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    SECURITIES
PURCHASE AGREEMENT

     

    This
Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated
as of August 11, 2008, between Advanced Battery Technologies, 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, for all purposes of
this Agreement, 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 4.5.

     

    “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.

     

    “Bloomberg L.P.” means
Bloomberg L.P. or, if Bloomberg L.P. no longer reports the applicable pricing or
other information, such other data service as may in the future replace
Bloomberg L.P. as the primary industry source of stock market data.

     

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

     

    “Business Day” means
any day except Saturday, 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.

     


    
      
         


      

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

     

    “Closing Date” means
the Trading Day when 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 have been satisfied or
waived.

     

    “Closing Statement”
means the Closing Statement in the form Annex A attached
hereto.

     

    “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 into.

     

    “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 Robert Brantl, Esq., with offices located at 52 Mulligan Lane, Irvington,
NY 10533.

     

    “Disclosure Schedules”
means the Disclosure Schedules of the Company delivered concurrently
herewith.

     

    “Discussion Time”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.2(f).

     

    “Effective Date” means
the date that the initial Registration Statement filed by the Company pursuant
to the Registration Rights Agreement is first declared effective by the
Commission.

     

    “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.


    
      
         


      

      
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    “Exempt Issuance”
means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock or options to employees,
officers or directors of the Company pursuant to any stock or option plan duly
adopted for such purpose, by a majority of the non-employee members of the Board
of Directors or a majority of the members of a committee of non-employee
directors established for such purpose, (b) securities upon the exercise or
exchange of or conversion of any Securities issued hereunder and/or other
securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into 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, exchange or
conversion price of such securities, and (c) securities issued pursuant to
acquisitions or strategic transactions approved by a majority of the
disinterested directors of the Company, provided that any such issuance shall
only be to a Person which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an operating
company in a business synergistic with the business of the Company and in which
the Company receives 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.

     

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

     

    “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.

     

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

     

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

     

     “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.

     

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

     


    
      
         


      

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

     

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

     

    “Purchaser Party”
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8.

     

    “Registration Rights
Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated August 7, 2008,
among the Company and the Purchasers.

     

    “Registration
Statement” means a registration statement meeting the requirements set
forth in the Registration Rights Agreement and covering the resale by the
Purchasers of the Shares and the Warrant Shares.

     

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

     

    “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.

     

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

     

    “Securities” means the
Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares.

     

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

     

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

     

    “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). 

     

    “Subscription Amount”
means, as to each Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be paid for Shares and
Warrants 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.

     

    “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.

     


    
      
         


      

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

     

    “Trading Market” means
the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted
for trading on the date in question: the American Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq
Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the
New York Stock Exchange or the OTC Bulletin Board.

     

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

     

    “Transfer Agent” means
Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Co., the current transfer agent of the
Company, with a mailing address of 17 Battery Place, New York, NY 10004 and a
facsimile number of 212-509-5150, and any successor transfer agent of the
Company.

     

    “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 for trading as reported by Bloomberg L.P. (based on a Trading Day from
9:30 a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time)); (b)  if
the OTC Bulletin Board is not a Trading Market, the volume weighted average
price of the 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 Shares then outstanding and reasonably acceptable to
the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be paid by the
Company.

     

    “Warrants” means the
Series B Unit Purchase Warrants delivered to the Purchasers at the Closing in
accordance with Section 2.2(a) hereof, which Series B Warrants shall be
exercisable immediately following the date hereof and have a term of exercise
expiring August 15, 2008, in the form of Exhibit C-1 attached
hereto.

     

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

     


    
      
         


      

      
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    ARTICLE
II.

    PURCHASE
AND SALE

     

    2.1       Closing.  In
consideration of the Consent and Waiver dated August 8, 2008 executed by each of
the Purchasers, 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 shall purchase Warrants to purchase up to $12,000,000 of
Units.  The Company shall deliver to each Purchaser its respective
Shares and a Warrant, 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 FWS 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 B attached
hereto; and

     

    (iii)       a
Series B Warrant to purchase Units as described therein at a price of $4.25 per
Unit up to an aggregate exercise amount equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription
Amount under the Securities Purchase Agreement dated August 7,
2008.

     

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

     

    (i)         this
Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser.

     

    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;

     

    (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

     


    
      
         


      

      
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    (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;

     

    (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; and

     

    (v)        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 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:

     


    
      
         


      

      
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    (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
the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a
material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business,
prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the
Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its
obligations under any Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material Adverse
Effect”) and no Proceeding has been instituted in any such jurisdiction
revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke, limit or curtail such
power and authority or qualification.

