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): October 25, 2017 (October 24, 2017)

 

 

QUOTIENT LIMITED

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

 

Jersey, Channel Islands   001-36415   Not Applicable

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

B1, Business Park Terre Bonne,

Route de Crassier 13,

1262 Eysins, Switzerland

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

001-44-131-445-6159

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions ( see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☒

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☒

 

 

 


Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On October 24, 2017, Quotient Limited (the “Company”) entered into Subscription Agreements (the “Subscription Agreements”) with the subscribers identified on the signature pages thereto (the “Subscribers”) for the private placement (the “Private Placement”) of (i) 7,874,683 newly issued ordinary shares, of nil par value, of the Company at a subscription price of $4.64 per share (the “New Ordinary Shares”), which is equal to the closing bid price of the ordinary shares on NASDAQ on October 24, 2017, (ii) newly issued warrants (the “New Warrants”) of the Company, at a purchase price of $0.125 per underlying warrant share, exercisable for up to 8,414,683 ordinary shares at an exercise price of $5.80 per ordinary share (“New Warrant Shares”), and (iii) newly issued pre-funded warrants of the Company (the “Pre-Funded Warrants” and, together with the New Warrants, the “Warrants”) at a purchase price of $4.755 per underlying pre-funded warrant share, exercisable for up to 550,000 ordinary shares at an exercise price of $0.01 per ordinary share (“Pre-Funded Warrant Shares” and, together with New Warrant Shares, the “Warrant Shares” and, together with New Ordinary Shares, the “Shares”). Affiliates of the Company, including Galen Partners LLP (“Galen”), the Company’s largest shareholder, and certain officers and directors of the Company, are purchasing, in the aggregate, 526,758 New Ordinary Shares and 526,758 New Warrants in the Private Placement.

The Subscription Agreements contain representations, warranties and covenants that are customary for transactions of this type. The New Ordinary Shares and Warrants sold in the Private Placement are expected to be delivered to the Subscribers on or about October 26, 2017, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

The Warrants will be immediately exercisable upon issuance. The New Warrants will expire on July 31, 2018 and the Pre-Funded Warrants will expire on October 26, 2020. Subject to certain exceptions, a holder of the Warrants will not have the right to exercise any portion of such securities if the holder, together with its affiliates, would beneficially own in excess of 9.99% of the number of the Company’s ordinary shares outstanding immediately after the exercise. The exercise price of the Warrants, and in some cases the number of Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, will be subject to adjustment in the event of share splits, share dividends, combinations, rights offerings and similar events affecting the Company’s ordinary shares. In addition, in the event the Company consummates a merger or consolidation with or into another person or other reorganization event in which the Company’s ordinary shares are converted or exchanged for securities, cash or other property, or the Company sells, leases, licenses or otherwise disposes of all or substantially all of its assets or the Company or another person acquires 50% or more of the outstanding ordinary shares, then following such event, the holders of the Warrants will be entitled to receive upon exercise of such Warrants the same kind and amount of securities, cash or property which the holders would have received had they exercised the Warrants immediately prior to such fundamental transaction. Any successor to the Company or surviving entity shall assume the obligations under the Warrants.


The holders of the Warrants must surrender payment in cash of the aggregate exercise price of the Warrant Shares being acquired upon exercise of the Warrants. No fractional shares will be issued in connection with the exercise of the Warrants. In lieu of fractional shares, the Company will round up to the next whole share.

In connection with the Private Placement, the Company also entered into a Registration Rights Agreement, dated October 24, 2017, with the Subscribers (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) pursuant to which it has agreed to file, within 15 days of the closing of the Private Placement, a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to register the Shares and the New Warrants for resale, which registration statement is required to become effective within 45 days following the closing. The Company will be required to pay certain cash amounts as liquidated damages of one percent (1%) of the aggregate purchase price of the New Ordinary Shares and Warrants that are registrable securities per month (up to a cap of 10% of the aggregate subscription price of the New Ordinary Shares and Warrants) if it does not meet certain of its obligations under the Registration Rights Agreement with respect to the registration of the Shares and the New Warrants.

On October 25, 2017, the Company issued a press release announcing the signing of the Subscription Agreements and Registration Rights Agreement. A copy of the press release is attached to this report as Exhibit 99.1, and is incorporated herein by reference. The Registration Rights Agreement, the form of New Warrant, the form of Pre-Funded Warrant, and the form of Subscription Agreement are attached hereto as Exhibits 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 10.1, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.

The foregoing descriptions of the Registration Rights Agreement, the Subscription Agreements, the New Warrants and the Pre-Funded Warrants do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the Registration Rights Agreement, the form of Subscription Agreement, the form of New Warrant and the form of Pre-Funded Warrant attached hereto.

 

Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

The information set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K that relates to the unregistered sale of equity securities is incorporated by reference into this Item 3.02.

The aggregate offering price of the New Ordinary Shares and Warrants to be sold in the Private Placement is approximately $40.2 million.

The sale of the New Ordinary Shares and Warrants has not been, and the sale of the Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants by the Subscribers will not be, registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The New Ordinary Shares and the Warrants have been, and the Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants by the Subscribers, will be sold to accredited investors in reliance upon exemptions from registration under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder. The Shares and Warrants may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under or exemption from the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws. Each of the Subscribers in the Private Placement represented that it was an accredited investor as defined in Regulation D and that it was acquiring the New Ordinary Shares and Warrants for investment only and not with a view towards, or for resale in connection with, the public sale or distribution thereof. With respect to the New Ordinary Shares, appropriate stop transfer orders will be provided to the transfer agent for the ordinary shares, and, with respect to the Warrants, appropriate legends will be affixed to the certificates evidencing the Warrants. Upon exercise, each holder of Warrants will represent that it is an accredited investor as defined in Regulation D and that it is acquiring the Warrant Shares for investment only and not with a view towards, or for resale in connection with, the public sale or distribution thereof, and either appropriate legends will be affixed to the certificates evidencing the Warrant Shares, or stop transfer ordered implemented with respect to the Warrant Shares, as applicable.

 

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

On October 25, 2017, the Company issued a press release announcing blood grouping concordance data from the Company’s MosaiQ verification and validation studies. A copy of the press release is furnished with this Current Report as Exhibit 99.2.


The information in this Item 7.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 99.2 attached hereto, shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to liability under such section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any of our filings under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing, unless expressly incorporated by specific reference in such filing.

 

Item 8.01 Other Events.

On October 24, 2014, Quotient Biodiagnostics Group Limited, a company for which Deidre Cowan (the spouse of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company) exercises sole voting and dispositive power, instructed the administrator of its previously announced Rule 10b5-1 trading plan (the “Plan”) to terminate the Plan. The Plan will be terminated no later than two business days after the receipt of the notice of termination in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Plan.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit
Number
  

Description

  4.1    Registration Rights Agreement, dated October 24, 2017, by and among Quotient Limited and the Subscribers named therein.
  4.2    Form of New Warrant.
  4.3    Form of Pre-Funded Warrant .
10.1    Form of Subscription Agreement, dated October 24, 2017, by and among Quotient Limited and the Subscribers named therein.
99.1    Press Release, dated October 25, 2017.
99.2    Press Release, dated October 25, 2017.


SIGNATURES

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

 

          QUOTIENT LIMITED
Date: October 25, 2017     By:   /s/ Paul Cowan
     

Paul Cowan

Chief Executive Officer

Exhibit 4.1

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement ”), dated as of October 24, 2017, by and among QUOTIENT LIMITED, a company organized under the laws of Jersey (the “ Company ”), and the undersigned subscribers (each, a “ Subscriber ”, and collectively, the “ Subscribers ”).

WHEREAS:

A. Each Subscriber has entered into a Subscription Agreement of even date herewith (each, a “ Subscription Agreement ” and collectively, the “ Subscription Agreements ”), pursuant to which the Company has agreed, upon the terms and subject to the conditions of the Subscription Agreements, to issue on the Closing Date to each Subscriber (i) new ordinary shares, with no par value in the capital of the Company (the “ Ordinary Shares ” and, the shares issued to the Subscribers, the “ New Ordinary Shares ”), and (ii) warrants (the “ New Warrants ”), which will be exercisable to purchase Ordinary Shares (as exercised collectively, the “ New Warrant Shares ”).

B. Pursuant to certain of the Subscription Agreements, the Company has also agreed, upon the terms and subject to the conditions of such Subscription Agreements, to issue on the Closing Date to the Subscribers party thereto pre-funded warrants (the “ Pre-Funded Warrants ”, and together with the New Warrants, the “ Warrants ”), which will be exercisable to purchase Ordinary Shares (as exercised collectively, the “ Pre-Funded Warrant Shares ”, and together with the New Warrant Shares, the “ Warrant Shares ”).

C. To induce the Subscribers to execute and deliver the Subscription Agreements, the Company has agreed to provide certain registration rights under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder, or any similar successor statute (collectively, the “ 1933 Act ”), and applicable state securities laws.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and each of the Subscribers hereby agree as follows:

1. Definitions .

Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Subscription Agreements. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Business Day ” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which commercial banks in the City of New York, in the State of New York, United States of America, are authorized or required by law to remain closed.

Closing Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in the Subscription Agreements.

Effective Date ” means the date the Registration Statement has been declared effective by the SEC.


Effectiveness Deadline ” means the date that is 45 days after the Closing Date.

Filing Deadline ” means the date that is 15 days after the Closing Date.

Investor ” or “ Investors ” means a Subscriber or any transferee or transferees, assignee or assignees thereof to whom a Subscriber assigns its rights under this Agreement and who agrees to become bound by the provisions of this Agreement in accordance with Section 9 and any transferee or assignee thereof to whom a transferee or assignee assigns its rights under this Agreement and who agrees to become bound by the provisions of this Agreement in accordance with Section 9.

Person ” means an individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization and a government or any department or agency thereof.

register ,” “ registered ” and “ registration ” refer to a registration effected by preparing and filing one or more Registration Statements (as defined below) in compliance with the 1933 Act and pursuant to Rule 415 and the declaration or ordering of effectiveness of such Registration Statement(s) by the SEC.

Registrable Securities ” means (i) the New Ordinary Shares, (ii) the New Warrants, (iii) the New Warrant Shares issued or issuable upon exercise of the New Warrants, without regard to any limitation on exercise of the New Warrants, (iii) the Pre-Funded Warrant Shares issued or issuable upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants, without regard to any limitation on exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants and (iv) any shares in the capital of the Company issued or issuable with respect to the New Ordinary Shares, the New Warrant Shares, the Pre-Funded Warrant Shares, the New Warrants or the Pre-Funded Warrants as a result of any share split, share dividend, recapitalization, exchange or similar event or otherwise, without regard, in the case of the New Warrants or the Pre-Funded Warrants, to any limitation on exercise of the New Warrants or the Pre-Funded Warrants, as applicable.

Registration Statement ” means a registration statement or registration statements of the Company filed under the 1933 Act covering the Registrable Securities.

Required Holders ” means the holders of at least a majority of the Registrable Securities, determined as if all of the Warrants then outstanding have been exercised for Warrant Shares which are Registrable Securities without regard to any limitations on the exercise of the Warrants.

Required Registration Amount ” for the Registration Statement means 100% of the sum of (A) in the case of Ordinary Shares, (i) the number of New Ordinary Shares issued pursuant to the Subscription Agreements, and (ii) the number of Warrant Shares issued and issuable pursuant to the Warrants as of the applicable date of determination (without regard to any limitations on exercise of the Warrants), and (B) in the case of New Warrants, the number of New Warrants issued pursuant to the Subscription Agreements as of the applicable date of determination, in each case, all subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2(e); provided, however, that, if as of the applicable date of determination, any New Warrant has been exercised in full, such New Warrant shall not be included in the applicable Required Registration Amount.

 

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Rule 415 ” means Rule 415 promulgated under the 1933 Act or any successor rule providing for offering securities on a continuous or delayed basis.

SEC ” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Securities ” means the New Ordinary Shares, the New Warrants, the New Warrant Shares and the Pre-Funded Warrant Shares.

2. Registration .

(a) Mandatory Registration . The Company shall prepare, and, as soon as reasonably practicable but in no event later than the Filing Deadline, file with the SEC the Registration Statement covering the resale of at least the number of Ordinary Shares and New Warrants equal to the applicable Required Registration Amount determined as of the date the Registration Statement is initially filed with the SEC. In the event that Form S-3 is unavailable for such a registration, the Company shall use such other form as is available for such a registration and reasonably acceptable to the Required Holders, subject to the provisions of Section 2(d). The Registration Statement shall contain (except if otherwise directed by the Required Holders) the “Selling Securityholders” and “Plan of Distribution” sections in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B . The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC as soon as reasonably practicable, but in no event later than the Effectiveness Deadline. By 5:30 p.m. on the second Business Day following the Effective Date, the Company shall file with the SEC, in accordance with Rule 424 under the 1933 Act, the final prospectus to be used in connection with sales pursuant to such Registration Statement.

(b) Allocation of Registrable Securities . The initial number of Registrable Securities included in any Registration Statement and any increase in the number of Registrable Securities included therein shall be allocated pro rata among the Investors based on the number of Registrable Securities held by each Investor at the time the Registration Statement covering such initial number of Registrable Securities or increase thereof is declared effective by the SEC. In the event that an Investor sells or otherwise transfers any of such Investor’s Registrable Securities, each transferee that is assigned rights under this Agreement pursuant to Section 9 shall be allocated a pro rata portion of the number of Registrable Securities then included in such Registration Statement for such Investor. Any Securities included in a Registration Statement that remain allocated to any Person who does not hold any Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement shall be allocated to the remaining Investors, pro rata based on the number of Registrable Securities then held by such Investors that are covered by such Registration Statement. In no event shall the Company include any securities other than Registrable Securities on any Registration Statement without the prior written consent of the Required Holders.

(c) Legal Counsel . Subject to Section 5 hereof, the Required Holders shall have the right to select one legal counsel to review and oversee any registration pursuant to this Section 2 (“ Legal Counsel ”), which shall be counsel designated by the Required Holders. The Company and Legal Counsel shall reasonably cooperate with each other in performing the Company’s obligations under this Agreement.

 

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(d) Ineligibility for Form S-3 . In the event that Form S-3 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall (i) register the resale of the Registrable Securities on another appropriate form reasonably acceptable to the Required Holders and (ii) undertake to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3 as soon as such form is available, provided that the Company shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the SEC.

(e) Sufficient Number of Securities Registered . In the event the number of Securities available under a Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(a) is insufficient to cover all of the Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2(b), the Company shall amend the applicable Registration Statement, or file a new Registration Statement (on the short form available therefor, if applicable), or both, to register at least the applicable Required Registration Amount of Registrable Securities, determined as of the trading day immediately preceding the date of the filing of such amendment or new Registration Statement. The filing of the amendment or new Registration Statement, as applicable, should occur as soon as reasonably practicable, but in any event not later than fifteen (15) days after the necessity therefor arises. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such amendment and/or new Registration Statement to become effective as soon as reasonably practicable following the filing thereof. For purposes of the foregoing provision, the number of shares available under a Registration Statement shall be deemed “insufficient to cover all of the Registrable Securities” if at any time the number of Securities available for resale under the Registration Statement is less than the applicable Required Registration Amount. The calculation set forth in the foregoing sentence shall be made without regard to any limitations on the exercise of the Warrants, and such calculation shall assume that the New Warrants and the Pre-Funded Warrants are then exercisable for shares of Ordinary Shares at the then prevailing Exercise Price (as defined in the New Warrants or the Pre-Funded Warrants, as applicable).

(f) Effect of Failure to File and Obtain and Maintain Effectiveness of Registration Statement . If (i) a Registration Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities required to be covered thereby and required to be filed by the Company pursuant to this Agreement is (A) not filed with the SEC on or before the Filing Deadline (a “ Filing Failure ”) or (B) not declared effective by the SEC on or before the Effectiveness Deadline (an “ Effectiveness Failure ”); or (ii) on any day after the Effective Date sales of all of the Registrable Securities required to be included on such Registration Statement cannot be made (other than during (I) the period (the “ Post Effective Period ”) beginning on the first day on which a post-effective amendment is required to be filed by the Company pursuant to the undertakings referred to in Rule 415(a)(3) of the 1933 Act and ending on the earlier of (x) the thirtieth (30 th ) day after such date and (y) the date on which such post-effective amendment is declared effective by the SEC or (II) a Grace Period (as defined in Section 3(s)) pursuant to such Registration Statement (including, without limitation, because of a failure to keep such Registration Statement effective, failure to disclose such information as is necessary for sales to be made pursuant to such Registration Statement or failure to register a sufficient number of Securities) (a “ Maintenance Failure ”) then, as partial relief for the damages to any holder by reason of any such delay in or reduction of its ability to sell the underlying Securities, the Company shall pay to each holder of Registrable Securities relating to such Registration Statement an amount in cash equal to one percent (1.0%) of the aggregate Subscription Price (as such term is defined in the Subscription Agreements) of such Investor’s Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement on each of the following dates: (i) within five (5) Business Days of a Filing Failure and on every thirtieth day (pro rated for periods shorter than thirty (30) days) thereafter until such Filing Failure is cured; (ii) within five (5) Business Days of an Effectiveness Failure and on every thirtieth day (pro rated for periods

 

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shorter than thirty (30) days) thereafter until such Effectiveness Failure is cured; and (iii) and on every thirtieth day (pro rated for periods shorter than thirty (30) days) following a Maintenance Failure until such Maintenance Failure is cured (which payments shall be exclusive remedies available under this Agreement or under applicable law). The payments to which a holder shall be entitled pursuant to this Section 2(f) are referred to herein as “ Registration Delay Payments .” Registration Delay Payments shall be paid on the earlier of (I) the last day of the calendar month during which such Registration Delay Payments are incurred and (II) the third Business Day after the event or failure giving rise to the Registration Delay Payments is cured. In the event the Company fails to make Registration Delay Payments within five (5) Business Days after the date payable, such Registration Delay Payments shall bear interest at the rate of one percent (1.0%) per month (pro rated for shorter periods) until paid in full. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in the Subscription Agreements, in no event shall the aggregate amount of Registration Delay Payments (other than Registration Delay Payments payable pursuant to events that are within the Company’s control) exceed, in the aggregate, 10% of the aggregate Subscription Price of the New Ordinary Shares, the New Warrants and the Pre-Funded Warrants.

3. Related Obligations .

At such time as the Company is obligated to file a Registration Statement with the SEC pursuant to Section 2(a), 2(d) or 2(e), the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect the registration of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method of disposition thereof, and, pursuant thereto, the Company shall have the following obligations:

(a) The Company shall submit to the SEC, within two (2) Business Days after the Company learns that no review of a particular Registration Statement will be made by the staff of the SEC or that the staff has no further comments on a particular Registration Statement, as the case may be, a request for acceleration of effectiveness of such Registration Statement to a time and date not later than 48 hours after the submission of such request. Other than during any Post Effective Period, the Company shall keep each Registration Statement effective pursuant to Rule 415 at all times until the earlier of (i) the date as of which the Investors may sell all of the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 144 (or any successor thereto) promulgated under the 1933 Act without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required thereunder and without volume or manner-of sale restrictions, or (ii) the date on which the Investors shall have sold all of the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement (the “ Registration Period ”). The Company shall ensure that each Registration Statement (including any amendments or supplements thereto and prospectuses contained therein) shall not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading.

(b) The Company shall (i) prepare and file with the SEC such amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements to the Registration Statement and the Rule 424 prospectus used in connection with such Registration Statement as may be necessary to keep such Registration Statement effective at all times during the Registration Period, and (ii) during such period, comply with the provisions of the 1933 Act with respect to the disposition of all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement until such time as all of such Registrable Securities shall have been disposed of in accordance with the intended methods of disposition by the seller or sellers thereof as set forth in such

 

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Registration Statement. In the case of amendments and supplements to a Registration Statement that are required to be filed pursuant to this Agreement, including, pursuant to this Section 3(b), by reason of the Company filing a report on Form 10-Q, Form 10-K, or any analogous report under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ 1934 Act ”), the Company shall either incorporate such report by reference into such Registration Statement, if applicable, or file such amendments or supplements with the SEC on the same day on which the 1934 Act report is filed that created the requirement for the Company to amend or supplement such Registration Statement.

(c) The Company shall permit Legal Counsel to review and comment upon (i) a Registration Statement at least five (5) Business Days prior to its filing with the SEC and (ii) all amendments and supplements to all Registration Statements (except for Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and any similar or successor reports) within a reasonable number of days prior to their filing with the SEC. The Company shall furnish to Legal Counsel, without charge, (i) copies of any correspondence from the SEC or the staff of the SEC to the Company or its representatives relating to any Registration Statement, (ii) if requested by Legal Counsel, promptly after the same is prepared and filed with the SEC, one copy of any Registration Statement and any amendment(s) thereto, including financial statements and schedules, all documents incorporated therein by reference, and all exhibits (in each case except for Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and any similar or successor reports), and (iii) upon the effectiveness of any Registration Statement, one copy of the prospectus included in such Registration Statement and all amendments and supplements thereto. The Company shall reasonably cooperate with Legal Counsel in performing the Company’s obligations pursuant to this Section 3.

(d) The Company shall furnish to each Investor whose Registrable Securities are included in any Registration Statement, without charge, (i) if requested by an Investor, promptly after the same is prepared and filed with the SEC, an electronic copy of such Registration Statement and any amendment(s) thereto, including financial statements and schedules, all documents incorporated therein by reference (in each case except for Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and any similar or successor reports), all exhibits and each preliminary prospectus, (ii) upon the effectiveness of any Registration Statement, such number of copies of the prospectus included in such Registration Statement and all amendments and supplements thereto as such Investor may reasonably request, and (iii) such other documents, including copies of any preliminary or final prospectus, as such Investor may reasonably request from time to time in order to facilitate the disposition of the Registrable Securities owned by such Investor.

(e) The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) register and qualify, unless an exemption from registration and qualification applies, the resale by Investors of the Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement under such other securities or “Blue Sky” laws of all applicable jurisdictions in the United States (“ Blue Sky Laws ”), (ii) prepare and file in those jurisdictions, such amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements to such registrations and qualifications as may be necessary to maintain the effectiveness thereof during the Registration Period, (iii) take such other actions as may be necessary to maintain such registrations and qualifications in effect at all times during the Registration Period, and (iv) take all other actions reasonably necessary or advisable to qualify the Registrable Securities for sale in such jurisdictions; provided , however , that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith or as a condition

 

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thereto (x) to qualify to do business in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify but for this Section 3(e), (y) subject itself to general taxation in any such jurisdiction, or (z) to file a general consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction. The Company shall promptly notify Legal Counsel and each Investor who holds Registrable Securities of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the registration or qualification of any of the Registrable Securities for sale under the securities or Blue Sky Laws or its receipt of notice of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose.

(f) The Company shall notify Legal Counsel and each Investor in writing of the happening of any event, as promptly as reasonably practicable after becoming aware of such event, as a result of which the prospectus included in a Registration Statement, as then in effect, includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omission to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (provided that in no event shall such notice contain any material, nonpublic information), and, subject to Section 3(s), as promptly as reasonably practicable prepare a supplement or amendment to such Registration Statement to correct such untrue statement or omission, and, if requested by Legal Counsel or an Investor, deliver such number of copies of such supplement or amendment to Legal Counsel and each Investor as Legal Counsel or such Investor may reasonably request. The Company shall also as promptly as reasonably practicable notify Legal Counsel and each Investor by facsimile, electronic mail or other electronic transmission or in writing (i) when a prospectus or any prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed, and when a Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement has become effective (notification of such effectiveness shall be delivered to Legal Counsel and each Investor by facsimile, electronic mail or other electronic transmission within two (2) Business Days of such effectiveness) and (ii) of any request by the SEC for amendments or supplements to a Registration Statement or related prospectus or related information.

(g) The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order or other suspension of effectiveness of a Registration Statement or the suspension of the qualification of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction. If such an order or suspension is issued, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the withdrawal of such order or suspension at the earliest possible moment, and to notify Legal Counsel and each Investor who holds Registrable Securities being sold of the issuance of such order and the resolution thereof, or its receipt of notice of the initiation or threat of any proceeding for such purpose.

(h) If any Investor is required under applicable securities law to be described in the Registration Statement as an underwriter, at the reasonable request of such Investor, the Company shall furnish to such Investor, on the date of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and thereafter from time to time on such dates as an Investor may reasonably request, (i) a letter, dated such date, from the Company’s independent certified public accountants in form and substance as is customarily given by independent certified public accountants to underwriters in an underwritten public offering, addressed to such Investors, and (ii) an opinion, dated as of such date, of counsel representing the Company for purposes of such Registration Statement, in form, scope and substance as is customarily given in an underwritten public offering, addressed to such Investors.

 

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(i) Upon the written request of any Investor in connection with any Investor’s due diligence requirements, if any, the Company shall make available for inspection by (i) any Investor, (ii) Legal Counsel and (iii) one firm of accountants or other agents selected by the Required Holders retained by the Investors (collectively, the “ Inspectors ”), all pertinent financial and other records, and pertinent corporate documents and properties of the Company (collectively, the “ Records ”), as shall be reasonably deemed necessary by each Inspector, and cause the Company’s officers, directors and employees to supply all information that any Inspector may reasonably request that would be customarily provided to underwriters in an underwritten public offering; provided , however , that each Inspector shall agree to hold in strict confidence and shall not make any disclosure (except to an Investor) or use of any Record or other information which the Company determines in good faith to be confidential, and of which determination the Inspectors are so notified, unless (a) in the opinion of Legal Counsel to the Investors, the disclosure of such Records is necessary to avoid or correct a misstatement or omission in any Registration Statement or is otherwise required under the 1933 Act, (b) the release of such Records is ordered pursuant to a final, non-appealable subpoena or order from a court or government body of competent jurisdiction, or (c) the information in such Records has been made generally available to the public other than by disclosure in violation of this or any other Transaction Document (as defined in the Subscription Agreements). Each Investor agrees that it shall, upon learning that disclosure of such Records is sought in or by a court or governmental body of competent jurisdiction or through other means, give prompt notice to the Company and allow the Company, at its expense, to undertake appropriate action to prevent disclosure of, or to obtain a protective order for, the Records deemed confidential. Nothing herein (or in any other confidentiality agreement between the Company and any Investor) shall be deemed to limit the Investors’ ability to sell Registrable Securities in a manner which is otherwise consistent with applicable laws and regulations.

