Document:

Exhibit 10.1

 

SEPARATION AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE OF
CLAIMS

 

This SEPARATION AGREEMENT
AND GENERAL RELEASE OF CLAIMS (this “Agreement”) is entered into by and between Global GP LLC (the “Company”)
and Jeremy Langhorn (“Employee”).

 

WHEREAS, Employee’s
employment with the Company has ended due to Employee’s resignation effective as of October 28, 2022 (the “Separation
Date”);

 

WHEREAS, reference is made
to that certain Employment Agreement between Employee and the Company made the 8th day of June 2022 and effective as of January
1, 2022 (the “Employment Agreement”);

 

WHEREAS, Employee and the
Company wish for Employee to receive certain severance benefits as set forth in this Agreement, conditioned upon Employee’s entry
into this Agreement in the time provided to do so and satisfaction of the terms herein; and

 

WHEREAS, the parties wish
to resolve any and all claims that Employee has or may have against the Company or any of the other Company Parties (as defined below),
including any claims that Employee may have arising out of Employee’s employment or the end of such employment.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration
of the promises set forth herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged
by Employee and the Company, the parties hereby agree as follows:

 

1.             Separation from Employment.

 

(a)              
Employee’s employment with the Company ended as of the Separation Date and, as of the Separation Date, Employee no longer
had any further employment relationship with the Company or any other Company Party. As of the Separation Date, Employee resigned from
all positions held with the Company and each other Company Party.

 

(b)              
Employee is entitled to receive accelerated vesting of the 7,890 phantom units subject to time-based vesting (the “Time-Based
Phantom Units”) granted to Employee pursuant to that certain Global Partners LP Long-Term Incentive Plan Phantom Unit Award
Agreement, dated June 8, 2022, by and between the Company and Employee (the “Time-Based Award Agreement”), which
Time-Based Phantom Units (including any amounts in respect of accrued distribution equivalent rights) shall be settled in cash (based
on the closing price of a common unit of Global Partners LP on the last day of the Release Revocation Period (as defined below) or, if
such day is not a trading day, on the immediately preceding trading day) on the first business day following the expiration of the Release
Revocation Period in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Time-Based Award Agreement.

 

     

     

    

 

2.             Severance Benefits.

 

(a)               Provided
that (i) Employee executes this Agreement on the Separation Date or within twenty-one (21) days thereafter and returns a copy of
this Agreement signed by Employee to the Company, care of Amy Gould, Deputy General Counsel at agould@globalp.com so that it is
received by Ms. Gould within twenty-one (21) days following the Separation Date, and (ii) Employee abides by each of his obligations
herein, then:

 

		(i)	The Company shall provide Employee: (x) a lump sum severance payment in an amount equal to $950,000, which
represents 200% of Employee’s base salary as of the Separation Date, and (y) an additional payment of $476,000, which represents
200% of Employee’s target incentive amount under the STIP (as defined in the Employment Agreement) for the fiscal year in which
the Separation Date occurred;

 

		(ii)	For the portion, if any, of the eighteen- (18-) month period following the Separation Date (the “Reimbursement
Period”) that Employee elects to continue coverage for Employee and Employee’s spouse and eligible dependents, if
any, under the Company’s group health plans pursuant to Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (“COBRA”),
subject to the Employee’s timely submission of applicable documentation as described herein, the Company shall promptly reimburse
Employee on a monthly basis for the premium amount Employee pays to effect and continue such coverage (the “COBRA Benefit”).
Each payment of the COBRA Benefit shall be paid to Employee on the Company’s first regularly scheduled pay date in the calendar
month immediately following the calendar month in which Employee submits to the Company documentation of the applicable premium payment
having been paid by Employee, which documentation shall be submitted by Employee to the Company within thirty (30) days following the
date on which the applicable premium payment is paid. Employee shall be eligible to receive such reimbursement payments until the earliest
of: (i) the last day of the Reimbursement Period; (ii) the date Employee is no longer eligible to receive COBRA continuation coverage;
and (iii) the date on which Employee becomes eligible to receive coverage under a group health plan sponsored by another employer (and
any such eligibility shall be promptly reported to the Company by Employee); provided, however, that the election of COBRA
continuation coverage and the payment of any premiums due with respect to such COBRA continuation coverage shall remain Employee’s
sole responsibility, and the Company shall not assume any obligation for payment of any such premiums relating to such COBRA continuation
coverage. The Company may cease making such payments to the extent required to avoid any adverse consequences to Employee or the Company
under either Section 105(h) of the Code or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, and, to the extent such payments would
not cause any such adverse consequences, the Company shall in lieu thereof provide to Employee (or Employee’s designated beneficiary
or legal representative, if applicable) a taxable monthly payment in an amount equal to the monthly COBRA premium that the Company would
otherwise be required to pay under this section for Employee’s COBRA coverage, which payment will continue until the end of the
subsidized COBRA continuation period otherwise prescribed in this
section. The existence and duration of Employee’s rights and/or the COBRA rights of any of Employee’s eligible dependents
will be determined in accordance with Section 4980B of the Code (as defined below);

  

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		(iii)	The Company shall provide Employee with a lump sum payment in an amount equal to $100,000, which represents
the amount approved by the compensation committee of the Company’s board of directors in respect of that certain Global Partners
LP 2018 Long-Term Cash Incentive Plan Award Agreement, dated June 10, 2022, by and between the Company and Employee;

 

		(iv)	The Company shall provide Employee with accelerated vesting of the 7,890 target phantom units subject
to performance-based vesting (the “Performance-Based Phantom Units”) granted to Employee pursuant to that certain
Global Partners LP Long-Term Incentive Plan Performance Phantom Unit Award Agreement, dated June 8, 2022, by and between the Company and
Employee (the “Performance-Based Award Agreement”), which Performance-Based Phantom Units (including any amounts
in respect of accrued distribution equivalent rights) shall be settled in cash (based on the closing price of a common unit of Global
Partners LP on the last day of the Release Revocation Period or, if such day is not a trading day, on the immediately preceding trading
day) on the first business day following the expiration of the Release Revocation Period in accordance with the terms and conditions of
the Performance-Based Award Agreement; and

 

		(v)	The Company shall provide Employee with continued payment of Employee’s base salary between the
Separation Date and December 31, 2022, which shall be paid in equal installments in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll
schedule.

 

The payments referenced in Section
2(a)(i) and (iii) above will be provided to Employee on the first business day following the expiration of the Release Revocation Period
and the payments referenced in Section 2(a)(ii), (iv) and (v) will be provided to Employee at the time(s) described in the applicable
subsection.

 

3.             Receipt
of All Leaves and Compensation; Satisfaction of Notice Requirements.

 

(a)            Employee
acknowledges and agrees that, as of the date he signs this Agreement, he has received all leaves (paid and unpaid) that he has been entitled
to receive from each Company Party and that he has been paid all wages, bonuses, compensation and other sums that he is owed or has been
owed by each Company Party, including all payments arising out of all incentive plans and any other bonus or contractual arrangements.
Employee expressly acknowledges and agrees that Employee is not eligible to receive any severance pay or benefits other than as set forth
herein, and with the exception of any amounts that the Company may owe hereunder, the Company has fully and finally satisfied all payment
obligations that it has had and that it may ever have to Employee.

 

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(b)              
Employee and the Company expressly acknowledge and agree that all notice requirements with respect to the end of Employee’s
employment (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the notice requirements set forth in Section 7(g) of the Employment Agreement) are
deemed to have been fully and finally satisfied.

