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):
November 9, 2017
CORMEDIX
INC.
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(Exact
Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
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Delaware
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001-34673
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20-5894890
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(State
or Other Jurisdictionof Incorporation)
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(CommissionFile
Number)
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(IRS
EmployerIdentification No.)
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400
Connell Drive, Suite 5000, Berkeley Heights, NJ
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07922
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(Address
of Principal Executive Offices)
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(Zip
Code)
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Registrant’s
Telephone Number, Including Area Code:
(908) 517-9500
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(Former
Name or Former Address, If Changed Since Last Report)
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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):
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communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17
CFR 230.425)
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Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company
as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405
of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
Emerging
growth company ☐
If an
emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant
has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying
with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided
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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On
November 9, 2017, we entered into a securities purchase agreement
with Elliott Associates, L.P. and Elliott International, L.P., (the
“Buyers”), long-term institutional investors in
CorMedix, pursuant to which we have agreed to sell $2 million of
newly designated Series F Convertible preferred stock
(“Series F Stock”) at $1,000 per share.
On
November 9, 2017, we also entered a backstop agreement with the
Buyers pursuant to which the Buyers have agreed to purchase from
us, at our request, up to an additional $3 million of shares of the
Series F Stock at $1,000 per share. We may request purchases under
the backstop agreement from January 15, 2018 until March 31,
2018.
As
consideration for the backstop financing, we will issue the Buyers
warrants, exercisable for three years, to purchase, in the
aggregate, up to 947,329 shares (subject to adjustment) of CorMedix
common stock at a per share exercise price of $0.001. The number of
shares issuable under the warrant was determined by the closing
price of CorMedix Common Stock on November 8, 2017, which was
$0.5278.
The number of
shares issuable under the warrants will be reduced to the extent
that we raise equity capital from investors other than the Buyers
that offsets the $3 million backstop amount.
Gross
proceeds of the securities purchase agreement and the backstop
agreement, if the backstop agreement is used in full, total an
aggregate of $5,000,000 (assuming cashless exercise of the
warrants).
Each
share of Series F Stock is convertible into shares of our common
stock, at the option of the Buyers, at an effective price of
$0.6334 per share, which represents a 20% premium to the closing
price of our common stock on November 8, 2017.
The conversion
price of the Series F Stock is subject to anti-dilution adjustment
for customary recapitalization events such as stock splits, as well
as full ratchet anti-dilution protection in the event that we do
not obtain the subordination of the Series C-3 preferred stock to
that of the Series F Stock (as described below) or obtain
stockholder approval of the issuance of common stock that exceeds
NYSE American rules (as described below).
The Series F Stock
will be mandatorily convertible on April 2, 2018, subject to
certain equity conditions, at the lower of $0.6334 and a 10%
discount to the notional price at which an equity or equity linked
transaction in an amount of $5 million or more is completed by
March 31, 2018, or if no such transaction is completed, a 10%
discount to the closing price of the stock on March 31,
2018.
The
Series F Stock is non-voting and has no dividend right outside of
receiving dividends in the same form as we pay to holders of shares
of our common stock.
The
Series F Stock contains a prohibition on its conversion if, as a
result of such conversion, we would have issued shares of our
common stock in an aggregate amount equal to 13,336,939 shares,
which is 20% of our shares of common stock outstanding on November
9, 2017, unless we have received the approval of our stockholders
for such overage.
The
Buyers will be prohibited from converting Series F Stock into
shares of our common stock to the extent that, as a result of such
conversion, the Buyers, together with their affiliates, would own
more than 9.99% of the total number of shares of our common stock
then issued and outstanding. In the event of our liquidation,
dissolution, or winding up, holders of the Series F Stock will
receive a payment equal to $1,000 per share of Series F Stock,
subject to adjustment, before any proceeds are distributed to the
holders of common stock. Shares of the Series F Stock will
rank:
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senior to all
common stock and the Series C-2, Series C-3 Convertible Preferred
Stock (subject to the us obtaining any consent, waiver or other
authorization from the holders of the Series C-3 Convertible
Preferred Stock necessary for the subordination of the Series C-3
Convertible Preferred Stock to the Series F Preferred Stock),
Series D Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock, Series E
Non-Voting Convertible Stock; and
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senior to any class
or series of capital stock hereafter created.
in each
case, as to distributions of assets upon our liquidation,
dissolution or winding up whether voluntarily or
involuntarily.
We
currently anticipate that closing of the sale of the Series F Stock
and the warrants will take place on or about November 16, 2017,
subject to the satisfaction of customary closing
conditions.
As a
part of the financing, we will also enter into a registration
rights agreement with the Buyers whereby the Buyers can demand that
we register the shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants, and
shares issuable upon conversion of the Series F Stock, if
issued.
No
placement agent or underwriter was involved in the
offerings.
We
intend to use the net proceeds of the offerings for general
corporate purposes, working capital and capital
expenditures.
The
certificate of designation, form of warrant, form of securities
purchase agreement, form of backstop agreement, and registration
rights agreement, are filed herewith as Exhibits 3.15, 4.15, 10.1,
10.2 and 10.3, respectively, and are incorporated herein by
reference. The foregoing descriptions of the Series F Stock, the
securities purchase agreement, the backstop agreement, the
warrants, and the registration rights agreement are not complete
and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the respective
exhibits.
The
Series F Stock and the warrants to be issued will be sold in a
transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, in reliance on Section 4(a)(2) thereof. Neither
the Series F Stock nor the warrants may be offered or sold in the
United States absent registration or exemption from registration
under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities
laws.
The
information contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K is not an
offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the Series F
Stock or the warrants or any other securities of our
company.
A copy
of the press release regarding the above matters is attached hereto
as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.
The information contained in Item 1.01 is incorporated herein by
reference.
Item 5.03 Amendment to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change
in Fiscal Year.
On November 9, 2017, we filed a Certificate of Designation of
Series F Stock with the Delaware Secretary of State classifying and
designating the rights, preferences and privileges of the Series F
Stock. The Series F Stock Certificate of Designation is attached
hereto as Exhibit 3.15 and is incorporated herein by
reference.
The description of the Series F Stock contained in Item 1.01 is
incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
Exhibit
No.
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Description
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Certificate of
Designation of Series F Preferred Stock of CorMedix Inc., filed
with the Delaware Secretary of State on November 9,
2017.
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Form
of Warrant.
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Securities
Purchase Agreement, dated November 9, 2017, between CorMedix Inc.
and the investors named therein.
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Backstop
Agreement, dated November 9, 2017, between CorMedix Inc. and the
investor named therein.
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Form
of Registration Rights Agreement, dated November 9, 2017, by and
between CorMedix Inc. and the investor named therein.
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Press
release dated November 9, 2017.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant
has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Date:
November 13, 2017
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CORMEDIX
INC.
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By:
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/s/
Robert
W. Cook
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Name:
Robert
W. Cook
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Title:
Chief Financial Officer
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Exhibit 3.15
CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION
OF
SERIES F CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK
OF
CORMEDIX INC.
to Section 151 of the
Delaware General Corporation Law
CorMedix Inc.
, a Delaware corporation
(the “
Corporation
”),
in accordance with the provisions of Section 103 of the Delaware
General Corporation Law (the “
DGCL
”)
does hereby certify that, in accordance with Sections 141(c) and
151 of the DGCL, the following resolution was duly adopted by the
Board of Directors of the Corporation at a meeting duly convened on
November 9, 2017:
RESOLVED
, that pursuant to the authority granted to and
vested in the Board of Directors of the Corporation in accordance
with the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation of the
Corporation, as amended (the “
Certificate of
Incorporation
”), there is hereby established a series
of the Corporation’s authorized preferred stock, par value
$0.001 per share (the “
Preferred
Stock
”), which series shall be designated as the
Series F Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share,
of the Corporation, with the designation, number of shares, powers,
preferences, rights, qualifications, limitations and restrictions
thereof (in addition to any provisions set forth in the Certificate
of Incorporation which are applicable to the Preferred Stock of all
classes and series) as follows:
SERIES F CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK
SECTION 1.
DEFINITIONS
.
For the purposes hereof, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
“
Affiliate
”
means any person or entity that, directly or indirectly through one
or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under
common control with a person or entity, as such terms are used in
and construed under Rule 144 under the Securities Act. With respect
to a Holder, any investment fund or managed account that is managed
on a discretionary basis by the same investment manager as such
Holder will be deemed to be an Affiliate of such
Holder.
“
Alternate
Consideration
” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 7(d).
“
Bankruptcy
Event
” means: the Corporation shall (i) apply for or
consent to the appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a
receiver, custodian, trustee or liquidator of itself or of all or a
substantial part of its property or assets, (ii) make a general
assignment for the benefit of its creditors, (iii) commence a
voluntary case under the United States Bankruptcy Code (as now or
hereafter in effect) or under the comparable laws of any
jurisdiction (foreign or domestic), (iv) file a petition seeking to
take advantage of any bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium,
reorganization or other similar law affecting the enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally, (v) acquiesce in writing to any
petition filed against it in an involuntary case under United
States Bankruptcy Code (as now or hereafter in effect) or under the
comparable laws of any jurisdiction (foreign or domestic), (vi)
issue a notice of bankruptcy or winding down of its operations or
issue a press release regarding same, or (vii) take any action
under the laws of any jurisdiction (foreign or domestic) analogous
to any of the foregoing; and/or a proceeding or case shall be
commenced in respect of the Corporation, without its application or
consent, in any court of competent jurisdiction, seeking (i) the
liquidation, reorganization, moratorium, dissolution, winding up,
or composition or readjustment of its debts, (ii) the appointment
of a trustee, receiver, custodian, liquidator or the like of it or
of all or any substantial part of its assets in connection with the
liquidation or dissolution of the Corporation or (iii) similar
relief in respect of it under any law providing for the relief of
debtors, and such proceeding or case described in clause (i), (ii)
or (iii) shall continue undismissed, or unstayed and in effect, for
a period of thirty (30) days or any order for relief shall be
entered in an involuntary case under United States Bankruptcy Code
(as now or hereafter in effect) or under the comparable laws of any
jurisdiction (foreign or domestic) against the Corporation or
action under the laws of any jurisdiction (foreign or domestic)
analogous to any of the foregoing shall be taken with respect to
the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries and shall continue
undismissed, or unstayed and in effect for a period of sixty (60)
days.
“
Beneficial
Ownership Limitation
” shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 6(c).
“
Bloomberg
”
means Bloomberg, L.P.
“
Business
Day
” means any day except Saturday, Sunday, any day
which shall be a federal legal holiday in the United States or any
day on which banking institutions in the State of New York are
authorized or required by law or other governmental action to
close.
“
Buy-In
”
shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(e)(iii).
“
Closing Sale
Price
” means, for any security as of any date, the
last closing trade price for such security prior to 4:00 p.m., New
York City time, on the principal securities exchange or trading
market where such security is listed or traded, as reported by
Bloomberg (or, to the extent that Bloomberg is unavailable
generally, an equivalent, reliable reporting service mutually
acceptable to and hereafter designated by Holders of a majority of
the then-outstanding Series F Preferred Stock and the Corporation),
or if the foregoing do not apply, the last trade price of such
security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin
board for such security as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no last
trade price is reported for such security by Bloomberg, the average
of the bid prices of any market makers for such security as
reported on the OTC Pink Market by OTC Markets Group, Inc. If the
Closing Sale Price cannot be calculated for a security on a
particular date on any of the foregoing bases, the Closing Sale
Price of such security on such date shall be the fair market value
as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the
Corporation.
“
Commission
”
means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“
Common
Stock
” means the Corporation’s common stock, par
value $0.001 per share, and stock of any other class of securities
into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed
into.
“
Contingent
Obligation
” means, as to any Person, any direct or
indirect liability, contingent or otherwise, of that Person with
respect to any indebtedness, lease, dividend or other obligation of
another Person if the primary purpose or intent of the Person
incurring such liability, or the primary effect thereof, is to
provide assurance to the obligee of such liability that such
liability will be paid or discharged, or that any agreements
relating thereto will be complied with, or that the holders of such
liability will be protected (in whole or in part) against loss with
respect thereto.
“
Conversion
Date
” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
6(a).
“
Conversion
Price
” shall mean (A) if the aggregate cash proceeds
actually received by the Corporation from the sale, other than to
Affiliates of or Persons managed by Elliott Management Corporation,
of its equity or equity-linked securities, in one or more bona fide
transactions consummated on or before March 31, 2018 equals or
exceeds $3,000,000 (a “
Triggering
Transaction
”), the lesser of (1) $0.6334 and (2) a 10%
discount to the notional price at which such Triggering Transaction
is completed by the Corporation on or before March 31, 2018, (B)
for so long as the aggregate cash proceeds actually received by the
Corporation from the sale, other than to Affiliates of or Persons
managed by Elliott Management Corporation, of its equity or
equity-linked securities, in one or more bona fide transactions
consummated before March 31, 2018 is less than $3,000,000, the
average Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock for the immediately
preceding 20 Trading Days or (C) otherwise, the lesser of (1)
$0.6334 and (2) a 10% discount to the closing price of the
Corporation’s Common Stock on April 2, 2018, as adjusted
hereunder.
“
Conversion
Ratio
” shall mean, with respect to each share of
Series F Preferred Stock, an amount equal to the aggregate Stated
Value and accrued but unpaid dividends thereon, divided by the
Conversion Price.
“
Conversion
Shares
” means, collectively, the shares of Common
Stock issuable upon conversion of the shares of Series F Preferred
Stock in accordance with the terms hereof.
“
Convertible
Securities
” means any stock, note, debenture or other
security (other than Options) that is, or may become, at any time
and under any circumstances, directly or indirectly, convertible
into, exercisable or exchangeable for, or which otherwise entitles
the holder thereof to acquire, any shares of Common
Stock.
“
Corporate
Event
” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
8(b).
“
Daily Failure
Amount
” means the product of (x) 0.005 multiplied by
(y) the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock on the applicable
Share Delivery Date.
“
DTC
”
shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(a).
“
DWAC
Delivery
” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
6(a).
“
Equity
Condition
” means,
w
ith respect to any given date
of determination, each of the following:
(i)
on
each day during such thirty (30) day period (the “Equity
Conditions Measuring Period”), the Common Stock (including
all Underlying Securities) is listed or designated for quotation on
an eligible market and, subject to limited exceptions, shall not
have been suspended from trading on an eligible market nor shall
delisting or suspension by an eligible market have been threatened
or reasonably likely to occur or pending;
(ii)
during
the Equity Conditions Measuring Period, the Corporation shall have
delivered all shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of
the Preferred Stock on a timely basis and all other shares of
capital stock required to be delivered by the Corporation on a
timely basis as set forth in the other transaction
documents;
(iii)
any
shares of Common Stock to be issued in connection with the event
requiring determination (or otherwise issuable pursuant to the
terms of the Preferred Stock) may be issued in full without
violating the rules or regulations of the eligible market on which
the Common Stock is then listed or designated for quotation (as
applicable);
(iv)
on
each day during the Equity Conditions Measuring Period, no public
announcement of a pending, proposed or intended Fundamental
Transaction shall have occurred which has not been abandoned,
terminated or consummated;
(v)
the
holder of any Preferred Stock shall not be possession of any
material, non-public information provided to any of them by the
Corporation, any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective
affiliates, employees, officers, representatives, agents or the
like;
(vi)
on
each day during the Equity Conditions Measuring Period, the
Corporation otherwise shall have been in compliance with each, and
shall not have breached any representation or warranty in any
material respect (other than representations or warranties subject
to material adverse effect or materiality, which may not be
breached in any respect) or any covenant or other term or condition
of any transaction document, including, without limitation, the
Corporation shall not have failed to timely make any payment
pursuant to any transaction document;
(vii)
as
of such applicable date of determination, (A) the aggregate daily
dollar trading volume of the Common Stock on at least fifteen (15)
trading days during the twenty (20) trading day period ending on
the trading day immediately preceding such date of determination
and on each of the last three (3) trading days in such period (the
“
Equity
Conditions Ending Period
”), is not less than
$200,000.
(viii)
on
the applicable date of determination (A) while any of the
Preferred Stock remain outstanding the Corporation has a sufficient
number of authorized and unreserved shares of Common Stock to
satisfy its obligation to reserve for issuance upon conversion of
the Preferred Stock a number of shares of Common Stock equal to at
least 125% of the number of shares of Common Stock as shall from
time to time be necessary to effect the conversion of all of the
Preferred Stock then outstanding (the “Required Reserve
Amount”), and all shares of Common Stock to be issued in
connection with the event requiring this determination are
available under the certificate of incorporation of the Corporation
and reserved by the Corporation to be issued pursuant to the terms
hereof and (B) all shares of Common Stock to be issued in
connection with the event requiring this determination may be
issued in full without resulting in the Corporation’s failure
to maintain the Required Reserve Amount;
(ix)
the
Series F Preferred Stock is senior in rank (
as to dividends,
distributions of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up
of the Corporation, whether voluntarily or
involuntarily
) to each and all series
of capital stock issued by the Corporation prior to the date
hereof;
(x)
any
meeting of stockholders of the Corporation required to waive the
Exchange Cap or to authorize the Corporation to issue Conversion
Shares notwithstanding the Exchange Cap has been held and such
waiver or authorization has been obtained; and
(xi)
the
shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the event requiring the
satisfaction of the Equity Conditions are duly authorized and
listed and eligible for trading without restriction on an eligible
market.
“
Eligible
Market
” means The New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE
American, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the Nasdaq Global Market
or the Principal Market.
“
Encumbrance
”
means any security interest, pledge, hypothecation, mortgage,
assignment, Taxes, lien (statutory or other, and including
environmental and tax liens), deposit arrangement, violation,
charge, lease, license, encumbrance, servient easement, adverse
claim, reversion, reverter, preference, priority, other security
agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature
whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention
agreement and any capital lease or any synthetic or other financing
lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the
foregoing), restrictive covenant, condition or restriction of any
kind, including any restriction on the use, voting, transfer,
receipt of income or other exercise of any attributes of
ownership.
“
Exchange
Act
” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder.
“
Fundamental
Transaction
” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 7(e).
“
Holder
”
means any holder of Series F Preferred Stock.
“
Indebtedness
”
of any Person means, without duplication (A) all indebtedness for
borrowed money, (B) all obligations issued, undertaken or assumed
as the deferred purchase price of property or services (including,
without limitation, “capital leases” in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles) (other than trade
payables entered into in the ordinary course of business), (C) all
reimbursement or payment obligations with respect to letters of
credit, surety bonds and other similar instruments, (D) all
obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar
instruments, including obligations so evidenced incurred in
connection with the acquisition of property, assets or businesses,
(E) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale
or other title retention agreement, or incurred as financing, in
either case with respect to any property or assets acquired with
the proceeds of such indebtedness (even though the rights and
remedies of the seller or bank under such agreement in the event of
default are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (F)
all monetary obligations under any leasing or similar arrangement
which, in connection with generally accepted accounting principles,
consistently applied for the periods covered thereby, is classified
as a capital lease, (G) all indebtedness referred to in clauses (A)
through (F) above secured by (or for which the holder of such
Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be
secured by) any mortgage, claim, lien, tax, right of first refusal,
encumbrance, pledge, charge, security interest or other encumbrance
upon or in any property or assets (including accounts and contract
rights) owned by any Person, even though the Person which owns such
assets or property has not assumed or become liable for the payment
of such indebtedness, and (H) all Contingent Obligations in respect
of indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds referred to
in clauses (A) through (G) above.
“
Initial Issue
Date
” shall mean the date that shares of Preferred
Stock are first issued by the Corporation.
“
Junior
Securities
” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 5(a).
“
Liquidation
Event
” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
5(b).
“
Liquidation
Preference
” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 5(b).
“
Material Adverse
Effect
” means any material adverse effect on the
business, operations, properties, or financial condition of the
Corporation and/or any condition, circumstance, or situation that
would prohibit or otherwise materially interfere with the ability
of the Corporation to perform any of its obligations under the
Series F Preferred Stock in any material respect.
“
New
Subsidiary
” means, as of any date of determination,
any Person in which the Corporation after the Initial Issuance
Date, directly or indirectly, (i) owns or acquires any of the
outstanding capital stock or holds any equity or similar interest
of such Person or (ii) controls or operates all or any part of the
business, operations or administration of such Person, and all of
the foregoing, collectively, “
New
Subsidiaries
.”
“
Notice of
Conversion
” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 6(a).
“
Options
”
means any rights, warrants or options to subscribe for or purchase
shares of Common Stock or Convertible Securities.
“
Parent
Entity
” of a Person means an entity that, directly or
indirectly, controls the applicable Person and whose common stock
or equivalent equity security is quoted or listed on an Eligible
Market, or, if there is more than one such Person or Parent Entity,
the Person or Parent Entity with the largest public market
capitalization as of the date of consummation of the Fundamental
Transaction.
“
Parity
Securities
” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 5(a).
“
Permitted
Distributions
” means dividends by Subsidiaries of the
Corporation to the Corporation or other Subsidiaries of the
Corporation and dividends required to be paid on the Parity
Securities and pursuant to Section 3 hereof.
“
Person
”
means any 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.
“
Principal
Market
” means the NYSE American.
“
Purchase
Rights
” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
8(a) below.
“
Securities
Act
” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“
Series F Preferred
Stock Register
” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2(b).
“
Share Delivery
Date
” shall have the meaning set forth in Section
6(e)(i).
“
Stated
Value
” shall mean $1,000.
“
Trading
Day
” means a day on which the Common Stock is traded
for any period on the Principal Market or if the Common Stock is
not traded on the Principal Market, on a day that the Common Stock
is traded on another securities market on which the Common Stock is
then being traded.
SECTION 2.
DESIGNATION, AMOUNT AND PAR VALUE;
ASSIGNMENT
.
(a)
The
series of preferred stock designated by this Certificate shall be
designated as the Corporation’s “Series F Convertible
Preferred Stock” (the “
Series F Preferred
Stock
”) and the number of shares so designated shall
be 5,000. Each share of Series F Preferred Stock shall have a par
value of $0.001 per share.
(b)
The
Corporation shall register shares of the Series F Preferred Stock,
upon records to be maintained by the Corporation for that purpose
(the “
Series F Preferred
Stock Register
”), in the name of the Holders thereof
from time to time. The Corporation may deem and treat the
registered Holder of shares of Series F Preferred Stock as the
absolute owner thereof for the purpose of any conversion thereof
and for all other purposes. The Corporation shall register the
transfer of any shares of Series F Preferred Stock in the Series F
Preferred Stock Register, upon surrender of the certificates
evidencing such shares to be transferred, duly endorsed by the
Holder thereof, to the Corporation at its principal place of
business or such other office of the Corporation as may be
designated by the Corporation. Upon any such registration or
transfer, a new certificate evidencing the shares of Series F
Preferred Stock so transferred shall be issued to the transferee
and a new certificate evidencing the remaining portion of the
shares not so transferred, if any, shall be issued to the
transferring Holder, in each case, within three (3) Business Days.
The provisions of this Certificate are intended to be for the
benefit of all Holders from time to time and shall be enforceable
by any such Holder.
SECTION 3.
DIVIDENDS
.
Holders shall be entitled to receive, and the Corporation shall
pay, dividends on shares of the Series F Preferred Stock equal (on
an as-if-converted-to-Common-Stock basis without giving effect for
such purposes to the Beneficial Ownership Limitation set forth in
Section 6(c) hereof) to and in the same form as dividends (other
than dividends in the form of Common Stock) actually paid on shares
of the Common Stock when, as and if such dividends (other than
dividends in the form of Common Stock) are paid on shares of the
Common Stock.
SECTION 4.
VOTING
RIGHTS
.
Except as
otherwise provided herein or as otherwise required by the DGCL, the
Series F Preferred Stock shall have no voting rights. However, as
long as any shares of Series F Preferred Stock are outstanding, the
Corporation shall not, whether by merger, consolidation or
otherwise, without the affirmative vote of the Holders of a
majority of the then outstanding shares of the Series F Preferred
Stock: (a) alter or change the powers, preferences or rights given
to the Series F Preferred Stock as set forth herein or alter or
amend this Certificate of Designation, (b) increase the number of
authorized shares of Series F Preferred Stock, or (c) enter into
any agreement with respect to any of the foregoing; provided,
however, that the foregoing shall not preclude the Corporation from
designating or issuing any Junior Securities. The Corporation shall
not pay or cause to be paid, directly or indirectly, to any Holder
or any of its Affiliates any consideration of any type in
connection with a vote of Holders relating to Sections 4(a), (b) or
(c). The Corporation shall not, directly or indirectly, redeem or
repurchase any Series F Preferred Stock unless such offer of
redemption or repurchase is made pro rata to all Holders on
identical terms.
SECTION 5.
RANK;
LIQUIDATION
.
(a)
The
Series F Preferred Stock shall rank: (i) senior to all of the
Common Stock and the Series C-2, Series C-3 Convertible Preferred
Stock (subject to the Corporation obtaining any consent, waiver or
other authorization from the holders of the Series C-3 Convertible
Preferred Stock necessary for the subordination of the Series C-3
Convertible Preferred Stock to the Series F Preferred Stock),
Series D Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock, Series E
Non-Voting Convertible Stock; and (ii) senior to any class or
series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter created
(clauses (i) and (ii), “
Junior
Securities
”), in each case, as to dividends,
distributions of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up
of the Corporation, whether voluntarily or involuntarily. The
foregoing shall not preclude the Corporation from designating or
issuing any Junior Securities. Without the prior express written
consent of Holders representing a majority of the outstanding
shares of Series F Preferred Stock, the Corporation shall not
hereafter authorize or issue additional or other capital stock that
is of senior or pari-passu rank to the Series F Preferred Stock in
respect of the preferences as to dividends and other distributions,
amortization and/or redemption payments, and/or payments upon a
Liquidation Event.
(b)
Upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation or a
Bankruptcy Event, whether voluntary or involuntary (each, a
“
Liquidation
Event
”), each holder of shares of Series F Preferred
Stock shall be entitled to receive, in preference to any
distributions of any of the assets or surplus funds of the
Corporation to the holders of the Common Stock and Junior
Securities, an amount equal to the Stated Value per share of Series
F Preferred Stock, plus an additional amount equal to any dividend
declared but unpaid on such shares (the “
Liquidation
Preference
”), before any payments shall be made or any
assets distributed to holders of any class of Common Stock or
Junior Securities. If, upon any such Liquidation Event, the assets
of the Corporation shall be insufficient to pay the holders of
shares of the Series F Preferred Stock the Liquidation Preference,
then all remaining assets of the Corporation shall be distributed
ratably to holders of the shares of the Series F Preferred Stock
and Parity Securities.
(c)
After
payment to the holders of shares of the Series F Preferred Stock of
the amount required under Section 5(b), the remaining assets or
surplus funds of the Corporation, if any, available for
distribution to stockholders shall be distributed ratably among the
holders of the Series F Preferred Stock, any other class or series
of capital stock that participates with the Common Stock in the
distribution of assets upon any Liquidation Event and the Common
Stock, with the holders of the Series F Preferred Stock deemed to
hold that number of shares of Common Stock into which such shares
of Series F Preferred Stock are then convertible (without giving
effect for such purposes to the Beneficial Ownership Limitation set
forth in Section 6(c) hereof).
SECTION 6.
CONVERSION
.
(a)
Conversions
at Option of Holder
. Each share of Series F Preferred Stock
along with the aggregate accrued but unpaid dividends thereon shall
be convertible, at any time and from time to time from and after
the date of the issuance thereof, at the option of the Holder
thereof, into a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the
Conversion Ratio in effect at the time of such conversion. A Holder
shall effect a conversion by providing the Corporation with the
form of conversion notice (via overnight courier, facsimile or
email) attached hereto as
Annex A
(a
“
Notice of
Conversion
”), duly completed and executed. For
purposes of clarification, the Corporation or its transfer agent
shall not require a Holder to obtain a medallion guaranty, notary
attestation or any similar deliverable in order to effectuate the
conversion of all or a portion of such Holder’s shares of
Series F Preferred Stock. Other than a conversion following a
Fundamental Transaction, the Notice of Conversion must specify at
least a number of shares of Series F Preferred Stock to be
converted equal to the lesser of (x) 10,000 shares (such number
subject to appropriate adjustment following the occurrence of an
event specified in Section 7(a), 7(b), 7(c) and 7(d) hereof) and
(y) the number of shares of Series F Preferred Stock then held by
the Holder. Provided the Corporation’s Common Stock transfer
agent is participating in the Depository Trust Company
(“
DTC
”)
Fast Automated Securities Transfer program, the Notice of
Conversion may specify, at the Holder’s election, whether the
applicable Conversion Shares shall be credited to the account of
the Holder’s prime broker with DTC through its
Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian system (a “
DWAC
Delivery
”). The date on which a conversion of Series F
Preferred Stock shall be deemed effective (the “
Conversion
Date
”) shall be defined as the Trading Day that the
Notice of Conversion, completed and executed, and a copy of the
original certificate(s) representing such shares of Series F
Preferred Stock being converted, is sent (via overnight courier,
facsimile or email) to, and received during regular business hours
by, the Corporation. The calculations set forth in the Notice of
Conversion shall control in the absence of manifest or mathematical
error.
(b)
Mandatory
Conversion
. Provided that each Equity Condition has been
satisfied, each share of Series F Preferred Stock along with the
aggregate accrued but unpaid dividends thereon shall be
automatically converted on or after March 31, 2018 into a number of
shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Ratio in effect at
the time of such conversion
(c)
Beneficial
Ownership Limitation
. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, the Corporation shall not effect any conversion of the
Series F Preferred Stock, and a Holder shall not have the right to
convert any portion of its Series F Preferred Stock, to the extent
that, after giving effect to an attempted conversion set forth on
an applicable Notice of Conversion, such Holder (together with such
Holder’s Affiliates, and any other Person whose beneficial
ownership of Common Stock would be aggregated with the
Holder’s for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act
and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission,
including any “group” of which the Holder is a member)
would beneficially own a number of shares of Common Stock in excess
of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (as defined below). For
purposes of the foregoing sentence, the aggregate number of shares
of Common Stock beneficially owned by such Holder and its
Affiliates shall include the number of shares of Common Stock
issuable upon conversion of the Series F Preferred Stock subject to
the Notice of Conversion with respect to which the determination of
such sentence is being made, but shall exclude the number of shares
of Common Stock which are issuable upon (A) conversion of the
remaining, unconverted shares of Series F Preferred Stock
beneficially owned by such Holder or any of its Affiliates, and (B)
exercise or conversion of the unexercised or unconverted portion of
any other securities of the Corporation beneficially owned by such
Holder or any of its Affiliates (including, without limitation, any
convertible notes, convertible stock or warrants) that are subject
to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the
limitation contained herein. Except as set forth in the preceding
sentence, for purposes of this Section 6(c), beneficial ownership
shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the
Exchange Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the
Commission. In addition, for purposes hereof, “group”
has the meaning set forth in Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and
the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission. For
purposes of this Section 6(c), in determining the number of
outstanding shares of Common Stock, a Holder may rely on the number
of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (A) the
Corporation’s most recent Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, Current
Report on Form 8-K or other public filing with the Commission, as
the case may be, (B) a more recent public announcement by the
Corporation or (C) a more recent notice by the Corporation or the
Corporation’s transfer agent to the Holder setting forth the
number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding. For any reason
at any time, upon the written or oral request of a Holder (which
may be by email), the Corporation shall, within two (2) Business
Days of such request, confirm orally and in writing to such Holder
(which may be via email) the number of shares of Common Stock then
outstanding. In any case, the number of outstanding shares of
Common Stock shall be determined after giving effect to any actual
conversion or exercise of securities of the Corporation, including
shares of Series F Preferred Stock, by such Holder or its
Affiliates since the date as of which such number of outstanding
shares of Common Stock was last publicly reported or confirmed to
the Holder. The “
Beneficial
Ownership Limitation
” shall be 9.99% of the number of
shares of the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving
effect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock pursuant to such
Notice of Conversion (to the extent permitted pursuant to this
Section 6(c)). The Corporation shall be entitled to rely on
representations made to it by the Holder in any Notice of
Conversion regarding its Beneficial Ownership Limitation. The
provisions of this Section 6(c) shall be construed, corrected and
implemented in a manner so as to effectuate the intended beneficial
ownership limitation herein contained and the shares of Common
Stock underlying the Series F Preferred Stock in excess of the
Beneficial Ownership Limitation shall not be deemed to be
beneficially owned by the Holder for any purpose including for
purposes of Section 13(d) or Rule 16a-1(a)(1) of the Exchange Act.
By written notice to the Corporation, any Holder may increase or
decrease the Beneficial Ownership Limitation to any other
percentage specified in such notice, provided, (i) any increase
will not be effective until the 61st day after such notice is
delivered to the Corporation and (ii) any such increase or decrease
will only apply to the Holder sending such notice and not to any
other Holder.
(d)
Principal
Market Regulation. The Corporation shall not effect any conversion
of the Series F Preferred Stock, and the Holder shall not have the
right to convert any portion of its Series F Preferred Stock if the
issuance of shares of Common Stock upon such conversion would
exceed the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock which the
Corporation may issue upon conversion of the Series F Preferred
Stock, together with the exercise of any warrants to purchase
Common Stock, without breaching the Corporation’s obligations
under the rules or regulations of the Principal Market (the
“
Exchange
Cap
”), except that such limitation shall not apply in
the event that the Corporation obtains the approval of its
stockholders as required by the applicable rules of the Principal
Market for issuances of shares of Common Stock in excess of such
amount. Until such approval is obtained, no Holder shall be issued
in the aggregate, upon conversion or exercise (as the case may be)
of any Series F Preferred Stock, or any of the warrants to purchase
Common Stock, shares of Common Stock in an amount greater than the
product of (i) the Exchange Cap multiplied by (ii) the quotient of
(1) the number of shares of Series F Preferred Stock beneficially
owned by such Holder divided by (2) all outstanding shares of
Series F Preferred Stock.
(e)
Mechanics
of Conversion
.
(i)
Delivery
of Certificate or Electronic Issuance Upon Conversion
. Not
later than two (2) Trading Days after the applicable Conversion
Date (the “
Share Delivery
Date
”), the Corporation shall: (a) deliver, or cause
to be delivered, to the converting Holder a physical certificate or
certificates representing the number of Conversion Shares being
acquired upon the conversion of shares of Series F Preferred Stock
(which certificate or certificates shall not have any legends on
it) or (b) in the case of a DWAC Delivery, electronically transfer
such Conversion Shares by crediting the account of the
Holder’s prime broker with DTC through its DWAC system. If in
the case of any Notice of Conversion such certificate or
certificates are not delivered to or as directed by or, in the case
of a DWAC Delivery, such shares are not electronically delivered to
or as directed by, the applicable Holder by the Share Delivery
Date, the applicable Holder shall be entitled to elect to rescind
such Conversion Notice by written notice to the Corporation at any
time on or before its receipt of such certificate or certificates
for Conversion Shares or electronic receipt of such shares, as
applicable, in which event the Corporation shall promptly return to
such Holder any original Series F Preferred Stock certificate
delivered to the Corporation and such Holder shall promptly return
to the Corporation any Common Stock certificates or otherwise
direct the return of any shares of Common Stock delivered to the
Holder through the DWAC system, representing the shares of Series F
Preferred Stock unsuccessfully tendered for conversion to the
Corporation.
(ii)
Obligation
Absolute
. Subject to any limitations on the beneficial
ownership of Series F Preferred Stock to which a Holder may be
subject and subject to such Holder’s right to rescind a
Conversion Notice pursuant to Section 6(e)(i) above, the
Corporation’s obligation to issue and deliver the Conversion
Shares upon conversion of Series F Preferred Stock in accordance
with the terms hereof are absolute and unconditional, irrespective
of any action or inaction by a Holder to enforce the same, any
waiver or consent with respect to any provision hereof, the
recovery of any judgment against any Person or any action to
enforce the same, or any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment,
limitation or termination, or any breach or alleged breach by such
Holder or any other Person of any obligation to the Corporation or
any violation or alleged violation of law by such Holder or any
other Person, and irrespective of any other circumstance which
might otherwise limit such obligation of the Corporation to such
Holder in connection with the issuance of such Conversion Shares.
Subject to any limitations on the beneficial ownership of Series F
Preferred Stock to which a Holder may be subject and subject to
such Holder’s right to rescind a Conversion Notice pursuant
to Section 6(e)(i) above, in the event a Holder shall elect to
convert any or all of its Series F Preferred Stock, the Corporation
may not refuse conversion based on any claim that such Holder or
anyone associated or affiliated with such Holder has been engaged
in any violation of law, agreement or for any other reason, unless
an injunction from a court, on notice to such Holder, restraining
and/or enjoining conversion of all or part of the Series F
Preferred Stock of such Holder shall have been sought and obtained
by the Corporation, and the Corporation posts a surety bond for the
benefit of such Holder in the amount of 150% of the value of the
Conversion Shares into which would be converted the Series F
Preferred Stock which is subject to such injunction, which bond
shall remain in effect until the completion of
arbitration/litigation of the underlying dispute and the proceeds
of which shall be payable to such Holder to the extent it obtains
judgment. In the absence of such injunction, the Corporation shall,
subject to any limitations on the beneficial ownership of Series F
Preferred Stock to which a Holder may be subject and subject to
such Holder’s right to rescind a Conversion Notice pursuant
to Section 6(e)(i) above, issue Conversion Shares upon a properly
noticed conversion. If the Corporation fails to deliver to a Holder
such certificate or certificates, or electronically deliver (or
cause its transfer agent to electronically deliver) such shares in
the case of a DWAC Delivery, pursuant to Section 6(e)(i) on or
prior to the third (3rd) Trading Day after the Share Delivery Date
applicable to such conversion (other than a failure caused by
incorrect or incomplete information provided by such Holder to the
Corporation), then, unless the Holder has rescinded the applicable
Conversion Notice pursuant to Section 6(e)(i) above, the
Corporation shall pay (as liquidated damages and not as a penalty)
to such Holder an amount payable in cash equal to the product of
(x) the number of Conversion Shares required to have been issued by
the Corporation on such Share Delivery Date, (y) an amount equal to
the Daily Failure Amount and (z) the number of Trading Days
actually lapsed after such third (3rd) Trading Day after the Share
Delivery Date during which such certificates have not been
delivered, or, in the case of a DWAC Delivery, such shares have not
been electronically delivered. The foregoing liquidated damages is
not intended to be, and is not, an exclusive remedy. Nothing herein
shall limit a Holder’s right to pursue actual damages for the
Corporation’s failure to deliver Conversion Shares within the
period specified herein and such Holder shall have the right to
pursue all remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity
including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance
and/or injunctive relief; provided that Holder shall not receive
duplicate damages for the Corporation’s failure to deliver
Conversion Shares within the period specified herein. The exercise
of any such rights shall not prohibit a Holder from seeking to
enforce damages pursuant to any other Section hereof or under
applicable law.