(j) The Company shall not, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries and its and each of their respective officers, directors, employees and agents, not to, provide any Investor with any material, nonpublic information regarding the Company or any of its subsidiaries without the express written consent of such Investor. If an Investor has, or believes it has, received any such material, nonpublic information regarding the Company or any of its subsidiaries from such Persons, it shall provide the Company with written notice thereof. The Company shall, within two (2) Trading Days of receipt of such notice, make public disclosure of such material, nonpublic information, to the extent such information is both material and nonpublic. “ Trading Day ” means any day on which the Ordinary Shares are traded on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which the Ordinary Shares are then traded (the “ Principal Market ”); provided that “ Trading Day ” shall not include any day on which the Ordinary Shares are scheduled to trade on such exchange or market for less than 4.5 hours or any day that the Ordinary Shares are suspended from trading during the final hour of trading on such exchange or market (or if such exchange or market does not designate in advance the closing time of trading on such exchange or market, then during the hour ending at 4:00 p.m., New York time). Without the prior written consent of an Investor, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall disclose the name of such Investor in any filing, announcement, release or otherwise other than in connection with the Registration Statement, unless such disclosure is required by law, regulation or the Principal Market.

 

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(k) The Company shall hold in confidence and not make any disclosure of information concerning an Investor provided to the Company which the Investor determines in good faith to be confidential, and of which determination the Company is so notified (and such information shall not include information provided to the Company by the Investor for use in connection with the filing of any Registration Statement) unless (i) the disclosure of such information is necessary to comply with federal or state securities laws, (ii) the disclosure of such information is necessary to avoid or correct a misstatement or omission in any Registration Statement, (iii) the release of such information is ordered pursuant to a subpoena or other final, non-appealable order from a court or governmental body of competent jurisdiction, or (iv) such information has been made generally available to the public other than by disclosure in violation of this Agreement or any other agreement. The Company agrees that it shall, upon learning that disclosure of such information concerning an Investor is sought in or by a court or governmental body of competent jurisdiction or through other means, give prompt written notice to such Investor and allow such Investor, at the Investor’s expense, to undertake appropriate action to prevent disclosure of, or to obtain a protective order for, such information.

(l) The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause all of the Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement to be listed on each securities exchange on which securities of the same class or series issued by the Company are then listed, if any, if the listing of such Registrable Securities is then permitted under the rules of such exchange.

(m) The Company shall cooperate with the Investors who hold Registrable Securities being offered and, to the extent applicable, facilitate the removal of stop transfer orders and the timely preparation and delivery of certificates (not bearing any restrictive legend) representing the Registrable Securities to be offered pursuant to a Registration Statement and enable such certificates to be in such denominations or amounts, as the case may be, as the Investors may reasonably request and registered in such names as the Investors may request. The Company shall provide the transfer agent, warrant agent or other similar agent for the Registrable Securities with any required opinions, certificates or other documentation to facilitate the sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement free of restrictive legends; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to furnish an opinion to facilitate the sale of securities without registration pursuant to Rule 144 at any time when the Registrable Securities may be sold pursuant to an effective Registration Statement.

(n) If requested by an Investor, the Company shall (i) as soon as reasonably practicable, incorporate in a prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment such information as an Investor reasonably requests to be included therein relating to the sale and distribution of Registrable Securities, including, without limitation, information with respect to the number of Registrable Securities being offered or sold, the purchase price being paid therefor and any other terms of the offering of the Registrable Securities to be sold in such offering; (ii) as soon as reasonably practicable, make all required filings of such prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment after being notified of the matters to be incorporated in such prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment; and (iii) as soon as reasonably practicable, supplement or make amendments to any Registration Statement if reasonably requested by an Investor holding any Registrable Securities.

(o) The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement to be registered with or approved by such other governmental agencies or authorities as may be necessary to consummate the disposition of such Registrable Securities.

 

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(p) Unless available on the SEC’s Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system, the Company shall make generally available to its security holders as soon as practical, but in any event not later than ninety (90) days after the close of the period covered thereby, an earnings statement (in form complying with, and in the manner provided by, the provisions of Rule 158 under the 1933 Act) covering a twelve-month period beginning not later than the first day of the Company’s fiscal quarter next following the effective date of a Registration Statement.

(q) The Company shall otherwise use its commercially reasonable efforts to comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the SEC in connection with any registration hereunder.

(r) Within two (2) Business Days after a Registration Statement which covers Registrable Securities is ordered effective by the SEC, the Company shall deliver, and shall cause legal counsel for the Company to deliver, to the transfer agent for such Registrable Securities (with copies to the Investors whose Registrable Securities are included in such Registration Statement) confirmation that such Registration Statement has been declared effective by the SEC in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A .

(s) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, at any time after the Effective Date, the Company may delay the disclosure of material, non-public information concerning the Company, the disclosure of which at the time is not, in the good faith opinion of the board of directors of the Company and its counsel, in the best interest of the Company and otherwise required (a “ Grace Period ”); provided that the Company shall promptly (i) notify the Investors in writing of the existence of material, non-public information giving rise to a Grace Period (provided that in each notice the Company will not disclose the content of such material, non-public information to the Investors) and the date on which the Grace Period will begin, and (ii) notify the Investors in writing of the date on which the Grace Period ends; provided , further , that no Grace Period shall exceed ten (10) consecutive days and during any three hundred sixty five (365) day period, such Grace Periods shall not exceed an aggregate of thirty (30) days, and the first day of any Grace Period must be at least five (5) trading days after the last day of any prior Grace Period. For purposes of determining the length of a Grace Period above, the Grace Period shall begin on and include the date the Investors receive the notice referred to in clause (i) and shall end on and include the later of the date the Investors receive the notice referred to in clause (ii) or the date referred to in such notice. The last sentence of Section 3(a), first sentence of Section 3(b), and provisions of Section 3(g) and 3(n) hereof shall not be applicable during any Grace Period. Upon expiration of the Grace Period, the Company shall again be bound by the provisions of Sections 3(a), 3(b), 3(g) and 3(n) with respect to the information giving rise thereto unless such information is no longer material. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Transaction Documents, the Company shall cause its transfer agent to deliver unlegended Ordinary Shares or New Warrants, as applicable, to a transferee of an Investor, in accordance with the terms of the Subscription Agreements, in connection with any sale of Registrable Securities with respect to which an Investor has entered into a contract for sale prior to the Investor’s receipt of the notice of a Grace Period and for which the Investor has not yet settled, and deliver a copy of the prospectus included as part of the applicable Registration Statement (unless an exemption from such prospectus delivery requirement exists).

(t) The Company shall facilitate the eligibility and acceptance of certificates representing the Registrable Securities (not bearing any restrictive legend and in a form eligible for deposit with The Depository Trust Company (“ DTC ”)) for delivery of any sale of such Registrable Securities to be offered pursuant to a Registration Statement through the facilities of DTC upon the effectiveness of such Registration Statement.

 

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4. Obligations of the Investors .

(a) At least five (5) Business Days prior to the first anticipated filing date of a Registration Statement, the Company shall notify each Investor in writing of the information the Company requires from each such Investor if such Investor elects to have any of such Investor’s Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement. It shall be a condition precedent to the obligations of the Company to complete the registration pursuant to this Agreement with respect to the Registrable Securities of a particular Investor that (i) such Investor shall promptly furnish to the Company such information regarding itself, the Registrable Securities held by it and the intended method of disposition of the Registrable Securities held by it as shall be reasonably required to effect the effectiveness of the registration of such Registrable Securities, and (ii) the Investor shall execute such documents in connection with such registration as the Company may reasonably request.

(b) Each Investor, by such Investor’s acceptance of the Registrable Securities, agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Company as reasonably requested by the Company in connection with the preparation and filing of any Registration Statement hereunder, unless such Investor has notified the Company in writing of such Investor’s election to exclude all of such Investor’s Registrable Securities from such Registration Statement.

(c) Each Investor agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 3(g) or the first sentence of 3(f), written notice from the Company of a Grace Period or written notice from the Company that a previously effective Registration Statement is no longer effective, such Investor will immediately discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to any Registration Statement(s) covering such Registrable Securities until such Investor’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or amended prospectus contemplated by Section 3(g) or the first sentence of 3(f) or receipt of notice that no supplement or amendment is required or that the Grace Period has ended or that the Registration Statement is effective. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Transaction Documents, the Company shall cause its transfer agent to deliver unlegended Ordinary Shares or New Warrants, as applicable, to a transferee of an Investor, in accordance with the terms of the Subscription Agreements, in connection with any sale of Registrable Securities with respect to which an Investor has entered into a contract for sale prior to the Investor’s receipt of a notice from the Company of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 3(g) or the first sentence of 3(f), and for which the Investor has not yet settled.

(d) Each Investor covenants and agrees that it will comply with the prospectus delivery requirements of the 1933 Act as applicable to it or an exemption therefrom in connection with sales of Registrable Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement.

5. Expenses of Registration .

All reasonable expenses, other than underwriting discounts and commissions incurred in connection with registrations, filings or qualifications pursuant to Sections 2 and 3, including, without limitation, all registration, listing and qualifications fees, printers and accounting fees, and fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company, shall be paid by the Company. The Company shall not be liable to the Investors for the fees and disbursements of Legal Counsel in connection with registration, filing or qualification pursuant to Sections 2 and 3 of this Agreement, except to the extent specified in Section 4(g) of the Subscription Agreements.

 

 

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6. Indemnification .

In the event any Registrable Securities are included in a Registration Statement under this Agreement:

(a) To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company will, and hereby does, indemnify, hold harmless and defend each Investor, the directors, officers, members, partners, employees, agents, representatives thereof, and each Person, if any, who controls any Investor within the meaning of the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act (each, an “ Indemnified Person ”), against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities, judgments, fines, penalties, reasonable charges, reasonable costs, reasonable attorneys’ fees, amounts paid in settlement or reasonable expenses, joint or several, incurred in investigating, preparing or defending any action, claim, suit, inquiry, proceeding, investigation or appeal taken from the foregoing by or before any court or governmental, administrative or other regulatory agency, body or the SEC, whether pending or threatened, whether or not an indemnified party is or may be a party thereto (“ Losses ”), to which any of them may become subject insofar as such Losses arise out of or are based upon: (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact in a Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto or in any filing made in connection with the qualification of the offering under the securities or other Blue Sky Laws, or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any preliminary prospectus if used prior to the effective date of such Registration Statement, or contained in the final prospectus (as amended or supplemented, if the Company files any amendment thereof or supplement thereto with the SEC) or the omission or alleged omission to state therein any material fact necessary to make the statements made therein, in the light of the circumstances under which the statements therein were made, not misleading, (iii) any violation or alleged violation by the Company of the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act, any state securities law, or any rule or regulation thereunder relating to the offer or sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement (the matters in the foregoing clauses (i) through (iii) being, collectively, “ Violations ”). Subject to Section 6(c), the Company shall promptly reimburse the Indemnified Persons for Losses as they are incurred. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the indemnification agreement contained in this Section 6(a): (i) shall not apply to Losses incurred by an Indemnified Person arising out of or based upon any Violation, in each case to the extent, and only to the extent, that such Violation occurs in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Indemnified Person expressly for use in connection with the preparation of the Registration Statement or any such amendment thereof or supplement thereto, if such prospectus was timely made available by the Company pursuant to Section 3(d) and (ii) shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement if such settlement is effected without the prior written consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned. Such indemnity shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Indemnified Person and shall survive the transfer of the Registrable Securities by the Investors pursuant to Section 9.

 

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(b) In connection with any Registration Statement in which an Investor is participating, each such Investor agrees to severally and not jointly indemnify, hold harmless and defend, to the same extent and in the same manner as is set forth in Section 6(a), the Company, each of its directors, each of its officers, employees and agents and each Person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act (each, an “ Indemnified Party ”), against any Losses to which any of them have become subject, insofar as such Losses arise out of or are based upon any Violation, in each case to the extent, and only to the extent, that such Violation occurs in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Investor expressly for use in connection with such Registration Statement; provided , however , that such Investor’s obligation to reimburse any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by an Indemnified Party in connection with investigating or defending any action, claim, suit, inquiry, proceeding, investigation or appeal taken from the foregoing (each, a “ Claim ”) is subject to Section 6(c); provided further , however , that the indemnity agreement contained in this Section 6(b) and the agreement with respect to contribution contained in Section 7 shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement if such settlement is effected without the prior written consent of such Investor, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned; provided further , however , that such Investor shall be liable under this Section 6(b) for only Losses that do not exceed the net proceeds to such Investor as a result of the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement. Such indemnity shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of such Indemnified Party and shall survive the transfer of the Registrable Securities by the Investors pursuant to Section 9.

(c) Promptly after receipt by an Indemnified Person or Indemnified Party under this Section 6 of notice of the commencement of any Claim, such Indemnified Person or Indemnified Party shall, if a request for indemnification in respect thereof is to be made against any indemnifying party under this Section 6, deliver to the indemnifying party a written notice of the commencement thereof, and the indemnifying party shall have the right to participate in, and, to the extent the indemnifying party so desires, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly noticed, to assume control of the defense thereof with counsel mutually satisfactory to the indemnifying party and the Indemnified Person or the Indemnified Party, as the case may be; provided , however , that an Indemnified Person or Indemnified Party shall have the right to retain its own counsel with the reasonable fees and expenses of not more than one counsel for such Indemnified Person or Indemnified Party to be paid by the indemnifying party, if, in the reasonable opinion of counsel retained by the indemnifying party, the representation by such counsel of the Indemnified Person or Indemnified Party and the indemnifying party would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between such Indemnified Person or Indemnified Party and any other party represented by such counsel in such proceeding. In the case of an Indemnified Person, legal counsel referred to in the immediately preceding sentence shall be selected by the Investors holding at least a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities included in the Registration Statement to which the Claim relates. The Indemnified Party or Indemnified Person shall cooperate fully with the indemnifying party in connection with any negotiation or defense of any such Claim by the indemnifying party and shall furnish to the indemnifying party all information reasonably available to the Indemnified Party or Indemnified Person which relates to such Claim. The indemnifying party shall keep the Indemnified Party or Indemnified Person reasonably apprised at all times as to the status of the defense or any settlement negotiations with respect thereto. No indemnifying party shall be liable for any settlement of any Claim effected without its prior written consent; provided , however , that

 

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the indemnifying party shall not unreasonably withhold, delay or condition its consent. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Party or Indemnified Person, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement or other compromise which does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such Indemnified Party or Indemnified Person of a release from all liability in respect to such Claim, and such settlement shall not include any admission as to fault on the part of the Indemnified Party. Following indemnification as provided for hereunder, the indemnifying party shall be subrogated to all rights of the Indemnified Party or Indemnified Person with respect to all third parties, firms or corporations relating to the matter for which indemnification has been made. The failure to deliver written notice to the indemnifying party within a reasonable time of the commencement of any such action shall not relieve such indemnifying party of any liability to the Indemnified Person or Indemnified Party under this Section 6, except to the extent that the indemnifying party is prejudiced in its ability to defend such action.

(d) The indemnification required by this Section 6 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or Losses are incurred, and in each case submitted to the indemnifying party for payment subject to and in accordance with this Section 6. In the event the indemnifying party is found not to be liable for indemnification upon settlement of a Claim, the Indemnified Party or Indemnified Person shall, within three (3) Business Days of such Claim settlement, return any and all funds received during the course of such investigation or defense. The indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in addition to (i) any cause of action or similar right of the Indemnified Party or Indemnified Person against the indemnifying party or others, and (ii) any liabilities the indemnifying party may be subject to pursuant to the law.

7. Contribution .

To the extent any indemnification by an indemnifying party is prohibited or limited by law, the indemnifying party agrees to make the maximum contribution with respect to any amounts for which it would otherwise be liable under Section 6 to the fullest extent permitted by law; provided , however , that : (i) no Person involved in the sale of Registrable Securities who is guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the 1933 Act) in connection with such sale shall be entitled to contribution from any Person involved in such sale of Registrable Securities who was not guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation; and (ii) contribution by any seller of Registrable Securities shall be limited in amount to the net amount of proceeds received by such seller from the sale of such Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement.

8. Reports Under the 1934 Act .

With a view to making available to the Investors the benefits of Rule 144 promulgated under the 1933 Act or any other similar rule or regulation of the SEC that may at any time permit the Investors to sell securities of the Company to the public without registration (“ Rule 144 ”), the Company agrees to:

(a) make and keep public information available, as those terms are understood and defined in Rule 144;

 

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(b) file with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and other documents required of the Company under the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act so long as the Company remains subject to such requirements and the filing of such reports and other documents is required for the applicable provisions of Rule 144; and

(c) furnish or otherwise make available, as applicable, to each Investor so long as such Investor owns Registrable Securities, promptly upon request, (i) a written statement by the Company, if true, that it has complied with the reporting requirements of Rule 144, the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act, (ii) a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly report of the Company and such other reports and documents so filed by the Company and (iii) such other information as may be reasonably requested to permit the Investors to sell such securities without registration pursuant to Rule 144, including, without limitation, the provision to the transfer agent, warrant agent or other similar agent for the Registrable Securities with any required opinions, certificates or other documentation to facilitate the sale of the Registrable Securities without restrictive legends, or if permitted by law, the removal of restrictive legends irrespective of any sale; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to furnish an opinion to facilitate the sale of securities without registration pursuant to Rule 144 at any time when the Registrable Securities may be sold pursuant to an effective Registration Statement.

9. Assignment of Registration Rights .

The rights under this Agreement shall be automatically assignable by the Investors to any transferee of all or any portion of such Investor’s Registrable Securities if: (i) the Investor agrees in writing with the transferee or assignee to assign such rights and a copy of such agreement is furnished to the Company within a reasonable time after such assignment; (ii) the Company is, within a reasonable time after such transfer or assignment, furnished with written notice of (a) the name and address of such transferee or assignee and (b) the securities with respect to which such registration rights are being transferred or assigned; (iii) immediately following such transfer or assignment the further disposition of such securities by the transferee or assignee is restricted under the 1933 Act or applicable state securities laws; (iv) at or before the time the Company receives the written notice contemplated by clause (ii) of this sentence the transferee or assignee agrees in writing with the Company to be bound by all of the provisions contained herein; and (v) such transfer shall have been made in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Subscription Agreements.

10. Amendment of Registration Rights .

Provisions of this Agreement may be amended and the observance thereof may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively), only with the written consent of the Company and the Required Holders. Any amendment or waiver effected in accordance with this Section 10 shall be binding upon each Investor and the Company. No such amendment shall be effective if it applies to less than all of the holders of the Registrable Securities. No consideration shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of this Agreement unless the same consideration also is offered to all of the parties to this Agreement.

 

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11. Miscellaneous .

(a) A Person is deemed to be a holder of Registrable Securities whenever such Person owns or is deemed to own of record such Registrable Securities. If the Company receives conflicting instructions, notices or elections from two or more Persons with respect to the same Registrable Securities, the Company shall act upon the basis of instructions, notice or election received from the record owner of such Registrable Securities.

(b) Any notices, consents, waivers or other communications required or permitted to be given under the terms of this Agreement must be in writing and will be deemed to have been delivered: (i) upon receipt, when delivered personally; (ii) upon receipt, when sent by facsimile, electronic mail or other electronic transmission (provided confirmation of transmission is mechanically or electronically generated and kept on file by the sending party); or (iii) one (1) Business Day after deposit with a nationally recognized overnight delivery service, in each case properly addressed to the party to receive the same. The addresses, facsimile numbers and electronic mail addresses for such communications shall be:

If to the Company:

Quotient Limited

28 Esplanade

St Helier

JE2 3QA

Jersey, Channel Islands

Telephone: +44 131 445 6159

Facsimile: +44 153 4700 007

Attention: Paul Cowan

With a copy (for informational purposes) to:

Clifford Chance US LLP

31 West 52nd Street

New York, New York 10019

Attention: Per B. Chilstrom

Facsimile: 212-878-8375

If to Legal Counsel, if any, at such address as may be provided to the Company from time to time.

If to a Subscriber, to its address, facsimile number and electronic mail address set forth on the Schedule of Subscribers attached hereto, with copies to such Subscriber’s representatives as set forth on the Schedule of Subscribers, or to such other address and/or facsimile number and/or electronic mail address and/or to the attention of such other Person as the recipient party has specified by written notice given to each other party five (5) days prior to the effectiveness of such change. Written confirmation of receipt (A) given by the recipient of such notice, consent, waiver or other communication, (B) mechanically or electronically generated by the sender’s facsimile machine or other electronic device containing the time, date, recipient facsimile number or electronic mail address, as applicable, and an image of the first page of such transmission or sent copy of any such electronic mail or (C) provided by a courier or overnight courier service shall be rebuttable evidence of personal service, receipt by facsimile or receipt from a nationally recognized overnight delivery service in accordance with clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, respectively.

 

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(c) Failure of any party to exercise any right or remedy under this Agreement or otherwise, or delay by a party in exercising such right or remedy, shall not operate as a waiver thereof.

(d) All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State 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, 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 brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper. 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 to such party at the address for such 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 manner permitted by law. If any provision of this Agreement shall be invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of this Agreement in that jurisdiction or the validity or enforceability of any provision of this Agreement in any other jurisdiction. EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

(e) This Agreement, the other Transaction Documents (as defined in the Subscription Agreements) and the instruments referenced herein and therein constitute the entire agreement among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof. There are no restrictions, promises, warranties or undertakings, other than those set forth or referred to herein and therein. This Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and the instruments referenced herein and therein supersede all prior agreements and understandings among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof.

(f) Subject to the requirements of Section 9, this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the permitted successors and assigns of each of the parties hereto.

(g) The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.

 

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(h) This Agreement may be executed in identical counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which shall constitute one and the same agreement. This Agreement, once executed by a party, may be delivered to the other party hereto by facsimile transmission or electronic email of a copy of this Agreement bearing the signature of the party so delivering this Agreement.

(i) Each party shall do and perform, or cause to be done and performed, all such further acts and things, and shall execute and deliver all such other agreements, certificates, instruments and documents, as any other party may reasonably request in order to carry out the intent and accomplish the purposes of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

(j) All consents, approvals, waivers and other determinations required to be made by the Investors pursuant to this Agreement shall be made, unless otherwise specified in this Agreement, by the Required Holders.

(k) The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent and no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party.

(l) This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns, and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person.

(m) The obligations of each Investor hereunder are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Investor, and no Investor shall be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any other Investor hereunder. Nothing contained herein, and no action taken by any Investor pursuant hereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Investor as, and the Company acknowledges that the Investors do not so constitute, a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Investors are in any way acting in concert or as a group, and the Company will not assert any such claim with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated herein.

 

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

COMPANY:
QUOTIENT LIMITED
By:  

/s/ D.J.P.E. Cowan

  Name: D.J.P.E. Cowan
  Title: Chairman & CEO

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
Perceptive Life Sciences Master Fund, Ltd.
By:  

/s/ James H. Mannix

  Name: James H. Mannix
  Title: COO

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
1992 MSF International Ltd.
By:   Highbridge Capital Management, LLC
Its:   Trading Manager
By:  

/s/ Jason Hempel

  Name: Jason Hempel
  Title: Managing Director
SUBSCRIBER:
1992 Tactical Credit Master Fund, L.P.
By:   Highbridge Capital Management, LLC
Its:   Trading Manager
By:  

/s/ Jason Hempel

  Name: Jason Hempel
  Title: Managing Director

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
Polar Capital LLP on behalf of Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust, Polar Capital funds plc, Healthcare Opportunities fund and Polar Capital funds plc – Biotechnology fund
By:  

/s/ John Mansell

  Name: John Mansell
  Title: COO

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
Cormorant Global Healthcare Master Fund, LP
By:   Cormorant Global Healthcare GP, LLC
Its:   General Partner
By:  

/s/ Bihua Chen

  Name: Bihua Chen
  Title: Managing Member of the GP
SUBSCRIBER:
CRMA SPV, L.P.
By:   Cormorant Asset Management, LLC
Its:   Attorney-In-Fact
By:  

/s/ Bihua Chen

  Name: Bihua Chen
  Title: Managing Member

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
Sio Partners, LP
By:  

/s/ Michael Castor

  Name: Michael Castor
  Title: Managing Member of Sio Capital         Management LLC (the Investment         Manager)

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
Sio Partners Master Fund, LP
By:  

/s/ Michael Castor

  Name: Michael Castor
  Title: Managing Member of Sio Capital         Management LLC (the Investment         Manager)

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
Compass MAV LLC
By:  

/s/ Michael Castor

  Name: Michael Castor
  Title: Managing Member of Sio Capital         Management LLC (the Investment         Manager)

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
Compass Offshore MAV LTD
By:  

/s/ Michael Castor

  Name: Michael Castor
  Title: Managing Member of Sio Capital         Management LLC (the Investment         Manager)

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
GALEN PARTNERS V, L.P.
By:   Galen Partners V, LLC
Its:   General Partner
By:  

/s/ Zubeen Shroff

  Name: Zubeen Shroff
  Title: Managing Member
SUBSCRIBER:
GALEN PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL V, L.P.
By:   Galen Partners V, LLC
Its:   General Partner
By:  

/s/ Zubeen Shroff

  Name: Zubeen Shroff
  Title: Managing Member

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
By:  

/s/ D.J.P.E. Cowan

  Name: D.J.P.E. Cowan

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
By:  

/s/ Thomas Bologna

  Name: Thomas Bologna

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
By:  

/s/ Frederick Hallsworth

  Name: Frederick Hallsworth

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
By:  

/s/ Brian McDonough

  Name: Brian McDonough

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
By:  

/s/ Sarah O’Connor

  Name: Sarah O’Connor

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
By:  

/s/ Heino von Prondzynski

  Name: Heino von Prondzynski

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
By:  

/s/ Christopher Lindop

  Name: Christopher Lindop

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature pages to this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SUBSCRIBER:
By:  

/s/ Jeremy Stackawitz

  Name: Jeremy Stackawitz

[ Registration Rights Agreement

Signature Page ]


SCHEDULE OF SUBSCRIBERS

 

Subscriber

  

Subscriber’s Address, Facsimile Number and
Electronic Mail Address

   Subscriber’s Representative’s Address,
Facsimile Number and Electronic Mail
Address
1992 MSF International Ltd.      
1992 Tactical Credit Master Fund, L.P.      
Perceptive Life Sciences Master Fund, Ltd.      
Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust plc      
Polar Capital Funds plc – Biotechnology Fund      
Polar Capital Funds plc – Healthcare Opportunities Fund      
Cormorant Global Healthcare Master Fund, LP      
CRMA SPV, L.P.      
Sio Partners, LP      
Sio Partners Master Fund, LP      
Compass MAV LLC      
Compass Offshore MAV LTD      
Galen Partners V, L.P.      
Galen Partners International V, L.P.      
D.J.P.E. Cowan      
Thomas Bologna      
Fred Hallsworth      
Brian McDonough      
Sarah O’Connor      
Heino von Prondzynski      
Christopher Lindop      
Jeremy Stackawitz      

Schedule of Subscribers – 1


EXHIBIT A

FORM OF NOTICE OF EFFECTIVENESS

OF REGISTRATION STATEMENT

[    ]

[    ]

[    ]

Attention: [        ]

Re: [        ]

Ladies and Gentlemen:

[We are][I am] counsel to Quotient Limited, a company organized under the laws of Jersey (the “ Company ”), and have represented the Company in connection with those certain Subscription Agreements (the “ Subscription Agreements ”), entered into by and among the Company and the subscribers named therein (collectively, the “ Holders ”), pursuant to which the Company issued to (i) the Holders its ordinary shares of no par value per share in the capital of the Company (the “ Ordinary Shares ”) and warrants exercisable for Ordinary Shares (the “ Warrants ”) and (ii) to certain of the Holders pre-funded warrants exercisable for Ordinary Shares (the “ Pre-Funded Warrants ”). Pursuant to the Subscription Agreements, the Company also has entered into a Registration Rights Agreement with the Holders (the “ Registration Rights Agreement ”) pursuant to which the Company agreed, among other things, to register the resale of the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement), including the Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants and Pre-Funded Warrants, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ 1933 Act ”). In connection with the Company’s obligations under the Registration Rights Agreement, on [•], 2017, the Company filed a Registration Statement on Form [S-1][S-3] (File No. 333-[•]) (the “ Registration Statement ”) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC ”) relating to the Registrable Securities which names each of the Holders as a selling securityholder thereunder.

