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    Exhibit
4.2

    
 

    SECURITIES
PURCHASE AGREEMENT

     

    This
Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated
as of October 21, 2009, between Evergreen Energy Inc., a Delaware corporation
(the “Company”), and each
purchaser identified on the signature pages hereto (each, including its
successors and assigns, a “Purchaser” and
collectively, the “Purchasers”).

     

    WHEREAS,
subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant to
Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and
Rule 506 promulgated thereunder, the Company desires to issue and sell to each
Purchaser, and each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, desires to purchase
from the Company, securities of the Company as more fully described in this
Agreement.

     

    NOW,
THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement,
and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which
are hereby acknowledged, the Company and each Purchaser agree as
follows:

     

     

    ARTICLE
I.

    DEFINITIONS

     

    1.1           Definitions.  In
addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement: (a) capitalized terms
that are not otherwise defined herein have the meanings given to such terms in
the Certificate of Designation (as defined herein), and (b) the following terms
have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.1:

     

    “Acquiring Person”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.7.

     

    “Action” shall have
the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(j).

     

    “Affiliate” means any
Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls
or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person, as such terms are
used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

     

    “Board of Directors”
means the board of directors of the Company.

     

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

     

    “Certificate of
Designation” means the Certificate of Designation to be filed prior to
the Closing by the Company with the Secretary of State of Delaware, in the form
of Exhibit A
attached hereto.

     

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

     

    “Closing Date” means
the Trading Day on which all of the Transaction

     


    
      
         


      

      
         


        
          

        

      

      
         


      

    


    Documents
have been executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all
conditions precedent to (i) the Purchasers’ obligations to pay the Subscription
Amount and (ii) the Company’s obligations to deliver the Securities, in each
case, have been satisfied or waived, but in no event later than the third
Trading Day following the date hereof.

     

    “Closing Price” means
on any particular date (a) the last reported closing bid price per share of
Common Stock on such date on the Trading Market (as reported by Bloomberg L.P.
at 4:15 p.m. (Eastern time)), (b) if there is no such price on such date, then
the closing bid price on the Trading Market on the date nearest preceding such
date (as reported by Bloomberg L.P. at 4:15 p.m. (Eastern time)), (c)  if
the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted on a Trading Market and if prices
for the Common Stock are then reported in the “pink sheets” published by Pink
OTC Markets, Inc. (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its
functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share of the
Common Stock so reported, or (d) if the shares of Common Stock are not then
publicly traded the fair market value as of such date of a share of Common Stock
as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the
Purchasers of a majority in interest of the Shares then outstanding and
reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be
paid by the Company.

     

    “Commission” means the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

     

    “Common Stock” means
the common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share, and any other class
of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or
changed.

     

    “Common Stock
Equivalents” means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries
which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock,
including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, rights, options,
warrants or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable
or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common
Stock.

     

    “Company Counsel”
means Moye White LLP, with offices located at 16 Market Square, 6th Floor, 1400
16th Street, Denver, CO 80202-1486.

     

    “Conversion Price”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Certificate of
Designation.

     

    “Disclosure Schedules”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1.

     

    “Effective Date” means
the earlier of the date that (a) all of the Registrable Securities (as defined
in the Registration Rights Agreement) have been registered for resale by the
holders thereof pursuant to a registration statement(s) declared effective by
the Commission and (b) all of the Registrable Securities have been sold pursuant
to Rule 144 or may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 without the requirement for the
Company to be

     


    
      
         


      

      
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    in
compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144 and
without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions.

     

    “Evaluation Date”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(r).

     

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

    


    “Exempt Issuance”
means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock or options to employees,
officers or directors of the Company in their capacity as such pursuant to any
stock or option plan or employment agreement duly adopted for such purpose, by a
majority of the non-employee members of the Board of Directors or a majority of
the members of a committee of non-employee directors established for such
purpose, (b) securities upon the exercise or exchange of or conversion of any
Securities issued hereunder and/or other securities exercisable or exchangeable
for or convertible into shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on the
date of this Agreement, provided that such securities have not been amended
since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of such securities or to
decrease the exercise price, exchange price or conversion price of such
securities, (c) securities issued pursuant to acquisitions or strategic
transactions approved by a majority of the disinterested directors of the
Company, provided that any such issuance shall only be to a Person (or to the
equity holders of a Person) which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an
operating company or an asset in a business synergistic with the business of the
Company and shall provide to the Company additional benefits in addition to the
investment of funds, but shall not include a transaction in which the Company is
issuing securities primarily for the purpose of raising capital or to an entity
whose primary business is investing in securities and (d) after the later of
December 1, 2009 and the Effective Date, Common Stock issued solely in exchange
for Permitted Indebtedness.

     

    “GAAP” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).

     

    “Indebtedness” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(aa).

     

    “Intellectual Property
Rights” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(o).

     

    “Legend Removal Date”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.1(c).

     

    “Liens” means a lien,
charge, security interest, encumbrance, right of first refusal, preemptive right
or other restriction.

     

    “Make-Whole Payment”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Certificate of
Designation.

     

    “Material Adverse
Effect” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.1(b).

     


    
      
         


      

      
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    “Material Permits”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(m).

     

    “Maximum Rate” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 5.17.

     

    “Participation
Maximum” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.12(a).

     

    “Person” means an
individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated
association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company,
government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any
kind.

     

    “Preferred Stock”
means the up to 6,973.38 shares of the Company’s Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock issued hereunder having the rights, preferences and privileges set forth
in the Certificate of Designation, in the form of Exhibit A
hereto.

     

    “Pre-Notice” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.12(b).

     

    “Pro Rata Portion”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.12(e).

     

    “Proceeding” means an
action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding (including, without limitation,
an informal investigation or partial proceeding, such as a deposition), whether
commenced or threatened.

     

    “Public Information
Failure” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.3(b).

     

    “Public Information Failure
Payments” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.3(b).

     

    “Purchaser Party”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.10.

     

    “Registration Rights
Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated the date
hereof, among the Company and the Purchasers, in the form of Exhibit B attached
hereto.

     

    “Registration
Statement” means a registration statement meeting the requirements set
forth in the Registration Rights Agreement and covering the resale of the
Underlying Shares by each Purchaser as provided for in the Registration Rights
Agreement.

     

    “Required Approvals”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(e).

     

    “Required Minimum”
means, as of any date, the maximum aggregate number of shares of Common Stock
then issued or potentially issuable in the future pursuant to the Transaction
Documents, including any Underlying Shares issuable upon exercise in full of all
Warrants or conversion in full of all shares of Preferred Stock, ignoring
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    conversion
or exercise limits set forth therein, and assuming that any previously
unconverted shares of Preferred Stock are held until the third anniversary of
the Closing Date and all dividends are paid in shares of Common Stock until such
third anniversary.

     

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

     

    “Rule 424” means Rule
424 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule
may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or
regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same
purpose and effect as such Rule.

     

    “SEC Reports” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).

     

    “Securities” means the
Preferred Stock, the Warrants, the Warrant Shares and the Underlying
Shares.

     

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

     

    “Short Sales” means
all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange
Act (but shall not be deemed to include the location and/or reservation of
borrowable shares of Common Stock). 

     

    “Stated Value” means
$1,000 per share of Preferred Stock.

     

     “Subscription Amount”
means, as to each Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be paid for Preferred Stock
purchased hereunder as specified below such Purchaser’s name on the signature
page of this Agreement and next to the heading “Subscription Amount,” in United
States dollars and in immediately available funds.

     

    “Subsequent Financing”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.12(a).

     

    “Subsequent Financing
Notice” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.12(b).

     

    “Subsidiary” means any
subsidiary of the Company as set forth on Schedule 3.1(a) and
shall, where applicable, also include any direct or indirect subsidiary of the
Company formed or acquired after the date hereof.

     

    “Trading Day” means a
day on which the principal Trading Market is open for trading.

     

    “Trading Market” means
any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or
quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE AMEX,

     


    
      
         


      

      
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    the
Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, NYSE Arca, the Nasdaq Global
Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange or the OTC Bulletin Board (or any
successors to any of the foregoing).

     

    “Transaction
Documents” means this Agreement, the Certificate of Designation, the
Warrants, the Registration Rights Agreement, all exhibits and schedules thereto
and hereto and any other documents or agreements executed in connection with the
transactions contemplated hereunder.

     

    “Transfer Agent” means
Intrawest Transfer Company, Inc., the current transfer agent of the Company,
with a mailing address of 1981 East 4800 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84117 and a
facsimile number of 801-272-9370, and any successor transfer agent of the
Company.

     

    “Underlying Shares”
means the shares of Common Stock issued and issuable upon conversion of the
Preferred Stock and upon exercise of the Warrants.

     

    “Variable Rate
Transaction” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.13(b).

     

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

     

    “Warrants” means,
collectively, the Common Stock purchase warrants delivered to the Purchasers at
the Closing in accordance with Section 2.2(a) hereof, which Warrants shall be
exercisable after the date hereof and have a term of exercise equal to five
years, in the form of Exhibit C
attached hereto.

