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EXHIBIT 4.7
HS RESOURCES, INC.
PREFERRED STOCK WARRANT AGREEMENT
THIS WARRANT AGREEMENT, dated as of _____________, is between
HS Resources, Inc., a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the "Company"),
and __________________, as Warrant Agent (herein called the "Warrant Agent").
WHEREAS, the Company proposes to sell [if Warrants are sold
with other securities -- [title of such other securities being offered] (the
"Offered Securities") with] warrant certificates evidencing one or more
warrants (the "Warrants" or individually a "Warrant") representing the right to
purchase [title of Preferred Stock purchasable through exercise of Warrants]
(the "Warrant Securities"), such warrant certificates and other warrant
certificates issued pursuant to this Agreement being herein called the "Warrant
Certificates"; and
WHEREAS, the Company desires the Warrant Agent to act on
behalf of the Company in connection with the issuance, exchange, exercise and
replacement of the Warrant Certificates, and in this Agreement wishes to set
forth, among other things, the form and provisions of the Warrant Certificates
and the terms and conditions on which they may be issued, exchanged, exercised
and replaced;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the
mutual agreements herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:
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* Complete or modify the provisions of this Warrant Agreement as appropriate to
reflect the terms of the Warrants, Warrant Securities and Offered Securities.
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ARTICLE I
ISSUANCE OF WARRANTS AND EXECUTION AND
DELIVERY OF WARRANT CERTIFICATES
SECTION 1.01. Issuance of Warrants. [If Warrants alone --
Upon issuance, each Warrant Certificate shall evidence one or more Warrants.]
[If Offered Securities and Warrants -- Warrants shall be [initially] issued in
connection with the issuance of the Offered Securities [but shall be separately
transferable on and after ____________ (the "Detachable Date")] [and shall not
be separately transferable], and each Warrant Certificate shall evidence one or
more Warrants.] Each Warrant evidenced thereby shall represent the right,
subject to the provisions contained herein and therein, to purchase one Warrant
Security. [If Offered Securities and Warrants -- Warrant Certificates shall be
initially issued in units with the Offered Securities, and each Warrant
Certificate included in such a unit shall evidence ______ Warrants for each
[$__________ in principal amount] [_______ shares] of Offered Securities
included in such unit.]
SECTION 1.02. Execution and Delivery of Warrant Certificates.
Each Warrant Certificate, whenever issued, shall be in registered form
substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, shall be dated
_______________ and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of
identification or designation and such legends or endorsements printed,
lithographed or engraved thereon as the officers of the Company executing the
same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval)
and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement, or as may be
required to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant
thereto or with any rule or regulation of any stock exchange on which the
Warrants may be listed, or to conform to usage. The Warrant Certificates shall
be signed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, the Chief
Executive officer, its President or one of its Vice Presidents and by its
Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries under its corporate seal
reproduced thereon. Such signatures may be manual or facsimile signatures of
such authorized officers and may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the
Warrant Certificates. The seal of the Company may be in the form of a
facsimile thereof and may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or otherwise
reproduced on the Warrant Certificates.
No Warrant Certificate shall be valid for any purpose, and no
Warrant evidenced thereby shall be
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exercisable, until such Warrant Certificate has been countersigned by the
manual signature of the Warrant Agent. Such signature by the Warrant Agent
upon any Warrant Certificate executed by the Company shall be conclusive
evidence that the Warrant Certificate so countersigned has been duly issued
hereunder.
In case any officer of the Company who shall have signed any
of the Warrant Certificates either manually or by facsimile signature shall
cease to be such officer before the Warrant Certificates so signed shall have
been countersigned and delivered by the Warrant Agent, such Warrant
Certificates may be countersigned and delivered notwithstanding that the person
who signed such Warrant Certificates ceased to be such officer of the Company,
and any Warrant Certificate may be signed on behalf of the Company by such
persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Warrant Certificate,
shall be the proper officers of the Company, although at the date of the
execution of this Agreement any such person was not such officer.
The term "holder" or "holder of a Warrant Certificate" as used
herein shall mean any person in whose name at the time any Warrant Certificate
shall be registered upon the books to be maintained by the Warrant Agent for
that purpose [If Offered Securities and Warrants are not immediately detachable
-- or upon the register of the Offered Securities prior to the Detachable Date.
Prior to the Detachable Date, the Company will, or will cause the registrar of
the Offered Securities to, make available at all times to the Warrant Agent
such information as to holders of the offered Securities with Warrants as may
be necessary to keep the Warrant Agent's records up to date].