In connection with the foregoing, [we][I] advise you that a member of the SEC’s staff has advised [us][me] by telephone that the SEC has entered an order declaring the Registration Statement effective under the 1933 Act at [ENTER TIME OF EFFECTIVENESS] on [ENTER DATE OF EFFECTIVENESS] and [we][I] have no knowledge, after telephonic inquiry of a member of the SEC’s staff, that any stop order suspending its effectiveness has been issued or that any proceedings for that purpose are pending before, or threatened by, the SEC and the Registrable Securities are available for resale under the 1933 Act pursuant to the Registration Statement.

This letter shall serve as our standing instruction to you that the Ordinary Shares and Warrants are freely transferable by the Holders pursuant to the Registration Statement. You need not require further letters from us to effect any future legend-free issuance or reissuance of Ordinary Shares or Warrants to the Holders provided at the time of such reissuance, the Company has not otherwise notified you that the Registration Statement is unavailable for the resale of the Registrable Securities. Please note however that the Pre-Funded Warrants remain restricted securities.

 

Exh. A - 1


Very truly yours,
[ISSUER’S COUNSEL]
By:                                                                              

CC: [LIST NAMES OF HOLDERS]

 

Exh. A - 2


EXHIBIT B

SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS

The ordinary shares and warrants being offered by the Selling Securityholders are those previously issued to the Selling Securityholders and the ordinary shares issuable to the Selling Securityholders upon exercise of the warrants and the pre-funded warrants, as applicable, which we refer to as the warrant shares. For additional information regarding the issuances of ordinary shares, the warrants and the pre-funded warrants, which we refer to as the private placement, see our Current Report on Form 8-K filed on [            ], 2017, which is incorporated by reference herein. We are registering the ordinary shares and warrants in order to permit the Selling Securityholders and their donees, pledgees, transferees or other successors-in-interest that receive their shares and warrants after the date of this prospectus to offer the shares and warrants, as well as any shares that we may issue or may be issuable by reason of any share split, share dividend or similar transaction involving these shares or warrants, for resale from time to time in the manner contemplated under “Plan of Distribution.” Except for the ownership of the ordinary shares, the warrants and the pre-funded warrants [or as otherwise set forth in the table and related footnotes below], the Selling Securityholders have not had any material relationship with us within the past three years.

As noted above, we are registering both the warrants and the underlying warrant shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants beneficially owned by the Selling Securityholders. Accordingly, a Selling Securityholder may either sell warrants pursuant to this prospectus, in which case it would not sell the warrant shares issuable upon exercise of such warrants, or warrant shares pursuant to this prospectus following the exercise of its warrants, in which case it would not sell the warrants that were exercised.

The first table below, including the footnotes, lists the Selling Securityholders and other information regarding the beneficial ownership of the ordinary shares by each of the Selling Securityholders based in part on information provided to us by the Selling Securityholders. We refer to this table as the Ordinary Share table. The second table below, including the footnotes, lists the Selling Securityholders and other information regarding the beneficial ownership of the warrants by each of the Selling Securityholders based in part on information provided to us by the Selling Securityholders. We refer to this table as the Warrant table.

In the Ordinary Share table, the second and third column list the number and percentage of ordinary shares beneficially owned by each Selling Securityholder, based on its ownership of our ordinary shares, the warrants and the pre-funded warrants, as of , 20[ ], assuming full exercise of the warrants and the pre-funded warrants, as applicable, held by the Selling Securityholders on that date, subject to any limitations on exercise set forth in the warrants or the pre-funded warrants, as applicable. In the Warrant table, the second and third column list the number and percentage of warrants beneficially owned by each Selling Securityholder, based on its ownership of the warrants, as of , 20[ ], assuming no exercise of the warrants held by the Selling Securityholders on that date.

The fourth column of the Ordinary Share table lists the ordinary shares being offered by means of this prospectus by the Selling Securityholders. The fourth column of the Warrant table lists the number of warrants being offered by this prospectus by the Selling Securityholders.

 

Exh. B - 1


In accordance with the terms of the registration rights agreement with the holders of the ordinary shares, the warrants and the pre-funded warrants that we entered into in connection with the private placement, this prospectus generally covers the resale of that number of ordinary shares and warrants equal to the number of ordinary shares and warrants held by such holders and the number of warrant shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants and the pre-funded warrants held by such holders in the private placement described in our Current Report on Form 8-K filed on [            ], 2017, determined as if the outstanding warrants and pre-funded warrants were exercised, as applicable, in full, in each case, as of the trading day immediately preceding the date this registration statement was initially filed with the SEC. The fifth columns of each of the Ordinary Share table and the Warrant table assume the sale of all of the shares or warrants, as applicable, offered by the Selling Securityholders pursuant to this prospectus. However, because the Selling Securityholders may sell all or some of their shares or warrants under this prospectus from time to time, or in another permitted manner, we cannot assure you as to the actual number of shares or warrants that will be sold by the Selling Securityholders or that will be held by the Selling Securityholders after completion of any sales. We do not know how long the Selling Securityholders will hold the shares or warrants before selling them. Information concerning the Selling Securityholders may change from time to time and changed information will be presented in a supplement to this prospectus if and when necessary and required.

The Selling Securityholders may sell all, some or none of their shares or warrants in this offering. See “Plan of Distribution.”

Ordinary Share Table

 

Name of Selling
Securityholder

 

Number of

Ordinary Shares

Owned Prior to

Offering

 

Percentage of

Class Beneficially

Owned Prior to

Offering

   Maximum Number of
Ordinary Shares to be
Sold Pursuant to this
Prospectus
   Percentage of
Class Owned
After Offering

Warrant Table

 

Name of Selling
Securityholder

 

Number of

Warrants

Owned Prior to

Offering

 

Percentage of

Class Beneficially

Owned Prior to

Offering

   Maximum Number of
Warrrants to be
Sold Pursuant to this
Prospectus
   Percentage of
Class Owned
After Offering

 

Exh. B - 2


Name of Selling
Securityholder

 

Number of

Warrants

Owned Prior to

Offering

 

Percentage of

Class Beneficially

Owned Prior to

Offering

   Maximum Number of
Warrrants to be Sold
Pursuant to this
Prospectus
   Percentage of
Class Owned
After Offering

 

Exh. B - 3


PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

We are registering the Ordinary Shares and warrants previously issued and the Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants and the pre-funded warrants to permit the resale of these Ordinary Shares and warrants by the holders of the Ordinary Shares, warrants and pre-funded warrants from time to time after the date of this prospectus. We will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale by the selling shareholders of the Ordinary Shares or warrants. [We will, however, receive the proceeds of any exercises of warrants or pre-funded warrants which, if received, would be used by us for working capital, operating expenses and general corporate purposes.] We will bear all fees and expenses incident to our obligation to register the Ordinary Shares and warrants, other than the fees and disbursements of (i) legal counsel to the Selling Securityholders unrelated to our directors and officers to the extent such fees and disbursements exceed $200,000 and (ii) legal counsel to Galen to the extent such fees and disbursements exceed $20,000. [Pursuant to the Subscription Agreements, we have agreed to reimburse the Selling Securityholders unrelated to our directors and officers for legal counsel fees and disbursements up to $200,000 and Galen for for legal counsel fees and disbursements up to $20,000.]

The Selling Securityholders may (subject to receipt by us and/or such Selling Securityholders of any applicable regulatory consents) sell all or a portion of the Ordinary Shares or warrants beneficially owned by them and offered hereby from time to time directly or through one or more underwriters, broker-dealers or agents. If the Ordinary Shares or warrants are sold through underwriters or broker-dealers, the Selling Securityholders will be responsible for underwriting discounts or commissions or agent’s commissions. The Ordinary Shares and warrants may be sold in one or more transactions at fixed prices, at prevailing market prices at the time of the sale, at varying prices determined at the time of sale, or at negotiated prices. These sales may be effected in transactions, which may involve crosses or block transactions,

 

    on any national securities exchange or quotation service on which the securities may be listed or quoted at the time of sale;

 

    in the over-the-counter market;

 

    in transactions otherwise than on these exchanges or systems or in the over-the-counter market;

 

    through the writing of options, whether such options are listed on an options exchange or otherwise;

 

    ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker-dealer solicits purchasers;

 

    block trades in which the broker-dealer will attempt to sell the shares as agent but may position and resell a portion of the block as principal to facilitate the transaction;

 

    purchases by a broker-dealer as principal and resale by the broker-dealer for its account;

 

Exh. B - 4


    an exchange distribution in accordance with the rules of the applicable exchange;

 

    privately negotiated transactions;

 

    short sales;

 

    sales pursuant to Rule 144;

 

    broker-dealers may agree with the Selling Securityholders to sell a specified number of such shares or warrants at a stipulated price per share or warrant;

 

    a combination of any such methods of sale; and

 

    any other method permitted pursuant to applicable law.

If the Selling Securityholders effect such transactions by selling Ordinary Shares or warrants to or through underwriters, broker-dealers or agents, such underwriters, broker-dealers or agents may receive commissions in the form of discounts, concessions or commissions from the Selling Securityholders or commissions from purchasers of the Ordinary Shares or warrants for whom they may act as agent or to whom they may sell as principal (which discounts, concessions or commissions as to particular underwriters, broker-dealers or agents may be in excess of those customary in the types of transactions involved). In connection with sales of the Ordinary Shares or warrants or otherwise, the Selling Securityholders may enter into hedging transactions with broker-dealers, which may in turn engage in short sales of the Ordinary Shares or warrants in the course of hedging in positions they assume. The Selling Securityholders may also sell Ordinary Shares or warrants short and deliver Ordinary Shares or warrants covered by this prospectus to close out short positions and to return borrowed shares or warrants in connection with such short sales. The Selling Securityholders may also loan or pledge Ordinary Shares or warrants to broker-dealers that in turn may sell such shares or warrants.

The Selling Securityholders may pledge or grant a security interest in some or all of the Ordinary Shares or warrants owned by them or issuable upon exercise of the warrants or pre-funded warrants, as applicable, and, if they default in the performance of their secured obligations, the pledgees or secured parties may offer and sell the Ordinary Shares or warrants from time to time pursuant to this prospectus or any amendment to this prospectus under Rule 424(b)(3) or other applicable provision of the Securities Act of 1933 (the “ 1933 Act ”), as amended, amending, if necessary, the list of Selling Securityholders to include the pledgee, transferee or other successors in interest as Selling Securityholders under this prospectus. The Selling Securityholders also may transfer and donate the Ordinary Shares or warrants in other circumstances in which case the transferees, donees, pledgees or other successors in interest will be the selling beneficial owners for purposes of this prospectus.

The Selling Securityholders and any broker-dealer participating in the distribution of the Ordinary Shares or warrants may be deemed to be “underwriters” within the meaning of the 1933 Act, and any commission paid, or any discounts or concessions allowed to, any such broker-dealer may be deemed to be underwriting commissions or discounts under the 1933 Act. At the time a particular offering of the Ordinary Shares or warrants is made, a prospectus supplement, if required, will be distributed which will set forth the aggregate amount of Ordinary Shares or warrants being offered and the terms of the offering, including the name or names of any broker-dealers or agents, any discounts, commissions and other terms constituting compensation from the Selling Securityholders and any discounts, commissions or concessions allowed or reallowed or paid to broker-dealers.

 

Exh. B - 5


Under the securities laws of some states, the Ordinary Shares or warrants may be sold in such states only through registered or licensed brokers or dealers. In addition, in some states the Ordinary Shares or warrants may not be sold unless such shares have been registered or qualified for sale in such state or an exemption from registration or qualification is available and is complied with.

There can be no assurance that any Selling Securityholder will sell any or all of the Ordinary Shares or warrants registered pursuant to the registration statement, of which this prospectus forms a part.

The Selling Securityholders and any other person participating in such distribution will be subject to applicable provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”), and the rules and regulations thereunder, including, without limitation, Regulation M of the Exchange Act, which may limit the timing of purchases and sales of any of the Ordinary Shares or warrants by the Selling Securityholders and any other participating person. Regulation M may also restrict the ability of any person engaged in the distribution of the Ordinary Shares or warrants to engage in market-making activities with respect to the Ordinary Shares. Further, regulatory consents may be required in Jersey, Channel Islands in connection with certain types of offers of Ordinary Shares or warrants by Selling Securityholders, including offers to more than 50 persons other than on any national securities exchange or quotation service on which the securities are listed or quoted at the time of sale. All of the foregoing may affect the marketability of the Ordinary Shares or warrants and the ability of any person or entity to engage in market-making activities with respect to the Ordinary Shares or warrants.

We will pay all expenses of the registration of the Ordinary Shares or warrants pursuant to the registration rights agreement that was entered into in connection with the private placement, other than the fees and disbursements of (i) legal counsel to the Selling Securityholders unrelated to our directors and officers to the extent such legal counsel fees exceed $200,000 and (ii) legal counsel to Galen to the extent such fees and disbursements exceed $20,000. We have agreed to reimburse the Selling Securityholders unrelated to our directors and officers for legal counsel fees and disbursements up to $200,000 and Galen for legal counsel fees and disbursements up to $20,000. The total fees are estimated to be $[•] in total, including, without limitation, Securities and Exchange Commission filing fees and expenses of compliance with state securities or “Blue Sky” laws; provided , however , that a Selling Securityholder will pay all underwriting discounts and selling commissions, if any. We will indemnify the Selling Securityholders against liabilities, including some liabilities under the 1933 Act, in accordance with the registration rights agreement, or the Selling Securityholders will be entitled to contribution. We may be indemnified by the Selling Securityholders against civil liabilities, including liabilities under the 1933 Act, that may arise from any written information furnished to us by the Selling Securityholder specifically for use in this prospectus, in accordance with the related registration rights agreement, or we may be entitled to contribution.

Once sold under the registration statement, of which this prospectus forms a part, the Ordinary Shares and warrants will be freely tradable in the hands of persons other than our affiliates.

 

Exh. B - 6

Exhibit 4.2

NEITHER THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF THIS WARRANT NOR THE ORDINARY SHARES INTO WHICH THIS WARRANT IS EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS WARRANT AND THE ORDINARY SHARES INTO WHICH THIS WARRANT IS EXERCISABLE MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED (I) IN THE ABSENCE OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR SUCH SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR (B) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, IN A FORM REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER SAID ACT OR (II) UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER SAID ACT. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THIS WARRANT AND THE ORDINARY SHARES INTO WHICH THIS WARRANT IS EXERCISABLE MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN OR FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THIS WARRANT OR SUCH ORDINARY SHARES.

THIS WARRANT SHALL BE VOID AFTER 5:00 P.M. EASTERN TIME ON JULY 31, 2018.

WARRANT

QUOTIENT LIMITED

Warrant No.:

 

Warrant Shares:   Initial Exercise Date:         , 2017

THIS WARRANT (this “ Warrant ”) certifies that, for value received,              or its assigns (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 listed above, and on or prior to the close of business on July 31, 2018 (the “ Termination Date ”) but not thereafter, to subscribe for and purchase from Quotient Limited, a Jersey, Channel Islands company (the “ Company ”), up to              ordinary shares (as subject to adjustment hereunder, the “ Warrant Shares ”), of no par value per share (“ Ordinary Shares ”), in the capital of the Company. The purchase price of one Ordinary Share under this Warrant shall be equal to the Exercise Price, as defined in Section 2(b). This Warrant is one of the warrants (the “ Warrants ”) being issued pursuant to the Subscription Agreements, dated as of            , 2017 (the “ Subscription Agreements ”), among the Company and the initial holders of the Warrants. Capitalized terms used herein have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the Subscription Agreements unless otherwise defined herein.

Section 1. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings indicated in this Section 1:

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.


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

Commission ” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

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

Ex-Dividend Date ” means the first date on which the Ordinary Shares trade on the principal Trading Market therefor, regular way, without the right to receive the relevant dividend, distribution or issuance.

Ordinary Share Equivalent ” means any securities of the Company that would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Ordinary Shares, including, without limitation, any debt, preference shares, rights, options, warrants, share appreciation rights, restricted share units or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Ordinary Shares.

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.

Record Date ” means the date fixed for determination of holders of Ordinary Shares entitled to receive the relevant dividend or distribution (whether such date is fixed by the Company’s board of directors or a duly authorized committee thereof, statute, contract or otherwise).

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

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

Trading Day ” means a day on which the Ordinary Shares are traded on a Trading Market. If the Ordinary Shares are not listed or quoted for trading on a Trading Market, Trading Day means a Business Day.

Trading Market ” means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Ordinary Shares are listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE American, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market or the New York Stock Exchange (or any successors to any of the foregoing).

Transfer Agent ” means Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the current transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 17 Battery Place, New York, New York 10004 and a facsimile number of 212-616-7615, and any successor transfer agent of the Company.

 

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Section 2. Exercise .

(a) Exercise of Warrant . Exercise of the purchase rights represented by this Warrant may be made, in whole or in part, on any Business Day not later than 5:00 P.M., New York time, on or after the Initial Exercise Date and on or before the Termination Date by delivery to the Company at the address listed in Section 5(h) hereof (or such other office or agency of the Company as it may designate by notice to the Holder), (a) if required pursuant to the immediately following sentence, this Warrant, (b) a Notice of Exercise form annexed hereto, properly delivered by the Holder via facsimile, and (c) the aggregate Exercise Price for the shares specified in the applicable Notice of Exercise, and all applicable taxes and charges due in connection with the exercise of this Warrant and payable by the Holder pursuant to Section 2(c)(vi), in lawful money of the United States of America by certified or official bank check or by bank wire transfer in immediately available funds (such funds to be delivered on or prior to the Warrant Share Delivery Date (as defined below)). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Warrant to the Company until this Warrant has been exercised in full, in which case, the Holder shall surrender this Warrant to the Company for cancellation within three (3) Trading Days after 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 Company shall maintain records showing the number of Warrant Shares purchased and the date of such purchases. Upon delivery of the Notice of Exercise form to the Company pursuant to this Section 2(a), the Holder shall be deemed for all corporate purposes to have become the holder of record of the Warrant Shares with respect to which this Warrant has been exercised pursuant to such Notice of Exercise. Each exercise hereof shall constitute the re-affirmation by the Holder that the representations and warranties contained in Article 2 of the Subscription Agreements, other than Section 2(n) thereof, are true and correct in all material respects with respect to the Holder with respect to the Warrant Shares as of the time of such exercise (except for any representation or warranty made as of a specified date, which shall be true and correct in all respects as of such specified date). 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 Ordinary Shares under this Warrant shall be $5.80, subject to adjustment hereunder (the Exercise Price ).

 

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(c) Mechanics of Exercise .

(i) Delivery of Warrant Shares Upon Exercise. Subject to Section 2(e) hereof, the Company shall cause the Transfer Agent to transmit Warrant Shares purchased hereunder to the Holder by crediting the account of the Holder’s prime broker with the Depository Trust Company ( Depository ) through its Deposit and Withdrawal At Custodian (“ DWAC ”) system if the Company is then a participant in such system and either (A) there is an effective registration statement under the Securities Act permitting the resale of the Warrant Shares by the Holder, or (B) the Warrant Shares are otherwise eligible to be sold under Rule 144 without regard to the volume or manner of sale restrictions thereunder, and otherwise by physical delivery to the address specified by the Holder in the Notice of Exercise, in each case by the date that is three (3) Trading Days after the latest of (A) the delivery to the Company of the Notice of Exercise and, if applicable, receipt of the DWAC request from the Holder’s prime broker, (B) surrender of this Warrant (if required) and (C) payment of the aggregate Exercise Price as set forth above (such date, the Warrant Share Delivery Date ”). Delivery of the Warrant Shares is subject to payment to the Company of the Exercise Price and all taxes required to be paid by the Holder, if any, pursuant to Section 2(c)(vi) prior to the issuance of such shares.

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

(iii) Rescission Rights . If the Company fails to cause the Transfer Agent to transmit either to the Holder’s prime broker the Warrant Shares or to the Holder a certificate or the certificates representing the Warrant Shares, as applicable, pursuant to Section 2(c)(i) hereof by the Warrant Share Delivery Date, then the Holder will have the right to rescind such exercise, in addition to any other remedies available to the Holder hereunder, at law or in equity.

(iv) Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver Shares 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’s prime broker the Warrant Shares, or 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 purchases or is required by its broker to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise) or the Holder’s brokerage firm otherwise purchases, Ordinary Shares 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, if any, by which (x) the Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage fees and commissions, if any) for the Ordinary Shares 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 was executed, and (B) at the option of the Holder, either reinstate the portion of this Warrant and equivalent

 

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number of Warrant Shares for which such exercise was not honored (in which case such exercise shall be deemed rescinded) or deliver to the Holder the number of Ordinary Shares that would have been issued had the Company timely complied with its exercise and delivery obligations hereunder. For example, if the Holder purchases Ordinary Shares having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an attempted exercise of Ordinary Shares with an aggregate sale price giving rise to such purchase 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 evidence of the amount of such loss. Nothing herein shall limit the 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 cause the transfer agent to transmit to the Holder’s prime broker the Warrant Shares, or to the Holder a certificate or certificates representing the Warrant Shares upon exercise of this 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 the Holder would otherwise be entitled to purchase upon such exercise, the Company shall 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, the Exercise Notice 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 shareholder books or records in any manner which prevents the timely exercise of this Warrant, pursuant to the terms hereof.

(d) Holder’s Exercise Limitations . For so long as the Ordinary Shares are registered under the Exchange Act, the Holder shall not be entitled to receive Warrant Shares upon exercise of this Warrant to the extent that the aggregate number of Warrant Shares to be acquired by the Holder upon exercise shall, when added to the aggregate number of Ordinary Shares deemed beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by such beneficial owner and each person subject to aggregation (including any “group” of which the Holder is or may deemed to be a part) of Ordinary Shares with such beneficial owner under Section 13 or Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules promulgated thereunder at such time (an “ Aggregated Person ”) (other than by virtue of the ownership of securities or rights to acquire securities that have limitations on such beneficial owner’s or such person’s right to convert, exercise or purchase similar to this limitation), as determined pursuant to the rules

 

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and regulations promulgated under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, exceed 9.99% (the “ Restricted Ownership Percentage ”) of the total issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares (the “ Section 16 Exercise Blocker ”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 16 Exercise Blocker shall not apply with respect to the Holder if the Holder is subject to Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act without regard to the aggregate number of Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant and upon conversion, exercise or sale of securities or rights to acquire securities that have limitations on such beneficial owner’s right to convert, exercise or purchase similar to this limitation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall issue Ordinary Shares upon exercise of this Warrant up to (but not exceeding) the amount that would cause the Holder’s beneficial ownership of Ordinary Shares (together with that of any Aggregated Person) to equal the Restricted Ownership Percentage; provided that the Holder shall have the right at any time and from time to time to reduce the Restricted Ownership Percentage applicable to the Holder (together with any Aggregated Person) immediately upon prior written notice to the Company (provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, in such event, the Holder may sell Ordinary Shares or portions of this Warrant to reduce the aggregate number of Ordinary Shares deemed beneficially owned by the Holder (together with any Aggregated Person) to a level below the reduced Restricted Ownership Percentage, in which case this Warrant will be exercisable by the Holder up to (but will not exceed) the reduced Restricted Ownership Percentage) or increase the Restricted Ownership Percentage applicable to the Holder (together with any Aggregated Person) upon 65 days’ prior written notice to the Company. The limitations contained in this paragraph shall apply to a successor holder of this Warrant.