 

4.            Employee’s Complete Release of Claims.

 

(a)            Employee
hereby forever releases and discharges the Company, Global Partners LP, each of their predecessors, successors, subsidiaries, assigns
or affiliated entities, along with each of the foregoing entities’ respective past, present, and future owners, affiliates, subsidiaries,
stockholders, partners, officers, directors, members, managers, employees, agents, attorneys, successors, administrators, fiduciaries,
insurers and benefit plans and the trustees, administrators and fiduciaries of such plans, in their personal and representative capacities
(collectively, the “Company Parties” and each a “Company Party”) from, and Employee
hereby waives, any and all claims, demands, liabilities and causes of action of any kind that Employee has or could have, whether known
or unknown, whether statutory or common law or at law or in equity, including any claim for salary, benefits, payments, expenses, costs,
damages, penalties, compensation, remuneration, contractual entitlements, and all claims or causes of action relating to his employment
relationship with any Company Party, the termination of such employment relationship, his status as an equityholder in any Company Party,
or any other acts or omissions related to any matter occurring or existing on or prior to the date that Employee executed this Agreement,
including (i) all claims arising under or for any alleged violation of: (A) the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (including
as amended by the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act); (B) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; (C) the Civil Rights Act of 1991;
(D) Sections 1981 through 1988 of Title 42 of the United States Code; (E) the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”);
(F) the Immigration Reform Control Act; (G) the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; (H) the National Labor Relations Act; (I) the
Occupational Safety and Health Act; (J) the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993; (K) the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the Dodd-Frank
Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; (L) the Massachusetts Wage Act, the Massachusetts Fair Employment Practices Act, (M)
any other local, state or federal anti-discrimination or anti-retaliation law; and (N) any other local, state or federal law, regulation
or ordinance; (ii) all claims arising from or for any alleged violation of any public policy, contract, tort, or common law, including
any claim for defamation, slander, libel, negligence, emotional distress, fraud or misrepresentation of any kind, promissory estoppel,
breach of implied duty of good faith and fair dealing, breach of implied or express contract, breach of fiduciary duty or wrongful discharge;
(iii) any allegation for costs, fees, or other expenses including attorneys’ fees incurred in the matters referenced herein; (iv)
all claims, whether direct or derivative, arising from Employee’s status as a shareholder in any Company Party; and (v) any and
all claims Employee may have arising under or arising as the result of any alleged breach of the Employment Agreement, or any contract,
incentive compensation plan or agreement, or other equity-based compensation plan or agreement with any Company Party (collectively,
the “Released Claims”). This Agreement is not intended to indicate that any such claims exist or that, if they
do exist, they are meritorious. Rather, Employee is simply agreeing that, in exchange for the consideration received by him through this
Agreement, any and all potential claims of this nature that Employee may have against the Company Parties, regardless of whether they
actually exist, are expressly settled, compromised and waived. THIS RELEASE INCLUDES MATTERS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE SOLE OR PARTIAL NEGLIGENCE
(WHETHER GROSS OR SIMPLE) OR OTHER FAULT, INCLUDING STRICT LIABILITY, OF ANY OF THE COMPANY PARTIES.

 

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(b)           Notwithstanding
this release of liability, nothing in this Agreement prevents Employee from filing any non-legally waivable claim, including a challenge
to the validity of this Agreement, with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination,
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission, any agency Inspector General, or any other
federal, state, or local agency governing employee rights or other governmental agency, or participating in (or cooperating with) any
investigation or proceeding conducted by any governmental agency; however, Employee understands and agrees that, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, he is waiving any and all rights to recover any monetary or personal relief or recovery from any Company Party as a
result of any governmental agency proceeding or subsequent legal actions. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to limit any disclosure
to any governmental officials or agencies, including making disclosures that are protected under the whistleblower provisions of federal
law or regulation.

 

(c)           Nothing herein waives Employee’s right to receive an award for information provided to a governmental agency. Further, in
no event shall the Released Claims include (i) any claim which arises after the date this Agreement is executed by Employee, (ii) any
claim to enforce Employee’s rights under this Agreement, (iii) any claim for indemnification and/or coverage under any directors
and officers liability insurance coverage; (iv) any claim to vested benefits that cannot be released pursuant to ERISA, or (v) any claim
that cannot be released as a matter of law. Nothing herein releases Employee’s right to seek worker’s compensation or unemployment
insurance benefits.

 

5.             Representations
Regarding Claims. Employee represents, warrants and agrees that, as of the time that he executes this Agreement, he has not brought
or joined any claims, appeals, complaints, charges or lawsuits against any Company Party in any court or before any government agency
or arbitrator with respect to a matter, claim or incident that occurred or arose out of one or more occurrences that took place on or
prior to the time that Employee signs this Agreement. Employee further represents and warrants that he has made no assignment, sale,
delivery, transfer or conveyance of any rights he has asserted or may have against any of the Company Parties with respect to any Released
Claim.

 

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6.             Additional
Acknowledgments. Employee acknowledges and agrees that:

 

(a)            Employee
has carefully read this Agreement.

 

(b)           Employee
has been given sufficient time (and at least 21 days) to review and consider this Agreement, and any changes to this Agreement (whether
material or material) will not re-start the 21-day consideration period that Employee had to consider this Agreement.

 

(c)            Employee has been advised, and hereby is advised in writing, to seek legal counsel before signing this Agreement, and Employee
represents that he has had adequate opportunity to do so.

 

(d)           Employee
agrees and acknowledges that he is receiving, pursuant to this Agreement, consideration in addition to anything of value to which he
is already entitled.

 

(e)            Employee
acknowledges that the severance pay and benefits set forth in Section 2 represent the entirety of the severance pay and benefits that
he is eligible to receive, and he is not eligible for any further or other severance pay or benefits (including pursuant to Section 7
of the Employment Agreement or any Garden Leave Payment (as defined in the Employment Agreement)).

 

(f)            Employee
fully understands the final and binding effect of this Agreement; the only promises made to Employee to sign this Agreement are those
stated within the four corners of this document; and Employee is signing this Agreement knowingly, voluntarily and of his own free will,
and understands and agrees to each of the terms of this Agreement.

 

(g)           No
Company Party has provided any tax or legal advice regarding this Agreement and Employee has had an adequate opportunity to receive sufficient
tax and legal advice from advisors of Employee’s own choosing such that he enters into this Agreement with full understanding of
the tax and legal implications thereof.

 

7.            Revocation
Right. Notwithstanding the initial effectiveness of the release set forth herein, Employee may revoke the delivery (and therefore
the effectiveness) of his release of claims set forth herein within the seven-day period beginning on the date Employee executes this
Agreement (such seven day period being referred to herein as the “Release Revocation Period”). To be effective,
such revocation must be in writing signed by Employee and must be received by the Company care of Amy Gould, Deputy General Counsel at
agould@globalp.com so that it is received by Ms. Gould no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, on the last day of the Release Revocation
Period. In the event Employee exercises his revocation right as set forth herein, Employee will not be entitled to receive the consideration
set forth in Section 2 above, the release of claims set forth in Section 4 above will be of no force or effect, and all other provisions
of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

 

8.            Continuing Covenants; No Non-Compete or Garden Leave Payment.

 

(a)              
Employee acknowledges and agrees that, in connection with Employee’s employment with the Company, Employee has obtained confidential
information, and Employee has continuing obligations to the Company and other Company Parties pursuant to Sections 7(k) (Non-disparagement)
and 9 (Confidential Information) of the Employment Agreement and part (c) (Non-solicitation) of Annex I of the Employment
Agreement (collectively, the “Restrictive Covenants”). In entering into this Agreement, Employee acknowledges
the enforceability and continued effectiveness of the Restrictive Covenants and reaffirms his commitment to abide by their terms.

 

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(b)              
 Employee and the Company expressly acknowledge and agree that: (i) upon and following the Separation Date, the non-competition
restrictions set forth in part (a) of Annex I of the Employment Agreement shall be of no force or effect, and (ii) Employee has no right
to receive the Garden Leave Payment, and the Company has no further potential obligations with respect to such payment.

 

9.             Post-Separation
Assistance. Employee agrees to cooperate fully with the Company Parties regarding any matter, event, or issue relating to Employee’s
employment with the Company, occurring during Employee’s employment with Company, or relating to Employee’s knowledge of
the Company or its affiliates. Employee acknowledges and agrees that such cooperation shall include, without limitation, being available
to meet with any of the Company Parties or their attorneys; preparing for, traveling to, attending, and participating in any proceeding;
serving as a witness in connection with any litigation or other legal proceeding affecting any of the Company Parties; providing truthful
affidavits, declarations, and testimony; and assisting with any audit, inspection, or other inquiry. In seeking Employee’s cooperation
in conformance with this paragraph, the Company agrees to do so in a reasonable manner that avoids disruptions to Employee’s affairs
that are unduly burdensome.

 

10.           No
Waiver. No failure by any party at any time to give notice of any breach by the other parties of, or to require compliance with any
condition or provision of this Agreement shall be deemed a waiver of similar or dissimilar provisions or conditions at the same or at
any prior or subsequent time.