     

    (c)        Authorization;
Enforcement.  The Company has the requisite corporate power and
authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by each
of the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations
hereunder and thereunder.  The execution and delivery of each of the
Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all
necessary action on the part of the Company and no further action is required by
the Company, the Board of Directors or the Company’s 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.

     


    
      
         


      

      
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    (d)        No
Conflicts.  The execution, delivery and performance by the
Company of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and sale of the Securities
and the consummation by it to which it is a party of the other transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby 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 Effect.

     

    (e)        Filings, Consents and
Approvals.  The Company is not required to obtain any consent,
waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or
registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other
governmental authority or other Person in connection with the execution,
delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, other
than: (i) the filings required pursuant to Section 4.4 of this Agreement, (ii)
the filing with the Commission of the Registration Statement, (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 Securities 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 Warrant 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 the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to this
Agreement and the Warrants.

     


    
      
         


      

      
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    (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, 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.  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 of such securities. All of the outstanding shares of capital
stock of the Company are validly 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.  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.

     


    
      
         


      

      
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     The
Company has never been an issuer subject to 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 filings made with the Commission, (iii) the Company has not
altered its method of accounting, (iv) the Company has not declared or made any
dividend or distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders or
purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of
its capital stock and (v) the Company has not issued any equity securities to
any officer, director or Affiliate, except pursuant to existing Company stock
option plans.  The Company does not have pending before the Commission
any request for confidential treatment of information.  Except for the
issuance of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement or as set forth on
Schedule
3.1(i), no event, liability or development has occurred or exists with
respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective business,
properties, operations 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.  There
is no action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding or investigation
pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the
Company, any Subsidiary or any of their respective properties before or by any
court, arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency or regulatory authority
(federal, state, county, local or foreign) (collectively, an “Action”) which (i)
adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or enforceability of any
of the Transaction Documents or the Securities or (ii) could, if there were an
unfavorable decision, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect.  Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor any
director or officer thereof, is or has been the subject of any Action involving
a claim of violation of or liability under federal or state securities laws or a
claim of breach of fiduciary duty.

     


    
      
         


      

      
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     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
and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all U.S. federal, state, local and
foreign laws and regulations relating to employment and employment practices,
terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where the failure
to be in compliance could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

     

     (l)        Compliance.  Neither
the Company nor any Subsidiary: (i) is in default under or in violation of (and
no event has occurred that has not been waived that, with notice or lapse of
time or both, would result in a default by the Company or any Subsidiary under),
nor has the Company or any Subsidiary received notice of a claim that it is in
default under or that it is in violation of, any indenture, loan or credit
agreement or any other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by
which it or any of its properties is bound (whether or not such default or
violation has been waived), (ii) is in violation of any order of any court,
arbitrator or governmental body or (iii) is or has been in violation of any
statute, rule or regulation of any governmental authority, including without
limitation all foreign, federal, state and local laws applicable to its business
and all such laws that affect the environment, 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
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    (n)        Title to
Assets.  The Company and the Subsidiaries have good and
marketable title in fee simple to all real property owned by them and good and
marketable title in all personal property owned by them that is material to the
business of the Company and the Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all
Liens, except for Liens as do not materially affect the value of such property
and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of
such property by the Company and the Subsidiaries and Liens for the payment of
federal, state 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”).  Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received
a notice (written or otherwise) that any of the Intellectual Property Rights
used by the Company or any Subsidiary violates or infringes upon the rights of
any Person.  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, including, but not limited to, directors and officers insurance
coverage at least equal to the aggregate Subscription Amount.  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
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     (r)        Sarbanes-Oxley; Internal
Accounting Controls.  The Company is in material compliance
with all provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 which are applicable to it
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
reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any
differences. The Company has established disclosure controls and procedures (as
defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and
designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that information
required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports it files or submits under
the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the
time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms.  The
Company’s certifying officers have evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s
disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by the
Company’s most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act (such date,
the “Evaluation
Date”).  The Company presented in its most recently filed
periodic report under the Exchange Act the conclusions of the certifying
officers about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based
on their evaluations as of the Evaluation Date.  Since the Evaluation
Date, there have been no changes in the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act) that has
materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s
internal control over financial reporting.

     

    (s)        Certain
Fees.  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.

     


    
      
         


      

      
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     (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 subject to the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended.

