EXHIBIT 4.1
Draft of June 6, 1997
MED-EMERG INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
NETWORK 1 FINANCIAL SECURITIES, INC.
AND
CENTURY CITY SECURITIES, INC.
UNDERWRITER'S
WARRANT AGREEMENT
UNDERWRITER'S WARRANT AGREEMENT dated as of _____________, 1997 between
MED-EMERG INTERNATIONAL, INC. (the "Company"), NETWORK 1 FINANCIAL SECURITIES,
INC. and CENTURY CITY SECURITIES, INC. (Collectively, the "Underwriter").
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
The Underwriter has agreed, pursuant to an underwriting agreement (the
"Underwriting Agreement") dated ______________, 1997, between the Underwriter
and the Company, to act as the underwriter in connection with the Company's
proposed initial public offering of 1,250,000 shares of the Company's common
stock, no par value (the "Common Stock"), and 1,250,000 Redeemable Common Stock
Purchase Warrants (the "Warrants"), at an initial public offering price of
$3.90 per share of Common Stock and $.10 per Warrant (the "Initial Public
Offering").
The Company proposes to issue to the Underwriter at the closing of the
Initial Public Offering as part of the Underwriter's compensation in connection
therewith, warrants (the "Underwriter's Warrants") to purchase an aggregate of
125,000 shares of Common Stock and/or 125,000 Warrants. The Warrants being
offered in the Initial Public Offering and the Warrants purchasable upon
exercise of the Underwriter's Warrants will be identical in all respects and
will be issued pursuant to, and governed by, the provisions of a Warrant
Agreement among the Company, the Underwriter and Continental Stock Transfer and
Trust Company, as Warrant Agent (the "Warrant Agreement").
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, the payment by the
Underwriter to the Company of Ten Dollars ($10.00), the agreements herein set
forth and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of
which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1. GRANT. The Holders (as defined in Section 3 below) are hereby
granted the right to purchase, at any time from __________, 1998 until 5:00
p.m., New York City time, on _________, 2002 an aggregate of 125,000 shares of
Common Stock and/or 125,000 Warrants, at an initial purchase price of $4.68 per
share of Common Stock (subject to adjustment as provided in Section 6 hereof)
and $.12 per Warrant (120% of the Initial Public Offering price of the Common
Stock and Warrants, respectively), subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement.
2. WARRANT CERTIFICATES. The warrant certificates (the
"Underwriter's Warrant Certificates") to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement
shall be in the form set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto and made a part
hereof, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other
variations as required or permitted by this Agreement.
3. EXERCISE OF UNDERWRITER'S WARRANTS. The Underwriter's Warrants
are exercisable during the term set forth in Section 1 hereof and the Purchase
Price (as hereinafter defined) is payable by certified or cashier's check or
money order payable in lawful money of the United States. Upon surrender of an
Underwriter's Warrant Certificate with the annexed Form of Election to Purchase
duly executed, together with payment of the Purchase Price for the shares of
Common Stock or Warrants issuable upon exercise thereof (and such other amounts,
if any, arising pursuant to Section 4 hereof) at the Company's principal office
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("Holder" or "Holders") shall be entitled to receive a certificate or
certificates for the shares of Common Stock or Warrants so purchased. The
purchase rights represented by each Underwriter's Warrant Certificate are
exercisable at the option of the Holders thereof, in whole or in part, as to the
whole number of shares of Common Stock or Warrants purchasable therewith (but
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not as to fractions thereof). In the case of the purchase of less than all the
shares of Common Stock or Warrants purchasable upon the exercise of the
Underwriter's Warrants represented by an Underwriter's Warrant Certificate, the
Company shall cancel the Underwriter's Warrant Certificate represented thereby
upon the surrender thereof and shall execute and deliver a new Underwriter's
Warrant Certificate of like tenor for the number of Underwriter's Warrants which
have not been exercised.
4. ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES. Upon the exercise of the Underwriter's
Warrants and payment of the Purchase Price therefor, the issuance of
certificates representing the shares of Common Stock or Warrants issuable upon
exercise thereof shall be made forthwith (and in any event within five (5)
business days thereafter) without further charge to the Holder thereof, and such
certificates shall (subject to the provisions of Sections 5 hereof) be issued in
the name of, or in such names as may be directed by, the Holder thereof;
provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay any tax which
may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issuance and delivery
of any such certificates in a name other than that of the Holder, and the
Company shall not be required to issue or deliver such certificates unless or
until the person or persons requesting the issuance thereof shall have paid to
the Company the amount of such tax or shall have established to the satisfaction
of the Company that such tax has been paid. The Underwriter's Warrant
Certificates and the certificates representing the shares of Common Stock or
Warrants (and such other securities, property or rights as may be represented by
certificates) issuable upon exercise thereof shall be executed on behalf of the
Company by the manual or facsimile signature of the then Chairman or Vice
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer, President or Vice
President of the Company under its corporate seal reproduced thereon, attested
to by the manual or facsimile
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signature of the then Secretary or Assistant Secretary or Treasurer or Assistant
Treasurer of the Company. Underwriter's Warrant Certificates shall be dated the
date of issuance thereof by the Company upon initial issuance, transfer or
exchange, or in lieu of mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed Underwriter's
Warrant Certificates.
5. RESTRICTION ON TRANSFER OF UNDERWRITER'S WARRANTS. The Holder of
an Underwriter's Warrant Certificate (and its Permitted Transferees, as defined
below), by its acceptance thereof, covenants and agrees that the Underwriter's
Warrants are being acquired as an investment and not with a view to the
distribution thereof; that the Underwriter's Warrants may be sold, transferred,
assigned, hypothecated or otherwise disposed of, in whole or in part, to any
person (a "Permitted Transferee"), provided such transfer, assignment,
hypothecation or other disposition is made in accordance with the provisions of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"); and provided, further, that
until ____________, 1998 [one year following the effective date of the Initial
Public Offering] only officers and partners of the Underwriter or any selling
group member in the Initial Public Offering, shall be Permitted Transferees.
6. PURCHASE PRICE. The initial purchase price of the Underwriter's
Warrants shall be $4.68 per share of Common Stock (the "Common Stock Purchase
Price") and $.12 per Warrant. The Common Stock Purchase Price shall be subject
to adjustment in accordance with the provisions of Section 9 of the Warrant
Agreement, which provisions are hereby incorporated by reference herein and made
a part hereof.
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7. REGISTRATION RIGHTS.
(a) DEMAND REGISTRATION. (i) At any time commencing one (1) year and
expiring five (5) years after the effective date of the Company's Registration
Statement relating to the Initial Public Offering (the "Effective Date"), the
Holders of a majority (as hereinafter defined) of the shares of Common Stock
purchased and purchasable upon exercise of the Underwriter's Warrants and the
Warrants purchasable therewith shall have the right, exercisable by written
notice to the Company, to have the Company prepare and file with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), solely on one (1) occasion, a
registration statement on Form F-1 (or other appropriate form), and such other
documents, including a prospectus, as may be necessary in the opinion of both
counsel for the Company and counsel for the Holders, in order to comply with the
provisions of the Securities Act, so as to permit a public offering and sale for
a period of nine (9) months of the shares of Common Stock and Warrants purchased
or purchasable by such Holders and any other Holders of the Underwriter's
Warrants upon exercise of the Underwriter's Warrants and the Warrants
purchasable therewith (such shares of Common Stock and Warrants being
hereinafter referred to as the "Registrable Securities"). The Holders of the
Underwriter's Warrants may demand registration without exercising the
Underwriter's Warrants, and are never required to exercise same. The Company
covenants and agrees to give written notice of any registration request under
this Section 7(a) to all other registered Holders of the Underwriter's Warrants
and the Registrable Securities within ten (10) days from the date of the receipt
of any such registration request and upon the written request of any Holder
within fifteen (15) days after receipt of such notice to include in such
registration statement the Registrable Securities of such Holder. As used
herein, the term "Majority" in reference to the Holders of the Underwriter's
Warrants shall mean in excess of fifty
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percent (50%) of the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon exercise of
the Underwriter's Warrants and the Warrants purchasable therewith that (i) are
not held by the Company, an affiliate, officer, creditor, employee or agent
thereof or any of their respective affiliates, members of their family, persons
acting as nominees or in conjunction therewith, or (ii) have not been resold to
the public pursuant to a registration statement filed with the Commission under
the Act.
