UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549


FORM 6-K

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report:  April 23, 2010

Commission File Number: 001-34395

CHINA NETWORKS INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTD.  

 (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

9 Dong San Huan Zhong Lu, Suite 1101
Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100020
People’s Republic of China  

 (Address of principal executive offices)



Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.  Form 20-F x      Form 40-F

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is submitting the Form 6-K in paper as permitted by Regulation S-T Rule 101(b)(1):  Not Applicable

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Yes        No x

If “Yes” marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82 - ______.

 

 

 
On April 7, 2010, upon receipt of the written consent of a majority of its shareholders, China Networks International Holdings, Ltd. (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association (the “Memorandum”).  A copy of the amended and restated Memorandum is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.

On April 13, 2010, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”), as amended by an Amendatory Agreement dated April 13, 2010 (the “Amendatory Agreement” and together with the Securities Purchase Agreement, the “SPA”), with certain accredited investors identified therein (the “Investors”) and effected the closing whereby the Company sold to the Investors (the “Offering”) six-year 10% senior secured convertible debentures in aggregate principal amount of $11,000,000 (the “Debentures”).   The Debentures are convertible into Ordinary Shares of the Company at a per share conversion price of $1.14.  At any time after the issuance of the Debentures and prior to the maturity date, the Company has the right to redeem all or part of the Debentures, at a redemption price equal to the sum of (i) 120% of the principal amount of the Debenture then outstanding, (ii) accrued but unpaid interest and (iii) all liquidated damages and other amounts due in respect of the Debenture so long as certain conditions specified therein are met.

The Company shall pay interest on the aggregate unconverted and then outstanding principal amount of the Debentures at the rate of 10% per annum, payable semi-annually.  Interest may be paid in cash and/or Ordinary Shares of the Company at the sole option of the Company.  In addition, 60% of all dividends received by the Company from its subsidiaries must be used to repay the outstanding principal on the Debentures.

In addition to the Debentures, each Investor received 100 Ordinary Shares for every $173.444 invested in the Offering.  Accordingly, an aggregate of 6,342,110 Ordinary Shares were issued to the Investors.

The proceeds of the Offering, net of expenses, will be utilized by the Company first for the satisfaction of the obligation of China Networks Media Ltd., the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary (“China Media”), to make a $7.17 million capital contribution to its joint venture, Kunming Taishi Information Cartoon Co., Ltd., with the remaining proceeds to be used for general working capital purposes.

Pursuant to a Security Agreement entered into between the Company and the Investors, the Debentures will be secured by all of the assets of the Company (the “Security Agreement”).  Pursuant to a Guaranty between the Company, China Media and the Investors, China Media will guarantee the Debentures.  The Debentures will rank senior in right of payment to all existing and future indebtedness of the Company.

In connection with the consummation of the Offering, the Company entered into an Exchange and Amendatory Agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”) with China Media and the holders (the “Original Debt Holders) of senior secured notes of China Media  in aggregate principal amount of $25,500,000 (the “Media Notes”).  Pursuant to the Exchange Agreement, the Original Debt Holders agreed to cancel all existing Media Notes in exchange for the pro rata issuance of an aggregate of 23,000,000 Ordinary Shares of the Company and 16,000,000 Class A Preferred Shares of the Company.  Immediately upon the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Exchange Agreement (the “Exchange Transaction”), all payment obligations of the Company or China Media under the Media Notes ceased and the Media Notes were terminated.
 
 
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Each Class A Preferred Share is convertible to one Ordinary Share, as adjusted for stock splits, stock combinations, stock dividends and similar events applicable to all of the Company’s Ordinary Shares. The Class A Preferred Shares are redeemable at the Company’s option in whole or in part for an aggregate sum of $16,000,000. Upon satisfaction or conversion of all of the Debentures, the Company will be required to use 60% of all dividends distributed from the Company’s off-shore joint ventures towards redemption of the Class A Preferred Shares.  Each Class A Preferred Share is entitled to receive a dividend, which will accrue at a rate of 5% per annum, and will be payable semi-annually and in arrears in cash or, at the Company’s option, in Ordinary Shares of the Company at a 5% discount to the trailing 10-day volume-weighted average trading price of the Company’s Ordinary Shares on the principal trading market on which they are quoted, though at no point at a price less than $0.50 per Ordinary Share.  The Class A Preferred Shares have a liquidation preference of an aggregate of $16,000,000 upon the sale or liquidation of the Company. If the closing price of the Company’s Ordinary Shares on the principal trading market on which they are quoted is less than $0.50 upon the 24 month anniversary of the transaction contemplated by the Exchange Agreement, then the liquidation preference will increase to $21,000,000.  The approval of holders of 70% of the Class A Preferred Shares will be required for any equity financing in which the Company sells its at a price per share below $1.00.

Following the closings of the Offering and the Exchange Transaction, the Company’s total outstanding capital consists of 41,019,993 Ordinary Shares and 16,000,000 Class A Preferred Shares.

The foregoing description of the Securities Purchase Agreement, Amendatory Agreement, Debentures, Security Agreement, Guaranty and Exchange Agreement, does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Securities Purchase Agreement, Amendatory Agreement, Debentures, Security Agreement, Guaranty and Exchange Agreement, which are filed as Exhibits 99.2 through 99.7 hereto, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.

The following is a list of all exhibits filed herewith:
 
Exhibit No.
 
Description
99.1
 
Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association
99.2
 
Securities Purchase Agreement, dated April 13, 2010
99.3
 
Amendatory Agreement, dated April 13, 2010
99.4
 
Form of Debenture
99.5
 
Security Agreement, dated April 13, 2010
99.6
 
Guaranty dated April 13, 2010
99.7
 
Exchange and Amendatory Agreement, dated April 13, 2010

 
 
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SIGNATURES

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


  CHINA NETWORKS INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTD.  
       
Date: April 23, 2010
By:
/s/ Li Shuangqing  
    Li Shuangqing  
    Chairman and Chief Executive Officer  
       

 

 
 
 
 
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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.
 
Description
99.1
 
Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association
99.2
 
Securities Purchase Agreement, dated April 13, 2010
99.3
 
Amendatory Agreement, dated April 13, 2010
99.4
 
Form of Debenture
99.5
 
Security Agreement, dated April 13, 2010
99.6
 
Guaranty dated April 13, 2010
99.7
 
Exchange and Amendatory Agreement, dated April 13, 2010

 
 
 
 
 
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Exhibit 99.1


 

 

British Virgin Islands


The BVI Business Companies Act
(No. 16 of 2004)


Memorandum and Articles of Association
 
 
of

 
China Networks International Holdings Ltd.

Incorporated the 17th day of April 2008

Amended and Restated the 1st day of May 2008

Amended and restated the 24th day of June 2009

Amended and restated the 7th day of April 2010


Maples Corporate Services (BVI) Limited
Kingston Chambers
P.O. Box 173
Road Town, Tortola
British Virgin Islands
 
 

 

 
 
TERRITORY OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
 
 
THE BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT, 2004
 
 
AMENDED AND RESTATED
 
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
 
 
OF
 
China Networks International Holdings Ltd.
 
 
1  
Company Name
 
1.1  
The name of the Company is China Networks International Holdings Ltd.
 
1.2  
The directors or members may from time to time change the Company's name by Resolution of Directors or Resolution of Members.  The directors shall give notice of such resolution to the registered agent of the Company, for the registered agent to file an application for change of name with the Registrar, and any such change will take effect from the date of the certificate of change of name issued by the Registrar.
 
1.3  
A change of name of the Company shall constitute an amendment of the Memorandum and Articles and in the event of a resolution being passed to change the name of the Company, the provisions below in respect of amendments to the Memorandum and Articles must be complied with.
 
2  
Company Limited by Shares, Liability of Members
 
2.1  
The Company is a company limited by shares.
 
2.2  
The liability of each member is limited to the amount from time to time unpaid on that member's shares.
 
3  
Registered Office
 
3.1  
The first registered office of the Company will be situated at Kingston Chambers, PO Box 173, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
 
3.2  
The directors or members may from time to time change the Company's registered office by Resolution of Directors or Resolution of Members, provided that the Company's registered office shall at all times be the office of the registered agent.  The directors shall give notice of such resolution to the registered agent of the Company, for the registered agent to file with the Registrar a notice of change of registered office, and any such change of registered office will take effect from the date of the registration by the Registrar of such notice.
 
 
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Registered Agent
 
4.1  
The first registered agent of the Company will be Maples Corporate Services (BVI) Limited (formerly known as Maples Finance BVI Limited) of Kingston Chambers, PO Box 173, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
 
4.2  
The directors or members may from time to time change the Company's registered agent by Resolution of Directors or Resolution of Members.  The directors shall give notice of such resolution to the registered agent of the Company (meaning the existing registered agent), for the registered agent to file with the Registrar a notice of change of registered agent, and any such change of registered agent will take effect from the date of the registration by the Registrar of such notice.
 
4.3  
If the existing registered agent does not file such notice on instruction by the directors, the directors shall procure that a notice of change of registered agent is filed with the Registrar by a legal practitioner in the British Virgin Islands acting on behalf of the Company, and any such change of registered agent will take effect from the date of the registration by the Registrar of such notice.
 
5  
General Objects and Powers
 
5.1  
Subject to the following provisions of this Memorandum, the objects for which the Company is established are unrestricted and the Company shall have full power and authority to carry out any object not prohibited by the Act or any other law of the British Virgin Islands.
 
5.2  
The Company has no power to:
 
(a)  
carry on banking or trust business, unless it is licensed to do so under the Banks and Trust Companies Act, 1990;
 
(b)  
carry on business as an insurance or as a reinsurance company, insurance agent or insurance broker, unless it is licensed or authorised to do so under the Insurance Act, 2008;
 
 
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(c)  
carry on the business of company management unless it is licensed to do so under the Companies Management Act, 1990;
 
(d)  
carry on the business of providing the registered office or the registered agent for companies incorporated in the British Virgin Islands unless it is licensed to do so under the Banks and Trust Companies Act, 1990; or
 
(e)  
carry on the business as a mutual fund, mutual fund manager or mutual fund administrator unless it is licensed to do so under the Mutual Funds Act, 1996.
 
5.3  
Without limiting the foregoing, the powers of the Company include the power to do the following:
 
(a)  
grant options over unissued shares in the Company and treasury shares;
 
(b)  
issue securities that are convertible into shares;
 
(c)  
give financial assistance to any person in connection with the acquisition of the Company's own shares;
 
(d)  
issue debt obligations of every kind and grant options, warrants and rights to acquire debt obligations;
 
(e)  
guarantee a liability or obligation of any person and secure any of its obligations by mortgage, pledge or other charge, of any of its assets for that purpose; and
 
(f)  
protect the assets of the Company for the benefit of the Company, its creditors and its members and, at the discretion of the directors, for any person having a direct or indirect interest in the Company.
 
6  
Maximum Number of Authorised Shares
 
6.1  
The Company is authorised to issue a maximum of 550,000,000 shares with a par value of US$0.0001 each divided into the following classes of shares:
 
(a)  
500,000,000 ordinary shares of US$0.0001 par value each (the " Ordinary Shares "); and
 
(b)  
50,000,000 preferred shares of US$0.0001 par value each, of which 16,000,000 (the " Class A Preferred Shares ") shall be designated as Class A Preferred Shares of US$0.0001 par value each.
 
6.2  
The directors or members may from time to time by Resolution of Directors or Resolution of Members increase the maximum number of shares the Company is authorised to issue, by amendment to the Memorandum in accordance with the provisions below.
 
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Rights Conferred by Shares
 
7.1  
Each Ordinary Share in the Company confers on the holder:
 
(a)  
the right to one vote on any Resolution of Members;
 
(b)  
the right to an equal share in any dividend paid by the Company in accordance with the Act, subject to the preferred dividend rights attached to the Class A Preferred Shares; and
 
(c)  
the right to an equal share in the distribution of the surplus assets of the Company subject to the Class A Liquidation Preference.
 
7.2  
Each Class A Preferred Share in the Company confers on the holder:
 
(a)  
no right to vote at any meeting of the members of the Company or on any resolution of the members of the Company;
 
 
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(b)  
the right to receive a share in a cumulative dividend, pro rata to the holders of the Class A Preferred Shares, whether or not declared, payable in accordance with the Act, prior to payment by the Company of any dividends to holders of the Ordinary Shares, calculated at an annual rate of 5% per annum.  Such dividends will accrue and be payable semi-annually on June 30 and December 31, beginning on the second such date after the dated of adoption of this Memorandum, (except that, if any such date is not a Business Day, then such payment shall be due on the next succeeding Business Day) (each such date, a “ Dividend Payment Date ”), and in arrears in cash or, at the Company's option, in Ordinary Shares as described below.  The Company may elect to pay such dividends with Ordinary Shares (“ Dividend Shares ”) valued at a 5% discount to the average of the VWAPs for the three Trading Days preceding the relevant Dividend Payment Date.  But in the event such value is less than 43.86%, as adjusted pursuant to the Offset Adjustment, of the Per Share Liquidation Price (as defined in clause 7.2(c) below) in effect on the relevant Dividend Payment Date, then the Company may, at its election, defer the calculation of the amount of Dividend Shares due for a Dividend Payment Date to (i) the first date upon which the average of the VWAPs for the three Trading Days preceding such calculation date will exceed 43.86%, as adjusted pursuant to the Offset Adjustment, of the Per Share Liquidation Price in effect on such calculation date, or (ii) 30 April 2016 and annually thereafter on the anniversary of that date, whichever is sooner, after which the Dividend Shares will be promptly delivered.  The Company may elect to pay such interest with Ordinary Shares or defer delivery of Dividend Shares as set forth above only if (i) notice of such election or deferral is given to the relevant Class A Preferred Shareholder not less than thirty days prior to the relevant Dividend Payment Date, and the Class A Preferred Shareholder does not elect at any time prior to actual receipt of such interest payment to accept Dividend Shares valued at 43.86%,as adjusted pursuant to the Offset Adjustment, of the Per Share Liquidation Price in effect on the relevant Dividend Payment Date, (ii) such payment or deferral is made ratably among all Class A Preferred Shareholders due interest on the Dividend Payment Date, and (iii) all of the Equity Conditions have been satisfied, subject to the Beneficial Ownership Limitation.  In the event the issuance of Ordinary Shares as a dividend pursuant to this clause 7.2(b) would result in a holder of Class A Preferred Shares owning in excess of the applicable Beneficial Ownership Limitation percentage of the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately after giving effect to such issuance, then the Company may not issue nor deliver the Ordinary Shares in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation until such holder notifies the Company that such issuance will not exceed the Beneficial Ownership Limitation after which notice the Company will promptly issue and deliver the withheld Ordinary Shares;
 
(c)  
the right to a preference (the “ Class A Liquidation Preference ”), in an amount of US$1.00 per Class A Preferred Share, as adjusted pursuant to the Offset Adjustment, (the “ Per Share Liquidation Price ”), over the holders of the Ordinary Shares (A) in the distribution of the surplus assets of the Company in the event of the liquidation, winding up or dissolution of the Company or (B) in the event that (i) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another person, (ii) the Company, directly or indirectly, effects any sale, lease, license, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of its assets in one or a series of related transactions, (iii) any, direct or indirect, purchase offer, tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Ordinary Shares are permitted to sell, tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property and has been accepted by the holders of 50% or more of the outstanding Ordinary Shares, (iv) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any reclassification, reorganization or recapitalization of the Ordinary Shares or any compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the Ordinary Shares are effectively converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property, (v) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions consummates a stock or share purchase agreement or other business combination (including, without limitation, a reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off or scheme of arrangement) with another person whereby such other person acquires more than 50% of the outstanding Ordinary Shares (not including any Ordinary Shares held by the other person or other persons making or party to, or associated or affiliated with the other persons making or party to, such stock or share purchase agreement or other business combination).  If the average of the VWAPs of the Ordinary Shares on the principal trading market on which the Ordinary Shares are traded, for the ten Trading Days in the period between twenty and ten Trading Days prior to twenty four (24) month anniversary of the issuance of the Class A Preferred Shares, is less than 50%, as adjusted pursuant to the Offset Adjustment, of the Per Share Liquidation Price, then the Class A Liquidation Preference will increase by 31.25% per Class A Preferred Share; and
 
 
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(d)  
the right to convert into Ordinary Shares some or all of the Class A Preferred Shares held by such holder at such holder's option, at any time, at a ratio of one Ordinary Share for each Class A Preferred Share, subject to the adjustments set forth in Clause 7.3 of this Memorandum, in accordance with Clause 8 of this Memorandum.
 
7.3  
Subject to the provisions of this clause 7.3, clause 7.4 and clause 7.5, at any time, the Company may deliver a notice to the Class A Preferred Shareholders (an “ Optional Redemption Notice ” and the date such notice is deemed delivered hereunder, the “ Optional Redemption Notice Date ”) of its irrevocable election to redeem some or all of the then outstanding Class A Preferred Shares, for an amount, in cash, equal to the Per Share Liquidation Price for each Class A Preferred Share (the " Optional Redemption Amount ") on the 30th calendar day following the Optional Redemption Notice Date (such date, the “ Optional Redemption Date ” and such redemption, the “ Optional Redemption ”).  The Optional Redemption Amount is due in full on the Optional Redemption Date.  Without the written consent of the relevant holder of the Class A Preferred Shares, the Company may only effect an Optional Redemption of Class A Preferred Shares if during the period commencing on the Optional Redemption Notice Date through to the Optional Redemption Date, each of the Equity Conditions shall have been met.  If any of the Equity Conditions shall cease to be satisfied at any time during the required period, then the relevant holder of such Class A Preferred Shares may elect to nullify the Optional Redemption Notice by notice to the Company within 3 calendar days after the first day on which any such Equity Condition has not been met (provided that the Company is obligated to notify the relevant holder of the Class A Preferred Shares of the non-existence of an Equity Condition and such 3 day notice period shall be extended to the third calendar day after proper notice from the Company) in which case the Optional Redemption Notice shall be null and void, ab initio.  The Company covenants and agrees that it will honour all Notices of Conversions (as defined in clause 8.1) tendered from the time of delivery of the Optional Redemption Notice through the date all amounts owing thereon are due and paid in full.
 
7.4  
The payment of cash pursuant to an Optional Redemption shall be made on the Optional Redemption Date, and shall be applied first towards payment, pro rata to the holders of the Class A Shares, of any outstanding dividends.  If any portion of the cash payment for an Optional Redemption shall not be paid by the Company by the due date, interest shall accrue thereon at the rate of 18% per annum (or the maximum rate permitted by applicable law, whichever is less) until the payment of the Optional Redemption Amount plus all amounts owing thereon is paid in full.  Alternatively, if any portion of the Optional Redemption Amount remains unpaid after such date, the holders of Class A Preferred Shares subject to such redemption may (prior to the actual redemption of the relevant shares) elect, by written notice to the Company given at any time thereafter, to invalidate ab initio all or part of such redemption, notwithstanding anything herein contained to the contrary, and, with respect the failure to honour the Optional Redemption the Company shall have no further right to exercise such Optional Redemption.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in clause 7.3, the Company’s determination to redeem in cash or its elections under this clause 7.4 shall be applied pro rata among the holders of Class A Preferred Shares.
 
 
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7.5  
Upon satisfaction in full or conversion into shares in the Company of all the Debentures, the Company must apply an amount equal to 60% of sums received by way of dividend or otherwise from each of the Company's Subsidiaries:
 
(a)  
firstly, towards payment of any outstanding dividends payable in accordance with clause 7.2(b); and
 
(b)  
secondly, in exercising its option to redeem pursuant to clause 7.3, pro rata to the holders of the Class A Preferred Shares, such Class A Preferred Shares as may be redeemed in consideration for the Optional Redemption Amount equal to the balance of 60% of such receipts after payment pursuant to clause 7.5(a).  A payment made pursuant to this clause 7.5(b) will be deemed to be an Optional Redemption and subject to the provisions of clause 7.3 and clause 7.4.
 
7.6  
The conversion ratio of Class A Preferred Shares into Ordinary Shares shall be subject to appropriate adjustment from time to time in case the Company shall at any time (i) split or subdivide the outstanding Ordinary Shares, (ii) combine the outstanding Ordinary Shares into a smaller number of shares, or (iii) issue by reclassification of its Ordinary Shares any shares or other securities of the Company, then in each such event the conversion ratio shall be adjusted proportionately so that the member shall be entitled to receive the kind and number of shares or other securities of the Company which such member would have owned or have been entitled to receive after the happening of any of the events described above had such Class A Preferred Shares been converted immediately prior to the happening of such event (or any record date with respect thereto).  Such adjustment shall be made whenever any of the events listed above shall occur.  An adjustment made to the conversion ratio pursuant to this clause shall become effective immediately after the effective date of the event.
 
7.7  
If at any time the Company is authorised to issue shares of more than one class the rights attached to any class (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class) may, whether or not the Company is being wound up, be varied only with the consent in writing of the holders of not less than three-fourths of the issued shares of that class and the holders of not less than three-fourths of the issued shares of any other class of shares which may be affected by such variation.
 
7.8  
The rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class issued with preferred or other rights shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pari passu therewith.
 
7.9  
The directors may, subject to the Act and to clause 7.9, by amending this Memorandum and/or the Articles, determine the designations, powers, preferences and relative, participation, optional and other rights, if any, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof, if any, including, without limitation, dividend rights, conversion rights, redemption privileges, voting powers and liquidation preferences that any preferred share (not being a designated Class A Preferred Share) issued by the Company confers on the holder.
 
 
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7.10  
No shares in the Company shall be issued that have a liquidation preference that is senior to the Class A Liquidation Preference without the prior consent in writing of the holders of a majority of the issued Class A Preferred Shares.
 
7.11  
No share in the Company may be offered or issued by the Company at a price below 100%, as adjusted pursuant to the Offset Adjustment, of the Per Share Liquidation Price without the prior consent in writing of the holders of 70% of the Class A Preferred Shares.
 
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Conversion of Class A Preferred Shares
 
8.1  
A holder of Class A Preferred Shares will give notice of its decision to exercise its right to convert its Class A Preferred Shares by telecopying, or otherwise delivering a completed notice in the form required by the Company (" Notice of Conversion ") to the Company via confirmed telecopier transmission or as otherwise agreed between the member and the Company.  Each date on which a Notice of Conversion is telecopied to the Company in accordance with the provisions hereof by 5 PM Eastern Time (“ ET ”) (or if received by the Company after 5 PM ET then the next business day) shall be deemed a “ Conversion Date .”  The Company will, or will cause the Company’s transfer agent to, transmit the Ordinary Share certificates representing the Ordinary Shares issuable upon conversion of the Class A Preferred Shares (" the Conversion Shares ") to such member via express courier for receipt by such member within three (3) business days after the Notice of Conversion is given by the member (such third day being the " Delivery Date ").  In the event the Conversion Shares are electronically transferable and the Conversion Shares are freely transferable under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, then delivery of the Conversion Shares must be made by electronic transfer provided request for such electronic transfer has been made by the member.  In the event fewer than all of a member’s Class A Preferred Shares have been converted, a replacement Class A Preferred Share certificate will be provided by the Company to such member if requested by member, provided such member delivers the original Class A Preferred Share certificate to the Company.  In the event that a member elects not to or is unable to surrender its original Class A Preferred Share certificate to the Company for reissuance upon conversion of any Class A Preferred Shares, such member hereby indemnifies the Company against any and all loss or damages attributable to a third party claim attributable to such Class A Preferred Share certificate.
 
8.2  
If the Company fails for any reason to deliver to a holder of Class A Preferred Shares such certificate or certificates pursuant to clause 8.1 by the tenth Business Day after the Conversion Date, the Company shall pay to such holder, in cash or in Ordinary Shares at the Company’s sole option, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each US$1,000 of Per Share Liquidation Price of the shares to have been converted, US$10 per business day for each business day after such tenth business day until such certificates are delivered.  The Company may, at its election, pay such liquidated damages in cash or with Ordinary Shares valued at the VWAP for each day such liquidated damages accrue.  The Company’s obligations to issue and deliver the Conversion Shares upon such conversion in accordance with the terms hereof are absolute and unconditional, irrespective of any action or inaction by the holder to enforce the same, any waiver or consent with respect to any provision hereof, the recovery of any judgment against any person or any action to enforce the same, or any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, limitation or termination, or any breach or alleged breach by the holder or any other person of any obligation to the Company or any violation or alleged violation of law by the holder or any other person, and irrespective of any other circumstance which might otherwise limit such obligation of the Company to the holder in connection with the issuance of such Conversion Shares; PROVIDED THAT such delivery shall not operate as a waiver by the Company of any such action the Company may have against the holder.  In the event a holder of Class A Preferred Shares shall elect to convert any or all of the Class A Preferred Shares in which they hold, the Company may not refuse conversion based on any claim that the holder or any one associated or affiliated with the holder has been engaged in any violation of law, agreement or for any other reason, unless, an injunction from a court, on notice, restraining and or enjoining conversion of all or part of the Class A Preferred Shares shall have been sought and obtained and the Company posts a surety bond for the benefit of the holder in the amount of 150% of the Per Share Liquidation Price then held by such holder, which are subject to the injunction, which bond shall remain in effect until the completion of arbitration/litigation of the dispute and the proceeds of which shall be payable to such holder to the extent it obtains judgment.  In the absence of an injunction precluding the same, the Company shall issue Conversion Shares upon a properly noticed conversion.  Nothing herein shall limit a holder’s right to pursue actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver Conversion Shares within the period specified herein and such holder shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.  The exercise of any such rights shall not prohibit the holder from seeking to enforce damages pursuant to any other Section hereof or under applicable law.
 
 
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8.3  
In addition to any other rights available to a member, if the Company fails to deliver to a member such Conversion Shares issuable upon conversion of Class A Preferred Shares by the Delivery Date and if after the Delivery Date such member or a broker on such member’s behalf purchases (in an open market transaction or otherwise) Ordinary Shares to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by such member of the Ordinary Shares which such member was entitled to receive upon such conversion (a " Buy-In "), then the Company shall promptly pay in cash to such member (in addition to any remedies available to or elected by the member) the amount by which such member's total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the Ordinary Shares so purchased exceeds the product of (1) the aggregate number of Ordinary Shares that such member was entitled to receive from the conversion at issue multiplied by (2) the actual sale price of the Ordinary Shares at the time of the sale (including brokerage commissions, if any) giving rise to such purchase obligation.  For example, if a member purchases Ordinary Shares having a total purchase price of US$11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an attempted conversion with respect to which the actual sale price of the Conversion Shares at the time of the sale (including brokerage commissions, if any) giving rise to such purchase obligation was a total of US$10,000, the Company shall be required to pay such member US$1,000 plus interest. Such member shall provide the Company written notice and evidence indicating the amounts payable to such member in respect of the Buy-In.
 
8.4  
The Company shall not effect any conversion of Class A Preferred Shares, and a holder of Class A Preferred Shares shall not have the right to convert any Class A Preferred Shares, pursuant to clause 8.1 or otherwise, to the extent that after giving effect to such conversion, the Class A Preferred Shareholder (together with the Class A Preferred Shareholder’s affiliates), as set forth on the applicable Notice of Conversion, would beneficially own in excess of 4.99% of the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately after giving effect to such conversion unless the Class A Preferred Shareholder shall have prior to the issue date elected to increase such amount to 9.99% of the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately after giving effect to such conversion.  For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the number of Ordinary Shares beneficially owned by the Class A Preferred Shareholder and its affiliates shall include the number of Ordinary Shares issuable upon conversion of the Class A Preferred Shares with respect to which the determination of such sentence is being made, but shall exclude the number of Ordinary Shares which would be issuable upon (A) conversion of the remaining, nonconverted portion of Class A Preferred Shares beneficially owned by the Class A Preferred Shareholder or any of its affiliates and (B) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or nonconverted portion of any other
 
 
 
 
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securities of the Company (including, without limitation, any Debentures or warrants issued by the Company) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein beneficially owned by the Class A Preferred Shareholder or any of its affiliates.  Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this clause 8.4, beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act.  To the extent that the limitation contained in this clause applies, the determination of whether Class A Preferred Shares are convertible (in relation to other securities owned by the Class A Preferred Shareholder) and of which Class A Preferred Shares are convertible shall be in the sole discretion of such Class A Preferred Shareholder. To ensure compliance with this restriction, the Class A Preferred Shareholder will be deemed to represent to the Company each time it delivers a Notice of Conversion that such Notice of Conversion has not violated the restrictions set forth in this clause and the Company shall have no obligation to verify or confirm the accuracy of such determination.  For purposes of this clause 8.4, in determining the number of outstanding Ordinary Shares, the Class A Preferred Shareholder may rely on the number of outstanding Ordinary Shares as reflected in (y) a public announcement by the Company, or (z) any other notice by the Company or the Company’s Transfer Agent setting forth the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding.  Upon the written or oral request of the Class A Preferred Shareholder, the Company shall within two Business Days confirm orally and in writing to the Class A Preferred Shareholder the number of Ordinary Shares then outstanding.  In any case, the number of outstanding Ordinary Shares shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of securities of the Company, including the Class A Preferred Shares, by the Class A Preferred Shareholder or its affiliates since the date as of which such number of outstanding Ordinary Shares was reported.  The provisions of this clause 8.4 may be disapplied with respect to a Class A Preferred Shareholder, at the election of such Class A Preferred Shareholder, upon not less than 61 days’ prior notice to the Company, and the provisions of this clause 8.4 shall continue to apply until such 61 st day (or such later date, as determined by the Class A Preferred Shareholder, as may be specified in such notice of waiver).  No disapplication by the Class A Preferred Shareholder may have the effect of increasing the 4.99% figure stated above to greater than 9.99%.  Within 3 Business Days of the request of the Class A Preferred Shareholder, the Company shall provide the Class A Preferred Shareholder an Officer’s Certificate stating the number of issued and outstanding shares in the Company, on a fully-diluted basis.  In the event the issuance of Ordinary Shares as Interest Shares or as liquidated damages in accordance with this Memorandum would exceed the beneficial ownership limitation applicable to the Class A Preferred Shareholder, then the Company may not issue nor deliver the Ordinary Shares in excess of the beneficial ownership limitation until the Class A Preferred Shareholder notifies the Company that such issuance will not exceed the beneficial ownership limitation after which notice the Company will promptly issue and deliver the withheld Ordinary Shares.
 
8.5  
Until the time that no Class A Preferred Shares are outstanding, the Company covenants to be and remain subject to the reporting requirements of a foreign private issuer under Section 12(g) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”) and to timely file (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company as a foreign private issuer after the date hereof pursuant to the Exchange Act even if the Company is not then subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act.    As long as any Class A Preferred Shares are outstanding, if the Company is not required to file reports pursuant to the Exchange Act, it will prepare and furnish to the members and make publicly available in accordance with Rule 144I of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), such information as is required for the members to sell the Conversion Shares, including without limitation, under Rule 144.  The Company further covenants that it will take such further action as any member may reasonably request, to the extent required from time to time to enable such member to sell such Conversion Shares without registration
 
 
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under the Securities Act, including without limitation, within the requirements of the exemption provided by Rule 144. At any time during the period commencing from the six (6) month anniversary of the date of issuance of the Class A Preferred Shares and ending at such time that all of the Conversion Shares may be sold without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with Rule 144I(1) and otherwise without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144, if the Company shall fail for any reason to satisfy the current public information requirement under Rule 144I (a “ Public Information Failure ”) then, in addition to such member’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to a member, in cash or in Ordinary Shares at the Company’s sole option, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, by reason of any such delay in or reduction of its ability to sell the Conversion Shares, an amount equal to one and one-half percent (1.5%) of the Per Share Liquidation Price on the day of a Public Information Failure and on every thirtieth (30 th ) day (pro rated for periods totalling less than thirty days) thereafter until the earlier of (a) the date such Public Information Failure is cured and (b) such time that such public information is no longer required  for the members to transfer the Conversion Shares pursuant to Rule 144.  The payments to which a member shall be entitled pursuant to this clause 8.5 are referred to herein as “ Public Information Failure Payments .”  The Company may, at its election, pay Public Information Failure Payments in cash or with Ordinary Shares valued at the VWAP for each day such Public Information Payments are payable.  Public Information Failure   Payments shall be paid on the earlier of (i) the last day of the calendar month during which such Public Information Failure   Payments are incurred and (ii) the third (3 rd ) business day after the event or failure giving rise to the Public Information Failure   Payments is cured.  In the event the issuance of such Ordinary Shares would result in a holder of Class A Preferred Shares owning in excess of 4.99% of the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately after giving effect to such issuance, then the Company may not issue nor deliver such Ordinary Shares in excess of the beneficial ownership limitation applicable to a member until such member notifies the Company that such issuance will not exceed the applicable beneficial ownership limitation, after which notice, the Company will promptly issue and deliver the withheld Ordinary Shares.  In the event the Company fails to make Public Information Failure   Payments in a timely manner, such Public Information Failure   Payments shall bear interest at the rate of 1.5% per month (prorated for partial months) until paid in full. Nothing herein shall limit such member’s right to pursue actual damages for the Public Information Failure, and such member shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.
 
9  
Registered Shares Only
 
Shares in the Company may only be issued as registered shares and the Company is not authorised to issue bearer shares.  Registered shares may not be exchanged for bearer shares or converted to bearer shares.
 
10  
Amendments to the Memorandum and Articles
 
10.1  
Subject to the provisions of the Act, the directors or members may from time to time amend the Memorandum or Articles by Resolution of Directors or Resolution of Members.  The directors shall give notice of such resolution to the registered agent of the Company, for the registered agent to file with the Registrar a notice of the amendment to the Memorandum or Articles, or a restated memorandum and articles of association incorporating the amendment(s) made, and any such amendment to the Memorandum or Articles will take effect from the date of the registration by the Registrar of the notice of amendment or restated memorandum and articles of association incorporating the amendment(s) made.
 
 
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10.2  
The directors shall not have the power to amend the Memorandum or Articles:
 
(a)  
to restrict the rights or powers of the members to amend the Memorandum or Articles;
 
(b)  
to change the percentage of members required to pass a resolution to amend the Memorandum or Articles; or
 
(c)  
in circumstances where the Memorandum or Articles cannot be amended by the members.
 
10.3  
A change of registered office or registered agent shall not constitute an amendment of the Memorandum or Articles.
 
10.4  
An amendment to the Memorandum or Articles which would have the effect of varying the rights of the holders of a class of shares may only be made in accordance with the provisions of the Memorandum and Articles relating to the variation of class rights.
 
11  
Definitions and Interpretation
 
11.1  
In this memorandum of association and the attached articles of association:
 
" Act "
means the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004;
   
" Affiliate "
means any other person or entity directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such person or entity;
   
" Articles "
means the Company's articles of association as attached to this Memorandum,  and "Article" shall be construed accordingly;
   
" Beneficial Ownership Limitation "
means, at the relevant time, the permitted beneficial ownership percentage applicable pursuant to clause 8.4 of this Memorandum;
   
" Debentures "
means the Convertible Debentures due 30 April 2016 issued by the Company;
   
" Equity Conditions "
means, during the period in question, (i) the Company shall have duly honoured all conversions and redemptions scheduled to occur or occurring in respect of the Class A Preferred Shares in accordance with this Memorandum, if any, (ii) all liquidated damages and other amounts owing to the Class A Preferred Shareholders in respect of the Class A Preferred Shares shall have been paid; (iii) there is a sufficient number of authorized but unissued and otherwise unreserved Ordinary Shares for the issuance of all of the shares issuable pursuant to this Memorandum, (iv) the issuance of the shares in question (or, in the case of a redemption, the shares issuable upon conversion in full of the redemption amount) to the Class A Preferred Shareholder would not violate the Beneficial Ownership Limitation;
 
 
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" control "
means the power to direct the management and policies of such person or firm, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
   
" Memorandum "
means this, the Company's memorandum of association;
   
" Offset Adjustment "
means a proportional adjustment that shall be made, as applicable, to the figures specified in this Memorandum, from time to time in the event the Company shall at any time (i) split or subdivide the outstanding Ordinary Shares and/or Preferred Shares, (ii) combine the outstanding Ordinary Shares and/or Preferred Shares into a smaller number of shares, or (iii) issue by reclassification of its Ordinary Shares and/or Preferred Shares any shares or other securities of the Company, which adjustment shall become effective immediately after the effective date of the event;
   
Ordinary Shares Equivalents
means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Ordinary Shares, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred shares, rights, options, warrants or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Ordinary Shares;
" person "
means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind;
   
" Registrar "
means the Registrar of Corporate Affairs appointed under the Act;
   
" Resolution of Directors "
means a resolution by the majority of the directors of the Company passed either at a meeting of directors, or by way of a Written Resolution, in either case in accordance with the provisions of the Articles;
 
 
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" Resolution of Members "
means a resolution by the members holding a majority of the voting rights in respect of such resolution passed either at a meeting of members, or by way of a Written Resolution, in either case in accordance with the provisions of the Articles;
   
" Subsidiary "
means, with respect to any entity at any date, any direct or indirect corporation, limited or general partnership, limited liability company, trust, estate, association, joint venture or other business entity of which (A) more than 40% of (i) the outstanding shares having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or other managing body of such entity, (ii) in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, the interest in the capital or profits of such partnership or limited liability company or (iii) in the case of a trust, estate, association, joint venture or other entity, the beneficial interest in such trust, estate, association or other entity business is, at the time of determination, owned or controlled directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, by such entity, or (B) is under the actual control of the Company;
   
" Trading Day "
means a day on which the principal Trading Market is open for trading;
   
" Trading Market "
means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Ordinary Shares are listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE AMEX, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange or the OTC Bulletin Board (or any successors to any of the foregoing);
 
 
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" VWAP "
means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses that applies: (a) if the Ordinary Shares are then listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the daily volume weighted average price of the Ordinary Shares for such date or dates, if applicable (or the nearest preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Ordinary Shares are then listed or quoted as reported by Bloomberg L.P. (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time)), (b)  if the OTC Bulletin Board is not a Trading Market, the volume weighted average price of the Ordinary Shares for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the OTC Bulletin Board, (c) if the Ordinary Shares are not then listed or quoted for trading on the OTC Bulletin Board and if prices for the Ordinary Shares are then reported in the “Pink Sheets” published by Pink OTC Markets, Inc. (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share of the Ordinary Shares so reported, or (d) in all other cases, the fair market value of an Ordinary Shares as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the holders of a majority of the Class A Preferred Shares then outstanding and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be paid by the Company; and
   
" Written Resolution "
means a resolution of members or directors (as applicable) consented to in writing or by telex, telegram, cable or other written electronic communication, without the need for any notice.  A Written Resolution may consist of several documents, including written electronic communications, in like form each signed or assented to by one or more members or directors (including directors' alternates) (as applicable).  A Written Resolution shall be passed if so consented by a majority of those members or directors (including directors' alternates) (as applicable) entitled to vote on the resolution.
 
11.2  
In the Memorandum and Articles:
 
(a)  
words and expressions defined in the Act shall have the same meaning and, unless otherwise required by the context, the singular shall include the plural and vice versa, the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter and references to persons shall include corporations and all entities capable of having a legal existence;
 
(b)  
reference to a provision of law is a reference to that provision as extended, applied, amended or re-enacted and includes any subordinate legislation;
 
 
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(c)  
the headings are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction of the Memorandum or Articles;
 
(d)  
reference to a thing being " written " or " in writing " includes all forms of writing, including all electronic records which satisfy the requirements of the Electronic Transactions Act, 2001;
 
(e)  
reference to a thing being " signed " or to a person's " signature " shall include reference to an electronic signature which satisfies the requirements of the Electronic Transactions Act, 2001, and reference to the Company's " seal " shall include reference to an electronic seal which satisfies the requirements of the Electronic Transactions Act, 2001.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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We, Maples Finance BVI Limited of Kingston Chambers, PO Box 173, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands in our capacity as registered agent for the Company hereby apply to the Registrar for the incorporation of the Company this 17th day of April 2008 .



Incorporator
 


(Sgd.) Clinton Hempel
                                                       
Clinton Hempel
Authorised Signatory
Maples Finance BVI Limited
 
 
 
 
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TERRITORY OF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
 
 
 
THE BVI BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT, 2004
 
 
AMENDED AND RESTATED
 
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
 
 
OF
 
 
China Networks International Holdings Ltd.
 
