UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549  

 

FORM 8-K  

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 

 

 

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): June 21, 2017

 

 

DETERMINE, INC.  

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
 

 

000-29637
(Commission File No.)
 

 

77-0432030
(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

615 West Carmel Drive, Suite 100

Carmel, Indiana 46032

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

(650) 532-1500
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR240.14a-12)

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

 

Emerging growth company ☐

 

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

 

 

 
 

 

 

Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

Registered Direct Offering

 

On June 21, 2017, Determine, Inc. (“we,” “us” or “our”) entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain investors, pursuant to which we agreed to sell, and the investors agreed to purchase, subject to the terms and conditions expressed therein, 2,184,000 shares of our common stock at a price of $2.50 per share, for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $5.46 million. We expect the offering to close on or about June 26, 2017, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, and expect that the net proceeds from the offering will be approximately $4.87 million after deducting the placement agent’s fee and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

 

On June 21, 2017, we also entered into a placement agency agreement with Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC (“Lake Street”), pursuant to which we retained Lake Street as the exclusive placement agent for the offering of shares of common stock and will pay Lake Street a fee of approximately $327,600 in connection with the offering. The placement agency agreement provides that we will indemnify Lake Street against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

 

The shares are being offered and sold pursuant to a prospectus supplement dated June 21, 2017 and an accompanying base prospectus dated November 16, 2015, pursuant to our shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-207841) which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 16, 2015. The opinion of our counsel regarding the validity of the shares sold in the offering is filed herewith as Exhibit 5.1.

 

The foregoing descriptions of the securities purchase agreement and placement agency agreement are not complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the securities purchase agreement and placement agency agreement, respectively, copies of which are filed as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated by reference herein. The securities purchase agreement and placement agency agreement have been filed with this Current Report on Form 8-K to provide investors and security holders with information regarding their terms. They are not intended to provide any other factual information about our company. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the securities purchase agreement and placement agency agreement were made only for purposes of such agreements and as of specific dates and were solely for the benefit of the parties to such agreements, and may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties. The representations and warranties have been made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the parties to the agreements instead of establishing these matters as facts, and may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors. Investors are not third-party beneficiaries under the securities purchase agreement or placement agency agreement and should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of our company or any of our subsidiaries or affiliates. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations and warranties may change after the date of the securities purchase agreement and placement agency agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in our public disclosures.

 

Note Conversion

 

On June 21, 2017, Lloyd I. Miller, III, our largest stockholder, and certain of his affiliated entities (collectively, the “Holders”) elected to convert approximately $970,000 of outstanding interest and principal payable under junior secured convertible promissory notes dated as of March 11, 2015, as amended from time to time (the “Notes”), into an aggregate of 170,733 shares of our common stock (the “Conversion Shares”) at the conversion price of $5.70 per share. To induce the Holders to convert such Notes, we entered into a subscription and investment representation agreement (the “Subscription Agreement”) with the Holders pursuant to which we will issue an aggregate of 218,540 additional shares of common stock to the Holders (the “Inducement Shares”) under the terms and conditions further set forth in the Subscription Agreement. The Conversion Shares and the Inducement Shares combined will result in the acquisition of shares at a price approximately equivalent to the price to the investors of the shares sold in the offering described under “Registered Direct Offering” above.  Upon the consummation of the conversion, approximately $2.3 million of outstanding interest and principal will remain payable under the Notes. The Subscription Agreement also provides that the Inducement Shares will be subject to the same registration rights as the Conversion Shares, which rights consist of an obligation for us to file a registration statement to register such shares for resale by the Holders.

   

The foregoing description of the Subscription Agreement is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Subscription Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.3 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein.

 

The issuance of the Conversion Shares and the Inducement Shares will be exempt from registration under the Securities Act in reliance on Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act as a transaction by an issuer not involving a public offering.

 

 
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Item 3.02. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

 

The information set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K under the heading “Note Conversion” is incorporated by reference in its entirety into this Item 3.02.

 

Item 5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

 

On June 21, 2017, our Board of Directors approved an amendment to Article V of our Amended and Restated Bylaws (as amended, the “Bylaws”) to provide for the issuance of uncertificated shares of our common stock and to make certain other related changes, effective immediately. The foregoing description of the Bylaws does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to our Bylaws, a copy of which is included as Exhibit 3.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein.

 

Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.

 

On June 21, 2017, we issued a press release announcing the pricing of the offering referred to in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K under the heading “Registered Direct Offering.” A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.

 

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

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)   Exhibits
     

3.1

 

Amended and Restated Bylaws of Determine, Inc., as amended as of June 21, 2017

     

5.1

 

Opinion of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP

     

10.1

 

Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 21, 2017, by and among Determine, Inc. and the investors named therein

     

10.2

 

Placement Agency Agreement, dated as of June 21, 2017, by and between Determine, Inc. and Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC

     

10.3

 

Form of Subscription and Investment Representation Agreement, dated as of June 21, 2017

     

23.1

 

Consent of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP (included as part of Exhibit 5.1)

     

99.1

 

Press Release entitled “Determine, Inc. Announces Pricing of Registered Direct Offering of Common Stock” dated June 21, 2017

     

 
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SIGNATURES

 

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

 

 

 

DETERMINE, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date: June 21, 2017

 

By:

/s/ John Nolan

 

 

Name: 

John Nolan

   

Title:

Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 
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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

No.

 

Description

 

Manner of Filing

         

3.1

 

Amended and Restated Bylaws of Determine, Inc., as amended as of June 21, 2017

 

Filed Electronically

         

5.1

 

Opinion of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP

 

Filed Electronically

         

10.1

 

Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 21, 2017, by and among Determine, Inc. and the investors named therein

 

Filed Electronically

         

10.2

 

Placement Agency Agreement, dated as of June 21, 2017, by and between Determine, Inc. and Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC

 

Filed Electronically

         

10.3

 

Form of Subscription and Investment Representation Agreement, dated as of June 21, 2017

 

Filed Electronically

         

23.1

 

Consent of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP

 

Included in Exhibit 5.1

         

99.1

 

Press Release entitled “Determine, Inc. Announces Pricing of Registered Direct Offering of Common Stock” dated June 21, 2017

 

Furnished Electronically

 

 

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Exhibit 3.1

   

 

  

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS OF

 

DETERMINE, INC.,

 

A DELAWARE CORPORATION

 

 

(As Amended as of June 21, 2017)

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

PAGE

 

ARTICLE I

OFFICE AND RECORDS

1

Section 1.1

Delaware Office

1

Section 1.2

Other Offices

1

Section 1.3

Books and Records

1

 

 

 

ARTICLE II

STOCKHOLDERS

1

Section 2.1

Annual Meeting

1

Section 2.2

Special Meeting

1

Section 2.3

Place of Meeting

1

Section 2.4

Notice of Meeting

1

Section 2.5

Quorum and Adjournment

1

Section 2.6

Proxies

1

Section 2.7

Notice of Stockholder Business and Nominations

1

Section 2.8

Procedure for Election of Directors

3

Section 2.9

Inspectors of Elections; Opening and Closing the Polls

3

Section 2.10

Consent of Stockholders in Lieu of Meeting

4

 

 

 

ARTICLE III

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

4

Section 3.1

General Powers

4

Section 3.2

Number, Tenure and Qualifications

4

Section 3.3

Regular Meetings

4

Section 3.4

Special Meetings

4

Section 3.5

Notice

4

Section 3.6

Conference Telephone Meetings

4

Section 3.7

Quorum

4

Section 3.8

Vacancies

4

Section 3.9

Committee

4

Section 3.10

Removal

5

 

 

 

ARTICLE IV

OFFICERS

5

Section 4.1

Elected Officers

5

Section 4.2

Election and Term of Office

5

Section 4.3

Chairman of the Board

5

Section 4.4

President and Chief Executive Officer

5

Section 4.5

Secretary

5

Section 4.6

Treasurer

5

Section 4.7

Removal

6

Section 4.8

Vacancies

6

     

ARTICLE V

STOCK CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFERS

6

Section 5.1 Stock Certificates and Transfers 7
Section 5.1 Stock Certificates

6

Section 5.2

Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Certificates

 6

Section 5.3

Transfers of Stock

6

Section 5.4

Registered Stockholders

6

Section 5.5

Regulations

6

Section 5.6

Record Date

7

     

ARTICLE VI

INDEMNIFICATION

7

Section 6.1

Right to Indemnification

7

Section 6.2

Prepayment of Expenses

7

Section 6.3

Claims

7

Section 6.4

Nonexclusivity of Rights

7

Section 6.5

Amendment or Repeal

7

Section 6.6

Other Indemnification and Prepayment of Expenses

7

 

 

 
 

 

 

ARTICLE VII

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

7

Section 7.1

Fiscal Year

7

Section 7.2

Dividends

7

Section 7.3

Seal

7

Section 7.4

Waiver of Notice

7

Section 7.5

Audits

8

Section 7.6

Resignations

8

Section 7.7

Contracts

8

Section 7.8

Proxies

8

Section 7.9

Authority of Board Resolutions

8

 

 

 

ARTICLE VIII

AMENDMENTS

8

Section 8.1

Amendments

8

 

 

 
 

 

 

ARTICLE I
OFFICES AND RECORDS

 

Section 1.1 Delaware Office . The registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware shall be located in the City of Dover, County of Kent.

 

Section 1.2 Other Offices . The Corporation may have such other offices, either within or without the State of Delaware, as the Board of Directors may designate or as the business of the Corporation may from time to time require.

 

Section 1.3 Books and Records . The books and records of the Corporation may be kept at the Corporation’s headquarters in San Jose, California or at such other locations outside the State of Delaware as may from time to time be designated by the Board of Directors.

   

ARTICLE II
STOCKHOLDERS

 

Section 2.1 Annual Meeting . The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation shall be held at such date, place and/or time as may be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors.

 

Section 2.2 Special Meeting . A special meeting of the stockholders of the corporation may be called only by the President or by the Board of Directors pursuant to a resolution adopted by a majority of the total number of directors which the Corporation would have if there were no vacancies (the “Whole Board”).

 

Section 2.3 Place of Meeting . The Board of Directors may designate the place of meeting for any meeting of the stockholders. If no designation is made by the Board of Directors, the place of meeting shall be the principal office of the Corporation.

 

Section 2.4 Notice of Meeting . Written or printed notice, stating the place, day and hour of the meeting and the purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be prepared and delivered by the Corporation not less than ten days nor more than sixty days before the date of the meeting, either personally, or by mail, to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting. If mailed, such notice shall be deemed to be delivered when deposited in the United States mail with postage thereon prepaid, addressed to the stockholder at his address as it appears on the stock transfer books of the Corporation. Such further notice shall be given as may be required by law. Meetings may be held without notice if all stockholders entitled to vote are present (except as otherwise provided by law), or if notice is waived by those not present. Any previously scheduled meeting of the stockholders may be postponed and (unless the Certificate of Incorporation otherwise provides) any special meeting of the stockholders may be cancelled, by resolution of the Board of Directors upon public notice given prior to the time previously scheduled for such meeting of stockholders.

 

Section 2.5 Quorum and Adjournment . Except as otherwise provided by law or by the Certificate of Incorporation, the holders of a majority of the voting power of the outstanding shares of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (the “Voting Stock”), represented in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of Stockholders, except that when specified business is to be voted on by a class or series voting separately as a class or series, the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares of such class or series shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of such business. The chairman of the meeting or a majority of the shares of Voting Stock so represented may adjourn the meeting from time to time, whether or not there is such a quorum (or, in the case of specified business to be voted on by a class or series, the chairman or a majority of the shares of such class or series so represented may adjourn the meeting with respect to such specified business). No notice of the time and place of adjourned meetings need be given except as required by law. The stockholders present at a duly organized meeting may continue to transact business until adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough stockholders to leave less than a quorum.

 

Section 2.6 Proxies . At all meetings of stockholders, a stockholder may vote by proxy executed in writing by the stockholder or as may be permitted by law, or by his duly authorized attorney-in-fact. Such proxy must be filed with the Secretary of the Corporation or his representative at or before the time of the meeting.

 

Section 2.7 Notice of Stockholder Business and Nominations .

 

A. Annual Meeting of Stockholders .

 

(1) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors of the Corporation and the proposal of business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders: (a) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting delivered pursuant to Section 2.4 of these Bylaws; (b) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors; or (c) by any stockholder of the Corporation who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who has complied with the notice procedures set forth in clauses (2) and (3) of this paragraph (A) of this Bylaw and who was a stockholder of record at the time such notice was delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation.

 

 

 
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(2) For nominations or other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to a clause (c) of paragraph (A)(1) of this Bylaw, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation and such other business must otherwise be a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than seventy days nor more than ninety days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than twenty days, or delayed by more than seventy days, from such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the ninetieth day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the seventieth day prior to such annual meeting or the ten day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. Such stockholder’s notice shall set forth (a) as to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a director all information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and Rule 14a-11 thereunder, including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected; (b) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made; and (c) as to the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner and (ii) the class and number of shares of the Corporation which are owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner. In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment of an annual meeting commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above.

 

(3) Notwithstanding anything in the second sentence of paragraph (A)(2) of this Bylaw to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the Board of Directors of the Corporation is increased and there is no public announcement naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board of Directors made by the Corporation at least eighty days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting, a stockholder’s notice required by this Bylaw shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.

 

B. Special Meetings of Stockholders . Only such business shall be conducted at a special meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting pursuant to Section 2.4 of these Bylaws. Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors may be made at a special meeting of stockholders at which directors are to be elected pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (a) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or (b) by any stockholder of the Corporation who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Bylaw and who is a stockholder of record at the time such notice is delivered to the Secretary of the Corporation. In the event the Corporation calls a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of electing one or more directors to the Board of Directors, any such stockholder may nominate a person or persons (as the case may be), for election to such position(s) as are specified in the Corporation’s Notice of Meeting, if the stockholder’s notice as required by paragraph (A)(2) of this Bylaw shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not earlier than the ninetieth day prior to such special meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the seventieth day prior to such special meeting or the tenth day following the day on which public announcement is first made of the date of the special meeting and of the nominees proposed by the Board of Directors to be elected at such meeting. In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment of a special meeting commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above.

 

C. General .

 

(1) Only persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Bylaw shall be eligible to serve as directors and only such business shall be conducted at a meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Bylaw. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the chairman of the meeting shall have the power and duty to determine whether a nomination or any business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Bylaw and, if any proposed nomination or business is not in compliance with this Bylaw, to declare that such defective proposal or nomination shall be disregarded.

 

 

 
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(2) For purposes of this Bylaw, “public announcement” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press or comparable national news service or in a document publicly filed by the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.

 

(3) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Bylaw, a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in this Bylaw. Nothing in this Bylaw shall be deemed to affect any rights of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act.

 

Section 2.8 Procedure for Election of Directors . Election of directors at all meetings of the stockholders at which directors are to be elected shall be by written ballot. Except as otherwise set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation with respect to the right of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock or any other series or class of stock to elect additional directors under specified circumstances, each director shall be elected by the vote of the majority of the votes cast with respect to that director’s election at any meeting for the election of directors at which a quorum is present, provided that if, as of the tenth (10th) day preceding the date the Corporation first mails its notice of meeting for such meeting to the stockholders of the Corporation, the number of nominees exceeds the number of directors to be elected (a “Contested Election”), the directors shall be elected by the vote of a plurality of the votes cast. For purposes of this Section, a majority of votes cast shall mean that the number of votes cast “for” a directors election exceeds the number of votes cast “against” that director’s election (with “abstentions” and “broker nonvotes” not counted as a vote cast either “for” or “against” that director’s election). In order for any incumbent director to become a nominee of the Board of Directors for further service on the Board of Directors, such person must submit an irrevocable resignation, contingent on (i) that person not receiving a majority of the votes cast in an election that is not a Contested Election, and (ii) acceptance of that resignation by the Board of Directors in accordance with the policies and procedures adopted by the Board of Directors for such purpose. In the event an incumbent director fails to receive a majority of the votes cast in an election that is not a Contested Election, the nominating and corporate governance committee, or such other committee designated by the Board of Directors pursuant to these Bylaws, shall make a recommendation to the Board of Directors as to whether to accept or reject the resignation of such incumbent director, or whether other action should be taken. The Board of Directors shall act on the resignation, taking into account the committee’s recommendation, and publicly disclose (by a press release and filing an appropriate disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission) its decision regarding the resignation and, if such resignation is rejected, the rationale behind the decision within ninety (90) days following certification of the election results. The committee in making its recommendation and the Board of Directors in making its decision each may consider any factors and other information that they consider appropriate and relevant. Any director whose resignation is under consideration shall not participate in the recommendation of the committee or the decision of the Board with respect to his or her resignation. If the Board of Directors accepts a director’s resignation pursuant to this Section, or if a nominee for director is not elected and the nominee is not an incumbent director, then the Board of Directors may fill the resulting vacancy pursuant to the other provisions of these Bylaws.

 

Except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, all matters other than the election of directors submitted to the stockholders at any meeting shall be decided by the affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power of the outstanding Voting Stock present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote thereon.

 

Section 2.9 Inspectors of Elections; Opening and Closing the Polls .

