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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 31, 2022

 

 

Peak Bio, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   001-39951   85-2448157

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

3350 W Bayshore Rd., Suite 100

Palo Alto, CA

  94303
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (650) 549-9103

Ignyte Acquisition Corp.

650 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor

New York, NY 10019

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

 

Trading
Symbol(s)

 

Name of each exchange

on which registered

Common stock, par value $0.0001 per share   PKBO   The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Warrants, each whole warrant exercisable for one share of common stock for $11.50 per share   PKBOW   The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC

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.

New PIPE Subscription Agreements

As previously announced, on April 28, 2022, Ignyte Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Ignyte”), entered into subscription agreements (the “Original PIPE Subscription Agreements”) with certain investors (the “Original PIPE Investors”), pursuant to which, among other things, Ignyte agreed to issue and sell to the investors, in private placements to close immediately prior to the closing of Ignyte’s business combination (the “Business Combination”) with Peak Bio Co., Ltd., a corporation organized under the laws of the Republic of Korea (“Peak Bio”), an aggregate of up to 1,550,000 shares of Ignyte’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), at $10.00 per share (the “PIPE Shares”), for an aggregate purchase price of $15,500,000. However, as subsequently reported in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Ignyte with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on October 27, 2022, after discussions with certain of the investors who were parties to the Original PIPE Subscription Agreements, as well as Peak Bio, Ignyte proposed to modify the terms of the Original PIPE Subscription Agreements.

On October 31, 2022, Ignyte entered into new subscription agreements (the “Warrant Share PIPE Subscription Agreements”) whereby Ignyte agreed to issue and sell to the investors thereto, in private placements to close immediately prior to the closing of the Business Combination, at $10.00 per share, an aggregate of up to (i) 302,500 PIPE Shares and (ii) 281,325 warrants (the “PIPE Financing Warrants”) to purchase shares of Common Stock, at an exercise price of $0.01 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of $3,025,000. The warrants would be on terms substantially the same as the outstanding warrants that were included in the units issued in Ignyte’s initial public offering, except that the new warrants would not be redeemable, and the warrants shall be exercisable for one year.

Concurrently with Ignyte’s entry into the Warrant Share PIPE Subscription Agreements, on October 31, 2022, Ignyte executed subscription agreements with certain of Peak Bio’s lenders (the “Bridge Loan PIPE Subscription Agreements” and together with the Warrant Share PIPE Subscription Agreements, the “New PIPE Subscription Agreements”) whereby Ignyte agreed to issue and sell to the Peak Bio lenders party thereto, in private placements to close immediately prior to the closing of the Business Combination, an aggregate of up to (i) 176,579 PIPE Shares and (ii) 164,218 PIPE Financing Warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock, at an exercise price of $0.01 per share, in consideration for their agreement to cancel an aggregate principal amount of $1,750,000 and the interest accrued thereon in promissory notes evidencing the loans such lenders had extended to Peak Bio between July and September 2022. The warrants would be on terms substantially the same as the outstanding warrants that were included in the units issued in Ignyte’s initial public offering, except that the new warrants would not be redeemable, and the warrants shall be exercisable for one year.

Additionally, pursuant to the terms of a Bridge Loan PIPE Subscription Agreement entered into with an Original PIPE Investor, the Original PIPE Subscription Agreement executed by such Original PIPE Investor, which provided for the sale of 1,500,000 PIPE Shares for an aggregate purchase price of $15,000,000, was terminated.

The obligations of the parties to consummate the investments contemplated by the New PIPE Subscription Agreements remained subject to the satisfaction or waiver of all of the existing conditions for closing of the transactions contemplated by the Original PIPE Subscription Agreements. The closing of the Business Combination (the “Closing”) and the PIPE investments took place substantially concurrently, on November 1, 2022.

The foregoing description of the New PIPE Subscription Agreements and the transactions contemplated thereby is not complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the text of the Form of New PIPE Subscription Agreement, which is included as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by this reference.

Sponsor Share Purchase Agreement

On November 1, 2022, Ignyte Sponsor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”) entered into a share purchase agreement with Knight Family Management, LLC (“Knight Family”), whereby the Sponsor agreed to transfer 20,167 shares of Common Stock held by it to Knight Family in consideration for Knight Family’s services arranging for the commitment by certain other investors to fund the aggregate purchase price of $3,025,000 pursuant to the Warrant Share PIPE Subscription Agreements.


Payment Agreements

On November 1, 2022, Ignyte entered into payment agreements with each of (i) the Sponsor and (ii) Ingalls & Snyder, LLC (“Ingalls”). Collectively, these payment agreements are referred to as the “Payment Agreements.”

The Payment Agreements provide that Ignyte, at the Closing, will issue shares of Common Stock to each of the Sponsor and Ingalls, as consideration for (i) the working capital loans extended to Ignyte by the Sponsor and (ii) the marketing and consulting services provided to Ignyte by Ingalls. The dollar amount due and the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued as payment therefor is as follows:

 

     Dollar
Amount
Due
     Number of
Shares of
Common
Stock Issued
as Payment
Therefor
 

Sponsor

   $ 400,000        77,200  

Ingalls

   $ 150,000        28,950  

The foregoing description of the Payment Agreements is not complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the full text of the Payment Agreements, copies of which are filed with this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibits 10.2 and 10.3, and the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference.

Item 3.01 Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Transfer of Listing.

On November 1, 2022, Peak Bio, Inc. (the “Company”) received written notice (the “Notice”) from the Staff of the Listing Qualifications Department (the “Staff”) of the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) stating that the Staff has determined that the Company has not complied with the requirements of IM-5101-2 because (i) the Company has not demonstrated that its common stock complies with the minimum 1,000,000 unrestricted publicly held shares requirement in Listing Rule 5505(a)(2) (the “Unrestricted Publicly Held Shares Requirement”) and (ii) the Company’s warrants do not qualify for initial listing since the security underlying the warrant, the Company’s common stock, does not qualify. The Notice indicated that the Company’s common stock and warrants will be suspended from Nasdaq on November 10, 2022 and a Form 25-NSE will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission unless the Company requests a hearing before a Hearings Panel (the “Panel”) by November 8, 2022. The Company intends to timely request the aforementioned hearing with the Panel and appeal Nasdaq’s determination, which request will stay the suspension of the Company’s common stock and warrants and the filing by Nasdaq of a Form 25-NSE pending the Panel’s decision.

The Company is working diligently to satisfy the Unrestricted Publicly Held Shares Requirement. However, the Company currently has a small public float and there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to satisfy the Unrestricted Publicly Held Shares Requirement prior to the hearing date or at all.

Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

The information set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K under the headings “New PIPE Subscription Agreements” and “Payment Agreements” is incorporated by reference into this Item 3.02.

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

As previously announced, Ignyte entered into a business combination agreement (the “Business Combination Agreement”) with Ignyte Korea Co., Ltd., a corporation organized under the laws of the Republic of Korea, and Peak Bio.


It had been previously disclosed that Chardan Capital Markets LLC (“Chardan”) would receive a financial advisory fee as financial advisor to Ignyte of $550,000 upon consummation of the Business Combination. However, on October 31, 2022, Chardan withdrew from its role as financial advisor to Ignyte and will no longer receive any financial advisory fee.

Subsequently, on November 1, 2022, Ignyte completed the Business Combination with Peak Bio and changed its name to “Peak Bio, Inc.” In connection with the consummation of the Business Combination, Ignyte and Peak Bio agreed to waive certain closing conditions under the Business Combination Agreement, including the conditions that (i) Ignyte shall have cash and cash equivalents on hand of at least $7.5 million after giving effect to the Redemption Rights (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement), and (ii) immediately prior to the closing, the amount of cash and cash equivalents available in the Trust Account (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement), plus all other cash and cash equivalents of Ignyte, plus the aggregate amount of cash proceeds received from the PIPE Investment (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement), shall be equal to or greater than $20 million. On November 1, 2022, the Company issued a press release announcing the consummation of the Business Combination. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

The information in this Item 7.01 and Exhibit 99.1 attached hereto shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1993, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.   

Description

10.1    Form of New PIPE Subscription Agreement, dated October 31, 2022
10.2    Payment Agreement, dated November 1, 2022, by and between Ignyte Acquisition Corp. and Ignyte Sponsor LLC.
10.3    Payment Agreement, dated November 1, 2022, by and between Ignyte Acquisition Corp. and Ingalls & Snyder, LLC.
10.4    Form of Amended and Restated Warrant Agreement, between Ignyte Acquisition Corp. and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company.
99.1    Press Release, dated November 1, 2022.
104    Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).


SIGNATURE

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.

 

PEAK BIO, INC.
By:  

/s/ Stephen LaMond

Name:   Stephen LaMond
Title:   Interim Chief Executive Officer

Date: November 2, 2022

Exhibit 10.1

SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT

This SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT (this “Subscription Agreement”) is entered into on October 31, 2022, by and between Ignyte Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Ignyte”), and the undersigned subscriber (the “Investor”).

WHEREAS, this Subscription Agreement is being entered into in connection with the Business Combination Agreement, dated as of April 28, 2022 (as may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Transaction Agreement”), by and between Ignyte, Ignyte Korea Co., Ltd., a corporation organized under the laws of the Republic of Korea (“Merger Sub”) and Peak Bio Co., Ltd., a corporation organized under the laws of the Republic of Korea (the “Company,” and together with Ignyte and Merger Sub, the “Parties”), pursuant to which, among other things, the Parties desire to enter into a business combination transaction (such transaction, together with the other transactions contemplated by, and subject to the terms and conditions of, the Transaction Agreement, collectively, the “Transaction”) structured as a comprehensive share swap whereby (i) the stockholders of the Company will transfer their respective shares of common stock of the Company, par value KRW 500 per share (the “Company Common Stock”), to Merger Sub in exchange for shares of common stock of Ignyte, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Ignyte Common Stock”) held by Merger Sub, and (ii) in the course of such share swap, Merger Sub will contribute the shares of Company Common Stock to Ignyte in consideration of Ignyte Common Stock (which will in-turn be distributed to the stockholders of the Company as described in (i) above);

WHEREAS, in connection with the Transaction, Ignyte is seeking commitments from interested investors to purchase (i) shares of Ignyte Common Stock (the “Shares”) and (ii) warrants (the “PIPE Financing Warrants”) to purchase 0.93 shares of Ignyte Common Stock for every one (1) Share (the “Warrant Shares”), in a private placement for a purchase price of $10.00 per Share;

WHEREAS, the aggregate purchase price to be paid by the Investor for the subscribed Securities (as set forth on the signature page hereto) is referred to herein as the “Subscription Amount”; and

WHEREAS, substantially concurrently with the execution of this Subscription Agreement, Ignyte is entering into separate subscription and purchase agreements (collectively, the “Other Subscription Agreements”) with certain investors (the “Other Investors”) with an aggregate purchase price of $3,025,000 (inclusive of the Subscription Amount) (the “PIPE Investment”).

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual representations, warranties and covenants, and subject to the conditions, set forth herein, and intending to be legally bound hereby, each of the Investor and Ignyte acknowledges and agrees as follows:

1. Subscription. The Investor hereby irrevocably subscribes for and agrees to purchase from Ignyte, and Ignyte agrees to issue and sell to the Investor, (x) the number of Shares set forth on the signature page of this Subscription Agreement plus (y) PIPE Financing Warrants to purchase Warrant Shares on the terms and subject to the conditions provided for herein.

2. Closing. The closing of the sale of the Securities contemplated hereby (the “Closing”) shall occur on a closing date (the “Closing Date”) specified in the Closing Notice (as defined below), and the Closing shall be conditioned upon the prior or substantially concurrent consummation of the Transaction (the closing date of the Transaction, the “Transaction Closing Date”). Upon delivery of written notice from (or on behalf of) Ignyte to the Investor (the “Closing Notice”), that Ignyte reasonably expects all conditions to the closing of the Transaction to be satisfied or waived on an expected Transaction Closing Date that is not less than five (5) business days from the date on which the Closing Notice is delivered to the Investor, the Investor shall deliver the Subscription Amount three (3) business days prior to the expected Closing Date by wire transfer of United States dollars in immediately available funds to the account(s) specified by Ignyte in the Closing Notice. On the Closing Date, Ignyte shall issue to the Investor (i) the Shares in book entry form, free and clear of any liens or other restrictions (other than those arising under this Subscription Agreement or state or federal securities laws), in the name of the Investor (or its nominee in accordance with its delivery instructions) or to a custodian designated by the Investor, as applicable, (ii) a Warrant Agreement executed by Ignyte, evidencing the issuance to the Investor of the applicable number of PIPE Financing Warrants on and as of the Closing Date, subject to the Investor’s execution of such Warrant Agreement, and (iii) upon request by


the Investor, written notice from Ignyte or its transfer agent evidencing the issuance to the Investor of the Shares and such PIPE Financing Warrants on and as of the Closing Date. For purposes of this Subscription Agreement, “business day” shall mean a day, other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York, New York are authorized or required by law to close. Prior to or at the Closing, the Investor shall deliver to Ignyte a duly completed and executed Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or appropriate Form W-8. In the event the Transaction Closing Date does not occur within two (2) business days after the Closing Date under this Subscription Agreement, Ignyte shall promptly (but not later than two (2) business days thereafter) return the Subscription Amount to the Investor by wire transfer of U.S. dollars in immediately available funds to the account specified by the Investor, and any book-entries for the Securities shall be deemed cancelled; provided that, unless this Subscription Agreement has been terminated pursuant to Section 9 hereof, such return of funds shall not terminate this Subscription Agreement or relieve the Investor of its obligation to purchase the Securities at the Closing in the event Ignyte delivers a subsequent Closing Notice in accordance with this Section 2.

3. Closing Conditions. The obligation of the parties hereto to consummate the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Subscription Agreement is subject to the following conditions: (a) there shall not be in force any injunction or order enjoining or prohibiting the issuance and sale of the Securities under this Subscription Agreement; (b) except to the extent consented to in writing by the Investor, no amendments of, or waivers under, the Transaction Agreement (as the same exists as of the date of this Subscription Agreement) (including the conditions thereto) shall have occurred that materially and adversely affect the economic benefits the Investor (in its capacity as such) would reasonably expect to receive under this Subscription Agreement; and (c)(i) solely with respect to the Investor’s obligation to close, the representations and warranties made by Ignyte, and (ii) solely with respect to the Ignyte’s obligation to close, the representations and warranties made by the Investor, in each case, in this Subscription Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the Closing Date other than (x) those representations and warranties qualified by materiality, Material Adverse Effect (as defined below) or similar qualification, which shall be true and correct in all respects as of the Closing Date and (y) those representations and warranties expressly made as of an earlier date, which shall be true and correct in all material respects (or, if qualified by materiality, Material Adverse Effect or similar qualification, all respects) as of such date, in each case without giving effect to the consummation of the Transaction.

4. Further Assurances. At the Closing, the parties hereto shall execute and deliver such additional documents and take such additional actions as the parties reasonably may deem to be practical and necessary in order to consummate the subscription as contemplated by this Subscription Agreement.

5. Ignyte Representations and Warranties. Ignyte represents and warrants to the Investor that:

(a) Ignyte was duly incorporated and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. Ignyte has all power (corporate or otherwise) and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct its business as presently conducted and to enter into, deliver and perform its obligations under this Subscription Agreement.

(b) As of the Closing Date, the Securities will be duly authorized and, when issued and delivered to the Investor against full payment therefor in accordance with the terms of this Subscription Agreement, the Securities will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and will not have been issued in violation of or subject to any preemptive or similar rights created under Ignyte’s organizational documents (as in effect at such time of issuance) or under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

(c) This Subscription Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by Ignyte and, assuming that this Subscription Agreement constitutes the valid and binding agreement of the Investor, this Subscription Agreement is enforceable against Ignyte in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited or otherwise affected by (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or other laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally, or (ii) principles of equity, whether considered at law or equity.

(d) The issuance and sale by Ignyte of the Securities pursuant to this Subscription Agreement will not (i) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of the property or assets of Ignyte or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease,

 

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license or other agreement or instrument to which Ignyte or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which Ignyte or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of Ignyte is subject that would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, financial condition or results of operations of Ignyte and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole (a “Material Adverse Effect”), or materially and adversely affect the validity of the Securities or the legal authority of Ignyte to comply in all material respects with its obligations under this Subscription Agreement; (ii) result in any violation of the provisions of the organizational documents of Ignyte; or (iii) result in any violation of any statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over Ignyte or any of its properties that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or materially and adversely affect the validity of the Securities or the legal authority of Ignyte to comply in all material respects with its obligations under this Subscription Agreement.

(e) As of their respective filing dates, or, if amended, as of the date of such amendment, which shall be deemed to supersede such original filing, all reports required to be filed by Ignyte with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) since January 28, 2021 (the “SEC Reports”) complied in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder. None of the SEC Reports filed under the Exchange Act included, when filed or, if amended, as of the date of such amendment with respect to those disclosures that are amended, any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted 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 Ignyte makes no such representation or warranty with respect to any registration statement or any proxy statement/prospectus to be filed by Ignyte with respect to the Transaction or any other information relating to the Company or any of its affiliates Ignyte included in any SEC Report or filed as an exhibit thereto. Ignyte has timely filed with the SEC each SEC Report that Ignyte was required to file with the SEC. As of the date hereof, there are no material outstanding or unresolved comments in comment letters received by Ignyte from the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the SEC with respect to any of the SEC Reports. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statement or information in the SEC Reports that relates to (i) the topics referenced in the SEC’s “Staff Statement on Accounting and Reporting Considerations for Warrants Issued by Special Purpose Acquisition Companies” on April 12, 2021 or any subsequent guidance, statements or interpretations issued by the SEC or the Staff (collectively, the “SEC Statement”) or (ii) the Company’s outstanding redeemable shares as temporary, as opposed to permanent, equity (“Redeemable Share Classification Changes”). Neither any correction, amendment or restatement of Ignyte’s financial statements due to the SEC Statement, Redeemable Share Classification Changes or to other accounting matters related to initial public offering securities or expenses, nor any changes in accounting or disclosure related thereto, shall be deemed to be a breach of any representation or warranty by Ignyte.

(f) Ignyte is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority, self-regulatory organization or other person in connection with the issuance of the Securities pursuant to this Subscription Agreement, other than (i) filings with the SEC, (ii) in connection with or as a result of the SEC Statement or Redeemable Share Classification Changes, (iii) filings required by applicable state securities laws, (iv) the filings required in accordance with Section 13 of this Subscription Agreement; (v) those required by the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq, as applicable, including with respect to obtaining approval of Ignyte’s stockholders, (vi) the filing of a notification under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, if applicable, and (vii) the failure of which to obtain would not be reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

(g) As of the date hereof, Ignyte has not received any written communication from a governmental authority that alleges that Ignyte is not in compliance with or is in default or violation of any applicable law, except where such non-compliance, default or violation would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

(h) Assuming the accuracy of the Investor’s representations and warranties set forth in Section 6 of this Subscription Agreement, no registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), is required for the offer and sale of the Securities by Ignyte to the Investor.