(e) Compliance with the Securities Act of 1933 . Except as provided in the Subscription Agreements, the Company may cause the legend set forth on the first page of this Warrant to be set forth on this Warrant, and, if required, a similar legend to be set forth on any security issued or issuable upon exercise of this Warrant, unless the Holder shall have delivered to the Company reasonable evidence that such legend is unnecessary or counsel for the Company is of the opinion as to any such security that such legend is unnecessary. For the avoidance of doubt, this Warrant and the Warrant Shares will be considered “Registrable Securities” for purposes of the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of             , 2017, by and between the Company and the Holder (the “ Registration Rights Agreement ”) and will be entitled to the registration rights set out therein.

(f) Form of Warrant . Upon receipt of instruction from the Holder, the Company shall, within two (2) Business Days, cause this Warrant to be credited to the account of the Holder’s prime broker with the Depository through its DWAC system if the Company is then a participant in such system and there is an effective registration statement under the Securities Act permitting the resale of this Warrant by the Holder and registering the issuance of the Warrant Shares following the resale. In connection with crediting the account of the Holder’s prime broker with the Depository through its DWAC system in respect of this Warrant as set forth in the previous sentence, the Company shall amend the terms of this Warrant to reflect that this Warrant shall, thereafter, be a “global” security, as set forth, and in accordance with, Section 4(m) of the Subscription Agreements dated as of                         , 2017 by and between the Company and the initial Holder of this Warrant.

 

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Section 3. Certain Adjustments .

(a) Share Dividends and Splits . If the Company, at any time while this Warrant is outstanding, effects a share split or payment of share dividend, then upon the effective date thereof, the number of Ordinary Shares which the Holder shall be entitled to purchase upon exercise of this Warrant shall be increased or decreased, as the case may be, in direct proportion to the increase or decrease in the number of Ordinary Shares by reason of such share split or share dividend, and the Exercise Price shall be, in the case of an increase in the number of shares, proportionally decreased and, in the case of decrease in the number of shares, proportionally increased. Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section 3(a) shall become effective immediately prior to 9:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the Ex-Dividend Date (or, if earlier, the Record Date) for such dividend or distribution or the effective date of such subdivision or combination, as the case may be.

(b) Rights Offerings . In addition to any adjustments pursuant to Section 3(a) above, if at any time the Company grants, issues or sells any Ordinary Share Equivalents or rights to purchase shares, warrants, securities or other property pro rata to the record holders of Ordinary Shares (the “ Purchase Rights ”), then the Holder will be entitled to acquire, upon the terms applicable to such Purchase Rights, the aggregate Purchase Rights which the Holder could have acquired if the Holder had held the number of Ordinary Shares acquirable upon complete exercise of this Warrant (without regard to any limitations on exercise hereof, including without limitation, the limitations described in Section 2(d) above) immediately before the date on which a record is taken for the grant, issuance or sale of such Purchase Rights, or, if no such record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of Ordinary Shares are to be determined for the grant, issue or sale of such Purchase Rights ( provided , however , to the extent that the Holder’s right to participate in any such Purchase Right would result in the Holder exceeding the Restricted Ownership Percentage, then the Holder shall not be entitled to participate in such Purchase Right to such extent (or beneficial ownership of such Ordinary Shares as a result of such Purchase Right to such extent) and such Purchase Right to such extent shall be held in abeyance for the Holder until such time, if ever, as its right thereto would not result in the Holder exceeding the Restricted Ownership Percentage).

(c) Pro Rata Distributions . The Holder, as the holder of this Warrant, shall be entitled to receive such dividends paid and distributions of any kind made to the holders of Ordinary Shares of the Company to the same extent as if the Holder had exercised this Warrant into the full number of Ordinary Shares (without regard to any limitations on exercise herein or elsewhere and without regard to whether or not a sufficient number of shares are authorized and reserved to effect any such exercise and issuance) into which this Warrant is then exercisable and had held such Ordinary Shares on the Record Date for such dividends and distributions. Payments and distributions under the preceding sentence shall be made concurrently with the dividend or distribution to the holders of Ordinary Shares.

(d) Fundamental Transaction . If, at any time while this Warrant is outstanding, (i) the Company, directly or indirectly, in a transaction or a series of related transactions, effects any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another Person and the Company is not the surviving corporation, (ii) the Company, directly or indirectly, effects any sale, lease, license, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of its assets in a transaction or a series of related transactions, (iii) any direct

 

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or indirect purchase offer, tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another Person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Ordinary Shares are permitted to sell, tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property and has been accepted by the holders of 50% or more of the outstanding Ordinary Shares, (iv) the Company, directly or indirectly, in a transaction or a series of related transactions, effects any reclassification, reorganization or recapitalization of the Ordinary Shares or any compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the Ordinary Shares are effectively converted into or exchanged for , stock, other securities, other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof), (v) the Company, directly or indirectly, in a transaction or a series of related transactions, consummates a stock or share purchase agreement or other agreement or business combination (including, without limitation, a reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off or scheme of arrangement) with another Person or group of Persons whereby such other Person or group of Persons acquires more than 50% of the outstanding Ordinary Shares; or (vi) a “person” or “group” within the meaning of the Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, other than the Company, files a Schedule TO or any schedule, form or report under the Exchange Act disclosing that such person or group has become the direct or indirect “beneficial owner,” as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of the Company’s common equity representing more than 50% of the voting power of all classes of the Company’s common equity entitled generally to vote in the election of directors to the Company’s board of directors (each a “ Fundamental Transaction ”), then, in the case of any Fundamental Transaction pursuant to which the Ordinary Shares would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof), 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 kind and amount of shares of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) (the “ Alternate Consideration, ”) receivable as a result of such Fundamental Transaction by a holder of one Ordinary Share immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction (without regard to any limitation in Section 2(d) on the exercise of this Warrant) (such amount of Alternate Consideration per Ordinary Share, a “ Unit of Alternate Consideration ”). If holders of Ordinary Shares are given any choice as to the stock, other securities, other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof), to be received in a Fundamental Transaction described in the preceding sentence, 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. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in the event of any Fundamental Transaction, the Company or any Successor Entity (as defined below) shall, at the Holder’s option, exercisable at any time beginning on the date of the consummation of such Fundamental Transaction and ending on the date that is 30 calendar days after the consummation of such Fundamental Transaction, purchase this Warrant from the Holder by paying to the Holder an amount of cash equal to the Black Scholes Value of the remaining unexercised portion of this Warrant on the date of the consummation of such Fundamental Transaction, such payment to be made within three (3) days after the exercise of such option. “ Black Scholes Value ” means the value of this Warrant based on the Black and Scholes Option Pricing Model obtained from the “OV” function on Bloomberg, L.P. or any successor or replacement service (“ Bloomberg ”), determined as of the day of consummation of the applicable Fundamental Transaction for pricing purposes and reflecting (A) a risk-free

 

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interest rate corresponding to the U.S. Treasury rate for a period equal to the time between the date of the public announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction and the Termination Date, (B) an expected volatility equal to the greater of 100% and the 100 day volatility obtained from the HVT function on Bloomberg as of the Trading Day immediately following the public announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction, (C) the underlying price per share used in such calculation shall be the greater of (i) the weighted average price of the Ordinary Shares for the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction, (ii) the weighted average price of the Ordinary Shares for the Trading Day immediately following the date of announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction and (iii) the weighted average price of the Ordinary Shares for the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of consummation of the applicable Fundamental Transaction and (D) a remaining option time equal to the time between the date of the public announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction and the Termination Date. The Company shall cause any successor entity in a Fundamental Transaction in which the Company is not the survivor (the “ Successor Entity ”) to assume in writing all of the obligations of the Company under this Warrant and the Registration Rights Agreement in accordance with the provisions of this Section 3(d) pursuant to written agreements and shall, at the option of the Holder, deliver to the Holder, in exchange for this Warrant, a security of the Successor Entity, evidenced by a written instrument substantially similar in form and substance to this Warrant that is exercisable for a number of Units of Alternate Consideration equal to the maximum number of Ordinary Shares into which this Warrant is exercisable immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction (without regard to any limitations on the exercise of this Warrant) prior to such Fundamental Transaction, and which is reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Holder. Upon the occurrence of any Fundamental Transaction in which the Company is not the surviving entity, the Successor Entity shall succeed to, and be substituted for (so that, from and after the date of such Fundamental Transaction, the provisions of this Warrant and the Registration Rights Agreement referring to the “Company” shall refer instead to the Successor Entity, and references to “Ordinary Shares” shall refer to Units of Alternate Consideration), and may exercise every right and power of the Company and shall assume all of the obligations of the Company under this Warrant and the Registration Rights Agreement with the same effect as if such Successor Entity had been named as the Company herein. In the event that the Alternate Consideration includes stock, securities or other property or assets (including cash) of any entity other than the Company or the Successor Entity, such other entity shall guarantee the obligations of the Company or the Successor Entity, as applicable, hereunder. The Company will not become a party to a Fundamental Transaction unless it is consistent with the foregoing. The above provisions shall apply to successive Fundamental Transactions.

(e) 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 Ordinary Shares deemed to be issued and outstanding as of a given date shall be the sum of the number of Ordinary Shares (excluding treasury shares, if any) issued and outstanding.

 

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(f) Notice to Holder .

(i) Adjustment to Exercise Price and number of Ordinary Shares . Whenever the Exercise Price or the number of Ordinary Shares into which this Warrant is exercisable is adjusted pursuant to any provision of this Section 3, the Company shall promptly, and in any event within two (2) Business Days, mail to the Holder a notice setting forth the Exercise Price and the number of Ordinary Shares into which this Warrant is exercisable after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment.

(ii) Notice to Allow Exercise by Holder . If during the term in which this Warrant may be exercised by the Holder (A) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution in whatever form) on the Ordinary Shares, (B) the Company shall declare a special nonrecurring cash dividend on or a redemption of the Ordinary Shares, (C) the Company shall authorize the granting to all holders of the Ordinary Shares rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any share capital of any class, (D) the approval of any shareholders of the Company shall be required in connection with any reclassification of the Ordinary Shares, 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, or any compulsory share exchange whereby the Ordinary Shares are 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 Ordinary Shares 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 Ordinary Shares of record shall be entitled to exchange their Ordinary Shares 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 its subsidiaries, the Company shall simultaneously publicly disclose such information in compliance with applicable securities laws. The Holder shall remain 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 except as may otherwise be expressly set forth herein.

Section 4. Transfer of Warrant .

(a) Transferability . As provided herein, this Warrant may be transferred in whole or in part, as the case may be, only pursuant to a registration statement filed under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration. Subject to such restrictions and subject to compliance with the applicable laws of Jersey, Channel Islands, the Company shall transfer this Warrant in whole or in part, as the case may be, from time to time upon the books to be maintained by the Company for that purpose, upon surrender hereof

 

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for transfer, properly endorsed or accompanied by appropriate instructions for transfer and such other documents as may be reasonably required by the Company to establish that such transfer is being made in accordance with the terms hereof, and a new Warrant shall be issued to the transferee, in the case of a partial transfer, a new Warrant reflecting the reduced number of Ordinary Shares into which such Warrant is exercisable shall be issued to the transferor, and the surrendered Warrant shall be canceled by the Company.

(b) New Warrant . This Warrant may be 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 combination, the Company shall execute and deliver a new Warrant or Warrants in exchange for this Warrant or Warrants to be combined in accordance with such notice. All Warrants issued on transfers or exchanges shall include reference to the initial issuance date set forth on the first page of this Warrant and shall be identical with this Warrant except as to the number of Warrant Shares issuable pursuant thereto and the Warrant number.

(c) Warrant Register . The Company shall register this Warrant, upon records to be maintained by the Company or on behalf of 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 written notice to the contrary from the Holder. Upon thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the Holder, the Company may appoint a warrant agent (the “ Warrant Agent ”) to maintain the Warrant Register. Either the Transfer Agent or a third party may be appointed by the Company as the Warrant Agent, at the Company’s sole discretion. The Company shall remain responsible for the contents of the Warrant Register, notwithstanding the appointment of a Warrant Agent.

Section 5. Miscellaneous .

(a) No Rights as Shareholder Until Exercise . This Warrant does not entitle the Holder to any voting rights, dividends or other rights as a shareholder of the Company prior to the issuance of the Warrant Shares as set forth in Section 2(c)(i) except as set forth in Section 3 hereof.

(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 share certificate relating to the Warrant Shares, and, in case of loss, theft or destruction, of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to it, and upon surrender and cancellation of such Warrant or share certificate, if mutilated, the Company will make and deliver a new Warrant or share certificate of like tenor and dated as of such cancellation, in lieu of such Warrant or share certificate. Applicants for a replacement Warrant under such circumstances shall also comply with such other reasonable regulations and procedures and pay such other reasonable charges as the Company may prescribe.

 

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(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) No Inconsistent Actions . 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 articles of association 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 the 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.

(e) Certain Covenants . The Company covenants that all Ordinary Shares issued upon exercise of this Warrant will be fully paid and non-assessable by the Company and free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof. If any Ordinary Shares issuable upon the exercise hereof require registration with or approval of any governmental authority under any federal or state law before such Ordinary Shares may be validly issued upon exercise, the Company will, to the extent then permitted by the rules and interpretations of the applicable government authority, use its best efforts to secure such registration or approval, as the case may be. The Company further covenants that if at any time the Ordinary Shares shall be listed on any national securities exchange or automated quotation system, the Company will list and keep listed, so long as the Ordinary Shares shall be so listed on such exchange or automated quotation system, any Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant.

(f) Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Jury Trial . All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Warrant shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State 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, 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 brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper. Each

 

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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 to such party at the address for such notices to it under this Warrant 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 manner permitted by law. EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS WARRANT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

(g) Restrictions . The Holder acknowledges that the Warrant Shares acquired upon the exercise of this Warrant, if not registered for resale under the Securities Act, will have restrictions upon resale imposed by state and federal securities laws unless the shares are sold under an exemption from registration, including, without limitation, Rule 144 (if available).

(h) Nonwaiver and Expenses . No course of dealing or any delay or failure to exercise any right hereunder on the part of the Holder shall operate as a waiver of such right or otherwise prejudice Holder’s rights, powers or remedies. Without limiting any other provision of this Warrant or the Subscription Agreements, 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 the Holder such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover any reasonable 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.

(i) Notices . Any notice, request or other document required or permitted to be given or delivered under this Warrant must be in writing and will be deemed to have been delivered: (i) upon receipt, when delivered personally; (ii) upon receipt, when sent by facsimile (provided confirmation of transmission is mechanically or electronically generated and kept on file by the sending party); or (iii) one Business Day after deposit with an overnight courier service, in each case properly addressed to the party to receive the same. The addresses and facsimile numbers for such communications to the Company shall be:

If to the Company:

28 Esplanade

St Helier

JE2 3QA

Jersey, Channel Islands

Telephone: +44 131 445 6159

Facsimile: +44 153 4700 007

Attention: Paul Cowan

With Copies to:

 

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Clifford Chance US LLP

31 West 52nd Street

New York, New York 10019

Attention: Per B. Chilstrom

Facsimile: 212-878-8375

If to an initial Holder, to the address provided in the Subscription Agreements or such other address as such Holder may notify the Company of from time to time.

If to a transferee Holder, to the address of such Holder set forth in the transfer documentation provided to the Company or such other address as such transferee Holder may notify the Company of from time to time.

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

(k) Remedies . The Holder, in addition to being entitled to exercise all rights granted by law, including recovery of damages, will be entitled to seek 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.

(l) Successors and Assigns . This Warrant and the rights and obligations evidenced hereby shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and permitted assigns of the Company and the successors and permitted assigns of the Holder. The provisions of this Warrant are intended to be for the benefit of any Holder from time to time of this Warrant and shall be enforceable by the Holder or holder of Warrant Shares.

(m) Amendment . This Warrant may be modified or amended or the provisions hereof waived with the written consent of the Company and the Holder.

(n) 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.

(o) 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.

[ Signature Page Follows ]

 

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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.

 

QUOTIENT LIMITED
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

[ Warrant Signature Page ]

 


NOTICE OF EXERCISE

TO: QUOTIENT LIMITED

The undersigned is the Holder of Warrant No.         (the “ Warrant ”) issued by Quotient Limited, a Jersey, Channel Islands company (the “ Company ”). As a condition to this exercise, the undersigned Holder hereby represents and warrants to the Company that the representations and warranties set forth in Article 2 of the Subscription Agreements (as defined in the Warrant), other than Section 2(n) thereof, are true and correct in all material respects as of the date hereof as if they had been made on such date with respect to the Warrant Shares (except for any representation or warranty made as of a specified date, which shall be true and correct in all respects as of such specified date). The undersigned Holder acknowledges that the sale, transfer, assignment or hypothecation of the Warrant Shares to be issued upon exercise of this Warrant is subject to the terms and conditions contained in the Warrant. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined have the respective meanings set forth in the Warrant.

(1) The undersigned hereby elects to purchase        Ordinary Shares of the Company pursuant to the terms of the Warrant, and tenders herewith payment of the aggregate Exercise Price for such Ordinary Shares in full, together with all applicable transfer taxes payable by the undersigned pursuant to Section 2(c)(vi) of the Warrant, if any.

(2) Unless the Warrant Shares will be delivered electronically via DWAC, 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:

 

 

and deliver the physical certificate representing said Warrant Shares to the following address:

 

 

If the Warrant Shares will be delivered electronically via DWAC, please issue them to the following account:

 

    Name of DTC Participant:

 

    DTC Participant Number:

 

    Name of Account at DTC Participant to be credited with the Warrant Shares:

 

    Account Number at DTC Participant to be credited with the Warrant Shares:

[SIGNATURE OF HOLDER]

Name of Investing Entity:

 

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Investing Entity:

 

 

Name of Authorized Signatory:

 

 

Title of Authorized Signatory:

 

 

Date:

 

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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 the shares of the foregoing Warrant and all rights evidenced thereby are hereby assigned to                 whose address is

 

  Dated:   ,
Holder’s Signature:  

 

 
Holder’s Address:  

 

 
 

 

 

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.

 

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Exhibit 4.3

NEITHER THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF THIS WARRANT NOR THE ORDINARY SHARES INTO WHICH THIS WARRANT IS EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS WARRANT AND THE ORDINARY SHARES INTO WHICH THIS WARRANT IS EXERCISABLE MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED (I) IN THE ABSENCE OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR SUCH SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR (B) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, IN A FORM REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER SAID ACT OR (II) UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER SAID ACT. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THIS WARRANT AND THE ORDINARY SHARES INTO WHICH THIS WARRANT IS EXERCISABLE MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN OR FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THIS WARRANT OR SUCH ORDINARY SHARES.

THIS WARRANT SHALL BE VOID AFTER 5:00 P.M. EASTERN TIME ON OCTOBER 25, 2020.

PRE-FUNDED WARRANT

QUOTIENT LIMITED

Pre-Funded Warrant No.:

Warrant Shares:                                                                                                                                    Initial Exercise Date:        , 2017

THIS PRE-FUNDED WARRANT (this “ Warrant ”) certifies that, for value received,          or its assigns (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 listed above, and on or prior to the close of business on October 25, 2020 (the “ Termination Date ”) but not thereafter, to subscribe for and purchase from Quotient Limited, a Jersey, Channel Islands company (the “ Company ”), up to          ordinary shares (as subject to adjustment hereunder, the “ Warrant Shares ”), of no par value per share (“ Ordinary Shares ”), in the capital of the Company. The purchase price of one Ordinary Share under this Warrant shall be equal to the Exercise Price, as defined in Section 2(b). This Warrant is one of the pre-funded warrants (the “ Warrants ”) being issued pursuant to the Subscription Agreements, dated as of            , 2017 (the “ Subscription Agreements ”), among the Company and the initial holders of the Warrants. Capitalized terms used herein have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the Subscription Agreements unless otherwise defined herein.

Section 1. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings indicated in this Section 1:

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.


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

Commission ” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

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

Ex-Dividend Date ” means the first date on which the Ordinary Shares trade on the principal Trading Market therefor, regular way, without the right to receive the relevant dividend, distribution or issuance.

Ordinary Share Equivalent ” means any securities of the Company that would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Ordinary Shares, including, without limitation, any debt, preference shares, rights, options, warrants, share appreciation rights, restricted share units or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Ordinary Shares.

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.

Record Date ” means the date fixed for determination of holders of Ordinary Shares entitled to receive the relevant dividend or distribution (whether such date is fixed by the Company’s board of directors or a duly authorized committee thereof, statute, contract or otherwise).

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

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

Trading Day ” means a day on which the Ordinary Shares are traded on a Trading Market. If the Ordinary Shares are not listed or quoted for trading on a Trading Market, Trading Day means a Business Day.

Trading Market ” means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Ordinary Shares are listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE American, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market or the New York Stock Exchange (or any successors to any of the foregoing).

Transfer Agent ” means Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the current transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 17 Battery Place, New York, New York 10004 and a facsimile number of 212-616-7615, and any successor transfer agent of the Company.

 

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Section 2. Exercise .

(a) Exercise of Warrant . Exercise of the purchase rights represented by this Warrant may be made, in whole or in part, on any Business Day not later than 5:00 P.M., New York time, on or after the Initial Exercise Date and on or before the Termination Date by delivery to the Company at the address listed in Section 5(h) hereof (or such other office or agency of the Company as it may designate by notice to the Holder), (a) if required pursuant to the immediately following sentence, this Warrant, (b) a Notice of Exercise form annexed hereto, properly delivered by the Holder via facsimile, and (c) the aggregate Exercise Price for the shares specified in the applicable Notice of Exercise, and all applicable taxes and charges due in connection with the exercise of this Warrant and payable by the Holder pursuant to Section 2(c)(vi), in lawful money of the United States of America by certified or official bank check or by bank wire transfer in immediately available funds (such funds to be delivered on or prior to the Warrant Share Delivery Date (as defined below)). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Warrant to the Company until this Warrant has been exercised in full, in which case, the Holder shall surrender this Warrant to the Company for cancellation within three (3) Trading Days after 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 Company shall maintain records showing the number of Warrant Shares purchased and the date of such purchases. Upon delivery of the Notice of Exercise form to the Company pursuant to this Section 2(a), the Holder shall be deemed for all corporate purposes to have become the holder of record of the Warrant Shares with respect to which this Warrant has been exercised pursuant to such Notice of Exercise. Each exercise hereof shall constitute the re-affirmation by the Holder that the representations and warranties contained in Article 2 of the Subscription Agreements, other than Section 2(n) thereof, are true and correct in all material respects with respect to the Holder with respect to the Warrant Shares as of the time of such exercise (except for any representation or warranty made as of a specified date, which shall be true and correct in all respects as of such specified date). 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 Ordinary Shares under this Warrant shall be $0.01, subject to adjustment hereunder (the “ Exercise Price ”).

 

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(c) Mechanics of Exercise .

(i) Delivery of Warrant Shares Upon Exercise . Subject to Section 2(e) hereof, the Company shall cause the Transfer Agent to transmit Warrant Shares purchased hereunder to the Holder by crediting the account of the Holder’s prime broker with the Depository Trust Company (“ Depository ”) through its Deposit and Withdrawal At Custodian (“ DWAC ”) system if the Company is then a participant in such system and either (A) there is an effective registration statement under the Securities Act permitting the resale of the Warrant Shares by the Holder, or (B) the Warrant Shares are otherwise eligible to be sold under Rule 144 without regard to the volume or manner of sale restrictions thereunder, and otherwise by physical delivery to the address specified by the Holder in the Notice of Exercise, in each case by the date that is three (3) Trading Days after the latest of (A) the delivery to the Company of the Notice of Exercise and, if applicable, receipt of the DWAC request from the Holder’s prime broker, (B) surrender of this Warrant (if required) and (C) payment of the aggregate Exercise Price as set forth above (such date, the “ Warrant Share Delivery Date ”). Delivery of the Warrant Shares is subject to payment to the Company of the Exercise Price and all taxes required to be paid by the Holder, if any, pursuant to Section 2(c)(vi) prior to the issuance of such shares.

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

(iii) Rescission Rights . If the Company fails to cause the Transfer Agent to transmit either to the Holder’s prime broker the Warrant Shares or to the Holder a certificate or the certificates representing the Warrant Shares, as applicable, pursuant to Section 2(c)(i) hereof by the Warrant Share Delivery Date, then the Holder will have the right to rescind such exercise, in addition to any other remedies available to the Holder hereunder, at law or in equity.

(iv) Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver Shares 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’s prime broker the Warrant Shares, or 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 purchases or is required by its broker to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise) or the Holder’s brokerage firm otherwise purchases, Ordinary Shares 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, if any, by which (x) the Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage fees and commissions, if any) for the Ordinary Shares 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 was executed, and (B) at the option of the Holder, either reinstate the portion of this Warrant and equivalent

 

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number of Warrant Shares for which such exercise was not honored (in which case such exercise shall be deemed rescinded) or deliver to the Holder the number of Ordinary Shares that would have been issued had the Company timely complied with its exercise and delivery obligations hereunder. For example, if the Holder purchases Ordinary Shares having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an attempted exercise of Ordinary Shares with an aggregate sale price giving rise to such purchase 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 evidence of the amount of such loss. Nothing herein shall limit the 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 cause the transfer agent to transmit to the Holder’s prime broker the Warrant Shares, or to the Holder a certificate or certificates representing the Warrant Shares upon exercise of this 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 the Holder would otherwise be entitled to purchase upon such exercise, the Company shall 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, the Exercise Notice 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 shareholder books or records in any manner which prevents the timely exercise of this Warrant, pursuant to the terms hereof.