 

A. The Board of Directors by resolution shall appoint one or more inspectors, which inspector or inspectors may include individuals who serve the Corporation in other capacities, including, without limitation, as officers, employees, agents or representatives of the Corporation, to act at the meeting and make a written report thereof. One or more persons may be designated as alternate inspectors to replace any inspector who fails to act. If no inspector or alternate has been appointed to act, or if all inspectors or alternates who have been appointed are unable to act, at a meeting of stockholders, the chairman of the meeting shall appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting. Each inspector, before discharging his or her duties, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his or her ability. The inspectors shall have the duties prescribed by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

 

B. The chairman of the meeting shall fix and announce at the meeting the date and time of the opening and the closing of the polls for each matter upon which the stockholders will vote at a meeting.

 

 

 
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Section 2.10 Consent of Stockholders in Lieu of Meeting . The stockholders of the Corporation may not take action by written consent without a meeting but must take any such actions at a duly called annual or special meeting.

 

ARTICLE III
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

Section 3.1 General Powers . The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of its Board of Directors. In addition to the powers and authorities by these Bylaws expressly conferred upon them, the Board of Directors may exercise all such powers of the Corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by law, by the Certificate of Incorporation or by these Bylaws required to be exercised or done by the stockholders.

 

Section 3.2 Number, Tenure and Qualifications . Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, or any other series or class of stock as set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation, to elect directors under specified circumstances, the number of directors shall initially be seven and shall be fixed from time to time thereafter by a majority of the Board of Directors.

 

Section 3.3 Regular Meetings . A regular meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held without notice other than this Bylaw immediately after, and at the same place as, each annual meeting of stockholders. The Board of Directors may, by resolution, provide the time and place for the holding of additional regular meetings without notice other than such resolution.

 

Section 3.4 Special Meetings . Special meetings of the Board of Directors shall be called at the request of the Chairman of the Board, the President or a majority of the Board of Directors. The person or persons authorized to call special meetings of the Board of Directors may fix the place and time of the meetings.

 

Section 3.5 Notice . Notice of any special meeting shall be given to each director at his business or residence in writing or by telegram or by telephone communication. If mailed, such notice shall be deemed adequately delivered when deposited in the United States mails so addressed, with postage thereon prepaid, at least five days before such meeting. If by telegram, such notice shall be deemed adequately delivered when the telegram is delivered to the telegraph company at least twenty-four hours before such meeting. If by facsimile transmission, such notice shall be transmitted at least twenty-four hours before such meeting. If by telephone, the notice shall be given at least twelve hours prior to the time set for the meeting. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors need be specified in the notice of such meeting, except for amendments to these Bylaws as provided under Section 8.1 of Article VIII hereof. A meeting may be held at any time without notice if all the directors are present (except as otherwise provided by law) or if those not present waive notice of the meeting in writing, either before or after such meeting.

 

Section 3.6 Conference Telephone Meetings . Members of the Board of Directors, or any committee thereof, may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors or such committee by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and such participation in a meeting shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

 

Section 3.7 Quorum . A whole number of directors equal to at least a majority of the Whole Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but if at any meeting of the Board of Directors there shall be less than a quorum present, a majority of the directors present may adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice. The act of the majority of the directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board of Directors.

 

Section 3.8 Vacancies . Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, or any other series or class of stock as set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation, to elect additional directors under specified circumstances, and unless the Board of Directors otherwise determines, vacancies resulting from death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, removal from office or other cause, and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors, may be filled only by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors, though less than a quorum of the Board of Directors, and directors so chosen shall hold office for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders at which the term of office of the class to which they have been elected expires and until such director’s successor shall have been duly elected and qualified. No decrease in the number of authorized directors constituting the Whole Board shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

 

Section 3.9 Committee .

 

A. The Board of Directors may designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation. The Board of Directors may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. In the absence or disqualification of a member of the committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any such committee, to the extent permitted by law and to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board of Directors, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the corporation, and may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it.

 

 

 
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B. Unless the Board of Directors otherwise provides, each committee designated by the Board of Directors may make, alter and repeal rules for the conduct of its business. In the absence of such rules each committee shall conduct its business in the same manner as the Board of Directors conducts its business pursuant to these Bylaws.

 

Section 3.10 Removal . Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, or any other series or class of stock as set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation, to elect additional directors under specified circumstances, any director, or the entire Board of Directors, may be removed from office at any time, with or without cause, only by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3 %) of the voting power of the then outstanding Voting Stock, voting together as a single class.

   

ARTICLE IV
OFFICERS

 

Section 4.1 Elected Officers . The elected officers of the Corporation shall be a Chairman of the Board, a President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and such other officers as the Board of Directors from time to time may deem proper. The Chairman of the Board shall be chosen from the directors. Unless otherwise provided by resolution adopted by the Board of Directors, all officers chosen by the Board of Directors shall each have such powers and duties as generally pertain to their respective offices, subject to the specific provisions of Articles II, III, IV and VII. Such officers shall also have powers and duties as from time to time may be conferred by the Board of Directors or by any committee thereof.

 

Section 4.2 Election and Term of Office . The elected officers of the Corporation shall be elected annually by the Board of Directors at the regular meeting of the Board of Directors held after each annual meeting of the stockholders. If the election of officers shall not be held at such meeting, such election shall be held as soon thereafter as convenient. Subject to Section 4.7 of these Bylaws, each officer shall hold office until his successor shall have been duly elected and shall have qualified or until his death or until he shall resign.

 

Section 4.3 Chairman of the Board . The Chairman of the Board shall preside at all meetings of the Board. In the absence of the Chairman of the Board at any meeting, a majority of the directors present at such meeting shall have the power to select any director present at the meeting to preside.

 

Section 4.4 President and Chief Executive Officer . The President and Chief Executive Officer shall be the general manager of the Corporation, subject to the control of the Board of Directors, and as such shall preside at all meetings of shareholders, shall have general supervision of the affairs of the Corporation, shall sign or countersign or authorize another officer to sign all certificates, contracts, and other instruments of the Corporation as authorized by the Board of Directors, shall make reports to the Board of Directors and shareholders, and shall perform all such other duties as are incident to such office or are properly required by the Board of Directors. If the Board of Directors creates the office of Chief Executive Officer as a separate office from President, the President shall be the chief operating officer of the corporation and shall be subject to the general supervision, direction, and control of the Chief Executive Officer unless the Board of Directors provides otherwise.

 

Section 4.5 Secretary . The Secretary shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of stockholders and directors and all other notices required by law or by these Bylaws, and in case of his absence or refusal or neglect so to do, any such notice may be given by any person thereunto directed by the President or by the Board of Directors, upon whose request the meeting is called as provided in these Bylaws. He shall record all the proceedings of the meetings of the Board of Directors, any committees thereof and the stockholders of the Corporation in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Board of Directors, the President, or the Chairman of the Board (to the extent consistent with the Chairman’s duty and authority to preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors). He shall have custody of the seal of the Corporation and shall affix the same to all instruments requiring it, when authorized by the Board of Directors or the President, and attest to the same.

 

Section 4.6 Treasurer . The Treasurer shall have the custody of the corporate funds and securities and shall keep full and accurate receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the Corporation. The Treasurer shall deposit all moneys and other valuables in the name and to the credit of the Corporation in such depositaries as may be designated by the Board of Directors. The Treasurer shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors or the President, taking proper vouchers for such disbursements. The Treasurer shall render to the President and the Board of Directors, whenever requested, an account of all his transactions as Treasurer and of the financial condition of the Corporation. If required by the Board of Directors, the Treasurer shall give the Corporation a bond for the faithful discharge of his duties in such amount and with such surety as the Board of Directors shall prescribe.

 

 

 
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Section 4.7 Removal . Any officer elected by the Board of Directors may be removed by the Board of Directors whenever, in their judgment, the best interests of the Corporation would be served thereby. No elected officer shall have any contractual rights against the Corporation for compensation by virtue of such election beyond the date of the election of his successor, his death, his resignation or his removal, whichever event shall first occur, except as otherwise provided in an employment contract or an employee plan.

 

Section 4.8 Vacancies . A newly created office and a vacancy in any office because of death, resignation, or removal may be filled by the Board of Directors for the unexpired portion of the term at any meeting of the Board of Directors.

  

  

ARTICLE V
STOCK CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFERS

 

Section 5.1 S tock C ertificates and Transfers .

 

A. The interest of each stockholder of the Corporation shall be evidenced by certificates for shares of stock in such form as the appropriate officers of the Corporation may from time to time prescribe. The shares of the stock of the Corporation shall be transferred on the books of the Corporation by the holder thereof in person or by his attorney, upon surrender for cancellation of certificates for the same number of shares, with an assignment and power of transfer endorsed thereon or attached thereto, duly executed, and with such proof of the authenticity of the signature as the Corporation or its agents may reasonably require.

 

B. The certificates of stock shall be signed, countersigned and registered in such manner as the Board of Directors may by resolution prescribe, which resolution may permit all or any of the signatures on such certificates to be in facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate has ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if he were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.

Section 5.1 Stock Certificates. The shares of the Corporation may be either in certificated or in uncertificated form. If shares are issued in uncertificated form, each stockholder shall be entitled upon written request to a stock certificate or certificates duly numbered, certifying the number and class of shares in the Corporation owned by the stockholder and otherwise as specified in this Section 5.1. Each certificate for shares of stock shall be in such form as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors and shall be signed in the name of the Corporation by (a) the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President, and (b) by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. Any or all of the signatures on a certificate may be a facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if he or she were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue. Each certificate will include any legends required by law or deemed necessary or advisable by the Board of Directors.

 

Section 5.2 Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Certificates. The Corporation may issue a new certificate of stock or uncertificated shares in place of any certificate theretofore issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, and the Corporation and/or the Board of Directors may require the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or his or her legal representatives, to make an affidavit of that fact and/or to give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation on account of the alleged loss, theft or destruction of any such certificate or issuance of any such new certificate or uncertificated shares. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Board of Directors, in its absolute discretion, may refuse to issue any such new certificate or uncertificated shares, except pursuant to legal proceedings under the laws of the State of Delaware.

 

Section 5.3 Transfers of Stock. The shares of the stock of the Corporation shall be transferable on the books of the Corporation by the holder thereof in person or by his or her attorney upon surrender for cancellation of a certificate or certificates for at least the same number of shares, or other evidence of ownership if no certificates shall have been issued, with an assignment and power of transfer endorsed thereon or attached thereto, duly executed, and with such proof of the validity and authenticity of the signature as the Corporation or its agents may reasonably require.

 

Section 5.4 Registered Stockholders. The Corporation shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive dividends, and to vote as such owner, and to hold liable for calls and assessments a person registered on its books as the owner of shares, and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or legal claim or claims to or interest in such shares on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of the State of Delaware.

 

Section 5.5 Regulations. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Board of Directors may make such additional rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the Bylaws, as it may deem expedient concerning the issue, transfer and registration of the securities of the Corporation. The Board of Directors may appoint, or authorize any officer or officers to appoint, one or more transfer agents and one or more registrars and may require any certificates for shares of capital stock to bear the signature or signatures of any of them.

 

 

 

 

Section 5.6  Record Date. For the purpose of determining stockholders entitled to notice of, or to vote at, any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or for the purpose of determining stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitlements to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock, or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board of Directors may fix, in advance, a record date. Such date shall not be more than sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) days before the date of any such meeting, nor more than sixty (60) days prior to any other action.

 

ARTICLE VI
INDEMNIFICATION

 

Section 6.1 Right to Indemnification . The Corporation shall indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended, any person (an “Indemnitee”) who was or is made or is threatened to be made a party or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “Proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he, or a person for whom he is the legal representative, is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or, while a director or officer of the Corporation, is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust, enterprise or nonprofit entity, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, against all liability and loss suffered and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) reasonably incurred by such Indemnitee. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, except as otherwise provided in Section 6.3, the Corporation shall be required to indemnify an Indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) commenced by such Indemnitee only if the commencement of such proceeding (or part thereof) by the Indemnitee was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Corporation.

  

Section 6.2 Prepayment of Expenses . The Corporation shall pay the expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by an Indemnitee in defending any proceeding in advance of its final disposition, provided, however, that, to the extent required by law, such payment of expenses in advance of the final disposition of the proceeding shall be made only upon receipt of an undertaking by the Indemnitee to repay all amounts advanced if it should be ultimately determined that the Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified under this Article VI or otherwise.

 

Section 6.3 Claims . If a claim for indemnification or payment of expenses under this Article VI is not paid in full within sixty days after a written claim therefor by the Indemnitee has been received by the Corporation, the Indemnitee may file suit to recover the unpaid amount of such claim and, if successful in whole or in part, shall be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting such claim. In any such action the Corporation shall have the burden of proving that the Indemnitee is not entitled to the requested indemnification or payment of expenses under applicable law.

 

Section 6.4 Nonexclusivity of Rights . The rights conferred on any Indemnitee by this Article VI shall not be exclusive of any other rights which such Indemnitee may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, these Bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

 

Section 6.5 Amendment or Repeal . Any repeal or modification of the foregoing provisions of this Article VI shall not adversely affect any right or protection hereunder of any Indemnitee in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such repeal or modification.

 

Section 6.6 Other Indemnification and Prepayment of Expenses . This Article VI shall not limit the right of the Corporation, to the extent and in the manner permitted by law, to indemnify and to advance expenses to persons other than Indemnitees when and as authorized by appropriate corporate action.

  

ARTICLE VII
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 

Section 7.1 Fiscal Year . The fiscal year of the Corporation shall begin on the first day of April and end on the thirty-first day of March of each year.

 

Section 7.2 Dividends . The Board of Directors may from time to time declare, and the Corporation may pay, dividends on its outstanding shares in the manner and upon the terms and conditions provided by law and its Certificate of Incorporation.

 

Section 7.3 Seal . The corporate seal shall have inscribed the name of the Corporation thereon and shall be in such form as may be approved from time to time by the Board of Directors.

 

Section 7.4 Waiver of Notice . Whenever any notice is required to be given to any stockholder or director of the Corporation under the provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by the person or persons entitled to such notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to the giving of such notice. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any annual or special meeting of the stockholders of the Board of Directors need be specified in any waiver of notice of such meeting.

 

 

 
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Section 7.5 Audits . The accounts, books and records of the Corporation shall be audited upon the conclusion of each fiscal year by an independent certified public accountant selected by the Board of Directors, and it shall be the duty of the Board of Directors to cause such audit to be made annually.

 

Section 7.6 Resignations . Any director or any officer, whether elected or appointed, may resign at any time by serving written notice of such resignation on the Chairman of the Board, the President or the Secretary, and such resignation shall be deemed to be effective as of the close of business on the date said notice is received by the Chairman of the Board, the President, or the Secretary or at such later date as is stated therein. No formal action shall be required of the Board of Directors or the stockholders to make any such resignation effective.

 

Section 7.7 Contracts . Except as otherwise required by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, any contracts or other instruments may be executed and delivered in the name and on the behalf of the Corporation by such officer or officers of the Corporation as the Board of Directors may from time to time direct. Such authority may be general or confined to specific instances as the Board may determine. The President or any Vice President may execute bonds, contracts, deeds, leases and other instruments to be made or executed for or on behalf of the Corporation. Subject to any restrictions imposed by the Board of Directors, the President or any Vice President of the Corporation may delegate contractual powers to others under his jurisdiction, it being understood, however, that any such delegation of power shall not relieve such officer of responsibility with respect to the exercise of such delegated power.

 

Section 7.8 Proxies . Unless otherwise provided by resolution adopted by the Board of Directors, the President or any Vice President may from time to time appoint any attorney or attorneys or agent or agents of the Corporation, in the name and on behalf of the Corporation, to cast the votes which the Corporation may be entitled to cast as the holder of stock or other securities in any other corporation or other entity, any of whose stock or other securities may be held by the Corporation, at meetings of the holders of the stock and other securities of such other corporation or other entity, or to consent in writing, in the name of the Corporation as such holder, to any action by such other corporation or other entity, and may instruct the person or persons so appointed as to the manner of casting such votes or giving such consent, and may execute or cause to be executed in the name and on behalf of the Corporation and under its corporate seal or otherwise, all such written proxies or other instruments as he may deem necessary or proper in the premises.

 

Section 7.9 Authority of Board Resolutions . Notwithstanding any other provisions of these Bylaws, any power or duty of an officer set forth in these Bylaws may be eliminated or expanded, in whole or in part, by resolution of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof to which such power has been delegated by the Board of Directors, and any powers and duties conferred by these Bylaws on the Company’s officers are expressly subject to this provision.

   

ARTICLE VIII
AMENDMENTS

 

Section 8.1 Amendments . These Bylaws may be amended, altered, added to, rescinded or repealed at any meeting of the Board of Directors or of the stockholders, provided notice of the proposed change was given in the notice of the meeting and, in the case of a meeting of the Board of Directors, in a notice given no less than twenty-four hours prior to the meeting; provided, however, that, notwithstanding any other provisions of these Bylaws or any provision of law which might otherwise permit a lesser vote or no vote, but in addition to any affirmative vote of the holders of any particular class or series of the stock required by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the voting power of the then outstanding Voting Stock, voting together as a single class, shall be required in order for stockholders to alter, amend or repeal any provision of these Bylaws or to adopt any additional bylaw.