(i) Neither Ignyte nor any person acting on its behalf has offered or sold the Securities by any form of general solicitation or general advertising in violation of the Securities Act.

 

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(j) As of the date hereof, the issued and outstanding shares of Ignyte Common Stock are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and are listed for trading on Nasdaq. There is no suit, action, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of Ignyte, threatened against Ignyte by Nasdaq or the SEC with respect to any intention by such entity to deregister the Shares or prohibit or terminate the listing of the Shares on Nasdaq, excluding, for the purposes of clarity, the customary ongoing review by Nasdaq in connection with the Transaction. Ignyte has taken no action that is designed to terminate the registration of the Shares under the Exchange Act prior to the Closing.

(k) Ignyte is not under any obligation to pay any broker’s fee or commission in connection with the sale of the Securities.

(l) The Other Subscription Agreements reflect the same terms with respect to the purchase of the Securities that are not materially more favorable to such Other Investor thereunder than the terms of this Subscription Agreement, other than terms particular to the regulatory requirements of such Other Investor or its affiliates or related funds.

6. Investor Representations and Warranties. The Investor represents and warrants to Ignyte that:

(a) The Investor (i) is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) or an “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act), in each case, satisfying the applicable requirements set forth on Schedule A, (ii) is acquiring the Securities only for its own account and not for the account of others, or if the Investor is subscribing for the Securities as a fiduciary or agent for one or more investor accounts, each owner of such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) or an “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act) and the Investor has full investment discretion with respect to each such account, and the full power and authority to make the acknowledgements, representations and agreements herein on behalf of each owner of each such account, and (iii) is not acquiring the Securities with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection with, any distribution thereof in violation of the Securities Act or the laws of any jurisdiction (and shall provide the requested information set forth on Schedule A). The Investor is not an entity formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the Securities and is an “institutional account” as defined by FINRA Rule 4512(c).

(b) The Investor acknowledges and agrees that the Securities are being offered in a transaction not involving any public offering within the meaning of the Securities Act, that the Securities have not been registered under the Securities Act and that Ignyte is not required to register the Securities except as set forth in Section 8 of this Subscription Agreement. The Investor acknowledges and agrees that the Securities may not be offered, resold, transferred, pledged or otherwise disposed of by the Investor absent an effective registration statement under the Securities Act except (i) to Ignyte or a subsidiary thereof, (ii) to non-U.S. persons pursuant to offers and sales that occur outside the United States within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act or (iii) pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act or another applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, and, in each case, in accordance with any applicable securities laws of the states of the United States and other applicable jurisdictions, and that any certificates or book entries representing the Securities shall contain a restrictive legend to such effect. The Investor acknowledges and agrees that the Securities will be subject to the foregoing transfer restrictions and, as a result of these transfer restrictions, the Investor may not be able to readily offer, resell, transfer, pledge or otherwise dispose of the Securities and may be required to bear the financial risk of an investment in the Securities for an indefinite period of time. The Investor acknowledges and agrees that the Securities will not immediately be eligible for offer, resale, transfer, pledge or disposition pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act, and that the provisions of Rule 144(i) will apply to the Securities. The Investor acknowledges and agrees that it has been advised to consult legal, tax and accounting advisors prior to making any offer, resale, transfer, pledge or disposition of any of the Securities.

(c) The Investor acknowledges and agrees that the Investor is purchasing the Securities from Ignyte. The Investor further acknowledges that there have been no representations, warranties, covenants and agreements made to the Investor by or on behalf of Ignyte, the Company, any of their respective affiliates or any control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives of any of the foregoing or any other person or entity, expressly or by implication, other than those representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of Ignyte expressly set forth in Section 5 of this Subscription Agreement.

 

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(d) The Investor acknowledges and agrees that the Investor has received such information as the Investor deems necessary in order to make an investment decision with respect to the Securities, including, with respect to Ignyte, the Transaction and the business of the Company and its subsidiaries. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Investor acknowledges that it has reviewed Ignyte’s filings with the SEC. The Investor acknowledges and agrees that the Investor and the Investor’s professional advisor(s), if any, have had the full opportunity to ask such questions, receive such answers and obtain such information as the Investor and the Investor’s professional advisor(s), if any, have deemed necessary to make an investment decision with respect to the Securities.

(e) The Investor became aware of this offering of the Securities solely by means of direct contact between the Investor and Ignyte, the Company or a representative of Ignyte or the Company, and the Securities were offered to the Investor solely by direct contact between the Investor and Ignyte, the Company or a representative of Ignyte or the Company. The Investor did not become aware of this offering of the Securities, nor were the Securities offered to the Investor, by any other means. The Investor acknowledges that the Securities (i) were not offered by any form of general solicitation or general advertising and (ii) are not being offered in a manner involving a public offering under, or in a distribution in violation of, the Securities Act, or any state securities laws. The Investor acknowledges that there have not been, and the Investor hereby agrees that it is not relying upon, and has not relied upon, any statement, covenant, agreement, representation or warranty made by any person, firm or corporation (including, without limitation, Ignyte, the Company, any of their respective affiliates or any control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, legal counsel, financial advisors or accountants of any of the foregoing), other than the representations and warranties of Ignyte contained in Section 5 of this Subscription Agreement, in making its investment or decision to invest in Ignyte.

(f) The Investor acknowledges that it is aware that there are substantial risks incident to the purchase and ownership of the Securities, including those set forth in Ignyte’s filings with the SEC. The Investor has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an investment in the Securities, and the Investor has sought such accounting, legal and tax advice as the Investor has considered necessary to make an informed investment decision. The Investor acknowledges that the Investor shall be responsible for any of the Investor’s tax liabilities that may arise as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Subscription Agreement, and that neither Ignyte nor the Company has provided any tax advice or any other representation or guarantee regarding the tax consequences of the transactions contemplated by the Subscription Agreement.

(g) Alone, or together with any professional advisor(s), the Investor has adequately analyzed and fully considered the risks of an investment in the Securities and determined that the Securities are a suitable investment for the Investor and that the Investor is able at this time and in the foreseeable future to bear the economic risk of a total loss of the Investor’s investment in Ignyte. The Investor acknowledges specifically that a possibility of total loss exists.

(h) In making its decision to purchase the Securities, the Investor has relied solely upon independent investigation made by the Investor and the representations and warranties of Ignyte in Section 5.

(i) The Investor acknowledges and agrees that no federal or state agency has passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the Securities or made any findings or determination as to the fairness of this investment.

(j) The Investor has been duly formed or incorporated and is validly existing and is in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation or incorporation, with power and authority to enter into, deliver and perform its obligations under this Subscription Agreement.

(k) The execution, delivery and performance by the Investor of this Subscription Agreement, the purchase of the Securities hereunder, the compliance by the Investor with all of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein are within the powers of the Investor, have been duly authorized and will not constitute or result in a breach, violation or default, conflict with or

 

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result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of the property or assets of the Investor pursuant to the terms of (a) any order, ruling or regulation of any court or other tribunal or of any governmental commission or agency, (b) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease, license or other agreement or undertaking, to which the Investor is a party, by which the Investor is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Investor is subject, and (c) if the Investor is not an individual, the Investor’s organizational documents, including, without limitation, its incorporation or formation papers, bylaws, indenture of trust or partnership or operating agreement, as may be applicable. The signature of the Investor on this Subscription Agreement is genuine, and the signatory has legal competence and capacity to execute the same or the signatory has been duly authorized to execute the same, and, assuming that this Subscription Agreement constitutes the valid and binding agreement of Ignyte, this Subscription Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Investor, enforceable against the Investor in accordance with its terms except as may be limited or otherwise affected by (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or other laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors generally, and (ii) principles of equity, whether considered at law or equity.

(l) Neither the Investor nor, if the Investor is not an individual, any of its officers, directors, managers, managing members, general partners or any other person acting in a similar capacity or carrying out a similar function, is (i) a person named on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, the Foreign Sanctions Evaders List, the Sectoral Sanctions Identification List, or any other similar list of sanctioned persons administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), or any similar list of sanctioned persons administered by the European Union or any individual European Union member state, including the United Kingdom (collectively, “Sanctions Lists”); (ii) directly or indirectly owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, one or more persons on a Sanctions List; (iii) organized, incorporated, established, located or resident, or a citizen, national, or the government, including any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof, of, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, the Crimea region of Ukraine, or any other country or territory embargoed or subject to substantial trade restrictions by the United States, the European Union or any individual European Union member state, including the United Kingdom; (iv) a Designated National as defined in the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 515; or (v) a non-U.S. shell bank or providing banking services indirectly to a non-U.S. shell bank (collectively, a “Prohibited Investor”). The Investor represents that if it is a financial institution subject to the Bank Secrecy Act (31 U.S.C. Section 5311 et seq.) (the “BSA”), as amended by the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 (the “PATRIOT Act”), and its implementing regulations (collectively, the “BSA/PATRIOT Act”), that the Investor maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed to comply with applicable obligations under the BSA/PATRIOT Act. The Investor also represents that it maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure compliance with sanctions administered by the United States, the European Union, or any individual European Union member state, including the United Kingdom, to the extent applicable to it. The Investor further represents that the funds held by the Investor and used to purchase the Securities were legally derived and were not obtained, directly or indirectly, from a Prohibited Investor.

(m) If the Investor is or is acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan that is subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), (ii) a plan, an individual retirement account or other arrangement that is subject to Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), (iii) an entity whose underlying assets are considered to include “plan assets” of any such plan, account or arrangement described in clauses (i) and (ii) (each, an “ERISA Plan”), or (iv) an employee benefit plan that is a governmental plan (as defined in Section 3(32) of ERISA), a church plan (as defined in Section 3(33) of ERISA), a non-U.S. plan (as described in Section 4(b)(4) of ERISA) or other plan that is not subject to the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) but may be subject to provisions under any other federal, state, local, non-U.S. or other laws or regulations that are similar to such provisions of ERISA or the Code (collectively, “Similar Laws,” and together with ERISA Plans, “Plans”), the Investor represents and warrants that (A) neither Ignyte nor any of its affiliates has provided investment advice or has otherwise acted as the Plan’s fiduciary, with respect to its decision to acquire and hold the Securities, and none of the parties to the Transaction is or shall at any time be the Plan’s fiduciary with respect to any decision in connection with the Investor’s investment in the Securities; and (B) its purchase of the Securities will not result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or any applicable Similar Law.

(n) The Investor is not a foreign person (as defined in 31 C.F.R. Part 800.224) in which the national or subnational governments of a single foreign state have a substantial interest (as defined in 31 C.F.R. Part 800.244).

 

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(o) The Investor has or has commitments to have and, when required to deliver payment to Ignyte pursuant to Section 2 above, will have, sufficient funds to pay the Subscription Amount and consummate the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Subscription Agreement.

(p) The Investor acknowledges that Ignyte continues to review the SEC Statement, Redeemable Share Classification Changes and their respective implications, including on the financial statements and other information included in its SEC Reports, and any restatement, revision or other modification of the SEC Reports relating to or arising from such review, any subsequent related agreements or any other guidance from the Staff of the SEC with respect to the SEC Statement or Redeemable Share Classification Changes shall be deemed not material for purposes of this Agreement.

(q) No broker or finder is entitled to any brokerage or finder’s fee or commission payable by the Investor solely in connection with the sale of the Securities to the Investor based on any arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the Investor.

7. No Hedging. The Investor hereby agrees that neither it, its controlled affiliates, nor any person or entity acting on its or its controlled affiliates’ behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it, shall execute any short sales (as such term is defined in Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act, 17 CFR 242.200) or engage in other hedging transactions of any kind with respect to the Securities during the period from the date of this Subscription Agreement through the Closing date (or such earlier termination of this Subscription Agreement). Nothing in this Section 7 shall prohibit (x) any other investment portfolios or departments or groups of Investor that have no knowledge of this Subscription Agreement or of the Investor’s participation in this transaction and have not been informed by the Investor of the Transaction (including Investor’s controlled affiliates and/or affiliates) from entering into any short sales or engaging in other hedging transactions or (y) any portfolio company or third-party investment manager engaged by Investor that may engage in any short sales or hedging transactions on Investor’s behalf, if such portfolio company or third-party investment manager has not been directed or instructed to engage in short sales or hedging transactions with respect to the Securities by the Investor or any of the persons that are subject to the foregoing.

8. Registration Rights.

(a) Ignyte agrees that, within thirty (30) calendar days following the Closing Date (such deadline, the “Filing Deadline”), Ignyte will submit to or file with the SEC a registration statement for a shelf registration on Form S-1 or Form S-3 (if Ignyte is then eligible to use a Form S-3 shelf registration) (the “Registration Statement”), in each case, covering the resale of the Shares acquired by the Investor pursuant to this Subscription Agreement which are eligible for registration (determined as of two (2) business days prior to such submission or filing) (the “Registrable Shares”) and Ignyte shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective as soon as practicable after the filing thereof, but no later than the earlier of (i) the 90th calendar day following the filing date thereof if the SEC notifies Ignyte that it will “review” the Registration Statement and (ii) the 10th business day after the date Ignyte is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the SEC that the Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review (such earlier date, the “Effectiveness Deadline”); provided, however, that Ignyte’s obligations to include the Registrable Shares in the Registration Statement are contingent upon the Investor furnishing in writing to Ignyte such information regarding the Investor or its permitted assigns, the securities of Ignyte held by the Investor and the intended method of disposition of the Registrable Shares (which shall be limited to non-underwritten public offerings) as shall be reasonably requested by Ignyte to effect the registration of the Registrable Shares, and the Investor shall execute such documents in connection with such registration as Ignyte may reasonably request that are customary of a selling stockholder in similar situations, including providing that Ignyte shall be entitled to postpone and suspend the effectiveness or use of the Registration Statement, if applicable, as permitted hereunder; provided that the Investor shall not in connection with the foregoing be required to execute any lock-up or similar agreement or otherwise be subject to any contractual restriction on the ability to transfer the Registrable Shares. For as long as the Investor holds Shares, Ignyte will use commercially reasonable efforts to file all reports for so long as the condition in Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable) is required to be satisfied, and provide all customary and reasonable cooperation, necessary to enable the undersigned to resell the Shares pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act (in each case, when Rule 144 under the Securities Act becomes available to the Investor). Any failure by Ignyte to file the Registration Statement by the Filing Deadline or to effect such Registration Statement by the Effectiveness Deadline shall not otherwise relieve Ignyte of its obligations to file or effect the Registration Statement as set forth above in this Section 8.

 

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(b) Ignyte agrees that, within forty-five (45) calendar days after the consummation of the Transaction (the “Second Filing Deadline”), Ignyte will file with the SEC (at Ignyte’s sole cost and expense) a new registration statement (the “Second Registration Statement” and, together with the Registration Statement referenced in Section 8(a), the “Registration Statements”) registering the resale of the Warrant Shares (the “Additional Registrable Securities,” and, together with the Registrable Shares, the “Registrable Securities”), and Ignyte shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to have the Second Registration Statement declared effective as soon as practicable after the filing thereof, but no later than the 60th calendar day (or 90th calendar day if the SEC notifies Ignyte that it will “review” the Second Registration Statement) following the Filing Deadline (such date, the “Second Effectiveness Date”); provided, however, that Ignyte’s obligations to include the Additional Registrable Securities in the Second Registration Statement are contingent upon the Investor furnishing in writing to Ignyte such information regarding the Investor or its permitted assigns, the securities of Ignyte held by the Investor and the intended method of disposition of the Additional Registrable Securities (which shall be limited to non-underwritten public offerings) as shall be reasonably requested by Ignyte to effect the registration of the Additional Registrable Securities, and the Investor shall execute such documents in connection with such registration as Ignyte may reasonably request that are customary of a selling stockholder in similar situations, including providing that Ignyte shall be entitled to postpone and suspend the effectiveness or use of the Second Registration Statement, if applicable, as permitted hereunder; provided that the Investor shall not in connection with the foregoing be required to execute any lock-up or similar agreement or otherwise be subject to any contractual restriction on the ability to transfer the Additional Registrable Securities. For as long as the Investor holds PIPE Financing Warrants, Ignyte will use commercially reasonable efforts to file all reports for so long as the condition in Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable) is required to be satisfied, and provide all customary and reasonable cooperation, necessary to enable the undersigned to resell the PIPE Financing Warrants pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act (in each case, when Rule 144 under the Securities Act becomes available to the Investor). Any failure by Ignyte to file the Second Registration Statement by the Second Filing Deadline or to effect such Second Registration Statement by the Second Effectiveness Deadline shall not otherwise relieve Ignyte of its obligations to file or effect the Second Registration Statement as set forth above in this Section 8.

(c) At its expense Ignyte shall:

(i) except for such times as Ignyte is permitted hereunder to suspend the use of the prospectus forming part of a Registration Statement, use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep such registration, and any qualification, exemption or compliance under state securities laws which Ignyte determines to obtain, continuously effective with respect to the Investor, and to keep the applicable Registration Statement or any subsequent shelf registration statement free of any material misstatements or omissions, until the earlier of the following: (A) the Investor ceases to hold any Registrable Securities, (B) the date all Registrable Securities held by the Investor may be sold without restriction under Rule 144, including without limitation, any volume and manner of sale restrictions which may be applicable to affiliates under Rule 144 under the Securities Act and without the requirement for Ignyte to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable) under the Securities Act, and (C) two (2) years from the date of effectiveness of the Registration Statement. The period of time during which Ignyte is required hereunder to keep a Registration Statement effective is referred to herein as the “Registration Period”;

(ii) during the Registration Period, advise the Investor, as expeditiously as possible:

(1) when the Registration Statements or any amendment thereto has been filed with the SEC;

(2) after it shall receive notice or obtain knowledge thereof, of the issuance by the SEC of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for such purpose;

(3) of the receipt by Ignyte of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Registrable Securities included therein for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; and

 

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(4) subject to the provisions in this Subscription Agreement, of the occurrence of any event that requires the making of any changes in any Registration Statement or prospectus so that, as of such date, the statements therein are not misleading and do not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, Ignyte shall not, when so advising the Investor of such events, provide the Investor with any material, nonpublic information regarding Ignyte other than to the extent that providing notice to the Investor of the occurrence of the events listed in (1) through (4) above constitutes material, nonpublic information regarding Ignyte;

(iii) during the Registration Period, use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement as soon as reasonably practicable;

(iv) during the Registration Period, upon the occurrence of any event contemplated in Section 8(c)(ii)(4) above, except for such times as Ignyte is permitted hereunder to suspend, and has suspended, the use of a prospectus forming part of a Registration Statement, Ignyte shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to as soon as reasonably practicable prepare a post-effective amendment to such Registration Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus, or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to purchasers of the Registrable Securities included therein, such prospectus will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;

(v) during the Registration Period, use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause all Registrable Securities to be listed on each securities exchange or market, if any, on which the Shares have been listed;

(vi) during the Registration Period, use its commercially reasonable efforts to allow the Investor to review disclosure regarding the Investor in the Registration Statements; and

(vii) during the Registration Period, otherwise, in good faith, cooperate reasonably with, and take such customary actions as may reasonably be requested by the Investor, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, in connection with the registration of the Registrable Securities.