     

    “Warrant Shares” means
the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.

     

    “WS” means Weinstein
Smith LLP with offices located at 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 2620, New York,
New York 10170-0002.

     


    
      
         


      

      
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    ARTICLE
II.

    PURCHASE
AND SALE

     

    2.1           Closing.  On
the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein,
substantially concurrent with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by
the parties hereto, the Company agrees to sell, and the Purchasers, severally
and not jointly, agree to purchase, up to an aggregate of $6,973,380 of shares
of Preferred Stock with an aggregate Stated Value for each Purchaser equal to
such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount as set forth on the signature page hereto
executed by such Purchaser, and Warrants as determined by pursuant to Section
2.2(a).  The aggregate number of shares of Preferred Stock sold
hereunder shall be up to 6,973.38.  Each Purchaser shall deliver to
the Company via wire transfer or a certified check of immediately available
funds equal to its Subscription Amount and the Company shall deliver to each
Purchaser its respective shares of Preferred Stock and Warrants as determined
pursuant to Section 2.2(a), and the Company and each Purchaser shall deliver the
other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at the Closing.  Upon
satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3,
the Closing shall occur at the offices of WS or such other location as the
parties shall mutually agree.

     

    2.2           Deliveries.

     

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

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (i)

            	
              this
      Agreement duly executed by the
Company;

            


    

     

    (ii)           a
legal opinion of Company Counsel, substantially in the form of Exhibit D attached
hereto;

     

    (iii)          a
certificate evidencing a number of shares of Preferred Stock equal to such
Purchaser’s Subscription Amount divided by the Stated Value, registered in the
name of such Purchaser and evidence of the filing and acceptance of the
Certificate of Designation from the Secretary of State of Delaware;

     

    (iv)          a
Warrant registered in the name of such Purchaser to purchase up to a number of
shares of Common Stock equal to 50% of such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount
divided by the Conversion Price, with an exercise price equal to $0.6480, subject to adjustment
therein;

     

    (v)           an
escrow agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Company
and the Purchasers pursuant to which the Make-Whole Payment shall be deposited;
and

     

    (vi)          the
Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by the Company.

     

    


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

     


    
      
         


      

      
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              (i)

            	
                
      this Agreement duly executed by such
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    (ii)           such
Purchaser’s Subscription Amount by wire transfer to the account as specified in
writing by the Company, of which the Make-Whole Payment shall be deposited
directly in the above-referenced escrow account;

     

    (iii)          an
escrow agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Company
and the Purchasers pursuant to which the Make-Whole Payment (as defined in the
Certificate of Designation) shall be deposited; and

     

    (iv)          the
Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser.

     

    2.3           Closing
Conditions.

     

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

     

    (i)           
the accuracy in all material respects on the Closing Date of the representations
and warranties of the Purchasers contained herein (unless as of a specific date
therein);

     

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

     

    (iii)          the
delivery by each Purchaser of the items set forth in Section 2.2(b) of this
Agreement.

     

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

     

    (i)           the
accuracy in all material respects when made and on the Closing Date of the
representations and warranties of the Company contained herein (unless as of a
specific date therein);

     

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

     

    (iii)          the
delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2(a) of this
Agreement;

     

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

     

    (v)           the
issuance of the Securities hereunder shall not trigger the application
of the Rights Agreement dated December 4, 2008; and

     


    
      
         


      

      
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    (vi)           from
the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have
been suspended by the Commission  or the Company’s principal Trading
Market (except for any suspension of trading of limited duration agreed to by
the Company, which suspension shall be terminated prior to the Closing), and, at
any time prior to the Closing Date, trading in securities generally as reported
by Bloomberg L.P. shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices
shall not have been established on securities whose trades are reported by such
service, or on any Trading Market, nor shall a banking moratorium have been
declared either by the United States or New York State authorities nor shall
there have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other
national or international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any
material adverse change in, any financial market which, in each case, in the
reasonable judgment of each Purchaser, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to
purchase the Securities at the Closing.

     

     

    ARTICLE
III.

    REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES

     

    3.1           Representations and
Warranties of the Company.  Except as set forth in the
Disclosure Schedules, which Disclosure Schedules shall be deemed a part hereof
and shall qualify any representation or statement otherwise made herein to the
extent of the disclosure contained in the corresponding section of the
Disclosure Schedules, the Company hereby makes the following representations and
warranties to each Purchaser:

     

    (a)           Subsidiaries.  All
of the direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Company are set forth on Schedule
3.1(a).  The Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of the
capital stock or other equity interests of each Subsidiary free and clear of any
Liens, and all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of each
Subsidiary are validly issued and are fully paid, non-assessable and free of
preemptive and similar rights to subscribe for or purchase
securities.  If the Company has no subsidiaries, all other references
to the Subsidiaries or any of them in the Transaction Documents shall be
disregarded.

     

    (b)           Organization and
Qualification.  The Company and each of the Subsidiaries is an
entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or
organization, with the requisite power and authority to own and use its
properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently
conducted.  Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in violation nor
default of any of the provisions of its respective certificate or articles of
incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter
documents.  Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified
to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other
entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or
property owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the
failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not
have or reasonably be expected to result in: (i) a material adverse effect on
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    effect
on the results of operations, assets, business, prospects or condition
(financial or otherwise) of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole,
or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform in any
material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction
Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material Adverse
Effect”) and no Proceeding has been instituted in any such jurisdiction
revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke, limit or curtail such
power and authority or qualification.

     

    (c)           Authorization;
Enforcement.  The Company has the requisite corporate power and
authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by each
of the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations
hereunder and thereunder.  The execution and delivery of each of the
Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all
necessary action on the part of the Company and no further action is required by
the Company, the Board of Directors or the Company’s stockholders in connection
therewith other than in connection with the Required Approvals.  Each
Transaction Document to which it is a party has been (or upon delivery will have
been) duly executed by the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the
terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation of
the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms,
except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general
application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as
limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive
relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and
contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

     

    (d)           No
Conflicts.  The execution, delivery and performance by the
Company of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and sale of the Securities
and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby
to which it is a party do not and will not: (i) conflict with or violate any
provision of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s certificate or articles of
incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents, (ii)
conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of
time or both would become a default) under, result in the creation of any Lien
upon any of the properties or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary, or give
to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation
(with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit
facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company or Subsidiary debt or
otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a
party or by which any property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary is
bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with or
result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction,
decree or other restriction of any court or governmental authority to which the
Company or a Subsidiary is subject (including federal and state securities laws
and regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company or a
Subsidiary is bound
or affected; except in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could
not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
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    (e)           Filings, Consents and
Approvals.  The Company is not required to obtain any consent,
waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or
registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other
governmental authority or other Person in connection with the execution,
delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, other
than: (i) the filings required pursuant to Section 4.6 of this Agreement, (ii)
the filing with the Commission pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement,
(iii) the notice and/or application(s) to each applicable Trading Market for the
issuance and sale of the Securities and the listing of the Underlying Shares for
trading thereon in the time and manner required thereby, and (iv) the filing of
Form D with the Commission and such filings as are required to be made under
applicable state securities laws (collectively, the “Required
Approvals”).

     

    (f)           Issuance of the
Securities.  The Securities are duly authorized and, when
issued and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents,
will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of
all Liens imposed by the Company other than restrictions on transfer provided
for in the Transaction Documents.  The Underlying Shares, when issued
in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents, will be validly
issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the
Company other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction
Documents.  The Company has reserved from its duly authorized capital
stock a number of shares of Common Stock for issuance of the Underlying Shares
at least equal to the Required Minimum on the date hereof.

     

    (g)           Capitalization.  The
capitalization of the Company is as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g),
which Schedule
3.1(g) shall also include the number of shares of Common Stock owned
beneficially, and of record, by Affiliates of the Company as of the date hereof.
The Company has not issued any capital stock since its most recently filed
periodic report under the Exchange Act, other than pursuant to the exercise of
employee stock options under the Company’s stock option plans, the issuance of
shares of Common Stock to employees pursuant to the Company’s employee stock
purchase plans and pursuant to the conversion and/or exercise of Common Stock
Equivalents outstanding as of the date of the most recently filed periodic
report under the Exchange Act.  No Person has any right of first
refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to
participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents.  Except as a result of the purchase and sale of the
Securities or as disclosed in the SEC Reports, there are no outstanding options,
warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character
whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or
exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to subscribe for
or acquire any shares of Common Stock, or contracts, commitments, understandings
or arrangements by which the Company or any Subsidiary is or may become bound to
issue additional shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents. Except as
set forth in Schedule
3.1(g), the issuance and sale of the Securities will not obligate the
Company to issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any Person (other
than the Purchasers) and will not result in a right of any holder of Company
securities to adjust the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price under any
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    issued,
fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with all federal
and state securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was issued in
violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or
purchase securities.  No further approval or authorization of any
stockholder, the Board of Directors or others is required for the issuance and
sale of the Securities.  Except as set forth in Schedule 3.1(g),
there are no stockholders agreements, voting agreements or other similar
agreements with respect to the Company’s capital stock to which the Company is a
party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the Company’s
stockholders.