 

11.     
     Applicable Law; Dispute Resolution. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Any dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be
subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state or federal courts, as applicable, in Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

 

12.      
     Interpretation. In this Agreement, (a) the use herein of the word “including”
following any general statement, term or matter shall not be construed to limit such statement, term or matter to the specific items
or matters set forth immediately following such word or to similar items or matters, whether or not non-limiting language (such as
 “without limitation”, “but not limited to”, or words of similar import) is used with reference thereto, but
rather shall be deemed to refer to all other items or matters that could reasonably fall within the broadest possible scope of such
general statement, term or matter; (b) references to Sections refer to Sections of this Agreement; (c) the words “this
Agreement,” “herein,” “hereof,” “hereby,” “hereunder” and words of similar
import refer to this Agreement as a whole, and not to any particular subdivision unless expressly so limited; (d) references in any
Section to any clause means such clause of such Section; (e) reference to any agreement (including this Agreement), document or
instrument means such agreement, document or instrument as amended, restated or otherwise modified (including any waiver or consent)
and in effect from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof; (f) reference to any law means such law as amended, modified,
codified, reenacted or replaced and in effect from time to time; and (g) references to “or” shall be interpreted to mean
 “and/or”. The Section titles and headings in this Agreement are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not
intended to be a part of, or to affect the meaning or interpretation of, this Agreement. Neither this Agreement nor any uncertainty
or ambiguity herein shall be construed or resolved against any party hereto, whether under any rule of construction or otherwise. On
the contrary, this Agreement has been reviewed by each of the parties hereto and shall be construed and interpreted according to the
ordinary meaning of the words used so as to fairly accomplish the purposes and intentions of the parties.

 

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13.          Severability.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Company and Employee hereby agree that any term or provision of this Agreement that renders
such term or provision or any other term or provision hereof invalid or unenforceable in any respect shall be severable and shall be
modified or severed to the extent necessary to avoid rendering such term or provision invalid or unenforceable, and such modification
or severance shall be accomplished in the manner that most nearly preserves the benefit of the parties’ bargain hereunder.

 

14.         Withholding of Taxes and Other Employee Deductions. The Company may withhold from all payments made pursuant to this Agreement
all federal, state, local, and other taxes and withholdings as may be required pursuant to any law or governmental regulation or ruling.

 

15.          Counterparts.
This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts (including portable document format (.pdf) and facsimile counterparts), each
of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which together will constitute one and the same Agreement.

 

16.          Third-Party Beneficiaries; Assignment. Each Company Party that is not a signatory hereto shall be an intended third-party beneficiary
of Employee’s covenants, representations, and release of claims set forth in this Agreement and shall be entitled to enforce and
rely on such covenants, representations, and release as if a party hereto. The Company has the right to assign this Agreement, including
to any successor, but Employee does not. This Agreement inures to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Company, who are intended
third party beneficiaries of this Agreement.

 

17.          Return
of Property. Employee promises that, as of the Separation Date (or such later date as the Company shall approve), Employee will have
returned to the Company all property belonging to the Company and any other Company Party, including all computer files, client materials,
electronically stored information and other materials provided to Employee by the Company or any of its affiliates in the course of Employee’s
employment, and Employee further promises that Employee will not maintain a copy of any such materials in any form.

 

18.          Entire
Agreement; Amendment. This Agreement (and (a) with respect to the Restrictive Covenants, the Employment Agreement, (b) with respect
to the Time-Based Phantom Units, the Time-Based Award Agreement, and (c) with respect to the Performance-Based Phantom Units, the Performance-Based
Award Agreement as modified by Section 2(a)(iv) hereof) constitutes the entire agreement of the parties hereto with regard to the subject
matters hereof and supersede all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings, oral or written, between Employee and the Company
with regard to the subject matter hereof; provided, however, this Agreement complements and is in addition to (and does not supersede
or replace) any other obligation that Employee has to any Company Party with respect to non-disclosure or protection of information,
return of property, non-disparagement, or non-solicitation (whether such obligation arises from contract, statute, common law, or otherwise).
This Agreement may not be changed orally but only by an agreement in writing agreed to and signed by Employee and the Company.

 

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19.         Further
Assurances. Employee shall, from time to time at the request of the Company and without any additional consideration, furnish the
Company with such further information or assurances, execute and deliver such additional documents, instruments, and conveyances, and
take such other actions and do such other things, as may be reasonably necessary or desirable, as determined in the sole discretion of
the Company, to carry out the provisions of this Agreement.

 

20.         Section 409A. This Agreement and the payments and benefits provided hereunder are intended to comply with, or be exempt from,
the requirements of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Treasury regulations and interpretive guidance issued thereunder
(collectively, “Section 409A”) and shall be construed and administered in accordance with such intent. For purposes
of Section 409A, each installment payment hereunder shall each be treated as a separate payments. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company
makes no representations that the payments or benefits provided under this Agreement are exempt from or comply with the requirements of
Section 409A and in no event shall the Company or any other Company Party be liable for all or any portion of any taxes, penalties, interest,
or other expenses that may be incurred by Employee on account of non-compliance with Section 409A.

 

[Signature page follows.]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties
hereto have knowingly and voluntarily executed this Agreement, in each case, as of the dates set forth beneath their signature blocks
below, effective for all purposes as provded above.

 

	 	JEREMY LANGHORN
	 	 
	 	/s/ Jeremy Langhorn
	 	Date: 10/28/22
	 	 
	 	GLOBAL GP LLC
	 	 
	 	By:	 /s/ Sean T. Geary
	 	Name: Sean T. Geary
	 	Title: Chief Legal Officer
	 	Date: 10/28/22

 

Signature
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Exhibit 10.1

 

Execution Copy

 

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of October 24, 2022, by and between Aravive, 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(a)(2) of the Securities Act (as defined below) 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.

 

“Authorized Increase Date” means the date of on which the amendment to the Company’s certificate of incorporation is filed with and accepted by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware which increases the number of shares of the Company’s authorized Common Stock to allow for full sufficient authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock for the full exercise of all of the Warrants and issuance of all of the Warrant Shares.

 

“BBA” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 2.2(a)(ix).

 

“BBA Registration Rights Agreement” means the registration rights agreement, dated on or about the date hereof, among the Company and BBA, in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.

 

“BBA Side Letter” means the letter agreement, dated on or about the date hereof, between the Company and BBA (as defined below), in the form of Exhibit F attached hereto.

 

“BVF” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 2.2(a)(xi).

 

“BVF Side Letter” means the letter agreement, dated on or about the date hereof, between the Company and BVF (as defined below), in the form of Exhibit G attached hereto.

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

“Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided, however, for clarification, commercial banks shall not be deemed to be authorized or required by law to remain closed due to “stay at home”, “shelter-in-place”, “non-essential employee” or any other similar orders or restrictions or the closure of any physical branch locations at the direction of any governmental authority so long as the electronic funds transfer systems (including for wire transfers) of commercial banks in The City of New York generally are open for use by customers on such day.

 

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

 

“Closing Date” means the Trading Day on which all of the Transaction Documents have been executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all conditions precedent to (i) the Purchasers’ obligations to pay the Subscription Amount and (ii) the Company’s obligations to deliver the Securities, in each case, have been satisfied or waived, but in no event later than the second (2nd) Trading Day following the date hereof.

 

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

 

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

 

“Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share, and any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed.

 

“Common Stock Equivalents” means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, right, option, warrant 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.

 

“Common Warrants” means the Series A Warrants and the Series B Warrants.

 

“Company Counsel” means Blank Rome LLP, with offices located at 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.

 

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

 

“Disclosure Time” means, (i) if this Agreement is signed on a day that is not a Trading Day or after 9:00 a.m. (New York City time) and before midnight (New York City time) on any Trading Day, 9:01 a.m. (New York City time) on the Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, unless otherwise instructed as to an earlier time by the Placement Agent, and (ii) if this Agreement is signed between midnight (New York City time) and 9:00 a.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, no later than 9:01 a.m. (New York City time) on the date hereof, unless otherwise instructed as to an earlier time by the Placement Agent.

 

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“Effective Date” means the earliest of the date that (a) the initial Registration Statement registering for resale all Warrant Shares has been declared effective by the Commission, (b) all of the Warrant Shares have been sold pursuant to Rule 144 or may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 without restriction, or (c) all of the Warrant Shares may be sold pursuant to an exemption from registration under Section 4(a)(1) of the Securities Act without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions and Company Counsel has delivered to such holders a standing written unqualified opinion that resales may then be made by such holders of the Warrant Shares pursuant to such exemption which opinion shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to such holders.