(b) PIGGYBACK REGISTRATION. If, at any time within the period
commencing one (1) year and expiring five (5) years after the Effective Date,
the Company should file a registration statement with the Commission under the
Securities Act (other than in connection with a merger or other business
combination transaction or pursuant to Form S-8) it will give written notice by
registered mail, at least thirty (30) calendar days prior to the filing of each
such registration statement, to the Underwriter and to all other Holders of the
Underwriter's Warrants and the shares of Common Stock and Warrants purchased or
purchasable upon exercise thereof of its intention to do so. If the Holders of
the Registrable Securities notify the Company within twenty (20) calendar days
after receipt of any such notice of its or their desire to include any
Registrable Securities in such proposed registration statement, the Company
shall afford the Holders of the Registrable Securities the opportunity to have
such Registrable Securities included in such registration statement, unless the
underwriter for each proposed objects to the inclusion of the Registrable
Securities in such registration statement. However, in such event, the Company
will, within six (6) months of completion of such underwritten offering, file at
the expense of the Company, a registration statement so as to permit a public
offering and sale of the Registrable Securities so excluded for a period of
nine (9) months, which shall be in addition to any registration statement
required to be filed pursuant to Section 7(a). Notwithstanding the provisions
of this Section 7(b) and the provisions of Section
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7(c), the Company shall have the right at any time after it shall have given
written notice pursuant to this Section 7(b) (irrespective of whether a written
request for inclusion of any such securities shall have been made) to elect not
to file any such proposed registration statement, or to withdraw the same after
the filing but prior to the effective date thereof.
(c) COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY WITH RESPECT TO REGISTRATION. In
connection with any registrations under Sections 7(a) and 7(b) hereof, the
Company covenants and agrees as follows:
(1) The Company shall use its best efforts to file a
registration statement within forty-five (45) calendar days of receipt of any
demand therefor pursuant to section 7(a); provided, however, that the Company
shall not be required to produce audited or unaudited financial statements for
any period prior to the date such financial statements are required to be filed
in a report on Form 20-F. The Company shall use its best efforts to have any
registration statement declared effective at the earliest possible time, and
shall furnish each Holder desiring to sell Registrable Securities such number of
prospectuses as shall reasonably be requested.
(2) The Company shall pay all costs (excluding fees and expenses
of Holders' counsel and any underwriting discounts or selling fees, expenses or
commissions), fees and expenses in connection with any registration statement
filed pursuant to Sections 7(a) and 7(b) hereof including, without limitation,
the Company's legal and accounting fees, printing expenses, blue sky fees and
expenses. If the Company shall fail to comply with the provisions of Section
7(c), the Company shall, in addition to any other equitable or other relief
available to the Holders, be liable for any or all incidental and special
damages and damages due to loss of profit sustained by the Holders requesting
registration of their Registrable Securities.
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(3) The Company will take all necessary action which may be
required to qualify or register the Registrable Securities included in a
registration statement for offering and sale under the securities or blue sky
laws of such states as reasonably are requested by the Holders, provided that
the Company shall not be obligated to execute or file any general consent to
service of process or to qualify as a foreign corporation to do business under
the laws of any such jurisdiction.
(4) The Company shall indemnify the Holders of the Registrable
Securities to be sold pursuant to any registration statement and each person, if
any, who controls such Holders within the meaning of Section 15 of the
Securities Act or Section 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the "Exchange Act"), against all loss, claim, damage, expense or
liability (including all expenses reasonably incurred in investigating,
preparing or defending against any claim whatsoever) to which any of them may
become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise, arising
from such registration statement, but only to the same extent and with the same
effect as the provisions pursuant to which the Company has agreed to indemnify
the Underwriter contained in Section 8 of the Underwriting Agreement, and the
Holders shall indemnify the Company to the same extent and with the same effect
as the provisions pursuant to which the Underwriter has agreed to indemnify the
Company contained in Section 8 of the Underwriting Agreement.
(5) The Holders of the Registrable Securities to be sold
pursuant to a registration statement, and their successors and assigns, shall
indemnify the Company, its officers and directors and each person, if any, who
controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or
Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act, against all loss, claim, damage or expense or
liability to which they may become subject under the Securities Act, the
Exchange Act or otherwise, arising from information furnished by or on behalf of
such Holders, or their successors or assigns, for
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specific inclusion in such registration statement to the same extent and with
the same effect as the provisions contained in Section 8 of the Underwriting
Agreement pursuant to which the Underwriter has agreed to indemnify the Company.
