UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): February 10, 2012

 

 

Marina Biotech, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   000-13789   11-2658569

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

3830 Monte Villa Parkway, Bothell, Washington     98021
(Address of principal executive offices)     (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 425-908-3600

Not Applicable

Former name or former address, if changed since last report

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Marina Biotech, Inc. (the “Company”) has entered into a Note and Warrant Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”), dated as of February 10, 2012, with the purchasers identified on the signature pages thereto (the “Purchasers”), pursuant to which the Company will issue on or about February 10, 2012, to the Purchasers, severally and not jointly, 15% secured promissory notes in the aggregate principal amount of $1,500,000 ( “Notes”) and warrants to purchase up to 3,690,944 shares of the common stock, par value $0.006 per share, of the Company (the “Warrants”). The Notes will become due and payable on May 14, 2012. The Warrants have an initial exercise price of $0.508 per share, which is subject to adjustment, and will be exercisable for a period of five years beginning six months and one day following the issuance of the Warrants.

The Notes are secured by the assets of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Cequent”) and MDRNA Research, Inc. (“Research”) pursuant to a Security Agreement by the Company, Cequent and Research in favor of the Purchasers dated as of February 10, 2012 (the “Security Agreement”), and an Intellectual Property Security Agreement by the Company, Cequent and Research in favor of the Purchasers dated as of February 10, 2012 (the “IP Security Agreement”).

The Security Agreement provides the Purchasers with a security interest in, but not limited to, all of the property, equipment and fixtures, accounts, negotiable collateral, cash, and cash equivalents of the Company, Cequent and Research, subject to certain exceptions. The security interest created in the collateral will be first priority, subject to the permitted encumbrances provided in the Security Agreement, and will be perfected to the extent such security interest can be perfected by the filing of a financing statement and filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The security interest created in the collateral will be removed at such time as the Notes are paid in full.

A copy each of the Purchase Agreement, the Security Agreement, the IP Security Agreement, the form of Note and the form of Warrant is attached hereto as Exhibits 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 4.1 and 4.2, respectively, and is incorporated herein by reference.

The foregoing summary of the transaction contemplated by the Purchase Agreement and the documents and instruments to be executed and/or issued in connection therewith, does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the definitive transaction documents, copies of which are attached as exhibits to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

On February 10, 2012, the Company issued a press release announcing the entry into the Purchase Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.

In connection with the transaction described in Item 1.01 of this Current Report, which is incorporated into this Item 2.03, the Company has entered into the Purchase Agreement, dated as of February 10, 2012, pursuant to which it agreed to issue the Notes and the Warrants to the Purchasers. The Notes will bear interest at a rate of 15% per annum, will be secured by all of the assets of the Company, Cequent and Research, and will be due and payable on the earlier of May 14, 2012 or upon an acceleration in accordance with the Notes. The Company may prepay the Notes, without penalty or premium, at any time and from time to time. The obligations of the Company, Cequent and Research under the Notes are secured pursuant to the Security Agreement and the IP Security Agreement. Payment of the obligations under the Notes may be accelerated, in general, upon any of the following events: (i) an uncured failure to pay any amount under the Notes when due; (ii) an uncured breach by the Company of its obligations under any of the offering documents; (iii) a material breach by the Company of its representations and warranties contained in the offering documents; (iv) certain proceedings are commenced against the collateral securing the payment of the Notes; (v) certain material judgments are rendered against the Company; and (vi) the occurrence of certain voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy proceedings.


Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

The Company agreed to issue the Warrants and the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise thereof to the Purchasers in reliance upon the exemption from registration under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder. The information disclosed in Item 1.01 is incorporated into this Item 3.02 in its entirety.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits.


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Company has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

    Marina Biotech, Inc.
February 10, 2012     By:  

/s/ Philip C. Ranker

    Name:   Philip C. Ranker
    Title:   Interim Chief Financial Officer


Exhibit Index

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description

  4.1    Form of 15% Secured Promissory Note.
  4.2    Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant.
10.1    Note and Warrant Purchase Agreement, dated as of February 10, 2012, among Marina Biotech, Inc., Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., MDRNA Research, Inc., and the purchasers identified in the signature pages thereto.
10.2    Security Agreement, dated as of February 10, 2012, among Marina Biotech, Inc., Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., MDRNA Research, Inc. and Genesis Capital Management, LLC.
10.3    Intellectual Property Security Agreement, dated as of February 10, 2012, by Marina Biotech, Inc., Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and MDRNA Research, Inc. in favor of Genesis Capital Management, LLC.
99.1    Press Release of Marina Biotech, Inc. dated February 10, 2012.

Exhibit 4.1

15% SECURED PROMISSORY NOTE

THIS PROMISSORY NOTE MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED

 

$                February 10, 2012

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, Marina Biotech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ Marina”) , Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ CPI ”), and MDRNA RESEARCH, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ Research ”; jointly and severally, the “ Borrower ”), hereby promise to pay to                     (the “ Holder ”), at                     , or at such other place as Holder may from time to time designate in writing, on the Maturity Date (as defined below) the principal sum                     ($            ) (the “ Principal ”), together with interest in arrears from and including the date hereof on the unpaid Principal balance hereunder. This Promissory Note (as amended, modified and supplemented from time to time, this “ Note ”) is issued pursuant to that certain Note and Warrant Purchase Agreement by and among Marina, CPI, Research, the Holder and the other purchasers a party thereto, dated as of February 10, 2012 (as amended the “ Purchase Agreement ”). The Principal shall be payable by the Borrower in accordance with the terms of this Note, but in any case no later than the earlier of (A) May 14, 2012, or (B) upon an acceleration in accordance with Section 6 herein (the “ Maturity Date ”). This Promissory Note is one of two related promissory notes of like tenor issued by the Borrower on the date hereof to the Purchasers identified in the Purchase Agreement (collectively, the “ Holders ”), in the combined aggregate principal amount of $1,500,000.00 (collectively, the Notes ”). The Notes, together with the Purchase Agreement, Security Agreement (as defined below), IP Security Agreement (as defined below) and all other agreements, instruments, documents and certificates executed and/or delivered in connection with the Purchase Agreement or the transaction documents contemplated thereby shall be termed the “ Transaction Documents ”. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Purchase Agreement.

1. Interest Rate . The Principal shall accrue interest from the date of this Note until the Principal is paid in full at the rate of fifteen percent (15%) per annum. Interest shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year. In no event shall the interest rate on this Note exceed the maximum interest rate permitted by applicable law.

2. Principal and Interest Repayment . The entire outstanding Principal balance under this Note and accrued interest thereon shall be due on the Maturity Date.

3. Place of Payment . All amounts payable hereunder shall be payable in immediately available funds in U.S. dollars at the address of Holder set forth above, unless another place of payment shall be specified in writing by the Holder.

4. Prepayment of Note . The Borrower shall have the right to prepay, without penalty or premium, any Principal and/or accrued interest due under this Note at any time and from time to


time. If Borrower elects to make a prepayment under this Note, then any prepayment of the Principal shall be accompanied by all accrued interest on the amount of Principal being prepaid and the Borrower must simultaneously take the same action in the same proportion with respect to all of the other Notes.

5. Default . The occurrence of any of the following shall constitute an “ Event of Default ”:

(a) Failure by the Borrower to pay any unpaid principal balance of this Note or in the payment of interest thereon for a period of three (3) days after the same has become due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof;

(b) The Borrower breaches any of its other obligations under any of the Transaction Documents and fails to cure such breach within 30 days after the earlier of (i) the date on which an officer of the Borrower has actual knowledge of such failure and (ii) the date on which notice shall have been given to Borrower from Holder;

(c) Any warranty, representation or statement made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower in any of the Transaction Documents shall be false or misleading in any material respect at the time such warranty, representations or statement was made or deemed to be made;

(d) Any of the Collateral (as defined in the Security Agreement) is subjected to attachment, execution, levy, seizure or confiscation in any legal proceeding or otherwise, or if any legal or administrative proceeding is commenced against the Borrower or any of the Collateral, which in the good faith judgment of Genesis Capital Management, LLC, as agent for the Holders, (the “ Agent ”) subjects any of the Collateral to a material risk of attachment, execution, levy, seizure or confiscation and no bond is posted or protective order obtained to negate such risk within 10 days following such attachment, execution, levy, seizure or confiscation;

(e) One or more judgments, orders or decrees shall be rendered against the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower that exceeds by more than $150,000 any insurance coverage applicable thereto (to the extent the relevant insurer has been notified of such claim and has not denied coverage therefor) and either (i) enforcement proceedings shall have been commenced by any creditor upon any such judgment, order or decree or (ii) such judgment, order or decree shall not have been vacated or discharged for a period of 10 consecutive days and there shall not be in effect (by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise) any stay of enforcement thereof;

(f) The Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower shall generally not pay its debts as such debts become due, shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally, shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall cease doing business as a going concern, (ii) any proceeding shall be instituted by or against the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent or seeking liquidation, winding up, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, protection, relief, composition of it or its debts or any similar order, in each case under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors or seeking the entry of an order for relief or the appointment of a custodian, receiver, trustee, conservator, liquidating agent, liquidator, other similar official or other official with similar powers, in each case for it or for any substantial part of its property and, in the case of any such proceedings instituted against (but not by or with the consent of) such Borrower or such Subsidiary, either such proceedings shall remain undismissed or unstayed for a period of 45 days or more or any action sought in such proceedings shall occur or (iii) the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower shall take any corporate or similar action or any other action to authorize any action described in clause (i)  or (ii)  above;


(g) (i) Any material provision of any of the Transaction Documents shall fail to be valid and binding on, or enforceable against, the Borrower party thereto, (ii) any Transaction Document, purporting to grant a security interest to secure any obligation shall fail to create a valid and enforceable security interest on any material Collateral purported to be covered thereby or such security interest shall fail or cease to be a perfected lien with the priority required in the relevant Transaction Document, or (iii) any subordination provision set forth in any document evidencing or relating to any subordinated indebtedness shall, in whole or in part, terminate or otherwise fail or cease to be valid and binding on, or enforceable against, any agent for or holder of such subordinated indebtedness (or such person shall so state in writing).

6. Upon Occurrence of Event of Default. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Holder, at the Holder’s sole option, may declare all unpaid Principal hereof and all accrued interest thereon to be immediately due and payable and the same shall become immediately due and payable upon such declaration.

7. Late Fees. If Holder does not receive any payment due under this Note or any of the Transaction Documents from the Borrower within 4 days after its due date, then, at Holder’s election, Borrower agrees to pay to Agent for the ratable benefit of all Holders, a late fee equal to (a) 5% of the amount of such unpaid payment or (b) such lesser amount that, if paid, would not cause the interest and fees paid by such Loan Party under this Agreement to exceed the Maximum Lawful Rate (as defined below) (the “ Late Fee ”).

8. Default Rate. The Note shall bear interest, at the option of Holder, from and after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default (as defined below), at a rate equal to the lesser of (a) seven percent (7%) above the rate of interest set forth in Section 1 and (b) the Maximum Lawful Rate (the “ Default Rate ”). The application of the Default Rate shall not be interpreted or deemed to extend any cure period or waive any Default or Event of Default or otherwise limit Holder’s right or remedies hereunder. All interest payable at the Default Rate shall be payable on demand.

9. Maximum Lawful Rate. Anything herein, any Note or any other Transaction Document to the contrary notwithstanding, the obligations of the Borrower thereunder shall be subject to the limitation that payments of interest shall not be required, for any period for which interest is computed hereunder, to the extent (but only to the extent) that contracting for or receiving such payment by Agent and Holders would be contrary to the provisions of any law applicable to Agent and Holders limiting the highest rate of interest which may be lawfully contracted for, charged or received by Agent and Holders, and in such event Borrower shall pay Agent and Holders interest at the highest rate permitted by applicable law (“ Maximum Lawful Rate ”); provided , however , that if at any time thereafter the rate of interest payable hereunder or thereunder is less than the Maximum Lawful Rate, Borrower shall continue to pay interest hereunder at the Maximum Lawful Rate until such time as the total interest received by Agent and Holders is equal to the total interest that would have been received had the interest payable hereunder been (but for the operation of this paragraph) the interest rate payable since the making of this Note as otherwise provided in this Note or any other Transaction Document.


10. Waiver . The Borrower waives presentment and demand for payment, notice of dishonor, protest and notice of protest of this Note, and shall pay all costs of collection when incurred, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees, costs and other expenses.

11. Security Interest . The Borrower’s obligations under this Note and the other Notes are secured pursuant to that certain Security Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by Marina, CPI and Research in favor of the Holders of the Notes (the “ Security Agreement ”) and that certain Intellectual Property Security Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by Marina, CPI and Research in favor of the Holders of the Notes (the “ IP Security Agreement ”).

12. Amendments . Any term of this Note may be amended or waived upon the written consent of the Borrower and the Holder of this Note.

13. Governing Law . This Note shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, excluding conflict of laws principles that would cause the application of laws of any other jurisdiction.

14. Successors and Assigns . The provisions of this Note shall inure to the benefit of and be binding on any successor or assign of the Borrower, or the Holder, as the case may be. If the Borrower shall merge or consolidate with or into, or transfer a material portion of its assets, including, but not limited to, permits, leases, operations, and/or goodwill, to another corporation or other form of business organization, the Borrower may assign this Note to the successor of the Borrower resulting from such merger, consolidation, or transfer. Except as expressly provided herein, neither the Holder nor the Borrower may assign this Note without the prior consent of the other party hereto. No assignment by Borrower will be deemed a novation, but instead, Borrower shall continue to remain liable hereunder in the event Borrower’s obligations under this Note are not satisfied and this Note is not paid in the manner prescribed herein by any assignee of Borrower.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has executed this Note as of the date first set forth above.

 

BORROWER:
MARINA BIOTECH, INC.
By:  

 

Name:   J. Michael French
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer
CEQUENT PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
By:  

 

Name:   J. Michael French
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer


MDRNA RESEARCH, INC.
By:  

 

Name:   J. Michael French
Title:   President

Exhibit 4.2

COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT

MARINA BIOTECH, INC.

 

Warrant Shares:     Initial Exercise Date: August 11, 2012
    Issue Date: February 10, 2012

THIS COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT (the “ Warrant ”) certifies that, for value received,                     (the “ Holder ”) is entitled, upon the terms and subject to the limitations on exercise and the conditions hereinafter set forth, at any time on or after the Initial Exercise Date as set forth above (the “ Initial Exercise Date ”) and on or prior to the close of business on August 11, 2017 (the “ Termination Date ”) but not thereafter, to subscribe for and purchase from Marina Biotech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), up to             shares (the “ Warrant Shares ”) of Common Stock. The purchase price of one share of Common Stock under this Warrant shall be equal to the Exercise Price, as defined in Section 2(b).

Section 1 . Definitions . Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in that certain Note and Warrant Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”), dated as of February 10, 2012, among the Company and the purchasers signatory thereto.

Section 2 . Exercise .

a) Exercise of Warrant . Exercise of the purchase rights represented by this Warrant may be made, in whole or in part, at any time or times on or after the Initial Exercise Date and on or before the Termination Date by delivery to the Company (or such other office or agency of the Company as it may designate by notice in writing to the registered Holder at the address of the Holder appearing on the books of the Company) and to Company Counsel of a duly executed facsimile copy of the Notice of Exercise Form annexed hereto; and, within 3 Trading Days of the date said Notice of Exercise is delivered to the Company, the Company shall have received payment of the aggregate Exercise Price of the shares thereby purchased by wire transfer or cashier’s check drawn on a United States bank. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Warrant to the Company until the Holder has purchased all of the Warrant Shares available hereunder and the Warrant has been exercised in full, in which case, the Holder shall surrender this Warrant to the Company for cancellation within 3 Trading Days of the date the final Notice of Exercise is delivered to the Company. Partial exercises of this Warrant resulting in purchases of a portion of the total number of Warrant Shares available hereunder shall have the effect of lowering the outstanding number of Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder in an amount equal to the applicable number of Warrant Shares purchased. The Holder and the Company shall maintain records showing the number of Warrant Shares purchased and the date of such purchases. The Company shall deliver any objection to any Notice of Exercise Form within 1 Business Day of receipt of such notice. In the event of any dispute or discrepancy, the records of the Holder shall be controlling and determinative in the absence of manifest error. The Holder and any assignee, by acceptance of this Warrant, acknowledge and agree that, by reason of the provisions of this paragraph, following the purchase of a portion of the Warrant Shares hereunder, the number of Warrant Shares available for purchase hereunder at any given time may be less than the amount stated on the face hereof.

b) Exercise Price . The exercise price per share of the Common Stock under this Warrant shall be $0.508, subject to adjustment hereunder (the “ Exercise Price ”).


c) Cashless Exercise . If at any time during the term of this Warrant there is no effective Registration Statement registering, or no current prospectus available for, the issuance or resale of the Warrant Shares to or by the Holder, then this Warrant may also be exercised at such time by means of a “cashless exercise” in which the Holder shall be entitled to receive a certificate for the number of Warrant Shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing [(A-B) (X)] by (A), where:

        (A)    =   the VWAP on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of such election;
        (B)    =   the Exercise Price of this Warrant, as adjusted; and
        (X)    =   the number of Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant in accordance with the terms of this Warrant by means of a cash exercise rather than a cashless exercise.