 

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

 

“ERISA Affiliate” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(qq).

 

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

 

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

 

“Exempt Issuance” means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents to employees, officers, directors, consultants or advisors 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 for services rendered to the Company, (b) securities upon the exercise or exchange of or conversion of any Securities issued hereunder and/or other securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date of this Agreement, provided that such securities have not been amended since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of such securities or to decrease the exercise price, exchange price or conversion price of such securities (other than in connection with stock splits or combinations) or to extend the term of such securities, (c) securities issued pursuant to acquisitions or strategic transactions approved by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Company, provided that such securities are issued as “restricted securities” (as defined in Rule 144) and carry no registration rights that require or permit the filing of any registration statement in connection therewith during the prohibition period in Section 4.12(a) herein, and provided that any such issuance shall only be to a Person (or to the equityholders of a Person) which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an operating company or an owner of an asset in a business synergistic with the business of the Company and shall provide to the Company additional benefits in addition to the investment of funds, but shall not include a transaction in which the Company is issuing securities primarily for the purpose of raising capital or to an entity whose primary business is investing in securities and (d) securities issued to lenders, suppliers, vendors, third-party manufacturers or customers of the Company, provided that such securities are issued as “restricted securities” (as defined in Rule 144) and carry no registration rights that require the filing of any registration statement in connection therewith during the prohibition period in Section 4.12(a).

 

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“FCPA” means the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

 

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

 

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

 

“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(p).

 

“Irrevocable Proxy” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.18.

 

“Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.11.

 

“Liens” means a lien, charge, pledge, 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(n).

 

“Open Source Software” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(rr).

 

“Per Share Purchase Price” equals $0.7949, 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 and prior to the Closing Date.

 

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

 

“Pharmaceutical Product” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(hh).

 

“Placement Agent” means MTS Securities, LLC.

 

“Pre-Funded Warrant Purchase Price” equals the Per Share Purchase Price minus $0.0001, 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 and prior to the Closing Date.

 

“Pre-Funded Warrant Unit Purchase Price” equals the Pre-Funded Warrant Purchase Price plus $0.125.

 

“Pre-Funded Warrants” means the warrants to purchase the Pre-Funded Warrant Shares delivered to the Purchasers at the Closing in accordance with Section 2.2(a) hereof, which Pre-Funded Warrants shall be exercisable immediately and will expire when exercised in full, in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto.

 

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

 

“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.

 

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

 

“Registration Rights Agreement” means the registration rights agreement, dated on or about the date hereof, among the Company and the Purchasers, in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto.

 

“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 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 or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

“Series A Warrants” means the warrants to purchase Common Stock or pre-funded warrants to purchase Common Stock delivered to the Purchasers at the Closing in accordance with Section 2.2(a) hereof, which Series A Warrants shall be exercisable immediately after the Authorized Increase Date, have an exercise price equal to the Per Share Purchase Price and will expire on the date that is the later of (i) fifteen (15) months after the Authorized Increase Date or (ii) one (1) month after public announcement by or on behalf of the Company of the publication of top line data from the Company’s Phase 3 trial of batiraxcept in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, in the form of Exhibit D attached hereto.

 

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“Series B Warrants” means the warrants to purchase Common Stock or pre-funded warrants to purchase Common Stock delivered to the Purchasers at the Closing in accordance with Section 2.2(a) hereof, which Series B Warrants shall be exercisable immediately after the Authorized Increase Date, have an exercise price equal to the Per Share Purchase Price and will expire thirty (30) months after the Authorized Increase Date, in the form of Exhibit E attached hereto.

 

“Share Unit Purchase Price” equals the Per Share Purchase Price plus $0.125.

 

“Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable to the Purchasers pursuant to this Agreement, but excluding Warrant Shares.

 

“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 locating and/or borrowing shares of Common Stock). 

 

“Side Letters” means the BBA Side Letter and BVF Side Letter.

 

“Stockholder Meeting Deadline” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.17.

 

“Stockholder Resolution” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.17.

 

“Subscription Amount” means, as to each Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be paid for Shares (and/or the Pre-Funded Warrants) and accompanying Series A Warrants and Series B 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 (minus, if applicable, a Purchaser’s aggregate exercise price of the Pre-Funded Warrants, which amounts shall be paid as and when such Pre-Funded Warrants are exercised).

 

“Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Company as set forth in the SEC Reports, and shall, where applicable, also include any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company formed or acquired after the date hereof.

 

“Trading Day” means a day on which the principal Trading Market is open for trading, including any day on which the Trading Market is open for trading for a period of time less than the customary time; provided, that in the event that the shares of Common Stock are not listed or quoted on a Trading Market, then Trading Day shall mean a Business Day.

 

“Trading Market” means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE American, The Nasdaq Capital Market, The Nasdaq Global Market, The Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange, OTCQB or OTCQX (or any successors to any of the foregoing).

 

“Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, the Warrants, the Registration Rights Agreement, the BBA Registration Rights Agreement, the Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions, the Side Letters, and all exhibits and schedules thereto and hereto and any other documents or agreements executed in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder.

 

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“Transfer Agent” means American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, the current transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 6201 15th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11219, and any successor transfer agent of the Company.

 

“Warrants” means, collectively, the Series A Warrants, the Series B Warrants and the Pre-Funded Warrants.

 

“Warrant Shares” means the Pre-Funded Warrant Shares and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of Common Warrants or upon exercise of the pre-funded warrants issuable upon exercise of Common Warrants.

 

ARTICLE II.

PURCHASE AND SALE

 

2.1    Closing. On the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, the Company agrees to sell, and the Purchasers, severally and not jointly, agree to purchase, up to an aggregate of $41,560,000 of Shares and Warrants. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, to the extent that a Purchaser determines, in its sole discretion, that such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount (together with such Purchaser’s Affiliates and any Person acting as a group together with such Purchaser or any of such Purchaser’s Affiliates) would cause such Purchaser’s beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock to exceed the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, or as such Purchaser may otherwise choose, such Purchaser may elect to purchase Pre-Funded Warrants in lieu of the Shares as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a). The “Beneficial Ownership Limitation” shall be 4.99% (or, at the election of the Purchaser at Closing, up to 19.99%) of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of the Securities on the Closing Date. In each case, the election to receive Pre-Funded Warrants is solely at the option of the Purchaser. Each Purchaser shall deliver to the Company via wire transfer, immediately available funds equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount set forth on the signature page hereto executed by such Purchaser and the Company shall deliver to each Purchaser its respective Shares and Warrants as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a), and the Company and each Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at the Closing. Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3, the Closing shall occur at the offices of Company Counsel or such other location (including remotely by electronic transmission) 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 in a form reasonably acceptable to the Placement Agent and the Purchasers;

 

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(iii)    the Company’s wire instructions, on Company letterhead and executed by the Chief Executive Officer or Chief Financial Officer of the Company;

 

(iv)     for each Purchaser of Shares pursuant to Section 2.1, a copy of the duly executed Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions instructing the Transfer Agent to deliver, in book entry form, a number of Shares equal to the amount set forth under “Subscription Amount Applicable to Shares” on such Purchaser’s signature page of this Agreement, divided by the Share Unit Purchase Price, registered in the name of such Purchaser;

 

(v)    for each Purchaser of Pre-Funded Warrants pursuant to Section 2.1, a Pre-Funded Warrant registered in the name of such Purchaser to purchase up to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the amount set forth under “Subscription Amount Applicable to Pre-Funded Warrants” on such Purchaser’s signature page of this Agreement, divided by the Pre-Funded Warrant Unit Purchase Price, with an exercise price equal to $0.0001, subject to adjustment as provided for therein;

 

(vi)    a Series A Warrant registered in the name of such Purchaser to purchase up to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to 50% of the aggregate of such Purchaser’s Shares and Pre-Funded Warrant Shares with an exercise price equal to the Per Share Purchase Price, subject to adjustment as provided for therein;

 

(vii)    a Series B Warrant registered in the name of such Purchaser to purchase up to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to 50% of the aggregate of such Purchaser’s Shares and Pre-Funded Warrant Shares with an exercise price equal to the applicable Per Share Purchase Price, subject to adjustment as provided for therein;

 

(viii)    the Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by the Company;

 

(ix)    in the case of 667, L.P. and Baker Brothers Life Sciences, L.P. (collectively, “BBA”), the BBA Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by the Company;

 

(x)    in the case of BBA, the BBA Side Letter duly executed by the Company;

 

(xi)    in the case of Biotechnology Value Fund, L.P., Biotechnology Value Fund II, L.P., Biotechnology Value Trading Fund OS LP, MSI BVF SPV, LLC (collectively, “BVF”), the BVF Side Letter duly executed by the Company; and

 

(xii)    a certificate, executed on behalf of the Company by the Chief Executive Officer or Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, certifying to the fulfillment of the conditions specified in Sections 2.3(b)(i), (ii) and (iv).