(d) Holder’s Exercise Limitations . For so long as the Ordinary Shares are registered under the Exchange Act, the Holder shall not be entitled to receive Warrant Shares upon exercise of this Warrant to the extent that the aggregate number of Warrant Shares to be acquired by the Holder upon exercise shall, when added to the aggregate number of Ordinary Shares deemed beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by such beneficial owner and each person subject to aggregation (including any “group” of which the Holder is or may deemed to be a part) of Ordinary Shares with such beneficial owner under Section 13 or Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules promulgated thereunder at such time (an “ Aggregated Person ”) (other than by virtue of the ownership of securities or rights to acquire securities that have limitations on such beneficial owner’s or such person’s right to convert, exercise or purchase similar to this limitation), as determined pursuant to the rules

 

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and regulations promulgated under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, exceed 9.99% (the “ Restricted Ownership Percentage ”) of the total issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares (the “ Section 16 Exercise Blocker ”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 16 Exercise Blocker shall not apply with respect to the Holder if the Holder is subject to Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act without regard to the aggregate number of Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant and upon conversion, exercise or sale of securities or rights to acquire securities that have limitations on such beneficial owner’s right to convert, exercise or purchase similar to this limitation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall issue Ordinary Shares upon exercise of this Warrant up to (but not exceeding) the amount that would cause the Holder’s beneficial ownership of Ordinary Shares (together with that of any Aggregated Person) to equal the Restricted Ownership Percentage; provided that the Holder shall have the right at any time and from time to time to reduce the Restricted Ownership Percentage applicable to the Holder (together with any Aggregated Person) immediately upon prior written notice to the Company (provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, in such event, the Holder may sell Ordinary Shares or portions of this Warrant to reduce the aggregate number of Ordinary Shares deemed beneficially owned by the Holder (together with any Aggregated Person) to a level below the reduced Restricted Ownership Percentage, in which case this Warrant will be exercisable by the Holder up to (but will not exceed) the reduced Restricted Ownership Percentage) or increase the Restricted Ownership Percentage applicable to the Holder (together with any Aggregated Person) upon 65 days’ prior written notice to the Company. The limitations contained in this paragraph shall apply to a successor holder of this Warrant.

(e) Compliance with the Securities Act of 1933 . Except as provided in the Subscription Agreements, the Company may cause the legend set forth on the first page of this Warrant to be set forth on this Warrant, and, if required, a similar legend to be set forth on any security issued or issuable upon exercise of this Warrant, unless the Holder shall have delivered to the Company reasonable evidence that such legend is unnecessary or counsel for the Company is of the opinion as to any such security that such legend is unnecessary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Warrant Shares will be considered “Registrable Securities” for purposes of the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of            , 2017, by and between the Company and the Holder (the “ Registration Rights Agreement ”) and will be entitled to the registration rights set out therein.

Section 3. Certain Adjustments .

(a) Share Dividends and Splits . If the Company, at any time while this Warrant is outstanding, effects a share split or payment of share dividend, then upon the effective date thereof, the number of Ordinary Shares which the Holder shall be entitled to purchase upon exercise of this Warrant shall be increased or decreased, as the case may be, in direct proportion to the increase or decrease in the number of Ordinary Shares by reason of such share split or share dividend, and the Exercise Price shall be, in the case of an increase in the number of shares, proportionally decreased and, in the case of decrease in the number of shares, proportionally increased. Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section 3(a) shall become effective immediately prior to 9:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the Ex-Dividend Date (or, if earlier, the Record Date) for such dividend or distribution or the effective date of such subdivision or combination, as the case may be.

 

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(b) Rights Offerings . In addition to any adjustments pursuant to Section 3(a) above, if at any time the Company grants, issues or sells any Ordinary Share Equivalents or rights to purchase shares, warrants, securities or other property pro rata to the record holders of Ordinary Shares (the “ Purchase Rights ”), then the Holder will be entitled to acquire, upon the terms applicable to such Purchase Rights, the aggregate Purchase Rights which the Holder could have acquired if the Holder had held the number of Ordinary Shares acquirable upon complete exercise of this Warrant (without regard to any limitations on exercise hereof, including without limitation, the limitations described in Section 2(d) above) immediately before the date on which a record is taken for the grant, issuance or sale of such Purchase Rights, or, if no such record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of Ordinary Shares are to be determined for the grant, issue or sale of such Purchase Rights ( provided , however , to the extent that the Holder’s right to participate in any such Purchase Right would result in the Holder exceeding the Restricted Ownership Percentage, then the Holder shall not be entitled to participate in such Purchase Right to such extent (or beneficial ownership of such Ordinary Shares as a result of such Purchase Right to such extent) and such Purchase Right to such extent shall be held in abeyance for the Holder until such time, if ever, as its right thereto would not result in the Holder exceeding the Restricted Ownership Percentage).

(c) Pro Rata Distributions . The Holder, as the holder of this Warrant, shall be entitled to receive such dividends paid and distributions of any kind made to the holders of Ordinary Shares of the Company to the same extent as if the Holder had exercised this Warrant into the full number of Ordinary Shares (without regard to any limitations on exercise herein or elsewhere and without regard to whether or not a sufficient number of shares are authorized and reserved to effect any such exercise and issuance) into which this Warrant is then exercisable and had held such Ordinary Shares on the Record Date for such dividends and distributions. Payments and distributions under the preceding sentence shall be made concurrently with the dividend or distribution to the holders of Ordinary Shares.

(d) Fundamental Transaction . If, at any time while this Warrant is outstanding, (i) the Company, directly or indirectly, in a transaction or a series of related transactions, effects any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another Person and the Company is not the surviving corporation, (ii) the Company, directly or indirectly, effects any sale, lease, license, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of its assets in a transaction or a series of related transactions, (iii) any direct or indirect purchase offer, tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another Person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Ordinary Shares are permitted to sell, tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property and has been accepted by the holders of 50% or more of the outstanding Ordinary Shares, (iv) the Company, directly or indirectly, in a transaction or a series of related transactions, effects any reclassification, reorganization or recapitalization of the Ordinary Shares or any compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the Ordinary Shares are effectively converted into or exchanged for , stock, other securities, other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof), (v) the Company, directly or indirectly, in a transaction or a series of related transactions, consummates a stock or share purchase agreement or other agreement or business combination (including, without limitation, a reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off or scheme of arrangement) with another Person or group of Persons whereby such other Person

 

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or group of Persons acquires more than 50% of the outstanding Ordinary Shares; or (vi) a “person” or “group” within the meaning of the Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, other than the Company, files a Schedule TO or any schedule, form or report under the Exchange Act disclosing that such person or group has become the direct or indirect “beneficial owner,” as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of the Company’s common equity representing more than 50% of the voting power of all classes of the Company’s common equity entitled generally to vote in the election of directors to the Company’s board of directors (each a “ Fundamental Transaction ”), then, in the case of any Fundamental Transaction pursuant to which the Ordinary Shares would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof), 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 kind and amount of shares of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) (the “ Alternate Consideration, ”) receivable as a result of such Fundamental Transaction by a holder of one Ordinary Share immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction (without regard to any limitation in Section 2(d) on the exercise of this Warrant) (such amount of Alternate Consideration per Ordinary Share, a “ Unit of Alternate Consideration ”). If holders of Ordinary Shares are given any choice as to the stock, other securities, other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof), to be received in a Fundamental Transaction described in the preceding sentence, 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. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in the event of any Fundamental Transaction, the Company or any Successor Entity (as defined below) shall, at the Holder’s option, exercisable at any time beginning on the date of the consummation of such Fundamental Transaction and ending on the date that is 30 calendar days after the consummation of such Fundamental Transaction, purchase this Warrant from the Holder by paying to the Holder an amount of cash equal to the Black Scholes Value of the remaining unexercised portion of this Warrant on the date of the consummation of such Fundamental Transaction, such payment to be made within three (3) days after the exercise of such option. “ Black Scholes Value ” means the value of this Warrant based on the Black and Scholes Option Pricing Model obtained from the “OV” function on Bloomberg, L.P. or any successor or replacement service (“ Bloomberg ”), determined as of the day of consummation of the applicable Fundamental Transaction for pricing purposes and reflecting (A) a risk-free interest rate corresponding to the U.S. Treasury rate for a period equal to the time between the date of the public announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction and the Termination Date, (B) an expected volatility equal to the greater of 100% and the 100 day volatility obtained from the HVT function on Bloomberg as of the Trading Day immediately following the public announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction, (C) the underlying price per share used in such calculation shall be the greater of (i) the weighted average price of the Ordinary Shares for the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction, (ii) the weighted average price of the Ordinary Shares for the Trading Day immediately following the date of announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction and (iii) the weighted average price of the Ordinary Shares for the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of consummation of the applicable Fundamental Transaction and (D) a remaining option time equal to the time between the date

 

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of the public announcement of the applicable Fundamental Transaction and the Termination Date. The Company shall cause any successor entity in a Fundamental Transaction in which the Company is not the survivor (the “ Successor Entity ”) to assume in writing all of the obligations of the Company under this Warrant and the Registration Rights Agreement in accordance with the provisions of this Section 3(d) pursuant to written agreements and shall, at the option of the Holder, deliver to the Holder, in exchange for this Warrant, a security of the Successor Entity, evidenced by a written instrument substantially similar in form and substance to this Warrant that is exercisable for a number of Units of Alternate Consideration equal to the maximum number of Ordinary Shares into which this Warrant is exercisable immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction (without regard to any limitations on the exercise of this Warrant) prior to such Fundamental Transaction, and which is reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Holder. Upon the occurrence of any Fundamental Transaction in which the Company is not the surviving entity, the Successor Entity shall succeed to, and be substituted for (so that, from and after the date of such Fundamental Transaction, the provisions of this Warrant and the Registration Rights Agreement referring to the “Company” shall refer instead to the Successor Entity, and references to “Ordinary Shares” shall refer to Units of Alternate Consideration), and may exercise every right and power of the Company and shall assume all of the obligations of the Company under this Warrant and the Registration Rights Agreement with the same effect as if such Successor Entity had been named as the Company herein. In the event that the Alternate Consideration includes stock, securities or other property or assets (including cash) of any entity other than the Company or the Successor Entity, such other entity shall guarantee the obligations of the Company or the Successor Entity, as applicable, hereunder. The Company will not become a party to a Fundamental Transaction unless it is consistent with the foregoing. The above provisions shall apply to successive Fundamental Transactions.

(e) 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 Ordinary Shares deemed to be issued and outstanding as of a given date shall be the sum of the number of Ordinary Shares (excluding treasury shares, if any) issued and outstanding.

(f) Notice to Holder .

(i) Adjustment to Exercise Price and number of Ordinary Shares . Whenever the Exercise Price or the number of Ordinary Shares into which this Warrant is exercisable is adjusted pursuant to any provision of this Section 3, the Company shall promptly, and in any event within two (2) Business Days, mail to the Holder a notice setting forth the Exercise Price and the number of Ordinary Shares into which this Warrant is exercisable after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment.

(ii) Notice to Allow Exercise by Holder . If during the term in which this Warrant may be exercised by the Holder (A) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution in whatever form) on the Ordinary Shares, (B) the Company shall declare a special nonrecurring cash dividend on or a redemption of the Ordinary Shares, (C) the Company shall authorize the granting to all holders of the Ordinary

 

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Shares rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any share capital of any class, (D) the approval of any shareholders of the Company shall be required in connection with any reclassification of the Ordinary Shares, 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, or any compulsory share exchange whereby the Ordinary Shares are 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 Ordinary Shares 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 Ordinary Shares of record shall be entitled to exchange their Ordinary Shares 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 its subsidiaries, the Company shall simultaneously publicly disclose such information in compliance with applicable securities laws. The Holder shall remain 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 except as may otherwise be expressly set forth herein.

Section 4. Transfer of Warrant .

(a) Transferability . As provided herein, this Warrant may be transferred in whole or in part, as the case may be, only pursuant to a registration statement filed under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration. Subject to such restrictions and subject to compliance with the applicable laws of Jersey, Channel Islands, the Company shall transfer this Warrant in whole or in part, as the case may be, from time to time upon the books to be maintained by the Company for that purpose, upon surrender hereof for transfer, properly endorsed or accompanied by appropriate instructions for transfer and such other documents as may be reasonably required by the Company to establish that such transfer is being made in accordance with the terms hereof, and a new Warrant shall be issued to the transferee, in the case of a partial transfer, a new Warrant reflecting the reduced number of Ordinary Shares into which such Warrant is exercisable shall be issued to the transferor, and the surrendered Warrant shall be canceled by the Company.

(b) New Warrant . This Warrant may be 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 combination, the Company shall execute and deliver a new Warrant or Warrants in exchange for this Warrant or Warrants to be combined

 

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in accordance with such notice. All Warrants issued on transfers or exchanges shall include reference to the initial issuance date set forth on the first page of this Warrant and shall be identical with this Warrant except as to the number of Warrant Shares issuable pursuant thereto and the Warrant number.

(c) Warrant Register . The Company shall register this Warrant, upon records to be maintained by the Company or on behalf of 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 written notice to the contrary from the Holder. Upon thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the Holder, the Company may appoint a warrant agent (the “ Warrant Agent ”) to maintain the Warrant Register. Either the Transfer Agent or a third party may be appointed by the Company as the Warrant Agent, at the Company’s sole discretion. The Company shall remain responsible for the contents of the Warrant Register, notwithstanding the appointment of a Warrant Agent.

Section 5. Miscellaneous .

(a) No Rights as Shareholder Until Exercise . This Warrant does not entitle the Holder to any voting rights, dividends or other rights as a shareholder of the Company prior to the issuance of the Warrant Shares as set forth in Section 2(c)(i) except as set forth in Section 3 hereof.

(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 share certificate relating to the Warrant Shares, and, in case of loss, theft or destruction, of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to it, and upon surrender and cancellation of such Warrant or share certificate, if mutilated, the Company will make and deliver a new Warrant or share certificate of like tenor and dated as of such cancellation, in lieu of such Warrant or share certificate. Applicants for a replacement Warrant under such circumstances shall also comply with such other reasonable regulations and procedures and pay such other reasonable charges as the Company may prescribe.

(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) No Inconsistent Actions . 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 articles of association 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

 

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the rights of the 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.

(e) Certain Covenants . The Company covenants that all Ordinary Shares issued upon exercise of this Warrant will be fully paid and non-assessable by the Company and free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof. If any Ordinary Shares issuable upon the exercise hereof require registration with or approval of any governmental authority under any federal or state law before such Ordinary Shares may be validly issued upon exercise, the Company will, to the extent then permitted by the rules and interpretations of the applicable government authority, use its best efforts to secure such registration or approval, as the case may be. The Company further covenants that if at any time the Ordinary Shares shall be listed on any national securities exchange or automated quotation system, the Company will list and keep listed, so long as the Ordinary Shares shall be so listed on such exchange or automated quotation system, any Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant.

(f) Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Jury Trial . All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Warrant shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State 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, 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 brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper. 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 to such party at the address for such notices to it under this Warrant 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 manner permitted by law. EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS WARRANT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

 

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(g) Restrictions . The Holder acknowledges that the Warrant Shares acquired upon the exercise of this Warrant, if not registered for resale under the Securities Act, will have restrictions upon resale imposed by state and federal securities laws unless the shares are sold under an exemption from registration, including, without limitation, Rule 144 (if available).

(h) Nonwaiver and Expenses . No course of dealing or any delay or failure to exercise any right hereunder on the part of the Holder shall operate as a waiver of such right or otherwise prejudice Holder’s rights, powers or remedies. Without limiting any other provision of this Warrant or the Subscription Agreements, 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 the Holder such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover any reasonable 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.

(i) Notices . Any notice, request or other document required or permitted to be given or delivered under this Warrant must be in writing and will be deemed to have been delivered: (i) upon receipt, when delivered personally; (ii) upon receipt, when sent by facsimile (provided confirmation of transmission is mechanically or electronically generated and kept on file by the sending party); or (iii) one Business Day after deposit with an overnight courier service, in each case properly addressed to the party to receive the same. The addresses and facsimile numbers for such communications to the Company shall be:

If to the Company:

28 Esplanade

St Helier

JE2 3QA

Jersey, Channel Islands

Telephone: +44 131 445 6159

Facsimile: +44 153 4700 007

Attention: Paul Cowan

With Copies to:

Clifford Chance US LLP

31 West 52nd Street

New York, New York 10019

Attention: Per B. Chilstrom

Facsimile: 212-878-8375

If to an initial Holder, to the address provided in the Subscription Agreements or such other address as such Holder may notify the Company of from time to time.

If to a transferee Holder, to the address of such Holder set forth in the transfer documentation provided to the Company or such other address as such transferee Holder may notify the Company of from time to time.

 

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

(k) Remedies . The Holder, in addition to being entitled to exercise all rights granted by law, including recovery of damages, will be entitled to seek 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.

(l) Successors and Assigns . This Warrant and the rights and obligations evidenced hereby shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and permitted assigns of the Company and the successors and permitted assigns of the Holder. The provisions of this Warrant are intended to be for the benefit of any Holder from time to time of this Warrant and shall be enforceable by the Holder or holder of Warrant Shares.

(m) Amendment . This Warrant may be modified or amended or the provisions hereof waived with the written consent of the Company and the Holder.

(n) 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.

(o) 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.

[ Signature Page Follows ]

 

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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.

 

QUOTIENT LIMITED
By:                                                                              
      Name:
      Title:

[ Warrant Signature Page ]

 


NOTICE OF EXERCISE

TO: QUOTIENT LIMITED

The undersigned is the Holder of Pre-Funded Warrant No.        (the “ Warrant ”) issued by Quotient Limited, a Jersey, Channel Islands company (the “ Company ”). As a condition to this exercise, the undersigned Holder hereby represents and warrants to the Company that the representations and warranties set forth in Article 2 of the Subscription Agreements (as defined in the Warrant), other than Section 2(n) thereof, are true and correct in all material respects as of the date hereof as if they had been made on such date with respect to the Warrant Shares (except for any representation or warranty made as of a specified date, which shall be true and correct in all respects as of such specified date). The undersigned Holder acknowledges that the sale, transfer, assignment or hypothecation of the Warrant Shares to be issued upon exercise of this Warrant is subject to the terms and conditions contained in the Warrant. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined have the respective meanings set forth in the Warrant.

(1) The undersigned hereby elects to purchase            Ordinary Shares of the Company pursuant to the terms of the Warrant, and tenders herewith payment of the aggregate Exercise Price for such Ordinary Shares in full, together with all applicable transfer taxes payable by the undersigned pursuant to Section 2(c)(vi) of the Warrant, if any.

(2) Unless the Warrant Shares will be delivered electronically via DWAC, 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:

 

 

and deliver the physical certificate representing said Warrant Shares to the following address:

 

 

If the Warrant Shares will be delivered electronically via DWAC, please issue them to the following account:

 

    Name of DTC Participant:

 

    DTC Participant Number:

 

    Name of Account at DTC Participant to be credited with the Warrant Shares:

 

    Account Number at DTC Participant to be credited with the Warrant Shares:

[SIGNATURE OF HOLDER]

Name of Investing Entity:

 

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Investing Entity:

 

 

Name of Authorized Signatory:

 

 

Title of Authorized Signatory:

 

 

Date:

 

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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 the shares of the foregoing Warrant and all rights evidenced thereby are hereby assigned to             whose address is

 

Dated:                   ,
Holder’s Signature:  

 

 
Holder’s Address:  

 

 
 

 

 

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.

 

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Exhibit 10.1

FORM OF SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT 1

SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT (the “ Agreement ”), dated as of October 24, 2017, by and among QUOTIENT LIMITED, a company organized under the laws of Jersey (the “ Company ”), and the investors listed on the Schedule of Subscribers attached hereto (individually, a “ Subscriber ” and collectively, the “ Subscribers ”).

WHEREAS:

A. The Company and each Subscriber is executing and delivering this Agreement in reliance upon the exemption from securities registration afforded by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ 1933 Act ”), and Rule 506 of Regulation D (“ Regulation  D ”) as promulgated by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC ”) under the 1933 Act.

B. Each Subscriber wishes to subscribe for, and the Company wishes to issue, upon the terms and conditions stated in this Agreement, (i) that aggregate number of ordinary shares, of no par value per share in the capital of the Company (the “ Ordinary Shares ”), set forth opposite such Subscriber’s name in column (3) on the Schedule of Subscribers (which aggregate amount for all subscribers pursuant to this Agreement and the Other Subscription Agreements shall be 7,864,683 Ordinary Shares and shall collectively be referred to herein as the “ New Ordinary Shares ”), and (ii) a warrant to acquire up to that number of additional Ordinary Shares set forth opposite such Subscriber’s name in column (4) on the Schedule of Subscribers (which aggregate amount for all subscribers pursuant to this Agreement and the Other Subscription Agreements shall be warrants to acquire 8,414,683 additional Ordinary Shares and shall collectively be referred to herein as the “ Warrants ”) (as exercised, collectively, the “ Warrant Shares ”). For purposes of this Agreement, “ Other Subscription Agreements ” means subscription agreements executed and delivered to the Company contemporaneously with this Agreement, which subscription agreements will be on substantially similar terms and conditions as this Agreement; provided , however , that certain Subscribers are purchasing pre-funded warrants (the “ Pre-Funded Warrants ”) pursuant to Other Subscription Agreements in addition to New Ordinary Shares and Warrants.

C. Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the parties hereto are executing and delivering a Registration Rights Agreement, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “ Registration Rights Agreement ”) pursuant to which the Company has agreed to provide certain registration rights with respect to the New Ordinary Shares, the Warrants, and the Warrant Shares, under the 1933 Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and applicable state securities laws.

D. The New Ordinary Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares collectively are referred to herein as the “ Securities ”.

NOW , THEREFORE , the Company and each Subscriber hereby agree as follows:

 

1 [Subscription Agreement to be revised to include Pre-Funded Warrants for Subscribers purchasing Pre-Funded Warrants.]


1. SUBSCRIPTION AND ISSUE OF  NEW ORDINARY SHARES AND WARRANTS .

(a) Issue of New Ordinary Shares and Warrants . Subject to the satisfaction (or waiver) of the conditions set forth in Sections 6 and 7 below, the Company shall issue to each Subscriber, and each Subscriber severally, but not jointly, shall subscribe for on the Closing Date (as defined below), the number of New Ordinary Shares as is set forth opposite such Subscriber’s name in column (3) on the Schedule of Subscribers, along with the Warrants to acquire up to that number of Warrant Shares as is set forth opposite such Subscriber’s name in column (4) on the Schedule of Subscribers (the “ Closing ”).

(i) Closing . The date and time of the Closing (the “ Closing Date ”) shall be October 26, 2017, 5:00 p.m., New York City time (or such later date as is mutually agreed to by the Company and each Subscriber) after notification of satisfaction (or waiver) of the conditions to the Closing set forth in Sections 6 and 7 below at the offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

(ii) Subscription Price . The aggregate subscription price for the New Ordinary Shares and the Warrants to be subscribed for by each such Subscriber at the Closing (the “ Subscription Price ”) shall be the amount set forth opposite each Subscriber’s name in column (5) of the Schedule of Subscribers. The subscription price for the New Ordinary Shares shall be $4.64 per share, which is equal to the closing bid price of the Ordinary Shares as reported on The NASDAQ Global Market on the date of this Agreement, and the subscription price for the Warrants shall be $0.125 multiplied by the number of underlying Warrant Shares 2 . Each Subscriber shall have the benefit of any terms more favorable, in form or substance, contained in the Other Subscription Agreements (other than pursuant to Section 4(g) of the Other Subscription Agreements and other than any provisions relating to the purchase of Pre-Funded Warrants).

(b) Form of Payment . On the Closing Date, (i) each Subscriber shall pay its Subscription Price to the Company for the New Ordinary Shares and the Warrants to be issued and sold to such Subscriber at the Closing, by wire transfer of immediately available funds in accordance with the Company’s written wire instructions and (ii) the Company shall deliver to each Subscriber the New Ordinary Shares (allocated in the amounts as such Subscriber shall request) which such Subscriber is subscribing for hereunder, along with the Warrants (allocated in the amounts as such Subscriber shall request) which such Subscriber is purchasing, in each case duly executed on behalf of the Company and registered in the name of such Subscriber or its designee.

(c) Simultaneous Issuance . The parties agree that the issuance and sale by the Company of the Warrants and the New Ordinary Shares to the Subscribers are occurring simultaneously.

 

2   [For Subscribers purchasing Pre-Funded Warrants, include the following “and the subscription price for the Pre-Funded Warrants shall be $4.755 multiplied by the number of underlying Warrant Shares”]

 

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2. SUBSCRIBER’S REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES .

Each Subscriber represents, warrants and agrees with respect to only itself that:

(a) Organization and Good Standing . Such Subscriber is a corporation, partnership or limited liability company duly incorporated or organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization.

(b) Authorization and Power . Such Subscriber has the requisite power and authority, corporate or otherwise, to enter into and perform the Transaction Documents (as defined below) to which such Subscriber is a party and to subscribe for the New Ordinary Shares and Warrants being sold to it hereunder. The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents to which such Subscriber is a party by such Subscriber and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership, or limited liability company action, and no further consent or authorization of such Subscriber or its Board of Directors, stockholders or partners, as the case may be, is required.

(c) No Public Sale or Distribution . Such Subscriber is subscribing for the New Ordinary Shares and the Warrants, and upon exercise of the Warrants will acquire the Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, for its own account and not with a view towards, or for resale in connection with, the public sale or distribution thereof, except pursuant to sales registered or exempted under the 1933 Act; provided , however , that by making the representations herein, such Subscriber does not agree to hold any of the Securities for any minimum or other specific term and reserves the right to dispose of the Securities at any time in accordance with or pursuant to a registration statement or an exemption under the 1933 Act and pursuant to the applicable terms of the Transaction Documents. Such Subscriber is subscribing for the Securities hereunder in the ordinary course of its business. Such Subscriber does not presently have any agreement or understanding, directly or indirectly, with any Person to distribute any of the Securities. For purposes of this Agreement, “ Person ” means an individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization and a government or any department or agency thereof.

(d) Accredited Investor Status . Such Subscriber is an “accredited investor” as that term is defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D.

(e) Reliance on Exemptions . Such Subscriber understands that the Securities are being offered and issued to it in reliance on specific exemptions from the registration requirements of United States federal and state securities laws and that the Company is relying in part upon the truth and accuracy of, and such Subscriber’s compliance with, the representations, warranties, agreements, acknowledgments and understandings of such Subscriber set forth herein in order to determine the availability of such exemptions and the eligibility of such Subscriber to subscribe for the Securities.