 

 
 
1  
Share Certificates
 
1.1  
Every person whose name is entered as a member in the share register, being the holder of registered shares, shall without payment be entitled to a share certificate in the following circumstances:
 
(a)  
on the issuance of such shares to such member;
 
(b)  
on the transfer of such shares to such member;
 
(c)  
on a re-designation or conversion of such shares with the effect that the certificate previously issued no longer properly describes such shares; and
 
(d)  
at the discretion of the directors (who may levy a reasonable charge), on notice to the Company of a change of name of the member.
 
1.2  
Such certificate shall be signed by a director or under the common seal of the Company (which the registered agent of the Company is authorised to affix to such certificate) with or without the signature of any director or officer of the Company specifying the share or shares held and the par value thereof (if the Company is authorised at the relevant time to issue shares with a par value), provided that in respect of shares held jointly by several persons, the Company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate and delivery of a certificate for a share to one of several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all such joint holders.
 
1.3  
If a certificate is worn out or lost it may, subject to the prior written consent of any mortgagee or chargee whose interest has been noted on the register of members, be renewed on production of the worn out certificate, or on satisfactory proof of its loss together with such indemnity as the directors may reasonably require.  Any member receiving a share certificate shall indemnify and hold the Company and its officers harmless from any loss or liability which it or they may incur by reason of wrongful or fraudulent use or representation made by any person by virtue of the possession of such a certificate.
 
 
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2  
Issue of Shares
 
2.1  
Subject to the provisions of the Memorandum and these Articles, the unissued shares of the Company (whether forming part of the original or any increased authorised shares)   shall be at the disposal of the directors   who may offer, allot, grant options over or otherwise dispose of them to such persons at such times and for such consideration, being not less than the par value (if any) of the shares being disposed of, and upon such terms and conditions as the directors may determine.   Such consideration may take any form acceptable to the directors, including money, a promissory note, or other written obligation to contribute money or property, real property,   personal property (including goodwill and know-how), services rendered or a contract for future services. Before issuing shares for a consideration other than money, the directors shall pass a Resolution of Directors stating:
 
(a)  
the amount to be credited for the issue of the shares;
 
(b)  
their determination of the reasonable present cash value of the non-money consideration for the issue; and
 
(c)  
that, in their opinion, the present cash value of the non-money consideration for the issue is not less than the amount to be credited for the issue of the shares.
 
2.2  
The Company shall be prohibited from effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Ordinary Shares or Ordinary Shares Equivalents for cash consideration (or a combination of units thereof) involving a Variable Rate Transaction. “ Variable Rate Transaction ” means a transaction in which the Company (i) issues or sells any debt or equity securities that are convertible into, exchangeable or exercisable for, or include the right to receive, additional Ordinary Shares either (A) at a conversion price, exercise price or exchange rate or other price that is based upon, and/or varies with, the trading prices of or quotations for the Ordinary Shares at any time after the initial issuance of such debt or equity securities or (B) with a conversion, exercise or exchange price that is subject to being reset at some future date after the initial issuance of such debt or equity security or upon the occurrence of specified or contingent events directly or indirectly related to the business of the Company or the market for the Ordinary Shares or (ii) enters into any agreement, including, but not limited to, an equity line of credit, whereby the Company may sell securities at a future determined price.
 
2.3  
Subject to the provisions of the Act in this regard, shares may be issued on the terms that they are redeemable, or at the option of the Company be liable to be redeemed on such terms and in such manner as the directors before or at the time of the issue of such shares may determine.   At any time after the consummation of a Business Combination (as defined in these Articles), the directors may issue options, warrants or convertible securities or securities of similar nature conferring the right upon the holders thereof to subscribe for, purchase or receive any class of shares or securities in the Company on such terms as it may from time to time determine.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the directors may issue options, warrants or convertible securities in connection with the Company’s initial public offering.
 
2.4  
The Company may issue bonus shares, partly paid shares and nil paid shares.
 
2.5  
The directors may redeem any share issued by the Company at a premium.
 
2.6  
Except as otherwise expressly provided in the resolution or resolutions providing for the establishment of any class or series of preferred shares, or in the Memorandum or these Articles, no vote of the holders of preferred shares or of the holders of ordinary shares shall be a prerequisite to the issuance of any shares of any class or series of the preferred shares authorized by and complying with the conditions in the Memorandum or these Articles.
 
 
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2.7  
Except as required by the Act, an d notwithstanding that a share certificate may refer to a member holding shares "as trustee" or similar expression, no person shall be recognised by the Company as holding any share upon any trust, and the Company shall not be bound by or be compelled in any way to recognise (even when having notice thereof) any equitable, contingent, future or partial interest in any share or any interest in any fractional part of a share or (except as provided by these Articles or by the Act) any other rights in respect of any share except any absolute right to the entirety thereof by the registered holder.
 
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Forfeiture of Shares
 
3.1  
The Company may, at any time after the due date for payment, serve on a member who has not paid in full for shares registered in the name of that member, a written notice of call (" Notice of Call ") specifying a date for payment to be made.  The Notice of Call shall name a further date not earlier than the expiration of 14 days from the date of service of the Notice of Call on or before which the payment required by the Notice of Call is to be made and shall contain a statement that in the event of non-payment at or before the time named in the Notice of Call the shares, or any of them, in respect of which payment is not made will be liable to be forfeited.
 
3.2  
Where a written Notice of Call has been issued under the foregoing Article and the requirements of the Notice of Call have not been complied with, the directors may, at any time before tender of payment, forfeit and cancel the shares to which the Notice of Call relates.  The Company is under no obligation to refund any moneys to the member whose shares have been cancelled pursuant to this Article and that member shall be discharged from any further obligation to the Company.
 
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Transfer of Shares
 
4.1  
Shares in the Company shall be transferred by a written instrument of transfer signed by the transferor and containing the name and address of the transferee.  The instrument of transfer shall also be signed by the transferee if registration as a holder of the shares imposes a liability to the Company on the transferee.  The instrument of transfer of a registered share shall be sent to the Company for registration.
 
4.2  
Subject to the Memorandum of Association, these Articles and to Section 54(5) of the Act, the Company shall, on receipt of an instrument of transfer, enter the name of the transferee of the share in the register of members unless the directors resolve to refuse or delay the registration of the transfer for reasons that shall be specified in the resolution.  Where the directors pass such a resolution, the Company shall send to the transferor and the transferee a notice of the refusal or delay.   Notwithstanding anything contained in the Memorandum or Articles, the directors shall not decline to register any transfer of shares, nor may they suspend registration thereof where such transfer is:
 
(a)  
to any mortgagee or chargee whose interest has been noted on the register of members;
 
(b)  
by any such mortgagee or chargee, pursuant to the power of sale under its security; or
 
(c)  
by any such mortgagee or chargee in accordance with the terms of the relevant security document.
 
 
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4.3  
The transfer of a registered share is effective when the name of the transferee is entered in the register of members.
 
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Mortgages of Shares and Charges over Shares
 
5.1  
Members may mortgage or create a charge or other form of security over their shares.
 
5.2  
The directors shall, at the written request of a member who has mortgaged or created a charge over his shares, enter in the register of members of the Company:
 
(a)  
a statement that such shares are mortgaged or charged;
 
(b)  
the name of the mortgagee or chargee (where such information has been stated by the member); and
 
(c)  
the date on which the statement and name are entered in the register of members.
 
6  
Transmission of Shares
 
6.1  
Subject to Sections 52(2) and 53 of the Act, the executor or administrator of a deceased member, the guardian of an incompetent member or the trustee of a bankrupt member shall be the only person recognised by the Company as having any title to his share, save that and only in the event of death, incompetence or bankruptcy of any member or members of the Company as a consequence of which the Company no longer has any directors or members, then upon the production of any documentation which is reasonable evidence of the applicant being entitled to:
 
(a)  
a grant of probate of the deceased's will, or grant of letters of administration of the deceased's estate, or confirmation of the appointment as executor or administrator (as the case may be, or analogous position in the relevant jurisdiction), of a deceased member's estate;
 
(b)  
the appointment of a guardian (or analogous position in the relevant jurisdiction) of an incompetent member;
 
(c)  
the appointment as trustee (or analogous position in the relevant jurisdiction) of a bankrupt member; or
 
(d)  
upon production of any other reasonable evidence of the applicant's beneficial ownership of, or entitlement to the shares,
 
 
to the Company's registered agent in the British Virgin Islands together with (if so requested by the registered agent) a notarised copy of the share certificate(s) of the deceased, incompetent or bankrupt member, an indemnity in favour of the registered agent and/or appropriate legal advice in respect of any document issued by a foreign court, then the administrator, executor, guardian or trustee in bankruptcy (as the case may be) notwithstanding that their name has not been entered in the share register of the Company, may by written resolution of the applicant, endorsed with written approval by the registered agent, be appointed a director of the Company and/or entered in the share register as the legal and/or beneficial owner of the shares.
 
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6.2  
Without limiting the foregoing, the production to the Company of any document which is reasonable evidence of:
 
(a)  
a grant of probate of the will, or grant of letters of administration of the estate, or confirmation of the appointment as executor (or analogous position in the relevant jurisdiction), of a deceased member;
 
(b)  
the appointment of a guardian (or analogous position in the relevant jurisdiction) of an incompetent member;
 
(c)  
the trustee (or analogous position in the relevant jurisdiction) of a bankrupt member; or
 
(d)  
the applicant's legal and/or beneficial ownership of the shares,
 
shall be accepted by the Company even if the deceased, incompetent member or bankrupt member is resident and/or domiciled outside the British Virgin Islands if the document is issued by a foreign court which had competent jurisdiction in the matter.  For the purposes of establishing whether or not a foreign court had competent jurisdiction in such a matter the directors may obtain appropriate legal advice.  The directors may also require an indemnity to be given by the executor, administrator, guardian, trustee in bankruptcy or the applicant.
 
6.3  
Any person becoming entitled by operation of law or otherwise to a share or shares in consequence of the death, incompetence or bankruptcy of any member may be registered as a member upon such evidence being produced as may reasonably be required by the directors.  An application by any such person to be registered as a member shall for all purposes be deemed to be a transfer of shares of the deceased, incompetent or bankrupt member and the directors shall treat it as such.
 
6.4  
Any person who has become entitled to a share or shares in consequence of the death, incompetence or bankruptcy of any member may, instead of being registered himself, request in writing that some person to be named by him be registered as the transferee of such share or shares and such request shall likewise be treated as if it were a transfer.
 
6.5  
What amounts to incompetence on the part of a person is a matter to be determined by the court having regard to all the relevant evidence and the circumstances of the case.
 
7  
Acquisition of Own Shares
 
7.1  
The directors may, on behalf of the Company, purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any of the Company's own shares for such consideration as the directors consider fit, and either cancel or hold such shares as treasury shares.  Shares may be purchased or otherwise acquired in exchange for newly issued shares in the Company.
 
7.2  
The directors shall not, unless permitted pursuant to the Act, purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any of the Company's own shares unless immediately after such purchase, redemption or other acquisition:
 
(a)  
the value of the Company's assets exceeds it liabilities; and
 
(b)  
the Company is able to pay its debts as they fall due.
 
7.3  
Sections 60 and 61 of the Act shall not apply to the Company.
 
 
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Treasury Shares
 
8.1  
Shares may only be held as treasury shares by the Company to the extent that the number of treasury shares does not exceed 50% of the shares of that class previously issued by the Company, excluding shares that have been cancelled.
 
8.2  
The directors may dispose of any shares held as treasury shares on such terms and conditions as they may from time to time determine.
 
9  
Notice of Meetings of Members
 
9.1  
The directors may convene meetings of the members of the Company at such times and in such manner and places (within or outside the British Virgin Islands) as the directors consider necessary or desirable, and they shall convene such a meeting upon the written request of members entitled to exercise at least thirty (30) percent of the voting rights in respect of the matter for which the meeting is requested. Meetings of members shall take place at least annually (the “ Annual Meeting ”).
 
9.2  
Not less than seven (7) days' notice specifying at least the place, the day and the hour of the meeting and general nature of the business to be conducted shall be given in the manner hereinafter mentioned to such persons whose names on the date the notice is given appear as members in the share register of the Company and are entitled to vote at the meeting.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, a meeting of members held in contravention of the requirement to give notice is valid if members holding a ninety (90) percent majority of:
 
(a)  
the total voting rights on all the matters to be considered at the meeting; or
 
(b)  
the votes of each class or series of shares where members are entitled to vote thereon as a class or series together with an absolute majority of the remaining votes,
 
have waived notice of the meeting and, for this purpose, the presence of a member at the meeting shall be deemed to constitute waiver on his part (unless such member objects in writing before or at the meeting).
 
9.3  
The inadvertent failure of the directors to give notice of a meeting to a member or the fact that a member has not received a notice that has been properly given, shall not invalidate the meeting.
 
10  
Proceedings at Meetings of Members
 
10.1  
No business shall be transacted at any meeting of members unless a quorum of members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business.  A quorum shall consist of the holder or holders present in person or by proxy entitled to exercise at least fifty (50) percent of the voting rights of the shares of each class or series of shares entitled to vote as a class or series thereon and the same proportion of the votes of the remaining shares entitled to vote thereon.
 
10.2  
A member of the Company shall be deemed to be present at a meeting of members if:
 
(a)  
he or his proxy participates by telephone or other electronic means; and
 
(b)  
all members and proxies participating in the meeting are able to hear each other.
 
 
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10.3  
If, within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting, a quorum is not present, the meeting shall be dissolved.
 
10.4  
A member may attend a meeting of members personally or be represented by a proxy who may speak and vote on behalf of the member.
 
10.5  
The instrument appointing a proxy shall be produced at the place appointed for the meeting before the time for holding the meeting at which the person named in such instrument proposes to vote.  An instrument appointing a proxy shall be in such form as the Chairman of the meeting shall accept as properly evidencing the wishes of the member appointing the proxy, but must be in writing under the hand of the appointer unless the appointer is a corporation or other form of legal entity (other than one or more individuals holding as joint owner) in which case the instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of an individual duly authorised by such corporation or legal entity to execute the same.
 
10.6  
At every meeting the members present shall choose someone of their number to be the chairman (the " Chairman ").  If the members are unable to choose a Chairman for any reason, then the person representing the greatest number of voting shares present at the meeting shall preside as Chairman.
 
10.7  
The Chairman may, with the consent of the meeting, adjourn any meeting from time to time, and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place.
 
10.8   
At any meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands by a simple majority of those members (or their duly appointed proxies) entitled to vote and voting on the resolution, unless a poll is (before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands) demanded:
 
(a)  
by the Chairman; or
 
(b)  
by any member present in person or by proxy and holding not less than one tenth of the total voting shares issued by the Company and having the right to vote on such resolution.
 
10.9  
Unless a poll be so demanded, a declaration by the Chairman that a resolution has, on a show of hands been carried, and an entry to that effect in the book containing the minutes   of the proceedings of the Company, shall be sufficient evidence of the fact, without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against such resolution.
 
10.10  
If a poll is duly demanded it shall be taken in such manner as the Chairman directs, and the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting   at which the poll was demanded.  The demand for a poll may be withdrawn, at the discretion of the Chairman.
 
10.11  
On a poll, every holder of a voting share present in person or by proxy shall have one vote for every voting share of which he is the holder which confers the right to a vote on the resolution.
 
10.12  
In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands   or on a poll, the Chairman   of the meeting at which the show of hands takes place, or at which the poll is demanded, shall be entitled to a second or casting vote.
 
 
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10.13  
Subject to the Memorandum or these Articles, an action that may be taken by members of the Company at a meeting of members may also be taken by Written Resolution.
 
10.14  
If a committee is appointed for any member who is of unsound mind, that member may vote by such committee.
 
11  
Jointly Held Shares
 
11.1  
Where shares are registered in the names of joint owners:
 
(a)  
each registered owner may be present in person or by proxy at a meeting of members and may speak as a member;
 
(b)  
if only one of them is present in person or by proxy, he may vote on behalf of all of them; and
 
(c)  
if two or more are present in person or by proxy, they must vote as one.  If more than one joint owner votes in person or by proxy at any meeting of members or by Written Resolution, the vote of the joint owner whose name appears first among such voting joint holders in the share register shall alone be counted.
 
12  
Corporations Acting by Representatives at Meetings
 
Any corporation or other form of corporate legal entity which is a member of the Company may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the members or any class of members of the Company, and the person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation which he represents as that corporation could exercise if it were an individual member of the Company.
 
13  
Appointment and Removal of Directors
 
13.1  
The first director or directors shall be appointed by the registered agent of the Company.  Thereafter, the directors shall be appointed and removed by resolution of directors or resolution of members for such terms as the directors or members may so determine.  Sections 114(2) and 114(3) of the Act shall not apply to the Company.
 
13.2  
Except as the Act may otherwise require, newly created directorships and any vacancies in the board of directors, including unfilled vacancies resulting from the removal of directors for cause, may be filled by the vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum (as defined in these Articles), or by the sole remaining director.
 
13.3  
A director elected to fill a vacancy resulting from the death, resignation or removal of a director shall serve for the remainder of the full term of the director whose death, resignation or removal shall have created such vacancy and until his successor shall have been elected and qualified.
 
13.4  
A person shall not be appointed as a director of the Company unless he has consented in writing to be a director.
 
13.5  
Each director holds office until:
 
 
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(a)  
his disqualification to act as a director under Section 111 of the Act (on which his office as director shall be automatically terminated if he has not resigned in accordance with section 115(2) of the Act);
 
(b)  
his death;
 
(c)  
his resignation; or
 
(d)  
the effective date of his removal by Resolution of Directors or Resolution of Members.
 
13.6  
The following are disqualified for appointment as the director of the Company:
 
(a)  
an individual who is under 18 years of age;
 
(b)  
a person who is a disqualified person within the meaning of section 260(4) of the Insolvency Act, 2003;
 
(c)  
a person who is a restricted person within the meaning of section 409 of the Insolvency Act, 2003; and
 
(d)  
an undischarged bankrupt.
 
13.7  
A director shall not require a share qualification, but nevertheless shall be entitled to attend and speak at any meeting of the directors and meeting of the members and at any separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the Company.
 
13.8  
The remuneration of directors (whether by way of salary, commission, participation in profits or otherwise) in respect of services rendered or to be rendered in any capacity to the Company (including to any company in which the Company may be interested) shall be fixed by Resolution of Directors or Resolution of Members.  The directors may also be paid such travelling, hotel and other expenses properly incurred by them in attending and returning from meetings of the directors, or any committee of the directors or meetings of the members, or in connection with the business of the Company as shall be approved by Resolution of Directors or Resolution of Members.
 
14  
Alternate and Reserve Directors
 
14.1  
A director, by written instrument deposited at the registered office of the Company, may from time to time appoint another director or another person to be his alternate.  Every such alternate shall be entitled to be given notice of meetings of the directors and to attend and vote as a director at any such meeting at which the director appointing him is not personally present (and to vote on a Written Resolution) and generally at such meeting (or in connection with such Written Resolution) to have and exercise all the powers, rights, duties and authorities of the director appointing him.  Every such alternate shall be deemed to be an officer of the Company and shall not be deemed to be an agent of the director appointing him.  Unless stated otherwise in the notice of the appointment of the alternate, if undue delay or difficulty would be occasioned by giving notice to a director of a resolution of which his approval is sought in accordance with these Articles his alternate (if any) shall be entitled to signify approval of the same on behalf of that director.  The remuneration of an alternate shall be payable out of the remuneration payable to the director appointing him, as agreed between such alternate and the director appointing him.  A director, by writing under his hand deposited at the registered office of the Company, may at any time vary or revoke the appointment of an alternate appointed by him.  If a director shall die or cease to hold the office of director, the appointment of his alternate shall thereupon cease and terminate.
 
 
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14.2  
Where the Company has only one member with voting rights who is an individual and that member is also the sole director of the Company (the   " sole member/director "), that sole member/director may, by instrument in writing, nominate a person who is not disqualified from being a director of the Company under section 111(1) of the Act as a reserve director of the Company to act in the place of the sole director in the event of his death.A person shall not be nominated as a reserve director unless he has consented in writing to be nominated as a reserve director. The nomination of a person as a reserve director of the Company ceases to have effect if:
 
(a)  
before the death of the sole member/director who nominated him:
 
(i)  
he resigns as reserve director, or
 
(ii)  
the sole member/director revokes the nomination in writing; or
 
(b)  
the sole member/director who nominated him ceases to be the sole member/director of the company for any reason other than his death.
 
15  
Duties of Directors and Conflicts of Interests
 
15.1  
A director of the Company, in exercising his powers or performing his duties,   shall act honestly and in good faith and in what the director believes to be in the best interests of the Company.
 
15.2  
Notwithstanding the foregoing Article, if the Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary, a director of the Company may, when exercising powers or performing duties as a director, act in a manner which he believes is in the best interests of that Company’s holding company (as defined in the Act) even though it may not be in the best interests of the Company.
 
15.3  
A director shall exercise his powers as a director for a proper purpose and shall not act, or agree to the Company acting, in a manner that contravenes the Act or the Memorandum or Articles.
 
15.4  
A director, when exercising powers or performing duties as a director, shall exercise the care, diligence, and skill that a reasonable director would exercise in the same circumstances taking into account,   but without limitation:
 
(a)  
the nature of the Company;
 
(b)  
the nature of the decision; and
 
(c)  
the position of the director and the nature of the responsibilities undertaken by him.
 
15.5  
A director of the Company, when exercising his powers or performing his duties as a director, is entitled to rely upon the register of members and upon books, records, financial statements and other information prepared or supplied, and on professional or expert advice given, by:
 
(a)  
an employee of the Company whom the director believes on reasonable grounds to be reliable and competent in relation to the matters concerned;
 
 
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(b)  
a professional adviser or expert in relation to matters which the director believes on reasonable grounds to be within the person’s professional or expert competence; and
 
(c)  
any other director, or committee of directors upon which the director did not serve, in relation to matters within the director’s or committee’s designated authority,
 
provided that the director:
 
(d)  
acts in good faith;
 
(e)  
makes proper inquiry where the need for the inquiry is indicated by the circumstances; and
 
(f)  
has no knowledge that his reliance on the register of members or the books, records, financial statements and other information or expert advice is not warranted.
 
15.6  
A director may hold any other office or position of profit under the Company (except that of auditor) in conjunction with his office of director, and may act in a professional capacity to the Company on such terms as to remuneration and otherwise as the directors shall approve.
 
15.7  
A director may be or become a director or officer of, or otherwise be interested in any company promoted by the Company, or in which the Company may be interested, as a member or otherwise and no such director shall be accountable for any remuneration or other benefits received by him as director or officer or from his interest in such other company.  The directors may also exercise the voting powers conferred by the shares in any other company held or owned by the Company in such manner in all respects as they think fit, including the exercise thereof in favour of any resolutions appointing them, or of their number, directors or officers of such other company, or voting or providing for the payment of remuneration to the directors or officers of such other company.  A director may vote in favour of the exercise of such voting rights in the manner aforesaid notwithstanding that he may be, or be about to become, a director or officer of such other company, and as such in any other manner is, or may be, interested in the exercise of such voting rights in the manner aforesaid.
 
15.8  
No director shall be disqualified by his office from contracting with the Company either as a buyer, seller or otherwise, nor shall any such contract or arrangement entered into by or on behalf of the Company in which any director shall be in any way interested be voided, nor shall any director so contracting or being so interested be liable to account to the Company for any profit realised by any such contract or arrangement, by reason of such director holding that office or by reason of the fiduciary relationship thereby established, provided such director shall, immediately after becoming aware of the fact that he is interested in a transaction entered into or to be entered into by the Company, disclose such interest to the board of directors.  For the purposes of this Article:
 
(a)  
A director of the Company is not required to make such a disclosure if:
 
(i)  
the transaction or proposed transaction is between the director and the Company; and
 
(ii)  
the transaction or proposed transaction is or is to be entered into in the ordinary course of the Company's business and on usual terms and conditions.
 
 
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(b)  
A disclosure to the board to the effect that a director is a member, director, officer or trustee of another named company or other person and is to be regarded as interested in any transaction which may, after the date of the entry or disclosure, be entered into with that company or person, is a sufficient disclosure of interest in relation to that transaction.  Such a disclosure is not made to the board unless it is made or brought to the attention of every director on the board.
 
(c)  
Subject to Section 125(1) of the Act, the failure by a director to comply with this Article does not affect the validity of a transaction entered into by the director or the Company.
 
15.9  
A director of the Company who is interested in a transaction entered into or to be entered into by the Company may:
 
(a)  
vote on a matter relating to the transaction;
 
(b)  
attend a meeting of directors at which a matter relating to the transaction arises and be included among the directors present at the meeting for the purposes of a quorum; and
 
(c)  
sign a document on behalf of the Company, or do any other thing in his capacity as a director, that relates to the transaction.
 
16  
Powers of Directors
 
16.1  
The business of the Company shall be managed by the directors who may pay all expenses incurred preliminary to and in connection with the formation and registration of the Company, and may exercise all such powers of the Company necessary for managing and for directing and supervising, the business and affairs of the Company as are not by the Act or by the Memorandum or these Articles required to be exercised by the members, subject to any delegation of such powers as may be authorised by these Articles and permitted by the Act and to such requirements as may be prescribed by Resolution of the Members, but no requirement made by Resolution of the Members shall prevail if it be inconsistent with these Articles nor shall such requirement invalidate any prior act of the directors which would have been valid if such requirement had not been made.
 
16.2  
If the number of directors shall have been fixed at two or more persons and by reason of vacancies having occurred in the board of directors there shall be only one continuing director, he shall be authorised to act alone only for the purpose of appointing another director.
 
17  
Delegation by the Board to Directors, Committees, Officers, Attorneys and Agents
 
17.1  
The board of directors may entrust to and confer upon any director or officer any of the powers exercisable by it upon such terms and conditions and with such restrictions as it thinks fit, and either collaterally with, or to the exclusion of, its own powers, and may from time to time revoke, withdraw, alter or vary all or any of such powers.  Subject to the provisions of Section 110 of the Act, the directors may delegate any of their powers to committees consisting of such member or members of their body as they think fit.  Any committees so formed shall in the exercise of powers so delegated conform to any regulations that may be imposed on it by the directors or the provisions of the Act.
 
17.2  
The directors have no power to delegate the following powers to a committee of directors:
 
 
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(a)  
to amend the Memorandum or Articles;
 
(b)  
to designate committees of directors;
 
(c)  
to delegate powers to a committee of directors; (This and the preceding sub-Article do not prevent a committee of directors, where authorised by the directors, from appointing a sub-committee and delegating powers exercisable by the committee to the sub-committee);
 
(d)  
to appoint or remove directors;
 
(e)  
to appoint or remove an agent;
 
(f)  
to approve a plan or merger, consolidation or arrangement;
 
(g)  
to make a declaration of solvency for the purposes of section 198(1)(a) of the Act or approve a liquidation plan; or
 
(h)  
to make a determination under section 57(1) of the Act that the Company will, immediately after a proposed distribution, satisfy the solvency test.
 
17.3  
Where the directors of the Company delegate their powers to a committee of directors, they remain responsible for the exercise of that power by the committee, unless they believed on reasonable grounds that at all times before the exercise of the power that the committee would exercise the power in conformity with the duties imposed on directors of the Company by the Act.
 
17.4  
The directors of the Company may, by Resolution of Directors, appoint officers of the Company at such times as shall be considered necessary or expedient.  The officers shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed at the time of their appointment subject to any modifications in such duties as may be prescribed by the directors thereafter.
 
17.5  
Any person may hold more than one office and no officer need be a director or member of the Company.  The officers shall remain in office until removed from office by the directors, whether or not a successor is appointed.
 
17.6  
Any officer who is a body corporate may appoint any person as its duly authorised representative for the purpose of representing it and of transacting any of the business of the officers.
 
17.7  
The directors may from time to time by power of attorney appoint any company, firm or person or body of persons to be the attorney or attorneys of the Company for such purposes and with such powers, authorities and discretions (not exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the directors under these Articles) and for such period and subject to such conditions as the directors think fit.
 
17.8  
The directors may appoint any person, including a person who is a director, to be an agent of the company.  An agent of the Company has such powers and authority of the directors, including the power and authority to affix the common seal of the Company, as are set forth in the Resolution of Directors appointing the agent, except that no agent has any power or authority with respect to the following:
 
(a)  
to amend the Memorandum or Articles;
 
 
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(b)  
to change the registered office or registered agent;
 
(c)  
to designate committees of directors;
 
(d)  
to delegate powers to a committee of directors;
 
(e)  
to appoint or remove directors;
 
(f)  
to appoint or remove an agent;
 
(g)  
to fix emoluments of directors;
 
(h)  
to approve a plan of merger, consolidation or arrangement;
 
(i)  
to make a declaration of solvency for the purposes of section 198(1)(a) of the Act or to approve a liquidation plan;
 
(j)  
to make a determination under section 57(1) of the Act that the Company will, immediately after a proposed distribution, satisfy the solvency test as stipulated in Section 56 of the Act; or
 
(k)  
to authorise the Company to continue as a company incorporated under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the British Virgin Islands.
 
17.9  
Where the directors appoint any person to be an agent of the Company, they may authorise the agent to appoint one or more substitutes or delegates to exercise some or all of the powers conferred on the agent by the Company.
 
17.10  
The directors may at any time remove an agent and may revoke or vary a power conferred on him.
 
18  
Proceedings of Directors
 
18.1  
The directors may meet together for the dispatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate their meetings as they think fit.  The meetings of the board of directors and any committee thereof shall be held at such place or places (within or outside the British Virgin Islands) as the directors shall decide.
 
18.2  
A director may at any time summon a meeting of the directors.  A director shall be given not less than three (3) business days' (being full business days in the place of the director's residence) notice of a meeting of the directors, save that a meeting of directors held on less notice is valid if a majority of the directors entitled to vote at the meeting have waived the notice of the meeting; and, for this purpose, the presence of a director at the meeting shall be deemed to constitute waiver on his part (unless he objects in writing before or at the meeting).
 
18.3  
The inadvertent failure to give notice of a meeting to a director, or the fact that a director has not received the notice shall not invalidate the meeting.
 
18.4  
Any director who is a body corporate may appoint any person its duly authorised representative for the purpose of representing it at meetings of the directors and of transacting any of the business of the directors.
 
 
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18.5  
A meeting of the directors is duly constituted for all purposes if at the commencement of the meeting there are present in person or by alternate not less than one-third of the total number of directors with a minimum of two (2).
 
18.6  
If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting shall be dissolved.
 
18.7  
A director of the Company shall be deemed to be present at a meeting of the board if:
 
(a)  
he or his alternate participates by telephone or other electronic means; and
 
(b)  
all directors and alternates participating in the meeting are able to hear each other.
 
18.8  
The directors may elect a chairman (the " Chairman of the Board ") of their meeting and determine the period for which he is to hold office.  If no such Chairman of the Board is elected, or if at any meeting the Chairman of the Board is not present at the time appointed for holding the meeting, the directors present may choose one of their number to be Chairman of the Board for the meeting.  If the directors are unable to choose a Chairman of the Board, for any reason, then the longest serving director present at the meeting shall preside as the Chairman of the Board.
 
18.9  
Questions arising at any meeting of directors shall be decided by a majority of votes.  In case of an equality in votes the Chairman of the Board shall have a second or casting vote.
 
18.10  
A resolution approved by a majority of the directors for the time being entitled to receive notice of a meeting of the directors or of a committee of the directors and taking the form of a Written Resolution shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the directors or of such committee duly convened and held, without the need for any notice.
 
18.11  
If the Company shall have only one director, the foregoing provisions for meetings of the directors shall not apply but such sole director shall have full power to represent and act for the Company in all matters and in lieu of minutes of a meeting shall record in writing and sign a note of memorandum of all matters requiring a resolution of the directors.  Such note or memorandum shall constitute sufficient evidence of such resolution for all purposes.
 
19  
Indemnification and Insurance
 
19.1  
Subject to the provisions of the Act and the subsequent provisions of this Article, the Company may indemnify against all expenses, including legal fees, and against all judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement and reasonably incurred in connection with legal, administrative or investigative proceedings any person who:
 
(a)  
is or was a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed proceedings, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director of the Company;  or
 
(b)
is or was, at the request of the Company, serving as a director of, or in any other capacity is or was acting for, another company or a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.
 
19.2  
This Article applies only to a person who has acted honestly and in good faith and in what he believed to be the best interests of the Company and, in the case of criminal proceedings, the person had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful. The Company shall not indemnify a person who has not so acted, and any indemnity given to such a person is void and of no effect. A director acts in the best interests of the Company if he acts in the best interests of:
 
 
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(a)  
the Company’s holding company; or
 
(b)  
a shareholder or shareholders of the Company;
 
in either case, in the circumstances specified in the sub-Articles below, as the case may be:
 
19.3  
The termination of any proceedings by any judgement, order, settlement, conviction or the entering of a nolle prosequi does not, by itself, create a presumption that the person did not act honestly and in good faith and with a view to the best interests of the Company or that the person had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.
 
19.4  
Expenses, including legal fees, incurred by a director in defending any legal, administrative or investigative proceedings may be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such proceedings upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director to repay the amount if it shall ultimately be determined that the director is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company in accordance with this Article.
 
19.5  
Expenses, including legal fees, incurred by a former director in defending any legal, administrative or investigative proceedings may be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such proceedings upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the former director to repay the amount if it shall ultimately be determined that the former director is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company in accordance with this Article and upon such other terms and conditions, if any, as the Company deems appropriate.
 
19.6  
The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article is not exclusive of any other rights to which the person seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any agreement, resolution of members, resolution of disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to acting in the person’s official capacity and as to acting in another capacity while serving as a director of the Company.
 
19.7  
The Company may purchase and maintain insurance in relation to any person who is or was a director of the Company, or who at the request of the Company is or was serving as a director of, or in any other capacity is or was acting for, another body corporate or a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against the person and incurred by the person in that capacity, whether or not the Company has or would have had the power to indemnify the person against the liability under the foregoing Article.
 
20  
Company Seal and Entry into Contracts and Deeds
 
20.1  
The directors shall provide for the safe custody of the common seal of the Company.  The common seal when affixed to any instrument (save for a share certificate in accordance with these Articles) shall be witnessed by a director or officer of the Company or any other person so authorised from time to time by the directors.
 
20.2  
A contract may be entered into by the Company as follows:
 
 
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(a)  
a contract that, if entered into by an individual, would be required by law to be in writing and under seal, may be entered into by or on behalf of the Company in writing under the common seal of the Company, or executed by or on behalf of the Company by a director or an authorised agent of the Company, and may be varied or discharged in the same manner;
 
(b)  
a contract that, if entered into by an individual, would be required by law to be in writing and signed, may be entered into by or on behalf of the Company in writing and signed by a person acting under the express or implied authority of the company, and may be varied or discharged in the same manner; and
 
(c)  
a contract that, if entered into by an individual, would be valid although entered into orally, and not reduced to writing, may be entered into orally by or on behalf of the Company by a person acting under the express or implied authority of the Company, and may be varied or discharged in the same manner.
 
20.3  
Notwithstanding the foregoing Article, an instrument is validly executed by the Company as a deed, or an instrument under seal, if it is either:
 
(a)  
sealed with the common seal of the Company and witnessed by a director of the Company and/or such other person who is authorised by the Memorandum or Articles to witness the application of the Company’s seal; or
 
(b)  
expressed to be, or is expressed to be executed as, or otherwise makes clear on its face that it is intended to be, a deed and it is signed by a director and/or by a person acting under the express or implied authority of the Company.
 
21  
Distributions
 
21.1  
Subject to the provisions of the Act, the Memorandum and these Articles, the directors of a Company may, by Resolution of Directors, authorise a distribution by the Company at a time, and of an amount, and to any members they think fit if they are satisfied, on reasonable grounds that, immediately after the distribution, the value of the Company's assets will exceed the Company's liabilities and the Company is able to pay its debts as they fall due.
 
21.2  
No distribution shall be paid on those shares which are held by the Company as treasury shares at the date of declaration of the distribution.
 
21.3  
The directors may, before recommending any distribution, set aside out of the profits of the Company such sums as they think proper as a reserve or reserves which shall, at their discretion, either be employed in the business of the Company or be invested in such investments as the directors may from time to time think fit.
 
21.4  
If several persons are registered as joint holders of any share, any of them may give effectual receipt for any distribution or other monies payable on or in respect of the share.
 
21.5  
Notice of any distribution that may have been declared shall be given to each member in manner hereinafter mentioned and all distributions unclaimed for three years after having been declared may be forfeited by the directors for the benefit of the Company.
 
21.6  
No distribution shall bear interest against the Company.
 
 
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22  
Company Records
 
22.1  
The Company shall keep records that:
 
(a)  
are sufficient to show and explain the Company's transactions; and
 
(b)  
will, at any time, enable the financial position of the Company to be determined with reasonable accuracy.
 
22.2  
The Company shall keep the following records at the office of its registered agent or at such other place or places, within or outside the British Virgin Islands, as the directors may determine:
 
(a)  
minutes of all meetings and all resolutions of members and of classes of members; and
 
(b)  
minutes of all meetings and all resolutions of directors and committees of directors .
 
Where any such records are kept at a place other than at the office of the Company’s registered agent, the Company shall provide the registered agent with a written record of the physical address of the place or places at which the records are kept.  Where the place at which any such records is changed, the Company shall provide the registered agent with the physical address of the new location of the records within fourteen days of the change of location.
 
22.3  
The Company shall keep a register to be known as a register of directors containing the names and addresses of the persons who are directors of the Company, the date on which each person whose name is entered in the register was appointed as a director of the Company, the date on which each person named as a director ceased to be a director of the Company, and such other information as may be prescribed from time to time by law.
 
22.4  
The Company shall maintain an accurate and complete register of members showing the full names and addresses of all persons holding registered shares in the Company, the number of each class and series of registered shares held by such person, the date on which the name of each member was entered in the register of members and where applicable, the date such person ceased to hold any registered shares in the Company.
 
22.5  
The Company shall keep the following at the office of its registered agent:
 
(a)  
the Memorandum and Articles of the Company;
 
(b)  
the register of members maintained in accordance with these Articles or a copy of the register of members;
 
(c)  
the register of directors maintained in accordance with these Articles or a copy of the register of directors;
 
(d)  
copies of all notices and other documents filed by the Company in the previous ten years;
 
(e)  
a copy of the register of charges kept by the Company pursuant to Section 162(1) of the Act; and
 
(f)  
an imprint of the common seal.
 
 
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22.6  
Where the Company keeps a copy of the register of members or the register of directors at the office of its registered agent, it shall:
 
(a)  
within 15 days of any change in the register, notify the registered agent, in   writing, of the change; and
 
(b)  
provide the registered agent with a  written record of the physical address of the place or places at which the original register of members or the original register of directors is kept.
 
(c)  
here the place at which the original register of members or the original register of directors is changed, the Company shall provide the registered agent with the physical address of the new location of the records within 14 days of the change of location .
 
22.7  
The records, documents and registers required by these Articles shall be open to the inspection of the directors at all times.
 
22.8  
The directors shall from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions the records, documents and registers of the Company or any of them shall be open to the inspection of members not being directors, and no member (not being a director) shall have any right to inspect any records, documents or registers of the Company except as conferred by the Act or authorised by a Resolution of Directors.
 
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Audit
 
23.1  
The directors may by a Resolution of Directors call for the accounts of the Company to be examined by an auditor or auditors to be appointed by them at such remuneration as may from time to time be agreed.
 
23.2  
The auditor may be a member of the Company but no director or officer shall be eligible during his continuance in office.
 
23.3  
Every auditor of the Company shall have a right of access at all times to the books of accounts of the Company, and shall be entitled to require from the officers of the Company such information and explanations as he thinks necessary for the performance of his duties.
 
 
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23.4  
The report of the auditor shall be annexed to the accounts upon which he reports, and the auditor shall be entitled to receive notice of, and to attend, any meeting at which the Company's audited profit and loss account and/or balance sheet is to be presented.
 
24  
Notices
 
24.1  
Any notice, information or written statement required to be given to members shall be served by mail (air-mail service if available) addressed to each member at the address shown in the share register.
 