 

 

 

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Exhibit 5.1

 

 

Faegre Baker Daniels LLP

2200 Wells Fargo Center 90 South Seventh Street

Minneapolis Minnesota 55402-3901

Phone +1 612 766 7000

Fax +1 612 766 1600

 

June 21, 2017

 

Determine, Inc.

615 West Carmel Drive, Suite 100

Carmel, IN 46032

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have acted as counsel to Determine, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), in connection with the preparation and filing of a prospectus supplement dated June 21, 2017 (the “ Prospectus Supplement ”) to the prospectus dated November 16, 2015 (together, the “ Prospectus ”) relating to the offer and sale by the Company, pursuant to that certain Securities Purchase Agreement dated June 21, 2017 (the “ Purchase Agreement ”), between the Company and the investors named therein, of 2,184,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “ Shares ”). The Prospectus forms a part of the Company’s registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-207841) (the “ Registration Statement ”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission ”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), which was declared effective by the Commission on November 16, 2015.

 

We have examined the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the Purchase Agreement, the bylaws of the Company (as currently in effect) and the certificate of incorporation of the Company (as currently in effect). We also have examined the originals, or duplicates or certified or conformed copies, of such corporate and other records, agreements, documents and other instruments and have made such other investigations as we have deemed relevant and necessary in connection with the opinions hereinafter set forth. As to questions of fact material to this opinion, we have relied upon certificates or comparable documents of public officials and of officers and representatives of the Company.

 

In rendering the opinions set forth below, we have assumed the legal capacity of natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as duplicates or certified or conformed copies and the authenticity of the originals of such latter documents.

 

Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the qualifications, assumptions and limitations stated herein, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized and upon payment and delivery in accordance with the Purchase Agreement, the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable (i) if in the event issued as certificated shares, when certificates representing such Shares have been duly executed by the President and Secretary of the Company, countersigned and registered by the Company’s transfer agent/registrar and delivered on behalf of the Company, or (ii) if in the event issued as uncertificated shares, upon book entry registration and issuance by the Company’s transfer agent and registrar.

 

We do not express any opinion herein concerning any law other than the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as Exhibit 5.1 to the Company’s current report on Form 8-K filed as of the date hereof and to the use of our name under the caption “Legal Matters” in the Prospectus Supplement. In giving this consent, we do not hereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission.

 

This opinion is furnished to you in connection with the filing of the Prospectus Supplement. This opinion is limited to the specific issues addressed herein, and no opinion may be inferred or implied beyond that expressly stated herein. This opinion speaks only as of the date hereof and we assume no obligation to revise or supplement this opinion thereafter.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

FAEGRE BAKER DANIELS LLP

 

/s/ Jonathan R. Zimmerman

Jonathan R. Zimmerman


Exhibit 10.1

 

 

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “ Agreement ”) is dated as of June 21, 2017, by and among Determine, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), and the purchasers identified on the signature page hereto (including each purchaser’s successors and assigns, individually, a “ Purchaser ,” and collectively, the “ Purchasers ”).

 

WHEREAS , subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), the Company desires to issue and sell to the Purchasers, and the Purchasers desire 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 the Purchasers agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I.

DEFINITIONS  

 

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

 

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

 

Closing Date ” means the 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 Shares, in each case, have been satisfied or waived, but in no event later than the third Trading Day following the date hereof.

 

Commission ” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Common Stock ” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.00 01 per share, and any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed.

 

Fredrikson ” means Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., legal counsel to the Placement Agent.

 

Fundamental Transaction ” means any of the following: (i) the Company effects any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another Person, (ii) the Company effects any sale of all or substantially all of its assets in one or a series of related transactions, (iii) any tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Common Stock are permitted to tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property, or (iv) the Company effects any reclassification of the Common Stock or any compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is effectively converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property.

 

Material Adverse Effect ” means (i) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (ii) 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.

 

Offering ” means the sale of the Shares to the Purchasers.

 

Per Share Purchase Price ” equals $2.50, subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement but on or prior to the Closing Date.

 

 
 

 

 

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.

 

Placement Agent ” means Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC.

 

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.

 

Prospectus ” means the final prospectus included in the Registration Statement.

 

Prospectus Supplement ” means the supplement to the Prospectus complying with Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act that is filed with the Commission and delivered by the Company to the Purchasers.

 

Registration Statement ” means the effective registration statement on Form S-3 filed with the Commission (File No. 333-207841) that registers the offer and sale of the Shares.

 

Shares ” means the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable to the Purchasers pursuant to this Agreement.

 

Subscription Amount ” means the aggregate amount to be paid for the Shares purchased hereunder as specified below each 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.

 

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 Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE MKT, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange or the OTCQB Venture Market (or any successors to any of the foregoing).

 

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

 

Transfer Agent ” means Wells Fargo Shareowner Services, 1110 Centre Point Curve, Suite 101, Mendota Heights, Minnesota 55120, and any successor transfer agent of the Company.

 

ARTICLE II.

PURCHASE AND SALE

 

2.1 Closing . On the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, the Company agrees to sell, and each Purchaser agrees to purchase, the Shares identified on such Purchaser’s signature page hereto. At the Closing, each Purchaser shall deliver to the Company, via wire transfer, immediately available funds equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount or settle via delivery versus payment (“ DVP ”) through DTC with the Placement Agent, the Company shall deliver to the Purchasers the Shares as determined pursuant to Section 2.3(a), and the Company and each Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.3 deliverable at the Closing. Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.3 and 2.4, the Closing shall occur at such location or by electronic exchange of documents, as the parties shall mutually agree.

 

2.2 Prospectus . Each Purchaser represents and warrants to the Company that it has received (or otherwise had made available to it by the filing by the Company of an electronic version thereof with the Commission) the Prospectus filed by the Company with the Commission and, if applicable, certain “free writing prospectuses” (as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act), that have been or will be filed with the Commission and delivered to the Purchaser on or prior to the date hereof, containing certain supplemental information regarding the Shares, the terms of the Offering and the Company, and the Prospectus Supplement. Each Purchaser acknowledges that, prior to the delivery of this Agreement by the Purchaser to the Company, the Purchaser will receive certain additional information regarding the Offering, including pricing information. Such information may be provided to the Purchaser by any means permitted under the Securities Act, including the Prospectus Supplement, a free writing prospectus and oral communications.

 

 

 

 

2.3 Deliveries .

 

(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Purchasers the following:

 

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

 

(ii) a copy of the irrevocable instructions to the Transfer Agent instructing the Transfer Agent to deliver a number of Shares equal to each Purchaser’s Subscription Amount, designated on the signature page as “Subscription Amount,” divided by the Per Share Purchase Price for Common Stock, registered in the name of such Purchaser, via The Depository Trust Company (“ DTC ”) Deposit and Withdrawal at Custodian (“ DWAC ”) system or via DVP through DTC, as indicated on such Purchaser’s signature page hereto; and

 

(iii) the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement (which may be delivered in accordance with Rule 172 under the Securities Act).

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

2.4 Closing Conditions .

 

(a) The obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

 

(i) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Purchasers required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and

 

(ii) the delivery by the Purchasers of the items set forth in Section 2.3(b) of this Agreement.

 

(b) The obligations of the Purchasers hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

 

(i) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company under this Agreement required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed;

 

(ii) the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.3(a) of this Agreement;

 

(iii) there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company since the date hereof; and

 

(iv) from the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the Commission or the Company’s principal Trading Market, and, from the date hereof 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, makes it reasonably impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Shares at the Closing.

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE III.

MISCELLANEOUS

 

3.1 Termination . This Agreement may be terminated by the Purchasers or by the Company by written notice to the other party if the Closing has not been consummated on or before June 26, 2017; provided, however, that no such termination will affect the right of either party to sue for any breach by the other party.

 

3.2 Fees and Expenses . 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 Shares to the Purchasers.

 

3.3 Entire Agreement . The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto, the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof 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.

 

3.4 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, 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 either party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.

 

3.5 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 the Purchasers (except if in connection with a Fundamental Transaction).

 

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

 

3.7 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 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, partners, members, 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 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 Proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, or that such court is an 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 Proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address for notice set forth on the signature page hereto 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 a Proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then the prevailing party in such Proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other reasonable costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such Proceeding.

 

 

 

 

3.8 Execution . This Agreement may be executed by electronic signature and in counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement , and this Agreement shall become effective when each party has delivered its signature to each other party. 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.

 

3.9 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.

 

3.10 Remedies . In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, the Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary damages would 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.

 

3.11 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 hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any Proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in 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 Fredrikson. Fredrikson does not represent any of the Purchasers and only represents the Placement Agent. 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. It is expressly understood and agreed that each provision contained in this Agreement and in each other Transaction Document is between the Company and a Purchaser, solely, and not between the Company and the Purchasers collectively and not between and among the Purchasers.

 

 

 

 

3.12 Acknowledgment . Each Purchaser acknowledges that the Offering is not being underwritten by the Placement Agent and that there is no minimum Subscription Amount. Such Purchaser confirms that it has had full access to all filings made by the Company with the Commission, including the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement relating to the Shares, and the documents incorporated by reference therein, and that it was able to read and review each such filing. In subscribing to the Shares, such Purchaser affirms that it has conducted substantive due diligence with respect to the Company and the Shares including, without limitation, reviewing in detail the Registration Statement (including the exhibits thereto), the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, including the documents incorporated by reference in such documents. In addition, such Purchaser understands that there is a high degree of risk in subscribing to the Shares and that such Purchaser may lose the entire investment in the Shares.

 

3.13 Liquidated Damages . The Company’s obligation to pay Transfer Agent fees, stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Shares to the Purchasers is a continuing obligation of the Company and shall not terminate until all such unpaid amounts have been paid.

 

3.14 Construction . The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel have 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 thereto. In addition, each and every reference to share prices and shares of Common Stock in any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement but on or prior to the Closing Date.

 

3.15 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]

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Determine, Inc.

 

 

By:                                                                     

Name:                                                                

Title:                                                                 

Address for Notice:

 

615 West Carmel Drive, Suite 100

Carmel, Indiana 46032

 

With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

 

Faegre Baker Daniels LLP

2200 Wells Fargo Center

90 South Seventh Street

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402

Attention: Jonathan R. Zimmerman

 

 

Signature Page to Securities Purchase Agreement

 

 
 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the undersigned has caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by an authorized signatory 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:

   
     

Address for Notice to Purchaser:

   
     
     
     

DTC Participant Account Name:

   
     

DTC Participant Account Number:

   
     

Subscription Amount:

 

$

     

Shares:

   
     

EIN Number: 

   

 

The above-named Purchaser elects settlement of the Shares purchased as follows (check one):

 

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Delivery by crediting the account of Purchaser’s prime broker (as specified above) with DTC through its DWAC system, whereby Purchaser’s prime broker shall initiate a DWAC transaction on the Closing Date using its DTC participant identification number, and released by the Transfer Agent, at the Company's direction.

 

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Delivery versus payment through DTC (i.e., on the Closing Date, the Company shall issue Shares registered in the Purchaser’s name and address as set forth below and released by the Transfer Agent directly to the account(s) at the Placement Agent identified by the Purchaser).

 

 

Signature Page to Securities Purchase Agreement

Exhibit 10.2

 

DETERMINE, INC.

2,184,000 shares of Common Stock


PLACEMENT AGENCY AGREEMENT

June 21, 2017

 

Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC
225 South 6th Street, Suite 2050
Minneapolis, MN 55402

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

1.      INTRODUCTION. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Placement Agency Agreement (this “ Agreement ”) and the Securities Purchase Agreement in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto (the “Securities Purchase Agreement” ) entered into with the purchasers identified therein (each a “Purchaser” and collectively, the “Purchasers” ), Determine, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), proposes to issue and sell directly to the Purchasers up to an aggregate of 2,184,000 shares (the “ Shares ”) of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “ Common Stock ”), of the Company. The Company hereby confirms its agreement with Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC (the “ Placement Agent ”) to act as its Placement Agent in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof.

 

2.      AGREEMENT TO ACT AS PLACEMENT AGENT; PLACEMENT OF SECURITIES . On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company herein contained, and subject to all the terms and conditions of this Agreement:

 

(a)     The Company hereby authorizes the Placement Agent to act as its exclusive agent to solicit offers for the purchase of all or part of the Shares from the Company in connection with the proposed offering of the Shares pursuant to the Registration Statement hereinafter defined (the “ Offering ”). Until the Closing Date (as defined in Section 4 hereof) or earlier upon termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 9 , the Company shall not, without the prior written consent of the Placement Agent, solicit or accept offers to purchase the Shares otherwise than through the Placement Agent.

 

(b)     The Company hereby acknowledges that the Placement Agent has agreed, as agent of the Company, to use its reasonable efforts to solicit offers to purchase the Shares from the Company on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Prospectus (as defined below). The Placement Agent shall use reasonable efforts to assist the Company in obtaining performance by each Purchaser whose offer to purchase Shares has been solicited by the Placement Agent and accepted by the Company, but the Placement Agent shall not, except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, be obligated to disclose the identity of any potential purchaser or have any liability to the Company in the event any such purchase is not consummated for any reason. Under no circumstances will the Placement Agent or any of its Affiliates (as defined below) be obligated to underwrite or purchase any Shares for its own account and, in soliciting purchases of the Shares, the Placement Agent shall act solely as the Company’s agent and not as principal. As used herein, the term “ 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 of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), and the term “ 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.

 

 
 

 

 

(c)     Subject to the provisions of this Section  2 , offers for the purchase of the Shares may be solicited by the Placement Agent as agent for the Company at such times and in such amounts as the Placement Agent deems advisable. The Placement Agent shall communicate to the Company, orally or in writing, each reasonable offer to purchase Shares received by it as agent of the Company. The Company shall have the sole right to accept offers to purchase Shares and may reject any such offer, in whole or in part.

 

(d)     The Shares are being sold to the Purchasers at an offering price of $2.50 per Share (the “ Public Offering Price ”). The purchases of Shares by the Purchasers shall be evidenced by the execution of the Securities Purchase Agreement by each of the Purchasers and the Company.

 

(e)     As compensation for services rendered, on the Closing Date (as defined in Section  4 hereof), the Company shall pay to the Placement Agent by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account or accounts designated by the Placement Agent, an aggregate amount equal to six percent (6.0%) of the gross proceeds received by the Company (the “ Placement Fee ”) from the sale of the Shares on such Closing Date; provided , however , that the Placement Fee with respect to gross proceeds to the Company from the sale of Shares to Lloyd I. Miller III or his Affiliates shall be equal to two percent (2.0%) thereof. The Placement Agent may retain other brokers or dealers to act as sub-agents on its behalf in connection with the Offering, the fees of which shall be paid out of the Placement Fee provided, however, such other brokers or dealers must be approved by the Company, and Placement Agent shall be responsible for the acts or omissions of such parties as if the Placement Agent’s own.

 

(f)     No Shares that the Company has agreed to sell pursuant to this Agreement and the Securities Purchase Agreement shall be deemed to have been purchased and paid for, or sold by the Company, until such Shares shall have been delivered to the Purchaser thereof against payment by such Purchaser. If the Company shall default in its obligations to deliver Shares to a Purchaser whose offer it has accepted, the Company shall indemnify and hold the Placement Agent harmless against any loss, claim, damage or expense arising from or as a result of such default by the Company in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section  8(c) herein.

 

 
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3.      REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY. The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the Placement Agent that:

 

(a)     The Company has prepared and filed in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act and published rules and regulations thereunder (the “ Rules and Regulations ”) adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission ”), a “shelf” Registration Statement (as hereinafter defined) on Form S-3 (File No. 333-207841), which became effective on November 16, 2015 (the “ Effective Date ”), including a base prospectus relating to the securities, including the Shares, registered pursuant to such Registration Statement (the “ Base Prospectus ”), and such amendments and supplements thereto as may have been required to the date of this Agreement. The term “ Registration Statement as used in this Agreement means the registration statement (including all exhibits, financial schedules and all documents and information deemed to be a part of the Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 430A under the Rules and Regulations), as amended and/or supplemented to the date of this Agreement, including the Base Prospectus. The Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act and no stop order preventing or suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or suspending or preventing the use of the Prospectus has been issued by the Commission and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, are threatened by the Commission. The Company, if required by the Rules and Regulations of the Commission, will file the Prospectus (as defined below), with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Rules and Regulations. The term “ Prospectus, as used in this Agreement means the Prospectus, in the form in which it is to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Rules and Regulations, or, if the Prospectus is not to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b), the Prospectus in the form included as part of the Registration Statement as of the Effective Date, except that if any revised prospectus or prospectus supplement shall be provided to the Placement Agent by the Company for use in connection with the offering and sale of the Shares which differs from the Prospectus (whether or not such revised prospectus or prospectus supplement is required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Rules and Regulations), the term “ Prospectus shall refer to such revised prospectus or prospectus supplement, as the case may be, from and after the time it is first provided to the Placement Agent for such use. Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus subject to completion included in the Registration Statement or filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 under the Rules and Regulations is hereafter called a “ Preliminary Prospectus . Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 which were filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”), on or before the last to occur of the Effective Date, the date of the Preliminary Prospectus, or the date of the Prospectus, and any reference herein to the terms “amend,” “amendment,” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include (i) the filing of any document under the Exchange Act after the Effective Date, the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the date of the Prospectus, as the case may be, which is incorporated by reference and (ii) any such document so filed. If the Company has filed an abbreviated registration statement to register additional securities pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Rules and Regulations (the “ 462(b) Registration Statement ”), then any reference herein to the Registration Statement shall also be deemed to include such 462(b) Registration Statement.