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, on the Termination Date, this Warrant shall be automatically exercised via cashless exercise pursuant to this Section 2(c).

d) Holder’s Restrictions . The Company shall not effect any exercise of this Warrant, and a Holder shall not have the right to exercise any portion of this Warrant, pursuant to Section 2 or otherwise, to the extent that after giving effect to such issuance after exercise as set forth on the applicable Notice of Exercise, the Holder (together with the Holder’s Affiliates), and any other person or entity acting as a group together with the Holder or any of the Holder’s Affiliates), would beneficially own in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (as defined below). For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Holder and its Affiliates shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant with respect to which such determination is being made, but shall exclude the number of shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (A) exercise of the remaining, nonexercised portion of this Warrant beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its Affiliates and (B) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or nonconverted portion of any other securities of the Company (including, without limitation, any Common Stock Equivalents) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its affiliates. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this Section 2(d), beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, it being acknowledged by the Holder that the Company is not representing to the Holder that such calculation is in compliance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the Holder is solely responsible for any schedules required to be filed in accordance therewith. To the extent that the limitation contained in this Section 2(d) applies, the determination of whether this Warrant is exercisable (in relation to other securities owned by the Holder together with any Affiliates) and of which portion of this Warrant is exercisable shall be in the sole discretion of the Holder, and the submission of a Notice of Exercise shall be deemed to be the Holder’s determination of whether this Warrant is exercisable (in relation to other securities owned by the Holder together with any Affiliates) and of which portion of this Warrant is exercisable, in each case subject to the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, and the Company shall have no obligation to verify or confirm the accuracy of such determination. In addition, a determination as to any group status as contemplated above shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. For purposes of this Section 2(d), in determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, a Holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (A) the Company’s most recent periodic or annual report, as the case may be, (B) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (C) any other notice by the Company or the Transfer Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding. Upon the written or oral request of a Holder, the Company shall within two Trading Days confirm orally and in writing to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding. In any case, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of securities of the Company, including this Warrant, by the Holder or its Affiliates since the date as of which such number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported. The “ Beneficial Ownership Limitation ” shall be 4.99% of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant. The Holder, upon not less than 61 days’ prior notice to the Company, may increase or decrease the Beneficial Ownership Limitation provisions of this Section 2(d), provided that the Beneficial Ownership Limitation in no event exceeds 9.99% of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant held by the Holder and the provisions of this Section 2(d) shall continue to apply. Any such increase or decrease will not be effective until the 61st day after such


notice is delivered to the Company. The provisions of this paragraph shall be construed and implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of this Section 2(d) to correct this paragraph (or any portion hereof) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended Beneficial Ownership Limitation herein contained or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such limitation. The limitations contained in this paragraph shall apply to a successor holder of this Warrant.

e) Mechanics of Exercise .

i. Delivery of Certificates Upon Exercise . Certificates for shares purchased hereunder shall be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the Holder by crediting the account of the Holder’s prime broker with the Depository Trust Company through its Deposit Withdrawal Agent Commission (“ DWAC ”) system if the Company is then a participant in such system and either (A) there is an effective Registration Statement permitting the resale of the Warrant Shares by the Holder or this Warrant is being exercised via cashless exercise, and otherwise by physical delivery to the address specified by the Holder in the Notice of Exercise within 3 Trading Days from the delivery to the Company of the Notice of Exercise Form, surrender of this Warrant (if required) and payment of the aggregate Exercise Price as set forth above (the “ Warrant Share Delivery Date ”). This Warrant shall be deemed to have been exercised on the date the Exercise Price is received by the Company. The Warrant Shares shall be deemed to have been issued, and Holder or any other person so designated to be named therein shall be deemed to have become a holder of record of such shares for all purposes, as of the date the Warrant has been exercised by payment to the Company of the Exercise Price (or by cashless exercise, if permitted) and all taxes required to be paid by the Holder, if any, pursuant to Section 2(e)(vi) prior to the issuance of such shares, have been paid. If the Company fails for any reason to deliver to the Holder certificates evidencing the Warrant Shares subject to a Notice of Exercise by the Warrant Share Delivery Date, the Company shall pay to the Holder, in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1,000 of Warrant Shares subject to such exercise (based on the VWAP of the Common Stock on the date of the applicable Notice of Exercise), $10 per Trading Day (increasing to $20 per Trading Day on the fifth Trading Day after such liquidated damages begin to accrue) for each Trading Day after such Warrant Share Delivery Date until such certificates are delivered.

ii. Delivery of New Warrants Upon Exercise . If this Warrant shall have been exercised in part, the Company shall, at the request of a Holder and upon surrender of this Warrant certificate, at the time of delivery of the certificate or certificates representing Warrant Shares, deliver to Holder a new Warrant evidencing the rights of Holder to purchase the unpurchased Warrant Shares called for by this Warrant, which new Warrant shall in all other respects be identical with this Warrant.

iii. Rescission Rights . If the Company fails to cause the Transfer Agent to transmit to the Holder a certificate or the certificates representing the Warrant Shares pursuant to Section 2(e)(i) by the Warrant Share Delivery Date, then the Holder will have the right to rescind such exercise.

iv. Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver Certificates Upon Exercise . In addition to any other rights available to the Holder, if the Company fails to cause the Transfer Agent to transmit to the Holder a certificate or the certificates representing the Warrant Shares pursuant to an exercise on or before the Warrant Share Delivery Date, and if after such date the Holder is required by its broker to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise) or the Holder’s brokerage firm otherwise purchases, shares of Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Holder of the Warrant Shares which the Holder anticipated receiving upon such exercise (a “ Buy-In ”), then the Company shall (A) pay in cash to the Holder the amount by which (x) the Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the amount obtained by multiplying (1) the number of Warrant Shares that the Company was required to deliver to the Holder in connection with the exercise at issue times (2) the price at which the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation


was executed, and (B) at the option of the Holder, either reinstate the portion of the Warrant and equivalent number of Warrant Shares for which such exercise was not honored or deliver to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued had the Company timely complied with its exercise and delivery obligations hereunder. For example, if the Holder purchases Common Stock having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an attempted exercise of shares of Common Stock with an aggregate sale price giving rise to such purchase obligation of $10,000, under clause (A) of the immediately preceding sentence the Company shall be required to pay the Holder $1,000. The Holder shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to the Holder in respect of the Buy-In and, upon request of the Company, evidence of the amount of such loss. Nothing herein shall limit a Holder’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with respect to the Company’s failure to timely deliver certificates representing shares of Common Stock upon exercise of the Warrant as required pursuant to the terms hereof.

v. No Fractional Shares or Scrip . No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares shall be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant. As to any fraction of a share which Holder would otherwise be entitled to purchase upon such exercise, the Company shall, at its election, either pay a cash adjustment in respect of such final fraction in an amount equal to such fraction multiplied by the Exercise Price or round up to the next whole share.

vi. Charges, Taxes and Expenses . Issuance of certificates for Warrant Shares shall be made without charge to the Holder for any issue or transfer tax or other incidental expense in respect of the issuance of such certificate, all of which taxes and expenses shall be paid by the Company, and such certificates shall be issued in the name of the Holder or in such name or names as may be directed by the Holder; provided , however , that in the event certificates for Warrant Shares are to be issued in a name other than the name of the Holder, this Warrant when surrendered for exercise shall be accompanied by the Assignment Form attached hereto duly executed by the Holder and the Company may require, as a condition thereto, the payment of a sum sufficient to reimburse it for any transfer tax incidental thereto.

vii. Closing of Books . The Company will not close its stockholder books or records in any manner which prevents the timely exercise of this Warrant, pursuant to the terms hereof.

Section 3 . Certain Adjustments .

a) Stock Dividends and Splits . If the Company, at any time while this Warrant is outstanding: (i) pays a stock dividend or otherwise makes a distribution or distributions on shares of its Common Stock or any other equity or equity equivalent securities payable in shares of Common Stock (which, for avoidance of doubt, shall not include any shares of Common Stock issued by the Company upon exercise of this Warrant), (ii) subdivides outstanding shares of Common Stock into a larger number of shares, (iii) combines (including by way of reverse stock split) outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares or (iv) issues by reclassification of shares of the Common Stock any shares of capital stock of the Company, then in each case the Exercise Price shall be multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if any) outstanding immediately before such event and of which the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the number of shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant shall be proportionately adjusted such that the aggregate Exercise Price of this Warrant shall remain unchanged. Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section 3(a) shall become effective immediately after the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or distribution and shall become effective immediately after the effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or re-classification.

b) Subsequent Equity Sales . If the Company or any Subsidiary thereof, as applicable, at any time on or prior to August 11, 2014, shall sell or grant any option to purchase, or sell or grant any right to reprice, or otherwise dispose of or issue or agree to reprice (or announce any offer, sale, grant or any option


to purchase or other disposition) any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents entitling any Person to acquire shares of Common Stock, at an effective price per share less than the then Exercise Price (such lower price, the “Base Share Price” and such issuances collectively, a “ Dilutive Issuance ”) (it being understood for purposes of the foregoing that if the holder of the Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents so issued shall at any time, whether by operation of purchase price adjustments, reset provisions, floating conversion, exercise or exchange prices or otherwise, or due to warrants, options or rights per share which are issued in connection with such issuance, be entitled to receive shares of Common Stock at an effective price per share which is less than the Exercise Price, such issuance shall be deemed to have occurred for less than the Exercise Price on such date of the Dilutive Issuance), then the Exercise Price shall be reduced and only reduced to equal the Base Share Price. Such adjustment shall be made whenever such Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents are issued or deemed issued. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no adjustments shall be made, paid or issued under this Section 3(b) in respect of an Exempt Issuance. The Company shall notify the Holder in writing, no later than the Trading Day following the issuance or deemed issuance of any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents subject to this Section 3(b), indicating therein the applicable issuance price, or applicable reset price, exchange price, conversion price and other pricing terms (such notice the “Dilutive Issuance Notice”). For purposes of clarification, whether or not the Company provides a Dilutive Issuance Notice pursuant to this Section 3(b), upon the occurrence of any Dilutive Issuance, after the date of such Dilutive Issuance the Holder is entitled to receive Warrant Shares at the Base Share Price regardless of whether the Holder accurately refers to the Base Share Price in the Notice of Exercise.

c) Subsequent Rights Offerings . If the Company, at any time while the Warrant is outstanding, shall issue rights, options or warrants to all holders of Common Stock (and not to Holders) entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at a price per share less than the VWAP at the record date mentioned below, then, the Exercise Price shall be multiplied by a fraction, of which the denominator shall be the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding on the date of issuance of such rights or warrants plus the number of additional shares of Common Stock offered for subscription or purchase, and of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding on the date of issuance of such rights or warrants plus the number of shares which the aggregate offering price of the total number of shares so offered (assuming receipt by the Company in full of all consideration payable upon exercise of such rights, options or warrants) would purchase at such VWAP. Such adjustment shall be made whenever such rights or warrants are issued, and shall become effective immediately after the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such rights, options or warrants.

d) Pro Rata Distributions . If the Company, at any time while this Warrant is outstanding, shall distribute to all holders of Common Stock (and not to Holders of the Warrants) evidences of its indebtedness or assets (including cash and cash dividends) or rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any security other than the Common Stock (which shall be subject to Section 3(b)), then in each such case the Exercise Price shall be adjusted by multiplying the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to the record date fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction of which the denominator shall be the VWAP determined as of the record date mentioned above, and of which the numerator shall be such VWAP on such record date less the then per share fair market value at such record date of the portion of such assets or evidence of indebtedness so distributed applicable to one outstanding share of the Common Stock as determined by the Board of Directors in good faith. In either case the adjustments shall be described in a statement provided to the Holder of the portion of assets or evidences of indebtedness so distributed or such subscription rights applicable to one share of Common Stock. Such adjustment shall be made whenever any such distribution is made and shall become effective immediately after the record date mentioned above.

e) Fundamental Transaction . If, at any time while this Warrant is outstanding, (i) the Company effects any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another Person, (ii) the Company effects any sale of all or substantially all of its assets in one or a series of related transactions, (iii) any tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another Person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Common Stock are permitted to tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property or (iv) the Company effects any reclassification of the Common Stock or any compulsory


share exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is effectively converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property (each “ Fundamental Transaction ”), then, upon any subsequent exercise of this Warrant, the Holder shall have the right to receive, for each Warrant Share that would have been issuable upon such exercise immediately prior to the occurrence of such Fundamental Transaction, the number of shares of Common Stock of the successor or acquiring corporation or of the Company, if it is the surviving corporation, and any additional consideration (the “ Alternate Consideration ”) receivable as a result of such merger, consolidation or disposition of assets by a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock for which this Warrant is exercisable immediately prior to such event. For purposes of any such exercise, the determination of the Exercise Price shall be appropriately adjusted to apply to such Alternate Consideration based on the amount of Alternate Consideration issuable in respect of one share of Common Stock in such Fundamental Transaction, and the Company shall apportion the Exercise Price among the Alternate Consideration in a reasonable manner reflecting the relative value of any different components of the Alternate Consideration. If holders of Common Stock are given any choice as to the securities, cash or property to be received in a Fundamental Transaction, then the Holder shall be given the same choice as to the Alternate Consideration it receives upon any exercise of this Warrant following such Fundamental Transaction. To the extent necessary to effectuate the foregoing provisions, any successor to the Company or surviving entity in such Fundamental Transaction shall issue to the Holder a new warrant consistent with the foregoing provisions and evidencing the Holder’s right to exercise such warrant into Alternate Consideration. The terms of any agreement pursuant to which a Fundamental Transaction is effected shall include terms requiring any such successor or surviving entity to comply with the provisions of this Section 3(e) and insuring that this Warrant (or any such replacement security) will be similarly adjusted upon any subsequent transaction analogous to a Fundamental Transaction. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in the event of a Fundamental Transaction that is (1) an all cash transaction, (2) a “Rule 13e-3 transaction” as defined in Rule 13e-3 under the Exchange Act or (3) a Fundamental Transaction in which the surviving corporation (if not the Company) is a person or entity not traded on a national securities exchange, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Capital Market, or the OTCQX or OTCQB tiers of the OTC Markets, the Company or any successor entity shall pay at the Holder’s option, exercisable at any time concurrently with or within 30 days after the consummation of the Fundamental Transaction, an amount of cash equal to the value of this Warrant as determined in accordance with the Black Scholes Option Pricing Model obtained from the “OV” function on Bloomberg L.P. using (A) a price per share of Common Stock equal to the VWAP of the Common Stock for the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of consummation of the applicable Fundamental Transaction, (B) a risk-free interest rate corresponding to the U.S. Treasury rate for a 30 day period immediately prior to the consummation of the applicable Fundamental Transaction, (C) an expected volatility equal to the 100 day volatility obtained from the “HVT” function on Bloomberg L.P. determined as of the Trading Day immediately following the public announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction and (D) a remaining option time equal to the time between the date of the public announcement of such transaction and the Termination Date.

f) Calculations . All calculations under this Section 3 shall be made to the nearest cent or the nearest 1/100th of a share, as the case may be. For purposes of this Section 3, the number of shares of Common Stock deemed to be issued and outstanding as of a given date shall be the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if any) issued and outstanding.

g) Notice to Holder .

i. Adjustment to Exercise Price . Whenever the Exercise Price is adjusted pursuant to any provision of this Section 3, the Company shall promptly mail to the Holder a notice setting forth the Exercise Price after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment.

ii. Notice to Allow Exercise by Holder . If (A) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution in whatever form) on the Common Stock, (B) the Company shall declare a special nonrecurring cash dividend on or a redemption of the Common Stock, (C) the Company shall authorize the granting to all holders of the Common Stock rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of capital stock of any class or of any rights, (D) the approval of any stockholders of the Company shall be required in connection with any


reclassification of the Common Stock, any consolidation or merger to which the Company is a party, any sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, of any compulsory share exchange whereby the Common Stock is converted into other securities, cash or property or (E) the Company shall authorize the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the affairs of the Company, then, in each case, the Company shall cause to be mailed to the Holder at its last address as it shall appear upon the Warrant Register of the Company, at least 20 calendar days prior to the applicable record or effective date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, redemption, rights or warrants, or if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of the Common Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distributions, redemption, rights or warrants are to be determined or (y) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange is expected to become effective or close, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of the Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of the Common Stock for securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange; provided that the failure to mail such notice or any defect therein or in the mailing thereof shall not affect the validity of the corporate action required to be specified in such notice. To the extent that any notice provided hereunder constitutes, or contains, material, non-public information regarding the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, the Company shall simultaneously file such notice with the Commission pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K. The Holder is entitled to exercise this Warrant during the period commencing on the date of such notice to the effective date of the event triggering such notice.

Section 4 . Transfer of Warrant .

a) Transferability . This Warrant and all rights hereunder are transferable, in whole or in part, upon surrender of this Warrant at the principal office of the Company or its designated agent, together with a written assignment of this Warrant substantially in the form attached hereto duly executed by the Holder or its agent or attorney and funds sufficient to pay any transfer taxes payable upon the making of such transfer. Upon such surrender and, if required, such payment, the Company shall execute and deliver a new Warrant or Warrants in the name of the assignee or assignees, as applicable, and in the denomination or denominations specified in such instrument of assignment, and shall issue to the assignor a new Warrant evidencing the portion of this Warrant not so assigned, and this Warrant shall promptly be cancelled. The Warrant, if properly assigned, may be exercised by a new holder for the purchase of Warrant Shares without having a new Warrant issued.

b) New Warrants . This Warrant may be divided or combined with other Warrants upon presentation hereof at the aforesaid office of the Company, together with a written notice specifying the names and denominations in which new Warrants are to be issued, signed by the Holder or its agent or attorney. Subject to compliance with Section 4(a), as to any transfer which may be involved in such division or combination, the Company shall execute and deliver a new Warrant or Warrants in exchange for the Warrant or Warrants to be divided or combined in accordance with such notice. All Warrants issued on transfers or exchanges shall be dated the Initial Exercise Date and shall be identical with this Warrant except as to the number of Warrant Shares issuable pursuant thereto.

c) Warrant Register . The Company shall register this Warrant, upon records to be maintained by the Company for that purpose (the “ Warrant Register ”), in the name of the record Holder hereof from time to time. The Company may deem and treat the registered Holder of this Warrant as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of any exercise hereof or any distribution to the Holder, and for all other purposes, absent actual notice to the contrary.

Section 5 . Miscellaneous .

a) No Rights as Stockholder Until Exercise . This Warrant does not entitle the Holder to any voting rights or other rights as a stockholder of the Company prior to the exercise hereof as set forth in Section 2(e)(i).


b) Loss, Theft, Destruction or Mutilation of Warrant . The Company covenants that upon receipt by the Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant or any stock certificate relating to the Warrant Shares, and in case of loss, theft or destruction, of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to it (which, in the case of the Warrant, shall not include the posting of any bond), and upon surrender and cancellation of such Warrant or stock certificate, if mutilated, the Company will make and deliver a new Warrant or stock certificate of like tenor and dated as of such cancellation, in lieu of such Warrant or stock certificate.

c) Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc . If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Business Day, then, such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding Business Day.

d) Authorized Shares . The Company covenants that, during the period the Warrant is outstanding, it will reserve from its authorized and unissued Common Stock a sufficient number of shares to provide for the issuance of the Warrant Shares upon the exercise of any purchase rights under this Warrant. The Company further covenants that its issuance of this Warrant shall constitute full authority to its officers who are charged with the duty of executing stock certificates to execute and issue the necessary certificates for the Warrant Shares upon the exercise of the purchase rights under this Warrant. The Company will take all such reasonable action as may be necessary to assure that such Warrant Shares may be issued as provided herein without violation of any applicable law or regulation, or of any requirements of the Trading Market upon which the Common Stock may be listed. The Company covenants that all Warrant Shares which may be issued upon the exercise of the purchase rights represented by this Warrant will, upon exercise of the purchase rights represented by this Warrant, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free from all taxes, liens and charges created by the Company in respect of the issue thereof (other than taxes in respect of any transfer occurring contemporaneously with such issue).

Except and to the extent as waived or consented to by the Holder, the Company shall not by any action, including, without limitation, amending its certificate of incorporation or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, dissolution, issue or sale of securities or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms of this Warrant, but will at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all such terms and in the taking of all such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to protect the rights of Holder as set forth in this Warrant against impairment. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company will (i) not increase the par value of any Warrant Shares above the amount payable therefor upon such exercise immediately prior to such increase in par value, (ii) take all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and nonassessable Warrant Shares upon the exercise of this Warrant and (iii) use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain all such authorizations, exemptions or consents from any public regulatory body having jurisdiction thereof, as may be, necessary to enable the Company to perform its obligations under this Warrant.

Before taking any action which would result in an adjustment in the number of Warrant Shares for which this Warrant is exercisable or in the Exercise Price, the Company shall obtain all such authorizations or exemptions thereof, or consents thereto, as may be necessary from any public regulatory body or bodies having jurisdiction thereof.

e) Jurisdiction . All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Warrant shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of the Purchase Agreement.

f) Restrictions . The Holder acknowledges that the Warrant Shares acquired upon the exercise of this Warrant, if not issued to the Holder pursuant to an effective registration statement, and the Holder does not exercise via “cashless exercise,” may have restrictions upon resale imposed by state and federal securities laws.


g) Nonwaiver and Expenses . No course of dealing or any delay or failure to exercise any right hereunder on the part of Holder shall operate as a waiver of such right or otherwise prejudice Holder’s rights, powers or remedies, notwithstanding the fact that all rights hereunder terminate on the Termination Date. If the Company willfully and knowingly fails to comply with any provision of this Warrant, which results in any material damages to the Holder, the Company shall pay to Holder such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover any costs and expenses including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees, including those of appellate proceedings, incurred by Holder in collecting any amounts due pursuant hereto or in otherwise enforcing any of its rights, powers or remedies hereunder.

h) Notices . Any notice, request or other document required or permitted to be given or delivered to the Holder by the Company shall be delivered in accordance with the notice provisions of the Purchase Agreement.

i) Limitation of Liability . No provision hereof, in the absence of any affirmative action by Holder to exercise this Warrant to purchase Warrant Shares, and no enumeration herein of the rights or privileges of Holder, shall give rise to any liability of Holder for the purchase price of any Common Stock or as a stockholder of the Company, whether such liability is asserted by the Company or by creditors of the Company.

j) Remedies . The Holder, in addition to being entitled to exercise all rights granted by law, including recovery of damages, will be entitled to specific performance of its rights under this Warrant. The Company agrees that monetary damages would not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of a breach by it of the provisions of this Warrant and hereby agrees to waive and not to assert the defense in any action for specific performance that a remedy at law would be adequate.

k) Successors and Assigns . Subject to applicable securities laws, this Warrant and the rights and obligations evidenced hereby shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors of the Company and the successors and permitted assigns of Holder. The provisions of this Warrant are intended to be for the benefit of all Holders from time to time of this Warrant and shall be enforceable by the Holder or holder of Warrant Shares.

l) Amendment . This Warrant may be modified or amended or the provisions hereof waived with the written consent of the Company and Holders holding Warrants at least equal to 67% of the Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of all then outstanding Warrants.

m) Severability . Wherever possible, each provision of this Warrant shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Warrant shall be prohibited by or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating the remainder of such provisions or the remaining provisions of this Warrant.

n) Headings . The headings used in this Warrant are for the convenience of reference only and shall not, for any purpose, be deemed a part of this Warrant.