(iii)
Compensation for Buy-In on
Failure to Timely Deliver Certificates Upon Conversion
. If
the Corporation fails to deliver to a Holder the applicable
certificate or certificates or to effect a DWAC Delivery, as
applicable, by the Share Delivery Date pursuant to Section 6(e)(i)
(other than a failure caused by incorrect or incomplete information
provided by such Holder to the Corporation) (a “
Conversion
Failure
”), and if after such Share Delivery Date such
Holder is required by its brokerage firm to purchase (in an open
market transaction or otherwise), or the Holder’s brokerage
firm otherwise purchases, shares of Common Stock to deliver in
satisfaction of a sale by such Holder of the Conversion Shares
which such Holder was entitled to receive upon the conversion
relating to such Share Delivery Date (a “
Buy-In
”),
then the Corporation shall (A) pay in cash to such Holder (in
addition to any other remedies available to or elected by such
Holder) the amount by which (x) such Holder’s total purchase
price (including any brokerage commissions) for the shares of
Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the product of (1) the
aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that such Holder was
entitled to receive from the conversion at issue multiplied by (2)
the actual sale price at which the sell order giving rise to such
purchase obligation was executed (including any brokerage
commissions) and (B) at the option of such Holder, either reissue
(if surrendered) the shares of Series F Preferred Stock equal to
the number of shares of Series F Preferred Stock submitted for
conversion or deliver to such Holder the number of shares of Common
Stock that would have been issued if the Corporation had timely
complied with its delivery requirements under Section 6(e)(i). For
example, if a Holder purchases shares of Common Stock having a
total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to
an attempted conversion of shares of Series F Preferred Stock with
respect to which the actual sale price (including any brokerage
commissions) giving rise to such purchase obligation was a total of
$10,000 under clause (A) of the immediately preceding sentence, the
Corporation shall be required to pay such Holder $1,000. The Holder
shall provide the Corporation written notice, within three (3)
Trading Days after the occurrence of a Buy-In, indicating the
amounts payable to such Holder in respect of such Buy-In together
with applicable confirmations and other evidence reasonably
requested by the Corporation. Nothing herein shall limit a
Holder’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it
hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a
decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with
respect to the Corporation’s failure to timely deliver
certificates representing shares of Common Stock upon conversion of
the shares of Series F Preferred Stock as required pursuant to the
terms hereof; provided, however, that the Holder shall not be
entitled to both (i) require the reissuance of the shares of Series
F Preferred Stock submitted for conversion for which such
conversion was not timely honored and (ii) receive the number of
shares of Common Stock that would have been issued if the
Corporation had timely complied with its delivery requirements
under Section 6(e)(i).
(iv)
Reservation
of Shares Issuable Upon Conversion
. The Corporation
covenants that it will at all times reserve and keep available out
of its authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock for the sole
purpose of issuance upon conversion of the Series F Preferred
Stock, free from preemptive rights or any other actual contingent
purchase rights of Persons other than the Holders of the Series F
Preferred Stock, not less than 125% of such aggregate number of
shares of the Common Stock as shall be issuable (taking into
account the adjustments of Section 7) upon the conversion of all
outstanding shares of Series F Preferred Stock. The Corporation
covenants that all shares of Common Stock that shall be so issuable
shall, upon issue, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid
and nonassessable.
(v)
Fractional
Shares
. No fractional shares or scrip representing
fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued upon the
conversion of the Series F Preferred Stock. As to any fraction of a
share which a Holder would otherwise be entitled to receive upon
such conversion, the Corporation shall at its election, either pay
a cash adjustment in respect of such final fraction in an amount
equal to such fraction multiplied by the Conversion Price or round
up to the next whole share.
(vi)
Transfer
Taxes
. The issuance of certificates for shares of the Common
Stock upon conversion of the Series F Preferred Stock shall be made
without charge to any Holder for any documentary stamp or similar
taxes that may be payable in respect of the issue or delivery of
such certificates, provided that the Corporation shall not be
required to pay any tax that may be payable in respect of any
transfer involved in the issuance and delivery of any such
certificate upon conversion in a name other than that of the
registered Holder(s) of such shares of Series F Preferred Stock and
the Corporation shall not be required to issue or deliver such
certificates unless or until the Person or Persons requesting the
issuance thereof shall have paid to the Corporation the amount of
such tax or shall have established to the satisfaction of the
Corporation that such tax has been paid.
(f)
Status
as Stockholder
. Upon each Conversion Date: (i) the shares of
Series F Preferred Stock being converted shall be deemed converted
into shares of Common Stock and (ii) the Holder’s rights as a
holder of such converted shares of Series F Preferred Stock shall
cease and terminate, excepting only the right to receive
certificates for or electronic delivery of such shares of Common
Stock and to any remedies provided herein or otherwise available at
law or in equity to such Holder because of a failure by the
Corporation to comply with the terms of this Certificate of
Designation. In all cases, the holder shall retain all of its
rights and remedies for the Corporation’s failure to convert
Series F Preferred Stock.
SECTION 7.
CERTAIN
ADJUSTMENTS
.
(a)
Adjustments
for Stock Splits and Combinations
. If the Corporation shall
at any time or from time to time after the Initial Issuance Date
effect a stock split of the outstanding Common Stock, the
applicable Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to the
stock split shall be proportionately decreased. If the Corporation
shall at any time or from time to time after the Initial Issuance
Date, combine the outstanding shares of Common Stock, the
applicable Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to the
combination shall be proportionately increased. Any adjustments
under this Section 7(a) shall be effective at the close of business
on the date the stock split or combination occurs.
(b)
Adjustments
for Certain Dividends and Distributions
. If the Corporation
shall at any time or from time to time after the Initial Issuance
Date make or issue or set a record date for the determination of
holders of Common Stock entitled to receive a dividend or other
distribution payable in shares of Common Stock, then, and in each
event, the applicable Conversion Price in effect immediately prior
to such event shall be decreased as of the time of such issuance
or, in the event such record date shall have been fixed, as of the
close of business on such record date, by multiplying the
applicable Conversion Price then in effect by a
fraction:
(i)
the
numerator of which shall be the total number of shares of Common
Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the time of such
issuance or the close of business on such record date;
and
(ii)
the denominator of which shall be the total number of shares of
Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the time
of such issuance or the close of business on such record date plus
the number of shares of Common Stock issuable in payment of such
dividend or distribution.
(c)
Adjustment
for Other Dividends and Distributions
. Subject to Sections 3
and 5 hereof, if the Corporation shall at any time or from time to
time after the Initial Issuance Date make or issue or set a record
date for the determination of holders of Common Stock entitled to
receive a dividend or other distribution payable in other than
shares of Common Stock, then, and in each event, an appropriate
revision to the applicable Conversion Price shall be made and
provision shall be made (by adjustments of the Conversion Price or
otherwise) so that the Holders shall receive upon conversions
thereof, in addition to the number of shares of Common Stock
receivable thereon, the number of securities of the Corporation or
other issuer (as applicable) or other property that they would have
received had the shares of Series F Preferred Stock been converted
into Common Stock on the date of such event and had thereafter,
during the period from the date of such event to and including the
Conversion Date, retained such securities (together with any
distributions payable thereon during such period) or assets, giving
application to all adjustments called for during such period under
this Section 7(c) with respect to the rights of each Holder;
provided, however, that if such record date shall have been fixed
and such dividend is not fully paid or if such distribution is not
fully made on the date fixed therefor, the Conversion Price shall
be adjusted pursuant to this paragraph as of the time of actual
payment of such dividends or distributions.
(d)
Adjustments
for Reclassification, Exchange or Substitution
. If the
Common Stock at any time or from time to time after the Initial
Issuance Date shall be changed to the same or different number of
shares or other securities of any class or classes of stock or
other property, whether by reclassification, exchange, substitution
or otherwise (other than by way of a stock split or combination of
shares or stock dividends provided for in Section 7(a), Section
7(b), and Section 7(c), or a reorganization, merger, consolidation,
or sale of assets provided for in Section 7(e)), then, and in each
event, an appropriate revision to the Conversion Price shall be
made and provisions shall be made (by adjustments of the Conversion
Price or otherwise) so that each Holder shall have the right
thereafter to convert shares of Series F Preferred Stock into the
kind and amount of shares of stock or other securities or other
property receivable upon reclassification, exchange, substitution
or other change, by holders of the number of shares of Common Stock
into which such shares of Series F Preferred Stock might have been
converted immediately prior to such reclassification, exchange,
substitution or other change, all subject to further adjustment as
provided herein.
(e)
Adjustments
for Reorganization, Merger, Consolidation or Sales of
Assets
. In case of any reorganization of the Corporation (or
any other corporation the stock or other securities of which are at
the time receivable on the conversion of the shares of Series F
Preferred Stock) after the Issuance Date, or in case, after such
date, the Corporation (or any such other corporation) shall
consolidate with or merge into another corporation or entity or
convey all or substantially all its assets to another corporation
or entity (any such reorganization or other event hereafter being
referred to as a “
Fundamental
Transaction
”), then and in each such case the shares
of Series F Preferred Stock, upon conversion, as and at any time
after the consummation of such Fundamental Transaction, shall be
converted into, in lieu of the stock or other securities and
property into which the shares of Series F Preferred Stock would
have been convertible prior to such Fundamental Transaction, such
stock or other securities or property to which the shares of Series
F Preferred Stock would have converted if the shares of Series F
Preferred Stock had been converted immediately prior to any such
Fundamental Transaction (the “
Alternate Consideration
”), subject
to further adjustment as provided in Section 7(a), Section 7(b),
Section 7(c) and Section 7(d) in each such case. To the extent
necessary to effectuate the foregoing provisions, any successor to
the Corporation or surviving entity in such Fundamental Transaction
shall file a new Certificate of Designation with the same terms and
conditions and issue to the Holders new preferred stock consistent
with the foregoing provisions and evidencing the Holders’
right to convert such preferred stock into Alternate Consideration.
The terms of any agreement to which the Corporation is a party and
pursuant to which a Fundamental Transaction is effected shall
include terms requiring any such successor or surviving entity to
comply with the provisions of this Section 7(e) and ensuring that
the Series F Preferred Stock (or any such replacement security)
will be similarly adjusted upon any subsequent transaction
analogous to a Fundamental Transaction. In the event of the merger
or consolidation of the Corporation with or into another
corporation, the Series F Preferred Stock shall maintain their
relative rank, powers, designations and preferences provided for
herein (for the avoidance of doubt, the Series F Preferred Stock
shall be senior to all other classes of capital stock of the
successor entity) and no merger shall have a result inconsistent
therewith. The Corporation shall cause to be delivered (via
overnight courier, facsimile or email) to each Holder, at its last
address as it shall appear upon the books and records of the
Corporation, written notice of any Fundamental Transaction at least
ten (10) calendar days prior to the date on which such Fundamental
Transaction is expected to become effective or close.
(f)
Other
Adjustments
. In the event that (A) the Corporation may not
effect the conversion of Series F Preferred Stock as a result of
the Exchange Cap or clause (ix) of the definition of Equity
Conditions is not satisfied and (B) the Corporation, at any time
after the date hereof, issues or sells any class of equity or
equity-linked securities (other than at-the-market equity offerings
through a broker-dealer), in one or more transactions, at a
notional price less than the Conversion Price, the Conversion Price
then in effect shall be reduced to the lowest notional price per
share at which any such share of Common Stock has been issued or
sold.
(g)
Record Date
. In
case the Corporation shall take record of the holders of its Common
Stock for the purpose of entitling them to subscribe for or
purchase Common Stock or Convertible Securities, then the date of
the issue or sale of the shares of Common Stock shall be deemed to
be such record date.
(h)
No
Impairment
. The Corporation shall not, by amendment of its
Certificate of Incorporation or through any reorganization,
transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, dissolution, issue or
sale of securities or other Fundamental Transaction or any other
voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or
performance of any of the terms to be observed or performed
hereunder by the Corporation, but will at all times in good faith
assist in the carrying out of all the provisions of this Section 7
and in the taking of all such action as may be necessary or
appropriate in order to protect the conversion rights of each
Holder against impairment.
(i)
Certificates
as to Adjustments
. Upon occurrence of each adjustment or
readjustment of the Conversion Price or number of shares of Common
Stock issuable upon conversion of the shares of Series F Preferred
Stock pursuant to this Section 7, the Corporation, at its expense,
shall promptly compute such adjustment or readjustment in
accordance with the terms hereof and furnish to each Holder a
certificate setting forth such adjustment and readjustment, showing
in detail the facts upon which such adjustment or readjustment is
based. The Corporation shall, upon written request of a Holder, at
any time, furnish or cause to be furnished to such Holder a like
certificate setting forth such adjustments and readjustments, the
applicable Conversion Price in effect at the time, and the number
of shares of Common Stock and the amount, if any, of other
securities or property which at the time would be received upon the
conversion of the shares of Series F Preferred Stock.
SECTION 8.
RIGHTS
UPON ISSUANCE OF PURCHASE RIGHTS AND OTHER CORPORATE
EVENTS
.
(a)
Purchase
Rights
. In addition to any adjustments pursuant to Section 7
above, if at any time the Corporation grants, issues or sells any
Options, Convertible Securities or rights to purchase stock,
warrants, securities or other property pro rata to all or
substantially all of the record holders of any class of Common
Stock (the “
Purchase
Rights
”), then the Holder will be entitled to acquire,
upon the terms applicable to such Purchase Rights, the aggregate
Purchase Rights which the Holder could have acquired if the Holder
had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon
complete conversion of the Holder’s shares of Preferred Stock
(without taking into account any limitations or restrictions on the
convertibility of the Preferred Shares) immediately before the date
on which a record is taken for the grant, issuance or sale of such
Purchase Rights, or, if no such record is taken, the date as of
which the record holders of Common Stock are to be determined for
the grant, issue or sale of such Purchase Rights (provided,
however, to the extent that the Holder’s right to participate
in any such Purchase Right would result in the Holder exceeding the
Beneficial Ownership Limitation, then the Holder shall not be
entitled to participate in such Purchase Right to such extent (or
beneficial ownership of such shares of Common Stock as a result of
such Purchase Right to such extent) and such Purchase Right to such
extent shall be held in abeyance for the Holder until such time, if
ever, as its right thereto would not result in the Holder exceeding
the Beneficial Ownership Limitation).
(b)
Other
Corporate Events
. In addition to and not in substitution for
any other rights hereunder, prior to the consummation of any
Fundamental Transaction pursuant to which holders of shares of
Common Stock are entitled to receive securities or other assets
with respect to or in exchange for shares of Common Stock (a
“
Corporate
Event
”), the Corporation shall make appropriate
provision to insure that the Holder will thereafter have the right
to receive upon a conversion of the Holder’s shares of
Preferred Stock (i) in addition to the shares of Common Stock
receivable upon such conversion, such securities or other assets to
which the Holder would have been entitled with respect to such
shares of Common Stock had such shares of Common Stock been held by
the Holder upon the consummation of such Corporate Event (without
taking into account any limitations or restrictions on the
convertibility of the Preferred Stock) or (ii) in lieu of the
shares of Common Stock otherwise receivable upon such conversion,
such securities or other assets received by the holders of shares
of Common Stock in connection with the consummation of such
Corporate Event in such amounts as the Holder would have been
entitled to receive had the Holder’s shares of Preferred
Stock initially been issued with conversion rights for the form of
such consideration (as opposed to shares of Common Stock) at a
conversion rate for such consideration commensurate with the
Conversion Rate. Provision made pursuant to the preceding sentence
shall be in a form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Holder. The provisions of this Section 8(b) shall apply similarly
and equally to successive Corporate Events and shall be applied
without regard to any limitations on the conversion of the
Preferred Stock.
SECTION 9.
COVENANTS
.
So long as any shares of the Series F Preferred Stock are
outstanding, without the prior express written consent of Holders
representing 66 2/3% of the outstanding shares of Series F
Preferred Stock, the Corporation shall not, and shall not permit
any Subsidiary, to, directly or indirectly:
(i)
create, incur, guarantee, assume or suffer to exist
any Indebtedness, other than trade payables incurred in the
ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and
letters of credit not in excess of $3.0 million in the aggregate at
any point in time;
(ii)
create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any
Encumbrances on any of its assets or property now owned or
hereafter acquired;
(iii)
redeem,
repurchase or pay any cash dividend or distribution on any of its
capital stock (other than Permitted Distributions);
(iv)
redeem,
repurchase or prepay any Indebtedness;
(v)
engage in any material line of business substantially
different from those lines of business conducted by the Corporation
and each of its Subsidiaries on the Initial Issue Date or any
business substantially related or incidental thereto. The
Corporation shall not, and the Corporation shall cause each of its
Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, modify its or their
corporate structure or purpose;
(vi)
acquire or form any New Subsidiary if such New
Subsidiary would not be wholly-owned, directly or indirectly, by
the Corporation;
(vii)
fail to maintain and preserve all of its properties which are
necessary or useful in the proper conduct of its business in good
working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and
fail to comply at all times with the provisions of all leases to
which it is a party as lessee or under which it occupies property,
so as to prevent any loss or forfeiture thereof or
thereunder;
(viii)
fail to maintain insurance with responsible and reputable insurance
companies or associations (including, without limitation,
comprehensive general liability, hazard, rent and business
interruption insurance) with respect to its properties (including
all real properties leased or owned by it) and business, in such
amounts and covering such risks as is required by any governmental
authority having jurisdiction with respect thereto or as is carried
generally in accordance with sound business practice by companies
in similar businesses similarly situated;
(ix)
lend money or credit (by way of guarantee or
otherwise) or make advances to any Subsidiary, or purchase or
acquire any stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other obligations or
securities of, or any other interest in, or make any capital
contribution to, any Subsidiary, other than capital contributions
in amounts consistent with prior practices of the Corporation to
its wholly-owned subsidiary CorMedix Europe GmbH; or
(x)
sell,
lease, license, assign, transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of
any assets or rights of the Corporation or any Subsidiary owned or
hereafter acquired whether in a single transaction or a series of
related transactions, other than (i) sales, leases, licenses,
assignments, transfers, conveyances and other dispositions of such
assets or rights by the Corporation and its Subsidiaries that are
in the ordinary course of their respective businesses and, after
giving effect thereto, would not result in a Material Adverse
Effect and (ii) sales of product, inventory or receivables in the
ordinary course of business.
SECTION 10.
MISCELLANEOUS
.
(a)
Notices
.
Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries to be
provided by the Holders hereunder including, without limitation,
any Notice of Conversion, shall be in writing and delivered
personally, by email, facsimile, or sent by a nationally recognized
overnight courier service, addressed to the Corporation, at 400
Connell Drive, 5th Floor, Suite 5000, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922,
facsimile number (908) 429-4307, or such other facsimile number or
address or email address as the Corporation may specify for such
purposes by notice to the Holders delivered in accordance with this
Section. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries
to be provided by the Corporation hereunder shall be in writing and
delivered personally, by facsimile, or sent by a nationally
recognized overnight courier service or email addressed to each
Holder at the facsimile number or address of such Holder appearing
on the books of the Corporation, or if no such facsimile number or
address appears on the books of the Corporation, at the principal
place of business of such Holder. Any notice or other communication
or deliveries hereunder shall be deemed given and effective on the
earliest of (i) the date of transmission, if such notice or
communication is delivered via facsimile or email at the facsimile
number or email address specified in or pursuant to this Section
prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any date, (ii) the date
immediately following the date of transmission, if such notice or
communication is delivered via facsimile or mail at the facsimile
number or email address specified in or pursuant to this Section
between 5:30 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. (New York City time) on any date,
(iii) the second (2nd) Business Day following the date of mailing,
if sent by nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (iv)
upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to
be given.
(b)
Lost
or Mutilated Series F Preferred Stock Certificate
. If a
Holder’s Series F Preferred Stock certificate shall be
mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Corporation shall execute
and deliver, in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation
of a mutilated certificate, or in lieu of or in substitution for a
lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, a new certificate for the
shares of Series F Preferred Stock so mutilated, lost, stolen or
destroyed, but only upon receipt of evidence of such loss, theft or
destruction of such certificate, and of the ownership thereof,
reasonably satisfactory to the Corporation and, in each case,
customary and reasonable indemnity, if requested. Applicants for a
new certificate under such circumstances shall also comply with
such other reasonable regulations and procedures and pay such other
reasonable third-party costs as the Corporation may
prescribe.
(c)
Waiver
.
Any waiver by the Corporation or a Holder of a breach of any
provision of this Certificate of Designation shall not operate as
or be construed to be a waiver of any other breach of such
provision or of any breach of any other provision of this
Certificate of Designation or a waiver by any other Holders. The
failure of the Corporation or a Holder to insist upon strict
adherence to any term of this Certificate of Designation on one or
more occasions shall not be considered a waiver or deprive that
party (or any other Holder) of the right thereafter to insist upon
strict adherence to that term or any other term of this Certificate
of Designation. Any waiver by the Corporation or a Holder must be
in writing.
(d)
Severability
.
If any provision of this Certificate of Designation is invalid,
illegal or unenforceable, the balance of this Certificate of
Designation shall remain in effect, and if any provision is
inapplicable to any Person or circumstance, it shall nevertheless
remain applicable to all other Persons and circumstances. If it
shall be found that any interest or other amount deemed interest
due hereunder violates the applicable law governing usury, the
applicable rate of interest due hereunder shall automatically be
lowered to equal the maximum rate of interest permitted under
applicable law.
(e)
Next
Business or Trading Day
. Whenever any payment or other
obligation hereunder shall be due on a day other than a Business
Day or a Trading Day, such payment shall be made on the next
succeeding Business Day or Trading Day, as the case may
be.
(f)
Headings
.
The headings contained herein are for convenience only, do not
constitute a part of this Certificate of Designation and shall not
be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions
hereof.
(g)
Status of Converted Series
F Preferred Stock
. If any shares of Series F Preferred Stock
shall be converted or reacquired by the Corporation, such shares
shall resume the status of authorized but unissued shares of
preferred stock and shall no longer be designated as Series F
Preferred Stock.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF
, the Corporation has
caused this Certificate of Designation to be signed by its duly
authorized officer this 9
th
day of November,
2017.
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ANNEX A
NOTICE
OF CONVERSION
(TO BE
EXECUTED BY THE REGISTERED HOLDER IN ORDER TO
CONVERT
SHARES OF SERIES F PREFERRED STOCK)
The
undersigned Holder hereby irrevocably elects to convert the number
of shares of Series F Convertible Preferred Stock indicated below,
represented by stock certificate No(s). _______________ (the
“
Preferred Stock
Certificates
”), into shares of common stock, par value
$0.001 per share (the “
Common Stock
”), of
CorMedix Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “
Corporation
”), as of the
date written below. If securities are to be issued in the name of a
person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all
transfer taxes payable with respect thereto. Capitalized terms
utilized but not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to
such terms in that certain Certificate of Designation (the
“
Certificate of
Designation
”) of Series F Convertible Preferred Stock
(the “
Series F
Preferred Stock
”) filed by the Corporation on November
__, 2017.
As of
the date hereof, the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially
owned by the undersigned Holder (together with such Holder’s
Affiliates, and any other Person whose beneficial ownership of
Common Stock would be aggregated with the Holder’s for
purposes of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the applicable
regulations of the Commission, including any “group” of
which the Holder is a member), including the number of shares of
Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Series F Preferred
Stock subject to this Notice of Conversion, but excluding the
number of shares of Common Stock which are issuable upon (A)
conversion of the remaining, unconverted Series F Preferred Stock
beneficially owned by such Holder or any of its Affiliates, and (B)
exercise or conversion of the unexercised or unconverted portion of
any other securities of the Corporation (including any warrants)
beneficially owned by such Holder or any of its Affiliates that are
subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the
limitation contained in Section 6(c) of the Certificate of
Designation, is _______________. For purposes hereof, beneficial
ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of
the Exchange Act and the applicable regulations of the Commission.
In addition, for purposes hereof, “group” has the
meaning set forth in Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the
applicable regulations of the Commission.
CONVERSION
CALCULATIONS:
Date to
Effect Conversion:
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Exhibit 4.15
NEITHER
THIS SECURITY NOR THE SECURITIES FOR WHICH THIS SECURITY IS
EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE
UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND,
ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN
EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR
PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT
SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND
IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS SECURITY
AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE
PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN
SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.
Warrant To Purchase Common Stock
Warrant
No.:
This
Warrant to Purchase Common Stock (including any Warrants to
Purchase Common Stock issued in exchange, transfer or replacement
hereof, the “
Warrant
”) of
CorMedix Inc.
(the “
Company
”) is issued this __ day of
November, 2017 (the “
Issuance
Date
”) to [ ] (the “
Holder
”) pursuant to that certain
Backstop Agreement, dated the Issuance Date (the
“
Backstop
Agreement
”). The Company hereby certifies that, for
good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of
which are hereby acknowledged, the Holder or its permitted assigns
is entitled, subject to the terms set forth below, to purchase from
the Company, at the Exercise Price (as defined below) then in
effect, upon exercise of this Warrant, at any time or times on or
after the Issue Date (the “
Initial Exercisability Date
”), but
not after 11:59 p.m., New York time, on the Expiration Date (as
defined below), a number of shares of Common Stock equal to [ ]% of
the Aggregate Warrant Amount (subject to adjustment as provided
herein) fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock (as
defined below)
(the
“
Warrant
Shares
”).
Except
as otherwise defined herein or in the Backstop Agreement,
capitalized terms in this Warrant shall have the meanings set forth
in Section 14.
(a)
Mechanics
of Exercise
. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof
(including, without limitation, the limitations set forth in
Section 1(e)), this Warrant may be exercised by the Holder on
any day on or after the Initial Exercisability Date, in whole or in
part, by delivery (whether via facsimile or otherwise) of a written
notice, in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A
(the “
Exercise
Notice
”), of the Holder’s election to exercise
this Warrant. Within one (1) Trading Day following an exercise of
this Warrant as aforesaid, the Holder shall deliver payment to the
Company of an amount equal to the Exercise Price in effect on the
date of such exercise multiplied by the number of Warrant Shares as
to which this Warrant was so exercised (the “
Aggregate Exercise Price
”) in cash
or via wire transfer of immediately available funds if the Holder
did not notify the Company in such Exercise Notice that such
exercise was made pursuant to a Cashless Exercise (as defined in
Section 1(c)). The Holder shall not be required to deliver the
original of this Warrant in order to effect an exercise hereunder.
Execution and delivery of an Exercise Notice with respect to less
than all of the Warrant Shares shall have the same effect as
cancellation of the original of this Warrant and issuance of a new
Warrant evidencing the right to purchase the remaining number of
Warrant Shares. Execution and delivery of an Exercise Notice for
all of the then-remaining Warrant Shares shall have the same effect
as cancellation of the original of this Warrant after delivery of
the Warrant Shares in accordance with the terms hereof. On or
before the first (1
st
) Trading Day
following the date on which the Company has received an Exercise
Notice, the Company shall transmit by facsimile an acknowledgment
of confirmation of receipt of such Exercise Notice, in the form
attached hereto as
Exhibit B
,
to the Holder and the Company’s transfer agent (the
“
Transfer
Agent
”). On or before the second (2
nd
) Trading Day
following the date on which the Company has received such Exercise
Notice, the Company shall (X) provided that the Transfer Agent is
participating in The Depository Trust Company (“
DTC
”) Fast Automated Securities
Transfer Program and provided the shares of Common Stock which the
Holder is entitled to are registered on an effective registration
statement or may be sold without any restriction under Rule 144,
upon the request of the Holder, credit such aggregate number of
shares of Common Stock to which the Holder is entitled pursuant to
such exercise to the Holder’s or its designee’s balance
account with DTC through its Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian
system, or (Y) if the Transfer Agent is not participating in the
DTC Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program, issue and deliver
to the Holder or, at the Holder’s instruction pursuant to the
Exercise Notice, the Holder’s agent or designee, in each
case, sent by reputable overnight courier to the address as
specified in the applicable Exercise Notice, a certificate,
registered in the Company’s share register in the name of the
Holder or its designee (as indicated in the applicable Exercise
Notice), for the number of shares of Common Stock to which the
Holder is entitled pursuant to such exercise, which may contain a
restrictive legend if required to comply with applicable securities
laws. Upon delivery of an Exercise Notice, the Holder shall be
deemed for all corporate purposes to have become the holder of
record of the Warrant Shares with respect to which this Warrant has
been exercised, irrespective of the date such Warrant Shares are
credited to the Holder’s DTC account or the date of delivery
of the certificates evidencing such Warrant Shares (as the case may
be). If this Warrant is submitted in connection with any exercise
pursuant to this Section 1(a) and the number of Warrant Shares
represented by this Warrant submitted for exercise is greater than
the number of Warrant Shares being acquired upon an exercise, then,
at the request of the Holder, the Company shall as soon as
practicable and in no event later than three (3) Business Days
after any exercise and at its own expense, issue and deliver to the
Holder (or its designee) a new Warrant (in accordance with
Section 6(d) representing the right to purchase the number of
Warrant Shares purchasable immediately prior to such exercise under
this Warrant, less the number of Warrant Shares with respect to
which this Warrant is exercised. No fractional shares of Common
Stock are to be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant, but
rather the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued shall be
rounded up to the nearest whole number. The Company shall pay any
and all taxes and fees which may be payable with respect to the
issuance and delivery of Warrant Shares upon exercise of this
Warrant.
(b)
Exercise
Price
. For purposes of this Warrant, “
Exercise Price
” means $0.001 per
share, subject to adjustment as provided herein.
(c)
Cashless
Exercise
. The Holder may, in its sole discretion, exercise
this Warrant in whole or in part and, in lieu of making the cash
payment otherwise contemplated to be made to the Company upon such
exercise in payment of the Aggregate Exercise Price, elect instead
to receive upon such exercise the “Net Number” of
shares of Common Stock determined according to the following
formula (a “
Cashless
Exercise
”):
Net
Number =
(A x B) - (A x
C)
B
For
purposes of the foregoing formula:
A
=
the total number of
shares with respect to which this Warrant is then being
exercised.
B
=
as applicable: (i)
the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day
immediately preceding the date of the applicable Exercise Notice if
such Exercise Notice is (1) both executed and delivered pursuant to
Section 1(a) hereof on a day that is not a Trading Day or (2) both
executed and delivered pursuant to Section 1(a) hereof on a Trading
Day prior to the opening of “regular trading hours” (as
defined in Rule 600(b)(64) of Regulation NMS promulgated under the
federal securities laws) on such Trading Day, (ii) the Closing Bid
Price of the Common Stock as of the time of the Holder’s
execution of the applicable Exercise Notice if such Exercise Notice
is executed during “regular trading hours” on a Trading
Day and is delivered within two (2) hours thereafter pursuant to
Section 1(a) hereof or (iii) the Closing Sale Price of the Common
Stock on the date of the applicable Exercise Notice if the date of
such Exercise Notice is a Trading Day and such Exercise Notice is
both executed and delivered pursuant to Section 1(a) hereof after
the close of “regular trading hours” on such Trading
Day
C
=
the Exercise Price
then in effect for the applicable Warrant Shares at the time of
such exercise.
(d)
Disputes
.
In the case of a dispute as to the determination of the Exercise
Price or the arithmetic calculation of the number of Warrant Shares
to be issued pursuant to the terms hereof, the Company shall
promptly issue to the Holder the number of Warrant Shares that are
not disputed and resolve such dispute in good faith.
(e)
Limitations
on Exercises
.
(i)
Beneficial
Ownership
. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in this Warrant, this Warrant shall not be exercisable by
the Holder hereof to the extent (but only to the extent) that after
giving effect to such exercise the Holder (together with any of its
affiliates) would beneficially own in excess of 9.99% (the
“
Maximum
Percentage
”) of the Common Stock. To the extent
the above limitation applies, the determination of whether this
Warrant shall be exercisable (vis-à-vis other convertible,
exercisable or exchangeable securities owned by the Holder or any
of its affiliates) and of which such securities shall be
convertible, exercisable or exchangeable (as the case may be, as
among all such securities owned by the Holder) shall, subject to
such Maximum Percentage limitation, be determined on the basis of
the first submission to the Company for conversion, exercise or
exchange (as the case may be). No prior inability to exercise this
Warrant pursuant to this paragraph shall have any effect on the
applicability of the provisions of this paragraph with respect
to any subsequent determination of exercisability. For the purposes
of this paragraph, beneficial ownership and all determinations and
calculations (including, without limitation, with respect to
calculations of percentage ownership) shall be determined in
accordance with Section 13(d) of the 1934 Act (as defined in
the Backstop Agreement) and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder. The provisions of this paragraph shall be implemented
in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of
this paragraph to correct this paragraph (or any portion hereof)
which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended Maximum
Percentage beneficial ownership limitation herein contained or to
make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give
effect to such Maximum Percentage limitation. The limitations
contained in this paragraph shall apply to a successor Holder of
this Warrant. For any reason at any time, upon the written or oral
request of the Holder, the Company shall within one (1) Business
Day confirm orally and in writing to the Holder the number of
shares of Common Stock then outstanding, including by virtue of any
prior conversion or exercise of convertible or exercisable
securities into Common Stock, including, without limitation,
pursuant to this Warrant or securities issued pursuant to the
Backstop Agreement. By written notice to the Company, any Holder
may increase or decrease the Maximum Percentage to any other
percentage specified in such notice; provided that (i) any such
increase will not be effective until the 61st day after such notice
is delivered to the Company, and (ii) any such increase or decrease
will apply only to the Holder sending such notice.
(ii)
Principal
Market Regulation
. The Company shall not issue any shares of
Common Stock upon the exercise of this Warrant (the
“
Backstop
Warrants
”) if the issuance of such shares of Common
Stock and the conversion of any Backstop Shares defined in and
issued pursuant to the Backstop Agreement or otherwise pursuant to
the terms of the Backstop Shares) would exceed the aggregate number
of shares of Common Stock which the Company may issue upon exercise
or conversion (as the case may be) of the Backstop Warrants and the
Backstop Shares without breaching the Company’s obligations
under the rules or regulations of the Principal Market (the number
of shares which may be issued without violating such rules and
regulations, the “
Exchange
Cap
”), except that such limitation shall not apply in
the event that the Company (A) obtains the approval of its
stockholders as required by the applicable rules of the Principal
Market for issuances of shares of Common Stock in excess of such
amount or (B) obtains a written opinion from outside counsel to the
Company that such approval is not required, which opinion shall be
reasonably satisfactory to the Holder or (C) obtain a waiver from
the Principal Market of the applicable rules of such Principal
Market for the issuance of shares of Common Stock in excess of such
amount. Until such approval or such written opinion is obtained,
the Holder shall not be issued in the aggregate, upon conversion or
exercise (as the case may be) of any Backstop Shares or any of the
Backstop Warrants, shares of Common Stock in an amount greater than
the Exchange Cap. In the event that the Holder shall sell or
otherwise transfer any of the Holder’s Backstop Warrants, the
restrictions of the prior sentence shall apply to such
transferee.
2.
ADJUSTMENT OF EXERCISE PRICE OF WARRANT SHARES
.
The Exercise Price of this Warrant, but
not the number of Warrant Shares issuable hereunder, is subject to
adjustment from time to time as set forth in this
Section 2.
(a)
Stock
Dividends and Splits
. If the Company, at any time on or
after the date of the Backstop Agreement, (i) pays a stock dividend
on one or more classes of its then outstanding shares of Common
Stock or otherwise makes a distribution on any class of capital
stock that is payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivides
(by any stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization or otherwise)
one or more classes of its then outstanding shares of Common Stock
into a larger number of shares or (iii) combines (by combination,
reverse stock split or otherwise) one or more classes of its then
outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares,
then in each such case the Exercise Price shall be multiplied by a
fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding immediately before such event and of which
the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding immediately after such event. Any adjustment made
pursuant to clause (i) of this paragraph shall become effective
immediately after the record date for the determination of
stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or distribution, and
any adjustment pursuant to clause (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph
shall become effective immediately after the effective date of such
subdivision or combination. If any event requiring an adjustment
under this paragraph occurs during the period that an Exercise
Price is calculated hereunder, then the calculation of such
Exercise Price shall be adjusted appropriately to reflect such
event.
(b)
Number
of Warrant Shares
. Regardless of any adjustment to the
Exercise Price pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Section 2,
the number of Warrant Shares that may be purchased upon exercise of
this Warrant shall not be increased or decreased.
(c)
Calculations
.
All calculations under this Section 2 shall be made by
rounding to the nearest cent or the nearest 1/100
th
of a share, as
applicable. The number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at any
given time shall not include shares owned or held by or for the
account of the Company, and the disposition of any such shares
shall be considered an issue or sale of Common Stock.
3.
NONCIRCUMVENTION
. The Company
hereby covenants and agrees that the Company will not, by amendment
of its Certificate of Incorporation (as defined in the Backstop
Agreement), Bylaws (as defined in the Backstop Agreement) or
through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation,
merger, scheme of arrangement, dissolution, issue or sale of
securities, or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid
the observance or performance of any of the terms of this Warrant,
and will at all times in good faith carry out all the provisions of
this Warrant and take all action as may be required to protect the
rights of the Holder. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the Company (i) shall not increase the par value of
any shares of Common Stock receivable upon the exercise of this
Warrant above the Exercise Price then in effect, (ii) shall
take all such actions as may be necessary or appropriate in order
that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and
non-assessable shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of this
Warrant, and (iii) shall, so long as this Warrant is outstanding,
take all action necessary to reserve and keep available out of its
authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock, solely for the
purpose of effecting the exercise of this Warrant, the maximum
number of shares of Common Stock as shall from time to time be
necessary to effect the exercise of this Warrant to the extent
outstanding (without regard to any limitations on
exercise).
4.
FUNDAMENTAL
TRANSACTIONS
.