 

 
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(b)     As of the Applicable Time (as defined below) and as of the Closing Date, neither (i) any General Use Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below) issued at or prior to the Applicable Time, and the Pricing Prospectus (as defined below) and the information included on Schedule A hereto, all considered together (collectively, the “ General Disclosure Package ”), (ii) any individual Limited Use Free Writing Prospectus (as defined below), nor (iii) the bona fide electronic road show (as defined in Rule 433(h)(5) under the Rules and Regulations), if any, that has been made available without restriction to any Person, when considered together with the General Disclosure Package, included or will include, any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or as of the Closing Date will omit, to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no representation or warranty as to information contained in or omitted from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agent specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agent’s Information (as defined in Section 17) . As used in this paragraph  (b) and elsewhere in this Agreement:

 

Applicable Time ” means 7:00 A.M., New York time, on the date of this Agreement.

 

General Use Free Writing Prospectus ” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is identified on Schedule A to this Agreement.

 

Incorporated Documents ” shall refer to the documents, if any, incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus or the Prospectus, including, unless the context otherwise requires, the documents, if any, filed as exhibits to such Incorporated Documents.

 

Issuer Free Writing Prospectus ” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 under the Rules and Regulations relating to the Shares in the form filed or required to be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g) under the Rules and Regulations.

 

Limited Use Free Writing Prospectuses ” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not a General Use Free Writing Prospectus.

 

Pricing Prospectus ” means the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, and the Base Prospectus, each as amended and supplemented immediately prior to the Applicable Time, including any document incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof.

 

(c)     No order preventing or suspending the use of the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus relating to the Offering has been issued by the Commission, and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act has been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission. Each Preliminary Prospectus (if any), at the time of filing thereof, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations, and did not contain 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, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to information contained in or omitted from any Preliminary Prospectus, in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agent specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agent’s Information (as defined in Section  17 ) .

 

 
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(d)     At the time the Registration Statement became or becomes effective, at the date of this Agreement and at the Closing Date, the Registration Statement conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; the Prospectus, at the time the Prospectus was issued and at the Closing Date, conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and did not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the foregoing representations and warranties in this paragraph (d) shall not apply to information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or the Prospectus in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agent specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agent’s Information (as defined in Section 17).

 

(e)     Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if any, as of its issue date and at all subsequent times through the completion of the public offer and sale of the Shares or until any earlier date that the Company notified or notifies the Placement Agent as described in Section  5 (e) , did not, does not and will not include any information that conflicted, conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, including any document incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified, or includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit 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 prevailing at the subsequent time, not misleading. The foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agent specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agent’s Information (as defined in Section 17) .

 

 
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(f)     The documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when they became effective or were filed with the Commission, as the case may be, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and none of such documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when such documents become effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

(g)     The Company has not, directly or indirectly, distributed and will not distribute any offering material in connection with the Offering other than any Pricing Prospectus, the Prospectus and other materials, if any, permitted under the Securities Act and consistent with Section 5(b) below. The Company is not an “ineligible issuer” in connection with the offering pursuant to Rules 164, 405 and 433 under the Securities Act. The Company will file with the Commission all Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses (other than a “road show,” as defined in Rule 433(d)(8) under the Rules and Regulations), if any, in the time and manner required under Rules 163(b)(2) and 433(d) under the Rules and Regulations.

 

(h)     The Company and each Subsidiary (as defined below) has been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing (or the foreign equivalent thereof) under the laws of each of their respective jurisdictions of organization. The Company and each Subsidiary is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification and has all power and authority necessary to own or hold its properties and to conduct the business in which it is engaged, except where the failure to so qualify or have such power or authority (i) would not have, singularly or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, assets or business or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (ii) impair in any material respect the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement or to consummate any transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (any such effect as described in clauses (i) or (ii), a “ Material Adverse Effect ”). The Company owns or controls, directly or indirectly, only the following corporations, partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, associations or other entities: Determine Sourcing, Inc.; Determine Limited; Determine SAS; and Determine GmbH (each, a “ Subsidiary ” and, collectively, the “ Subsidiaries ”).

 

(i)     The Company has the full right, power and authority to enter into this Agreement and the Securities Purchase Agreement and to perform and to discharge its obligations hereunder and thereunder; and this Agreement and the Securities Purchase Agreement have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, and constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity.

 

 
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(j)     The Shares to be issued and sold by the Company to the Purchasers hereunder and under the Securities Purchase Agreement have been duly authorized and, when issued and delivered against payment therefor as provided herein and in the Securities Purchase Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and free of any preemptive or similar rights and will conform to the description thereof contained in the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. The Purchasers will have good and marketable title to the Shares upon receipt of such Shares, and such Shares will be freely tradable on the NASDAQ Capital Market.

 

(k)     The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and all of the issued shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable, have been issued in all material respects in compliance with United States federal and state securities laws, and conform to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. All of the Company’s options, warrants and other rights to purchase or exchange any securities for shares of the Company’s capital stock have been duly authorized and validly issued and were issued in all material respects in compliance with United States federal and state securities laws. None of the outstanding shares of Common Stock was issued in violation of any preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities of the Company. There are no authorized or outstanding shares of capital stock, options, warrants, preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase, or equity or debt securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, any capital stock of the Company or any Subsidiary other than those described above or accurately described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. The description of the Company’s stock option, stock bonus and other stock plans or arrangements, and the options or other rights granted thereunder, as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, accurately and fairly present the information required to be shown with respect to such plans, arrangements, options and rights.

 

(l)     All the outstanding shares of capital stock of each Subsidiary have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and, except to the extent set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, are owned by the Company directly or indirectly through one or more wholly-owned Subsidiaries, free and clear of any claim, lien, encumbrance, security interest, restriction upon voting or transfer or any other claim of any third party.

 

 
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(m)     The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Securities Purchase Agreement by the Company, the issue and sale of the Shares by the Company and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will not (with or without notice or lapse of time or both): (i) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, constitute a default or Debt Repayment Triggering Event (as defined below) under, or give rise to the creation or imposition of any lien, encumbrance, security interest, claim or charge upon any property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary pursuant to, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which the Company or any Subsidiary is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary is subject (each, a “ Contract ” and, collectively, the “ Contracts ”); (ii) result in any violation of the provisions of the certificate of incorporation or by-laws (or analogous governing instruments, as applicable) of the Company or any Subsidiary; or, (iii) to the Company’s knowledge, result in the violation of any law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any Subsidiary or any of their properties or assets, except with respect to clauses (i) and (iii), any breaches, violations or defaults which, singularly or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect. A “ Debt Repayment Triggering Event ” means any event or condition that gives, or with the giving of notice or lapse of time would give the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any Person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Company or any Subsidiary.

 

(n)     Except for the registration of the securities offered in the Offering under the Securities Act and such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required under the Exchange Act and applicable state or foreign securities laws and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“ FINRA ”) in connection with the offering and sale of the Shares by the Company, no consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing, qualification or registration with, any court or governmental agency or body, foreign or domestic, which has not been made, obtained or taken and is not in full force and effect, is required for the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Securities Purchase Agreement by the Company, the offer or sale of the Shares by the Company or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.

 

(o)     Armanino LLP, which firm has certified certain financial statements and related schedules included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, is, to the knowledge of the Company, an independent registered public accounting firm as required by the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations. Except as pre-approved in accordance with the requirements set forth in Section 10A of the Exchange Act, Armanino LLP has not been engaged by the Company to perform any “prohibited activities” (as defined in Section 10A of the Exchange Act).

 

 
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(p)     The consolidated financial statements, together with the related notes and schedules, included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus fairly present in all material respects the financial position and the results of operations and changes in financial position of the Company and its Subsidiaries and other consolidated entities at the respective dates or for the respective periods therein specified. Such statements and related notes and schedules have been prepared in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“ GAAP ”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved except as may be set forth in the related notes included or incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package. The financial statements, together with the related notes and schedules, included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus comply in all material respects with the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, and the Rules and Regulations and the rules and regulations under the Exchange Act. No other financial statements or supporting schedules or exhibits are required by the Securities Act or the Rules and Regulations to be described, or included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus. There is no pro forma or as adjusted financial information which is required to be included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, or the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein in accordance with the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations which has not been included or incorporated as so required. The pro forma and pro forma as adjusted financial information and the related notes included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, if any, have been properly compiled and prepared in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations and present fairly the information shown therein, and the assumptions used in the preparation thereof are reasonable and the adjustments used therein are appropriate to give effect to the transactions and circumstances referred to therein.

 

(q)     Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has sustained, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and, since such date, there has not been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any Subsidiary or any material adverse changes, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the business, assets, management, financial position, prospects, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company or any Subsidiary, otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

(r)     Except as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there is no legal or governmental action, suit, claim or proceeding pending to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party or of which any property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary is the subject which is required to be described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein and is not described therein, or which, singularly or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company or any Subsidiary could have a Material Adverse Effect or prevent the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby; and to the Company’s knowledge, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities or threatened by others.

 

 
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(s)     Unless otherwise waived in connection with the Offering, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in (i) violation of its certificate of incorporation or by-laws (or analogous governing instrument, as applicable), (ii) default in any respect in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound or to which any of its property or assets is subject or (iii) to the Company’s knowledge, violation of any law, ordinance, governmental rule, regulation or court order, decree or judgment to which it or its property or assets is subject except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph, for any violations or defaults which, singularly or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(t)     The Company and each Subsidiary possesses all licenses, certificates, authorizations and permits issued by, and have made all declarations and filings with, the appropriate local, state, federal or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies which are necessary or desirable for the ownership of its properties or the conduct of their respective businesses as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (collectively, the “ Governmental Permits ”) except where any failures to possess or make the same, singularly or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and each Subsidiary is in compliance with all such Governmental Permits, and all such Governmental Permits are valid and in full force and effect, except where any non-compliance or the validity or failure to be in full force and effect would not, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. To the Company’s knowledge, all such Governmental Permits are free and clear of any restriction or condition that are in addition to, or materially different from those normally applicable to similar licenses, certificates, authorizations and permits. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received written notification of any revocation or modification (or proceedings related thereto) of any such Governmental Permit and, to the Company’s knowledge, there is no reason to believe that any such Governmental Permit will not be renewed.

 

(u)     Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is or, after giving effect to the offering of the Shares and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, will become an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

(v)     Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor to the Company’s knowledge, any of the Company’s and any Subsidiary’s officers, directors or Affiliates has taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action designed or intended to stabilize or manipulate the price of any security of the Company, or which caused or resulted in, or which might in the future reasonably be expected to cause or result in, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company.

 

 
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(w)     The Company and each Subsidiary owns or possesses the right to use all patents, trademarks, trademark registrations, service marks, service mark registrations, trade names, copyrights, licenses, inventions, software, databases, know-how, Internet domain names, trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures, and other intellectual property (collectively, “ Intellectual Property ”) necessary to carry on their respective businesses as currently conducted, and as proposed to be conducted and described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and the Company is not aware of any claim to the contrary or any challenge by any other Person to the rights of the Company or any Subsidiary with respect to the foregoing except for those that could not have a Material Adverse Effect. To the Company’s knowledge, the Company’s and each Subsidiary’s business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted does not and will not infringe or conflict with any valid patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, trade secrets, licenses or other Intellectual Property or franchise right of any Person, except for any such acts that would not have a Material Adverse Effect. No claim has been made against the Company or any Subsidiary alleging the infringement by the Company or any Subsidiary of any patent, trademark, service mark, trade name, copyright, trade secret, license in or other intellectual property right or franchise right of any Person. The Company and each Subsidiary has taken all reasonable steps to protect, maintain and safeguard its rights in all Intellectual Property, including the execution of appropriate nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not result in the loss or impairment of or payment of any additional amounts with respect to, nor require the consent of any other Person in respect of, each of the Company’s and each Subsidiary’s right to own, use, or hold for use any of the Intellectual Property as owned, used or held for use in the conduct of its business as currently conducted. The Company and each Subsidiary has at all times complied in all material respects with all applicable laws relating to privacy, data protection, and the collection and use of personal information collected, used, or held for use by the Company or any Subsidiary in the conduct of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s business. No claims have been asserted or threatened against the Company or any Subsidiary alleging a violation of any Person’s privacy or personal information or data rights and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not breach or otherwise cause any violation of any law related to privacy, data protection, or the collection and use of personal information collected, used, or held for use by the Company or any Subsidiary in the conduct of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s business. The Company and each Subsidiary takes reasonable measures to ensure that such information is protected against unauthorized access, use, modification, or other misuse.

 

(x)     The Company and each Subsidiary has good and marketable title in fee simple to, or has valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real or personal property which are material to the business of the Company and any Subsidiary, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, security interests, claims and defects that do not, singularly or in the aggregate, materially affect the value of such property and do not interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company or any Subsidiary; and all of the leases and subleases material to the business of the Company or any Subsidiary, and under which the Company or any Subsidiary holds properties described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, are in full force and effect, and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice of any material claim of any sort that has been asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of the Company or any Subsidiary under any of the leases or subleases mentioned above, or affecting or questioning the rights of the Company or any Subsidiary to the continued possession of the leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease.

 

(y)     No organized labor disturbance by the employees of the Company or any Subsidiary exists or, to the Company’s knowledge, is imminent, and the Company has no actual knowledge of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of its or any Subsidiary’s principal suppliers, manufacturers, customers or contractors, that could reasonably be expected, singularly or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company is not aware that any key employee or significant group of employees of the Company or any Subsidiary plans to terminate employment with the Company or any Subsidiary.

 

 
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(z)     No “prohibited transaction” (as defined in Section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, including the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (“ ERISA ”), or Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time (the “ Code ”)) or “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA) or any of the events set forth in Section 4043(b) of ERISA (other than events with respect to which the thirty (30)-day notice requirement under Section 4043 of ERISA has been waived) has occurred or could reasonably be expected to occur with respect to any employee benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary which could, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. Each employee benefit plan of the Company or any Subsidiary is in compliance in all material respects with applicable law, including ERISA and the Code.  The Company and each Subsidiary has not incurred and could not reasonably be expected to incur liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of, or withdrawal from, any pension plan (as defined in ERISA). Each pension plan for which the Company or any Subsidiary would have any liability that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified, and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by failure to act, which could, singularly or in the aggregate, cause the loss of such qualification to the extent such loss would have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(aa)     The Company and each Subsidiary is in compliance with all foreign, federal, state and local rules, laws and regulations relating to the use, treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous or toxic substances or waste and protection of health and safety or the environment which are applicable to its businesses (“ Environmental Laws ”), except where the failure to comply would not, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. There has been no storage, generation, transportation, handling, treatment, disposal, discharge, emission, or other release of any kind of toxic or other wastes or other hazardous substances regulated by Environmental Laws (“ Hazardous Substances ”) by or caused by the Company or any Subsidiary (or, to the Company’s knowledge and without independent investigation, any other entity for whose acts or omissions the Company or any Subsidiary is or may otherwise be liable) upon any of the property now or previously owned or leased by the Company or any Subsidiary, or upon any other property, in violation of any law, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit or which would, under any law, statute, ordinance, rule (including rule of common law), regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit, give rise to any liability, except for any violation or liability which would not have, singularly or in the aggregate with all such violations and liabilities, a Material Adverse Effect; to the Company’s actual knowledge and without independent investigation, there has been no disposal, discharge, emission or other release onto property now leased by the Company or any Subsidiary or into the environment surrounding such property of any Hazardous Substance, except for any such disposal, discharge, emission, or other release in violation of Environmental Laws which would not have, singularly or in the aggregate with all such discharges and other releases, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

 
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(bb)     The Company and each Subsidiary (i) has timely filed (or filed an extension to file) all necessary federal, state, local and foreign tax returns, and all such filed returns were true, complete and correct, (ii) has paid all federal, state, local and foreign taxes, assessments, governmental or other charges due and payable for which it is liable, including, without limitation, all sales and use taxes and all taxes which the Company or any Subsidiary is obligated to withhold from amounts owing to employees, creditors and third parties, and (iii) does not have any tax deficiency or claims outstanding or assessed or, to its knowledge, proposed against any of them, except those, in each of the cases described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of this Paragraph 3(bb) , that would not, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and each Subsidiary has not engaged in any transaction which is a corporate tax shelter or which could be characterized as such by the Internal Revenue Service or any other taxing authority.

 

(cc)     The Company and each Subsidiary carries, or is covered by, insurance provided by recognized, financially sound and reputable institutions with policies in such amounts and covering such risks as is adequate for the conduct of their respective businesses and the value of its properties and as is customary for companies engaged in similar businesses in similar industries. The Company has no reason to believe that it or any Subsidiary will not be able (i) to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such policies expire or (ii) to obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct their respective businesses as now conducted and at a cost that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has been denied any insurance coverage that it has sought or for which it has applied.

 

(dd)     The Company and each Subsidiary maintains a system of internal accounting and other controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances 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 accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, there as been (A) no material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and (B) no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

(ee)     The minute books of the Company and each Subsidiary have been made available to the Placement Agent and counsel for the Placement Agent, and such books (i) contain a complete summary in all material respects of all meetings and actions of the board of directors (including each board committee) and stockholders of the Company and each Subsidiary (or analogous governing bodies and interest holders, as applicable), since January 1, 2015 through the date of the latest meeting and action, and (ii) accurately, in all material respects, reflect all transactions referred to in such minutes.

