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Exhibit 10.4








	
Warrant Certificate # Placement Agent Warrant C -

	
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NEITHER THIS WARRANT NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THIS WARRANT IS EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED FOR INVESTMENT AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER SAID ACT OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER SAID ACT.







IN ADDITION, THIS WARRANT AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE HEREOF MAY NOT BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED, ASSIGNED, PLEDGED, OR HYPOTHECATED, OR BE THE SUBJECT OF ANY HEDGING, SHORT SALE, DERIVATIVE, PUT, OR CALL TRANSACTION THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE EFFECTIVE ECONOMIC DISPOSITION OF SUCH SECURITIES BY ANY PERSON, UNTIL DECEMBER 10, 2010, EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH FINRA RULE 5110(G)(2).


 







CHINA SWINE GENETICS, INC.


 


FORM OF COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT


 


Original Issue Date:  June 11, 2010


 


This Warrant is Issued to:


   


  


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(hereinafter called the “Holder,” which term shall include the Holder’s legal representatives, heirs, successors and assigns) by China Swine Genetics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”).  This Warrant may be transferred by the Holder only in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.


 


1.           Exercise of Warrant.  (a) For value received by the Company from the offering of preferred stock and warrants (the “Offering”), and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, the Holder is entitled, upon surrender of this Warrant, (with the exercise notice form annexed hereto (the “Exercise Notice”) duly executed) at the office of the Company at 077 Ala Napunani Street, Honolulu, HI, or such other office in the United States of which the Company shall notify the Holder hereof in writing, to purchase _________ shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 (“Common Stock”) at an exercise price of $3.00 per share (the “Exercise Price”). This Warrant may be exercised by presentation and surrender of this Warrant to the Company at its principal executive offices with a written notice of the holder's intention to effect a Net Exercise, including a calculation of the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued upon such exercise in accordance with the terms hereof (a “Net Exercise”).  In the event of a Net Exercise, in lieu of paying the Exercise Price in cash, the holder shall surrender this Warrant for that number of shares of Common Stock determined by multiplying the number of Warrant Shares to which it would otherwise be entitled by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the difference between the then current Market Price per share of the Common Stock and the Exercise Price, and the denominator of which shall be the then current Market Price per share of Common Stock. For example, if the holder is exercising 100,000 Warrants with a per Warrant exercise price of $0.20 per share through a Net Exercise when the Common Stock's current Market Price per share is $0.40 per share, then upon such Net Exercise the holder will receive 50,000 shares of Common Stock.  Market Price shall be defined as the average closing bid price for the three days prior to exercise. This Warrant shall have a term of five years from issuance.






  





  











  






 


2.           Issuance of Stock Certificates.  As promptly as practicable after surrender of this Warrant, the Company shall issue and deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates for the Common Stock, in certificates of such denominations and in such names as the Holder may specify.


 


3.           Payment of Applicable Exercise Price.  If  the Holder does not utilize the “Net Exercise” provision in Paragraph 1, above, payment of the Exercise Price shall be made by check made payable to the order of the Company or wire transfer of immediately available funds to a bank account designated by the Company.


 


4.           Adjustment for Dividends, Distributions, Subdivisions, Combinations, Mergers, Consolidations or Sale of Assets.


 


4.1         Manner of Adjustment.


 


(a)           Stock Dividends, Distributions or Subdivisions.  In the event the Company shall issue shares of Common Stock in a stock dividend, stock distribution or subdivision, the Applicable Exercise Price in effect immediately before such stock dividend, stock distribution or subdivision shall, concurrently with the effectiveness of such stock dividend, stock distribution or subdivision, be proportionately decreased and the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable by exercise of this Warrant shall be proportionately increased.


 


(b)           Combinations or Consolidations.  In the event the outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be combined or consolidated, by reclassification or otherwise, into a lesser number of shares of Common Stock, the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such combination or consolidation shall, concurrently with the effectiveness of such combination or consolidation, be proportionately increased and the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable by exercise of this Warrant shall be proportionately decreased.