(f) Information . Such Subscriber and its advisors, if any, have been furnished with, or had access to, all materials relating to the business, finances and operations of the Company and materials relating to the offer and sale of the Securities that have been requested by such

 

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Subscriber as it has deemed necessary or appropriate to conduct its due diligence investigation and has sufficient knowledge and experience in investing in companies similar to the Company in terms of the Company’s stage of development so as to be able to evaluate the risks and merits of its investment in the Company. Such Subscriber and its advisors, if any, have been afforded the opportunity to ask questions of the Company. Neither such inquiries nor any other due diligence investigations conducted by such Subscriber or its advisors, if any, or its representatives shall modify, amend or affect such Subscriber’s right to rely on the Company’s representations and warranties contained herein. Such Subscriber understands that its investment in the Securities involves a high degree of risk and is able to afford a complete loss of such investment. Such Subscriber has sought such accounting, legal and tax advice as it has considered necessary to make an informed investment decision with respect to its acquisition of the Securities.

(g) No Governmental Review . Such Subscriber understands that no United States federal or state agency or any other government or governmental agency has passed on or made any recommendation or endorsement of the Securities or the fairness or suitability of the investment in the Securities nor have such authorities passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the Securities.

(h) Transfer or Resale . Such Subscriber understands that except as provided in the Registration Rights Agreement: (i) the Securities have not been and are not being registered under the 1933 Act or any state securities laws, and may not be offered for sale, sold, assigned or transferred unless (A) subsequently registered thereunder, (B) such Subscriber shall have delivered to the Company an opinion of counsel, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company, to the effect that such Securities to be sold, assigned or transferred may be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to an exemption from such registration, or (C) such Subscriber provides the Company with reasonable assurance that such Securities can be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the 1933 Act (or a successor rule thereto) (collectively, “ Rule 144 ”); (ii) any sale of the Securities made in reliance on Rule 144 may be made only in accordance with the terms of Rule 144 and further, if Rule 144 is not applicable, any resale of the Securities under circumstances in which the seller (or the Person through whom the sale is made) may be deemed to be an underwriter (as that term is defined in the 1933 Act) may require compliance with some other exemption under the 1933 Act or the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder; and (iii) neither the Company nor any other Person is under any obligation to register the Securities under the 1933 Act or any state securities laws or to comply with the terms and conditions of any exemption thereunder. The Securities may be pledged in connection with a bona fide margin account or other loan or financing arrangement secured by the Securities and such pledge of Securities shall not be deemed to be a transfer, sale or assignment of the Securities hereunder, and no Subscriber effecting a pledge of the Securities shall be required to provide the Company with any notice thereof or otherwise make any delivery to the Company pursuant to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, including, without limitation, this Section 2(h).

(i) Legends . Such Subscriber understands that the certificates or other instruments representing the New Ordinary Shares and the Warrants (to the extent such Securities are certificated) and, until such time as the resale of the Warrant Shares have been registered under the 1933 Act as contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement, the share certificates

 

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representing the Warrant Shares (to the extent such Securities are certificated), except as set forth below, shall bear any legend as required by the “blue sky” laws of any state and a restrictive legend in substantially the following form (and a stop-transfer order may be placed against transfer of such Securities, whether or not such Securities are certificated):

[NEITHER THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN ] [ THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN] REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED (I) IN THE ABSENCE OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR (B) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, IN A FORM REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER SAID ACT OR (II) UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER SAID ACT. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN OR FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THE SECURITIES.

The legend set forth above shall be removed and the Company shall issue a certificate without such legend to the holder of the Securities upon which it is stamped, if, unless otherwise required by state securities laws, (i) such Securities are registered for resale under the 1933 Act, (ii) in connection with a sale, assignment or other transfer, such holder provides the Company with an opinion of a law firm reasonably acceptable to the Company, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company, to the effect that such sale, assignment or transfer of the Securities may be made without registration under the applicable requirements of the 1933 Act, or (iii) such holder provides the Company with reasonable assurance that the Securities can be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to Rule 144 (in which case, the Company shall facilitate the removal of the legend; provided, however, the Company shall not be required to furnish an opinion of counsel to facilitate any sale, assignment or transfer pursuant to Rule 144 at any time that the Securities are registered for resale under ther 1933 Act).

(j) Validity; Enforcement . The Transaction Documents to which such Subscriber is a party have been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered on behalf of such Subscriber and shall constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of such Subscriber enforceable against such Subscriber in accordance with their respective terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity or to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation and other similar laws relating to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable creditors’ rights and remedies.

 

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(k) No Conflicts . The execution, delivery and performance by such Subscriber of the Transaction Documents to which such Subscriber is a party and the consummation by such Subscriber of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will not (i) result in a violation of the organizational documents of such Subscriber or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event which 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 of, any agreement, indenture or instrument to which such Subscriber is a party, or (iii) result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree (including federal and state securities laws) applicable to such Subscriber, except in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for such conflicts, defaults, rights or violations which would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the ability of such Subscriber to perform its obligations hereunder.

(l) Residency . Such Subscriber is a resident of that jurisdiction specified below its address on the Schedule of Subscribers.

(m) No General Solicitation . Each Subscriber acknowledges that the Securities were not offered to such Subscriber by means of any form of general or public solicitation or general advertising, or publicly disseminated advertisements or sales literature, including (i) any advertisement, article, notice or other communication published in any newspaper, magazine, website, or similar media, or broadcast over television or radio, or (ii) any seminar or meeting to which such Subscriber was invited by any of the foregoing means of communications.

(n) No Affiliates; Independent Investment .    Except as may be otherwise disclosed by the Subscriber in any filings with the SEC under Section 13 and/or Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ 1934 Act ”), the Subscriber is acting independently with respect to its investment in, and related rights with respect to voting, holding or disposing of, the Securities subscribed for hereunder.

(o) Brokers . Each Subscriber has no knowledge of any brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions that are or will be payable by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any broker, financial advisor or consultant, finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or other Person or entity, with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

3. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY .

The Company represents and warrants to each of the Subscribers that:

(a) Defined Terms . Capitalized terms used in this Section 3 without definition have the meanings ascribed to them in Annex A hereto.

(b) Authorization; Enforcement; Validity . The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Warrants (collectively, the “ Transaction Documents ”) and to issue the Securities in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof. The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including, without limitation, the issuance of the New Ordinary Shares and the Warrants and the reservation for issuance and the issuance

 

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of the Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants have been duly authorized by the Company’s Board of Directors and no further filing, consent or authorization is required by the Company, its Board of Directors, or its shareholders. This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents have been duly executed and delivered by the Company, and constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except as (i) such enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity or applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or similar laws relating to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable creditors’ rights and remedies and (ii) enforceability of the indemnification and contributions provisions set forth in the Transaction Documents may be limited by the federal or state securities laws of the United States or the public policy underlying such laws.

(c) Issuance of Securities . The New Ordinary Shares and the Warrants are duly authorized and, upon issuance in accordance with the terms hereof, shall be validly issued and free from all preemptive or similar rights, taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof and the New Ordinary Shares shall be fully paid and nonassessable with the holders being entitled to all rights accorded to a holder of Ordinary Shares. As of the Closing, a number of Ordinary Shares shall have been duly authorized and reserved for issuance which equals or exceeds 100% of the aggregate of the maximum number of Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants. Upon exercise in accordance with the Warrants, the Warrant Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free from all preemptive or similar rights, taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof, with the holders being entitled to all rights accorded to a holder of Ordinary Shares. Assuming the accuracy of and compliance with each of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Subscribers herein, the offer and issuance by the Company of the Securities is exempt from registration under the 1933 Act.

(d) No Conflicts . The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including, without limitation, the issuance of the New Ordinary Shares and the Warrants and the reservation for issuance and the issuance of the Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants) will not (i) result in a violation of the certificate of incorporation (or certificate of incorporation on change of name) or the articles of association of the Company or the articles of association, charters or bylaws (as applicable) or other applicable organizational documents of any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) in any respect under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any agreement, indenture or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party, or (iii) result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree (including foreign, federal and state securities laws and regulations and the rules and regulations of The NASDAQ Global Market (the “ Principal Market ”) applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which any property or asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or affected), except in the cases of clauses (ii) and (iii) such as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(e) Consents . Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is required to obtain any consent, authorization or order of, or make any filing or registration with, any court, governmental agency or any regulatory commission, board, body, authority, or self-regulatory agency or any other Person in order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its obligations under or contemplated by the Transaction Documents, in each case in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof (other than (x) any consent, authorization or order that has been obtained as of the date hereof, (y) any filing or registration that has been made as of the date hereof or (z) any filings which may be required to be made by the Company with the SEC, state securities administrators or the Principal Market or The NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC, subsequent to the Closing; provided that , for purposes of the representation made in this sentence, the Company is assuming and relying upon the accuracy of and compliance with each of the relevant representations, warranties and agreements of the Subscribers herein). The Company is unaware of any facts or circumstances that might prevent the Company from obtaining or effecting any of the registration, application or filings pursuant to the preceding sentence. The Company is not in violation of the listing requirements of the Principal Market and has no knowledge of any facts that would reasonably lead to delisting or suspension of the Ordinary Shares in the foreseeable future.

(f) Acknowledgment Regarding Subscriber’s Subscription of the Securities . The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Subscriber is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length subscriber with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The Company further acknowledges that no Subscriber is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and any advice given by a Subscriber or any of its representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby is merely incidental to such Subscriber’s subscription of the Securities. The Company further represents to each Subscriber that the Company’s decision to enter into the Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation by the Company and its representatives.

(g) No General Solicitation; No Placement Agent . Neither the Company, nor any of its Subsidiaries or affiliates, nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any Person acting on its or their behalf, has engaged in any form of general solicitation or general advertising (within the meaning of Regulation D) in connection with the offer or sale of the Securities. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has engaged any placement agent or other agent in connection with the sale of the Securities.

(h) No Integrated Offering . None of the Company, its Subsidiaries, any of their affiliates, and, to the Company’s knowledge, any Person acting on their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would require registration of the issuance of any of the Securities under the 1933 Act, whether through integration with prior offerings or otherwise, or cause this offering of the Securities to require approval of shareholders of the Company for purposes of any applicable shareholder approval provisions, including, without limitation, under the rules and regulations of any exchange or automated quotation system on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries, their affiliates and, to the Company’s knowledge, any Person acting on their behalf will take, directly or indirectly, any action or steps referred to in the preceding sentence that would require registration of the issuance of any of the Securities under the 1933 Act or cause the offering of the Securities to be integrated with other offerings for purposes of any such applicable shareholder approval provisions.

 

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(i) Application of Takeover Protections; Rights Agreement . The Company and its 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 certificate of incorporation (or certificate of incorporation on change of name) or the articles of association of the Company or the laws of Jersey, Channel Islands or any other applicable jurisdiction which is or could become applicable to any Subscriber as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including, without limitation, the Company’s issuance of the Securities and any Subscriber’s ownership of the Securities. The Company and its Board of Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any shareholder rights plan or similar arrangement relating to accumulations of beneficial ownership of Ordinary Shares or a change in control of the Company.

(j) SEC Documents; Financial Statements . The Company has timely filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by it with the SEC pursuant to the reporting requirements of the 1934 Act (all of the foregoing filed prior to the date hereof or prior to the date of the Closing and all exhibits included therein and financial statements, notes and schedules thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein being hereinafter referred to as the “ SEC Documents ”). As of their respective filing dates, the SEC Documents conformed in all material respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to the SEC Documents, and none of the SEC Documents, at the time they were filed with the SEC, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Any Supplemental Disclosure Document (as defined below), as of its date and as of the date hereof, did not and does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. As of their respective filing dates, the financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Documents complied as to form in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied, during the periods involved (except (i) as may be otherwise indicated in such financial statements or the notes thereto, or (ii) in the case of unaudited interim statements, to the extent they may exclude footnotes or may be condensed or summary statements) and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company as of the dates thereof and the results of its operations and cash flows for the periods then ended (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit adjustments). No other information provided by or on behalf of the Company to the Subscribers which is not included in the SEC Documents, including, without limitation, disclosure contained in any supplemental disclosure document prepared by the Company and provided by the Company to be delivered to potential subscribers (“ Supplemental Disclosure Document ”) and information referred to in Section 2(f) of this Agreement or in any disclosure schedules, contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstance under which they are or were made, not misleading.

 

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(k) Transfer Taxes . On the Closing Date, all share transfer or other taxes (other than income or similar taxes) which are required to be paid in connection with the issue of the New Ordinary Shares and the Warrants to be subscribed for by each Subscriber hereunder will be, or will have been, fully paid or provided for by the Company, and all laws imposing such taxes will be or will have been complied with.

(l) Manipulation of Price . 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 the Ordinary Shares, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or paid any compensation for soliciting subscriptions of, the Securities, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any person any compensation for soliciting another to subscribe for any other securities of the Company.

(m) Disclosure . The Company confirms that neither it nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Subscribers or their agents or counsel with any information that constitutes or could reasonably be expected to constitute material, nonpublic information, other than such information that will be publicly disclosed pursuant to Section 4(i) of this Agreement. The Company understands and confirms that each of the Subscribers will rely on the foregoing representations in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. All disclosure provided to the Subscribers regarding the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, their business and the transactions contemplated hereby furnished by the Company 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 the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. No material event or circumstance has occurred or material information exists with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or its or their business, properties, prospects, operations or financial conditions, which, under applicable law, rule or regulation, requires public disclosure or announcement by the Company but which has not been so publicly announced or disclosed.

(n) Acknowledgement Regarding Subscribers’ Trading Activity . Anything in this Agreement or elsewhere herein to the contrary notwithstanding, but subject to compliance by the Subscribers with applicable law, it is understood and acknowledged by the Company (i) that none of the Subscribers have been asked by the Company or its Subsidiaries to agree, nor has any Subscriber agreed with the Company or its Subsidiaries, to desist from purchasing or selling, long and/or short, securities of the Company, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the Company or to hold the Securities for any specified term; (ii) that past or future open market or other transactions by any Subscriber, 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 Subscriber, and counter parties in “derivative” transactions to which any such Subscriber is a party, directly or indirectly, presently may have a “short” position in the Ordinary Shares, and (iv) that each Subscriber 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, subject to compliance by the Subscribers with

 

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applicable law, (a) one or more Subscribers may engage in hedging and/or trading activities at various times during the period that the Securities are outstanding, and (b) such hedging and/or trading activities (if any) could reduce the value of the existing shareholders’ equity interests in the Company at and after the time that the hedging and/or trading activities are being conducted.

(o) Additional Representations and Warranties . In addition to the representations and warranties set out in this Agreement, the Company hereby makes the representations and warranties set forth in Annex A hereto, each of which is incorporated in its entirety as if set forth herein.

4. COVENANTS .

(a) Best Efforts . Each party shall use its best efforts timely to satisfy each of the covenants and conditions to be satisfied by it as provided in Sections 6 and 7 of this Agreement.

(b) Form D and Blue Sky . The Company agrees to file a Form D with respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy thereof to each Subscriber upon request promptly after such filing. The Company, on or before the Closing Date, shall take such action as is necessary in order to obtain an exemption for or to qualify the Securities for subscription by the Subscribers at the Closing pursuant to this Agreement under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States, and shall upon request provide evidence of any such action so taken to the Subscribers on or prior to the Closing Date. The Company shall make all filings and reports relating to the offer and issue of the Securities required under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States following the Closing Date; provided , however , the Company shall not for any such purpose be required to qualify generally to transact business as a foreign corporation or as a dealer in securities in any jurisdiction or to consent to general service of process in any jurisdiction.

(c) Reporting Status . From the date hereof until the date on which the Investors (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) shall have sold all the New Ordinary Shares and Warrant Shares or are able to sell all the New Ordinary Shares and Warrant Shares under Rule 144 without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required thereunder and without volume or manner of sale restrictions and none of the Warrants is outstanding (the “ Reporting Period ”), the Company shall timely file all reports required to be filed with the SEC pursuant to the 1934 Act, including any extension period under Rule 12b-25 of the 1934 Act, and the Company shall not terminate its status as an issuer required to file reports under the 1934 Act even if the 1934 Act or the rules and regulations thereunder would otherwise permit such termination.

(d) Use of Proceeds . The Company will use the proceeds from the issue of the New Ordinary Shares and the Warrants for general corporate purposes, including to fund the development and commercialization costs for MosaiQ™, and not for (A) the repayment of any outstanding Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (B) redemption or repurchase of any of its or its Subsidiaries’ equity securities.

 

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(e) Financial Information . The Company agrees to send the following to each Investor (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) during the Reporting Period, unless the following are filed with the SEC through EDGAR and are available to the public through the EDGAR system, (i) within one (1) Business Day after the filing thereof with the SEC, a copy of its Annual Reports in Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, any Current Reports on Form 8-K and any registration statements (other than on Form S-8) or amendments filed pursuant to the 1933 Act (other than amendments in respect of the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-206026), as amended, and the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-203818), as amended), (ii) within one (1) Business Day after the release thereof, facsimile or e-mailed copies of all press releases issued by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and (iii) copies of any notices and other information made available or given to the shareholders of the Company generally, contemporaneously with the making available or giving thereof to the shareholders. As used herein, “ Business Day ” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in the City of New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed.

(f) Listing . The Company shall as soon as reasonably practicable secure the listing of all of the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) other than the Warrants upon each national securities exchange and automated quotation system, if any, upon which Ordinary Shares are then listed (subject to official notice of issuance) and shall maintain, so long as any other Ordinary Shares shall be so listed, such listing of all Registrable Securities other than the Warrants from time to time issuable under the terms of the Transaction Documents. The Company shall maintain the Ordinary Shares’ authorization for quotation on the Principal Market. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall take any action which would be reasonably expected to result in the delisting or suspension of the Ordinary Shares on the Principal Market. The Company shall pay all fees and expenses in connection with satisfying its obligations under this Section 4(f).

(g) Fees . The Company shall be responsible for the payment of any placement agent’s fees, financial advisory fees or broker’s commissions (other than for Persons engaged by any Subscriber) relating to or arising out of the transactions contemplated hereby. Except as otherwise set forth in the Transaction Documents, each party to this Agreement shall bear its own expenses in connection with the issue of the New Ordinary Shares and Warrants to the Subscribers[, provided that the Company shall reimburse the Subscribers for reasonable documented out-of-pocket fees collectively paid by the Subscribers to legal counsel for providing legal advice in connection with the negotiation and execution of the Transaction Documents, up to a maximum of $200,000 in the aggregate for the Subscribers] 3 .

(h) Pledge of Securities . The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Securities may be pledged by an Investor (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) in connection with a bona fide margin agreement or other loan or financing arrangement that is secured by the Securities. The pledge of Securities shall not be deemed to be a transfer, sale or assignment of the Securities hereunder, and no Investor effecting a pledge of Securities shall be required to provide the Company with any notice thereof or otherwise make any delivery to the Company pursuant to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, including, without limitation,

 

 

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[This provision to be removed in the Subscription Agreements to be used by Galen Partners, directors and officers of the Company; and in the Galen Parnters Subscription Agreement an expense reimbursement shall be included subject to a $20,000 cap.]

 

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Section 2(h) of this Agreement; provided that an Investor and its pledgee shall be required to comply with the provisions of Section 2(h) of this Agreement in order to effect a sale, transfer or assignment of Securities to such pledgee. The Company hereby agrees to execute and deliver such documentation as a pledgee of the Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge of the Securities to such pledgee by an Investor; provided that any and all costs to effect the pledge of the Securities are borne by the pledgor and/or pledgee and not the Company.

(i) Disclosure of Transactions and Other Material Information . On or before 8:00 a.m., New York City time, on the first Business Day following the date of this Agreement, the Company shall issue a press release and promptly thereafter file a Current Report on Form 8-K describing the terms of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents in the form required by the 1934 Act, as well as disclosing such other information as the Company and the Subscribers may reasonably agree, and attaching the material Transaction Documents (including, without limitation, this Agreement, the form of Warrant and the form of the Registration Rights Agreement) as exhibits to such filing (including all attachments, the “ 8-K Filing ”). From and after the filing of the 8-K Filing with the SEC, no Subscriber shall be in possession of any material, nonpublic information received from the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents, that is not disclosed in the 8-K Filing. The Company shall not, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries and its and each of their respective officers, directors, employees and agents, not to, provide any Subscriber with any material, nonpublic information regarding the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from and after the filing of the 8-K Filing with the SEC without the express written consent of such Subscriber. If a Subscriber has, or believes it has, received any such material, nonpublic information regarding the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from such Persons, it shall provide the Company with written notice thereof. The Company shall, within five (5) Trading Days of receipt of such notice, make public disclosure of such material, nonpublic information, to the extent such information is both material and nonpublic. “ Trading Day ” means any day on which the Ordinary Shares are traded on the Principal Market, or, if the Principal Market is not the principal trading market for the Ordinary Shares, then on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which the Ordinary Shares are then traded; provided that “Trading Day” shall not include any day on which the Ordinary Shares are scheduled to trade on such exchange or market for less than 4.5 hours or any day that the Ordinary Shares are suspended from trading during the final hour of trading on such exchange or market (or if such exchange or market does not designate in advance the closing time of trading on such exchange or market, then during the hour ending at 4:00 p.m., New York time). Neither the Company, its Subsidiaries nor any Subscriber shall issue any press releases or any other public statements with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby; provided , however , that the Company shall be entitled, without the prior approval of any Subscriber, to make any press release or other public disclosure with respect to such transactions (i) in substantial conformity with the 8-K Filing and contemporaneously therewith and (ii) as is required by applicable law and regulations. Without the prior written consent of any applicable Subscriber, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or affiliates shall disclose the name of such Subscriber in any filing, announcement, release or otherwise other than in connection with the Registration Statement, as contemplated pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, and other than in connection with the 8-K Filing, as contemplated pursuant to this Agreement, unless such disclosure is required by law, regulation or the Principal Market.

 

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(j) Conduct of Business . During the Reporting Period, the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not be conducted in violation of any law, ordinance or regulation of any governmental entity, except where such violations would not reasonably be expected to result, either individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect.

(k) Corporate Existence . So long as any Subscriber beneficially owns any Warrants, the Company shall maintain its corporate existence and shall not sell all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, except in the event of a merger or consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets where the surviving or successor entity in such transaction (if other than the Company) (i) assumes the Company’s obligations under the Warrants and the Registration Rights Agreement and (ii) is a publicly traded entity whose common equity is quoted on or listed for trading on a national securities exchange registered with the SEC under Section 6 of the 1934 Act.

(l) Reservation of Shares . The Company shall take all action necessary to at all times have authorized, and reserved for the purpose of issuance, no less than 100% of the number of Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants issued at the Closing (without taking into account any limitations on exercise of the Warrants set forth in the Warrants).

(m) DTC. The Company shall (i) facilitate the eligibility and acceptance of certificates representing the Registrable Securities (not bearing any restrictive legend and in a form eligible for deposit with The Depository Trust Company (“ DTC )) for delivery of any sale of such Registrable Securities to be offered pursuant to a Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) through the facilities of DTC upon the effectiveness of such Registration Statement and (ii) make any necessary changes to the Warrants to facilitate DTC eligibility as reasonably acceptable to the Subscriber.

5. REGISTER; TRANSFER AGENT INSTRUCTIONS .

(a) Register . The Company shall maintain at its principal executive offices (or such other office or agency of the Company as it may designate by notice to each holder of Ordinary Shares or Warrants), a register for the Ordinary Shares and Warrants in which the Company shall record the name and address of the Person in whose name the Ordinary Shares or Warrants have been issued (including the name and address of each transferee) and the number of Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants held by such Person. The Company shall keep the register open and available at all times during business hours for inspection of any Subscriber or its legal representatives.

(b) Transfer Agent Matters . The Company represents and warrants that no instruction, other than stop transfer instructions to give effect to Section 2(h) hereof, will be given by the Company to its transfer agent or any subsequent transfer agent with respect to the Securities, and that the Securities shall otherwise be freely transferable on the books and records of the Company as and to the extent provided in this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents. If a Subscriber effects a sale, assignment or transfer of the Securities in accordance with Section 2(h), the Company shall permit the transfer and shall promptly instruct its transfer agent to issue one or more certificates or credit shares or warrants to the applicable balance accounts at DTC in such name and in such denominations as specified by such Subscriber to

 

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effect such sale, transfer or assignment. In the event that such sale, assignment or transfer involves Ordinary Shares, Warrants or Warrant Shares sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to an effective registration statement or, to the extent available, pursuant to Rule 144, the transfer agent shall issue such Securities to the Subscriber, assignee or transferee, as the case may be, without any restrictive legend.

(c) Breach . The Company acknowledges that a breach by it of its obligations under this Section 5 will cause irreparable harm to a Subscriber. Accordingly, the Company acknowledges that the remedy at law for a breach of its obligations under this Section 5 will be inadequate and agrees, in the event of a breach or threatened breach by the Company of the provisions of this Section 5, that a Subscriber shall be entitled, in addition to all other available remedies, to an order and/or injunction restraining any breach and requiring immediate issuance and transfer, without the necessity of showing economic loss and without any bond or other security being required.