 

 
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(ff)     There is no franchise, lease, contract, agreement or document required by the Securities Act or by the Rules and Regulations to be described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein or to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement or a document incorporated by reference therein which is not described or filed therein as required, except for the failure to include such documents that would not reasonably be expected to, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and all descriptions of any such franchises, leases, contracts, agreements or documents contained in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or in a document incorporated by reference therein are accurate and complete descriptions of such documents in all material respects. Other than as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, no such franchise, lease, contract or agreement has been suspended or terminated for convenience or default by the Company or any Subsidiary or any of the other parties thereto, and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received notice nor does the Company have any other knowledge of any such pending or threatened suspension or termination, except for such pending or threatened suspensions or terminations that would not, reasonably be expected to, singularly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(gg)     No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company and any Subsidiary on the one hand, and the directors, officers, stockholders (or analogous interest holders), customers or suppliers of the Company or any Subsidiary or any of their Affiliates on the other hand, which is required to be described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein and which is not so described.

 

(hh)     No Person or entity has the right to require registration of shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company or any Subsidiary because of the filing or effectiveness of the Registration Statement or otherwise, except for persons and entities who have expressly waived such right in writing or who have been given timely and proper written notice and have failed to exercise such right within the time or times required under the terms and conditions of such right. Except (i) as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and (ii) as waived in writing in connection with this Offering, there are no persons with registration rights or similar rights to have any securities registered by the Company or any Subsidiary under the Securities Act.

 

(ii)     Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary owns any “margin securities” as that term is defined in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “ Federal Reserve Board ”), and none of the proceeds of the sale of the Shares will be used, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin security, for the purpose of reducing or retiring any indebtedness which was originally incurred to purchase or carry any margin security or for any other purpose which might cause any of the Shares to be considered a “purpose credit” within the meanings of Regulation T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.

 

 
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(jj)     Except for this Agreement, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is a party to any contract, agreement or understanding with any Person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or the Placement Agent for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or like payment in connection with the offering and sale of the Shares or any transaction contemplated by this Agreement, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus.

 

(kk)     No forward-looking statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained in either the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in good faith.

 

(ll)     The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or which to its knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration. The Company has not, in the 12 months preceding the date hereof, received notice from the NASDAQ Capital Market to the effect that the Company is not in compliance with any NASDAQ Marketplace Rule or any other listing or maintenance requirements of the NASDAQ Capital 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. The Common Stock is currently eligible for electronic transfer through the Depository Trust Company or another established clearing corporation and the Company is current in payment of the fees to the Depository Trust Company (or such other established clearing corporation) in connection with such electronic transfer.

 

(mm)     The Company and each of the Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects 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.

 

(nn)     Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor to the knowledge of the Company or any Subsidiary, any agent or other Person acting on behalf of the Company or any 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 any Subsidiary (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.

 

(oo)     There are no transactions, arrangements or other relationships between and/or among the Company or any Subsidiary, any of their Affiliates (as such term is defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act) and any unconsolidated entity, including, but not limited to, any structured finance, special purpose or limited purpose entity that could reasonably be expected to materially affect the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s liquidity or the availability of or requirements for their capital resources required to be described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or a document incorporated by reference therein which have not been described as required.

 

 
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(pp)     There are no outstanding loans, advances (except normal advances for business expenses in the ordinary course of business) or guarantees or indebtedness by the Company to or for the benefit of any of the officers or directors of the Company or any of their respective family members, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

(qq)     The statistical and market related data included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources that the Company believes to be reliable and accurate, and such data agree with the sources from which they are derived.

 

(rr)     The operations of the Company and each Subsidiary are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping 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 or any Subsidiary with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending, or to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

 

(ss)     Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or Affiliate of the Company or any Subsidiary is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“ OFAC ”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Subsidiary, joint venture partner or other Person for the purpose of financing the activities of any Person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.

 

(tt)     Neither the Company, nor any Subsidiary, nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any of their Affiliates (within the meaning of FINRA Rule 5121(b)(1)(a)) directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, or is an associated Person (within the meaning of Article I, Section l(ee) of the By-laws of FINRA) of, any member firm of FINRA.

 

(uu)     No approval of the stockholders of the Company under the rules and regulations of the NASDAQ Capital Market (including NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 5635) is required for the Company to issue and sell the Shares.

 

(vv)     Any certificate signed by or on behalf of the Company and delivered to the Placement Agent or to counsel for the Placement Agent shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Company to the Placement Agent as to the matters covered thereby.

 

 
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4.      THE CLOSING. The time and date of closing, payment of the purchase price for and delivery of the Shares, and delivery of the documents required to be delivered to the Placement Agent pursuant to Sections 5 and 7 hereof shall be at 10:00 A.M., Minneapolis, Minnesota time, on June 26, 2017 (the “ Closing Date ”) at the offices of Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., 200 South Sixth Street, Suite 4000, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 (or at such other time and place as shall be agreed upon by the Placement Agent and the Company). Unless otherwise specified in the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Shares will be settled through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company’s DWAC system. Subject to the terms hereof, payment of the purchase price for the Shares shall be made to the Company in the manner set forth below by Federal Funds wire transfer, against delivery of the Shares to such persons and shall be registered in the name or names and shall be in such denominations as the Placement Agent may request at least one business day before the Closing Date. Payment of the purchase price for the Shares to be purchased by the Purchasers shall be made by such Purchasers directly to the Company.

 

5.      COVENANTS .

 

5.1      FURTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE COMPANY. The Company agrees with the Placement Agent:

 

(a)     To prepare the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if necessary, in a form approved by the Placement Agent and file such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement with the Commission on the date hereof; to prepare the Prospectus in a form approved by the Placement Agent containing information previously omitted at the time of effectiveness of the Registration Statement in reliance on rules 430A, 430B and 430C and to file such Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Rules and Regulations not later than the second business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement or, if applicable, such earlier time as may be required by Rule 430A under the Rules and Regulations; to notify the Placement Agent immediately of the Company’s intention to file or prepare any supplement or amendment to the Registration Statement or to the Prospectus and to make no amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or to the Prospectus to which the Placement Agent shall reasonably object by notice to the Company after a reasonable period to review; to advise the Placement Agent, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the time when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective or any supplement to the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or any amended Prospectus has been filed and to furnish the Placement Agent copies thereof; to file promptly all material required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) or 163(b)(2), as the case may be; to file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or information statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of the Prospectus and for so long as the delivery of a prospectus (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) under the Rules and Regulations) is required in connection with the offering or sale of the Securities; to advise the Placement Agent, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, of the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose, or of any request by the Commission for the amending or supplementing of the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or for additional information; and, in the event of the issuance of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus or suspending any such qualification, and promptly to use its reasonable efforts to obtain the withdrawal of such order.

 

 
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(b)     The Company represents and agrees that, unless it obtains the prior consent of the Placement Agent, it has not made and will not, make any offer relating to the Shares that would constitute a “free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 405 under the Rules and Regulations unless the prior written consent of the Placement Agent has been received (each, a “ Permitted Free Writing Prospectus ”); provided , that the prior written consent of the Placement Agent shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the Issuer Free Writing Prospectus(es) identified on Schedule A hereto. The Company represents that it has treated and agrees that it will treat any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, comply with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 under the Rules and Regulations applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including the requirements relating to timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping and will not take any action that would result in the Placement Agent or the Company being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Rules and Regulations a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of the Placement Agent that the Placement Agent otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder.

 

(c)     If at any time when a Prospectus relating to the Shares is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, any event occurs or condition exists as a result of which the Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented, would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or the Registration Statement, as then amended or supplemented, would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or if for any other reason it is necessary at any time to amend or supplement the Registration Statement or the Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, the Company will promptly notify the Placement Agent, and upon the Placement Agent’s request, the Company will promptly prepare and file with the Commission, at the Company’s expense, an amendment to the Registration Statement or an amendment or supplement to the Prospectus that corrects such statement or omission or effects such compliance and will deliver to the Placement Agent, without charge, such number of copies thereof as the Placement Agent may reasonably request. The Company consents to the use of the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto by the Placement Agent.

 

(d)     If the General Disclosure Package is being used to solicit offers to buy the Shares at a time when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and any event shall occur as a result of which, in the judgment of the Company or in the reasonable opinion of the Placement Agent, it becomes necessary to amend or supplement the General Disclosure Package in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances then prevailing, not misleading, or to make the statements therein not conflict with the information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement then on file and not superseded or modified, or if it is necessary at any time to amend or supplement the General Disclosure Package to comply with any law, the Company promptly will either (i) prepare, file with the Commission (if required) and furnish to the Placement Agent and any dealers an appropriate amendment or supplement to the General Disclosure Package or (ii) prepare and file with the Commission an appropriate filing under the Exchange Act which shall be incorporated by reference in the General Disclosure Package so that the General Disclosure Package as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances then prevailing, be misleading or conflict with the Registration Statement then on file, or so that the General Disclosure Package will comply with law.

 

 
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(e)     If at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus or the Prospectus, including any document incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof and not superseded or modified or included or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit 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 prevailing at the subsequent time, not misleading, the Company has promptly notified or will promptly notify the Placement Agent so that any use of the Issuer Free Writing Prospectus may cease until it is amended or supplemented and has promptly amended or will promptly amend or supplement, at its own expense, such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement or omission. The foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon, and in conformity with, written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agent specifically for inclusion therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agent’s Information (as defined in Section 17) .

 

(f)     To the extent not available on the Commission’s EDGAR system or any successor system, to deliver promptly to the Placement Agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota such number of the following documents as the Placement Agent shall reasonably request: (i) conformed copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed with the Commission (in each case excluding exhibits), (ii) the Base Prospectus, (iii) each Preliminary Prospectus, (iv) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, (v) the Prospectus (the delivery of the documents referred to in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) of this paragraph (f ) to be made not later than 9:00 A.M., New York time, on the business day following the execution and delivery of this Agreement), (vi) conformed copies of any amendment to the Registration Statement (excluding exhibits), (vii) any amendment or supplement to the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (the delivery of the documents referred to in clauses (vi) and (vii) of this paragraph ( f to be made not later than 9:00 A.M., New York City time, on the business day following the date of such amendment or supplement) and (viii) any document incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus (excluding exhibits thereto) (the delivery of the documents referred to in clause (viii) of this paragraph ( f ) to be made not later than 9:00 A.M., New York City time, on the business day following the date of such document).

 

 
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(g)     To make generally available to its stockholders as soon as practicable, an earnings statement of the Company and any Subsidiary (which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations (including, at the option of the Company, Rule 158); and to furnish to its stockholders as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year an annual report (including a balance sheet and statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries certified by independent public accountants) and as soon as possible after each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year (beginning with the first fiscal quarter after the effective date of such Registration Statement), consolidated summary financial information of the Company and its subsidiaries for such quarter in reasonable detail.

 

(h)     To take promptly from time to time such actions as the Placement Agent may reasonably request to qualify the Shares for offering and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions (domestic or foreign) as the Placement Agent may designate and to continue such qualifications in effect, and to comply with such laws, for so long as required to permit the offer and sale of the Shares in such jurisdictions; provided that the Company shall not be obligated to qualify as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction.

 

(i)     That the Company will not, for a period of ninety (90) days from the date of the Prospectus (the “ Lock-Up Period ”), without the prior written consent of the Placement Agent, directly or indirectly offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock at an effective price per share less than the Public Offering Price, other than: (i) the Company’s sale of the Shares hereunder; (ii) the issuance of restricted Common Stock units, options to acquire Common Stock or other equity awards pursuant to the Company’s employee benefit plans, qualified stock option plans or other employee compensation plans as such plans are in existence on the date hereof and described in the Prospectus; (iii) the purchase or sale of the Company’s securities pursuant to a plan, contract or instruction that satisfies all of the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c)(1)(i)(B); (iv) transfers, sales or other dispositions to the Company or the withholding by the Company of shares of Common Stock to satisfy tax obligations resulting from the exercise, vesting or settlement of any stock options, restricted stock or restricted stock units; and (v) the issuance of Common Stock pursuant to the valid exercises or conversions of options, warrants, convertible indebtedness or rights outstanding on the date hereof. The Company will cause each executive officer, director and significant stockholder listed in Schedule B to furnish to the Placement Agent, on or prior to the date of this Agreement, a letter, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto, pursuant to which each such Person shall agree, among other things, not to directly or indirectly offer, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, contract to sell, or otherwise dispose of, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, not to engage in any swap or other agreement or arrangement that transfers, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, the economic risk of ownership of Common Stock or any such securities and not to engage in any short selling of any Common Stock or any such securities, during the Lock-Up Period, without the prior written consent of the Placement Agent.  The Company also agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Placement Agent, during such period, the Company will not file any registration statement, preliminary prospectus or prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, under the Securities Act for any such transaction or which registers, or offers for sale, Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, except for a registration statement on Form S-8 relating to employee benefit plans and any amendments to registration statements that have been previously filed by the Company and declared effective.

 

 
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(j)     To supply the Placement Agent with copies of all correspondence to and from, and all documents issued to and by, the Commission in connection with the registration of the Shares under the Securities Act or the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto or document incorporated by reference therein.

 

(k)     Prior to the Closing Date, not to issue any press release or other communication directly or indirectly or hold any press conference with respect to the Company, its condition, financial or otherwise, or earnings, business affairs or business prospects (except for routine oral marketing communications in the ordinary course of business and consistent with the past practices of the Company and of which the Placement Agent is notified), without the prior written consent of the Placement Agent, unless in the judgment of the Company and its counsel, and after notification to the Placement Agent, such press release or communication is required by law.

 

(l)     Until the Placement Agent shall have notified the Company of the completion of the offering of the Shares, that the Company will not, and will cause its affiliated purchasers (as defined in Regulation M under the Exchange Act) not to, either alone or with one or more other persons, bid for or purchase, for any account in which it or any of its affiliated purchasers has a beneficial interest, any Shares, or attempt to induce any Person to purchase any Shares; and not to, and to cause its affiliated purchasers not to, make bids or purchase for the purpose of creating actual, or apparent, active trading in or of raising the price of the Shares.

 

(m)     Not to take any action prior to the Closing Date which would require the Prospectus to be amended or supplemented pursuant to Section  5 .

 

(n)     Prior to the Closing Date, comply in all material respects with all applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in effect from time to time.

 

(o)     To apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Shares as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the heading “Use of Proceeds.”

 

(p)     To use its reasonable efforts to do and perform all things required to be done or performed under this Agreement by the Company prior to the Closing Date.

 

5.2      FURTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PLACEMENT AGENT. The Placement Agent covenants and agrees with the Company that, unless it obtains the prior written consent of the Company, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Shares that would constitute a free writing prospectus required to be filed with the Commission; provided that the prior written consent of the Company shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the free writing prospectus(es) included in Schedule A . Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Company is hereinafter referred to as an “ Agent Permitted Free Writing Prospectus .” The Placement Agent represents that it has treated or agrees that it will treat each Agent Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as a free writing prospectus and has complied and will comply with the requirements of Rule 164 and Rule 433 applicable to any Agent Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.

 

 
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6.      PAYMENT OF EXPENSES. In addition to the Placement Fee, the Company, whether or not the Offering is consummated, will reimburse the Placement Agent for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Placement Agent in connection with the performance of its services hereunder, including reasonable fees and disbursements of the Placement Agent’s legal counsel; provided that, in any event, reimbursement of expenses pursuant to this Section 6 will not exceed $75,000 in the aggregate without the Company’s prior written approval. At least one day prior to the Closing Date, the Placement Agent shall submit to the Company its bona fide estimate of the amount of expenses for which it is entitled to reimbursement pursuant hereto, and the Company agrees to reimburse such amount to the Placement Agent at the Closing. As soon as reasonably practicable after the Closing Date, the Placement Agent shall submit to the Company its expense reimbursement invoice and the Company or the Placement Agent, as applicable, shall make any necessary reconciling payment(s) within thirty (30) days of receipt of such invoices.

 

7.      CONDITIONS TO THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE PLACEMENT AGENT AND THE PURCHASERS, AND THE SALE OF THE SHARES . The respective obligations of the Placement Agent hereunder and the Purchasers under the Securities Purchase Agreement, and the Closing of the sale of the Shares, are subject to the accuracy, when made and as of the Applicable Time and on the Closing Date, of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, and to each of the following additional terms and conditions:

 

(a)     No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof, preventing or suspending the use of any Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, the Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or any part thereof shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A under the Securities Act shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission, and all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission (to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Placement Agent; the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if any, and the Prospectus shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time period prescribed for such filing by, and in compliance with, the Rules and Regulations and in accordance with  Section 5(a) and the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, shall have become effective immediately upon its filing with the Commission; and FINRA shall have raised no objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the terms of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

(b)     The Placement Agent shall not have discovered and disclosed to the Company on or prior to the Closing Date that the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of fact that, in the opinion of counsel for the Placement Agent, is material or omits to state any fact that, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that the General Disclosure Package, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of fact that, in the opinion of such counsel, is material or omits to state any fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is necessary in order to make the statements, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading.