24.2  
All notices directed to be given to the members shall, with respect to any registered shares to which persons are jointly entitled, be given to whichever of such persons is named first in the share register, and notice so given shall be sufficient notice to all the holders of such shares.
 
24.3  
Any notice, if served by post, shall be deemed to have been served within ten days of posting, and in proving such service it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice was properly addressed and mailed with the postage prepaid.
 
25  
Continuation
 
The Company may, by a Resolution of Directors or by a Resolution of Members, continue as a company incorporated under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the British Virgin Islands in the manner provided under those laws.
 
26  
Winding Up
 
26.1  
The Company may be voluntarily liquidated under Part XII of the Act if it has no liabilities and it is able to pay its debts as they become due.  A liquidator may, subject to the terms of the Act, be appointed by a Resolution of Directors or by a Resolution of Members.
 
26.2  
Subject to the Memorandum and these Articles, if the Company shall be wound up, the liquidator may, in accordance with a Resolution of Members, divide amongst the members in specie or in kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company (whether they shall consist of property of the same kind or not) and may for such purpose set such value as he deems fair upon any such property to be divided as aforesaid and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between the members or different classes of members.  The liquidator may vest the whole or any part of such assets in trustees upon such trust for the benefit of the contributors as the liquidator shall think fit, but so that no member shall be compelled to accept any shares or other securities whereon there is any liability.
 
 
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We, Maples Finance BVI Limited of Kingston Chambers, PO Box 173, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands in our capacity as registered agent for the Company hereby apply to the Registrar for the incorporation of the Company this 17th day of April 2008 .
 
 
Incorporator
 
 
(Sgd.) Clinton Hempel
                                                            
Clinton Hempel
Authorised Signatory
Maples Finance BVI Limited
 
 
 
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Exhibit 99.2
 
 
SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT
 
This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “ Agreement ”) is dated as of April 13, 2010, between China Networks International Holdings Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company (the “ Company ”), and each purchaser identified on the signature pages hereto (each, including its successors and assigns, a “ Purchaser ” and collectively, the “ Purchasers ”).
 
WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder, the Company desires to issue and sell to each Purchaser, and each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, desires to purchase from the Company, securities of the Company as more fully described in this Agreement.
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and each Purchaser agree as follows:
 
 
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS
 
1.1   Definitions .  In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement: (a) capitalized terms that are not otherwise defined herein have the meanings given to such terms in the Debentures (as defined herein), and (b) the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.1:
 
Acquiring Person ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.7.
 
Action ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(j).
 
Affiliate ” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person, as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act.
 
Board of Directors ” means the board of directors of the Company.
 
Business Day ” means any day except any Saturday, any Sunday, any day which is a federal legal holiday in the United States or any day on which banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized or required by law or other governmental action to close.
 
Buy-In ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.1(e).
 
Chardan ” means Chardan Capital Markets, LLC, with offices located at 17 State Street, Suite 1600, New York, NY 10004, telephone: 646-465-9088, facsimile: 646-465-9039.
 
 
 
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Closing ” means each of the closings of the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to Section 2.1.
 
Closing Date ” means the each Trading Day on which all of the Transaction Documents have been executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all conditions precedent to (i) the Purchasers’ obligations to pay the Subscription Amount and (ii) the Company’s obligations to deliver the Securities, in each case, have been satisfied or waived, but in no event later than April 30, 2010.
 
Closing Statement ” means the Closing Statement in the form on Annex A attached hereto.
 
Collateral Agent ” means Collateral Agents, LLC with offices located at 111 West 57 th Street, Suite 1416, New York, NY 10019, telephone: 212-245-9101, facsimile: 212-245-9101, who was appointed to act on behalf of the Purchasers pursuant to the Security Agreement.
 
Commission ” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
Company Counsel ” means Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, with offices located at 2300 N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037-1122, telephone: 202-663-8158, facsimile: 202-663-8007.
 
Conversion Price ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Debentures.
 
Debentures ” means the Convertible Debentures issued by the Company to the Purchasers hereunder, in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.
 
Disclosure Schedules ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1.
 
Effective Date ” means the earlier of the date that (a) all of the Registrable Securities have been registered for resale by the holders thereof pursuant to a registration statement(s) declared effective by the Commission and (b) all of the Registrable Securities have been sold pursuant to Rule 144 or may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144 and without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions.
 
Escrow Agent ” means Collateral Agents, LLC with offices located at 111 West 57 th Street, Suite 1416, New York, NY 10019, telephone: 212-245-9101, facsimile: 212-245-9101.
 
Escrow Agreement ” means the Escrow Agreement dated at or about the date of this Agreement, among the Company, Purchasers and Escrow Agent in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B .
 
 
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 “ Evaluation Date ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(r).
 
Exchange ” means the exchange of 100% of the outstanding notes issued by the Company on July 21, 2008, by the holders thereof for Ordinary Shares and the Company’s Series A Preferred Shares on the terms of the Exchange Agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C .
 
Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Exempt Issuance ” means the issuance of (a) Ordinary Shares or options to employees, officers or directors of the Company pursuant to any share or option plan duly adopted for such purpose, by a majority of the non-employee members of the Board of Directors or a majority of the members of a committee of non-employee directors established for such purpose, (b) securities upon the exercise or exchange of or conversion of any Securities issued hereunder and/or other securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into Ordinary Shares issued and outstanding on the date of this Agreement, which are described on Schedule 1.1 hereto, provided that such securities have not been amended since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of such securities or to decrease the exercise price, exchange price or conversion price of such securities and (c) securities issued pursuant to acquisitions or strategic transactions approved by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Company, provided that any such issuance shall only be to a Person (or to the equityholders of a Person) which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an operating company or an asset in a business synergistic with the business of the Company and shall provide to the Company additional benefits in addition to the investment of funds, but shall not include a transaction in which the Company is issuing securities primarily for the purpose of raising capital or to an entity whose primary business is investing in securities.
 
 “ GAAP ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).
 
G&M ” shall mean Grushko & Mittman, P.C., with offices at 551 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1601, New York, NY 10176, telephone: (212) 697-9500, facsimile: (212) 697-3575.
 
Incentive Shares ” means 100 Ordinary Shares to be issued to each Purchaser for each $173.444 of Subscription Amount paid by such Purchaser.
 
Indebtedness ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(aa).
 
Intellectual Property Rights ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(o).
 
Interest Shares ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 2(a) of the Debenture.
 
 
 
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Legend Removal Date ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.1(c).
 
Liens ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.19.
 
Material Adverse Effect ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(b).
 
Material Permits ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(m).
 
Maximum Rate ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 5.17.
 
Ordinary Shares ” means the ordinary shares of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share, and any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed.
 
Ordinary Shares Equivalents ” means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Ordinary Shares, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred shares, rights, options, warrants or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Ordinary Shares.
 
Participation Maximum ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.12(a).
 
Permitted Lien ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.19(i).
 
Person ” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.
 
 “ Pre-Notice ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.12(b).
 
Principal Amount ” means, as to each Purchaser, the amounts set forth below such Purchaser’s signature block on the signature pages hereto next to the heading “Principal Amount,” in United States Dollars, which shall equal such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount.
 
Pro Rata Portion ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.12(e).
 
Proceeding ” means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding (including, without limitation, an informal investigation or partial proceeding, such as a deposition), whether commenced or threatened.
 
 
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Public Information Failure ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.3(b).
 
Public Information Failure Payments ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.3(b).
 
Purchaser Party ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.10.
 
Registration Expenses ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.21.
 
Registrable Securities ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.21.
 
Required Approvals ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(e).
 
Required Minimum ” means, as of any date, the maximum aggregate number of Ordinary Shares then issued or potentially issuable in the future pursuant to the Transaction Documents, including any Underlying Shares issuable upon conversion in full of all Debentures, ignoring any conversion or exercise limits set forth therein, and assuming that the Conversion Price is at all times on and after the date of determination 75% of the then Conversion Price on the Trading Day immediately prior to the date of determination.
 
Rule 144 ” means Rule 144 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same effect as such Rule.
 
Rule 424 ” means Rule 424 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

 
SEC Reports ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).
 
Securities ” means the Debentures, the Incentive Shares and the Underlying Shares.
 
Securities Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
 
“Security Agreement” means the Security Agreement, dated the date hereof, among the Company and the Purchasers, in the form of Exhibit D attached hereto.
 
Selling Expenses ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.21.
 
 
 
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Short Sales ” means all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act (but shall not be deemed to include the location and/or reservation of borrowable Ordinary Shares). 
 
 “ Subscription Amount ” means, as to each Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be paid for Debentures and Incentive Shares purchased hereunder as specified below such Purchaser’s name on the signature page of this Agreement and next to the heading “Subscription Amount,” in United States dollars and in immediately available funds.
 
Subsequent Financing ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.12(a).
 
Subsequent Financing Notice ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.12(b).
 
Subsidiary ” means, with respect to any entity at any date, any direct or indirect corporation, limited or general partnership, limited liability company, trust, estate, association, joint venture or other business entity of which (A) more than 40% of (i) the outstanding shares having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or other managing body of such entity, (ii) in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, the interest in the capital or profits of such partnership or limited liability company or (iii) in the case of a trust, estate, association, joint venture or other entity, the beneficial interest in such trust, estate, association or other entity business is, at the time of determination, owned or controlled directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, by such entity, or (B) is under the actual control of the Company.  As of the Closing Date, all of the Company’s Subsidiaries and the Company’s ownership interests therein are set forth on Schedule 3.1(a) .
 
Subsidiary Guaranty ” means the Subsidiary Guaranty to be delivered by the Subsidiaries identified on Schedule 3.1(a) as being required to deliver such Subsidiary Guaranty in the form of Exhibit E attached hereto.
 
Trading Day ” means a day on which the principal Trading Market is open for trading.
 
Trading Market ” means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Ordinary Shares is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE AMEX, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange or the OTC Bulletin Board (or any successors to any of the foregoing).
 
 “ Transaction Documents ” means this Agreement, the Debentures, the Escrow Agreement, Security Agreement, Subsidiary Guaranty, all exhibits and schedules thereto and hereto and any other documents or agreements executed in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder.
 
 
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Transfer Agent ” means Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the current transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 17 Battery Place, New York, NY 10004, and a telephone number of 212-509-4000, and any successor transfer agent of the Company.
 
Underlying Shares ” means the Ordinary Shares issued and issuable upon conversion or redemption of the Debentures, including the Interest Shares.
 
Variable Rate Transaction ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.13(a).
 
VWAP ” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses that applies: (a) if the Ordinary Shares are then listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the daily volume weighted average price of the Ordinary Shares for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Ordinary Shares is then listed or quoted as reported by Bloomberg L.P. (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time)), (b)  if the Ordinary Shares is not then listed or quoted for trading on a Trading Market and if prices for the Ordinary Shares are then reported in the “Pink Sheets” published by Pink OTC Markets, Inc. (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per Ordinary Shares so reported, or (c) in all other cases, the fair market value of an Ordinary Share as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the Purchasers of a majority in interest of the Debentures then outstanding and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be paid by the Company.
 
 
ARTICLE II.
PURCHASE AND SALE
 
2.1   Closing .  There may be one or more Closings.  On each Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, substantially concurrent with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the parties hereto, the Company agrees to sell, and the Purchasers, severally and not jointly, agree to purchase in the aggregate, up to $11,000,000 in Principal Amount of the Debentures.  Each Purchaser shall deliver to the Company via wire transfer of immediately available funds an amount equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount as set forth on the signature page hereto executed by such Purchaser, and the Company shall deliver to each Purchaser its respective Debenture and Incentive Shares, as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a), and the Company and each Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at each Closing, as applicable.  Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3, each Closing shall occur at the offices of G&M or such other location as the parties shall mutually agree.
 
2.2   Deliveries .
 
(a)   On or prior to each Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to each Purchaser the following:
 
 
 
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(i)   this Agreement duly executed by the Company;
 
(ii)   one or more legal opinions of Company Counsel or special counsel to the Company, substantially in the form of Exhibit E attached hereto;
 
(iii)   a Debenture with a principal amount equal to such Purchaser’s Principal Amount, registered in the name of such Purchaser;
 
(iv)   one hundred Incentive Shares registered in the name of such Purchaser for each $173.444 of Purchaser’s Subscription Amount;
 
(v)   the Escrow Agreement duly executed by the Company and Escrow Agent;
 
(vi)   the Security Agreement duly executed by the Company and the Collateral Agent; and
 
(vii)   the Subsidiary Guaranty executed by the Subsidiaries.

(b)   On or prior to a Closing Date, each Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Company the following:
 
(i)   this Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser;
 
(ii)   such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount by wire transfer to the account as specified in the Escrow Agreement;
 
(iii)   the Escrow Agreement duly executed by the Purchasers; and
 
(iv)   the Security Agreement duly executed by the Purchasers.
 
2.3   Closing Conditions .
 
(a)   The obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:
 
(i)   the accuracy in all material respects on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Purchasers contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein);
 
(ii)   all obligations, covenants and agreements of each Purchaser required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and
 
(iii)   the delivery by each Purchaser of the items set forth in Section 2.2(b) of this Agreement.
 
(b)   The respective obligations of the Purchasers hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:
 
 
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(i)   the accuracy in all material respects when made and on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein);
 
(ii)   all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed;
 
(iii)   the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2(a) of this Agreement;
 
(iv)   there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company since the date hereof;
 
(v)   the Exchange shall have been consummated prior to or contemporaneously with the Closing; and
 
(vi)   from the date hereof to the relevant Closing Date, trading in the Ordinary Shares shall not have been suspended by the Commission or the Company’s principal Trading Market (except for any suspension of trading of limited duration agreed to by the Company, which suspension shall be terminated prior to such Closing), and, at any time prior to the Closing Date, trading in securities generally as reported by Bloomberg L.P. shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not have been established on securities whose trades are reported by such service, or on any Trading Market, nor shall a banking moratorium have been declared either by the United States or New York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material adverse change in, any financial market which, in each case, in the reasonable judgment of each Purchaser, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Securities at the Closing.
 
 
ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
 
3.1   Representations and Warranties of the Company .  Except as set forth in the Disclosure Schedules, which Disclosure Schedules shall be deemed a part hereof and shall qualify any representation made herein to the extent of the disclosure contained in the corresponding section of the Disclosure Schedules, the Company hereby makes the following representations and warranties to each Purchaser:
 
(a)   Subsidiaries .  All of the direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Company are set forth on Schedule 3.1(a) .  The Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of the shares or other equity interests of each Subsidiary free and clear of any Liens, and all of the issued and outstanding shares of each Subsidiary are validly issued and are fully paid, non-assessable and free of preemptive and similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities.
 
 
 
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(b)   Organization and Qualification .  The Company and each of the Subsidiaries is an entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, with the requisite power and authority to own and use its properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently conducted.  Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in violation nor default of any of the provisions of its respective memorandum of association, certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents.  Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not have or reasonably be expected to result in: (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “ Material Adverse Effect ”) and no Proceeding has been instituted in any such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke, limit or curtail such power and authority or qualification.
 
(c)   Authorization; Enforcement .  The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by each of the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder.  The execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and no further action is required by the Company, the Board of Directors or the Company’s shareholders in connection therewith other than in connection with the Required Approvals.  Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.
 
 
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(d)   No Conflicts .  The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and sale of the Securities and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby to which it is a party do not and will not: (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws, memorandum and articles of association or other organizational or charter documents, (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company or Subsidiary debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary is bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of any court or governmental authority to which the Company or a Subsidiary is subject (including federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company or a Subsidiary is bound or affected; except in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
 
(e)   Filings, Consents and Approvals .  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 or other Person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, other than: (i) the filings required pursuant to Section 4.6 of this Agreement, (ii) the notice and/or application(s) to each applicable Trading Market for the issuance and sale of the Securities and the listing of the Underlying Shares for trading thereon in the time and manner required thereby, and (iii) the filing of Form D with the Commission and such filings as are required to be made under applicable state securities laws (collectively, the “ Required Approvals ”).  Under the Regulations on the Acquisitions by Foreign Investors of Domestic Enterprises jointly promulgated by the PRC Ministry of Commerce (“ MOFCOM ”), the China Securities Regulatory Commission (“ CSRC ”), the State Owned Assets Supervision and Management Commission, the General Administration of Taxation and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange in effect on the Closing Date, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is required, as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing, to obtain any approvals of the CSRC in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. No further approval by, or registration or filing with State Administration of Foreign Exchange (“ SAFE ”) other than typical SAFE foreign exchange processing procedural registrations are expressly required under the current effective and applicable governing regulations for matters including but not limited to the payment by any Subsidiary of dividends to the Company in foreign currency, such as U.S. Dollars. The Company has or will have obtained or made all necessary consents, approvals, registrations and filings with relevant governmental authorities in the PRC on or before the Closing Date in accordance with the then effective and applicable PRC regulations to complete the transactions contemplated in the Transaction Documents, except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
 
 
 
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(f)   Issuance of the Securities .  The Securities are duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents.  The Underlying Shares, when issued in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents.  The Company has reserved from its maximum number of duly authorized shares a number of Ordinary Shares for issuance of the Underlying Shares at least equal to the Required Minimum on the date hereof.
 
(g)   Capitalization .  The ownership of shares in the Company is as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g) , which Schedule 3.1(g) shall also include the number of Ordinary Shares owned beneficially, and of record, by Affiliates of the Company as of the date hereof. The Company has not issued any shares since its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act, other than pursuant to the exercise of employee share options under the Company’s share option plans, the issuance of Ordinary Shares to employees pursuant to the Company’s employee share purchase plans and pursuant to the conversion and/or exercise of Ordinary Shares Equivalents outstanding as of the date of the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act. No Person has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.  Except as a result of the purchase and sale of the Securities and the Exchange and as set out in Schedule 3.1(g) , there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to subscribe for or acquire any Ordinary Shares, or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional Ordinary Shares or Ordinary Shares Equivalents. The issuance and sale of the Securities will not obligate the Company to issue Ordinary Shares or other securities to any Person (other than the Purchasers) and will not result in a right of any holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price under any of such securities. All of the outstanding shares of the Company are validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with all British Virgin Islands, federal and state securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was issued in violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities.  No further approval or authorization of any shareholder, the Board of Directors or others is required for the issuance and sale of the Securities.  There are no shareholders agreements, voting agreements or other similar agreements with respect to the Company’s shares to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the Company’s shareholders.
 
 
 
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(h)   SEC Reports; Financial Statements .  The Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 12(g), 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, for the two years preceding the date hereof (or such shorter period as the Company was required by law or regulation to file such material) (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, being collectively referred to herein as the “ SEC Reports ”) on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such extension.  The Company has a class of Ordinary Shares registered pursuant to Section 12(g) under the Act.  As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.  The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing.  Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“ GAAP ”), except as may be otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and except that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial, year-end audit adjustments.
 
(i)   Material Changes; Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments .  Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, except as specifically disclosed in a subsequent SEC Report filed prior to the date hereof and except in connection with this Agreement or the Exchange: (i) there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the Company has not incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade payables and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and (B) liabilities not required to be reflected in the Company’s financial statements pursuant to GAAP or disclosed in filings made with the Commission, (iii) the Company has not altered its method of accounting, (iv) the Company has not declared or made any dividend or distribution of cash or other property to its shareholders or purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares, and (v) the Company has not issued any equity securities to any officer, director or Affiliate, except pursuant to existing Company share option plans. The Company does not have pending before the Commission any request for confidential treatment of information.  Except for the issuance of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement, the Exchange or as set forth on Schedule 3.1(i) , no event, liability, fact, circumstance, occurrence or development has occurred or exists or is reasonably expected to occur or exist with respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective business, properties, operations, assets or financial condition, that would be required to be disclosed by the Company under applicable securities laws at the time this representation is made or deemed made that has not been publicly disclosed at least 3 Trading Days prior to the date that this representation is made.
 
 
 
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(j)   Litigation .  Except as disclosed in the Reports, at least 3 Trading Days prior to the date this representation is made, there is no action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company, any Subsidiary or any of their respective properties before or by any court, arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency or regulatory authority (federal, state, county, local or foreign) (collectively, an “ Action ”) which (i) adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents or the Securities or (ii) could, if there were an unfavorable decision, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor any director or officer thereof, is or has been the subject of any Action involving a claim of violation of or liability under federal or state securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty.  There has not been, and to the knowledge of the Company, there is not pending or contemplated, any investigation by the Commission involving the Company or any current or former director or officer of the Company.  The Commission has not issued any stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of any registration statement filed by the Company or any Subsidiary under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act.
 
(k)   Labor Relations .  No material labor dispute exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent with respect to any of the employees of the Company, or any Subsidiary, which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  None of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ employees is a member of a union that relates to such employee’s relationship with the Company or such Subsidiary, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to a collective bargaining agreement, and the Company and its Subsidiaries believe that their relationships with their employees are good.  No executive officer of the Company or any Subsidiary, to the knowledge of the Company, is, or is now expected to be, in violation of any material term of any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement or non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive covenant in favor of any third party, and the continued employment of each such executive officer does not subject the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any liability with respect to any of the foregoing matters.  The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all U.S. federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations relating to employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where the failure to be in compliance could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
 
(l)   Compliance .  Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary: (i) is in default under or in violation of (and no event has occurred that has not been waived that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would result in a default by the Company or any Subsidiary under), nor has the Company or any Subsidiary received notice of a claim that it is in default under or that it is in violation of, any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties is bound (whether or not such default or violation has been waived), (ii) is in violation of any judgment, decree or order of any court, arbitrator or governmental body or (iii) is or has been in violation of any statute, rule, ordinance or regulation of any governmental authority, including without limitation all foreign, federal, state and local laws relating to taxes, environmental protection, occupational health and safety, product quality and safety and employment and labor matters, except in each case as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
 
 
 
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(m)   Regulatory Permits .  The Company and the Subsidiaries possess all certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports, except where the failure to possess such permits could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect (“ Material Permits ”), and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Material Permit.
 
(n)   Title to Assets .  The Company and the Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property owned by them and good and marketable title in all personal property owned by them that is material to the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all Liens, except for Liens as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and the Subsidiaries and Liens for the payment of federal, state, foreign or other taxes, the payment of which is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties.  Any real property and facilities held under lease by the Company and the Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with which the Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance.
 
(o)   Patents and Trademarks .  The Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have rights to use, all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names, trade secrets, inventions, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property rights and similar rights as described in the SEC Reports as necessary or material for use in connection with their respective businesses and which the failure to so have could have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, the “ Intellectual Property Rights ”).  All of the Company’s and Subsidiaries’ Intellectual Property Rights are identified on Schedule 3.1(o) .  None of, and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received a notice (written or otherwise) that any of, the Intellectual Property Rights has expired, terminated or been abandoned, or is expected to expire or terminate or be abandoned, within two (2) years from the date of this Agreement.  Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, a written notice of a claim or otherwise has any knowledge that the Intellectual Property Rights violate or infringe upon the rights of any Person, except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.  To the knowledge of the Company, all such Intellectual Property Rights are enforceable and there is no existing infringement by another Person of any of the Intellectual Property Rights.  The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their intellectual properties, except where failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
 
 
 
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(p)   Transactions With Affiliates and Employees .  Except as set forth in the SEC Reports and the compensation to be paid to Chardan in connection with the issuance of the Debentures and Incentive Shares and in connection with the Exchange, as described on Schedule 3.1(p) , none of the officers or directors of the Company and, to the knowledge of the Company, none of the employees of the Company is presently a party to any transaction with the Company or any Subsidiary (other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner, in each case in excess of $120,000 other than for: (i) payment of salary or consulting fees for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company and (iii) other employee benefits, including share option agreements under any share option plan of the Company.
 
(q)   Sarbanes-Oxley; Internal Accounting Controls .  Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(r) or in the SEC Reports, the Company is in compliance with any and all applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that are effective as of the date hereof, and any and all applicable rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder that are effective as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date.  Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(q) or in the SEC Reports, the Company and the Subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Company has established disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms.  The Company’s certifying officers have evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by the Company’s most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act (such date, the “ Evaluation Date ”).  The Company presented in its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act the conclusions of the certifying officers about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on their evaluations as of the Evaluation Date.  Since the Evaluation Date, there have been no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
 
 
 
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(r)   Certain Fees .  Other than as set out in Schedule 3.1(r) and any fees payable to Chardan, no brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions are or will be payable by the Company to any broker, financial advisor or consultant, finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or other Person with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.  The Purchasers shall have no obligation with respect to any fees or with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this Section that may be due in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
 
(s)   Private Placement .  Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, no registration under the Securities Act is required for the offer and sale of the Securities by the Company to the Purchasers as contemplated hereby. The issuance and sale of the Securities hereunder does not contravene the rules and regulations of the Trading Market.
 
(t)   Investment Company . The Company is not, and is not an Affiliate of, and immediately after receipt of payment for the Securities, will not be or be an Affiliate of, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.  The Company shall conduct its business in a manner so that it will not become an “investment company” subject to registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
 
(u)   Registration Rights .  Other than each of the Purchasers, and as set forth on Schedule 3.1(u) , no Person has any right to cause the Company to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the Company.
 
(v)   Listing and Maintenance Requirements .  The Ordinary Shares are registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or which to its knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Ordinary Shares under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration.  The Company has not, in the 12 months preceding the date hereof, received notice from any Trading Market on which the Ordinary Shares is or has been listed or quoted to the effect that the Company is not in compliance with the listing or maintenance requirements of such Trading Market. The Company is, and has no reason to believe that it will not in the foreseeable future continue to be, in compliance with all such listing and maintenance requirements.
 
(w)   Application of Takeover Protections .  The Company and the Board of Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Company’s certificate of incorporation (or similar charter documents) or the laws of its state of incorporation that is or could become applicable to the Purchasers as a result of the Purchasers and the Company fulfilling their obligations or exercising their rights under the Transaction Documents, including without limitation as a result of the Company’s issuance of the Securities and the Purchasers’ ownership of the Securities.
 
 
 
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(x)   Disclosure .  Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company confirms that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Purchasers or their agents or counsel with any information that it believes constitutes or might constitute material, non-public information.  The Company understands and confirms that the Purchasers will rely on the foregoing representation in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.  All of the disclosure furnished by or on behalf of the Company to the Purchasers regarding the Company, its business and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Disclosure Schedules to this Agreement, is true and correct and does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.   The press releases disseminated by the Company during the twelve months preceding the date of this Agreement taken as a whole do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made and when made, not misleading.  The Company acknowledges and agrees that no Purchaser makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in Section 3.2 hereof.
 
(y)   No Integrated Offering . Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, neither the Company, nor any of its Affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would cause this offering of the Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of (i) the Securities Act which would require the registration of any such securities under the Securities Act, or (ii) any applicable shareholder approval provisions of any Trading Market on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated.
 
(z)   Solvency .  Based on the consolidated financial condition of the Company as of the Closing Date, after giving effect to the receipt by the Company of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder and the consummation of the Exchange: (i) the fair saleable value of the Company’s assets exceeds the amount that will be required to be paid on or in respect of the Company’s existing debts and other liabilities (including known contingent liabilities) as they mature, (ii) the Company’s assets do not constitute unreasonably small capital to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted including its capital needs taking into account the particular capital requirements of the business conducted by the Company, and projected capital requirements and capital availability thereof, and (iii) the current cash flow of the Company, together with the proceeds the Company would receive, were it to liquidate all
 
 
 
 
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of its assets, after taking into account all anticipated uses of the cash, would be sufficient to pay all amounts on or in respect of its liabilities when such amounts are required to be paid.  The Company does not intend to incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they mature (taking into account the timing and amounts of cash to be payable on or in respect of its debt).  The Company has no knowledge of any facts or circumstances which lead it to believe that it will file for reorganization or liquidation under the bankruptcy or reorganization laws of any jurisdiction within one year from the Closing Date.   Schedule 3.1(z) sets forth as of the date hereof all outstanding secured and unsecured Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary, or for which the Company or any Subsidiary has commitments.  For the purposes of this Agreement, “ Indebtedness ” means (x) any liabilities for borrowed money or amounts owed in excess of $100,000 (other than trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (y) all guaranties, endorsements and other contingent obligations in respect of indebtedness of others, whether or not the same are or should be reflected in the Company’s balance sheet (or the notes thereto), except guaranties by endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary course of business; and (z) the present value of any lease payments in excess of $50,000 due under leases required to be capitalized in accordance with GAAP.  Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in default with respect to any Indebtedness.
 
(aa)   Tax Status .   Although the Company has not made or filed United States federal and state income and franchise tax returns, reports and declarations, the Company believes that no taxes are due and owing to any federal, state or foreign taxing authority except as set forth in the Reports.
 
(bb)   No General Solicitation . Neither the Company nor any person acting on behalf of the Company has offered or sold any of the Securities by any form of general solicitation or general advertising.  The Company has offered the Securities for sale only to the Purchasers and certain other “accredited investors” within the meaning of Rule 501 under the Securities Act.  Each Purchaser will complete and deliver to Chardan the questionnaire annexed hereto as Exhibit F .
 
(cc)   Foreign Corrupt Practices .  Neither the Company, nor any Subsidiary nor to the knowledge of the Company, any agent or other person acting on behalf of the Company or Subsidiary, has: (i) directly or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully any contribution made by the Company (or made by any person acting on its behalf of which the Company is aware) which is  in violation of law or (iv) violated in any material respect any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.
 
(dd)   Accountants .  The Company’s accounting firm is set forth on Schedule 3.1(dd) of the Disclosure Schedules.  To the knowledge and belief of the Company, such accounting firm: (i) is a registered public accounting firm as required by the Exchange Act and (ii) shall express its opinion with respect to the financial statements to be included in the Company’s Annual Report for the year ending December 31, 2009.
 
 
 
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(ee)   Seniority .  Except as set out in Schedule 3.1(ee) , as of the Closing Date, no Indebtedness or other claim against the Company is senior to the Debentures in right of payment, whether upon liquidation or dissolution, or otherwise, other than indebtedness secured by purchase money security interests (which is senior only as to underlying assets covered thereby) and capital lease obligations (which is senior only as to the property covered thereby).
 
(ff)   No Disagreements with Accountants and Lawyers .  There are no disagreements of any kind presently existing, or reasonably anticipated by the Company to arise, between the Company and the accountants and lawyers formerly or presently employed by the Company and the Company is current with respect to any fees owed to its accountants and lawyers which could affect the Company’s ability to perform any of its obligations under any of the Transaction Documents.
 
(gg)   Acknowledgment Regarding Purchasers’ Purchase of Securities .  The Company acknowledges and agrees that each of the Purchasers is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby.  The Company further acknowledges that no Purchaser is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by any Purchaser or any of their respective representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the Purchasers’ purchase of the Securities.  The Company further represents to each Purchaser that the Company’s decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company and its representatives.
 
(hh)   Acknowledgment Regarding Purchaser’s Trading Activity .  Anything in this Agreement or elsewhere herein to the contrary notwithstanding except for Section 3.2(f), it is understood and acknowledged by the Company that: (i) none of the Purchasers have been asked by the Company to agree, nor has any Purchaser agreed, to desist from purchasing or selling, long and/or short, securities of the Company, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the Company or to hold the Securities for any specified term, (ii) past or future open market or other transactions by any Purchaser, specifically including, without limitation, Short Sales or “derivative” transactions, before or after the closing of this or future private placement transactions, may negatively impact the market price of the Company’s publicly-traded securities, (iii) any Purchaser, and counter-parties in “derivative” transactions to which any such Purchaser is a party, directly or indirectly, may presently have a “short” position in the Ordinary Shares and (iv) each Purchaser shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or control over any arm’s length counter-party in any “derivative” transaction.   The Company further understands and acknowledges that (y) one or more Purchasers may engage in hedging activities at various times during the period that the Securities are outstanding, including, without limitation, during the periods that the value of the Underlying Shares deliverable with respect to Securities are being determined, and (z) such hedging activities (if any) could reduce the value of the existing shareholders' equity interests in the Company at and after the time that the hedging activities are being conducted.  The Company acknowledges that such aforementioned hedging activities do not constitute a breach of any of the Transaction Documents.
 
 
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(ii)   Regulation M Compliance .  The Company has not, and to its knowledge no one acting on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Securities, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the Company, other than, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), compensation paid to the Company’s placement agent in connection with the placement of the Securities.
 
(jj)   Share Option Plans . Each share option granted by the Company under the Company’s share option plan was granted (i) in accordance with the terms of the Company’s share option plan and (ii) with an exercise price at least equal to the fair market value of the Ordinary Shares on the date such share option would be considered granted under GAAP and applicable law. No share option granted under the Company’s share option plan has been backdated.  The Company has not knowingly granted, and there is no and has been no Company policy or practice to knowingly grant, share options prior to, or otherwise knowingly coordinate the grant of share options with, the release or other public announcement of material information regarding the Company or its Subsidiaries or their financial results or prospects.
 
(kk)   Office of Foreign Assets Control .  Neither the Company nor, to the Company's knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“ OFAC ”).
 
(ll)   U.S. Real Property Holding Corporation .  The Company is not and has never been a U.S. real property holding corporation within the meaning of Section 897 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Company shall so certify upon Purchaser’s request.
 
(mm)   Bank Holding Company Act .  Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates is subject to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended (the “ BHCA ”) and to regulation by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “ Federal Reserve ”).  Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates owns or controls, directly or indirectly, five percent (5%) or more of the outstanding shares of any class of voting securities or twenty-five percent or more of the total equity of a bank or any entity that is subject to the BHCA and to regulation by the Federal Reserve.  Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates exercises a controlling influence over the management or policies of a bank or any entity that is subject to the BHCA and to regulation by the Federal Reserve.
 
 
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(nn)   Money Laundering .  The operations of the Company are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial record-keeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, applicable money laundering statutes and applicable rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “ Money Laundering Laws ”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.
 
3.2   Representations and Warranties of the Purchasers .    Each Purchaser, for itself and for no other Purchaser, hereby represents and warrants as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date to the Company as follows (unless as of a specific date therein):
 
(a)   Organization; Authority .  Such Purchaser is either an individual or an entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization with full right, corporate or partnership power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and performance by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar action, as applicable, on the part of such Purchaser.  Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been duly executed by such Purchaser, and when delivered by such Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of such Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.
 
(b)   Own Account .  Such Purchaser understands that the Securities are “restricted securities” and have not been registered under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law and is acquiring the Securities as principal for its own account and not with a view to or for distributing or reselling such Securities or any part thereof in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law, has no present intention of distributing any of such Securities in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law and has no direct or indirect arrangement or understandings with any other persons to distribute or regarding the distribution of such Securities in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law (this representation and warranty not limiting such Purchaser’s right to sell the Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws).  Such Purchaser is acquiring the Securities hereunder in the ordinary course of its business.
 
 
 
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(c)   Purchaser Status .  At the time such Purchaser was offered the Securities, it was, and as of the date hereof it is, and on each date on which it converts any Debentures it will be either: (i) an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(7) or (a)(8) under the Securities Act or (ii) a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A(a) under the Securities Act.  Such Purchaser is not required to be registered as a broker-dealer under Section 15 of the Exchange Act.
 
(d)   Experience of Such Purchaser .  Such Purchaser, either alone or together with its representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment in the Securities, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of such investment.  Such Purchaser is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Securities and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete loss of such investment.
 
(e)   General Solicitation .  Such Purchaser is not purchasing the Securities as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the Securities published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television or radio or presented at any seminar or any other general solicitation or general advertisement.
 
(f)   Certain Transactions and Confidentiality .  Other than consummating the transactions contemplated hereunder, such Purchaser has not directly or indirectly, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with such Purchaser, executed any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the securities of the Company during the period commencing as of the time that such Purchaser first received a term sheet (written or oral) from the Company or any other Person representing the Company setting forth the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereunder and ending immediately prior to the execution hereof.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the representation set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, for avoidance of doubt, nothing contained herein shall constitute a representation or warranty, or preclude any actions, with respect to the identification of the availability of, or securing of, available shares to borrow in order to effect Short Sales or similar transactions in the future.
 
The Company acknowledges and agrees that the representations contained in Section 3.2 shall not modify, amend or affect such Purchaser’s right to rely on the Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any representations and warranties contained in any other Transaction Document or any other document or instrument executed and/or delivered in connection with this Agreement or the consummation of the transaction contemplated hereby.

 
 
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ARTICLE IV.
OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES
 
4.1   Transfer Restrictions .
 
(a)   The Securities may only be disposed of in compliance with state and federal securities laws.  In connection with any transfer of Securities other than pursuant to an effective registration statement or Rule 144, to the Company or to an Affiliate of a Purchaser or in connection with a pledge as contemplated in Section 4.1(b), the Company may require the transferor thereof to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the form and substance of which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does not require registration of such transferred Securities under the Securities Act.  As a condition of transfer, any such transferee shall agree in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and shall have the rights and obligations of a Purchaser under this Agreement.
 
(b)   The Purchasers agree to the imprinting, so long as is required by this Section 4.1, of a legend on any of the Securities in the following form:
 
NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THIS SECURITY IS CONVERTIBLE HAS 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”), 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 ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY.  THIS SECURITY AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT WITH A REGISTERED BROKER-DEALER OR OTHER LOAN WITH A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION THAT IS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.
 
The Company acknowledges and agrees that a Purchaser may from time to time pledge pursuant to a bona fide margin agreement with a registered broker-dealer or grant a security interest in some or all of the Securities to a financial institution that is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and who agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement and, if required under the terms of such arrangement, such Purchaser may transfer pledged or secured Securities to the pledgees or secured parties.  Such a pledge or transfer would not be subject to approval of the Company and no legal opinion of legal counsel of the pledgee, secured party or pledgor shall be required in connection therewith.  Further, no notice shall be required of such pledge.  At the appropriate Purchaser’s expense, the Company will execute and deliver such reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party of Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or transfer of the Securities.
 
 
 
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(c)   Certificates evidencing the Underlying Shares shall not contain any legend (including the legend set forth in Section 4.1(b) hereof): (i) while a registration statement covering the resale of such security is effective under the Securities Act, (ii) following any sale of such Underlying Shares pursuant to Rule 144, (iii) if such Underlying Shares are eligible for sale under Rule 144, without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144 as to such Underlying Shares and without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or (iv) if such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission). The Company shall cause its counsel to issue a legal opinion to the Transfer Agent promptly after the Effective Date if required by the Transfer Agent to effect the removal of the legend hereunder.  If all or any portion of a Debenture is converted at a time when there is an effective registration statement to cover the resale of the Underlying Shares, or if such Underlying Shares may be sold under Rule 144 and the Company is then in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144, or if such Underlying Shares may be sold under Rule 144 without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144 as to such Underlying Shares and without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or if such legend is not otherwise required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission) then such Underlying Shares shall be issued free of all legends.  The Company agrees that following the Effective Date or at such time as such legend is no longer required under this Section 4.1(c), it will, no later than five Trading Days following the delivery by a Purchaser to the Company or the Transfer Agent (with same day written notice to the Company) of a certificate representing Underlying Shares, as applicable, issued with a restrictive legend (such third Trading Day, the “ Legend Removal Date ”), deliver or cause to be delivered to such Purchaser a certificate representing such shares that is free from all restrictive and other legends.  The Company may not make any notation on its records or give instructions to the Transfer Agent that enlarge the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section 4.  Certificates for Underlying Shares subject to legend removal hereunder shall be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the Purchaser by crediting the account of the Purchaser’s prime broker with the Depository Trust Company System as directed by such Purchaser.
 
 
 
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(d)   In addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to a Purchaser, in cash or in Ordinary Shares at the Company’s sole option, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1,000 of Underlying Shares (based on the VWAP of the Ordinary Shares on the date such Securities are submitted to the Transfer Agent) delivered for removal of the restrictive legend and subject to Section 4.1(c), $10 per Trading Day for each Trading Day after the tenth (10 th ) Trading Day after the Legend Removal Date until such certificate is delivered without a legend.  The Company may, at its election, pay such liquidated damages in cash or with Ordinary Shares valued at the VWAP for each day such liquidated damages accrue.  In the event the issuance of such Ordinary Shares would exceed the applicable beneficial ownership limitation described in Section 4(c) of the Debenture, then the Company may not issue nor deliver such Ordinary Shares in excess of the beneficial ownership limitation applicable to a Purchaser until such Purchaser notifies the Company that such issuance will not exceed the applicable beneficial ownership limitation, after which notice, the Company will promptly issue and deliver the withheld Ordinary Shares.  Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver certificates representing any Securities as required by the Transaction Documents, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.
 