SECTION 1.03. Issuance of Warrant Certificates. Warrant
Certificates evidencing the right to purchase an aggregate not exceeding
_________ Warrant Securities (except as provided in Sections 2.03(c), 3.02 and
4.01) may be executed by the Company and delivered to the Warrant Agent upon
the execution of this Warrant Agreement or from time to time thereafter. The
Warrant Agent shall, upon receipt of Warrant Certificates duly executed on
behalf of the Company, countersign Warrant Certificates evidencing Warrants
representing the right to purchase up to _________ Warrant Securities and shall
deliver such Warrant Certificates to or upon the order of the Company.
Subsequent to such original issuance of the Warrant Certificates, the Warrant
Agent shall countersign a Warrant Certificate only if the Warrant Certificate
is issued in exchange or substitution for one or
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more previously countersigned Warrant Certificates or in connection with their
transfer, as hereinafter provided.
Section 1.04. Temporary Warrant Certificates. Pending the
preparation of definitive Warrant Certificates, the Company may execute, and
upon the order of the Company, the Warrant Agent shall authenticate and
deliver, temporary Warrant Certificates which are printed, lithographed,
typewritten, mimeographed, or otherwise produced substantially of the tenor of
the definitive Warrant Certificate in lieu of which they are issued and with
such insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers
executing such Warrant Certificate may determine as appropriate, as evidenced
by their execution of such Warrant Certificates.
If temporary Warrant Certificates are issued, the Company will
cause definitive Warrant Certificates to be prepared without unreasonable
delay. After the preparation of definitive Warrant Certificates, the temporary
Warrant Certificates shall be exchangeable for definitive Warrant Certificates
upon surrender of the temporary Warrant Certificates at the corporate trust
office of the Warrant Agent [or ________________], without charge to the
holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Warrant
Certificates the Company shall execute and the Warrant Agent shall authenticate
and deliver in exchange therefor definitive Warrant Certificates representing
the same aggregate number of Warrants. Until so exchanged, the temporary
Warrant Certificates shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits
under this Agreement as definitive Warrant Certificates.
ARTICLE II
WARRANT PRICE, DURATION AND
EXERCISE OF WARRANTS
SECTION 2.01. Warrant Price. During the period from
_____________, through and including _______________, the exercise price of
each Warrant will be _____________. Such purchase price of Warrant Securities
is referred to in this Agreement as the "Warrant Price." No adjustment shall
be made for any dividends on any Warrant securities issuable upon exercise of
any Warrant.
SECTION 2.02. Duration of Warrants. Each Warrant may be
exercised in whole at any time, as specified herein, on or after [the date
thereof] [______________] and at or before 5 P.M., [New York City] time, on
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____________ or such later date as the Company may designate, by notice to the
Warrant Agent and the holders of Warrant Certificates mailed to their addresses
as set forth in the record books of the Warrant Agent (the "Expiration Date").
Each Warrant not exercised at or before 5 P.M., [New York City] time, on the
Expiration Date shall become void, and all rights of the holder of the Warrant
Certificate evidencing such Warrant under this Agreement shall cease.
SECTION 2.03. Exercise of Warrants.
(a) During the period specified in Section 2.02, any whole
number of Warrants may be exercised by providing certain information as set
forth on the reverse side of the Warrant Certificate and by paying in full, in
[lawful money of the United States of America] [in cash or by certified check
or official bank check or by bank wire transfer, in each case,] [by bank wire
transfer] in [immediately available] [next-day] funds the Warrant Price for
each Warrant exercised, to the Warrant Agent at its corporate trust office [or
at ___________], provided that such exercise is subject to receipt within five
(5) business days of such [payment] [wire transfer] by the Warrant Agent of the
Warrant Certificate with the form of election to purchase Warrant Securities
set forth on the reverse side of the Warrant Certificate properly completed and
duly executed. The date on which payment in full of the Warrant Price is
received by the Warrant Agent shall, subject to receipt of the Warrant
Certificate as aforesaid, be deemed to be the date on which the Warrant is
exercised. The Warrant Agent shall deposit all funds received by it in payment
of the Warrant Price in an account of the Company maintained with it and shall
advise the Company by telephone at the end of each day on which a [payment]
[wire transfer] for the exercise of Warrants is received of the amount so
deposited to its account. The Warrant Agent shall promptly confirm such
telephone advice to the Company in writing.
(b) The Warrant Agent shall, from time to time, as promptly
as reasonably practicable, advise the Company of (i) the number of Warrants
exercised, (ii) the instructions of each holder of the Warrant Certificates
evidencing such Warrants with respect to delivery of the Warrant Securities to
which such holder is entitled upon such exercise, (iii) delivery of Warrant
Certificates evidencing the balance, if any, of the Warrants remaining after
such exercise, and (iv) such other information as the Company shall reasonably
require.