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(Signature Pages Follow)


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant to be executed by its officer thereunto duly authorized as of the date first above indicated.

 

MARINA BIOTECH, INC.
By:  

 

  Name:    J. Michael French
  Title:      President and Chief Executive Officer


NOTICE OF EXERCISE

TO:     Marina Biotech, Inc.

(1) The undersigned hereby elects to purchase             Warrant Shares of the Company pursuant to the terms of the attached Warrant (only if exercised in full), and tenders herewith payment of the exercise price in full, together with all applicable transfer taxes, if any.

(2) Payment shall take the form of (check applicable box):

¨ in lawful money of the United States; or

¨ [if permitted] the cancellation of such number of Warrant Shares as is necessary, in accordance with the formula set forth in subsection 2(c), to exercise this Warrant with respect to the maximum number of Warrant Shares purchasable pursuant to the cashless exercise procedure set forth in subsection 2(c).

(3) Please issue a certificate or certificates representing said Warrant Shares in the name of the undersigned or in such other name as is specified below:

 

 

The Warrant Shares shall be delivered to the following DWAC Account Number or by physical delivery of a certificate to:

 

 

(4) Accredited Investor. The undersigned is an “accredited investor” as defined in Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

[SIGNATURE OF HOLDER]

Name of Investing Entity:                                                                                                                                                   

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Investing Entity :                                                                                                                                                   

Name of Authorized Signatory:                                                                                                                                                   

Title of Authorized Signatory:                                                                                                                                                   

Date:                                                                                                                                                   


ASSIGNMENT FORM

(To assign the foregoing warrant, execute

this form and supply required information.

Do not use this form to exercise the warrant.)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, [            ] all of or [            ] shares of the foregoing Warrant and all rights evidenced thereby are hereby assigned to

                                                                                                                              whose address is                                                                                                                                                                         .                                                                                                                                                                        

Dated:              ,     

 

 

Holder’s

Signature:

 

 

 

Holder’s

Address:

 

 

   

 

Signature Guaranteed:                                                                                    

NOTE: The signature to this Assignment Form must correspond with the name as it appears on the face of the Warrant, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever, and must be guaranteed by a bank or trust company. Officers of corporations and those acting in a fiduciary or other representative capacity should file proper evidence of authority to assign the foregoing Warrant.

Exhibit 10.1

EXECUTION VERSION

NOTE AND WARRANT PURCHASE AGREEMENT

This Note and Warrant Purchase Agreement (this “ Agreement ”) is dated as of February 10, 2012, among Marina Biotech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), MDRNA Research, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“ Research ”), and Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“ Cequent ” and, together with the Company and Research, the “ Companies ”)), and each purchaser identified on the signature pages hereto (each, including its successors and assigns, a “ Purchaser ” and collectively the “ Purchasers ”).

WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Company desires to issue and sell to each Purchaser, and each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, desires to purchase from the Company, Notes and Securities as more fully described in this Agreement.

NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Companies and each Purchaser agree as follows:

ARTICLE I.

DEFINITIONS

1.1 Definitions . In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, for all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.1:

Acquiring Person ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.5.

Action ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(j).

Affiliate ” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

Board of Directors ” means the board of directors of the Company.

Business Day ” means any day except Saturday, Sunday, any day which is a federal legal holiday in the United States or any day on which banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized or required by law or other governmental action to close.

Closing ” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the Notes and the Securities pursuant to Section 2.1.

Closing Date ” means the third day following the date hereof or such earlier day as agreed to by the parties.

Closing Statement ” means the Closing Statement in the form Annex A attached hereto.

Commission ” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Common Stock ” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.006 per share, and any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed into.

Common Stock Equivalents ” means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, rights, options, warrants or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock.


Company Counsel ” means Pryor Cashman LLP, with offices located at 7 Time Square, New York, New York 10036-6569.

Disclosure Schedules ” means, if disclosure schedules of the Company are delivered concurrently herewith, such disclosure schedules.

Discussion Time ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.2(d).

Evaluation Date ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(r).

Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Exempt Issuance ” means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock or options to employees, officers or directors of the Company pursuant to any stock or option plan duly adopted for such purpose, by a majority of the non-employee members of the Board of Directors or a majority of the members of a committee of non-employee directors established for such purpose, (b) securities upon the exercise or exchange of or conversion of any Securities issued hereunder and/or other securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date of this Agreement, (c) securities issued in satisfaction of trade accounts payable and other financial obligations of the Company directly to the obliges thereof, and (d) securities issued pursuant to acquisitions or strategic transactions approved by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Company, provided that any such issuance pursuant to item (d) shall only be to a Person which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an operating company in a business synergistic with the business of the Company and in which the Company receives benefits in addition to the investment of funds, but shall not include a transaction in which the Company is issuing securities primarily for the purpose of raising capital or to an entity whose primary business is investing in securities.

FDA ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(gg).

FDCA ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(gg).

GAAP ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).

Indebtedness ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(z).

IP Security Agreement ” means that certain Intellectual Property Security Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by the Company, Research and Cequent in favor of the Purchasers.

Intellectual Property Rights ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(o).

Liens ” means a lien, charge, security interest, encumbrance, right of first refusal, preemptive right or other restriction.

Material Adverse Effect ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(b).

Material Permits ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(m).

Notes ” means the Secured Promissory Notes issued to each Purchaser at the Closing pursuant to this Agreement, which Notes shall be in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.


Person ” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.

Pharmaceutical Product ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(gg).

Proceeding ” means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding (including, without limitation, an informal investigation or partial proceeding, such as a deposition), whether commenced or threatened.

Purchaser Party ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8.

Required Approvals ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(e).

Rule 144 ” means Rule 144 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same effect as such Rule.

SEC Reports ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).

Securities ” means the Warrants and the Warrant Shares.

Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Security Agreement ” means that certain Security Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by the Company, Research and Cequent in favor of the Purchasers.

Short Sales ” means all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act (but shall not be deemed to include the location and/or reservation of borrowable shares of Common Stock).

Subscription Amount ” means, as to each Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be paid for Notes and Warrants purchased hereunder as specified below such Purchaser’s name on the signature page of this Agreement and next to the heading “Subscription Amount,” in United States dollars and in immediately available funds.

Subsidiary ” means any subsidiary of the Company as set forth on Schedule 3.1(a) , and shall, where applicable, also include any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company formed or acquired after the date hereof.

Trading Day ” means a day on which the New York Stock Exchange is open for trading.

Trading Market ” means the following markets, exchanges or listing platforms on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE AMEX, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange or the OTC Markets Group.

Transaction Documents ” means this Agreement, the Security Agreement, the IP Security Agreement, the Notes, the Warrants and any other documents or agreements executed in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder.

Transfer Agent ” means American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the current transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 59 Maiden Lane, New York, New York 10038 and a facsimile number of (718) 921-8331, and any successor transfer agent of the Company.


VWAP ” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses that applies: (a) if the Common Stock is then listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the daily volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted for trading as reported by Bloomberg L.P. (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time); (b) if the OTC Bulletin Board is not a Trading Market, the volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the OTC Bulletin Board; (c) if the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted for trading on the OTC Bulletin Board and if prices for the Common Stock are then reported in the “Pink Sheets” published by OTC Markets, Inc. (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share of the Common Stock so reported; or (d) in all other cases, the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the Purchasers accounting for at least 80% of the aggregate principal amount of all Notes then outstanding, or, if no Notes are then outstanding, at least 80% of the Warrants and Warrant Shares then outstanding, and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be paid by the Company.

Warrants ” means, collectively, the Common Stock purchase warrants delivered to the Purchasers at the Closing in accordance with Section 2.2(a) hereof, which Warrants shall be exercisable for a term of five (5) years beginning six months and one day following the Closing Date and shall otherwise be in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto.

Warrant Shares ” means the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.

ARTICLE II.

PURCHASE AND SALE

2.1 Closing . On the Closing Date, the Company, Research and Cequent shall sell, and the Purchasers, severally and not jointly, shall purchase, Notes in the aggregate principal amount of $1,500,000 and Warrants to purchase up to 3,690,944 shares of Common Stock. Each Purchaser shall deliver to the Company, via wire transfer of immediately available funds equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount as set forth on the signature page hereto executed by such Purchaser and the Company shall deliver to each Purchaser its respective Note and a Warrant as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a), and the Company and each Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at the Closing. The Closing shall occur at the offices of the Company’s counsel or such other location as the parties shall mutually agree.

2.2 Deliveries .

(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Companies shall deliver or cause to be delivered to each Purchaser the following:

(i) this Agreement duly executed by the Company, Research and Cequent;

(ii) a legal opinion of Company Counsel, substantially in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto;

(iii) a Note registered in the name of such Purchaser in the aggregate principal amount of 100% of such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount (such Note may be delivered within three Trading Days of the Closing Date);

(iv) a Warrant registered in the name of such Purchaser to purchase up to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to 125% of such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount divided by $0.508, with an exercise price equal to $0.508, subject to adjustment therein (such Warrant certificate may be delivered within three Trading Days of the Closing Date);


(v) a copy of all Code and similar financing statements in form and substance satisfactory to the Purchasers, which shall be filed at the appropriate offices to create a valid and perfected security interest in the Collateral (as such terms are defined in the Security Agreement), along with evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Purchasers of the filing of such financing statements.

(b) On or prior to the Closing Date, each Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Company the following:

(i) this Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser; and

(ii) such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount by wire transfer to the account as specified in writing by the Company.

ARTICLE III.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

3.1 Representations and Warranties of the Company . Except as set forth in the Disclosure Schedules, which Disclosure Schedules shall be deemed a part hereof and shall qualify any representation or otherwise made herein to the extent of the disclosure contained in the corresponding section of the Disclosure Schedules, the Companies hereby make the following representations and warranties to each Purchaser:

(a) Subsidiaries . All of the direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Company are set forth on Schedule 3.1(a) . The Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of the capital stock or other equity interests of each Subsidiary free and clear of any Liens, and all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of each Subsidiary are validly issued and are fully paid, non-assessable and free of preemptive and similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities. If the Company has no subsidiaries, then all other references to the Subsidiaries or any of them in the Transaction Documents shall be disregarded.

(b) Organization and Qualification . The Company and each of the Subsidiaries is an entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization (as applicable), with the requisite power and authority to own and use its properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently conducted. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in violation nor default of any of the provisions of its respective certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents. Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not have or reasonably be expected to result in (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “ Material Adverse Effect ”) and no Proceeding has been instituted in any such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke, limit or curtail such power and authority or qualification.

(c) Authorization; Enforcement . Each of the Company, Research and Cequent has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by each of the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its respective obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents by the Company, Research and Cequent, and the consummation by each of them of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Companies and no further action is required by the Companies, the Boards of Directors or the stockholders of the Companies in connection therewith other than in connection with the Required Approvals. Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by each of the Companies and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation


of each of the Company, Research and Cequent enforceable against such entity in accordance with its terms, except (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

(d) No Conflicts . The execution, delivery and performance by the Company, Research and Cequent of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and sale of the Notes and the Securities and the consummation by each such entity of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party of the other transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will not (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents, (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company or Subsidiary debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary is bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of any court or governmental authority to which the Company or a Subsidiary is subject (including federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company or a Subsidiary is bound or affected; except in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(e) Filings, Consents and Approvals . Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority or other Person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company or such Subsidiary of the Transaction Documents, other than (i) the filings required pursuant to Section 4.4 of this Agreement, (ii) application(s) to each applicable Trading Market for the listing of the Warrant Shares for trading thereon in the time and manner as may be required thereby and (iii) such filings as are required to be made under applicable state securities laws (collectively, the “ Required Approvals ”).

(f) Issuance of the Securities; Registration . The Warrants are duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in accordance with this Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company. The Warrant Shares are duly authorized and, when issued in accordance with the terms of the Warrants and payment of the exercise price set forth therein, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company. The Company has reserved from its duly authorized capital stock the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the Warrants.

(g) Capitalization . Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g) of the Disclosure Schedule, the Company has not issued any capital stock since its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act, other than pursuant to the exercise of employee stock options under the Company’s stock option plans, the issuance of shares of Common Stock to employees pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase plans and pursuant to the conversion and/or exercise of Common Stock Equivalents outstanding as of the date of the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act. No Person has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents that have not been fully satisfied. Except as a result of the purchase and sale of the Securities, and other than as set forth in the SEC Reports, there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to subscribe for or acquire any shares of Common Stock, or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g)


of the Disclosure Schedule, the issuance and sale of the Securities will not obligate the Company to issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any Person (other than the Purchasers) and will not result in a right of any holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price under any of such securities. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with all federal and state securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was issued in violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities. No further approval or authorization of any stockholder, the Board of Directors or others is required for the issuance and sale of the Notes and the Securities. There are no stockholders agreements, voting agreements or other similar agreements with respect to the Company’s capital stock to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the Company’s stockholders.

(h) SEC Reports; Financial Statements . The Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, for the two years preceding the date hereof (or such shorter period as the Company was required by law or regulation to file such material) (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, being collectively referred to herein as the “ SEC Reports ”) on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such extension. As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Company has never been an issuer subject to Rule 144(i) under the Securities Act. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“ GAAP ”), except as may be otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and except that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial, year-end audit adjustments.

(i) Material Changes; Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments . Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, except as specifically disclosed in a subsequent SEC Report filed prior to the date hereof: (i) there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the Company has not incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade payables and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and (B) liabilities not required to be reflected in the Company’s financial statements pursuant to GAAP or disclosed in filings made with the Commission, (iii) the Company has not altered its method of accounting, (iv) the Company has not declared or made any dividend or distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders or purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital stock and (v) the Company has not issued any equity securities to any officer, director or Affiliate, except pursuant to existing Company stock option plans. The Company does not have pending before the Commission any request for confidential treatment of information. Except for the issuance of the Notes and the Securities contemplated by this Agreement, no event, liability or development has occurred or exists with respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective business, properties, operations or financial condition, that would be required to be disclosed by the Company under applicable securities laws at the time this representation is made or deemed made that has not been publicly disclosed at least 1 Trading Day prior to the date that this representation is made.

(j) Litigation . There is no action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company or any Subsidiary, threatened against or affecting the Company, any Subsidiary or any of their respective properties before or by any court,


arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency or regulatory authority (federal, state, county, local or foreign) (collectively, an “ Action ”) which (i) adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents, the Notes or the Securities or (ii) could, if there were an unfavorable decision, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor any director or officer thereof, is or has been the subject of any Action involving a claim of violation of or liability under federal or state securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty. There has not been, and to the knowledge of the Company, there is not pending or contemplated, any investigation by the Commission involving the Company or any current or former director or officer of the Company. The Commission has not issued any stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of any registration statement filed by the Company or any Subsidiary under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act.

(k) Labor Relations . No material labor dispute exists or, to the knowledge of the Company or any Subsidiary, is imminent with respect to any of the employees of the Company which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ employees is a member of a union that relates to such employee’s relationship with the Company or such Subsidiary, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to a collective bargaining agreement, and the Company and its Subsidiaries believe that their relationships with their employees are good. No executive officer, to the knowledge of the Company, is, or is now expected to be, in violation of any material term of any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement or non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive covenant in favor of any third party, and the continued employment of each such executive officer does not subject the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any liability with respect to any of the foregoing matters. The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all U.S. federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations relating to employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where the failure to be in compliance could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(l) Compliance . Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary: (i) is in default under or in violation of (and no event has occurred that has not been waived that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would result in a default by the Company or any Subsidiary under), nor has the Company or any Subsidiary received notice of a claim that it is in default under or that it is in violation of, any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties is bound (whether or not such default or violation has been waived), (ii) is in violation of any order of any court, arbitrator or governmental body or (iii) is or has been in violation of any statute, rule or regulation of any governmental authority, including without limitation all foreign, federal, state and local laws applicable to its business and all such laws that affect the environment, except in each case as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(m) Regulatory Permits . The Company and the Subsidiaries possess all certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports, except where the failure to possess such permits could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect (“ Material Permits ”), and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Material Permit.

(n) Title to Assets . Except as set forth in Schedule 3.1(n) , the Company and the Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in all personal property owned by them that is material to the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all Liens, except for Liens as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and the Subsidiaries and Liens for the payment of federal, state or other taxes, the payment of which is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties. Any real property and facilities held under lease by the Company and the Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with which the Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance.


(o) Patents and Trademarks . The Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have rights to use, all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names, trade secrets, inventions, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property rights and similar rights necessary or material for use in connection with their respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports and which the failure to so have could have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, the “ Intellectual Property Rights ”). Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received a notice (written or otherwise) that any of the Intellectual Property Rights used by the Company or any Subsidiary violates or infringes upon the rights of any Person. To the knowledge of the Company, all such Intellectual Property Rights are enforceable and there is no existing infringement by another Person of any of the Intellectual Property Rights. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their intellectual properties, except where failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(p) Insurance . The Company and the Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the businesses in which the Company and the Subsidiaries are engaged, including, but not limited to, directors and officers insurance coverage at least equal to the aggregate Subscription Amount. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business without a significant increase in cost.

(q) Transactions With Affiliates and Employees . Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, none of the officers or directors of the Company and, to the knowledge of the Company, none of the employees of the Company is presently a party to any transaction with the Company or any Subsidiary (other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner, in each case in excess of $120,000 other than for (i) payment of salary or consulting fees for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company and (iii) other employee benefits, including stock option agreements under any stock option plan of the Company.

(r) Sarbanes-Oxley; Internal Accounting Controls . The Company is in material compliance with all provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 which are applicable to it as of the Closing Date. The Company and the Subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Company has established disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms. The Company’s certifying officers have evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by the Company’s most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act (such date, the “ Evaluation Date ”). The Company presented in its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act the conclusions of the certifying officers about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on their evaluations as of the Evaluation Date. Since the Evaluation Date, there have been no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.


(s) Certain Fees . No brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions are or will be payable by the Company to any broker, financial advisor or consultant, finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or other Person with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Purchasers shall have no obligation with respect to any fees or with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this Section that may be due in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

(t) Investment Company . The Company is not, and is not an Affiliate of, and immediately after receipt of payment for the Securities, will not be or be an Affiliate of, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Company shall conduct its business in a manner so that it will not become subject to the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

(u) Registration Rights . Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(u) to the Disclosure Schedule, no Person has any right to cause the Company to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the Company.