(a)
Fundamental
Transactions
. (1) The Company shall not enter into or be
party to a Fundamental Transaction unless (i) the Successor Entity
(if different than the Company) assumes in writing all of the
obligations of the Company under this Warrant in accordance with
the provisions of this Section 4(a) including agreements to
deliver to the Holder in exchange for this Warrant a security of
the Successor Entity evidenced by a written instrument
substantially similar in form and substance to this Warrant,
including, without limitation, which is exercisable for a
corresponding number of shares of capital stock equivalent to the
shares of Common Stock acquirable and receivable upon exercise of
this Warrant (without regard to any limitations on the exercise of
this Warrant) prior to such Fundamental Transaction, and with an
exercise price which applies the exercise price hereunder to such
shares of capital stock (but taking into account the relative value
of the shares of Common Stock pursuant to such Fundamental
Transaction and the value of such shares of capital stock, such
adjustments to the number of shares of capital stock and such
exercise price being for the purpose of protecting the economic
value of this Warrant immediately prior to the consummation of such
Fundamental Transaction) and (ii) the Successor Entity
(including its Parent Entity) is a publicly traded corporation
whose common stock is quoted on or listed for trading on an
Eligible Market. Upon the consummation of each Fundamental
Transaction, the Successor Entity shall succeed to, and be
substituted for (so that from and after the date of the applicable
Fundamental Transaction, the provisions of this Warrant and the
other Transaction Documents referring to the “Company”
shall refer instead to the Successor Entity), and may exercise
every right and power of the Company and shall assume all of the
obligations of the Company under this Warrant and the other
Transaction Documents with the same effect as if such Successor
Entity had been named as the Company herein. Upon consummation of
each Fundamental Transaction, the Successor Entity (if different
from the Company) shall deliver to the Holder confirmation that
there shall be issued upon exercise of this Warrant at any time
after the consummation of the applicable Fundamental Transaction,
in lieu of the shares of Common Stock (or other securities, cash,
assets or other property) issuable upon the exercise of this
Warrant prior to the applicable Fundamental Transaction, such
shares of common stock (or its equivalent) of the Successor Entity
(including its Parent Entity) which the Holder would have been
entitled to receive upon the happening of the applicable
Fundamental Transaction had this Warrant been exercised immediately
prior to the applicable Fundamental Transaction (without regard to
any limitations on the exercise of this Warrant), as adjusted in
accordance with the provisions of this Warrant. In addition to and
not in substitution for any other rights hereunder, prior to the
consummation of each Fundamental Transaction pursuant to which
holders of shares of Common Stock are entitled to receive
securities or other assets with respect to or in exchange for
shares of Common Stock (a “
Corporate Event
”), the Company
shall make appropriate provision to insure that the Holder will
thereafter have the right to receive upon an exercise of this
Warrant at any time after the consummation of the applicable
Fundamental Transaction but prior to the Expiration Date, in lieu
of the shares of the Common Stock (or other securities, cash,
assets or other property) issuable upon the exercise of the Warrant
prior to such Fundamental Transaction, such shares of stock,
securities, cash, assets or any other property whatsoever
(including warrants or other purchase or subscription rights) which
the Holder would have been entitled to receive upon the happening
of the applicable Fundamental Transaction had this Warrant been
exercised immediately prior to the applicable Fundamental
Transaction (without regard to any limitations on the exercise of
this Warrant). Provision made pursuant to the preceding sentence
shall be in a form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Holder.
(2)
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4(a)(1), the Company
shall have the right to require that Holder waive the requirements
of Section 4(a)(1) (the “
Waiver
”) in a Fundamental
Transaction in which the definitive documentation relating to such
Fundamental Transaction provides that to the extent this Warrant is
“in the money” (by reference to the purchase price per
share of Common Stock in such Fundamental Transaction (such price
the, “
Fundamental Transaction
Per Share Price
”)), the Buyer shall receive proceeds
equal to the product of (a) the number of shares of Common Stock
into which this Warrant is exercisable and (b) the difference
between the Fundamental Transaction Per Share Price and the
Exercise Price (the “
Fundamental Transaction Amount
”).
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4(a), but
subject to Section 1(e)(i), until such time that the Holder
receives the Fundamental Transaction Amount (at which point this
Warrant shall be cancelled), this Warrant may be exercised, in
whole or in part, by the Holder (x) prior to consummation of the
applicable Fundamental Transaction, into Common Stock pursuant to
Section 1, or (y) upon (which may be expressly conditioned upon the
consummation of the applicable Fundamental Transaction) or after
the consummation of the applicable Fundamental Transaction, into
any such shares of stock, securities, cash, assets or any other
property whatsoever (including warrants or other purchase or
subscription rights, if applicable) which the Holder would have
been entitled to receive upon the happening of such Fundamental
Transaction had the Warrant been exercised immediately prior to the
consummation of such Fundamental Transaction. The Holder and
the Company acknowledge and agree that the provisions of Section
4(a)(1) shall be of no further force or effect to the extent that
the Buyer exercises its cashless exercise rights pursuant to
Section 1(c) hereof prior to the consummation of a Fundamental
Transaction.
(b)
Application
.
The provisions of this Section 4 shall apply similarly and
equally to successive Fundamental Transactions and Corporate Events
and shall be applied as if this Warrant (and any such subsequent
warrants) were fully exercisable and without regard to any
limitations on the exercise of this Warrant (provided that the
Holder shall continue to be entitled to the benefit of the Maximum
Percentage, applied however with respect to shares of capital stock
registered under the 1934 Act and thereafter receivable upon
exercise of this Warrant (or any such other warrant)).
5.
WARRANT HOLDER NOT DEEMED A STOCKHOLDER
. Except as
otherwise specifically provided herein, the Holder, solely in its
capacity as a holder of this Warrant, shall not be entitled to vote
or receive dividends or be deemed the holder of share capital of
the Company for any purpose, nor shall anything contained in this
Warrant be construed to confer upon the Holder, solely in its
capacity as the Holder of this Warrant, any of the rights of a
stockholder of the Company or any right to vote, give or withhold
consent to any corporate action (whether any reorganization, issue
of stock, reclassification of stock, consolidation, merger,
conveyance or otherwise), receive notice of meetings, receive
dividends or subscription rights, or otherwise, prior to the
issuance to the Holder of the Warrant Shares which it is then
entitled to receive upon the due exercise of this Warrant. In
addition, nothing contained in this Warrant shall be construed as
imposing any liabilities on the Holder to purchase any securities
(upon exercise of this Warrant or otherwise) or as a stockholder of
the Company, whether such liabilities are asserted by the Company
or by creditors of the Company. Notwithstanding this
Section 5, the Company shall provide the Holder with copies of
the same notices and other information given to the stockholders of
the Company generally, contemporaneously with the giving thereof to
the stockholders.
6.
REISSUANCE OF
WARRANTS
.
(a)
Transfer
of Warrant
. If this Warrant is to be transferred, the Holder
shall surrender this Warrant to the Company, whereupon the Company
will forthwith issue and deliver upon the order of the Holder a new
Warrant (in accordance with Section 6(d)), registered as the
Holder may request, representing the right to purchase the number
of Warrant Shares being transferred by the Holder and, if less than
the total number of Warrant Shares then underlying this Warrant is
being transferred, a new Warrant (in accordance with
Section 6(d)) to the Holder representing the right to purchase
the number of Warrant Shares not being transferred.
(b)
Lost,
Stolen or Mutilated Warrant
. Upon receipt by the Company of
evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of the loss, theft,
destruction or mutilation of this Warrant (as to which a written
certification and the indemnification contemplated below shall
suffice as such evidence), and, in the case of loss, theft or
destruction, of any indemnification undertaking by the Holder to
the Company in customary and reasonable form and, in the case of
mutilation, upon surrender and cancellation of this Warrant, the
Company shall execute and deliver to the Holder a new Warrant (in
accordance with Section 6(d)) representing the right to
purchase the Warrant Shares then underlying this
Warrant.
(c)
Exchangeable
for Multiple Warrants
. This Warrant is exchangeable, upon
the surrender hereof by the Holder at the principal office of the
Company, for a new Warrant or Warrants (in accordance with
Section 6(d)) representing in the aggregate the right to
purchase the number of Warrant Shares then underlying this Warrant,
and each such new Warrant will represent the right to purchase such
portion of such Warrant Shares as is designated by the Holder at
the time of such surrender; provided, however, no warrants for
fractional shares of Common Stock shall be given.
(d)
Issuance
of New Warrants
. Whenever the Company is required to issue a
new Warrant pursuant to the terms of this Warrant, such new Warrant
(i) shall be of like tenor with this Warrant, (ii) shall represent,
as indicated on the face of such new Warrant, the right to purchase
the Warrant Shares then underlying this Warrant (or in the case of
a new Warrant being issued pursuant to Section 6(a) or Section
6(c), the Warrant Shares designated by the Holder which, when added
to the number of shares of Common Stock underlying the other new
Warrants issued in connection with such issuance, does not exceed
the number of Warrant Shares then underlying this Warrant), (iii)
shall have an issuance date, as indicated on the face of such new
Warrant which is the same as the Issuance Date, and (iv) shall have
the same rights and conditions as this Warrant.
7.
NOTICES
. Whenever notice
is required to be given under this Warrant, unless otherwise
provided herein, such notice shall be given in accordance with
Section 7(f) of the Backstop Agreement. The Company shall
provide the Holder with prompt written notice of all actions taken
pursuant to this Warrant, including in reasonable detail a
description of such action and the reason therefor. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company will give
written notice to the Holder (i) immediately upon each adjustment
of the Exercise Price and the number of Warrant Shares, setting
forth in reasonable detail, and certifying, the calculation of such
adjustment(s). To the extent that any notice provided hereunder
constitutes, or contains, material, non-public information
regarding the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Company shall
simultaneously file such notice with the SEC (as defined in the
Backstop Agreement) pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K. It is
expressly understood and agreed that the time of execution
specified by the Holder in each Exercise Notice shall be definitive
and may not be disputed or challenged by the Company.
8.
AMENDMENT AND WAIVER
. Except as
otherwise provided herein, the provisions of this Warrant may be
amended and the Company may take any action herein prohibited, or
omit to perform any act herein required to be performed by it, only
if the Company has obtained the written consent of the Holder. The
Holder shall be entitled, at its option, to the benefit of any
amendment of (i) any other similar warrant issued under the
Backstop Agreement or (ii) any other similar warrant. No waiver
shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by an
authorized representative of the waiving party.
9.
SEVERABILITY
. If any provision
of this Warrant is prohibited by law or otherwise determined to be
invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the
provision that would otherwise be prohibited, invalid or
unenforceable shall be deemed amended to apply to the broadest
extent that it would be valid and enforceable, and the invalidity
or unenforceability of such provision shall not affect the validity
of the remaining provisions of this Warrant so long as this Warrant
as so modified continues to express, without material change, the
original intentions of the parties as to the subject matter hereof
and the prohibited nature, invalidity or unenforceability of the
provision(s) in question does not substantially impair the
respective expectations or reciprocal obligations of the parties or
the practical realization of the benefits that would otherwise be
conferred upon the parties. The parties will endeavor in good faith
negotiations to replace the prohibited, invalid or unenforceable
provision(s) with a valid provision(s), the effect of which comes
as close as possible to that of the prohibited, invalid or
unenforceable provision(s).
10.
GOVERNING LAW
. This Warrant
shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with,
and all questions concerning the construction, validity,
interpretation and performance of this Warrant shall be governed
by, the internal laws of the State of New York, without giving
effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule
(whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdictions) that
would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdictions other
than the State of New York. The Company hereby irrevocably submits
to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts
sitting in The City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, for the
adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or
with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein, and
hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit,
action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject
to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or
proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of
such suit, action or proceeding is improper. Nothing contained
herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve
process in any manner permitted by law. Nothing contained herein
shall be deemed or operate to preclude the Holder from bringing
suit or taking other legal action against the Company in any other
jurisdiction to collect on the Company’s obligations to the
Holder or to enforce a judgment or other court ruling in favor of
the Holder.
THE COMPANY HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO, AND AGREES NOT TO
REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER
OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS WARRANT OR ANY
TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
11.
CONSTRUCTION; HEADINGS
. This Warrant
shall be deemed to be jointly drafted by the Company and the Holder
and shall not be construed against any Person as the drafter
hereof. The headings of this Warrant are for convenience of
reference and shall not form part of, or affect the interpretation
of, this Warrant. Terms used in this Warrant but defined in the
other Transaction Documents shall have the meanings ascribed to
such terms on the Closing Date in such other Transaction Documents
unless otherwise consented to in writing by the
Holder.
12.
REMEDIES, CHARACTERIZATION, OTHER OBLIGATIONS, BREACHES AND
INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
. The remedies
provided in this Warrant shall be cumulative and in addition to all
other remedies available under this Warrant and the other
Transaction Documents, at law or in equity (including a decree of
specific performance and/or other injunctive relief), and nothing
herein shall limit the right of the Holder to pursue actual damages
for any failure by the Company to comply with the terms of this
Warrant. The Company covenants to the Holder that there shall be no
characterization concerning this instrument other than as expressly
provided herein. Amounts set forth or provided for herein with
respect to payments, exercises and the like (and the computation
thereof) shall be the amounts to be received by the Holder and
shall not, except as expressly provided herein, be subject to any
other obligation of the Company (or the performance thereof). The
Company acknowledges that a breach by it of its obligations
hereunder will cause irreparable harm to the Holder and that the
remedy at law for any such breach may be inadequate. The Company
therefore agrees that, in the event of any such breach or
threatened breach, the holder of this Warrant shall be entitled, in
addition to all other available remedies, to an injunction
restraining any breach, without the necessity of showing economic
loss and without any bond or other security being required. The
Company shall provide all information and documentation to the
Holder that is requested by the Holder to enable the Holder to
confirm the Company’s compliance with the terms and
conditions of this Warrant (including, without limitation,
compliance with Section 2 hereof). The issuance of shares and
certificates for shares as contemplated hereby upon the exercise of
this Warrant shall be made without charge to the Holder or such
shares for any issuance tax or other costs in respect thereof,
provided that the Company shall not be required to pay any tax
which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the
issuance and delivery of any certificate in a name other than the
Holder or its agent on its behalf.
13.
TRANSFER
. This Warrant may
be offered for sale, sold, transferred or assigned without the
consent of the Company.
14.
CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
. For purposes of
this Warrant, the following terms shall have the following
meanings:
(a) “
Aggregate
Warrant Amount
” means a number equal to (A) $500,000
divided by (b) $0.5278 minus (B) the product of (a) 50% of the
amount in sub-clause (A) and (b) (i) solely to the extent raised
from Persons other than the Backstop Investors and their respective
affiliates, up to $3 million of any cash proceeds described in
clause (A)(3) of the definition of Purchase Maximum actually
received by the Company on or prior to December 24, 2017 divided by
(ii) $3 million.
(b) “
Bloomberg
”
means Bloomberg, L.P.
(c) “
Business
Day
” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or
other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York are
authorized or required by law to remain closed.
(d)
“
Change of
Control
” means any Fundamental Transaction other than
(i) any merger of the Company or any of its, direct or indirect,
wholly-owned Subsidiaries with or into any of the foregoing
Persons, (ii) any reorganization, recapitalization or
reclassification of the shares of Common Stock in which holders of
the Company’s voting power immediately prior to such
reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification continue after
such reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification to hold
publicly traded securities and, directly or indirectly, are, in all
material respects, the holders of the voting power of the surviving
entity (or entities with the authority or voting power to
elect the members of the board of directors (or their equivalent if
other than a corporation) of such entity or entities) after such
reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification, or (iii)
pursuant to a migratory merger effected solely for the purpose of
changing the jurisdiction of incorporation of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries.
(e) “
Closing
Bid Price
” and “
Closing Sale Price
” means, for any
security as of any date, the last closing bid price and last
closing trade price, respectively, for such security on the
Principal Market, as reported by Bloomberg, or, if the Principal
Market begins to operate on an extended hours basis and does not
designate the closing bid price or the closing trade price (as the
case may be) then the last bid price or last trade price,
respectively, of such security prior to 4:00:00 p.m., New York City
time, as reported by Bloomberg, or, if the Principal Market is not
the principal securities exchange or trading market for such
security, the last closing bid price or last trade price,
respectively, of such security on the principal securities exchange
or trading market where such security is listed or traded as
reported by Bloomberg, or if the foregoing do not apply, the last
closing bid price or last trade price, respectively, of such
security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin
board for such security as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no closing
bid price or last trade price, respectively, is reported for such
security by Bloomberg, the average of the bid prices, or the ask
prices, respectively, of any market makers for such security as
reported in the “pink sheets” by OTC Markets Group Inc.
(formerly Pink Sheets LLC). If the Closing Bid Price or the Closing
Sale Price cannot be calculated for a security on a particular date
on any of the foregoing bases, the Closing Bid Price or the Closing
Sale Price (as the case may be) of such security on such date shall
be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company and
the Holder. All such determinations shall be appropriately adjusted
for any stock dividend, stock split, stock combination or other
similar transaction during such period.
(f) “
Common
Stock
” means (i) the Company’s shares of
common stock, $0.001 par value per share, and (ii) any capital
stock into which such common stock shall have been changed or any
share capital resulting from a reclassification of such common
stock.
(g) “
Eligible
Market
” means The New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE
American, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the Nasdaq Global Market
or the Principal Market.
(h) “
Expiration
Date
” means the date that is the three year
anniversary of the Initial Exercisability Date, or, if such date
falls on a day other than a Business Day or on which trading does
not take place on the Principal Market (a “
Holiday
”), the next date that is
not a Holiday.
(i) “
Fundamental
Transaction
” means that (i) the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries shall, directly or indirectly, in one or more related
transactions, (1) consolidate or merge with or into (whether or not
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is the surviving
corporation) any other Person, or (2) sell, lease, license, assign,
transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all
of its respective properties or assets to any other Person, or (3)
support any other Person in making a purchase, tender or exchange
offer that is accepted by the holders of more than 50% of the
outstanding shares of Voting Stock of the Company (not including
any shares of Voting Stock of the Company held by the Person or
Persons making or party to, or associated or affiliated with the
Persons making or party to, such purchase, tender or exchange
offer), or (4) consummate a stock or share purchase agreement or
other business combination (including, without limitation, a
reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off or scheme of
arrangement) with any other Person whereby such other Person
acquires more than 50% of the outstanding shares of Voting Stock of
the Company (not including any shares of Voting Stock of the
Company held by the other Person or other Persons making or party
to, or associated or affiliated with the other Persons making or
party to, such stock or share purchase agreement or other business
combination).
(j) “
Parent
Entity
” of a Person means an entity that, directly or
indirectly, controls the applicable Person and whose common stock
or equivalent equity security is quoted or listed on an Eligible
Market, or, if there is more than one such Person or Parent Entity,
the Person or Parent Entity with the largest public market
capitalization as of the date of consummation of the Fundamental
Transaction.
(k) “
Person
”
means an individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a
joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated
organization, any other entity or a government or any department or
agency thereof.
(l) “
Principal
Market
” means the NYSE American.
(m)
“
Subsidiary
”
means any Person in which the Company, directly or indirectly, (i)
owns any of the outstanding capital stock or holds any equity or
similar interest of such Person or (ii) controls or operates all or
any part of the business, operations or administration of such
Person, and all of the foregoing.
(n) “
Successor
Entity
” means the Person (or, if so elected by the
Holder, the Parent Entity) formed by, resulting from or surviving
any Fundamental Transaction or the Person (or, if so elected by the
Holder, the Parent Entity) with which such Fundamental Transaction
shall have been entered into.
(o) “
Trading
Day
” means any day on which the Common Stock is traded
on the Principal Market, or, if the Principal Market is not the
principal trading market for the Common Stock, then on the
principal securities exchange or securities market on which the
Common Stock is then traded, provided that “Trading
Day” shall not include any day on which the Common Stock is
scheduled to trade on such exchange or market for less than 4.5
hours or any day that the Common Stock is suspended from trading
during the final hour of trading on such exchange or market (or if
such exchange or market does not designate in advance the closing
time of trading on such exchange or market, then during the hour
ending at 4:00:00 p.m., New York time) unless such day is otherwise
designated as a Trading Day in writing by the Holder.
(p) “
Voting
Stock
” of a Person means capital stock of such Person
of the class or classes pursuant to which the holders thereof have
the general voting power to elect, or the general power to appoint,
at least a majority of the board of directors, managers or trustees
of such Person (irrespective of whether or not at the time capital
stock of any other class or classes shall have or might have voting
power by reason of the happening of any contingency).
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signature
page follows
]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,
the Company has
caused this Warrant to Purchase Common Stock to be duly executed as
of the Issuance Date set out above.
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EXHIBIT A
EXERCISE NOTICE
TO
BE EXECUTED BY THE REGISTERED HOLDER TO EXERCISE THIS
WARRANT TO PURCHASE
COMMON STOCK
CORMEDIX INC.
The
undersigned holder hereby exercises the right to purchase
_________________ of the shares of Common Stock
(“
Warrant
Shares
”) of CorMedix Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
“
Company
”),
evidenced by Warrant to Purchase Common Stock No. _______ (the
“
Warrant
”).
Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have
the respective meanings set forth in the Warrant.
1.
Form
of Exercise Price
. The Holder intends that payment of the
Exercise Price shall be made as:
____________
a
“
Cash
Exercise
” with respect to _________________ Warrant
Shares; and/or
____________
a
“
Cashless
Exercise
” with respect to _______________ Warrant
Shares.
In the
event that the Holder has elected a Cashless Exercise with respect
to some or all of the Warrant Shares to be issued pursuant hereto,
the Holder hereby represents and warrants that (i) this Exercise
Notice was executed by the Holder at __________ [a.m.][p.m.] on the
date set forth below and (ii) if applicable, the Closing Bid Price
as of such time of execution of this Exercise Notice was
$________.
2.
Payment
of Exercise Price
. In the event that the Holder has elected
a Cash Exercise with respect to some or all of the Warrant Shares
to be issued pursuant hereto, the Holder shall pay the Aggregate
Exercise Price in the sum of $___________________ to the Company in
accordance with the terms of the Warrant.
3.
Delivery
of Warrant Shares
. The Company shall deliver to Holder, or
its designee or agent as specified below, __________ Warrant Shares
in accordance with the terms of the Warrant. Delivery shall be made
to Holder, or for its benefit, to the following address or DTC
Account number:
Date:
___________________ ___, _________
_____________________________________
Name of
Registered Holder
By:
__________________________________
EXHIBIT B
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The
Company hereby acknowledges this Exercise Notice and hereby directs
______________ to issue the above
indicated
number of shares of Common Stock
in accordance with the Transfer Agent Instructions dated _________,
20__, from the Company and acknowledged and agreed to by
_______________.
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Exhibit 10.1
SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT
This
SECURITIES PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
(this
“
Agreement
”
), dated as of November 9, 2017, is
by and among CorMedix Inc., a Delaware corporation with offices
located at 400 Connell Drive, 5th Floor, Berkeley Heights, NJ
07922
(the
“
Company
”
), and each of the investors listed
on the Schedule of Buyers attached hereto (individually, a
“
Buyer
”
and collectively, the
“
Buyers
”
).
RECITALS
A. The
Company and each Buyer desire to enter into this transaction to
purchase the Preferred Shares (as defined below) in a transaction
exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the
“
1933 Act
”
).
B. The
Company has authorized a new series of convertible Preferred Stock
of the Company designated as Series F Preferred Stock, $0.001 par
value, the terms of which are set forth in the certificate of
designation for such Series F Preferred Stock (the
“
Certificate of
Designations
”
) in
the form attached hereto as
Exhibit
A
(together with any shares of preferred stock issued in
replacement thereof in accordance with the terms thereof, the
“
Series F Preferred
Stock
”
), in
accordance with the terms of the Certificate of
Designations.
C. Each
Buyer wishes to purchase, and the Company wishes to sell, upon the
terms and conditions stated in this Agreement, such aggregate
number of shares of Series F Preferred Stock set forth opposite
such Buyer
’
s name in
column (3) on the Schedule of Buyers (which aggregate amount for
all Buyers shall not exceed 5,000 Preferred Shares and shall
collectively be referred to herein as the
“
Preferred
Shares
”
).
D. The
Preferred Shares are also referred to herein as the
“
Securities
”
.
AGREEMENT
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual
covenants contained herein and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the Company and each Buyer hereby agree as
follows:
1.
PURCHASE
AND SALE OF PREFERRED SHARES.
(a)
Purchase
of Preferred Shares
. Subject to the satisfaction (or waiver)
of the conditions set forth in Sections 6 and 7 below, the Company
shall issue and sell to each Buyer, and each Buyer severally, but
not jointly, agrees to purchase from the Company on the Closing
Date (as defined below) such aggregate number of Preferred Shares
as is set forth opposite such Buyer
’
s name in column (3) on the Schedule
of Buyers.
(b)
Closing
.
Any closing (each, a
“
Closing
”
) of the purchase of the Preferred
Shares by the Buyers shall occur at the offices of Wyrick Robbins
Yates & Ponton, LLP, 4101 Lake Boone Trail, Suite 300, Raleigh,
North Carolina 27607. The date and time of a Closing (a
“
Closing Date
”
) shall be 10:00 a.m., New York
time, on the first (1st) Business Day on which the conditions to
the Closing set forth in Sections 6 and 7 below are satisfied or
waived (or such other date as is mutually agreed to by the Company
and each Buyer). As used herein
“
Business Day
”
means any day other than a
Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New
York, New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed.
For so long as fewer than 5,000 Preferred Shares have been sold
hereunder, the Company may, from time to time, sell additional
Preferred Shares hereunder.
(c)
Purchase
Price
. The aggregate purchase price for the Preferred Shares
to be purchased by each Buyer (the
“
Purchase
Price
”
) shall be
the amount set forth opposite such Buyer
’
s name in column (4) on the Schedule
of Buyers. The per share purchase price for each Preferred Share
shall be $1,000.
(d)
Form
of Payment; Deliveries
. On the Closing Date, (i) each Buyer
shall pay its respective Purchase Price (less, in the case of any
Buyer, the amounts withheld pursuant to Section 4(g)) to the
Company for the Preferred Shares to be issued and sold to such
Buyer at the Closing, by wire transfer of immediately available
funds in accordance with instructions previously provided by the
Company and (ii) the Company shall deliver to each Buyer
certificates representing such aggregate number of Preferred
Shares, as is set forth opposite such Buyer
’
s name in column (3) of the Schedule
of Buyers, duly executed on behalf of the Company and registered in
the name of such Buyer or its designee.
2.
BUYER’S
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.
Each
Buyer, severally and not jointly, represents and warrants to the
Company with respect to only itself that, as of the date hereof and
as of the Closing Date:
(a)
Organization;
Authority
. Such Buyer is an entity duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of
its organization with the requisite power and authority to enter
into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents (as defined below) to which it is a party and
otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and
thereunder.
(b)
Validity;
Enforcement
. This Agreement has been duly and validly
authorized, executed and delivered on behalf of such Buyer and
constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of such Buyer
enforceable against such Buyer in accordance with its terms, except
as such enforceability may be limited by general principles of
equity or to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium, liquidation and other similar laws relating to, or
affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable
creditors
’
rights and
remedies.
(c)
No
Conflicts
. The execution, delivery and performance by such
Buyer of this Agreement and the consummation by such Buyer of the
transactions contemplated hereby will not (i) contravene the
organizational documents of such Buyer, (ii) conflict with, or
constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of
time or both would become a default) under, or give to others any
rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of,
any agreement, indenture or instrument to which such Buyer is a
party or (iii) contravene any law, rule, regulation, order,
judgment or decree (including federal and state securities laws)
applicable to such Buyer, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and
(iii) above, for such conflicts, defaults, rights or violations
which would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be
expected to have a material adverse effect on the ability of such
Buyer to perform its obligations hereunder.
(d)
No
public sale or distribution
. Such Buyer is (i) acquiring the
Securities and (ii) upon conversion of the Preferred Shares will
acquire shares of the capital stock of the Company issuable upon
conversion thereof (“
Conversion Shares
”), for its own
account and not with a view towards, or for resale in connection
with, the public sale or distribution thereof in contravention of
the 1933 Act;
provided
,
however
, that
by making the representations herein, such Buyer does not agree to
hold any of the Securities for any minimum or other specific term
and reserves the right to dispose of the Securities at any time in
accordance with or pursuant to registration under the 1933 Act or
an available exemption from such registration requirements. For
purposes of this Agreement,
“P
erson
”
means an individual, a limited
liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a
trust, an unincorporated organization, any other entity and any
government or any department or agency thereof.
(e)
Accredited
investor status
. Such Buyer is an
“
accredited investor
”
as that term is defined in Rule
501(a) of Regulation D under the 1933 Act.
(f)
Reliance
on exemptions
. Such Buyer understands that the Securities
have not been registered under the 1933 Act or any applicable state
securities laws and are being offered and sold to it in reliance on
the exemptions from registration under the 1933 Act provided by
Section 4(a)(2) of the 1933 Act and Rule 506(b) of Regulation D
under the 1933 Act and pursuant to similar exemption from any
applicable state securities laws and that the Company is relying in
part upon the truth and accuracy of, and such Buyer
’
s compliance with, the
representations, warranties, agreements, acknowledgments and
understandings of such Buyer set forth herein in order to determine
the availability of such exemptions and the eligibility of such
Buyer to acquire the Securities.
(g)
Transfer
or resale
. Such Buyer understands that: (i) the Securities
may not be offered for sale, sold, assigned or transferred (a
“Transfer”), directly or indirectly, unless (a)
subsequently registered under the 1933 Act, (b) such Transfer is to
the Company, or (c) such Transfer is pursuant to a transaction that
does not require registration under the 1933 Act or any applicable
state securities laws; (ii) any Transfer of the Securities made in
reliance on Rule 144 under the 1933 Act may be made only in
accordance with the terms of Rule 144 and further, if Rule 144 is
not available, any resale of the Securities under circumstances in
which the seller (or the Person) through whom the Transfer is made
may be deemed to be an underwriter (as that term is defined in the
1933 Act) may require compliance with some other exemption under
the 1933 Act or the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder;
and (iii) neither the Company nor any other Person is under any
obligation to register the Securities under the 1933 Act or any
state securities laws or to comply with the terms and conditions of
any exemption thereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Securities may be pledged in connection with a bona fide margin
account or other loan or financing arrangement secured by the
Securities and such pledge of securities shall not be deemed to be
a Transfer hereunder, and no Buyer effecting a pledge of Securities
shall be required to provide the Company with any notice thereof or
otherwise make any delivery to the Company pursuant to this
Agreement or any other Transaction Document, including, without
limitation, this Section 2(g).
(h)
Legends
.
Such Buyer understands that the certificates or other instruments
representing the Securities and, until the earlier of (i) six (6)
months after the date on which such Buyer purchased Preferred
Shares from the Company and (ii) such time as the resale of the
Conversion Shares have been registered under the 1933 Act, the
stock certificates representing the Conversion Shares, except as
set forth below, shall bear a restrictive legend in substantially
the following form (and a stop-transfer order may be placed against
transfer of such stock certificates):
THE ISSUANCE AND SALE OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS
CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THESE
SECURITIES MAY BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED
DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY, (B) IF THE
SECURITIES HAVE BEEN REGISTERED IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, (C) IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE
EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 144 OR RULE 144A THEREUNDER, IF
AVAILABLE, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES
LAWS PROVIDED THAT THE HOLDER HAS FURNISHED TO THE COMPANY
REASONABLE ASSURANCES, IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE REASONABLY
SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR (D) IN A
TRANSACTION THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE LAWS AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE
OFFER AND SALE OF SECURITIES. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE
SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN
ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN OR FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THE
SECURITIES.
3.
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.
The
Company represents and warrants to each of the Buyers that, as of
the date hereof and as of the Closing Date (except for
representations and warranties that speak as of a specific date
which shall be true and correct as of such specified
date):
(a)
Organization
and Qualification
. Each of the Company and each of its
Subsidiaries are entities duly organized and validly existing and
in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which they
are formed, and have the requisite power and authority to own their
properties and to conduct their business as now being conducted and
as presently proposed to be conducted. Each of the Company and each
of its Subsidiaries is duly qualified as a foreign entity to do
business and is in good standing in every jurisdiction in which its
ownership of property or the nature of the business conducted by it
makes such qualification necessary, except to the extent that the
failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not have a
Material Adverse Effect. As used in this Agreement,
“
Material Adverse
Effect
”
means any
material adverse effect on (i) the business, properties, assets,
liabilities, operations (including results thereof), condition
(financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (ii) the transactions contemplated
hereby or in any of the other Transaction Documents or (iii) the
authority or ability of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to
perform any of their respective obligations under any of the
Transaction Documents (as defined below). Other than the Persons
(as defined below) set forth on
Schedule 3(a)
of the Disclosure
Letter, the Company has no Subsidiaries.
“
Subsidiaries
”
means any Person in which the
Company, directly or indirectly, (A) owns any of the outstanding
capital stock or holds any equity or similar interest of such
Person or (B) controls or operates all or any part of the business,
operations or administration of such Person, and each of the
foregoing, is individually referred to herein as a
“
Subsidiary
”
.
(b)
Authorization;
Enforcement; Validity
. The Company has the requisite power
and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under this
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and to issue the
Securities in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof. The
execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Transaction
Documents by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including, without
limitation, the issuance of the Preferred Shares, the reservation
for issuance and issuance of the Conversion Shares issuable upon
conversion of the Preferred Shares) have been duly authorized by
the Company
’
s board of
directors and (other than the filing with the SEC and any other
filings as may be required by any state securities agencies) no
further filing, consent or authorization is required by the
Company, its board of directors or its stockholders or other
governing body. This Agreement has been, and the other Transaction
Documents to be delivered on or prior to the Closing will be prior
to the Closing, duly executed and delivered by the Company, and
each constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the
Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its
respective terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by
general principles of equity or applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or similar laws relating
to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable
creditors
’
rights and
remedies and except as rights to indemnification and to
contribution may be limited by federal or state securities law. The
Certificate of Designations in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit
A
has been filed with the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware and is in full force and effect, enforceable against the
Company in accordance with its terms and has not been amended.
“
Transaction
Documents
”
means,
collectively, this Agreement, the Certificate of Designations and
each of the other agreements and instruments entered into or
delivered by any of the parties hereto in connection with the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, as may be amended
from time to time.
(c)
Issuance
of Securities
. The issuance of the Preferred Shares are duly
authorized and, upon issuance and payment in accordance with the
terms of the Transaction Documents shall be validly issued, fully
paid and non-assessable and free from all preemptive or similar
rights, mortgages, defects, claims, liens, pledges, charges, taxes,
rights of first refusal, encumbrances, security interests and other
encumbrances (collectively
“
Liens
”
) with respect to the issuance
thereof. The Company has reserved from its duly authorized capital
stock as of the Closing Date, not less than 125% of the maximum
number of Conversion Shares. Upon issuance the Conversion Shares
will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free from
all Liens with respect to the issue thereof, with the holders being
entitled to all rights accorded to a holder of the Company’s
common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“
Common Stock
”).
(d)
No
Conflicts
. The execution, delivery and performance of the
Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by the
Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby
(including, without limitation, the Preferred Shares, the
Conversion Shares and the reservation for issuance of the
Conversion Shares) will not (i) result in a violation of the
Certificate of Incorporation (as defined below) (including, without
limitation, any certificate of designation contained therein),
Bylaws (as defined below), certificate of formation, memorandum of
association, articles of association, bylaws or other
organizational documents of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
or any capital stock or other securities of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries, (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or
an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a
default) in any respect under, or give to others any rights of
termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any
agreement, indenture or instrument to which the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries is a party, or (iii) result in a violation of any
law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree (including,
without limitation, foreign, federal and state securities laws and
regulations and the rules and regulations of the NYSE American (the
“Principal
Market
”
), with a
reasonable prospect of delisting or suspension occurring after
giving effect to all applicable notice, appeal, compliance and
hearing periods, and including all applicable foreign, federal and
state laws, rules and regulations) applicable to the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries or by which any property or asset of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or affected, except in
the case of (ii) and (iii) for any such conflict, default or
violation that would not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(e)
Consents
.
Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is required to obtain any
consent from, authorization or order of, or make any filing or
registration with (other than the filing with the SEC, Principal
Market and any other filings as may be required by any state
securities agencies), any Governmental Entity (as defined below) or
any regulatory or self-regulatory agency or any other Person in
order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its respective
obligations under or contemplated by the Transaction Documents, in
each case, in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof. All
consents, authorizations, orders, filings and registrations which
the Company or any Subsidiary is required to obtain pursuant to the
preceding sentence have been or will be obtained or effected on or
prior to the Closing Date, and neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries are aware of any facts or circumstances which might
prevent the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from obtaining or
effecting any of the registration, application or filings
contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Except as disclosed in
the SEC Documents (as defined below), the Company is not in
violation of the requirements of the Principal Market and has no
knowledge of any facts or circumstances which could reasonably lead
to delisting or suspension of the Common Stock in the foreseeable
future.
“
Governmental
Entity
”
means any
nation, state, county, city, town, village, district, or other
political jurisdiction of any nature, federal, state, local,
municipal, foreign, or other government, governmental or
quasi-governmental authority of any nature (including any
governmental agency, branch, department, official, or entity and
any court or other tribunal), multi-national organization or body;
or body exercising, or entitled to exercise, any administrative,
executive, judicial, legislative, police, regulatory, or taxing
authority or power of any nature or instrumentality of any of the
foregoing, including any entity or enterprise owned or controlled
by a government or a public international organization or any of
the foregoing.
(f)
Acknowledgment
Regarding Buyer’s Purchase of Securities
. The Company
acknowledges and agrees that each Buyer is acting solely in the
capacity of an arm
’
s
length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and that no Buyer is
(i) an officer or director of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, (ii) to its knowledge, an
“
affiliate
”
(as defined in Rule 144 promulgated
under the 1933 Act (or a successor rule thereto) (collectively,
“
Rule 144
”
)) of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or (iii) to its knowledge a “beneficial
owner” of more than 10% of the shares of Common Stock (as
defined for purposes of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), taking account of
any limitations on exercise or conversion (including
“blockers”) contained in securities and instruments
beneficially owned by such Person, without conceding that such
Person is a 10% stockholder for purposes of federal securities
laws). The Company further acknowledges that no Buyer is acting as
a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the
Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby, and any advice given by a Buyer or any of its
representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction
Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby is
merely incidental to such Buyer
’
s purchase of the Securities. The
Company further represents to each Buyer that the
Company
’
s decision to
enter into the Transaction Documents has been based solely on the
independent evaluation by the Company and its
representatives.