     

    (v)        Registration
Rights.  Other than each of the Purchasers, 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
the Company received any notification that the Commission is contemplating
terminating such registration.  The Company has not, in the 12 months
preceding the date hereof, received notice from any Trading Market on which the
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.

     


    
      
         


      

      
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    The
Company understands and confirms that the Purchasers will rely on the foregoing
representation in effecting transactions in securities of the
Company.  All 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 Section 3.2, neither the Company, nor any of its
Affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf has, directly or
indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to
buy any security, under circumstances that would cause this offering of the
Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of
(i) the Securities Act which would require the registration of any such
securities under the Securities Act, or (ii) any applicable shareholder approval
provisions of any Trading Market on which any of the securities of the Company
are listed or designated.

     

    (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, (ii) the Company’s assets do not constitute
unreasonably small capital to carry on its business as now conducted and as
proposed to be conducted including its capital needs taking into account the
particular capital requirements of the business conducted by the Company, and
projected capital requirements and capital availability thereof, and (iii) the
current cash flow of the Company, together with the proceeds the Company would
receive, were it to liquidate all of its assets, after taking into account all
anticipated uses of the cash, would be sufficient to pay all amounts on or in
respect of its liabilities when such amounts are required to be
paid.  The Company does not intend to incur debts beyond its ability
to pay such debts as they mature (taking into account the timing and amounts of
cash to be payable on or in respect of its debt).  The Company has no
knowledge of any facts or circumstances which lead it to believe that it will
file for reorganization or liquidation under the bankruptcy or reorganization
laws of any jurisdiction within one year from the Closing
Date.  Schedule 3.1(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.

     


    
      
         


      

      
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     For
the purposes of this Agreement, “Indebtedness” means
(x) any liabilities for borrowed money or amounts owed in excess of $50,000
(other than trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business),
(y) all guaranties, endorsements and other contingent obligations in respect of
indebtedness of others, whether or not the same are or should be reflected in
the Company’s balance sheet (or the notes thereto), except guaranties by
endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar
transactions in the ordinary course of business; and (z) the present value of
any lease payments in excess of $50,000 due under leases required to be
capitalized in accordance with GAAP.  Neither the Company nor any
Subsidiary is in default with respect to any Indebtedness.

     

    (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 has filed all necessary federal, state
and foreign income and franchise tax returns and has paid or accrued all taxes
shown as due thereon, and the Company has no knowledge of a tax deficiency which
has been asserted or threatened against the Company or any
Subsidiary.

     

    (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
Company, any agent or other person acting on behalf of the Company, has: (i)
directly or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts,
entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic
political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic
government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political
parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully any
contribution made by the Company (or made by any person acting on its behalf of
which the Company is aware) which is in violation of law or (iv) violated in any
material respect any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as
amended.

     

    (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, 2008.

     

     (ff)       No Disagreements with
Accountants and Lawyers.  There are no disagreements of any kind
presently existing, or reasonably anticipated by the Company to arise, between
the Company and the accountants and lawyers formerly or presently employed by
the Company and the Company is current with respect to any fees owed to its
accountants and lawyers which could affect the Company’s ability to perform any
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    (gg)     
Acknowledgment
Regarding Purchasers’ Purchase of Securities.  The Company
acknowledges and agrees that each of the Purchasers is acting solely in the
capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents
and the transactions contemplated thereby. The Company further acknowledges that
no Purchaser is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in
any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the
transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by any Purchaser or any
of their respective representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction
Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the
Purchasers’ purchase of the Securities.  The Company further
represents to each Purchaser that the Company’s decision to enter into this
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based solely on the
independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company
and its representatives.

     

    (hh)       Acknowledgment Regarding
Purchaser’s Trading Activity. Notwithstanding anything in this
Agreement or elsewhere herein to the contrary (except for Sections 3.2(f) and
4.14 hereof), it is understood and acknowledged by the Company that: (i) none of
the Purchasers has been asked to agree by the Company, nor has any Purchaser
agreed, to desist from purchasing or selling, long and/or short, securities of
the Company, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the
Company prior to the Discussion Time (as defined in Section 3.2(f), 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 Warrant 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
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     (ii)        Regulation M
Compliance.  The Company has not, and to its knowledge no one acting
on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to
cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any
security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the
Securities, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or paid any compensation for
soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay
to any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other
securities of the Company, other than, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii),
compensation paid to the Company’s placement agent in connection with the
placement of the Securities..