     

    (h)           SEC Reports; Financial
Statements.  The Company has filed all reports, schedules,
forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under
the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or
15(d) thereof, for the two years preceding the date hereof (or such shorter
period as the Company was required by law or regulation to file such material)
(the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents
incorporated by reference therein, being collectively referred to herein as the
“SEC Reports”)
on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and
has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such
extension.  As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in
all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the
Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained
any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading.  The Company has never been an issuer subject to, or
identified in, Rule 144(i) under the Securities Act. The financial statements of
the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with
applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the
Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of
filing.  Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance
with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a
consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”), except as may
be otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and
except that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes
required by GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial
position of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of and for the
dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then
ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial,
year-end audit adjustments.

     

    (i)           Material Changes;
Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments.  Since the
date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports,
except as specifically disclosed in a subsequent SEC Report filed prior to the
date hereof: (i) there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had
or that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect,
(ii) the Company has not incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise)
other than (A) trade payables and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary
course of business consistent with past practice and (B) liabilities not
required to be reflected in the Company’s financial statements pursuant to GAAP
or disclosed in SEC Reports, (iii) the Company has not altered its method of
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    distribution
of cash or other property to its stockholders or purchased, redeemed or made any
agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital stock and (v) the
Company has not issued any equity securities to any officer, director or
Affiliate, except pursuant to existing Company stock option plans. The Company
does not have pending before the Commission any request for confidential
treatment of information.  Except for the issuance of the Securities
contemplated by this Agreement or as set forth on Schedule 3.1(i), no
event, liability, fact, circumstance, occurrence or development has occurred or
exists or is reasonably expected to occur or exist with respect to the Company
or its Subsidiaries or their respective business, prospects, properties,
operations, assets or financial condition, that would be required to be
disclosed by the Company under applicable securities laws at the time this
representation is made or deemed made that has not been publicly disclosed at
least 1 Trading Day prior to the date that this representation is
made.

     

    (j)           Litigation.  Except
as set forth in Schedule 3.1(j),
there is no action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding or
investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or
affecting the Company, any Subsidiary or any of their respective properties
before or by any court, arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency or
regulatory authority (federal, state, county, local or foreign) (collectively,
an “Action”)
which (i) adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or
enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents or the Securities or (ii)
could, if there were an unfavorable decision, have or reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect.  Except as set forth in Schedule 3.1(j),
neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor any director or officer thereof, is
or has been the subject of any Action involving a claim of violation of or
liability under federal or state securities laws or a claim of breach of
fiduciary duty.  Except as set forth in Schedule 3.1(j),
there has not been, and to the knowledge of the Company, there is not pending or
contemplated, any investigation by the Commission involving the Company or any
current or former director or officer of the Company.  The Commission
has not issued any stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of any
registration statement filed by the Company or any Subsidiary under the Exchange
Act or the Securities Act.

     

    (k)           Labor
Relations.  No material labor dispute exists or, to the
knowledge of the Company, is imminent with respect to any of the employees of
the Company, which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.  None of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ employees is a
member of a union that relates to such employee’s relationship with the Company
or such Subsidiary, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a
party to a collective bargaining agreement, and the Company and its Subsidiaries
believe that their relationships with their employees are good.  No
executive officer, to the knowledge of the Company, is, or is now expected to
be, in violation of any material term of any employment contract,
confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement or
non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive
covenant in favor of any third party, and the continued employment of each such
executive officer does not subject the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any
liability with respect to any of the foregoing matters.  The Company
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    foreign
laws and regulations relating to employment and employment practices, terms and
conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where the failure to be in
compliance could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect.

     

    (l)           Compliance.  Except
as set forth in Schedule 3.1(l),
neither the Company nor any Subsidiary: (i) is in default under or in violation
of (and no event has occurred that has not been waived that, with notice or
lapse of time or both, would result in a default by the Company or any
Subsidiary under), nor has the Company or any Subsidiary received notice of a
claim that it is in default under or that it is in violation of, any indenture,
loan or credit agreement or any other agreement or instrument to which it is a
party or by which it or any of its properties is bound (whether or not such
default or violation has been waived), (ii) is in violation of any judgment,
decree or order of any court, arbitrator or governmental body or (iii) is or has
been in violation of any statute, rule, ordinance or regulation of any
governmental authority, including without limitation all foreign, federal, state
and local laws relating to taxes, environmental protection, occupational health
and safety, product quality and safety and employment and labor matters, except
in each case as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect.

     

    (m)           Regulatory
Permits.  The Company and the Subsidiaries possess all
certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate federal,
state, local or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their
respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports, except where the failure
to possess such permits could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect (“Material Permits”),
and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice of
proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Material
Permit.

     

    (n)           Title to
Assets.  Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports or on Schedule
3.1(n), the Company and the Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee
simple to all real property owned by them and good and marketable title in all
personal property owned by them that is material to the business of the Company
and the Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all Liens, except for Liens
as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially
interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the
Company and the Subsidiaries and Liens for the payment of federal, state or
other taxes, the payment of which is neither delinquent nor subject to
penalties.  Any real property and facilities held under lease by the
Company and the Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and
enforceable leases with which the Company and the Subsidiaries are in
compliance.

     

    (o)           Patents and
Trademarks.  The Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have
rights to use, all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark
applications, service marks, trade names, trade secrets, inventions, copyrights,
licenses and other intellectual property rights and similar rights as described
in the SEC Reports as necessary or material for use in connection with their
respective businesses and which the failure to so have could have a Material
Adverse Effect (collectively, the “Intellectual Property
Rights”).  None of, and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary
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    (written
or otherwise) that any of, the Intellectual Property Rights has expired,
terminated or been abandoned, or is expected to expire or terminate or be
abandoned, within two (2) years from the date of this
Agreement.  Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received, since
the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC
Reports, a written notice of a claim or otherwise has any knowledge that the
Intellectual Property Rights violate or infringe upon the rights of any Person,
except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.  To the knowledge
of the Company, all such Intellectual Property Rights are enforceable and there
is no existing infringement by another Person of any of the Intellectual
Property Rights.  The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken
reasonable security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value
of all of their intellectual properties, except where failure to do so could
not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.

     

    (p)           Insurance.  The
Company and the Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial
responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are prudent
and customary in the businesses in which the Company and the Subsidiaries are
engaged.  Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any reason to
believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and
when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers
as may be necessary to continue its business without a significant increase in
cost.

     

    (q)           Transactions With Affiliates
and Employees.  Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, none of
the officers or directors of the Company and, to the knowledge of the Company,
none of the employees of the Company is presently a party to any transaction
with the Company or any Subsidiary (other than for services as employees,
officers and directors), including any contract, agreement or other arrangement
providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real
or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any
officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any
entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial
interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner, in each case in excess
of $120,000 other than for: (i) payment of salary or consulting fees for
services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the
Company and (iii) other employee benefits, including stock option agreements
under any stock option plan of the Company.

     

    (r)           Sarbanes-Oxley; Internal
Accounting Controls.  The Company is in compliance with any and
all applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that are effective
as of the date hereof, and any and all applicable rules and regulations
promulgated by the Commission thereunder that are effective as of the date
hereof and as of the Closing Date.  The Company and the Subsidiaries
maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide
reasonable assurance that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded
as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with
GAAP and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted
only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv)
the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at
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    Company
has established disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act
Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and designed such disclosure
controls and procedures to ensure that information required to be disclosed by
the Company in the reports it files or submits under the Exchange Act is
recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified
in the Commission’s rules and forms.  The Company’s certifying
officers have evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls
and procedures as of the end of the period covered by the Company’s most
recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act (such date, the “Evaluation
Date”).  The Company presented in its most recently filed
periodic report under the Exchange Act the conclusions of the certifying
officers about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based
on their evaluations as of the Evaluation Date.  Since the Evaluation
Date, there have been no changes in the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act) that has
materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s
internal control over financial reporting.

     

    (s)           Certain
Fees.  Except for fees to Rodman & Renshaw LLC and as
otherwise set forth on Schedule 3.1(s)
attached hereto, no brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions are or will be
payable by the Company to any broker, financial advisor or consultant, finder,
placement agent, investment banker, bank or other Person with respect to the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.  The
Purchasers shall have no obligation with respect to any fees or with respect to
any claims made by or on behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated
in this Section that may be due in connection with the transactions contemplated
by the Transaction Documents.

     

    (t)           Private
Placement.  Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’
representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, no registration under
the Securities Act is required for the offer and sale of the Securities by the
Company to the Purchasers as contemplated hereby. The issuance and sale of the
Securities hereunder does not contravene the rules and regulations of the
Trading Market.

     

    (u)           Investment Company.
The Company is not, and is not an Affiliate of, and immediately after receipt of
payment for the Securities, will not be or be an Affiliate of, an “investment
company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended.  The Company shall conduct its business in a manner so that
it will not become an “investment company” subject to registration under the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

     

    (v)           Registration
Rights.  Other than each of the Purchasers or as set forth on
Schedule
3.1(v), no Person has any right to cause the Company to effect the
registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the
Company.