(6) Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed as
requiring the Holders to exercise their Underwriter's Warrants (or the Warrants
purchasable upon exercise thereof) prior to the initial filing of any
registration statement or the effectiveness thereof.
(7) The Company shall not be entitled to include any securities
other than the Registrable Securities in any registration statement filed
pursuant to Section 7(a) hereof without the prior written consent of the Holders
of a Majority of the Registrable Securities.
(8) The Company shall furnish to a designated representative of
the Holders participating in the offering and to each underwriter, if any, a
signed counterpart, addressed to such Holder or underwriter of (i) an opinion of
counsel to the Company, dated the effective date of such registration statement
(and if such registration relates to an underwritten public offering, an opinion
dated the date of the closing under the underwriting agreement), and (ii) a
"cold comfort" letter dated the effective date of such registration statement
(and, if such registration relates to an underwritten public offering, a letter
dated the date of the closing under the underwriting agreement) signed by the
independent public accountants who have issued a report on the Company's
financial statements included in such registration statement (the
"Accountants"), in each case covering substantially the same matters with
respect to such registration statement (and the prospectus included therein)
and, in the case of the accountants' "cold comfort" letter, with respect to
events subsequent to the date of such financial statements, as are customarily
covered in opinions of issuer's counsel and in "cold comfort" letters, with
respect to events subsequent to the date of such financial
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statements, as are customarily covered in opinions of issuer's counsel and in
"cold comfort" letters delivered to underwriters in underwritten public
offerings of securities.
(9) The Company shall as soon as practicable after the effective
date of the registration statement make "generally available to its security
holders" (within the meaning of Rule 158 under the Act) an earnings statement
(which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Securities Act
and covering a period of at least 12 consecutive months beginning after the
effective date of the registration statement.
(10) The Company shall deliver promptly to each Holder
participating in the offering requesting the correspondence described below and
any managing underwriter copies of all correspondence between the Commission and
the Company, its counsel or Accountants with respect to the registration
statement and permit each Holder and underwriter to do such investigation, upon
reasonable advance notice, with respect to information contained in or omitted
from the registration statement as it deems reasonably necessary to comply with
applicable securities laws or rules of the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. ("NASD"). Such investigation shall include access to books,
records and properties and opportunities to discuss the business of the Company
with its officers and representatives of the Accountants, all to such reasonable
extent and at such reasonable times and as often as any such Holder shall
reasonably request.
(11) The Company shall enter into an underwriting agreement with
the managing underwriter selected for such underwriting by Holders holding a
Majority of the Registrable Securities requested to be included in such
underwriting; provided, however, that (i) such managing underwriter shall be
reasonably acceptable to the Company, except that in connection with an offering
for which the Holders have piggyback rights, the Company shall have the sole
right to select the
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managing underwriter, and (ii) the Holders shall be responsible for any selling
fees or commissions in connection with such underwriting. Such underwriting
agreement shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Company, a Majority
of such Holders and such managing underwriters, and shall contain such
representations, warranties and covenants by the Company and such other terms as
are customarily contained in agreements of that type used by the managing
underwriter. The Holders shall be parties to any underwriting agreement relating
to an underwritten sale of their Registrable Securities and may, at their
option, require that any or all the representations, warranties and covenants of
the Company to or for the benefit of such underwriters shall also be made to and
for the benefit of such Holders. Such Holders shall not be required to make any
representations or warranties to or agreements with the Company or the
underwriters except as they may relate to such Holders and their intended
methods of distribution.
(d) FURTHER REGISTRATIONS. The Company will cooperate with the
Holders of the Registrable Securities in preparing and signing any registration
statement, in addition to the registration statements discussed above, required
in order to sell or transfer the Underwriter's Securities and will supply all
information required therefor, but such additional registration statement
expenses or offering statement expenses will be prorated between the Company and
the Holders of the Registrable Securities according to the aggregate sales price
of the securities being issued. The provisions of Section 7(c) shall apply to
any such registration statement.