(g)
Placement
Agent’s Fees
. None of the Company or its Subsidiaries
has, and no manager, governor, director, officer or employee of any
of them has, employed any broker or finder, or incurred or will
incur any broker’s, finder’s or similar fees,
commissions or expenses, in each case in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other
Transaction Document, for which the any Buyer or its designees will
be liable.
(h)
No
Integrated Offering
. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries
or any of their affiliates, nor any Person acting on their behalf
has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any
security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under
circumstances that would cause this offering of the Securities to
require approval of stockholders of the Company for purposes of the
1933 Act or under any applicable stockholder approval provisions,
including, without limitation, under the rules and regulations of
any exchange or automated quotation system on which any of the
securities of the Company are listed or designated for quotation.
None of the Company, its Subsidiaries, their affiliates nor any
Person acting on their behalf will take any action or steps that
would cause the offering of any of the Securities to be integrated
with other offerings of securities of the Company.
(i)
Application
of Takeover Protections; Rights Agreement
. The Company and
its board of directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in
order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition,
interested stockholder, business combination, poison pill
(including, without limitation, any distribution under a rights
agreement), stockholder rights plan or other similar anti-takeover
provision under the Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws or other
organizational documents or the laws of the jurisdiction of its
incorporation or otherwise which is or could become applicable to
any Buyer as a result of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, including, without limitation, the Company
’
s issuance of the Securities and any
Buyer
’
s ownership of the
Securities. The Company and its board of directors have taken all
necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any
stockholder rights plan or similar arrangement relating to
accumulations of beneficial ownership of shares of Common Stock or
a change in control of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
(j)
SEC
Documents; Financial Statements
. During the two years prior
to the date hereof, the Company has timely filed all reports,
schedules, forms, proxy statements, statements and other documents
required to be filed by it with the SEC pursuant to the reporting
requirements of the 1934 Act (all of the foregoing filed prior to
the date hereof and all exhibits and appendices included therein
and financial statements, notes and schedules thereto and documents
incorporated by reference therein being hereinafter referred to as
the
“
SEC
Documents
”
). The
Company has delivered or has made available to the Buyers or their
respective representatives true, correct and complete copies of
each of the SEC Documents not available on the EDGAR system. As of
their respective dates, the SEC Documents complied in all material
respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and
regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to the SEC
Documents, and none of the SEC Documents, at the time they were
filed with the SEC, contained any untrue statement of a material
fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in
the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. As of their respective dates, the financial statements
(including, without limitation, any notes or any letter of the
independent accountants of the Company with respect thereto) of the
Company included in the SEC Documents (the
“
Financial
Statements
”
)
complied in all material respects with applicable accounting
requirements and the published rules and regulations of the SEC
with respect thereto as in effect as of the time of filing. Such
Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S.
generally accepted accounting principles (
“
GAAP
”
), consistently applied, during the
periods involved (except (i) as may be otherwise indicated in such
Financial Statements or the notes thereto, or (ii) in the case of
unaudited interim statements, to the extent they may exclude
footnotes or may be condensed or summary statements) and fairly
present in all material respects the financial position of the
Company as of the dates thereof and the results of its operations
and cash flows for the periods then ended (subject, in the case of
unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit adjustments which
will not be material, either individually or in the aggregate). The
reserves, if any, established by the Company or the lack of
reserves, if applicable, are reasonable based upon facts and
circumstances known by the Company on the date hereof and there are
no loss contingencies that are required to be accrued by the
Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 5 of the Financial
Accounting Standards Board which are not provided for by the
Company in its Financial Statements or otherwise. No other
information provided by or on behalf of the Company to any of the
Buyers which is not included in the SEC Documents (including,
without limitation, information in the disclosure schedules to this
Agreement) contains any untrue statement of a material fact or
omits to state any material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein not misleading, in the light of the circumstance
under which they are or were made. The Company is not currently
contemplating to amend or restate any of the Financial Statements
nor is the Company currently aware of facts or circumstances which
would require the Company to amend or restate any of the Financial
Statements, in each case, in order for any of the Financials
Statements to be in compliance with GAAP and the rules and
regulations of the SEC. The Company has not been informed by its
independent accountants that they recommend that the Company amend
or restate any of the Financial Statements or that there is any
need for the Company to amend or restate any of the Financial
Statements.
(k)
Absence
of Certain Changes
. Since the date of the
Company
’
s most recent
audited financial statements contained in a Form 10-K and any
subsequent unaudited financial statements contained in Form 10-Q,
there has been no material adverse change and no material adverse
development in the business, assets, liabilities, properties,
operations (including results thereof), condition (financial or
otherwise) or prospects of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
Since the date of the Company
’
s most recent audited financial
statements contained in a Form 10-K, neither the Company nor any of
its Subsidiaries has (i) declared or paid any dividends, (ii) sold
any assets, individually or in the aggregate, outside of the
ordinary course of business or (iii) made any material capital
expenditures, individually or in the aggregate. Neither the Company
nor any of its Subsidiaries has taken any steps to seek protection
pursuant to any law or statute relating to bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, receivership, liquidation or winding up, nor does
the Company or any Subsidiary have any knowledge or reason to
believe that any of their respective creditors intend to initiate
involuntary bankruptcy proceedings or any actual knowledge of any
fact which would reasonably lead a creditor to do so. The Company
and its Subsidiaries, individually and on a consolidated basis, are
not as of the date hereof, and after giving effect to the
transactions contemplated hereby to occur at the Closing, will not
be Insolvent (as defined below). For purposes of this Section 3(k),
“
Insolvent
”
means, (i) with respect to the
Company and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, (A) the
present fair saleable value of the Company
’
s and its Subsidiaries
’
assets is less than the amount
required to pay the Company
’
s and its Subsidiaries
’
total Indebtedness (as defined
below), (B) the Company and its Subsidiaries are unable to pay
their debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise,
as such debts and liabilities become absolute and matured or (C)
the Company and its Subsidiaries intend to incur or believe that
they will incur debts that would be beyond their ability to pay as
such debts mature; and (ii) with respect to the Company and each
Subsidiary, individually, (A) the present fair saleable value of
the Company
’
s or such
Subsidiary
’
s (as the case
may be) assets is less than the amount required to pay its
respective total Indebtedness, (B) the Company or such Subsidiary
(as the case may be) is unable to pay its respective debts and
liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts
and liabilities become absolute and matured or (C) the Company or
such Subsidiary (as the case may be) intends to incur or believes
that it will incur debts that would be beyond its respective
ability to pay as such debts mature. Neither the Company nor any of
its Subsidiaries has engaged in any business or in any transaction,
and is not about to engage in any business or in any transaction,
for which the Company
’
s
or such Subsidiary
’
s
remaining assets constitute unreasonably small
capital.
(l)
No
Undisclosed Events, Liabilities, Developments or
Circumstances
. Other than the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement or as disclosed in the SEC Documents, no event,
liability, development or circumstance has occurred or exists, or
is reasonably expected to exist or occur with respect to the
Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective
businesses, properties, liabilities, prospects, operations
(including results thereof) or condition (financial or otherwise),
that (i) would be required to be disclosed by the Company under
applicable securities laws on a registration statement on Form S-1
filed with the SEC relating to an issuance and sale by the Company
of its Common Stock and which has not been publicly announced, (ii)
could have a material adverse effect on any Buyer
’
s investment hereunder or (iii)
could have a Material Adverse Effect.
(m)
Conduct
of Business; Regulatory Permits
. Neither the Company nor any
of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any term of or in default
under its Certificate of Incorporation, any certificate of
designation, preferences or rights of any other outstanding series
of preferred stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
Bylaws (as defined below) or their organizational charter,
certificate of formation, memorandum of association, articles of
association, Certificate of Incorporation or certificate of
incorporation or bylaws, respectively. Neither the Company nor any
of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any judgment, decree or
order or any statute, ordinance, rule or regulation applicable to
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and neither the Company nor
any of its Subsidiaries will conduct its business in violation of
any of the foregoing, except in all cases for possible violations
which could not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material
Adverse Effect. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
the Company is not in violation of any of the rules, regulations or
requirements of the Principal Market and has no knowledge of any
facts or circumstances that could reasonably lead to delisting or
suspension of the Common Stock by the Principal Market in the
foreseeable future. During the two years prior to the date hereof,
(i) the Common Stock has been listed or designated for quotation on
the Principal Market, (ii) trading in the Common Stock has not been
suspended by the SEC or the Principal Market and (iii) the Company
has received no communication, written or oral, from the SEC or the
Principal Market regarding the suspension or delisting of the
Common Stock from the Principal Market. The Company and each of its
Subsidiaries possess all certificates, authorizations and permits
issued by the appropriate regulatory authorities necessary to
conduct their respective businesses, except where the failure to
possess such certificates, authorizations or permits would not
have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect,
and neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has received any
notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of
any such certificate, authorization or permit. There is no
agreement, commitment, judgment, injunction, order or decree
binding upon the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or to which the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party which has or would
reasonably be expected to have the effect of prohibiting or
materially impairing any business practice of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries, any acquisition of property by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries or the conduct of business by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries as currently conducted other than such
effects, individually or in the aggregate, which have not had and
would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect
on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(n)
Foreign
Corrupt Practices
. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries or
any director, officer, agent, employee, nor any other Person acting
for or on behalf of the foregoing (individually and collectively, a
“
Company
Affiliate
”
) have
violated the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the
“
FCPA
”
) or any other applicable
anti-bribery or anti-corruption laws, nor has any Company Affiliate
offered, paid, promised to pay, or authorized the payment of any
money, or offered, given, promised to give, or authorized the
giving of anything of value, to any officer, employee or any other
Person acting in an official capacity for any Governmental Entity
to any political party or official thereof or to any candidate for
political office (individually and collectively, a
“
Government
Official
”
) or to
any Person under circumstances where such Company Affiliate knew or
was aware of a high probability that all or a portion of such money
or thing of value would be offered, given or promised, directly or
indirectly, to any Government Official, for the purpose
of:
(i)
(A)
influencing any act or decision of such Government Official in
his/her official capacity, (B) inducing such Government Official to
do or omit to do any act in violation of his/her lawful duty, (C)
securing any improper advantage, or (D) inducing such Government
Official to influence or affect any act or decision of any
Governmental Entity, or
(ii)
assisting
the Company or its Subsidiaries in obtaining or retaining business
for or with, or directing business to, the Company or its
Subsidiaries.
(o)
Sarbanes-Oxley
Act
. The Company and each Subsidiary is in compliance with
any and all applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002, as amended, and any and all applicable rules and regulations
promulgated by the SEC thereunder, except where the failure to
comply could not have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material
Adverse Effect.
(p)
Transactions
With Affiliates
. None of the officers, directors, employees
or affiliates of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is
presently a party to any transaction with the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries (other than for ordinary course services as employees,
officers or directors), including any contract, agreement or other
arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by,
providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or
otherwise requiring payments to or from any such officer, director,
employee or affiliate or, to the knowledge of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries, any corporation, partnership, trust or other
Person in which any such officer, director, or employee has a
substantial interest or is an employee, officer, director, trustee,
affiliate or partner.
(q)
Equity
Capitalization
. As of the date hereof, the authorized
capital stock of the Company consists of (i) 160,000,000 shares of
Common Stock, of which, 67,025,419 were issued and outstanding on
October 31, 2017, and 10,282,545 shares are reserved for issuance
pursuant to securities (other than the Warrants) exercisable or
exchangeable for, or convertible into, shares of Common Stock and
(ii) 2,000,000 shares of preferred stock, of which 761,429
shares of non-voting
convertible Series A Preferred Stock are authorized and none of
which are issued and outstanding, 454,546 shares of non-voting
convertible Series B Preferred Stock are authorized and none of
which are issued and outstanding, 150,000 shares of non-voting
convertible Series C-1 Preferred Stock are authorized and none of
which are issued and outstanding, 150,000 shares of non-voting
convertible Series C-2 Preferred Stock are authorized and none of
which are issued and outstanding, 200,000 shares of non-voting
convertible Series C-3 Preferred Stock are authorized and 104,000
shares of which are issued and outstanding, (viii) 73,962 shares of
non-voting convertible Series D Preferred Stock are authorized and
73,962 shares of which are issued and outstanding, (ix) 89,623
shares of non-voting convertible Series E Preferred Stock are
authorized and 89,623 shares of which are issued and
outstanding, on October 31, 2017, and (x) 5,000 shares of Series F
Convertible Stock are authorized and no shares of which have been
issued or are outstanding. No shares of Common Stock or
Preferred Stock are held in treasury. All of such
outstanding shares are duly authorized and have been, or upon
issuance will be, validly issued and are fully paid and
nonassessable. An aggregate of 2,959,934 shares of the
Company’s issued and outstanding Common Stock on the date
hereof are as of the date hereof owned by Persons who are
“affiliates” (as defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act
and calculated based on the assumption that only officers,
directors and holders of at least 10% of the Company’s issued
and outstanding Common Stock are “affiliates” without
conceding that any such Persons are “affiliates” for
purposes of federal securities laws) of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries. To the Company’s knowledge, as of the
date hereof, no Person owns 10% or more of the Company’s
issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock (calculated based on
the assumption that all Convertible Securities, whether or not
presently exercisable or convertible, have been fully
exercised or converted (as the case may be) taking
account of any limitations on exercise or conversion (including
“blockers”) contained therein without conceding that
such identified Person is a 10% stockholder for purposes of federal
securities laws). Except as disclosed in
Schedule 3(q)
of the Disclosure
Letter: (i) none of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s
capital stock is subject to preemptive rights or any other similar
rights or any liens or encumbrances suffered or permitted by the
Company or any Subsidiary; (ii) there are no outstanding options,
warrants, scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of
any character whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights
convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, any capital
stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or contracts,
commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound to issue additional
capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or options,
warrants, scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of
any character whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights
convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, any capital
stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (iii) there are no
outstanding debt securities, notes, credit agreements, credit
facilities or other agreements, documents or instruments evidencing
Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound; (iv)
there are no financing statements securing obligations in any
amounts filed in connection with the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries; (v) there are no agreements or arrangements under
which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is obligated to
register the sale of any of their securities under the 1933 Act;
(vi) there are no outstanding securities or instruments of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries which contain any redemption or
similar provisions, and there are no contracts, commitments,
understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is or may become bound to redeem a security of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (vii) there are no securities
or instruments containing anti-dilution or similar provisions that
will be triggered by the issuance of the Securities; (viii) neither
the Company nor any Subsidiary has any stock appreciation rights or
“phantom stock” plans or agreements or any similar plan
or agreement; and (ix) neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries have any liabilities or obligations required to be
disclosed in the SEC Documents which are not so disclosed in the
SEC Documents, other than those incurred in the ordinary course of
the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ respective
businesses and which, individually or in the aggregate, do not or
could not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has
furnished to each Buyer true, correct and complete copies of the
Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended and as in
effect on the date hereof (the “
Certificate of Incorporation
”),
and the Company’s bylaws, as amended and as in effect on the
date hereof (the “
Bylaws
”), and the terms of all
securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for,
shares of Common Stock and the material rights of the holders
thereof in respect thereto that have not been disclosed in the SEC
Documents.
(r)
Indebtedness
and Other Contracts
. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries, (i) except as set forth in the SEC Documents, has any
outstanding debt securities, notes, credit agreements, credit
facilities or other agreements, documents or instruments evidencing
Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound, (ii)
is a party to any contract, agreement or instrument, the violation
of which, or default under which, by the other party(ies) to such
contract, agreement or instrument could reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect, (iii) has any financing
statements securing obligations in any amounts filed in connection
with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (iv) is in violation
of any term of, or in default under, any contract, agreement or
instrument relating to any Indebtedness, except where such
violations and defaults would not result, individually or in the
aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect, or (v) is a party to any
contract, agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness, the
performance of which, in the judgment of the Company
’
s officers, has or is expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries have any liabilities or obligations required to be
disclosed in the SEC Documents which are not so disclosed in the
SEC Documents, other than those incurred in the ordinary course of
the Company
’
s or its
Subsidiaries
’
respective
businesses and which, individually or in the aggregate, do not or
could not have a Material Adverse Effect. For purposes of this
Agreement: (x)
“
Indebtedness
”
of any Person means, without
duplication (A) all indebtedness for borrowed money, (B) all
obligations issued, undertaken or assumed as the deferred purchase
price of property or services (including, without limitation,
“
capital
leases
”
in accordance
with GAAP) (other than trade payables entered into in the ordinary
course of business consistent with past practice), (C) all
reimbursement or payment obligations with respect to letters of
credit, surety bonds and other similar instruments, (D) all
obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar
instruments, including obligations so evidenced incurred in
connection with the acquisition of property, assets or businesses,
(E) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale
or other title retention agreement, or incurred as financing, in
either case with respect to any property or assets acquired with
the proceeds of such indebtedness (even though the rights and
remedies of the seller or bank under such agreement in the event of
default are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (F)
all monetary obligations under any leasing or similar arrangement
which, in connection with GAAP, consistently applied for the
periods covered thereby, is classified as a capital lease, (G) all
indebtedness referred to in clauses (A) through (F) above secured
by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing
right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien upon or
in any property or assets (including accounts and contract rights)
owned by any Person, even though the Person which owns such assets
or property has not assumed or become liable for the payment of
such indebtedness, and (H) all Contingent Obligations (as defined
below) in respect of indebtedness or obligations of others of the
kinds referred to in clauses (A) through (G) above; and (y)
“
Contingent
Obligation
”
means,
as to any Person, any direct or indirect liability, contingent or
otherwise, of that Person with respect to any Indebtedness, lease,
dividend or other obligation of another Person if the primary
purpose or intent of the Person incurring such liability, or the
primary effect thereof, is to provide assurance to the obligee of
such liability that such liability will be paid or discharged, or
that any agreements relating thereto will be complied with, or that
the holders of such liability will be protected (in whole or in
part) against loss with respect thereto; and (z)
“
Person
”
means an individual, a limited
liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a
trust, an unincorporated organization, any other entity and any
Governmental Entity or any department or agency
thereof.
(s)
Litigation
.
There is no action, suit, arbitration, proceeding, inquiry or
investigation before or by the Principal Market, any court, public
board, other Governmental Entity, self-regulatory organization or
body pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened
against or affecting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the
Common Stock or any of the Company
’
s or its Subsidiaries
’
officers or directors, whether of a
civil or criminal nature or otherwise, in their capacities as such,
except as set forth in
Schedule 3(s)
of the Disclosure Letter
. No
director, officer or employee of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries has willfully violated 18 U.S.C.
§
1519 or engaged in spoliation in
reasonable anticipation of litigation. Without limitation of the
foregoing, there has not been, and to the knowledge of the Company,
there is not pending or contemplated, any investigation by the SEC
involving the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any current or
former director or officer of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries. The SEC has not issued any stop order or other order
suspending the effectiveness of any registration statement filed by
the Company under the 1933 Act or the 1934. After reasonable
inquiry of its employees, the Company is not aware of any fact
which might result in or form the basis for any such action, suit,
arbitration, investigation, inquiry or other proceeding. Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any order,
writ, judgment, injunction, decree, determination or award of any
Governmental Entity.
(t)
Insurance
.
The Company and each of its Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of
recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks
and in such amounts as management of the Company believes to be
prudent and customary in the businesses in which the Company and
its Subsidiaries are engaged. Neither the Company nor any such
Subsidiary has been refused any insurance coverage sought or
applied for and neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has any
reason to believe that it will be unable to renew its existing
insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain
substantially similar coverage from substantially similar insurers
as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would
not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(u)
Employee
Relations
. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries
is a party to any collective bargaining agreement or employs any
member of a union. No executive officer (as defined in Rule 501(f)
promulgated under the 1933 Act) or other key employee of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries has notified the Company or any
such Subsidiary that such officer intends to leave the Company or
any such Subsidiary or otherwise terminate such officer
’
s employment with the Company or any
such Subsidiary. No executive officer or other key employee of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is, or is now expected to be, in
violation of any material term of any employment contract,
confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement,
non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or
any restrictive covenant, and the continued employment of each such
executive officer or other key employee (as the case may be) does
not subject the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any liability
with respect to any of the foregoing matters. The Company and its
Subsidiaries are in compliance with all federal, state, local and
foreign laws and regulations respecting labor, employment and
employment practices and benefits, terms and conditions of
employment and wages and hours, except where failure to be in
compliance would not, either individually or in the aggregate,
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(v)
Title
.
(i)
Real
Property
. The Company and its Subsidiaries have good and
marketable title in fee simple to all real property and have good
and marketable title to all personal property owned by them which
is material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in
each case, free and clear of all Liens except such as do not
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 and any of its Subsidiaries. Any real property and
facilities held under lease by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and
enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not material and do
not interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such
property and buildings by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
(ii)
Fixtures
and Equipment
. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries (as
applicable) has good title to, or a valid leasehold interest in,
the tangible personal property, equipment, improvements, fixtures,
and other personal property and appurtenances that are used by the
Company or its Subsidiary in connection with the conduct of its
business (the
“
Fixtures and
Equipment
”
). The
Fixtures and Equipment are structurally sound, are in good
operating condition and repair, are adequate for the uses to which
they are being put, are not in need of maintenance or repairs
except for ordinary, routine maintenance and repairs and are
sufficient for the conduct of the Company
’
s and/or its
Subsidiaries
’
businesses
(as applicable) in the manner as conducted prior to the Closing.
Except as described in the SEC Documents, each of the Company and
its Subsidiaries owns all of its Fixtures and Equipment free and
clear of all Liens except for (i) any Lien for taxes not yet due or
delinquent or being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings for which adequate reserves have been established in
accordance with GAAP, (ii) any statutory Lien arising in the
ordinary course of business by operation of law with respect to a
liability that is not yet due or delinquent, (iii) any Lien created
by operation of law, such as materialmen
’
s liens, mechanics
’
liens and other similar liens,
arising in the ordinary course of business with respect to a
liability that is not yet due or delinquent or that are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (iv) Liens (A)
upon or in any equipment acquired or held by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries to secure the purchase price of such equipment or
Indebtedness incurred solely for the purpose of financing the
acquisition or lease of such equipment, or (B) existing on such
equipment at the time of its acquisition, provided that the Lien is
confined solely to the property so acquired and improvements
thereon, and the proceeds of such equipment, (v) Liens in favor of
customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to
secure payments of custom duties in connection with the importation
of goods, (vi) deposits or pledges to secure bids, tenders,
contracts (other than contracts for the payment of money), leases,
statutory obligations, indemnity, performance, surety and appeal
bonds, purchase agreements and other obligations of like nature
arising in the ordinary course of business, (vii) any interest,
Lien or title of a licensor, sublicensor, lessor or sublessor under
any license or lease agreement in the property being leased or
licensed as permitted hereunder, (viii) rights of setoff or
banker
’
s liens upon
deposits of cash in favor of banks or other depository
institutions, but not securing any Indebtedness for money borrower,
and (xi) zoning laws and other land use restrictions that do not
impair the present or anticipated use of the property subject
thereto.
(w)
Potential
Products; FDA; EMEA
.
(i)
Except
as described in the SEC Documents, the Company possesses all
certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate
federal, state or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to
conduct its business as currently conducted, including without
limitation all such certificates, authorizations and permits
required by the United States Food and Drug Administration (the
“
FDA
”
) or any other federal, state or
foreign agencies or bodies engaged in the regulation of
pharmaceuticals or biohazardous materials, except where the failure
to so possess such certificates, authorizations and permits,
individually or in the aggregate, would not result in a Material
Adverse Effect. Except as described in the SEC Documents, the
Company has not received any notice of proceedings relating to the
revocation or modification of any such certificate, authorization
or permit which, individually or in the aggregate, if the subject
of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(ii)
Except
to the extent disclosed in the SEC Documents, the Company has not
received any written notices or statements from the FDA, the
European Medicines Agency (the
“
EMEA
”
) or any other governmental agency,
and otherwise has no knowledge or reason to believe, that (i) any
drug candidate of the Company described in the SEC Documents (each
a
“
Potential
Product
”
) may or
will be rejected or determined to be non-approvable; (ii) a delay
in time for review and/or approval of a marketing authorization
application or marketing approval application in any jurisdiction
for any Potential Product is or may be required, requested or being
implemented; (iii) one or more clinical studies for any Potential
Product shall or may be requested or required in addition to the
clinical studies submitted to the FDA prior to the date hereof as a
precondition to or condition of issuance or maintenance of a
marketing approval for any Potential Product; (iv) any license,
approval, permit or authorization to conduct any clinical trial of
or market any product or Potential Product of the Company has been,
will be or may be suspended, revoked, modified or limited, except
in the cases of clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) where such
rejections, determinations, delays, requests, suspensions,
revocations, modifications or limitations might not reasonably be
expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material
Adverse Effect.
(iii)
Except
to the extent disclosed in the SEC Documents, to the
Company
’
s knowledge, the
preclinical and clinical testing, application for marketing
approval of, manufacture, distribution, promotion and sale of the
products and Potential Products of the Company is in compliance, in
all material respects, with all laws, rules and regulations
applicable to such activities, including without limitation
applicable good laboratory practices, good clinical practices and
good manufacturing practices, except for such non-compliance as
would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material
Adverse Effect. The descriptions of the results of such tests and
trials contained in the SEC Documents are complete and accurate in
all material respects such that there would be no untrue statement
of a material fact or omission of a material fact necessary to make
the statements in the SEC Documents, in light of the circumstances
under which they are made, not misleading. The Company is not aware
of any studies, tests or trials, the results of which reasonably
call into question the results of the tests and trials conducted by
or on behalf of the Company that are described or referred to in
the SEC Documents. Except to the extent disclosed in the SEC
Documents, the Company has not received notice of adverse finding,
warning letter or clinical hold notice from the FDA or any non-U.S.
counterpart of any of the foregoing, or any untitled letter or
other correspondence or notice from the FDA or any other
governmental authority or agency or any institutional or ethical
review board alleging or asserting noncompliance with any law, rule
or regulation applicable in any jurisdiction, except notices,
letters, and correspondences and non-U.S. counterparts thereof
alleging or asserting such noncompliance as would not, individually
or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. Except to the
extent disclosed in the SEC Documents, the Company has not, either
voluntarily or involuntarily, initiated, conducted or issued, or
caused to be initiated, conducted or issued, any recall, field
correction, market withdrawal or replacement, safety alert,
warning,
“
dear
doctor
”
letter,
investigator notice, or other notice or action relating to an
alleged or potential lack of safety or efficacy of any product or
Potential Product of the Company, any alleged product defect of any
product or Potential Product of the Company, or any violation of
any material applicable law, rule, regulation or any clinical trial
or marketing license, approval, permit or authorization for any
product or potential product of the Company, and the Company is not
aware of any facts or information that would cause it to initiate
any such notice or action and has no knowledge or reason to believe
that the FDA, the EMEA or any other governmental agency or
authority or any institutional or ethical review board or other
non-governmental authority intends to impose, require, request or
suggest such notice or action.
(x)
Intellectual
Property Rights
. The Company and its Subsidiaries own or
possess adequate rights or licenses to use all trademarks, trade
names, service marks, service mark registrations, service names,
original works of authorship, patents, patent rights, copyrights,
inventions, licenses, approvals, governmental authorizations, trade
secrets and other intellectual property rights and all applications
and registrations therefor (
“
Intellectual Property
Rights
”
) necessary
to conduct their respective businesses as now conducted and
presently proposed to be conducted. Each of the patents owned by
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is listed on
Schedule 3(x)(i)
of the
Disclosure Letter. Except as set forth in
Schedule 3(x)(ii)
of the
Disclosure Letter, none of the Company
’
s Intellectual Property Rights have
expired or terminated or have been abandoned or are expected to
expire or terminate or are expected to be abandoned, within three
years from the date of this Agreement. The Company does not have
any knowledge of any infringement by the Company or its
Subsidiaries of Intellectual Property Rights of others. There is no
claim, action or proceeding being made or brought, or to the
knowledge of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, being
threatened, against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
regarding its Intellectual Property Rights. Neither the Company nor
any of its Subsidiaries is aware of any facts or circumstances
which might give rise to any of the foregoing infringements or
claims, actions or proceedings. The Company and its Subsidiaries
have taken reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy,
confidentiality and value of all of their Intellectual Property
Rights.
(y)
Environmental
Laws
. The Company and its Subsidiaries (A) are in compliance
with any and all Environmental Laws (as defined below), (B) have
received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them
under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective
businesses and (C) are in compliance with all terms and conditions
of any such permit, license or approval where, in each of the
foregoing clauses (A), (B) and (C), the failure to so comply could
be reasonably expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a
Material Adverse Effect. The term
“
Environmental
Laws
”
means all
federal, state, local or foreign laws relating to pollution or
protection of human health or the environment (including, without
limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface
or subsurface strata), including, without limitation, laws relating
to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of
chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, or toxic or hazardous
substances or wastes (collectively,
“
Hazardous
Materials
”
) into
the environment, or otherwise relating to the manufacture,
processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal,
transport or handling of Hazardous Materials, as well as all
authorizations, codes, decrees, demands or demand letters,
injunctions, judgments, licenses, notices or notice letters,
orders, permits, plans or regulations issued, entered, promulgated
or approved thereunder.
(i)
No
Hazardous Materials
:
(A)
have
been disposed of or otherwise released from any Real Property in
violation of any Environmental Laws, except where such violation
would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
or
(B)
are present on, over, beneath, in or upon any Real Property or any
portion thereof in quantities that would constitute a material
violation of any Environmental Laws. No prior use by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries of any Real Property has occurred that
violates any Environmental Laws, which violation would have a
Material Adverse Effect on the business of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries.
(ii)
Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries knows of any other Person
who or entity which has stored, treated, recycled, disposed of or
otherwise located on any Real Property any Hazardous Materials,
including, without limitation, such substances as asbestos and
polychlorinated biphenyls.
(iii)
None
of the Real Property are on any federal or state
“
Superfund
”
list or Liability Information
System (
“
CERCLIS
”
) list or any state environmental
agency list of sites under consideration for CERCLIS, nor subject
to any environmental related Liens.
(z)
Subsidiary
Rights
. The Company or one of its Subsidiaries has the
unrestricted right to vote, and (subject to limitations imposed by
applicable law) to receive dividends and distributions on, all
capital securities of its Subsidiaries as owned by the Company or
such Subsidiary.
(aa)
Tax
Status
. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries (i) has
timely made or filed all material foreign, federal and state income
and all other material tax returns, reports and declarations
required by any jurisdiction to which it is subject, (ii) has
timely paid all taxes and other governmental assessments and
charges that are material in amount, shown or determined to be due
on such returns, reports and declarations, except those being
contested in good faith and (iii) has set aside on its books
provision reasonably adequate for the payment of all taxes for
periods subsequent to the periods to which such returns, reports or
declarations apply. There are no unpaid taxes in any material
amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any
jurisdiction, and the officers of the Company and its Subsidiaries
know of no basis for any such claim. The Company is not operated in
such a manner as to qualify as a passive foreign investment
company, as defined in Section 1297 of the U.S. Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended (the
“
Code
”
). The net operating loss
carryforwards (
“
NOLs
”
) for United States federal income
tax purposes of the consolidated group of which the Company is the
common parent, if any, shall not be adversely effected by the
transactions contemplated hereby. The transactions contemplated
hereby do not constitute an
“
ownership change
”
within the meaning of Section 382
of the Code, thereby preserving the Company
’
s ability to utilize such
NOLs.
(bb)
Internal
Accounting and Disclosure Controls
. The Company and each of
its Subsidiaries maintains internal control over financial
reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the 1934
Act) that is effective to provide reasonable assurance regarding
the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of
financial statements for external purposes in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, including that (i)
transactions are executed in accordance with management
’
s general or specific
authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to
permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP
and to maintain asset and liability accountability, (iii) access to
assets or incurrence of liabilities is permitted only in accordance
with management
’
s general
or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for
assets and liabilities is compared with the existing assets and
liabilities at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken
with respect to any difference. The Company maintains disclosure
controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e)
under the 1934 Act) that are effective in ensuring that information
required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it
files or submits under the 1934 Act is recorded, processed,
summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the
rules and forms of the SEC, including, without limitation, controls
and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be
disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits
under the 1934 Act is accumulated and communicated to the
Company
’
s management,
including its principal executive officer or officers and its
principal financial officer or officers, as appropriate, to allow
timely decisions regarding required disclosure. During the two
years prior to the date hereof, except as disclosed in the SEC
Documents, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has
received any notice or correspondence from any accountant,
Governmental Entity or other Person relating to any potential
material weakness or significant deficiency in any part of the
internal controls over financial reporting of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries.
(cc)
Off
Balance Sheet Arrangements
. There is no transaction,
arrangement, or other relationship between the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries and an unconsolidated or other off balance sheet
entity that is required to be disclosed by the Company in its 1934
Act filings and is not so disclosed or that otherwise could be
reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(dd)
Investment
Company Status
. The Company is not, and upon consummation of
the sale of the Securities will not be, an
“
investment company,
”
an affiliate of an
“
investment company,
”
a company controlled by an
“
investment
company
”
or an
“
affiliated
person
”
of, or
“
promoter
”
or
“
principal underwriter
”
for, an
“
investment company
”
as such terms are defined in the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(ee)
Acknowledgement
Regarding Buyers’ Trading Activity
. It is understood
and acknowledged by the Company that (i) following the public
disclosure of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents, in accordance with the terms thereof, none of the Buyers
have been asked by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to agree,
nor has any Buyer agreed with the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, to desist from effecting any transactions in or with
respect to (including, without limitation, purchasing or selling,
long and/or short) any securities of the Company, or
“
derivative
”
securities based on securities
issued by the Company or to hold any of the Securities for any
specified term; (ii) any Buyer, and counterparties in
“
derivative
”
transactions to which any such
Buyer is a party, directly or indirectly, presently may have a
“
short
”
position in the Common Stock which
was established prior to such Buyer
’
s knowledge of the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents; and (iii) each Buyer
shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or control over
any arm
’
s length
counterparty in any
“
derivative
”
transaction. The Company further
understands and acknowledges that following the public disclosure
of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents
pursuant to the Press Release (as defined below) one or more Buyers
may engage in hedging and/or trading activities at various times
during the period that the Securities are outstanding, including,
without limitation, during the periods that the value and/or number
of the Conversion Shares deliverable with respect to the Preferred
Shares are being determined and such hedging and/or trading
activities, if any, can reduce the value of the existing
stockholders
’
equity
interest in the Company both at and after the time the hedging
and/or trading activities are being conducted. The Company
acknowledges that such aforementioned hedging and/or trading
activities do not constitute a breach of this Agreement, the
Certificate of Designations or any other Transaction Document or
any of the documents executed in connection herewith or
therewith.
(ff)
Manipulation of
Price
. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has,
and, to the knowledge of the Company, no Person acting on their
behalf has, directly or indirectly, (i) taken any action designed
to cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the
price of any security of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to
facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Securities, (ii) sold,
bid for, purchased, or paid any compensation for soliciting
purchases of, any of the Securities, (iii) paid or agreed to pay to
any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any
other securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (iv)
paid or agreed to pay any Person for research services with respect
to any securities of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
(gg)
U.S.
Real Property Holding Corporation
. Neither the Company nor
any of its Subsidiaries is, or has ever been, and so long as any of
the Securities are held by any of the Buyers, shall become, a U.S.
real property holding corporation within the meaning of Section 897
of the Code, and the Company and each Subsidiary shall so certify
upon any Buyer
’
s
request.
(hh)
Transfer
Taxes
. On the Closing Date, all stock transfer or other
taxes (other than income or similar taxes) which are required to be
paid in connection with the issuance, sale and transfer of the
Securities to be sold to each Buyer hereunder will be, or will have
been, fully paid or provided for by the Company, and all laws
imposing such taxes will be or will have been complied
with.
(ii)
Bank
Holding Company Act
. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries is subject to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as
amended (the
“
BHCA
”
)
and to regulation by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System (the
“
Federal
Reserve
”
). Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or affiliates owns or
controls, directly or indirectly, five percent (5%) or more of the
outstanding shares of any class of voting securities or twenty-five
percent (25%) or more of the total equity of a bank or any entity
that is subject to the BHCA and to regulation by the Federal
Reserve. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or
affiliates exercises a controlling influence over the management or
policies of a bank or any entity that is subject to the BHCA and to
regulation by the Federal Reserve.
(jj)
Shell
Company Status
. The Company is not, and has never been, an
issuer identified in, or subject to, Rule 144(i).
(kk)
Illegal or
Unauthorized Payments; Political Contributions
. Neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to the Company
’
s knowledge (after reasonable
inquiry of its officers and directors), any of the officers,
directors, employees, agents or other representatives of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any other business entity or
enterprise with which the Company or any Subsidiary is or has been
affiliated or associated, has, directly or indirectly, made or
authorized any payment, contribution or gift of money, property, or
services, whether or not in contravention of applicable law, (i) as
a kickback or bribe to any Person or (ii) to any political
organization, or the holder of or any aspirant to any elective or
appointive public office except for personal political
contributions not involving the direct or indirect use of funds of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(ll)
Money
Laundering
. The Company and its Subsidiaries are in
compliance with, and have not previously violated, the USA Patriot
Act of 2001 and all other applicable U.S. and non-U.S. anti-money
laundering laws and regulations, including, without limitation, the
laws, regulations and Executive Orders and sanctions programs
administered by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control,
including, but not limited, to (i) Executive Order 13224 of
September 23, 2001 entitled,
“
Blocking Property and Prohibiting
Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or
Support Terrorism
”
(66
Fed. Reg. 49079 (2001)); and (ii) any regulations contained in 31
CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V.
(mm)
Management
.