 

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(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;

 

(ii)    such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount by wire transfer;

 

(iii)    the Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser;

 

(iv)    in the case of BBA, the BBA Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by BBA; and

 

(v)    in the case of BBA, the BBA Side Letter duly executed by BBA.

 

(vi)    in the case of BVF, the BVF Side Letter duly executed by BVF.

 

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 representations and warranties of the Purchasers contained herein shall be true and correct in all material respects (or, to the extent representations or warranties are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in all respects) when made and on the Closing Date (unless as of a specific date therein in which case they shall be accurate as of such date);

 

(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 representations and warranties of the Company contained herein shall be true and correct in all material respects (or, to the extent representations or warranties are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in all respects) when made and on the Closing Date (unless as of a specific date therein in which case they shall be accurate as of such date);

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(v)    no statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree, ruling or injunction shall have been enacted, entered, promulgated or endorsed by any court or governmental authority of competent jurisdiction that prohibits the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents;

 

(vi)    the Company shall have obtained any and all consents, permits, approvals, registrations and waivers necessary for the consummation of the purchase and sale of the Securities at the Closing, all of which shall be and remain in full force and effect;

 

(vii)    from the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the Commission or the Company’s principal Trading Market, and, 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 such Purchaser, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Securities at the Closing; and

 

(viii)    the Company shall have filed with Nasdaq a Notification Form: Listing of Additional Shares for the listing of the Shares and the Warrant Shares, and Nasdaq shall have raised no objection to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

 

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 or as set forth in the SEC Reports, the Company hereby makes the following representations and warranties to each Purchaser:

 

(a)    Subsidiaries. All of the direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Company are set forth in the SEC Reports. 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.

 

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(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, would 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 this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and each of the other 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 herewith or therewith other than in connection with the Required Approvals. This Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which the Company 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 this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, the issuance and sale of the Securities and the consummation by it of the 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, or (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, anti-dilution or similar adjustments, 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 would 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, including a Current Report on Form 8-K, (ii) the filings with the Commission pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement or the BBA Registration Rights Agreement, (iii) if required, application(s) to each applicable Trading Market for the listing of the Shares and Warrant Shares for trading thereon in the time and manner required thereby, and (iv) the filing of a 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; Registration. The Shares 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 Warrants, 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. Except as set forth in the Disclosure Schedules and Section 4.17 below, 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. The Warrants are duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents.

 

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(g)    Capitalization. The capitalization of the Company as of the date hereof is substantially 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 as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g), pursuant to the exercise of employee stock options under the Company’s stock option plans, the issuance of shares of Common Stock to employees or consultants pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase plans and pursuant to the conversion and/or exercise of Common Stock Equivalents outstanding as of the date of the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act. No Person has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Except as a result of the purchase and sale of the Securities or as set forth in the SEC Reports, there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to subscribe for or acquire, any shares of Common Stock or the capital stock of any Subsidiary, 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 or capital stock of any Subsidiary. The issuance and sale of the Securities will not obligate the Company or any Subsidiary to issue shares of Common Stock or other securities to any Person (other than the Purchasers). There are no outstanding securities or instruments of the Company or any Subsidiary with any provision that adjusts the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price of such security or instrument upon an issuance of securities by the Company or any Subsidiary. There are no outstanding securities or instruments of the Company or any Subsidiary that contain any redemption or similar provisions, and there are no contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any Subsidiary is or may become bound to redeem a security of the Company or such Subsidiary. The Company does not have any stock appreciation rights or “phantom stock” plans or agreements or any similar plan or agreement. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are duly authorized, 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 (2) years preceding the date hereof (or such shorter period as the Company was required by law or regulation to file such material) (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, being collectively referred to herein as the “SEC Reports”) on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such extension. As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Company has never been an issuer subject to 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.

 

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(i)    Material Changes; Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments. Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, except as set forth in the SEC Reports 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 equity compensation 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 in the SEC Reports, no event, liability, fact, circumstance, occurrence or development has occurred or exists or is reasonably expected to occur or exist with respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective businesses, prospects, properties, operations, assets or financial condition that would be required to be disclosed by the Company under applicable securities laws at the time this representation is made or deemed made that has not been publicly disclosed at least one (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. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, 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. There has not been, and to the knowledge of the Company, there is not pending or threatened, 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.

 

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(k)    Labor Relations. No 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. To the knowledge of the Company, no executive officer of the Company or any Subsidiary, 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 would 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 judgment, decree or order of any court, arbitrator or other governmental authority or (iii) is or has been in violation of any statute, rule, ordinance or regulation of any governmental authority, including without limitation all foreign, federal, state and local laws relating to taxes, environmental protection, occupational health and safety, product quality and safety and employment and labor matters, except in each case as would not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(m)    Environmental Laws. The Company and its Subsidiaries (i) are in compliance with all federal, state, local and foreign laws relating to pollution or protection of human health or the environment (including ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata), including laws relating to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, or toxic or hazardous substances or wastes (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) into the environment, or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials, as well as all authorizations, codes, decrees, demands, or demand letters, injunctions, judgments, licenses, notices or notice letters, orders, permits, plans or regulations, issued, entered, promulgated or approved thereunder (“Environmental Laws”); (ii) have received all permits licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses; and (iii) are in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval where in each clause (i), (ii) and (iii), the failure to so comply could be reasonably expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(n)    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 would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect (“Material Permits”), and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Material Permit.

 

(o)    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 (i) 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 (ii) Liens for the payment of federal, state or other taxes, for which appropriate reserves have been made therefor in accordance with GAAP and, 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.

 

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

 

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(q)    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.

 

(r)    Transactions With Affiliates and Employees. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, none of the officers or directors of the Company or any Subsidiary and, to the knowledge of the Company, none of the employees of the Company or any Subsidiary is presently a party to any transaction with the Company or any Subsidiary (other than for services as employees, officers, consultants and directors and other than warrants previously issued to employees, officers, consultants 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, providing for the borrowing of money from or lending of money to 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, stockholder, member or partner, in each case in excess of $120,000 other than for (i) payment of salary or consulting fees for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company and (iii) other employee benefits, including stock option agreements under any stock option plan of the Company.

 

(s)    Sarbanes-Oxley; Internal Accounting Controls. The Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance with any and all applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that are effective as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, and any and all applicable rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder that are effective as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date. The Company and the Subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Company and the Subsidiaries have established disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and the Subsidiaries 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 disclosure controls and procedures of the Company and the Subsidiaries as of the end of the period covered by the 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 internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act) of the Company and its Subsidiaries that have materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the internal control over financial reporting of the Company and its Subsidiaries.

 

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(t)    Certain Fees. Except for fees of the Placement Agent, no brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions are or will be payable by the Company or any Subsidiary 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.

 

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

 

(v)    Registration Rights. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.1(v), other than to each Purchaser pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement or to BBA pursuant to the BBA Registration Rights Agreement, no Person has any right to cause the Company or any Subsidiary to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the Company or any Subsidiary.

 

(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 or FINRA is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, the Company is in compliance with the listing and maintenance requirements of the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is listed, and except as set forth in the SEC Reports, 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 Transfer Agent is a participant in, and the Common Stock is currently eligible for electronic transfer through the Depository Trust Company or another established clearing corporation and the Company is current in payment of the fees to the Depository Trust Company (or such other established clearing corporation) in connection with such electronic transfer.

 

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

 

(y)    Disclosure. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company confirms that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Purchasers or their agents or counsel with any information that it believes constitutes or might constitute material, non-public information. The Company understands and confirms that the Purchasers will rely on the foregoing representation in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. All of the disclosure furnished by or on behalf of the Company to the Purchasers regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries, their respective businesses 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 the light of the circumstances under which they were 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 (i) the Securities Act that would require the registration of the offering of the Securities under the Securities Act or (ii) of any applicable shareholder approval provisions of any Trading Market on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated.