 


(c)           Adjustment for Reclassification, Exchange or Substitution.  In the event that the class of securities issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant shall be changed into the same or a different number of shares of any class or classes of stock, whether by capital reorganization, reclassification or otherwise (other than any event addressed by Sections 4.1(a), 4.1(b) or 4.1(d)), then and in each such event the Holder shall have the right thereafter to exercise this Warrant for the kind and amount of shares of stock and other securities and property receivable upon such reorganization, reclassification, or other change, by holders of the number of shares of the class of securities into which such Warrant might have been exercisable for immediately prior to such reorganization, reclassification, or change, all subject to further adjustment as provided herein.






  





  











  








(d)           Adjustment for Merger, Consolidation or Sale of Assets.  In the event that the Company shall merge or consolidate with or into another entity or sell all or substantially all of its assets, this Warrant shall thereafter be exercisable for the kind and amount of shares of Common Stock or other securities or property to which a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company deliverable upon exercise of this Warrant would have been entitled upon such consolidation, merger or sale; and, in such case, appropriate adjustment (as determined in good faith by the Company’s Board of Directors) shall be made in the application of the provisions set forth in this Section 5 with respect to the rights and interest thereafter of the Holder of this Warrant, to the end that the provisions set forth in this Section 5 shall thereafter be applicable, as nearly as reasonably may be, in relation to any shares of stock or other property thereafter deliverable upon the exercise of this Warrant.


 


(e)           In the event that on or subsequent to the date of this Warrant, the Company issues or sells any Common Stock, any convertible securities, or any warrants or other rights to subscribe for or to purchase or any options for the purchase of its Common Stock or any such convertible securities (other than shares of Common Stock or options to purchase such shares issued to employees, consultants, officers or directors in accordance with stock plans approved by the Company’s board of directors) at an effective price per share which is less than the then applicable Exercise Price (such effective price per share, the “Adjusted Exercise Price”), then the Exercise Price in effect immediately prior to such issue or sale shall be reduced effective concurrently with such issue or sale to an amount equal to the Adjusted Exercise Price.







4.2           Certificate as to Adjustments.  Upon the occurrence of each adjustment or readjustment of the Applicable Exercise Price pursuant to this Section 4, the Company at its expense shall promptly compute such adjustment or readjustment in accordance with the terms hereof and furnish to the Holder a certificate setting forth such adjustment or readjustment and showing in detail the facts upon which such adjustment or readjustment is based.


 


4.3           Closing of Books.  The Company shall at no time close its transfer books against the transfer of any shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant in any manner which interferes with the timely and proper issuance of such shares.


 


               5.              Covenants of the Company.


 


(a) During the period within which the rights represented by this Warrant may be exercised, the Company shall at all times have authorized and reserved for the purpose of issue upon exercise of the rights evidenced hereby, a sufficient number of shares of the class of securities issuable upon exercise of this Warrant to provide for the exercise of such rights.  All securities which may be issued upon the exercise of the rights represented by this Warrant shall, upon issuance, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof.  Upon surrender for exercise, this Warrant shall be canceled and shall not be reissued; provided, however, that upon the partial exercise hereof a substitute Warrant of like tenor and date representing the rights to subscribe for and purchase any such unexercised portion hereof shall be issued.


 


(b) Provided that the Common Stock underlying the Warrants have not been registered, if at any time after the date hereof the Company proposes to register any of its securities under the 1933 Act (other than by a registration in connection with an acquisition in a manner which would not permit registration of the securities for sale to the public, or a registration on Form S-8, or any successor form thereto, or a registration on Form S-4, or any successor form thereto) then the Company will at such time give prompt written notice to the Holder of its intention to do so. Upon the written request or request via electronic mail of the Holder, made within ten (10) days after the receipt of such notice, choose to include any of the Common Stock underlying the Warrants, the Company will, subject to the terms of this Agreement, use its commercially reasonable best efforts to effect the registration under the 1933 Act of the Common Stock underlying the Warrants.  If at any time post Closing, the Company closes on any other financing that grants to such investors “demand” registration rights, the Holder shall be entitled to the same “demand” rights granted to such investors.