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(c) As soon as reasonably practicable after the exercise of
any Warrant, the Company shall issue to or upon the order of the holder of the
Warrant Certificate evidencing such Warrant, the Warrant Securities to which
such holder is entitled, in fully registered form, registered in such name or
names as may be directed by such holder. If fewer than all of the Warrants
evidenced by such Warrant Certificate are exercised, the Company shall execute,
and an authorized officer of the Warrant Agent shall manually countersign and
deliver a new Warrant Certificate evidencing the number of such Warrants
remaining unexercised.
(d) The Company shall not be required to pay any stamp or
other tax or other governmental charge required to be paid in connection with
any transfer involved in the issue of the Warrant Securities, and in the event
that any such transfer is involved, the Company shall not be required to issue
or deliver any Warrant Security until such tax or other charge shall have been
paid or it has been established to the Company's satisfaction that no such tax
or other charge is due.
(e) Prior to the issuance of any Warrants there shall have
been reserved, and the Company shall at all times keep reserved, out of its
authorized but unissued Warrant Securities, a number of shares sufficient to
provide for the exercise of the Warrant Certificates.
ARTICLE III
OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO RIGHTS
OF HOLDERS OF WARRANT CERTIFICATES
SECTION 3.01. No Rights as Warrant Securityholder conferred
by Warrants or Warrant Certificates. No Warrant Certificates or Warrant
evidenced thereby shall entitle the holder thereof to any of the rights of a
holder of Warrant Securities, including, without limitation, the right to
receive the payment of dividends or distributions, if any, on the Warrant
Securities or to exercise any voting rights.
SECTION 3.02. Lost, Stolen, Mutilated or Destroyed Warrant
Certificates. Upon receipt by the Warrant Agent of evidence reasonably
satisfactory to it and the Company of the ownership of and the loss, theft,
destruction or mutilation of any Warrant Certificate and of indemnity
reasonably satisfactory to the Warrant Agent and the Company and, in the case
of mutilation, upon surrender thereof to the Warrant Agent for cancellation,
then, in the absence of
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notice to the Company or the Warrant Agent that such Warrant Certificate has
been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute, and an
authorized officer of the Warrant Agent shall manually countersign and deliver,
in exchange for or in lieu of the lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated Warrant
Certificate, a new Warrant Certificate of the same tenor and evidencing a like
number of Warrants. Upon the issuance of any new Warrant Certificate under
this Section, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto
and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Warrant Agent)
in connection therewith. Every substitute Warrant Certificate executed and
delivered pursuant to this Section in lieu of any lost, stolen or destroyed
Warrant Certificate shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to the benefits of this Agreement equally and proportionately with any
and all other Warrant Certificates duly executed and delivered hereunder. The
provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent
lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement of
mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed Warrant Certificates.
SECTION 3.03. Holder of Warrant Certificate May Enforce
Rights. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Agreement, any holder of
a Warrant Certificate, without the consent of the Warrant Agent, the holder of
any Warrant Securities or the holder of any other Warrant Certificate, may, in
such holder's own behalf and for such holder's own benefit, enforce, and may
institute and maintain any suit, action or proceeding against the Company
suitable to enforce, or otherwise in respect of, such holder's right to
exercise the Warrants evidenced by such holder's Warrant Certificate in the
manner provided in such holder's Warrant Certificate and in this Agreement.
SECTION 3.04. Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger, Sale,
Conveyance or Lease. In case any of the following shall occur while any
Warrants are outstanding: (a) any reclassification or change of the outstanding
shares of Warrant Securities, or (b) any consolidation or merger to which the
Company is party (other than a consolidation or a merger in which the Company
is the continuing corporation and which does not result in any reclassification
of, or change in, the outstanding shares of Warrant Securities issuable upon
exercise of the Warrants), or (c) any sale, conveyance or lease to another
corporation of the property of the Company as an entirety or substantially as
an entirety, the Company, or such successor or purchasing corporation, as the
case may be, shall make appropriate
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provision by amendment of this Agreement or otherwise so that the holders of
the Warrants then outstanding shall have the right at any time thereafter, upon
exercise of such Warrants, to purchase the kind and amount of shares of stock
and other securities and property receivable upon such a reclassification,
change, consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or lease as would be received
by a holder of the number of shares of Warrant Securities issuable upon
exercise of such Warrant immediately prior to such reclassification, change,
consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or lease, and, in the case of a
consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or lease the Company shall thereupon be
relieved of any further obligation hereunder or under the Warrants, and the
Company as the predecessor corporation may thereupon or any time thereafter be
dissolved, wound up or liquidated. Such successor or assuming corporation
thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in
the name of the Company, any or all of the Warrants issuable hereunder that
theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company, and may execute and
deliver Warrant Securities in its own name, in fulfillment of its obligations
to deliver Warrant Securities upon exercise of the Warrants. All the Warrants
so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this
Agreement as the Warrants theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with
the terms of this Agreement as though all of such Warrants had been issued at
the date of the execution hereof. In any case of any such reclassification,
change, consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease, such changes in
phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Warrants
thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
The Warrant Agent may receive a written opinion of legal
counsel as conclusive evidence that any such reclassification, change,
consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease complies with the
provisions of this Section 3.04.
