, avoid or seek to avoid
the observance or performance of any of the covenants, stipulations or
conditions to be observed or performed hereunder by the Company, but will, at
all times in good faith, assist, insofar as it is able, in the carrying out of
all provisions hereof and in the taking of all other action which may be
necessary in order to protect the rights of the Holder hereof against dilution.
Upon written request of the Holder of this Warrant, the Company will
promptly provide such holder with a then current written list of the names and
addresses of all Holders of warrants originally issued under the terms of, and
concurrent with, this Warrant.
The representations, warranties and agreements herein contained shall
survive the exercise of this Warrant. This Common Stock Purchase Warrant shall
be interpreted under the laws of the State of Minnesota.
Neither this Warrant nor any term hereof may be changed, waived,
discharged or terminated orally but only by an instrument in writing signed by
the part against which enforcement of the change, waiver, discharge or
termination is sought.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant to be duly
executed by its authorized officer as of the date first indicated above.
"Company"
NAVARRE CORPORATION
By
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Its:
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WARRANT EXERCISE FORM
To be signed only upon exercise of Warrant.
The undersigned, the holder of the within Warrant, hereby irrevocably
elects to exercise the purchase right represented by such Warrant for, and to
purchase thereunder, __________________ of the shares of Common Stock of Navarre
Corporation to which such Warrant relates and herewith makes payment of
$___________ therefor in cash or by certified check, and requests that such
shares be issued and be delivered to, _________________________, the address for
which is set forth below the signature of the undersigned.
Dated:
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(Taxpayer's I.D. Number) (Signature)*
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(Address)
*The signature on the Warrant Exercise Form must correspond to the name as
written upon the face of the Warrant in every particular without alteration or
enlargement or any change whatsoever. When signing on behalf of a corporation,
partnership, trust or other entity, please indicate your position(s) and
title(s) with such entity.
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
To be signed only upon authorized transfer of Warrants.
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns, and
transfers unto _______________________________ the right to purchase the
securities of Navarre Corporation to which the within Warrant relates and
appoints ______________________, attorney, to transfer said right on the books
of Navarre Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
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(Taxpayer's I.D. Number) (Signature)*
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(Address)
*The signature on the Warrant Exercise Form must correspond to the name as
written upon the face of the Warrant in every particular without alteration or
enlargement or any change whatsoever. When signing on behalf of a corporation,
partnership, trust or other entity, please indicate your position(s) and
title(s) with such entity.
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