 

 
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(c)     All corporate proceedings and other legal matters incident to the authorization, form and validity of each of this Agreement, the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Shares, the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, if any, and the Prospectus and all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects to counsel for the Placement Agent, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel all documents and information that they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.

 

(d)     Faegre Baker Daniels LLP shall have furnished to the Placement Agent, such counsel’s written opinion and negative assurances statement, as counsel to the Company, addressed to the Placement Agent and dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Placement Agent.

 

(e)     At the time of the execution of this Agreement, the Placement Agent shall have received a letter from Armanino LLP, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Placement Agent, addressed to the Placement Agent and dated the date hereof (i) confirming that they are independent public accountants within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, and (ii) stating, as of the date hereof (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the General Disclosure Package, as of a date not more than five days prior to the date of such letter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters ordinarily covered by accountants’ “comfort letters” to placement agents in connection with registered public offerings.

 

(f)      With respect to the letter of Armanino LLP referred to in the preceding paragraph and delivered to the Placement Agent concurrently with the execution of this Agreement (the “ initial letter ”), the Company shall have furnished to the Placement Agent a letter (the “ bring-down letter ”) of such accountants, addressed to the Placement Agent and dated as of the Closing Date (i) confirming that they are independent public accountants within the meaning of the Securities Act and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualifications of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission, (ii) stating, as of the date of the bring-down letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of which specified financial information is given in the General Disclosure Package, as of a date not more than three days prior to the date of the bring-down letter), the conclusions and findings of such firm with respect to the financial information and other matters covered by the initial letter and (iii) confirming in all material respects the conclusions and findings set forth in the initial letter.

 

 
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(g)     The Company shall have furnished to the Placement Agent a certificate, dated the Closing Date, of its Chief Executive Officer and its Chief Financial Officer stating that (i) such officers have examined the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and, in their opinion, the Registration Statement and each amendment thereto, at the Applicable Time and as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and the General Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time and as of the Closing Date, any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as of its date and as of the Closing Date, the Prospectus and each amendment or supplement thereto, as of the respective date thereof and as of the Closing Date, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, (ii) since the effective date of the Registration Statement, no event has occurred which should have been set forth in a supplement or amendment to the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus which has not been so set forth, (iii) to their knowledge, as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct and the Company, in all material respects (or, to the extent representations and warranties are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in all respects), has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date, and (iv) there has not been, subsequent to the date of the most recent audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and after giving effect to the Offering, any material adverse change in the financial position or results of operations of the Company or any Subsidiary, or any change or development that, singularly or in the aggregate, would involve a material adverse change or a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business, assets or prospects of the Company or any Subsidiary, except as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

(h)     Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or incorporated by reference therein as of the date hereof, and after giving effect to the Offering, (i) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary shall have sustained any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, and (ii) there shall not have been any change in the capital stock (other than a change in the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock due to the issuance of shares upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants or the conversion of restricted stock units or convertible indebtedness) or long-term debt (other than upon conversion of convertible indebtedness) of the Company or any Subsidiary, or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company, otherwise than as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii) of this Paragraph 7(h) is, in the reasonable judgment of the Placement Agent, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale or delivery of the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the General Disclosure Package.

 

 
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(i)     No action shall have been taken and no law, statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any governmental agency or body that would prevent the issuance or sale of the Shares or materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company or any Subsidiary; and no injunction, restraining order or order of any other nature by any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction shall have been issued which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Shares or materially and adversely affect the business or operations of the Company or any Subsidiary.

 

(j)     Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ Stock Market or in the over-the-counter market, or trading in any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market, shall have been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum prices or maximum range for prices shall have been established on any such exchange or such market by the Commission, by such exchange or market or by any other regulatory body or governmental authority having jurisdiction, (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared by Federal or state authorities or a material disruption has occurred in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States, (iii) the United States shall have become engaged in hostilities, or the subject of an act of terrorism, or there shall have been an outbreak of or escalation in hostilities involving the United States, or there shall have been a declaration of a national emergency or war by the United States or (iv) there shall have occurred such a material adverse change in general economic, political or financial conditions (or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets in the United States shall be such) as to make it, in the reasonable judgment of the Placement Agent, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale or delivery of the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

 

(k)     The Placement Agent shall have received on or prior to the date of this Agreement the written agreements, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto, of the executive officers, directors and significant stockholders of the Company listed in Schedule B to this Agreement.

 

(l)     The Company shall have entered into the Securities Purchase Agreement with each of the Purchasers and such agreement shall be in full force and effect.

 

(m)     FINRA shall have raised no objection as to the amount of compensation allowable or payable to the Placement Agent as described in the General Disclosure Package, any Pricing Prospectus or any Preliminary Prospectus.

 

(n)     Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Placement Agent such further information, opinions, certificates, letters or documents as the Placement Agent shall have reasonably requested.

 

 
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All opinions, letters, evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Placement Agent.

 

8.      INDEMNIFICATION AND CONTRIBUTION .

 

(a)     The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless the Placement Agent, its Affiliates and each of its and their respective directors, officers, members, employees, representatives and agents and its Affiliates, and each of its and their respective directors, officers, members, employees, representatives and agents and each Person, if any, who controls the Placement Agent within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (collectively the “Placement Agent Indemnified Parties,” and each a “Placement Agent Indemnified Party” ) against any loss, claim, damage, expense or liability whatsoever (or any action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof), joint or several, to which such Placement Agent Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding arises out of or is based upon (A) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Rules and Regulations, or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto or document incorporated by reference therein, (B) the omission or alleged omission to state in the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any ”issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Rules and Regulations, or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto or document incorporated by reference therein, a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or (C) any breach of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein or failure of the Company to perform its obligations hereunder or pursuant to any law, any act or failure to act, or any alleged act or failure to act, by the Placement Agent in connection with, or relating in any manner to, the Shares or the Offering, and which is included as part of or referred to in any loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding arising out of or based upon matters covered by subclause (A), (B) or (C) above of this Section 8(a) ( provided that the Company shall not be liable in the case of any matter covered by this subclause (C) to the extent that it is determined in a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction that such loss, claim, damage, expense or liability resulted directly from any such act or failure to act undertaken or omitted to be taken by the Placement Agent through its gross negligence or willful misconduct), and shall reimburse the Placement Agent Indemnified Party promptly upon demand for any legal fees or other expenses reasonably incurred by that Placement Agent Indemnified Party in connection with investigating, or preparing to defend, or defending against, or appearing as a third party witness in respect of, or otherwise incurred in connection with, any such loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding, as such fees and expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, expense or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in, or omission or alleged omission from the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Rules and Regulations, or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto or document incorporated by reference therein made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agent specifically for use therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agent’s Information (as defined in Section  17 ) .  This indemnity agreement is not exclusive and will be in addition to any liability, which the Company might otherwise have and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available at law or in equity to the Placement Agent Indemnified Party.

 

 
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(b)     The Placement Agent shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its Affiliates and each of its and their respective directors, officers, members, employees, representatives and agents and its Affiliates, and each of its and their respective directors, officers, members, employees, representatives and agents and each Person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act of or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (collectively the “ Company Indemnified Parties and each a “ Company Indemnified Party ”), and the successors and assigns of all of the foregoing persons, against any loss, claim, damage, expense or liability whatsoever (or any action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof), joint or several, to which such Company Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, or other federal or state statutory law or regulation, the common law or otherwise (including in settlement of any litigation, if such settlement is effected with the written consent of the Placement Agent) or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding arises out of or is based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Rules and Regulations, or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto or document incorporated by reference therein, or (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state in the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Rules and Regulations, or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto or document incorporated by reference therein, a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but in each case only to the extent that the untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agent specifically for use therein, which information the parties hereto agree is limited to the Placement Agent’s Information as defined in Section 17 and shall reimburse the Company for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with investigating or preparing to defend or defending against or appearing as third party witness in connection with any such loss, claim, damage, liability, action, investigation or proceeding, as such fees and expenses are incurred.

 

 
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(c)     Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section  8 of notice of the commencement of any action, the indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against an indemnifying party under this Section  8 notify such indemnifying party in writing of the commencement of that action; provided, however, that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have under this Section  8 except to the extent it has been materially prejudiced by such failure; and, provided, further, that the failure to notify an indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under this Section  8 . If any such action shall be brought against an indemnified party, and it shall notify the indemnifying party thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it wishes, jointly with any other similarly notified indemnifying party, to assume the defense of such action with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party (which counsel shall not, except with the written consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party). After notice from the indemnifying party to the indemnified party of its election to assume the defense of such action, except as provided herein, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to the indemnified party under Section 8 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by the indemnified party in connection with the defense of such action other than reasonable costs of investigation; provided, however, that any indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and to participate in the defense of such action but the fees and expenses of such counsel (other than reasonable costs of investigation) shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized in writing by the Company in the case of a claim for indemnification under Section 8(a) or Section  2(f) or the Placement Agent in the case of a claim for indemnification under Section  8(b) (ii) such indemnified party shall have been advised by its counsel that there may be one or more legal defenses available to it which are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, or (iii) the indemnifying party has failed to assume the defense of such action and employ counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party within a reasonable period of time after notice of the commencement of the action or the indemnifying party does not diligently defend the action after assumption of the defense, in which case, if such indemnified party notifies the indemnifying party in writing that it elects to employ separate counsel at the expense of the indemnifying party, the indemnifying party shall not have the right to assume the defense of (or, in the case of a failure to diligently defend the action after assumption of the defense, to continue to defend) such action on behalf of such indemnified party and the indemnifying party shall be responsible for legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense of such action; provided, however, that the indemnifying party shall not, in connection with any one such action or separate but substantially similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances, be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of more than one separate firm of attorneys at any time for all such indemnified parties (in addition to any local counsel), which firm shall be designated in writing by the Placement Agent if the indemnified parties under this Section  8 consist of any Placement Agent Indemnified Party or by the Company if the indemnified parties under this Section  8 consist of any Company Indemnified Parties. Subject to this Section 8(c) , the amount payable by an indemnifying party under Section  8 shall include, but not be limited to, (x) reasonable legal fees and expenses of counsel to the indemnified party and any other expenses in investigating, or preparing to defend or defending against, or appearing as a third party witness in respect of, or otherwise incurred in connection with, any action, investigation, proceeding or claim, and (y) all amounts paid in settlement of any of the foregoing. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of judgment with respect to any pending or threatened action or any claim whatsoever, in respect of which indemnification or contribution could be sought under this Section  8 (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties thereto), unless such settlement, compromise or consent (i) includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party from all liability arising out of such action or claim and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party. Subject to the provisions of the following sentence, no indemnifying party shall be liable for settlement of any pending or threatened action or any claim whatsoever that is effected without its written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), but if settled with its written consent, if its consent has been unreasonably withheld or delayed or if there be a judgment for the plaintiff in any such matter, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. In addition, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested that an indemnifying party reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of the nature contemplated herein effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than sixty (60) days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the request for reimbursement, (ii) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of such settlement at least thirty (30) days prior to such settlement being entered into and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement.

 

 
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(d)     If the indemnification provided for in this Section  8 is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under Section  8(a) or Section  8(b) , then each indemnifying party shall, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, contribute to the amount paid, payable or otherwise incurred by such indemnified party as a result of such loss, claim, damage, expense or liability (or any action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof), as incurred, (i) in such proportion as shall be appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Placement Agent on the other hand from the offering of the Shares, or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) of this Section  8(d) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) of this Section  8(d) but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Placement Agent on the other with respect to the statements, omissions, acts or failures to act which resulted in such loss, claim, damage, expense or liability (or any action, investigation or proceeding in respect thereof) as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Placement Agent on the other with respect to such offering shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Shares purchased under this Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total Placement Fee received by the Placement Agent in connection with the Offering, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus. The relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Placement Agent on the other shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the one hand or the Placement Agent on the other, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement, omission, act or failure to act; provided that the parties hereto agree that the written information furnished to the Company by the Placement Agent for use in the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Pricing Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Rules and Regulations, or the Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto or document incorporated by reference therein, consists solely of the Placement Agent’s Information as defined in Section 17 . The Company and the Placement Agent agree that it would not be just and equitable if contributions pursuant to this Section  8(d) were to be determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation that does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to herein. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding referred to above in this Section  8(d) shall be deemed to include, for purposes of this Section  8(d) , any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating, preparing to defend or defending against or appearing as a third party witness in respect of, or otherwise incurred in connection with, any such loss, claim, damage, expense, liability, action, investigation or proceeding. No Person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any Person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The remedies provided for in this Section 8 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to any indemnified party at law or in equity.

 

 
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9.      TERMINATION. The obligations of the Placement Agent hereunder may be terminated by the Placement Agent, in its absolute discretion by notice given to the Company prior to delivery of and payment for the Shares if, prior to that time, (i) any of the conditions to closing in Section 7 shall not have been satisfied in full and shall not have been expressly waived in writing by the Placement Agent, or (ii) any of the events described in Section 7(a) , (b) , (i) or (j) shall have occurred.

 

10.      [RESERVED] .

 

11.      ABSENCE OF FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIP. The Company acknowledges and agrees that:

 

(a)     the Placement Agent’s responsibility to the Company is solely contractual in nature, the Placement Agent has been retained solely to act as Placement Agent in connection with the Offering and no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between the Company and the Placement Agent has been created in respect of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, irrespective of whether the Placement Agent has advised or is advising the Company on other matters;

 

(b)     the price of the Shares set forth in this Agreement was established by the Company following discussions and arms-length negotiations with the Placement Agent and the Purchasers, and the Company is capable of evaluating and understanding, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;

 

 
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(c)     it has been advised that the Placement Agent and its Affiliates are engaged in a broad range of transactions which may involve interests that differ from those of the Company and that the Placement Agent has no obligation to disclose such interests and transactions to the Company by virtue of any fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship; and

 

(d)     it waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims it may have against the Placement Agent for breach of fiduciary duty or alleged breach of fiduciary duty and agrees that the Placement Agent shall have no liability (whether direct or indirect) to the Company in respect of such a fiduciary duty claim or to any Person asserting a fiduciary duty claim on behalf of or in right of the Company, including stockholders, employees or creditors of the Company.

 

12.      SUCCESSORS; PERSONS ENTITLED TO BENEFIT OF AGREEMENT. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Placement Agent, the Company, and their respective successors and assigns. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any Person, other than the persons mentioned in the preceding sentence, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement, or any provisions herein contained, this Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof being intended to be and being for the sole and exclusive benefit of such persons and for the benefit of no other Person; except that the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements and indemnities of the Company contained in this Agreement shall also be for the benefit of the Placement Agent Indemnified Parties and the indemnities of the  Placement Agent shall be for the benefit of the Company Indemnified Parties. It is understood that the Placement Agent’s responsibility to the Company is solely contractual in nature and the Placement Agent does not owe the Company, or any other party, any fiduciary duty as a result of this Agreement.

 

13.      SURVIVAL OF INDEMNITIES, REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, ETC. The respective indemnities, covenants, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and the Placement Agent, as set forth in this Agreement or made by them respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Placement Agent, the Company, the Purchasers or any Person controlling any of them and shall survive delivery of and payment for the Shares. Notwithstanding any termination of this Agreement, including without limitation any termination pursuant to Section 9 , the indemnity and contribution agreements contained in Section  8 and the covenants, representations, warranties set forth in this Agreement shall not terminate and shall remain in full force and effect at all times.

 

14.      NOTICES. All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing, and:

 

(a)     if to the Placement Agent, shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex, facsimile transmission or overnight courier to Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC, 225 South 6th Street, Suite 2050, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, Attention: Michael Townley, Email: mike.townley@lakestreetcm.com, with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., 200 South Sixth Street, Suite 4000, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, Attention: Ryan C. Brauer, Email: rbrauer@fredlaw.com, and Christopher J. Melsha, Email: cmelsha@fredlaw.com, Fax (612) 492-2077; and

 

 
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(b)     if to the Company, shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex, facsimile transmission or overnight courier to Determine, Inc., 615 West Carmel Drive, Suite 100, Carmel, Indiana 46032, Attention: Chief Executive Officer, with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to: Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, 2200 Wells Fargo Center, 90 South Seventh Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, Attention: Jonathan R. Zimmerman, Email: jon.zimmerman@FaegreBD.com, Fax: (612) 766-1600.

 

Any such statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect at the time of receipt thereof, except that any such statement, request, notice or agreement delivered or sent by email shall take effect at the time of confirmation of receipt thereof by the recipient thereof.

 

15.      DEFINITION OF CERTAIN TERMS. For purposes of this Agreement, “business day” means any day on which the NASDAQ Capital Market is open for trading.