(e)   If a Purchaser shall make a sale or transfer of Underlying Shares and (1) the Company shall fail to deliver or cause to be delivered to such Purchaser a certificate representing such Underlying Shares that is free from all restrictive or other legends by the Legend Removal Date and (2) following such Legend Removal Date and prior to the time such Underlying Shares are received free from restrictive legends, the Purchaser, or any third party on behalf of such Purchaser, purchases (in an open market transaction or otherwise) Ordinary Shares to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Purchaser of such Underlying Shares (a " Buy-In "), then the Company shall pay in cash to the Purchaser (for costs incurred either directly by such Purchaser or on behalf of a third party) the amount by which the total purchase price paid for the Ordinary Shares as a result of the Buy-In (including brokerage commissions, if any) exceed the proceeds received by such Purchaser as a result of the sale to which such Buy-In relates.  The Purchaser shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to the Purchaser in respect of the Buy In.  Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, if a Holder requires the Company to make payment in respect of a Buy-In for the failure to timely deliver certificates hereunder and the Company timely pays in full such payment, the Company shall not be required to pay such Holder liquidated damages under this Section 4.1(e) in respect of the certificates resulting in such Buy-In.
 
(f)   Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees with the Company that such Purchaser will sell any Securities pursuant to either the registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and that if Securities are sold pursuant to a registration statement, they will be sold in compliance with the plan of distribution set forth therein, and acknowledges that the removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing Securities as set forth in this Section 4.1 is predicated upon the Company’s reliance upon this understanding.
 
 
 
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4.2   Acknowledgment of Dilution .  The Company acknowledges that the issuance of the Securities may result in dilution of the outstanding Ordinary Shares, which dilution may be substantial under certain market conditions.  The Company further acknowledges that its obligations under the Transaction Documents, including, without limitation, its obligation to issue the Underlying Shares pursuant to the Transaction Documents, are unconditional and absolute and not subject to any right of set off, counterclaim, delay or reduction, regardless of the effect of any such dilution or any claim the Company may have against any Purchaser and regardless of the dilutive effect that such issuance may have on the ownership of the other shareholders of the Company.
 
4.3   Furnishing of Information; Public Information .
 
(a)   Until the time that no Purchaser owns Securities, the Company covenants to be and remain subject to the reporting requirements of a foreign private issuer under Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and to timely file (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company as a foreign private issuer after the date hereof pursuant to the Exchange Act even if the Company is not then subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act.    As long as any Purchaser owns Securities, if the Company is not required to file reports pursuant to the Exchange Act, it will prepare and furnish to the Purchasers and make publicly available in accordance with Rule 144(c) such information as is required for the Purchasers to sell the Securities, including without limitation, under Rule 144.  The Company further covenants that it will take such further action as any holder of Securities may reasonably request, to the extent required from time to time to enable such Person to sell such Securities without registration under the Securities Act, including without limitation, within the requirements of the exemption provided by Rule 144.
 
(b)   At any time during the period commencing from the six (6) month anniversary of the date hereof and ending at such time that all of the Securities may be sold without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with Rule 144(c)(1) and otherwise without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144, if the Company shall fail for any reason to satisfy the current public information requirement under Rule 144(c) (a “ Public Information Failure ”) then, in addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to a Purchaser, in cash or in Ordinary Shares at the Company’s sole option, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, by reason of any such delay in or reduction of its ability to sell the Securities, an amount equal to one and one-half percent (1.5%) of the aggregate Subscription Amount of such Purchaser’s Securities on the day of a Public Information Failure and on every thirtieth (30 th ) day (pro rated for periods totaling less than thirty days) thereafter until the earlier of (a) the date such Public Information Failure is cured and (b) such time that such public information is no longer required  for the Purchasers to transfer the Underlying Shares pursuant to Rule 144.  The payments to which a Purchaser shall be entitled pursuant to this Section 4.3(b) are referred to herein as “ Public Information Failure Payments .”  The Company may, at its election, pay Public Information Failure Payments in cash or with Ordinary Shares valued at the VWAP for each day such Public Information Payments are payable.  Public Information Failure   Payments shall be paid on the earlier of (i) the last
 
 
 
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day of the calendar month during which such Public Information Failure   Payments are incurred and (ii) the third (3 rd ) Business Day after the event or failure giving rise to the Public Information Failure   Payments is cured.  In the event the issuance of such Ordinary Shares would exceed the applicable beneficial ownership limitation described in Section 4(c) of the Debenture, then the Company may not issue nor deliver such Ordinary Shares in excess of the beneficial ownership limitation applicable to a Purchaser until such Purchaser notifies the Company that such issuance will not exceed the applicable beneficial ownership limitation, after which notice, the Company will promptly issue and deliver the withheld Ordinary Shares.  In the event the Company fails to make Public Information Failure   Payments in a timely manner, such Public Information Failure   Payments shall bear interest at the rate of 1.5% per month (prorated for partial months) until paid in full. Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue actual damages for the Public Information Failure, and such Purchaser shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.
 
4.4   Integration .  The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities in a manner that would require the registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Securities or that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities for purposes of the rules and regulations of any Trading Market such that it would require shareholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.
 
4.5   Conversion and Exercise Procedures .  The form of Notice of Conversion included in the Debentures   set forth the totality of the procedures required of the Purchasers in order to convert the Debentures.  No additional legal opinion, other information or instructions shall be required of the Purchasers to convert their Debentures.  The Company shall honor conversions of the Debentures and shall deliver Underlying Shares in accordance with the terms, conditions and time periods set forth in the Transaction Documents.
 
4.6   Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity .  The Company shall by 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on the (a) Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, issue a press release disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby and (b) the fourth Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, issue a Current Report on Form 6-K disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby, and including the Transaction Documents as exhibits thereto.  From and after the issuance of such press release, the Company shall have publicly disclosed all material, non-public information delivered to any of the Purchasers by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of any Purchaser, or include the name of any Purchaser in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or Trading Market, without the prior written consent of such Purchaser, except: (a) as required by federal securities law in connection with (i) any registration statement filed on behalf of the Purchasers and (ii) the filing of final Transaction Documents (including signature pages thereto) with the Commission and (b) to the extent such disclosure is required by law or Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company shall provide the Purchasers with prior notice of such disclosure permitted under this clause (b).
 
 
 
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4.7   Shareholder Rights Plan .  No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or, with the consent of the Company, any other Person, that any Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person” under any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or similar anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such plan or arrangement, by virtue of receiving Securities under the Transaction Documents or under any other agreement between the Company and the Purchasers.
 
4.8   Non-Public Information .  Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company covenants and agrees that neither it, nor any other Person acting on its behalf, will provide any Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information, unless prior thereto such Purchaser shall have consented in writing to receive such information.  The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.
 
4.9   Use of Proceeds .  Except as set forth on Schedule 4.9 attached hereto, the Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder for working capital purposes and shall not use such proceeds for: (a) the satisfaction of any portion of the Company’s debt (other than payment of trade payables in the ordinary course of the Company’s business and prior practices), (b) the redemption of any Ordinary Shares or Ordinary Shares Equivalents, (c) the settlement of any outstanding litigation or (d) in violation of the FCPA or OFAC regulations.
 
4.10   Indemnification of Purchasers .   Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.10, the Company will indemnify and hold each Purchaser and its directors, officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who controls such Purchaser (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members, partners or employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a “ Purchaser Party ”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted against a Purchaser in any capacity, or any of them or their respective Affiliates, by any shareholder of the Company who is not an Affiliate of such Purchaser, with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (unless such action is based upon a breach of such Purchaser’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents or any agreements or understandings such Purchaser may have with any such shareholder or any violations by such 
 
 
 
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Purchaser of state or federal securities laws or any conduct by such Purchaser which constitutes fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or malfeasance).  If any action shall be brought against any Purchaser Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, such Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party.  Any Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of counsel, a material conflict on any material issue between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party, in which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such separate counsel.  The Company will not be liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by a Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the extent, but only to the extent that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents.  The indemnification required by this Section 4.10 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or are incurred.  The indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in addition to any cause of action or similar right of any Purchaser Party against the Company or others, and (y) any liabilities the Company may be subject to pursuant to law.
 
4.11   Reservation and Listing of Securities .
 
(a)   The Company shall maintain a reserve from its duly authorized Ordinary Shares for issuance pursuant to the Transaction Documents in such amount as may then be required to fulfill its obligations in full under the Transaction Documents.
 
(b)   If, on any date, the number of authorized but unissued (and otherwise unreserved) Ordinary Shares is less than the Required Minimum on such date, then the Board of Directors shall use commercially reasonable efforts to amend the Company’s certificate or articles of incorporation to increase the number of authorized but unissued Ordinary Shares to at least the Required Minimum at such time, as soon as possible and in any event not later than the 45th day after such date.
 
(c)   The Company shall, if applicable: (i) in the time and manner required by the principal Trading Market, prepare and file with such Trading Market an additional shares listing application covering a number of Ordinary Shares at least equal to the Required Minimum on the date of such application, (ii) take all steps necessary to cause such Ordinary Shares to be approved for listing or quotation on such Trading Market as soon as possible thereafter, (iii) provide to the Purchasers evidence of such listing or quotation and (iv) maintain the listing or quotation of such Ordinary Shares on any date at least equal to the Required Minimum on such date on such Trading Market or another Trading Market.
 
 
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4.12   Participation in Subsequent Financing .
 
(a)   From the date hereof until such time as Debentures representing less than $5,000,000 of the aggregate initial Principal Amount remain outstanding, upon any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Ordinary Shares, Ordinary Shares Equivalents for cash consideration, Indebtedness (or a combination of units hereof) (a “ Subsequent Financing ”), each Purchaser holding a Debenture with not less than $1,000,000 of outstanding Debenture principal shall have the right to participate in up to an amount of the Subsequent Financing equal to 100% of the Subsequent Financing (the “ Participation Maximum ”) on the same terms, conditions and price provided for in the Subsequent Financing.
 
(b)   At least five (5) Trading Days prior to the closing of the Subsequent Financing, the Company shall deliver to each Purchaser a written notice of its intention to effect a Subsequent Financing (“ Pre-Notice ”), which Pre-Notice shall ask such Purchaser if it wants to review the details of such financing (such additional notice, a “ Subsequent Financing Notice ”).  Upon the request of a Purchaser, and only upon a request by such Purchaser, for a Subsequent Financing Notice, the Company shall promptly, but no later than one (1) Trading Day after such request, deliver a Subsequent Financing Notice to such Purchaser.  The Subsequent Financing Notice shall describe in reasonable detail the proposed terms of such Subsequent Financing, the amount of proceeds intended to be raised thereunder and the Person or Persons through or with whom such Subsequent Financing is proposed to be effected and shall include a term sheet or similar document relating thereto as an attachment.
 
(c)   Any Purchaser desiring to participate in such Subsequent Financing must provide written notice to the Company by not later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5 th ) Trading Day after all of the Purchasers have received the Pre-Notice that the Purchaser is willing to participate in the Subsequent Financing, the amount of the Purchaser’s participation, and representing and warranting that the Purchaser has such funds ready, willing, and available for investment on the terms set forth in the Subsequent Financing Notice.  If the Company receives no such notice from a Purchaser as of such fifth (5 th ) Trading Day, such Purchaser shall be deemed to have notified the Company that it does not elect to participate.
 
(d)   If by 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5 th ) Trading Day after all of the Purchasers have received the Pre-Notice, notifications by the Purchasers of their willingness to participate in the Subsequent Financing (or to cause their designees to participate) is, in the aggregate, less than the total amount of the Subsequent Financing, then the Company may effect the remaining portion of such Subsequent Financing on the terms and with the Persons set forth in the Subsequent Financing Notice.
 
 
 
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(e)   If by 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5 th ) Trading Day after all of the Purchasers have received the Pre-Notice, the Company receives responses to a Subsequent Financing Notice from Purchasers seeking to purchase more than the aggregate amount of the Participation Maximum, each such Purchaser shall have the right to purchase its Pro Rata Portion (as defined below) of the Participation Maximum.  “ Pro Rata Portion ” means the ratio of (x) the Subscription Amount of Securities purchased on the Closing Date by a Purchaser participating under this Section 4.12 and (y) the sum of the aggregate Subscription Amounts of Securities purchased on the Closing Date by all Purchasers participating under this Section 4.12.
 
(f)   The Company must provide the Purchasers with a second Subsequent Financing Notice, and the Purchasers will again have the right of participation set forth above in this Section 4.12, if the Subsequent Financing subject to the initial Subsequent Financing Notice is not consummated for any reason on the terms set forth in such Subsequent Financing Notice within thirty (30) Trading Days after the date of the initial Subsequent Financing Notice.
 
(g)   Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 4.12 shall not apply in respect of (i) an Exempt Issuance, or (ii) an underwritten public offering of Ordinary Shares and a Purchaser’s participation in a Subsequent Financing shall be limited in the same manner and to the same extent as the conversion limitation set forth in Section 4(c) of the Debenture.
 
4.13   Subsequent Equity Sales .
 
(a)   From the date hereof until such time as no Purchaser holds any of the Securities, the Company shall be prohibited from effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Ordinary Shares or Ordinary Shares Equivalents for cash consideration (or a combination of units thereof) involving a Variable Rate Transaction. “ Variable Rate Transaction ” means a transaction in which the Company (i) issues or sells any debt or equity securities that are convertible into, exchangeable or exercisable for, or include the right to receive, additional Ordinary Shares either (A) at a conversion price, exercise price or exchange rate or other price that is based upon, and/or varies with, the trading prices of or quotations for the Ordinary Shares at any time after the initial issuance of such debt or equity securities or (B) with a conversion, exercise or exchange price that is subject to being reset at some future date after the initial issuance of such debt or equity security or upon the occurrence of specified or contingent events directly or indirectly related to the business of the Company or the market for the Ordinary Shares or (ii) enters into any agreement, including, but not limited to, an equity line of credit, whereby the Company may sell securities at a future determined price.   Any Purchaser shall be entitled to obtain injunctive relief against the Company to preclude any such issuance, which remedy shall be in addition to any right to collect damages.
 
(b)   Anything to the contrary herein, notwithstanding a Variable Rate Transaction may not be an Exempt Issuance.
 
 
 
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4.14   Equal Treatment of Purchasers .  No consideration (including any modification of any Transaction Document) shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any of the Transaction Documents unless the same consideration is also offered to all of the parties to the Transaction Documents. Further, the Company shall not make any payment of principal on the Debentures in amounts which are disproportionate to the respective Principal Amounts outstanding on the Debentures at any applicable time.  For clarification purposes, this provision constitutes a separate right granted to each Purchaser by the Company and negotiated separately by each Purchaser, and is intended for the Company to treat the Purchasers as a class and shall not in any way be construed as the Purchasers acting in concert or as a group with respect to the purchase, disposition or voting of Securities or otherwise.
 
4.15   Certain Transactions and Confidentiality . Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that neither it, nor any Affiliate acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it will execute any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of any of the Company’s securities during the period commencing with the execution of this Agreement and ending at such time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to the initial press release as described in Section 4.6.  Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that until such time as the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are publicly disclosed by the Company pursuant to the initial press release as described in Section 4.6, such Purchaser will maintain the confidentiality of the existence and terms of this transaction and the information included in the Transaction Documents and the Disclosure Schedules.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, and notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that (i) no Purchaser makes any representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in effecting transactions in any securities of the Company after the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to the initial press release as described in Section 4.6, (ii) no Purchaser shall be restricted or prohibited from effecting any transactions in any securities of the Company in accordance with applicable securities laws from and after the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to the initial press release as described in Section 4.6 and (iii) no Purchaser shall have any duty of confidentiality to the Company or its Subsidiaries after the date the initial press release is required to be issued by the Company as described in Section 4.6.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the covenant set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement.
 
 
 
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4.16   Form D; Blue Sky Filings .  The Company agrees to timely file a Form D with respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy thereof, promptly upon request of any Purchaser. The Company shall take such action as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary in order to obtain an exemption for, or to qualify the Securities for, sale to the Purchasers at the Closing under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States, and shall provide evidence of such actions promptly upon request of any Purchaser.
 
4.17   Notices .  For so long as the Purchasers hold any Securities, the Company will maintain a United States fax number for notice purposes under the Transaction Documents.
 
4.18            DTC Program .   Until the End Date, the Company will employ as the transfer agent for its Ordinary Shares a participant in the Depository Trust Company Automated Securities Transfer Program.
 
4.19            Negative Covenants .   So long as a Debenture is outstanding, without the consent of Purchasers holding a majority of the outstanding Debenture principal, the Company will not and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to directly or indirectly:

(i)           create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, lien, charge, claim, security interest, security title, mortgage, security deed or deed of trust, easement or encumbrance, or preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any lease or title retention agreement, any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing, and the filing of, or agreement to give, any financing statement perfecting a security interest under the Uniform Commercial Code or comparable law of any jurisdiction) (each, a “ Lien ”) upon any of its property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired except for:  (A) Liens in connection with the obligations represented by the Debentures or the Exempt Issuances, and (B) (a) Liens imposed by law for taxes that are not yet due or are being contested in good faith and for which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles; (b) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, material men’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens imposed by law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not overdue by more than 30 days or that are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings; (c) pledges and deposits made in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security laws or regulations; (d) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business; (e) Liens, including purchase money liens,  created with respect to the financing of the purchase of new property in the ordinary course of the Company’s business up to the amount of the purchase price of such property; and (f) easements, zoning restrictions, rights-of-way and similar encumbrances on real property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business that do not secure any monetary obligations and do not materially detract from the value of the affected property (each of (A) and (B)(a) through (f), a “ Permitted Lien ”);
 
(ii)             amend its Memorandum and Articles of Association so as to materially and adversely affect any rights of the Purchasers;
 
 
 
 
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(iii)           repay, repurchase, redeem or offer to repay, repurchase or otherwise acquire or make any cash dividend or distribution in respect of any of its Ordinary Shares, preferred shares, or other equity securities other than to the extent permitted or required under the Transaction Documents and except for dividends on preferred shares payable with Ordinary Shares.
 
(iv)          except as described in the Reports, engage in any transactions with any officer, director, employee or any Affiliate of the Company, including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner, in each case in excess of $120,000 other than (i) for payment of salary, or consulting fees, including investment banking fees in the case of an officer or director who is a principal of an investment bank that may provide services to the Company, for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company, and (iii) for other employee benefits, including share option agreements under any share option plan of the Company; or

(v)           other than in connection with the Exchange, prepay or redeem any financing related debt or past due obligations outstanding as of the Closing Date, except as set forth on Schedule 4.19 .
 
4.20            Piggy-Back Registrations .   If at any time until forty-eight months after the Closing Date there is not an effective registration statement covering all of the Incentive Shares, Interest Shares, and Ordinary Shares issued and issuable upon conversion of the Debentures or paid as interest on the Debentures (collectively such Ordinary Shares are the “ Registrable Securities ”) and the Company shall determine to prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement relating to an offering for its own account or the account of others under the 1933 Act of any of its equity securities, excluding a registration statement on Form S-4 (as promulgated under the 1933 Act) or its then equivalent form or on Form S-8 or its then equivalent form, then the Company shall send to each Purchaser of any of the Registrable Securities written notice of such determination and, if within fifteen calendar days after receipt of such notice, any such Purchaser shall so request in writing, the Company shall include in such registration statement all or any part of the Registrable Securities such Purchaser requests to be registered, subject to customary underwriter cutbacks applicable to all holders of registration rights.  The obligations of the Company under this Section may be waived by any holder of any of the Registrable Securities entitled to registration rights under this Section 4.20. The Purchasers whose Registrable Securities are included or required to be included in such registration statement are granted the same rights, benefits, liquidated or other damages and indemnification granted to other holders of securities included in such registration statement.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the registration rights granted hereunder to the holders of Registrable Securities shall not be applicable for such times as such Registrable Securities may be sold by the holder thereof without restriction pursuant to Section 144(b)(1) of the 1933 Act without volume limitations.  In no event shall the liability of any holder of Registrable Securities or permitted successor in connection with any Registrable Securities included in any such registration statement be greater in amount than the dollar amount of the net
 
 
 
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proceeds actually received by such holder upon the sale of the Registrable Securities sold pursuant to such registration statement or such lesser amount applicable to other holders of securities included in such registration statement. All expenses incurred by the Company in complying with Section 4.20, including, without limitation, all registration and filing fees, printing expenses (if required), fees and disbursements of counsel and independent public accountants for the Company, fees and expenses (including reasonable counsel fees) incurred in connection with complying with state securities or “blue sky” laws, fees of the NASD or FINRA, transfer taxes, and fees of transfer agents and registrars, are called “Registration Expenses.” All underwriting discounts and selling commissions applicable to the sale of Registrable Securities are called "Selling Expenses."  The Company will pay all Registration Expenses in connection with the registration statement under Section 4.20.  Selling Expenses in connection with each registration statement under Section 4.20 shall be borne by the holder and will be apportioned among such holders in proportion to the amount of Registrable Securities included therein for a holder relative to all the Securities included therein for all selling holders, or as all holders may agree.
 
 
ARTICLE V.
MISCELLANEOUS
 
5.1   Termination .  This Agreement may be terminated by any Purchaser, as to such Purchaser’s obligations hereunder only and without any effect whatsoever on the obligations between the Company and the other Purchasers, by written notice to the other parties, if the Closing has not been consummated on or before May 15, 2010; provided , however , that such termination will not affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by the other party (or parties).
 
5.2   Fees and Expenses .  At the Closing, the Company shall pay Grushko & Mittman the legal fees and expenses set forth on Annex A.  The Company shall deliver to each Purchaser, prior to the Closing, a completed and executed copy of the Closing Statement, attached hereto as Annex A .  Except as expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents to the contrary, each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement.  The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees, stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Securities to the Purchasers.
 
5.3   Entire Agreement .  The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and schedules.
 
5.4   Notices .  Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of: (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the second (2 nd ) Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given.  The address for such notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto.
 
 
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5.5   Amendments; Waivers .  No provision of this Agreement may be waived, modified, supplemented or amended except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Company and the Purchasers holding more than 50% in interest of the Securities being affected then outstanding or, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement of any such waived provision is sought.  No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.
 
5.6   Headings .  The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.
 
5.7   Successors and Assigns .  This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns.  The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Purchaser (other than by merger).  Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom such Purchaser assigns or transfers any Securities, provided that such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of the Transaction Documents that apply to the “Purchasers.”
 
5.8   No Third-Party Beneficiaries .  This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, except as otherwise set forth in Section 4.10.
 
5.9   Governing Law .  All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof.  Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York.  Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such proceeding.  Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof.  Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.   If any party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then, in addition to the obligations of the Company under Section 4.10, the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.
 
 
 
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5.10   Survival .  The representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and the delivery of the Securities.
 
5.11   Execution .  This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party, it being understood that both parties need not sign the same counterpart.  In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.
 
5.12   Severability . If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.
 
5.13   Rescission and Withdrawal Right .  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) any of the other Transaction Documents, whenever any Purchaser exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction Document and the Company does not timely perform its related obligations within the periods therein provided, then such Purchaser may rescind or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time upon written notice to the Company, any relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part without prejudice to its future actions and rights; provided , however , that in the case of a rescission of a conversion of a Debenture, the applicable Purchaser shall be required to return any Ordinary Shares subject to any such rescinded conversion or exercise notice concurrently with the return to such Purchaser of the aggregate exercise price paid to the Company for such shares and the restoration of such Purchaser’s right to acquire such shares pursuant to such Purchaser’s Warrant (including, issuance of a replacement warrant certificate evidencing such restored right).  The foregoing notwithstanding, Purchaser shall nevertheless be entitled to any liquidated or other damages which accrued through the date of such rescission or withdrawal.
 
 
 
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5.14   Replacement of Securities .  If any certificate or instrument evidencing any Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction.  The applicant for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party costs (including customary indemnity) associated with the issuance of such replacement Securities.
 
5.15   Remedies .  In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents.  The parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agree to waive and not to assert in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.
 
5.16   Payment Set Aside . To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to any Purchaser pursuant to any Transaction Document or a Purchaser enforces or exercises its rights thereunder, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the Company, a trustee, receiver or any other person under any law (including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to the extent of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.
 
5.17   Usury .  To the extent it may lawfully do so, the Company hereby agrees not to insist upon or plead or in any manner whatsoever claim, and will resist any and all efforts to be compelled to take the benefit or advantage of, usury laws wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, in connection with any claim, action or proceeding that may be brought by any Purchaser in order to enforce any right or remedy under any Transaction Document.  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in any Transaction Document, it is expressly agreed and provided that the total liability of the Company under the Transaction Documents for payments in the nature of interest shall not exceed the maximum lawful rate authorized under applicable law (the “ Maximum Rate ”), and, without limiting the foregoing, in no event shall any rate of interest or default interest, or both of them, when aggregated with any other sums in the nature of interest that the Company may be obligated to pay under the Transaction Documents exceed such Maximum Rate.  It is agreed that if the maximum contract rate of interest allowed by law and applicable to the Transaction Documents is increased or decreased by statute or any official governmental action subsequent to the date hereof, the new maximum contract rate of interest allowed by law will be the Maximum Rate applicable to the Transaction Documents from the effective date thereof forward, unless such application is precluded by applicable law.  If under any circumstances whatsoever, interest in excess of the Maximum Rate is paid by the Company to any Purchaser with respect to indebtedness evidenced by the Transaction Documents, such excess shall be applied by such Purchaser to the unpaid principal balance of any such indebtedness or be refunded to the Company, the manner of handling such excess to be at such Purchaser’s election.
 
 
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5.18   Independent Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights .  The obligations of each Purchaser under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any way for the performance or non-performance of the obligations of any other Purchaser under any Transaction Document.  Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.  Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.  Each Purchaser has been represented by its own legal counsel in its review and negotiation of the Transaction Documents.  For reasons of administrative convenience only, each Purchaser and its respective counsel have chosen to communicate with the Company through G&M.  The Company has elected to provide all Purchasers with the same terms and Transaction Documents for the convenience of the Company and not because it was required or requested to do so by any of the Purchasers.
 
5.19   Liquidated Damages .  The Company’s obligations to pay any partial liquidated damages or other amounts owing under the Transaction Documents is a continuing obligation of the Company and shall not terminate until all unpaid partial liquidated damages and other amounts have been paid notwithstanding the fact that the instrument or security pursuant to which such partial liquidated damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been canceled.
 
5.20   Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc .    If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Business Day, then such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding Business Day.
 
 
 
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5.21   Construction . The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel has reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments hereto. In addition, each and every reference to share prices and Ordinary Shares in any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward share splits, share dividends, share combinations and other similar transactions of the Ordinary Shares that occur after the date of this Agreement.
 
5.22   WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL .  IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY, IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER TRIAL BY JURY.
 

 
(Signature Pages Follow)
 
 
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.
 
CHINA NETWORKS INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTD.
 
 
Address for Notice:
27 Union Square West, Suite 501-502
New York, NY 10003
By:__________________________________________
     Name:
     Title:
With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):
Fax:
   
 
 

 
[REMAINDER OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK
SIGNATURE PAGE FOR PURCHASER FOLLOWS]
 
 
 
 
 
 
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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO CHINA NETWORKS
INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTD. SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.
 
Name of Purchaser: ________________________________________________________
 
Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser : __________________________________
 
Name of Authorized Signatory: ____________________________________________________
 
Title of Authorized Signatory: _____________________________________________________
 
Email Address of Authorized Signatory: _____________________________________________
 
Facsimile Number of Authorized Signatory: __________________________________________
 
Address for Notice of Purchaser (include fax number): __________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

Address for Delivery of Securities for Purchaser (if not same as address for notice):

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

Subscription Amount: $___________________

Principal Amount: $___________________

Incentive Shares (Principal Amount multiplied by .576555): _____________________



[SIGNATURE PAGES CONTINUE]
 
 
 
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Annex A

CLOSING STATEMENT

Pursuant to the attached Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of the date hereto, the purchasers shall purchase in the aggregate up to $11,000,000 of Principal Amount of Debentures and Incentive Shares from China Networks International Holdings Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company (the “ Company ”) for the cash amount of $11,000,000.  All funds will be wired into an account maintained by Collateral Agents, LLC as Escrow Agent.  All funds will be disbursed in accordance with this Closing Statement.

Disbursement Date:
March ___, 2010


I.    PURCHASE PRICE
 
 
 
Gross Proceeds to be Received
$11,000,000
   
II.       DISBURSEMENTS
 
 
 
Chardan Capital Markets LLC
$
 
China Networks International Holdings Ltd.
$
 
Collateral Agents, LLC
$
 
Grushko & Mittman, P.C.
$
 
Maples and Calder
$
 
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
$
   
Total Amount Disbursed:
$
   
WIRE INSTRUCTIONS :
 
 
To: _____________________________________
 
 
 
To: _____________________________________
 
 
 

APPROVED:

China Networks International Holdings Ltd.

By: ___________________________________________
Name:
Title:
 
 
 
 
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LIST OF EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES

Exhibit A                                Form of Debenture

Exhibit B                                Escrow Agreement

Exhibit C                                Exchange Agreement

Exhibit D                                Security Agreement

Exhibit E                                Subsidiary Guaranty

Exhibit F                                Purchaser Questionnaire




 
 
 
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Exhibit 99.3
 
 
AMENDATORY AGREEMENT

THIS AMENDATORY AGREEMENT amends certain provisions of that SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT dated April 13, 2010 (the “ SPA ”), between China Networks International Holdings Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company (the “ Company ”), and each purchaser signatory thereto (each, including its successors and assigns, a “ Purchaser ” and collectively, the “ Purchasers ”), and the Transaction Documents (as defined below) as set forth below.

BACKGROUND

Pursuant to the SPA, the Company sold to the Purchasers, and the Purchasers purchased from the Company, an aggregate of $11,000,000 in principal interest of 10% Senior Convertible Debentures (each debenture, a “ Debenture ” and collectively, the “ Debentures ”).
 
Pursuant to a certain Subsidiary Guaranty entered into by China Networks Media, Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“ Guarantor ”), for the benefit of Collateral Agents, LLC (the “ Collateral Agent ”) and the Purchasers, dated of equal date with the SPA (the “ Guaranty ”), the Guarantors have jointly and severally agreed to guarantee and act as surety for payment of the Debentures.

In order to induce the Purchasers to enter into the SPA, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries (each a “Debtor” and collectively, the “ Debtors ”) entered into a Security Agreement (the “ Security Agreement ”) with the Purchasers and the Collateral Agent whereby each Debtor granted each Purchaser, pari passu with each other Purchaser and through the Collateral Agent, a security interest in certain property of such Debtor to secure the prompt payment, performance and discharge in full of all of the Company’s obligations under the Debentures and the Guarantors’ obligations under the Guaranty.

The SPA, Debentures, Guaranty and Security Agreement are herein collectively referred to as the “Transaction Documents”.

In connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, certain Purchasers appointed Euro Pacific Capital, Inc. (“ Euro Pacific ”) as their investor representative to act on behalf of such Purchasers with respect to any actions taken in accordance with the Transaction Documents or the transactions contemplated thereby.  Accordingly, this Amendatory Agreement is being entered into by the Company, the Guarantor, each Debtor, the Collateral Agent, Euro Pacific and the Purchasers not represented by Euro Pacific.  Each party hereto is executing this Agreement solely with respect to the Transaction Documents applicable to which they were originally a party, as set for on the signature page hereto.

The following terms are hereby incorporated as a part of the SPA, and to the extent these terms modify or conflict with any provisions of the SPA, these terms shall control.  All other terms of the SPA and other Transaction Documents  not modified shall remain the same.
 
 
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1.  
Amendments to the SPA .

a)   Section 3.1(r) of the SPA is hereby deleted and restated in its entirety as follows:
Certain Fees .  Other than as set out in Schedule 3.1(r) , no brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions or any other payments in cash or otherwise, directly or indirectly arising from the occurrence of the Closing, are or will be payable by the Company to any broker, financial advisor or consultant, finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or other Person.  The Purchasers shall have no obligation with respect to any fees or with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this Section that may be due in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

b)   Section 4.19(iv) of the SPA is hereby deleted and restated in its entirety as follows:

except as described in the Reports, engage in any transactions with any officer, director, employee or any Affiliate of the Company, including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner, in each case in excess of $120,000 other than (i) for payment of salary, or consulting fees, including investment banking fees in the case of an officer or director who is a principal of an investment bank that may provide services to the Company, for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company, (iii) for other employee benefits, including share option agreements under any share option plan of the Company, and (iv) payment to Mr. CliveNg, or any affiliates of Mr. Ng, for services provided to the Company, which payments shall not exceed, in the aggregate, $200,000; provided, however, that each such transaction described in clauses (i) – (iv) above shall be consummated on commercially reasonable terms not more favorable to the Affiliate (including Mr. Ng) than the terms and amounts that would be applicable to an arms-length transaction with a non-affiliated third party; or
 
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c)   Section 5.5 of the SPA is hereby amended to add the following sentence to the end of the Section:

Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Agreement may be amended without the express written consent of each Purchaser (or group of Purchasers under common control) then holding Debentures in aggregate principal amount of $1,750,000 or greater.
 
2.  
Amendment to the Debenture .  The last sentence of Section 8(e) of the Debenture is hereby deleted and restated in its entirety as follows:

This Debenture may only be modified, supplemented or amended in a written instrument signed by the Company and the Holders holding a majority in interest of the Debentures then outstanding; provided, however, that no provision of this Debenture may be modified, supplemented or amended without the express written consent of each Holder (or group of Holders under common control) then holding Debentures in aggregate principal amount of $1,750,000 or greater.

3.  
Amendment to the Security Agreement .  Section 1(c) of the Security Agreement is hereby deleted and restated in its entirety as follows:

Majority in Interest ” means, at any time of determination, the majority in interest (based on then-outstanding principal amounts of Debentures at the time of such determination) of the Secured Parties; provided, however, that a Majority in Interest must include each Secured Party (or group of Secured Parties under common control) who then holds Debentures in the aggregate principal amount of $1,750,000 or greater.

4.  
Counterparts .  This Agreement may be executed in counterpart copies, each of which shall constitute an original and all of which together shall constitute one agreement.
 
5.  
Binding Effect .  This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and permitted assigns.  The recitals are hereby incorporated into the body of this Agreement as if fully restated in this Section.  In the event of a conflict between any Transaction Document and this Agreement, this Agreement shall control.
 
 
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6.  
Entire Agreement; Amendment .  This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof, and may not be modified, supplemented or amended without the written consent of the Company and (i) with respect to Section 1 and 2 hereof, the Purchasers (or group of Purchasers under common control) holding a majority in interest of the Debentures then outstanding (which Purchasers or group of Purchasers under common control must include the Purchasers or group of Purchasers under common control then holding Debentures in aggregate principal amount of $1,750,000 or greater), and (ii) with respect to all other sections hereof, the Debtors, Purchasers (or group of Purchasers under common control) holding a majority in interest of the Debentures then outstanding (which Purchasers or group of Purchasers under common control much include the Purchasers then holding Debentures in aggregate principal amount of $1,750,000 or greater), and the Collateral Agent.

[ Signature Pages Follow ]
 
 
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the parties hereto have executed this Amendatory Agreement as of the Effective Date.
 
 
COMPANY :
 
CHINA NETWORKS INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS, LTD.
 
 
By: _____________________________
Name:  __________________________
Title: ___________________________
 
 
DEBTORS :
 
CHINA NETWORKS MEDIA, LTD.
 
By: _______________________________
Name: _____________________________
Title: ______________________________
 
 
COLLATERAL AGENT :
 
COLLATERAL AGENTS, LLC
 
By: _______________________________
Name: _____________________________
Title: ______________________________
                                                           
 

( Purchaser and Investor Representative  Signature Pages Follow )
 
 
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( Purchaser Signature Page to Amendatory Agreement )

PURCHASER

Name of Purchaser:    __________________________________________________
 
Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser : ______________________
 
Name of Authorized Signatory: _________________________
 
Title of Authorized Signatory: __________________________


Principal Amount of Debentures Currently Held: $___________________________

 
 
 
 
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( Investor Representative Signature Page to Amendatory Agreement )


INVESTOR REPRESENTATIVE ON BEHALF OF CERTAIN PURCHASERS :

Euro Pacific Capital, Inc.
 
By: _______________________________
Name: _____________________________
Title: ______________________________
                                  



 
 
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Exhibit 99.4
 
 
EXHIBIT A

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THIS SECURITY IS CONVERTIBLE HAVE 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”), 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 ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY.  THIS SECURITY AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.

Original Issue Date: April 13, 2010
Original Conversion Price (subject to adjustment herein): $1.14

$__________________


CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURE
DUE APRIL 30, 2016
 
THIS CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURE is one of a series of duly authorized and validly issued Convertible Debentures of China Networks International Holdings Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company, (the “ Company ”), due April 30, 2016 (this debenture, the “ Debenture ” and, collectively with the other debentures of such series, the “ Debentures ”).

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the Company promises to pay to _____________ or his registered assigns (the “ Holder ”), or shall have paid pursuant to the terms hereunder, the principal sum of $_______________ on April 30, 2016 (the “ Maturity Date ”) or such earlier date as this Debenture is required or permitted to be repaid as provided hereunder and to pay interest to the Holder on the aggregate unconverted and then outstanding principal amount of this Debenture in accordance with the provisions hereof.  This Debenture is subject to the following additional provisions:

Section 1 .       Definitions .  For the purposes hereof, in addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Debenture, (a) capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Purchase Agreement and (b) the following terms shall have the following meanings:
 
 
 
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Alternate Consideration ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(e).

Bankruptcy Event ” means any of the following events: (a) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X) thereof commences a case or other proceeding under any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debt, relief of debtors, dissolution, insolvency or liquidation or similar law of any jurisdiction relating to the Company or any Significant Subsidiary thereof, (b) there is commenced against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary thereof any such case or proceeding that is not dismissed within 60 days after commencement, (c) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary thereof is adjudicated insolvent or bankrupt or any order of relief or other order approving any such case or proceeding is entered, (d) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary thereof suffers any appointment of any custodian or the like for it or any substantial part of its property that is not discharged or stayed within 60 calendar days after such appointment, (e) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary thereof makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or (f) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary thereof, by any act or failure to act, expressly indicates its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any of the foregoing or takes any corporate or other action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing.

Base Conversion Price ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(b).

Base Interest Rate ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a).

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

Buy-In ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(c)(v).
 
 
 
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Change of Control Transaction ” means the occurrence after the date hereof of any of (a) an acquisition by an individual or legal entity or “group” (as described in Rule 13d-5(b)(1) promulgated under the Exchange Act) of effective control (whether through legal or beneficial ownership of shares in the Company, by contract or otherwise) of  a majority of the voting securities of the Company (other than by means of conversion or exercise of the Debentures and the Securities issued together with the Debentures), (b) the Company merges into or consolidates with any other Person, or any Person merges into or consolidates with the Company and, after giving effect to such transaction, the shareholders of the Company immediately prior to such transaction own less than a majority of the aggregate voting power of the Company or the successor entity of such transaction, (c) the Company sells or transfers all or substantially all of its assets to another Person and the shareholders of the Company immediately prior to such transaction own less than a majority of the aggregate voting power of the acquiring entity immediately after the transaction, (d) a replacement at one time or within a three year period of more than one-half of the members of the Board of Directors which is not approved by a majority of those individuals who are members of the Board of Directors on the Original Issue Date (or by those individuals who are serving as members of the Board of Directors on any date whose nomination to the Board of Directors was approved by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors who are members of the Board of Directors on the date hereof or their successors who were so nominated), or (e) the execution by the Company of an agreement to which the Company  is a party or by which it is bound, providing for any of the events set forth in clauses (a) through (d) above.

 “ Conversion Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a).

Conversion Price ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(b).

Conversion Schedule ” means the Conversion Schedule in the form of Schedule 1 attached hereto.

Conversion Shares ” means, collectively, the Ordinary Shares issuable upon conversion of this Debenture in accordance with the terms hereof.

Debenture Register ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b).