(v) Listing and Maintenance Requirements . The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or which to its knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, the Company has not, in the 12 months preceding the date hereof, received notice from any Trading Market on which the Common Stock is or has been listed or quoted to the effect that the Company is not in compliance with the listing or maintenance requirements of such Trading Market.

(w) Application of Takeover Protections . The Company and the Board of Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Company’s certificate of incorporation (or similar charter documents) or the laws of its state of incorporation that is or could become applicable to the Purchasers as a result of the Purchasers and the Company fulfilling their obligations or exercising their rights under the Transaction Documents, including without limitation as a result of the Company’s issuance of the Notes and the Securities and the Purchasers’ ownership of the Notes and the Securities.

(x) Disclosure . Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company confirms that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Purchasers or their agents or counsel with any information that it believes constitutes or might constitute material, non-public information which is not otherwise disclosed in the SEC Reports. The Company understands and confirms that the Purchasers will rely on the foregoing representation in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. All disclosure furnished by or on behalf of the Company to the Purchasers regarding the Company, its business and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Disclosure Schedules to this Agreement, is true and correct and does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The press releases disseminated by the Company during the twelve months preceding the date of this Agreement taken as a whole do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made and when made, not misleading. The Company acknowledges and agrees that no Purchaser makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in Section 3.2 hereof.

(y) No Integrated Offering . Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, neither the Company, nor any of its Affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would cause this offering of the Notes and the Securities to be


integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of any applicable shareholder approval provisions of any Trading Market on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated. The issuance and sale of the Notes and the Securities hereunder does not contravene the rules and regulations of any Trading Market on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated.

(z) Solvency . Based on the consolidated financial condition of the Company as of the Closing Date, after giving effect to the receipt by the Company of the proceeds from the issuance of the Notes and the Securities hereunder, (i) the fair saleable value of the Company’s assets exceeds the amount that will be required to be paid on or in respect of the Company’s existing debts and other liabilities (including known contingent liabilities) as they mature, (ii) the Company’s assets do not constitute unreasonably small capital to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted including its capital needs taking into account the particular capital requirements of the business conducted by the Company, and projected capital requirements and capital availability thereof, and (iii) the current cash flow of the Company, together with the proceeds the Company would receive, were it to liquidate all of its assets, after taking into account all anticipated uses of the cash, would be sufficient to pay all amounts on or in respect of its liabilities when such amounts are required to be paid. The Company does not intend to incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they mature (taking into account the timing and amounts of cash to be payable on or in respect of its debt). The Company has no knowledge of any facts or circumstances which lead it to believe that it will file for reorganization or liquidation under the bankruptcy or reorganization laws of any jurisdiction within one year from the Closing Date. The SEC Reports set forth as of the date thereof all outstanding secured and unsecured Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary, or for which the Company or any Subsidiary has commitments. For the purposes of this Agreement, “ Indebtedness ” means (a) any liabilities for borrowed money or amounts owed in excess of $60,000 (other than trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (b) all guaranties, endorsements and other contingent obligations in respect of indebtedness of others, whether or not the same are or should be reflected in the Company’s balance sheet (or the notes thereto), except guaranties by endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary course of business; and (c) the present value of any lease payments in excess of $50,000 due under leases required to be capitalized in accordance with GAAP. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in default with respect to any Indebtedness.

(aa) Tax Status . Except for matters that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and each Subsidiary has filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise tax returns and has paid or accrued all taxes shown as due thereon, and the Company has no knowledge of a tax deficiency which has been asserted or threatened against the Company or any Subsidiary.

(bb) Foreign Corrupt Practices . Neither the Company, nor to the knowledge of the Company, any agent or other person acting on behalf of the Company, has (i) directly or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully any contribution made by the Company (or made by any person acting on its behalf of which the Company is aware) which is in violation of law, or (iv) violated in any material respect any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

(cc) Accountants . The Company’s accounting firm is KPMG LLP. To the knowledge and belief of the Company, such accounting firm is a registered public accounting firm as required by the Exchange Act.

(dd) Acknowledgment Regarding Purchasers’ Purchase of Notes and Securities . The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Purchaser is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby. The Company further acknowledges that no Purchaser is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by any Purchaser or any of their respective representatives or


agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the Purchasers’ purchase of the Notes and the Securities. The Company further represents to each Purchaser that the Company’s decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company and its representatives. In addition, the Company represents and warrants to each Purchaser that the Notes do not constitute securities, as that term is defined in Section 2(a)(1) of the Securities Act.

(ee) Acknowledgment Regarding Purchaser’s Trading Activity . Anything in this Agreement or elsewhere herein to the contrary notwithstanding (except for Sections 3.2(e) and 4.14 hereof), it is understood and acknowledged by the Company that (i) none of the Purchasers have been asked by the Company to agree, nor has any Purchaser agreed, to desist from purchasing or selling, long and/or short, securities of the Company, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the Company or to hold the Warrants or the Warrant Shares for any specified term; (ii) that past or future open market or other transactions by any Purchaser, specifically including, without limitation, Short Sales or “derivative” transactions, before or after the closing of this or future private placement transactions, may negatively impact the market price of the Company’s publicly-traded securities; (iii) that any Purchaser, and counter-parties in “derivative” transactions to which any such Purchaser is a party, directly or indirectly, presently may have a “short” position in the Common Stock, and (iv) that each Purchaser shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or control over any arm’s length counter-party in any “derivative” transaction. The Company further understands and acknowledges that (a) one or more Purchasers may engage in hedging activities at various times during the period that the Warrants or the Warrant Shares are outstanding, including, without limitation, during the periods that the value of the Warrant Shares deliverable with respect to the Warrants are being determined and (b) such hedging activities (if any) could reduce the value of the existing stockholders’ equity interests in the Company at and after the time that the hedging activities are being conducted. The Company acknowledges that such aforementioned hedging activities do not constitute a breach of any of the Transaction Documents.

(ff) Regulation M Compliance . The Company has not, and to its knowledge no one acting on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Securities, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or, paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the Company, other than, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), compensation, if any, that may be paid to the Company’s placement agent in connection with the placement of the Securities.

(gg) FDA . As to each product subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“ FDA ”) under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, as amended, and the regulations thereunder (“ FDCA ”) that is manufactured, packaged, labeled, tested, distributed, sold, and/or marketed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (each such product, a “ Pharmaceutical Product ”), such Pharmaceutical Product is being manufactured, packaged, labeled, tested, distributed, sold and/or marketed by the Company in compliance with all applicable requirements under FDCA and similar laws, rules and regulations relating to registration, investigational use, premarket clearance, licensure, or application approval, good manufacturing practices, good laboratory practices, good clinical practices, product listing, quotas, labeling, advertising, record keeping and filing of reports, except where the failure to be in compliance would not have a Material Adverse Effect. There is no pending, completed or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened, action (including any lawsuit, arbitration, or legal or administrative or regulatory proceeding, charge, complaint, or investigation) against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice, warning letter or other communication from the FDA or any other governmental entity, which (i) contests the premarket clearance, licensure, registration, or approval of, the uses of, the distribution of, the manufacturing or packaging of, the testing of, the sale of, or the labeling and promotion of any Pharmaceutical Product, (ii) withdraws its approval of, requests the recall, suspension, or seizure of, or withdraws or orders the withdrawal of advertising or sales promotional materials relating to, any Pharmaceutical Product, (iii) imposes a clinical hold on any clinical investigation by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iv) enjoins production at any facility of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (v) enters or proposes to enter into a consent decree of


permanent injunction with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (vi) otherwise alleges any violation of any laws, rules or regulations by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and which, either individually or in the aggregate, would have a Material Adverse Effect. The properties, business and operations of the Company have been and are being conducted in all material respects in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations of the FDA. The Company has not been informed by the FDA that the FDA will prohibit the marketing, sale, license or use in the United States of any product proposed to be developed, produced or marketed by the Company nor has the FDA expressed any concern as to approving or clearing for marketing any product being developed or proposed to be developed by the Company.

3.2 Representations and Warranties of the Purchasers . Each Purchaser, for itself and for no other Purchaser, hereby represents and warrants as of the date hereof to the Company as follows:

(a) Organization; Authority . Such Purchaser, if such Purchaser not an individual, is an entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization with full right, corporate or partnership power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and performance by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or similar action on the part of such Purchaser. Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been duly executed by such Purchaser, and when delivered by such Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of such Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

(b) Purchaser Status . At the time such Purchaser was offered the Securities, it was, and as of the date hereof it is, and on each date on which it exercises any Warrants for cash, it will be either: (i) an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(7) or (a)(8) under the Securities Act or (ii) a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A(a) under the Securities Act. Such Purchaser is not required to be registered as a broker-dealer under Section 15 of the Exchange Act.

(c) Securities Act; No General Solicitation . Such Purchaser, either alone or together with its representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment in the Securities, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of such investment. Such Purchaser is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Securities and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete loss of such investment.

(d) Short Sales and Confidentiality Prior To The Date Hereof . Other than consummating the transactions contemplated hereunder, such Purchaser has not, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with such Purchaser, directly or indirectly executed any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the securities of the Company during the period commencing from the time that such Purchaser first received a term sheet (written or oral) from the Company or any other Person representing the Company setting forth the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereunder until the date hereof (“ Discussion Time ”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the representation set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement. Other than to other Persons party to this Agreement, such Purchaser has maintained the confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with this transaction (including the existence and terms of this transaction).

(e) Legend . Such Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that the Notes may not be transferred or assigned, and that each Note shall be stamped or otherwise imprinted with a legend to that effect.


ARTICLE IV.

OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES

4.1 Warrant Shares . If all or any portion of a Warrant is exercised at a time when there is an effective registration statement to cover the issuance or resale of the Warrant Shares or if the Warrant is exercised via cashless exercise, the Warrant Shares issued pursuant to any such exercise shall be issued free of all legends. If at any time following the date on which the Warrants are initially exercisable the Warrant Shares are not eligible for resale under Rule 144 without limitation thereunder on volume or manner of sale (assuming the cashless exercise of the Warrants), the Company shall, within ten (10) days of the date on which the Warrants are initially exercisable, file with the Commission a registration statement to register the resale of the Warrant Shares by the Purchasers on such form as the Company is then eligible to use for such registration, and shall use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective by the Commission within sixty (60) days of the filing thereof. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep such registration statement effective at all times and available for use by the Purchasers until the earlier of the time at which: (i) no Purchaser owns any Warrants or Warrant Shares; (ii) the Warrants have expired; or (iii) all of Warrant Shares are eligible for resale under Rule 144 without limitation thereunder on volume or manner of sale (assuming the cashless exercise of the Warrants). It is hereby acknowledged and agreed that upon a cashless exercise of the Warrants, the holding period for purposes of Rule 144 shall tack back to the original date of issuance of such Warrant.

4.2 Furnishing of Information . Until the earliest of the time that (i) no Purchaser owns Warrants or Warrant Shares or (ii) the Warrants have expired, the Company covenants to timely file (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant to the Exchange Act even if the Company is not then subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act. As long as any Purchaser owns Warrants or Warrant Shares, if the Company is not required to file reports pursuant to the Exchange Act, it will prepare and furnish to the Purchasers and make publicly available in accordance with Rule 144(c) such information as is required for the Purchasers to sell the Warrants or Warrant Shares under Rule 144. The Company further covenants that it will take such further action as any holder of Warrants or Warrant Shares may reasonably request, to the extent required from time to time to enable such Person to sell such Warrants or Warrant Shares without registration under the Securities Act within the requirements of the exemption provided by Rule 144.

4.3 Integration . The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities for purposes of the rules and regulations of any applicable Trading Market such that it would require shareholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.

4.4 Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity . The Company shall, by 8:30 a.m. (New York City time) on the Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, issue a press release and file a Current Report on Form 8-K, disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby, and shall promptly thereafter file a Form 8-K which shall include the Transaction Documents as exhibits thereto. From and after the issuance of such press release, the Company shall have publicly disclosed all material, non-public information (if any) delivered to any of the Purchasers by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Company and each Purchaser shall consult with each other in issuing any other press releases with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and neither the Company nor any Purchaser shall issue any such press release nor otherwise make any such public statement (other than filings with the Commission by any Purchaser) without the prior consent of the Company, with respect to any press release of any Purchaser, or without the prior consent of each Purchaser, with respect to any press release of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, except if such disclosure is required by law, in which case the disclosing party shall promptly provide the other party with prior notice of such public statement or communication. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of any Purchaser, or


include the name of any Purchaser in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or Trading Market, without the prior written consent of such Purchaser, except (a) as required by federal securities law in connection with the filing of final Transaction Documents (including signature pages thereto) with the Commission and (b) to the extent such disclosure is required by law or Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company shall provide the Purchasers with prior notice of such disclosure permitted under this clause (b).

4.5 Shareholder Rights Plan . No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or, with the consent of the Company, any other Person, that any Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person” under any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or similar anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such plan or arrangement, by virtue of purchasing Notes or receiving Securities under the Transaction Documents or under any other agreement between the Company and the Purchasers.

4.6 Non-Public Information . Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company covenants and agrees that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf will provide any Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information, unless prior thereto and after the date hereof, such Purchaser shall have executed a written agreement regarding the confidentiality and use of such information. The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.

4.7 Use of Proceeds . The Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes and the Securities hereunder for working capital purposes, and shall not be used for (a) the redemption of any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents or (b) the settlement of any outstanding litigation.

4.8 Indemnification of Purchasers . Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.8, the Company will indemnify and hold each Purchaser and its directors, officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who controls such Purchaser (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members, partners or employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a “ Purchaser Party ”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted against a Purchaser in any capacity, or any of them or their respective Affiliates, by any stockholder of the Company who is not an Affiliate of such Purchaser, with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (unless such action is based upon a breach of such Purchaser’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents or any agreements or understandings such Purchaser may have with any such stockholder or any violations by the Purchaser of state or federal securities laws or any conduct by such Purchaser which constitutes fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or malfeasance). If any action shall be brought against any Purchaser Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, such Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party. Any Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of such separate counsel, a material conflict on any material issue between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party, in which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more


than one such separate counsel. The Company will not be liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by a Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the extent, but only to the extent that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents.

4.9 Reservation of Common Stock . As of the date hereof, the Company has reserved and the Company shall continue to reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue Warrant Shares pursuant to any exercise of the Warrants.

4.10 Listing of Common Stock . The Company hereby agrees to use best efforts to maintain the listing of the Common Stock on a Trading Market and the Company shall, to the extent applicable, list all of the Warrant Shares on such Trading Market no later than the date immediately following the date hereof. The Company further agrees, if the Company applies to have the Common Stock traded on any other Trading Market, it will then include in such application, to the extent applicable, all of the Warrant Shares, and will then take such other action as is necessary to cause all of the Warrant Shares to be listed on such other Trading Market as promptly as possible. The Company will take all action reasonably necessary to continue the listing and trading of its Common Stock on a Trading Market and will comply in all respects with the Company’s reporting, filing and other obligations under the bylaws or rules of the Trading Market.

4.11 Equal Treatment of Purchasers . No consideration shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any of the Transaction Documents unless the same consideration is also offered to all of the parties to the Transaction Documents. For clarification purposes, this provision constitutes a separate right granted to each Purchaser by the Company and negotiated separately by each Purchaser, and is intended for the Company to treat the Purchasers as a class and shall not in any way be construed as the Purchasers acting in concert or as a group with respect to the purchase, disposition or voting of the Notes or the Securities or otherwise.

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4.14 Short Sales and Confidentiality After The Date Hereof . Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that neither it, nor any Affiliate acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it, will execute any Short Sales during the period commencing with the Discussion Time and ending at such time the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to the initial press release as described in Section 4.4. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that until such time as the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are publicly disclosed by the Company pursuant to the initial press release as described in Section 4.4, such Purchaser will maintain the confidentiality of the existence and terms of this transaction and the information included in the Disclosure Schedules. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that (i) no Purchaser makes any representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in Short Sales in securities of the Company after the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to the initial press release as described in Section 4.4, (ii) no Purchaser shall be restricted or prohibited from effecting any transactions in any securities of the Company in accordance with applicable securities laws from and after the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to the initial press release as described in Section 4.4 and (iii) no Purchaser shall have any duty of confidentiality to the Company or its Subsidiaries after the issuance of the initial press release as described in Section 4.4. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the covenant set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Notes and the Securities covered by this Agreement.


4.15 Delivery of Notes and Warrants After Closing . The Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, the respective Notes and Warrants purchased by each Purchaser to such Purchaser within 3 Trading Days of the Closing Date.

ARTICLE V.

MISCELLANEOUS

5.1 Termination . This Agreement may be terminated by any Purchaser, as to such Purchaser’s obligations hereunder only and without any effect whatsoever on the obligations between the Company and the other Purchasers, by written notice to the other parties, if the Closing has not been consummated on or before February 15, 2012; provided , however , that no such termination will affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by the other party (or parties).

5.2 Fees and Expenses . The Company shall deliver, prior to the Closing, a completed and executed copy of the Closing Statement, attached hereto as Annex A . Except as expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents to the contrary, each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees, stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of the Notes or any Securities to the Purchasers.

5.3 Entire Agreement . The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and schedules, provided that the foregoing shall not have any effect on any agreements any Purchaser has entered into with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries prior to the date hereof with respect to any prior investment made by such Purchaser in the Company.

5.4 Notices . Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the 2nd Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto.

5.5 Amendments; Waivers . No provision of this Agreement may be waived or amended except in a written instrument signed by the Company and Purchasers accounting for at least 85% of the aggregate principal amount of all Notes then outstanding, or, if no Notes are then outstanding, at least 85% of the Warrants and Warrant Shares then outstanding. No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.

5.6 Headings . The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.


5.7 Successors and Assigns . This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. Neither the Company, Research nor Cequent may assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Purchaser (other than by merger). Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom such Purchaser assigns or transfers any Securities, provided such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of the Transaction Documents that apply to the “Purchasers.” For the avoidance, the Notes may not be transferred or assigned.

5.8 No Third-Party Beneficiaries . This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, except as otherwise set forth in Section 4.8.

5.9 Governing Law . All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. If either party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.

5.10 Survival . The representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and the delivery of the Notes and the Securities for the applicable statute of limitations.

5.11 Execution . This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party, it being understood that both parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.

5.12 Severability . If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.

 


5.13 Rescission and Withdrawal Right . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) any of the other Transaction Documents, whenever any Purchaser exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction Document and the Company does not timely perform its related obligations within the periods therein provided, then such Purchaser may rescind or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time upon written notice to the Company, any relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part without prejudice to its future actions and rights; provided , however , that in the case of a rescission of an exercise of a Warrant, the Purchaser shall be required to return any shares of Common Stock subject to with any such rescinded exercise notice.

5.14 Replacement of Instruments . If any certificate or instrument evidencing any Notes or Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction. The applicant for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party costs (including customary indemnity) associated with the issuance of such replacement Notes or Securities.

5.15 Remedies . In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agrees to waive and not to assert in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

5.16 Payment Set Aside . To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to any Purchaser pursuant to any Transaction Document or a Purchaser enforces or exercises its rights thereunder, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the Company, a trustee, receiver or any other person under any law (including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to the extent of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.

5.17 Independent Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights . The obligations of each Purchaser under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any way for the performance or non-performance of the obligations of any other Purchaser under any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in their review and negotiation of the Transaction Documents. The Company has elected to provide all Purchasers with the same terms and Transaction Documents for the convenience of the Company and not because it was required or requested to do so by the Purchasers. It is expressly understood and agreed that each provision contained in this Agreement and in each other Transaction Document is between the Company and a Purchaser, solely, and not between the Company and the Purchasers collectively and not between and among the Purchasers.

5.18 Liquidated Damages . The Company’s obligations to pay any partial liquidated damages or other amounts owing under the Transaction Documents is a continuing obligation of the Company and shall not terminate until all unpaid partial liquidated damages and other amounts have been paid notwithstanding the fact that the instrument or security pursuant to which such partial liquidated damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been canceled.