ARTICLE IV
EXCHANGE AND TRANSFERS
OF WARRANT CERTIFICATES
SECTION 4.01. Exchange and Transfer of Warrant Certificates.
[If Offered Securities with Warrants that are immediately detachable -- Upon]
[If Offered Securities with Warrants that are not immediately detachable --
Prior to the Detachable Date a Warrant Certificate may be exchanged or
transferred only together with the Offered Security to which
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the Warrant Certificate was initially attached, and only for the purpose of
effecting or in conjunction with an exchange or transfer of such Offered
Security. Prior to any Detachable Date, each transfer of the Offered Security
[on the register of the Offered Securities] shall operate also to transfer the
related Warrant Certificates. After the Detachable Date upon] surrender at the
corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent [or __________], Warrant
Certificates evidencing Warrants may be exchanged for Warrant Certificates in
other denominations evidencing such Warrants or the transfer thereof may be
registered in whole or in part; provided that such other Warrant Certificates
evidence the same aggregate number of Warrants as the Warrant Certificates so
surrendered. The Warrant Agent shall keep, at its corporate trust office [and
at ________], books in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, it shall register Warrant Certificates and exchanges and transfers
of outstanding Warrant Certificates, upon surrender of the Warrant Certificates
to the Warrant Agent at its corporate trust office [or ________] for exchange
or registration of transfer, properly endorsed or accompanied by appropriate
instruments of registration of transfer and written instructions for transfer,
all in form satisfactory to the Company and the Warrant Agent. No service
charge shall be made for any exchange or registration of transfer of Warrant
Certificates, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any stamp or other tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any such exchange or registration of transfer. Whenever any
Warrant Certificates are so surrendered for exchange or registration of
transfer, an authorized officer of the Warrant Agent shall manually countersign
and deliver to the person or persons entitled thereto a Warrant Certificate or
Warrant Certificates duly authorized and executed by the Company, as so
requested. The Warrant Agent shall not be required to effect any exchange or
registration or transfer that will result in the issuance of a Warrant
Certificate evidencing a fraction of a Warrant or a number of full Warrants and
a fraction of a Warrant. All Warrant Certificates issued upon any exchange or
registration of transfer of Warrant Certificates shall be the valid obligation
of the Company, evidencing the same obligations, and entitled to the same
benefits under this Agreement, as the Warrant Certificate surrendered for such
exchange or registration of transfer.
SECTION 4.02. Treatment of Holders of Warrant Certificates.
[If Offered Securities and Warrants are not immediately detachable -- Prior to
the Detachable Date, the Company, the Warrant Agent and all other persons may
treat the owner of the Offered Security as the owner of the
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Warrant Certificates initially attached thereto for any purpose and as the
person entitled to exercise the rights represented by the Warrants evidenced by
such Warrant Certificates, any notice to the contrary notwithstanding. After
the Detachable Date and prior to due presentment of a Warrant Certificate for
registration of transfer,] [t][T]he Company and the Warrant Agent may treat the
registered holder of a Warrant Certificate as the absolute owner thereof for
any purpose and as the person entitled to exercise the rights represented by
the Warrants evidenced thereby, any notice to the contrary notwithstanding.
SECTION 4.03. Cancellation of Warrant Certificates. Any
Warrant Certificate surrendered for exchange, registration of transfer or
exercise of the Warrants evidenced thereby shall, if surrendered to the
Company, be delivered to the Warrant Agent and all Warrant Certificates
surrendered or so delivered to the Warrant Agent shall be promptly cancelled by
the Warrant Agent and shall not be reissued and, except as expressly permitted
by this Agreement, no Warrant Certificate shall be issued hereunder in exchange
or in lieu thereof. The Warrant Agent shall deliver to the Company from time
to time or otherwise dispose of cancelled Warrant Certificates in a manner
satisfactory to the Company.
ARTICLE V
CONCERNING THE WARRANT AGENT
SECTION 5.01. Warrant Agent. The Company hereby appoints
__________________ as the Warrant Agent of the Company in respect of the
Warrants and the Warrant Certificates upon the terms and subject to the
conditions herein set forth, and ____________________ hereby accepts such
appointment. The Warrant Agent shall have the powers and authority granted to
and conferred upon it in the Warrant Certificates and hereby and such further
powers and authority to act on behalf of the Company as the Company may
hereafter grant to or confer upon it. All of the terms and provisions with
respect to such powers and authority contained in the Warrant Certificates are
subject to and governed by the terms and provisions hereof.