Dilutive Issuance ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(b).

Dilutive Issuance Notice ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(b).

Equity Conditions ” shall mean, during the period in question, (   (iii) there is a sufficient number of authorized but unissued and otherwise unreserved Ordinary Shares for the issuance of all of the shares issuable pursuant to the Transaction Documents, (iv) the issuance of the shares in question (or, in the case of a redemption, the shares issuable upon conversion in full of the redemption amount) to the Holder would not violate the limitations set forth in Section 4(c).

Event of Default shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(a).
 
 
 
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Fundamental Transaction ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(e).

Interest Payment Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a).

Interest Shares ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a).

Late Fees ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(c).
 
 “ New York Courts ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8(d).

Notice of Conversion ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a).

Optional Redemption ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(a).

Optional Redemption Amount ” shall mean the sum of (i) 120% of the principal amount of the Debenture then outstanding, (ii) accrued but unpaid interest and (iii) all liquidated damages and other amounts due in respect of the Debenture.

Optional Redemption Notice ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(a).

Optional Redemption Notice Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(a).

Original Issue Date ” means the date of the first issuance of the Debentures, regardless of any transfers of any Debenture and regardless of the number of instruments which may be issued to evidence such Debentures.

Redemption ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(a).

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

Share Delivery Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(d)(ii).

Successor Entity ” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(e).
 
Trading Day ” means a day on which the principal Trading Market is open for trading.

Trading Market ” means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Ordinary Shares is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE AMEX, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange or the OTC Bulletin Board (or any successors to any of the foregoing).
 
 
 
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VWAP ” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses that applies: (a) if the Ordinary Shares are then listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the daily volume weighted average price of the Ordinary Shares for such date or dates, if applicable (or the nearest preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Ordinary Shares is then listed or quoted as reported by Bloomberg L.P. (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time)), (b)  if the OTC Bulletin Board is not a Trading Market, the volume weighted average price of the Ordinary Shares for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the OTC Bulletin Board, (c) if the Ordinary Shares are not then listed or quoted for trading on the OTC Bulletin Board and if prices for the Ordinary Shares are then reported in the “Pink Sheets” published by Pink OTC Markets, Inc. (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share of the Ordinary Shares so reported, or (d) in all other cases, the fair market value of an Ordinary Shares as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the Holders of a majority in interest of the Debentures then outstanding and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be paid by the Company.

Section 2 .      Interest .

a)            Payment of Interest . The Company shall pay interest to the Holder on the aggregate unconverted and then outstanding principal amount of this Debenture at the rate of 10% per annum, payable semi-annually on June 30 and December 31, beginning on the second such date after the Original Issue Date, on each Optional Redemption Date (as to that principal amount being redeemed), and on the Maturity Date (except that, if any such date is not a Business Day, then such payment shall be due on the next succeeding Business Day) (each such date, an “Interest Payment Date”), in cash and/or Ordinary Shares as described below.  The Company may elect to pay interest with Ordinary Shares (“ Interest Shares ”) valued at the average of the VWAPs for the three Trading Days preceding the relevant Interest Payment Date but in the event such value is less than 43.86% of the Conversion Price in effect on the relevant Interest Payment Date, then the Company may, at its election, defer the calculation of the amount of Interest Shares due for an Interest Payment Date to (i) the first date upon which the average of the VWAPs for the three Trading Days preceding such calculation date will exceed 43.86% of the Conversion Price in effect on such calculation date, or (ii) the Maturity Date, whichever is sooner, after which the Interest Shares will be promptly delivered.  The Company may elect to pay such interest with Ordinary Shares or defer delivery of Interest Shares as set forth above only if (i) notice of such election or deferral is given to the Holder not less than thirty days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, and the Holder does not elect at anytime prior to actual receipt of such interest payment to accept Interest Shares valued at 43.86% of the Conversion Price in effect on the relevant Interest Payment Date, (ii) such payment or deferral is made ratably among all Holders due interest on the Interest Payment Date, and (iii) all of the Equity Conditions have been satisfied, subject to Section 4(c) below.
 
 
 
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b)   Interest Calculations . Interest shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year and shall accrue daily commencing on the Original Issue Date until payment in full of the principal sum, together with all accrued and unpaid interest and other amounts which may become due hereunder, has been made.  Interest shall cease to accrue with respect to any principal amount converted, provided that the Company in fact delivers the Conversion Shares within the time period required by Section 4(d)(ii).  Interest hereunder will be paid to the Person in whose name this Debenture is registered on the records of the Company regarding registration and transfers of Debentures (the “ Debenture Register ”).
 
c)   Late Fee .  All overdue accrued and unpaid interest to be paid hereunder shall entail a late fee at the rate of 18% per annum (or such lower maximum amount of interest permitted to be charged under applicable law) (“ Late Fees ”) which will accrue daily, from the date such interest is due hereunder through and including the date of payment.  The Company may elect to pay Late Fees with Ordinary Shares valued at the average of the VWAPs for the three Trading Days preceding the relevant Late Fee payment date.
 
d) Prepayment .  Subject to the provisions of Section 6, the Company may prepay all or any portion of this Debenture without the prior written consent of the Holder and without premium or penalty.  Such payment will be applied first to any amount owing in connection with this Debenture other than principal and interest, second to accrued and outstanding interest, and lastly to principal.
 
e) Application of Dividends .  The Company will promptly employ not less than 60% of dividends and other funds received from Subsidiaries towards the payment of this Debenture to be applied first to any amount owing in connection with the Transaction Documents other than principal and interest, second to accrued and outstanding interest and lastly to principal.  A payment made pursuant to this Section 2(e) will be deemed to be an Optional Redemption and subject to the provisions of Section 6.
 
 
 
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Section 3.       Registration of Transfers and Exchanges .
 
a)   Different Denominations . This Debenture is exchangeable for an equal aggregate Principal Amount of Debentures of different authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.  No service charge will be payable for such registration of transfer or exchange.
 
b)   Investment Representations . This Debenture has been issued subject to certain investment representations of the original Holder set forth in the Purchase Agreement and may be transferred or exchanged only in compliance with the Purchase Agreement and applicable federal and state securities laws and regulations.

c)   Reliance on Debenture Register . Prior to due presentment for transfer to the Company of this Debenture, the Company and any agent of the Company may treat the Person in whose name this Debenture is duly registered on the Debenture Register as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment as herein provided and for all other purposes, whether or not this Debenture is overdue, and neither the Company nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

Section 4.        Conversion .
 
a)   Voluntary Conversion . At any time after the Original Issue Date until this Debenture is no longer outstanding, this Debenture shall be convertible into Ordinary Shares at the option of the Holder, in whole or in part at any time and from time to time (subject to the limitations on conversion set forth in Section 4(c) hereof).  The Holder shall effect conversions by delivering to the Company the form of Notice of Conversion attached hereto as Annex A (a “ Notice of Conversion ”), specifying therein the principal amount of Debentures to be converted and the date on which such conversion is to be effected (a “ Conversion Date ”).  If no Conversion Date is specified in a Notice of Conversion, the Conversion Date shall be the date which is three (3) Trading Days from the date that such Notice of Conversion is provided hereunder.  To effect conversions hereunder, the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender Debentures to the Company unless the entire principal amount of this Debenture plus all accrued and unpaid interest thereon has been so converted. Conversions hereunder shall have the effect of lowering the outstanding principal amount of this Debenture in an amount equal to the applicable conversion.  The Holder and the Company shall maintain records showing the principal amount converted and the date of such conversions.  The Company shall deliver any objection to any Notice of Conversion within 2 Business Days of receipt of such notice.  In the event of any dispute or discrepancy, the records of the Holder shall be controlling and determinative in the absence of manifest error. The Holder and any assignee, by acceptance of this Debenture, acknowledge and agree that, by reason of the provisions of this paragraph, following conversion of a portion of this Debenture, the unpaid and unconverted principal amount of this Debenture may be less than the amount stated on the face hereof.
 
 
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b)   Conversion Price .  The conversion price (the “ Conversion Price ”) in effect on the Original Issue Date is $1.14.

c)   Conversion Limitations; Holder’s Restriction on Conversion . The Company shall not effect any conversion of this Debenture, and the Holder shall not have the right to convert any portion of this Debenture, pursuant to Section 4(a) or otherwise, to the extent that after giving effect to such conversion, the Holder (together with the Holder’s affiliates), as set forth on the applicable Notice of Conversion, would beneficially own in excess of 4.99% of the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately after giving effect to such conversion unless the Holder shall have prior to the Closing Date elected to increase such amount to 9.99% of the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately after giving effect to such conversion.  For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the number of Ordinary Shares beneficially owned by the Holder and its affiliates shall include the number of Ordinary Shares issuable upon conversion of this Debenture with respect to which the determination of such sentence is being made, but shall exclude the number of Ordinary Shares which would be issuable upon (A) conversion of the remaining, nonconverted portion of this Debenture beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its affiliates and (B) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or nonconverted portion of any other securities of the Company (including, without limitation, any other Debentures or the Warrants) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its affiliates.  Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this Section 4(c), beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act.  To the extent that the limitation contained in this section applies, the determination of whether this Debenture is convertible (in relation to other securities owned by the Holder) and of which a portion of this Debenture is convertible shall be in the sole discretion of such Holder. To ensure compliance with this restriction, the Holder will be deemed to represent to the Company each time it delivers a Notice of Conversion that such Notice of Conversion has not violated the restrictions set forth in this paragraph and the Company shall have no obligation to verify or confirm the accuracy of such determination.  For purposes of this Section 4(c), in determining the number of outstanding Ordinary Shares, the Holder may rely on the number of outstanding Ordinary Shares as reflected in (y) a public announcement by the Company, or (z) any other notice by the Company or the Company’s Transfer Agent setting forth the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding.  Upon the written or oral request of the Holder, the Company shall within two Business Days confirm orally and in writing to the Holder the number of Ordinary Shares then outstanding.  In any case, the number of outstanding Ordinary Shares shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of securities of the Company, including this Debenture, by the Holder or its affiliates since the date as of which such number of outstanding Ordinary Shares was reported.  The provisions of this Section 4(c) may be amended by the Holder, at the election of the Holder, upon not less than 61 days’ prior notice to the Company, and the provisions of this Section 4(c) shall continue to apply until such 61st day (or such later date, as determined by the Holder, as may be specified in such notice of waiver).  No amendment by the Holder may have the effect of increasing the 4.99% figure stated above to greater than 9.99%.  Within 3 Business Days of the request of the Holder, the Company shall provide the Holder an Officer’s Certificate stating the number of issued and outstanding shares of Fully-Diluted Outstanding Capital Stock.  In the event the issuance of Ordinary Shares as Interest Shares or as liquidated damages pursuant to Sections 2(c) or 4(d)(iv) of this Debenture would exceed the beneficial ownership limitation applicable to the Holder, then the Company may not issue nor deliver the Ordinary Shares in excess of the beneficial ownership limitation until the Holder notifies the Company that such issuance will not exceed the beneficial ownership limitation after which notice the Company will promptly issue and deliver the withheld Ordinary Shares.
 
 
 
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d)   Mechanics of Conversion
 
i.   Conversion Shares Issuable Upon Conversion of Principal Amount .  The number of Ordinary Shares issuable upon a conversion hereunder shall be determined by the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the outstanding principal amount of this Debenture to be converted by (y) the Conversion Price.

ii.   Delivery of Certificate Upon Conversion . Not later than three Business Days after any Conversion Date (“ Share Delivery Date ”), the Company will deliver or cause to be delivered to the Holder (A) a certificate or certificates representing the Conversion Shares which shall be free of restrictive legends and trading restrictions (other than those required by the Purchase Agreement) representing the number of Ordinary Shares being acquired upon the conversion of Debentures and (B) a bank check in the amount of accrued and unpaid interest or at the Company’s election, in lieu of cash interest, Interest Shares calculated in the manner described in Section 2 and delivered in the same manner as Conversion Shares. The Company shall, if available and if allowed under applicable securities laws, use its best efforts to deliver any certificate or certificates required to be delivered by the Company under this Section electronically through the Depository Trust Corporation or another established clearing corporation performing similar functions.
 
iii.   Failure to Deliver Certificates .  If in the case of any Notice of Conversion such certificate or certificates are not delivered to or as directed by the applicable Holder by the seventh Business Day after a Conversion Date, the Holder shall be entitled by written notice to the Company at any time on or before its receipt of such certificate or certificates thereafter, to rescind such conversion, in which event the Company shall immediately return the certificates representing the principal amount of Debentures tendered for conversion.
 
 
 
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iv.   Obligation Absolute; Partial Liquidated Damages .  If the Company fails for any reason to deliver to the Holder such certificate or certificates pursuant to Section 4(d)(ii) by the tenth Business Day after the Conversion Date, the Company shall pay to such Holder, in cash or in Ordinary Shares at the Company’s sole option, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1000 of principal amount being converted, $10 per Business Day for each Business Day after such tenth Business Day until such certificates are delivered.  The Company may, at its election, pay such liquidated damages in cash or with Ordinary Shares valued at the VWAP for each day such liquidated damages accrue.  The Company’s obligations to issue and deliver the Conversion Shares upon conversion of this Debenture in accordance with the terms hereof are absolute and unconditional, irrespective of any action or inaction by the Holder to enforce the same, any waiver or consent with respect to any provision hereof, the recovery of any judgment against any Person or any action to enforce the same, or any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, limitation or termination, or any breach or alleged breach by the Holder or any other Person of any obligation to the Company or any violation or alleged violation of law by the Holder or any other person, and irrespective of any other circumstance which might otherwise limit such obligation of the Company to the Holder in connection with the issuance of such Conversion Shares; provided , however , such delivery shall not operate as a waiver by the Company of any such action the Company may have against the Holder.  In the event a Holder of this Debenture shall elect to convert any or all of the outstanding principal amount hereof, the Company may not refuse conversion based on any claim that the Holder or any one associated or affiliated with the Holder has been engaged in any violation of law, agreement or for any other reason, unless, an injunction from a court, on notice, restraining and or enjoining conversion of all or part of this Debenture shall have been sought and obtained and the Company posts a surety bond for the benefit of the Holder in the amount of 150% of the principal amount of this Debenture outstanding, which is subject to the injunction, which bond shall remain in effect until the completion of arbitration/litigation of the dispute and the proceeds of which shall be payable to such Holder to the extent it obtains judgment.  In the absence of an injunction precluding the same, the Company shall issue Conversion Shares upon a properly noticed conversion.  Nothing herein shall limit a Holder’s right to pursue actual damages or declare an Event of Default pursuant to Section 8 herein for the Company’s failure to deliver Conversion Shares within the period specified herein and such Holder shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.  The exercise of any such rights shall not prohibit the Holder from seeking to enforce damages pursuant to any other Section hereof or under applicable law.
 
 
 
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v.   Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver Certificates Upon Conversion . If the Company fails for any reason to deliver to the Holder such certificate or certificates pursuant to Section 4(d)(ii) by the Conversion Date, and if after such third Business Day the Holder is required by its brokerage firm to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise) Ordinary Shares to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by such Holder of the Conversion Shares which the Holder anticipated receiving upon such conversion (a “ Buy-In ”), then the Company shall (A) pay in cash to the Holder (in addition to any remedies available to or elected by the Holder) the amount by which (x) the Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the Ordinary Shares so purchased exceeds (y) the product of (1) the aggregate number of Ordinary Shares that such Holder anticipated receiving from the conversion at issue multiplied by (2) the actual sale price of the Ordinary Shares at the time of the sale (including brokerage commissions, if any) giving rise to such purchase obligation and (B) at the option of the Holder, either reissue Debentures in principal amount equal to the principal amount of the attempted conversion or deliver to the Holder the number of Ordinary Shares that would have been issued had the Company timely complied with its delivery requirements under Section 4(d)(ii).  For example, if the Holder purchases Ordinary Shares having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an attempted conversion of Debentures with respect to which the actual sale price of the Conversion Shares at the time of the sale (including brokerage commissions, if any) giving rise to such purchase obligation was a total of $10,000 under clause (A) of the immediately preceding sentence, the Company shall be required to pay the Holder $1,000.  The Holder shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to the Holder in respect of the Buy-In.  Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, if a Holder requires the Company to make payment in respect of a Buy-In for the failure to timely deliver certificates hereunder and the Company timely pays in full such payment, the Company shall not be required to pay such Holder liquidated damages under Section 4(d)(iv) in respect of the certificates resulting in such Buy-In.

vi.   Reservation of Shares Issuable Upon Conversion . The Company covenants that it will at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized and unissued Ordinary Shares solely for the purpose of issuance upon conversion of the Debentures, as herein provided, free from preemptive rights or any other actual contingent purchase rights of persons other than the Holder (and the other Holders of the Debentures), not less than such number of Ordinary Shares as shall (subject to any additional requirements of the Company as to reservation of such shares set forth in the Purchase Agreement) be issuable (taking into account the adjustments and restrictions of Section 5) upon the conversion of the outstanding principal amount of the Debentures.  The Company covenants that all Ordinary Shares that shall be so issuable shall, upon issue, be duly and validly authorized, issued and fully paid, nonassessable and, if a registration statement is then effective under the Securities Act covering Registrable Securities, registered for public sale in accordance with such Registration Statement.
 
 
 
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vii.   Fractional Shares . Upon a conversion hereunder the Company shall not be required to issue share certificates representing fractions of Ordinary Shares, but may if otherwise permitted, make a cash payment in respect of any final fraction of a share based on the VWAP at such time.  If the Company elects not, or is unable, to make such a cash payment, the Holder shall be entitled to receive, in lieu of the final fraction of a share, one whole Ordinary Shares.

Section 5 .      Certain Adjustments .
 
 
a)   Share Dividends and Share Splits .  If the Company, at any time while this Debenture is outstanding: (i) pays a share dividend or otherwise makes a distribution or distributions payable in Ordinary Shares on Ordinary Shares or any Ordinary Shares Equivalents (which, for avoidance of doubt, shall not include any Ordinary Shares issued by the Company upon conversion of the Debentures), (ii) subdivides outstanding Ordinary Shares into a larger number of shares, (iii) combines (including by way of a reverse share split) outstanding Ordinary Shares into a smaller number of shares or (iv) issues, in the event of a reclassification of Ordinary Shares, any shares of the Company, then the Conversion Price shall be multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of Ordinary Shares (excluding any treasury shares of the Company) outstanding immediately before such event, and of which the denominator shall be the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately after such event.  Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section shall become effective immediately after the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such dividend or distribution and shall become effective immediately after the effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or re-classification.
 
 
 
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b)   Subsequent Equity Sales .  If, at any time while this Debenture is outstanding,  the Company or any Subsidiary, as applicable, sells or grants any option to purchase or sells or grants any right to reprice, or otherwise disposes of or issues (or announces any sale, grant or any option to purchase or other disposition), any Ordinary Shares or Ordinary Shares Equivalents entitling any Person to acquire Ordinary Shares at an effective price per share that is lower than the then Conversion Price (such lower price, the “ Base Conversion Price ” and such issuances, collectively, a “ Dilutive Issuance ”) (if the holder of the Ordinary Shares or Ordinary Shares Equivalents so issued shall at any time, whether by operation of purchase price adjustments, reset provisions, floating conversion, exercise or exchange prices or otherwise, or due to warrants, options or rights per share which are issued in connection with such issuance, be entitled to receive Ordinary Shares at an effective price per share that is lower than the Conversion Price, such issuance shall be deemed to have occurred for less than the Conversion Price on such date of the Dilutive Issuance), then the Conversion Price shall be reduced to that price (rounded to the nearest cent) determined by multiplying the Conversion Price then in effect by a fraction:  (i) the numerator of which shall be equal to the sum of (x) the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately prior to such Dilutive Issuance plus (y) the number of Ordinary Shares and Ordinary Share Equivalents issued or deemed to have been issued in the Dilutive Issuance (rounded to the nearest whole share) which the aggregate consideration for the total number of Ordinary Shares and Ordinary Share Equivalents issued in the Dilutive Issuance would purchase at a price per share equal to the Conversion Price then in effect, and (ii) the denominator of which shall be equal to the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately after the issuance of such Ordinary Shares and Ordinary Share Equivalents in the Dilutive Issuance.  Such adjustment shall be made whenever such Ordinary Shares or Ordinary Shares Equivalents are issued.  Ordinary Shares issued or issuable for no cash consideration will be deemed to be issued or issuable, as the case may be, for $.001 per share.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no adjustment will be made under this Section 5(b) in respect of an Exempt Issuance.  If the Company enters into a Variable Rate Transaction, despite the prohibition set forth in the Purchase Agreement, the Company shall be deemed to have issued Ordinary Shares or Ordinary Shares Equivalents at the lowest possible conversion price at which such securities may be converted or exercised. The Company shall notify the Holder in writing, no later than the Trading Day following the issuance of any Ordinary Shares or Ordinary Shares Equivalents subject to this Section 5(b), indicating therein the applicable issuance price, or applicable reset price, exchange price, conversion price and other pricing terms (such notice, the “ Dilutive Issuance Notice ”).  For purposes of clarification, whether or not the Company provides a Dilutive Issuance Notice pursuant to this Section 5(b), upon the occurrence of any Dilutive Issuance, the Holder is entitled to receive a number of Conversion Shares based upon the Base Conversion Price on or after the date of such Dilutive Issuance, regardless of whether the Holder accurately refers to the Base Conversion Price in the Notice of Conversion.  The provisions of this Section 5(b) shall not apply to any issuance of Ordinary Shares or Ordinary Share Equivalents for which an adjustment is provided elsewhere in this Section 5.  No adjustment of the number of Conversion Shares shall be made under this Section 5(b) upon the issuance of Ordinary Shares which are issued pursuant to the exercise of any Ordinary Share Equivalents, if any such adjustment shall previously have been made upon the issuance of such Ordinary Share Equivalents pursuant to the other provisions of this Section 5.
 
 
 
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c)   Subsequent Rights Offerings .  If the Company, at any time while the Debenture is outstanding, shall issue rights, options or warrants to all holders of Ordinary Shares (and not to the Holders) entitling them to subscribe for or purchase Ordinary Shares at a price per share that is lower than the VWAP on the record date referenced below, then the Conversion Price shall be multiplied by a fraction of which the denominator shall be the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding on the date of issuance of such rights, options or warrants plus the number of additional Ordinary Shares offered for subscription or purchase, and of which the numerator shall be the number of Ordinary Shares outstanding on the date of issuance of such rights, options or warrants plus the number of shares which the aggregate offering price of the total number of shares so offered (assuming delivery to the Company in full of all consideration payable upon exercise of such rights, options or warrants) would purchase at such VWAP.  Such adjustment shall be made whenever such rights, options or warrants are issued, and shall become effective immediately after the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such rights, options or warrants.
 
d)   Pro Rata Distributions . If the Company, at any time while this Debenture is outstanding, distributes to all holders of Ordinary Shares (and not to the Holders) evidences of its indebtedness or assets (including cash and cash dividends) or rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any security (other than the Ordinary Shares, which shall be subject to Section 5(b)), then in each such case the Conversion Price shall be adjusted by multiplying such Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to the record date fixed for determination of shareholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction of which the denominator shall be the VWAP determined as of the record date mentioned above, and of which the numerator shall be such VWAP on such record date less the then fair market value at such record date of the portion of such assets or evidence of indebtedness or rights or warrants so distributed applicable to one outstanding Ordinary Shares as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company in good faith.  In either case the adjustments shall be described in a statement delivered to the Holder describing the portion of assets or evidences of indebtedness so distributed or such subscription rights applicable to one share of Ordinary Shares.  Such adjustment shall be made whenever any such distribution is made and shall become effective immediately after the record date mentioned above.
 
e)   Fundamental Transaction . If, at any time while this Debenture is outstanding, (i) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another Person, (ii) the Company, directly or indirectly, effects any sale, lease, license, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of its assets in one or a series of related transactions, (iii) any, direct or indirect, purchase offer, tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another Person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Ordinary Shares are permitted to sell, tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property and has been accepted by the holders of 50% or more of the outstanding Ordinary Shares, (iv) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any reclassification, reorganization or recapitalization of the Ordinary Shares or any compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the Ordinary Shares is effectively converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property,
 
 
 
 
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(v) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions consummates a stock or share purchase agreement or other business combination (including, without limitation, a reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off or scheme of arrangement) with another Person whereby such other Person acquires more than 50% of the outstanding Ordinary Shares (not including any Ordinary Shares held by the other Person or other Persons making or party to, or associated or affiliated with the other Persons making or party to, such stock or share purchase agreement or other business combination) (each a “ Fundamental Transaction ”), then, upon any subsequent conversion of this Debenture, the Holder shall have the right to receive, for each Conversion Share that would have been issuable upon such conversion immediately prior to the occurrence of such Fundamental Transaction (without regard to any limitation in Section 4(d) on the conversion of this Debenture), the number of Ordinary Shares of the successor or acquiring corporation or of the Company, if it is the surviving corporation, and any additional consideration (the “ Alternate Consideration ”) receivable as a result of such Fundamental Transaction by a holder of the number of Ordinary Shares for which this Debenture is convertible immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction (without regard to any limitation in Section 4(d) on the conversion of this Debenture).  For purposes of any such conversion, the determination of the Conversion Price shall be appropriately adjusted to apply to such Alternate Consideration based on the amount of Alternate Consideration issuable in respect of one (1) share of Ordinary Shares in such Fundamental Transaction, and the Company shall apportion the Conversion Price among the Alternate Consideration in a reasonable manner reflecting the relative value of any different components of the Alternate Consideration.  If holders of Ordinary Shares are given any choice as to the securities, cash or property to be received in a Fundamental Transaction, then the Holder shall be given the same choice as to the Alternate Consideration it receives upon any conversion of this Debenture following such Fundamental Transaction.  The Company shall cause any successor entity in a Fundamental Transaction in which the Company is not the survivor (the “ Successor Entity ”) to assume in writing all of the obligations of the Company under this Debenture and the other Transaction Documents (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5(e) pursuant to written agreements in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures and approved by such requisite number of Holders (without unreasonable delay) prior to such Fundamental Transaction and shall, at the option of the holder of this Debenture, deliver to the Holder in exchange for this Debenture a security of the Successor Entity evidenced by a written instrument substantially similar in form and substance to this Debenture which is convertible for a corresponding number of shares of such Successor Entity (or its parent entity) equivalent to the Ordinary Shares acquirable and receivable upon conversion of this Debenture (without regard to any limitations on the conversion of this Debenture) prior to such Fundamental Transaction, and with a conversion price which applies the conversion price hereunder to such shares (but taking into account the relative value of the Ordinary Shares pursuant to such Fundamental Transaction and the value of such shares of capital stock, such number of shares and such conversion price being for the purpose of protecting the economic value of this Debenture immediately prior to the consummation of such Fundamental Transaction), and which is reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Holder. Upon the occurrence of any such Fundamental Transaction, the Successor Entity shall succeed to, and be substituted for (so that from and after the date of such Fundamental Transaction, the provisions of this Debenture and the other Transaction Documents referring to the “Company” shall refer instead to the Successor Entity), and may exercise every right and power of the Company and shall assume all of the obligations of the Company under this Debenture and the other Transaction Documents with the same effect as if such Successor Entity had been named as the Company herein.
 
 
 
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f)   Calculations .  All calculations under this Section 5 shall be made to the nearest cent or the nearest 1/100th of a share, as the case may be.  For purposes of this Section 5, the number of Ordinary Shares deemed to be issued and outstanding as of a given date shall be the sum of the number of Ordinary Shares (excluding any treasury shares of the Company) issued and outstanding.

g)   Notice to the Holder .

i.   Adjustment to Conversion Price .  Whenever the Conversion Price is adjusted pursuant to any provision of this Section 5, the Company shall promptly deliver to each Holder a notice setting forth the Conversion Price after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment.
 
 
ii.   Notice to Allow Conversion by Holder .  If (A) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution in whatever form) on the Ordinary Shares, (B) the Company shall declare a special nonrecurring cash dividend on or a redemption of the Ordinary Shares, (C) the Company shall authorize the granting to all holders of the Ordinary Shares of rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of any class or of any rights, (D) the approval of any shareholders of the Company shall be required in connection with any reclassification of the Ordinary Shares, any consolidation or merger to which the Company is a party, any sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or any compulsory share exchange whereby the Ordinary Shares is converted into other securities, cash or property or (E) the Company shall authorize the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the affairs of the Company, then, in each case, the Company shall cause to be filed at each office or agency maintained for the purpose of conversion of this Debenture, and shall cause to be delivered to the Holder at its last address as it shall appear upon the Debenture Register, at least twenty (20) calendar days prior to the applicable record or effective date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x)
 
 
 
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the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, redemption, rights or warrants, or if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of the Ordinary Shares of record to be entitled to such dividend, distributions, redemption, rights or warrants are to be determined or (y) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange is expected to become effective or close, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of the Ordinary Shares of record shall be entitled to exchange their Ordinary Shares for securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange, provided that the failure to deliver such notice or any defect therein or in the delivery thereof shall not affect the validity of the corporate action required to be specified in such notice.  To the extent that any notice provided hereunder constitutes, or contains, material, non-public information regarding the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, the Company shall simultaneously file such notice with the Commission pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K.  The Holder shall remain entitled to convert this Debenture during the 20-day period commencing on the date of such notice through the effective date of the event triggering such notice except as may otherwise be expressly set forth herein.
 
Section 6.     Redemption.

a)   Optional Redemption at Election of Company .   Subject to the provisions of this Section 6, at any time after the Closing Date, the Company may deliver a notice to the Holders (an “ Optional Redemption Notice ” and the date such notice is deemed delivered hereunder, the “ Optional Redemption Notice Date ”) of its irrevocable election to redeem some or all of the then outstanding Debentures, for an amount, in cash, equal to the Optional Redemption Amount on the 30 th calendar day following the Optional Redemption Notice Date (such date, the “ Optional Redemption Date ” and such redemption, the “ Optional Redemption ”).  The Optional Redemption Amount is due in full on the Optional Redemption Date.  Without the written consent of the Holder of this Debenture, the Company may only effect an Optional Redemption of this Debenture if during the period commencing on the Optional Redemption Notice Date through to the Optional Redemption Date and through and including the date such Ordinary Shares are issued to the Holder , each of the Equity Conditions shall have been met.  If any of the Equity Conditions shall cease to be satisfied at any time during the required period, then the Holder may elect to nullify the Optional Redemption Notice by notice to the Company within 3 calendar days after the first day on which any such Equity Condition has not been met (provided that the Company is obligated to notify the Holder of the non-existence of an Equity Condition and such 3 day notice period shall be extended to the third calendar day after proper notice from the Company) in which case the Optional Redemption Notice shall be null and void, ab   initio .  The Company covenants and agrees that it will honor all Notice of Conversions tendered from the time of delivery of the Optional Redemption Notice through the date all amounts owing thereon are due and paid in full.
 
 
 
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b) Redemption Procedure .  The payment of cash pursuant to an Optional Redemption shall be made on the Optional Redemption Date.  If any portion of the cash payment for an Optional Redemption shall not be paid by the Company by the due date, interest shall accrue thereon at the rate of 18% per annum (or the maximum rate permitted by applicable law, whichever is less) until the payment of the Optional Redemption Amount plus all amounts owing thereon is paid in full.  Alternatively, if any portion of the Optional Redemption Amount remains unpaid after such date, the Holders subject to such redemption may elect, by written notice to the Company given at any time thereafter, to invalidate ab   initio all or part of such redemption, notwithstanding anything herein contained to the contrary, and, with respect the failure to honor the Optional Redemption the Company shall have no further right to exercise such Optional Redemption.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6, the Company’s determination to redeem in cash or its elections under Section 6(b) shall be applied among the Holders of Debentures ratably.  The Holder may elect to convert the outstanding principal amount of the Debenture pursuant to Section 4 prior to the Optional Redemption Date or such later date prior to the actual receipt of the Optional Redemption Amount.

Section 7 .       Events of Default .

a)   Event of Default ” means, wherever used herein, any of the following events (whatever the reason for such event and whether such event shall be voluntary or involuntary or effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court, or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

i.   any default in the payment of (A) the principal amount of any Debenture or (B) interest or other fees owing on any Debenture or, other amounts owing to a Holder on any Debenture, as and when the same shall become due and payable (whether on a Conversion Date or the Maturity Date or by acceleration or otherwise) which default, solely in the case of defaults under clause (B) above, is not cured within 5 Trading Days;
 
ii.   the Company shall fail to observe or perform any other covenant or agreement contained in the Debentures (other than a breach by the Company of its obligations to deliver Ordinary Shares to the Holder upon conversion, which breach is addressed in clause (ix) below) which failure is not cured, if possible to cure, within the earlier to occur of (A) 10 Trading Days after notice of such failure sent by the Holder or by any other Holder to the Company and (B) 15 Trading Days after the Company has become or should have become aware of such failure;
 
 
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iii.   a default or event of default (subject to any grace or cure period provided in the applicable agreement, document or instrument) shall occur under any of the Transaction Documents;

iv.   any representation or warranty made in this Debenture, or any other Transaction Documents, shall be untrue or incorrect in any material respect as of the date when made or deemed made;

v.   the Company or any Subsidiary shall be subject to a Bankruptcy Event;
 
vi.   the Company or any Subsidiary shall default on any of its obligations under any lease, mortgage, credit agreement or other facility, indenture agreement, factoring agreement or other instrument under which there may be issued, or by which there may be secured or evidenced, any indebtedness for borrowed money or money due under any long term leasing or factoring arrangement that (a) involves an obligation greater than $1,000,000, whether such indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created, and (b) results in such indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise become due and payable;

vii.   the Ordinary Shares shall not be eligible for listing or quotation for trading on a Trading Market and shall not be eligible to resume listing or quotation for trading thereon within five Trading Days;

viii.   the Company shall be a party to any Change of Control Transaction or Fundamental Transaction or shall agree to sell or dispose of all or in excess of a majority of its assets in one transaction or a series of transactions (whether or not such sale would constitute a Change of Control Transaction);

ix.   any monetary judgment, writ or similar final process shall be entered or filed against the Company, any subsidiary or any of their respective property or other assets for more than $1,000,000, and such judgment, writ or similar final process shall remain unvacated, unbonded or unstayed for a period of 60 calendar days.
 
 
 
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b)   Remedies Upon Event of Default . If any Event of Default occurs, the outstanding Principal Amount of this Debenture, plus any accrued but unpaid other amounts owing in respect thereof through the date of acceleration, shall become, at the Holder’s election, immediately due and payable in cash.  Commencing seven (7) days after the occurrence of any Event of Default that results in the eventual acceleration of this Debenture, the interest rate on this Debenture shall accrue at an interest rate equal to the lesser of 18% per annum or the maximum rate permitted under applicable law.  Upon the payment in full of the amounts specified in the first sentence of this Section 6(b), the Holder shall promptly surrender this Debenture to or as directed by the Company.  In connection with such acceleration described herein, the Holder need not provide, and the Company hereby waives, any presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, and the Holder may immediately and without expiration of any grace period enforce any and all of its rights and remedies hereunder and all other remedies available to it under applicable law.  Such acceleration may be rescinded and annulled by Holder at any time prior to payment hereunder and the Holder shall have all rights as a holder of the Debenture until such time, if any, as the Holder receives full payment pursuant to this Section 7(b).  No such rescission or annulment shall affect any subsequent Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 8 .      Miscellaneous .
 
a)   Notices .  Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of: (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the second (2 nd ) Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given.  The address for such notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto.
 
b)   Absolute Obligation . Except as expressly provided herein, no provision of this Debenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and liquidated damages, as applicable, on this Debenture at the time, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.  This Debenture is a direct debt obligation of the Company.  This Debenture ranks pari passu with all other Debentures now or hereafter issued under the terms set forth herein.
 
c)   Lost or Mutilated Debenture .  If this Debenture shall be mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall execute and deliver, in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation of a mutilated Debenture, or in lieu of or in substitution for a lost, stolen or destroyed Debenture, a new Debenture for the Principal Amount of this Debenture so mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, but only upon receipt of evidence of such loss, theft or destruction of such Debenture, and of the ownership hereof, reasonably satisfactory to the Company.
 
 

 
 
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d)   Governing Law .  All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Debenture shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflict of laws thereof.  Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretation, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by any of the Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective Affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan (the “ New York Courts ”).  Each party hereto hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the New York Courts for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of such New York Courts, or such New York Courts are improper or inconvenient venue for such proceeding.  Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Debenture and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof.  Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by applicable law. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Debenture or the transactions contemplated hereby. If any party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of this Debenture, then the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its attorney’s fees and other costs and expenses incurred in the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.
 
e)   Waiver .  Any waiver by the Company or the Holder of a breach of any provision of this Debenture shall not operate as or be construed to be a waiver of any other breach of such provision or of any breach of any other provision of this Debenture.  The failure of the Company or the Holder to insist upon strict adherence to any term of this Debenture on one or more occasions shall not be considered a waiver or deprive that party of the right thereafter to insist upon strict adherence to that term or any other term of this Debenture on any other occasion.  Any waiver by the Company or the Holder must be in writing.   This Debenture may only be modified, supplements or amended in a written instrument signed by the Company and the Holders holding a majority in interest of the Debentures then outstanding.
 
 
 
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f)   Severability .  If any provision of this Debenture is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the balance of this Debenture shall remain in effect, and if any provision is inapplicable to any Person or circumstance, it shall nevertheless remain applicable to all other Persons and circumstances.  If it shall be found that any interest or other amount deemed interest due hereunder violates the applicable law governing usury, the applicable rate of interest due hereunder shall automatically be lowered to equal the maximum rate of interest permitted under applicable law. The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or other law which would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of or interest on this Debenture as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or which may affect the covenants or the performance of this indenture, and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefits or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Holder, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such as though no such law has been enacted.
 
g)   Next Business Day .  Whenever any payment or other obligation hereunder shall be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day.

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

 
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(Signature Pages Follow)
 
 
 
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Debenture to be duly executed by a duly authorized officer as of the date first above indicated.


CHINA NETWORKS INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTD.
 
 
By:__________________________________________
     Name: Kerry Propper
     Title: Director
Facsimile No. for delivery of Notices: 646.465.9039
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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ANNEX A
 
NOTICE OF CONVERSION


The undersigned hereby elects to convert principal under the Convertible Debenture due March [__], 2010 of China Networks International Holdings Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company (the “ Company ”), into Ordinary Shares (the “ Ordinary Shares ”), of the Company according to the conditions hereof, as of the date written below.  If Ordinary Shares are to be issued in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto and is delivering herewith such certificates and opinions as reasonably requested by the Company in accordance therewith.  No fee will be charged to the holder for any conversion, except for such transfer taxes, if any.

By the delivery of this Notice of Conversion the undersigned represents and warrants to the Company that its ownership of the Ordinary Shares does not exceed the amounts specified under Section 4(c) of this Debenture.

The undersigned agrees to comply with the prospectus delivery requirements under the applicable securities laws in connection with any transfer of the aforesaid Ordinary Shares.

Conversion calculations:

Date to Effect Conversion: _________________________

Principal Amount of Debenture to be Converted: ____________________________

Number of Ordinary Shares to be issued: ___________________________


Signature: __________________________________________________________

Name: _____________________________________________________________

Address for Delivery of Ordinary Shares Certificates: __________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

Or

DWAC Instructions: ____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

Broker No:                                        

Account No:                                          
 
 
 
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Schedule 1

CONVERSION SCHEDULE

The Convertible Debentures due on April 30, 2016 in the aggregate Principal Amount of $___________________ are issued by China Networks International Holdings Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company.  This Conversion Schedule reflects conversions made under Section 4 of the above referenced Debenture.
 
Dated:


 
Date of Conversion
(or for first entry, Original Issue Date)
 
Amount of Conversion
 
Aggregate Principal Amount Remaining Subsequent to Conversion
(or original Principal Amount)
 
Company Attest
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
     


 
 
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Exhibit 99.5
 
SECURITY AGREEMENT

This SECURITY AGREEMENT, dated as of April 13, 2010 (this “ Agreement ”), is among China Networks International Holdings Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company (the “ Company ”), the Subsidiaries of the Company identified on Schedule I hereto who execute this Agreement (such subsidiaries, the “ Guarantors ” and together with the Company, the “ Debtors ”) and the holders signatory hereto, of the Company’s 10% Secured Debentures due April 30, 2016 and issued on the date set forth on such holder’s signature page hereto, in the original aggregate principal amount of up to $11,000,000 (collectively, the “ Debentures ”) signatory hereto, their endorsees, transferees and assigns (collectively, the “ Secured Parties ”).