8. EXCHANGE AND REPLACEMENT OF WARRANT CERTIFICATES. Each
Underwriter's Warrant Certificate is exchangeable without expense, upon the
surrender thereof by the registered Holders at the principal executive office of
the Company, for a new Underwriter's Warrant Certificate of like tenor and date
representing in the aggregate the right to purchase the same
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number of shares of Common Stock and/or Warrants in such denominations as shall
be designated by the Holders thereof 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 any Underwriter's Warrant Certificate, and,
in case of loss, theft or destruction, of indemnity or security reasonably
satisfactory to it, and reimbursement to the Company of all reasonable expenses
incidental thereto, and upon surrender and cancellation of the Underwriter's
Warrant Certificates, if mutilated, the Company will make and deliver a new
Underwriter's Warrant Certificate of like tenor, in lieu thereof.
9. ELIMINATION OF FRACTIONAL INTERESTS. The Company shall not be
required to issue certificates representing fractions of shares of Common Stock
upon the exercise of the Underwriter's Warrants, nor shall it be required to
issue scrip or pay cash in lieu of fractional interests; provided, however, that
if a Holder exercises all Underwriter's Warrants held of record by such Holder,
the fractional interests shall be eliminated by rounding any fraction up to the
nearest whole number of shares of Common Stock.
10. RESERVATION AND LISTING OF SECURITIES. The Company shall at all
times reserve and keep available out of its authorized shares of Common Stock,
solely for the purpose of issuance upon the exercise of the Underwriter's
Warrants, such number of shares of Common Stock or other securities, properties
or rights as shall be issuable upon the exercise thereof. The Company covenants
and agrees that, upon exercise of Underwriter's Warrants and payment of the
Purchase Price therefor, all the shares of Common Stock and other securities
issuable upon such exercise shall be duly and validly issued, fully paid,
non-assessable and not subject to the preemptive rights of any stockholder. The
Company further covenants and agrees that as long as
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the Underwriter's Warrants shall be outstanding, the Company shall use its best
efforts to cause the Common Stock and Warrants to be listed (subject to official
notice of issuance) on all securities exchanges on which the Common Stock and
the Warrants issued in the Initial Public Offering may then be listed or
quoted.
11. NOTICES TO UNDERWRITER'S WARRANT HOLDERS. Nothing contained in
this Agreement shall be construed as conferring upon the Holders the right to
vote or to consent or to receive notice as a stockholder in respect of any
meetings of stockholders for the election of directors or any other matter, or
as having any rights whatsoever as a stockholder of the Company. If, however,
at any time prior to the expiration of the Underwriter's Warrants and their
exercise, any of the following events shall occur:
(a) the Company shall take a record of the holders of its shares
of Common Stock for the purpose of entitling them to receive a dividend or
distribution payable otherwise than in cash, or a cash dividend or distribution
payable otherwise than out of current or retained earnings, as indicated by the
accounting treatment of such dividend or distribution on the books of the
Company; or
(b) the Company shall offer to all the holders of its Common
Stock any additional shares of capital stock of the Company or securities
convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of the Company, or
any option, right or warrant to subscribe therefor; or
(c) a dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company
(other than in connection with a consolidation or merger) or a sale of all or
substantially all of its property, assets and business as an entirety shall be
proposed;
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then, in any one or more of said events, the Company shall give written notice
of such event at least fifteen (15) days prior to the date fixed as a record
date or the date of closing the transfer books for the determination of the
stockholders entitled to such dividend, distribution, convertible or
exchangeable securities or subscription rights, or entitled to vote on such
proposed dissolution, liquidation, winding up or sale. Such notice shall
specify such record date or the date of closing the transfer books, as the case
may be. Failure to give such notice or any defect therein shall not affect the
validity of any action taken in connection with the declaration or payment of
any such dividend, or the issuance of any convertible or exchangeable
securities, or subscription rights, options or warrants, or any proposed
dissolution, liquidation, winding up or sale.
12. NOTICES. All notices, requests, consents and other
communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been
duly made when delivered, or mailed by registered or certified mail, return
receipt requested:
(a) If to the registered Holders of the Underwriter's Warrants,
to the address of such Holders as shown on the books of the Company; or
(b) If to the Company, to the address set forth in Section 3
hereof or to such other address as the Company may designate by notice to the
Holders.
13. SUPPLEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS. The Company and the Underwriter may
from time to time supplement or amend this Agreement without the approval of any
Holders of Underwriter's Warrant Certificates (other than the Underwriter) in
order to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision contained
herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any provisions herein, or to
make any other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising hereunder
which the Company and the Underwriter may deem necessary or desirable and which
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the Company and the Underwriter deem shall not adversely affect the interests of
the Holders of Underwriter's Warrant Certificates.
14. SUCCESSORS. All the covenants and provisions of this Agreement
shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Company, the Underwriter,
the Holders and their respective successors and assigns hereunder.
15. TERMINATION. This Agreement shall terminate at the close of
business on _____________, 2002. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
indemnification provisions of Section 7 shall survive such termination until the
close of business on the expiration of any applicable statute of limitations.
16. GOVERNING LAW: SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION. This Agreement and
each Underwriter's Warrant Certificate issued hereunder shall be deemed to be a
contract made under the laws of the State of New York and for all purposes shall
be construed in accordance with the laws of said state without giving effect to
the rules of said state governing the conflicts of laws. The Company, the
Underwriter and the Holders hereby agree that any action, proceeding or claim
against it arising out of, or relating in any way to, this Agreement shall be
brought and enforced in the courts of the State of New York or of the United
States of America for the Southern District of New York, and irrevocably submits
to such jurisdiction, which jurisdiction shall be exclusive. The Company, the
Underwriter and the Holders hereby irrevocably waive any objection to such
exclusive jurisdiction or inconvenient forum. Any such process or summons to be
served upon any of the Company, the Underwriter and the Holders (at the option
of the party bringing such action, proceeding or claim) may be served by
transmitting a copy thereof, by registered or certified mail, return receipt
requested, postage prepaid, addressed to it at the address set forth in Section
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hereof. Such mailing shall be deemed personal service and shall be legal and
binding upon the party so served in any action, proceeding or claim.
17. ENTIRE AGREEMENT; MODIFICATION. This Agreement (including the
Underwriting Agreement, to the extent portions thereof are referred to herein)
contains the entire understanding between the parties hereto with respect to the
subject matter hereof and thereof. Subject to Section 13, this Agreement may not
be modified or amended except by a writing duly signed by the Company and the
Holders of a Majority of the Registrable Securities.
18. SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held
to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not
affect any other provision of this Agreement.
19. CAPTIONS. The caption headings of the Sections of this Agreement
are for convenience of reference only and are not intended, nor should they be
construed as, a part of this Agreement and shall be given no substantive effect.
20. BENEFITS OF THIS AGREEMENT. Nothing in this Agreement shall be
construed to give to any person or corporation other than the Company and the
Underwriter and any other registered Holders of the Underwriter's Warrant
Certificates or Registrable Securities any legal or equitable right, remedy or
claim under this Agreement, and this Agreement shall be for the sole and
exclusive benefit of the Company and the Underwriter and any other Holders of
the Underwriter's Warrant Certificates or Registrable Securities.
21. COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts and each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to
be an original, and such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.
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22. BINDING EFFECT. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to
the benefit of the Company, the Underwriter and their respective successors and
assigns and the Holders from time to time of the Underwriter's Warrant
Certificates.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement
to be duly executed, as of the day and year first above written.
MED-EMERG INTERNATIONAL, INC.
By:
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NETWORK 1 FINANCIAL SECURITIES, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
CENTURY CITY SECURITIES, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT A
MED-EMERG INTERNATIONAL, INC.
WARRANT CERTIFICATE
THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THE WARRANTS REPRESENTED BY THIS
CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO (i) AN EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, (ii) TO THE EXTENT
APPLICABLE, RULE 144 UNDER SUCH ACT (OR ANY SIMILAR RULE UNDER SUCH ACT RELATING
TO THE DISPOSITION OF SECURITIES), OR (iii) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, IF SUCH
OPINION SHALL BE REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO COUNSEL FOR THE ISSUER, THAT AN
EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER SUCH ACT IS AVAILABLE.
THE TRANSFER OR EXCHANGE OF THE WARRANT REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE IS
RESTRICTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WARRANT AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.