SECTION 5.02. Conditions of Warrant Agent's Obligations. The
Warrant Agent accepts its obligations herein set forth upon the terms and
conditions hereof, including the following to all of which the Company agrees
and to all of which the rights hereunder of the holders from time to time of
the Warrant Certificates shall be subject:
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(a) Compensation and Indemnification. The Company agrees
promptly to pay the Warrant Agent the compensation agreed upon with the Company
for all services rendered by the Warrant Agent and to reimburse the Warrant
Agent for reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including counsel fees) reasonably
incurred without negligence or bad faith by the Warrant Agent in connection
with the services rendered hereunder by the Warrant Agent. The Company also
agrees to indemnify the Warrant Agent for, and to hold it harmless against, any
loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on the part
of the Warrant Agent, arising our of or in connection with its acting as
Warrant Agent hereunder, as well as the costs and expenses of defending against
any claim of such liability.
(b) Agent for the Company. In acting under this Warrant
Agreement and in connection with the Warrant Certificates, the Warrant Agent is
acting solely as agent of the Company and does not assume any obligations or
relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the holders of Warrant
Certificates or beneficial owners of Warrants.
(c) Counsel. The Warrant Agent may consult with nationally
recognized counsel satisfactory to it, and the written advice of such counsel
shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any
action reasonably taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and
in accordance with the advice of such counsel.
(d) Documents. The Warrant Agent shall be protected and
shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken or thing
suffered by it in reliance upon any Warrant Certificate, notice, direction,
consent, certificate, affidavit, statement or other paper or document
reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been presented or signed by
the,proper parties.
(e) Certain Transactions. The Warrant Agent, and its
officers, directors and employees, may become the owner of, or acquire any
interest in, Warrants, with the same rights that it or they would have if it
were not the Warrant Agent hereunder, and, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, it or they may engage or be interested in any financial or
other transaction with the Company and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or
agent for, any committee or body of holders of Warrant Securities or other
obligations of the Company as freely as if it were not the Warrant Agent
hereunder. Nothing in this Warrant Agreement shall be
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deemed to prevent the Warrant Agent from acting as Trustee under any of the
Indentures.
(f) No Liability for Interest. Unless otherwise agreed with
the Company, the Warrant Agent shall have no liability for interest on any
monies at any time received by it pursuant to any of the provisions of this
Agreement or of the Warrant Certificates.
(g) No Liability for Invalidity. The Warrant Agent shall
have no liability with respect to any invalidity of this Agreement or any of
the Warrant Certificates (except as to the Warrant Agent's countersignature
thereon).
(h) No Responsibility for Representations. The Warrant Agent
shall not be responsible for any of the recitals or representations herein or
in the Warrant Certificates (except as to the Warrant Agent's countersignature
thereon), all of which are made solely by the Company.
(i) No Implied Obligations. The Warrant Agent shall be
obligated to perform only such duties as are herein and in the Warrant
Certificates specifically set forth and no implied duties or obligations shall
be read into this Agreement or the Warrant Certificates against the Warrant
Agent. The Warrant Agent shall not be accountable or under any duty or
responsibility for the use by the Company of any of the Warrant Certificates
authenticated by the Warrant Agent and delivered by it to the Company pursuant
to this Agreement or for the application by the Company of the proceeds of the
Warrant Certificates. The Warrant Agent shall have no duty or responsibility
in case of any default by the Company in the performance of its covenants or
agreements contained herein or in the Warrant Certificates or in the case of a
receipt of any written demand from a holder of a Warrant Certificate with
respect to such default, including, without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, any duty or responsibility to initiate or attempt to initiate any
proceedings at law or otherwise or, except as provided in Section 6.02 hereof,
to make any demand upon the Company.
SECTION 5.03. Resignation and Appointment of Successor. (a)
The Company agrees, for the benefit of the holders from time to time of the
Warrant Certificates, that there shall at all times be a Warrant Agent
hereunder until all the Warrants have been exercised or are no longer
exercisable.
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(b) The Warrant Agent may at any time resign as such agent by
giving written notice to the Company of such intention on its part, specifying
the date on which its desired resignation shall become effective; provided that
such date shall be not less than three (3) months after the date on which such
notice is given unless the Company otherwise agrees. The Warrant Agent
hereunder may be removed at any time by the filing with it of an instrument in
writing signed by or on behalf of the Company and specifying such removal and
the intended date when it shall become effective. Such resignation or removal
shall take effect upon the appointment by the Company, as hereinafter provided,
of a successor Warrant Agent (which shall be a bank or trust company authorized
under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization to exercise corporate
trust powers) and the acceptance of such appointment by such successor Warrant
Agent. The obligation of the Company under Section 5.02(a) shall continue to
the extent set forth therein, notwithstanding the resignation or removal of the
Warrant Agent.