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, pursuant to a “ Securities Purchase Agreement ” entered into at or about the date of this Agreement by the Company and Secured Parties pursuant to which the Debentures were issued, the Secured Parties have severally agreed to extend the loans to the Company evidenced by the Debentures;

WHEREAS, pursuant to a certain Subsidiary Guaranty, dated at or about the date hereof (the “ Guaranty ”), the Guarantors have jointly and severally agreed to guarantee and act as surety for payment of such Debentures; and

WHEREAS, in order to induce the Secured Parties to extend the loans evidenced by the Debentures, each Debtor has agreed to execute and deliver to the Secured Parties this Agreement and to grant the Secured Parties, pari passu with each other Secured Party and through the Collateral Agent, (defined in Section 18) a security interest in certain property of such Debtor to secure the prompt payment, performance and discharge in full of all of the Company’s obligations under the Debentures and the Guarantors’ obligations under the Guaranty.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements herein contained and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

1.           Certain Definitions . As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth in this Section 1. Terms used but not otherwise defined in this Agreement that are defined in Article 9 of the UCC (such as “account”, “chattel paper”, “commercial tort claim”, “deposit account”, “document”, “equipment”, “fixtures”, “general intangibles”, “goods”, “instruments”, “inventory”, “investment property”, “letter-of-credit rights”, “proceeds” and “supporting obligations”) shall have the respective meanings given such terms in Article 9 of the UCC.

(a)         “ Collateral ” means the collateral in which the Secured Parties are granted a security interest by this Agreement and which shall include the following personal property of the Debtors, whether presently owned or existing or hereafter acquired or coming into existence, wherever situated, and all additions and accessions thereto and all substitutions and replacements thereof, and all proceeds, products and accounts thereof, including, without limitation, all proceeds from the sale or transfer of the Collateral and of insurance covering the same and of any tort claims in connection therewith, and all dividends, interest, cash, notes, securities, equity interest or other property at any time and from time to time acquired, receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of, or in exchange for, any or all of the Pledged Securities (as defined below):
 
 

 
 
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(i)       All goods, including, without limitation, (A) all machinery, equipment, computers, motor vehicles, trucks, tanks, boats, ships, appliances, furniture, special and general tools, fixtures, test and quality control devices and other equipment of every kind and nature and wherever situated, together with all documents of title and documents representing the same, all additions and accessions thereto, replacements therefor, all parts therefor, and all substitutes for any of the foregoing and all other items used and useful in connection with any Debtor’s businesses and all improvements thereto; and (B) all inventory;

(ii)      All contract rights and other general intangibles, including, without limitation, all partnership interests, membership interests, share or other securities, rights under any of the Organizational Documents, agreements related to the Pledged Securities, licenses, distribution and other agreements, computer software (whether “off-the-shelf”, licensed from any third party or developed by any Debtor), computer software development rights, leases, franchises, customer lists, quality control procedures, grants and rights, goodwill, trademarks, service marks, trade styles, trade names, patents, patent applications, copyrights, and income tax refunds;
 
(iii)     All accounts, together with all instruments, all documents of title representing any of the foregoing, all rights in any merchandising, goods, equipment, motor vehicles and trucks which any of the same may represent, and all right, title, security and guaranties with respect to each account, including any right of stoppage in transit;

(iv)    All documents, letter-of-credit rights, instruments and chattel paper;

(v)      All commercial tort claims;

(vi)     All deposit accounts and all cash (whether or not deposited in such deposit accounts);

(vii)    All investment property;

(viii)   All supporting obligations;

(ix)     All files, records, books of account, business papers, and computer programs; and

(x)      the products and proceeds of all of the foregoing Collateral set forth in clauses (i)-(ix) above.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the “ Collateral ” shall include all investment property and general intangibles respecting ownership and/or other equity interests in each Guarantor, including, without limitation, the shares and/or shares of capital stock and the other equity interests listed on Schedule H   hereto (as the same may be modified from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof), and any other shares and/or shares of capital stock and/or other equity interests of any other direct or indirect subsidiary of any Debtor obtained in the future, and, in each case, all certificates representing such shares and/or equity interests and, in each case, all rights, options, warrants, share, other securities and/or equity interests that may hereafter be received, receivable or distributed in respect of, or exchanged for, any of the foregoing and all rights arising under or in connection with the Pledged Securities, including, but not limited to, all dividends, interest and cash.
 
 
 
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall be deemed to constitute an assignment of any asset which, in the event of an assignment, becomes void by operation of applicable law or the assignment of which is otherwise prohibited by applicable law (in each case to the extent that such applicable law is not overridden by Sections 9-406, 9-407 and/or 9-408 of the UCC or other similar applicable law); provided , however , that to the extent permitted by applicable law, this Agreement shall create a valid security interest in such asset and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, this Agreement shall create a valid security interest in the proceeds of such asset.

(b)           “ Intellectual Property ” means the collective reference to all rights, priorities and privileges relating to intellectual property, whether arising under United States, multinational or foreign laws or otherwise, including, without limitation, (i) all copyrights arising under the laws of the United States, any other country or any political subdivision thereof, whether registered or unregistered and whether published or unpublished, all registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications in connection therewith, including, without limitation, all registrations, recordings and applications in the United States Copyright Office, (ii) all letters patent of the United States, any other country or any political subdivision thereof, all reissues and extensions thereof, and all applications for letters patent of the United States or any other country and all divisions, continuations and continuations-in-part thereof, (iii) all trademarks, trade names, corporate names, company names, business names, fictitious business names, trade dress, service marks, logos, domain names and other source or business identifiers, and all goodwill associated therewith, now existing or hereafter adopted or acquired, all registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications in connection therewith, whether in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States, any State thereof or any other country or any political subdivision thereof, or otherwise, and all common law rights related thereto, (iv) all trade secrets arising under the laws of the United States, any other country or any political subdivision thereof, (v) all rights to obtain any reissues, renewals or extensions of the foregoing, (vi) all licenses for any of the foregoing, and (vii) all causes of action for infringement of the foregoing.

(c)           “ Majority in Interest ” means, at any time of determination, the majority in interest (based on then-outstanding principal amounts of Debentures at the time of such determination) of the Secured Parties.

(d)           “ Necessary Endorsement ” means undated share powers endorsed in blank or other proper instruments of assignment duly executed and such other instruments or documents as the Collateral Agent (as that term is defined below) may reasonably request.

(e)           “ Obligations ” means all of the liabilities and obligations (primary, secondary, direct, contingent, sole, joint or several) due or to become due, or that are now or may be hereafter contracted or acquired, or owing to, of any Debtor to the Secured Parties, including, without limitation, all obligations under this Agreement, the Debentures, the Guaranty and any other instruments, agreements or other documents executed and/or delivered in connection herewith or therewith, in each case, whether now or hereafter existing, voluntary or involuntary, direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, whether or not jointly owed with others, and whether or not from time to time decreased or extinguished and later increased, created or incurred, and all or any portion of such obligations or liabilities that are paid, to the extent all or any part of such payment is avoided or recovered directly or indirectly from any of the Secured Parties as a preference, fraudulent transfer or otherwise as such obligations may be amended, supplemented, converted, extended or modified from time to time. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term “Obligations” shall include, without limitation: (i) principal of, and interest on the Debentures and the loans extended pursuant thereto; (ii) any and all other fees, indemnities, costs, obligations and liabilities of the Debtors from time to time under or in connection with this Agreement, the Debentures, the Guaranty and any other instruments, agreements or other documents executed and/or delivered in connection herewith or therewith; and (iii) all amounts (including but not limited to post-petition interest) in respect of the foregoing that would be payable but for the fact that the obligations to pay such amounts are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding involving any Debtor.
 
 
 
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(f)           “ Organizational Documents ” means with respect to any Debtor, the documents by which such Debtor was organized (such as a certificate of incorporation, memorandum and articles of association, certificate of limited partnership or articles of organization, and including, without limitation, any certificates of designation for preferred stock or other forms of preferred equity) and which relate to the internal governance of such Debtor (such as bylaws, a partnership agreement or an operating, limited liability or members agreement).
 
(g)         “ Pledged Securities ” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4(i).
 
(h)         “ UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York and or any other applicable law of any state or states which has jurisdiction with respect to all, or any portion of, the Collateral or this Agreement, from time to time. It is the intent of the parties that defined terms in the UCC should be construed in their broadest sense so that the term “Collateral” will be construed in its broadest sense. Accordingly if there are, from time to time, changes to defined terms in the UCC that broaden the definitions, they are incorporated herein and if existing definitions in the UCC are broader than the amended definitions, the existing ones shall be controlling.

2.            Grant of Security Interest in Collateral . As an inducement for the Secured Parties to extend the loans as evidenced by the Debentures and to secure the complete and timely payment, performance and discharge in full, as the case may be, of all of the Obligations, each Debtor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably pledges, grants and hypothecates to the Secured Parties a security interest in and to, a lien upon and a right of set-off against all of their respective right, title and interest of whatsoever kind and nature in and to, the Collateral (a “ Security Interest ” and, collectively, the “ Security Interests ”).

3.            Delivery of Certain Collateral . Contemporaneously or prior to the execution of this Agreement, each Debtor shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Collateral Agent, to the extent not previously delivered to the Collateral Agent under the Existing Security Agreement or delivered to a secured party under the Existing Security Agreement pursuant to the terms thereof (a) any and all certificates and other instruments representing or evidencing the Pledged Securities, and (b) any and all certificates and other instruments or documents representing any of the other Collateral, in each case, together with all Necessary Endorsements. Upon the termination of the security interest in favor of the Existing Secured Parties, to the extent not previously delivered hereunder, each Debtor shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Collateral Agent the items required by the preceding sentence. The Debtors are, contemporaneously with the execution hereof, delivering to Collateral Agent, or have previously delivered to Collateral Agent, a true and correct copy of each Organizational Document governing any of the Pledged Securities.
 
 
 
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 4.           Representations, Warranties, Covenants and Agreements of the Debtors . Except as set forth under the corresponding section of the disclosure schedules delivered to the Secured Parties concurrently herewith (the “ Disclosure Schedules ”), which Disclosure Schedules shall be deemed a part hereof, each Debtor represents and warrants to, and covenants and agrees with, the Secured Parties as follows:

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

(b)           The Debtors have no place of business or offices where their respective books of account and records are kept (other than temporarily at the offices of its attorneys or accountants) or places where Collateral is stored or located, except as set forth on Schedule A   attached hereto. Except as specifically set forth on Schedule A , each Debtor is the record owner of the real property where such Collateral is located, and there exist no mortgages or other liens on any such real property except for Permitted Liens (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement). Except as disclosed on Schedule A , none of such Collateral is in the possession of any consignee, bailee, warehouseman, agent or processor.

(c)           Except for Permitted Liens and except as set forth on Schedule B attached hereto, the Debtors are the sole owner of the Collateral (except for non-exclusive licenses granted by any Debtor in the ordinary course of business), free and clear of any liens, security interests, encumbrances, rights or claims, and are fully authorized to grant the Security Interests. Except as set forth on Schedule B attached hereto, there is not on file in any governmental or regulatory authority, agency or recording office an effective financing statement, security agreement, license or transfer or any notice of any of the foregoing (other than those that will be filed in favor of the Secured Parties pursuant to this Agreement) covering or affecting any of the Collateral. Except as set forth on Schedule B attached hereto and except pursuant to this Agreement, as long as this Agreement shall be in effect, the Debtors shall not execute and shall not knowingly permit to be on file in any such office or agency any other financing statement or other document or instrument (except to the extent filed or recorded in favor of the Secured Parties pursuant to the terms of this Agreement).

(d)           No written claim has been received that any Collateral or Debtor's use of any Collateral violates the rights of any third party. There has been no adverse decision to any Debtor's claim of ownership rights in or exclusive rights to use the Collateral in any jurisdiction or to any Debtor's right to keep and maintain such Collateral in full force and effect, and there is no proceeding involving said rights pending or, to the best knowledge of any Debtor, threatened before any court, judicial body, administrative or regulatory agency, arbitrator or other governmental authority.

(e)           Each Debtor shall at all times maintain its books of account and records relating to the Collateral at its principal place of business and its Collateral at the locations set forth on Schedule A   attached hereto and may not relocate such books of account and records or tangible Collateral unless it delivers to the Secured Parties at least 30 days prior to such relocation (i) written notice of such relocation and the new location thereof (which must be within the United States) and (ii) evidence that appropriate financing statements under the UCC and other necessary documents have been filed and recorded and other steps have been taken to perfect the Security Interests to create in favor of the Secured Parties a valid, perfected and continuing perfected first priority lien in the Collateral, subject only to the Permitted Liens.
 
 
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(f)           This Agreement creates in favor of the Secured Parties a valid security interest in the Collateral, subject only to Permitted Liens (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) securing the payment and performance of the Obligations. Upon making the filings described in the immediately following paragraph, all security interests created hereunder in any Collateral which may be perfected by filing Uniform Commercial Code financing statements shall have been duly perfected. Except for the filing of the Uniform Commercial Code financing statements referred to in the immediately following paragraph, the recordation of the Intellectual Property Security Agreement (as defined below) with respect to copyrights and copyright applications in the United States Copyright Office referred to in paragraph (m), the execution and delivery of deposit account control agreements satisfying the requirements of Section 9-104(a)(2) of the UCC with respect to each deposit account of the Debtors, and the delivery of the certificates and other instruments provided in Section 3, no action is necessary to create, perfect or protect the security interests created hereunder. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, except for the filing of said financing statements, the recordation of said Intellectual Property Security Agreement, and the execution and delivery of said deposit account control agreements, no consent of any third parties and no authorization, approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any governmental authority or regulatory body is required for (i) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, (ii) the creation or perfection of the Security Interests created hereunder in the Collateral or (iii) the enforcement of the rights of the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties hereunder.

(g)           Each Debtor hereby authorizes the Collateral Agent to file one or more financing statements under the UCC, with respect to the Security Interests, with the proper filing and recording agencies in any jurisdiction deemed proper by it and authorizes Collateral Agent to take any other action in Collateral Agent’s absolute discretion to effectuate, memorialize and protect Secured Parties’ interest and rights under this Agreement.

 (h)           The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Debtors does not (i) violate any of the provisions of any Organizational Documents of any Debtor or any judgment, decree, order or award of any court, governmental body or arbitrator or any applicable law, rule or regulation applicable to any Debtor or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing any Debtor's debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which any Debtor is a party or by which any property or asset of any Debtor is bound or affected. If any, all required consents (including, without limitation, from shareholders or creditors of any Debtor) necessary for any Debtor to enter into and perform its obligations hereunder have been obtained.

 (i)           The shares and other equity interests listed on Schedule H hereto (the “ Pledged Securities ”) represent all of the shares and other equity interests of the Guarantors, and represent all shares and other equity interests owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company. All of the Pledged Securities are validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, and the Company is the legal and beneficial owner of the Pledged Securities, free and clear of any lien, security interest or other encumbrance except for the security interests created by this Agreement and other Permitted Liens.
 
 
 
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(j)           The ownership and other equity interests in partnerships and limited liability companies (if any) included in the Collateral (the “ Pledged Interests ”) by their express terms do not provide that they are securities governed by Article 8 of the UCC and are not held in a securities account or by any financial intermediary.

(k)           Except for Permitted Liens, each Debtor shall at all times maintain the liens and Security Interests provided for hereunder as valid and perfected first priority liens and security interests in the Collateral in favor of the Secured Parties until this Agreement and the Security Interest hereunder shall be terminated pursuant to Section 11 hereof. Each Debtor hereby agrees to defend the same against the claims of any and all persons and entities. Each Debtor shall safeguard and protect all Collateral for the account of the Secured Parties. At the request of the Collateral Agent, each Debtor will sign and deliver to the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties at any time or from time to time one or more financing statements pursuant to the UCC in form reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and will pay the cost of filing the same in all public offices wherever filing is, or is deemed by the Collateral Agent to be, necessary or desirable to effect the rights and obligations provided for herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Debtor shall pay all fees, taxes and other amounts necessary to maintain the Collateral and the Security Interests hereunder, and each Debtor shall obtain and furnish to the Collateral Agent from time to time, upon demand, such releases and/or subordinations of claims and liens which may be required to maintain the priority of the Security Interests hereunder.

(l)           Other than with respect to Permitted Liens, no Debtor will transfer, pledge, hypothecate, encumber, license, sell or otherwise dispose of any of the Collateral (except for non-exclusive licenses granted by a Debtor in its ordinary course of business and sales of inventory by a Debtor in its ordinary course of business) without the prior written consent of a Majority in Interest.
 
(m)           Each Debtor shall keep and preserve its equipment, inventory and other tangible Collateral in good condition, repair and order and shall not operate or locate any such Collateral (or cause to be operated or located) in any area excluded from insurance coverage.

(n)           Each Debtor shall maintain with financially sound and reputable insurers, insurance with respect to the Collateral, including Collateral hereafter acquired, against loss or damage of the kinds and in the amounts customarily insured against by entities of established reputation having similar properties similarly situated and in such amounts as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by other such entities and otherwise as is prudent for entities engaged in similar businesses but in any event sufficient to cover the full replacement cost thereof. Each Debtor shall cause each insurance policy issued in connection herewith to provide, and the insurer issuing such policy to certify to the Collateral Agent, that (a) the Collateral Agent will be named as lender loss payee and additional insured under each such insurance policy; and (b) if such insurance is proposed to be cancelled or materially changed for any reason whatsoever, such insurer or the Company will promptly notify the Collateral Agent. In addition, the Collateral Agent will have the right (but no obligation) at its election to remedy any default in the payment of premiums within thirty (30) days of notice from the Company or the insurer of any such default. If no Event of Default (as defined in the Debentures) exists and if the proceeds arising out of any claim or series of related claims do not exceed $100,000, loss payments in each instance will be applied by the applicable Debtor to the repair and/or replacement of property with respect to which the loss was incurred to the extent reasonably feasible, and any loss payments or the balance thereof remaining, to the extent not so applied, shall be payable to the applicable Debtor; provided , however , that payments received by any Debtor after an Event of Default occurs and is continuing or in excess of $100,000 for any occurrence or series of related occurrences shall be paid to the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties and, if received by such Debtor, shall be held in trust for the Secured Parties and immediately paid over to the Collateral Agent unless otherwise directed in writing by the Collateral Agent. Copies of such policies or the related certificates, in each case, naming the Collateral Agent as lender loss payee and additional insured shall be delivered to the Collateral Agent at least annually and at the time any new policy of insurance is issued.
 
 
 
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(o)           Each Debtor shall, within ten (10) days of obtaining knowledge thereof, advise the Secured Parties promptly, in sufficient detail, of any material adverse change in the Collateral, and of the occurrence of any event which would have a material adverse effect on the value of the Collateral or on the Secured Parties’ security interest, through the Collateral Agent, therein.

(p)           Each Debtor shall promptly execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent such further deeds, mortgages, assignments, security agreements, financing statements or other instruments, documents, certificates and assurances and take such further action as the Collateral Agent may from time to time request and may in its sole discretion deem necessary to perfect, protect or enforce the Secured Parties’ security interest in the Collateral including, without limitation, if applicable, the execution and delivery of a separate security agreement with respect to each Debtor’s Intellectual Property (“ Intellectual Property Security Agreement ”) in which the Secured Parties have been granted a security interest hereunder, substantially in a form reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, which Intellectual Property Security Agreement, other than as stated therein, shall be subject to all of the terms and conditions hereof.
 
(q)           Each Debtor shall permit the Collateral Agent and its representatives and agents to inspect the Collateral during normal business hours and upon reasonable prior notice, and to make copies of records pertaining to the Collateral as may be reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent from time to time.

(r)           Each Debtor shall take all steps reasonably necessary to diligently pursue and seek to preserve, enforce and collect any rights, claims, causes of action and accounts receivable in respect of the Collateral.

(s)           Each Debtor shall promptly notify the Secured Parties in sufficient detail upon becoming aware of any attachment, garnishment, execution or other legal process levied against any Collateral and of any other information received by such Debtor that may materially affect the value of the Collateral, the Security Interest or the rights and remedies of the Secured Parties hereunder.

(t)           All information heretofore, herein or hereafter supplied to the Secured Parties by or on behalf of any Debtor with respect to the Collateral is accurate and complete in all material respects as of the date furnished.

(u)           The Debtors shall at all times preserve and keep in full force and effect their respective valid existence and good standing and any rights and franchises material to its business.
 
 
 
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(v)           No Debtor will change its name, type of organization, jurisdiction of organization, organizational identification number (if it has one), legal or corporate structure, or identity, or add any new fictitious name unless it provides at least 30 days prior written notice to the Secured Parties of such change and, at the time of such written notification, such Debtor provides any financing statements or fixture filings necessary to perfect and continue the perfection of the Security Interests granted and evidenced by this Agreement.

(w)           Except in the ordinary course of business, no Debtor may consign any of its inventory or sell any of its inventory on bill and hold, sale or return, sale on approval, or other conditional terms of sale without the consent of the Collateral Agent which shall not be unreasonably withheld.

(x)           No Debtor may relocate its chief executive office to a new location without providing 30 days prior written notification thereof to the Secured Parties and so long as, at the time of such written notification, such Debtor provides any financing statements or fixture filings necessary to perfect and continue the perfection of the Security Interests granted and evidenced by this Agreement.

(y)           Each Debtor was organized and remains organized solely under the laws of the state set forth next to such Debtor’s name in Schedule D   attached hereto, which Schedule D   sets forth each Debtor’s organizational identification number or, if any Debtor does not have one, states that one does not exist.

(z)           (i) The actual name of each Debtor is the name set forth in Schedule D attached hereto; (ii) no Debtor has any trade names except as set forth on Schedule E   attached hereto; (iii) no Debtor has used any name other than that stated in the preamble hereto or as set forth on Schedule E   for the preceding five years; and (iv) no entity has merged into any Debtor or been acquired by any Debtor within the past five years except as set forth on Schedule E .

(aa)           At any time and from time to time that any Collateral consists of instruments, certificated securities or other items that require or permit possession by the secured party to perfect the security interest created hereby, the applicable Debtor shall deliver such Collateral to the Collateral Agent.

(bb)           Each Debtor, in its capacity as issuer, hereby agrees to comply with any and all orders and instructions of Collateral Agent regarding the Pledged Interests consistent with the terms of this Agreement without the further consent of any Debtor as contemplated by Section 8-106 (or any successor section) of the UCC. Further, each Debtor agrees that it shall not enter into a similar agreement (or one that would confer “control” within the meaning of Article 8 of the UCC) with any other person or entity.
 
(cc)           Each Debtor shall cause all tangible chattel paper constituting Collateral to be delivered to the Collateral Agent, or, if such delivery is not possible, then to cause such tangible chattel paper to contain a legend noting that it is subject to the security interest created by this Agreement. To the extent that any Collateral consists of electronic chattel paper, the applicable Debtor shall cause the underlying chattel paper to be “marked” within the meaning of Section 9-105 of the UCC (or successor section thereto).

(dd)           If there is any investment property or deposit account included as Collateral that can be perfected by “control” through an account control agreement, the applicable Debtor shall cause such an account control agreement, in form and substance in each case satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, to be entered into and delivered to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
 
 
 
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(ee)           To the extent that any Collateral consists of letter-of-credit rights, the applicable Debtor shall cause the issuer of each underlying letter of credit to consent to an assignment of the proceeds thereof to the Secured Parties.
 
(ff)           To the extent that any Collateral is in the possession of any third party, the applicable Debtor shall join with the Collateral Agent in notifying such third party of the Secured Parties’ security interest in such Collateral and shall use its best efforts to obtain an acknowledgement and agreement from such third party with respect to the Collateral, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.

(gg)           If any Debtor shall at any time hold or acquire a commercial tort claim, such Debtor shall promptly notify the Secured Parties in a writing signed by such Debtor of the particulars thereof and grant to the Secured Parties in such writing a security interest therein and in the proceeds thereof, all upon the terms of this Agreement, with such writing to be in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.

(hh)           Each Debtor shall immediately provide written notice to the Secured Parties of any and all accounts which arise out of contracts with any governmental authority and, to the extent necessary to perfect or continue the perfected status of the Security Interests in such accounts and proceeds thereof, shall execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent an assignment of claims for such accounts and cooperate with the Collateral Agent in taking any other steps required, in its judgment, under the Federal Assignment of Claims Act or any similar federal, state or local statute or rule to perfect or continue the perfected status of the Security Interests in such accounts and proceeds thereof.

(ii)           Each Debtor shall cause each subsidiary of such Debtor to immediately become a party hereto (an “ Additional Debtor ”), by executing and delivering an Additional Debtor Joinder in substantially the form of Annex A   attached hereto and comply with the provisions hereof applicable to the Debtors. Concurrent therewith, the Additional Debtor shall deliver replacement schedules for, or supplements to all other Schedules to (or referred to in) this Agreement, as applicable, which replacement schedules shall supersede, or supplements shall modify, the Schedules then in effect. The Additional Debtor shall also deliver such opinions of counsel, authorizing resolutions, good standing certificates, incumbency certificates, organizational documents, financing statements and other information and documentation as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request. Upon delivery of the foregoing to the Collateral Agent, the Additional Debtor shall be and become a party to this Agreement with the same rights and obligations as the Debtors, for all purposes hereof as fully and to the same extent as if it were an original signatory hereto and shall be deemed to have made the representations, warranties and covenants set forth herein as of the date of execution and delivery of such Additional Debtor Joinder, and all references herein to the “Debtors” shall be deemed to include each Additional Debtor.

(jj)           Each Debtor shall vote the Pledged Securities to comply with the covenants and agreements set forth herein and in the Debentures.
 
 
 
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(kk)           Each Debtor shall register the pledge of the applicable Pledged Securities on the books of such Debtor. Each Debtor shall notify each issuer of Pledged Securities to register the pledge of the applicable Pledged Securities in the name of the Secured Parties on the books of such issuer. Further, except with respect to certificated securities delivered to the Collateral Agent, the applicable Debtor shall deliver to Collateral Agent an acknowledgement of pledge (which, where appropriate, shall comply with the requirements of the relevant UCC with respect to perfection by registration) signed by the issuer of the applicable Pledged Securities, which acknowledgement shall confirm that: (a) it has registered the pledge on its books and records; and (b) at any time directed by Collateral Agent during the continuation of an Event of Default, such issuer will transfer the record ownership of such Pledged Securities into the name of any designee of Collateral Agent, will take such steps as may be necessary to effect the transfer, and will comply with all other instructions of Collateral Agent regarding such Pledged Securities without the further consent of the applicable Debtor.

(ll)           In the event that, upon an occurrence of an Event of Default, Collateral Agent shall sell all or any of the Pledged Securities to another party or parties (herein called the “ Transferee ”) or shall purchase or retain all or any of the Pledged Securities, each Debtor shall, to the extent applicable: (i) deliver to Collateral Agent or the Transferee, as the case may be, the articles of incorporation, bylaws, minute books, share certificate books, corporate seals, deeds, leases, indentures, agreements, evidences of indebtedness, books of account, financial records and all other Organizational Documents and records of the Debtors and their direct and indirect subsidiaries; (ii) use its best efforts to obtain resignations of the persons then serving as officers and directors of the Debtors and their direct and indirect subsidiaries, if so requested; and (iii) use its best efforts to obtain any approvals that are required by any governmental or regulatory body in order to permit the sale of the Pledged Securities to the Transferee or the purchase or retention of the Pledged Securities by Collateral Agent and allow the Transferee or Collateral Agent to continue the business of the Debtors and their direct and indirect subsidiaries.
 
(mm)           Without limiting the generality of the other obligations of the Debtors hereunder, each Debtor shall promptly (i) cause to be registered at the United States Copyright Office all of its material copyrights, (ii) cause the security interest contemplated hereby with respect to all Intellectual Property registered at the United States Copyright Office or United States Patent and Trademark Office to be duly recorded at the applicable office, and (iii) give the Collateral Agent notice whenever it acquires (whether absolutely or by license) or creates any additional material Intellectual Property.

(nn)           Each Debtor will from time to time, at the joint and several expense of the Debtors, promptly execute and deliver all such further instruments and documents, and take all such further action as may be necessary or desirable, or as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request, in order to perfect and protect any security interest granted or purported to be granted hereby or to enable the Secured Parties to exercise and enforce their rights and remedies hereunder and with respect to any Collateral or to otherwise carry out the purposes of this Agreement.
 
(oo)            Schedule F attached hereto lists all of the patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, registered copyrights, and domain names owned by any of the Debtors as of the date hereof. Schedule F   lists all material licenses in favor of any Debtor for the use of any patents, trademarks, copyrights and domain names as of the date hereof. All material patents and trademarks of the Debtors have been duly recorded at the United States Patent and Trademark Office and all material copyrights of the Debtors have been duly recorded at the United States Copyright Office.

(pp)           Except as set forth on Schedule G attached hereto, none of the account debtors or other persons or entities obligated on any of the Collateral is a governmental authority covered by the Federal Assignment of Claims Act or any similar federal, state or local statute or rule in respect of such Collateral.
 
 
 
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5.            Effect of Pledge on Certain Rights .   If any of the Collateral subject to this Agreement consists of nonvoting equity or ownership interests (regardless of class, designation, preference or rights) that may be converted into voting equity or ownership interests upon the occurrence of certain events (including, without limitation, upon the transfer of all or any of the other share or assets of the issuer), it is agreed that the pledge of such equity or ownership interests pursuant to this Agreement or the enforcement of any of Collateral Agent’s rights hereunder shall not be deemed to be the type of event which would trigger such conversion rights notwithstanding any provisions in the Organizational Documents or agreements to which any Debtor is subject or to which any Debtor is party.

6.            Defaults . The following events shall be “ Events of Default ”:

(a)           The occurrence of an Event of Default (as defined in the Debentures) under the Debentures;

(b)           Any representation or warranty of any Debtor in this Agreement shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made;

(c)           The failure by any Debtor to observe or perform any of its obligations hereunder for five (5) days after delivery to such Debtor of notice of such failure by or on behalf of a Secured Party unless such default is capable of cure but cannot be cured within such time frame and such Debtor is using best efforts to cure same in a timely fashion; or

(d)           If any provision of this Agreement shall at any time for any reason be declared to be null and void, or the validity or enforceability thereof shall be contested by any Debtor, or a proceeding shall be commenced by any Debtor, or by any governmental authority having jurisdiction over any Debtor, seeking to establish the invalidity or unenforceability thereof, or any Debtor shall deny that any Debtor has any liability or obligation purported to be created under this Agreement.

7.            Duty To Hold In Trust .

(a)           Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default and at any time thereafter, each Debtor shall, upon receipt of any revenue, income, dividend, interest or other sums subject to the Security Interests, whether payable pursuant to the Debentures or otherwise, or of any check, draft, note, trade acceptance or other instrument evidencing an obligation to pay any such sum, hold the same in trust for the Secured Parties and shall forthwith endorse and transfer any such sums or instruments, or both, to the Secured Parties, pro-rata in proportion to their respective then-currently outstanding principal amount of Debentures for application to the satisfaction of the Obligations (and if any Debenture is not outstanding, pro-rata in proportion to the initial purchases of the remaining Debentures).

(b)           If any Debtor shall become entitled to receive or shall receive any securities or other property (including, without limitation, shares of Pledged Securities or instruments representing Pledged Securities acquired after the date hereof, or any options, warrants, rights or other similar property or certificates representing a dividend, or any distribution in connection with any recapitalization, reclassification or increase or reduction of capital, or issued in connection with any reorganization of such Debtor or any of its direct or indirect subsidiaries) in respect of the Pledged Securities (whether as an addition to, in substitution of, or in exchange for, such Pledged Securities or otherwise), such Debtor agrees to (i) accept the same as the Collateral Agent of the Secured Parties; (ii) hold the same in trust on behalf of and for the benefit of the Secured Parties; and (iii) to deliver any and all certificates or instruments evidencing the same to Collateral Agent on or before the close of business on the fifth business day following the receipt thereof by such Debtor, in the exact form received together with the Necessary Endorsements, to be held by Collateral Agent subject to the terms of this Agreement as Collateral.
 
 
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8.            Rights and Remedies Upon Default .

(a)           Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default and at any time thereafter, the Secured Parties, acting through the Collateral Agent, shall have the right to exercise all of the remedies conferred hereunder and under the Debentures, and the Secured Parties shall have all the rights and remedies of a secured party under the UCC. Without limitation, the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, shall have the following rights and powers:

(i)           The Collateral Agent shall have the right to take possession of the Collateral and, for that purpose, enter, with the aid and assistance of any person, any premises where the Collateral, or any part thereof, is or may be placed and remove the same, and each Debtor shall assemble the Collateral and make it available to the Collateral Agent at places which the Collateral Agent shall reasonably select, whether at such Debtor's premises or elsewhere, and make available to the Collateral Agent, without rent, all of such Debtor’s respective premises and facilities for the purpose of the Collateral Agent taking possession of, removing or putting the Collateral in saleable or disposable form.
 
(ii)           Upon notice to the Debtors by Collateral Agent, all rights of each Debtor to exercise the voting and other consensual rights which it would otherwise be entitled to exercise and all rights of each Debtor to receive the dividends and interest which it would otherwise be authorized to receive and retain, shall cease. Upon such notice, Collateral Agent shall have the right to receive, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, any interest, cash dividends or other payments on the Collateral and, at the option of Collateral Agent, to exercise in such Collateral Agent’s discretion all voting rights pertaining thereto. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Collateral Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to exercise all rights with respect to the Collateral as it were the sole and absolute owner thereof, including, without limitation, to vote and/or to exchange, at its sole discretion, any or all of the Collateral in connection with a merger, reorganization, consolidation, recapitalization or other readjustment concerning or involving the Collateral or any Debtor or any of its direct or indirect subsidiaries.

(iii)           The Collateral Agent shall have the right to operate the business of each Debtor using the Collateral and shall have the right to assign, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of and deliver all or any part of the Collateral, at public or private sale or otherwise, either with or without special conditions or stipulations, for cash or on credit or for future delivery, in such parcel or parcels and at such time or times and at such place or places, and upon such terms and conditions as the Collateral Agent may deem commercially reasonable, all without (except as shall be required by applicable statute and cannot be waived) advertisement or demand upon or notice to any Debtor or right of redemption of a Debtor, which are hereby expressly waived. Upon each such sale, lease, assignment or other transfer of Collateral, the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, may, unless prohibited by applicable law which cannot be waived, purchase all or any part of the Collateral being sold, free from and discharged of all trusts, claims, right of redemption and equities of any Debtor, which are hereby waived and released.
 
 
 
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(iv)           The Collateral Agent shall have the right (but not the obligation) to notify any account debtors and any obligors under instruments or accounts to make payments directly to the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, and to enforce the Debtors’ rights against such account debtors and obligors.

(v)           The Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, may (but is not obligated to) direct any financial intermediary or any other person or entity holding any investment property to transfer the same to the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, or its designee.

(vi)           The Collateral Agent may (but is not obligated to) transfer any or all Intellectual Property registered in the name of any Debtor at the United States Patent and Trademark Office and/or Copyright Office into the name of the Secured Parties or any designee or any purchaser of any Collateral.
 
(b)           The Collateral Agent shall comply with any applicable law in connection with a disposition of Collateral and such compliance will not be considered adversely to affect the commercial reasonableness of any sale of the Collateral. The Collateral Agent may sell the Collateral without giving any warranties and may specifically disclaim such warranties. If the Collateral Agent sells any of the Collateral on credit, the Debtors will only be credited with payments actually made by the purchaser. In addition, each Debtor waives any and all rights that it may have to a judicial hearing in advance of the enforcement of any of the Collateral Agent’s rights and remedies hereunder, including, without limitation, its right following an Event of Default to take immediate possession of the Collateral and to exercise its rights and remedies with respect thereto.
 
(c)           For the purpose of enabling the Collateral Agent to further exercise rights and remedies under this Section 8 or elsewhere provided by agreement or applicable law, each Debtor hereby grants to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties, an irrevocable, nonexclusive license (exercisable without payment of royalty or other compensation to such Debtor) to use, license or sublicense following an Event of Default and any Intellectual Property now owned or hereafter acquired by such Debtor, and wherever the same may be located, and including in such license access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer software and programs used for the compilation or printout thereof.

9.            Applications of Proceeds . The proceeds of any such sale, lease or other disposition of the Collateral hereunder or from payments made on account of any insurance policy insuring any portion of the Collateral shall be applied first, to the expenses of retaking, holding, storing, processing and preparing for sale, selling, and the like (including, without limitation, any taxes, fees and other costs incurred in connection therewith) of the Collateral, to the reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses incurred by the Collateral Agent in enforcing the Secured Parties’ rights hereunder and in connection with collecting, storing and disposing of the Collateral, and then to satisfaction of the Obligations pro rata among the Secured Parties (based on then-outstanding principal amounts of Debentures at the time of any such determination), and to the payment of any other amounts required by applicable law, after which the Secured Parties shall pay to the applicable Debtor any surplus proceeds. If, upon the sale, license or other disposition of the Collateral, the proceeds thereof are insufficient to pay all amounts to which the Secured Parties are legally entitled, the Debtors will be liable for the deficiency, together with interest thereon, at the rate of 18% per annum or the lesser amount permitted by applicable law (the “Default Rate”), and the reasonable fees of any attorneys employed by the Secured Parties to collect such deficiency. To the extent permitted by applicable law, each Debtor waives all claims, damages and demands against the Secured Parties arising out of the repossession, removal, retention or sale of the Collateral, unless due solely to the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Secured Parties as determined by a final judgment (not subject to further appeal) of a court of competent jurisdiction.
 
 
 
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10.            Securities Law Provision . Each Debtor recognizes that Collateral Agent may be limited in its ability to effect a sale to the public of all or part of the Pledged Securities by reason of certain prohibitions in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or other federal or state securities laws (collectively, the “ Securities Laws ”), and may be compelled to resort to one or more sales to a restricted group of purchasers who may be required to agree to acquire the Pledged Securities for their own account, for investment and not with a view to the distribution or resale thereof. Each Debtor agrees that sales so made may be at prices and on terms less favorable than if the Pledged Securities were sold to the public, and that Collateral Agent has no obligation to delay the sale of any Pledged Securities for the period of time necessary to register the Pledged Securities for sale to the public under the Securities Laws. Each Debtor shall cooperate with Collateral Agent in its attempt to satisfy any requirements under the Securities Laws (including, without limitation, registration thereunder if requested by Collateral Agent) applicable to the sale of the Pledged Securities by Collateral Agent.
 
11.            Costs and Expenses . Each Debtor agrees to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with any filing required hereunder, including without limitation, any financing statements pursuant to the UCC, continuation statements, partial releases and/or termination statements related thereto or any expenses of any searches reasonably required by the Collateral Agent. The Debtors shall also pay all other claims and charges which in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral Agent is reasonably likely to prejudice, imperil or otherwise affect the Collateral or the Security Interests therein. The Debtors will also, upon demand, pay to the Collateral Agent the amount of any and all reasonable expenses, including the reasonable fees and expenses of its counsel and of any experts and agents, which the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, may incur in connection with (i) the enforcement of this Agreement, (ii) the custody or preservation of, or the sale of, collection from, or other realization upon, any of the Collateral, or (iii) the exercise or enforcement of any of the rights of the Secured Parties under the Debentures. Until so paid, any fees payable hereunder shall be added to the principal amount of the Debentures and shall bear interest at the Default Rate.