     

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

     

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

     

    3.2       Representations and
Warranties of the Purchasers.  Each Purchaser, for itself and
for no other Purchaser, hereby represents and warrants as of the date hereof and
as of the Closing Date to the Company as follows:

     

    (a)        Organization;
Authority.  Such Purchaser is 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 or similar action on the part of
such Purchaser.  Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has
been duly executed by such Purchaser, and when delivered by such Purchaser in
accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding
obligation of such Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance with its
terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general
application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as
limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive
relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and
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    (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
(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) in violation of the
Securities Act or any applicable state securities law.  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, 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)        Short Sales and
Confidentiality Prior To The Date Hereof.  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 from 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
until the date hereof (“Discussion Time”),
which the Company acknowledges was after 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 8,
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     Notwithstanding
the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment
vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such
Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the
investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of
such Purchaser’s assets, the representation set forth above shall only apply
with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made
the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this
Agreement.  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.

     

    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 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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    THIS
SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN  REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN
EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE
“SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT
TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO
AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO
THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY
ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY.  THIS SECURITY 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 Shares and Warrant 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
Shares or Warrant Shares pursuant to Rule 144, (iii) if such Shares or Warrant
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 Shares and Warrant 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
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     The
Company shall cause its counsel to issue a legal opinion to the Transfer Agent
promptly after the Effective Date if required by the Transfer Agent to effect
the removal of the legend hereunder.  If all or any portion of a
Warrant is exercised at a time when there is an effective registration statement
to cover the resale of the Warrant Shares, or if such Warrant 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 Shares and
Warrant 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 Warrant 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 Shares or Warrant Shares, as the
case may be, 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 Securities 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 Shares or Warrant 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 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 that such
Purchaser will sell any Securities pursuant to either the registration
requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable prospectus delivery
requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and that if Securities are sold
pursuant to a Registration Statement, they will be sold in compliance with the
plan of distribution set forth therein, and acknowledges that the removal of the
restrictive legend from certificates representing Securities as set forth in
this Section 4.1 is predicated upon the Company’s reliance upon this
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    4.2       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 earliest of the time that (i)
no Purchaser owns Securities or (ii) the Warrants have expired, 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.  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
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 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 Shares and Warrant Shares pursuant to Rule 144.  The
payments to which a Purchaser shall be entitled pursuant to this Section 4.2(b)
are referred to herein as “Public Information Failure
Payments.”  Public Information Failure Payments shall be paid
on the earlier of (i) the last day of the calendar month during which such
Public Information Failure Payments are incurred
and (ii) the third (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
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    4.3       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 to the
Purchasers in a manner that would require the registration under the Securities
Act of the sale of the Securities to the Purchasers 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.

     

    4.4       Securities Laws Disclosure;
Publicity.  The Company shall, by 8:30 a.m. (New York City
time) on the Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, issue a Current
Report on Form 8-K, disclosing the material terms of the transactions
contemplated hereby, and including the Transaction Documents as exhibits
thereto.  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 filing with the Commission or any
regulatory agency or Trading Market, without the prior written consent of such
Purchaser, except: (a) as required by federal securities law in connection with
(i) any registration statement contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement
and (ii) the filing of final Transaction Documents (including signature pages
thereto) with the Commission and (b) to the extent such disclosure is required
by law or Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company shall provide
the Purchasers with prior notice of such disclosure permitted under this clause
(b).

     

    4.5       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.

     

    4.6       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 regarding
the confidentiality and use of such information.  The Company
understands and confirms that each Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing
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    4.7       Use of
Proceeds.  Except as set forth on Schedule 4.7 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
or (c) the settlement of any outstanding litigation.

     

    4.8       Indemnification of
Purchasers.   Subject to the provisions of this Section
4.8, 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
understandings such Purchaser may have with any such stockholder or any
violations by the Purchaser of state or federal securities laws or any conduct
by such Purchaser which constitutes fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct
or malfeasance).  If any action shall be brought against any Purchaser
Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement,
such Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the
Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its
own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party.  Any
Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such
action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such
counsel shall be at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the extent
that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company
in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to
assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in
the reasonable opinion of such separate 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
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    4.9       Reservation of Common
Stock. As of the date hereof, the Company has reserved and the Company
shall continue to reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive
rights, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of
enabling the Company to issue Shares pursuant to this Agreement and Warrant
Shares pursuant to any exercise of the Warrants.