(c) In case at any time the Warrant Agent shall resign, or
shall be removed, or shall become incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged a
bankrupt or insolvent, or shall commence a voluntary case under the Federal
bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter constituted, or under any other applicable
Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or shall consent to the
appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, custodian, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Warrant
Agent or its property or affairs, or shall make an assignment for the benefit
of creditors, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts
generally as they become due, or shall take corporate action in furtherance of
any such action, or a decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction
in the premises shall have been entered in respect of the Warrant Agent in an
involuntary case under the Federal bankruptcy laws, as now or hereafter
constituted, or any other applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or
similar law; or a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the
premises shall have been entered for the appointment of a receiver, custodian,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of the
Warrant Agent or of its property or affairs, or any public officer shall take
charge or control of the Warrant Agent or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation, winding up or liquidation, a successor
Warrant Agent, qualified as aforesaid, shall be appointed by the Company by an
instrument in writing, filed with the successor Warrant Agent. Upon the
appointment as aforesaid of a successor
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Warrant Agent and acceptance by the successor Warrant Agent of such
appointment, the Warrant Agent shall cease to be Warrant Agent hereunder.
(d) Any successor Warrant Agent appointed hereunder shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to its predecessor and to the Company an
instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon such successor
Warrant Agent, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested
with all the authority, rights, powers, trusts, duties and obligations of such
predecessor with like effect as if originally named as Warrant Agent hereunder,
and such predecessor, upon payment of its charges and disbursements then
unpaid, shall thereupon become obligated to transfer, deliver and pay over, and
such successor Warrant Agent shall be entitled to receive, all monies,
securities and other property on deposit with or held by such predecessor, as
Warrant Agent hereunder.
(e) Any corporation into which the Warrant Agent hereunder
may be merged or converted or any corporation with which the Warrant Agent may
be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Warrant Agent shall be a party, or any corporation
to which the Warrant Agent shall sell or otherwise transfer all or
substantially all the assets and business of the Warrant Agent, provided that
it shall be qualified as aforesaid, shall be the successor Warrant Agent under
this Agreement without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act
on the part of any of the parties hereto.
ARTICLE VI
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 6.01. Amendment. This Agreement may be amended by
the parties hereto, without the consent of the holder of any Warrant
Certificate, for the purpose of curing any ambiguity, or of curing, correcting
or supplementing any defective provision contained herein, or making any other
provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Agreement as
the Company and the Warrant Agent may deem necessary or desirable; provided;
however, that such action shall not affect adversely the interests of the
holders of the Warrant Certificates.
SECTION 6.02. Notices and Demands to the Company and Warrant
Agent. If the Warrant Agent shall receive any notice or demand addressed to
the Company by the holder of a
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Warrant Certificate pursuant to the provisions of the Warrant Certificates, the
Warrant Agent shall promptly forward such notice or demand to the Company.
SECTION 6.03. Addresses. Any communication from the Company
to the Warrant Agent with respect to this Agreement shall be addressed to
_____________________, Attention: ____________________ and any communication
from the Warrant Agent to the Company with respect to this Agreement shall be
addressed to HS Resources, Inc., ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention: Chief Financial Officer, with a copy to: HS
Resources, Inc., ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, Attention:
General Counsel, (or such other address as shall be specified in writing by the
Warrant Agent or by the Company).
SECTION 6.04. Applicable Law. The validity, interpretation
and performance of this Agreement and each Warrant Certificate issued hereunder
and of the respective terms and provisions thereof shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of [New York].
SECTION 6.05. Delivery of Prospectus. The Company will
furnish to the Warrant Agent sufficient copies of a prospectus relating to the
Warrant Securities deliverable upon exercise of the Warrants (the
"Prospectus"), and the Warrant Agent agrees that upon the exercise of any
Warrant, the Warrant Agent will deliver a Prospectus to the holder of the
Warrant Certificate evidencing such Warrant prior or concurrently with the
delivery of the Warrant Securities issued upon such exercise. The Warrant
Agent shall not, by reason of any such delivery, assume any responsibility for
the accuracy or adequacy of such Prospectus.
SECTION 6.06. Obtaining of Governmental Approvals. The
Company will from time to time take all action which may be necessary to obtain
and keep effective any and all permits, consents and approvals of governmental
agencies and authorities and securities acts filings under Federal and state
laws (including without limitation a registration statement in respect of the
Warrants and Warrant Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended),
which may be or become requisite in connection with the issuance, sale,
transfer, and delivery of the Warrant Securities issued upon exercise of the
Warrant Certificates, the exercise of the Warrants, the issuance, sale,
transfer and delivery of the Warrants or upon the expiration of the period
during which the Warrants are exercisable.
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SECTION 6.07. Persons Having Rights under Warrant Agreement.