     

    (w)          Listing and Maintenance
Requirements.  The Common Stock is registered pursuant to
Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action
designed to, or which to its knowledge is likely to have the effect of,
terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act nor has
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    registration.  Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.1(w), the
Company has not, in the 12 months preceding the date hereof, received notice
from any Trading Market on which the Common Stock is or has been listed or
quoted to the effect that the Company is not in compliance with the listing or
maintenance requirements of such Trading Market. The Company is, and has no
reason to believe that it will not in the foreseeable future continue to be, in
compliance with all such listing and maintenance requirements.

     

    (x)           Application of Takeover
Protections. The Company and the Board of Directors have taken all
necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share
acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under
a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Company’s
certificate of incorporation (or similar charter documents) or the laws of its
state of incorporation that is or could become applicable to the Purchasers as a
result of the Purchasers and the Company fulfilling their obligations or
exercising their rights under the Transaction Documents, including without
limitation as a result of the Company’s issuance of the Securities and the
Purchasers’ ownership of the Securities.

     

    (y)           Disclosure.  Except
with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company confirms that neither it
nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Purchasers or
their agents or counsel with any information that it believes constitutes or
might constitute material, non-public information.  The Company
understands and confirms that the Purchasers will rely on the foregoing
representation in effecting transactions in securities of the
Company.  All of the disclosure furnished by or on behalf of the
Company to the Purchasers regarding the Company, its business and the
transactions contemplated hereby, including the Disclosure Schedules to this
Agreement, is true and correct and does not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the
statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading.   The press releases disseminated by the
Company during the twelve months preceding the date of this Agreement taken as a
whole do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made and
when made, not misleading.  The Company acknowledges and agrees that
no Purchaser makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to
the transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in
Section 3.2 hereof.

     

    (z)           No Integrated
Offering. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and
warranties set forth in Sections 3.2 and 4.15, neither the Company, nor any of
its Affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf has, directly or
indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to
buy any security, under circumstances that would cause this offering of the
Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of
(i) the Securities Act which would require the registration of any such
securities under the Securities Act, or (ii)
any applicable shareholder approval provisions of any Trading Market on which
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    (aa)           Solvency.  Based
on the consolidated financial condition of the Company as of the Closing Date,
after giving effect to the receipt by the Company of the proceeds from the sale
of the Securities hereunder: (i) the fair saleable value of the Company’s assets
exceeds the amount that will be required to be paid on or in respect of the
Company’s existing debts and other liabilities (including known contingent
liabilities) as they mature and (ii) the Company’s assets do not constitute
unreasonably small capital to carry on its business as now conducted and as
proposed to be conducted including its capital needs taking into account the
particular capital requirements of the business conducted by the Company, and
projected capital requirements and capital availability thereof.  The
Company does not intend to incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as
they mature (taking into account the timing and amounts of cash to be payable on
or in respect of its debt). Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(y), the
Company has no knowledge of any facts or circumstances which lead it to believe
that it will file for reorganization or liquidation under the bankruptcy or
reorganization laws of any jurisdiction within one year from the Closing Date.
Schedule
3.1(aa) sets forth as of the date hereof all outstanding secured and
unsecured Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary, or for which the
Company or any Subsidiary has commitments.  For the purposes of this
Agreement, “Indebtedness” means
(x) any liabilities for borrowed money or amounts owed in excess of $200,000
(other than trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business),
(y) all guaranties, endorsements and other contingent obligations in respect of
indebtedness of others, whether or not the same are or should be reflected in
the Company’s balance sheet (or the notes thereto), except guaranties by
endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar
transactions in the ordinary course of business; and (z) the present value of
any lease payments in excess of $200,000 due under leases required to be
capitalized in accordance with GAAP.  Neither the Company nor any
Subsidiary is in default with respect to any Indebtedness.

     

    (bb)           Tax
Status.   Except for matters that would not, individually
or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect, The Company and each Subsidiary (i) has made or filed all United
States federal and state income and all foreign income and franchise tax
returns, reports and declarations required by any jurisdiction to which it is
subject, (ii) has 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 and (iii) has set aside on its books provision
reasonably adequate for the payment of all material 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
or of any Subsidiary know of no basis for any such claim.

     

    (cc)           No General
Solicitation. Neither the Company nor any person acting on behalf of the
Company has offered or sold any of the Securities by any form of general
solicitation or general advertising.  The Company has offered the
Securities for sale only to the Purchasers and certain other “accredited
investors” within the meaning of Rule 501 under the Securities Act.

     

    (dd)           Foreign Corrupt
Practices.  Neither the Company, nor to the knowledge of the
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    directly
or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment
or other unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic political activity,
(ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or
employees or to any foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from
corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully any contribution made by the
Company (or made by any person acting on its behalf of which the Company is
aware) which is  in violation of law or (iv) violated in any material
respect any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as
amended.

     

    (ee)          Accountants.  The
Company’s accounting firm is set forth on Schedule 3.1(ee) of
the Disclosure Schedules.  To the knowledge and belief of the Company,
such accounting firm: (i) is a registered public accounting firm as required by
the Exchange Act and (ii) shall express its opinion with respect to the
financial statements to be included in the Company’s Annual Report for the year
ending December 31, 2009.

     

    (ff)           Seniority.  As
of the Closing Date, except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(ff), no
Indebtedness or other claim against the Company is senior to the Preferred Stock
in right of payment, whether with respect to interest or upon liquidation or
dissolution, or otherwise, other than indebtedness secured by purchase money
security interests (which is senior only as to underlying assets covered
thereby) and capital lease obligations (which is senior only as to the property
covered thereby).

     

    (gg)           No Disagreements with
Accountants and Lawyers.  There are no disagreements of any
kind presently existing, or reasonably anticipated by the Company to arise,
between the Company and the accountants and lawyers formerly or presently
employed by the Company and the Company is current with respect to any fees owed
to its accountants and lawyers which could affect the Company’s ability to
perform any of its obligations under any of the Transaction
Documents.

     

    (hh)          
Acknowledgment
Regarding Purchasers’ Purchase of Securities.  The Company
acknowledges and agrees that each of the Purchasers is acting solely in the
capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents
and the transactions contemplated thereby.  The Company further
acknowledges that no Purchaser is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of
the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction
Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by any
Purchaser or any of their respective representatives or agents in connection
with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is
merely incidental to the Purchasers’ purchase of the Securities.  The
Company further represents to each Purchaser that the Company’s decision to
enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based
solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by
the Company and its representatives.

     

    (ii)           Acknowledgment Regarding
Purchaser’s Trading Activity.  Anything in this Agreement or
elsewhere herein to the contrary notwithstanding (except for Sections 3.2(f) and
4.15 hereof), it is understood and acknowledged by the Company that: (i) none of
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    agreed,
to desist from purchasing or selling, long and/or short, securities of the
Company, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the Company or
to hold the Securities for any specified term, (ii) past or future open market
or other transactions by any Purchaser, specifically including, without
limitation, Short Sales or “derivative” transactions, before or after the
closing of this or future private placement transactions, may negatively impact
the market price of the Company’s publicly-traded securities, (iii) any
Purchaser, and counter-parties in “derivative” transactions to which any such
Purchaser is a party, directly or indirectly, may presently have a “short”
position in the Common Stock and (iv) each Purchaser shall not be deemed to have
any affiliation with or control over any arm’s length counter-party in any
“derivative” transaction.  The Company further understands and
acknowledges that (y) one or more Purchasers may engage in hedging activities at
various times during the period that the Securities are outstanding, including,
without limitation, during the periods that the value of the Underlying Shares
deliverable with respect to Securities are being determined, and (z) such
hedging activities (if any) could reduce the value of the existing stockholders'
equity interests in the Company at and after the time that the hedging
activities are being conducted.  The Company acknowledges that such
aforementioned hedging activities do not constitute a breach of any of the
Transaction Documents.

     

    (jj)           Regulation M
Compliance.  The Company has not, and to its knowledge no one acting
on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to
cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any
security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the
Securities, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or paid any compensation for
soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay
to any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other
securities of the Company, other than, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii),
compensation paid to the Company’s placement agent in connection with the
placement of the Securities.

     

    (kk)         Form S-3
Eligibility.  The Company is eligible to register the resale of
the Underlying Shares for resale by the Purchaser on Form S-3 promulgated under
the Securities Act.

     

    (ll)           Stock Option Plans.
Each security granted by the Company under the Company’s equity plan was granted
(i) in accordance with the terms of the Company’s equity plan and (ii) with an
exercise price at least equal to the fair market value of the Common Stock on
the date such security would be considered granted under GAAP and applicable
law. No security granted under the Company’s equity plan has been
backdated.  The Company has not knowingly granted, and there is no and
has been no Company policy or practice to knowingly grant, securities prior to,
or otherwise knowingly coordinate the grant of equity with, the release or other
public announcement of material information regarding the Company or its
Subsidiaries or their financial results or prospects.