     

    4.10     Listing of Common
Stock. The Company hereby agrees to use best efforts to maintain the
listing or quotation of the Common Stock on a Trading Market, and as soon as
reasonably practicable following the Closing (but not later than the earlier of
the Effective Date and the first anniversary of the Closing Date) to list or
quote all of the Shares and Warrant Shares on such Trading Market. The Company
further agrees, if the Company applies to have the Common Stock traded on any
other Trading Market, it will then include in such application all of the Shares
and Warrant Shares, and will take such other action as is necessary to cause all
of the Shares and Warrant Shares to be listed on such other Trading Market as
promptly as possible.  The Company will then take all action
reasonably necessary to continue the listing or quotation and trading of its
Common Stock on a Trading Market and will comply in all respects with the
Company’s reporting, filing and other obligations under the bylaws or rules of
the Trading Market.

     

    4.11     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.

     

    4.12     Participation in Future
Financing.

     

    (a)      
 From the date hereof until the date that is the 12 month anniversary of
the Effective Date, 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
(the “Participation
Maximum”) on the same terms, conditions and price provided for in the
Subsequent Financing; provided, that the Participation Maximum shall be reduced
to the extent required, if any, by the principal Trading Market in order for the
Company to comply with the listing agreement for such Trading
Market. 

     

    (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
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     Upon
the request of a Purchaser, and only upon a request by such Purchaser, for a
Subsequent Financing Notice, the Company shall promptly, but no later than 1
Trading Day after such request, deliver a Subsequent Financing Notice to such
Purchaser.  The Subsequent Financing Notice shall describe in reasonable
detail the proposed terms of such Subsequent Financing, the amount of proceeds
intended to be raised thereunder and the Person or Persons through or with whom
such Subsequent Financing is proposed to be effected and shall include a term
sheet or similar document relating thereto as an
attachment.   

     

    (c)        Any
Purchaser desiring to participate in such Subsequent Financing must provide
written notice to the Company by not later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time)
on the fifth (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 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 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. (New York City 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. 

     

    (e)        If
by 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th)
Trading Day after all of the Purchasers have received the Pre-Notice, the
Company receives responses to a Subsequent Financing Notice from Purchasers
seeking to purchase more than the aggregate amount of the Participation Maximum,
each such Purchaser shall have the right to purchase its Pro Rata Portion (as
defined below) of the Participation Maximum.  “Pro Rata Portion”
means the ratio of (x) the Subscription Amount of Securities purchased on the
Closing Date by a Purchaser participating under this Section 4.12 and (y) the
sum of the aggregate Subscription Amounts of Securities purchased on the Closing
Date by all Purchasers participating under this Section 4.12 [plus the aggregate
subscription amounts of investors party to securities purchase agreement(s)
contemplated by clause [(d) in the definition of Exempt Issuance that are
participating in such Subsequent Financing pursuant to participation rights
granted to such investors under such agreements that are substantially similar
to 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 30 Trading Days after the date of the
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    (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 30 days after the Effective Date, neither the Company nor
any Subsidiary shall issue shares of Common Stock or Common Stock
Equivalents.

     

    (b)        From
the date hereof until the earlier of (i) such time as no Purchaser holds any of
the Securities and (ii) three years following the Closing Date, the Company
shall be prohibited from effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any
Subsequent Financing 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
Issuance.

     

    4.14     Short Sales and
Confidentiality After The Date Hereof. 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
Short Sales during the period commencing with the Discussion Time and ending at
such time the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly
announced as described in Section 4.4.  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 as described in Section 4.4, 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, no Purchaser makes any
representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in Short
Sales in the securities of the Company after the time that the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced as described in
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     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.

     

    4.15      Form D; Blue Sky
Filings.  The Company agrees to timely file a Form D with
respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy
thereof, promptly upon request of any Purchaser. The Company shall take such
action as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary in order to obtain
an exemption for, or to qualify the Securities for, sale to the Purchasers at
the Closing under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the
United States, and shall provide evidence of such actions promptly upon request
of any Purchaser.

     

    4.16     Capital
Changes.  Until the one year anniversary of the Effective Date,
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.

     

    4.17     Delivery of Securities After
Closing.  The Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered,
the respective Securities purchased by each Purchaser to such Purchaser within 3
Trading Days of the Closing Date.

     

    4.18      Registration.  Each
Purchaser hereunder shall be deemed to be a Holder of Registrable Securities
under that certain Registration Rights Agreement dated August 7, 2008 and all
Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of any Warrants shall be included in the
definition of Registrable Securities thereunder, as if the Purchasers had
executed such Registration Rights Agreement.