Except as set forth in
Schedule 3(mm)
of the Disclosure Letter, during the past five year period, no
current or former (but no representation is made for any former
director or officer after the date he or she ceased to be a
director or employee as the case may be) officer or director or, to
the knowledge of the Company, no current ten percent (10%) or
greater stockholder of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has
been the subject of:
(i)
a
petition under bankruptcy laws or any other insolvency or
moratorium law or the appointment by a court of a receiver, fiscal
agent or similar officer for such Person, or any partnership in
which such Person was a general partner at or within two years
before the filing of such petition or such appointment, or any
corporation or business association of which such Person was an
executive officer at or within two years before the time of the
filing of such petition or such appointment;
(ii)
a conviction in a criminal proceeding or a named subject of a
pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations that do
not relate to driving while intoxicated or driving under the
influence);
(iii)
any order, judgment or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended
or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or
temporarily enjoining any such Person from, or otherwise limiting,
the following activities:
(A)
Acting as a futures commission merchant, introducing broker,
commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator, floor broker,
leverage transaction merchant, any other person regulated by the
United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the
“
CFTC
”
) or an associated person of any of
the foregoing, or as an investment adviser, underwriter, broker or
dealer in securities, or as an affiliated person, director or
employee of any investment company, bank, savings and loan
association or insurance company, or engaging in or continuing any
conduct or practice in connection with such activity;
(B)
Engaging
in any particular type of business practice; or
(C)
Engaging
in any activity in connection with the purchase or sale of any
security or commodity or in connection with any violation of
securities laws or commodities laws;
(iv)
any order, judgment or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended
or vacated, of any authority barring, suspending or otherwise
limiting for more than sixty (60) days the right of any such Person
to engage in any activity described in the preceding sub paragraph,
or to be associated with Persons engaged in any such
activity;
(v)
a finding by a court of competent jurisdiction in a civil action or
by the SEC or other authority to have violated any securities law,
regulation or decree and the judgment in such civil action or
finding by the SEC or any other authority has not been subsequently
reversed, suspended or vacated; or (vi) a finding by a court of
competent jurisdiction in a civil action or by the CFTC to have
violated any federal commodities law, and the judgment in such
civil action or finding has not been subsequently reversed,
suspended or vacated.
(nn)
Stock
Option Plans
. Each stock option granted by the Company was
granted (i) in accordance with the terms of the applicable stock
option plan of the Company and (ii) with an exercise price at least
equal to the fair market value of the Common Stock on the date such
stock option would be considered granted under GAAP and applicable
law. No stock option granted under the Company
’
s stock option plan has been
backdated. The Company has not knowingly granted, and there is no
and has been no policy or practice of the Company to knowingly
grant, stock options prior to, or otherwise knowingly coordinate
the grant of stock options with, the release or other public
announcement of material information regarding the Company or its
Subsidiaries or their financial results or prospects.
(oo)
No
Disagreements with Accountants and Lawyers
. There are no
material disagreements of any kind presently existing, or
reasonably anticipated by the Company to arise, between the Company
and the accountants and lawyers formerly or presently employed by
the Company and the Company is current with respect to any fees
owed to its accountants and lawyers which could affect the
Company
’
s ability to
perform any of its obligations under any of the Transaction
Documents. In addition, on or prior to the date hereof, the Company
had discussions with its accountants about its Financial Statements
previously filed with the SEC. Based on those discussions, the
Company has no reason to believe that it will need to restate any
such Financial Statements or any part thereof.
(pp)
No
Additional Agreements
. The Company does not have any
agreement or understanding with any Buyer with respect to the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents other than
as specified in the Transaction Documents.
(qq)
Public
Utility Holding Act
. None of the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries is a
“
holding company,
”
or an
“
affiliate
”
of a
“
holding company,
”
as such terms are defined in the
Public Utility Holding Act of 2005.
(rr)
Federal
Power Act
. None of the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries
is subject to regulation as a
“
public utility
”
under the Federal Power Act, as
amended.
(ss)
Disclosure
. The
Company confirms that neither it nor any other Person acting on its
behalf has provided any of the Buyers or their agents or counsel
with any information that constitutes or could reasonably be
expected to constitute material, non-public information concerning
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, other than the existence of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other
Transaction Documents. The Company understands and confirms that
each of the Buyers will rely on the foregoing representations in
effecting transactions in securities of the Company. All disclosure
provided to the Buyers regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries,
their businesses and the transactions contemplated hereby,
including the schedules to this Agreement, furnished by or on
behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is true and
correct and does not contain any untrue statement of a material
fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make
the statements made therein, in the light of the circumstances
under which they were made, not misleading. All of the written
information furnished after the date hereof by or on behalf of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries to each Buyer pursuant to or in
connection with this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents,
taken as a whole, will be true and correct in all material respects
as of the date on which such information is so provided and will
not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements
made therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they
were made, not misleading. Each press release issued by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries during the twelve (12) months preceding
the date of this Agreement did not at the time of release contain
any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make
the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under
which they are made, not misleading. No event or circumstance has
occurred or information exists with respect to the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries or its or their business, properties,
liabilities, prospects, operations (including results thereof) or
conditions (financial or otherwise), which, under applicable law,
rule or regulation, requires public disclosure at or before the
date hereof or announcement by the Company but which has not been
so publicly disclosed. All financial projections and forecasts that
have been prepared by or on behalf of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries and made available to you have been prepared in good
faith based upon reasonable assumptions and represented, at the
time each such financial projection or forecast was delivered to
each Buyer, the Company
’
s
best estimate of future financial performance (it being recognized
that such financial projections or forecasts are not to be viewed
as facts and that the actual results during the period or periods
covered by any such financial projections or forecasts may differ
from the projected or forecasted results). The Company acknowledges
and agrees that no Buyer makes or has made any representations or
warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby
other than those specifically set forth in Section
1(d).
(tt)
Private Placement
.
No registration under the 1933 Act is required for the offer and
sale of the Preferred Shares or the Conversion Shares, by the
Company to any Buyer as contemplated hereby.
(a)
Best
Efforts
. The Company shall use its best efforts to timely
satisfy each of the covenants hereunder and conditions to be
satisfied by it as provided in Section 7 of this
Agreement.
(b)
Blue
Sky
. The Company shall, on or before the Closing Date, take
such action as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary
in order to obtain an exemption for, or to, qualify the Preferred
Shares for sale to the Buyers at the Closing pursuant to this
Agreement under applicable securities or
“
Blue Sky
”
laws of the states of the United
States (or to obtain an exemption from such qualification), and
shall provide evidence of any such action so taken to the Buyers on
or prior to the Closing Date. Without limiting any other obligation
of the Company under this Agreement, the Company shall timely make
all filings and reports relating to the offer and sale of the
Preferred Shares required under all applicable securities laws
(including, without limitation, all applicable federal securities
laws and all applicable
“
Blue Sky
”
laws), and the Company shall comply
with all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws,
statutes, rules, regulations and the like relating to the offering
and sale of the Preferred Shares to the Buyers.
(c)
Reporting
Status
. Until the earlier of (x) the date on which the
Buyers shall have sold all of the Underlying Securities (as defined
below) or (y) the date no Securities are held by any Buyer (the
“
Reporting
Period
”
), the
Company shall timely file all reports required to be filed with the
SEC pursuant to the 1934 Act, and the Company shall not terminate
its status as an issuer required to file reports under the 1934 Act
even if the 1934 Act or the rules and regulations thereunder would
no longer require or otherwise permit such termination.
“
Underlying
Securities
”
means
the (i) the Conversion Shares, and (ii) any capital stock of the
Company issued or issuable with respect to the Conversion Shares,
the Certificate of Designations or the Preferred Shares,
respectively, including, without limitation, (1) as a result of any
stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization, exchange or similar
event or otherwise and (2) shares of capital stock of the Company
into which the shares of Common Stock are converted or exchanged
and shares of capital stock of a Successor Entity (as defined in
the Certificate of Designations) into which the shares of Common
Stock are converted or exchanged, in each case, without regard to
any limitations on conversion of the Preferred Shares.
(d)
Use
of Proceeds
. The Company will use the proceeds from the sale
of the Securities for general corporate purposes.
(e)
Financial
Information
. The Company agrees to send the following to
each holder of Preferred Shares (each, an
“
Investor
”
) during the Reporting Period (i)
unless the following are filed with the SEC through EDGAR and are
available to the public through the EDGAR system, within one (1)
Business Day after the filing thereof with the SEC, a copy of its
Annual Reports on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, any
Current Reports on Form 8-K and any registration statements (other
than on Form S-8) or amendments filed pursuant to the 1933 Act,
(ii) unless the following are either filed with the SEC through
EDGAR or are otherwise widely disseminated via a recognized news
release service (such as PR Newswire), on the same day as the
release thereof, facsimile copies of all press releases issued by
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and (iii) unless the
following are filed with the SEC through EDGAR or made permanently
available on the Company
’
s website, copies of any notices and
other information made available or given to the stockholders of
the Company generally, contemporaneously with the making available
or giving thereof to the stockholders.
(f)
Listing
.
The Company shall promptly secure the listing or designation for
quotation (as the case may be) of all of the Underlying Securities
(as defined below) upon each national securities exchange and
automated quotation system, if any, upon which the Common Stock is
then listed or designated for quotation (as the case may be)
(subject to official notice of issuance) and shall maintain such
listing or designation for quotation (as the case may be) of all
Underlying Securities from time to time issuable under the terms of
the Transaction Documents on such national securities exchange or
automated quotation system. The Company shall maintain the Common
Stock
’
s listing or
authorization for quotation (as the case may be) on the Principal
Market, The New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE American, the Nasdaq
Global Market or the Nasdaq Global Select Market (each, an
“
Eligible
Market
”
). Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall take any action which
could be reasonably expected to result in the delisting or
suspension of the Common Stock on an Eligible Market. The Company
shall pay all fees and expenses in connection with satisfying its
obligations under this Section 4(f).
(g)
Fees
.
The Company shall reimburse the lead Buyer for all reasonable costs
and expenses incurred by it or its affiliates in connection with
the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents
(including, without limitation, as applicable, all reasonable legal
fees and disbursements of counsel to the lead Buyer, any other
reasonable fees and expenses in connection with the structuring,
documentation and implementation of the transactions contemplated
by the Transaction Documents and due diligence and regulatory
filings in connection therewith) (the “Expense Amount”)
and the Company shall pay such Expense Amount within 5 days
following written notice by the lead Buyer. The Company shall be
responsible for the payment of any placement agent
’
s fees, financial advisory fees,
transfer agent fees, Depository Trust Company (
“
DTC
”
) fees or broker
’
s commissions (other than for
Persons engaged by any Buyer) relating to or arising out of the
transactions contemplated hereby. The Company shall pay, and hold
each Buyer harmless against, any liability, loss or expense
(including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys
’
fees and out-of-pocket expenses)
arising in connection with any claim relating to any such payment.
Except as otherwise set forth in the Transaction Documents, each
party to this Agreement shall bear its own expenses in connection
with the sale of the Securities to the Buyers.
(h)
Pledge
of Securities
. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in this Agreement, the Company acknowledges and agrees
that the Securities may be pledged by an Investor in connection
with a bona fide margin agreement or other loan or financing
arrangement that is secured by the Securities. The pledge of
Securities shall not be deemed to be a transfer, sale or assignment
of the Securities hereunder, and no Investor effecting a pledge of
Securities shall be required to provide the Company with any notice
thereof or otherwise make any delivery to the Company pursuant to
this Agreement or any other Transaction Document. The Company
hereby agrees to execute and deliver such documentation as a
pledgee of the Securities may reasonably request in connection with
a pledge of the Securities to such pledgee by a Buyer.
(i)
Disclosure
of Transactions and Other Material Information
.
(i)
Disclosure
of Transaction
. The Company shall, on or before 9:30 a.m.,
New York time, on the first (1
st
)
Business Day after the date of this Agreement, issue a press
release (the
“
Press
Release
”
)
reasonably acceptable to the Buyers disclosing all the material
terms of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents. On or before 9:30 a.m., New York time, on the first
(1
st
)
Business Day after the date of this Agreement, the Company shall
file a Current Report on Form 8-K describing all the material terms
of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents in
the form required by the 1934 Act and attaching all the material
Transaction Documents (including, without limitation, this
Agreement (and all schedules to this Agreement) and the form of
Certificate of Designations) (including all attachments, the
“
8-K Filing
”
). From and after the filing of the
8-K Filing, the Company shall have disclosed all material,
non-public information (if any) provided to any of the Buyers by
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective
officers, directors, employees or agents prior to the date hereof.
In addition, effective upon the filing of the 8-K Filing, the
Company acknowledges and agrees that any and all confidentiality or
similar obligations under any agreement, whether written or oral,
between the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their
respective officers, directors, affiliates, employees or agents, on
the one hand, and any of the Buyers or any of their affiliates, on
the other hand, shall terminate.
(ii)
Limitations
on Disclosure
. The Company shall not, and the Company shall
cause each of its Subsidiaries and each of its and their respective
officers, directors, employees and agents not to, provide any Buyer
with any material, non-public information regarding the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries from and after the date hereof without the
express prior written consent of such Buyer (which may be granted
or withheld in such Buyer
’
s sole discretion). In the event of
a breach of any of the foregoing covenants or any of the covenants
or agreements contained in any other Transaction Document, by the
Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of its or their respective
officers, directors, employees and agents (as determined in the
reasonable good faith judgment of such Buyer), in addition to any
other remedy provided herein or in the Transaction Documents, such
Buyer shall have the right to make a public disclosure, in the form
of a press release, public advertisement or otherwise, of such
breach or such material, non-public information, as applicable,
without the prior approval by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries,
or any of its or their respective officers, directors, employees or
agents. No Buyer shall have any liability to the Company, any of
its Subsidiaries, or any of its or their respective officers,
directors, employees, affiliates, stockholders or agents, for any
such disclosure. To the extent that the Company delivers any
material, non-public information to a Buyer without such
Buyer
’
s consent, the
Company hereby covenants and agrees that such Buyer shall not have
any duty of confidentiality with respect to, or a duty not to trade
on the basis of, such material, non-public information. Subject to
the foregoing, neither the Company, its Subsidiaries nor any Buyer
shall issue any press releases or any other public statements with
respect to the transactions contemplated hereby; provided, however,
the Company shall be entitled, without the prior approval of any
Buyer, to make the Press Release and any press release or other
public disclosure with respect to such transactions (i) in
substantial conformity with the 8-K Filing and contemporaneously
therewith and (ii) as is required by applicable law and regulations
(provided that in the case of clause (i) each Buyer shall be
consulted by the Company in connection with any such press release
or other public disclosure prior to its release). Without the prior
written consent of the applicable Buyer (which may be granted or
withheld in such Buyer
’
s
sole discretion), except as required by applicable law or
regulation, the Company shall not (and shall cause each of its
Subsidiaries and affiliates to not) disclose the name of such Buyer
in any filing, announcement, release or otherwise. Notwithstanding
anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary and without
implication that the contrary would otherwise be true, the Company
expressly acknowledges and agrees that no Buyer shall have (unless
expressly agreed to by a particular Buyer after the date hereof in
a written definitive and binding agreement executed by the Company
and such particular Buyer (it being understood and agreed that no
Buyer may bind any other Buyer with respect thereto)), any duty of
confidentiality with respect to, or a duty not to trade on the
basis of, any material, non-public information regarding the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(iii)
Other
Confidential Information
. In addition to other remedies set
forth in this Section 4(i), and without limiting anything set forth
in any other Transaction Document, at any time after the Closing
Date if the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their
respective officers, directors, employees or agents, provides any
Buyer with material non-public information relating to the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries (each, the
“
Confidential
Information
”
), the
Company shall, as promptly as practicable, publicly disclose such
Confidential Information on a Current Report on Form 8-K or
otherwise (each, a
“
Disclosure
”
). From and after such Disclosure,
the Company shall have disclosed all Confidential Information
provided to such Buyer by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents in
connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents. In addition, effective upon such Disclosure, the Company
acknowledges and agrees that any and all confidentiality or similar
obligations under any agreement, whether written or oral, between
the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective
officers, directors, affiliates, employees or agents, on the one
hand, and any of the Buyers or any of their affiliates, on the
other hand, shall terminate.
(j)
Conduct
of Business
. The business of the Company and its
Subsidiaries shall not be conducted in violation of any law,
ordinance or regulation of any Governmental Entity, except where
such violations would not reasonably be expected to result, either
individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(k)
Passive
Foreign Investment Company
. The Company shall conduct its
business, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to conduct their
respective businesses, in such a manner as will ensure that the
Company and each of its Subsidiaries will not be deemed to
constitute a passive foreign investment company within the meaning
of Section 1297 of the Code.
(l)
Corporate
Existence
. So long as any Buyer beneficially owns any
Preferred Shares, the Company shall not be party to any Fundamental
Transaction (as defined in the Certificate of Designations) unless
the Company is in compliance with the applicable provisions
governing Fundamental Transactions set forth in the Certificate of
Designations.
(m)
Regulation
M
. The Company will not take any action prohibited by
Regulation M under the 1934 Act, in connection with the
distribution of the Securities contemplated hereby.
(n)
Closing
Documents
. On or prior to fourteen (14) calendar days after
the Closing Date, the Company agrees to deliver, or cause to be
delivered, to each Buyer and counsel to the lead Buyer a complete
closing set of the executed Transaction Documents, Securities and
any other document required to be delivered to any party pursuant
to Section 7 hereof or otherwise.
(a)
Register
.
The Company shall maintain at its principal executive offices (or
such other office or agency of the Company as it may designate by
notice to each holder of Securities), a register for the Preferred
Shares in which the Company shall record the name and address of
the Person in whose name the Preferred Shares have been issued
(including the name and address of each transferee), the number of
Preferred Shares held by such Person and the number of Conversion
Shares issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Shares held by
such Person. The Company shall keep the register open and available
at all times during business hours for inspection of any Buyer or
its legal representatives.
(b)
FAST
Compliance
. While any Preferred Shares remain outstanding,
the Company shall maintain a transfer agent that participates in
the DTC Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program.
6.
CONDITIONS
TO THE COMPANY’S OBLIGATION TO SELL.
(a)
The obligation of the Company hereunder to issue and sell the
Preferred Shares
to each Buyer at
the Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or before the
Closing Date, of each of the following conditions, provided that
these conditions are for the Company
’
s sole benefit and may be waived by
the Company at any time in its sole discretion by providing each
Buyer with prior written notice thereof:
(i)
Such
Buyer shall have executed each of the other Transaction Documents
to which it is a party and delivered the same to the
Company.
(ii)
Such
Buyer and each other Buyer shall have delivered to the Company the
Purchase Price for the Preferred Shares being purchased by such
Buyer at the Closing by wire transfer of immediately available
funds in accordance with instructions previously provided by the
Company.
(iii)
The
representations and warranties of such Buyer shall be true and
correct in all material respects as of the date when made and as of
the Closing Date as though originally made at that time (except for
representations and warranties that speak as of a specific date,
which shall be true and correct as of such specific date), and such
Buyer shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material
respects with the covenants, agreements and conditions required by
this Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by such
Buyer at or prior to the Closing Date.
7.
CONDITIONS
TO EACH BUYER’S OBLIGATION TO PURCHASE.
(a)
The
obligation of each Buyer hereunder to purchase its Preferred Shares
at the Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or before the
Closing Date, of each of the following conditions, provided that
these conditions are for each Buyer
’
s sole benefit and may be waived by
such Buyer at any time in its sole discretion by providing the
Company with prior written notice thereof:
(i)
The
Company shall have duly executed and delivered to such Buyer each
of the Transaction Documents and the Company shall have duly
executed and delivered to such Buyer such aggregate number of
Preferred Shares set forth across from such Buyer
’
s name in column (3) of the Schedule
of Buyers being purchased by such Buyer at the Closing pursuant to
this Agreement.
(ii)
Such
Buyer shall have received the opinion of Wyrick Robbins Yates &
Ponton LLP, the Company
’
s
counsel, dated as of the Closing Date, in the form reasonably
acceptable to such Buyer.
(iii)
The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a certified copy of
the Certificate of Incorporation and the Certificate of
Designations as certified by the Delaware Secretary of State within
three (3) days of the Closing Date.
(iv)
The Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a certificate, in
the form reasonably acceptable to such Buyer, executed by the
Secretary of the Company and dated as of the Closing Date, as to
(i) the resolutions consistent with Section 3(b) as adopted by the
Company
’
s board of
directors in a form reasonably acceptable to such Buyer, (ii) the
Certificate of Incorporation of the Company and (iii) the Bylaws of
the Company, each as in effect at the Closing.
(v)
All
of the representations and warranties made by the Company in this
Agreement that are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse
Effect shall be true and correct in all respects as of the date
hereof and as of such Closing Date as though made at and as of such
Closing Date (except to the extent such representations and
warranties expressly speak as of an earlier date, which shall be
true and correct in all respects as of such date) and all of the
representations and warranties made by the Company in this
Agreement that are not qualified by materiality or Material Adverse
Effect shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the
date hereof and as of such Closing Date as though made at and as of
such Closing Date (except to the extent such representations and
warranties expressly speak as of an earlier date, which shall be
true and correct in all material respects as of such date). Such
Buyer shall have received a certificate, duly certified by the
Chief Executive Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing
Date, to the foregoing effect.
(vi)
The
Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a letter from the
Company
’
s transfer agent
certifying the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on the
Business Day immediately prior to the Closing Date.
(vii)
The Common Stock (A) shall be designated for quotation or listed
(as applicable) on the Principal Market and (B) shall not have been
suspended, as of the Closing Date, by the SEC or the Principal
Market from trading on the Principal Market nor, except as
disclosed in the SEC Documents, shall suspension by the SEC or the
Principal Market have been threatened (with a reasonable prospect
of delisting or suspension occurring after giving effect to all
applicable notice, appeal, compliance and hearing periods), as of
the Closing Date, either (I) in writing by the SEC or the Principal
Market or (II) by falling below the minimum maintenance
requirements of the Principal Market.
(viii)
The Company shall have obtained all governmental, regulatory or
third party consents and approvals, if any, necessary for the sale
of the Securities, including without limitation, those required by
the Principal Market, if any.
(ix)
No
statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree, ruling or
injunction shall have been enacted, entered, promulgated or
endorsed by any court or Governmental Entity of competent
jurisdiction that prohibits the consummation of any of the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents.
(x)
Since the date of execution of this Agreement, no event or
series of events shall have occurred that reasonably would have or
result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(xi)
From the date hereof to the Closing Date, (i) trading in the Common
Stock shall not have been suspended by the SEC or the Principal
Market (except for any suspension of trading of limited duration
agreed to by the Company, which suspension shall be terminated
prior to the Closing), and, (ii) 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 the Principal Market, nor shall a banking
moratorium have been declared either by the United States or New
York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material
outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or
international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any
material adverse change in, any financial market which, in each
case, in the reasonable judgment of each Buyer, makes it
impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Securities at the
Closing
In the
event that a Closing shall not have occurred with respect to a
Buyer within two (2) Business Days of the date hereof, then such
Buyer shall have the right to terminate its obligations under this
Agreement with respect to itself at any time on or after the close
of business on such date without liability of such Buyer to any
other party; provided, however, (i) the right to terminate this
Agreement under this Section 8 shall not be available to such Buyer
if the failure of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
to have been consummated by such date is the result of such
Buyer
’
s breach of this
Agreement and (ii) the abandonment of the sale and purchase of the
Preferred Shares shall be applicable only to such Buyer providing
such written notice, provided further that no such termination
shall affect any obligation of the Company under this Agreement to
reimburse such Buyer for the expenses described in Section 4(g)
above. Nothing contained in this Section 8 shall be deemed to
release any party from any liability for any breach by such party
of the terms and provisions of this Agreement or the other
Transaction Documents or to impair the right of any party to compel
specific performance by any other party of its obligations under
this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents.
(a)
Governing
Law; Jurisdiction; Jury Trial
. All questions concerning the
construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this
Agreement shall be governed by the internal laws of the State of
New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of
law provision or rule (whether of the State of New York or any
other jurisdictions) that would cause the application of the laws
of any jurisdictions other than the State of New York. The Company
hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the
state and federal courts sitting in The City of New York, Borough
of Manhattan, for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in
connection herewith or under any of the other Transaction Documents
or with any transaction contemplated hereby or thereby, and hereby
irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or
proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the
jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or
proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of
such suit, action or proceeding is improper. Each party hereby
irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to
process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by
mailing a copy thereof to such party at the address for such
notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service
shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice
thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any
way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed or operate to preclude any
Buyer from bringing suit or taking other legal action against the
Company in any other jurisdiction to collect on the
Company
’
s obligations to
such Buyer or to enforce a judgment or other court ruling in favor
of such Buyer.
EACH
PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO, AND
AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY
DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR UNDER ANY OTHER TRANSACTION DOCUMENT OR IN
CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OTHER
TRANSACTION DOCUMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR
THEREBY.
(b)
Counterparts
.
This Agreement may be executed in two or more identical
counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same
agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been
signed by each party and delivered to the other party. In the event
that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by an
e-mail which contains a portable document format (.pdf) file of an
executed signature page, such signature page 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 signature page were an original thereof.
(c)
Headings;
Gender
. The headings of this Agreement are for convenience
of reference and shall not form part of, or affect the
interpretation of, this Agreement. Unless the context clearly
indicates otherwise, each pronoun herein shall be deemed to include
the masculine, feminine, neuter, singular and plural forms thereof.
The terms
“
including,
”
“
includes,
”
“
include
”
and words of like import shall be
construed broadly as if followed by the words
“
without limitation.
”
The terms
“
herein,
”
“
hereunder,
”
“
hereof
”
and words of like import refer to
this entire Agreement instead of just the provision in which they
are found.
(d)
Severability;
Maximum Payment Amounts
. If any provision of this Agreement
is prohibited by law or otherwise determined to be invalid or
unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the provision
that would otherwise be prohibited, invalid or unenforceable shall
be deemed amended to apply to the broadest extent that it would be
valid and enforceable, and the invalidity or unenforceability of
such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining
provisions of this Agreement so long as this Agreement as so
modified continues to express, without material change, the
original intentions of the parties as to the subject matter hereof
and the prohibited nature, invalidity or unenforceability of the
provision(s) in question does not substantially impair the
respective expectations or reciprocal obligations of the parties or
the practical realization of the benefits that would otherwise be
conferred upon the parties. The parties will endeavor in good faith
negotiations to replace the prohibited, invalid or unenforceable
provision(s) with a valid provision(s), the effect of which comes
as close as possible to that of the prohibited, invalid or
unenforceable provision(s). Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in this Agreement or any other Transaction
Document (and without implication that the following is required or
applicable), it is the intention of the parties that in no event
shall amounts and value paid by the Company and/or any of its
Subsidiaries (as the case may be), or payable to or received by any
of the Buyers, under the Transaction Documents (including without
limitation, any amounts that would be characterized as
“
interest
”
under applicable law) exceed
amounts permitted under any applicable law. Accordingly, if any
obligation to pay, payment made to any Buyer, or collection by any
Buyer pursuant the Transaction Documents is finally judicially
determined to be contrary to any such applicable law, such
obligation to pay, payment or collection shall be deemed to have
been made by mutual mistake of such Buyer, the Company and its
Subsidiaries and such amount shall be deemed to have been adjusted
with retroactive effect to the maximum amount or rate of interest,
as the case may be, as would not be so prohibited by the applicable
law. Such adjustment shall be effected, to the extent necessary, by
reducing or refunding, at the option of such Buyer, the amount of
interest or any other amounts which would constitute unlawful
amounts required to be paid or actually paid to such Buyer under
the Transaction Documents. For greater certainty, to the extent
that any interest, charges, fees, expenses or other amounts
required to be paid to or received by such Buyer under any of the
Transaction Documents or related thereto are held to be within the
meaning of
“
interest
”
or another applicable term to
otherwise be violative of applicable law, such amounts shall be
pro-rated over the period of time to which they
relate.
(e)
Entire
Agreement; Amendments
. This Agreement, the other Transaction
Documents and the schedules and exhibits attached hereto and
thereto and the instruments referenced herein and therein supersede
all other prior oral or written agreements between the Buyers, the
Company, its Subsidiaries, their affiliates and Persons acting on
their behalf, including, without limitation, any transactions by
any Buyer with respect to Common Stock or the Securities, and the
other matters contained herein and therein, and this Agreement, the
other Transaction Documents, the schedules and exhibits attached
hereto and thereto and the instruments referenced herein and
therein contain the entire understanding of the parties solely with
respect to the matters covered herein and therein; provided,
however, nothing contained in this Agreement or any other
Transaction Document shall (or shall be deemed to) (i) have any
effect on any agreements any Buyer has entered into with, or any
instruments any Buyer has received from, the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries prior to the date hereof with respect to any prior
investment made by such Buyer in the Company or (ii) waive, alter,
modify or amend in any respect any obligations of the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries, or any rights of or benefits to any Buyer
or any other Person, in any agreement entered into prior to the
date hereof between or among the Company and/or any of its
Subsidiaries and any Buyer, or any instruments any Buyer received
from the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries prior to the date
hereof, and all such agreements and instruments shall continue in
full force and effect. Except as specifically set forth herein or
therein, neither the Company nor any Buyer makes any
representation, warranty, covenant or undertaking with respect to
such matters. For clarification purposes, the Recitals are part of
this Agreement. No provision of this Agreement may be amended other
than by an instrument in writing signed by the Company and the
Required Holders, and any amendment to any provision of this
Agreement made in conformity with the provisions of this Section
9(e) shall be binding on all Buyers and holders of Securities, as
applicable; provided that no such amendment shall be effective to
the extent that it (A) applies to less than all of the holders of
the Securities then outstanding or (B) imposes any obligation or
liability on any Buyer without such Buyer
’
s prior written consent (which may
be granted or withheld in such Buyer
’
s sole discretion). No waiver shall
be effective unless it is in writing and signed by an authorized
representative of the waiving party, provided that the Required
Holders may waive any provision of this Agreement, and any waiver
of any provision of this Agreement made in conformity with the
provisions of this Section 9(e) shall be binding on all Buyers and
holders of Securities, as applicable, provided that no such waiver
shall be effective to the extent that it (1) applies to less than
all of the holders of the Securities then outstanding (unless a
party gives a waiver as to itself only) or (2) imposes any
obligation or liability on any Buyer without such Buyer
’
s prior written consent (which may
be granted or withheld in such Buyer
’
s sole discretion). No consideration
(other than reimbursement of legal fees) shall be offered or paid
to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of
any provision of any of the Transaction Documents unless the same
consideration also is offered to all of the parties to the
Transaction Documents or all holders of Preferred Shares (as the
case may be). From the date hereof and while any Preferred Shares
are outstanding, the Company shall not be permitted to receive any
consideration from a Buyer or a holder of Preferred Shares that is
not otherwise contemplated by the Transaction Documents in order
to, directly or indirectly, induce the Company or any Subsidiary
(i) to treat such Buyer or holder of Preferred Shares in a manner
that is more favorable than to other similarly situated Buyers or
holders of Preferred Shares, or (ii) to treat any Buyer(s) or
holder(s) of Preferred Shares in a manner that is less favorable
than the Buyer or holder of Preferred Shares that is paying such
consideration; provided, however, that the determination of whether
a Buyer has been treated more or less favorably than another Buyer
shall disregard any securities of the Company purchased or sold by
any Buyer. The Company has not, directly or indirectly, made any
agreements with any Buyers relating to the terms or conditions of
the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents except
as set forth in the Transaction Documents. Without limiting the
foregoing, the Company confirms that, except as set forth in this
Agreement or the other Transaction Documents, no Buyer has made any
commitment or promise or has any other obligation to provide any
financing to the Company, any Subsidiary or otherwise. As a
material inducement for each Buyer to enter into this Agreement,
the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that (x) no due
diligence or other investigation or inquiry conducted by a Buyer,
any of its advisors or any of its representatives shall affect such
Buyer
’
s right to rely on,
or shall modify or qualify in any manner or be an exception to any
of, the Company
’
s
representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any
other Transaction Document and (y) unless a provision of this
Agreement or any other Transaction Document is expressly preceded
by the phrase
“
except as
disclosed in the SEC Documents,
”
nothing contained in any of the SEC
Documents shall affect such Buyer
’
s right to rely on, or shall modify
or qualify in any manner or be an exception to any of, the
Company
’
s representations
and warranties contained in this Agreement or any other Transaction
Document.
“
Required
Holders
”
means (I)
prior to the Closing Date, Buyers entitled to purchase, in the
aggregate, at least a majority of the number of Preferred Shares at
the Closing and (II) on or after the Closing Date, holders of, in
the aggregate, at least a majority of the Underlying Securities as
of such time (excluding any Underlying Securities held by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries as of such time) issued or
issuable hereunder or pursuant to the Certificate of Designations
or the (or the Buyers, with respect to any waiver or amendment of
Section 4(o)); provided, that such Buyers or holders of Underlying
Securities, as applicable, must include Elliott Associates, L.P.
and Elliott International, L.P. (together with their Affiliates,
“
Elliott
”) so
long as they collectively hold at least 20% of the Underlying
Securities (on an as-converted and as-exercised basis without
regard to any limitations on conversion or exercise thereof)
initially held by Elliott. “
Disclosure Letter
” shall mean that
certain letter from the Company to the Buyers, dated the date of
this Agreement.
(f)
Notices
.
Any notices, consents, waivers or other communications required or
permitted to be given under the terms of this Agreement must be in
writing and will be deemed to have been delivered: (i) upon
receipt, when delivered personally; (ii) upon receipt, when sent by
facsimile (provided confirmation of transmission is mechanically or
electronically generated and kept on file by the sending party); or
(iii) one (1) Business Day after deposit with an overnight courier
service with next day delivery specified, in each case, properly
addressed to the party to receive the same. The addresses and
facsimile numbers for such communications shall be:
If to
the Company:
CorMedix
Inc.
400
Connell Drive, 5th Floor
Suite
5000
Berkeley Heights,
NJ 07922
Telephone: (908)
517-95000
Facsimile: (908)
429-4307
Attention: Chief
Executive Officer
With a
copy (for informational purposes only) to:
Wyrick
Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP
4101
Lake Boone Trail, Suite 300
Raleigh, NC
27607
Telephone: (919)
781-4000
Facsimile: (919)
781-4865
Attention:
Alexander M. Donaldson, Esq.
If to
the Transfer Agent:
VStock
Transfer, LLC
18
Lafayette Place
Woodmere, NY
11598
Telephone: (212)
828-8436
Facsimile: (646)
536-3179
Attention: Yoel
Goldfeder
If to a
Buyer, to its address and facsimile number set forth on the
Schedule of Buyers, with copies to such Buyer
’
s representatives as set forth on
the Schedule of Buyers, with a copy (for informational purposes
only) to its counsel identified therein or to such other address
and/or facsimile number and/or to the attention of such other
Person as the recipient party has specified by written notice given
to each other party five (5) days prior to the effectiveness of
such change. Written confirmation of receipt (A) given by the
recipient of such notice, consent, waiver or other communication,
(B) mechanically or electronically generated by the
sender
’
s facsimile
machine containing the time, date, recipient facsimile number and,
with respect to each facsimile transmission, an image of the first
page of such transmission or (C) provided by an overnight courier
service shall be rebuttable evidence of personal service, receipt
by facsimile or receipt from an overnight courier service in
accordance with clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above,
respectively.
(g)
Successors
and Assigns
. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure
to the benefit of the parties and their respective successors and
assigns, including any purchasers of any of the Preferred Shares
(but excluding any purchasers of Underlying Securities, unless
pursuant to a written assignment by such Buyer). The Company shall
not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder
without the prior written consent of the Required Holders (as
defined below), including, without limitation, by way of a
Fundamental Transaction (as defined in the Certificate of
Designations) (unless the Company is in compliance with the
applicable provisions governing Fundamental Transactions set forth
in the Certificate of Designations). A Buyer may assign some or all
of its rights hereunder in connection with any transfer of any of
its Securities without the consent of the Company, in which event
such assignee shall be deemed to be a Buyer hereunder with respect
to such assigned rights.
(h)
No
Third Party Beneficiaries
. This Agreement is intended for
the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted
successors and assigns, and is not for the benefit of, nor may any
provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, other than the
Indemnitees referred to in Section 9(k).
(i)
Survival
. The
representations, warranties, agreements and covenants shall survive
the Closing. Each Buyer shall be responsible only for its own
representations, warranties, agreements and covenants
hereunder.
(j)
Further
Assurances
. Each party shall do and perform, or cause to be
done and performed, all such further acts and things, and shall
execute and deliver all such other agreements, certificates,
instruments and documents, as any other party may reasonably
request in order to carry out the intent and accomplish the
purposes of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby.
(k)
Indemnification
.
(i)
In
consideration of each Buyer
’
s execution and delivery of the
Transaction Documents to which it is a party and acquiring the
Securities thereunder and in addition to all of the
Company
’
s other
obligations under the Transaction Documents, the Company shall
defend, protect, indemnify and hold harmless each Buyer and each
holder of any Securities and all of their stockholders, partners,
members, officers, directors, employees and direct or indirect
investors and any of the foregoing Persons
’
agents or other representatives
(including, without limitation, those retained in connection with
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement) (collectively, the
“
Indemnitees
”
) from and against any and all
actions, causes of action, suits, claims, losses, costs, penalties,
fees, liabilities and damages, and expenses in connection therewith
(irrespective of whether any such Indemnitee is a party to the
action for which indemnification hereunder is sought), and
including reasonable attorneys
’
fees and disbursements (the
“
Indemnified
Liabilities
”
),
incurred by any Indemnitee as a result of, or arising out of, or
relating to (i) any misrepresentation or breach of any
representation or warranty made by the Company or any Subsidiary in
any of the Transaction Documents, (ii) any breach of any covenant,
agreement or obligation of the Company or any Subsidiary contained
in any of the Transaction Documents, (iii) any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained, or
incorporated by reference, in a registration statement or any
amendment thereto or any omission or alleged omission to state
therein, or in any document incorporated by reference therein, a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
the statements therein not misleading, (iv) any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained, or
incorporated by reference, in any prospectus, any issuer free
writing prospectus, or in any amendment thereof or supplement
thereto, or in any “issuer information” (as defined in
Rule 433 under the 1933 Act) of the Company, which “issuer
information” is required to be, or is, filed with the SEC or
otherwise contained in any free writing prospectus, or any
amendment or supplement thereto, or any omission or alleged
omission to state therein, or in any document incorporated by
reference therein, a 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, (v) any
violation of United States federal or state securities laws or the
rules and regulations of the Principal Market or any Eligible
Market in connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, affiliates,
officers, directors or employees or (vi) any cause of action, suit,
proceeding or claim brought or made against such Indemnitee by a
third party (including for these purposes a derivative action
brought on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary) or which
otherwise involves such Indemnitee that arises out of or results
from (A) the execution, delivery, performance or enforcement of any
of the Transaction Documents, (B) any transaction financed or to be
financed in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, with the
proceeds of the issuance of the Securities, (C) any disclosure
properly made by such Buyer pursuant to Section 4(i), or (D) the
status of such Buyer or holder of the Securities either as an
investor in the Company pursuant to the transactions contemplated
by the Transaction Documents or as a party to this Agreement
(including, without limitation, as a party in interest or otherwise
in any action or proceeding for injunctive or other equitable
relief), in each case, other than as a result of any
misrepresentation or breach of any representation or warranty made
by such Buyer or holder of the Securities. To the extent that the
foregoing undertaking by the Company may be unenforceable for any
reason, the Company shall make the maximum contribution to the
payment and satisfaction of each of the Indemnified Liabilities
which is permissible under applicable law.