Nothing in this Agreement shall give to any person other than the Company, the
Warrant Agent and the holders of the Warrant Certificates any right, remedy or
claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
SECTION 6.08. Headings. The descriptive headings of the
several Articles and Sections of this Agreement are inserted for convenience
only and shall not control or affect the meaning or construction of any of the
provisions hereof.
SECTION 6.09. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed
in any number of counterparts, each of which as so executed shall be deemed to
be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.
SECTION 6.10. Inspection of Agreement. A copy of this
Agreement shall be available at all reasonable times at the principal corporate
trust office of the Warrant Agent for inspection by the holder of any Warrant
Certificate. The Warrant Agent may require such holder to submit his Warrant
Certificate for inspection by it.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF HS Resources, Inc. and
___________________ have caused this Agreement to be signed by their respective
duly authorized officers, and their respective corporate seals to be affixed
hereunto, and the same to be attested by their respective Secretaries or one of
their respective Assistant Secretaries, all as of the day and year first above
written.
HS RESOURCES, INC.
By: ____________________________
Title:
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Attest:
_________________________
Title:
[Warrant Agent]
By: ____________________________
Title:
Attest:
_________________________
Title:
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE
[FACE OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE]
[Form of Legend if Offered Securities with Prior to ___________ this Warrant Certificate
Warrants that are not immediately detachable. cannot be transferred or exchanged unless
attached to a [Title of Offered Securities].]
[Form of Legend if Warrants are not immediately Prior to ___________, Warrants evidenced by this
exercisable. Warrant Certificate cannot be exercised.]
EXERCISABLE ONLY IF COUNTERSIGNED BY THE
WARRANT AGENT AS PROVIDED HEREIN
HS RESOURCES, INC.
WARRANTS TO PURCHASE
[Title of Warrant Securities]
VOID AFTER 5 P.M. [NEW YORK CITY TIME], ON _____________.
No. __________ __________ Warrants
This certifies that _________________ or registered assigns is
the registered owner of the above indicated number of Warrants, each Warrant
entitling such owner [If Offered Securities with Warrants that are not
immediately detachable --, subject to the registered owner qualifying as a
"holder" of this Warrant Certificate, as hereinafter defined] to purchase, at
any time [after 5 P.M., [New York City] time, on _________, ________ shares of
[Title of Warrant Securities] (the "Warrant Securities"), HS Resources, Inc.
(the "Company") on the following basis: [during the period from _____________,
through and including ___________, the exercise price of each Warrant will be
________; during the period from ____________, through and including ________,]
the exercise price of each Warrant will be ________ (the "Warrant Price").
No adjustment shall be made for any dividends on any Warrant Securities
issuable upon exercise of any Warrant. The holder may exercise the
Warrants evidenced hereby by providing certain information set forth on
the back hereof and by paying in full [in
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lawful money of the United States of America] [in cash or by certified check or
official bank check or by bank wire transfer, in each case,] [by bank wire
transfer] in [immediately available] [next-day] funds, the Warrant Price for
each Warrant exercised to the Warrant Agent (as hereinafter defined) and by
surrendering this Warrant Certificate, with the purchase form on the back
hereof duly executed, at the corporate trust office of [name of Warrant Agent],
[or ________], which is, on the date hereof, at the address specified on the
reverse hereof, and upon compliance with and subject to the conditions set
forth herein and in the Warrant Agreement (as hereinafter defined).
The term "holder" as used herein shall mean [if Offered
Securities with Warrants that are not immediately detachable --, prior to
___________ (the "Detachable Date"), the registered owner of the Company's
[title of Offered Securities] to which this Warrant Certificate is initially
attached, and after such Detachable Date,] the person in whose name at the time
of this Warrant Certificate shall be registered upon the books to be maintained
by the Warrant Agent for that purpose pursuant to Section 4.01 of the Warrant
Agreement.
Any whole number of Warrants evidenced by this Warrant
Certificate may be exercised to purchase Warrant Securities in registered form.
Upon any exercise of fewer than all of the Warrants evidenced by this Warrant
Certificate, there shall be issued to the holder hereof a new Warrant
Certificate evidencing the number of Warrants remaining unexercised.
This Warrant Certificate is issued under and in accordance
with the Warrant Agreement dated as of __________ (the "Warrant Agreement") by
and between the Company and the Warrant Agent and is subject to the terms and
provisions contained in the Warrant Agreement, to all of which terms and
provisions the holder of this Warrant Certificate consents by acceptance
hereof. Copies of the Warrant Agreement are on file at the above-mentioned
office of the Warrant Agent [and at ____________].