 

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(aa)    Solvency. Based on the consolidated financial condition of the Company as of the Closing Date, after giving effect to the receipt by the Company of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder, (i) the fair saleable value of the Company’s assets exceeds the amount that will be required to be paid on or in respect of the Company’s existing debts and other liabilities (including known contingent liabilities) as they mature, (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, consolidated 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. The SEC Reports set forth as of the date hereof all outstanding secured and unsecured Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary, or for which the Company or any Subsidiary has commitments. For the purposes of this Agreement, “Indebtedness” means (x) any liabilities for borrowed money or amounts owed in excess of $100,000 (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 consolidated 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 $100,000 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 its Subsidiaries each (i) has made or filed all United States federal, state and local income and all foreign income and franchise tax returns, reports and declarations required by any jurisdiction to which it is subject, (ii) has paid all taxes and other governmental assessments and charges that are material in amount, shown or determined to be due on such returns, reports and declarations and (iii) has set aside on its books provision reasonably adequate for the payment of all material taxes for periods subsequent to the periods to which such returns, reports or declarations apply. There are no unpaid taxes in any material amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any jurisdiction, and the officers of the Company or of any Subsidiary know of no basis for any such claim.

 

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

 

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(dd)    Accountants. The Company’s independent registered public accounting firm is BDO USA, LLP. 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 fiscal year ending December 31, 2022.

 

(ee)     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.

 

(ff)    Acknowledgment Regarding Purchaser’s Trading Activity. Anything in this Agreement or elsewhere herein to the contrary notwithstanding (except for Section 4.14 hereof), it is understood and acknowledged by the Company that: (i) none of the Purchasers has been asked by the Company to agree, 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 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, presently may 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 Documents.

 

(gg)    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.

 

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(hh)    FDA. As to each product subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, as amended, and the regulations thereunder (“FDCA”) that is manufactured, packaged, labeled, tested, distributed, sold, and/or marketed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (each such product, a “Pharmaceutical Product”), such Pharmaceutical Product is being manufactured, packaged, labeled, tested, distributed, sold and/or marketed by the Company in compliance with all applicable requirements under FDCA and similar laws, rules and regulations relating to registration, investigational use, premarket clearance, licensure, or application approval, good manufacturing practices, good laboratory practices, good clinical practices, product listing, quotas, labeling, advertising, record keeping and filing of reports, except where the failure to be in compliance would not have a Material Adverse Effect. There is no pending, completed or, to the Company's knowledge, threatened, action (including any lawsuit, arbitration, or legal or administrative or regulatory proceeding, charge, complaint, or investigation) against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice, warning letter or other communication from the FDA or any other governmental entity, which (i) contests the premarket clearance, licensure, registration, or approval of, the uses of, the distribution of, the manufacturing or packaging of, the testing of, the sale of, or the labeling and promotion of any Pharmaceutical Product, (ii) withdraws its approval of, requests the recall, suspension, or seizure of, or withdraws or orders the withdrawal of advertising or sales promotional materials relating to, any Pharmaceutical Product, (iii) imposes a clinical hold on any clinical investigation by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iv) enjoins production at any facility of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (v) enters or proposes to enter into a consent decree of permanent injunction with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (vi) otherwise alleges any violation of any laws, rules or regulations by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and which, either individually or in the aggregate, would have a Material Adverse Effect. The properties, business and operations of the Company have been and are being conducted in all material respects in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations of the FDA.  The Company has not been informed by the FDA that the FDA will prohibit the marketing, sale, license or use in the United States of any product proposed to be developed, produced or marketed by the Company nor has the FDA expressed any concern as to approving or clearing for marketing any product being developed or proposed to be developed by the Company. To the Company’s knowledge, during the past three years, the studies, tests and preclinical and clinical trials conducted by or, to the Company’s knowledge, on behalf of the Company were and, if still pending, are being, conducted in all material respects in accordance with all applicable rules and regulations of the FDA. Neither Company nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any of its officers, directors or managing employees (as defined in 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-5(b)), is or has been excluded, suspended or debarred from participation in any national or regional health care program, debarred by regulatory authorities pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 335a or similar laws, or made subject to any pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened or contemplated action or engaged in any conduct which could reasonably be expected to result in such exclusion, suspension or debarment.

 

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(ii)    Stock Option Plans. Each stock option granted by the Company under the Company’s stock option plans was granted (i) in accordance with the terms of the applicable Company 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 any of the Company’s stock option plans 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.

 

(jj)    Cybersecurity. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.1(jj), (i)(x) to the knowledge of the Company, there has been no security breach or other compromise of or relating to any of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s information technology and computer systems, networks, hardware, software, data (including the data of its respective customers, employees, suppliers, vendors and any third party data maintained by or on behalf of it), equipment or technology (collectively, “IT Systems and Data”) and (y) the Company and the Subsidiaries have not been notified of, and has no knowledge of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in, any security breach or other compromise to its IT Systems and Data; (ii) the Company and the Subsidiaries are presently in compliance in all material respects with all applicable laws or statutes and all applicable judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, internal policies and contractual obligations relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Data and to the protection of such IT Systems and Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification, except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; (iii) the Company and the Subsidiaries have implemented and maintained commercially reasonable safeguards designed to maintain and protect its material confidential information and the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of all IT Systems and Data; and (iv) the Company and the Subsidiaries have implemented backup and disaster recovery procedure consistent with industry standards and practices.

 

(kk)    No Conflicts with Sanctions Laws. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries, directors, officers or employees, nor, to the knowledge of the Company or any Subsidiary, any agent, affiliate or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is currently the subject or the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. government (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“OFAC”) or the U.S. Department of State and including, without limitation, the designation as a “specially designated national” or “blocked person”), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, His Majesty’s Treasury or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor is the Company or any of its subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject or target of Sanctions, including, without limitation, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the Crimea region of Ukraine, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, and the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic (each, a “Sanctioned Country”); and the Company and its Subsidiaries will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering of the Securities hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity (i) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business with any person that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject or target of Sanctions, (ii) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business in any Sanctioned Country or (iii) in any other manner that will result in a violation by any person (including any person participating in the transaction, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions. For the past five years, the Company and its Subsidiaries have not knowingly engaged in and are not now knowingly engaged in any dealings or transactions with any person that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject or the target of Sanctions or with any Sanctioned Country.

 

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

 

(mm)    Bank Holding Company Act. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates is subject to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended (the “BHCA”) and to regulation by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”). Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates owns or controls, directly or indirectly, five percent (5%) or more of the outstanding shares of any class of voting securities or twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the total equity of a bank or any entity that is subject to the BHCA and to regulation by the Federal Reserve. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates exercises a controlling influence over the management or policies of a bank or any entity that is subject to the BHCA and to regulation by the Federal Reserve.

 

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

 

(oo)    Relationships. No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company or its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the directors, officers, stockholders, customers or suppliers of the Company or its Subsidiaries, on the other, that is required by the Securities Act to be described in the SEC Reports and that is not so described in such documents.

 

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(pp)   ERISA Compliance. Except in each case that would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and any “employee benefit plan” (as defined under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (collectively, “ERISA”)) established or maintained by the Company or its “ERISA Affiliates” (as defined below) are in compliance in all material respects with ERISA. “ERISA Affiliate” means, with respect to the Company, any member of any group of organizations described in Sections 414(b),(c),(m) or (o) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (the “Code”) of which the Company is a member. No “reportable event” (as defined under ERISA) has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates. No “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates, if such “employee benefit plan” were terminated, would have any “amount of unfunded benefit liabilities” (as defined under ERISA). Neither the Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates has incurred or reasonably expects to incur any material liability under (i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any “employee benefit plan” or (ii) Sections 412, 4971, 4975 or 4980B of the Code. Each “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified and, to the knowledge of the Company, nothing has occurred, whether by action or failure to act, which would cause the loss of such qualification.