 

16.      GOVERNING LAW, AGENT FOR SERVICE AND JURISDICTION. This Agreement shall be governed as to validity, interpretation, construction, effect and in all other respects by the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the conflict of laws principles thereof. Each of the Placement Agent and the Company: (i) agrees that any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement and/or the transactions contemplated hereby shall be instituted exclusively in New York Supreme Court, County of New York, or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, (ii) waives any objection which it may have or hereafter to the venue of any such suit, action or proceeding, and (iii) irrevocably consents to the jurisdiction of the New York Supreme Court, County of New York, and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in any such suit, action or proceeding. Each of the Placement Agent and the Company further agrees to accept and acknowledge service of any and all process which may be served in any such suit, action or proceeding in the New York Supreme Court, County of New York, or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and agrees that service of process upon the Company mailed by certified mail to the Company’s address shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Company, in any such suit, action or proceeding, and service of process upon the Placement Agent mailed by certified mail to the Placement Agent’s address shall be deemed in every respect effective service process upon the Placement Agent, in any such suit, action or proceeding. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, the Company agrees that neither the Placement Agent nor its Affiliates, and the respective officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives of the Placement Agent, its Affiliates and each other Person, if any, controlling the Placement Agent or any of its Affiliates, shall have any liability (whether direct or indirect, in contract or tort or otherwise) to the Company for or in connection with the engagement and transaction described herein except for any such liability for losses, claims, damages or liabilities incurred by us that are finally judicially determined to have resulted from the bad faith or gross negligence of such individuals or entities. If either party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provision of this Agreement, then the prevailing party in such action or 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 action or proceeding.

 

 
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17.      PLACEMENT AGENT’S INFORMATION. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that, for all purposes of this Agreement, the Placement Agent’s Information consists solely of the following information in the Prospectus: under the heading “Plan of Distribution,” (i) the second sentence of the first paragraph, and (ii) the first paragraph under “—Electronic Distribution.”

 

18.      PARTIAL UNENFORCEABILITY. The invalidity or unenforceability of any section, paragraph, clause or provision of this Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other section, paragraph, clause or provision hereof. If any section, paragraph, clause or provision of this Agreement is for any reason determined to be invalid or unenforceable, there shall be deemed to be made such minor changes (and only such minor changes) as are necessary to make it valid and enforceable.

 

19.      GENERAL. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties to this Agreement and supersedes all prior written or oral and all contemporaneous oral agreements, understandings and negotiations with respect to the subject matter hereof. In this Agreement, the masculine, feminine and neuter genders and the singular and the plural include one another. The Section headings in this Agreement are for the convenience of the parties only and will not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement. This Agreement may be amended or modified, and the observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived, only by a writing signed by the Company and the Placement Agent.

 

20.      COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument and such signatures may be delivered by facsimile or portable document format (.pdf).

 

21.      EFFECTIVENESS. This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution and delivery hereof by the parties hereto.

 

 

 

 

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of the agreement between the Company and the Placement Agent, kindly indicate your acceptance in the space provided for that purpose below.

 

Very truly yours,

 

DETERMINE, INC.

 

 

By:     /s/ John Nolan                                              
Name: John Nolan
Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

Accepted as of the date first above written:

 

LAKE STREET CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC

 

 

By:     /s/ Michael Townley                                    
Name: Michael Townley
Title: Head of Investment Banking

 

 

Signature Page to Placement Agency Agreement

 

 

 

 

SCHEDULE A

 

General Use Free Writing Prospectuses

 

None.

 

 

 

 

SCHEDULE B

 

List of Directors, Officers and Stockholders for Lock-Up Agreements

 

Patrick Stakenas

John Nolan

Alan B. Howe

Lloyd Sems

Michael Casey

J. Michael Gullard

Michael Brodsky

Jeffrey Grosman

 

Lloyd I. Miller III

Milfam I L.P.

Milfam II L.P.

Lloyd I. Miller Trust A-4

Catherine Miller Trust C

Lloyd I. Miller Irrevocable Trust D

Marli Bryant Miller Revocable Trust

Alimco Financial Corporation

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT A

 

Form of Securities Purchase Agreement  

 

See attached.

 

 

 

 

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “ Agreement ”) is dated as of June 21, 2017, by and among Determine, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), and the purchasers identified on the signature page hereto (including each purchaser’s successors and assigns, individually, a “ Purchaser ,” and collectively, the “ Purchasers ”).

 

WHEREAS , subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), the Company desires to issue and sell to the Purchasers, and the Purchasers desire 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 the Purchasers agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I.

DEFINITIONS  

 

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

 

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

 

Closing Date ” means the 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 Shares, in each case, have been satisfied or waived, but in no event later than the third Trading Day following the date hereof.

 

Commission ” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Common Stock ” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.00 01 per share, and any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed.

 

Fredrikson ” means Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., legal counsel to the Placement Agent.

 

Fundamental Transaction ” means any of the following: (i) the Company effects any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another Person, (ii) the Company effects any sale of all or substantially all of its assets in one or a series of related transactions, (iii) any tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Common Stock are permitted to tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property, or (iv) the Company effects any reclassification of the Common Stock or any compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is effectively converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property.

 

Material Adverse Effect ” means (i) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (ii) 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.

 

Offering ” means the sale of the Shares to the Purchasers.

 

Per Share Purchase Price ” equals $2.50, subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement but on or prior to the Closing Date.

 

 
 

 

 

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.

 

Placement Agent ” means Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC.

 

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.

 

Prospectus ” means the final prospectus included in the Registration Statement.

 

Prospectus Supplement ” means the supplement to the Prospectus complying with Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act that is filed with the Commission and delivered by the Company to the Purchasers.

 

Registration Statement ” means the effective registration statement on Form S-3 filed with the Commission (File No. 333-207841) that registers the offer and sale of the Shares.

 

Shares ” means the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable to the Purchasers pursuant to this Agreement.

 

Subscription Amount ” means the aggregate amount to be paid for the Shares purchased hereunder as specified below each 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.

 

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 Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE MKT, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange or the OTCQB Venture Market (or any successors to any of the foregoing).

 

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

 

Transfer Agent ” means Wells Fargo Shareowner Services, 1110 Centre Point Curve, Suite 101, Mendota Heights, Minnesota 55120, and any successor transfer agent of the Company.

 

ARTICLE II.

PURCHASE AND SALE

 

2.1 Closing . On the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, the Company agrees to sell, and each Purchaser agrees to purchase, the Shares identified on such Purchaser’s signature page hereto. At the Closing, each Purchaser shall deliver to the Company, via wire transfer, immediately available funds equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount or settle via delivery versus payment (“ DVP ”) through DTC with the Placement Agent, the Company shall deliver to the Purchasers the Shares as determined pursuant to Section 2.3(a), and the Company and each Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.3 deliverable at the Closing. Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.3 and 2.4, the Closing shall occur at such location or by electronic exchange of documents, as the parties shall mutually agree.

 

2.2 Prospectus . Each Purchaser represents and warrants to the Company that it has received (or otherwise had made available to it by the filing by the Company of an electronic version thereof with the Commission) the Prospectus filed by the Company with the Commission and, if applicable, certain “free writing prospectuses” (as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act), that have been or will be filed with the Commission and delivered to the Purchaser on or prior to the date hereof, containing certain supplemental information regarding the Shares, the terms of the Offering and the Company, and the Prospectus Supplement. Each Purchaser acknowledges that, prior to the delivery of this Agreement by the Purchaser to the Company, the Purchaser will receive certain additional information regarding the Offering, including pricing information. Such information may be provided to the Purchaser by any means permitted under the Securities Act, including the Prospectus Supplement, a free writing prospectus and oral communications.

 

 

 

 

2.3 Deliveries .

 

(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Purchasers the following:

 

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

 

(ii) a copy of the irrevocable instructions to the Transfer Agent instructing the Transfer Agent to deliver a number of Shares equal to each Purchaser’s Subscription Amount, designated on the signature page as “Subscription Amount,” divided by the Per Share Purchase Price for Common Stock, registered in the name of such Purchaser, via The Depository Trust Company (“ DTC ”) Deposit and Withdrawal at Custodian (“ DWAC ”) system or via DVP through DTC, as indicated on such Purchaser’s signature page hereto; and

 

(iii) the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement (which may be delivered in accordance with Rule 172 under the Securities Act).

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

2.4 Closing Conditions .

 

(a) The obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

 

(i) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Purchasers required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and

 

(ii) the delivery by the Purchasers of the items set forth in Section 2.3(b) of this Agreement.

 

(b) The obligations of the Purchasers hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

 

(i) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company under this Agreement required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed;

 

(ii) the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.3(a) of this Agreement;

 

(iii) there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company since the date hereof; and

 

(iv) from the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the Commission or the Company’s principal Trading Market, and, from the date hereof 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, makes it reasonably impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Shares at the Closing.

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE III.

MISCELLANEOUS

 

3.1 Termination . This Agreement may be terminated by the Purchasers or by the Company by written notice to the other party if the Closing has not been consummated on or before June 26, 2017; provided, however, that no such termination will affect the right of either party to sue for any breach by the other party.

 

3.2 Fees and Expenses . 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 Shares to the Purchasers.

 

3.3 Entire Agreement . The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto, the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof 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.

 

3.4 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, 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 either party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.

 

3.5 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 the Purchasers (except if in connection with a Fundamental Transaction).

 

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

 

3.7 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 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, partners, members, 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 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 Proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, or that such court is an 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 Proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address for notice set forth on the signature page hereto 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 a Proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then the prevailing party in such Proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other reasonable costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such Proceeding.

 

 

 

 

3.8 Execution . This Agreement may be executed by electronic signature and in counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement , and this Agreement shall become effective when each party has delivered its signature to each other party. 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.

 

3.9 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.

 

3.10 Remedies . In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, the Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary damages would 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.

 

3.11 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 hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any Proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in 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 Fredrikson. Fredrikson does not represent any of the Purchasers and only represents the Placement Agent. 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. It is expressly understood and agreed that each provision contained in this Agreement and in each other Transaction Document is between the Company and a Purchaser, solely, and not between the Company and the Purchasers collectively and not between and among the Purchasers.

 

 

 

 

3.12 Acknowledgment . Each Purchaser acknowledges that the Offering is not being underwritten by the Placement Agent and that there is no minimum Subscription Amount. Such Purchaser confirms that it has had full access to all filings made by the Company with the Commission, including the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement relating to the Shares, and the documents incorporated by reference therein, and that it was able to read and review each such filing. In subscribing to the Shares, such Purchaser affirms that it has conducted substantive due diligence with respect to the Company and the Shares including, without limitation, reviewing in detail the Registration Statement (including the exhibits thereto), the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, including the documents incorporated by reference in such documents. In addition, such Purchaser understands that there is a high degree of risk in subscribing to the Shares and that such Purchaser may lose the entire investment in the Shares.

 

3.13 Liquidated Damages . The Company’s obligation to pay Transfer Agent fees, stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Shares to the Purchasers is a continuing obligation of the Company and shall not terminate until all such unpaid amounts have been paid.

 

3.14 Construction . The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel have 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 thereto. In addition, each and every reference to share prices and shares of Common Stock in any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement but on or prior to the Closing Date.

 

3.15 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]

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Determine, Inc.

 

 

By:                                                                     

Name:                                                                

Title:                                                                 

Address for Notice:

 

615 West Carmel Drive, Suite 100

Carmel, Indiana 46032

 

With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

 

Faegre Baker Daniels LLP

2200 Wells Fargo Center

90 South Seventh Street

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402

Attention: Jonathan R. Zimmerman

 

 

Signature Page to Securities Purchase Agreement

 

 
 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the undersigned has caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by an authorized signatory 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:

   
     

Address for Notice to Purchaser:

   
     
     
     

DTC Participant Account Name:

   
     

DTC Participant Account Number:

   
     

Subscription Amount:

 

$

     

Shares:

   
     

EIN Number: 

   

 

The above-named Purchaser elects settlement of the Shares purchased as follows (check one):

 

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Delivery by crediting the account of Purchaser’s prime broker (as specified above) with DTC through its DWAC system, whereby Purchaser’s prime broker shall initiate a DWAC transaction on the Closing Date using its DTC participant identification number, and released by the Transfer Agent, at the Company's direction.

 

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Delivery versus payment through DTC (i.e., on the Closing Date, the Company shall issue Shares registered in the Purchaser’s name and address as set forth below and released by the Transfer Agent directly to the account(s) at the Placement Agent identified by the Purchaser).

 

 

Signature Page to Securities Purchase Agreement

 

 
 

 

 

EXHIBIT B

 

Form of Lock-Up Agreement

 

____________, 2017

 

 

Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC

225 South Sixth Street, Suite 2050

Minneapolis, MN 55402

 

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

The undersigned understands that Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC (the “ Placement Agent ”) proposes to enter into a Placement Agency Agreement (the “ Agency Agreement ”) with Determine, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), relating to a proposed offering (the “ Offering ”) of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “ Common Stock ”).

 

In consideration of the foregoing, and in order to induce the Placement Agent to participate in the Offering, and for other good and valuable consideration receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned hereby agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Placement Agent, the undersigned will not, during the period beginning on the date hereof and ending 90 days following the filing of the final prospectus supplement relating to the Offering, (1) offer, pledge, announce the intention to sell, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock (including without limitation, shares of Common Stock which may be deemed to be beneficially owned by the undersigned in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and securities which may be issued upon exercise of a stock option or warrant), (2) enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the shares of Common Stock, whether any such transaction described in clause (1) or (2) above is to be settled by delivery of shares of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise, (3) make any demand for or exercise any right with respect to, the registration of any shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock, or (4) publicly announce an intention to effect any transaction specific in clause (1), (2) or (3) above.

 

 
B-1

 

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the restrictions set forth in clauses (1) and (2) above shall not apply to (a) transfers (i) as a bona fide gift or gifts or by will or intestacy, provided that the donee(s), heir(s) or beneficiary(ies) thereof agree to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein, (ii) to any trust for the direct or indirect benefit of the undersigned or the immediate family of the undersigned, provided that the trustee of the trust agrees to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein, and provided further that any such transfer shall not involve a disposition for value or (iii) if the undersigned is a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust or other business entity (x) transfers to another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust or other business entity that is a direct or indirect affiliate (as defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) of the undersigned or (y) distributions of shares of Common Stock or any security convertible into or exercisable for Common Stock to limited partners, limited liability company members or stockholders of the undersigned, provided that any such transferee or distributee agrees to be bound in writing by the restrictions set forth herein; (b) the acquisition or exercise of any stock options or other stock-based awards issued pursuant to the undersigned by the Company, including any exercise effected by the delivery of shares of Common Stock of the Company held by the undersigned; (c) the purchase or sale of the Company’s securities pursuant to a plan, contract or instruction that satisfies all of the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c)(1)(i)(B); (d) transfers, sales or other dispositions to the Company or the withholding by the Company of shares of Common Stock to satisfy tax obligations resulting from the exercise, vesting or settlement of any stock options, restricted stock or restricted stock units; or (e) transfers, sales, tenders or other dispositions of the Common Stock pursuant to a tender offer for securities of the Company that would, if consummated, result in not less than a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Company being disposed in such transaction or pursuant to any other transaction, including, without limitation, a merger, consolidation or other business combination, resulting in not less than a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Company being disposed in such transaction (including, without limitation, entering into any lock-up, voting or similar agreement pursuant to which the undersigned may agree to transfer, sell, tender or otherwise dispose of any of the undersigned’s shares of Common Stock in connection with any such transaction or to vote any of the undersigned’s shares of Common Stock in favor of any such transaction); provided that, if such tender offer or other transaction is not completed, any of the undersigned’s Common Stock shall remain subject to the restrictions contained in this Lock-Up Agreement. For purposes of this Lock-Up Agreement, “immediate family” shall mean any relationship by blood, marriage or adoption, not more remote than first cousin.

 

The foregoing restrictions are expressly agreed to preclude the undersigned from engaging in any hedging or other transaction which is designed to or reasonably expected to lead to or result in a sale or disposition of shares of Common Stock even if such securities would be disposed of by someone other than the undersigned. Such prohibited hedging or other transactions would include without limitation any short sale or any purchase, sale or grant of any right (including without limitation any put option or put equivalent position or call option or call equivalent position) with respect to any of the shares of Common Stock or with respect to any security that includes, relates to, or derives any significant part of its value from such shares.

 

The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the undersigned has full power and authority to enter into this Lock-Up Agreement. All authority herein conferred or agreed to be conferred and any obligations of the undersigned shall be binding upon the successors, assigns, heirs or personal representatives of the undersigned.

 

The undersigned also agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar or depositary against the transfer of the undersigned’s shares of Common Stock except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions.

 

 
B-2

 

 

The undersigned understands that, if (i) the Company notifies the Placement Agent that it does not intend to proceed with the Offering, (ii) the Agency Agreement does not become effective, or (iii) the Agency Agreement (other than the provisions thereof which survive termination) shall terminate or be terminated prior to payment for and delivery of the securities to be sold thereunder, the undersigned shall be released from all obligations under this Lock-Up Agreement.

 

This Lock-Up Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to the conflict of laws principles thereof.

 

Very truly yours,

 

 

 

                                                                                              

Printed Name of Holder

 

 

 

By:                                                                                         

        Signature

 

 

 

                                                                                              

Printed Name of Person Signing

(and indicate capacity of person signing if signing as custodian,

trustee, or on behalf or an entity)

 

 

 

B-3

Exhibit 10.3

 

 

It is the responsibility of any investor purchasing these securities to satisfy itself as to full observance of the laws of any relevant territory outside the United States in connection with any such purchase, including obtaining any required governmental or other consents or observing any other applicable requirements. We are not making an offer to sell these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

Determine, Inc.