[If Offered Securities with registered Warrants that are not
immediately detachable -- Prior to ___________, this Warrant Certificate may be
exchanged or transferred only together with the [Title of Offered Securities]
(the "Offered Securities") to which this Warrant Certificate was initially
attached, and only for the purpose of effecting, or in conjunction with, an
exchange or transfer of such Offered Security. After such date, this] [if
Offered Securities with registered Warrants that are immediately
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detachable -- Transfer of this] Warrant Certificate may be registered when this
Warrant Certificate is surrendered at the corporate trust office of the Warrant
Agent [or ___________] by the registered owner or such owner's assigns, in
person or by an attorney duly authorized in writing, in the manner and subject
to the limitations provided in the Warrant Agreement.]
[If offered Securities with Warrants that are not immediately
detachable -- Except as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph, after]
[If Offered Securities with Warrants that are immediately detachable or Warrant
alone -- After] countersignature by the Warrant Agent and prior to the
expiration of this Warrant Certificate, this Warrant Certificate may be
exchanged at the corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent [or
_______________] for Warrant Certificates representing the same aggregate
number of Warrants.
This Warrant Certificate shall not entitle the holder hereof
to any of the rights of a holder of the Warrant Securities, including, without
limitation, the right to receive payments of dividends or distributions, if
any, on the Warrant Securities or to exercise any voting rights.
This Warrant Certificate shall not be valid or obligatory for
any purpose until countersigned by the Warrant Agent.
Dated as of __________________
HS RESOURCES, INC.
By: ____________________________
Attest:
__________________________
Countersigned:
__________________________
As Warrant Agent
By: ______________________
Authorized Signature
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[REVERSE OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE]
INSTRUCTIONS FOR EXERCISE OF WARRANT
To exercise the Warrants evidenced hereof, the holder must pay
in United States dollars [in cash or by certified check or official bank check
or by bank wire transfer] [by bank wire transfer] in [immediately available]
[next-day] funds the Warrant Price in full for Warrants exercised to [insert
name of Warrant Agent] [Corporate Trust Department] [insert address of Warrant
Agent], Attn. _______ [or __________], which [payment] [wire transfer] must
specify the name of the holder and the number of Warrants exercised by such
holder. In addition, the holder must complete the information required below
and present this Warrant Certificate in person or by mail (certified or
registered mail is recommended) to the Warrant Agent at the appropriate address
set forth below. This Warrant Certificate, completed and duly executed, must
be received by the Warrant Agent within five business days of the [payment]
[wire transfer].
TO BE EXECUTED UPON EXERCISE OF WARRANT
The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise
__________ Warrants, evidenced by this Warrant Certificate, to purchase
_________ shares of the [Title of Warrant Securities] (the "Warrant
Securities") of HS Resources, Inc. and represents that the
undersigned has tendered payment for such Warrant Securities in Dollars [in
cash or by certified check or official bank check or by bank wire transfer, in
each case] [by bank wire transfer] in [immediately available] [next-day] funds
to the order of HS Resources, Inc., c/o [insert name and address
of Warrant Agent], in the amount of __________ in accordance with the terms
hereof. The undersigned requests that said amount of Warrant Securities be in
fully registered form in the authorized denominations, registered in such names
and delivered all as specified in accordance with the instructions set forth
below.
If the number of Warrants exercised is less than all of the
Warrants evidenced hereby, the undersigned requests that a new Warrant
Certificate representing the remaining Warrant evidenced hereby be issued and
delivered to the undersigned unless otherwise specified in the instruction
below.
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Dated: ____________________________ Name _________________________________________
___________________________________ Address ______________________________________
(Insert Social Security or
Other Identifying Number of Holder) ______________________________________
Signature Guaranteed (Signature must conform in all respects
____________________ to name of holder as specified on the
face of this Warrant Certificate and
must bear a signature guarantee by a
bank, trust company or member broker of
the New York or Pacific Stock Exchange)
The Warrants evidenced hereby may be exercised at the following
addresses:
By hand at
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
By mail at
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
[Instructions as to form and delivery of Warrant Securities
and, if applicable, Warrant Certificates evidencing
unexercised Warrants -- complete as appropriate.]
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ASSIGNMENT
[Form of Assignment To Be Executed If Holder
Desires To Transfer Warrants Evidenced Hereby]
FOR VALUE RECEIVED ______________________________ hereby
sells, assigns and transfers unto
__________________________ ______________________________
(Please print name) (Please insert social security
or other identifying number)
__________________________
(Address)
__________________________
(City, including zip code)
the Warrants represented by the within Warrant Certificate and does hereby
irrevocably constitute and appoint _________ as Attorney to transfer said
Warrant Certificate on the books of the Warrant Agent with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated:
______________________________
Signature
(Signature must conform in all respects
to name of holder as specified on the face
of this Warrant Certificate and must bear a signature
guarantee by a bank, trust company or member
broker of the New York or Pacific Stock Exchange)
Signature Guaranteed:
_________________________
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