(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Subscription Agreement, Ignyte shall be entitled to delay the filing or effectiveness of, or suspend the use of, the Registration Statements if it determines (i) that in order for the Registration Statements not to contain a material misstatement or omission, (x) an amendment thereto would be needed to include information that would at that time not otherwise be required in a current, quarterly, or annual report under the Exchange Act or (y) the negotiation or consummation of a transaction by Ignyte or its subsidiaries is pending or an event has occurred, which negotiation, consummation or event Ignyte’s board of directors reasonably believes would require additional disclosure by Ignyte in the Registration Statements of material information that Ignyte has a bona fide business purpose for keeping confidential and the non-disclosure of which in the Registration Statements would be expected, in the reasonable determination of Ignyte’s board of directors to cause the Registration Statements to fail to comply with applicable disclosure requirements, or (ii) such delay or suspension arises out of, or is a result of, or is related to or is in connection with the SEC Statement, Redeemable Share Classification Changes or other accounting matters, or any related disclosure or other matters (each such circumstance, a “Suspension Event”); provided, however, that Ignyte may not delay or suspend the Registration Statements on more than three occasions or for more than ninety (90) consecutive calendar days, or more than one hundred and twenty (120) total calendar days, in each case during any twelve-month period. Upon receipt of any written notice from Ignyte of the happening of any Suspension Event during the period that the Registration Statements are effective or if as a result of a Suspension Event the Registration Statements or related prospectus contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in light of the circumstances under which they were made, in the case of the prospectus) not misleading, the Investor

 

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agrees that (i) it will immediately discontinue offers and sales of the Registrable Securities under the Registration Statements (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, sales conducted pursuant to Rule 144) until the Investor receives copies of a supplemental or amended prospectus (which Ignyte agrees to promptly prepare) that corrects the misstatement(s) or omission(s) referred to above and receives notice that any post-effective amendment has become effective or unless otherwise notified by Ignyte that it may resume such offers and sales, and (ii) it will maintain the confidentiality of any information included in such written notice delivered by Ignyte unless otherwise required by law or subpoena. If so directed by Ignyte, the Investor will deliver to Ignyte or, in the Investor’s sole discretion destroy, all copies of the prospectus covering the Registrable Securities in the Investor’s possession; provided, however, that this obligation to deliver or destroy all copies of the prospectus covering the Registrable Securities shall not apply (A) to the extent Investor is required to retain a copy of such prospectus (1) in order to comply with applicable legal, regulatory, self-regulatory or professional requirements or (2) in accordance with a bona fide pre-existing document retention policy or (B) to copies stored electronically on archival servers as a result of automatic data back-up.

(e) Indemnification.

(i) Ignyte agrees to indemnify, to the extent permitted by law, the Investor (to the extent a seller under the Registration Statements), its directors, officers, partners, managers, members, stockholders, agents and each person who controls the Investor (within the meaning of the Securities Act), to the extent permitted by law, against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and reasonable and documented out of pocket expenses (including reasonable and documented attorneys’ fees of one law firm) caused by any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in any Registration Statement, prospectus included in any Registration Statement (“Prospectus”) or preliminary Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, except insofar as the same are caused by or contained in any information or affidavit so furnished in writing to Ignyte by or on behalf of the Investor expressly for use therein.

(ii) In connection with any Registration Statement in which the Investor is participating, the Investor shall furnish (or cause to be furnished) to Ignyte in writing such information and affidavits as Ignyte reasonably requests for use in connection with any such Registration Statement or Prospectus and, to the extent permitted by law, shall indemnify Ignyte, its directors and officers and each person or entity who controls Ignyte (within the meaning of the Securities Act) against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable outside attorneys’ fees) resulting from any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained or incorporated by reference in any Registration Statement, Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, but only to the extent that such untrue statement or omission is contained (or not contained in, in the case of an omission) in any information or affidavit so furnished in writing by or on behalf of the Investor expressly for use therein; provided, however, that the liability of the Investor shall be several and not joint with any other investor and shall be limited to the net proceeds received by the Investor from the sale of Registrable Securities giving rise to such indemnification obligation.

(iii) Any person or entity entitled to indemnification herein shall (A) give prompt written notice to the indemnifying party of any claim with respect to which it seeks indemnification (provided that the failure to give prompt notice shall not impair any person’s or entity’s right to indemnification hereunder to the extent such failure has not prejudiced the indemnifying party) and (B) unless in such indemnified party’s reasonable judgment a conflict of interest between such indemnified and indemnifying parties may exist with respect to such claim, permit such indemnifying party to assume the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. If such defense is assumed, the indemnifying party shall not be subject to any liability for any settlement made by the indemnified party without its consent (but such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld). An indemnifying party who is not entitled to, or elects not to, assume the defense of a claim shall not be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of more than one counsel for all parties indemnified by such indemnifying party with respect to such claim, unless in the reasonable judgment of legal counsel to any indemnified party a conflict of interest exists between such indemnified party and any other of such indemnified parties with respect to such claim. No indemnifying party shall, without the consent of the indemnified party, consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which cannot be settled in all respects by the payment of money (and such money is so paid by the

 

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indemnifying party pursuant to the terms of such settlement) or which settlement includes a statement or admission of fault and culpability on the part of such indemnified party or which does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.

(iv) The indemnification provided for under this Subscription Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the indemnified party or any officer, director or controlling person or entity of such indemnified party and shall survive the transfer of securities.

(v) If the indemnification provided under this Section 8(e) from the indemnifying party is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses referred to herein, then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying the indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by the indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party and the indemnified party, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations; provided, however, that the liability of the Investor shall be limited to the net proceeds received by the Investor from the sale of Registrable Securities giving rise to such indemnification obligation. The relative fault of the indemnifying party and indemnified party shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any action in question, including any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact, was made by (or not made by, in the case of an omission), or relates to information supplied by (or not supplied by, in the case of an omission), such indemnifying party or indemnified party, and the indemnifying party’s and indemnified party’s relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such action. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses or other liabilities referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in Sections 8(e)(i), (ii) and (iii) above, any legal or other fees, charges or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with any investigation or proceeding. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution pursuant to this Section 8(d)(v) from any person or entity who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

(vi) If the Securities acquired hereunder are either eligible to be sold (i) pursuant to an effective Registration Statement or (ii) without restriction under, and without Ignyte being in compliance with the current public information requirements of, Rule 144 under the Securities Act, then at the Investor’s request, Ignyte will reasonably cooperate with Ignyte’s transfer agent, such that any remaining restrictive legend set forth on such Securities will be removed in connection with a sale of such shares.

9. Termination. This Subscription Agreement shall terminate and be void and of no further force and effect, and all rights and obligations of the parties hereunder shall terminate without any further liability on the part of any party in respect thereof, upon the earliest to occur of (a) such date and time as the Transaction Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms, (b) upon the mutual written agreement of each of the parties hereto to terminate this Subscription Agreement, (c) if the conditions to Closing set forth in Section 3 of this Subscription Agreement are not satisfied at, or are not capable of being satisfied on or prior to, the Closing and, as a result thereof, the transactions contemplated by this Subscription Agreement will not be or are not consummated at the Closing and (d) the Outside Date (as defined in the Transaction Agreement) if the closing of the Transaction has not occurred on or before such date; provided that nothing herein will relieve any party from liability for any willful breach hereof prior to the time of termination, and each party will be entitled to any remedies at law or in equity to recover losses, liabilities or damages arising from any such willful breach. Ignyte shall notify the Investor of the termination of the Transaction Agreement promptly after the termination of such agreement. Upon the termination of this Subscription Agreement in accordance with this Section 9, any monies paid by the Investor to Ignyte in connection herewith shall be promptly (and in any event within two (2) business days after such termination) returned to the Investor.

10. Trust Account Waiver. The Investor acknowledges that Ignyte is a blank check company with the powers and privileges to effect a merger, asset acquisition, reorganization or similar business combination involving Ignyte and one or more businesses or assets. The Investor further acknowledges that, as described in Ignyte’s prospectus relating to its initial public offering dated January 27, 2021 (the “IPO Prospectus”) available at www.sec.gov, substantially all of Ignyte’s assets consist of the cash proceeds of Ignyte’s initial public offering and private placement of its securities, and substantially all of those proceeds have been deposited in a trust account (the

 

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Trust Account”) for the benefit of Ignyte, its public stockholders and the underwriter of Ignyte’s initial public offering. Except with respect to interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account that may be released to Ignyte to pay its tax obligations, if any, the cash in the Trust Account may be disbursed only for the purposes set forth in the IPO Prospectus. For and in consideration of Ignyte entering into this Subscription Agreement, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Investor hereby irrevocably waives any and all right, title and interest, or any claim of any kind it has or may have in the future, in or to any monies held in the Trust Account, and agrees not to seek recourse against the Trust Account as a result of, or arising out of, this Subscription Agreement; provided, that nothing in this Section 10 shall be deemed to limit the Investor’s right, title, interest or claim to the Trust Account by virtue of the Investor’s record or beneficial ownership of Ignyte Common Stock acquired by any means other than pursuant to this Subscription Agreement.

11. Miscellaneous.

(a) Neither this Subscription Agreement nor any rights that may accrue to the Investor hereunder (other than the Securities acquired hereunder, if any) may be transferred or assigned, other than an assignment to any fund or account managed by the same investment manager as the Investor or an affiliate thereof, subject to, if such transfer or assignment is prior to the Closing, such transferee or assignee, as applicable, executing a joinder to this Subscription Agreement or a separate subscription agreement in substantially the same form as this Subscription Agreement, including with respect to the Subscription Amount and other terms and conditions, provided, that, in the case of any such transfer or assignment, the initial party to this Subscription Agreement shall remain bound by its obligations under this Subscription Agreement in the event that the transferee or assignee, as applicable, does not comply with its obligations to consummate the purchase of Securities contemplated hereby. Neither this Subscription Agreement nor any rights that may accrue to Ignyte hereunder or any of Ignyte’s obligations may be transferred or assigned other than pursuant to the Transaction.

(b) Ignyte may request from the Investor such additional information as Ignyte may deem necessary to evaluate the eligibility of the Investor to acquire the Securities and in connection with the inclusion of the Securities in the Registration Statement, and the Investor shall provide such information as may reasonably be requested, to the extent readily available and to the extent consistent with its internal policies and procedures. The Investor acknowledges that Ignyte may file a form of this Subscription Agreement with the SEC as an exhibit to a current or periodic report or a registration statement of Ignyte.

(c) The Investor acknowledges that Ignyte will rely on the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of the Investor contained in this Subscription Agreement. Prior to the Closing, the Investor agrees to promptly notify Ignyte if any of the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of the Investor set forth herein are no longer accurate.

(d) Ignyte and the Investor are each entitled to rely upon this Subscription Agreement and each is irrevocably authorized to produce this Subscription Agreement or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.

(e) All of the representations and warranties contained in this Subscription Agreement shall survive the Closing. All of the covenants and agreements made by each party hereto in this Subscription Agreement shall survive the Closing until the applicable statute of limitations or in accordance with their respective terms, if a shorter period.

(f) This Subscription Agreement may not be modified, waived or terminated (other than pursuant to the terms of Section 9 above) except by an instrument in writing, signed by each of the parties hereto and, to the extent required by the Transaction Agreement, the Company. No failure or delay of either party in exercising any right or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such right or power, or any course of conduct, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the parties and third-party beneficiaries hereunder are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have hereunder.

 

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(g) This Subscription Agreement (including the schedule hereto) constitutes the entire agreement, and supersedes all other prior agreements, understandings, representations and warranties, both written and oral, among the parties, with respect to the subject matter hereof. Except as set forth in Section 8(e), Section 11(c) and Section 11(d) with respect to the persons referenced therein, this Subscription Agreement shall not confer any rights or remedies upon any person other than the parties hereto, and their respective successor and assigns.

(h) Except as otherwise provided herein, this Subscription Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their heirs, executors, administrators, successors, legal representatives, and permitted assigns, and the agreements, representations, warranties, covenants and acknowledgments contained herein shall be deemed to be made by, and be binding upon, such heirs, executors, administrators, successors, legal representatives and permitted assigns.

(i) If any provision of this Subscription Agreement shall be adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Subscription Agreement shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and shall continue in full force and effect.

(j) Each party shall pay all of its own costs and expenses incurred in anticipation of, relating to and in connection with the negotiation and execution of this Subscription Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, whether or not such transactions are consummated.

(k) This Subscription Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts (including by electronic mail or in .pdf) and by different parties in separate counterparts, with the same effect as if all parties hereto had signed the same document. All counterparts so executed and delivered shall be construed together and shall constitute one and the same agreement.

(l) The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that irreparable damage would occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached. It is accordingly agreed that the parties shall be entitled to an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of this Subscription Agreement, without posting a bond or undertaking and without proof of damages, to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Subscription Agreement, this being in addition to any other remedy to which such party is entitled at law, in equity, in contract, in tort or otherwise.

(m) THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY SUBMIT TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE (OR, TO THE EXTENT SUCH COURT DOES NOT HAVE SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, OR THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE) SOLELY IN RESPECT OF THE INTERPRETATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT AND THE DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT AND IN RESPECT OF THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY, AND HEREBY WAIVE, AND AGREE NOT TO ASSERT, AS A DEFENSE IN ANY ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING FOR INTERPRETATION OR ENFORCEMENT HEREOF OR ANY SUCH DOCUMENT THAT IS NOT SUBJECT THERETO OR THAT SUCH ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING MAY NOT BE BROUGHT OR IS NOT MAINTAINABLE IN SAID COURTS OR THAT VENUE THEREOF MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE OR THAT THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR ANY SUCH DOCUMENT MAY NOT BE ENFORCED IN OR BY SUCH COURTS, AND THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AGREE THAT ALL CLAIMS WITH RESPECT TO SUCH ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE HEARD AND DETERMINED BY SUCH A DELAWARE STATE OR FEDERAL COURT. THE PARTIES HEREBY CONSENT TO AND GRANT ANY SUCH COURT JURISDICTION OVER THE PERSON OF SUCH PARTIES AND OVER THE SUBJECT MATTER OF SUCH DISPUTE AND AGREE THAT MAILING OF PROCESS OR OTHER PAPERS IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING IN THE MANNER PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION 11(m) OF THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR IN SUCH OTHER MANNER AS MAY BE PERMITTED BY LAW SHALL BE VALID AND SUFFICIENT SERVICE THEREOF. THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS THAT WOULD OTHERWISE REQUIRE THE APPLICATION OF THE LAW OF ANY OTHER STATE.

 

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(n) EACH PARTY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND THEREFORE EACH SUCH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT SUCH PARTY MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT. EACH PARTY CERTIFIES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (I) NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER; (II) SUCH PARTY UNDERSTANDS AND HAS CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE FOREGOING WAIVER; (III) SUCH PARTY MAKES THE FOREGOING WAIVER VOLUNTARILY; AND (IV) SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVER AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 11(n).

12. Non-Reliance and Exculpation. The Investor acknowledges that it is not relying upon, and has not relied upon, any statement, representation or warranty made by any person, firm or corporation (including, without limitation, Ignyte and any of its affiliates, any control persons, officers, directors, employees, partners, agents, representatives, legal counsel, financial advisors or accountants), other than the statements, representations and warranties of Ignyte expressly contained in Section 5 of this Subscription Agreement, in making its investment or decision to invest in Ignyte. The Investor acknowledges and agrees that none of (i) the Other Investors pursuant to this Subscription Agreement or any Other Subscription Agreement related to the private placement of the Securities (including the Other Investors’ respective affiliates or any control persons, officers, directors, employees, partners, agents or representatives of any of the foregoing), (ii) any other party to the Transaction Agreement (other than Ignyte), or (iii) any affiliates, or any control persons, officers, directors, employees, partners, agents or representatives of any of Ignyte, the Company or any other party to the Transaction Agreement shall be liable to the Investor, or to any Other Investor, pursuant to this Subscription Agreement or any Other Subscription Agreement related to the private placement of the Securities, the negotiation hereof or thereof or the subject matter hereof or thereof, or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, for any action heretofore or hereafter taken or omitted to be taken by any of them in connection with the purchase of the Securities.

13. Press Releases. Ignyte shall, by 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second business day immediately following the date of this Subscription Agreement, issue one or more press releases or furnish or file with the SEC a Current Report on Form 8-K (collectively, the “Disclosure Document”) disclosing, to the extent not previously publicly disclosed, the PIPE Investment (as defined in the Transaction Agreement), all material terms of the Transaction and any other material, non-public information that Ignyte, or any of its officers, employees or agents on behalf of Ignyte, has provided to the Investor at any time prior to the filing of the Disclosure Document. From and after the disclosure of the Disclosure Document, the Investor shall no longer be subject to any confidentiality or similar obligations under any current agreement, whether written or oral, with Ignyte or any of its affiliates, and, to the knowledge of Ignyte, the Investor shall not be in possession of any material, non-public information received from Ignyte or any of its officers, directors, employees or agents. All press releases or other public communications relating to the transactions contemplated hereby between Ignyte and the Investor, and the method of the release for publication thereof, shall be subject to the prior approval of (i) Ignyte, and (ii) the Investor to the extent such press release or public communication references the Investor or its affiliates or investment advisers by name or any trademark owned by the Investor, its affiliates or its investment advisers. The restriction in this Section 13 shall not apply to the extent the public announcement is required by applicable securities law, any governmental authority or stock exchange rule; provided, that in such an event, the applicable party shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to consult with the other party in advance as to its form, content and timing.