(ii)
Promptly
after receipt by an Indemnitee under this Section 9(k) of notice of
the commencement of any action or proceeding (including any
governmental action or proceeding) involving an Indemnified
Liability, such Indemnitee shall, if a claim in respect thereof is
to be made against the Company under this Section 9(k), deliver to
the Company a written notice of the commencement thereof, and the
Company shall have the right to participate in, and, to the extent
the Company so desires, to assume control of the defense thereof
with counsel mutually satisfactory to the Company and the
Indemnitee; provided, however, that an Indemnitee shall have the
right to retain its own counsel with the fees and expenses of such
counsel to be paid by the Company if: (A) the Company has agreed in
writing to pay such fees and expenses; (B) the Company shall have
failed promptly to assume the defense of such Indemnified Liability
and to employ counsel reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnitee in
any such Indemnified Liability; or (C) the named parties to any
such Indemnified Liability (including any impleaded parties)
include both such Indemnitee and the Company, and such Indemnitee
shall have been advised by counsel that a conflict of interest is
likely to exist if the same counsel were to represent such
Indemnitee and the Company (in which case, if such Indemnitee
notifies the Company in writing that it elects to employ separate
counsel at the expense of the Company, then the Company shall not
have the right to assume the defense thereof and such counsel shall
be at the expense of the Company), provided further, that in the
case of clause (C) above the Company shall not be responsible for
the reasonable fees and expenses of more than one (1) separate
legal counsel for the Indemnitees. The Indemnitee shall reasonably
cooperate with the Company in connection with any negotiation or
defense of any such action or Indemnified Liability by the Company
and shall furnish to the Company all information reasonably
available to the Indemnitee which relates to such action or
Indemnified Liability. The Company shall keep the Indemnitee
reasonably apprised at all times as to the status of the defense or
any settlement negotiations with respect thereto. The Company shall
not be liable for any settlement of any action, claim or proceeding
effected without its prior written consent, provided, however, that
the Company shall not unreasonably withhold, delay or condition its
consent. The Company shall not, without the prior written consent
of the Indemnitee, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into
any settlement or other compromise which does not include as an
unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff
to such Indemnitee of a release from all liability in respect to
such Indemnified Liability or litigation, and such settlement shall
not include any admission as to fault on the part of the
Indemnitee. Following indemnification as provided for hereunder,
the Company shall be subrogated to all rights of the Indemnitee
with respect to all third parties, firms or corporations relating
to the matter for which indemnification has been made. The failure
to deliver written notice to the Company within a reasonable time
of the commencement of any such action shall not relieve the
Company of any liability to the Indemnitee under this Section 9(k),
except to the extent that the Company is materially and adversely
prejudiced in its ability to defend such action.
(iii)
The
indemnification required by this Section 9(k) shall be made by
periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the
investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or
Indemnified Liabilities are incurred.
(iv)
The
indemnity agreement contained herein shall be in addition to (A)
any cause of action or similar right of the Indemnitee against the
Company or others, and (B) any liabilities the Company may be
subject to pursuant to the law.
(l)
Construction
.
The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the
language chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and
no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party.
No specific representation or warranty shall limit the generality
or applicability of a more general representation or warranty. Each
and every reference to share prices, shares of Common Stock and any
other numbers in this Agreement that relate to the Common Stock
shall be automatically adjusted for any stock splits, stock
dividends, stock combinations, recapitalizations or other similar
transactions that occur with respect to the Common Stock after the
date of this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement
to the contrary, for the avoidance of doubt, nothing contained
herein shall constitute a representation or warranty against, or a
prohibition of, any actions with respect to the borrowing of,
arrangement to borrow, identification of the availability of,
and/or securing of, securities of the Company in order for such
Buyer (or its broker or other financial representative) to effect
short sales or similar transactions in the future.
(m)
Remedies
. Each
Buyer and in the event of assignment by Buyer of its rights and
obligations hereunder, each holder of Securities, shall have all
rights and remedies set forth in the Transaction Documents and all
rights and remedies which such holders have been granted at any
time under any other agreement or contract and all of the rights
which such holders have under any law. Any Person having any rights
under any provision of this Agreement shall be entitled to enforce
such rights specifically (without posting a bond or other
security), to recover damages by reason of any breach of any
provision of this Agreement and to exercise all other rights
granted by law. Furthermore, the Company recognizes that in the
event that it or any Subsidiary fails to perform, observe, or
discharge any or all of its or such Subsidiary
’
s (as the case may be) obligations
under the Transaction Documents, any remedy at law would inadequate
relief to the Buyers. The Company therefore agrees that the Buyers
shall be entitled to specific performance and/or temporary,
preliminary and permanent injunctive or other equitable relief from
any court of competent jurisdiction in any such case without the
necessity of proving actual damages and without posting a bond or
other security. The remedies provided in this Agreement and the
other Transaction Documents shall be cumulative and in addition to
all other remedies available under this Agreement and the other
Transaction Documents, at law or in equity (including a decree of
specific performance and/or other injunctive relief).
(n)
Withdrawal
Right
. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
(and without limiting any similar provisions of) the Transaction
Documents, whenever any Buyer exercises a right, election, demand
or option under a Transaction Document and the Company or any
Subsidiary does not timely perform its related obligations within
the periods therein provided, then such Buyer may rescind or
withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time upon written
notice to the Company or such Subsidiary (as the case may be), any
relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part without
prejudice to its future actions and rights.
(o)
Payment
Set Aside; Currency
. To the extent that the Company makes a
payment or payments to any Buyer hereunder or pursuant to any of
the other Transaction Documents or any of the Buyers enforce or
exercise their rights hereunder or thereunder, and such payment or
payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any
part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be
fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged by
or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the
Company, a trustee, receiver or any other Person under any law
(including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, foreign, state
or federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to
the extent of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof
originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued
in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or
such enforcement or setoff had not occurred. Unless otherwise
expressly indicated, all dollar amounts referred to in this
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents are in United States
Dollars (
“
U.S. Dollars
”
), and all amounts owing under this
Agreement and all other Transaction Documents shall be paid in U.S.
Dollars. All amounts denominated in other currencies (if any) shall
be converted into the U.S. Dollar equivalent amount in accordance
with the Exchange Rate on the date of calculation.
“
Exchange
Rate
”
means, in relation
to any amount of currency to be converted into U.S. Dollars
pursuant to this Agreement, the U.S. Dollar exchange rate as
published in the Wall Street Journal on the relevant date of
calculation.
(p)
Judgment
Currency
. If for the purpose of obtaining or enforcing
judgment against the Company in connection with this Agreement or
any other Transaction Document in any court in any jurisdiction it
becomes necessary to convert into any other currency (such other
currency being hereinafter in this Section 9(p) referred to as the
“
Judgment
Currency
”
) an
amount due in U.S. Dollars under this Agreement, the conversion
shall be made at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the Business Day
immediately preceding:
(A)
the
date actual payment of the amount due, in the case of any
proceeding in the courts of New York or in the courts of any other
jurisdiction that will give effect to such conversion being made on
such date: or
(B)
the
date on which the foreign court determines, in the case of any
proceeding in the courts of any other jurisdiction (the date as of
which such conversion is made pursuant to this Section 9(p)(2)
being hereinafter referred to as the
“
Judgment Conversion
Date
”
).
(ii)
If
in the case of any proceeding in the court of any jurisdiction
referred to in Section 9(p)(1) above, there is a change in the
Exchange Rate prevailing between the Judgment Conversion Date and
the date of actual payment of the amount due, the applicable party
shall pay such adjusted amount as may be necessary to ensure that
the amount paid in the Judgment Currency, when converted at the
Exchange Rate prevailing on the date of payment, will produce the
amount of U.S. Dollars which could have been purchased with the
amount of Judgment Currency stipulated in the judgment or judicial
order at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the Judgment Conversion
Date.
(iii)
Any amount due from the Company under this provision shall be due
as a separate debt and shall not be affected by judgment being
obtained for any other amounts due under or in respect of this
Agreement or any other Transaction Document.
(q)
Independent
Nature of Buyers’ Obligations and Rights
. The
obligations of each Buyer under the Transaction Documents are
several and not joint with the obligations of any other Buyer, and
no Buyer shall be responsible in any way for the performance of the
obligations of any other Buyer under any Transaction Document.
Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and
no action taken by any Buyer pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be
deemed to constitute the Buyers as, and the Company acknowledges
that the Buyers do not so constitute, a partnership, an
association, a joint venture or any other kind of group or entity,
or create a presumption that the Buyers are in any way acting in
concert or as a group or entity, and the Company shall not assert
any such claim with respect to such obligations or the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents or any matters, and the
Company acknowledges that the Buyers are not acting in concert or
as a group, and the Company shall not assert any such claim, with
respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents. Each Buyer acknowledges that no other Buyer
has acted as agent for such Buyer in connection with such Buyer
making its investment hereunder and that no other Buyer will be
acting as agent of such Buyer in connection with monitoring such
Buyer
’
s investment in the
Securities or enforcing its rights under the Transaction Documents.
The Company and each Buyer confirms that each Buyer has
independently participated with the Company and its Subsidiaries in
the negotiation of the transaction contemplated hereby with the
advice of its own counsel and advisors. Each Buyer shall be
entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights,
including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this
Agreement or out of any other Transaction Documents, and it shall
not be necessary for any other Buyer to be joined as an additional
party in any proceeding for such purpose. The use of a single
agreement to effectuate the purchase and sale of the Securities
contemplated hereby was solely in the control of the Company, not
the action or decision of any Buyer, and was done solely for the
convenience of the Company and its Subsidiaries and not because it
was required or requested to do so by any Buyer. It is expressly
understood and agreed that each provision contained in this
Agreement and in each other Transaction Document is between the
Company, each Subsidiary and a Buyer, solely, and not between the
Company, its Subsidiaries and the Buyers collectively and not
between and among the Buyers.
[signature pages follow]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,
each
Buyer and the Company have caused their respective signature page
to this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written
above.
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Baluch
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BUYERS:
ELLIOTT
INTERNATIONAL, L.P.
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Elliott
International Capital Advisors Inc.,
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attorney-in-fact
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Elliot Greenberg
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ASSOCIATES, L.P.
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Capital Advisors, L.P., General Partner
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[Signature
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SCHEDULE OF BUYERS
(1)
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(2)
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(3)
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(4)
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(5)
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Buyer
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Address and Facsimile Number
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Aggregate Number of Preferred Shares
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Purchase Price
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Legal Representative’s Address and Facsimile
Number
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Elliott
International, L.P
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c/o
Elliott Management Corporation
40 West
57th Street
New
York, NY 10019
Telephone:
(212) 974-6000
Facsimile:
(212) 478-2476
Attention:
Elliot Greenberg
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Elliott
Associates, L.P.
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c/o
Elliott Management Corporation
40 West
57th Street
New
York, NY 10019
Telephone:
(212) 974-6000
Facsimile:
(212) 478-2476
Attention:
Elliot Greenberg
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BACKSTOP AGREEMENT
This
BACKSTOP AGREEMENT
(this
“
Agreement
”),
dated as of November 9, 2017, is entered into by and between
CorMedix Inc., a Delaware corporation with offices located at 400
Connell Drive, 5th Floor, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
(the ”
Company
”), and the backstop
investors signatory hereto (collectively, the “
Backstop Investors
”). Capitalized
terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned
thereto in that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of
the date hereof (the “Purchase Agreement”), between the
Company, the Backstop Investors and the other investors party
thereto from time to time.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the
Company desires to raise capital through the issuance and sale to
certain accredited investors of 5,000 shares of its newly issued
Series F Preferred Stock at a purchase price of $1,000 per share
(the “
Issue
Price
”) for an aggregate purchase price of $5,000,000
pursuant to and in accordance with that certain Purchase Agreement
entered into as of the date hereof;
WHEREAS, pursuant
to this Agreement, and upon the terms and subject to the conditions
and limitations set forth herein and in consideration of the
payment of the Commitment Payment (as defined below), the Company
is willing to sell, and the Backstop Investors are willing to
purchase, their Pro Rata Share of shares of Series F Preferred
Stock at the Issue Price per share;
WHEREAS, the
Company and the Backstop Investors are executing and delivering
this Agreement in reliance upon the exemption from securities
registration afforded by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder, or any successor statute (the
“
1933
Act
”).
AGREEMENT
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual
covenants contained herein and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the Company and the Backstop Investors hereby agree
as follows:
(a)
Upon the
terms and subject to the conditions contained herein, the Company
shall have the option to require each of the Backstop Investors,
severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company on a
Closing Date, and the Backstop Investors, in reliance on the
representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement and in
the Purchase Agreement which are expressly incorporated herein by
reference, hereby agree to purchase from the Company, the Preferred
Shares set forth in a Closing Notice, as applicable, subject in all
respects to the limitations set forth in Section 1(d) below. The
Preferred Shares that each of the Backstop Investors is required to
purchase pursuant to this Section 1(a) are referred to herein as
such Backstop Investor’s “
Backstop Shares
.”
(b)
To the extent that
the Company does not require the Backstop Investors to purchase
their respective entire Pro Rata Share of the Purchase Maximum on a
Closing Date, the Company may require the Backstop Investors to
purchase all or a lesser remaining percentage (provided that such
percentage is the same for each Backstop Investor) of such Backstop
Investor’s Pro Rata Share of the Purchase Maximum on any
subsequent date (each, a “
Closing Date
”) by giving to the
Backstop Investors, at least five Business Days prior to such
Closing Date, a written notification (a “
Closing Notice
”) setting forth the
percentage (provided that such percentage is the same for each
Backstop Investor) of such Backstop Investor’s Pro Rata Share
of the Purchase Maximum that the Company requires each Backstop
Investor to purchase on such Closing Date.
(c)
Each closing of the
purchase and sale of Backstop Shares hereunder, whether on a
Closing Date (each, a “
Closing Date
”), shall be referred
to as a “
Closing
”. At each Closing, (i)
payment for the Backstop Shares that each Backstop Investor has
agreed to purchase shall be effected by each such Backstop Investor
wiring an amount, to an account of the Company identified to each
Backstop Investor at least five days prior to such Closing, equal
to the product of (1) the number of Backstop Shares issuable to
such Backstop Investor at such Closing (as set forth in a Closing
Date Notice) and (2) the Issue Price (such amount, a
“
Backstop Drawdown
Amount
”) and (ii) the Company shall deliver to each
Backstop Investor the Backstop Shares and such certificates,
documents or instruments required to be delivered by it to such
Backstop Investor pursuant to the Purchase Agreement.
(d)
The Backstop
Investors shall have no obligation to purchase Preferred Shares
pursuant to this Agreement prior to January 15, 2018. The
obligation of the Backstop Investors to purchase Preferred Shares
hereunder shall terminate on March 31, 2018 (the
“
Termination
Date
”). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein, in no event shall (i) any Backstop Investor be
required to purchase hereunder an aggregate number of Preferred
Shares in excess of its Pro Rata Share of the initial Purchase
Maximum, (ii) the Backstop Investors be required to purchase
hereunder an aggregate number of Preferred Shares in excess of the
initial Purchase Maximum or (iii) except in the case of the last
Closing Notice, shall the Backstop Investors be required to
purchase any Preferred Shares if the aggregate purchase price
therefor is less than $500,000. As used herein, the term
“
Purchase
Maximum
” means (A) at any date of determination on or
before the Termination Date, an amount equal to (1) $3 million
minus
(2)
the aggregate purchase price of Backstop Shares purchased by the
Backstop Investors hereunder on or prior to such date
minus
(3)
without duplication, the aggregate cash proceeds actually received
by the Company from the sale of its equity or equity-linked
securities, in a bona fide transaction, after the date hereof but
on or prior to such date and (B) after the Termination Date,
zero.
(e)
Conditions to the Backstop Investors’
Obligation to Purchase the Backstop Shares
. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary, the obligation of the Backstop Investors
hereunder to purchase Backstop Shares on a Closing Date is subject
to the satisfaction, at or before such Closing Date, of each of the
following conditions, provided that these conditions are for the
Backstop Investors’ sole benefit and may be waived by the
Backstop Investors at any time in its sole discretion by providing
the Company with prior written notice thereof:
(i)
The Company shall
have duly executed and delivered to the Backstop Investors each of
the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and the Company
shall have duly executed and delivered to the Backstop Shares to be
purchased by such Backstop Investor at such Closing
Date.
(ii)
Each
of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 7 of the Purchase
Agreement shall have been satisfied and the Warrant Closing shall
have occurred.
(iii)
The
Backstop Investors shall have received the opinion of Wyrick
Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP, the Company’s counsel, dated
as of such Closing Date, in the form acceptable to the Backstop
Investors, with respect to the Securities.
(iv)
The
Company shall have delivered to each Backstop Investor a copy of
the Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions, in the form acceptable
to the Backstop Investors, which instructions shall have been
delivered to and acknowledged in writing by the Company’s
transfer agent.
(v)
The Company shall
have delivered to each Backstop Investor a certificate evidencing
the formation and good standing of the Company in the
Company’s jurisdiction of formation issued by the Secretary
of State of such jurisdiction of formation as of a date within
three (3) days of such Closing Date.
(vi)
The
Company shall have delivered to each Backstop Investor a
certificate, in the form acceptable to the Backstop Investors,
executed by the Secretary of the Company and dated as of such
Closing Date, attaching (i) the resolutions adopted by the
Company’s Board of Directors in a form reasonably acceptable
to each Backstop Investor, which resolutions shall approve each of
the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated
thereby, (ii) the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company and
(iii) the Bylaws of the Company, each as in effect as of such
Closing Date.
(vii)
All of the representations and
warranties made by the Company in this Agreement and the Purchase
Agreement that are qualified by materiality or material adverse
effect shall be true and correct in all respects as of the date
hereof and as of such Closing Date as though made at and as of such
Closing Date (except to the extent such representations and
warranties expressly speak as of an earlier date, which shall be
true and correct in all respects as of such date) and all of the
representations and warranties made by the Company in this
Agreement and in the Purchase Agreement that are not qualified by
materiality or material adverse effect shall be true and correct in
all material respects as of the date hereof and as of such Closing
Date as though made at and as of such Closing Date (except to the
extent such representations and warranties expressly speak as of an
earlier date, which shall be true and correct in all material
respects as of such date);
(viii)
The Company shall have
performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with the
covenants, agreements and conditions required to be performed,
satisfied or complied with by the Company in this Agreement and the
Purchase Agreement at or prior to such Closing Date.
(ix)
The
Company shall have delivered to the Backstop Investors a
certificate, duly executed by the Chief Executive Officer of the
Company, dated as of such Closing Date, certifying that the
conditions set forth in Section 1(e)(vii) and Section 1(e)(viii)
have been satisfied.
(x)
The Common Stock
(I) shall be designated for quotation or listed (as applicable) on
an Eligible Market (as defined below) and (II) shall not have been
suspended, as of such Closing Date, by the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “
SEC
”) or the Eligible Market from
trading on the Eligible Market nor shall suspension by the SEC or
the Principal Market (as defined below) have been threatened, as of
such Closing Date, either (A) in writing by the SEC or the
Principal Market or (B) by falling below the minimum maintenance
requirements of the Principal Market.
(xi)
The
Company shall have obtained all governmental, regulatory or third
party consents and approvals, if any, necessary for the sale of the
Securities (as defined below), including without limitation, those
required by the Principal Market, if any.
(xii)
No
stockholder approval of the Company shall be required in connection
with the issuance of the Backstop Shares, any other Preferred
Shares issuable pursuant to the Purchase Agreement or the issuance
of the Backstop Conversion Shares or the Backstop Warrant Shares as
of such Closing Date. “
Backstop Conversion Shares
” means
any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Backstop
Shares. “
Backstop Warrant
Shares
” means any shares of Common Stock issuable upon
exercise of the Backstop Warrants. “
Securities
” means collectively,
the Backstop Warrants, Backstop Warrant Shares, the Backstop Shares
and the Backstop Conversion Shares.
(xiii)
No
statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree, ruling or
injunction shall have been enacted, entered, promulgated or
endorsed by any Governmental Entity (as defined below) of competent
jurisdiction that prohibits the consummation of any of the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents.
(xiv)
Since
the date of execution of this Agreement, no event or series of
events shall have occurred that have or would reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect (as defined
below).
(xv)
From
the date hereof to such Closing Date, (i) trading in the Common
Stock shall not have been suspended by the SEC or the Principal
Market, and, (ii) at any time prior to such 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 the Principal Market, nor shall a banking moratorium
have been declared either by the United States or New York State
authorities nor shall there have occurred any material outbreak or
escalation of hostilities or other national or international
calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material
adverse change in, any financial market which, in each case, in the
reasonable judgment of the Backstop Investors, makes it
impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Backstop Shares on
such Closing Date.
(xvi)
No
action, suit or proceeding before any arbitrator or any
Governmental Entity shall have been commenced, and no investigation
by any Governmental Entity shall have been threatened, against the
Company or any Subsidiary, or any of the Company or any Subsidiary
or any Backstop Investor, or any of the Backstop Investors,
officers, directors or affiliates, seeking to restrain, prevent or
change the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and the
Purchase Agreement or seeking damages in connection with such
transactions.
(xvii)
The
Company and its Subsidiaries shall have delivered to the Backstop
Investors such other documents relating to the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the Purchase Agreement as the
Backstop Investors or its counsel may reasonably
request.
(xviii)
Each
Backstop Warrant shall have been issued. With respect to each
Closing Date, each Backstop Warrant shall be in full force and
effect, unless exercised in full by the owner thereof, and the
Company shall not be in default, or have committed any act or
omission that, with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both,
would constitute a default, under such Backstop
Warrant.
(xix)
The
offering of Preferred Shares pursuant to the Purchase Agreement
shall have been conducted in accordance with the terms and
conditions of the Transaction Documents.
(f)
Conditions to the Obligation of the Company to
Issue Backstop Shares.
The obligation of the Company
hereunder to issue and sell the Backstop Shares to the Backstop
Investors on a Closing Date is subject to the satisfaction, at or
before the such Closing Date, of each of the following conditions,
provided that these conditions are for the Company’s sole
benefit and may be waived by the Company at any time in its sole
discretion by providing the Backstop Investors with prior written
notice thereof:
(i)
The Backstop
Investors shall have executed each of the Transaction Documents
(other than this Agreement) to which it is a party and delivered
the same to the Company.
(ii)
Such
Backstop Investor shall have delivered to the Company its
respective Backstop Drawdown Amount with respect to such Closing
Date by wire transfer of immediately available funds pursuant to
the wire instructions provided by the Company.
(iii)
All
of the representations and warranties made by such Backstop
Investor in this Agreement that are qualified by materiality or
material adverse effect shall be true and correct in all respects
as of the date hereof and as of such Closing Date as though made at
and as of such Closing Date (except to the extent such
representations and warranties expressly speak as of an earlier
date, which shall be true and correct in all respects as of such
date) and all of the representations and warranties made by such
Backstop Investor in this Agreement that are not qualified by
materiality or material adverse effect shall be true and correct in
all material respects as of the date hereof and as of such Closing
Date as though made at and as of such Closing Date (except to the
extent such representations and warranties expressly speak as of an
earlier date, which shall be true and correct in all material
respects as of such date).
(iv)
Such
Backstop Investor shall have performed, satisfied and complied in
all material respects with the covenants, agreements and conditions
required by this Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied
with by such Backstop Investor at or prior to such Closing
Date.
(a)
Issuance of Warrants
. As
consideration for each Backstop Investor’s commitment to
purchase Backstop Shares, at the Warrant Closing, the Company
hereby agrees to issue to each Backstop Investor, a warrant in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit A (a “
Backstop Warrant
”), to purchase a
number of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value
$0.001 per share (“
Common
Stock
”), equal to such Backstop Investor’s Pro
Rata Share of an amount equal to (A) $500,000
divided
by (b) $0.5278
minus
(B) the
product
of (a) 50%
of the amount in sub-clause (A) and (b) (i) solely to the extent
raised from Persons other than the Backstop Investors and their
respective affiliates, up to $3 million of any cash proceeds
described in clause (A)(3) of the definition of Purchase Maximum
actually received by the Company on or prior to December 24, 2017
divided
by (ii) $3
million. The warrant shall have an exercise price of $0.001 per
share of common stock. As used herein, the term “
Pro Rata Share
” means the
percentage set forth on the signature page hereto with respect to a
Backstop Investor.
(b)
Closing
. The issuance of the
Backstop Warrants shall take place at a closing (the
“
Warrant
Closing
”) to be held at the offices of Wyrick Robbins
Yates & Ponton, LLP, 4101 Lake Boone Trail, Suite 300, Raleigh,
North Carolina 27607, at 10:00 a.m. (New York Time), on the date of
the initial Closing (as defined in the Purchase Agreement). The
date on which the Warrant Closing occurs is referred to herein as
the “
Warrant
Closing
Date
”.
(c)
Closing
Transactions
.
(i)
At the Warrant
Closing, the Company shall deliver to each Backstop
Investor:
(1)
Such Backstop
Investor’s Backstop Warrant, duly executed by the
Company.
(2)
the registration
rights agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B, dated as
of the Warrant Closing Date (the “
Registration Rights Agreement
”),
by and between the Backstop Investors and the Company, duly
executed by the Company.
(3)
an opinion of
Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP, the Company’s counsel,
dated as of the Warrant Closing Date, in the form acceptable to the
Backstop Investors, with respect to the Backstop Warrants and
Backstop Warrant Shares.
(4)
a copy of the
Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions, in the form acceptable to
the Backstop Investors, which instructions shall have been
delivered to and acknowledged in writing by the Company’s
transfer agent.
(ii)
At
the Warrant Closing, the Backstop Investors shall deliver to the
Company the Registration Rights Agreement, duly executed by the
Backstop Investors.
3.
BACKSTOP
INVESTORS’ REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.
Each
Backstop Investor, severally and not jointly, represents and
warrants, solely with respect to itself, to the Company that, as of
the date hereof and as of each Closing Date:
(a)
Organization;
Authority
. Such Backstop
Investor is an entity duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization
with the requisite power and authority to enter into and to
consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents to which it is a party and otherwise to carry out its
obligations hereunder and thereunder.
(b)
Validity;
Enforcement
. This Agreement
has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered on
behalf of such Backstop Investor and constitutes a legal, valid and
binding obligation of such Backstop Investor enforceable against
such Backstop Investor in accordance with its terms, except as such
enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity or
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium,
liquidation and other similar laws relating to, or affecting
generally, the enforcement of applicable creditors’ rights
and remedies.
(c)
No
Conflicts
. The execution,
delivery and performance by such Backstop Investor of this
Agreement and the consummation by such Backstop Investor of the
transactions contemplated hereby will not (i) contravene the
organizational documents of such Backstop Investor, (ii) conflict
with, or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or
lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or give to
others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or
cancellation of, any agreement, indenture or instrument to which
such Backstop Investor is a party, or (iii) contravene any law,
rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree (including federal and
state securities laws) applicable to such Backstop Investor, except
in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for such conflicts,
defaults, rights or violations which would not, individually or in
the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material adverse
effect on the ability of such Backstop Investor to perform its
obligations hereunder.
(d)
Backstop
Investors Status
. As of the date hereof, such Backstop
Investor is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule
501 under the 1933 Act.
4.
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.
On the
date hereof and on each Closing Date, the Company shall be deemed
to have made to each Backstop Investor each of the representations
and warranties set forth in Section 3 of the Purchase Agreement
and, for the avoidance of doubt, each of this Agreement and the
Backstop Warrants shall be deemed to be a Transaction Document. In
addition, the Company represents and warrants to each Backstop
Investor that, as of the date hereof and each Closing Date and
except as set forth in the Disclosure Letter:
(a)
Organization
and Qualification
. Each of the
Company and its Subsidiaries (as defined below) are entities duly
organized and validly existing and in good standing under the laws
of the jurisdiction in which they are formed, and have the
requisite power and authorization to own their properties and to
conduct their business as now being conducted and as presently
proposed to be conducted. Each of the Company and each of its
Subsidiaries is duly qualified as a foreign entity to do business
and is in good standing in every jurisdiction in which its
ownership of property or the nature of the business conducted by it
makes such qualification necessary, except to the extent that the
failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not have a
Material Adverse Effect. As used in this Agreement,
“
Material Adverse
Effect
” means any material adverse effect on (i) the
business, properties, assets, liabilities, operations (including
results thereof), condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects
of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (ii) the
transactions contemplated hereby or in any of the other Transaction
Documents or (iii) the authority or ability of the Company to
perform any of its obligations under any of the Transaction
Documents. Other than its Subsidiaries, there is no Person in which
the Company, directly or indirectly, (i) owns any of the capital
stock or holds an equity or similar interest or (ii) controls or
operates all or any part of the business, operations or
administration of such Person. A “
Subsidiary
” means any Person in
which the Company, directly or indirectly, (i) owns any of the
outstanding capital stock or holds any equity or similar interest
of such Person or (ii) controls or operates all or any part of the
business, operations or administration of such Person, and all of
the foregoing. As of the date of this Agreement, the Company has no
Subsidiaries other than CorMedix Europe GmbH.
(b)
Authorization;
Enforcement; Validity
. The Company has
the requisite power and authority to enter into and perform its
obligations under this Agreement and the other Transaction
Documents and to issue the Securities (as defined below) in
accordance with the terms hereof and thereof. The execution and
delivery of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents by
the Company, and the consummation by the Company of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including, without
limitation, the issuance of the Backstop Shares, the Backstop
Conversion Shares, the Backstop Warrants and the reservation for
issuance and issuance of the Backstop Warrant Shares issuable upon
exercise of the Backstop Warrants) have been duly authorized by the
Company’s board of directors or other governing body and, no
filing, consent or authorization is required by the Company, its
board of directors or its stockholders or other governing body.
This Agreement has been, and the other Transaction Documents to be
delivered on or prior to the Closing will be prior to Closing, duly
executed and delivered by the Company, and upon such execution will
constitute a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company,
enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective
terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by general
principles of equity or applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or similar laws relating
to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable
creditors’ rights and remedies and except as rights to
indemnification and to contribution may be limited by federal or
state securities law.
(c)
Issuance
of Securities
. The issuance of
the Backstop Shares and the Backstop Warrants are duly authorized
and upon issuance in accordance with the terms of the Transaction
Documents shall be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable
and free from all preemptive or similar rights, taxes, withholding,
liens, charges and other encumbrances with respect to the issuance
thereof. The Company shall have reserved from its duly authorized
capital stock as of the Closing Date, not less than 125% of the
maximum number of Backstop Conversion Shares and Backstop Warrant
Shares (without taking into account any limitations on the exercise
of the Backstop Warrants set forth therein). Upon issuance or
conversion in accordance with the Backstop Shares or exercise in
accordance with the Backstop Warrants (as the case may be), the
Backstop Conversion Shares and the Backstop Warrant Shares,
respectively, when issued, will be validly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable and free from all preemptive or similar rights,
taxes, liens, charges and other encumbrances with respect to the
issue thereof, with the holders being entitled to all rights
accorded to a holder of Common Stock.
(d)
No
Conflicts
. The execution,
delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents by the
Company and the consummation by the Company and its Subsidiaries of
the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including,
without limitation, the issuance of the Securities and the
reservation for issuance of the Backstop Conversion Shares and the
Backstop Warrant Shares as contemplated under Section 4(c) above)
will not (i) result in a violation of the Certificate of
Incorporation (as defined below) or other organizational documents
of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any capital stock of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Bylaws (as defined below) of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) conflict with, or
constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of
time or both would become a default) under, or give to others any
rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of,
any agreement, indenture or instrument to which the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries is a party, or (iii) result in a violation of
any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree (including
foreign, federal and state securities laws and regulations and the
rules and regulations of the NYSE American (the
“Principal Market
”) and
including all applicable federal laws, rules and regulations)
applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which
any property or asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is
bound or affected except, in the case of clause (ii) or (iii)
above, to the extent such violations that could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(e)
Consents
. Neither the
Company nor any Subsidiary is required to obtain any consent from,
authorization or order of, or make any filing or registration with
(other than the SEC and the Principal Market) any Governmental
Entity or other self-regulatory organization or body or any other
Person in order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its
respective obligations under or contemplated by the Transaction
Documents, in each case, in accordance with the terms hereof or
thereof. All consents, authorizations, orders, filings and
registrations which the Company or any Subsidiary is required to
obtain pursuant to the preceding sentence have been obtained or
effected on or prior to such Closing Date, and neither the Company
nor any of its Subsidiaries are aware of any facts or circumstances
which might prevent the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from
obtaining or effecting any of the registration, application or
filings contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Company is
not in violation of the requirements of the Principal Market and
has no knowledge of any facts or circumstances which could
reasonably lead to delisting or suspension of the Common Stock in
the foreseeable future. As used herein, “
Governmental Entity
” means any
nation, state, county, city, town, village, district, or other
political jurisdiction of any nature, federal, state, local,
municipal, foreign, or other government, governmental or
quasi-governmental authority of any nature (including any
governmental agency, branch, department, official, or entity and
any court or other tribunal), multi-national organization or body;
or body exercising, or entitled to exercise, any administrative,
executive, judicial, legislative, police, regulatory, or taxing
authority or power of any nature or instrumentality of any of the
foregoing, including any entity or enterprise owned or controlled
by a government or a public international organization or any of
the foregoing.
(f)
Acknowledgment
Regarding Backstop Investors’ Purchase of
Securities
. The Company
acknowledges and agrees that each Backstop Investor is acting
solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with
respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby and that no Backstop Investor is
(i) an officer or director of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, (ii) to its knowledge, an “affiliate” (as
defined in Rule 144) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
(iii) to its knowledge, a “beneficial owner” of more
than 10% of the shares of Common Stock (as defined for purposes of
Rule 13d-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“1934 Act”), taking account of any limitations on
exercise or conversion (including “blockers”) contained
in securities and instruments beneficially owned by such Person,
without conceding that such Person is a 10% stockholder for
purposes of federal securities laws). The Company further
acknowledges that no Backstop Investor is acting as a financial
advisor or fiduciary of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or
in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents
and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and any
advice given by a Backstop Investor or any of its representatives
or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby is merely incidental
to the Backstop Investors’ purchase of the Securities. The
Company further represents to the Backstop Investors that the
Company’s decision to enter into the Transaction Documents to
which it is a party has been based solely on the independent
evaluation by the Company and its representatives.
(g)
No
Placement Agent’s Fees
. Neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has engaged any placement agent
or other agent in connection with the offer or sale of the
Securities with respect to which a fee or commission due from any
Backstop Investor in connection with the transactions contemplated
hereby.
(h)
Dilutive
Effect
. The Company
understands and acknowledges that the number of Backstop Conversion
Shares and Backstop Warrant Shares will increase in certain
circumstances. The Company further acknowledges that its obligation
to issue the Backstop Conversion Shares upon conversion of the
Backstop Shares in accordance with this Agreement and the Backstop
Shares and the Backstop Warrant Shares upon exercise of the
Backstop Warrants in accordance with this Agreement and the
Backstop Warrants is absolute and unconditional regardless of the
dilutive effect that such issuance may have on the ownership
interests of other stockholders of the Company.
(i)
Application
of Takeover Protections; Rights Agreement
. The Company and
its board of directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in
order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition,
interested stockholder, business combination, poison pill
(including, without limitation, any distribution under a rights
agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the
Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws or other organizational
documents or the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or
otherwise which is or could become applicable to any Backstop
Investor as a result of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, including, without limitation, the Company’s
issuance of the Securities and such Backstop Investor’s
ownership of the Securities. The Company and its board of directors
have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render
inapplicable any stockholder rights plan or similar arrangement
relating to accumulations of beneficial ownership of shares of
Common Stock or a change in control of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
(j)
SEC
Documents; Financial Statements
. During the two
(2) years prior to the date hereof and the applicable Closing Date,
the Company has timely filed all reports, schedules, forms,
statements and other documents required to be filed by it with the
SEC pursuant to the reporting requirements of the 1934 Act (all of
the foregoing filed prior to the date hereof and all exhibits
included therein and financial statements, notes and schedules
thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein being
hereinafter referred to as the “
SEC Documents
”). The Company has
delivered to each Backstop Investor or its respective
representatives true, correct and complete copies of each of the
SEC Documents not available on the EDGAR system requested by the
Backstop Investors or its respective representatives. As of their
respective dates, the SEC Documents complied in all material
respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and
regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to the SEC
Documents, and none of the SEC Documents, at the time they were
filed with the SEC, contained any untrue statement of a material
fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in
the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. As of their respective dates, the financial statements
of the Company included in the SEC Documents complied as to form in
all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and
the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto
as in effect as of the time of filing. Such financial statements
have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles, consistently applied, during the periods involved
(except (i) as may be otherwise indicated in such financial
statements or the notes thereto, or (ii) in the case of unaudited
interim statements, to the extent they may exclude footnotes or may
be condensed or summary statements) and fairly present in all
material respects the financial position of the Company as of the
dates thereof and the results of its operations and cash flows for
the periods then ended (subject, in the case of unaudited
statements, to normal year-end audit adjustments which will not be
material, either individually or in the aggregate). No other
information provided by or on behalf of the Company to the Backstop
Investors which is not included in the SEC Documents (including,
without limitation, information referred to in Section 5(g) of this
Agreement) contains any untrue statement of a material fact or
omits to state any material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein not misleading, in the light of the circumstance
under which they are or were made. The Company is not currently
contemplating to amend or restate any of the financial statements
(including without limitation, any notes or any letter of the
independent accountants of the Company with respect thereto)
included in the SEC Documents (the “
Financial Statements
”), nor is the
Company currently aware of facts or circumstances which would
require the Company to amend or restate any of the Financial
Statements, in each case, in order for any of the Financials
Statements to be in compliance with GAAP and the rules and
regulations of the SEC. The Company has not been informed by its
independent accountants that they recommend that the Company amend
or restate any of the Financial Statements or that there is any
need for the Company to amend or restate any of the Financial
Statements.