     

    (mm)        Office of Foreign Assets
Control.  Neither the Company nor, to the Company's knowledge,
any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company is currently
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    Control
of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”).

     

    (nn)           U.S. Real Property Holding
Corporation.  The Company is not and has never been a U.S. real
property holding corporation within the meaning of Section 897 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Company shall so certify upon
Purchaser’s request.

     

    (oo)           Bank Holding Company
Act.  Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliates is subject to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended (the
“BHCA”) and to
regulation by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal
Reserve”).  Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliates owns or controls, directly or indirectly, five percent (5%) or more
of the outstanding shares of any class of voting securities or twenty-five
percent or more of the total equity of a bank or any entity that is subject to
the BHCA and to regulation by the Federal Reserve.  Neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates exercises a controlling
influence over the management or policies of a bank or any entity that is
subject to the BHCA and to regulation by the Federal Reserve.

     

    (pp)           Money
Laundering.  The operations of the Company are and have been
conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial record-keeping
and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting
Act of 1970, as amended, applicable money laundering statutes and applicable
rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “Money Laundering
Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or
governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company
with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the
Company, threatened.

     

    3.2           Representations and
Warranties of the Purchasers.    Each Purchaser, for
itself and for no other Purchaser, hereby represents and warrants as of the
execution of this Agreement on the date hereof to the Company as follows (unless
as of a specific date therein):

     

    (a)           Organization;
Authority.  Such Purchaser is either an individual or an entity
duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its organization with full right, corporate or partnership power
and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by
the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder
and thereunder. The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and
performance by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate,
partnership, limited liability company or similar action, as applicable, on the
part of such Purchaser.  Each Transaction Document to which it is a
party has been duly executed by such Purchaser, and when delivered by such
Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and
legally binding obligation of such Purchaser, enforceable against it in
accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable
principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and
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    availability
of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii)
insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by
applicable law.

     

    (b)           Own
Account.  Such Purchaser understands that the Securities are
“restricted securities” and have not been registered under the Securities Act or
any applicable state securities law and is acquiring the Securities as principal
for its own account and not with a view to or for distributing or reselling such
Securities or any part thereof in violation of the Securities Act or any
applicable state securities law, has no present intention of distributing any of
such Securities in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state
securities law and has no direct or indirect arrangement or understandings with
any other persons to distribute or regarding the distribution of such Securities
in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law (this
representation and warranty not limiting such Purchaser’s right to sell the
Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise in compliance
with applicable federal and state securities laws).  Such Purchaser is
acquiring the Securities hereunder in the ordinary course of its
business.

     

    (c)           Purchaser
Status.  At the time such Purchaser was offered the Securities,
it was, and as of the date hereof it is, and on each date on which it exercises
any Warrants or converts any shares of Preferred Stock it will be either: (i) an
“accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(7) or
(a)(8) under the Securities Act or (ii) a “qualified institutional buyer” as
defined in Rule 144A(a) under the Securities Act.  Such Purchaser is
not required to be registered as a broker-dealer under Section 15 of the
Exchange Act.

     

    (d)           Experience of Such
Purchaser.  Such Purchaser, either alone or together with its
representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business
and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of
the prospective investment in the Securities, and has so evaluated the merits
and risks of such investment.  Such Purchaser is able to bear the
economic risk of an investment in the Securities and, at the present time, is
able to afford a complete loss of such investment.

     

    (e)           General
Solicitation.  Such Purchaser is not purchasing the Securities
as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication
regarding the Securities published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media
or broadcast over television or radio or presented at any seminar or any other
general solicitation or general advertisement.

     

    (f)           Certain Transactions and
Confidentiality.  Other than consummating the transactions
contemplated hereunder, such Purchaser has not directly or indirectly, nor has
any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with such
Purchaser, executed any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the
securities of the Company during the period commencing as of the time that such
Purchaser first received a term sheet (written or oral) from the Company or any
other Person representing the Company setting forth the material terms of the
transactions contemplated hereunder and ending immediately prior to the
execution hereof.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a
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    managers
manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers
have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio
managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the representation
set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed
by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the
Securities covered by this Agreement.  Other than to other Persons
party to this Agreement, such Purchaser has maintained the confidentiality of
all disclosures made to it in connection with this transaction (including the
existence and terms of this transaction). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for
avoidance of doubt, nothing contained herein shall constitute a representation
or warranty, or preclude any actions, with respect to the identification of the
availability of, or securing of, available shares to borrow in order to effect
Short Sales or similar transactions in the future.

     

    (g)           Reliance. Each
of the Purchasers specifically acknowledges that the Company is relying upon the
accuracy and completeness of each of the representations, warranties and
agreements made by the Purchasers in this Agreement and each of the Transaction
Documents.

     

    The
Company acknowledges and agrees that the representations contained in Section
3.2 shall not modify, amend or affect such Purchaser’s right to rely on the
Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any
representations and warranties contained in any other Transaction Document or
any other document or instrument executed and/or delivered in connection with
this Agreement or the consummation of the transaction contemplated
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    ARTICLE
IV.

    OTHER
AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES

     

    4.1           Transfer
Restrictions.

     

    (a)           The
Securities may only be disposed of in compliance with state and federal
securities laws.  In connection with any transfer of Securities other
than pursuant to an effective registration statement or Rule 144, to the Company
or to an Affiliate of a Purchaser or in connection with a pledge as contemplated
in Section 4.1(b), the Company may require the transferor thereof to provide to
the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor and reasonably
acceptable to the Company, the form and substance of which opinion shall be
reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does
not require registration of such transferred Securities under the Securities
Act.  As a condition of transfer, any such transferee shall agree in
writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and the Registration Rights
Agreement and shall have the rights and obligations of a Purchaser under this
Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement.

     

    (b)           The
Purchasers agree to the imprinting, so long as is required by this Section 4.1,
of a legend on any of the Securities in the following form:

     

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    REGISTERED
WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY
STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED
OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION
NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN
ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION
OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE
REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY.  THIS SECURITY [AND THE
SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON [EXERCISE] [CONVERSION] OF THIS SECURITY] MAY BE
PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT WITH A REGISTERED
BROKER-DEALER OR OTHER LOAN WITH A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION THAT IS AN “ACCREDITED
INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR OTHER LOAN
SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.

     

    The
Company acknowledges and agrees that a Purchaser may from time to time pledge
pursuant to a bona fide margin agreement with a registered broker-dealer or
grant a security interest in some or all of the Securities to a financial
institution that is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the
Securities Act and who agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Agreement
and the Registration Rights Agreement and, if required under the terms of such
arrangement, such Purchaser may transfer pledged or secured Securities to the
pledgees or secured parties.  Such a pledge or transfer would not be
subject to approval of the Company and no legal opinion of legal counsel of the
pledgee, secured party or pledgor shall be required in connection
therewith.  Further, no notice shall be required of such
pledge.  At the appropriate Purchaser’s expense, the Company will
execute and deliver such reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party
of Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or transfer of
the Securities, including, if the Securities are subject to registration
pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the preparation and filing of any
required prospectus supplement under Rule 424(b)(3) under the Securities Act or
other applicable provision of the Securities Act to appropriately amend the list
of Selling Stockholders (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement)
thereunder.

     

    (c)           Certificates
evidencing the Underlying Shares shall not contain any legend (including the
legend set forth in Section 4.1(b) hereof): (i) while a registration statement
(including the Registration Statement) covering the resale of such security is
effective under the Securities Act, (ii) following any sale of such Underlying
Shares pursuant to Rule 144, (iii) if such Underlying Shares are eligible for
sale under Rule 144, without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance
with the current public information required under Rule 144 as to such
Underlying Shares and without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or (iv) if
such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act
(including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of
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    Transfer
Agent promptly after the Effective Date if required by the Transfer Agent to
effect the removal of the legend hereunder.  If all or any shares of
Preferred Stock are converted or any portion of a Warrant is exercised at a time
when there is an effective registration statement to cover the resale of the
Underlying Shares, or if such Underlying Shares may be sold under Rule 144 and
the Company is then in compliance with the current public information required
under Rule 144, or if the Underlying Shares may be sold under Rule 144 without
the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public
information required under Rule 144 as to such Underlying Shares and without
volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or if such legend is not otherwise
required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial
interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission) then
such Underlying Shares shall be issued free of all legends.  The
Company agrees that following the Effective Date or at such time as such legend
is no longer required under this Section 4.1(c), it will, no later than three
Trading Days following the delivery by a Purchaser to the Company or the
Transfer Agent of a certificate representing Underlying Shares, as applicable,
issued with a restrictive legend (such third Trading Day, the “Legend Removal
Date”), deliver or cause to be delivered to such Purchaser a certificate
representing such shares that is free from all restrictive and other
legends.  The Company may not make any notation on its records or give
instructions to the Transfer Agent that enlarge the restrictions on transfer set
forth in this Section 4.  Certificates for Underlying Shares subject
to legend removal hereunder shall be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the
Purchaser by crediting the account of the Purchaser’s prime broker with the
Depository Trust Company System as directed by such Purchaser.