 

(qq)    No Disqualification Events. With respect to the Securities to be offered and sold hereunder in reliance on Rule 506 under the Securities Act, none of the Company, any of its predecessors, any affiliated issuer, any director, executive officer, other officer of the Company participating in the offering hereunder, any beneficial owner of 20% or more of the Company’s outstanding voting equity securities, calculated on the basis of voting power, nor any promoter (as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) connected with the Company in any capacity at the time of sale, nor the Placement Agent nor any general partner, managing member, director, executive officer or other officer of the Placement Agent participating in the solicitation of purchasers in connection with the offering hereunder (each, an “Issuer Covered Person” and, together, “Issuer Covered Persons”) is subject to any of the “Bad Actor” disqualifications described in Rule 506(d)(1)(i) to (viii) under the Securities Act (a “Disqualification Event”), except for a Disqualification Event covered by Rule 506(d)(2) or (d)(3). The Company has exercised reasonable care to determine whether any Issuer Covered Person is subject to a Disqualification Event. The Company has complied, to the extent applicable, with its disclosure obligations under Rule 506(e), and has furnished to the Purchasers a copy of any disclosures provided thereunder.

 

(rr)    Open Source Software. The Company and its Subsidiaries use and have used any and all software and other materials distributed under a “free,” “open source,” or similar licensing model (“Open Source Software”) in compliance with all license terms applicable to such Open Source Software; and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries uses or distributes or has used or distributed any Open Source Software in any manner that requires or has required (A) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to permit reverse engineering of any software code or other technology owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (B) any software code or other technology owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to be (1) disclosed or distributed in source code form, (2) licensed for the purpose of making derivative works or (3) redistributed at no charge.

 

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(ss)    Non-Public Information. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company represents that neither it, nor any other Person acting on its behalf, including its representatives, Affiliates, officers, directors, employees or agents, including, without limitation, the Placement Agent, has provided any Purchaser or any of such Purchaser’s Affiliates, attorneys, agents or representatives with any information regarding the Company that constitutes, or that the Company reasonably believes constitutes, material non-public information regarding the Company or its Subsidiaries, unless prior thereto such Purchaser or any of such Purchaser’s Affiliates, attorneys, agents or representatives shall have previously consented in writing to the receipt of such information and agreed with the Company to keep such information confidential until such time as such information is publicly disclosed or such time as set forth in such written agreement.

 

(tt)    No General Solicitation. Neither the Company nor any Person acting on behalf of the Company has offered or sold and 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.

 

(uu)    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 on which the Common Stock is listed.

 

(vv)    No Additional Agreements. The Company has no other agreements or understandings (including, without limitation, side letters) with any Purchaser or any other party to purchase Securities or any other equity or equity-linked securities of the Company on terms more favorable to such Purchaser or other party other than as set forth herein or as set forth in the Side Letters.

 

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 (unless as of a specific date therein, in which case they shall be accurate as of such date):

 

(a)    Organization; Authority. Such Purchaser is either an individual or an entity duly incorporated or formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation with full right, corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and performance by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar action, as applicable, on the part of such Purchaser. Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been duly executed by such Purchaser, and when delivered by such Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of such Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and 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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(b)    Understandings or Arrangements. Such Purchaser is acquiring the Securities as principal for its own account 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). 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)(4), (a)(5), (a)(7), (a)(8), (a)(9), (a)(12) or (a)(13) under the Securities Act or (ii) a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A(a) under the Securities 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)    Access to Information. Such Purchaser acknowledges that it has had the opportunity to review the Transaction Documents (including all exhibits and schedules thereto) and the SEC Reports and has been afforded, (i) the opportunity to ask such questions as it has deemed necessary of, and to receive answers from, representatives of the Company concerning the terms and conditions of the offering of the Securities and the merits and risks of investing in the Securities; (ii) access to information about the Company and its financial condition, results of operations, business, properties, management and prospects sufficient to enable it to evaluate its investment; and (iii) the opportunity to obtain such additional information that the Company possesses or can acquire without unreasonable effort or expense that is necessary to make an informed investment decision with respect to the investment.  Such Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that neither the Placement Agent nor any Affiliate of the Placement Agent has provided such Purchaser with any information or advice with respect to the Securities nor is such information or advice necessary or desired.  Neither the Placement Agent nor any Affiliate has made or makes any representation as to the Company or the quality of the Securities and the Placement Agent and any Affiliate may have acquired non-public information with respect to the Company which such Purchaser agrees need not be provided to it.  In connection with the issuance of the Securities to such Purchaser, neither the Placement Agent nor any of its Affiliates has acted as a financial advisor or fiduciary to such Purchaser.

 

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(f)    Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. Other than consummating the transactions contemplated hereunder, such Purchaser has not, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with such Purchaser, directly or indirectly executed any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the securities of the Company during the period commencing as of the time that such Purchaser first received a term sheet (written or oral) from the Company or any other Person representing the Company setting forth the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereunder and ending immediately prior to the execution hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a 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 or to such Purchaser’s representatives, including, without limitation, its officers, directors, partners, legal and other advisors, employees, agents and Affiliates, 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 the avoidance of doubt, nothing contained herein shall constitute a representation or warranty, or preclude any actions, with respect to locating or borrowing shares in order to effect Short Sales or similar transactions in the future.

 

The Company acknowledges and agrees that the representations contained in this Section 3.2 shall not modify, amend or affect such Purchaser’s right to rely on the Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any representations and warranties contained in any other Transaction Document or any other document or instrument executed and/or delivered in connection with this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the avoidance of doubt, nothing contained herein shall constitute a representation or warranty, or preclude any actions, with respect to locating or borrowing shares 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 if applicable the BBA Registration Rights Agreement, and shall have the rights and obligations of a Purchaser under this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement, and if applicable the BBA Registration Rights Agreement.

 

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(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:

 

THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY [AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THESE SECURITIES] HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE BUT HAVE BEEN [OR WILL BE] ISSUED IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED UNLESS (i) SUCH SECURITIES HAVE BEEN REGISTERED FOR SALE PURSUANT TO THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, (ii) SUCH SECURITIES MAY BE SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144, (iii) THE COMPANY HAS RECEIVED AN OPINION OF COUNSEL REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO IT THAT SUCH TRANSFER MAY LAWFULLY BE MADE WITHOUT REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR (iv) THE SECURITIES ARE TRANSFERRED WITHOUT CONSIDERATION TO AN AFFILIATE OF SUCH HOLDER OR A CUSTODIAL NOMINEE (WHICH FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT SHALL REQUIRE NEITHER CONSENT NOR THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION).

 

(c)    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, 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 and after receipt of such Purchaser’s payment, 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 or the BBA Registration Rights Agreement, the preparation and filing of any required prospectus supplement under Rule 424 or other applicable provision of the Securities Act to appropriately amend the list of selling securityholders thereunder.

 

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(d)    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 without restriction under Rule 144, or (iv) if such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission).  The Company shall cause its counsel to issue a legal opinion to the Transfer Agent, or at the request of a Purchaser to such Purchaser, promptly after the Effective Date if required by the Transfer Agent to effect the removal of the legend hereunder, or if requested by a Purchaser.  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 applicable Warrant Shares, the applicable Warrant Shares may be sold under Rule 144 without restriction, 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 the earlier of (x) two (2) Trading Days and (y) the number of Trading Days comprising the Standard Settlement Period (as defined below) 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 date, 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.  As used herein, “Standard Settlement Period” means the standard settlement period, expressed in a number of Trading Days, on the Company’s primary Trading Market with respect to the Common Stock as in effect on the date of delivery of a certificate representing Shares or Warrant Shares, as the case may be, issued with a restrictive legend.

 

(e)         Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees with the Company that such Purchaser will sell any Securities pursuant to either the registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and that if Securities are sold pursuant to a Registration Statement, they will be sold in compliance with the plan of distribution set forth therein, and acknowledges that the removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing Securities as set forth in this Section 4.1 is predicated upon the Company’s reliance upon this understanding.

 

4.2    Furnishing of Information. Until the earlier of the time that (i) no Purchaser owns Securities and (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 even if the Company is not then subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act. 

 

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 in a manner that would require the registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Securities or that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities for purposes of the rules and regulations of any Trading Market such that it would require shareholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.