(k)
Transactions
With Affiliates
. None of the
officers, directors, employees or affiliates of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries is presently a party to any transaction with
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than for ordinary
course services as employees, officers or directors), including any
contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the
furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or
personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or
from any such officer, director, employee or affiliate or, to the
knowledge of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any
corporation, partnership, trust or other Person in which any such
officer, director, or employee has a substantial interest or is an
employee, officer, director, trustee, affiliate or
partner.
(l)
Equity
Capitalization
. As of the date
hereof, the authorized capital stock of the Company consists of (i)
160,000,000 shares of Common Stock, of which, 67,025,419 were
issued and outstanding on October 31, 2017, and
10,282,545
shares are
reserved for issuance pursuant to securities (other than the
Warrants) exercisable or exchangeable for, or convertible into,
shares of Common Stock and (ii) 2,000,000 shares of preferred
stock, of which 761,429
shares of non-voting convertible
Series A Preferred Stock are authorized and none of which are
issued and outstanding, 454,546 shares of non-voting convertible
Series B Preferred Stock are authorized and none of which are
issued and outstanding, 150,000 shares of non-voting convertible
Series C-1 Preferred Stock are authorized and none of which are
issued and outstanding, 150,000 shares of non-voting convertible
Series C-2 Preferred Stock are authorized and none of which are
issued and outstanding, 200,000 shares of non-voting convertible
Series C-3 Preferred Stock are authorized and 104,000 shares of
which are issued and outstanding, (viii) 73,962 shares of
non-voting convertible Series D Preferred Stock are authorized and
73,962 shares of which are issued and outstanding, (ix) 89,623
shares of non-voting convertible Series E Preferred Stock are
authorized and 89,623 shares of which are issued and
outstanding, on October 31, 2017, and (x) 5,000 shares of Series F
Convertible Stock are authorized and none of which are issued and
outstanding. No shares of Common Stock or Preferred Stock are
held in treasury. All of such outstanding shares
are duly authorized and have been, or upon issuance will be,
validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable. An
aggregate of 2,959,934 shares of the Company’s issued and
outstanding Common Stock on the date hereof are as of the date
hereof owned by Persons who are “affiliates” (as
defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act and calculated based on the
assumption that only officers, directors and holders of at least
10% of the Company’s issued and outstanding Common Stock are
“affiliates” without conceding that any such Persons
are “affiliates” for purposes of federal securities
laws) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. To the
Company’s knowledge, as of the date hereof, no Person owns
10% or more of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of
Common Stock (calculated based on the assumption that all
Convertible Securities, whether or not presently exercisable or
convertible, have been fully exercised or converted (as
the case may be) taking account of any limitations on exercise or
conversion (including “blockers”) contained therein
without conceding that such identified Person is a 10% stockholder
for purposes of federal securities laws). Except as disclosed in
the Disclosure Letter: (i) none of the
Company’s or any Subsidiary’s capital stock is subject
to preemptive rights or any other similar rights or any liens or
encumbrances suffered or permitted by the Company or any
Subsidiary; (ii) there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip,
rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character
whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights convertible into,
or exercisable or exchangeable for, any capital stock of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or contracts, commitments,
understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is or may become bound to issue additional capital
stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or options,
warrants, scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of
any character whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights
convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, any capital
stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (iii) there are no
outstanding debt securities, notes, credit agreements, credit
facilities or other agreements, documents or instruments evidencing
Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound; (iv)
there are no financing statements securing obligations in any
amounts filed in connection with the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries; (v) there are no agreements or arrangements under
which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is obligated to
register the sale of any of their securities under the 1933 Act;
(vi) there are no outstanding securities or instruments of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries which contain any redemption or
similar provisions, and there are no contracts, commitments,
understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is or may become bound to redeem a security of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (vii) there are no securities
or instruments containing anti-dilution or similar provisions that
will be triggered by the issuance of the Securities; (viii) neither
the Company nor any Subsidiary has any stock appreciation rights or
“phantom stock” plans or agreements or any similar plan
or agreement; and (ix) neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries have any liabilities or obligations required to be
disclosed in the SEC Documents which are not so disclosed in the
SEC Documents, other than those incurred in the ordinary course of
the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ respective
businesses and which, individually or in the aggregate, do not or
could not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has
furnished to each Backstop Investor true, correct and complete
copies of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as
amended and as in effect on the date hereof (the
“
Certificate of
Incorporation
”), and the Company’s bylaws, as
amended and as in effect on the date hereof (the
“
Bylaws
”), and
the terms of all securities convertible into, or exercisable or
exchangeable for, shares of Common Stock and the material rights of
the holders thereof in respect thereto that have not been disclosed
in the SEC Documents.
(m)
Acknowledgement
Regarding Backstop Investors’ Trading
Activity
. It is understood
and acknowledged by the Company that (i) following the public
disclosure of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents, in accordance with the terms thereof, no Backstop
Investor has been asked by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
to agree, nor has any Backstop Investor agreed with the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries, to desist from effecting any transactions
in or with respect to (including, without limitation, purchasing or
selling, long and/or short) any securities of the Company, or
“derivative” securities based on securities issued by
the Company or to hold any of the Securities for any specified
term; (ii) each Backstop Investor, and counterparties in
“derivative” transactions to which such Backstop
Investor is a party, directly or indirectly, presently may have a
“short” position in the Common Stock which was
established prior to such Backstop Investor’s knowledge of
the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, and
(iii) no Backstop Investor shall be deemed to have any affiliation
with or control over any arm’s length counterparty in any
“derivative” transaction. The Company further
understands and acknowledges that following the public disclosure
of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents
pursuant to the 8-K Filings (as defined below) each Backstop
Investor may engage in hedging and/or trading activities at various
times during the period that the Securities are outstanding,
including, without limitation, during the periods that the value
and/or number of the Backstop Conversion Shares, as applicable,
deliverable with respect to the Securities are being determined and
(b) such hedging and/or trading activities, if any, can reduce the
value of the existing stockholders’ equity interest in the
Company both at and after the time the hedging and/or trading
activities are being conducted. The Company acknowledges that such
aforementioned hedging and/or trading activities do not constitute
a breach of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or any
of the documents executed in connection herewith or
therewith.
(n)
U.S.
Real Property Holding Corporation
. Neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is, or has ever been, and so
long as any of the Securities are held by the Backstop Investors,
shall become, a U.S. real property holding corporation within the
meaning of Section 897 of the Code, and the Company and each
Subsidiary shall so certify upon the Backstop Investors’
request.
(o)
Transfer Taxes
. On the Closing
Date, all stock transfer or other taxes (other than income or
similar taxes) which are required to be paid in connection with the
issuance, sale and transfer of the Securities to be sold or issued,
now or in the future, to the Backstop Investors hereunder will be,
or will have been, fully paid or provided for by the Company, and
all laws imposing such taxes will be or will have been complied
with.
(p)
No Additional Agreements
. The
Company does not have any agreement or understanding with any
Backstop Investor with respect to the transactions contemplated by
the Transaction Documents other than as specified in the
Transaction Documents.
(q)
Disclosure
.
The Company confirms that neither it nor any other Person acting on
its behalf has provided any Backstop Investor or its agents or
counsel with any information that constitutes or could reasonably
be expected to constitute material, non-public information
concerning the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, other than the
existence of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and
the other Transaction Documents. The Company understands and
confirms that the Backstop Investors will rely on the foregoing
representations in effecting transactions in securities of the
Company. All disclosure provided to the Backstop Investors
regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries, their businesses and
the transactions contemplated hereby, including the schedules to
this Agreement, furnished by or on behalf of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries is true and correct and does not contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material
fact necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. Each press release issued by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries during the twelve (12) months preceding the date of
this Agreement did not at the time of release contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which
they are made, not misleading. No event or circumstance has
occurred or information exists with respect to the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries or its or their business, properties,
liabilities, prospects, operations (including results thereof) or
conditions (financial or otherwise), which, under applicable law,
rule or regulation, requires public disclosure at or before the
date hereof or announcement by the Company but which has not been
so publicly announced or disclosed. The Company acknowledges and
agrees that no Backstop Investor makes or has made any
representations or warranties with respect to the transactions
contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in
Section 3.
(r)
Private Placement
.
No registration under the 1933 Act is required for the offer and
sale of the Backstop Warrants, the Backstop Shares, the Backstop
Conversion Shares or the Backstop Warrant Shares issuable upon
exercise or conversion thereof, as applicable, by the Company to
any Backstop Investor as contemplated hereby.
(a)
Best
Efforts
. The Company shall
use its best efforts to timely satisfy each of the conditions to be
satisfied by it as provided in Section 1.
(b)
Reporting
Status
. During the period
(the “
Reporting
Period
”) commencing on the Closing Date and ending on
the date on which the Backstop Investors shall have sold all of the
Securities or any capital stock of the Company issued or issuable
with respect to the Backstop Conversion Shares or the Backstop
Warrant Shares or any other capital stock of the Company owned by
them, including, without limitation, (1) as a result of any stock
split, stock dividend, recapitalization, exchange or similar event
or otherwise and (2) shares of capital stock of the Company into
which the shares of Common Stock are converted, exercised or
exchanged the Backstop Warrants or otherwise issuable pursuant to
the terms of the Backstop Warrants (collectively, the
“
Covered
Securities
”), the Company shall timely file all
reports required to be filed with the SEC pursuant to the 1934 Act,
and the Company shall not terminate its status as an issuer
required to file reports under the 1934 Act even if the 1934 Act or
the rules and regulations thereunder would no longer require or
otherwise permit such termination.
(c)
Use
of Proceeds
. The Company will
use the proceeds resulting from the issuance of the Backstop Shares
for general corporate purposes.
(d)
Financial
Information
. The Company
agrees to send the following to each holder of the Securities (an
“
Investor
”)
during the Reporting Period (i) unless the following are filed with
the SEC through EDGAR and are available to the public through the
EDGAR system, within one (1) Business Day after the filing thereof
with the SEC, a copy of its Annual Reports on Form 10-K and
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, any interim reports or any
consolidated balance sheets, income statements, stockholders’
equity statements and/or cash flow statements for any period other
than annual, any Current Reports on Form 8-K and any registration
statements (other than on Form S-8) or amendments filed pursuant to
the 1933 Act, (ii) on the same day as the release thereof,
facsimile copies of all press releases issued by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries and (iii) copies of any notices and other
information made available or given to the stockholders of the
Company generally, contemporaneously with the making available or
giving thereof to the stockholders.
(e)
Listing
.
The Company shall promptly secure the listing or designation for
quotation (as the case may be) of all of the Covered Securities
upon each national securities exchange and automated quotation
system, if any, upon which the Common Stock is then listed or
designated for quotation (as the case may be) (subject to official
notice of issuance) and shall maintain such listing or designation
for quotation (as the case may be) of all Covered Securities from
time to time issuable under the terms of the Transaction Documents
on a national securities exchange or automated quotation system.
The Company shall maintain the Common Stock’s listing or
designation for quotation (as the case may be) on one of the
Principal Market, The New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Capital
Market, the Nasdaq Global Market or the Nasdaq Global Select Market
(each, an “
Eligible
Market
”). Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries shall take any action which could be reasonably
expected to result in the delisting or suspension of the Common
Stock on an Eligible Market. The Company shall pay all fees and
expenses in connection with satisfying its obligations under this
Section 5(e).
(f)
Fees
.
The Company shall reimburse the Backstop Investors for all
reasonable costs and expenses incurred by it or its affiliates in
connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents (including, without limitation, as applicable, all
reasonable legal fees and disbursements of counsel to the Backstop
Investors, any other reasonable fees and expenses in connection
with the structuring, documentation and implementation of the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and due
diligence and regulatory filings in connection therewith) (the
“
Expense
Amount
”) and the Company shall pay such Expense Amount
within 5 days following written notice by the Backstop
Investors.
(g)
Disclosure
of Transactions and Other Material Information
.
The Company shall, on or before 8:30 a.m.,
New York time, on the first Trading Day after the date of this
Agreement,
file a Current Report on Form 8-K describing all
the material terms of the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents in the form required by the 1934 Act and
attaching all the material Transaction Documents (including,
without limitation, this Agreement (and all schedules to this
Agreement), the form of the Backstop Warrants (including all
attachments, the “
8-K
Filing
”). The Backstop Investors shall have reasonable
opportunity to review and comment on the 8-K Filing prior to the
filing thereof. From and after the filing of the 8-K Filing, the
Company shall have disclosed all material, non-public information
(if any) provided to the Backstop Investors by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors,
employees or agents in connection with the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Company shall not,
and the Company shall cause the Subsidiary and each of its and
their respective officers, directors, employees and agents not to,
provide any Backstop Investor with any material, non-public
information regarding the Company or the Subsidiary from and after
the 8-K Filing without the express prior written consent of the
Backstop Investors. The Company understands and confirms that each
Backstop Investor shall be relying on the foregoing covenant and
agreement in effecting transactions in securities of the Company,
and based on such covenant and agreement, unless otherwise
expressly agreed in writing by such Backstop Investor: (i) such
Backstop Investor does not have any obligation of confidentiality
with respect to any information that the Company provides to such
Backstop Investor; and (ii) such Backstop Investor shall not be
deemed to be in breach of any duty to the Company and/or to have
misappropriated any non-public information of the Company, if such
Backstop Investor engages in transactions of securities of the
Company, including, without limitation, any hedging transactions,
short sales and/or any derivative transactions based on securities
of the Company while in possession of such material non-public
information. In the event of a breach of any of the foregoing
covenants or any of the covenants or agreements contained in the
Transaction Documents by the Company, the Subsidiary, or any of its
or their respective officers, directors, employees and agents (as
determined in the reasonable good faith judgment of each Backstop
Investor), in addition to any other remedy provided herein or in
the Transaction Documents, each Backstop Investor shall have the
right to make a public disclosure, in the form of a press release,
public advertisement or otherwise, of such breach or such material,
non-public information, as applicable, without the prior approval
by the Company, the Subsidiary, or any of its or their respective
officers, directors, employees or agents. No Backstop Investor
shall have any liability to the Company, any of its Subsidiaries,
or any of its or their respective officers, directors, employees,
stockholders or agents, for any such disclosure. Subject to the
foregoing, neither the Company, its Subsidiaries nor any Backstop
Investor shall issue any press releases or any other public
statements with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby;
provided, however, the Company shall be entitled, without the prior
approval of any Backstop Investor, to make any press release or
other public disclosure with respect to such transactions (i) in
substantial conformity with the 8-K Filing and contemporaneously
therewith and (ii) as is required by applicable law and regulations
(provided that in the case of clause (i) each Backstop Investor
shall be consulted by the Company in connection with any such press
release or other public disclosure prior to its release). Without
the prior written consent of the applicable Backstop Investor, the
Company shall not (and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries and
affiliates to not) disclose the name of such Backstop Investor in
any filing, announcement, release or otherwise.
(h)
Reservation
of Shares
. During the period
commencing on the Closing Date and ending on the date no Backstop
Shares or Backstop Warrants remain outstanding, the Company shall
take all actions reasonably necessary (including, without
limitation increasing any such reserve, as necessary, to at all
times have authorized, and reserved for the purpose of issuance, no
less than (i) 125% of the maximum number of Backstop Conversion
Shares (determined without taking into account any limitations on
the conversion of the Backstop Shares set forth therein), and (ii)
the maximum number of Backstop Warrant Shares issuable upon
exercise of the Backstop Warrants (without taking into account any
limitations on the exercise of the Backstop Warrants set forth
therein).
(i)
Conduct
of Business
. The business of
the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not be conducted in
violation of any law, ordinance or regulation of any Governmental
Entity, except where such violations would not result, either
individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(j)
Variable Securities
. During the
period commencing on the date hereof and ending on the later of (x)
the date the Backstop Shares are no longer outstanding and (y) the
date the Backstop Warrants are no longer outstanding, the Company
and each Subsidiary shall be prohibited from effecting or entering
into an agreement to effect any Subsequent Placement involving a
Variable Rate Transaction other than at-the-market offerings
through a registered broker-dealer or offerings of Preferred
Shares. “
Variable Rate
Transaction
” means a transaction, on terms more
favorable to an investor therein than the terms of this Agreement
and the Certificate of Designations, in which the Company or any
Subsidiary (i) issues or sells any Convertible Securities either
(A) at a conversion, exercise or exchange rate or other price that
is based upon and/or varies with the trading prices of or
quotations for the shares of Common Stock at any time after the
initial issuance of such Convertible Securities, or (B) with a
conversion, exercise or exchange price that is subject to being
reset at some future date after the initial issuance of such
Convertible Securities or upon the occurrence of specified or
contingent events directly or indirectly related to the business of
the Company or the market for the Common Stock, other than pursuant
to a customary “weighted average” anti-dilution
provision or (ii) enters into any agreement (other than an
at-the-market offering through a registered broker-dealer) whereby
the Company or any Subsidiary may sell securities at a future
determined price (other than standard and customary
“preemptive” or “participation” rights).
Each Backstop Investor shall be entitled to obtain injunctive
relief against the Company and its Subsidiaries to preclude any
such issuance, which remedy shall be in addition to any right to
collect damages.
(k)
Stockholder
Approval
. (A) To the extent
the exercise or conversion of the Backstop Shares or the Backstop
Warrants, as applicable, would require the approval or consent of
the stockholders of the Company
(in each case, without giving effect
to any limitations on exercise or
“blockers”)
pursuant to the
rules and regulations of the Principal Market, the Company shall
provide each stockholder entitled to vote at either (x) the next
annual meeting of stockholders of the Company or (y) a special
meeting of stockholders of the Company (the “
Stockholder Meeting
”), which shall
be promptly called and held not later than
June 30, 2018
(the “
Stockholder Meeting Deadline
”), a
proxy statement, substantially in a form which shall have been
previously reviewed by counsel to the Backstop Investors, at the
expense of the Company but in any event such expense not to exceed
$5,000 without the prior written approval of the Company;
soliciting each such stockholder’s affirmative vote at the
Stockholder Meeting for approval of resolutions
(“
Stockholder
Resolutions
”) providing for the Company’s
issuance of all of the Securities as described in the Transaction
Documents in accordance with applicable law and the rules and
regulations of the Principal Market (such affirmative approval
being referred to herein as the “
Stockholder Approval
”, and the
date such Stockholder Approval is obtained, the “
Stockholder Approval Date
”), and
the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to solicit its
stockholders’ approval of such resolutions and to cause the
Board of Directors of the Company to recommend to the stockholders
that they approve such resolutions. The Company shall be obligated
to seek to obtain the Stockholder Approval by the Stockholder
Meeting Deadline. If, despite the Company’s reasonable best
efforts the Stockholder Approval is not obtained on or prior to the
Stockholder Meeting Deadline, the Company shall cause an additional
Stockholder Meeting to be held once in each of the three subsequent
calendar quarters thereafter until such Stockholder Approval is
obtained. If, despite the Company’s reasonable best efforts
the Stockholder Approval is not obtained after such subsequent
stockholder meetings, the Company shall cause an additional
Stockholder Meeting to be held semi-annually thereafter until such
Stockholder Approval is obtained. (B) The Company shall use its
best efforts to obtain any waiver, consent or approval, in each
case, in a form acceptable to the Backstop Investor, of the holders
of the Company’s Junior Securities (as defined in the
Certificate of Designations) authorizing the issuance of the Series
F Preferred Stock as a series of preferred stock senior in rank to
such class of Junior Securities.
(l)
Passive Foreign Investment
Company
. The Company shall conduct its business, and shall
cause its Subsidiaries to conduct their respective businesses, in
such a manner as will ensure that the Company and its Subsidiaries
will not be deemed to constitute a passive foreign investment
company within the meaning of Section 1297 of the
Code.
(m)
Corporate Existence
. So long as
any Backstop Investor beneficially owns any Preferred Shares or
Backstop Warrants, the Company shall not be party to any
Fundamental Transaction (as defined in the Certificate of
Designations) unless the Company is in compliance with the
applicable provisions governing Fundamental Transactions set forth
in the Certificate of Designations.
(n)
Conversion and Exercise
Procedures.
Each of the form of Exercise Notice included in
the Backstop Warrants and the form of Conversion Notice included in
the Purchase Agreement set forth the totality of the procedures
required of any Backstop Investor in order to exercise the Backstop
Warrants or convert the Preferred Shares. No additional legal
opinion, other information or instructions shall be required of any
Backstop Investor to exercise their Backstop Warrants or convert
their Preferred Shares. The Company shall honor exercises of the
Backstop Warrants and conversions of the Preferred Shares and shall
deliver the Backstop Conversion Shares and Backstop Warrant Shares
in accordance with the terms, conditions and time periods set forth
in the Purchase Agreement, Certificate of Incorporation, and
Backstop Warrants.
6.
REGISTER;
TRANSFER AGENT INSTRUCTIONS.
(a)
Register
.
The Company shall maintain at its principal executive offices (or
such other office or agency of the Company as it may designate by
notice to each holder of Securities), a register for the Backstop
Warrants in which the Company shall record the name and address of
the Person in whose name the Backstop Warrants have been issued
(including the name and address of each transferee), and the number
of Backstop Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Backstop
Warrants held by such Person. The Company shall keep the register
open and available at all times during business hours for
inspection of the Backstop Investors or their respective legal
representatives.
(b)
Transfer Agent
Instructions
. The Company shall
issue irrevocable instructions to the Transfer Agent in the form
previously provided to the Company (the “
Irrevocable Transfer Agent
Instructions
”) to issue certificates or credit shares
to the applicable balance accounts at DTC, registered in the name
of the applicable Backstop Investor or its respective nominee(s),
for the Backstop Conversion Shares and the Backstop Warrant Shares
(in the case of Backstop Warrant Shares, with respect to cashless
exercise(s) or exercises when there is an effective registration
statement covering such Backstop Warrant Shares and the Backstop
Conversion Shares) in such amounts as specified from time to time
by the applicable Backstop Investor to the Company upon conversion
of the Backstop Shares or other issuance pursuant to the terms of
the Backstop Shares or the exercise of the Backstop Warrants (as
the case may be). The Company represents and warrants that no
instruction other than the Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions
referred to in this Section 6(b) will be given by the Company to
the Transfer Agent with respect to the Backstop Conversion Shares
and the Backstop Warrants Shares, and shall otherwise be freely
transferable on the books and records of the Company. If a Backstop
Investor effects a sale, assignment or transfer of the Securities,
the Company shall permit the transfer and, with respect to the
Backstop Conversion Shares and Backstop Warrant Shares shall also
promptly instruct the Transfer Agent to issue one or more
certificates or credit shares to the applicable balance accounts at
DTC in such name and in such denominations as specified by such
Backstop Investor to effect such sale, transfer or assignment. The
Company acknowledges that a breach by it of its obligations
hereunder will cause irreparable harm to the applicable Backstop
Investor. Accordingly, the Company acknowledges that the remedy at
law for a breach of its obligations under this Section 6(b) will be
inadequate and agrees, in the event of a breach or threatened
breach by the Company of the provisions of this Section 6(b), that
the applicable Backstop Investor shall be entitled, in addition to
all other available remedies, to an order and/or injunction
restraining any breach and requiring immediate issuance and
transfer, without the necessity of showing economic loss and
without any bond or other security being required. The Company
shall cause its counsel to issue the legal opinion referred to in
the Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions to the Transfer Agent
to the extent required or requested by the Transfer Agent. Any fees
(with respect to the Transfer Agent, counsel to the Company or
otherwise) associated with the issuance of such opinion shall be
borne by the Company.
(a)
Governing
Law; Jurisdiction; Jury Trial
. All questions
concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and
interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by the internal
laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice
of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State
of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the
application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State
of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in The City of
New York, Borough of Manhattan, for the adjudication of any dispute
hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction
contemplated hereby or discussed herein, and hereby irrevocably
waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding,
any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of
any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is brought in
an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or
proceeding is improper. Each party hereby irrevocably waives
personal service of process and consents to process being served in
any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof to
such party at the address for such notices to it under this
Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and
sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained
herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve
process in any manner permitted by law. EACH PARTY HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO, AND AGREES NOT TO
REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER
OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY
TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
(b)
Counterparts
.
This Agreement may be executed in two or more identical
counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same
agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been
signed by each party and delivered to the other party. In the event
that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by an
e-mail which contains a portable document format (.pdf) file of an
executed signature page, such signature page 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 signature page were an original thereof.
(c)
Headings;
Gender
. The headings of
this Agreement are for convenience of reference and shall not form
part of, or affect the interpretation of, this Agreement. Unless
the context clearly indicates otherwise, each pronoun herein shall
be deemed to include the masculine, feminine, neuter, singular and
plural forms thereof. The terms “including,”
“includes,” “include” and words of like
import shall be construed broadly as if followed by the words
“without limitation.” The terms “herein,”
“hereunder,” “hereof” and words of like
import refer to this entire Agreement instead of just the provision
in which they are found.
(d)
Severability
.
If any provision of this Agreement is prohibited by law or
otherwise determined to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of
competent jurisdiction, the provision that would otherwise be
prohibited, invalid or unenforceable shall be deemed amended to
apply to the broadest extent that it would be valid and
enforceable, and the invalidity or unenforceability of such
provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions
of this Agreement so long as this Agreement as so modified
continues to express, without material change, the original
intentions of the parties as to the subject matter hereof and the
prohibited nature, invalidity or unenforceability of the
provision(s) in question does not substantially impair the
respective expectations or reciprocal obligations of the parties or
the practical realization of the benefits that would otherwise be
conferred upon the parties. The parties will endeavor in good faith
negotiations to replace the prohibited, invalid or unenforceable
provision(s) with a valid provision(s), the effect of which comes
as close as possible to that of the prohibited, invalid or
unenforceable provision(s). Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in this Agreement or any other Transaction
Document (and without implication that the following is required or
applicable), it is the intention of the parties that in no event
shall amounts and value paid by the Company and/or any of its
Subsidiaries (as the case may be), or payable to or received by any
Backstop Investor, under the Transaction Documents (including
without limitation, any amounts that would be characterized as
“interest” under applicable law) exceed amounts
permitted under any applicable law. Accordingly, if any obligation
to pay, payment made to any Backstop Investor, or collection by any
Backstop Investor pursuant the Transaction Documents is finally
judicially determined to be contrary to any such applicable law,
such obligation to pay, payment or collection shall be deemed to
have been made by mutual mistake of such Backstop Investor, the
Company and its Subsidiaries and such amount shall be deemed to
have been adjusted with retroactive effect to the maximum amount or
rate of interest, as the case may be, as would not be so prohibited
by the applicable law. Such adjustment shall be effected, to the
extent necessary, by reducing or refunding, at the option of the
Backstop Investors, the amount of interest or any other amounts
which would constitute unlawful amounts required to be paid or
actually paid to the Backstop Investors under the Transaction
Documents. For greater certainty, to the extent that any interest,
charges, fees, expenses or other amounts required to be paid to or
received by any Backstop Investor under any of the Transaction
Documents or related thereto are held to be within the meaning of
“interest” or another applicable term to otherwise be
violative of applicable law, such amounts shall be pro-rated over
the period of time to which they relate.
(e)
Entire
Agreement; Amendments
. This Agreement,
the other Transaction Documents and the schedules and exhibits
attached hereto and thereto and the instruments referenced herein
and therein supersede all other prior oral or written agreements
between the Backstop Investors, the Company, its Subsidiaries,
their affiliates and Persons acting on their behalf solely with
respect to the matters contained herein and therein, and this
Agreement, the other Transaction Documents, the schedules and
exhibits attached hereto and thereto and the instruments referenced
herein and therein contain the entire understanding of the parties
solely with respect to the matters covered herein and therein;
provided, however, nothing contained in this Agreement or any other
Transaction Document shall (or shall be deemed to) (i) have any
effect on any agreements any Backstop Investor has entered into
with, or any instruments such Backstop Investor has received from,
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries prior to the date hereof
with respect to any prior investment made by such Backstop Investor
in the Company or (ii) waive, alter, modify or amend in any respect
any obligations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any
rights of or benefits to such Backstop Investor or any other
Person, in any agreement entered into prior to the date hereof
between or among the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries and
such Backstop Investor, or any instruments such Backstop Investor
received from the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries prior to
the date hereof, and all such agreements and instruments shall
continue in full force and effect. Except as specifically set forth
herein or therein, neither the Company nor any Backstop Investor
makes any representation, warranty, covenant or undertaking with
respect to such matters. For clarification purposes, the Recitals
are part of this Agreement. No provision of this Agreement may be
amended other than by an instrument in writing signed by the
Company and the Backstop Investors. No waiver shall be effective
unless it is in writing and signed by an authorized representative
of the waiving party. Other than the Transaction Documents, the
Company has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreements with
any Backstop Investor relating to the terms or conditions of the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents except as
set forth in the Transaction Documents. Without limiting the
foregoing, the Company confirms that, except as set forth in this
Agreement or the other Transaction Documents, no Backstop Investor
has made any commitment or promise or has any other obligation to
provide any financing to the Company, any Subsidiary or otherwise.
As a material inducement for the Backstop Investors to enter into
this Agreement, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that
(i) no due diligence or other investigation or inquiry conducted by
any Backstop Investor, any of its advisors or any of its
representatives shall affect such Backstop Investor’s right
to rely on, or shall modify or qualify in any manner or be an
exception to any of, the Company’s representations and
warranties contained in this Agreement or any other Transaction
Document and (ii) unless a provision of this Agreement or any other
Transaction Document is expressly preceded by the phrase
“except as disclosed in the SEC Documents,” nothing
contained in any of the SEC Documents shall affect any Backstop
Investor’s right to rely on, or shall modify or qualify in
any manner or be an exception to any of, the Company’s
representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any
other Transaction Document.
(f)
Notices
.
Any notices, consents, waivers or other communications required or
permitted to be given under the terms of this Agreement must be in
writing and will be deemed to have been delivered: (i) upon
receipt, when delivered personally; (ii) upon receipt, when sent by
facsimile (provided confirmation of transmission is mechanically or
electronically generated and kept on file by the sending party); or
(iii) one (1) Business Day (as defined below) after deposit with an
overnight courier service with next day delivery specified, in each
case, properly addressed to the party to receive the same. The
addresses and facsimile numbers for such communications shall
be
If to
the Company:
Cormedix
Inc.
400
Connell Drive, 5th Floor
Suite
5000
Berkeley Heights,
NJ 07922
Telephone: (908)
517-95000
Facsimile: (908)
429-4307
Attention: Chief
Executive Officer
With a
copy (for informational purposes only) to:
Wyrick
Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP
4101
Lake Boone Trail, Suite 300
Raleigh,
NC 27607
Telephone:
(919) 781-4000
Facsimile:
(919) 781-4865
Attention:
Alexander M. Donaldson, Esq.
If to
the Transfer Agent:
VStock
Transfer, LLC
18
Lafayette Place
Woodmere,
NY 11598
Telephone:
(212) 828-8436
Facsimile:
(646) 536-3179
Attention:
Yoel Goldfeder
If to
any Backstop Investor, to:
c/o
Elliott Management Corporation
40 West
57th Street
New
York, NY 10019
Telephone: (212)
974-6000
Facsimile: (212)
478-2476
Attention: Elliot
Greenberg
or to
such other address and/or facsimile number and/or to the attention
of such other Person as the recipient party has specified by
written notice given to each other party five (5) days prior to the
effectiveness of such change. Written confirmation of receipt (A)
given by the recipient of such notice, consent, waiver or other
communication, (B) mechanically or electronically generated by the
sender’s facsimile machine containing the time, date,
recipient facsimile number and an image of the first page of such
transmission or (C) provided by an overnight courier service shall
be rebuttable evidence of personal service, receipt by facsimile or
receipt from an overnight courier service in accordance with clause
(i), (ii) or (iii) above, respectively. “
Business Day
” means any day other
than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in
New York, New York are authorized or required by law to remain
closed.
(g)
Successors
and Assigns
. This Agreement
shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and
their respective successors and permitted assigns, including any
assignee of any of the Securities. The Company shall not assign
this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the
prior written consent of each Backstop Investor, including, without
limitation, by way of a Fundamental Transaction (as defined in the
Backstop Warrants) (unless the Company is in compliance with the
applicable provisions governing Fundamental Transactions set forth
in the Backstop Warrants and the Certificate of Designations).
Provided a Backstop Investor provides the Company with written
notice thereof, such Backstop Investor may assign some or all of
its rights hereunder in connection with any transfer of any of its
Securities without the consent of the Company, in which event such
assignee shall be deemed to be a Backstop Investor hereunder with
respect to such assigned rights, provided such assignment is in
compliance with applicable securities laws.
(h)
No
Third Party Beneficiaries
. This Agreement is
intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective
permitted successors and assigns, and is not for the benefit of,
nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person,
other than the Indemnitees referred to in Section
7(k).
(i)
Survival
.
The representations, warranties, agreements and covenants shall
survive the Closing. Each Backstop Investor shall be responsible
only for its own representations, warranties, agreements and
covenants hereunder.
(j)
Further
Assurances
. Each party shall
do and perform, or cause to be done and performed, all such further
acts and things, and shall execute and deliver all such other
agreements, certificates, instruments and documents, as any other
party may reasonably request in order to carry out the intent and
accomplish the purposes of this Agreement and the consummation of
the transactions contemplated hereby.
(k)
Indemnification.
(i)
In consideration of
each Backstop Investor’s execution and delivery of the
Transaction Documents to which it is a party and acquiring the
Securities thereunder and in addition to all of the Company’s
other obligations under the Transaction Documents, the Company
shall defend, protect, indemnify and hold harmless each Backstop
Investor and each holder of any Securities and all of their
stockholders, partners, members, officers, directors, employees and
direct or indirect investors and any of the foregoing
Persons’ agents or other representatives (including, without
limitation, those retained in connection with the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement) (collectively, the
“
Indemnitees
”)
from and against any and all actions, causes of action, suits,
claims, losses, costs, penalties, fees, liabilities and damages,
and expenses in connection therewith (irrespective of whether any
such Indemnitee is a party to the action for which indemnification
hereunder is sought), and including reasonable attorneys’
fees and disbursements (the “
Indemnified Liabilities
”),
incurred by any Indemnitee as a result of, or arising out of, or
relating to (a) any misrepresentation or breach of any
representation or warranty made by the Company or any Subsidiary in
any of the Transaction Documents, (b) any breach of any covenant,
agreement or obligation of the Company or any Subsidiary contained
in any of the Transaction Documents, (c) any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained, or
incorporated by reference, in a registration statement or any
amendment thereto or any omission or alleged omission to state
therein, or in any document incorporated by reference therein, a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
the statements therein not misleading, (d) any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained, or
incorporated by reference, in any prospectus, any issuer free
writing prospectus, or in any amendment thereof or supplement
thereto, or in any “issuer information” (as defined in
Rule 433 under the 1933 Act) of the Company, which “issuer
information” is required to be, or is, filed with the SEC or
otherwise contained in any free writing prospectus, or any
amendment or supplement thereto, or any omission or alleged
omission to state therein, or in any document incorporated by
reference therein, a 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, (e) any
violation of United States federal or state securities laws or the
rules and regulations of the Principal Market or any Eligible
Market in connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, the Backstop Warrants and the Backstop Shares by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors
or employees or (f) any cause of action, suit or claim brought or
made against such Indemnitee by a third party (including for these
purposes a derivative action brought on behalf of the Company or
any Subsidiary) and arising out of or resulting from (i) the
execution, delivery, performance or enforcement of any of the
Transaction Documents, (ii) any transaction financed or to be
financed in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, with the
proceeds of the issuance of the Securities, (iii) any disclosure
properly made by any Backstop Investor pursuant to Section 5(g), or
(iv) the status of any Backstop Investor or holder of the
Securities as an investor in the Company pursuant to the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. To the
extent that the foregoing undertaking by the Company may be
unenforceable for any reason, the Company shall make the maximum
contribution to the payment and satisfaction of each of the
Indemnified Liabilities which is permissible under applicable
law.
(ii)
Promptly
after receipt by an Indemnitee under this Section 7(k) of notice of
the commencement of any action or proceeding (including any
governmental action or proceeding) involving an Indemnified
Liability, such Indemnitee shall, if a claim in respect thereof is
to be made against the Company under this Section 7(k), deliver to
the Company a written notice of the commencement thereof, and the
Company shall have the right to participate in, and, to the extent
the Company so desires, to assume control of the defense thereof
with counsel mutually satisfactory to the Company and the
Indemnitee; provided, however, that an Indemnitee shall have the
right to retain its own counsel with the fees and expenses of such
counsel to be paid by the Company if: (i) the Company has agreed in
writing to pay such fees and expenses; (ii) the Company shall have
failed promptly to assume the defense of such Indemnified Liability
and to employ counsel reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnitee in
any such Indemnified Liability; or (iii) the named parties to any
such Indemnified Liability (including any impleaded parties)
include both such Indemnitee and the Company, and such Indemnitee
shall have been advised by counsel that a conflict of interest is
likely to exist if the same counsel were to represent such
Indemnitee and the Company (in which case, if such Indemnitee
notifies the Company in writing that it elects to employ separate
counsel at the expense of the Company, then the Company shall not
have the right to assume the defense thereof and such counsel shall
be at the expense of the Company), provided further, that in the
case of clause (iii) above the Company shall not be responsible for
the reasonable fees and expenses of more than one (1) separate
legal counsel for such Indemnitee. The Indemnitee shall reasonably
cooperate with the Company in connection with any negotiation or
defense of any such action or Indemnified Liability by the Company
and shall furnish to the Company all information reasonably
available to the Indemnitee which relates to such action or
Indemnified Liability. The Company shall keep the Indemnitee
reasonably apprised at all times as to the status of the defense or
any settlement negotiations with respect thereto. The Company shall
not be liable for any settlement of any action, claim or proceeding
effected without its prior written consent, provided, however, that
the Company shall not unreasonably withhold, delay or condition its
consent. The Company shall not, without the prior written consent
of the Indemnitee, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into
any settlement or other compromise which does not include as an
unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff
to such Indemnitee of a release from all liability in respect to
such Indemnified Liability or litigation, and such settlement shall
not include any admission as to fault on the part of the
Indemnitee. Following indemnification as provided for hereunder,
the Company shall be subrogated to all rights of the Indemnitee
with respect to all third parties, firms or corporations relating
to the matter for which indemnification has been made. The failure
to deliver written notice to the Company within a reasonable time
of the commencement of any such action shall not relieve the
Company of any liability to the Indemnitee under this Section 7(k),
except to the extent that the Company is materially and adversely
prejudiced in its ability to defend such action.