    


    (d)           In
addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to
a Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for
each $1,000 of Underlying Shares (based on the VWAP of the Common Stock on the
date such Securities are submitted to the Transfer Agent) delivered for removal
of the restrictive legend and subject to Section 4.1(c), $10 per Trading Day
(increasing to $20 per Trading Day five (5) Trading Days after such damages have
begun to accrue) for each Trading Day after the 2nd day
following the Legend Removal Date until such certificate is delivered without a
legend.  Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue
actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver certificates representing
any Securities as required by the Transaction Documents, and such Purchaser
shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity
including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or
injunctive relief.

     

    (e)           Each
Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees with the
Company that such Purchaser will sell any Securities pursuant to either the
registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable
prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and that if
Securities are sold pursuant to a Registration Statement, they will be sold in
compliance with the plan of distribution set forth therein, and acknowledges
that the removal of the restrictive legend from certificates
representing Securities as set forth in this Section 4.1 is predicated upon the
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    4.2           Acknowledgment
of Dilution.  The Company acknowledges that the issuance of the
Securities may result in dilution of the outstanding shares of Common Stock,
which dilution may be substantial under certain market
conditions.  The Company further acknowledges that its obligations
under the Transaction Documents, including, without limitation, its obligation
to issue the Underlying Shares pursuant to the Transaction Documents, are
unconditional and absolute and not subject to any right of set off,
counterclaim, delay or reduction, regardless of the effect of any such dilution
or any claim the Company may have against any Purchaser and regardless of the
dilutive effect that such issuance may have on the ownership of the other
stockholders of the Company.

     

    4.3           Furnishing of
Information; Public Information.

     

    (a)           If
the Common Stock is not registered under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange
Act on the date hereof, the Company agrees to cause the Common Stock to be
registered under Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act on or before the 60th
calendar day following the date hereof. Until the time that no Purchaser owns
Securities, the Company covenants to maintain the registration of the Common
Stock under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act and to timely file (or
obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace
period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof
pursuant to the Exchange Act even if the Company is not then subject to the
reporting requirements of the Exchange Act.    As long as
any Purchaser owns Securities, if the Company is not required to file reports
pursuant to the Exchange Act, it will prepare and furnish to the Purchasers and
make publicly available in accordance with Rule 144(c) such information as is
required for the Purchasers to sell the Securities, including without
limitation, under Rule 144.  The Company further covenants that it
will take such further action as any holder of Securities may reasonably
request, to the extent required from time to time to enable such Person to sell
such Securities without registration under the Securities Act, including without
limitation, within the requirements of the exemption provided by Rule
144.

     

    (b)           At
any time during the period commencing from the six (6) month anniversary of the
date hereof and ending at such time that all of the Securities may be sold
without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with Rule 144(c)(1)
and otherwise without restriction or limitation pursuant to Rule 144, if the
Company shall fail for any reason to satisfy the current public information
requirement under Rule 144(c) (a “Public Information
Failure”) then, in addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies,
the Company shall pay to a Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and
not as a penalty, by reason of any such delay in or reduction of its ability to
sell the Securities, an amount in cash equal to two percent (2.0%) of the
aggregate Subscription Amount of such Purchaser’s Securities on the day of a
Public Information Failure and on every thirtieth (30th) day
(pro rated for periods totaling less than thirty days) thereafter until the
earlier of (a) the date such Public Information Failure is cured and (b) such
time that such public information is no longer required  for the Purchasers
to transfer the Securities pursuant to Rule 144.  The payments to which a
Purchaser shall be entitled pursuant to this Section 4.3(b) are referred to
herein as “Public
Information Failure Payments.”  Public Information Failure Payments shall be paid
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    Payments
are incurred and (ii) the third (3rd)
Business Day after the event or failure giving rise to the Public Information
Failure Payments is
cured.  In the event the Company fails to make Public Information
Failure Payments in
a timely manner, such Public Information Failure Payments shall bear
interest at the rate of 1.5% per month (prorated for partial months) until paid
in full. Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right to pursue actual
damages for the Public Information Failure, and such Purchaser shall have the
right to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including,
without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive
relief.

     

    4.4           Integration.  The Company shall not
sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect
of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be
integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities in a manner that would
require the registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Securities
or that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities for
purposes of the rules and regulations of any Trading Market such that it would
require shareholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction
unless shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent
transaction.

     

    4.5        Conversion and Exercise
Procedures.  Each of the form of Notice of Exercise included in
the Warrants and the form of Notice of Conversion included in the Certificate of
Designation set forth the totality of the procedures required of the Purchasers
in order to exercise the Warrants or convert the Preferred Stock.  No
additional legal opinion, other information or instructions shall be required of
the Purchasers to exercise their Warrants or convert their Preferred
Stock.  The Company shall honor exercises of the Warrants and
conversions of the Preferred Stock and shall deliver Underlying Shares in
accordance with the terms, conditions and time periods set forth in the
Transaction Documents.

     

    4.6        Securities Laws Disclosure;
Publicity.  The Company shall, by 8:30 a.m. (Eastern time) on
the Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, issue a Current Report on
Form 8-K and press release disclosing the material terms of the transactions
contemplated hereby, and including the Transaction Documents as exhibits
thereto.  From and after the issuance of such press release, the
Company shall have publicly disclosed all material, non-public information
delivered to any of the Purchasers by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or
any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents in connection
with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Company and
each Purchaser shall consult with each other in issuing any other press releases
with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and neither the Company
nor any Purchaser shall issue any such press release nor otherwise make any such
public statement without the prior consent of the Company, with respect to any
press release of any Purchaser, or without the prior consent of each Purchaser,
with respect to any press release of the Company, which consent shall not
unreasonably be withheld or delayed, except if such disclosure is required by
law, in which case the disclosing party shall promptly provide the other party
with prior notice of such public statement or
communication.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not
publicly disclose the name of any Purchaser, or include the name of any
Purchaser in any SEC Reports or any regulatory agency or Trading Market, without
the prior written consent of such Purchaser, except: (a) as required by federal
securities law in connection with (i) any registration statement contemplated by
the Registration Rights Agreement and (ii) the filing of final Transaction
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    disclosure
is required by law or Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company
shall provide the Purchasers with prior notice of such disclosure permitted
under this clause (b).

     

    4.7           Shareholder Rights
Plan.  No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or,
with the consent of the Company, any other Person,  that any Purchaser
is an “Acquiring Person” under any control share acquisition, business
combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement)
or similar anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by
the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of
any such plan or arrangement, by virtue of receiving Securities under the
Transaction Documents or under any other agreement between the Company and the
Purchasers.

     

    4.8           Non-Public
Information.  Except with respect to the material terms and
conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the
Company covenants and agrees that neither it, nor any other Person acting on its
behalf, will provide any Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information
that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information, unless
prior thereto such Purchaser shall have executed a written agreement with the
Company regarding the confidentiality and use of such
information.  The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser
shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in
securities of the Company.

     

    4.9           Use of
Proceeds.  Except as set forth on Schedule 4.9 attached
hereto, the Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities
hereunder for working capital purposes and shall not use such proceeds for: (a)
the satisfaction of any portion of the Company’s debt (other than payment of
trade payables in the ordinary course of the Company’s business and prior
practices), (b) the redemption of any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents,
(c) the settlement of any outstanding litigation or (d) in violation of the FCPA
or OFAC regulations.

     

    4.10           Indemnification of
Purchasers.   Subject to the provisions of this Section
4.10, the Company will indemnify and hold each Purchaser and its directors,
officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (and any other
Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles
notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who
controls such Purchaser (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act
and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders,
agents, members, partners or employees (and any other Persons with a
functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a
lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a
“Purchaser
Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations,
claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments,
amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and
costs of investigation that any such Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a
result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the representations,
warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in
the other Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted against a Purchaser
in any capacity, or any of them or their respective Affiliates, by any
stockholder of the Company who is not an Affiliate of such Purchaser, with
respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents
(unless such action is based upon a breach of such Purchaser’s representations,
warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents or any agreements or
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of state or federal securities laws or any conduct by such Purchaser which
constitutes fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or
malfeasance).  If any action shall be brought against any Purchaser
Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement,
such Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the
Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its
own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party.  Any
Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such
action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such
counsel shall be at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the extent
that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company
in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to
assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in
the reasonable opinion of counsel, a material conflict on any material issue
between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party, in
which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses
of no more than one such separate counsel.  The Company will not be
liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by a
Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which
shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the extent, but only to
the extent that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any
Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or
agreements made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement or in the other
Transaction Documents.  The indemnification required by this Section
4.10 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course
of the investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or are incurred.
The indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in addition to any cause of
action or similar right of any Purchaser Party against the Company or others,
and (y) any liabilities the Company may be subject to pursuant to
law.

     

    4.11           Reservation and Listing of
Securities.

     

    (a)           The
Company shall maintain a reserve from its duly authorized shares of Common Stock
for issuance pursuant to the Transaction Documents in such amount as may then be
required to fulfill its obligations in full under the Transaction
Documents.