14. Notices. All notices and other communications among the parties shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given (i) when delivered in person, (ii) when delivered after posting in the United States mail having been sent registered or certified mail return receipt requested, postage prepaid, (iii) when delivered by FedEx or other nationally recognized overnight delivery service, or (iv) when delivered by email (in each case in this clause (iv), solely if receipt is confirmed, but excluding any automated reply, such as an out-of-office notification), addressed as follows:

 

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If to the Investor, to the address provided on the Investor’s signature page hereto.

If to Ignyte, to:

Ignyte Acquisition Corp.

640 Fifth Avenue

New York, New York 10019

Attention: David Rosenberg, Co-Chief Executive Officer

                 David J. Strupp, Jr., Co-Chief Executive Officer

Email:      drosenberg@ignytespac.com

                dstrupp@ignytespac.com

with copies to (which shall not constitute notice), to:

DLA Piper LLP (US)

51 John F. Kennedy Parkway

Suite 120

Short Hills, NJ 0708

Attention: Andrew P. Gilbert

          Scott A. Cowan

Email:       andrew.gilbert@us.dlapiper.com

         scott.cowan@us.dlapiper.com

If to Company, to:

Peak Bio Co., Ltd.

Building B #1009

670 Daewangpangyo-ro (Sampyeong-dong, U Space 2),

Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyenggi-do 13494

Attention: Hoyoung Huh, Chief Executive Officer

Email:       hoyoung.huh@ph-pharma.com

with copies to (which shall not constitute notice), to:

BC Burr McCabe Law

584 Castro Street #882

San Francisco, CA 94114

Attention: Peter McCabe

Email: pmccabe@bcbmlaw.com

or to such other address or addresses as the parties may from time to time designate in writing. Copies delivered solely to outside counsel shall not constitute notice.

SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Investor has executed or caused this Subscription Agreement to be executed by its duly authorized representative as of the date first set forth above.

 

   State/Country of Formation or Domicile:
Name of Investor:   
By:   

Name:

Title:

  
Name in which Shares are to be registered (if different):   
Investor’s EIN:   
Business Address-Street:    Mailing Address-Street (if different):
City, State, Zip:    City, State, Zip:
Attn:    Attn:
Telephone No.:    Telephone No.:
Facsimile No.:    Facsimile No.:
Number of Shares subscribed for:   
Number of PIPE Financing Warrants (0.93 * the number of Shares)   
Aggregate Subscription Amount: $    Price Per Security: $10.00

You must pay the Subscription Amount by wire transfer of United States dollars in immediately available funds to the account specified by Ignyte in the Closing Notice.

 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Ignyte has accepted this Subscription Agreement as of the date first set forth above.

 

IGNYTE ACQUISITION CORP.
By  

 

NAME:
TITLE:

 

SIGNATURE PAGE TO SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT


SCHEDULE A

ELIGIBILITY REPRESENTATIONS OF THE INVESTOR

 

A.    QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS
(Please check the applicable subparagraphs):
   We are a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act).
   **OR**
B.    ACCREDITED INVESTOR STATUS
(Please check the applicable subparagraphs):
1.    ☐ We are an “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act) or an entity in which all of the equity holders are accredited investors within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act, and have marked the appropriate box on the following page indicating the provision under which we qualify as an “accredited investor.” ☐ are not a natural person.

Rule 501(a), in relevant part, states that an “accredited investor” shall mean any person who comes within any of the below listed categories, or who the issuer reasonably believes comes within any of the below listed categories, at the time of the sale of the securities to that person. The Investor has indicated, by marking the appropriate box below, the provision(s) below which apply to the Investor and under which the Investor accordingly qualifies as an “accredited investor.”

 

_______ (i)    A natural person whose net worth, either individually or jointly with such person’s spouse or spousal equivalent, at the time of the Investor’s purchase, exceeds $1,000,000;
   The term “net worth” means the excess of total assets over total liabilities (including personal and real property, but excluding the estimated fair market value of the Investor’s primary home). For the purposes of calculating joint net worth with the person’s spouse or spousal equivalent, joint net worth can be the aggregate net worth of the Investor and spouse or spousal equivalent; assets need not be held jointly to be included in the calculation. There is no requirement that securities be purchased jointly. A spousal equivalent means a cohabitant occupying a relationship generally equivalent to a spouse.
_______ (ii)    A natural person who had an individual income in excess of $200,000, or joint income with the Investor’s spouse or spousal equivalent in excess of $300,000, in each of the two most recent years and reasonably expects to reach the same income level in the current year;
   In determining individual “income,” the Investor should add to the Investor’s individual taxable adjusted gross income (exclusive of any spousal or spousal equivalent income) any amounts attributable to tax exempt income received, losses claimed as a limited partner in any limited partnership, deductions claimed for depletion, contributions to an IRA or Keogh retirement plan, alimony payments, and any amount by which income from long-term capital gains has been reduced in arriving at adjusted gross income.
_______ (iii)    A director or executive officer of Ignyte;
_______ (iv)    A natural person holding in good standing with one or more professional certifications or designations or other credentials from an accredited educational institution that the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has designated as qualifying an individual for accredited investor status;
   The SEC has designated the General Securities Representative license (Series 7), the Private Securities Offering Representative license (Series 82) and the Licensed Investment Adviser Representative (Series 65) as the initial certifications that qualify for accredited investor status.

 

SCHEDULE A TO SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT


_______ (v)    A natural person who is a “knowledgeable employee” as defined in Rule 3c-5(a)(4) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Investment Company Act”), of the issuer of the securities being offered or sold where the issuer would be an investment company, as defined in section 3 of the Investment Company Act, but for the exclusion provided by either section 3(c)(1) or section 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company Act;
_______ (vi)    A bank as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act, or any savings and loan association or other institution as defined in Section 3(a)(5)(A) of the Securities Act, whether acting in its individual or fiduciary capacity;
_______ (vii)    A broker or dealer registered pursuant to Section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”);
_______ (viii)    An investment adviser registered pursuant to section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Investment Advisers Act”) or registered pursuant to the laws of a state, or an investment adviser relying on the exemption from registering with the SEC under the section 203(l) or (m) of the Investment Advisers Act;
_______ (ix)    An insurance company as defined in section 2(13) of the Exchange Act;
_______ (x)    An investment company registered under the Investment Company Act or a business development company as defined in Section 2(a)(48) of that Act;
_______ (xi)    A Small Business Investment Company licensed by the U.S. Small Business Administration under Section 301(c) or (d) of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958;
_______ (xii)    A Rural Business Investment Company as defined in section 384A of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act;
_______ (xiii)    A plan established and maintained by a state, its political subdivisions, or any agency or instrumentality of a state, or its political subdivisions for the benefit of its employees, if such plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000;
_______ (xiv)    An employee benefit plan within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, if the investment decision is made by a plan fiduciary, as defined in Section 3(21) of such act, which is either a bank, savings and loan association, insurance company, or registered investment adviser, or if the employee benefit plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000 or, if a self-directed plan, with investment decisions made solely by persons that are accredited investors;
_______ (xv)    A private business development company as defined in Section 202(a)(22) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940;
_______ (xvi)    An organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a corporation, business trust, partnership, or limited liability company, or any other entity not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the Securities, with total assets in excess of $5,000,000;
_______ (xvii)    A trust, with total assets in excess of $5,000,000, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the Securities, whose purchase is directed by a sophisticated person who has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that such person is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of investing in Ignyte;
_______ (xviii)    A “family office” as defined in Rule 202(a)(11)(G)-1 under the Investment Advisers Act with assets under management in excess of $5,000,000 that is not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered and whose prospective investment is directed by a person who has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that such family office is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment;

 

SCHEDULE A TO SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT


_______ (xix)    A “family client” as defined in Rule 202(a)(11)(G)-1 under the Investment Advisers Act, of a family office meeting the requirements set forth in (xviii) and whose prospective investment in the issuer is directed by a person from a family office that is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment;
_______ (xx)    An entity, of a type not listed above, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered, owning investments in excess of $5,000,000; and/or
_______ (xxi)    An entity in which all of the equity owners qualify as an accredited investor under any of the above subparagraphs.

This page should be completed by the Investor and constitutes a part of the Subscription Agreement.

 

SCHEDULE A TO SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT

Exhibit 10.2

PAYMENT AGREEMENT

This Payment Agreement (this “Agreement”) is made as of November 1, 2022, by and among Ignyte Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) and Ignyte Sponsor LLC (“Sponsor”). Together, the parties to this Agreement will be referred to herein as the “Parties” and each a “Party.”

WHEREAS, on March 21, 2022 and September 20, 2022, the Company issued unsecured promissory notes (the “Working Capital Notes”) in the aggregate principal amounts of $300,000 and $100,000, respectively, to Sponsor in consideration for loans from the Sponsor to fund the Company’s working capital requirements until November 1, 2022;

WHEREAS, the Working Capital Notes bear no interest and are repayable in cash upon the consummation of the Company’s initial business combination (the “Business Combination”); and

WHEREAS, the Parties desire to amend the terms of the Working Capital Notes to set forth the amounts of the fees to be paid by the Company to Sponsor and the form of such payment on the terms set forth herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and the covenants contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties agree as follows:

1. Payment Amount. The Company agrees to pay and Sponsor agrees to accept the total sum of $400,000 (the “Payment Amount”) as payment of the fees and reimbursable expenses incurred to the date hereof due and owing to Sponsor pursuant to the terms of the Working Capital Notes.

2. Payment Method. The Parties agree that the Payment Amount will be paid at the closing of the Business Combination (the “Closing”) by the delivery of the Company to Sponsor or its assignee of 77,200 shares of common stock of the Company (the “Payment Shares”).

3. Transfer Restrictions.

(a) In connection with any transfer of the Payment Shares, among any other requirement of this Agreement, the Company may require the transferor to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor, the form and substance of which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does not require registration under the Securities Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company hereby consents to and agrees to register on the books of the Company and with its transfer agent, without any such legal opinion, except to the extent that the transfer agent requests such legal opinion, any transfer of Payment Shares by Sponsor to an affiliate thereof, provided that the transferee certifies to the Company that it is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and provided that such affiliate does not request any removal of any existing legends on any certificate evidencing the Payment Shares.

(b) Sponsor agrees to the imprinting, until no longer required by this Section 3(b), of the following legend on any certificate evidencing any of the Payment Shares:

THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR BLUE SKY LAWS.


Upon the written request of Sponsor and subject to the provisions of this Section 3(b), the legend set forth above shall be removed and the Company shall as promptly as reasonably practicable issue a certificate without such legend to the holder of the Payment Shares upon which it is stamped or issue to such holder by electronic delivery at the applicable balance account of The Depository Trust Company (DTC), unless otherwise required by state securities laws, (i) in connection with a sale of such Payment Shares pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, or (ii) if such holder provides the Company with reasonable assurance that the Payment Shares can be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to Rule 144 and such Payment Shares have been sold under Rule 144.

(c) The Payment Shares shall be included in the definition of the term “Registrable Securities” and subject to the same rights and obligations thereto as set forth in that certain Registration Rights Agreement dated as of the date hereof between the Company, Sponsor and the stockholders party thereto.

4. Representations. Each Party represents and warrants to the other Party that (i) the execution, delivery and performance by such Party of this Agreement is within the powers of such Party and have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of such Party, (ii) this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by such Party and constitutes a valid and binding obligation of such Party, (iii) it is not relying upon any statements, understandings, representations, expectations or agreements other than those expressly set forth in this Agreement, (iv) it has had the opportunity to be represented and advised by legal counsel in connection with this Agreement, which it enters into voluntarily and of its own choice and not under coercion or duress, and (v) it has made its own investigation of the facts and is relying upon its own knowledge and/or the advice of its counsel.

5. Additional Representations, Warranties and Covenants of Sponsor. Sponsor hereby represents, warrants and covenants to the Company as follows:

(a) Organization. Sponsor is an entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of Delaware with the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated herein and under the other agreements being entered into pursuant to this Agreement and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder.

(b) No Public Sale or Distribution. Sponsor is (i) acquiring the Payment Shares 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 under the Securities Act or under an exemption from such registration and in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws, and Sponsor does not have a present arrangement to effect any distribution of the Payment Shares to or through any person or entity; provided, however, that by making the representations herein, Sponsor does not agree to hold any of the Payment Shares for any minimum or other specific term and reserves the right to dispose of the Payment Shares at any time in accordance with or pursuant to a registration statement or an exemption under the Securities Act and pursuant to the applicable terms of this Agreement and the other agreements being entered into hereunder.

(c) Accredited Investor Status. Sponsor is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act.

(d) Experience of Sponsor. Sponsor, either alone or together with its representatives has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective issuance and acceptance of the Payment Shares as provided for under this Agreement, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of such issuance. Sponsor understands that it must bear the economic risk of this investment in the Payment Shares indefinitely, and Sponsor is able to bear such risk and is able to afford a complete loss of such investment.

(e) Access to Information. Sponsor acknowledges that it has reviewed the reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, (the “Disclosure Materials”) and has been afforded: (i) the opportunity to ask such questions as it has deemed necessary of, and to

 

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receive answers from, the Company and its representatives concerning the terms and conditions of the issuance of the Payment Shares and the merits and risks of accepting the Payment Shares as consideration for services rendered; (ii) access to information about the Company and its subsidiaries and its and their respective financial condition, results of operations, business, properties, management and prospects sufficient to enable it to evaluate its decision to receive the Payment Shares as consideration for services rendered; and (iii) the opportunity to obtain such additional information that the Company possesses or can acquire without unreasonable effort or expense that is necessary to make an informed investment decision with respect to the Payment Shares. Neither such inquiries nor any other investigation conducted by or on behalf of Sponsor or its representatives or counsel shall modify, amend or affect Sponsor’s right to rely on the truth, accuracy and completeness of the Disclosure Materials.

(f) General Solicitation. Sponsor is not acquiring the Payment Shares as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the Payment Shares published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media, broadcast over television or radio, disseminated over the Internet or presented at any seminar or, to its knowledge, any other general solicitation or general advertisement.

(g) No Governmental Review. Sponsor 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 Payment Shares or the fairness or suitability of the investment in the Payment Shares nor have such authorities passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the Payment Shares.

(h) Restricted Securities. Sponsor understands that the Payment Shares are characterized as “restricted securities” under the U.S. federal securities laws inasmuch as they are being acquired from the Company in a transaction not involving a public offering and that under such laws and applicable regulations such securities may be resold without registration under the Securities Act only in certain limited circumstances.

(i) Legends. Sponsor understands that, except as otherwise provided in Section 3(b), certificates evidencing such Payment Shares shall bear the legends set forth in Section 3(b).

(j) No Legal, Tax or Investment Advice. Sponsor understands that nothing in this Agreement or any other materials presented by or on behalf of the Company to Sponsor in connection with the issuance of the Payment Shares constitutes legal, tax or investment advice. Sponsor has consulted such legal, tax and investment advisors as it, in its sole discretion, has deemed necessary or appropriate in connection with its receipt of the Payment Shares.

6. Additional Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Company. The Company hereby represents, warrants and covenants to Sponsor as follows:

(a) As of the Closing, the Payment Shares will be duly authorized and, when issued and delivered to Sponsor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Payment Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and will not have been issued in violation of or subject to any preemptive or similar rights created under the Company’s certificate of incorporation (as amended to the date of the Closing) or under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

(b) The execution and delivery of this Agreement, the issuance of the Payment Shares and the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of the property or assets of the Company pursuant to the terms of (i) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease, license or other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company is subject, (ii) the organizational documents of the Company, or (iii) any statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties that, in each case of clauses (i) and (iii), would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, including the issuance and sale of the Payment Shares.

 

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(c) Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of Sponsor set forth herein, the Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority, self-regulatory organization or other person in connection with the issuance of the Payment Shares pursuant to this Agreement, other than (i) filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and (ii) filings required by applicable state securities laws.

(d) As of their respective dates, all reports required to be filed by the Company with the SEC (the “SEC Reports”) complied in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, year-end audit adjustments.

(e) As of the date hereof, the issued and outstanding shares of the Company are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act, and are listed for trading on Nasdaq under the symbol “IGNY” (it being understood that the trading symbol and the national securities exchange will be changed in connection with the Business Combination). There is no suit, action, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company by Nasdaq or the SEC, respectively, to prohibit or terminate the listing of the Company’s Shares on the Nasdaq or to deregister the Shares under the Exchange Act. The Company has taken no action that is designed to terminate the registration of the Shares under the Exchange Act.

(f) Assuming the accuracy of Sponsor’s representations and warranties set forth in Section 5 of this Agreement, no registration under the Securities Act is required for the offer and sale of the Payment Shares by the Company to Sponsor.

(g) Neither the Company nor any person acting on its behalf has engaged or will engage in any form of general solicitation or general advertising (within the meaning of Regulation D) in violation of the Securities Act in connection with any offer or sale of the Payment Shares.

(h) No broker or finder is entitled to any brokerage or finder’s fee or commission from the Company solely in connection with the issuance of the Payment Shares to Sponsor.

(i) As of the date hereof, except for such matters as have not had a material adverse effect on the Company, the Company is in compliance with all state and federal laws applicable to the conduct of its business. The Company has not received any written, or to its knowledge, other communication from a governmental entity that alleges that the Company is not in compliance with or is in default or violation of any applicable law, except where such non-compliance, default or violation would not be reasonably likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the Company. Except for such matters as have not had and would not be reasonably likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the Company, as of the date hereof there is no (i) action, lawsuit, claim or other proceeding, in each case by or before any governmental authority pending, or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or (ii) judgment, decree, injunction, ruling or order of any governmental entity or arbitrator outstanding against the Company.

7. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, exclusive of the choice-of-law principles thereof.

8. Exclusive Jurisdiction. The Parties agree that any dispute, claim or controversy directly or indirectly relating to or arising out of this Agreement shall be commenced in the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York located in the City and County of New York or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the adjudication of such matters and shall decide the merits of each claim on the basis of the internal laws of the State of New York without regard to

 

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principles of conflicts of law. The Parties agree and consent to personal jurisdiction, service of process and venue of such courts, waive all right to trial by jury for any claim and agree not to assert the defense of forum non conveniens. The Parties also agree that service of process may be effected through next-day delivery using a nationally-recognized overnight courier or personally delivered to the Parties. The Parties further agree that a final non-appealable judgment in respect of any claim brought in any such court shall be binding and may be enforced in any other court having jurisdiction over the party against whom the judgment is sought to be enforced.

9. Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY TO THIS PAYMENT AGREEMENT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHTS TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION BROUGHT TO RESOLVE ANY DISPUTE BETWEEN OR AMONG ANY OF THE PARTIES (WHETHER ARISING IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF, CONNECTED WITH, RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THIS PAYMENT AGREEMENT, THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS PAYMENT AGREEMENT AND/OR THE RELATIONSHIPS ESTABLISHED AMONG THE PARTIES UNDER THIS PAYMENT AGREEMENT. THE PARTIES FURTHER WARRANT AND REPRESENT THAT EACH HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH SUCH PARTY’S LEGAL COUNSEL, AND THAT EACH KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES SUCH PARTY’S JURY TRIAL RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL.

10. Entire Agreement. This Agreement reflects the complete understanding of the Parties and may not be amended orally.

11. Interpretation. The Parties acknowledge that this Agreement represents the combined efforts of negotiation and drafting of the Parties and their attorneys and that any ambiguity shall not be construed against any Party.

12. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, including by email or facsimile, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement.

13. No Modification. This Agreement shall not be modified or amended in any way except by a writing signed by all Parties hereto.

[Signatures only to follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above.

 

IGNYTE ACQUISITION CORP.

By:  

/s/ Steven Kaplan

Name: Steven Kaplan
Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

IGNYTE SPONSOR LLC

By:  

/s/ David Rosenberg

Name: David Rosenberg
Title: Managing Member

Exhibit 10.3

PAYMENT AGREEMENT

This Payment Agreement (this “Agreement”) is made as of November 1, 2022, by and among Ignyte Acquisition Corp. (the “Company”) and Ingalls & Snyder, LLC (“Ingalls”). Together, the parties to this Agreement will be referred to herein as the “Parties” and each a “Party.”

WHEREAS, on or about October 28, 2022, the Parties entered into an agreement (the “Marketing and Consulting Agreement”) whereby the Company engaged Ingalls to provide certain marketing and consulting services, on an as needed basis as determined by mutual agreement of both the Company and Ingalls (the “Services”);

WHEREAS, the Marketing and Consulting Agreement provides that the Company will pay Ingalls a flat fee of $150,000 upon satisfactory completion of the Services, but in any event no later than November 4, 2022; and

WHEREAS, the Parties desire to amend the terms of the Marketing and Consulting Agreement to set forth the amounts of the fees to be paid by the Company to Ingalls and the form of such payment on the terms set forth herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and the covenants contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties agree as follows:

1. Payment Amount. The Company agrees to pay and Ingalls agrees to accept the total sum of $150,000 (the “Payment Amount”) as payment of the fees and reimbursable expenses incurred to the date hereof due and owing to Ingalls pursuant to the terms of the Marketing and Consulting Agreement.

2. Payment Method. The Parties agree that the Payment Amount will be paid at the closing (the “Closing”) of the Company’s initial business combination (the “Business Combination”) by the delivery of the Company to Ingalls or its assignee of 28,950 shares of common stock of the Company (the “Payment Shares”).

3. Transfer Restrictions.

(a) In connection with any transfer of the Payment Shares, among any other requirement of this Agreement, the Company may require the transferor to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor, the form and substance of which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does not require registration under the Securities Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company hereby consents to and agrees to register on the books of the Company and with its transfer agent, without any such legal opinion, except to the extent that the transfer agent requests such legal opinion, any transfer of Payment Shares by Ingalls to an affiliate thereof, provided that the transferee certifies to the Company that it is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and provided that such affiliate does not request any removal of any existing legends on any certificate evidencing the Payment Shares.

(b) Ingalls agrees to the imprinting, until no longer required by this Section 3(b), of the following legend on any certificate evidencing any of the Payment Shares:

THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR BLUE SKY LAWS.


Upon the written request of Ingalls and subject to the provisions of this Section 3(b), the legend set forth above shall be removed and the Company shall as promptly as reasonably practicable issue a certificate without such legend to the holder of the Payment Shares upon which it is stamped or issue to such holder by electronic delivery at the applicable balance account of The Depository Trust Company (DTC), unless otherwise required by state securities laws, (i) in connection with a sale of such Payment Shares pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, or (ii) if such holder provides the Company with reasonable assurance that the Payment Shares can be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to Rule 144 and such Payment Shares have been sold under Rule 144.

(c) The Payment Shares shall be included in the definition of the term “Registrable Securities” and subject to the same rights and obligations thereto as set forth in that certain Registration Rights Agreement dated as of the date hereof between the Company, Ignyte Sponsor LLC and the stockholders party thereto.

4. Representations. Each Party represents and warrants to the other Party that (i) the execution, delivery and performance by such Party of this Agreement is within the powers of such Party and have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of such Party, (ii) this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by such Party and constitutes a valid and binding obligation of such Party, (iii) it is not relying upon any statements, understandings, representations, expectations or agreements other than those expressly set forth in this Agreement, (iv) it has had the opportunity to be represented and advised by legal counsel in connection with this Agreement, which it enters into voluntarily and of its own choice and not under coercion or duress, and (v) it has made its own investigation of the facts and is relying upon its own knowledge and/or the advice of its counsel.

5. Additional Representations, Warranties and Covenants of Ingalls. Ingalls hereby represents, warrants and covenants to the Company as follows:

(a) Organization. Ingalls is an entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation with the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated herein and under the other agreements being entered into pursuant to this Agreement and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder.

(b) No Public Sale or Distribution. Ingalls is (i) acquiring the Payment Shares 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 under the Securities Act or under an exemption from such registration and in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws, and Ingalls does not have a present arrangement to effect any distribution of the Payment Shares to or through any person or entity; provided, however, that by making the representations herein, Ingalls does not agree to hold any of the Payment Shares for any minimum or other specific term and reserves the right to dispose of the Payment Shares at any time in accordance with or pursuant to a registration statement or an exemption under the Securities Act and pursuant to the applicable terms of this Agreement and the other agreements being entered into hereunder.

(c) Accredited Investor Status. Ingalls is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act.

(d) Experience of Ingalls. Ingalls, either alone or together with its representatives has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective issuance and acceptance of the Payment Shares as provided for under this Agreement, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of such issuance. Ingalls understands that it must bear the economic risk of this investment in the Payment Shares indefinitely, and Ingalls is able to bear such risk and is able to afford a complete loss of such investment.

(e) Access to Information. Ingalls acknowledges that it has reviewed the reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, (the “Disclosure Materials”) and has been afforded: (i) the opportunity to ask such questions as it has deemed necessary of, and to receive answers from, the Company and its representatives concerning the terms and conditions of the issuance of the Payment Shares and the merits and risks of accepting the Payment Shares as consideration for services rendered;

 

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(ii) access to information about the Company and its subsidiaries and its and their respective financial condition, results of operations, business, properties, management and prospects sufficient to enable it to evaluate its decision to receive the Payment Shares as consideration for services rendered; and (iii) the opportunity to obtain such additional information that the Company possesses or can acquire without unreasonable effort or expense that is necessary to make an informed investment decision with respect to the Payment Shares. Neither such inquiries nor any other investigation conducted by or on behalf of Ingalls or its representatives or counsel shall modify, amend or affect Ingalls’s right to rely on the truth, accuracy and completeness of the Disclosure Materials.

(f) General Solicitation. Ingalls is not acquiring the Payment Shares as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the Payment Shares published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media, broadcast over television or radio, disseminated over the Internet or presented at any seminar or, to its knowledge, any other general solicitation or general advertisement.

(g) No Governmental Review. Ingalls 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 Payment Shares or the fairness or suitability of the investment in the Payment Shares nor have such authorities passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the Payment Shares.

(h) Restricted Securities. Ingalls understands that the Payment Shares are characterized as “restricted securities” under the U.S. federal securities laws inasmuch as they are being acquired from the Company in a transaction not involving a public offering and that under such laws and applicable regulations such securities may be resold without registration under the Securities Act only in certain limited circumstances.

(i) Legends. Ingalls understands that, except as otherwise provided in Section 3(b), certificates evidencing such Payment Shares shall bear the legends set forth in Section 3(b).

(j) No Legal, Tax or Investment Advice. Ingalls understands that nothing in this Agreement or any other materials presented by or on behalf of the Company to Ingalls in connection with the issuance of the Payment Shares constitutes legal, tax or investment advice. Ingalls has consulted such legal, tax and investment advisors as it, in its sole discretion, has deemed necessary or appropriate in connection with its receipt of the Payment Shares.

6. Additional Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Company. The Company hereby represents, warrants and covenants to Ingalls as follows:

(a) As of the Closing, the Payment Shares will be duly authorized and, when issued and delivered to Ingalls in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Payment Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and will not have been issued in violation of or subject to any preemptive or similar rights created under the Company’s certificate of incorporation (as amended to the date of the Closing) or under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

(b) The execution and delivery of this Agreement, the issuance of the Payment Shares and the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of the property or assets of the Company pursuant to the terms of (i) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease, license or other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company is subject, (ii) the organizational documents of the Company, or (iii) any statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties that, in each case of clauses (i) and (iii), would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, including the issuance and sale of the Payment Shares.

(c) Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of Ingalls set forth herein, the Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority, self-regulatory organization or other person in connection with the issuance of the Payment Shares pursuant to this Agreement, other than (i) filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and (ii) filings required by applicable state securities laws.

 

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(d) As of their respective dates, all reports required to be filed by the Company with the SEC (the “SEC Reports”) complied in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, year-end audit adjustments.

(e) As of the date hereof, the issued and outstanding shares of the Company are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act, and are listed for trading on Nasdaq under the symbol “IGNY” (it being understood that the trading symbol and the national securities exchange will be changed in connection with the Business Combination). There is no suit, action, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company by Nasdaq or the SEC, respectively, to prohibit or terminate the listing of the Company’s Shares on the Nasdaq or to deregister the Shares under the Exchange Act. The Company has taken no action that is designed to terminate the registration of the Shares under the Exchange Act.

(f) Assuming the accuracy of Ingalls’s representations and warranties set forth in Section 5 of this Agreement, no registration under the Securities Act is required for the offer and sale of the Payment Shares by the Company to Ingalls.

(g) Neither the Company nor any person acting on its behalf has engaged or will engage in any form of general solicitation or general advertising (within the meaning of Regulation D) in violation of the Securities Act in connection with any offer or sale of the Payment Shares.

(h) No broker or finder is entitled to any brokerage or finder’s fee or commission from the Company solely in connection with the issuance of the Payment Shares to Ingalls.

(i) As of the date hereof, except for such matters as have not had a material adverse effect on the Company, the Company is in compliance with all state and federal laws applicable to the conduct of its business. The Company has not received any written, or to its knowledge, other communication from a governmental entity that alleges that the Company is not in compliance with or is in default or violation of any applicable law, except where such non-compliance, default or violation would not be reasonably likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the Company. Except for such matters as have not had and would not be reasonably likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the Company, as of the date hereof there is no (i) action, lawsuit, claim or other proceeding, in each case by or before any governmental authority pending, or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or (ii) judgment, decree, injunction, ruling or order of any governmental entity or arbitrator outstanding against the Company.

7. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, exclusive of the choice-of-law principles thereof.

8. Exclusive Jurisdiction. The Parties agree that any dispute, claim or controversy directly or indirectly relating to or arising out of this Agreement shall be commenced in the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York located in the City and County of New York or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the adjudication of such matters and shall decide the merits of each claim on the basis of the internal laws of the State of New York without regard to principles of conflicts of law. The Parties agree and consent to personal jurisdiction, service of process and venue of such courts, waive all right to trial by jury for any claim and agree not to assert the defense of forum non conveniens. The Parties also agree that service of process may be effected through next-day delivery using a nationally- recognized overnight courier or personally delivered to the Parties. The Parties further agree that a final non-appealable judgment in respect of any claim brought in any such court shall be binding and may be enforced in any other court having jurisdiction over the party against whom the judgment is sought to be enforced.

 

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9. Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY TO THIS PAYMENT AGREEMENT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHTS TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION BROUGHT TO RESOLVE ANY DISPUTE BETWEEN OR AMONG ANY OF THE PARTIES (WHETHER ARISING IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF, CONNECTED WITH, RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THIS PAYMENT AGREEMENT, THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS PAYMENT AGREEMENT AND/OR THE RELATIONSHIPS ESTABLISHED AMONG THE PARTIES UNDER THIS PAYMENT AGREEMENT. THE PARTIES FURTHER WARRANT AND REPRESENT THAT EACH HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH SUCH PARTY’S LEGAL COUNSEL, AND THAT EACH KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES SUCH PARTY’S JURY TRIAL RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL.

10. Entire Agreement. This Agreement reflects the complete understanding of the Parties and may not be amended orally.

11. Interpretation. The Parties acknowledge that this Agreement represents the combined efforts of negotiation and drafting of the Parties and their attorneys and that any ambiguity shall not be construed against any Party.

12. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, including by email or facsimile, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement.

13. No Modification. This Agreement shall not be modified or amended in any way except by a writing signed by all Parties hereto.

[Signatures only to follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above.

 

IGNYTE ACQUISITION CORP.
By:  

/s/ Steven Kaplan

Name: Steven Kaplan
Title: Chief Financial Officer
INGALLS & SNYDER, LLC
By:  

/s/ Frank Stolba

Name: Frank Stolba
Title: Managing Director

Exhibit 10.4

Form of Amended and Restated Warrant Agreement

AMENDED AND RESTATED WARRANT AGREEMENT

This AMENDED AND RESTATED WARRANT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made as of October 31, 2022 between Ignyte Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation, with offices at 640 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, New York 10019 (“Company”), and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York limited purpose trust company, with offices at 1 State Street, New York, New York 10004, as warrant agent (“Warrant Agent”).

WHEREAS, on February 1, 2021, the Company completed a public offering (“Public Offering”) of 5,750,000 units (including 750,000 units which were issued pursuant to an overallotment option granted to the underwriters of the Public Offering), each unit (“Unit”) comprised of one share of common stock of the Company, par value $.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), and one-half of one warrant, where each whole warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of Common Stock at a price of $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment as described herein, and, in connection therewith, issued and delivered up to 2,875,000 whole warrants (the “Public Warrants”) to the public investors in connection with the Public Offering;

WHEREAS, the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Registration Statement on Form S-1, No. 333-252011 (“Registration Statement”) and prospectus (“Prospectus”), for the registration, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“Act”) of, among other securities, the Public Warrants;

WHEREAS, the Company received binding commitments from the Company’s initial stockholder to purchase up to an aggregate of 2,500,000 warrants (including 150,000 purchased upon exercise in full of the underwriters’ overallotment option) (the “Private Warrants”) upon consummation of the Public Offering;

WHEREAS, the Company may issue up to an additional 1,500,000 warrants (“Working Capital Warrants”) in satisfaction of certain working capital loans made by the Company’s officers, directors, initial stockholders and their affiliates;

WHEREAS, following consummation of the Public Offering, the Company may issue additional warrants (“Post IPO Warrants” and together with the Public Warrants, Private Warrants, and Working Capital Warrants, the “Initial Warrants”) in connection with, or following the consummation by the Company of, a Business Combination (defined below);

WHEREAS, the Company and Warrant Agent entered into that certain Warrant Agreement, dated as of January 27, 2021 (the “Original Warrant Agreement”), which provides for the form and provisions of the Initial Warrants, the terms upon which they shall be issued and exercised, and the respective rights, limitations of rights, and immunities of the Company, the Warrant Agent and the holders of the Initial Warrants;

WHEREAS, the Company has entered into that certain business combination agreement, dated as of April 28, 2022 (as amended, restated, or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its terms), with Ignyte Korea Co., Ltd., a corporation organized under the laws of the Republic of Korea, and Peak Bio Co., Ltd., a corporation organized under the laws of the Republic of Korea, pursuant to which the parties thereto shall, among other things, consummate the Business Combination;

WHEREAS, the Company has entered into subscription agreements, dated as of April 28, 2022, as amended on October [•], 2022 (the “Subscription Agreements”) with certain investors (the “Investors”), pursuant to which the Investors have agreed to subscribe for and purchase, and the Company has agreed to issue and sell to the Investors, effective as of immediately prior to the effective time of the Business Combination, (a) an aggregate of [•] shares of Common Stock, and (b) warrants to purchase an aggregate of [•] shares of Common Stock for an exercise price of $0.01 per share of Common Stock (the “PIPE Financing Warrants” and, together with the Initial Warrants, the “Warrants”);


WHEREAS, each Initial Warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one share of Common Stock for $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment as described herein;

WHEREAS, each PIPE Financing Warrant will upon its issuance pursuant to the Subscription Agreements entitle the holder thereof to purchase one share of Common Stock for $0.01 per share, subject to adjustment as described herein;

WHEREAS, the Company desires the Warrant Agent to act on behalf of the Company, and the Warrant Agent is willing to so act, in connection with the issuance, registration, transfer, exchange, redemption, and exercise of the Warrants;

WHEREAS, the Company desires to provide for the form and provisions of the Initial Warrants and the PIPE Financing Warrants, the terms upon which they shall be issued and exercised, and the respective rights, limitation of rights, and immunities of the Company, the Warrant Agent, and the holders of the Warrants;

WHEREAS, in connection with the foregoing, the Company and the Warrant Agent desire to amend and restate the Original Warrant Agreement in the form of this Agreement, in accordance with Section 9.8 of the Original Warrant Agreement, such that this Agreement will take effect and supersede the Original Warrant Agreement in its entirety as of immediately prior to the effective time of the Business Combination (concurrently with the issuance of the PIPE Financing Warrants); and

WHEREAS, all acts and things have been done and performed which are necessary to make the Warrants, when executed on behalf of the Company and countersigned by or on behalf of the Warrant Agent, as provided herein, the valid, binding, and legal obligations of the Company, and to authorize the execution and delivery of this Agreement.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:

1. Appointment of Warrant Agent. The Company hereby appoints the Warrant Agent to act as agent for the Company for the Warrants, and the Warrant Agent hereby accepts such appointment and agrees to perform the same in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.

2. Warrants.

2.1. Form of Warrant. Each Initial Warrant and PIPE Financing Warrant shall be issued in registered form only, shall be in substantially the form of Exhibit A and Exhibit B, respectively, hereto, the provisions of which are incorporated herein and shall be signed by, or bear the facsimile signature of, the Chairman of the Board of Directors or Chief Executive Officer and Treasurer, Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Company and shall bear a facsimile of the Company’s seal. In the event the person whose facsimile signature has been placed upon any Warrant shall have ceased to serve in the capacity in which such person signed the Warrant before such Warrant is issued, it may be issued with the same effect as if he or she had not ceased to be such at the date of issuance.

2.2. Uncertificated Warrants. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Warrant, or portion thereof, may be issued as part of, and be represented by, a Unit, and any Warrant may be issued in uncertificated or book-entry form through the Warrant Agent and/or the facilities of The Depository Trust Company (the “Depositary”) or other book-entry depositary system, in each case as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company or by an authorized committee thereof. Any Warrant so issued shall have the same terms, force and effect as a certificated Warrant that has been duly countersigned by the Warrant Agent in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

2.3. Effect of Countersignature. Except with respect to uncertificated Warrants as described above, unless and until countersigned by the Warrant Agent pursuant to this Agreement, a Warrant shall be invalid and of no effect and may not be exercised by the holder thereof.