Common Stock

 

SUBSCRIPTION AND INVESTMENT REPRESENTATION AGREEMENT

 

THIS AGREEMENT is dated as of the date set forth on the signature page of this Agreement by and between Determine, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), and the undersigned subscribers (the “ Subscribers ”). In consideration of the mutual promises contained herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the parties hereto agree as follows:

 

1.            Agreement of Sale . The Company agrees to sell to Subscribers, and Subscribers agree to acquire from the Company, that number of shares the Company’s common stock set forth in Schedule I next to each Subscriber’s name (the “ Securities ”). The purchase price will be paid by the Subscribers by the Subscribers acceptance of the Company’s request to convert a portion of the notes issued to Subscribers in March 2015 (the “ Notes ”) into the Company’s common stock pursuant to the terms of the Notes as set forth in Schedule I and for other good an valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged. Execution of this agreement shall constitute each Subscriber’s request to convert the portion of the Notes set forth in Schedule I. pursuant to the terms of the Notes. Securities issued pursuant to the Agreement shall be subject to the same registration rights as Securities issuable upon conversion of the Notes.

 

2.            Representations and Warranties of Each Subscriber . In consideration of the Company’s offer to sell the Securities, each Subscriber hereby represents and warrants to the Company as follows:

 

a.            Information About the Company .

 

i.     Subscriber has reviewed the Company’s public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the risk factors described therein.

 

ii.     Subscriber has had an opportunity to ask questions of, and receive answers from, the Company concerning the business, management and financial affairs of the Company and the terms and conditions of the purchase of the Securities contemplated hereby. Subscriber has had an opportunity to obtain, and has received, any additional information deemed necessary by the Subscriber to verify such information in order to form a decision concerning an investment in the Company.

 

iii.     Subscriber has been advised to seek legal counsel and financial advice concerning Subscriber’s investment in the Company.

 

b.            Restrictions on Transfer . Subscriber represents and warrants that the Securities are being purchased for Subscriber’s own account and for Subscriber’s investment and without the intention of reselling or redistributing the same, that Subscriber has made no agreement with others regarding any of such Securities and that Subscriber’s financial condition is such that it is not likely that it will be necessary to dispose of any of the Securities in the foreseeable future. Subscriber is aware that, in the view of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a purchase of the Securities with an intent to resell by reason of any foreseeable specific contingency or anticipated change in market values, or any change in the condition of the Company, or in connection with a contemplated liquidation or settlement of any loan obtained for the acquisition of the Securities and for which the Securities were pledged as security, would represent an intent inconsistent with the representations set forth above. Subscriber understands that the Securities have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any state or foreign securities laws in reliance on exemptions from registration under both such acts, and that, accordingly, the Securities may not be resold by the undersigned unless they are registered under both the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and applicable state or foreign securities laws or are sold in transactions which are exempt from such registration. Subscriber therefore agrees not to sell, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of the Securities unless a registration statement relating thereto has been duly filed and become effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and applicable state or foreign securities laws, or unless in the opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Company no such registration is required under the circumstances.

 

 

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c.            High Degree of Risk . Subscriber realizes that an investment in the Securities involves a high degree of risk, including the risks of receiving no return on the investment and of losing Subscriber’s entire investment in the Company. Subscriber is able to bear the economic risk of investment in the Securities, including the total loss of such investment. The Company can make no assurance regarding its future financial performance or as to the future profitability of the Company.

 

d.            Suitability . Subscriber has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that Subscriber is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an investment in the Securities. Subscriber has obtained, to the extent deemed necessary, Subscriber’s own personal professional advice with respect to the risks inherent in, and the suitability of, an investment in the Securities in light of Subscriber’s financial condition and investment needs. Subscriber believes that the investment in the Securities is suitable for Subscriber based upon Subscriber’s investment objectives and financial needs, and Subscriber has adequate means for providing for Subscriber’s current financial needs and personal contingencies and has no need for liquidity of investment with respect to the Securities. Subscriber understands that no federal or state agency has made any finding or determination as to the fairness for investment, nor any recommendation or endorsement, of the Securities.

 

e.            Tax Liability . Subscriber has reviewed with Subscriber’s own tax advisors the federal, state, local and foreign tax consequences of this investment and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and has and will rely solely on such advisors and not on any statements or representations of the Company or any of its agents. Subscriber understands that Subscriber (and not the Company) shall be responsible for Subscriber’s own tax liability that may arise as a result of this investment or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Under penalties of perjury, Subscriber certifies that (a) the number shown on the signature page below is Subscriber’s correct social security or taxpayer identification number and (b) Subscriber is not subject to back-up withholding either because Subscriber has not been notified that Subscriber is subject to back-up withholding as a result of a failure to report all interest and dividends, or because the Internal Revenue Service has notified Subscriber that Subscriber is no longer subject to back-up withholding.

 

e.            Residence . Subscriber’s principal residence or business address, and the location where the securities are being purchased, is Subscriber’s address listed below.

 

f.            Limitation Regarding Representations . Except as set forth in this Agreement, no representations or warranties have been made to Subscriber by the Company or any agent, employee or affiliate of the Company and in entering into this transaction, Subscriber is not relying on any information, other than that contained herein and the results of independent investigation by Subscriber. Subscriber agrees it is not relying on any oral or written information not expressly included in this Agreement, meaning Subscriber is not relying on information that has been provided by the Company, its directors, its officers or any affiliate of any of the foregoing.

 

g.            Authority .

 

i.            Entity . If the undersigned is not an individual but an entity, the individual signing on behalf of such entity and the entity jointly and severally agree and certify that (a) the undersigned was not organized for the specific purpose of acquiring the Securities and (b) this Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the undersigned, has been duly executed by an authorized officer or representative of the undersigned, and is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the undersigned enforceable in accordance with its terms.

 

ii.           Individual . If the undersigned is an individual, the undersigned is of legal age.

 

3.             Legend . Each Subscriber consents to the inscription on the certificate or certificates representing the Securities of the following legend reciting the above restrictions on the transferability of the Securities:

 

The Securities represented by this certificate have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and have not been registered under any state securities laws. These Securities may not be sold, offered for sale or transferred without first obtaining (i) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Company that such sale or transfer lawfully is exempt from registration under the Securities Act and under the applicable state securities laws or (ii) such registration.

 

PARAGRAPH 4 IS REQUIRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXEMPTIONS FROM THE SECURITIES ACT AND STATE LAWS BEING RELIED ON BY THE COMPANY WITH RESPECT TO THE OFFER AND SALE OF THE SECURITIES. ALL OF SUCH INFORMATION WILL BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL AND WILL BE REVIEWED ONLY BY THE COMPANY AND ITS COUNSEL. THE UNDERSIGNED AGREES TO FURNISH ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT THE Company AND ITS COUNSEL DEEM NECESSARY TO VERIFY THE RESPONSES SET FORTH BELOW.

 

 

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4.      Accredited Status . Each Subscriber represents that it does qualify as an “accredited investor” as that term is defined in Regulation D under the Securities Act because the undersigned satisfies the criteria indicated on the signature page hereto. Each Subscriber further represents and warrants that the information provided under the heading “Accredited Investor Status” on the signature page to this Agreement is true and correct. The information provided under this section is required in connection with the exemptions from the Securities Act and state securities laws being relied on by the Company with respect to the offer and sale of the Securities. The undersigned agrees to furnish any additional information which the Company or its legal counsel deem necessary in order to verify the responses set forth above.

 

5.      Holding Status . Each Subscriber desires that the Securities be held as set forth on the signature page hereto.

 

6.      Confidentiality . Each Subscriber will make no written or other public disclosures regarding the Company and its business, the terms or existence of the proposed sale of Securities or regarding the parties to the proposed sale of Securities to any individual or organization without the prior written consent of the Company, except as may be required by law.

 

7.      Notice . Correspondence regarding the Securities should be directed to the Subscribers at the address printed below. Each Subscriber is a bona fide resident of the state listed below.

 

8.      No Assignment or Revocation; Binding Effect . Neither this Agreement, nor any interest herein, shall be assignable by any Subscriber without prior written consent of the Company. Each Subscriber hereby acknowledges and agrees that it is not entitled to cancel, terminate or revoke this Agreement and that it shall survive the death, incapacity or bankruptcy of Subscriber. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto, and their respective heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns.

 

9.      Remedies . Each Subscriber acknowledges that the Company may not have an adequate remedy at law in the event of any breach of this Agreement by the Subscribers and, therefore, the Company will be entitled, in addition to any other available remedies, to injunctive and/or other equitable relief to prevent or remedy a breach of this Agreement and to attorneys’ fees and other costs incurred by the Company in commencing suit or taking other action to enforce the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

 

10.      Modifications . This Agreement may not be changed, modified, released, discharged, abandoned or otherwise amended, in whole or in part, except by an instrument in writing, signed by the Subscribers and the Company. No delay or failure of the Company in exercising any right under this Agreement will be deemed to constitute a waiver of such right or of any other rights.

 

11.      Entire Agreement . This Agreement and the exhibits hereto are the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereto and thereto. This Agreement, including the exhibits, supersede any previous oral or written communications, representations, understandings or agreements with the Company or with any officers or representatives of the Company.

 

12.      Severability . In the event that any paragraph or provision of this Agreement shall be held to be illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such paragraph or provision shall, as to that jurisdiction, be adjusted and reformed, if possible, in order to achieve the intent of the parties, and if such paragraph or provision cannot be adjusted and reformed, such paragraph or provision shall, for the purposes of that jurisdiction be voided and severed from this Agreement, and the entire Agreement shall not fail on account thereof but shall otherwise remain in full force and effect.

 

13.      Governing Law . This Agreement shall be governed by, subject to, and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware without regard to conflict of law principles .

 

14.      Employment Status/Subsequent Employment . NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL GIVE ANY SUBSCRIBER ANY RIGHT TO EITHER EMPLOYMENT OR CONTINUED EMPLOYMENT WITH THE COMPANY OR IN ANY WAY CHANGE ANY EMPLOYMENT STATUS OF SUBSCRIBER.

 

 

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15.      Survival of Representations and Warranties; Indemnification . Each Subscriber understands the meaning and legal consequences of the agreements, representations and warranties contained herein, agrees that such agreements, representations and warranties shall survive and remain in full force and effect after the execution hereof and payment for the Securities, and further agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and each current and future officer, director, employee, agent and shareholder of the Company from and against any and all loss, damage or liability due to, or arising out of, a breach of any agreement, representation or warranty of the undersigned contained herein.

 

 

 

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Schedule I

 

Subscriber

Conversion Amount

Securities

Lloyd I. Miller Trust A-4

$324,395.00

72,847

Lloyd I. Miller, III – Individual

324,395.00

72,847

MILFAM II, L.P.

324,392.50

72,846

Total

973,182.50

218,540

 

 

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For good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each Subscriber hereby agrees that by signing this Subscription and Investment Representation Agreement, and upon acceptance hereof by the Company, that the terms, provisions, obligations and agreements of this Agreement shall be binding upon Subscriber.

 

INDIVIDUAL(S):

ENTITIES:

   
                                                                       

                                                                       

Print Name:                                                    

Entity Name

   
Address:                                                         
                                                               By:                                                                  
                                                               Name:                                                             
                                                               Its:                                                                  
Social Security Number:                              

                         

 

Date: June 21, 2017

 

Number of Shares Purchased:                

 
   
The Subscriber desires that the Securities be held as follows (check one):  
     Individual Ownership      Corporation*
     Community Property      Trust*
     Jt. Tenant with Right of Survivorship      Limited Liability Company*
 (both parties must sign)      Partnership*
     Tenants in Common      Other (please describe):                      
* If Securities are being subscribed for by an entity, Exhibit B to this agreement must also be completed.
 
 

 

The Company hereby accepts the subscription evidenced by this Subscription and Investment Representation Agreement:

 

 

 

Date:  June 21, 2017          

(which date shall be the effective

date of this Agreement)

Determine, Inc.

   

 

 

 

By:                                                        

Name:                                                   

Title:                                                     

 

 

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ACCREDITED INVESTOR CRITERIA
[Mark as applicable]

 

______

The undersigned is an individual with a net worth, or a joint net worth together with his or her spouse, in excess of $1,000,000. In calculating net worth, you may include equity in personal property and real estate (excluding your principal residence), cash, short term investments, stock and securities. Indebtedness that is secured by your primary residence up to the estimated fair market value of the residence shall not be included as a liability unless it exceeds the amount outstanding 60 days before the date of this agreement other than as a result of acquisition of your primary residence. Indebtedness secured by your primary residence in excess of the fair market value of the residence shall be included as a liability.

   

______

The undersigned is an individual that had an individual income in excess of $200,000 in each of the prior two years and reasonably expects an income in excess of $200,000 in the current year.

   

______

The undersigned is an individual that had with his or her spouse joint income in excess of $300,000 in each of the prior two years and reasonably expects joint income in excess of $300,000 in the current year.

   
______ The undersigned is a director or executive officer of the Company.
   
______ The undersigned is an entity, and is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act. This representation is based on the following (check one or more, as applicable):

 

  _____ The undersigned is an entity in which all equity owners are accredited investors. (If relying on this category alone, each equity owner must complete a separate copy of this Agreement.)
     
 

_____

The undersigned (or, in the case of a trust, the undersigned trustee) is a bank or savings and loan association as defined in Sections 3(a)(2) and 3(a)(5)(A), respectively, of the Securities Act acting either in its individual or fiduciary capacity.

 

 

_____

The undersigned is an insurance company as defined in Section 2(13) of the Securities Act.

 

 

_____

The undersigned is an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 or a business development company as defined in Section 2(a)(48) of the Securities Act.

 

 

_____

The undersigned is a Small Business Investment Company licensed by the U.S. Small Business Administration under Section 301(c) or (d) of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958.

 

 

_____

The undersigned is an employee benefit plan within the meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and either (check one or more, as applicable):

 

   

_____     the investment decision is made by a plan fiduciary, as defined in Section 3(21) of the Securities Act, which is either a bank, savings and loan association, insurance company, or registered investment adviser; or

 

 

 

_____     the employee benefit plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000; or

 

   

_____     the plan is a self-directed plan with investment decisions made solely by persons who are “Accredited Investors” as defined under the Securities Act.

 

 

_____

The undersigned is a private business development company as defined in Section 202(a)(22) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

 

 

_____

The undersigned has total assets in excess of $5,000,000, was not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring Securities and is one or more of the following (check one or more, as applicable):

 

 

_____

an organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; or

 

 

_____

a corporation; or

 

 

_____

a Massachusetts or similar business trust; or

 

 

_____

a partnership.

 

 

_____

The undersigned is a trust with total assets exceeding $5,000,000, which was not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring Securities and whose purchase is directed by a person who has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that Subscriber is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the investment in the Securities.

 

 

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Exhibit 99.1

 

 

Determine, Inc. Announces Pricing of Registered Direct Offering of Common Stock

 

CARMEL, IN – June 21, 2017 – Determine, Inc . (NASDAQ: DTRM), a pioneering leader in global Source-to-Pay and Enterprise Contract Lifecycle Management (ECLM) Cloud Platform solutions, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with investors for the purchase and sale of 2,184,000 shares of common stock at a price of $2.50 per share in a registered direct offering for total gross proceeds of $5.46 million.

 

Lake Street Capital Markets is acting as the exclusive placement agent for the registered direct offering. The offering is expected to close on June 26, 2017, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

 

Determine anticipates the aggregate net proceeds from the offering will be approximately $4.87 million, after deducting the placement agent fees and estimated offering expenses. Determine intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for sales and marketing expenses, working capital and other general corporate purposes.

 

The shares of common stock were offered pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-207841), which was declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on November 16, 2015.  A preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the offering was filed with the SEC on June 21, 2017. The final prospectus supplement relating to the offering will be filed by the Company with the SEC and will be available on the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to these securities may also be obtained, when available, by contacting: Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC, Attention: Syndicate Dept., 225 South 6th Street, Suite 4750, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, by telephone at 612-326-1305, or by email at syndicate@lakestreetcm.com.

 

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

 

 
 

 

 

Forward-Looking Statements

 

This press release contains or may imply “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 . Forward-looking statements can be identifi ed by the use of words such as “ estimate, anticipate, expect, believe, intend, may, will, should, seek, approximate or plan, or similar words or phrases. Such statements may include, among others, those related to current market conditions, the satisfaction of closing conditions in connection with the registered direct offering and the amount and use of proceeds Determine expects to receive from the sale of the shares of common stock in the offering. Because such statements deal with future events and are based on Determine’s current expectations, they are subject to various risks and uncertainties and actual results, performance or achievements of Determine could differ materially from those described in or implied by the statements in this press release. More information about the risks and uncertainties faced by Determine are contained in its periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Determine disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

 

Supporting Resources

 

Determine blog

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Determine Resources

 

About Determine , Inc.

 

Determine, Inc. (NASDAQ: DTRM) is a leading global provider of SaaS Source-to-Pay and Enterprise Contract Lifecycle Management (ECLM) solutions. The Determine Cloud Platform provides procurement, legal and finance professionals analytics of their supplier, contract and financial performance. Our technologies empower customers to drive new revenue, identify savings, improve compliance and mitigate risk.

 

The Determine Cloud Platform seamlessly integrates with major ERP or third-party systems such as SAP, Oracle, Sage, QAD and Microsoft. Modular solutions can be configured to add more as needed to provide additional value beyond spend management. Our unified master database and business process approach empower users at every level to make more informed and smarter decisions.

 

For more information, please visit: www.determine.com.

 

Contact

 

Media Relations:

Rose Lee

Determine Inc.

+1.650.532.1590

pr@determine.com