(d) Additional Relief . If the Company shall fail for any reason or for no reason to issue to a Subscriber holding New Ordinary Shares or Warrant Shares unlegended certificates (to the extent such Securities are certificated) or remove a stop-transfer order placed against the transfer of such Securities (whether or not such Securties are certificated) within three (3) Business Days of (x) receipt of documents necessary for the removal of the legend set forth above in Section 2(i) or such stop-transfer order, as applicable, or (y) the date of its obligation to deliver the Ordinary Shares as contemplated pursuant to clause (ii) below (the “ Deadline Date ”), then, in addition to all other remedies available to such Subscriber, if on or after the Trading Day immediately following such three Business Day period, such Subscriber purchases (in an open market transaction or otherwise) Ordinary Shares to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by such Subscriber of Ordinary Shares that such Subscriber anticipated receiving from the Company (a “ Buy-In ”), then the Company shall, within three Business Days after such Subscriber’s request and in such Subscriber’s discretion, either (i) pay cash to such Subscriber in an amount equal to such Subscriber’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the Ordinary Shares so purchased (the “ Buy-In Price ”), at which point the Company’s obligation to deliver such certificate (and to issue such Ordinary Shares) or update the Company’s Ordinary Share book entries, as applicable, shall terminate, or (ii) promptly honor its obligation to deliver to such Subscriber a certificate or certificates representing such Ordinary Shares (to the extent such Securities are certificated) or remove a stop-transfer order placed against the transfer of such Securities (whether or not such Securties are certificated) and pay cash to such Subscriber in an amount equal to the excess (if any) of the Buy-In Price over the product of (A) such number of Ordinary Shares, times (B) the Closing Bid Price on the Deadline Date. “ Closing Bid Price ” means, for any security as of any date, the last closing price for such security on the Principal Market, as reported by Bloomberg, or, if the Principal Market begins to operate on an extended hours basis and does not designate the closing bid price then the last bid price of such security prior to 4:00:00 p.m., New York Time, as reported by Bloomberg, or, if the Principal Market is not the principal securities exchange or trading market for such security, the last closing price of such security on the principal securities exchange or trading market where such security is listed or traded as reported by Bloomberg, or if the foregoing do not apply, the last closing price of such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no closing bid price is reported for such security by Bloomberg, the average of the bid prices of any market makers for such security as reported in the “pink

 

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sheets” by OTC Markets Group (formerly Pink Sheets LLC). If the Closing Bid Price cannot be calculated for a security on a particular date on any of the foregoing bases, the Closing Bid Price of such security on such date shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company and such Subscriber, all such determinations to be appropriately adjusted for any share dividend, share split, share combination (consolidation) or other similar transaction during the applicable calculation period.

6. CONDITIONS TO THE COMPANY’S OBLIGATION TO ISSUE .

The obligation of the Company hereunder to issue the New Ordinary Shares and the related Warrants to each Subscriber at the Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or before the Closing Date, of each of the following conditions; provided that these conditions are for the Company’s sole benefit and may be waived by the Company at any time in its sole discretion by providing each Subscriber with prior written notice thereof:

(i) Such Subscriber shall have executed each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and delivered the same to the Company.

(ii) Such Subscriber shall have delivered to the Company the Subscription Price for the New Ordinary Shares and the related Warrants being purchased by such Subscriber, and each other Subscriber shall have delivered to the Company the Subscription Price for the New Ordinary Shares and the Warrants, in each case, at the Closing by wire transfer of immediately available funds pursuant to the wire instructions provided by the Company.

(iii) The Company shall have received the full subscription price for the New Ordinary Shares, the Warrants and the Pre-Funded Warrants subscribed for pursuant to the Other Subscription Agreements, which shall be no less than $25,000,000, in each case, at the Closing by wire transfer of immediately available funds pursuant to the wire instructions provided by the Company.

(iv) The representations and warranties of such Subscriber shall be true and correct in all material respects (except for those representations and warranties that are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, which shall be true and correct in all respects) as of the date when made and as of the Closing Date as though made at that time (except for representations and warranties that speak as of a specific date, which shall be true and correct as of such specified date), and such Subscriber shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with the covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by such Subscriber at or prior to the Closing Date.

7. CONDITIONS TO EACH SUBSCRIBER’S OBLIGATION TO SUBSCRIBE .

The obligation of each Subscriber hereunder to subscribe for the New Ordinary Shares and the related Warrants at the Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or before the Closing Date, of each of the following conditions; provided that these conditions are for each Subscriber’s sole benefit and may be waived by such Subscriber at any time in its sole discretion by providing the Company with prior written notice thereof:

 

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(i) The Company shall have (i) duly executed and delivered to such Subscriber each of the Transaction Documents and the related Warrants (in such amounts as such Subscriber shall request) being subscribed for by such Subscriber at the Closing pursuant to this Agreement and (ii) executed and delivered to such Subscriber the New Ordinary Shares (in such amount as such Subscriber shall request) or updated the Company’s Ordinary Share book entries, as applicable.

(ii) Such Subscriber shall have received the opinion of Clifford Chance US LLP, counsel for the Company (“ Company Counsel ”), dated as of the Closing Date, in substantially the form of Exhibit B attached hereto.

(iii) Such Subscriber shall have received the opinion of Carey Olsen, counsel for the Company with respect to the laws of Jersey (“ Jersey Company Counsel ”), dated as of the Closing Date, in substantially the form of Exhibit C attached hereto.

(iv) The Company shall have delivered to such Subscriber a certificate (“ Good Standing Certificate ”) evidencing the incorporation and good standing of the Company and each of its operating Subsidiaries in such Subsidiary’s jurisdiction of organization issued by the Secretary of State or similar authority of such jurisdiction of organization as of a date within 10 days of the Closing Date, or such other document in lieu of a Good Standing Certificate as is reasonably satisfactory to the Subscriber.

(v) The Ordinary Shares (I) shall be listed on the Principal Market and (II) shall not have been suspended, as of the Closing Date, by the SEC or the Principal Market from trading on the Principal Market nor shall suspension by the SEC or the Principal Market have been threatened, as of the Closing Date, either (A) in writing by the SEC or the Principal Market or (B) by falling below the minimum listing maintenance requirements of the Principal Market.

(vi) The Company shall have delivered to such Subscriber a certificate, executed by the Secretary of the Company and dated as of the Closing Date, in a form reasonably acceptable to such Subscriber, as to (i) the resolutions consistent with Section 3(b) as adopted by the Company’s Board of Directors, and (ii) the Articles of Association of the Company each as in effect at the Closing.

(vii) The representations and warranties of the Company shall be true and correct in all material respects (except for those representations and warranties that are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, which shall be true and correct in all respects) as of the date when made and as of the Closing Date as though made at that time (except for representations and warranties that speak as of a specific date, which shall be true and correct as of such specified date) and the Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with the covenants, agreements and conditions required by the Transaction Documents to be performed, satisfied or complied with by the Company at or prior to the Closing Date. Such Subscriber shall have received a certificate, executed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the foregoing effect and as to such other matters as may be reasonably requested by such Subscriber.

(viii) The Company shall have obtained all governmental, regulatory or third party consents and approvals, if any, necessary for the sale of the New Ordinary Shares and the Warrants.

 

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(ix) The Company shall have delivered to such Subscriber such other documents relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as such Subscriber or its counsel may reasonably request.

(x) Such Subscriber shall have received a counterpart of the Registration Rights Agreement that shall have been executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the Company.

(xi) A number of Ordinary Shares equal to the sum of the New Ordinary Shares and the Warrant Shares shall have been approved for listing on the Principal Market.

8. TERMINATION . In the event that the Closing shall not have occurred with respect to a Subscriber on or before five (5) Business Days from the date hereof due to the Company’s or such Subscriber’s failure to satisfy the conditions set forth in Sections 6 and 7 above (and the nonbreaching party’s failure to waive such unsatisfied condition(s)), the nonbreaching party shall have the option to terminate this Agreement with respect to such breaching party at the close of business on such date without liability of any party to any other party.

9. MISCELLANEOUS.

(a) Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Jury Trial . All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State 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, 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 brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper. 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 to such party at the address for such 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 manner permitted by law. EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

(b) Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in two or more identical counterparts, all of which 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; provided that a facsimile (or other electronic form of) signature shall be considered due execution and shall be binding upon the signatory thereto with the same force and effect as if the signature were an original, not a facsimile (or other electronic form of) signature.

 

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(c) Headings . The headings of this Agreement are for convenience of reference and shall not form part of, or affect the interpretation of, this Agreement.

(d) Severability . If any provision of this Agreement shall be invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of this Agreement in that jurisdiction or the validity or enforceability of any provision of this Agreement in any other jurisdiction.

(e) Entire Agreement; Amendments . This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents supersede all other prior oral or written agreements between the Subscribers, the Company, their affiliates and Persons acting on their behalf with respect to the matters discussed herein, and this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the matters covered herein and therein and, except as specifically set forth herein or therein, neither the Company nor any Subscriber makes any representation, warranty, covenant or undertaking with respect to such matters. No provision of this Agreement may be amended other than by an instrument in writing signed by the Company and the holders of Securities representing at least a majority of the amount of the Securities, or, if prior to the Closing Date, the Subscribers listed on the Schedule of Subscribers as being obligated to subscribe at least a majority of the amount of the Securities. No provision hereof may be waived other than by an instrument in writing signed by the party against whom enforcement is sought. No such amendment shall be effective to the extent that it applies to less than all of the holders of the Securities then outstanding. The Company has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreements with any Subscribers relating to the terms or conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents except as set forth in the Transaction Documents. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company confirms that, except as set forth in this Agreement, no Subscriber has made any commitment or promise or has any other obligation to provide any financing to the Company or otherwise.

(f) Notices . Any notices, consents, waivers or other communications required or permitted to be given under the terms of this Agreement must be in writing and will be deemed to have been delivered: (i) upon receipt, when delivered personally; (ii) upon receipt, when sent by facsimile (provided confirmation of transmission is mechanically or electronically generated and kept on file by the sending party); or (iii) one Business Day after deposit with an overnight courier service, in each case properly addressed to the party to receive the same. The addresses and facsimile numbers for such communications shall be:

If to the Company:

Quotient Limited

28 Esplanade

St Helier

JE2 3QA

Jersey, Channel Islands

Telephone: +44 131 445 6159

 

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Facsimile: +44 153 4700 007

Attention: Paul Cowan

with a copy (for informational purposes only) to:

Clifford Chance US LLP

31 West 52nd Street

New York, New York 10019

Attention: Alejandro E. Camacho and Per B. Chilstrom

Facsimile: 212-878-8375

If to the Transfer Agent:

Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company

17 Battery Place

New York, NY 10004

Telephone: 212-845-3277

Facsimile: 212-616-7615

Attention: Henry Farrell

If to a Subscriber, to its address and facsimile number set forth on the Schedule of Subscribers, with copies to such Subscriber’s representatives as set forth on the Schedule of Subscribers and to such other address and/or facsimile number and/or to the attention of such other Person as the Subscriber has specified by written notice given to the Company five (5) days prior to the effectiveness of such change. Written confirmation of receipt (A) given by the recipient of such notice, consent, waiver or other communication, (B) mechanically or electronically generated by the sender’s facsimile machine containing the time, date, recipient facsimile number and an image of the first page of such transmission or (C) provided by an overnight courier service shall be rebuttable evidence of personal service, receipt by facsimile or receipt from an overnight courier service in accordance with clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, respectively.

(g) Successors and Assigns . This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their respective permitted successors and assigns. The Company shall not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the holders of at least a majority of the aggregate number of Registrable Securities, determined as if all of the Warrants and the Pre-Funded Warrants then outstanding have been exercised for Registrable Securities without regard to any limitations on the exercise of the Warrants or the Pre-Funded Warrants, as applicable. A Subscriber shall not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Company, in which event such assignee shall be deemed to be a Subscriber hereunder with respect to such assigned rights and obligations.

(h) No Third Party Beneficiaries . This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns, and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person.

 

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(i) (i) Survival . Unless this Agreement is terminated under Section 8, the representations and warranties of the Company and the Subscribers contained in Sections 2 and 3, and the agreements and covenants set forth in Sections 4, 5 and 9 shall survive the Closing. Each Subscriber shall be responsible only for its own representations, warranties, agreements and covenants hereunder.

(j) Further Assurances . Each party shall do and perform, or cause to be done and performed, all such further acts and things, and shall execute and deliver all such other agreements, certificates, instruments and documents, as any other party may reasonably request in order to carry out the intent and accomplish the purposes of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

(k) Indemnification . In consideration of each Subscriber’s execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and acquiring the Securities thereunder and in addition to all of the Company’s other obligations under the Transaction Documents, the Company shall defend, protect, indemnify and hold harmless each Subscriber, the directors, officers, members, partners, employees, agents and representatives thereof, and each Person, if any, who controls any Subscriber within the meaning of the 1933 Act or the 1934 Act (collectively, the “ Indemnitees ”), from and against any and all actions, causes of action, suits, claims, losses, reasonable costs, penalties, reasonable fees, liabilities and damages, and reasonable expenses in connection therewith (irrespective of whether any such Indemnitee is a party to the action for which indemnification hereunder is sought), and including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements (the “ Indemnified Liabilities ”), incurred by any Indemnitee as a result of, or arising out of, or relating to any untrue statement of a material fact in the SEC Documents or any Supplemental Disclosure Document or any omission to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. To the extent that the foregoing undertaking by the Company may be unenforceable for any reason, the Company shall make the maximum contribution to the payment and satisfaction of each of the Indemnified Liabilities which is permissible under applicable law. Except as otherwise set forth herein, the mechanics and procedures with respect to the rights and obligations of the parties under this Section 9(k) shall be the same as those set forth in Section 6 of the Registration Rights Agreement.

(l) No Strict Construction . The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party.

(m) Remedies . Each Subscriber shall have all rights and remedies set forth in the Transaction Documents and all rights and remedies which such Subscribers have been granted at any time under any other agreement or contract and all of the rights which such Subscribers have under any law. Any Person having any rights under any provision of this Agreement shall be entitled to enforce such rights specifically (without posting a bond or other security), to recover damages by reason of any breach of any provision of this Agreement and to exercise all other rights granted by law. Furthermore, the Company recognizes that in the event that it fails to perform, observe, or discharge any or all of its obligations under the Transaction Documents, any remedy at law may prove to be inadequate relief to the Subscribers, or any of them. The Company therefore agrees that any Subscriber shall be entitled to seek temporary and permanent injunctive relief in any such case without the necessity of proving actual damages and without posting a bond or other security.

 

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(n) Rescission and Withdrawal Right . Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) the Transaction Documents, whenever any Subscriber 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 at any time prior to performance by the Company of such obligation such Subscriber 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.

(o) Payment Set Aside . To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to the Subscribers hereunder or pursuant to any of the other Transaction Documents or the Subscribers enforce or exercise their rights hereunder or 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, foreign, 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.

(p) Independent Nature of Subscribers’ Obligations and Rights . The obligations of each Subscriber under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Subscriber, and no Subscriber shall be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any other Subscriber under any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Subscriber pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Subscribers as, and the Company acknowledges that the Subscribers do not so constitute, a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Subscribers are in any way acting in concert or as a group, and the Company will not assert any such claim with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and the Company acknowledges that the Subscribers are not acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Company acknowledges and each Subscriber confirms that it has independently participated in the negotiation of the transaction contemplated hereby with the advice of its own counsel and advisors. Each Subscriber 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 Subscriber to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.

[Signature Page Follows]

 

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Subscriber and the Company have caused their respective signature page to this Subscription Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

COMPANY:
QUOTIENT LIMITED
By:  

 

  Name: D.J.P.E. Cowan
  Title:   Chairman & CEO
SUBSCRIBER:
[•]
By:   [•]
Its:   [•]
By:  

 

  Name: [•]
  Title:   [•]

[ Subscription Agreement Signature Page ]


SCHEDULE OF SUBSCRIBERS 4

 

(1)    (2)      (3)      (4)      (5)     (6)  

Subscriber

   Address and Facsimile Number      Number of New
Ordinary Shares
     Number of
Warrant Shares
Upon Exercise of
Warrants
     Subscription
Price
    Legal Representative’s
Address and Facsimile
Number
 

[•]

            $ [ •]   

 

4   [Include new column (5) “Number of Warrant Shares Upon Exercise of Pre-Funded Warrants” in Subscription Agreements for Subscribers purchasing Pre-Funded Warrants]


ANNEX A

ADDITIONAL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

1. Representations and Warranties . The Company represents and warrants to each of the Subscribers that (capitalized terms used in this Annex A without definition have the meanings ascribed to them in the Subscription Agreement to which this Annex A relates (the “ Subscription Agreement ”)):

(a) as of the date of the Subscription Agreement, the Company has an authorized and outstanding capitalization as set forth in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2017 (the “ Q117 10-Q ”), and, as of the Closing Date, the Company shall have an authorized and outstanding capitalization as set forth in the Q117 10-Q (subject, in each case, to the issuance of Ordinary Shares upon exercise of share options and warrants disclosed as outstanding in the SEC Documents (excluding the exhibits thereto), the grant of options, shares or other awards under incentive compensation plans described in the SEC Documents (excluding the exhibits thereto), the subscription of Securities hereunder and the subscription of Securities pursuant to the Other Subscription Agreements); all of the issued and outstanding shares in the capital, including the Ordinary Shares, of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable, have been issued in compliance with all applicable securities laws and were not issued in violation of any preemptive right, resale right, right of first refusal or similar right; and the certificate of incorporation (or certificate of incorporation on change of name) of the Company and the articles of association of the Company, each in the form filed with the SEC, have been heretofore duly authorized and approved in accordance with the laws of Jersey and are effective and in full force and effect;

(b) the Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of Jersey, with full corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the SEC Documents;

(c) the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in each jurisdiction where the ownership or leasing of its properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified and in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, either (i) have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, management, financial condition, results of operations or prospects of the Company and the Subsidiaries (as defined below) taken as a whole, (ii) prevent or materially interfere with consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Subscription Agreement or (iii) result in the delisting of the Ordinary Shares from the Principal Market (the occurrence of any such effect or any such prevention or interference or any such result described in the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) being herein referred to as a “ Material Adverse Effect ”);

 

Annex A-1


(d) the Company has no subsidiaries (as defined under the 1933 Act) other than QBD (QSIP) Limited, a company formed under the laws of Jersey, Quotient Biodiagnostics, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Alba Bioscience Limited, a company formed under the laws of Scotland, Quotient BioCampus Limited, a company formed under the laws of Scotland, and Quotient Suisse SA, a company formed under the laws of Switzerland (collectively, the “ Subsidiaries ”); the Company owns all of the issued and outstanding share capital or capital stock (as applicable) of each of the Subsidiaries; other than the share capital or capital stock of the Subsidiaries, the Company does not own, directly or indirectly, any shares in the capital, shares of stock or any other equity interests or long-term debt securities of any corporation, firm, partnership, joint venture, association or other entity; each Subsidiary has been duly incorporated or formed and is validly existing as a corporation or other entity in good standing under the laws of its respective jurisdiction of incorporation or formation, with full power and authority, corporate or otherwise, to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the SEC Documents; each Subsidiary is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation or other entity and is in good standing in each jurisdiction where the ownership or leasing of its properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified and in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; all of the outstanding shares in the capital or shares of capital stock of each of the Subsidiaries have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable, have been issued in compliance with all applicable securities laws, were not issued in violation of any preemptive right, resale right, right of first refusal or similar right and, except as disclosed in the SEC Documents, are owned by the Company subject to no security interest, other encumbrance or adverse claims; and no options, warrants or other rights to purchase, agreements or other obligations to issue or other rights to convert any obligation into shares in the capital, shares of capital stock or ownership interests in the Subsidiaries are outstanding;

(e) the share capital of the Company, including the Securities, conforms in all material respects to each description thereof, if any, contained in the SEC Documents; and, to the extent such Securities are certificated, the certificates for the New Ordinary Shares are in due and proper form;

(f) there is no franchise, contract or other document of a character required to be described in the SEC Documents, or to be filed as an exhibit thereto, which is not described or filed as required;

(g) neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is in breach or violation of or in default under (nor has any event occurred which, with notice, lapse of time or both, would result in any breach or violation of, constitute a default under or give the holder of any indebtedness (or a person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a part of such indebtedness under) (A) its respective certificate of incorporation or certificate of incorporation on name change or articles of association, charter or bylaws or other applicable organizational documents, or (B) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, bank loan or credit agreement or other evidence of indebtedness, or any license, lease, contract or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties may be bound or affected, or (C) any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule, or (D) any rule or regulation of any self-regulatory organization or other non-governmental regulatory authority (including, without limitation, the rules and regulations of the Principal Market), or (E) any decree, judgment or order applicable to it or any of its properties, except, in the case of clauses (B), (C) or (D), where such breach, violation, default, event or right would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;

 

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(h) each of the Company and the Subsidiaries has all necessary licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals and has made all necessary filings required under any applicable law, regulation or rule, and has obtained all necessary licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals from other persons, in order to conduct their respective businesses, except where the failure to have or have obtained such licenses, authorizations, consents or approvals or make such filings would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is in violation of, or in default under, or has received notice of any proceedings relating to revocation or modification of, any such license, authorization, consent or approval or any federal, state, local or foreign law, regulation or rule or any decree, order or judgment applicable to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, except where such violation, default, revocation or modification would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;

(i) none of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries nor any of its or their properties or assets has any immunity from the jurisdiction of any court or from any legal process (whether through service or notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution or otherwise) under the laws of Jersey, Scotland or Switzerland;

(j) Except as described in the SEC Documents, there are no actions, suits, claims, investigations or proceedings pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened or contemplated to which the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or any of their respective directors or officers is or would be a party or of which any of their respective properties is or would be subject at law or in equity, before or by any federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory commission, board, body, authority or agency, or before or by any self-regulatory organization or other non-governmental regulatory authority (including, without limitation, the Principal Market), except any such action, suit, claim, investigation or proceeding which, if resolved adversely to the Company or any Subsidiary, would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;

(k) the financial statements included in the SEC Documents, together with the related notes and schedules, present fairly the consolidated financial position of the Company and the Subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the consolidated results of operations, cash flows and changes in shareholders’ equity of the Company and the Subsidiaries for the periods specified and have been prepared in all material respects in compliance with the requirements of the 1934 Act and in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved; the other financial and accounting data of the Company contained in the SEC Documents are accurately and fairly presented and prepared on a basis consistent with the financial statements or the books and records of the Company; there are no financial statements (historical or pro forma) that are required to be included in the SEC Documents that are not included as required; the Company and the Subsidiaries do not have any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent (including any off-balance sheet obligations), not described in the SEC Documents (excluding the exhibits thereto); and all disclosures, if any, contained in the SEC Documents regarding “non-GAAP financial measures” (as such term is defined by the rules and regulations of the SEC) comply with Regulation G of the 1934 Act and Item 10 of Regulation S-K under the 1933 Act, to the extent applicable;

 

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(l) except as disclosed in the SEC Documents (excluding the exhibits thereto), each share option granted under any share option plan of the Company or any Subsidiary (each, a “ Stock Plan ”) was granted with a per share exercise price no less than the fair market value per share of the applicable class of share in the capital or capital stock of the Company or such Subsidiary on the grant date of such option, and no such grant involved any “back-dating,” “forward-dating,” or similar practice with respect to the effective date of such grant; except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, each such option (i) was granted in compliance with applicable law and with the applicable Stock Plan(s), (ii) was duly approved by the Board of Directors (or a duly authorized committee thereof or an officer of the Company or such Subsidiary duly authorized by the Board of Directors or authorized committee thereof to make such grants) of the Company or such Subsidiary, as applicable, and (iii) has been properly accounted for in the Company’s financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and disclosed in the Company’s filings with the SEC;

(m) Except as disclosed in the SEC Documents, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the SEC Documents, in each case excluding any amendments or supplements to the foregoing made after the execution of the Subscription Agreement, there has not been (i) any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in the business, properties, management, financial condition or results of operations of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (ii) any transaction which is material to the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (iii) any obligation or liability, direct or contingent (including any off-balance sheet obligations), incurred by the Company or any Subsidiary, which is material to the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (iv) any change in the share capital, capital stock or outstanding indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiaries or (v) any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made on the share capital or capital stock of the Company or any Subsidiary;

(n) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is required to register as an “investment company,” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “ Investment Company Act ”), nor will they be after giving effect to the offering and sale of the New Ordinary Shares, the Warrants and the Pre-Funded Warrants and the application of the proceeds thereof;

(o) based on the projected composition of the Company’s income and fair market value of its assets, the Company does not expect to be a “passive foreign investment company” (as defined in Section 1297 of the Code (as defined below) for its taxable year ended March 31, 2018 or the foreseeable future;

(p) except as disclosed in the SEC Documents, the Company and each of the Subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all property (real and personal, excluding for the purposes of this Section 1(p), Intellectual Property (as defined below)) described in the SEC Documents as being owned by any of them, free and clear of all liens, claims, security interests or other encumbrances, except for such liens, claims, security interests or encumbrances as do

 

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not materially and adversely affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such property by the Company or such Subsidiary; all the property described in the SEC Documents as being held under lease by the Company or a Subsidiary is held thereby under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases, except that the enforcement thereof may be subject to (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws relating to creditor’s rights generally and (ii) general principles of equity and the discretion of the court before which any proceeding therefor may be brought (the “ Enforceability Exceptions ”);

(q) except as disclosed in the SEC Documents, the Company and the Subsidiaries own the inventions, patent applications, patents, trademarks (both registered and unregistered), tradenames, service names, copyrights, trade secrets and other proprietary information (collectively, “ Intellectual Property ”) described in the SEC Documents as being owned by them and own or have obtained valid and enforceable licenses for, or other rights to use all Intellectual Property (except that the enforcement thereof may be subject to the Enforceability Exceptions) used in and necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses as currently conducted or as currently proposed to be conducted (including the commercialization of products or services described in the SEC Documents as under development) (collectively, “ Company Intellectual Property ”); to the Company’s knowledge, (i) there are no third parties who have or will be able to establish rights to any Company Intellectual Property that is described in the SEC Documents as owned or purported to be owned by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, except for, and to the extent of, the ownership rights of any co-owners of such Company Intellectual Property that are disclosed in the SEC Documents (excluding the exhibits thereto); (ii) there is no infringement by misappropriation or other violation by any third parties of any Company Intellectual Property owned by or exclusively licensed to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries; (iii) there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s rights in or to any Company Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which could form a reasonable basis for any such action, suit, proceeding or claim; (iv) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice from, and there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity, enforceability or scope of any Company Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which could form a reasonable basis for any such action, suit, proceeding or claim; (v) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice from, and there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others that the Company or any Subsidiary infringes, misappropriates or otherwise violates, or could, upon the commercialization of any product or service described in the SEC Documents as under development, infringe, misappropriate or violate any Intellectual Property of others, and the Company is unaware of any facts which could form a reasonable basis for any such action, suit, proceeding or claim; (vi) the Company and the Subsidiaries have complied with the material terms of each agreement pursuant to which Company Intellectual Property has been licensed to the Company or any Subsidiary, and all such agreements are in full force and effect; (vii) to the Company’s knowledge there is no patent or patent application that contains claims that interfere with the issued or pending claims of any patents included in the Company Intellectual Property owned by or exclusively licensed to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries; (viii) the products described in the SEC Documents as under development by the Company or the Subsidiaries fall within the scope of the claims of one or more patents owned