2.4. Registration.


2.4.1. Warrant Register. The Warrant Agent shall maintain books (“Warrant Register”) for the registration of original issuance and the registration of transfer of the Warrants. Upon the initial issuance of the Warrants, the Warrant Agent shall issue and register the Warrants in the names of the respective holders thereof in such denominations and otherwise in accordance with instructions delivered to the Warrant Agent by the Company.

2.4.2. Registered Holder. Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of any Warrant, the Company and the Warrant Agent may deem and treat the person in whose name such Warrant is then registered in the Warrant Register (“registered holder”) as the absolute owner of such Warrant and of each Warrant represented thereby (notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing on the Warrant certificate made by anyone other than the Company or the Warrant Agent), for the purpose of any exercise thereof, and for all other purposes, and neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

2.5. Detachability of Warrants. The securities comprising the Units trade separately.

2.6. Private Warrant and Working Capital Warrant Attributes. The Private Warrants and Working Capital Warrants will be identical to the Public Warrants, except that such Warrants (i) in accordance with Section 6.4 hereof, will not be redeemable by the Company and (ii) may be exercised for cash or on a cashless basis at the holder’s option, in either case as long as they are held by the initial purchasers or their Permitted Transferees (as defined in Section 5.6 hereof). Once a Private Warrant or Working Capital Warrant is transferred to a holder other than an Permitted Transferee, it shall be treated as a Public Warrant hereunder for all purposes.

2.7. Post IPO Warrants. The Post IPO Warrants, when and if issued, shall have the same terms and be in the same form as the Public Warrants except as may be agreed upon by the Company.

3. Terms and Exercise of Warrants

3.1. Warrant Price. Each whole Initial Warrant or PIPE Financing Warrant shall, when countersigned by the Warrant Agent (except with respect to uncertificated Warrants), entitle the registered holder thereof, subject to the provisions of such Warrant and of this Agreement, to purchase from the Company the number of shares of Common Stock stated therein, at the price of $11.50 or $0.01 per share, respectively, subject to the adjustments provided in Section 4 hereof and in the last sentence of this Section 3.1. The term “Warrant Price” as used in this Agreement refers to the price per share at which the shares of Common Stock may be purchased at the time a Warrant is exercised. The Company in its sole discretion may lower the Warrant Price at any time prior to the Expiration Date (as defined below) for a period of not less than twenty (20) business days (a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or federal holiday, on which banks in New York City are generally open for normal business, each a “Business Day”) Business Days; provided, that the Company shall provide at least twenty (20) days’ prior written notice of such reduction to registered holders of the Warrants and, provided further that any such reduction shall be applied consistently to all of the Warrants.

3.2. Duration of Warrants.

3.2.1. Initial Warrants. An Initial Warrant may be exercised only during the period commencing on the date that is thirty (30) days after the consummation by the Company of a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (“Business Combination”) (as described more fully in the Registration Statement) and terminating at 5:00 p.m., New York City time on the earlier to occur of (i) the date that is five (5) years after the date on which the Company consummates a Business Combination, (ii) other than with respect to the Private Warrants and the Working Capital Warrants to the extent then held by the initial purchasers thereof or their respective Permitted Transferees, with respect to a redemption pursuant to Section 6.1 (an “Inapplicable Redemption”), at 5:00 p.m., New York City time on the Redemption Date as provided in Section 6.2 of this Agreement and (iii) the liquidation of the Trust Account (defined below) (“Expiration Date”). The period of time from the date the Initial Warrants will first become exercisable until the expiration of the Initial Warrants shall hereafter be referred to as the “Initial Warrant Exercise Period.” Except with respect to the right to receive the Redemption Price (as set forth in Section 6 hereunder), as applicable, each outstanding Warrant (other than a Private Warrant or Working Capital Warrant in the event of an Inapplicable Redemption) not exercised on or before the Expiration Date shall become void, and all rights thereunder and all rights in respect thereof under this Agreement shall cease at the close of business on the


Expiration Date. The Company in its sole discretion may extend the duration of the Warrants by delaying the Expiration Date; provided, however, that the Company will provide at least twenty (20) days’ prior written notice of any such extension to registered holders and, provided further that any such extension shall be applied consistently to all of the Warrants.

3.3.2. PIPE Financing Warrants. A PIPE Financing Warrant may be exercised only during the period commencing on the date that is thirty (30) days after the consummation by the Company of a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (“Business Combination”) (as described more fully in the Registration Statement) and terminating at 5:00 p.m., New York City time on the earlier to occur of (i) the date that is one (1) year after the date on which the Company consummates a Business Combination and (ii) the liquidation of the Trust Account. The period of time from the date the PIPE Financing Warrants will first become exercisable until the expiration of the Pipe Financing Warrants shall hereafter be referred to as the “PIPE Financing Warrant Exercise Period.”

3.3. Exercise of Warrants.

3.3.1. Payment. Subject to the provisions of the Warrant and this Agreement, a Warrant, when countersigned by the Warrant Agent, may be exercised by the registered holder thereof by surrendering it, at the office of the Warrant Agent, or at the office of its successor as Warrant Agent, in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, with the subscription form, as set forth in the Warrant, duly executed, and by paying in full the Warrant Price for each share of Common Stock as to which the Warrant is exercised and any and all applicable taxes due in connection with the exercise of the Warrant, as follows:

(a) in lawful money of the United States, by good certified check or good bank draft payable to the order of the Warrant Agent or wire transfer;

(b) in the event of a redemption pursuant to Section 6.1 hereof in which the Company’s management has elected to force all holders of Warrants to exercise such Warrants on a “cashless basis,” by surrendering the Warrants for that number of shares of Common Stock equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product of the number of shares of Common Stock underlying the Warrants, multiplied by the difference between the Warrant Price and the “Fair Market Value” (defined below) by (y) the Fair Market Value. Solely for purposes of this Section 3.3.1(b), the “Fair Market Value” shall mean the average reported closing price of the Common Stock for the five (5) trading days (any day on which the Common Stock is traded on a national securities exchange or quoted for trading on one or more OTC Markets) ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which the notice of redemption is sent to holders of the Warrants pursuant to Section 6 hereof; or

(c) with respect to any Private Warrants or Working Capital Warrants, so long as such Private Warrants or Working Capital Warrants are held by the initial purchasers or their permitted transferees, by surrendering such Private Warrants or Working Capital Warrants for that number of shares of Common Stock equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product of the number of shares of Common Stock underlying the Warrants, multiplied by the difference between the exercise price of the Warrants and the “Fair Market Value” by (y) the Fair Market Value; provided, however, that no cashless exercise shall be permitted unless the Fair Market Value is equal to or higher than the exercise price. Solely for purposes of this Section 3.3.1(c), the “Fair Market Value” shall mean the average reported closing price of the Common Stock for the five (5) trading days ending on the third trading day prior to the date of exercise; or

(d) in the event the registration statement required by Section 7.4 hereof is not effective and current within ninety (90) days after the closing of a Business Combination, by surrendering such Warrants for that number of shares of Common Stock equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product of the number of shares of Common Stock underlying the Warrants, multiplied by the difference between the exercise price of the Warrants and the “Fair Market Value” by (y) the Fair Market Value; provided, however, that no cashless exercise shall be permitted unless the Fair Market Value is equal to or higher than the exercise price. Solely for purposes of this Section 3.3.1(d), the “Fair Market Value” shall mean the average reported last sale price of the Common Stock for the five (5) trading days ending on the trading day prior to the date of exercise.


3.3.2. Issuance of Shares of Common Stock. As soon as practicable after the exercise of any Warrant and the clearance of the funds in payment of the Warrant Price (if any), the Company shall issue to the registered holder of such Warrant a certificate or certificates, or book entry position, for the number of shares of Common Stock to which he, she or it is entitled, registered in such name or names as may be directed by him, her or it, and if such Warrant shall not have been exercised in full, a new countersigned Warrant, or book entry position, for the number of shares as to which such Warrant shall not have been exercised. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event will the Company be required to net cash settle the exercise of a Public Warrant or PIPE Financing Warrant. No Public Warrant or PIPE Financing Warrant shall be exercisable for cash and the Company shall not be obligated to issue shares of Common Stock upon exercise of a Public Warrant or PIPE Financing Warrant unless the Common Stock issuable upon such Public Warrant or PIPE Financing Warrant exercise has been registered, qualified or deemed to be exempt under the securities laws of the state of residence of the registered holder of such Public Warrant or PIPE Financing Warrant. In the event that the condition in the immediately preceding sentence is not satisfied with respect to a Public Warrant or PIPE Financing Warrant, the holder of such Public Warrant or PIPE Financing Warrant shall not be entitled to exercise such Public Warrant or PIPE Financing Warrant for cash and such Public Warrant or PIPE Financing Warrant may have no value and expire worthless, in which case the purchaser of a Unit containing such Public Warrant or PIPE Financing Warrant shall have paid the full purchase price for the Unit solely for the shares of Common Stock underlying such Unit. Warrants may not be exercised by, or securities issued to, any registered holder in any state in which such exercise or issuance would be unlawful.

3.3.3. Valid Issuance. All shares of Common Stock issued upon the proper exercise of a Warrant in conformity with this Agreement shall be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

3.3.4. Date of Issuance. Each person in whose name any book entry position or certificate for shares of Common Stock is issued shall for all purposes be deemed to have become the holder of record of such shares on the date on which the Warrant, or book entry position representing such Warrant, was surrendered and payment of the Warrant Price was made, irrespective of the date of delivery of such certificate, except that, if the date of such surrender and payment is a date when the share transfer books of the Company or book entry system of the Warrant Agent are closed, such person shall be deemed to have become the holder of such shares at the close of business on the next succeeding date on which the share transfer books or book entry system are open.

3.3.5 Maximum Percentage. A holder of a Warrant may notify the Company in writing in the event it elects to be subject to the provisions contained in this subsection 3.3.5; however, no holder of a Warrant shall be subject to this subsection 3.3.5 unless he, she or it makes such election. If the election is made by a holder, the Warrant Agent shall not cause the exercise of the holder’s Warrant, and such holder shall not have the right to exercise such Warrant, to the extent that after giving effect to such exercise, such person (together with such person’s affiliates), to the Warrant Agent’s actual knowledge, would beneficially own in excess of 9.8% (the “Maximum Percentage”) of the shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such exercise. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by such person and its affiliates shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrant with respect to which the determination of such sentence is being made, but shall exclude shares of Common Stock that would be issuable upon (x) exercise of the remaining, unexercised portion of the Warrant beneficially owned by such person and its affiliates and (y) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or unconverted portion of any other securities of the Company beneficially owned by such person and its affiliates (including, without limitation, any convertible notes or convertible preferred stock or warrants) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this paragraph, beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). For purposes of the Warrant, in determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, the holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (1) the Company’s most recent annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly report on Form 10-Q, current report on Form 8-K or other public filing with the SEC as the case may be, (2) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (3) any other notice by the Company or the Warrant Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding. For any reason at any time, upon the written request of the holder of the Warrant, the Company shall, within two (2) Business Days, confirm orally and in writing to such holder the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding. In any case, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of equity securities of the Company by the holder and its affiliates since the date as of which such number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported. By written notice to the Company, the holder of a Warrant may from time to time increase or decrease the Maximum Percentage applicable to such holder to any other percentage specified in such notice; provided, however, that any such increase shall not be effective until the sixty-first (61st) day after such notice is delivered to the Company.


4. Adjustments.

4.1. Stock Dividends; Split Ups. If after the date hereof, and subject to the provisions of Section 4.6 below, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock is increased by a stock dividend payable in shares of Common Stock, or by a split up of shares of Common Stock, or other similar event, then, on the effective date of such stock dividend, split up or similar event, the number of shares of Common Stock issuable on exercise of each Warrant shall be increased in proportion to such increase in outstanding shares of Common Stock.

4.2. Aggregation of Shares. If after the date hereof, and subject to the provisions of Section 4.8 hereof, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock is decreased by a consolidation, combination, reverse stock split or reclassification of shares of Common Stock or other similar event, then, on the effective date of such consolidation, combination, reverse stock split, reclassification or similar event, the number of shares of Common Stock issuable on exercise of each Warrant shall be decreased in proportion to such decrease in outstanding shares of Common Stock.

4.3 Extraordinary Dividends. If the Company, at any time while the Warrants are outstanding and unexpired, shall pay a dividend or make a distribution in cash, securities or other assets to the holders of the shares of Common Stock or other shares of the Company’s capital stock into which the Warrants are convertible (an “Extraordinary Dividend”), then the Warrant Price shall be decreased, effective immediately after the effective date of such Extraordinary Dividend, by the amount of cash and the fair market value (as determined by the Company’s Board of Directors, in good faith) of any securities or other assets paid in respect of such Extraordinary Dividend divided by all outstanding shares of the Company at such time (whether or not any shareholders waived their right to receive such dividend); provided, however, that none of the following shall be deemed an Extraordinary Dividend for purposes of this provision: (a) any adjustment described in subsection 4.1 above, (b) any cash dividends or cash distributions which, when combined on a per share basis with all other cash dividends and cash distributions paid on the Common Stock during the 365-day period ending on the date of declaration of such dividend or distribution does not exceed $0.50 per share (taking into account all of the outstanding shares of the Company at such time (whether or not any shareholders waived their right to receive such dividend) and as adjusted to appropriately reflect any of the events referred to in other subsections of this Section 4 and excluding cash dividends or cash distributions that resulted in an adjustment to the Warrant Price or to the number of shares of Common Stock issuable on exercise of each Warrant) but only with respect to the amount of the aggregate cash dividends or cash distributions equal to or less than $0.50, (c) any payment to satisfy the conversion rights of the holders of the shares of Common Stock in connection with a proposed initial Business Combination or certain amendments to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (as described in the Registration Statement) or (d) any payment in connection with the Company’s liquidation and the distribution of its assets upon its failure to consummate a Business Combination. Solely for purposes of illustration, if the Company, at a time while the Warrants are outstanding and unexpired, pays a cash dividend of $0.35 and previously paid an aggregate of $0.40 of cash dividends and cash distributions on the Common Stock during the 365-day period ending on the date of declaration of such $0.35 dividend, then the Warrant Price will be decreased, effectively immediately after the effective date of such $0.35 dividend, by $0.25 (the absolute value of the difference between $0.75 (the aggregate amount of all cash dividends and cash distributions paid or made in such 365-day period, including such $0.35 dividend) and $0.50 (the greater of (x) $0.50 and (y) the aggregate amount of all cash dividends and cash distributions paid or made in such 365-day period prior to such $0.35 dividend)). Furthermore, solely for the purposes of illustration, if following the closing of the Company’s initial Business Combination, there were 100,000,000 shares outstanding and the Company paid a $1.00 dividend to 17,500,000 of such shares (with the remaining 82,500,000 shares waiving their right to receive such dividend), then no adjustment to the Warrant Price would occur as a $17.5 million dividend payment divided by 100,000,000 shares equals $0.175 per share which is less than $0.50 per share.

4.4 Adjustments in Exercise Price. Whenever the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable upon the exercise of the Warrants is adjusted, as provided in Sections 4.1 and 4.2 above, the Warrant Price shall be adjusted (to the nearest cent) by multiplying such Warrant Price immediately prior to such adjustment by a fraction (x) the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable upon the exercise of the Warrants immediately prior to such adjustment, and (y) the denominator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock so purchasable immediately thereafter.

 


4.5. Replacement of Securities upon Reorganization, etc. In case of any reclassification or reorganization of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (other than a change covered by Section 4.1, 4.2 or 4.3 hereof or that solely affects the par value of the Common Stock), or in the case of any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another corporation (other than a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing corporation and that does not result in any reclassification or reorganization of the outstanding Common Stock), or in the case of any sale or conveyance to another corporation or entity of the assets or other property of the Company as an entirety or substantially as an entirety in connection with which the Company is dissolved, the Warrant holders shall thereafter have the right to purchase and receive, upon the basis and upon the terms and conditions specified in the Warrants and in lieu of the shares of Common Stock of the Company immediately theretofore purchasable and receivable upon the exercise of the rights represented thereby, the kind and amount of shares of stock or other securities or property (including cash) receivable upon such reclassification, reorganization, merger or consolidation, or upon a dissolution following any such sale or transfer, that the Warrant holder would have received if such Warrant holder had exercised his, her or its Warrant(s) immediately prior to such event. If any reclassification also results in a change in the Common Stock covered by Section 4.1, 4.2 or 4.3, then such adjustment shall be made pursuant to Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and this Section 4.5. The provisions of this Section 4.5 shall similarly apply to successive reclassifications, reorganizations, mergers or consolidations, sales or other transfers. In no event will the Warrant Price be reduced to less than the par value per share issuable upon exercise of the Warrant.

4.6. Issuance in connection with a Business Combination. If, in connection with a Business Combination, the Company (a) issues additional shares of Common Stock or equity-linked securities at an issue price or effective issue price of less than $9.20 per share (with such issue price or effective issue price as determined by the Company’s Board of Directors, in good faith, and in the case of any such issuance to the Company’s initial stockholders, or their affiliates, without taking into account any founders’ shares held by them prior to such issuance), (b) the aggregate gross proceeds from such issuances represent more than 60% of the total equity proceeds, and interest thereon, available for the funding of the Business Combination on the date of the consummation of such Business Combination (net of redemptions), and (c) the Fair Market Value (as defined below) is below $9.20 per share, the exercise price of the warrants will be adjusted (to the nearest cent) to be equal to 115% of the greater of (i) the Fair Market Value or (ii) the price at which the Company issues the Common Stock or equity-linked securities. Solely for purposes of this Section 4.6, the “Fair Market Value” shall mean the volume weighted average reported trading price of the Common Stock for the twenty (20) trading days starting on the trading day prior to the date of the consummation of the Business Combination.

4.7 Notices of Changes in Warrant. Upon every adjustment of the Warrant Price or the number of shares issuable upon exercise of a Warrant, the Company shall give written notice thereof to the Warrant Agent, which notice shall state the Warrant Price resulting from such adjustment and the increase or decrease, if any, in the number of shares purchasable at such price upon the exercise of a Warrant, setting forth in reasonable detail the method of calculation and the facts upon which such calculation is based. Upon the occurrence of any event specified in Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, or 4.6, then, in any such event, the Company shall give written notice to each Warrant holder, at the last address set forth for such holder in the Warrant Register, of the record date or the effective date of the event. Failure to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of such event.