12.            Responsibility for Collateral . The Debtors assume all liabilities and responsibility in connection with all Collateral, and the Obligations shall in no way be affected or diminished by reason of the loss, destruction, damage or theft of any of the Collateral or its unavailability for any reason. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) neither the Collateral Agent nor any Secured Party (i) has any duty (either before or after an Event of Default) to collect any amounts in respect of the Collateral or to preserve any rights relating to the Collateral, or (ii) has any obligation to clean-up or otherwise prepare the Collateral for sale, and (b) each Debtor shall remain obligated and liable under each contract or agreement included in the Collateral to be observed or performed by such Debtor thereunder. Neither the Collateral Agent nor any Secured Party shall have any obligation or liability under any such contract or agreement by reason of or arising out of this Agreement or the receipt by the Collateral Agent or any Secured Party of any payment relating to any of the Collateral, nor shall the Collateral Agent or any Secured Party be obligated in any manner to perform any of the obligations of any Debtor under or pursuant to any such contract or agreement, to make inquiry as to the nature or sufficiency of any payment received by the Collateral Agent or any Secured Party in respect of the Collateral or as to the sufficiency of any performance by any party under any such contract or agreement, to present or file any claim, to take any action to enforce any performance or to collect the payment of any amounts which may have been assigned to the Collateral Agent or to which the Collateral Agent or any Secured Party may be entitled at any time or times.
 
 
 
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13.            Security Interests Absolute . All rights of the Secured Parties and all obligations of the Debtors hereunder, shall be absolute and unconditional, irrespective of: (a) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement, the Debentures or any agreement entered into in connection with the foregoing, or any portion hereof or thereof; (b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment or performance of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to any departure from the Debentures or any other agreement entered into in connection with the foregoing; (c) any exchange, release or nonperfection of any of the Collateral, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from any other collateral for, or any guarantee, or any other security, for all or any of the Obligations; (d) any action by the Secured Parties to obtain, adjust, settle and cancel in its sole discretion any insurance claims or matters made or arising in connection with the Collateral; or (e) any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute any legal or equitable defense available to a Debtor, or a discharge of all or any part of the Security Interests granted hereby. Until the Obligations shall have been paid and performed in full, the rights of the Secured Parties shall continue even if the Obligations are barred for any reason, including, without limitation, the running of the statute of limitations or bankruptcy. Each Debtor expressly waives presentment, protest, notice of protest, demand, notice of nonpayment and demand for performance. In the event that at any time any transfer of any Collateral or any payment received by the Secured Parties hereunder shall be deemed by final order of a court of competent jurisdiction to have been a voidable preference or fraudulent conveyance under the bankruptcy or insolvency laws of the United States, or shall be deemed to be otherwise due to any party other than the Secured Parties, then, in any such event, each Debtor’s obligations hereunder shall survive cancellation of this Agreement, and shall not be discharged or satisfied by any prior payment thereof and/or cancellation of this Agreement, but shall remain a valid and binding obligation enforceable in accordance with the terms and provisions hereof. Each Debtor waives all right to require the Secured Parties to proceed against any other person or entity or to apply any Collateral which the Secured Parties may hold at any time, or to marshal assets, or to pursue any other remedy. Each Debtor waives any defense arising by reason of the application of the statute of limitations to any obligation secured hereby.

14.            Term of Agreement . This Agreement and the Security Interests shall terminate on the date on which all payments under the Debentures have been indefeasibly paid in full and all other Obligations have been paid or discharged; provided, however, that all indemnities of the Debtors contained in this Agreement (including, without limitation, Annex B hereto) shall survive and remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of the termination of this Agreement.

15.            Power of Attorney; Further Assurances .

(a)           Each Debtor authorizes the Collateral Agent, and does hereby make, constitute and appoint the Collateral Agent and its officers, agents, successors or assigns with full power of substitution, as such Debtor’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with power, in the name of the Collateral Agent or such Debtor, to, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, (i) endorse any note, checks, drafts, money orders or other instruments of payment (including payments payable under or in respect of any policy of insurance) in respect of the Collateral that may come into possession of the Collateral Agent; (ii) to sign and endorse any financing statement pursuant to the UCC or any invoice, freight or express bill, bill of lading, storage or warehouse receipts, drafts against debtors, assignments, verifications and notices in connection with accounts, and other documents relating to the Collateral; (iii) to pay or discharge taxes, liens, security interests or other encumbrances at any time levied or placed on or threatened against the Collateral; (iv) to demand, collect, receipt for, compromise, settle and sue for monies due in respect of the Collateral; (v) to transfer any Intellectual Property or provide licenses
 
 
 
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respecting any Intellectual Property; and (vi) generally, at the option of the Collateral Agent, and at the expense of the Debtors, at any time, or from time to time, to execute and deliver any and all documents and instruments and to do all acts and things which the Collateral Agent deems necessary to protect, preserve and realize upon the Collateral and the Security Interests granted therein in order to effect the intent of this Agreement and the Debentures all as fully and effectually as the Debtors might or could do; and each Debtor hereby ratifies all that said attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. This power of attorney is coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable for the term of this Agreement and thereafter as long as any of the Obligations shall be outstanding. The designation set forth herein shall be deemed to amend and supersede any inconsistent provision in the Organizational Documents or other documents or agreements to which any Debtor is subject or to which any Debtor is a party. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, each Secured Party is specifically authorized to execute and file any applications for or instruments of transfer and assignment of any patents, trademarks, copyrights or other Intellectual Property with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office.

(b)           On a continuing basis, each Debtor will make, execute, acknowledge, deliver, file and record, as the case may be, with the proper filing and recording agencies in any jurisdiction, including, without limitation, the jurisdictions indicated on Schedule C   attached hereto, all such instruments, and take all such action as may reasonably be deemed necessary or advisable, or as reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent, to perfect the Security Interests granted hereunder and otherwise to carry out the intent and purposes of this Agreement, or for assuring and confirming to the Collateral Agent the grant or perfection of a perfected security interest in all the Collateral under the UCC.

(c)           Each Debtor hereby irrevocably appoints the Collateral Agent as such Debtor’s attorney-in-fact, with full authority in the place and instead of such Debtor and in the name of such Debtor, from time to time in the Collateral Agent’s discretion, to take any action and to execute any instrument which the Collateral Agent may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes of this Agreement, including the filing, in its sole discretion, of one or more financing or continuation statements and amendments thereto, relative to any of the Collateral without the signature of such Debtor where permitted by law, which financing statements may (but need not) describe the Collateral as “all assets” or “all personal property” or words of like import, and ratifies all such actions taken by the Collateral Agent. This power of attorney is coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable for the term of this Agreement and thereafter as long as any of the Obligations shall be outstanding.

16.            Notices . All notices, requests, demands and other communications hereunder shall be subject to the notice provision of the Securities Purchase Agreement.

17.            Other Security . To the extent that the Obligations are now or hereafter secured by property other than the Collateral or by the guarantee, endorsement or property of any other person, firm, corporation or other entity, then the Collateral Agent shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to pursue, relinquish, subordinate, modify or take any other action with respect thereto, without in any way modifying or affecting any of the Secured Parties’ rights and remedies hereunder.

18.            Appointment of Collateral Agent . The Secured Parties hereby appoint Collateral Agents, LLC to act as their agent (“ Collateral Agent ”) for purposes of exercising any and all rights and remedies of the Secured Parties hereunder. Such appointment shall continue until revoked in writing by a Majority in Interest, at which time a Majority in Interest shall appoint a new Collateral Agent. The Collateral Agent shall have the rights, responsibilities and immunities set forth in Annex B hereto.
 
 
 
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19.            Other Activities .  Collateral Agent may generally engage in any kind of business with a Secured Party or Debtor any subsidiary or affiliate thereof as if it had not entered into this Agreement, Collateral Agent and its affiliates and their officers, directors, employees, and agents (including legal counsel) may now or hereafter be engaged in one or more transactions with either a Secured Party or Debtor or may act as trustee, agent or representative of either a Secured Party or Debtor, or otherwise be engaged in other transactions with such parties (collectively, the “ Other Activities ”).  Without limiting the foregoing, Collateral Agent and its affiliates and their officers, directors, employees and agents (including legal counsel) shall not be responsible to account to a Secured Party or Debtor for such other activities.

20.   Miscellaneous .

(a)           No course of dealing between the Debtors and the Secured Parties, nor any failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of the Secured Parties, any right, power or privilege hereunder or under the Debentures shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege hereunder or thereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.

(b)           All of the rights and remedies of the Secured Parties with respect to the Collateral, whether established hereby or by the Debentures or by any other agreements, instruments or documents or by law shall be cumulative and may be exercised singly or concurrently.

(c)           This Agreement, together with the exhibits and schedules hereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into this Agreement and the exhibits and schedules hereto. No provision of this Agreement may be waived, modified, supplemented or amended except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Debtors and the Secured Parties or, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement of any such waived provision is sought.

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

(e)           No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.

(f)           This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company and the Guarantors may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Secured Party (other than by merger). Any Secured Party may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom such Secured Party assigns or transfers any Securities, provided such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of this Agreement that apply to the “Secured Parties.”
 
 
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(g)           Each party shall take such further action and execute and deliver such further documents as may be necessary or appropriate in order to carry out the provisions and purposes of this Agreement.

(h)           All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each Debtor agrees that all proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Debentures (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, partners, members, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan. Each Debtor hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein, and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such proceeding is improper. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. If any party shall commence a proceeding to enforce any provisions of this Agreement, then the prevailing party in such proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorney’s fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such proceeding.
 
(i)           This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same Agreement. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission, such signature shall create a valid binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) the same with the same force and effect as if such facsimile signature were the original thereof.

(j)           All Debtors shall jointly and severally be liable for the obligations of each Debtor to the Secured Parties and Collateral Agent hereunder.

(k)           Each Debtor shall indemnify, reimburse and hold harmless the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties and their respective partners, members, shareholders, officers, directors, employees and agents (and any other persons with other titles that have similar functions) (collectively, “ Indemnitees ”) from and against any and all losses, claims, liabilities, damages, penalties, suits, costs and expenses, of any kind or nature, (including fees relating to the cost of investigating and defending any of the foregoing) imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such Indemnitee in any way related to or arising from or alleged to arise from this Agreement or the Collateral, except any such losses, claims, liabilities, damages, penalties, suits, costs and expenses which result from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Indemnitee as determined by a final, nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction. This indemnification provision is in addition to, and not in limitation of, any other indemnification provision in the Debentures, the Securities Purchase Agreement or any other agreement, instrument or other document executed or delivered in connection herewith or therewith.
 
 
 
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(l)           Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to subject Collateral Agent or any Secured Party to liability as a partner in any Debtor or any if its direct or indirect subsidiaries that is a partnership or as a member in any Debtor or any of its direct or indirect subsidiaries that is a limited liability company, nor shall Collateral Agent or any Secured Party be deemed to have assumed any obligations under any partnership agreement or limited liability company agreement, as applicable, of any such Debtor or any if its direct or indirect subsidiaries or otherwise, unless and until any such Secured Party exercises its right to be substituted for such Debtor as a partner or member, as applicable, pursuant hereto.

(m)           To the extent that the grant of the security interest in the Collateral and the enforcement of the terms hereof require the consent, approval or action of any partner or member, as applicable, of any Debtor or any direct or indirect subsidiary of any Debtor or compliance with any provisions of any of the Organizational Documents, the Debtors hereby grant such consent and approval and waive any such noncompliance with the terms of said documents.

 
 

[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]

 
 
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Security Agreement to be duly executed on the day and year first above written.


CHINA NETWORKS INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTD.
   
 
 
 
By:
     
 
Name:
 
Title:
   
 
CHINA NETWORKS MEDIA LTD.
   
 
 
 
By:
     
 
Name:
 
Title:
 


“COLLATERAL AGENT”
COLLATERAL AGENTS, LLC
111 West 57 th Street, Suite 1416
New York, NY 10019
Attn: General Counsel
Fax: (212) 245-9101



By: _____________________________________

Its: _____________________________________





 
[SIGNATURE PAGE OF HOLDERS FOLLOWS]
 
 
 
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[SIGNATURE PAGE OF HOLDERS TO CHINA NETWORKS SECURITY AGREEMENT]
 

Name of Investing Entity: ______________________________________________________            
 
Signature of Authorized Signatory of Investing entity : _________________________
 
Name of Authorized Signatory: _________________________
 
Title of Authorized Signatory: __________________________


Principal Amount of Debenture: $___________________________

Issue Date of Debenture: _________________________________
 
 
 
 
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SCHEDULE A

Principal Place of Business of Debtors:

Locations Where Collateral is Located or Stored:

SCHEDULE B

Exceptions to Ownership

SCHEDULE C

Jurisdictions

SCHEDULE D

Legal Names and Organizational Identification Numbers

SCHEDULE E

Names; Mergers and Acquisitions

SCHEDULE F

Intellectual Property

SCHEDULE G

Account Debtors

SCHEDULE H

Pledged Securities

SCHEDULE I

Subsidiaries
 
 
 
 
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ANNEX A
to
SECURITY
AGREEMENT

FORM OF ADDITIONAL DEBTOR JOINER

Security Agreement dated as of April 13, 2010 made by
China Networks International Holdings Ltd.
and its subsidiaries party thereto from time to time, as Debtors
to and in favor of
the Secured Parties identified therein (the “ Security Agreement ”)

Reference is made to the Security Agreement as defined above; capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in, or by reference in, the Security Agreement.

The undersigned hereby agrees that upon delivery of this Additional Debtor Joiner to the Secured Parties referred to above, the undersigned shall (a) be an Additional Debtor under the Security Agreement, (b) have all the rights and obligations of the Debtors under the Security Agreement as fully and to the same extent as if the undersigned was an original signatory thereto and (c) be deemed to have made the representations and warranties set forth therein as of the date of execution and delivery of this Additional Debtor Joiner. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE UNDERSIGNED SPECIFICALLY GRANTS TO THE SECURED PARTIES A SECURITY INTEREST IN THE COLLATERAL AS MORE FULLY SET FORTH IN THE SECURITY AGREEMENT AND ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES TO THE WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL PROVISIONS SET FORTH THEREIN.

Attached hereto are supplemental and/or replacement Schedules to the Security Agreement, as applicable.

An executed copy of this Joiner shall be delivered to the Secured Parties, and the Secured Parties may rely on the matters set forth herein on or after the date hereof. This Joiner shall not be modified, amended or terminated without the prior written consent of the Secured Parties.

 
 
 
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Joiner to be executed in the name and on behalf of the undersigned.

[Name of Additional Debtor]
 
By:
 
Name:
Title:
 
Address:

Dated:   
 
 
 
 
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ANNEX B
to
SECURITY
AGREEMENT

THE COLLATERAL AGENT

1. Appointment .   The Secured Parties (all capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the respective meanings provided in the Security Agreement to which this Annex B is attached (the " Agreement "), by their acceptance of the benefits of the Agreement, hereby designate Collateral Agents, LLC (“ Collateral Agent ”) as the Collateral Agent to act as specified herein and in the Agreement. Each Secured Party shall be deemed irrevocably to authorize the Collateral Agent to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of the Agreement and any other Transaction Document (as such term is defined in the Debentures) and to exercise such powers and to perform such duties hereunder and thereunder as are specifically delegated to or required of the Collateral Agent by the terms hereof and thereof and such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Collateral Agent may perform any of its duties hereunder by or through its agents or employees.

2. Nature of Duties . The Collateral Agent shall have no duties or responsibilities except those expressly set forth in the Agreement. Neither the Collateral Agent nor any of its partners, members, shareholders, officers, directors, employees or agents shall be liable for any action taken or omitted by it as such under the Agreement or hereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, be responsible for the consequence of any oversight or error of judgment or answerable for any loss, unless caused solely by its or their gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a final judgment (not subject to further appeal) of a court of competent jurisdiction. The duties of the Collateral Agent shall be mechanical and administrative in nature; the Collateral Agent shall not have by reason of the Agreement or any other Transaction Document a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Debtor or any Secured Party; and nothing in the Agreement or any other Transaction Document, expressed or implied, is intended to or shall be so construed as to impose upon the Collateral Agent any obligations in respect of the Agreement or any other Transaction Document except as expressly set forth herein and therein.

3. Lack of Reliance on the Collateral Agent . Independently and without reliance upon the Collateral Agent, each Secured Party, to the extent it deems appropriate, has made and shall continue to make (i) its own independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs of the Company and its subsidiaries in connection with such Secured Party’s investment in the Debtors, the creation and continuance of the Obligations, the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, and the taking or not taking of any action in connection therewith, and (ii) its own appraisal of the creditworthiness of the Company and its subsidiaries, and of the value of the Collateral from time to time, and the Collateral Agent shall have no duty or responsibility, either initially or on a continuing basis, to provide any Secured Party with any credit, market or other information with respect thereto, whether coming into its possession before any Obligations are incurred or at any time or times thereafter. The Collateral Agent shall not be responsible to the Debtors or any Secured Party for any recitals, statements, information, representations or warranties herein or in any document, certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith, or for the execution, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, enforceability, perfection, collectibility, priority or sufficiency of the Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or for the financial condition of the Debtors or the value of any of the Collateral, or be required to make any inquiry concerning either the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions or conditions of the Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or the financial condition of the Debtors, or the value of any of the Collateral, or the existence or possible existence of any default or Event of Default under the Agreement, the Debentures or any of the other Transaction Documents.
 
 
 
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4. Certain Rights of the Collateral Agent . The Collateral Agent shall have the right to take any action with respect to the Collateral, on behalf of all of the Secured Parties. To the extent practical, the Collateral Agent shall request instructions from the Secured Parties with respect to any material act or action (including failure to act) in connection with the Agreement or any other Transaction Document, and shall be entitled to act or refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of Secured Parties holding a majority in principal amount of Debentures (based on then-outstanding principal amounts of Debentures at the time of any such determination); if such instructions are not provided despite the Collateral Agent’s request therefor, the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to refrain from such act or taking such action, and if such action is taken, shall be entitled to appropriate indemnification from the Secured Parties in respect of actions to be taken by the Collateral Agent; and the Collateral Agent shall not incur liability to any person or entity by reason of so refraining. Without limiting the foregoing, (a) no Secured Party shall have any right of action whatsoever against the Collateral Agent as a result of the Collateral Agent acting or refraining from acting hereunder in accordance with the terms of the Agreement or any other Transaction Document, and the Debtors shall have no right to question or challenge the authority of, or the instructions given to, the Collateral Agent pursuant to the foregoing and (b) the Collateral Agent shall not be required to take any action which the Collateral Agent believes (i) could reasonably be expected to expose it to personal liability or (ii) is contrary to this Agreement, the Transaction Documents or applicable law.

5. Reliance . The Collateral Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any writing, resolution, notice, statement, certificate, telex, teletype or telecopier message, cablegram, radiogram, order or other document or telephone message signed, sent or made by the proper person or entity, and, with respect to all legal matters pertaining to the Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and its duties thereunder, upon advice of counsel selected by it and upon all other matters pertaining to this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and its duties thereunder, upon advice of other experts selected by it. Anything to the contrary notwithstanding, the Collateral Agent shall have no obligation whatsoever to any Secured Party to assure that the Collateral exists or is owned by the Debtors or is cared for, protected or insured or that the liens granted pursuant to the Agreement have been properly or sufficiently or lawfully created, perfected, or enforced or are entitled to any particular priority.

6. Indemnification . To the extent that the Collateral Agent is not reimbursed and indemnified by the Debtors, the Secured Parties will jointly and severally reimburse and indemnify the Collateral Agent, in proportion to their initially purchased respective principal amounts of Debentures, from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Collateral Agent in performing its duties hereunder or under the Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or in any way relating to or arising out of the Agreement or any other Transaction Document except for those determined by a final judgment (not subject to further appeal) of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted solely from the Collateral Agent's own gross negligence or willful misconduct. Prior to taking any action hereunder as Collateral Agent, the Collateral Agent may require each Secured Party to deposit with it sufficient sums as it determines in good faith is necessary to protect the Collateral Agent for costs and expenses associated with taking such action.

7. Resignation by the Collateral Agent .  
 
(a) The Collateral Agent may resign from the performance of all its functions and duties under the Agreement and the other Transaction Documents at any time by giving 30 days' prior written notice (as provided in the Agreement) to the Debtors and the Secured Parties. Such resignation shall take effect upon the appointment of a successor Collateral Agent pursuant to clauses (b) and (c) below.
 
 
 
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(b) Upon any such notice of resignation, the Secured Parties, acting by a Majority in Interest, shall appoint a successor Collateral Agent hereunder.

(c) If a successor Collateral Agent shall not have been so appointed within said 30-day period, the Collateral Agent shall then appoint a successor Collateral Agent who shall serve as Collateral Agent until such time, if any, as the Secured Parties appoint a successor Collateral Agent as provided above. If a successor Collateral Agent has not been appointed within such 30-day period, the Collateral Agent may petition any court of competent jurisdiction or may interplead the Debtors and the Secured Parties in a proceeding for the appointment of a successor Collateral Agent, and all fees, including, but not limited to, extraordinary fees associated with the filing of interpleader and expenses associated therewith, shall be payable by the Debtors on demand.

8. Rights with respect to Collateral . Each Secured Party agrees with all other Secured Parties and the Collateral Agent (i) that it shall not, and shall not attempt to, exercise any rights with respect to its security interest in the Collateral, whether pursuant to any other agreement or otherwise (other than pursuant to this Agreement), or take or institute any action against the Collateral Agent or any of the other Secured Parties in respect of the Collateral or its rights hereunder (other than any such action arising from the breach of this Agreement) and (ii) that such Secured Party has no other rights with respect to the Collateral other than as set forth in this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Collateral Agent hereunder by a successor Collateral Agent, such successor Collateral Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Collateral Agent and the retiring Collateral Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Agreement.  After any retiring Collateral Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder as Collateral Agent, the provisions of the Agreement including this Annex B shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Collateral Agent.
 
 


 
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Exhibit 99.6
 
 
GUARANT Y
 
1.             Identification .

This Guaranty (the “ Guaranty ”), dated as of April 13, 2010, is entered into by China Networks Media, Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company (“ Guarantor ”), for the benefit of the Collateral Agent identified below and the parties identified on Schedule A hereto (each a “ Lender ” and collectively, the “ Lenders ”).

2.             Recitals .

2.1           Guarantor is a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of China Networks International Holdings Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company (“ Parent ”).  The Lenders have made and/or are making loans to Parent (the “ Loans ”).  Guarantor will obtain substantial benefit from the proceeds of the Loans.

2.2           The Loans are and will be evidenced by certain senior secured debentures (collectively, “ Debenture ” or “ Debentures ”) issued by Parent on, about or after the date of this Guaranty pursuant to securities purchase agreements dated at or about or after the date hereof (“ Securities Purchase Agreements ”).  The Debentures are further identified on Schedule A hereto and were and or will be executed by Parent as “Borrower” for the benefit of each Lender as the “Holder” thereof.  Collateral Agent is instructed and permitted to amend Schedule A after the date hereof to include additional Lenders who become Lenders after the date hereof.

2.3           In consideration of the Loans made and to be made by Lenders to Parent and for other good and valuable consideration, and as security for the performance by Parent of its obligations under the Debentures and as security for the repayment of the Loans and all other sums due from Debtor to Lenders arising under the Debentures (collectively, the “ Obligations ”), Guarantor, for good and valuable consideration, receipt of which is acknowledged, has agreed to enter into this Guaranty.

2.4           The Lenders have appointed Collateral Agents, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company as Collateral Agent (“Collateral Agent”) pursuant to the Security Agreement.

3.             Guaranty .

3.1            Guaranty .  Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees, jointly and severally with any other guarantor of the Obligations, the punctual payment, performance and observance when due, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of all of the Obligations now or hereafter existing, whether for principal, interest (including, without limitation, all interest that accrues after the commencement of any insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of Parent, whether or not constituting an allowed claim in such proceeding), fees, commissions, expense reimbursements, liquidated damages, indemnifications or otherwise (such obligations, to the extent not paid by Parent being the “ Guaranteed Obligations ”), and agrees to pay any and all reasonable costs, fees and expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and expenses) incurred by Collateral Agent and the Lenders in enforcing any rights under the guaranty set forth herein.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Guarantor’s liability shall extend to all amounts that constitute part of the Guaranteed Obligations and would be owed by Parent to Collateral Agent and the Lenders, but for the fact that they are unenforceable or not allowable due to the existence of an insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization involving Parent.
 
 
 
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3.2            Guaranty Absolute .  Guarantor guarantees that the Guaranteed Obligations will be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of the Debentures, regardless of any law, regulation or order now or hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the rights of Collateral Agent or the Lenders with respect thereto.  The obligations of Guarantor under this Guaranty are independent of the Guaranteed Obligations, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against Guarantor to enforce such obligations, irrespective of whether any action is brought against Parent or any other Guarantor or whether Parent or any other Guarantor is joined in any such action or actions.  The liability of Guarantor under this Guaranty constitutes a primary obligation, and not a contract of surety, and to the extent permitted by law, shall be irrevocable, absolute and unconditional irrespective of, and Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any defenses it may now or hereafter have in any way relating to, any or all of the following:

(a)   any lack of validity of the Debentures or any agreement or instrument relating thereto;
 
(b)   any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure from the Debentures, including, without limitation, any increase in the Guaranteed Obligations resulting from the extension of additional credit to Parent or otherwise;
 
(c)   any taking, exchange, release, subordination or non-perfection of any Collateral, or any taking, release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from any other guaranty, for all or any of the Guaranteed Obligations;
 
(d)   any change, restructuring or termination of the corporate, limited liability company or partnership structure or existence of Parent; or
 
(e)  any other circumstance (including, without limitation, any statute of limitations) or any existence of or reliance on any representation by Collateral Agent or  the Lenders that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, Parent or any other guarantor or surety.

This Guaranty shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment of any of the Guaranteed Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by Collateral Agent, the Lenders or any other entity upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Parent or otherwise (and whether as a result of any demand, settlement, litigation or otherwise), all as though such payment had not been made.

3.3            Waiver .  Guarantor hereby waives promptness, diligence, notice of acceptance and any other notice with respect to any of the Guaranteed Obligations and this Guaranty and any requirement that Collateral Agent or the Lenders exhaust any right or take any action against any Borrower or any other person or entity or any Collateral.  Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated herein and that the waiver set forth in this Section 3.3 is knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.  Guarantor hereby waives any right to revoke this Guaranty, and acknowledges that this Guaranty is continuing in nature and applies to all Guaranteed Obligations, whether existing now or in the future.

3.4        Continuing Guaranty; Assignments .  This Guaranty is a continuing guaranty and shall (a) remain in full force and effect until the later of the indefeasible cash payment in full of the Guaranteed Obligations , (b) be binding upon Guarantor, its successors and assigns and (c) inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Lenders and their successors, pledgees, transferees and assigns.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing clause (c), any Lender may pledge, assign or otherwise transfer all or any portion of its rights and obligations under this Guaranty (including, without limitation, all or any portion of its Debentures owing to it) to any other Person, and such other Person shall thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted such Collateral Agent or Lender herein or otherwise.
 
 
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3.5           Subrogation .  Guarantor will not exercise any rights that it may now or hereafter acquire against the Collateral Agent or any Lender or other Guarantor (if any) that arise from the existence, payment, performance or enforcement of such Guarantor’s obligations under this Guaranty, including, without limitation, any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or indemnification, whether or not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity or under contract, statute or common law, including, without limitation, the right to take or receive from the Collateral Agent or any Lender or other Guarantor (if any), directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or in any other manner, payment or security solely on account of such claim, remedy or right, unless and until all of the Guaranteed Obligations and all other amounts payable under this Guaranty shall have been indefeasibly paid in full.
 
3.6      Maximum Obligations . Notwithstanding any provision herein contained to the contrary, Guarantor’s liability with respect to the Obligations shall be limited to an amount not to exceed, as of any date of determination, the amount that could be claimed by Lenders from Guarantor without rendering such claim voidable or avoidable under Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code or under any applicable state Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act or similar statute or common law.
 
4.            Miscellaneous .
 
4.1            Expenses .  Guarantor shall pay to the Lenders, on demand, the amount of any and all reasonable expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees, reasonable legal expenses and reasonable brokers’ fees, which the Lenders may incur in connection with exercise or enforcement of any the rights, remedies or powers of the Lenders hereunder or with respect to any or all of the Obligations.

4.2            Waivers, Amendment and Remedies .  No course of dealing by the Lenders and no failure by the Lenders to exercise, or delay by the Lender in exercising, any right, remedy or power hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, and no single or partial exercise thereof shall preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy or power of the Lenders.  No amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Guaranty and no consent to any departure by Guarantor therefrom, shall, in any event, be effective unless contained in a writing signed by the Guarantor and the Majority in Interest (as such term is defined in the Security Agreement) of the Lender or Lenders against whom such amendment, modification or waiver is sought, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given.  The rights, remedies and powers of the Lenders, not only hereunder, but also under any instruments and agreements evidencing or securing the Obligations and under applicable law are cumulative, and may be exercised by the Lenders from time to time in such order as the Lenders may elect.

4.3            Notices .    All notices, demands, requests, consents, approvals, and other communications required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and, unless otherwise specified herein, shall be (a) personally served, (b) deposited in the mail, registered or certified, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, (c) delivered by a reputable overnight courier service with charges prepaid, or (d) transmitted by hand delivery, telegram, or facsimile, addressed as set forth below or to such other address as such party shall have specified most recently by written notice.  Any notice or other communication required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be deemed effective upon hand delivery or delivery by facsimile, with accurate confirmation generated by the transmitting facsimile machine, at the address or number designated below if delivered on a business day during normal business hours, or the first business day following such delivery (if delivered other than on a business day during normal business hours), (ii) on the first business day following the date deposited with an overnight courier service with charges prepaid, or (iii) on the fifth business day following the date of mailing pursuant to subpart (b) above, or upon actual receipt of such mailing, whichever shall first occur.  The addresses for such communications shall be:
 
 
 
 
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To Guarantor, to:                                 China Networks Media, Ltd.
27 Union Square West, Suite 501-502
New York, NY 10003
Fax:

With a copy by facsimile only to:

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
2300 N Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037-1122
Attention: Louis A. Bevilacqua, Esq.
Fax: (202) 663-8007


To Lenders:                                           To the addresses and telecopier numbers set
Forth on Schedule A


To the Collateral Agent:                     Collateral Agents, LLC
111 West 57 th Street, Suite 1416
New York, NY 10019
Attn: General Counsel
Fax: (212) 245-9101

If to Guarantor, Lender or
Collateral Agent, with a copy by telecopier only to:

Grushko & Mittman, P.C.
551 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1601
New York, New York 10176
Fax: (212) 697-3575

Any party may change its address by written notice in accordance with this paragraph.

4.4            Term; Binding Effect .  This Guaranty shall (a) remain in full force and effect until payment and satisfaction in full of all of the Guaranteed Obligations; (b) be binding upon Guarantor and its successors and permitted assigns; and (c) inure to the benefit of the Lenders and their respective successors and assigns.  All the rights and benefits granted by Guarantor to the Collateral Agent and Lenders hereunder and other agreements and documents delivered in connection therewith are deemed granted to both the Collateral Agent and Lenders.  Upon the payment in full of the Obligations, (i) this Guaranty shall terminate and (ii) the Lenders will, upon Guarantor’s request and at Guarantor’s expense, execute and deliver to Guarantor such documents as Guarantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination, all without any representation, warranty or recourse whatsoever.

4.5            Captions .  The captions of Paragraphs, Articles and Sections in this Guaranty have been included for convenience of reference only, and shall not define or limit the provisions hereof and have no legal or other significance whatsoever.
 
 
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4.6            Governing Law; Venue; Severability .  This Guaranty shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without regard to principles of conflicts or choice of law.  Any legal action or proceeding against Guarantor with respect to this Guaranty may be brought in the courts of the State of New York or of the United States for the Southern District of New York, and, by execution and delivery of this Guaranty, Guarantor hereby irrevocably accepts for itself and in respect of its property, generally and unconditionally, the jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts.  Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any of the aforesaid actions or proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Guaranty brought in the aforesaid courts and hereby further irrevocably waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any such action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.  If any provision of this Guaranty, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect any other provisions which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions hereof shall be severable and the remaining, valid provisions shall remain of full force and effect.   This Guaranty shall be deemed an unconditional obligation of Guarantor for the payment of money and, without limitation to any other remedies of Lenders, may be enforced against Guarantor by summary proceeding pursuant to New York Civil Procedure Law and Rules Section 3213 or any similar rule or statute in the jurisdiction where enforcement is sought.  For purposes of such rule or statute, any other document or agreement to which Lenders and Guarantor are parties or which Guarantor delivered to Lenders, which may be convenient or necessary to determine Lenders’ rights hereunder or Guarantor’s obligations to Lenders are deemed a part of this Guaranty, whether or not such other document or agreement was delivered together herewith or was executed apart from this Guaranty.   Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any suit, action or proceeding in connection with this Agreement or any other Transaction Document by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof.  Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.  Each Guarantor irrevocably appoints Parent its true and lawful agent for service of process upon whom all processes of law and notices may be served and given in the manner described above; and such service and notice shall be deemed valid personal service and notice upon each such Guarantor with the same force and validity as if served upon such Guarantor.

4.7            Satisfaction of Obligations .  For all purposes of this Guaranty, the payment in full of the Obligations shall be conclusively deemed to have occurred when the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid pursuant to the terms of the Debentures and the Securities Purchase Agreements.

4.8            Counterparts/Execution .  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the different signatories hereto on separate counterparts, each of which, when so executed, shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument.  This Agreement may be executed by facsimile signature and delivered by electronic transmission.



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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed and delivered this Guaranty, as of the date first written above.

 
“GUARANTOR”
CHINA NETWORKS MEDIA, LTD.
a British Virgin Islands company


 
By:                                                                                        

Its:                                                                                          








 





This Guaranty Agreement may be signed by facsimile signature and
delivered by confirmed facsimile transmission.
 
 
 
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Exhibit 99.7
 
EXCHANGE AND AMENDATORY AGREEMENT


This Exchange And Amendatory Agreement (this “ Agreement ”), dated as of April 13, 2010, is made by and among, China Networks International Holdings Ltd., a British Virgin Islands corporation (the “ Company ”), China Networks Media Ltd., a British Virgin Islands corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“ China Media ”), the individuals signatory hereto (each a “Holder”, and collectively, the “ Holders ”), and Kerry Propper, an individual (“ Propper ”).
 
Background
 
On July 21, 2008, China Media and the Holders entered into that certain Purchase Agreement, as amended (the “ Purchase Agreement ”), whereby China Media sold to the Holders, and the Holders purchased from China Media, 10% senior secured notes in the aggregate principal amount of $27,990,200 (collectively, the “ Notes ”) and an aggregate of 980,000 Class A Preferred Shares (the “ Preferred Shares ”) of the Company.  In connection with the Purchase Agreement, Propper and MediaInv, Ltd. (collectively, the “ Pledgors ”) entered into a Pledge Agreement, dated July 21, 2008, with the Holders whereby the Pledgors pledged certain collateral to secure the obligations of China Media under the Purchase Agreement (the “ Pledge Agreement ”).  To provide for the distribution of the collateral pledged under the Pledge Agreement, the Pledgors, China Media and the Holders also entered into a Collateral Agent Agreement with Collateral Agents, LLC, dated July 21, 2008 (the “ Collateral Agreement ”).
 
Pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated August 13, 2008 (the “ Merger Agreement ”), by and among Alyst Acquisition, Corp., a Delaware corporation, China Media, the Pledgors (as defined therein) and the other persons signatory thereto, China Media became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and all outstanding ordinary shares and preferred shares of China Media were converted into Ordinary Shares, par value $0.0001, of the Company (“ Company Ordinary Shares ”) at the conversion rates set forth in the Merger Agreement.
 
The Company and the Holders desire to effect an exchange of all of the current outstanding principal due under the  Notes (the “ Note Balance ”) into up to 23,000,000 Company Ordinary Shares and up to 16,000,000 Class A Preferred Shares, par value $0.0001, of the Company (“ Company Preferred Shares ”), in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement (the “ Exchange ”).
 
The parties desire to amend the  Purchase Agreement and the Notes and the Company desires to consummate a private placement of up to $11,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of senior secured debentures of the Company (the “ Private Placement ”).
 
All capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Purchase Agreement, Notes, Pledge Agreement and Collateral Agreement, as applicable.
 
 
 
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Agreement:
 
NOW, THEREFORE , in consideration of the mutual promises, representations, warranties, covenants and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the parties mutually agree as follows:
 
SECTION 1.   AMENDMENTS TO TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS.
 
1.1   Amendment to Purchase Agreement.   At the Effective Time (as defined below), and pursuant to Section 8(a) of the Purchase Agreement, China Media and the Holders, which represent a Majority in Interest (as defined in the Purchase Agreement), hereby amend the Purchase Agreement to insert a new Section 8(q), which section shall read as follows:
 
(q)   Termination .  This Agreement shall automatically terminate upon the consummation of a private placement of at least $8,500,000 in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes of China Networks International Holdings Ltd. that is consummated on or before April 15, 2010.
 
1.2   Amendment to Notes.   At the Effective Time (as defined below), and pursuant to Section 6 of the Notes, China Media and the Holders, which represent a Majority in Interest (as defined in the Notes), hereby amend the Notes to insert a new Section 15, which section shall read as follows:
 
15.            Termination .
 
(a)           This Note shall automatically terminate, and all payment and other obligations of the Company under this Note shall cease and be of no further force and effect,  upon (i) the consummation of a private placement of of at least $8,500,000 in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes of China Networks International Holdings Ltd. (“ China Holdings ”) on or before April 15, 2010 (the “ Private Placement ”) and (ii) receipt by each Holder of its pro rata portion of ordinary and preferred shares of China Holdings issued in exchange for the Notes as contemplated by that certain Exchange and Amendatory Agreement entered into in connection with the Private Placement.
 
(b)           Upon termination of this Note in accordance with Section 15(a) hereof, and upon written notice from China Holdings to the Collateral Agent (as defined in the Pledge Agreement and Collateral Agreement) (i) notifying the Collateral Agent of  the consummation of the Private Placement, and (ii) evidencing the exchange of the Notes for securities of China Networks International Holdings Ltd., the Collateral Agent shall (a) if any UCC-1 Financing Statements (or similar documents or instruments) were previously filed, file and UCC-3 Termination Statements (or equivalent or similar document) filed in connection with the Assignment (as defined in the Pledge Agreement), and (b) to the extent it then has possession of any of the remaining Pledged Collateral (as defined in the Pledge Agreement), will deliver such Pledged Collateral to the Pledgors.  The Holders acknowledge and agree that no further notice from the Holders shall be necessary for the Collateral Agent to be authorized to take the actions set forth in this Section 15.
 
 
 
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SECTION 2.   EXCHANGE OF NOTES; EFFECTIVE TIME.
 
2.1   Exchange of Notes.   At the Effective time, the Company shall issue to each Holder in exchange for the Note Balance (i) the number of Company Ordinary Shares determined by dividing the Note Balance for such Holder by $1.10830857244 (the “ Exchange Ordinary Shares ”), and (ii) the number of Company Preferred Shares determined by dividing the Note Balance for such holder by $1.59318959856 (the “ Exchange Preferred Shares ”, and, together with the Exchange Ordinary Shares and the Company Ordinary Shares issuable upon conversion of the Exchange Preferred Shares, the “ Exchange Shares ”).  Immediately upon the Exchange of the Note Balance, all payment obligations of the Company under the Note shall cease and the Note shall terminate and be of no further force and effect.
 
2.2   Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles . The Company shall adopt and file with the Registrar of Companies on or before the Closing (as defined below) the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A . At or prior to the Closing, the rights, privileges and preferences of the Company Preferred Shares shall be as stated in the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association.
 
2.3   Forgiveness of Interest .  In connection with the Exchange of the Note Balance, and upon the Effective Time, the Holders agree to forgive, and jointly and severally waive their rights to collect, any and all accrued and unpaid interest then outstanding on the Notes.
 
2.4   Effectiveness.   This Agreement shall become effective simultaneously with the consummation of a Private Placement which raises gross proceeds of at least $8,500,000 (the Effective Time ).

SECTION 3.   CLOSING; DELIVERY.
 
3.1   Closing.   The closing of the Exchange (the “ Closing ”) shall take place at the Effective Time at the offices of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, 2300 N Street NW, Washington, DC, 20037, or at such other place as the Company and the Holders may mutually agree.
 
3.2   Delivery.   At the Closing, the Holders shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Company their original Notes, respectively, marked paid in full, and the Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Holders certificates representing their respective Exchange Shares; provided, however, that in the event that a Holder is unable to deliver the original Note due to loss, theft or destruction thereof, then, in lieu of delivery of the original Note, such Holder may deliver to the Company an indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Company with respect to such loss, theft or destruction.  The certificates representing the Exchange Shares shall be stamped or otherwise imprinted with a legend substantially similar to the following (in addition to any legend required under applicable state securities laws):
 
THE SECURITIES [AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION HEREOF] REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE 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”), 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 ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY. THESE SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.
 