5.19 Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc. If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Business Day, then such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding Business Day.

5.20 Construction . The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel has reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments hereto.

5.21 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL . IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY, IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER TRIAL BY JURY.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Note and Warrant Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

MARINA BIOTECH, INC.     Address for Notice:
    3830 Monte Villa Parkway
    Bothell, WA 98021
By:  

/s/ J. Michael French

    Fax: 206-830-9424
Name:   J. Michael French    
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer    
MDRNA RESEARCH, INC.     Address for Notice:
    3830 Monte Villa Parkway
    Bothell, WA 98021
By:  

/s/ J. Michael French

    Fax: 206-830-9424
Name:   J. Michael French    
Title:   President    
CEQUENT PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.     Address for Notice:
    3830 Monte Villa Parkway
    Bothell, WA 98021
By:  

/s/ J. Michael French

    Fax: 206-830-9424
Name:   J. Michael French    
Title:   President    

In each case, with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

Pryor Cashman LLP

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New York, NY 10036-6569

Attn: Lawrence Remmel

Fax: 212-798-6365

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Exhibit 10.2

SECURITY AGREEMENT

This  SECURITY AGREEMENT  (this “ Agreement ”), dated as of February 10, 2012, among Marina Biotech, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ MRNA ”), Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of MRNA (“ CPI ”), and MDRNA Research, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of MRNA (“ Research ” and, collectively with MRNA, jointly and severally, the “ Grantors ” and each, individually, a “ Grantor ”), the various purchasers (the “ Purchasers ”) under that certain Note and Warrant Purchase Agreement (as may be amended, restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Purchase Agreement ), dated as of the date hereof among the Grantors and the Purchasers and Genesis Capital Management, LLC, as agent (the “ Agent ”) for the Purchasers (the Agent, together with such Purchasers, together with the successors and assigns of each, the “ Secured Parties ”).

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS , Grantors and the Purchasers are parties to the Purchase Agreement, and

WHEREAS , pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Purchase Agreement, the Purchasers have agreed to extend loans to the Grantors, repayment of which is evidenced by the Notes issued pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, and

WHEREAS , in order to induce the Purchasers to enter into the Purchase Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and to extend the loans pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Grantors have agreed to execute and deliver to the Purchasers this Agreement and other collateral documents and to grant the Secured Parties a continuing security interest in and to the Collateral in order to secure the prompt and complete payment, observance and performance of, among other things, the Secured Obligations, and

 

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NOW, THEREFORE , for and in consideration of the recitals made above and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt, sufficiency and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

1.  Defined Terms . All capitalized terms used herein (including in the preamble and recitals hereof) without definition shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Notes, or if not expressly defined in the Notes, then in the Purchase Agreement. Any terms used in this Agreement that are defined in the Code (whether or not capitalized) shall be construed and defined as set forth in the Code unless otherwise defined herein or in the Notes or the Purchase Agreement;  provided however , that if the Code is used to define any term used herein and if such term is defined differently in different Articles of the Code, the definition of such term contained in Article 9 of the Code shall govern. In addition to those terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, as used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

(a) “ Account ” means an account (as that term is defined in the Code).

(b) “ Account Debtor ” means an account debtor (as that term is defined in the Code).

(c) “ Bankruptcy Code ” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy,” as now and hereafter in effect, or any successor statute.

(d) “ Books ” means books and records (including each Grantor’s Records indicating, summarizing, or evidencing such Grantor’s assets (including the Collateral) or liabilities, each Grantor’s Records relating to such Grantor’s business operations or financial condition, and each Grantor’s goods or General Intangibles related to such information).

(e) “ Chattel Paper ” means chattel paper (as that term is defined in the Code) and includes tangible chattel paper and electronic chattel paper.

(f) “ Closing Date ” has the meaning specified therefor in the Purchase Agreement.

(g) “ Code ” means the New York Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect from time to time;  provided however , that in the event that, by reason of mandatory provisions of law, any or all of the attachment, perfection, priority, or remedies with respect to the Secured Parties’ Liens on any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as enacted and in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the term “Code” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as enacted and in effect in such other jurisdiction solely for purposes of the provisions thereof relating to such attachment, perfection, priority, or remedies.

(h) “ Collateral ” has the meaning specified therefor in  Section 2 ; provided, however, that “Collateral” shall not include any Excluded Property; and provided, further, that if and when any property shall cease to be Excluded Property, such property shall be deemed at all times from and after the date hereof to constitute Collateral.

(i) “ Commercial Tort Claims ” means commercial tort claims (as that term is defined in the Code), and includes those commercial tort claims listed on  Schedule 8  attached hereto.

(j) “ Company ” and “ Companies ” shall mean the Grantors.

(k) “ Copyrights ” means copyrights and copyright registrations, and also includes (i) the copyright registrations and applications listed on  Schedule 2  attached hereto and made a part hereof (as the same may be amended or modified from time to

 

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time), (ii) all extensions or renewals thereof, (iii) all income, royalties, damage awards and payments now and hereafter due or payable under and with respect thereto, including payments under all licenses entered into in connection therewith and damages and payments for past or future infringements thereof, (iv) the right to sue for past, present and future infringements thereof, and (v) all of each Grantor’s rights corresponding thereto throughout the world.

(l) “ Deposit Account ” means a deposit account (as that term is defined in the Code).

(m) “ Equipment ” means equipment (as that term is defined in the Code).

(n) “ Excluded Property ” means, collectively, (i) any permit, lease, license, contract, instrument or other agreement held by any Grantor that prohibits or requires the consent of any Person other than the Grantors which consent has not been obtained as a condition to the creation by such Grantor of a Lien thereon, or any permit, lease, license, contract or other agreement held by any Grantor to the extent that any applicable law, treaty, rule, or regulation or any change in the interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority applicable thereto prohibits the creation of a Lien thereon, but only, in each case, to the extent, and for so long as, such prohibition is not terminated or rendered unenforceable or otherwise deemed ineffective by the Code, (ii) any “intent to use” Trademark applications for which a statement of use has not been filed (but only until such statement is filed), and (iii) Equipment owned by any Grantor that is subject to a purchase money Lien or capital lease (in each case, to the extent permitted under the Purchase Agreement) if the contract or other agreement in which such Lien is granted (or in the documentation providing for such capital lease) prohibits or requires the consent of any Person which consent has not been obtained other than the Grantors as a condition to the creation of any other Lien on such Equipment; provided, however, Excluded Property shall not include any Collateral described in subsection (i) and (iii) of this  subsection  (n) to the extent that any such consent or lapse, as applicable, (x) has not been waived or (y) would be rendered ineffective pursuant to Sections 9-406, 9-408, 9-409 of the Code or other applicable provisions of the Code of any relevant jurisdiction or any other applicable law (including the Bankruptcy Code, when applicable) or principles of equity; provided, that immediately upon the ineffectiveness, lapse, termination or waiver of any such provision, the Collateral shall include, and each such Grantor shall be deemed to have granted a security interest in, all such right, title and interest as if such provision had never been in effect. “Excluded Property” shall not include any Proceeds, substitutions or replacements of Excluded Property (unless such Proceeds, substitutions or replacements would constitute Excluded Property).

(o) “ Event of Default ” has the meaning specified therefor in the Notes.

(p) “ General Intangibles ” means general intangibles (as that term is defined in the Code), and, in any event, includes payment intangibles, contract rights, rights to payment, rights arising under common law, statutes, or regulations, choses or

 

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things in action, goodwill (including the goodwill associated with any Trademark), Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, URLs and domain names, industrial designs and other Intellectual Property or rights therein or applications therefor, whether under license or otherwise, programs, programming materials, blueprints, drawings, purchase orders, customer lists, monies due or recoverable from pension funds, route lists, rights to payment and other rights under any royalty or licensing agreements, including Intellectual Property Licenses, infringement claims, computer programs, information contained on computer disks or tapes, software, literature, reports, catalogs, pension plan refunds, pension plan refund claims, insurance premium rebates, tax refunds, and tax refund claims, interests in a partnership or limited liability company which do not constitute a security under Article 8 of the Code, and any other personal property other than Commercial Tort Claims, money, Accounts, Chattel Paper, Deposit Accounts, goods, Investment Related Property, Negotiable Collateral, and oil, gas, or other minerals before extraction.

(q) “ Governmental Authority ” means any federal, state, local, or other governmental or administrative body, instrumentality, board, department, or agency or any court, tribunal, administrative hearing body, arbitration panel, commission, or other similar dispute-resolving panel or body.

(r) “ Grantor ” and “ Grantors ” have the meanings specified therefor in the recitals to this Agreement.

(s) “ Insolvency Proceeding ” means any proceeding commenced by or against any Person under any provision of the Bankruptcy Code or under any other state or federal bankruptcy or insolvency law, assignments for the benefit of creditors, formal or informal moratoria, compositions, extensions generally with creditors, or proceedings seeking reorganization, arrangement of other similar relief.

(t) “ Intellectual Property ” means Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, the goodwill associated with such Trademarks, trade secrets and confidential and proprietary customer lists, and Intellectual Property Licenses.

(u) “ Intellectual Property Licenses ” means rights under or interests in any Patent, Trademark, Copyright or other Intellectual Property, including software license agreements with any other party (other than commercial off the shelf software), whether the applicable Grantor is a licensee or licensor under any such license agreement, including the license agreements listed on  Schedule 3  attached hereto and made a part hereof.

(v) “ Intellectual Property Security Agreement ” means the Intellectual Property Security Agreement among Grantors and Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, dated the date hereof.

(w) “ Inventory ” means inventory (as that term is defined in the Code).

 

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(x) “ Investment Related Property ” means investment property (as that term is defined in the Code).

(y) “ Negotiable Collateral ” means letters of credit, letter-of-credit rights, instruments, promissory notes, drafts, and documents.

(z) “ Notes ” has the meaning specified therefor in the Purchase Agreement.

(aa) “ Obligations ” means all of the liabilities and obligations (primary, secondary, direct, contingent, sole, joint or several) due or to become due, or that are now or may be hereafter contracted or acquired, or owing, of any Grantor to the Secured Parties under this Agreement, the Notes, the Purchase Agreement, the Intellectual Property Security Agreement, the other Transaction Documents, and any other instruments, agreements or other documents executed and/or delivered in connection herewith or therewith, in each case, whether now or hereafter existing, voluntary or involuntary, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, whether or not jointly owed with others, and whether or not from time to time decreased or extinguished and later increased, created or incurred, and all or any portion of such obligations or liabilities that are paid, to the extent all or any part of such payment is avoided or recovered directly or indirectly from the Secured Parties as a preference, fraudulent transfer or otherwise as such obligations may be amended, supplemented, converted, extended or modified from time to time. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term “Obligations” shall include, without limitation: (i) principal of, and interest on, the Notes and the loans extended pursuant thereto (including any interest that accrues after the commencement of an Insolvency Proceeding regardless of whether allowed or allowable in whole or in part as a claim in such Insolvency Proceeding); (ii) any and all other fees, legal fees and other expenses, indemnities, costs, obligations and liabilities of the Grantors from time to time under or in connection with this Agreement, the Notes, the Purchase Agreement, the Intellectual Property Security Agreement, the other Transaction Documents, and any other instruments, agreements or other documents executed and/or delivered in connection herewith or therewith; and (iii) all amounts in respect of the foregoing that would be payable but for the fact that the obligations to pay such amounts are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding involving any Grantor. Any reference in this Agreement or in the Transaction Documents to the Obligations shall include all or any portion thereof and any extensions, modifications, renewals or alterations thereof, both prior and subsequent to any Insolvency Proceeding.

(bb) “ Organizational Documents ” means, with respect to each Grantor, the documents by which such Grantor was organized (such as a certificate of incorporation, certificate of limited partnership or articles of organization, and including, without limitation, any certificates of designation for preferred stock or other forms of preferred equity) and which relate to the internal governance of such Grantor (such as bylaws, a partnership agreement or an operating, limited liability or members agreement).

 

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(cc) “ Patents ” means patents and patent applications, and also includes (i) the patents and patent applications listed on  Schedule 4  attached hereto and made a part hereof (as the same may be amended or modified from time to time), (ii) all divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part, reissues and extensions thereof, (iii) all income, royalties, damage awards and payments now and hereafter due or payable under and with respect thereto, including payments under all licenses entered into in connection therewith and damages and payments for past or future infringements thereof, (iv) the right to sue for past, present and future infringements thereof, and (v) all of each Grantor’s rights corresponding thereto throughout the world.

(dd) “ Permitted Encumbrances ” means (a) liens in favor of Agent, on behalf of itself and Purchasers, to secure the Secured Obligations, (b) liens (i) with respect to the payment of taxes, assessments or other governmental charges or (ii) of suppliers, carriers, materialmen, warehousemen, workmen or mechanics and other similar liens, in each case imposed by law and arising in the ordinary course of business, and securing amounts that are not yet due or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and with respect to which adequate reserves or other appropriate provisions are maintained on the books of the applicable Grantor in accordance with GAAP and which do not involve, in the judgment of Agent, any risk of the sale, forfeiture or loss of any of the Collateral (a “Permitted Contest”), (c) liens existing on the date hereof and set forth on Schedule 9 hereto, (d) liens securing purchase money indebtedness, provided that (i) such liens exist prior to the acquisition of, or attach substantially simultaneous with, or within 30 days after the, acquisition, repair, improvement or construction of, such property financed by such indebtedness and (ii) such liens do not extend to any property of a Grantor other than the property (and proceeds thereof) acquired or built, or the improvements or repairs, financed by such indebtedness, and (e) licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business.

(ee) “ Person ” has the meaning specified therefor in the Purchase Agreement.

(ff) “ Proceeds ” has the meaning specified therefor in  Section 2 .

(gg) “ Purchase Agreement ” has the meaning specified therefor in the recitals to this Agreement.

(hh) “ Records ” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or which is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.

(ii) “ Requisite Purchasers ” shall mean Purchasers holding in aggregate 80% of the principal of the Notes.

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(kk) “ Secured Obligations ” means each and all of the following: (a) each and all of the present and future obligations of Grantors now existing or hereafter arising from this Agreement, the Notes, the Purchase Agreement, or the other Transaction Documents, and (b) all Obligations of the Grantors, including, in the case of each of clauses (a) and (b), reasonable attorneys fees and expenses and any interest, fees, or expenses that accrue after the filing of an Insolvency Proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in whole or in part as a claim in any Insolvency Proceeding in each case, subject to any applicable limitations expressly provided in the Transaction Documents.

(ll) “ Secured Party’s Liens ” means the Liens granted by the Grantors to Secured Parties under the Transaction Documents.

(mm) “ Securities Account ” means a securities account (as that term is defined in the Code).

(nn) “ Stock ” means all shares, options, warrants, interests, participations, or other equivalents (regardless of how designated) of or in a Person, whether voting or nonvoting, including common stock, preferred stock, or any other “equity security” (as such term is defined in Rule 3a11-1 of the General Rules and Regulations promulgated by the Commission under the Exchange Act).

(oo) “ Supporting Obligations ” means supporting obligations (as such term is defined in the Code).

(pp) “ Trademarks ” means trademarks, trade names, trademark applications, service marks, service mark applications, and also includes (i) the registered or applied for trade names, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, and service mark applications listed on  Schedule 5  attached hereto and made a part hereof (as the same may be amended or modified from time to time), (ii) all renewals thereof, (iii) all income, royalties, damage awards and payments now and hereafter due or payable under and with respect thereto, including payments under all licenses entered into in connection therewith and damages and payments for past or future (A) infringements and dilutions thereof and (B) injury to the goodwill associated therewith, (iv) the right to sue for past, present and future (A) infringements and dilutions thereof and (B) injury to the goodwill associated therewith, (v) the goodwill of each Grantor’s business symbolized by the foregoing or connected therewith, and (vi) all of each Grantor’s rights corresponding thereto throughout the world.

(qq) “ Transaction Documents ” has the meaning specified therefor in the Purchase Agreement.

(rr) “ URL ” means “uniform resource locator,” an internet web address.

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other valuable consideration hereby acknowledged, hereby unconditionally guarantees to the benefit of the Agent, for the benefit of the Purchasers and the Agent, the prompt payment and performance of each and all of the Secured Obligations of the other, without setoff or counterclaim each of which are herby waived.

(B) Each Grantor hereby unconditionally grants, assigns, and pledges to Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties a continuing security interest (herein referred to as the “ Security Interest ”) in all such Grantor’s right, title and interest in and to its personal property, tangible or intangible, of such Grantor whether now owned or hereafter acquired or arising and wherever located, including without limitation such Grantor’s right, title, and interest in and to the following, whether now owned or hereafter acquired or arising and wherever located (the “ Collateral ”):

(a) all of such Grantor’s Accounts;

(b) all of such Grantor’s Books;

(c) all of such Grantor’s Chattel Paper;

(d) all of such Grantor’s Deposit Accounts;

(e) all of such Grantor’s Equipment and fixtures;

(f) all of such Grantor’s General Intangibles;

(g) all of such Grantor’s Inventory;

(h) all of such Grantor’s Investment Related Property;

(i) all of such Grantor’s Negotiable Collateral;

(j) all of such Grantor’s rights in respect of Supporting Obligations;

(k) all of such Grantor’s Commercial Tort Claims;

(l) all of such Grantor’s money, cash equivalents, or other assets of each such Grantor that now or hereafter come into the possession, custody, or control of Agent or any Secured Party;

(m) all of the proceeds and products, whether tangible or intangible, of any of the foregoing, including proceeds of insurance or Commercial Tort Claims covering or relating to any or all of the foregoing, and any and all Accounts, Books, Chattel Paper, Deposit Accounts, Equipment, General Intangibles, Inventory, Investment Related Property, Negotiable Collateral, Supporting Obligations, money, or other tangible or intangible property resulting from the sale, lease, license, exchange, collection, or other disposition of any of the foregoing, the proceeds of any award in condemnation with

 

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respect to any of the foregoing, any rebates or refunds, whether for taxes or otherwise, and all proceeds of any such proceeds, or any portion thereof or interest therein, and the proceeds thereof, and all proceeds of any loss of, damage to, or destruction of the above, whether insured or not insured, and, to the extent not otherwise included, any indemnity, warranty, or guaranty payable by reason of loss or damage to, or otherwise with respect to any of the foregoing (the “ Proceeds ”). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term “Proceeds” includes whatever is receivable or received when Investment Related Property or proceeds are sold, exchanged, collected, or otherwise disposed of, whether such disposition is voluntary or involuntary, and includes proceeds of any indemnity or guaranty payable to any Grantor or any Secured Party from time to time with respect to any of the Investment Related Property.

3.  Security for Obligations . This Agreement and the Security Interest created hereby secures the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations, whether now existing or arising hereafter. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this Agreement secures the payment of all amounts which constitute part of the Secured Obligations and would be owed by Grantors, or any of them, to the Secured Parties but for the fact that they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of an Insolvency Proceeding involving any Grantor.

4.  Grantors Remain Liable; Third Party Licensees . (A) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, (a) each of the Grantors shall remain liable under the contracts and agreements included in the Collateral to perform all of the duties and obligations thereunder to the same extent as if this Agreement had not been executed, (b) the exercise by Agent or any Secured Party of any of the rights hereunder shall not release any Grantor from any of its duties or obligations under such contracts and agreements included in the Collateral, and (c) Agent and the Secured Parties shall not have any obligation or liability under such contracts and agreements included in the Collateral by reason of this Agreement, nor shall Agent or any Secured Party be obligated to perform any of the obligations or duties of any Grantors thereunder or to take any action to collect or enforce any claim for payment assigned hereunder. Until an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Notes, the Purchase Agreement, or other Transaction Documents, Grantors shall have the right to possession and enjoyment of the Collateral for the purpose of conducting the ordinary course of their respective businesses, subject to and upon the terms hereof and of the Notes, the Purchase Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.