 

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by, or exclusively licensed to, the Company or any Subsidiary; (ix) all patents and patent applications owned by and, to the Company’s knowledge, exclusively licensed to the Company and any Subsidiary have been duly and properly filed and maintained and the Company and the Subsidiaries and, to the Company’s knowledge, the applicable licensors have complied in all material respects with their duty of candor and disclosure to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the “ PTO ”) or other applicable patent office with respect to all patent applications owned by or exclusively licensed to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries and included in the Company Intellectual Property and filed with the PTO or other applicable patent office; (x) the Company and the Subsidiaries have taken all steps reasonably necessary to secure their respective interest in the Company Intellectual Property owned or purported to be owned by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, including obtaining all necessary assignments from its employees, consultants and contractors pursuant to a written agreement; (xi) the Company and the Subsidiaries have taken reasonable steps in accordance with normal industry practice to maintain the confidentiality of all material trade secrets included in any Intellectual Property, and no such Company Intellectual Property has been disclosed other than to employees, representatives, independent contractors, collaborators, licensors, licensees, agents and advisors of the Company and the Subsidiaries who are legally bound to a duty of confidentiality; (xii) the Company and the Subsidiaries are not a party to or bound by any options, licenses or agreements with respect to the Intellectual Property of any other person or entity that are required to be described in the SEC Documents that are not so described therein; (xiii) all conditions stated in any license agreement under which Company Intellectual Property is exclusively licensed to the Company or any Subsidiary that are required to be satisfied in order for the Company to retain exclusive rights have been timely satisfied; (xiv) to the Company’s knowledge, the issued patents owned by or exclusively licensed to the Company or any of the Subsidiaries are valid and enforceable and the Company is unaware of any facts that would preclude the issuance of a valid and enforceable patent on any pending patent application owned by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries; and (xv) except as disclosed in the SEC Documents, no government funding, facilities or resources of a university, college, other educational institution or research center was used in the development of any Company Intellectual Property that is owned or purported to be owned by the Company or any Subsidiary that would confer upon any governmental agency or body, university, college, other educational institution or research center any claim or right in or to any such Company Intellectual Property;

(r) except for matters which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries is engaged in any unfair labor practice, (ii) there is (A) no unfair labor practice complaint pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened against the Company or any of the Subsidiaries before the National Labor Relations Board or any similar foreign body, and no grievance or arbitration proceeding arising out of or under collective bargaining agreements is pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened, (B) no strike, labor dispute, slowdown or stoppage pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened against the Company or any of the Subsidiaries and (C) no union representation dispute currently existing concerning the employees of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, (iii) to the Company’s knowledge, no union organizing activities are currently taking place concerning the employees of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries and (iv) there has been no violation of any applicable federal, state, local or foreign law relating to discrimination in the hiring, promotion or pay of employees, any applicable wage or hour laws, or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, or any similar applicable foreign law, rule or regulation, concerning the employees of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries;

 

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(s) the Company and the Subsidiaries and their respective properties, assets and operations are in compliance with, and the Company and each of the Subsidiaries hold all permits, authorizations and approvals required under, Environmental Laws (as defined below), except to the extent that failure to so comply or to hold such permits, authorizations or approvals would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; there are no past, present or, to the Company’s knowledge, reasonably anticipated future events, conditions, circumstances, activities, practices, actions, omissions or plans that could reasonably be expected to give rise to any material costs or liabilities to the Company or any Subsidiary under, or to interfere with or prevent compliance by the Company or any Subsidiary with, Environmental Laws; except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries (i) is the subject of any investigation, (ii) has received any notice or claim, (iii) is a party to or affected by any pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit or proceeding, (iv) is bound by any judgment, decree or order or (v) has entered into any agreement, in each case relating to any alleged violation of any Environmental Law or any actual or alleged release or threatened release or cleanup at any location of any Hazardous Materials (as defined below) (as used herein, “ Environmental Law ” means any applicable federal, state, local or foreign law, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, decree, judgment, injunction, permit, license, authorization or other binding requirement, or common law, relating to health, safety or the protection, cleanup or restoration of the environment or natural resources, including those relating to the distribution, processing, generation, treatment, storage, disposal, transportation, other handling or release or threatened release of Hazardous Materials, and “ Hazardous Materials ” means any material (including, without limitation, pollutants, contaminants, hazardous or toxic substances or wastes) that is regulated by or may give rise to liability under any Environmental Law);

(t) all material tax returns required to be filed by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries have been timely filed (within any applicable time limit extensions permitted by the relevant tax authority), and all material taxes and other assessments of a similar nature (whether imposed directly or through withholding) including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto due or claimed to be due from such entities have been timely paid, other than those being contested in good faith and for which adequate reserves have been provided;

(u) At no time in the past six years has the Company or any ERISA Affiliate maintained, sponsored, participated in, contributed to or has or had any liability or obligation in respect of any Employee Benefit Plan subject to Part 3 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA, Title IV of ERISA, or Section 412 of the Code or any “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA or any multiple employer plan for which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate has incurred or could incur material liability under Section 4063 or 4064 of ERISA. No “welfare benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA provides or promises, or at any time provided or promised, retiree health, or other retiree welfare benefits except to the extent such benefit is fully insured as may be required by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended, or similar state law and except, on a case by case basis, limited extensions of health insurance benefits to former employees receiving severance payments from the Company. Each Employee Benefit Plan is and has been operated in compliance with its terms and all

 

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applicable laws, including but not limited to ERISA and the Code and, to the knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred and no condition exists that would subject the Company to any tax, fine, lien, penalty or liability imposed by ERISA, the Code or other applicable law which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Each Employee Benefit Plan intended to be qualified under Code Section 401(a) is so qualified and has a favorable determination or opinion letter from the Internal Revenue Service (the “ IRS ”) upon which it can rely, and any such determination or opinion letter remains in effect and has not been revoked; with respect to each Foreign Benefit Plan, such Foreign Benefit Plan (1) if intended to qualify for special tax treatment, meets, in all material respects, the requirements for such treatment, and (2) if required to be funded, is funded to the extent required by applicable law; the Company does not have any obligations under any collective bargaining agreement with any union. As used in this Annex A, “ Code ” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; “ Employee Benefit Plan ” means any “employee benefit plan” within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA, including, without limitation, all stock purchase, stock option, stock-based severance, employment, change-in-control, medical, disability, fringe benefit, bonus, incentive, deferred compensation, employee loan and all other employee benefit plans, agreements, programs, policies or other arrangements, whether or not subject to ERISA, under which (x) any current or former employee, director or independent contractor of the Company or its subsidiaries has any present or future right to benefits and which are contributed to, sponsored by or maintained by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries or (y) the Company or any of the Subsidiaries has had or has any present or future direct or contingent obligation or liability; “ ERISA ” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended; “ ERISA Affiliate ” means any member of the company’s controlled group as determined pursuant to Code Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o); and “ Foreign Benefit Plan ” means any Employee Benefit Plan established, maintained or contributed to outside of the United States of America or which covers any employee working or residing outside of the United States;

(v) the Company and each of the Subsidiaries maintain insurance covering their respective properties, operations, personnel and businesses as the Company reasonably deems adequate; such insurance insures against such losses and risks to an extent which is adequate in accordance with customary industry practice to protect the Company and the Subsidiaries and their respective businesses; all such insurance is fully in force on the date of the Subscription Agreement and will be fully in force at the time of purchase and each additional time of purchase, if any; neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will not be able to (i) renew any such insurance as and when such insurance expires or (ii) obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now conducted at a cost that would not result in any Material Adverse Effect;

(w) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has sent or received any communication regarding termination of, or intent not to renew, any of the material contracts or agreements referred to or described in the SEC Documents, or referred to or described in, or filed as an exhibit to, the SEC Documents, and no such termination or non-renewal has been threatened by the Company or any Subsidiary or, to the Company’s knowledge, by any other party to any such contract or agreement;

 

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(x) the Company and each of the Subsidiaries have established and 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 authorization; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain accountability for assets; (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 existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences;

(y) the Company has established and maintains and evaluates “disclosure controls and procedures” (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the 1934 Act) and “internal control over financial reporting” (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the 1934 Act); such disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including the Subsidiaries, is made known to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and its Chief Financial Officer by others within those entities, and such disclosure controls and procedures are effective to perform the functions for which they were established; the Company’s independent registered public accountants and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company have been advised of: (i) all significant deficiencies, if any, in the design or operation of internal controls which could adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data; and (ii) all fraud, if any, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a role in the Company’s internal controls; all “significant deficiencies” and “material weaknesses” (as such terms are defined in Rule 1-02(a)(4) of Regulation S-X under the 1933 Act) of the Company, if any, have been identified to the Company’s independent registered public accountants and are disclosed in the SEC Documents (excluding the exhibits thereto); since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, there have been no significant changes in internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect internal controls, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses, and the Company has taken all necessary actions to ensure that the Company and the Subsidiaries and their respective officers and directors, in their capacities as such, are in compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “ Sarbanes-Oxley Act ”) and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder;

(z) each “forward-looking statement” (within the meaning of Section 27A of the 1933 Act or Section 21E of the 1934 Act) contained in the SEC Documents has been made or reaffirmed with a reasonable basis and in good faith;

(aa) all statistical or market-related data included in the SEC Documents (other than that discussed in Section 1(k) of this Annex A) are based on or derived from sources that the Company reasonably believes to be reliable and accurate, and the Company has obtained the written consent to the use of such data from such sources to the extent required;

(bb) neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries, nor any director, officer or employee of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any agent, affiliate or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries has (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (ii) made or taken an act in

 

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furtherance of an offer, promise or authorization of any direct or indirect unlawful payment or benefit to any foreign or domestic government official or employee, including of any government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, (the “ Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ”) or any applicable law or regulation implementing the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, or committed an offence under the Bribery Act 2010 of the United Kingdom, or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption law; or (iv) made, offered, agreed, requested or taken an act in furtherance of any unlawful bribe or other unlawful benefit, including, without limitation, any unlawful rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment or benefit. The Company and its subsidiaries have instituted, maintain and enforce, and will continue to maintain and enforce policies and procedures designed to promote and ensure compliance with all applicable anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws;

(cc) the operations of the Company and the Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements, including those of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the applicable money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions where the Company or any of its Subsidiaries conducts business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “ Anti-Money Laundering Laws ”); and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of the Subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened;

(dd) neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries, directors, officers or employees, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any agent, affiliate or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries is currently the subject or the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. government (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“ OFAC ”) or the U.S. Department of State and including, without limitation, the designation as a “specially designated national” or “blocked person”), the United Nations Security Council (“ UNSC ”), the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury (“ HMT ”) or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “ Sanctions ”), and neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries are located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject or target of Sanctions, including, without limitation, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria and Crimea (each, a “ Sanctioned Country ”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering of the New Ordinary Shares, the Warrants or the Pre-Funded Warrants hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity (i) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business with any person that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject or target of Sanctions, (ii) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business in any Sanctioned Country or (iii) in any other manner that will result in a violation by any person (including any person participating in the transaction, whether as advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions. For the past five years, the Company and the Subsidiaries have not knowingly engaged in and are not now knowingly engaged in any dealings or transactions with any person that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject or the target of Sanctions or with any Sanctioned Country;

 

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(ee) no Subsidiary is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such Subsidiary’s capital stock, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such Subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such Subsidiary’s property or assets to the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company, except, in each case, as described in the SEC Documents (excluding the exhibits thereto);

(ff) (i) All dividends and other distributions declared and payable on the share capital of the Company, now or in the future, may, under the current laws and regulations of Jersey, be paid in United States Dollars that (subject to any applicable Sanctions) may be freely transferred out of Jersey; (ii) all such dividends and other distributions are not or will not be, as the case may be, subject to withholding or other taxes under the current laws and regulations of Jersey; and (iii) all such dividends and other distributions under such current laws and regulations are or will be otherwise free and clear of any other tax (save for any income tax that may be payable by the recipient of a distribution who is resident in Jersey), withholding or deduction in Jersey and (subject to any applicable Sanctions) without the necessity of obtaining any consent, approval, authorization or order in Jersey;

(gg) each of the Company and its Subsidiaries have submitted and possess, or qualify for applicable exemptions to, such valid and current registrations, listings, approvals, clearances, licenses, certificates, authorizations or permits and supplements or amendments thereto issued or required by the appropriate state, federal or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies necessary to conduct their business, including, without limitation, all such certificates, authorizations and permits required by the United States Food and Drug Administration (“ FDA ”), the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“ HHS ”), the European Medicines Agency (“ EMA ”) or any other state, federal or foreign agencies or bodies engaged in the regulation of medical devices (including diagnostic products), biological products, drugs or biohazardous materials (each, a “ Regulatory Agency ” and collectively, the “ Regulatory Agencies ”), and the Company and its Subsidiaries have not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of, or non-compliance with, any such license, certificate, authorization or permit, except for notices which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;

(hh) the feasibility studies that are described in, or the results thereof which are referred to in, the SEC Documents were conducted in all material respects in accordance with standard accepted medical and scientific research procedures; each description of the results of such studies contained in the SEC Documents is accurate and complete in all material respects and fairly presents the data derived from such studies, and the Company and the Subsidiaries have no knowledge of any other studies or tests or trials the results of which are inconsistent with, or otherwise call into question, the results described or referred to in the SEC Documents;

 

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(ii) the Company and its Subsidiaries and, to the Company’s knowledge, the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ respective directors, officers, employees, and agents (while acting in such capacity) are, and at all times prior hereto were, in material compliance with, all health care laws applicable to the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any of its or their products or activities, including, but not limited to, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7b(b)), the Anti-Inducement Law (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7a(a)(5)), the civil False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. Section 3729 et seq.), the administrative False Claims Law (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7b(a)), the Stark law (42 U.S.C. Section 1395nn), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. Section 1320d et seq.) as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (42 U.S.C. Section 17921 et seq.), the exclusion laws (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7), the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. Section 301 et seq.), the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. Section 801 et seq.), the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.), Medicare (Title XVIII of the Social Security Act), Medicaid (Title XIX of the Social Security Act), the regulations promulgated pursuant to such laws, and any other state, federal or foreign law, accreditation standards, regulation, memorandum, opinion letter, or other issuance which imposes legally binding requirements on the manufacturing, development, testing, labeling, advertising, marketing or distribution of drugs, biological products and/or medical devices (including diagnostic products), kickbacks, patient or program charges, recordkeeping, claims process, documentation requirements, medical necessity, referrals, the hiring of employees or acquisition of services or supplies from those who have been excluded from government health care programs, quality, safety, privacy, security, licensure, accreditation or any other aspect of providing health care, clinical laboratory or diagnostics products or services (collectively, “ Health Care Laws ”) except, with respect to any of the foregoing, such as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notification, correspondence or any other written or oral communication, including notification of any pending or threatened claim, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action from any governmental authority, including, without limitation, the FDA, the EMEA, the United States Federal Trade Commission, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“ DEA ”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, HHS’s Office of Inspector General, the United States Department of Justice and state Attorneys General or similar agencies of potential or actual non-compliance by, or liability of, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under any Health Care Laws, except, with respect to any of the foregoing, such as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the Company’s knowledge, there are no facts or circumstances that would reasonably be expected to give rise to material liability of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under any Health Care Laws;

(jj) the manufacture by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of the Company’s and any Subsidiary’s respective products is being conducted in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Health Care Laws, including, without limitation, the FDA’s current good manufacturing practice regulations at 21 C.F.R. Parts 210, 211, 600 through 680, and 820, and, to the extent applicable, the respective counterparts thereof promulgated by governmental authorities in countries outside the United States;

(kk) the Company and its Subsidiaries are complying in all material respects with all applicable regulatory post-market reporting obligations, including, without limitation, the FDA’s adverse event reporting requirements at 21 C.F.R. Parts 310, 314, 600, and 803, and, to the extent applicable, the respective counterparts thereof promulgated by governmental authorities in countries outside the United States;

 

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(ll) except as disclosed in the SEC Documents, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has had any product, clinical laboratory or manufacturing site (whether Company-owned or owned by any of its Subsidiaries or a third party manufacturer for the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ respective products) subject to a governmental authority (including FDA) shutdown or import or export prohibition, nor received any FDA Form 483 or other governmental authority notice of inspectional observations, “warning letters,” “untitled letters,” requests to make changes to the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ respective products, processes or operations, or similar correspondence or notice from the FDA or other governmental authority alleging or asserting material noncompliance with any applicable Health Care Laws. To the Company’s knowledge, neither the FDA nor any other governmental authority is considering such action;

(mm) except as disclosed in the SEC Documents, there have been no material recalls, field notifications, field corrections, market withdrawals or replacements, warnings, “dear doctor” letters, investigator notices, safety alerts or other notice of action relating to an alleged lack of safety, efficacy, or regulatory compliance with respect to the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ respective products (“ Safety Notices ”); to the Company’s knowledge, there are no facts that would be reasonably likely to result in (i) a Safety Notice with respect to the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ respective products or services, (ii) a material change in labeling of any the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ respective products or services, or (iii) a material termination or suspension of marketing or testing of any of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ respective products or services;

(nn) the Company has not knowingly made any false statements on, or material omissions from, any applications, approvals, reports or other submissions to any Regulatory Agency, or in or from any other records and documentation prepared or maintained to comply with the requirements of any Regulatory Agency relating to the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ respective products. None of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any officer, employee or agent of the Company has been convicted of any crime or engaged in any conduct that would reasonably be expected to result in (a) debarment under 21 U.S.C. Section 335a or any similar state or foreign law or regulation or (b) exclusion under 42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7 or any similar state or foreign law or regulation, and none of the Company or any such person has been so debarred or excluded;

(oo) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any securities that are rated by any “nationally recognized statistical rating agency” (as that term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the 1934 Act);

(qq) the issuance and sale of the Securities as contemplated by the Subscription Agreement will not cause any holder of any shares in the capital of, securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares in the capital of or options, warrants or other rights to purchase or subscribe for shares in the capital or any other securities of the Company to have any right to acquire any securities of the Company;

(rr) the Company has not received any notice from the Principal Market regarding the delisting of the Ordinary Shares from the Principal Market; and

 

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(ss) neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries has incurred any liability for any finder’s or broker’s fee or agent’s commission in connection with the execution and delivery of the Subscription Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby.

 

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Exhibit A

Form of Registration Rights Agreement

 

 

Exh. A-1


Exhibit B

Form of Company Counsel Opinion

 

 

Exh. B-1


Exhibit C

Form of Jersey Counsel Opinion

 

 

Exh. C-1

Exhibit 99.1

 

LOGO

Quotient Limited Announces $40 Million Private Placement and the Issue of

Warrants to Raise up to an Additional $49 Million

JERSEY, Channel Islands, October 25, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Quotient Limited (NASDAQ:QTNT), a commercial-stage diagnostics company, today announced that it has entered into agreements to issue to certain subscribers: (i) 7,864,683 ordinary shares at $4.64 per share (the “Ordinary Shares”); (ii) 550,000 pre-funded warrants at $4.755 per underlying pre-funded warrant exercisable for up to 550,000 ordinary shares at $0.01 per ordinary share (the “Pre-funded Warrants”); and (iii) 8,414,683 warrants at $0.125 per underlying warrant share exercisable for up to 8,414,683 ordinary shares at $5.80 per ordinary share (the “Warrants”). The aggregate gross proceeds of the private placement are expected to be approximately $40 million. An additional $49 million is expected to be received prior to July 31, 2018 assuming full exercise of the Warrants. Quotient intends to use the net proceeds from the financing to fund the ongoing development and commercial scale up and, if approved, commercialization of MosaiQ™ and for working capital and other general corporate purposes. Subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, the private placement is expected to close on or about October 26, 2017.

The Ordinary Shares, Pre-funded Warrants and Warrants issued in the private placement, and the ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the Pre-funded Warrants and the Warrants, have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements. The Ordinary Shares, Pre-funded Warrants and Warrants were offered only to a limited number of accredited investors. Quotient has agreed to file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission covering the resale of the Ordinary Shares and the Warrants issued in the private placement and the ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the Pre-funded Warrants and the Warrants.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.


About Quotient Limited

Quotient is a commercial-stage diagnostics company committed to reducing healthcare costs and improving patient care through the provision of innovative tests within established markets. With an initial focus on blood grouping and serological disease screening, Quotient is developing its proprietary MosaiQ™ technology platform to offer a breadth of tests that is unmatched by existing commercially available transfusion diagnostic instrument platforms. The company’s operations are based in Edinburgh, Scotland; Eysins, Switzerland and Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding the closing of the private placement, the intended use of proceeds from the private placement, the registration of the shares sold in the private placement, the exercise of the warrants and pre-funded warrants, and the registration of the shares issuable upon exercise of warrants and pre-funded warrants. Such statements are based on current assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially, including: Quotient’s ability to complete the private placement; the application of the net proceeds from the private placement; and other risks set forth in Quotient’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, as well as other documents that Quotient files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Quotient disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements because of new information, future events or circumstances or other factors.

The Quotient logo and MosaiQ™ are registered trademarks or trademarks of Quotient Limited and its subsidiaries in various jurisdictions.

CONTACT: Christopher Lindop, Chief Financial Officer – christopher.lindop@quotientbd.com; +41 22-545-5226

Exhibit 99.2

 

LOGO

Quotient Reports Positive Concordance Data from MosaiQ Verification and

Validation Studies for Blood Grouping and Announces Financing

 

    Verification  & Validation (“V&V”) “head-to-head” studies confirm targeted concordance levels for all blood grouping assays

 

    Overall concordance for blood grouping – 99.8%, demonstrating the robustness of the MosaiQ platform

 

    European field trials planned to commence prior to year-end

 

    Announces the sale of ordinary shares and warrants with intial proceeds of $40  million

JERSEY, Channel Islands, October  25, 2017 (GLOBENEWSWIRE) — Quotient Limited (NASDAQ:QTNT), a commercial-stage diagnostics company, today reported positive concordance data for the MosaiQ blood grouping microarray generated in V&V head-to-head studies.

“V&V head-to-head data announced today represent the achievement of an important milestone before MosaiQ enters field trials in Europe over the next one to two months. The strength of the data gives us great confidence in the results of those field trials and ultimately in our ability to commercialize MosaiQ. Overall concordance for blood grouping, at 99.8%, demonstates the robustness and reliability of MosaiQ as a diagnostics platform” said Paul Cowan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Quotient who added “I am also pleased that we have strengthened our balance sheet through our recently announced private placement, which was led by a small group of existing shareholders, with participation by directors and management. This financing is an added vote of confidence for what we have achieved to date and what we have the potential to achieve in the future.”

Assay Performance

Results of the V&V head-to-head studies for the MosaiQ IH Microarray (the initial blood grouping microarray) indicate that MosaiQ achieved the required targeted performance compared with predicate technologies for all assays. The V&V data were derived using microarrays manufactured in Quotient’s validated, high-volume manufacturing facility and run on field trial-ready instruments.

MosaiQ IH Microarray—Antigen Typing

A summary of the V&V head-to-head study results for antigen typing compared with the predicate technology is set out below:


Blood Group Antigen

   A     B     D     C     c     E     e     Cw     K     k  

Concordance

     100.0     99.9     99.5     100.0     99.0     100.0     99.7     100.0     100.0     100.0

The above results imply overall concordance of 99.8% for MosaiQ. In this study 1,143 donor samples were tested and the results compared with predicate technologies.

MosaiQ IH Microarray—Antibody Detection

The V&V head-to-head study for antibody detection achieved 99.0% concordance compared with the predicate technology. In this study 1,096 donor samples were tested.

Regulatory and Commercial Milestones – For Next Twelve Months

 

    European Field Trials – Quotient expects to commence European field trials before year end

 

    European Regulatory Approval – Upon the successful completion of European field trials Quotient expects to file promptly for European regulatory approval for MosaiQ

 

    European Commercialization – Quotient has commenced the commercialization of MosaiQ in Europe, where it has already received invitations to participate in tenders currently expected to be awarded in the middle of CY18

 

    U.S. Field Trials and subsequent Regulatory Filing will follow the successful completion of European field trials.

Private Placement Transcation

On October 25, 2017, Quotient announced a private placement of ordinary shares and warrants. The initial aggregate gross proceeds of the private placement are expected to be approximately $40 million. A further $49 million is expected to be received prior to July 31, 2018, assuming full exercise of the Warrants.

MosaiQ Platform

MosaiQ, Quotient’s next-generation platform is designed to deliver fast, comprehensive antigen typing, antibody detection and disease screening results, using a single low volume sample in a high throughput automated format. MosaiQ represents a transformative and highly disruptive unified testing platform for transfusion diagnostics. Feasibility has also been demonstrated with respect to the detection of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) using the MosaiQ platform. Through MosaiQ, Quotient expects to deliver substantial value to donor testing laboratories worldwide by providing affordable, routine comprehensive characterization and screening of blood products, on a single automated instrument platform designed to radically reduce labor costs and complexity associated with existing practice.


About Quotient Limited

Quotient is a commercial-stage diagnostics company committed to reducing healthcare costs and improving patient care through the provision of innovative tests within established markets. With an initial focus on blood grouping and serological disease screening, Quotient is developing its proprietary MosaiQ TM technology platform to offer a breadth of tests that is unmatched by existing commercially available transfusion diagnostic instrument platforms. The Company’s operations are based in Edinburgh, Scotland; Eysins, Switzerland and Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based on current assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, include delays or denials of regulatory approvals or clearances for products or applications; market acceptance of our products; the impact of competition; the impact of facility expansions and expanded product development, clinical, sales and marketing activities on operating expenses; delays or other unforeseen problems with respect to manufacturing, product development or field trial studies; adverse results in connection with any ongoing or future legal proceeding; continued or worsening adverse conditions in the general domestic and global economic markets; as well as the other risks set forth in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Quotient disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

The Quotient logo and MosaiQ™ are registered trademarks or trademarks of Quotient Limited and its subsidiaries in various jurisdictions.

CONTACT: Chris Lindop, Chief Financial Officer – chris.lindop@quotientbd.com; +41 22 545 52 26