(iii)
The
indemnification required by this Section 7(k) shall be made by
periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the
investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or
Indemnified Liabilities are incurred.
(iv)
The
indemnity agreement contained herein shall be in addition to (A)
any cause of action or similar right of the Indemnitee against the
Company or others, and (B) any liabilities the Company may be
subject to pursuant to the law.
(l)
Construction
.
The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the
language chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and
no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party.
No specific representation or warranty shall limit the generality
or applicability of a more general representation or warranty. Each
and every reference to share prices, shares of Common Stock and any
other numbers in this Agreement that relate to the Common Stock
shall be automatically adjusted for any stock splits, stock
dividends, stock combinations, recapitalizations or other similar
transactions that occur with respect to the Common Stock after the
date of this Agreement.
(m)
Remedies
.
Each Backstop Investor and each holder of any Securities shall have
all rights and remedies set forth in the Transaction Documents and
all rights and remedies which such holders have been granted at any
time under any other agreement or contract and all of the rights
which such holders have under any law. Any Person having any rights
under any provision of this Agreement shall be entitled to enforce
such rights specifically (without posting a bond or other
security), to recover damages by reason of any breach of any
provision of this Agreement and to exercise all other rights
granted by law. Furthermore, the Company recognizes that in the
event that it or any Subsidiary fails to perform, observe, or
discharge any or all of its or such Subsidiary’s (as the case
may be) obligations under the Transaction Documents, any remedy at
law may prove to be inadequate relief to the applicable Backstop
Investor. The Company therefore agrees that each Backstop Investor
shall be entitled to seek specific performance and/or temporary,
preliminary and permanent injunctive or other equitable relief from
any court of competent jurisdiction in any such case without the
necessity of proving actual damages and without posting a bond or
other security.
(n)
Withdrawal
Right
. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in (and without limiting any
similar provisions of) the Transaction Documents, whenever a
Backstop Investor exercises a right, election, demand or option
under a Transaction Document and the Company or any Subsidiary does
not timely perform its related obligations within the periods
therein provided, then such Backstop Investor may rescind or
withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time upon written
notice to the Company or such Subsidiary (as the case may be), any
relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part without
prejudice to its future actions and rights.
(o)
Independent Nature of Backstop
Investors’ Obligations and Rights
. The obligations of
each Backstop Investor under any Transaction Document are several
and not joint with the obligations of any other Backstop Investor,
and no Backstop Investor shall be responsible in any way for the
performance of the obligations of any other Backstop Investor under
any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or in any other
Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Backstop Investor
pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the
Backstop Investors as, and the Company acknowledges that the
Backstop Investors do not so constitute, a partnership, an
association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create
a presumption that the Backstop Investors are in any way acting in
concert or as a group, and the Company shall not assert any such
claim with respect to such obligations or the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents and the Company
acknowledges that the Backstop Investors are not acting in concert
or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Backstop Investor
shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights,
including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this
Agreement or out of any other Transaction Documents, and it shall
not be necessary for any other Backstop Investor to be joined as an
additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.
[
signature
pages follow
]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,
each Backstop
Investor and the Company have caused their respective signature
page to this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first
written above.
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COMPANY:
CORMEDIX
INC.
By:
/s/ Khoso Baluch
Name:
Khoso Baluch
Title:
Chief Executive Officer
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BACKSTOP INVESTORS:
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ELLIOTT INTERNATIONAL, L.P.
By:
Elliott International Capital Advisors Inc.,
as
attorney-in-fact
By:
/s/ Elliot Greenberg
Name:
Elloit Greenberg
Title:
Vice President
Pro
Rata Share:
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ELLIOTT
ASSOCIATES, L.P.
By: Elliott
Capital Advisors, L.P., General Partner
By: Braxton
Associates, Inc., General Partner
By:
/s/ Elliot Greenberg
Name:Elliot
Greenberg
Title:
Vice President
Pro
Rata Share:
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[Signature
Page to Backstop Agreement]
EXHIBIT
A
FORM
OF WARRANT
EXHIBIT
B
FORM
OF REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
This
REGISTRATION RIGHTS
AGREEMENT
(this
“
Agreement
”) is made as of November __, 2017, by and
between (i) CorMedix Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
“
Company
”), and (ii) Elliott International, L.P. and
Elliott Associates, L.P. (collectively, “
Buyer
”).
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of that certain
Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 9, 2017, by and
between the Company, and the investors party thereto (the
“
Purchase
Agreement
”),
Buyer
has agreed to purchase shares of Series F Preferred Stock, $0.001
par value per share, of the Company, which shares are convertible
into shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share, of the
Company (the “
Common
Stock
”) Common Stock (as converted, the
“
Conversion
Shares
”);
WHEREAS, in
connection with the transactions contemplated by the Purchase
Agreement, Buyer has entered into that certain Backstop Agreement,
dated as of November 9, 2017, by and between the Company and Buyer
(the “
Backstop
Agreement
”), and subject to the terms, conditions and
limitations set forth therein, the Company has issued to Buyer
warrants to acquire [______] shares of Common Stock at an exercise
price of $0.001 per share (the “
Warrants
”); and
WHEREAS,
as partial consideration for Buyer’s execution and delivery
of the Purchase Agreement and the Backstop Agreement and the
performance of the transactions contemplated thereby, the Company
has agreed to provide Buyer with the registration rights set forth
herein with respect to the resale of the Conversion Shares and the
Warrant Shares (as defined below) issuable to Buyer.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and mutual covenants
contained herein, the parties hereto hereby agree as
follows:
1.
DEFINITIONS
.
Capitalized terms used herein and not defined shall have the
meanings set forth in the Backstop Agreement. For the purposes
hereof, the following terms shall have the following
meanings:
“
Business Day
” means a day, other than a Saturday or
Sunday, on which banks in New York City are open for the general
transaction of business.
“
Buyer
” means, collectively, Buyer and any
transferee or assignee of any Registrable Securities or a Warrant,
as applicable, to whom Buyer assigns its rights under this
Agreement and who agrees to become bound by the provisions of this
Agreement
and any transferee or
assignee thereof to whom a transferee or assignee of any
Registrable Securities or a Warrant, as applicable, assigns its
rights under this Agreement and who agrees to become bound by the
provisions of this Agreement.
“
Effectiveness
Date
” means the date a
Registration Statement is declared effective by the
SEC.
“
Effectiveness Deadline
” means the
date that is ninety (90) calendar days after the date
hereof.
“
Exchange Act
” means the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and all of the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder.
“
Filing Date
” means, with respect
to the Initial Registration Statement, the date that is forty-five
(45) calendar days after delivery of a Demand Notice as
contemplated by Section 2 hereof,
provided
,
however
, that if the Filing
Date falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other day that the SEC is
closed for business the Filing Date shall be extended to the next
Business Day.
“
Holder
”
or “
Holders
”
means the holder or holders, as the case may be, from time to time,
of Registrable Securities.
“
Initial Registration Statement
”
means the initial Registration Statement filed pursuant to this
Agreement.
“
Person
” means an individual,
corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated
association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock
company, government (or agency or subdivision thereof) or other
entity of any kind.
“
Registrable Securities
” means (i)
the Conversion Shares, (ii) the Warrant Shares and (iii) any
capital stock of the Company issued or issuable with respect to the
Conversion Shares, the Warrant Shares, or the Warrants, including,
without limitation, as a result of any share split, share dividend,
recapitalization, exchange or similar event or otherwise, without
regard to any limitations on or exercise of a Warrant.
“
Registration Statement
” means any
one (1) or more registration statements filed (and/or required to
be filed pursuant hereto) with the SEC by the Company on Form S-3,
or in the event the Company is not eligible to use Form S-3, on
Form S-1, for the purpose of registering the Registrable
Securities, including (in each case) the prospectus, amendments and
supplements to such registration statement or prospectus, including
pre and post-effective amendments, all exhibits thereto, and all
material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by
reference in such registration statement. The term
“
Registration
Statement
” shall include, but not be limited to, the
Initial Registration Statement.
“
Rule 144
” means Rule 144
promulgated by the SEC pursuant to the Securities Act and any
successor or substitute rule, law or provision.
“
Rule 172
” means Rule 172
promulgated by the SEC pursuant to the Securities Act, as such rule
may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation
hereafter adopted by the SEC having substantially the same purpose
and effect as such Rule.
“
Rule 424
” means Rule 424
promulgated by the SEC pursuant to the Securities Act, as such rule
may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation
hereafter adopted by the SEC having substantially the same purpose
and effect as such rule.
“
SEC
” means the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission.
“
Securities Act
” means the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all of the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder.
“
Warrant Shares
” means any shares
of Common Stock issued pursuant to a Warrant.
2.
DEMAND
REGISTRATION
.
(a)
To the extent the
Company shall receive a written request from Buyer that the Company
effect the registration under the Securities Act of all or any
portion of the Registrable Securities (a “
Demand Notice
”), the Company shall
prepare, and, as soon as practicable, but in no event later than
the Filing Date, the Company shall file with the SEC the Initial
Registration Statement registering for resale under the Securities
Act all of the Registrable Securities by, and for the account of,
the Holders as selling stockholders thereunder, that are not then
registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering
to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. The Company
shall use its best efforts to have such Initial Registration
Statement declared effective by the SEC under the Securities Act as
soon as practicable, but in no event, later than the Effectiveness
Deadline.
(b)
The Company shall
use its reasonable best efforts to keep the Initial Registration
Statement current and effective until such date (the
“
Effectiveness
Period
”) that is the earlier of (i) the date as of
which all of the Holders as selling stockholders thereunder may
sell all of the Registrable Securities registered for resale
thereon without restriction pursuant to Rule 144, or otherwise, or
(ii) the date when all of the Registrable Securities have been
sold, but in no event longer than three years.
(c)
Notwithstanding any
other provision of this Agreement, if the SEC affirmatively limits
the number of Registrable Securities to be registered in the
Initial Registration Statement (and the Company has used its
reasonable best efforts to advocate with the SEC for the
registration of all or the maximum number of Registrable
Securities), the number of Registrable Securities to be registered
on such Registration Statement will be reduced to the maximum
number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered in such
Initial Registration Statement. The Company shall file a new
Registration Statement as soon as practicable covering the resale
by the Holders of not less than the number of such Registrable
Securities that are not registered in the Initial Registration
Statement. The Company shall not be liable for liquidated damages
under
Section 3(a)
or any other relevant penalty as to any Registrable Securities
which are expressly not permitted by the SEC staff to be included
in the initial Registration Statement. In such case, any liquidated
damages payable under
Section 3(a)
shall be calculated to apply only to the percentage of Registrable
Securities which are permitted to be included in such Registration
Statement.
(d)
If at any time
after the date hereof, other than a Suspension Period referred to
in Section 8, the Company shall determine to prepare and file with
the SEC a registration statement relating to an offering for its
own account or the account of others under the Securities Act of
any of its equity securities, other than on Form S-4 or Form S-8
(each as promulgated under the Securities Act) or their then
equivalents relating to equity securities to be issued solely in
connection with any acquisition of any entity or business or equity
securities issuable in connection with stock option or other
employee benefit plans, then the Company shall send to each Holder
written notice of such determination and if, within fifteen (15)
days after receipt of such notice, any such Holder shall so request
in writing, the Company shall include in such registration
statement all or any part of such Registrable Securities not
already covered by an effective Registration
Statement.
3.
PARTIAL
LIQUIDATED DAMAGES/SUSPENSION/DELAY IN EFFECTIVENESS OF A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
.
(a)
If: (i) the Initial
Registration Statement and/or any other Registration Statement is
not filed on or prior to the Filing Date, (ii) the Company fails to
file with the SEC a request for acceleration in accordance with
Rule 461 promulgated under the Securities Act, within five (5)
Business Days of the date that the Company is notified (orally or
in writing, whichever is earlier) by the SEC that the Initial
Registration Statement or any other Registration Statement will not
be “reviewed” or not be subject to further review,
(iii) prior to the Effectiveness Deadline of the Initial
Registration Statement or any other Registration Statement, the
Company fails to file a pre-effective amendment and otherwise
respond in writing to comments made by the SEC in respect of such
Initial Registration Statement or any other Registration Statement
within fifteen (15) Business Days after the receipt of comments by
or notice from the SEC that such amendment is required in order for
such Initial Registration Statement or any other Registration
Statement to be declared effective, (iv) the Initial Registration
Statement and/or any other Registration Statement covering
Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the SEC by the
Effectiveness Deadline, (v) to the extent a registration statement
is filed pursuant to Section 2(d) and the Company fails to notify
the Holder of such filing or, if notice is given in accordance with
Section 2(d), the Company fails to include the Registrable
Securities upon timely request of the Holder, or (vi) after the
Effectiveness Date of the Initial Registration Statement or any
other Registration Statement, such Initial Registration Statement
or other Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain for
any period current and effective as to all Registrable Securities
included in such Initial Registration Statement or other
Registration Statement, as applicable, or Buyer is otherwise not
permitted to utilize the prospectus therein to resell such
Registrable Securities (any such failure or breach set forth in
3(a)(i)-(vi) shall be referred to as an “
Event
,”
and the date such Event occurs shall be referred to as an
“
Event
Date
”), then, in addition to any other rights Buyer
may have hereunder and/or under applicable law, on each such Event
Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if
the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until
the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to Buyer on a
monthly basis within three (3) Business Days of the end of the
month an amount in cash equal to $15,000, as partial liquidated
damages and not as a penalty. Any monthly amount owed pursuant to
the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro-rata basis for any
portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the aggregate amount payable as partial liquidated
damages under this Section 3(a) shall not exceed
$75,000.
(b)
In the event the Registration Statement has not been declared
effective on or prior to the Effectiveness Deadline, the Company
shall pay to Buyer liquidated damages equal to 1% of the purchase
price of Registrable Securities purchased by Buyer pursuant to the
Purchase Agreement and the Backstop Agreement within three (3)
Business Days thereof and shall pay to the Buyer liquidated damages
equal to 1% of such purchase price for each subsequent 30-day
period, up to a maximum of 9%, within three (3) Business Days of
the end of each such 30-day period.
(c)
The Company shall
provide Buyer with all correspondence (whether written and/or
oral), to the SEC from the Company and from the SEC to the Company
and shall notify Buyer by facsimile or e-mail as promptly as
practicable, and in any event, within two (2) Business Days, after
a Registration Statement is declared effective and shall
simultaneously provide the Holders with a copy of any related
prospectus to be used in connection with the sale or other
disposition of the Registrable Securities covered
thereby.
4.
OBLIGATIONS
OF THE COMPANY
. With respect to the Initial Registration
Statement and any other Registration Statement filed by the Company
with the SEC that covers the Registrable Securities, the Company
shall:
(a)
Prepare and file
with the SEC such amendments and supplements to a Registration
Statement and the prospectus used in connection therewith as may be
necessary to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act with
respect to the disposition of all Registrable Securities covered by
a Registration Statement;
(b)
Furnish to the
selling Holders such number of copies of a prospectus, including a
preliminary prospectus, in conformity with the requirements of the
Securities Act, and such other documents (including, without
limitation, prospectus amendments and supplements as are prepared
by the Company in accordance with
Section 4(a)
above) as the selling Holders may reasonably request in order to
facilitate the disposition of such selling Holders’
Registrable Securities;
(c)
Use its reasonable
best efforts to comply with all applicable rules and regulations of
the SEC under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including,
without limitation, Rule 172 under the Securities Act, file any
final prospectus, including any supplement or amendment thereof,
with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act,
promptly inform the Holders in writing if, at any time during the
Effectiveness Period, the Company does not satisfy the conditions
specified in Rule 172 and, as a result thereof, the Holders are
required to deliver a prospectus in connection with any disposition
of Registrable Securities; notify the selling Holders of the
happening of any event as a result of which the prospectus included
in or relating to a Registration Statement contains an untrue
statement of a material fact or omits any fact necessary to make
the statements therein not misleading; and, thereafter, subject to
Section
8
hereof, the Company will promptly prepare (and, when
completed, give notice and provide a copy thereof to each selling
Holder) a supplement or amendment to such prospectus so that such
prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact
or omit to state any fact necessary to make the statements therein
not misleading;
provided
,
however
, that upon such
notification by the Company (which shall be a Suspension (as
defined herein) pursuant to
Section 8
),
the selling Holders will not offer or sell Registrable Securities
until the Company has notified the selling Holders that it has
prepared a supplement or amendment to such prospectus and filed it
with the SEC, or if the Company does not then meet the conditions
for the use of Rule 172, delivered copies of such supplement or
amendment to the selling Holders (it being understood and agreed by
the Company that the foregoing proviso shall in no way diminish or
otherwise impair the Company’s obligation to promptly prepare
a prospectus amendment or supplement as above provided in this
Section
4(c)
and deliver copies of same as above provided in
Section
4(b)
hereof); and
(d)
Use its reasonable
best efforts to register and qualify the Registrable Securities
covered by a Registration Statement under such other securities or
Blue Sky laws of such states as shall be reasonably appropriate in
the opinion of the Company.
(e)
Subject to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, including
Section 2
hereof, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to
(i) prevent the issuance of any stop order or other suspension of
effectiveness of any Registration Statement, or the suspension of
the qualification of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in
any jurisdiction in the United States, and (ii) if such an order or
suspension is issued, obtain the withdrawal of such order or
suspension at the earliest practicable moment and notify each
Holder of Registrable Securities of the issuance of such order and
the resolution thereof or its receipt of notice of the initiation
or threat of any proceeding for that purpose.
(f)
The Company shall
use its reasonable best efforts to cause its Common Stock to
continue to be registered under Sections 12(b), 12(g) and/or 15(d)
of the Exchange Act, to comply in all respects with its reporting
and filing obligations under the Exchange Act, to comply with all
requirements related to the Initial Registration Statement and any
other Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Agreement, and
to not take any action or file any document (whether or not
permitted by the Securities Act or the rules promulgated
thereunder) to terminate or suspend such registration or to
terminate or suspend its reporting and filing obligations under the
Exchange Act or Securities Act. The Company shall take all action
reasonably necessary to continue the listing, trading and/or
quotation of its Common Stock on one or more of the OTC Bulletin
Board, the Pink Sheets LLC, the OTC Markets Group, the Nasdaq
Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select
Market, the New York Stock Exchange, or the NYSE
American.
(g)
With a view to
making available to the Holders the benefits of Rule 144 and any
other rule or regulation of the SEC that may at any time permit the
Holders to sell the Registrable Securities to the public without
registration, the Company shall: (i) make and keep public
information available as those terms are understood in Rule 144,
(ii) furnish to a Holder as long as any Holder owns any Registrable
Securities, upon such Holder’s request, a copy of the most
recent annual or quarterly report of the Company and such other
reports and documents so filed by the Company as may be reasonably
requested in availing such Holder of any rule or regulation of the
SEC permitting the selling of any such Registrable Securities
without registration, and (iii) undertake any additional actions
reasonably necessary to maintain the availability of the use of
Rule 144. The Company shall further take all other actions as the
Holders may reasonably request from time to time to enable the
Holders to sell the Registrable Securities without registration
under the Securities Act pursuant to the exemption provided by Rule
144 promulgated under the Securities Act, including, without
limitation, obtaining any required legal opinions from Company
counsel at the Company’s expense and delivering such legal
opinions within five (5) Business Days after receipt from such
Holder (or its representative) of documentation reasonably required
by the Company’s counsel to provide such
opinion.
(h)
The Company will
file any Registration Statement and all amendments and supplements
thereto electronically on EDGAR.
5.
OBLIGATIONS
OF THE HOLDERS
.
(a)
Each Holder agrees
to cooperate with the Company as reasonably requested by the
Company in connection with the filing of any Registration Statement
hereunder, unless such Holder has notified the Company in writing
that such Holder elects to exclude all of its Registrable
Securities from such Registration Statement.
(b)
Each Holder agrees
that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company of the happening
of any event of the kind described in
Section
4(c)
, each Holder shall immediately discontinue disposition
of Registrable Securities pursuant to any Registration Statement
covering such Registrable Securities until such Holders receipt of
the copies of the supplemented or amended prospectus contemplated
by
Section 4(c)
or receipt of notice that no supplement or amendment is
required.
(c)
Each Holder who is
a member or affiliated or associated with member(s) of FINRA will
agree, if requested by FINRA, to sign a lock-up, the form of which
shall be satisfactory to FINRA (the “
FINRA Lock-Up
”), in connection
with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
6.
EXPENSES
OF REGISTRATION
. The Company shall bear and pay all expenses
incurred in connection with any registration, filing or
qualification of Registrable Securities pursuant hereto, including,
without limitation, all registration, filing and qualification
fees, printer’s fees, accounting fees and fees and
disbursements of counsel for the Company, but excluding any
brokerage or underwriting fees, discounts and commissions relating
to Registrable Securities.
7.
INDEMNIFICATION
.
(a)
To the greatest
extent permitted by law, the Company will indemnify and hold
harmless each selling Holder, and each officer and director of such
selling Holder and each person, if any, who controls such selling
Holder, within the meaning of the Securities Act, against any
losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which
they may become subject under the Securities Act or otherwise,
insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions
in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) any untrue
or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any
Registration Statement, in any preliminary prospectus or final
prospectus relating thereto or in any amendments or supplements to
any Registration Statement or any such preliminary prospectus or
final prospectus, or the omission or alleged omission to state
therein a material fact required to be stated therein, or necessary
to make the statements therein not misleading; or (ii) any
violation by the Company or its agents of any rule or regulation
promulgated under the Securities Act applicable to the Company or
its agents and relating to action or inaction required of the
Company in connection with such registration of the Registrable
Securities; and will reimburse such selling Holder, or such
officer, director or controlling person of such selling Holder for
any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in
connection with defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability
or action;
provided
,
however
, that the indemnity
agreement contained in this
Section 7(a)
shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any such loss,
claim, damage, liability or action if such settlement is effected
without the consent of the Company (which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld), nor shall the Company be liable in any such
case for any such loss, damage, liability or action to the extent
that it arises out of or is based upon (i) an untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement or omission made in connection with any
Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or final
prospectus relating thereto or any amendments or supplements to any
Registration Statement or any such preliminary prospectus or final
prospectus, in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished expressly for use in connection with any
Registration Statement or any such preliminary prospectus or final
prospectus by the selling Holders or (ii) at any time when the
Company has advised the Holder in writing that the Company does not
meet the conditions for use of Rule 172 and as a result that the
Holder is required to deliver a current prospectus in connection
with any disposition of Registrable Securities, an untrue statement
or alleged untrue statement or omission in a prospectus that is
(whether preliminary or final) corrected in any subsequent
amendment or supplement to such prospectus was delivered to the
selling Holder before the pertinent sale or sales by the selling
Holder.
(b)
To the extent
permitted by law, each selling Holder will severally and not
jointly indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of its
directors, each of its officers who have signed any Registration
Statement, each person, if any, who controls the Company within the
meaning of the Securities Act, against any losses, claims, damages
or liabilities to which the Company or any such director, officer,
controlling person, may become subject to, under the Securities Act
or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or
liabilities (or actions in respect thereto) arise out of or are
based upon any untrue or alleged untrue statement of any material
fact contained in any Registration Statement or any preliminary
prospectus or final prospectus, relating thereto or in any
amendments or supplements to any Registration Statement or any such
preliminary prospectus or final prospectus, or arise out of or are
based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the extent
and only to the extent that such untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement or omission or alleged omission (i) was made in any
Registration Statement, in any preliminary prospectus or final
prospectus relating thereto or in any amendments or supplements to
any Registration Statement or any such preliminary prospectus or
final prospectus, in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished by the selling Holder expressly for use in
connection with any Registration Statement, or any preliminary
prospectus or final prospectus or (ii) at any time when the Company
has advised the Holder in writing that the Company does not meet
the conditions for use of Rule 172 and as a result that the Holder
is required to deliver a current prospectus in connection with any
disposition of Registrable Securities, an untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement or omission in a prospectus that is
(whether preliminary or final) corrected in any subsequent
amendment or supplement to such prospectus was corrected in any
subsequent amendment or supplement to such prospectus that was
delivered to the selling Holder before the pertinent sale or sales
by the selling Holder; and such selling Holder will reimburse any
legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company or any
such director, officer, controlling person;
provided
,
however
, that notwithstanding
anything to the contrary provided herein or elsewhere, the
liability of each selling Holder hereunder shall be limited solely
to the net proceeds received by each such selling Holder from the
sale of Registrable Securities only by such Holder giving rise to
such liability, and
provided further
, that the
indemnity agreement contained in this
Section 7(b)
shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any such loss,
claim, damage, liability or action if such settlement is effected
without the consent of those selling Holder(s) against which the
request for indemnity is being made (which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld).
(c)
Promptly after
receipt by an indemnified party under this
Section 7
of
notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party
will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against any
indemnifying party under this
Section 7
,
notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement
thereof and the indemnifying party shall have the right to
participate in and, to the extent the indemnifying party desires,
jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly noticed, to
assume at its expense the defense thereof with counsel satisfactory
to the indemnifying party or indemnifying parties, but the omission
so to notify the indemnifying party will not relieve it from any
liability which it may have to any indemnified party for
contribution or otherwise under the indemnity agreement contained
in this
Section 7
(except to the extent that such omission materially and adversely
affects the indemnifying party’s ability to defend such
action). In the event that the indemnifying party assumes any such
defense, the indemnified party may participate in such defense with
its own counsel and at its own expense,
provided
,
however
, if the defendants in
any such action include both the indemnified party and the
indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have reasonably
concluded, based on an opinion of counsel reasonably satisfactory
to the indemnifying party, that there may be a conflict of interest
between the positions of the indemnifying party and the indemnified
party in conducting the defense of any such action or that there
may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified
parties which are different from or additional to those available
to the indemnifying party, the indemnified party or parties shall
have the right to select separate counsel to assume such legal
defenses and to otherwise participate in the defense of such action
on behalf of such indemnified party or parties. Upon receipt of
notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its
election to assume the defense of such action and approval by the
indemnified party of counsel, the indemnifying party will not be
liable to such indemnified party under this
Section 7
for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such
indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof unless the
indemnified party shall have employed such counsel in connection
with the assumption of legal defenses in accordance with the
proviso to the preceding sentence (it being understood, however,
that the indemnifying party shall not be liable for the expenses of
more than one separate counsel and one local counsel, reasonably
satisfactory to such indemnifying party, representing all of the
indemnified parties who are parties to such action in which case
the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel shall be at the expense
of the indemnifying party.
(d)
Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein, the indemnifying party shall not
be entitled to settle any claim, suit or proceeding unless in
connection with such settlement the indemnified party receives an
unconditional release with respect to the subject matter of such
claim, suit or proceeding and such settlement does not contain any
admission of fault by the indemnified party.
(e)
If the
indemnification provided for in this
Section 7
is
unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified
party under
Section 7(a)
or
Section 7(b)
above in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or
actions or proceedings in respect thereof) referred to therein,
then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or
payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses,
claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) in
such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of
the Company on the one hand and the Holders on the other in
connection with the statements or omissions or other matters which
resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions
in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable
considerations. The relative fault shall be determined by reference
to, among other things, in the case of an untrue statement, whether
the untrue statement relates to information supplied by the Company
on the one hand or a Holder on the other and the parties’
relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity
to correct or prevent such untrue statement. The Company and the
Holders agree that it would not be just and equitable if
contribution pursuant to this
Section 7(e)
were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Holders were
treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of
allocation which does not take into account the equitable
considerations referred to above in this
Section
7(e)
. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as
a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions
in respect thereof) referred to above in this
Section 7(e)
shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably
incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating
or defending any such action or claim. 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
Holders’ obligations in this subsection to contribute are
several in proportion to their sales of Registrable Securities to
which such loss relates and not joint. In no event shall the
contribution obligation of a Holder be greater in amount than the
dollar amount of the net proceeds (net of all expenses paid by such
Holder in connection with any claim relating to this
Section 7
and the amount of any damages such Holder has otherwise been
required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue
statement or omission or alleged omission) received by it upon the
sale of the Registrable Securities giving rise to such contribution
obligation.
8.
SUSPENSION
.
Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, in the
event (i) of any non-voluntary demand on the Company by the SEC
during the period of effectiveness of any Registration Statement
for amendments or supplements to any Registration Statement or
related prospectus or for additional information; (ii) of the
issuance by the SEC of any stop order suspending the effectiveness
of any Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings
for that purpose; or (iii) of any event or circumstance which
requires in order to comply with applicable law the making of any
changes in any Registration Statement or related prospectus, or any
document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by
reference, so that, in the case of any Registration Statement, it
will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or any
omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and that
in the case of the prospectus, it will not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or any omission 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 (based upon the written legal
opinion of legal counsel to the Company and provided to counsel to
the Holders), then the Company shall furnish to the selling Holders
a certificate signed by the President or Chief Executive Officer of
the Company setting forth in detail the facts relating to one or
more of the above described circumstances, and the right of the
selling Holders to use any Registration Statement (and the
prospectus relating thereto) shall be suspended for a period (the
“
Suspension
Period
”) of not more than forty-five (45) days after
delivery by the Company of the certificate referred to above in
this
Section 8
.
During the Suspension Period, none of the Holders shall offer or
sell any Registrable Securities pursuant to or in reliance upon any
Registration Statement (or the prospectus relating thereto). The
Company shall use its best efforts to terminate any Suspension
Period as promptly as practicable.
9.
ENTIRE
AGREEMENT
. This Agreement, the Purchase Agreement, the
Backstop Agreement, the Warrants and the other Transaction
Documents constitute and contain the entire agreement and
understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter
hereof, and supersede any and all prior negotiations,
correspondence, agreements or understandings with respect to the
subject matter hereof.
10.
MISCELLANEOUS
.
(a)
This Agreement may
not be amended, modified or terminated, and no rights or provisions
may be waived, except with the written consent of the Company and
the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities issued and
outstanding.
(b)
The rights under
this Agreement shall be automatically assignable by Buyer to any
transferee of all or any portion of Buyer’s Registrable
Securities if such transferee or assignee agrees in writing with
the Company to be bound by all of the provisions contained herein
and such transfer shall have been conducted in accordance with all
applicable federal and state securities laws.
(c)
This
Agreement shall be governed by and construed solely in accordance
with the internal laws of the State of New York without regard to
the conflicts of laws principles thereof. Each party hereby
expressly and irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of
the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York,
Borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder
or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated
hereby or discussed herein, and hereby expressly and irrevocably
waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding,
any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of
any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is brought in
an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or
proceeding is improper. Each party hereby expressly and irrevocably
waives personal service of process and consents to process being
served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy
thereof to such party at the address for such notices to it under
this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good
and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing
contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to
serve process in any manner permitted by law. In any action brought
by the Company concerning and/or arising directly and/or indirectly
out of this Certificate, the prevailing party shall be entitled to
recover all of its legal fees and expenses incurred by it with
respect to any such legal action.
EACH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT
IT MAY HAVE TO, AND AGREES NOT TO REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE
ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR
ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED
HEREBY.
(d)
Any notice, demand,
request, waiver or other communication required or permitted to be
given hereunder shall be in writing and shall be effective (a) upon
hand delivery by telecopy or facsimile at the address or number
designated below (if delivered on a Business Day during normal
business hours where such notice is to be received), or the first
business day following such delivery (if delivered other than on a
Business Day during normal business hours where such notice is to
be received) or (b) on the second Business Day following the date
of mailing by express courier service, fully prepaid, addressed to
such address, or upon actual receipt of such mailing, whichever
shall first occur. The addresses for such communications shall
be:
(i)
All correspondence
to the Company shall be addressed as follows:
If to
the Company:
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CorMedix
Inc.
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400
Connell Drive, 5
th
Floor
Suite
5000
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Berkeley
Heights, NJ 07922
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Attention:
Chief Executive Officer
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Telephone:
(908) 517-9500
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Facsimile:
(908) 429-4307
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with
copies to :
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Wyrick
Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP
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parties hereto shall be entitled to seek specific performance of
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injunctive relief as may be granted by a court of competent
jurisdiction.
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purpose of such part or provision in a valid and enforceable
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Registration
Rights Agreement as of the date and year first above
written.
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CORMEDIX
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ELLIOTT INTERNATIONAL,
L.P.
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Elliott
International Capital Advisors Inc.,
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attorney-in-fact
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ELLIOTT ASSOCIATES,
L.P.
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Elliott Capital
Advisors, L.P., General Partner
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Braxton
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[Signature Page to
Registration Rights Agreement]
11
Exhibit 99.1
CorMedix Inc. Enters into $5 million Combined Securities Purchase
and Backstop Agreement with Existing Investor
Berkeley Heights, NJ – November 9, 2017 –
CorMedix Inc. (NYSE American: CRMD), a biopharmaceutical company
focused on developing and commercializing therapeutic products for
the prevention and treatment of infectious and inflammatory
disease, announced that it has entered into a Securities Purchase
Agreement with Elliott Associates, L.P. and Elliott International,
L.P., (the “Elliott Funds”), long-term institutional
investors in CorMedix, whereby they will purchase, $ 2 million of
newly issued CorMedix Series F Convertible preferred stock at
$1,000 per share. Separately, Cormedix has entered into a $3
million Backstop Agreement with the Elliott Funds to purchase
additional Series F Convertible Preferred Stock at $1,000 per
share, at CorMedix’s sole discretion, beginning January 15,
2018, through March 31, 2018. Gross proceeds, of the securities
purchase agreement and the backstop agreement, if the backstop
agreement is used in full, total an aggregate of $5 million. The
Elliott Funds are managed by Elliott Management Corporation
(“Elliott”).
As
consideration for the Backstop Agreement, CorMedix will issue the
Elliott Funds warrants, exercisable for three years, to purchase
shares of CorMedix common stock at a per share exercise price of
$0.001. The number of shares issuable under the warrant will be
determined by the closing price of CorMedix Common Stock on
November 8, 2017, which was $0.5278.
Elliott
may convert the preferred stock into common at its option at an
effective price of $0.6334 per share, which represents a 20%
premium to yesterday’s closing price of our common stock. The
stock will be mandatorily convertible on April 2, 2018, subject to
certain equity conditions, at the lower of $0.63 and a 10% discount
to the notional price at which an equity or equity linked
transaction in an amount of $5 million or more is completed by
March 31, 2018, or if no such transaction is completed, a 10%
discount to the closing price of the stock on March 31. There are
no warrants to be issued in connection with the $2 million
financing.
In
connection with the financing, members of the CorMedix Board of
Directors and the executive team unanimously will participate in a
minimum amount of $250,000.
No
placement agent or underwriter was involved in the offerings.
CorMedix intends to use the net proceeds of the offerings for
general corporate purposes, working capital and capital
expenditures, including its ongoing Phase 3 LOCK-IT 100 clinical
study of Neutrolin
®
. The Company
currently anticipates that closing of the sale of the Series F
Convertible Preferred Stock and the warrants, will take place on or
about November 16, 2017, subject to the satisfaction of customary
closing conditions.
Khoso
Baluch, Chief Executive Officer of CorMedix, said, “This new
$5 million investment facility was executed in alignment with our
previously discussed strategy to raise as little money as necessary
to have adequate cash on hand as the planned LOCK-IT 100 interim
efficacy analysis is completed. We believe the proceeds from these
agreements will provide CorMedix with sufficient cash through the
first quarter of 2018, which based on our current projections,
should be sufficient to get us through reporting of the interim
data, pending confirmation of the required number of
catheter-related bloodstream infections in this event-driven study.
We appreciate the continued support from
Elliott.”
This
press release is not an offer to sell or the solicitation of an
offer to buy the Series F Stock or the warrants or any other
securities of CorMedix. Investors are encouraged to review the
Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K associated with these
transactions, which will be filed November 13, 2017, with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission.
About CorMedix
CorMedix
Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and
commercializing therapeutic products for the prevention and
treatment of infectious and inflammatory diseases. The Company is
focused on developing its lead product Neutrolin
®
, a novel,
non-antibiotic antimicrobial solution designed to prevent costly
and dangerous bloodstream infections associated with the use of
central venous catheters, currently in a Phase 3 clinical trial
enrolling patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis. Such infections
cost the U.S. healthcare system approximately $6 billion annually
and contribute significantly to increased morbidity and mortality.
Neutrolin has FDA Fast Track status and is designated as a
Qualified Infectious Disease Product, which provides the potential
for priority review of a marketing application by FDA and
allows for 5 additional years of QIDP market exclusivity in the
event of U.S. approval. Neutrolin is already marketed as a CE
Marked product in Europe and other territories. In parallel,
CorMedix is leveraging its taurolidine technology to develop a
pipeline of antimicrobial medical devices, with active programs in
surgical sutures and meshes, and topical hydrogels. The company is
also working with top-tier researchers to develop taurolidine-based
therapies for rare pediatric cancers. For more information, visit:
www.cormedix.com
.
Forward-Looking Statements
This
press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
including with respect to possible uses of taurolidine, that are
subject to risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than
statements of historical facts, regarding management’s
expectations, beliefs, goals, plans or CorMedix’s prospects,
future financial position, financing plans, future revenues and
projected costs should be considered forward-looking. Readers are
cautioned that actual results may differ materially from
projections or estimates due to a variety of important factors,
including: the risk of closing the combined investment and backstop
financing transaction; the possible inability to capture sufficient
CRBSI events in the ongoing Phase 3 clinical trial for
Neutrolin
®
even with the
reported changes to that trial; the cost, timing and results of the
ongoing and planned Phase 3 trials for Neutrolin
®
in the U.S. and
the resources needed to commence and complete those trials; the
risks and uncertainties associated with CorMedix’s ability to
manage its limited cash resources and the impact on planned or
future research, including for additional uses for taurolidine;
obtaining additional financing to support CorMedix’s research
and development and clinical activities and operations; preclinical
results are not indicative of success in clinical trials and might
not be replicated in any subsequent studies or trials; and the
ability to retain and hire necessary personnel to staff our
operations appropriately. These and other risks are described in
greater detail in CorMedix’s filings with the SEC, copies of
which are available free of charge at the SEC’s website at
www.sec.gov or upon request from CorMedix. CorMedix may not
actually achieve the goals or plans described in its
forward-looking statements, and investors should not place undue
reliance on these statements. CorMedix assumes no obligation and
does not intend to update these forward-looking statements, except
as required by law.
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McCargo: jmccargo@tiberend.com; (646) 604-5150