(B) The Secured Parties acknowledge and agree that the security interest arising hereunder in any Intellectual Property licensed by a Grantor to a third party in an arms-length transaction shall be subject to the rights of such third party licensee, whether such arms-length transaction is now existing or is entered into following the execution and delivery of this Agreement. Upon the request of a Grantor, Agent, on behalf of the Purchasers, shall provide an estoppel to such third party licensee with respect to the foregoing. The Secured Parties acknowledge that no security interest or right is granted by any Grantor in property to the extent that such property is not owned by said Grantor.

 

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5.  Representations and Warranties . As of the Closing, each Grantor hereby represents and warrants as follows:

(a) The exact legal name, jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation, organizational identification number, if any, and chief executive office of each of the Grantors is set forth on  Schedule 1  attached hereto. No Grantor has trade names except as set forth on  Schedule 1  attached hereto. No Grantor has used any name other than that as set forth on  Schedule 1  for the preceding five years. No entity has merged into any Grantor or been acquired by any Grantor within the past five years except as set forth on  Schedule 1 .

(b)  Schedule 6  attached hereto sets forth all Real Property owned or leased by Grantors as of the Closing Date.

(c) As of the Closing Date, no Grantor has any interest in, or title to, any registered Copyrights, material Intellectual Property Licenses, registered Patents or Trademarks except as set forth on  Schedules 2 3 4 and  5 , respectively, attached hereto. This Agreement is effective to create a valid and continuing Lien on such Copyrights, Intellectual Property Licenses, Patents and Trademarks and, upon filing of the Intellectual Property Security Agreement with the United States Copyright Office and filing of the Intellectual Property Security Agreement with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the filing of appropriate financing statements in the jurisdictions listed on  Schedule 7  hereto, all action necessary or desirable to protect and perfect the Security Interest in the United States in and to each Grantor’s Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights or Intellectual Property Licenses constituting Collateral has been taken and such perfected Security Interest is enforceable as such as against any and all creditors of and purchasers from any Grantor, except as enforcement may be limited by equitable principles or by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent transfer, moratorium or similar laws relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally. No Grantor has any interest in any Copyright that is necessary in connection with the operation of such Grantor’s business, except for those Copyrights identified on  Schedule 2  attached hereto which have been registered with the United States Copyright Office.

(d) Each Grantor has the requisite corporate, partnership, limited liability company or other power and authority to enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder. The execution, delivery and performance by each Grantor of this Agreement and the filings contemplated herein and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of such Grantor and no further action is required by such Grantor. This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party have been duly executed by each Grantor. This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of each Grantor, enforceable against such Grantor in accordance with its terms except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and similar laws of general application relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors and by general principles of equity.

 

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(e) No written claim has been received by any Grantor that any Collateral or any Grantor’s use of any Collateral violates the rights of any third party that has not been resolved to the satisfaction of such Grantor. There has been no adverse decision to any Grantor’s claim of ownership rights in or exclusive rights to use the Collateral in any jurisdiction or to such Grantor’s right to keep and maintain such Collateral in full force and effect, and there is no proceeding involving said rights pending or, to the best knowledge of such Grantor, threatened before any court, judicial body, administrative or regulatory agency, arbitrator or other governmental authority.

(f) Each Grantor shall at all times maintain its books of account and records relating to the Collateral at its principal place of business (except when temporarily kept at the offices of its attorneys or accountants) and may not relocate such books of account and records or tangible Collateral unless it delivers to Agent at least thirty (30) days prior to such relocation (i) written notice of such relocation and the new location thereof (which must be within the United States) and (ii) evidence that appropriate financing statements under the Code and other necessary documents have been filed and recorded and other steps have been taken to perfect the Security Interests to create in favor of Secured Parties, subject to Permitted Encumbrances, a valid, perfected and continuing perfected first priority lien in the Collateral.

(g) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party by each Grantor do not (i) violate any of the provisions of the Organizational Documents of any Grantor or any judgment, decree, order or award of any court, governmental body or arbitrator or any applicable law, rule or regulation applicable to any Grantor or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing such Grantor’s debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which any Grantor is a party or by which any property or asset of any Grantor is bound or affected, except in all cases, for such conflicts, defaults, terminations, amendments, acceleration, cancellations and violations as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. If any, all required consents (including, without limitation, from stockholders or creditors of the Grantor) necessary for the Grantor to enter into and perform its obligations hereunder have been obtained.

(h) This Agreement creates a valid security interest in the Collateral of each of Grantors, to the extent a security interest therein can be created under the Code, securing the payment of the Secured Obligations. Except to the extent a security interest in the Collateral cannot be perfected by the filing of a financing statement under the Code, all filings and other actions necessary or desirable to perfect and protect such security interest have been duly taken or will have been taken upon the filing of financing statements listing each applicable Grantor, as a debtor, and Secured Party, as secured party, in the jurisdictions listed next to such Grantor’s name on  Schedule 6 attached hereto. Upon the making of such filings, Secured Parties shall have, subject to Permitted

 

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Encumbrances, a first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral of each Grantor to the extent such security interest can be perfected by the filing of a financing statement. All action by any Grantor necessary to protect and perfect such security interest on each item of Collateral has been duly taken (to the extent such action is required under this Agreement).

(i) No consent, approval, authorization, or other order or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is required (i) for the grant of a Security Interest by such Grantor in and to the Collateral pursuant to this Agreement or for the execution, delivery, or performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party by such Grantor, except those consents, approvals, authorizations or other actions, the failure of which to obtain could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) for the exercise by Secured Parties of the voting or other rights provided for in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document with respect to the Investment Related Property or the remedies in respect of the Collateral pursuant to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, except as may be required in connection with such disposition of Investment Related Property by laws affecting the offering and sale of securities generally.

6.  Covenants . Each Grantor, jointly and severally, covenants and agrees with Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties that from and after the date of this Agreement and until the date of termination of this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof hereof:

(a)  Possession of Collateral . In the event that any Collateral, including Proceeds, is evidenced by or consists of Negotiable Collateral, Investment Related Property, or Chattel Paper, with a value, individually or in the aggregate, in excess of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), and if and to the extent that perfection or priority of Secured Parties’ Security Interest is dependent on or enhanced by possession, the applicable Grantor, promptly (and in any event within one (1) Business Day) upon the request of Agent, shall execute such other documents and instruments as shall be reasonably requested by Agent or, if applicable, endorse and deliver physical possession of such Collateral to Agent or its representative, together with, if applicable, such undated powers endorsed in blank as shall be reasonably requested by Agent;

 

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(b)  Chattel Paper .

(i) In the event that the Grantors acquire electronic Chattel Paper with a value, individually or in the aggregate, in excess of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), the applicable Grantor shall promptly (and in any event within two (2) Business Days) notify the Agent thereof, and upon the request of the Agent, take all steps reasonably necessary to grant Agent control of all such electronic Chattel Paper in accordance with the Code and all “transferable records” as that term is defined in Section 16 of the Uniform Electronic Transaction Act and Section 201 of the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act as in effect in any relevant jurisdiction;

(ii) If any Grantor retains possession of any Chattel Paper or instruments (which retention of possession shall be subject to the extent permitted hereby and by the Purchase Agreement), promptly upon the request of Agent, such Chattel Paper and instruments shall be marked with the following legend: “This writing and the obligations evidenced or secured hereby are subject to the Security Interest of GENESIS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC as Agent”;

(c)  Letter-of-Credit Rights . Each Grantor that is or becomes the beneficiary of a letter of credit with a face value in excess of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) shall promptly (and in any event within two (2) Business Days after becoming a beneficiary), notify Agent thereof and, thereafter, upon the request by Agent, except with respect to documentary letters of credit received by a Grantor from customers in the ordinary course of business if no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, take such actions the Agent may reasonably request to grant the Agent control thereof, which may include entering into a tri-party agreement with Secured Party and the issuer or confirmation bank with respect to letter-of-credit rights assigning such letter-of-credit rights to Agent and directing all payments thereunder to a deposit account designated by Agent, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent;

(d)  Commercial Tort Claims . Each Grantor shall promptly (and in any event within two (2) Business Days of receipt thereof), notify Agent in writing upon becoming a plaintiff in respect of, or otherwise obtaining a Commercial Tort Claim after the date hereof and, upon request of Agent, promptly amend  Schedule 8  to this Agreement to describe such after-acquired Commercial Tort Claim in a manner that reasonably identifies such Commercial Tort Claim, and hereby authorizes the filing of additional financing statements or amendments to existing financing statements describing such Commercial Tort Claims, and agrees to do such other acts or things deemed necessary or desirable by Agent to give Agent, subject to Permitted Encumbrances, a first priority perfected security interest in any such Commercial Tort Claim;

(e)  Government Contracts . If any Account or Chattel Paper, individually or in the aggregate with a value in excess of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), arises out of a contract or contracts with the United States of America or any

 

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department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, Grantors shall promptly (and in any event within two (2) Business Days of the creation thereof) notify Agent thereof in writing and execute any instruments or take any steps reasonably required by Agent, to the extent permitted under, and in accordance with, applicable law, in order that all moneys due or to become due under such contract or contracts shall be assigned to Agent, and shall provide written notice thereof under the Assignment of Claims Act or other applicable law;

(f)  Intellectual Property .

(i) Upon request of Agent, in order to facilitate filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office, each Grantor shall execute and deliver to Secured Party one or more Intellectual Property Security Agreements to further evidence Secured Party’s Liens on such Grantor’s Patents, Trademarks, or Copyrights, and the General Intangibles of such Grantor relating thereto or represented thereby;

(ii) Each Grantor shall have the duty, to the extent necessary or economically desirable in the operation of its business, (A) to promptly sue for infringement, misappropriation, or dilution and to recover any and all awarded damages for such infringement, misappropriation, or dilution, (B) to prosecute diligently any trademark application or service mark application that is part of such Grantor’s Trademarks pending as of the date hereof or hereafter until the termination of this Agreement, (C) to prosecute diligently any patent application that is part of such Grantor’s Patents pending as of the date hereof or hereafter until the termination of this Agreement, and (D) to take all reasonable and necessary action to preserve and maintain all of such Grantor’s Trademarks, Patents, Copyrights, Intellectual Property Licenses, and its rights therein, including the filing of applications for renewal, affidavits of use, affidavits of noncontestability and opposition and interference and cancellation proceedings. Each Grantor shall promptly file an application with the United States Copyright Office for any Copyright that has not been registered with the United States Copyright Office if such Copyright is necessary or economically desirable in the operation of such Grantor’s business. Any expenses incurred in connection with the foregoing shall be borne by the appropriate Grantor. Each Grantor further agrees not to abandon any Trademark, Patent, Copyright, or Intellectual Property License that is necessary or economically desirable in the operation of such Grantor’s business;

(iii) Grantors acknowledge and agree that Secured Parties shall have no duties with respect to the Trademarks, Patents, Copyrights, or Intellectual Property Licenses. Without limiting the generality of this Section 6(f) , Grantors acknowledge and agree that Secured Party shall not be under any obligation to take any steps necessary to preserve rights in the Trademarks, Patents, Copyrights, or Intellectual Property Licenses against any other Person, but Secured Party may do so at its option from and after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, and all expenses incurred in connection therewith (including reasonable fees and expenses of attorneys and other professionals) shall be for the sole account of the Company and shall be chargeable to the Company;

 

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(iv) In no event shall any Grantor, either itself or through any agent, employee, licensee, or designee, file an application for the registration of any Patent, Trademark, or Copyright with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or any similar office or agency without giving Secured Party prompt (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days) written notice thereof. Promptly upon any such filing, each Grantor shall comply with Section 6(f)(i) hereof;

(g) Investment Related Property .

(i) If any Grantor shall receive or become entitled to receive any Investment Related Property after the Closing Date, it shall promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business Days of receipt thereof) take all actions necessary to cause such Investment Related Property to become Collateral hereunder and subject to a lien and security interest in favor of Agent;

(ii) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, all sums of money and property paid or distributed in respect of the Investment Related Property which are received by any Grantor shall be held by the Grantors in trust for the benefit of Secured Parties segregated from such Grantor’s other property, and such Grantor shall deliver it forthwith to Agent in the exact form received;

(iii) Each Grantor shall promptly deliver to Agent a copy of each notice or other communication received by it in respect of any Investment Related Property;

(iv) Each Grantor agrees that it will cooperate with Agent in obtaining all necessary approvals and making all necessary filings under federal, state, local, or foreign law in connection with the Security Interest on the Investment Related Property or any sale or transfer thereof;

(h)  Transfers and Other Liens . Except as otherwise expressly permitted hereby or by the Purchase Agreement, Grantors shall not (i) sell, assign (by operation of law or otherwise) or otherwise dispose of, or grant any option with respect to, any of the Collateral, or (ii) create or permit to exist any Lien upon or with respect to any of the Collateral of any of Grantors, except for Permitted Encumbrances. The inclusion of Proceeds in the Collateral shall not be deemed to constitute Secured Parties’ consent to any sale or other disposition of any of the Collateral except as expressly permitted in this Agreement, the Purchase Agreement or the other Transaction Documents;

(i)  Insurance . The Grantors shall maintain with financially sound and reputable insurers, insurance with respect to the Collateral, including Collateral hereafter acquired, against loss or damage of the kinds and in the amounts customarily insured against by entities of established reputation having similar properties similarly situated

 

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and in such amounts as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by other such entities and otherwise as is prudent for entities engaged in similar businesses but in any event sufficient to cover the full replacement cost thereof (it being agreed that the insurance policies and amounts maintained by Grantors as of the Closing Date are satisfactory). The Grantors shall cause each insurance policy issued in connection herewith to provide, and the insurer issuing such policy to certify to Agent that (a) Agent will be named as Purchaser loss payee and additional insured under each such insurance policy; (b) if such insurance be proposed to be cancelled or materially changed for any reason whatsoever, such insurer will promptly notify Agent and such cancellation or change shall not be effective as to Agent for at least thirty (30) days after receipt by Agent of such notice, unless the effect of such change is to extend or increase coverage under the policy; and (c) Agent will have the right (but no obligation) at its election to remedy any default in the payment of premiums within thirty (30) days of notice from the insurer of such default. If no Event of Default exists and if the proceeds arising out of any claim or series of related claims do not exceed $100,000, loss payments in each instance will be available to the Grantors and applied by the Grantors to the repair and/or replacement of property with respect to which the loss was incurred. If no Event of Default exists and such proceeds exceed $100,000, and in any event after an Event of Default occurs, all proceeds then or thereafter in existence shall be paid to Agent (for application to the Obligations) and, if received by any Grantor, shall be held in trust for Agent and promptly paid over to Agent (for application to the Obligations) unless otherwise directed in writing by Agent.

(j)  Copies . The Grantors shall deliver copies of such policies or the related certificates evidencing that Agent is listed as Purchaser loss payee on property insurance and as additional insured on liability insurance within 10 days of closing and at the time any new policy of insurance is issued.

(k) Permitted Encumbrances . The Grantors shall not prepay or amend any obligations secured by the Permitted Encumbrances without the prior written consent of the Required Purchasers.

7.  Relation to Other Security Documents . The provisions of this Agreement shall be read and construed with the other Transaction Documents referred to below in the manner so indicated.

(a)  Purchase Agreement . In the event of any conflict between any provision in this Agreement and a provision in the Purchase Agreement, such provision of the Purchase Agreement shall control.

(b)  Note . In the event of any conflict between any provision in this Agreement and a provision in the Notes, such provision of the Notes shall control.

(c)  Intellectual Property Security Agreements . The provisions of any executed Intellectual Property Security Agreements are supplemental to the provisions of this Agreement, and nothing contained in the Intellectual Property Security Agreements shall limit any of the rights or remedies of Secured Party hereunder.

 

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8. Further Assurances .

(a) Each Grantor agrees that from time to time, at its own expense, such Grantor will promptly execute and deliver all further instruments and documents, and take all further action, that may be necessary or that Agent may reasonably request, in order to perfect and protect the Security Interest granted or purported to be granted hereby or to enable Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties to exercise and enforce its rights and remedies hereunder with respect to any of the Collateral.

(b) Subject to Section 8(c), each Grantor authorizes the filing by Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties of financing or continuation statements, or amendments thereto, and such Grantor will execute and deliver to Agent such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or as Agent or Secured Parties may reasonably request, in order to perfect and preserve the Security Interest granted or purported to be granted hereby.

(c) Each Grantor authorizes Agent on behalf of Secured Parties at any time and from time to time to file, transmit, or communicate, as applicable, financing statements and amendments (i) describing the Collateral as “all personal property of debtor” or “all assets of debtor” or words of similar effect, (ii) describing the Collateral as being of equal or lesser scope or with greater detail, or (iii) that contain any information required by part 5 of Article 9 of the Code for the sufficiency or filing office acceptance. Each Grantor also hereby ratifies any and all financing statements or amendments previously filed by Agent in any jurisdiction.

(d) Each Grantor acknowledges that it is not authorized to file any financing statement or amendment or termination statement with respect to any financing statement filed in connection with this Agreement without the prior written consent of Agent, subject to such Grantor’s rights under Section 9-509(d)(2) of the Code.

9.  Agent Right to Perform Contracts, Exercise Rights, etc . Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, Agent on behalf of Secured Parties (or its designee) (a) may proceed to perform any and all of the obligations of any Grantor contained in any contract, lease, or other agreement and exercise any and all rights of any Grantor therein contained as fully as such Grantor itself could, (b) shall have the right to use any Grantor’s rights under Intellectual Property Licenses in connection with the enforcement of the Agent’s or Secured Parties’ rights hereunder, including the right to prepare for sale and sell any and all Inventory and Equipment now or hereafter owned by any Grantor and now or hereafter covered by such licenses, but only to the extent permitted by such licenses or the licensors thereunder or applicable law, and (c) shall have the right to request that any Stock that is pledged hereunder be registered in the name of Agent for the benefit of Secured Parties or any of their nominees.

 

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10. Agent Appointed Attorney-in-Fact . Each Grantor hereby irrevocably appoints Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties its attorney-in-fact, with full authority in the place and stead of such Grantor and in the name of such Grantor or otherwise, at such time as an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Notes, to take any action and to execute any instrument which Agent may reasonably deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, including:

(a) to ask, demand, collect, sue for, recover, compromise, receive and give acquittance and receipts for moneys due and to become due under or in connection with the Accounts or any Supporting Obligations in connection therewith or any other Collateral of such Grantor;

(b) to receive and open all mail addressed to such Grantor and to notify postal authorities to change the address for the delivery of mail to such Grantor to that of Secured Party;

(c) to receive, indorse, and collect any drafts or other instruments, documents, Negotiable Collateral or Chattel Paper;

(d) to file any claims or take any action or institute any proceedings which Agent or Secured Parties may deem necessary or desirable for the collection of any of the Collateral of such Grantor or otherwise to enforce the rights of Secured Party with respect to any of the Collateral;

(e) to repair, alter, or supply goods, if any, necessary to fulfill in whole or in part the purchase order of any Person obligated to such Grantor in respect of any Account of such Grantor;

(f) to use any labels, Patents, Trademarks, trade names, URLs, domain names, industrial designs, Copyrights, advertising matter or other industrial or intellectual property rights, in advertising for sale and selling Inventory and other Collateral and to collect any amounts due under Accounts, contracts or Negotiable Collateral of such Grantor; and

(g) Agent on behalf of Secured Parties shall have the right, but shall not be obligated, to bring suit in its own name to enforce the Trademarks, Patents, Copyrights and Intellectual Property Licenses and, if Agent shall commence any such suit, the appropriate Grantor shall, at the request of Secured Party, do any and all lawful acts and execute any and all proper documents reasonably required by Secured Party in aid of such enforcement.