4.8. No Fractional Warrants or Shares. Notwithstanding any provision contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company shall not issue fractional shares upon exercise of Warrants. If, by reason of any adjustment made pursuant to this Section 4, the holder of any Warrant would be entitled, upon the exercise of such Warrant, to receive a fractional interest in a share, the Company shall, upon such exercise, round up to the nearest whole number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to the Warrant holder.

4.9. Form of Warrant. The form of Warrant need not be changed because of any adjustment pursuant to this Section 4, and Warrants issued after such adjustment may state the same Warrant Price and the same number of shares as is stated in the Warrants initially issued pursuant to this Agreement. However, the Company may at any time in its sole discretion make any change in the form of Warrant that the Company may deem appropriate and that does not affect the substance thereof, and any Warrant thereafter issued or countersigned, whether in exchange or substitution for an outstanding Warrant or otherwise, may be in the form as so changed.


4.10 Other Events. In case any event shall occur affecting the Company as to which none of the provisions of preceding subsections of this Section 4 are strictly applicable, but which would require an adjustment to the terms of the Warrants in order to (i) avoid an adverse impact on the Warrants and (ii) effectuate the intent and purpose of this Section 4, then, in each such case, the Company shall appoint a firm of independent public accountants, investment banking or other appraisal firm of recognized national standing, which shall give its opinion as to whether or not any adjustment to the rights represented by the Warrants is necessary to effectuate the intent and purpose of this Section 4 and, if they determine that an adjustment is necessary, the terms of such adjustment. The Company shall adjust the terms of the Warrants in a manner that is consistent with any adjustment recommended in such opinion.

5. Transfer and Exchange of Warrants.

5.1. Registration of Transfer. The Warrant Agent shall register the transfer, from time to time, of any outstanding Warrant upon the Warrant Register, upon surrender of such Warrant for transfer, properly endorsed with signatures, in the case of certificated Warrants, properly guaranteed and accompanied by appropriate instructions for transfer. Upon any such transfer, a new Warrant representing an equal aggregate number of Warrants shall be issued and the old Warrant shall be cancelled by the Warrant Agent. In the case of certificated Warrants, the Warrants so cancelled shall be delivered by the Warrant Agent to the Company from time to time upon request.

5.2. Procedure for Surrender of Warrants. Warrants may be surrendered to the Warrant Agent, either in certificated form or in book entry position, together with a written request for exchange or transfer, and thereupon the Warrant Agent shall issue in exchange therefor one or more new Warrants, or book entry positions, as requested by the registered holder of the Warrants so surrendered, representing an equal aggregate number of Warrants; provided, however, that in the event that a Warrant surrendered for transfer bears a restrictive legend, the Warrant Agent shall not cancel such Warrant and issue new Warrants in exchange therefor until the Warrant Agent has received an opinion of counsel for the Company stating that such transfer may be made and indicating whether the new Warrants must also bear a restrictive legend.

5.3. Fractional Warrants. The Warrant Agent shall not be required to effect any registration of transfer or exchange which will result in the issuance of a warrant certificate or book-entry position for a fraction of a Warrant.

5.4. Service Charges. No service charge shall be made for any exchange or registration of transfer of Warrants.

5.5. Warrant Execution and Countersignature. The Warrant Agent is hereby authorized to countersign and to deliver, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Warrants required to be issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5, and the Company, whenever required by the Warrant Agent, will supply the Warrant Agent with Warrants duly executed on behalf of the Company for such purpose.

5.6. Private Warrants and Working Capital Warrants. The Warrant Agent shall not register any transfer of Private Warrants or Working Capital Warrants until after the consummation by the Company of an initial Business Combination, except for transfers (i) among the initial stockholders or to the initial stockholders’ or the Company’s officers, directors, consultants or their affiliates, (ii) to a holder’s stockholders or members upon the holder’s liquidation, in each case if the holder is an entity, (iii) by bona fide gift to a member of the holder’s immediate family or to a trust, the beneficiary of which is the holder or a member of the holder’s immediate family, in each case for estate planning purposes, (iv) by virtue of the laws of descent and distribution upon death, (v) pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order, (vi) to the Company for no value for cancellation in connection with the consummation of a Business Combination, (vii) in connection with the consummation of a Business Combination by private sales at prices no greater than the price at which the Private Warrants were originally purchased, (viii) in the event of the Company’s liquidation prior to its consummation of an initial Business Combination or (ix) in the event that, subsequent to the consummation of an initial Business Combination, the Company completes a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction which results in all of the Company’s stockholders having the right to exchange their Common Stock for cash, securities or other property, in each case (except for clauses (vi), (viii) or (ix) or with the Company’s prior written consent) on the condition that prior to such registration for transfer, the Warrant Agent shall be presented with written documentation pursuant to which each transferee or the trustee or legal guardian for such transferee agrees to be bound by the transfer restrictions contained in this section and any other applicable agreement the transferor is bound by.


5.7. Transfer of PIPE Financing Warrants to Affiliates. The Investors shall be permitted to transfer the PIPE Financing Warrants to their respective affiliates so long as such affiliates have entered into a written agreement with the Company agreeing to comply with any applicable transfer restrictions under federal and state securities laws in accordance with the provisions of the Subscription Agreements and this Agreement.

5.8 Transfer of Warrants. Each transfer of a Unit on the register relating to such Units shall operate also to transfer the Warrants included in such Unit. This Section 5.8 shall only apply to the Public Warrants, as they were issued in conjunction with Units.

6. Redemption.

6.1. Redemption. Subject to Section 6.4 and Section 6.5 hereof, not less than all of the outstanding Initial Warrants may be redeemed, at the option of the Company, at any time during the Initial Warrant Exercise Period, at the office of the Warrant Agent, upon the notice referred to in Section 6.2, at the price of $0.01 per Warrant (“Redemption Price”), provided that the closing price of the Common Stock equals or exceeds $18.00 per share (subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 4 hereof), on each of twenty (20) trading days within any thirty (30) trading day period commencing after the Initial Warrants become exercisable and ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which notice of redemption is given and provided that there is an effective registration statement covering the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Initial Warrants, and a current prospectus relating thereto, available throughout the 30-day redemption or the Company has elected to require the exercise of the Initial Warrants on a “cashless basis” pursuant to subsection 3.3.1(b); provided, however, that if and when the Public Warrants become redeemable by the Company, the Company may not exercise such redemption right if the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of the Public Warrants is not exempt from registration or qualification under applicable state blue sky laws or the Company is unable to effect such registration or qualification.

6.2. Date Fixed for, and Notice of, Redemption. In the event the Company shall elect to redeem all of the Warrants that are subject to redemption, the Company shall fix a date for the redemption (the “Redemption Date”). Notice of redemption shall be mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, by the Company not less than thirty (30) days prior to the Redemption Date to the registered holders of the Warrants to be redeemed at their last addresses as they shall appear on the registration books. Any notice mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given whether or not the registered holder received such notice.

6.3. Exercise After Notice of Redemption. The Public Warrants may be exercised, for cash (or on a “cashless basis” in accordance with Section 3 of this Agreement) at any time after notice of redemption shall have been given by the Company pursuant to Section 6.2 hereof and prior to the Redemption Date. In the event the Company determines to require all holders of Public Warrants to exercise their Warrants on a “cashless basis” pursuant to Section 3.3.1(b), the notice of redemption will contain the information necessary to calculate the number of shares of Common Stock to be received upon exercise of the Warrants, including the “Fair Market Value” in such case. On and after the Redemption Date, the record holder of the Warrants shall have no further rights except to receive, upon surrender of the Warrants, the Redemption Price.

6.4 Exclusion of Certain Warrants. The Company agrees that the redemption rights provided in this Section 6 shall not apply to (i) the Private Warrants and Working Capital Warrants if at the time of the redemption such Private Warrants or Working Capital Warrants continue to be held by the initial purchasers or their Permitted Transferees or (ii) Post IPO Warrants if such warrants provide that they are non-redeemable by the Company. However, with respect to the Private Warrants or Working Capital Warrants, once such Private Warrants or Working Capital Warrants are transferred (other than to Permitted Transferees under Section 5.6), the Company may redeem the Private Warrants and Working Capital Warrants in the same manner as the Public Warrants.

6.5 Exclusion of PIPE Financing Warrants. The Company agrees that the redemption rights provided in this Section 6 shall not apply to the PIPE Financing Warrants.


7. Other Provisions Relating to Rights of Holders of Warrants.

7.1. No Rights as Stockholder. A Warrant does not entitle the registered holder thereof to any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to receive dividends, or other distributions, exercise any preemptive rights to vote or to consent or to receive notice as stockholders in respect of the meetings of stockholders or the election of directors of the Company or any other matter.

7.2. Lost, Stolen, Mutilated, or Destroyed Warrants. If any Warrant is lost, stolen, mutilated, or destroyed, the Company and the Warrant Agent may on such terms as to indemnity or otherwise as they may in their discretion impose (which shall, in the case of a mutilated Warrant, include the surrender thereof), issue a new Warrant of like denomination, tenor, and date as the Warrant so lost, stolen, mutilated, or destroyed. Any such new Warrant shall constitute a substitute contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the allegedly lost, stolen, mutilated, or destroyed Warrant shall be at any time enforceable by anyone.

7.3. Reservation of Shares of Common Stock. The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available a number of its authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock that will be sufficient to permit the exercise in full of all outstanding Warrants issued pursuant to this Agreement.

7.4. Registration of Shares of Common Stock. The Company agrees that as soon as practicable after the closing of its initial Business Combination, it shall use its best efforts to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement for the registration, under the Act, of the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, and it shall use its best efforts to take such action as is necessary to register or qualify for sale, in those states in which the Warrants were initially offered by the Company and in those states where holders of Warrants then reside, the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, to the extent an exemption is not available. The Company will use its best efforts to cause the same to become effective and to maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement, and a current prospectus relating thereto, until the expiration of the Warrants in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. If any such registration statement has not been declared effective by the 90th day following the closing of the Business Combination, holders of the Warrants shall have the right, during the period beginning on the 91st day after the closing of the Business Combination and ending upon such registration statement being declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and during any other period when the Company shall fail to have maintained an effective registration statement covering the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, to exercise such Warrants on a “cashless basis” as determined in accordance with Section 3.3.1(d) hereof. The Company shall provide the Warrant Agent with an opinion of counsel for the Company (which shall be an outside law firm with securities law experience) stating that (i) the exercise of the Warrants on a cashless basis in accordance with this Section 7.4 is not required to be registered under the Act and (ii) the shares of Common Stock issued upon such exercise will be freely tradable under U.S. federal securities laws by anyone who is not an affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144 under the Act) of the Company and, accordingly, will not be required to bear a restrictive legend. For the avoidance of any doubt, unless and until all of the Warrants have been exercised on a cashless basis, the Company shall continue to be obligated to comply with its registration obligations under the first three sentences of this Section 7.4. The provisions of this Section 7.4 may not be modified, amended, or deleted without the prior written consent of the representative of the underwriters of the Public Offering (the “Representative”).

8. Concerning the Warrant Agent and Other Matters.

8.1. Payment of Taxes. The Company will from time to time promptly pay all taxes and charges that may be imposed upon the Company or the Warrant Agent in respect of the issuance or delivery of shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of Warrants, but the Company shall not be obligated to pay any transfer taxes in respect of the Warrants or such shares of Common Stock.

8.2. Resignation, Consolidation, or Merger of Warrant Agent.

8.2.1. Appointment of Successor Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent, or any successor to it hereafter appointed, may resign its duties and be discharged from all further duties and liabilities hereunder after giving sixty (60) days’ notice in writing to the Company. If the office of the Warrant Agent becomes vacant by resignation or incapacity to act or otherwise, the Company shall appoint in writing a successor Warrant Agent in place of the Warrant Agent. If the Company shall fail to make such appointment within a period of thirty (30) days after it has been notified in writing of such resignation or incapacity by the Warrant Agent or by the holder of the Warrant (who


shall, with such notice, submit his Warrant for inspection by the Company), then the holder of any Warrant may apply to the Supreme Court of the State of New York for the County of New York for the appointment of a successor Warrant Agent at the Company’s cost. Any successor Warrant Agent, whether appointed by the Company or by such court, shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, in good standing and having its principal office in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, and authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority. After appointment, any successor Warrant Agent shall be vested with all the authority, powers, rights, immunities, duties, and obligations of its predecessor Warrant Agent with like effect as if originally named as Warrant Agent hereunder, without any further act or deed; but if for any reason it becomes necessary or appropriate, the predecessor Warrant Agent shall execute and deliver, at the expense of the Company, an instrument transferring to such successor Warrant Agent all the authority, powers, and rights of such predecessor Warrant Agent hereunder; and upon request of any successor Warrant Agent the Company shall make, execute, acknowledge, and deliver any and all instruments in writing for more fully and effectually vesting in and confirming to such successor Warrant Agent all such authority, powers, rights, immunities, duties, and obligations.

8.2.2. Notice of Successor Warrant Agent. In the event a successor Warrant Agent shall be appointed, the Company shall give notice thereof to the predecessor Warrant Agent and the transfer agent for the shares of Common Stock not later than the effective date of any such appointment.

8.2.3. Merger or Consolidation of Warrant Agent. Any corporation into which the Warrant Agent may be merged or with which it may be consolidated or any corporation resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Warrant Agent shall be a party shall be the successor Warrant Agent under this Agreement without any further act.

8.3. Fees and Expenses of Warrant Agent.

8.3.1. Remuneration. The Company agrees to pay the Warrant Agent reasonable remuneration for its services as such Warrant Agent hereunder and will reimburse the Warrant Agent upon demand for all expenditures that the Warrant Agent may reasonably incur in the execution of its duties hereunder.

8.3.2. Further Assurances. The Company agrees to perform, execute, acknowledge, and deliver or cause to be performed, executed, acknowledged, and delivered all such further and other acts, instruments, and assurances as may reasonably be required by the Warrant Agent for the carrying out or performing of the provisions of this Agreement.

8.4. Liability of Warrant Agent.

8.4.1. Reliance on Company Statement. Whenever in the performance of its duties under this Agreement, the Warrant Agent shall deem it necessary or desirable that any fact or matter be proved or established by the Company prior to taking or suffering any action hereunder, such fact or matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by a statement signed by the Chief Executive Officer or Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company and delivered to the Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent may rely upon such statement for any action taken or suffered in good faith by it pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement.

8.4.2. Indemnity. The Warrant Agent shall be liable hereunder only for its own fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith. The Company agrees to indemnify the Warrant Agent and save it harmless against any and all liabilities, including judgments, costs and reasonable counsel fees, for anything done or omitted by the Warrant Agent in the execution of this Agreement except as a result of the Warrant Agent’s fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct, or bad faith.

8.4.3. Exclusions. The Warrant Agent shall have no responsibility with respect to the validity of this Agreement or with respect to the validity or execution of any Warrant (except its countersignature thereof); nor shall it be responsible for any breach by the Company of any covenant or condition contained in this Agreement or in any Warrant; nor shall it be responsible to make any adjustments required under the provisions of Section 4 hereof or


responsible for the manner, method, or amount of any such adjustment or the ascertaining of the existence of facts that would require any such adjustment; nor shall it by any act hereunder be deemed to make any representation or warranty as to the authorization or reservation of any shares of Common Stock to be issued pursuant to this Agreement or any Warrant or as to whether any shares of Common Stock will, when issued, be valid and fully paid and nonassessable.

8.5. Acceptance of Agency. The Warrant Agent hereby accepts the agency established by this Agreement and agrees to perform the same upon the terms and conditions herein set forth and among other things, shall account promptly to the Company with respect to Warrants exercised and concurrently account for, and pay to the Company, all monies received by the Warrant Agent for the purchase of shares of Common Stock through the exercise of Warrants.

9. Miscellaneous Provisions.

9.1. Successors. All the covenants and provisions of this Agreement by or for the benefit of the Company or the Warrant Agent shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns.

9.2. Notices. Any notice, statement or demand authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the Warrant Agent or by the holder of any Warrant to or on the Company shall be sufficiently given when so delivered if by hand or overnight delivery or if sent by certified mail or private courier service within five (5) days after deposit of such notice, postage prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed in writing by the Company with the Warrant Agent), as follows:

 

Ignyte Acquisition Corp.

640 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor

New York, NY 10019

Attn: David Rosenberg

Any notice, statement or demand authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the holder of any Warrant or by the Company to or on the Warrant Agent shall be sufficiently given when so delivered if by hand or overnight delivery or if sent by certified mail or private courier service within five days after deposit of such notice, postage prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed in writing by the Warrant Agent with the Company), as follows:

 

Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company
1 State Street
New York, New York 10004
Attn: Compliance Department

 

with a copy in each case to:

Graubard Miller
The Chrysler Building
405 Lexington Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, New York 10174
Attn: David Alan Miller, Esq.

 

and

DLA Piper LLP (US)
51 John F. Kennedy Parkway
Short Hills, NJ 07078
Attn: Scott A. Cowan, Esq.

 

and

EarlyBirdCapital, Inc.
366 Madison Avenue, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Attn: Steven Levine


9.3. Applicable Law. The validity, interpretation, and performance of this Agreement and of the Warrants shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to conflicts of law principles that would result in the application of the substantive laws of another jurisdiction. The Company hereby agrees that any action, proceeding or claim against it arising out of or relating in any way to this Agreement shall be brought and enforced in the courts of the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The Company hereby waives any objection that such courts represent an inconvenient forum. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this paragraph are not binding on holders of Warrants and will not apply to suits brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Act or the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the federal district courts of the United States of America are the sole and exclusive forum. Any process or summons to be served upon the Company may be served by transmitting a copy thereof by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, addressed to it at the address set forth in Section 9.2 hereof. Such mailing shall be deemed personal service and shall be legal and binding upon the Company in any action, proceeding or claim.

9.4. Persons Having Rights under this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement expressed and nothing that may be implied from any of the provisions hereof is intended, or shall be construed, to confer upon, or give to, any person or corporation other than the parties hereto and the registered holders of the Warrants and, for the purposes of Sections 7.4, 9.4 and 9.8 hereof, the Representative, any right, remedy, or claim under or by reason of this Warrant Agreement or of any covenant, condition, stipulation, promise, or agreement hereof. The Representative shall be deemed to be a third-party beneficiary of this Agreement with respect to Sections 7.4, 9.4 and 9.8 hereof. All covenants, conditions, stipulations, promises, and agreements contained in this Warrant Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto (and the Representative with respect to the Sections 7.4, 9.4 and 9.8 hereof) and their successors and assigns and of the registered holders of the Warrants.