EXERCISABLE COMMENCING______________, 1998 THROUGH
5:00 P.M., NEW YORK CITY TIME ON_____________, 2002
No. UW-1 125,000 Warrants
This Warrant Certificate certifies that _____________, or registered
assigns, is the registered holder of 125,000 Warrants to purchase initially, at
any time from _____________, 1998 until 5:00 p.m., New York City time on
________________ (the "Expiration Date"), 125,000 fully paid and non-assessable
shares of Common Stock, no par value (the "Common Stock"), of Med-Emerg
International, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the Province of
Ontario, Canada (the "Company") at a purchase price of $4.68 per share (the
"Common Stock Purchase Price"), and/or 125,000 Redeemable Common Stock Purchase
Warrants ("Warrants") of the Company at the purchase price of $.12 per Warrant
(the "Warrant Purchase Price"), upon the surrender of this Warrant Certificate
and payment of the applicable Purchase Price at an office or agency of the
Company, but subject to the conditions set forth herein and in the warrant
agreement dated as of _______________, 1997 (the "Warrant Agreement") between
the Company, Network 1 Financial Securities, Inc. and Century City Securities,
Inc. (collectively, the "Underwriter"). Payment of the applicable Purchase Price
shall be made by certified or cashier's check or money order payable to the
order of the Company.
No Warrant may be exercised after 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the
Expiration Date, at which time all Warrants evidenced hereby, unless exercised
prior thereto, shall thereafter be void.
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The Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate are part of a duly
authorized issue of Warrants issued pursuant to the Warrant Agreement between
the Company and the Underwriter, which Warrant Agreement is hereby incorporated
by reference in and made a part of this instrument and is hereby referred to for
a description of the rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties and
immunities thereunder of the Company and the holders (the words "holders" or
"holder" meaning the registered holders or registered holder) of the Warrants.
The Warrant Agreement provides that upon the occurrence of certain events
the respective Purchase Prices and the type and/or number of the Company's
securities issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant, may, subject to certain
conditions, be adjusted. In such event, the Company will, at the request of the
holder, issue a new Warrant Certificate evidencing the adjustment in the
Purchase Price and the number and/or type of securities issuable upon the
exercise of the Warrants; provided, however, that the failure of the Company to
issue such new Warrant Certificates shall not in any way change, alter, or
otherwise impair, the rights of the holder as set forth in the Warrant
Agreement.
Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this Warrant
Certificate at an office or agency of the Company, a new Warrant Certificate or
Warrant Certificates of like tenor and evidencing in the aggregate a like number
of Warrants shall be issued to the transferee(s) in exchange as provided herein,
without any charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in
connection with such transfer.
Upon the exercise of less than all of the Warrants evidenced by this
Certificate, the Company shall forthwith issue to the holder hereof a new
Warrant Certificate representing such number of unexercised Warrants.
The Company may deem and treat the registered holder(s) hereof as the
absolute owner(s) of this Warrant Certificate (notwithstanding any notation of
ownership or other writing hereon made by anyone), for the purpose of any
exercise hereof, and of any distribution to the holder(s) hereof, and for all
other purposes, and the Company shall not be affected by any notice to the
contrary.
All terms used in this Warrant Certificate which are defined in the Warrant
Agreement shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Warrant Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this certificate this
____ day of _____________________, 1997.
MED-EMERG INTERNATIONAL, INC.
By:
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▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, President
ATTEST:
By:
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Secretary
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FORM OF ASSIGNMENT
(To be executed by the registered holder if such holder
desires to transfer the Warrant Certificate.)
FOR VALUE RECEIVED hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto
(Please print name and address of transferee)
this Warrant Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein,
and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint his or its attorney-in-fact
to transfer the within Warrant Certificate on the books of Med-Emerg
International, Inc., with full power of substitution.
Dated:
Signature
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(Signature must conform in all respects
to the name of holder as specified on
the face of the Warrant Certificate.)
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(Insert Social Security or Other
Identifying Number of Holder)
FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE
The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the right represented by
this Warrant Certificate to purchase:
___________shares of Common Stock
___________Redeemable Common Stock Warrants
and herewith tenders in payment for such securities a certified or cashier's
check or money order payable to the order of Med-Emerg International, Inc. in
the amount of $ , all in accordance with the terms hereof.
The undersigned requests that certificates for such securities be registered in
the name of whose address is and that such certificates be delivered to ________
________________________________________________________________________________
whose address is________________________________________________________.
Dated:
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Signature
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(Signature must conform in all respects
to the name of holder as specified on
the face of the Warrant Certificate.)
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(Insert Social Security or Other
Identifying Number of Holder)