To the extent permitted by law, each Grantor hereby ratifies all that such attorney-in-fact shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. This power of attorney is coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable until this Agreement is terminated.

 

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11. Agent or Secured Parties May Perform . If any of Grantors fails to perform any agreement contained herein, Agent or Secured Parties may perform, or cause performance of, such agreement, and the reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of Agent or Secured Parties incurred in connection therewith shall be payable, jointly and severally, by Grantors.

12.  Appointment of Agent by Purchasers; Agent’s and Secured Parties’ Duties .

(a) Appointment of Agent. Each Purchaser hereby appoints Genesis Capital Management, LLC (together with any successor Agent appointed hereunder) as Agent under this Security Agreement and the Intellectual Property Security Agreements (collectively, with all related and incidental documents, the “Security Documents”) and authorizes Agent to (a) execute and deliver the Security Documents and accept delivery thereof on its behalf from Grantors, (b) take such action on its behalf and to exercise all rights, powers and remedies and perform the duties as are expressly delegated to Agent under such Security Documents and (c) exercise such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The provisions of this Article 9 are solely for the benefit of Agent and Purchasers and none of Grantors nor any other person shall have any rights as a third party beneficiary of any of the provisions hereof. In performing its functions and duties under this Agreement and the other Security Documents, Agent shall act solely as an agent of Purchasers and does and shall not be deemed to have assumed any obligation toward or relationship of agency or trust with or for any Grantor or any other person. Agent shall have no duties or responsibilities except for those expressly set forth in this Agreement and the other Security Documents. The duties of Agent shall be mechanical and administrative in nature and Agent shall not have, or be deemed to have, by reason of this Agreement, any other Security Document or otherwise a fiduciary or trustee relationship in respect of any Purchaser. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement and the other Security Documents, Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for failure to disclose, any information relating to any Grantor that is communicated to or obtained by Genesis Capital Management, LLC or any of its affiliates in any capacity.

(b) Agent’s Rights, etc. Without limiting the generality of clause (a) above, Agent shall have the right and authority, and is hereby authorized, to (i) act as the disbursing and collecting agent for the Purchasers with respect to all payments and collections arising in connection with the Security Documents (including in any other bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding), and each person making any payment in connection with any Security Document to any Purchaser is hereby authorized to make such payment to Agent, (ii) file and prove claims and file other documents necessary or desirable to allow the claims of Agent and Purchasers with respect to any Obligation in any proceeding described in any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding (but not to vote, consent or otherwise act on behalf of such Purchaser), (iii) act as collateral agent for Agent and each Purchaser for purposes of the perfection of all liens created by the Security Documents and all other purposes stated therein, (iv) manage, supervise and otherwise deal with the Collateral, (v) take such other action as is necessary or desirable

 

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to maintain the perfection and priority of the liens created or purported to be created by the Security Documents, (vi) except as may be otherwise specified in any Security Document, exercise all remedies given to Agent and the other Purchasers with respect to the Collateral, whether under the Security Documents, applicable law or otherwise and (vii) execute any amendment, consent or waiver under the Security Documents on behalf of any Purchaser that has consented in writing to such amendment, consent or waiver; provided, however, that Agent hereby appoints, authorizes and directs each Purchaser to act as collateral sub-agent for Agent and the Purchasers for purposes of the perfection of all liens with respect to the Collateral, including any deposit account maintained by a Grantor with, and cash and cash equivalents held by, such Purchaser, and may further authorize and direct the Purchasers to take further actions as collateral sub-agents for purposes of enforcing such liens or otherwise to transfer the Collateral subject thereto to Agent, and each Purchaser hereby agrees to take such further actions to the extent, and only to the extent, so authorized and directed. Agent may, upon any term or condition it specifies, delegate or exercise any of its rights, powers and remedies under, and delegate or perform any of its duties or any other action with respect to, any Security Document by or through any trustee, co-agent, employee, attorney-in-fact and any other person (including any Purchaser). Any such person shall benefit from this Article 9 to the extent provided by Agent.

(c) Agent’s Requests, etc. If Agent shall request instructions from Requisite Purchasers or all affected Purchasers with respect to any act or action (including failure to act) in connection with this Agreement or any other Security Document, then Agent shall be entitled to refrain from such act or taking such action unless and until Agent shall have received instructions from Requisite Purchasers or all affected Purchasers, as the case may be, and Agent shall not incur liability to any person by reason of so refraining. Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action hereunder or under any other Security Document (a) if such action would, in the opinion of Agent, be contrary to law or any Security Document, (b) if such action would, in the opinion of Agent, expose Agent to any potential liability under any law, statute or regulation or (c) if Agent shall not first be indemnified to its satisfaction against any and all liability and expense which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. Without limiting the foregoing, no Purchaser shall have any right of action whatsoever against Agent as a result of Agent acting or refraining from acting hereunder or under any other Security Document in accordance with the instructions of Requisite Purchasers or all affected Purchasers, as applicable.

(d) Agent’s Reliance, Etc. Neither Agent nor any of its affiliates nor any of their respective directors, officers, agents, employees or representatives shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them hereunder or under any other Security Documents, or in connection herewith or therewith, except for damages caused by its or their own gross negligence or willful misconduct as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Agent: (a) may treat the payee of any Note as the holder thereof until such Note has been assigned in accordance with Section 10.1; (b) may consult with legal counsel, independent public accountants and other experts, whether or not selected by it, and shall not be liable for

 

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any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts; (c) shall not be responsible or otherwise incur liability for any action or omission taken in reliance upon the instructions of the Requisite Purchasers, (d) makes no warranty or representation to any Purchaser and shall not be responsible to any Purchaser for any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or the other Security Documents; (e) shall not have any duty to inspect the Collateral (including the books and records) or to ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or observance of any provision of any Security Document, whether any condition set forth in any Security Document is satisfied or waived, as to the financial condition of any Grantor or as to the existence or continuation or possible occurrence or continuation of any Default or Event of Default and shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of such occurrence or continuation unless it has received a notice from Grantors or any Purchaser describing such Default or Event of Default clearly labeled “notice of default”; (f) shall not be responsible to any Purchaser for the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, effectiveness, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the attachment, perfection or priority of any lien created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Security Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto; and (g) shall incur no liability under or in respect of this Agreement or the other Security Documents by acting upon any notice, consent, certificate or other instrument or writing (which may be by telecopy, telegram, cable or telex) believed by it to be genuine and signed or sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper party or parties.

(e) Genesis Capital Management, LLC and Affiliates . Genesis Capital Management, LLC shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement and the other Security Documents as any other Purchaser and may exercise the same as though it were not Agent; and the term “Purchaser” or “Purchasers” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated, include Genesis Capital Management, LLC in its individual capacity. Genesis Capital Management, LLC and its affiliates may lend money to, invest in, and generally engage in any kind of business with, Grantors, any of their Affiliates and any person who may do business with or own securities of Grantors, any Subsidiaries of any Grantor or any such Affiliate, all as if Genesis Capital Management, LLC were not Agent and without any duty to account therefor to Purchasers. Genesis Capital Management, LLC and its affiliates may accept fees and other consideration from Grantor for services in connection with this Agreement or otherwise without having to account for the same to Purchasers. Each Purchaser acknowledges the potential conflict of interest between Genesis Capital Management, LLC as a Purchaser holding disproportionate interests in the Notes and Genesis Capital Management, LLC as Agent, and expressly consents to, and waives, any claim based upon, such conflict of interest.

(f) Purchaser Credit Decision . Each Purchaser acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon Agent or any other Purchaser and based on such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit and financial analysis of each Grantor and its own decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Purchaser also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon Agent or any other Purchaser and based on such documents and information as it shall

 

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deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement. Each Purchaser acknowledges the potential conflict of interest of each other Purchaser as a result of Purchasers holding disproportionate interests in the Notes, and expressly consents to, and waives, any claim based upon, such conflict of interest.

(g) Indemnification . Purchasers shall and do hereby indemnify Agent (to the extent not reimbursed by Grantors and without limiting the obligations of Grantors hereunder), ratably according to their respective pro rata shares from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against Agent in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any other Security Document or any action taken or omitted to be taken by Agent in connection therewith; provided that no Purchaser shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction. Without limiting the foregoing, each Purchaser agrees to reimburse Agent promptly upon demand for its pro rata share of any out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable counsel fees) incurred by Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification, amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of rights or responsibilities under, this Agreement and each other Security Document, to the extent that Agent is not reimbursed for such expenses by Grantors. The provisions of this paragraph (g) shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

(h) Successor Agent . Agent may resign at any time by giving not less than 30 days’ prior written notice thereof to Purchasers and Grantors. Upon any such resignation, the Requisite Purchasers shall have the right to appoint a successor Agent. If no successor Agent shall have been so appointed by the Requisite Purchasers and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the resigning Agent’s giving notice of resignation, then the resigning Agent may, on behalf of Purchasers, appoint a successor Agent, which shall be a Purchaser, if a Purchaser is willing to accept such appointment, or otherwise shall be a commercial bank or financial institution or a subsidiary of a commercial bank or financial institution if such commercial bank or financial institution is organized under the laws of the United States of America or of any State thereof and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $300,000,000. If no successor Agent has been appointed pursuant to the foregoing, within 30 days after the date such notice of resignation was given by the resigning Agent, such resignation shall become effective and the Requisite Purchasers shall thereafter perform all the duties of Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the Requisite Purchasers appoint a successor Agent as provided above. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent, such successor Agent shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the resigning Agent. Upon the earlier of the acceptance of any appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor Agent or the effective date of the resigning Agent’s resignation, the resigning Agent shall be discharged from its duties and

 

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obligations under this Agreement and the other Security Documents, except that any indemnity rights or other rights in favor of such resigning Agent shall continue. After any resigning Agent’s resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Section 9 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as Agent under this Agreement and the other Security Documents.

(i) No Imposition of Duties. The powers conferred on Agent and Secured Parties hereunder are solely to protect Agent and Secured Parties’ interest in the Collateral, and shall not impose any duty upon Agent or any Secured Party to exercise any such powers. Except for the safe custody of any Collateral in its actual possession and the accounting for moneys actually received by it hereunder, Agent and each Secured Party shall have no duty as to any Collateral or as to the taking of any necessary steps to preserve rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining to any Collateral. Agent and each Secured Party shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody and preservation of any Collateral in its actual possession if such Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to that which Agent or such Secured Party accords its own property.

13.  Collection of Accounts, General Intangibles and Negotiable Collateral . At any time upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, Agent or Agent’s designee may notify Account Debtors of any Grantor that the Accounts, General Intangibles, Chattel Paper or Negotiable Collateral have been assigned to Agent or that Agent has a security interest therein, and (b) collect the Accounts, General Intangibles and Negotiable Collateral directly, and any collection costs and expenses shall constitute part of such Grantor’s Secured Obligations under the Transaction Documents.

14.  Remedies . Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default:

(a) Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, may exercise in respect of the Collateral, in addition to other rights and remedies provided for herein, in the other Transaction Documents, or otherwise available to it, all the rights and remedies of a secured party on default under the Code or any other applicable law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Grantor expressly agrees that, in any such event, Agent without demand of performance or other demand, advertisement or notice of any kind (except a notice specified below of time and place of public or private sale) to or upon any of Grantors or any other Person (all and each of which demands, advertisements and notices are hereby expressly waived to the maximum extent permitted by the Code or any other applicable law), may take immediate possession of all or any portion of the Collateral and (i) require Grantors to, and each Grantor hereby agrees that it will at its own expense and upon request of Agent forthwith, assemble all or part of the Collateral as directed by Agent and make it available to Agent at one or more locations where such Grantor regularly maintains Inventory, and (ii) without notice except as specified below, sell or otherwise dispose of the Collateral or any part thereof in one or more parcels at public or private sale or other disposition, at any of Agent’s offices or

 

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elsewhere, for cash, on credit, and upon such other terms as Agent may deem commercially reasonable. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Agent may disclaim any and all representations and warranties in connection with any such sale or other disposition. Each Grantor agrees that, to the extent notice of sale shall be required by law, at least ten (10) days notice to any of Grantors of the time and place of any public sale or the time after which any private sale is to be made shall constitute reasonable notification and specifically such notice shall constitute a reasonable “authenticated notification of disposition” within the meaning of Section 9-611 of the Code. Agent shall not be obligated to make any sale of Collateral regardless of notice of sale having been given. Agent may adjourn any public or private sale from time to time by announcement at the time and place fixed therefor, and such sale may, without further notice, be made at the time and place to which it was so adjourned.

(b) Agent is hereby granted a license or other right to use, without liability for royalties or any other charge, each Grantor’s labels, Patents, Copyrights, rights of use of any name, trade secrets, trade names, Trademarks, service marks and advertising matter, URLs, domain names, industrial designs, other industrial or intellectual property or any property of a similar nature, whether owned by any of Grantors or with respect to which any of Grantors have rights under license, sublicense, or other agreements, (but only to the extent (i) such license, sublicense or agreement does not prohibit such use by Agent and (ii) such Grantor will not be in default under such license, sublicense or other agreement as a result of such use by Agent) as it pertains to the Collateral, in preparing for sale, advertising for sale and selling any Collateral, and each Grantor’s rights under all licenses and all franchise agreements shall inure to the benefit of Secured Party.

(c) Any cash held by Agent or Secured Parties as Collateral and all cash proceeds received by Agent or Secured Parties in respect of any sale of, collection from, or other realization in any manner upon all or any part of the Collateral shall be applied against the Secured Obligations in the order set forth as follows:

FIRST, to the payment of all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees) of the Agent in connection with enforcing the rights of the Purchasers under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents; SECOND, to the payment of all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees) of each of the Purchasers in connection with enforcing its rights under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents; THIRD, to the payment of all accrued and unpaid fees and interest pro rata among the Purchasers based on the principal outstanding of each Note in relation to the aggregate principal outstanding of all Notes; FOURTH to the payment of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes pro rata among the Purchasers based on the principal outstanding of each Note in relation to the aggregate principal outstanding of all Notes; and FIFTH to the payment of the surplus, if any, to whoever may be lawfully entitled to receive such surplus.

 

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In the event the proceeds of Collateral are insufficient to satisfy all of the Secured Obligations in full, each Grantor shall remain jointly and severally liable for any such deficiency.

(d) Each Grantor hereby acknowledges that the Secured Obligations arose out of a commercial transaction.

(e) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of any other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser or the Agent to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose; provided that any Purchaser protecting and enforcing its rights hereunder shall give prior written notice to each other Purchaser and the Agent thereof and all collections shall be applied as set forth in Section 14.

15.  Remedies Cumulative .

(a) Each right, power, and remedy of each Secured Party as provided for in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or by statute or otherwise shall be cumulative and concurrent and shall be in addition to every other right, power, or remedy provided for in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or by statute or otherwise, and the exercise or beginning of the exercise by Agent or any Secured Party, of any one or more of such rights, powers, or remedies shall not preclude the simultaneous or later exercise by Agent or any Secured Party of any or all such other rights, powers, or remedies.

(b) Setoff and Sharing of Payments . In addition to any rights now or hereafter granted under applicable law and not by way of limitation of any such rights, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default and subject to Section 9.8(e), each Purchaser is hereby authorized at any time or from time to time upon the direction of Agent, without notice to Grantors or any other person, any such notice being hereby expressly waived, to offset and to appropriate and to apply any and all balances held by it at any of its offices for the account of Grantors (regardless of whether such balances are then due to Grantors) and any other properties or assets at any time held or owing by that Purchaser or that holder to or for the credit or for the account of Grantors against and on account of any of the Obligations that are not paid when due. Any Purchaser exercising a right of setoff or otherwise receiving any payment on account of the Obligations in excess of its pro rata share thereof shall purchase for cash (and the other Purchasers or holders shall sell) such participations in each such other Purchaser’s or holder’s Pro Rata Share of the Obligations as would be necessary to cause such Purchaser to share the amount so offset or otherwise received with each other Purchaser or holder in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares of the Obligations. Grantors agree, to the fullest extent permitted by law, that (a) any Purchaser may exercise its right to offset with respect to amounts in excess of its pro rata share of the Obligations

 

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and may sell participations in such amounts so offset to other Purchasers and holders and (b) any Purchaser so purchasing a participation in the Notes made or other Obligations held by other Purchasers or holders may exercise all rights of offset, bankers’ lien, counterclaim or similar rights with respect to such participation as fully as if such Purchaser or holder were a direct holder of the Notes and the other Obligations in the amount of such participation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if all or any portion of the offset amount or payment otherwise received is thereafter recovered from the Purchaser that has exercised the right of offset, the purchase of participations by that Purchaser shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored without interest. The term “pro rata share” means, with respect to any Purchaser at any time, the percentage obtained by dividing (x) the principal amount of the Notes held by such Purchaser at that time by (y) the aggregate amount of Notes outstanding.

16.  Marshaling . Agent and Secured Parties shall not be required to marshal any present or future collateral security (including but not limited to the Collateral) for, or other assurances of payment of, the Secured Obligations or any of them or to resort to such collateral security or other assurances of payment in any particular order, and all of its rights and remedies hereunder and in respect of such collateral security and other assurances of payment shall be cumulative and in addition to all other rights and remedies, however existing or arising. To the extent that it lawfully may, each Grantor hereby agrees that it will not invoke any law relating to the marshaling of collateral which might cause delay in or impede the enforcement of Agent’s and Secured Parties’ rights and remedies under this Agreement or under any other instrument creating or evidencing any of the Secured Obligations or under which any of the Secured Obligations is outstanding or by which any of the Secured Obligations is secured or payment thereof is otherwise assured, and, to the extent that it lawfully may, each Grantor hereby irrevocably waives the benefits of all such laws.

17.  Indemnity and Expenses .

(a) Each Grantor agrees to indemnify Agent and each Secured Party from and against all claims, lawsuits and liabilities (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) growing out of or resulting from this Agreement (including enforcement of this Agreement) or any other Transaction Document to which such Grantor is a party, except claims, losses or liabilities resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the party seeking indemnification as determined by a final non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction, and subject to any other express limitations set forth in the Transaction Documents. This provision shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the repayment of the Secured Obligations.

(b) Grantors, jointly and severally, shall, upon demand, pay to Agent all the fees, costs, charges and expenses which Agent may incur in connection with (i) the administration of this Agreement, (ii) the custody, preservation, use or operation of, or, upon an Event of Default, the sale of, collection from, or other realization upon, any of the Collateral in accordance with this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, (iii) the exercise or enforcement of any of the rights of Agent or Secured Parties hereunder or (iv) the failure by any of Grantors to perform or observe any of the provisions hereof.

 

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18.  Merger, Amendments; Etc.  THIS AGREEMENT, TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS, REPRESENTS THE FINAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES AND MAY NOT BE CONTRADICTED BY EVIDENCE OF PRIOR, CONTEMPORANEOUS OR SUBSEQUENT ORAL AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES. THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES. No waiver of any provision of this Agreement, and no consent to any departure by any of Grantors herefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by Agent and the Requisite Purchasers, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given. No amendment of any provision of this Agreement shall be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by Agent and the Requisite Purchasers and each of Grantors to which such amendment applies.

19.  Addresses for Notices . All notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall be given in the form and manner and delivered to Agent and each Secured Party at its address specified in the Purchase Agreement, and to any of the Grantors at their respective addresses specified in the Purchase Agreement, as applicable, or, as to any party, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other party.