9.5. Examination of the Warrant Agreement. A copy of this Agreement shall be available at all reasonable times at the office of the Warrant Agent in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, for inspection by the registered holder of any Warrant. The Warrant Agent may require any such holder to submit his Warrant for inspection by it.

9.6. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of original or facsimile counterparts and each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original, and all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

9.7. Effect of Headings. The section headings herein are for convenience only and are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the interpretation thereof.

9.8 Amendments. This Agreement may be amended by the parties hereto without the consent of any registered holder for the purpose of curing any ambiguity, or of curing, correcting or supplementing any defective provision contained herein or adding or changing any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Agreement as the parties may deem necessary or desirable and that the parties deem shall not adversely affect the interest of the registered holders. All other modifications or amendments, including any amendment to increase the Warrant Price or shorten the Initial Warrant Exercise Period or PIPE Financing Exercise Period, shall require the written consent or vote of the registered holders of (i) a majority of the then outstanding Public Warrants and/or PIPE Financing Warrants, as applicable, if such modification or amendment is being undertaken prior to, or in connection with, the consummation of a Business Combination or (ii) a majority of the then outstanding Warrants if such modification or amendment is being undertaken after the consummation of a Business Combination. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may lower the Warrant Price or extend the duration of the Initial Warrant Exercise Period or the PIPE Warrant Financing Exercise Period pursuant to Sections 3.1, 3.2.1 and 3.2.2, respectively, without the consent of the registered holders. The provisions of this Section 9.8 may not be modified, amended or deleted without the prior written consent of the Representative.

9.9 Trust Account Waiver. The Warrant Agent acknowledges and agrees that it shall not make any claims or proceed against the trust account established by the Company in connection with the Public Offering (as more fully described in the Registration Statement) (“Trust Account”), including by way of set-off, and shall not be entitled to any funds in the Trust Account under any circumstance. In the event that the Warrant Agent has a claim against the Company under this Agreement, the Warrant Agent will pursue such claim solely against the Company and not against the property held in the Trust Account.


9.10 Severability. This Agreement shall be deemed severable, and the invalidity or unenforceability of any term or provision hereof shall not affect the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or of any other term or provision hereof. Furthermore, in lieu of any such invalid or unenforceable term or provision, the parties hereto intend that there shall be added as a part of this Agreement a provision as similar in terms to such invalid or unenforceable provision as may be possible and be valid and enforceable.

9.11 Complete Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, both written and oral, between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Original Warrant Agreement).

[Signature page follows]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been duly executed by the parties hereto as of the day and year first above written.

 

IGNYTE ACQUISITION CORP.
By:    
  Name:
  Title:
CONTINENTAL STOCK TRANSFER 
& TRUST COMPANY
By:    
  Name:
  Title:

[Signature Page to Warrant Agreement]


EXHIBIT A

Form of Initial Warrant Certificate

 

NUMBER    (SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR LEGEND)    WARRANTS
________-    THIS WARRANT WILL BE VOID IF NOT EXERCISED PRIOR TO
THE EXPIRATION DATE (DEFINED BELOW)
  

 

IGNYTE ACQUISITION CORP.
CUSIP [•]
WARRANT

THIS CERTIFIES THAT, for value received

is the registered holder of a warrant or warrants (the “Warrant(s)”) of Ignyte Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), expiring at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the five year anniversary of the Company’s completion of an initial merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (a “Business Combination”) or earlier upon redemption or liquidation of the trust account established in connection with the Company’s initial public offering, to purchase one fully paid and non-assessable share of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Shares”), of the Company for each whole Warrant evidenced by this Warrant Certificate. The Warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase from the Company, commencing thirty days after the Company’s completion of an initial Business Combination, such number of Shares of the Company at the Warrant Price (as defined below), upon surrender of this Warrant Certificate and payment of the Warrant Price at the office or agency of Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (the “Warrant Agent”), but only subject to the conditions set forth herein and in the Amended and Restated Warrant Agreement between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company. In no event will the Company be required to net cash settle any warrant exercise. The term “Warrant Price” as used in this Warrant Certificate refers to the price per Share at which Shares may be purchased at the time the Warrant is exercised. The initial Warrant Price per Share is equal to $11.50 per share. The Amended and Restated Warrant Agreement provides that upon the occurrence of certain events the Warrant Price, the Redemption Trigger Price (defined below) and the number of Shares purchasable hereunder, set forth on the face hereof, may, subject to certain conditions, be adjusted.

No fraction of a Share will be issued upon any exercise of a Warrant. If the holder of a Warrant would be entitled to receive a fraction of a Share upon any exercise of a Warrant, the Company shall, upon such exercise, round up to the nearest whole number the number of Shares to be issued to such holder.

Upon any exercise of the Warrant for less than the total number of Shares provided for herein, there shall be issued to the registered holder hereof or the registered holder’s assignee a new Warrant Certificate covering the number of Shares for which the Warrant has not been exercised.

Warrant Certificates, when surrendered at the office or agency of the Warrant Agent by the registered holder in person or by attorney duly authorized in writing, may be exchanged in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Amended and Restated Warrant Agreement, but without payment of any service charge, for another Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor and evidencing in the aggregate a like number of Warrants.

Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this Warrant Certificate at the office of the Warrant Agent, a new Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor and evidencing in the aggregate a like number of Warrants shall be issued to the transferee in exchange for this Warrant Certificate, subject to the limitations provided in the Amended and Restated Warrant Agreement, without charge except for any applicable tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

The Company and the Warrant Agent may deem and treat the registered holder as the absolute owner of this Warrant Certificate (notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing hereon made by anyone), for the purpose of any exercise hereof, of any distribution to the registered holder, and for all other purposes, and neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.


Neither the Warrants nor this Warrant Certificate entitles the registered holder to any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company.

The Company reserves the right to call the Warrant at any time prior to its exercise with a notice of call in writing to the holders of record of the Warrant, giving at least 30 days’ notice of such call, at any time while the Warrant is exercisable, if the reported closing price of the Shares has been at least $18.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) (the “Redemption Trigger Price”) for any 20 trading days within a 30 trading day period (the “30-day trading period”) commencing after the Warrants become exercisable and ending on the third business day prior to the date on which notice of such call is given and if, and only if, there is a current registration statement in effect with respect to the Shares underlying the Warrants commencing five business days prior to the 30-day trading period and continuing each day thereafter until the date of redemption. The call price of the Warrants is to be $0.01 per Warrant. Any Warrant either not exercised or tendered back to the Company by the end of the date specified in the notice of call shall be canceled on the books of the Company and have no further value except for the $0.01 call price.

 

By  

 

     

 

  
  Chairman       Secretary   

 

 

SUBSCRIPTION FORM

To Be Executed by the Registered Holder in Order to Exercise Warrants

The undersigned Registered Holder irrevocably elects to exercise ______________ Warrants represented by this Warrant Certificate, and to purchase the Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of such Warrants, and requests that Certificates for such shares shall be issued in the name of

 

 

(PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT NAME AND ADDRESS)

 

 

 

(SOCIAL SECURITY OR TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER)

 

and be delivered to

 

 

(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE NAME AND ADDRESS)

 

and, if such number of Warrants shall not be all the Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate, that a new Warrant Certificate for the balance of such Warrants be registered in the name of, and delivered to, the Registered Holder at the address stated below:

 

Dated:                                   

 

  
  

(SIGNATURE)

  
  

(ADDRESS)

  
   (TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER)   

ASSIGNMENT

To Be Executed by the Registered Holder in Order to Assign Warrants

For Value Received, _______________________ hereby sell, assign, and transfer unto

 

 

(PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT NAME AND ADDRESS)

 

 

 

(SOCIAL SECURITY OR TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER)

and be delivered to

 

 


(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE NAME AND ADDRESS)

______________________ of the Warrants represented by this Warrant Certificate, and hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint _________________________________ Attorney to transfer this Warrant Certificate on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:                                 

  

 

  
  

(SIGNATURE)

  

THE SIGNATURE TO THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE SUBSCRIPTION FORM MUST CORRESPOND TO THE NAME WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THIS WARRANT CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATSOEVER, AND MUST BE GUARANTEED BY A COMMERCIAL BANK OR TRUST COMPANY OR A MEMBER FIRM OF THE NYSE AMERICAN, NASDAQ, NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, PACIFIC STOCK EXCHANGE, OR CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE.


EXHIBIT B

Form of PIPE Financing Warrant Certificate

 

NUMBER    (SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR LEGEND)    WARRANTS
________-    THIS WARRANT WILL BE VOID IF NOT EXERCISED PRIOR TO
THE EXPIRATION DATE (DEFINED BELOW)
  

 

IGNYTE ACQUISITION CORP.
CUSIP [•]
WARRANT

THIS CERTIFIES THAT, for value received

is the registered holder of a warrant or warrants (the “Warrant(s)”) of Ignyte Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), expiring at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the one year anniversary of the Company’s completion of an initial merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities (a “Business Combination”) or earlier upon redemption or liquidation of the trust account established in connection with the Company’s initial public offering, to purchase one fully paid and non-assessable share of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Shares”), of the Company for each whole Warrant evidenced by this Warrant Certificate. The Warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase from the Company, commencing thirty days after the Company’s completion of an initial Business Combination, such number of Shares of the Company at the Warrant Price (as defined below), upon surrender of this Warrant Certificate and payment of the Warrant Price at the office or agency of Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (the “Warrant Agent”), but only subject to the conditions set forth herein and in the Amended and Restated Warrant Agreement between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company. In no event will the Company be required to net cash settle any warrant exercise. The term “Warrant Price” as used in this Warrant Certificate refers to the price per Share at which Shares may be purchased at the time the Warrant is exercised. The initial Warrant Price per Share is equal to $0.01 per share. The Amended and Restated Warrant Agreement provides that upon the occurrence of certain events the Warrant Price, the Redemption Trigger Price (defined below) and the number of Shares purchasable hereunder, set forth on the face hereof, may, subject to certain conditions, be adjusted.

No fraction of a Share will be issued upon any exercise of a Warrant. If the holder of a Warrant would be entitled to receive a fraction of a Share upon any exercise of a Warrant, the Company shall, upon such exercise, round up to the nearest whole number the number of Shares to be issued to such holder.

Upon any exercise of the Warrant for less than the total number of Shares provided for herein, there shall be issued to the registered holder hereof or the registered holder’s assignee a new Warrant Certificate covering the number of Shares for which the Warrant has not been exercised.

Warrant Certificates, when surrendered at the office or agency of the Warrant Agent by the registered holder in person or by attorney duly authorized in writing, may be exchanged in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Amended and Restated Warrant Agreement, but without payment of any service charge, for another Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor and evidencing in the aggregate a like number of Warrants.

Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this Warrant Certificate at the office of the Warrant Agent, a new Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor and evidencing in the aggregate a like number of Warrants shall be issued to the transferee in exchange for this Warrant Certificate, subject to the limitations provided in the Amended and Restated Warrant Agreement, without charge except for any applicable tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

The Company and the Warrant Agent may deem and treat the registered holder as the absolute owner of this Warrant Certificate (notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing hereon made by anyone), for the purpose of any exercise hereof, of any distribution to the registered holder, and for all other purposes, and neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.


Neither the Warrants nor this Warrant Certificate entitles the registered holder to any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company.

 

By

  

 

     

 

  
  

Chairman

     

Secretary

  

 

 

SUBSCRIPTION FORM

To Be Executed by the Registered Holder in Order to Exercise Warrants

The undersigned Registered Holder irrevocably elects to exercise ______________ Warrants represented by this Warrant Certificate, and to purchase the Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of such Warrants, and requests that Certificates for such shares shall be issued in the name of

 

 

(PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT NAME AND ADDRESS)

 

 

 

(SOCIAL SECURITY OR TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER)

and be delivered to

 

 

(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE NAME AND ADDRESS)

 

 

and, if such number of Warrants shall not be all the Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate, that a new Warrant Certificate for the balance of such Warrants be registered in the name of, and delivered to, the Registered Holder at the address stated below:

 

Dated:                             

  

 

  
  

(SIGNATURE)

  
  

 

(ADDRESS)

  
  

 

(TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER)

  

ASSIGNMENT

To Be Executed by the Registered Holder in Order to Assign Warrants

For Value Received, _______________________ hereby sell, assign, and transfer unto

 

 

(PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT NAME AND ADDRESS)

 

 

 

(SOCIAL SECURITY OR TAX IDENTIFICATION NUMBER)

and be delivered to

 

 

(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPE NAME AND ADDRESS)

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Exhibit 99.1

Peak Bio Co., Ltd. to List on NASDAQ Following

Successful Business Combination with Ignyte

Acquisition Corp.

Combined Company Scheduled to Commence Trading on NASDAQ Under the Ticker

Symbol “PKBO”

NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Peak Bio Co., Ltd. (“Peak Bio”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing the next-generation of therapeutics to treat oncology and inflammatory diseases, today announced the completion of its business combination (the “Business Combination”) with Ignyte Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: IGNY) (“Ignyte”), a special purpose acquisition company.

The transaction was approved at a special meeting of Ignyte’s stockholders held on October 25, 2022 (the “Special Meeting”). Ignyte’s stockholders also voted to approve all other proposals presented at the Special Meeting. Ignyte’s Board of Directors had previously approved the business combination and recommended that its stockholders vote in favor of it and all of the proposals relating to the Business Combination.

The combined company will operate under the name “Peak Bio, Inc.” (the “Combined Company”) under the direction of Hoyoung Huh, M.D., Ph.D., founder and Chairman, and Stephen LaMond, PharmD, MBA, Chief Operating Officer. Commencing at the open of trading on or about November 2, 2022, on NASDAQ, the Combined Company’s common stock and public warrants will trade under the new trading symbols “PKBO” and “PKBOW,” respectively.

“We believe that Peak Bio is now well positioned to succeed in the public markets and look forward to updating the entire investment community on our progress in our differentiated approach in both oncology and rare inflammatory diseases,” said Hoyoung Huh, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman and founder of Peak Bio.

About Peak Bio Co., Ltd.

Peak Bio Co., Ltd. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapeutics addressing significant unmet needs in the areas of oncology and inflammation. Peak Bio’s management team has a combined 50 years of industry experience in the areas of small molecules, antibodies, and antibody-drug-conjugates (ADC), forging successful companies that create differentiated cancer and immunological based therapeutics.

Peak Bio’s lead product candidate, PHP-303, is a 5th generation, small molecule, neutrophil elastase inhibitor currently awaiting initiation of a Phase II clinical study in the genetic orphan disease called Alpha1 anti-trypsin deficiency disorder (AATD). Interim Phase 2 clinical trial results are expected by the end of 2023. Peak Bio has successfully completed two Phase 1 clinical studies in human subjects: a single ascending dose trial (SAD) and a multiple ascending dose trial (MAD). The SAD and MAD PHP-303 clinical studies demonstrated a favorable safety profile and a dose was established for Peak Bio’s upcoming clinical trials.


Peak Bio’s cancer platform consists of novel payloads/toxins in conjunction with a developing antibody-drug-conjugates (ADC) pipeline to address a growing unmet need in cancer care. Peak Bio’s current ADC approach unites conventional and direct targeting of cancer cells with toxins while also engaging the immune system. The Peak Bio payload stimulates the immune system which in turn cooperates with cancer cell killing and leaves behind immune memory cells. In addition, the potential for immune reengagement when the cancer reoccurs could be an exciting and important advancement in cancer care with this dual mechanistic approach to cancer therapeutics. Peak Bio’s lead payload appears to be a poor substrate for multi-drug resistance (MDR) transporters which is a growing concern in the ADC field.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements about future financial and operating results, plans, objectives, expectations and intentions with respect to future operations, products and services and expectations regarding the proposed Business Combination between Peak Bio and Ignyte, including capital raised in connection with the Business Combination, and other statements identified by words such as “will likely result,” “are expected to,” “will continue,” “is anticipated,” “estimated,” “believe,” “intend,” “plan,” “projection,” “outlook” or words of similar meaning. Such forward-looking statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of our management and are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond our control. Actual results and the timing of events may differ materially from the results anticipated in these forward-looking statements.

The following factors, among others, could cause actual results and the timing of events to differ materially from the anticipated results or other expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements:

(i) the effect of the announcement of the completion of the Business Combination on Peak Bio’s business relationships, operating results and business generally; (ii) risks that the transaction disrupts current plans and operations of Peak Bio; (iii) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against Peak Bio related to the Business Combination; (iv) the ability to maintain the listing of Peak Bio’s securities on a national securities exchange; (v) changes in the competitive industries in which Peak Bio operates, variations in operating performance across competitors, changes in laws and regulations affecting Peak Bio’s business and changes in the combined capital structure; (vi) the ability to implement business plans, forecasts and other expectations after the completion of the Business Combination, and identify and realize additional opportunities; (vii) the risk of downturns in the market and Peak Bio’s industry including, but not limited to, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; (viii) costs related to the


transaction and the failure to realize anticipated benefits of the Business Combination or to realize estimated pro forma results and underlying assumptions; and (ix) risks and uncertainties related to Peak Bio’s business, including, but not limited to, those related to regulation, its supply chain, its limited operating history, highly competitive markets and competition, data privacy and cybersecurity, its ability to grow, its financial condition and potential dilution, its forecasts, expansion, intellectual property, current or future litigation, capital requirements and the need for additional capital, third-party manufacturers, and cybersecurity. The foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” section of the definitive proxy statement and other documents filed by Peak Bio from time to time with the SEC. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements.

Actual results, performance or achievements may differ materially, and potentially adversely, from any projections and forward-looking statements and the assumptions on which those forward-looking statements are based. There can be no assurance that the data contained herein is reflective of future performance to any degree. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a predictor of future performance as projected financial information and other information are based on estimates and assumptions that are inherently subject to various significant risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond our control. All information set forth herein speaks only as of the date hereof in the case of information about Peak Bio or the date of such information in the case of information from persons other than Peak Bio, and we disclaim any intention or obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of developments occurring after the date of this communication. Forecasts and estimates regarding Peak Bio’s industry and end markets are based on sources we believe to be reliable, however there can be no assurance these forecasts and estimates will prove accurate in whole or in part. Annualized, pro forma, projected and estimated numbers are used for illustrative purposes only, are not forecasts and may not reflect actual results.

Contacts

Stephen LaMond, PharmD., MBA

COO

Peak Bio, Inc.

+1-650-549-9103

steve.lamond@peak-bio.com

Hoyoung Huh, MD, PhD

Peak Bio, Inc.

+1-650-549-9103

hoyoung.huh@peak-bio.com

SOURCE Peak Bio, Inc.