     

    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 August 12,
2008; 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
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    5.3       Entire
Agreement.  The Transaction Documents, together with the
exhibits and schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and
understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties
acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and
schedules.

     

    5.4       Notices.  Any
and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to
be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and
effective on the earliest of: (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or
communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on
the signature pages attached hereto prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a
Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such
notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set
forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day
or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the
second (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 Company and the Purchasers holding at least 67% in
interest of the Shares 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 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 4.8.

     


    
      
         


      

      
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    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 the
prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other
party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred
with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or
proceeding.

     

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

     

    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
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    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 an exercise of a Warrant, the Purchaser shall be
required to return any shares of Common Stock subject to any such rescinded
exercise notice.

     

    5.14     Replacement of
Securities.  If any certificate or instrument evidencing any
Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or
cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation
thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a
new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably
satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction.  The
applicant for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall
also pay any reasonable third-party costs (including customary indemnity)
associated with the issuance of such replacement Securities.

     

    5.15     Remedies.  In
addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by
law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will
be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction
Documents.  The parties agree that monetary damages may not be
adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of
obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agrees 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     Independent Nature of
Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights.  The obligations of each
Purchaser under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the
obligations of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any
way for the performance or non-performance of the obligations of any other
Purchaser under any Transaction Document.  Nothing contained herein or
in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant
thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an
association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a
presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group
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     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, Purchasers
and their respective counsel have chosen to communicate with the Company through
FWS.  FWS does not represent all of the Purchasers but only Rodman
& Renshaw, LLC.  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 the
Purchasers.

     

    5.18     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.

     

    5.19     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.

     

    5.20     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 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.

     

    5.21     WAIVER OF
JURY TRIAL.  IN ANY
ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY
OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY,
IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER TRIAL BY JURY.

     

    


     

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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.

     

    


    
      	
              ADVANCED
      BATTERY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

               

               

            	
              Address for
      Notice:

              21
      West 39th
      Street, Suite 2(a)

              New
      York, New York 10018

            
	
              By:/s/
      Zhiguo Fu

                   Name:
      Zhiguo Fu

                   Title:
      CEO and Chairman of the Board

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

            	
              Fax:

            
	
               

              Robert
      Brantl, Esq.

              52
      Mulligan Lane

              Irvington,
      NY 10533

              Fax:  914-693-1807

               

            	 
      


    

    


    


    


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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: Iroquois Master Fund Ltd.

       

      Signature of Authorized Signatory of
Purchaser: /s/ Joshua Silverman

       

      Name of
Authorized Signatory: Joshua Silverman

       

      Title of
Authorized Signatory: Authorized Signatory

       

      Email
Address of Authorized Signatory:
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      Facsimile
Number of Authorized Signatory:
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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: Enable Growth Partners LP

       

      Signature of Authorized Signatory of
Purchaser: /s/ Brendan O’Neil

       

      Name of
Authorized Signatory: Brendan O’Neil

       

      Title of
Authorized Signatory: President and Chief Investment Officer

       

      Email
Address of Authorized Signatory:
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Number of Authorized Signatory:
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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: Cranshire Capital, LP

       

      Signature of Authorized Signatory of
Purchaser: /s/ Keith Goodman

       

      Name of
Authorized Signatory: Keith Goodman

       

      Title of
Authorized Signatory: COO – Downsview Capital, Inc. -  the General
Partner

       

      Email
Address of Authorized Signatory:
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Number of Authorized Signatory:
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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: Midsummer Investment, Ltd

       

      Signature of Authorized Signatory of
Purchaser: /s/ Michael Amsalem

       

      Name of
Authorized Signatory: Michael Amsalem

       

      Title of
Authorized Signatory: President, Midsummer Capital, LLC, acting as Investment
advisor to Midsummer Investment, Ltd.

      


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to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date
first indicated above.

       

      Name of
Purchaser: Crestview Capital Master, LLC

       

      Signature of Authorized Signatory of
Purchaser: /s/ Stewart R. Flink

       

      Name of
Authorized Signatory: Stewart R. Flink

       

      Title of
Authorized Signatory: Manager

       

      Email
Address of Authorized Signatory:
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Number of Authorized Signatory:
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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: /s/ Yoav Roth

       

      Name of
Authorized Signatory: Yoav Roth

       

      Title of
Authorized Signatory: Principal and Portfolio Manager

       

      Email
Address of Authorized Signatory:
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Number of Authorized Signatory:
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