     

    (b)           If,
on any date, the number of authorized but unissued (and otherwise unreserved)
shares of Common Stock is less than the Required Minimum on such date, then the
Board of Directors shall use commercially reasonable efforts to amend the
Company’s certificate or articles of incorporation to increase the number of
authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock to at least the Required Minimum
at such time, as soon as possible and in any event not later than the 75th day
after such date.

     

    (c)           The
Company shall, if applicable: (i) in the time and manner required by the
principal Trading Market, prepare and file with such Trading Market an
additional shares listing application covering a number of shares of Common
Stock at least equal to the Required Minimum on the date of such application,
(ii) take all steps necessary to cause such shares of Common Stock to be
approved for listing or quotation on such Trading
Market as soon as possible thereafter, (iii) provide to the Purchasers evidence
of such listing or quotation and (iv) maintain the listing or quotation of such
Common Stock at least equal to the Required Minimum at all times on such Trading
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    4.12           Participation in Future
Financing.

     

    (a)           From
the date hereof until the date that a Purchaser no longer holds any of the
Securities, upon any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of
Common Stock, Common Stock Equivalents for cash consideration, Indebtedness (or
a combination of units hereof) (a “Subsequent
Financing”), each Purchaser shall have the right to participate in up to
an amount of the Subsequent Financing equal to 100% of the Subsequent Financing
in an aggregate amount of up to $15,000,000 (the “Participation
Maximum”) on the same terms, conditions and price provided for in the
Subsequent Financing; provided, however, this right shall terminate upon the
Company consummating Subsequent Financings with gross proceeds of, in the
aggregate, $15,000,000 pursuant to which the Purchasers had the right to
participate hereunder.

     

    (b)           At
least five (5) Trading Days prior to the closing of the Subsequent Financing,
the Company shall deliver to each Purchaser a written notice of its intention to
effect a Subsequent Financing (“Pre-Notice”), which
Pre-Notice shall ask such Purchaser if it wants to review the details of such
financing (such additional notice, a “Subsequent Financing
Notice”).  Upon the request of a Purchaser within three (3)
Trading Days after delivery of the Pre-Notice, and only upon a request by such
Purchaser, for a Subsequent Financing Notice, the Company shall promptly, but no
later than three (3) Trading Days after such request, deliver a Subsequent
Financing Notice to such Purchaser.  The Subsequent Financing Notice
shall describe in reasonable detail the proposed terms of such Subsequent
Financing, the amount of proceeds intended to be raised thereunder and the
Person or Persons through or with whom such Subsequent Financing is proposed to
be effected and shall include a term sheet or similar document relating thereto
as an attachment.

     

    (c)           Any
Purchaser desiring to participate in such Subsequent Financing must provide
written notice to the Company by not later than 5:30 p.m. (Eastern time) on the
fifth (5th)
Trading Day after all of the Purchasers have received the Pre-Notice that the
Purchaser is willing to participate in the Subsequent Financing, the amount of
the Purchaser’s participation, and representing and warranting that the
Purchaser has such funds ready, willing, and available for investment on the
terms set forth in the Subsequent Financing Notice.  If the Company
receives no such notice from a Purchaser as of such fifth (5th)
Trading Day, such Purchaser shall be deemed to have notified the Company that it
does not elect to participate.

     

    (d)           If
by 5:30 p.m. (Eastern time) on the fifth (5th )
Trading Day after all of the Purchasers have received the Pre-Notice,
notifications by the Purchasers of their willingness to participate in the
Subsequent Financing (or to cause their designees to participate) is, in the
aggregate, less than the total amount of the Subsequent Financing, then
the Company may effect the remaining portion of such Subsequent Financing on the
terms and with the Persons set forth in the Subsequent Financing Notice.

       

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If by 5:30 p.m. (Eastern time) on the fifth (5th)
Trading Day after all of the Purchasers have received the Pre-Notice, the
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    aggregate
amount of the Participation Maximum, each such Purchaser shall have the right to
purchase its Pro Rata Portion (as defined below) of the Participation
Maximum.  “Pro
Rata Portion” means the ratio of (x) the Subscription Amount of
Securities purchased on the Closing Date by a Purchaser participating under this
Section 4.12 and (y) the sum of the aggregate Subscription Amounts of Securities
purchased on the Closing Date by all Purchasers participating under this Section
4.12.

     

    (f)           The
Company must provide the Purchasers with a second Subsequent Financing Notice,
and the Purchasers will again have the right of participation set forth above in
this Section 4.12, if the Subsequent Financing subject to the initial Subsequent
Financing Notice is not consummated for any reason on the terms set forth in
such Subsequent Financing Notice within thirty (30) Trading Days after the date
of the initial Subsequent Financing Notice.

     

    (g)           Notwithstanding
the foregoing, this Section 4.12 shall not apply in respect of (i) an Exempt
Issuance, or (ii) an underwritten public offering of Common Stock.

     

    4.13           Subsequent Equity
Sales.

     

    (a)           From
the date hereof until December 1, 2009, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary
shall issue, enter into any agreement to issue or announce the issuance or
proposed issuance of any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock
Equivalents.

     

    (b)           From
the date hereof until such time as no Purchaser holds any of the Preferred
Stock, the Company shall be prohibited from effecting or entering into an
agreement to effect any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of
Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents for cash consideration (or a
combination of units thereof) involving a Variable Rate Transaction. “Variable Rate
Transaction” means a transaction in which the Company (i) issues or sells
any debt or equity securities that are convertible into, exchangeable or
exercisable for, or include the right to receive, additional shares of Common
Stock either (A) at a conversion price, exercise price or exchange rate or other
price that is based upon, and/or varies with, the trading prices of or
quotations for the shares of Common Stock at any time after the initial issuance
of such debt or equity securities or (B) with a conversion, exercise or exchange
price that is subject to being reset at some future date after the initial
issuance of such debt or equity security or upon the occurrence of specified or
contingent events directly or indirectly related to the business of the Company
or the market for the Common Stock or (ii) enters into any agreement, including,
but not limited to, an equity line of credit, whereby the Company may sell
securities at a future determined price.   Any Purchaser shall be
entitled
to obtain injunctive relief against the Company to preclude any such issuance,
which remedy shall be in addition to any right to collect damages.

       

      (c)           Notwithstanding
the foregoing, this Section 4.13 shall not apply in respect of an Exempt
Issuance, except that no Variable Rate Transaction shall be an Exempt
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    4.14         Equal Treatment of
Purchasers.  No consideration (including any modification of
any Transaction Document) shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or
consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any of the Transaction
Documents unless the same consideration is also offered to all of the parties to
the Transaction Documents. For clarification purposes, this provision
constitutes a separate right granted to each Purchaser by the Company and
negotiated separately by each Purchaser, and is intended for the Company to
treat the Purchasers as a class and shall not in any way be construed as the
Purchasers acting in concert or as a group with respect to the purchase,
disposition or voting of Securities or otherwise.

     

    4.15         Certain Transactions and
Confidentiality. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other
Purchasers, covenants that neither it, nor any Affiliate acting on its behalf or
pursuant to any understanding with it will execute any purchases or sales,
including Short Sales, of any of the Company’s securities during the period
commencing with the execution of this Agreement and ending at such time that the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced
pursuant to the initial press release as described in Section 4.6.  Each
Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that
until such time as the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are publicly
disclosed by the Company pursuant to the initial press release as described in
Section 4.6, such Purchaser will maintain the confidentiality of the existence
and terms of this transaction and the information included in the Transaction
Documents and the Disclosure Schedules.  Notwithstanding the
foregoing, and notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the
contrary, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that (i) no Purchaser
makes any representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in
effecting transactions in any securities of the Company after the time that the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced
pursuant to the initial press release as described in Section 4.6, (ii) no
Purchaser shall be restricted or prohibited from effecting any transactions in
any securities of the Company in accordance with applicable securities laws and
regulations from and after the time that the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to the initial press release as
described in Section 4.6 and (iii) no Purchaser shall have any duty of
confidentiality to the Company or its Subsidiaries after the issuance of the
initial press release as described in Section 4.6.  Notwithstanding the
foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle
whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s
assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment
decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such
Purchaser’s assets, the covenant set forth above shall only apply with respect
to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the
investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this
Agreement.

     

    4.16         Form D; Blue Sky
Filings.  The Company agrees to timely file a Form D with
respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy
thereof, promptly upon
request of any Purchaser. The Company shall take such action as the Company
shall reasonably determine is necessary in order to obtain an exemption for, or
to qualify the Securities for, sale to the Purchasers at the Closing under
applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States, and
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    4.17         Capital
Changes.  Until the six month anniversary of the date hereof,
the Company shall not undertake a reverse or forward stock split or
reclassification of the Common Stock without the prior written consent of the
Purchasers holding a majority in interest of the shares of Preferred
Stock.

     

     

    ARTICLE
V.