  





  











  






 


6.           No Rights as Shareholder Until Exercise.  This Warrant shall not entitle the Holder to any voting rights or any other rights as a stockholder of the Company but upon presentation of this Warrant at the office of the Company pursuant to the provisions of this Warrant, the Holder shall forthwith be deemed a stockholder of the Company in respect of the securities for which the Holder has so subscribed and paid.


 


7.           No Change Necessary.  The form of this Warrant need not be changed because of any adjustment in the Applicable Exercise Price or in the number of shares issuable upon its exercise.  A Warrant issued after any adjustment or any partial exercise or upon replacement may continue to express the same Exercise Price and the same number of shares (appropriately reduced in the case of partial exercise) as are stated on this Warrant as initially issued, and that Exercise Price and that number of shares shall be considered to have been so changed as of the close of business on the date of adjustment.


 


8.           Addresses for Notices.  All notices, requests, consents and other communications hereunder shall be in writing, either delivered in hand or mailed by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or sent by facsimile, and shall be deemed to have been duly made when delivered:


 


If to the Holder, to the Holder’s address as shown on the books of the Company; or


 


If to the Company, to the address set forth on the first page of this Warrant.


 


9.           Substitution.  In the case this Warrant shall be mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue a new Warrant of like tenor and denomination and deliver the same (a) in exchange and substitution for and upon surrender and cancellation of any mutilated Warrant, or (b) in lieu of any Warrant lost, stolen or destroyed, upon receipt of evidence satisfactory to the Company of the loss, theft, or destruction of such Warrant (including, without limitation, a reasonably detailed affidavit with respect to the circumstances of any loss, theft or destruction), and of indemnity (or, in the case of the initial Holder or any other institutional holder, an indemnity agreement) satisfactory to the Company.


 


10.           Transfer Restrictions.  This Warrant shall not be transferable by the Holder and shall be exercisable only by the Holder.  Without the prior written consent of the Company, the Warrant shall not be assigned, pledged or hypothecated in any way (whether by operation of law or otherwise) and shall not be subject to execution, attachment or similar process.  Any attempted transfer, assignment, pledge, hypothecation or other disposition of the Warrant or of any rights granted hereunder contrary to the provisions of this Section 10, or the levy of any attachment or similar process upon the Warrant or such rights, shall be null and void.


 


11.           Taxes.  The Company makes no representation about tax treatment to the Holder with respect to receipt or exercise of the Warrant or acquiring, holding or disposing of the Common Stock, and the Holder represents that the Holder has had the opportunity to discuss such treatment with the Holder’s tax advisers.


 


12.           Remedies.  Each party stipulates that the remedies at law in the event of any default or threatened default by the other party in the performance or compliance with any of the terms of this Warrant are and shall not be adequate, and that such terms may be specifically enforced by a decree for that specific performance of any agreement contained herein or by an injunction against a violation of any of the terms hereof or otherwise.






  





  











  






 


13.           Governing Law.  This Warrant shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, and governed by, the laws of the State of New York without regard to its principles of conflicts of laws.


 


14.           Miscellaneous.  This Warrant and any term hereof may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated only by an instrument in writing signed by the Holder and the Company.


 







 


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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Warrant to be executed this 11th day of June, 2010.


 



	  	
CHINA SWINE GENETICS, INC.

	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	  	  	  
	  	
By:

	  	  
	 	 	 
    Zhenyu Shang, CEO

	 
	  	 	  



















  





  











  








EXERCISE NOTICE







CHINA SWINE GENETICS, INC.







Warrant No. ______


Original Issue Date:  ______________, 2010


 


Ladies and Gentlemen:







(1)           The undersigned hereby elects to exercise the above-referenced Warrant with respect to ____________ shares of Common Stock.  Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein have the respective meanings set forth in the Warrant.


  


(2)           Pursuant to this Exercise Notice, the Company shall deliver to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock determined in accordance with the terms of the Warrant.


 


(5)           By its delivery of this Exercise Notice, the undersigned represents and warrants to the Company that in giving effect to the exercise evidenced hereby the Holder will not beneficially own in excess of the number of shares of Common Stock (as determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) permitted to be owned under Section 4 of this Warrant to which this notice relates.


















	  	
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