 
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All deliveries pursuant to this Section 3.2 shall be in accordance with an Escrow Agreement dated at or about the date of this Agreement, among the Company, Holders and Collateral Agents, LLC in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B .
 
3.3   Opinions on Counsel .  On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to each Holder the following:
 
(a)   a legal opinion of the Company’s U.S. legal counsel, substantially in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto; and
 
(b)   a legal opinion of the Company’s British Virgin Islands legal counsel, substantially in the form of Exhibit D attached hereto.
 
SECTION 4.   REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY AND CHINA MEDIA
 
The Company and China Media hereby represent and warrant to the Holders that, at the Effective Time:
 
4.1   Each of Company and China Media is an entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, with the requisite power and authority to own and use its properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently conducted.  Neither the Company nor China Media is in violation nor default of any of the provisions of its respective memorandum of association, certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents.  Each of the Company and China Media is duly qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not have or reasonably be expected to result in: (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of this Agreement, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and China Media, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under this Agreement (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “ Material Adverse Effect ”) and no Proceeding has been instituted in any such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke, limit or curtail such power and authority or qualification.
 
 
 
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4.2   Each of the Company and China Media has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder.  The execution and delivery of each of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and no further action is required by the Company, the Board of Directors or the Company’s stockholders in connection therewith other than in connection with Section 4.4.  This Agreement has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.
 
4.3   At the Effective Time, Exchange Ordinary Shares will be duly and validly authorized and, when issued upon exchange and cancellation of the Notes pursuant to this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens other than restrictions on transfer provided for in this Agreement.  At the Effective Time, Exchange Preferred Shares will be duly and validly authorized and, when issued upon exchange and cancellation of the Notes pursuant to this Agreement, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens other than restrictions on transfer provided for in this Agreement.  The Company has reserved a sufficient number of Company Ordinary Shares for issuance upon the conversion of the Exchange Preferred Shares, free and clear of all encumbrances and restrictions, except for restrictions on transfer set forth in this Agreement or imposed by applicable securities laws and except for those created by the Holders.
 
4.4   Except as described in Schedule 4.4 , the Company and China Media are 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 or other Person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, and the offer and issuance of the Exchange Shares. Subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of each Holder set forth in Section 5 hereof, the Company and China Media have taken all action, as applicable, necessary to exempt the issuance of the Exchange Shares, from the provisions of any stockholder rights plan or other “poison pill” arrangement, any anti-takeover, business combination or control share law or statute binding on the Company or to which the Company or any of its assets and properties may be subject and any provision of the Company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association that is or could reasonably be expected to become applicable to the Holders as a result of the transactions contemplated hereby, including without limitation, the issuance of the Exchange
 
 
 
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Shares and the ownership, disposition or voting of the Exchange Shares by the Holders or the exercise of any right granted to the Holders pursuant to this Agreement.  Under the Regulations on the Acquisitions by Foreign Investors of Domestic Enterprises jointly promulgated by the PRC Ministry of Commerce (“ MOFCOM ”), the China Securities Regulatory Commission (“ CSRC ”), the State Owned Assets Supervision and Management Commission, the General Administration of Taxation and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange in effect on the Closing Date, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is required, as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing, to obtain any approvals of the CSRC in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. No further approval by, or registration or filing with State Administration of Foreign Exchange (“ SAFE ”) other than typical SAFE foreign exchange processing procedural registrations are expressly required under the current effective and applicable governing regulations for matters including but not limited to the payment by any Subsidiary of dividends to the Company in foreign currency, such as U.S. Dollars. The Company has or will have obtained or made all necessary consents, approvals, registrations and filings with relevant governmental authorities in the PRC on or before the Effective Time in accordance with the then effective and applicable PRC regulations to complete the transactions contemplated in the Transaction Documents, except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.  For purposes of this agreement, “Person” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.
 
4.5   The execution, delivery and performance by the Company and China Media of this Agreement, and the issuance of the Exchange Shares do not and will not: (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s or China Media’s certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents, (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Company or China Media, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company or China Media debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company or China Media is a party or by which any property or asset of the Company or China Media is bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of any court or governmental authority to which the Company or China Media is subject (including federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company or China Media is bound or affected; except in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
 
4.6   Neither the Company or China Media, nor any person acting on their behalf has offered or sold any of the Exchange Shares by any form of general solicitation or general advertising (as those terms are used in Regulation D).
 
4.7   Assuming the accuracy of the Holders’ representations and warranties set forth in Section 5, neither the Company or China Media, nor any of their affiliates, nor any person acting on its or their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would cause this issuance of the Exchange Shares to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of (i) the Securities Act which would require the registration of any such securities under the Securities Act, or (ii) any applicable shareholder approval provisions of any Trading Market on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated.
 
 
 
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4.8   Assuming the truth and accuracy of the representation and warranties set forth in Section 7, no registration under the Securities Act is required for the offer and issuance of the Exchange Shares to the Holders as contemplated hereby.
 
4.9   The capitalization of the Company is as set forth on Schedule 4.9 .  The Holders are being issued 23,000,000 Company Ordinary Shares in the aggregate. The aggregate Company Ordinary Shares issued hereunder represent approximately 45.4% of the Company’s outstanding Company Ordinary Shares assuming the conversion of Company Preferred Shares, on a fully-diluted basis (not including out of the money warrants) calculated immediately prior to the Private Placement.  The Holders are being issued 16,000,000 Company Preferred Shares in the aggregate.  The aggregate Company Preferred Shares issued hereunder represent, on an as converted basis, approximately 31.6% of the Company’s outstanding Company Ordinary Shares assuming the conversion of Company Preferred Shares, on a fully-diluted basis (not including out of the money warrants) calculated immediately prior to the Private Placement
 
4.10   The Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 12(g), 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, for the two years preceding the date hereof (or such shorter period as the Company was required by law or regulation to file such material) (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, being collectively referred to herein as the “ SEC Reports ”) on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such extension.  The Company has a class of Ordinary Shares registered pursuant to Section 12(g) under the Act.  As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.  The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing.  Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“ GAAP ”), except as may be otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and except that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company and China Media as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial, year-end audit adjustments.
 
 
 
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4.11   Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, except as specifically disclosed in a subsequent SEC Report filed prior to the date hereof and except in connection with this Agreement: (i) there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the Company has not incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade payables and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and (B) liabilities not required to be reflected in the Company’s financial statements pursuant to GAAP or disclosed in filings made with the Commission, (iii) the Company has not altered its method of accounting, (iv) the Company has not declared or made any dividend or distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders or purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital stock and (v) the Company has not issued any equity securities to any officer, director or Affiliate, except pursuant to existing Company stock option plans. The Company does not have pending before the Commission any request for confidential treatment of information.  Except for the Exchange contemplated by this Agreement, or as set forth on Schedule 4.11 no event, liability, fact, circumstance, occurrence or development has occurred or exists or is reasonably expected to occur or exist with respect to the Company or China Media or their respective business, properties, operations, assets or financial condition, that would be required to be disclosed by the Company under applicable securities laws at the time this representation is made or deemed made that has not been publicly disclosed at least 3 Trading Days prior to the date that this representation is made.
 
4.12   Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports, there is no action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company, China Media or any of their respective properties before or by any court, arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency or regulatory authority (federal, state, county, local or foreign) (collectively, an “ Action ”) which (i) adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or enforceability of this Agreement or the Exchange Shares or (ii) could, if there were an unfavorable decision, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  Neither the Company nor China Media, nor any director or officer thereof, is or has been the subject of any Action involving a claim of violation of or liability under federal or state securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty.  There has not been, and to the knowledge of the Company, there is not pending or contemplated, any investigation by the Commission involving the Company or any current or former director or officer of the Company.  The Commission has not issued any stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of any registration statement filed by the Company or China Media under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act.
 
4.13   No material labor dispute exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent with respect to any of the employees of the Company or China Media, which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.  None of the Company’s or China Media’s employees is a member of a union that relates to such employee’s relationship with the Company or China Media, and neither the Company nor China Media is a party to a collective bargaining agreement, and the Company and China Media believe that their relationships with their employees are good.  No executive officer of the Company or China Media, to the knowledge of the Company, is, or is now expected to be, in violation of any material term of any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement or non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive covenant in favor of any third party, and the continued employment of each such executive officer does not subject the Company or China Media to any liability with respect to any of the foregoing matters.  The Company and China Media are in compliance with all U.S. federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations relating to employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where the failure to be in compliance could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
 
 
 
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4.14   Neither the Company nor China Media: (i) is in default under or in violation of (and no event has occurred that has not been waived that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would result in a default by the Company or China Media under), nor has the Company or China Media received notice of a claim that it is in default under or that it is in violation of, any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties is bound (whether or not such default or violation has been waived), (ii) is in violation of any judgment, decree or order of any court, arbitrator or governmental body or (iii) is or has been in violation of any statute, rule, ordinance or regulation of any governmental authority, including without limitation all foreign, federal, state and local laws relating to taxes, environmental protection, occupational health and safety, product quality and safety and employment and labor matters, except in each case as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
 
4.15   The Company and China Media possess all certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports, except where the failure to possess such permits could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect (“ Material Permits ”), and neither the Company nor China Media has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Material Permit.
 
4.16   The Company and China Media have good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property owned by them and good and marketable title in all personal property owned by them that is material to the business of the Company and China Media, in each case free and clear of all Liens, except for Liens as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and China Media and Liens for the payment of federal, state, foreign or other taxes, the payment of which is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties.  Any real property and facilities held under lease by the Company and China Media are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with which the Company and China Media are in compliance.
 
4.17   The Company and China Media have, or have rights to use, all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names, trade secrets, inventions, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property rights and similar rights as described in the SEC Reports as necessary or material for use in connection with their respective businesses and which the failure to so have could have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, the “ Intellectual Property Rights ”).  All of the Company’s and China Media’s Intellectual Property Rights are identified on Schedule 4.17 .  None of, and neither the Company nor China Media has received a notice (written or otherwise) that any of, the Intellectual Property Rights has expired, terminated or been abandoned, or is expected to expire or terminate or be abandoned, within two (2) years from the date of this Agreement.  Neither the Company nor China Media has received, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, a written notice of a claim or otherwise has any knowledge that the Intellectual Property Rights violate or infringe upon the rights of any Person, except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.  To the knowledge of the Company, all such Intellectual Property Rights are enforceable and there is no existing infringement by another Person of any of the Intellectual Property Rights.  The Company and China Media have taken reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their intellectual properties, except where failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
 
 
 
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4.18    Except as set forth in the SEC Reports and the compensation to be paid to Chardan Capital Markets, LLC (“ Chardan ”) in connection with the Private placement, and as described on Schedule 4.18 , none of the officers or directors of the Company and, to the knowledge of the Company, none of the employees of the Company is presently a party to any transaction with the Company or China Media (other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner, in each case in excess of $120,000 other than for: (i) payment of salary or consulting fees for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company, (iii) other employee benefits, including stock option agreements under any stock option plan of the Company, and (iv) payment to Mr. Clive Ng, or any affiliates of Mr. Ng, for services provided to the Company, which payments shall not exceed, in the aggregate, $200,000; provided, however, that each such transaction described in clauses (i) – (iv) above shall be on consummated on commercially reasonable terms not more favorable to the Affiliate (including Mr. Ng) than the terms and amounts that would be applicable to an arms-length transaction with a non-affiliated third party.
 
4.19   Except as set forth on Schedule 4.19 or in the SEC Reports, the Company is in compliance with any and all applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that are effective as of the date hereof, and any and all applicable rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder that are effective as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date.  Except as set forth on Schedule 4.19 or in the SEC Reports, the Company and China Media maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Company has established disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms.  The Company’s certifying officers have evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by the Company’s most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act (such date, the “ Evaluation Date ”).  The Company presented in its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act the conclusions of the certifying officers about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on their evaluations as of the Evaluation Date.  Since the Evaluation Date, there have been no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
 
 
 
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4.20   Other than as set out in Schedule 4.20 and any fees payable to Chardan as set forth on Schedule 4.20 , no brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions or any other payments in cash or otherwise, directly or indirectly arising from the occurrence of the Closing, are or will be payable by the Company to any broker, financial advisor or consultant, finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or other Person.  The Holders shall have no obligation with respect to any fees or with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this Section that may be due in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
 
4.21   Other than each of the Holders, and as set forth on Schedule 4.21, no Person has any right to cause the Company to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the Company.
 
4.22   The Ordinary Shares are registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or which to its knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Ordinary Shares under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration.  The Company has not, in the 12 months preceding the date hereof, received notice from any Trading Market on which the Ordinary Shares is or has been listed or quoted to the effect that the Company is not in compliance with the listing or maintenance requirements of such Trading Market. The Company is, and has no reason to believe that it will not in the foreseeable future continue to be, in compliance with all such listing and maintenance requirements.
 
4.23   Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Company confirms that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Holders or their agents or counsel with any information that it believes constitutes or might constitute material, non-public information.  The Company understands and confirms that the Holders will rely on the foregoing representation in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.  All of the disclosure furnished by or on behalf of the Company to the Holders regarding the Company, its business and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Schedules to this Agreement, is true and correct and does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.   The press releases disseminated by the Company during the twelve months preceding the date of this Agreement taken as a whole do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made and when made, not misleading.  The Company acknowledges and agrees that no Holder makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in Section 5 hereof.
 
4.24    Although the Company has not made or filed United States federal and state income and franchise tax returns, reports and declarations, the Company believes that no taxes are due and owing to any federal, state or foreign taxing authority except as set forth in the Reports.
 
4.25   Neither the Company, China Media nor to the knowledge of the Company, any agent or other person acting on behalf of the Company or China Media, has: (i) directly or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully any contribution made by the Company (or made by any person acting on its behalf of which the Company is aware) which is in violation of law or (iv) violated in any material respect any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.
 
 
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4.26   The Company’s accounting firm is set forth on Schedule 4.26 .  To the knowledge and belief of the Company, such accounting firm: (i) is a registered public accounting firm as required by the Exchange Act and (ii) shall express its opinion with respect to the financial statements to be included in the Company’s Annual Report for the year ending December 31, 2010.
 
4.27   There are no disagreements of any kind presently existing, or reasonably anticipated by the Company to arise, between the Company and the accountants and lawyers formerly or presently employed by the Company and the Company is current with respect to any fees owed to its accountants and lawyers which could affect the Company’s ability to perform any of its obligations under this Agreement.
 
4.28    Neither the Company nor, to the Company's knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“ OFAC ”).
 
4.29   Neither the Company nor China Media or Affiliates is subject to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended (the “ BHCA ”) and to regulation by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “ Federal Reserve ”).  Neither the Company nor China Media or Affiliates owns or controls, directly or indirectly, five percent (5%) or more of the outstanding shares of any class of voting securities or twenty-five percent or more of the total equity of a bank or any entity that is subject to the BHCA and to regulation by the Federal Reserve.  Neither the Company nor China Media or Affiliates exercises a controlling influence over the management or policies of a bank or any entity that is subject to the BHCA and to regulation by the Federal Reserve.
 
4.30   The operations of the Company are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial record-keeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, applicable money laundering statutes and applicable rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “ Money Laundering Laws ”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.
 
4.31   Following the consummation of a Private Placement resulting in gross proceeds of $8,500,000 to the Company in accordance with Section 2.4 above, the Company will have sufficient capital available to satisfy the obligations of Advertising Networks Ltd., the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, to make certain capital contributions to its joint venture, Kunming Taishi Information Cartoon Co., Ltd.
 
 
 
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SECTION 5.   REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE HOLDERS
 
Each of the Holders hereby severally, and not jointly, represents and warrants to the Company that:
 
5.1   Except for restrictions imposed by applicable federal and state securities laws, such Holder is the sole beneficial and record holder of the Notes being exchanged pursuant to this Agreement and owns such Notes free and clear of all encumbrances, liens, claims and other restrictions.
 
5.2   Such Holder is an individual or a validly existing corporation, limited partnership, or limited liability company and has all requisite individual, corporate, partnership or limited liability company power and authority to enter into this Agreement.
 
5.3   Such Holder has full power and authority and has taken all requisite action for the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the authorization of the performance of all of its obligations hereunder or thereunder.  The execution, delivery and performance by such Holder of this Agreement has been duly authorized and will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of such Holder, enforceable against such Holder in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability, relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally.
 
5.4   Except as required by applicable federal and state securities laws, the execution, delivery and performance by such Holder of this Agreement and, the exchange of the Notes for the Exchange Shares does not require any consent of, action by or in respect of, or filing with, any person, governmental body and/or agency.
 
5.5    The Exchange Shares to be received by such Holder hereunder will be acquired for such Holder’s own account, not as nominee or agent, and not with a view to the resale or distribution of any part thereof in violation of the Act, and such Holder has no present intention of selling, granting any participation in, or otherwise distributing the same in violation of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”) without prejudice, however, to such Holder’s right at all times to sell or otherwise dispose of all or any part of such Exchange Shares in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws.  Nothing contained herein shall be deemed a representation or warranty by such Holder to hold the Exchange Shares for any period of time. Such Holder is not a broker-dealer registered with the SEC under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”) or an entity engaged in a business that would require it to be so registered.
 
5.6   Such Holder has had an opportunity to receive all information related to the Company and China Media requested by it and to ask questions of and receive answers from the Company and China Media regarding the Company and China Media, their respective businesses and the terms and conditions of the issuance of the Exchange Shares.  Neither such inquiries nor any other due diligence investigation conducted by such Holder shall modify, amend or affect such Holder’s right to rely on the Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement.
 
5.7   Such Holder understands that the Exchange 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.
 
 
 
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5.8   Except for the compensation to be paid to Chardan in connection with the Private Placement, and as described by the Company on Schedule 4.18 , no Person will have, as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, any valid right, interest or claim against or upon the Company, China Media, any subsidiary of the Company or a Holder for any commission, fee or other compensation pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding entered into by or on behalf of such Holder.
 
5.9   Such Holder understands that the Exchange Shares are being issued to it in reliance upon specific exemptions from the registration requirements of United States federal and state securities laws and that the Company and China Media are relying upon the truth and accuracy of, and such Holder’s compliance with, the representations, warranties, agreements, acknowledgments and understandings of such Holder set forth herein in order to determine the availability of such exemptions and the eligibility of such Holder to acquire the Securities.
 
5.10   Holder’s address set forth on Holder’s counterpart signature page is the Holder’s principal business address and the other information set forth thereon with respect to Holder is true and correct.
 
SECTION 6.   REGISTRATION OBLIGATION
 
6.1   From and after the Closing, the Company, upon receipt of a written notice from the Holders of a majority in interest of the Exchange Shares demanding registration pursuant to this Section 6, shall file a registration statement as soon as commercially reasonable on Form F-3 (if available), or such other form that is appropriate, covering the resale of the Exchange Ordinary Shares and the Company Ordinary Shares underlying the Exchange Preferred Shares (collectively, the Registrable Securities ).  The Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective as soon as practicable following its initial filing.  As to any particular Registrable Securities, once issued, such Registrable Securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities hereunder when (i) they have been registered under the Securities Act, the registration statement in connection therewith has been declared effective and they have been disposed of pursuant to such effective registration statement, (ii) they are eligible to be sold or distributed pursuant to Rule 144 without limitation as to the volume of such sales, or (iii) they shall have ceased to be outstanding.
 
6.2   If at any time following the Closing, the Company or any shareholder of the Company proposes to register any of its Company Ordinary Shares or any securities convertible into Company Ordinary Shares under the Securities Act (other than pursuant to an offering of securities in connection with an employee benefit, share dividend, share ownership or dividend reinvestment plan or registration of securities in connection with a business combination transaction) and the registration form to be used may be used by the Company for the registration of the Registrable Securities, the Company shall give prompt written notice to the Holders if they then hold Registrable Securities of its intention to effect such a registration (each a Piggyback Notice ) and shall, if commercially practicable, include in such registration statement all Registrable Securities with respect to which the Company has received written request from the Holders for inclusion therein within fifteen (15) days after the date of sending the Piggyback Notice (the Piggyback Registration ) to the Holders.
 
 
 
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6.3   In connection with any registration, the Company will:
 
(a)   prepare and file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission ”) a registration statement in a commercially reasonable time with respect to such securities and use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become and remain effective for a period of time required for the disposition of such securities by the Holders;
 
(b)   prepare and file with the Commission such amendments and supplements to such registration statement and the prospectus used in connection therewith as may be necessary to keep such registration statement effective and to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the sale or other disposition of all securities covered by such registration statement until the such time as all of such securities have been disposed of in a public offering;
 
(c)   furnish to the Holders such number of copies of a summary prospectus or other prospectus, including a preliminary prospectus, in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act, and such other documents, as the Holders may reasonably request;
 
(d)   register or qualify the securities covered by such registration statement under such other securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions within the United States and Puerto Rico as the Holders shall reasonably request (provided, however, that it shall not be obligated to qualify as a foreign corporation to do business under the laws of any jurisdiction in which it is not then qualified or to file any general consent to service or process);
 
(e)   furnish, at the request of the Holders, a legal opinion of the counsel representing the company for the purposes of such registration, addressed to the Holders, in customary form and covering matters of the type customarily covered in such legal opinions;
 
(f)   otherwise use its best efforts to comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the Commission, and make available to its security holders, as soon as reasonably practicable, but not later than eighteen (18) months after the effective date of the registration statement, an earnings statement covering the period of at least twelve (12) months beginning with the first full month after the effective date of such registration statement, which earnings statement shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act;
 
(g)   notify the Holders, at any time when the offering documents include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances then existing, and at the request of any Holder, prepare and furnish to such person(s) such reasonable number of copies of any amendment or supplement to the offering documents as may be necessary so that, as thereafter delivered to such Holder, such offering documents shall not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances then existing, and to deliver to Holders of any other securities of the company included in the offering copies of such offering documents as so amended or supplemented; and
 
 
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(h)   keep the Holders informed of the Company’s best estimate of the earliest date on which the offering documents will become effective, and promptly notify the Holders of (A) the effectiveness of such offering documents, (B) a request by the Commission for an amendment or supplement to such offering documents, (C) the issuance by the Commission of an order suspending the effectiveness of the offering documents, or of the threat of any proceeding for that purpose, and (D) the suspension of the qualification of any securities to be included in the offering documents for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threat of any proceeding for that purpose.
 
6.4   All registrations (piggyback or otherwise) made by the Holders will be made solely at the Company’s expense, other than (i) if an underwritten offering is consented to by the Company, the underwriters’, broker-dealers’ and placement agents’ selling discounts, commissions and fees relating to the sale of the Holders’ securities, (ii) any costs and expenses of counsel, accountants or other advisors retained by the Holders and (iii) all transfer, franchise, capital stock and other taxes, if any, applicable to the Holders’ securities (collectively, “ Holders’ Expenses ”) which shall be paid by the Holders.
 
6.5   In the event of any registration of any Registrable Securities under the Securities Act pursuant to this Agreement, the Company shall indemnify and hold harmless the Holders, the Holders’ directors and officers, and each other person (including each underwriter) who participated in the offering of such Registrable Securities and each other person, if any, who controls the Holders or such participating person within the meaning of the Securities Act, against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which any Holder or any such director or officer or participating person or controlling person may become subject under the Securities Act or any other statute or at common law, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) any untrue statement or any alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained, on the effective date thereof, in any registration statement under which such securities were registered under the Securities Act, any preliminary prospectus or final prospectus contained therein, or any amendment or supplement thereto, (ii) any omission or any alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (iii) any other violation of any applicable securities laws, and in each of the foregoing circumstances shall reimburse such Holder or such director, officer or participating person or controlling person for any legal or any other expenses reasonably incurred by a Holder or such director, officer or participating person or controlling person in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; provided, however, that the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon any actual or alleged untrue statement or actual or alleged omission made in such registration statement, preliminary prospectus, prospectus or amendment or supplement in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Holder specifically for use therein.
 
 
 
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6.6   In the event of any registration of any Registrable Securities under the Securities Act pursuant to this Agreement, each Holder, by acceptance hereof, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors and officers and each other person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which the Company or any such director or officer or any such person may become subject under the Securities Act or any other statute or at common law, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon  (i) any untrue statement or any alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained, on the effective date thereof, in any registration statement under which such securities were registered under the Securities Act, any preliminary prospectus or final prospectus contained therein, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or (ii) any omission or any alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but in either case only to the extent that such untrue statement or omission is (A) made in reliance on and in conformity with any information furnished in writing by such Holder to the Company concerning such Holder specifically for inclusion in the offering documents relating to such offering, and (B) is not corrected by such Holder and distributed to such Holder within a reasonable period of time.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph, no Holder shall be required to indemnify any person pursuant to this paragraph or to contribute pursuant to Section 6.7 below in an amount in excess of the amount of the aggregate net proceeds received by such Holder in connection with any such registration under the Securities Act.
 
6.7   If the indemnification provided for in Section 6.6 above from the indemnifying party is unavailable to an indemnified party hereunder in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses referred to therein, then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party and indemnified parties in connection with the actions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.  The relative fault of such indemnifying party and indemnified parties 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, has been made by, or relates to information supplied by, such indemnifying party or indemnified parties, and the parties’   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, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses referred to above shall be deemed to include any legal or other fees or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with any investigation or proceeding.  The parties hereto agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this paragraph were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above.  No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.
 
6.8   In order to permit the Holders to sell the Registrable Securities, if so desired, pursuant to any applicable resale exemption under applicable securities laws and regulations, the Company shall:
 
(a)   comply with all rules and regulations of the Commission in connection with use of any such resale exemption;
 
 
 
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(b)   make and keep available adequate and current public information regarding the company; and
 
(c)   file with the Commission in a timely manner, all reports and other documents required to be filed under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, or other applicable securities laws and regulations.
 
6.9   All rights of the Holders under this Section 6 are unique to and limited to the Holders and may not be transferred or inure to the benefit of the Holders’ successors and assigns or any other transferee who obtains Registrable Securities.
 
SECTION 7.   CANCELLATION OF PROPPER’S ORDINARY SHARES
 
7.1   Cancellation of Subject Shares .  Propper has delivered to the Company for cancellation stock certificates representing 2,000,000 Ordinary Shares (the “ Subject Shares ”) along with duly executed medallion guaranteed stock powers covering the Subject Shares (or such other documents acceptable to the Company’s transfer agent) and hereby irrevocably instructs the Company and the Company’s transfer agent to cancel the Subject Shares at the Effective Time such that the Subject Shares will no longer be outstanding on the stock ledger of the Company and such that Propper shall no longer have any interest in the Subject Shares whatsoever.  The Company shall immediately deliver to the Company’s transfer agent irrevocable instructions providing for the cancellation of the Subject Shares.
 
7.2   Representations and Warranties of Propper .  Subject to this Agreement becoming effective and the pledge of the Subject Shares being released, Propper owns the Subject Shares, of record and beneficially, free and clear of all liens, claims, charges, security interests, and encumbrances of any kind whatsoever.  Subject to the aforesaid, Propper has sole control over the Subject Shares or sole discretionary authority over any account in which they are held.  Except for this Agreement, no person has any option or right to purchase or otherwise acquire the Subject Shares, whether by contract of sale or otherwise, nor is there a “short position” as to the Subject Shares.  Propper has full right, power and authority to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement and to carry out the transactions contemplated hereby.  This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by Propper and constitutes a valid, binding obligation of Propper, enforceable against him in accordance with its terms (except as such enforceability may be limited by laws affecting creditor's rights generally).
 
7.3   Further Assurances .  Propper will use his best efforts to take all action and to do all things necessary, proper, or advisable in order to consummate and make effective the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including the execution and delivery of such other documents and agreements as may be necessary to effectuate the cancellation of the Subject Shares).
 
SECTION 8.   OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES
 
8.1   Furnishing of Information; Public Information .  Until the time that no Holder owns Exchange Shares, the Company covenants to be and remain subject to the reporting requirements of a foreign private issuer under Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and to timely file (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company as a foreign private issuer after the date hereof pursuant to the Exchange Act even if the Company is not then subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act.  As long as any Holder owns Exchange Shares, if the Company is not required to file reports pursuant to the Exchange Act, it will prepare and furnish to the Holders and make publicly available in accordance with Rule 144(c) such information as is required for the Holders to sell the Exchange Shares, including without limitation, under Rule 144.  The Company further covenants that it will take such further action as any holder of Securities may reasonably request, to the extent required from time to time to enable such Person to sell such Exchange Shares without registration under the Securities Act, including without limitation, within the requirements of the exemption provided by Rule 144.
 
 
 
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8.2     Non-Public Information .  Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Company covenants and agrees that neither it, nor any other Person acting on its behalf, will provide any Holder or its agents or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information, unless prior thereto such Holder shall have consented in writing to receive such information.  The Company understands and confirms that each Holder shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.

8.3   Reservation and Listing of Securities .

(a)   The Company shall maintain a reserve from its duly authorized Ordinary Shares for issuance pursuant to this Agreement in such amount as may then be required to fulfill its obligations in full under the Agreement.
 
(b)   If, on any date, the number of authorized but unissued (and otherwise unreserved) Ordinary Shares is less than the amount required for the Company to fulfill its obligations under this Agreement on such date, then the Board of Directors shall use commercially reasonable efforts to amend the Company’s certificate or articles of incorporation to increase the number of authorized but unissued Ordinary Shares such that the Company is able to fulfill its obligations under this Agreement, as soon as possible and in any event not later than the 45th day after such date.
 
(c)   The Company shall, if applicable: (i) in the time and manner required by the principal market on which the Company’s securities are traded, prepare and file with such trading market an additional shares listing application covering the Exchange Ordinary Shares on the date of such application, (ii) take all steps necessary to cause such Exchange Ordinary Shares to be approved for listing or quotation on such trading market as soon as possible thereafter, (iii) provide to the Holders evidence of such listing or quotation and (iv) maintain the listing or quotation of such Exchange Ordinary Shares on such trading market or another trading market.
 
8.4   Transfer Restrictions .
 
(a)   The Exchange Shares may only be disposed of in compliance with state and federal securities laws.  In connection with any transfer of the Exchange Shares other than pursuant to an effective registration statement or Rule 144, to the Company or to an Affiliate of a Holder or in connection with a pledge as contemplated in Section 8.4(b), the Company may require the transferor thereof to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the form and substance of which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does not require registration of such transferred Exchange Shares under the Securities Act.  As a condition of transfer, any such transferee shall agree in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and shall have the rights and obligations of a Holder under this Agreement.
 
 
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(b)   The Company acknowledges and agrees that a Holder may from time to time pledge pursuant to a bona fide margin agreement with a registered broker-dealer or grant a security interest in some or all of the Exchange Shares to a financial institution that is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and who agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement and, if required under the terms of such arrangement, such Holder may transfer pledged or secured Exchange Shares to the pledgees or secured parties.  Such a pledge or transfer would not be subject to approval of the Company and no legal opinion of legal counsel of the pledgee, secured party or pledgor shall be required in connection therewith.  Further, no notice shall be required of such pledge.  At the appropriate Holder’s expense, the Company will execute and deliver such reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party of Exchange Shares may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or transfer of the Securities.
 
(c)   Certificates evidencing the Exchange Ordinary Shares and the Company Ordinary Shares issuable upon conversion of the Exchange Preferred Shares (the “ Exchange Conversion Shares ”) shall not contain any legend (including the legend set forth in Section 3.2 hereof): (i) while a registration statement covering the resale of such security is effective under the Securities Act, (ii) following any sale of such Exchange Ordinary Shares or Exchange Conversion Shares pursuant to Rule 144, (iii) if such Exchange Ordinary Shares or Exchange Conversion Shares are eligible for sale under Rule 144, without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144 as to such Exchange Ordinary Shares or Exchange Conversion Shares and without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or (iv) if such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission). The Company shall cause its counsel to issue a legal opinion to the Transfer Agent promptly after the Effective Date if required by the Transfer Agent to effect the removal of the legend hereunder.  If all or any portion of a Holder’s Exchange Preferred Shares are converted at a time when there is an effective registration statement to cover the resale of the Exchange Conversion Shares, or if such Exchange Conversion Shares may be sold under Rule 144 and the Company is then in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144, or if such Exchange Conversion Shares may be sold under Rule 144 without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144 as to such Exchange Conversion Shares and without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or if such legend is not otherwise required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission) then such Exchange Conversion Shares shall be issued free of all legends.  The Company agrees that following the Effective Time or at such time as such legend is no longer required under this Section 8.4(c), it will, no later than five Trading Days following the delivery by a Holder to the Company or the Transfer Agent (with same day written notice to the Company) of a certificate representing Exchange Conversion Shares, as applicable, issued with a restrictive legend (such fifth Trading Day, the “ Legend Removal Date ”), deliver or cause to be delivered to such Holder a certificate representing such shares that is free from all restrictive and other legends.  The Company may not make any notation on its records or give instructions to the Transfer Agent that enlarge the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Agreement.  Certificates for Exchange Conversion Shares subject to legend removal hereunder shall be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the Holder by crediting the account of the Holder’s prime broker with the Depository Trust Company System as directed by such Holder.  For purposes of this agreement, “Transfer Agent” means Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the current transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 17 Battery Place, New York, NY 10004, and a telephone number of 212-509-4000, and any successor transfer agent of the Company.
 
 
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(d)   In addition to such Holder’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to a Holder, in cash or in Ordinary Shares at the Company’s sole option, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1,000 of Exchange Conversion Shares (based on the VWAP of the Ordinary Shares on the date such Securities are submitted to the Transfer Agent) delivered for removal of the restrictive legend and subject to Section 4.1(c), $10 per Trading Day for each Trading Day after the tenth (10 th ) Trading Day after the Legend Removal Date until such certificate is delivered without a legend.  The Company may, at its election, pay such liquidated damages in cash or with Ordinary Shares valued at the VWAP for each day such liquidated damages accrue.  Nothing herein shall limit such Holder’s right to pursue actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver certificates representing any Exchange Conversion Shares as required by this Agreement, and such Holder shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.  If a Holder shall make a sale or transfer of Exchange Conversion Shares and (1) the Company shall fail to deliver or cause to be delivered to such Holder a certificate representing such Exchange Conversion Shares that is free from all restrictive or other legends by the Legend Removal Date and (2) following such Legend Removal Date and prior to the time such Exchange Conversion Shares are received free from restrictive legends, the Holder, or any third party on behalf of such Holder, purchases (in an open market transaction or otherwise) Ordinary Shares to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Holder of such Exchange Conversion Shares (a " Buy-In "), then the Company shall pay in cash to the Holder (for costs incurred either directly by such Holder or on behalf of a third party) the amount by which the total purchase price paid for the Ordinary Shares as a result of the Buy-In (including brokerage commissions, if any) exceed the proceeds received by such Holder as a result of the sale to which such Buy-In relates.  The Holder shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to the Holder in respect of the Buy In.  Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, if a Holder requires the Company to make payment in respect of a Buy-In for the failure to timely deliver certificates hereunder and the Company timely pays in full such payment, the Company shall not be required to pay such Holder liquidated damages under this Section 8.4(d) in respect of the certificates resulting in such Buy-In.
 
(e)   Each Holder, severally and not jointly with the other Holders, agrees with the Company that such Holder will sell any Exchange Shares pursuant to either the registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and that if any Exchange Shares are sold pursuant to a registration statement, they will be sold in compliance with the plan of distribution set forth therein, and acknowledges that the removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing Securities as set forth in this Section 8.4 is predicated upon the Company’s reliance upon this understanding.
 
 
 
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8.5   As soon as practicable following the consummation of a Private Placement resulting in gross proceeds of $8,500,000 to the Company in accordance with Section 2.4 above, the Company will cause Advertising Networks Ltd., the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, to satisfy its obligations to make certain capital contributions to its joint venture, Kunming Taishi Information Cartoon Co., Ltd.
 
SECTION 9.   MISCELLANEOUS
 
9.1   Governing Law.   All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof.  Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York.  Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein, and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such proceeding.  Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof.  Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.   If any party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of this Agreement, then the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.
 
9.2   Successors and Assigns.   The provisions of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the successors, assigns, heirs, executors, and administrators of the parties hereto.
 
9.3   Entire Agreement.   This Agreement constitutes the full and entire understanding and agreement between the parties with regard to the subject hereof and no party shall be liable or bound to any other in any manner by any representations, warranties, covenants and agreements except as specifically set forth herein and therein.
 
 
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9.4   Severability. In the event one or more of the provisions of this Agreement should, for any reason, be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality, or unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this Agreement, and this Agreement shall be construed as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein.
 
9.5   Further Assurances .   Following the Closing, each of the Holder and the Company will execute and deliver to the other party such documents and take such other actions as such other party may reasonably request in order to fully consummate the transactions contemplated hereby.
 
9.6   Release and Waiver.   As of the date hereof, each Holder hereby releases and forever discharges the Company from any and all actions, agreements, amounts, claims, damages, expenses, liabilities and obligations with respect to the Notes and the Purchase Agreement except for any rights of the Holder under this Agreement.
 
9.7   Amendment.   This Agreement may be amended, modified or terminated only upon the written consent of the Company and the Holders of a majority of the then outstanding Exchange Shares (calculated on an as converted basis).
 
9.8   Delays, Omissions or Waivers.   It is agreed that no delay or omission to exercise any right, power, or remedy accruing to any party hereto, upon any breach, default or noncompliance of the other party under this Agreement shall impair any such right, power, or remedy, nor shall it be construed to be a waiver of any such breach, default or noncompliance, or any acquiescence therein, or of any similar breach, default or noncompliance thereafter occurring.  It is further agreed that any waiver, permit, consent, or approval of any kind or character on any party’s part of any breach, default or noncompliance under this Agreement or any waiver of any provisions or conditions of this Agreement must be in writing and shall be effective only to the extent specifically set forth in such writing.
 
9.9   Attorneys’ Fees.   In the event that any suit or action is instituted to enforce any provision in this Agreement, the prevailing party in such dispute shall be entitled to recover from the losing party all fees, costs and expenses of enforcing any right of such prevailing party under or with respect to this Agreement, including without limitation, such reasonable fees and expenses of attorneys and accountants, which shall include, without limitation, all fees, costs and expenses of appeals.
 
9.10   Titles and Subtitles.   The titles of the sections and subsections of this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and are not to be considered in construing this Agreement.
 
9.11   Counterparts.   This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, including facsimile counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one instrument.
 

 
[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]
 
 
 
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In Witness Whereof, the Company and China Media have executed this Exchange and Amendatory Agreement as of the date first above written.
 
 
COMPANY
 
CHINA NETWORKS INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTD.



By:                                                                            
Name:
Title:

CHINA MEDIA

CHINA NETWORKS MEDIA LTD.


By:                                                                            
Name:
Title:


KERRY PROPPER
 
                                                                                            
 

 

 
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[HOLDER SIGNATURE PAGES TO EXCHANGE
AND AMENDATORY AGREEMENT]

In Witness Whereof, the undersigned Holder has executed this Exchange and Amendatory Agreement as of the date first above written.
 
Name of Holder: ________________________________________________________
 
Signature of Authorized Signatory of Holder : __________________________________
 
Name of Authorized Signatory: ____________________________________________________
 
Title of Authorized Signatory: _____________________________________________________
 
Email Address of Authorized Signatory: _____________________________________________
 
Facsimile Number of Authorized Signatory: __________________________________________
 
Address for Notice of Holder (include fax number): __________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

Address for Delivery of Exchange Shares to Holder  (if not same as address for notice):

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

Principal Amount of Note being exchanged: $___________________

Number of Exchange Ordinary Shares received in Exchange: _____________________

Number of Exchange Preferred Shares received in Exchange: _____________________
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
EXHIBIT A

Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association

(See Attached)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
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EXHIBIT B

Escrow Agreement

(See Attached)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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EXHIBIT C

Opinion of U.S. Counsel

(See Attached)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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EXHIBIT D

Opinion of B.V.I. Counsel

(See Attached)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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