    MISCELLANEOUS

     

    5.1           Termination. 
This Agreement may be terminated by any Purchaser, as to such Purchaser’s
obligations  hereunder only and without any effect whatsoever on the
obligations between the Company and the other Purchasers, by written notice to
the other parties, if the Closing has not been consummated on or before October
26, 2009; provided, however, that such
termination will not affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by the
other party (or parties).

     

    5.2           Fees and
Expenses.  Except as expressly set forth in the Transaction
Documents to the contrary, each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its
advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses
incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution,
delivery and performance of this Agreement.  The Company shall pay all
Transfer Agent fees, stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection
with the delivery of any Securities to the Purchasers. The Company shall
reimburse Cranshire Capital, L.P. (“Cranshire”) the
non-accountable sum of $15,000 for its legal fees and expenses incurred in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, which amount
shall be withheld by Cranshire from its Subscription Amount at the Closing or
paid by the Company upon termination of this Agreement so long as such
termination did not occur as a result of a material breach by Cranshire of any
of its obligations hereunder (as the case may be).

     

    5.3           Entire
Agreement.  The Transaction Documents, together with the
exhibits and schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and
understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties
acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and
schedules.

     

    5.4           Notices.  Any
and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to
be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and
effective on the earliest of: (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or
communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on
the signature pages attached hereto prior to 5:30 p.m. (Eastern time) on a
Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such
notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set
forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day
or later than 5:30 p.m. (Eastern time) on any Trading Day, (c) the second
(2nd)
Trading Day following the date of mailing,
if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service or (d) upon
actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be
given.  The address for such notices and communications shall be as
set forth on the signature pages attached hereto.

       

      5.5           Amendments; Waivers.
No provision of this Agreement may be waived, modified, supplemented or amended
except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the
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    then
outstanding or, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement
of any such waived provision is sought.  No waiver of any default with
respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be
deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent
default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor
shall any delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any
manner impair the exercise of any such right.

     

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

     

    5.7           Successors and
Assigns.  This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the
benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted
assigns.  The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or
obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Purchaser (other
than by merger).  Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights
under this Agreement to any Person to whom such Purchaser assigns or transfers
any Securities, provided that such transferee agrees in writing to be bound,
with respect to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of the Transaction
Documents that apply to the “Purchasers.”

     

    5.8           No Third-Party
Beneficiaries.  This Agreement is intended for the benefit of
the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is
not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other
Person, except as otherwise set forth in Section 4.10.

     

    5.9           Governing
Law.  All questions concerning the construction, validity,
enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall be governed by
and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of
New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law
thereof.  Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the
interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a
party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders,
employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal
courts sitting in the City of New York.  Each party hereby irrevocably
submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in
the City of New York, borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute
hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby
or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the
Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert
in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject
to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is
improper or is an inconvenient venue for such proceeding.  Each party
hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process
being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof
via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of
delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this
Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient
service of process and notice thereof.  Nothing contained herein shall
be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner
permitted by law.   If either party shall commence an action or
proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then, in
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other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses
incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or
proceeding.

     

    5.10           Survival.  The
representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and
the delivery of the Securities.

     

    5.11           Execution.  This
Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken
together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become
effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the
other party, it being understood that both parties need not sign the same
counterpart.  In the event that any signature is delivered by
facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such
signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or
on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if
such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.

     

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

     

    5.13           Rescission and Withdrawal
Right.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
(and without limiting any similar provisions of) any of the other Transaction
Documents, whenever any Purchaser exercises a right, election, demand or option
under a Transaction Document and the Company does not timely perform its related
obligations within the periods therein provided, then such Purchaser may rescind
or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time upon written notice to the
Company, any relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part without
prejudice to its future actions and rights; provided, however, that in the
case of a rescission of a conversion of the Preferred Stock or exercise of a
Warrant, the applicable Purchaser shall be required to return any shares of
Common Stock subject to any such rescinded conversion or exercise notice
concurrently with the return to such Purchaser of the aggregate exercise price
paid to the Company for such shares and the restoration of such Purchaser’s
right to acquire such shares pursuant to such Purchaser’s Warrant (including,
issuance of a replacement warrant certificate evidencing such restored
right).

     

    5.14           Replacement of
Securities.  If any certificate or instrument evidencing any
Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or
cause to be issued in exchange
and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation),
or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but
only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such
loss, theft or destruction.  The applicant for a new certificate or
instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party
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    5.15           Remedies.  In
addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by
law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will
be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction
Documents.  The parties agree that monetary damages may not be
adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of
obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agree to waive and
not to assert in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the
defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

     

    5.16           Payment Set Aside. To
the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to any Purchaser
pursuant to any Transaction Document or a Purchaser enforces or exercises its
rights thereunder, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such
enforcement or exercise or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated,
declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged
by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the Company,
a trustee, receiver or any other person under any law (including, without
limitation, any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable
cause of action), then to the extent of any such restoration the obligation or
part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued
in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such
enforcement or setoff had not occurred.

     

    5.17           Usury.  To
the extent it may lawfully do so, the Company hereby agrees not to insist upon
or plead or in any manner whatsoever claim, and will resist any and all efforts
to be compelled to take the benefit or advantage of, usury laws wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, in connection with any claim,
action or proceeding that may be brought by any Purchaser in order to enforce
any right or remedy under any Transaction Document.  Notwithstanding
any provision to the contrary contained in any Transaction Document, it is
expressly agreed and provided that the total liability of the Company under the
Transaction Documents for payments in the nature of interest shall not exceed
the maximum lawful rate authorized under applicable law (the “Maximum Rate”), and,
without limiting the foregoing, in no event shall any rate of interest or
default interest, or both of them, when aggregated with any other sums in the
nature of interest that the Company may be obligated to pay under the
Transaction Documents exceed such Maximum Rate.  It is agreed that if
the maximum contract rate of interest allowed by law and applicable to the
Transaction Documents is increased or decreased by statute or any official
governmental action subsequent to the date hereof, the new maximum contract rate
of interest allowed by law will be the Maximum Rate applicable to the
Transaction Documents from the effective date thereof forward, unless such
application is precluded by applicable law.  If under any
circumstances whatsoever, interest in excess of the Maximum Rate is paid by the
Company to any Purchaser with respect to indebtedness evidenced by the
Transaction Documents, such excess shall be applied by such Purchaser to the
unpaid principal balance of any such indebtedness or be refunded to the Company,
the manner of handling such excess to be at such Purchaser’s
election.

     

    5.18           Independent
Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights.  The obligations
of each Purchaser under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with
the obligations of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in
any way for the performance or non-performance of the obligations of any other
Purchaser under any Transaction Document.  Nothing contained herein or
in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant
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a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the
Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such
obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents.  Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect
and enforce its rights, including, without limitation, the rights arising out of
this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be
necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any
proceeding for such purpose.  Each Purchaser has been represented by
its own separate legal counsel in their review and negotiation of the
Transaction Documents.  For reasons of administrative convenience
only, each Purchaser and its respective counsel have chosen to communicate with
the Company through WS.  WS does not represent any of the Purchasers
and only represents Rodman & Renshaw, as the placement agent.  The
Company has elected to provide all Purchasers with the same terms and
Transaction Documents for the convenience of the Company and not because it was
required or requested to do so by any of the Purchasers. It is expressly
understood and agreed that each provision contained in this Agreement and in
each other Transaction Document is between the Company and a Purchaser, solely,
and not between the Company and the Purchasers collectively and not between and
among the Purchasers.

     

    5.19           Liquidated
Damages.  The Company’s obligations to pay any partial
liquidated damages or other amounts owing under the Transaction Documents is a
continuing obligation of the Company and shall not terminate until all unpaid
partial liquidated damages and other amounts have been paid notwithstanding the
fact that the instrument or security pursuant to which such partial liquidated
damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been
canceled.

     

    5.20           Saturdays, Sundays,
Holidays, etc.   If the last or appointed day for the
taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein
shall not be a Business Day, then such action may be taken or such right may be
exercised on the next succeeding Business Day.

     

    5.21           Construction. The
parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel has reviewed and
had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the
normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be
resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation
of the Transaction Documents or any amendments hereto. In addition, each and
every reference to share prices and shares of Common Stock in any Transaction
Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits,
stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common
Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.

     

    5.22           WAIVER OF
JURY TRIAL.  IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR
PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY, THE
PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY,
IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER TRIAL BY
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    IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Securities Purchase
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of
the date first indicated above.

     

    
      	
              EVERGREEN
      ENERGY INC.

               

               

            	
              Address for Notice:

            
	
              By:__________________________________________

                   Name:

                   Title:

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    IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement
to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date
first indicated above.

     

    Name
of Purchaser:
________________________________________________________

     

    Signature of Authorized Signatory of
Purchaser: __________________________________

     

    Name
of Authorized Signatory:
____________________________________________________

     

    Title
of Authorized Signatory:
_____________________________________________________

     

    Email
Address of Authorized Signatory:
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Number of Authorized Signatory:
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Amount: _____________

    


    Shares
of Preferred Stock:____________

    


    Warrant
Shares: _________________

    


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