20.  Continuing Security Interest: Assignments under Credit Agreement.  This Agreement shall create a continuing security interest in the Collateral and shall (a) remain in full force and effect until the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full or otherwise terminated in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and the Purchase Agreement, (b) be binding upon each of Grantors, and their respective successors and assigns, and (c) inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by, agent and each Secured Party, and its successors, transferees and assigns. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing clause (c), Agent and each Secured Party may, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and the Purchase Agreement, assign or otherwise transfer all or any portion of its rights and obligations under the Notes and the Purchase Agreement to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to Agent and Secured Parties herein or otherwise. Upon indefeasible payment in full or other termination of the Obligations in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and the Purchase Agreement, the Security Interest granted hereby shall terminate and all rights to the Collateral shall revert to Grantors or any other Person entitled thereto. At such time, Agent and Secured Parties shall authorize the filing of appropriate termination statements to terminate such Security Interests. No transfer or renewal, extension, assignment, or termination of this Agreement or of the Notes, the Purchase Agreement, any other Transaction Document, or any other instrument or document executed and delivered by any Grantor to Agent or any Secured Party nor any additional loans made by Secured Parties to the Grantors, or any of them, nor the taking of further security, nor the retaking or re-delivery of the Collateral to Grantors, or any of them, by Agent or Secured Parties, shall release any of Grantors from

 

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any obligation, except a release or discharge executed in writing by Agent and Secured Parties in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and the Purchase Agreement. Agent and Secured Parties shall not by any act, delay, omission or otherwise, be deemed to have waived any of its rights or remedies hereunder, unless such waiver is in writing and signed by Agent and Secured Parties and then only to the extent therein set forth. A waiver by Agent or Secured Parties of any right or remedy on any occasion shall not be construed as a bar to the exercise of any such right or remedy which Agent or Secured Parties would otherwise have had on any other occasion.

21.  Governing Law .

(a)  THE VALIDITY OF THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS (UNLESS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED TO THE CONTRARY IN ANOTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENT IN RESPECT OF SUCH OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENT), THE CONSTRUCTION, INTERPRETATION, AND ENFORCEMENT HEREOF AND THEREOF, AND THE RIGHTS OF THE PARTIES HERETO AND THERETO WITH RESPECT TO ALL MATTERS ARISING HEREUNDER OR THEREUNDER OR RELATED HERETO OR THERETO SHALL BE DETERMINED UNDER, GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

(b)  THE PARTIES AGREE THAT ALL ACTIONS OR PROCEEDINGS ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS SHALL BE TRIED AND LITIGATED ONLY IN THE STATE AND, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, FEDERAL COURTS LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, STATE OF NEW YORK;  PROVIDED HOWEVER , THAT ANY SUIT SEEKING ENFORCEMENT AGAINST ANY COLLATERAL OR OTHER PROPERTY MAY BE BROUGHT, AT AGENT’S OPTION, IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION WHERE SECURED PARTY ELECTS TO BRING SUCH ACTION OR WHERE SUCH COLLATERAL OR OTHER PROPERTY MAY BE FOUND. AGENT, EACH SECURED PARTY AND EACH GRANTOR WAIVE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT EACH MAY HAVE TO ASSERT THE DOCTRINE OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS OR TO OBJECT TO VENUE TO THE EXTENT ANY PROCEEDING IS BROUGHT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SECTION 21(b) .

(c) TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, AGENT, EACH SECURED PARTY AND EACH GRANTOR HEREBY WAIVE THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED THEREIN, INCLUDING CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS, BREACH OF DUTY CLAIMS, AND ALL OTHER COMMON LAW OR STATUTORY CLAIMS. AGENT, EACH SECURED PARTY AND EACH

 

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GRANTOR REPRESENT THAT EACH HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER AND EACH KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL. IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, A COPY OF THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE FILED AS A WRITTEN CONSENT TO A TRIAL BY THE COURT.

22. Agent and Secured Party . Each reference herein to any right granted to, benefit conferred upon or power exercisable by the “Agent” or “Secured Parties” shall be a reference to Agent or Secured Parties, and the successors and assigns of each.

23. Miscellaneous .

(a) This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties on separate counterparts, each of which, when executed and delivered, shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which, when taken together, shall constitute but one and the same Agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of this Agreement by telefacsimile or other electronic method of transmission shall be equally as effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart of this Agreement. Any party delivering an executed counterpart of this Agreement by telefacsimile or other electronic method of transmission also shall deliver an original executed counterpart of this Agreement but the failure to deliver an original executed counterpart shall not affect the validity, enforceability, and binding effect of this Agreement. The foregoing shall apply to each other Transaction Document  mutatis mutandis .

(b) Any provision of this Agreement which is prohibited or unenforceable shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof in that jurisdiction or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.

(c) Headings used in this Agreement are for convenience only and shall not be used in connection with the interpretation of any provision hereof.

(d) The pronouns used herein shall include, when appropriate, either gender and both singular and plural, and the grammatical construction of sentences shall conform thereto.

(e) Unless the context of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document clearly requires otherwise, references to the plural include the singular, references to the singular include the plural, the terms “includes” and “including” are not limiting, and the term “or” has, except where otherwise indicated, the inclusive meaning represented by the phrase “and/or.” The words “hereof,” “herein,” “hereby,” “hereunder,” and similar terms in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document refer to this Agreement or such other Transaction Document, as the case may be, as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement or such other Transaction Document, as the case may be. Section, subsection, clause, schedule, and exhibit references herein are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified. Any reference in this

 

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Agreement or in any other Transaction Document to any agreement, instrument, or document shall include all alterations, amendments, changes, extensions, modifications, renewals, replacements, substitutions, joinders, and supplements, thereto and thereof, as applicable (subject to any restrictions on such alterations, amendments, changes, extensions, modifications, renewals, replacements, substitutions, joinders, and supplements set forth herein or in the other Transaction Documents). Any reference herein or in any other Transaction Document to the satisfaction or repayment in full of the Obligations shall mean the repayment in full in cash (or cash collateralization in accordance with the terms hereof) of all Obligations other than unasserted contingent indemnification Obligations. Any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns. Any requirement of a writing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document shall be satisfied by the transmission of a Record and any Record so transmitted shall constitute a representation and warranty as to the accuracy and completeness of the information contained therein.

[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned parties hereto have executed this Agreement by and through their duly authorized officers, as of the day and year first above written:

 

GRANTORS:    
MARINA BIOTECH, INC.   MDRNA RESEARCH, INC.
By:  

/s/ J. Michael French

  By  

/s/ J. Michael French

Name:   J. Michael French   Name:   J. Michael French
Title:   President & CEO   Title:   President
  AGENT:
CEQUENT PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.   GENESIS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC , As Agent
By:  

/s/ J. Michael French

  By:  

/s/ Shawn Rhynes

Name:   J. Michael French   Name:   Shawn Rhynes
Title:   President & CEO   Title:   Authorized Signatory

And the signatures of each Purchaser a party hereto annexed hereto.

 

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PURCHASERS:     GENESIS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
    By:  

/s/ Shawn Rhynes

    Name:   Shawn Rhynes
    Title:   Authorized Signatory

[SIGNATURE PAGE TO SECURITY AGREEMENT]

 

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PEAK CAPITAL ADVISORY LIMITED
By:  

/s/ Feng Bai

Name:   Feng Bai
Title:   Authorized Signatory

[SIGNATURE PAGE TO SECURITY AGREEMENT]

 

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SCHEDULE 1

ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION

 

Legal Name:

   Marina Biotech, Inc. (f/k/a Nastech Pharmaceutical Company Inc. and MDRNA, Inc.)

Jurisdiction of Incorporation: Delaware

Organizational ID Number: 11-2658569

Chief Executive Office:

3830 Monte Villa Parkway

Bothell, Washington 98021

 

Legal Name:    Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. merged Calais Acquisition Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Marina Biotech, Inc., on July 21, 2010, with Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. as the surviving corporation)

Jurisdiction of Incorporation: Delaware

Organizational ID Number: 56-2413195

Chief Executive Office:

3830 Monte Villa Parkway

Bothell, Washington 98021

Legal Name: MDRNA Research, Inc. (f/k/a MD-RNA, Inc. and MDRNA, Inc.)

Jurisdiction of Incorporation: Delaware

Organizational ID Number: 26-0829828

Chief Executive Office:

3830 Monte Villa Parkway

Bothell, Washington 98021

 

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SCHEDULE 2

COPYRIGHT REGISTRATIONS AND APPLICATIONS

None.

 

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SCHEDULE 3

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LICENSES

 

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SCHEDULE 4

PATENTS AND PATENT APPLICATIONS

See Exhibits and Schedules to the Intellectual Property Security Agreement, incorporated herein by reference.

 

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SCHEDULE 5

TRADE NAMES, TRADEMARKS, TRADEMARK APPLICATIONS, SERVICE MARKS, AND SERVICE MARK APPLICATIONS

None.

 

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SCHEDULE 6

OWNED OR LEASED REAL PROPERTY

Real Property owned: None.

Real property leased:

 

1.        3830 Monte Villa Parkway
       Bothell, Washington 98021
2.        One Kendall Square
       Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

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SCHEDULE 7

LIST OF UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE FILING JURISDICTIONS

 

Grantor

  

Jurisdictions

Marina Biotech, Inc.    Delaware Secretary of State
Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Inc.    Delaware Secretary of State
MDRNA Research, Inc.    Delaware Secretary of State

 

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SCHEDULE 8

COMMERCIAL TORT CLAIMS

 

1. Claim for $1,000 plus court costs raised in New Jersey.

 

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SCHEDULE 9

EXISTING LIENS

 

Debtor

 

Secured Party

 

Collateral

 

State and

Jurisdiction

 

Filing Date and

Number (include

original file date

and continuations,

amendments, etc.)

Marina Biotech,

Inc.

 

Wells Fargo

Brokerage

Services, LLC

999 3 rd Avenue

Seattle,

Washington

98104

 

Wells Fargo

Investment

Account Number 12833133

(Security for

letters of credit

required pursuant

to leases for real property)

  Washington   Possessory

Marina Biotech,

Inc.

 

MDRNA’s

landlords

 

Letters of Credit

required pursuant

to leases for real property located at Bothell,

Washington; liens

on fixtures and improvements.

  Washington   N/A

 

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Exhibit 10.3

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT

This INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement ”), dated as of February 10, 2012, is made by MARINA BIOTECH, INC., a Delaware corporation (“ MRNA ”), Cequent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ CPI ”), and MDRNA RESEARCH, INC., a Delaware corporation (“ Research ” and, collectively with MRNA and CPI, “ Grantors ” and each, individually, “ Grantor ”), in favor of Genesis Capital Management, LLC, as agent (in such capacity, together with its successors and permitted assigns, the “ Agent ”) for the Purchasers (as defined in the Security Agreement referred to below);

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS , pursuant to that certain Note and Warrant Purchase Agreement, dated as of even date herewith (as the same may be amended, restated, replaced, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “ Purchase Agreement ”), among Grantors and the Purchasers from time to time party thereto (the “ Purchasers ”; the Agent and Purchasers being collectively referred to as the “ Secured Parties ”), the Purchasers have severally agreed to make extensions of credit to the Grantors upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein; and

WHEREAS , in order to induce the Purchasers to enter into the Purchase Agreement and other Transaction Documents and to induce the Purchasers to purchase the Notes as provided for in the Purchase Agreement, Grantors have agreed to pledge the Collateral to Agent, on behalf of itself and the Purchasers in accordance herewith;

NOW, THEREFORE , in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants herein contained, and to induce the Purchasers to enter into the Purchase Agreement and to induce the Purchasers to make their respective purchases of the Notes issued by the Grantors thereunder, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

Section 1. Defined Terms . Capitalized terms used herein without definition are used as defined in the Security Agreement (the “ Security Agreement ”) dated as of even date herewith among the Agent, the Purchasers and the Grantors.

Section 2. Grant of Security Interest in Intellectual Property Collateral . (A) Each Grantor, as collateral security for the prompt and complete payment and performance when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Obligations hereby mortgages, pledges, assigns, grants and hypothecates to the Agent for the benefit of the Purchasers, and grants to the Agent for the benefit of the Purchasers a Lien on and security interest in, all of its right, title and interest in, to and under the following Collateral of such Grantor whether now owned or hereafter acquired or arising and wherever located (the “ Intellectual Property Collateral ”):


(a) all of its copyrights and rights under any written agreement granting any right to use copyrights, including, without limitation, those referred to on Schedule 1 hereto, together with all renewals, reversions and extensions of the foregoing;

(b) all of its patents and rights under any written agreement granting any right to use patents, including, without limitation, those referred to on Schedule 1 hereto, together with all reissues, reexaminations, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisionals, renewals and extensions of the foregoing;

(c) all of its trademarks and rights under any written agreement granting any right to use trademarks, including, without limitation, those referred to on Schedule 1 hereto, together with all renewals, reissues, continuations and extensions of the foregoing;

(d) all goodwill of the business connected with the use of, and symbolized by, each such trademark; and

(e) all income, royalties, proceeds and liabilities at any time due or payable or asserted under and with respect to any of the foregoing, including, without limitation, all rights to sue and recover at law or in equity for any past, present and future infringement, misappropriation, dilution, violation or other impairment thereof.

(B) This Intellectual Property Security Agreement and the security interests created hereby secure the payment and performance of the Secured Obligations, whether now existing or arising hereafter. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this Intellectual Property Security Agreement secures the payment of all amounts which constitute part of the Secured Obligations and would be owed by Grantors, or any of them, to Agent or the Purchasers, whether or not they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of an Insolvency Proceeding involving any Grantor.

Section 3. Purchase Agreement & Security Agreement . The security interest granted pursuant to this Intellectual Property Security Agreement is granted in conjunction with, and in no way limiting, the security interest granted to the Agent pursuant to the Security Agreement, and each Grantor hereby acknowledges and agrees that the rights and remedies of the Agent with respect to the security interest in the Intellectual Property Collateral made and granted hereby are more fully set forth in the Security Agreement, the terms and provisions of which are incorporated by reference herein as if fully set forth herein.

Section 4. Authorization to Supplement . If any Grantor shall obtain rights to any new patentable inventions or become entitled to the benefit of any patent application or patent for any reissue, division, or continuation, of any patent, the provisions of this Intellectual Property Security Agreement shall automatically apply thereto. Grantors shall give prompt (and in any event within fifteen (15) Business Days) notice in writing to Agent with respect to any such new patent rights. Without limiting Grantors’ obligations under this Section 4, Grantors hereby authorize Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties unilaterally to modify this Agreement by amending Schedule I to include any such new patent rights of Grantors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no failure to so modify this Intellectual Property Security Agreement or amend Schedule I shall in any way affect, invalidate or detract from Agent’s and the Secured Parties’ continuing Security Interest in all Collateral, whether or not listed on Schedule I.

 

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Section 5. Grantor Remains Liable . Grantors hereby agree that, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, Grantors shall retain full and complete responsibility for the prosecution, defense, enforcement or any other necessary or desirable actions in connection with their Intellectual Property subject to a security interest hereunder.

Section 6. Counterparts . This Intellectual Property Security Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Signature pages may be detached from multiple separate counterparts and attached to a single counterpart.

Section 7. Governing Law . This Intellectual Property Security Agreement and the rights and obligations of the parties hereto shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.

 

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I N WITNESS WHEREOF , each Grantor has caused this Intellectual Property Security Agreement to be executed and delivered by its duly authorized officer as of the date first set forth above.

GRANTORS:

 

  MARINA BIOTECH, INC., a Delaware corporation        MDRNA RESEARCH, INC., a Delaware corporation
  By:  

/s/ J. Michael French

      By:  

/s/ J. Michael French

  Name:   J. Michael French       Name:   J. Michael French
  Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer       Title:   President

 

   CEQUENT PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. , a Delaware corporation    
  By:  

/s/ J. Michael French

     
  Name:   J. Michael French      
  Title:   President      

 

ACCEPTED AND AGREED

as of the date first above written:

   
GENESIS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC, As Agent    

By:

 

/s/ Shawn Rhynes

     
  Name:   Shawn Rhynes      
  Title:   Managing Director      

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT

SIGNATURE PAGE


Acknowledgment of Grantors

STATE OF             )

                                 ) ss

COUNTY OF         )

On this      day of February, 2012, before me personally appeared                     , proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person who executed the foregoing instrument on behalf of MARINA BIOTECH, INC., who being by me duly sworn did depose and say that he is an authorized officer of said corporation, that the said instrument was signed on behalf of said corporation as authorized by its Board of Directors and that he acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation.

 

 

 
Notary Public  

STATE OF             )

                                 ) ss

COUNTY OF         )

On this      day of February, 2012, before me personally appeared                     , proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person who executed the foregoing instrument on behalf of CEQUENT PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., who being by me duly sworn did depose and say that he is an authorized officer of said corporation, that the said instrument was signed on behalf of said corporation as authorized by its Board of Directors and that he acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation.

 

 

 
Notary Public  

STATE OF             )

                                 ) ss

COUNTY OF         )

On this      day of February, 2012, before me personally appeared                     , proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person who executed the foregoing instrument on behalf of MDRNA RESEARCH, INC., who being by me duly sworn did depose and say that he is an authorized officer of said corporation, that the said instrument was signed on behalf of said corporation as authorized by its Board of Directors and that he acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation.

 

 

 
Notary Public  

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GRANTOR

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT

SIGNATURE PAGE

Exhibit 99.1

Marina Biotech Announces Closing of $1.5 MM Bridge Loan

Bothell, WA, February 10, 2012 – Marina Biotech, Inc. (OTCQX: MRNA), a leading nucleic acid-based drug discovery and development company, today announced the closing of a bridge loan pursuant to a Note and Warrant Purchase Agreement. Under the terms of the loan, the Company sold promissory notes in the aggregate principal amount of $1.5 million and issued warrants to purchase an aggregate of approximately 3.7 million shares of the Company’s common stock at $0.508 per share to certain accredited investors.

“As we continue to execute on our business strategy, this capital allows us necessary resources to achieve our first quarter objectives and provides us with the flexibility to pursue certain near-term partnering and financing options,” said J. Michael French, President and CEO of Marina Biotech.

The loan will become due and payable on May 14, 2012, with interest calculated at 15% per annum and payable on the due date. The loan is to be secured against the assets of Marina Biotech, Inc. and its subsidiaries.

About Marina Biotech, Inc.

Marina Biotech is a biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of oligonucleotide-based therapeutics utilizing multiple mechanisms of action including RNA interference (RNAi) and messenger RNA translational blocking. The Marina Biotech pipeline currently includes a clinical program in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (a precancerous syndrome) and two preclinical programs in bladder cancer and malignant ascites. Marina Biotech entered into an exclusive agreement with The Debiopharm Group for the development and commercialization of the bladder cancer program. In addition, Marina Biotech has recently entered into an agreement with Mirna Therapeutics to license its SMARTICLES ® technology for the delivery of microRNA mimics. Marina Biotech’s goal is to improve human health through the development of RNAi- and oligonucleotide-based compounds and drug delivery technologies that together provide superior therapeutic options for patients. Additional information about Marina Biotech is available at http://www.marinabio.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements made in this news release may be forward-looking statements within the meaning of Federal Securities laws that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and involve factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or suggested. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: (i) the ability of Marina Biotech to obtain additional funding; (ii) the ability of Marina Biotech to attract and/or maintain manufacturing, research, development and commercialization partners; (iii) the ability of Marina Biotech and/or a partner to successfully complete product research and development, including preclinical and clinical studies and


commercialization; (iv) the ability of Marina Biotech and/or a partner to obtain required governmental approvals; and (v) the ability of Marina Biotech and/or a partner to develop and commercialize products prior to, and that can compete favorably with those of, competitors. Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or suggested in any forward-looking statements are contained in Marina Biotech’s most recent periodic reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Marina Biotech assumes no obligation to update and supplement forward-looking statements because of subsequent events.

Marina Biotech, Inc.

Philip Ranker

Interim Chief Financial Officer

(425) 908-3615

pranker@marinabio.com