 

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4.4    Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall (a) by the Disclosure Time, issue a press release disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby, and (b) file a Current Report on Form 8-K, including the Transaction Documents as exhibits thereto, with the Commission within the time required by the Exchange Act. From and after the issuance of such press release, the Company represents to the Purchasers that it shall have publicly disclosed all material, non-public information delivered to any of the Purchasers by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents or Affiliates, including, without limitation, the Placement Agent, in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. In addition, effective upon the issuance of such press release, the Company acknowledges and agrees that any and all confidentiality or similar obligations owed by the Purchasers or any of their Affiliates to the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents or Affiliates, including, without limitation, the Placement Agent, under any agreement, whether written or oral, shall terminate. 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 the filing of final Transaction Documents with the Commission and (b) to the extent such disclosure is required by law or Trading Market regulations, provided that in either case the Company shall notify the Purchasers of such required disclosure reasonably in advance and give the Purchasers reasonable opportunity to minimize such disclosure and comment thereon (and the Company shall consider such comments in good faith and incorporate any such reasonable comments).

 

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.

 

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4.6    Non-Public Information. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, which shall be disclosed pursuant to Section 4.4, 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 constitutes, or the Company reasonably believes constitutes, material non-public information, unless prior thereto such Purchaser shall have consented in writing to the receipt of such information and agreed in writing with the Company to keep such information confidential. The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. To the extent that the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, agents, employees or Affiliates, including, without limitation, the Placement Agent, delivers any material, non-public information to a Purchaser without such Purchaser’s consent, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that such Purchaser shall not have any duty of confidentiality to the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, agents, employees or Affiliates, including, without limitation, the Placement Agent, or a duty to the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors, agents, employees or Affiliates not to trade on the basis of, such material, non-public information, provided that the Purchaser shall remain subject to applicable law. To the extent that any notice provided pursuant to any Transaction Document constitutes, or contains, material, non-public information regarding the Company or any Subsidiaries, the Company shall simultaneously file such notice with the Commission pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K. The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.

 

4.7    Use of Proceeds. The Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder for working capital purposes and shall not use such proceeds: (a) for 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) for the redemption of any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents, (c) for the settlement of any outstanding litigation or (d) in violation of FCPA or OFAC regulations.

 

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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 any Purchaser Party 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 Party, with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (unless such action is solely based upon a material breach of such Purchaser Party’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents or any agreements or understandings such Purchaser Party may have with any such stockholder or any violations by such Purchaser Party of state or federal securities laws or any conduct by such Purchaser Party which is finally judicially determined to constitute fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct). 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 (x) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company in writing, (y) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (z) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of counsel, a material conflict on any material issue between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party, in which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such separate counsel. The Company will not be liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (1) for any settlement by a Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (2) to the extent, but only to the extent that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents. Without the prior written consent of each applicable Purchaser Party, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned, the Company shall not effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any such Purchaser Party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such Purchaser Party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such Purchaser Party from all liability arising out of such proceeding and does not include any admission to fault, culpability or failure to act on the part of such Purchaser Party. The indemnification required by this Section 4.8 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or are incurred. The indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in addition to any cause of action or similar right of any Purchaser Party against the Company or others and any liabilities the Company may be subject to pursuant to law.

 

4.9    Reservation of Common Stock. Except as provided in Section 4.17, 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 the Trading Market on which it is currently listed or have the Common Stock listed or quoted on another Trading Market provided that such provision shall not prevent a sale, merger or similar transaction involving the Company. 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 or quoted on such other Trading Market as promptly as possible. The Company will then take all action reasonably necessary to continue the listing 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. The Company agrees to maintain the eligibility of the Common Stock for electronic transfer through the Depository Trust Company or another established clearing corporation, including, without limitation, by timely payment of fees to the Depository Trust Company or such other established clearing corporation in connection with such electronic transfer.

 

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4.11    Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions. The Company shall issue irrevocable instructions to the Transfer Agent, and any subsequent transfer agent to issue to the Purchasers (or in such nominee’s name(s) as designated by a Purchaser) book-entry notations representing a number of Shares equal to the amount set forth under “Subscription Amount Applicable to Shares” on such Purchaser’s signature page of this Agreement, divided by the Share Unit Purchase Price, registered in the name of such Purchaser and the Warrant Shares once the Warrants are exercised (“Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions”). The Company represents and warrants that no instruction other than the Irrevocable Transfer Agent Instructions referred to in this Section ‎4.11 (or instructions that are consistent therewith) will be given by the Company to its Transfer Agent in connection with this Agreement and that the Shares and the Warrant Shares shall otherwise be freely transferable on the books and records of the Company as and to the extent provided in this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and applicable law. The Company acknowledges that a breach by it of its obligations under this Section ‎4.11 will cause irreparable harm to a Purchaser. Accordingly, the Company acknowledges that the remedy at law for a breach of its obligations under this Section ‎4.11 will be inadequate and agrees, in the event of a breach by the Company of the provisions of this Section ‎4.11, that a Purchaser shall be entitled, in addition to all other available remedies, to an order and/or injunction restraining any breach and requiring immediate issuance and transfer, without the necessity of showing economic loss and without any bond or other security being required.

 

4.12    Subsequent Equity Sales.

 

(a)    From the date hereof until sixty (60) days following the Closing Date, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary shall (i) issue, enter into any agreement to issue or announce the issuance or proposed issuance of any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents or (ii) file any registration statement or amendment or supplement thereto, other than the filing a registration statement on Form S-4 or a registration statement on Form S-8 in connection with any equity incentive plan or employee benefit plan or the filing of a registration statement or amendment or supplement thereto pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement or the BBA Registration Rights Agreement.

 

(b)    Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 4.12 shall not apply in respect of an Exempt Issuance.

 

4.13    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 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.

 

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4.14    Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that neither it nor any Affiliate acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it will execute any purchases or sales, including Short Sales of any of the Company’s securities during the period commencing with the execution of this Agreement and ending at such time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to the initial press release as described in Section 4.4.  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 pursuant to the initial press release 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 Disclosure Schedules.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, and notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that (i) no Purchaser makes any representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in effecting transactions in any securities of the Company after the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to the initial press release as described in Section 4.4, (ii) no Purchaser shall be restricted or prohibited from effecting any transactions in any securities of the Company in accordance with applicable securities laws from and after the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to the initial press release as described in Section 4.4 and (iii) no Purchaser shall have any duty of confidentiality or duty not to trade in the securities of the Company to the Company or its Subsidiaries after the issuance of the initial press release as described in Section 4.4.  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    Exercise Procedures. The form of Notice of Exercise included in the Warrants set forth the totality of the procedures required of the Purchasers in order to exercise the Warrants. No additional legal opinion, other information or instructions shall be required of the Purchasers to exercise their Warrants. Without limiting the preceding sentences, no ink-original Notice of Exercise shall be required, nor shall any medallion guarantee (or other type of guarantee or notarization) of any Notice of Exercise form be required in order to exercise the Warrants. The Company shall honor exercises of the Warrants and shall deliver Warrant Shares in accordance with the terms, conditions and time periods set forth in the Transaction Documents.

 

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4.17    Insufficient Authorized Shares. The Purchasers acknowledge and agree that the Company currently does not have sufficient authorized and unissued and otherwise unreserved Common Stock for the purpose of issuing all of the Warrant Shares issuable upon the exercise of the Series A Warrants and Series B Warrants. Therefore, as soon as practicable after the Closing but in any event, no later than 120 days (or 150 days if the proxy statement is reviewed by the Commission) following the Closing (the “Stockholder Meeting Deadline”), the Company shall hold a meeting of its stockholders for the approval of an increase in the number of authorized shares of Common Stock in an amount not less than the maximum amount of Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Common Warrants without giving effect to any limitation on exercise set forth therein, including, without limitation the Maximum Percentage (as defined therein) (the “Stockholder Resolution”). In connection with such meeting, the Company shall provide each stockholder with a proxy statement and shall use its reasonable best efforts to solicit its stockholders’ approval of such increase in authorized shares of Common Stock and to cause the Board of Directors to recommend to the stockholders that they approve such proposal. If, despite the Company’s reasonable best efforts, approval of the Stockholder Resolution is not obtained by the Stockholder Meeting Deadline, the Company shall cause an additional stockholder meeting to be held every ninety (90) calendar days thereafter until approval of the Stockholder Resolution is obtained. As soon as practicable following the approval of the Stockholder Resolution by the Company’s stockholders, the Company shall amend its certificate of incorporation to effect such increase to its authorized shares of Common Stock. Prior to the date on which the Company’s stockholders approve such increase in authorized shares of Common Stock, the Company will not, and will not publicly disclose an intention to, (i) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, hedge, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock or submit to, or file with, the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement under the Securities Act, or (ii) enter into any swap, hedging or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Common Stock or any such other securities, whether any such transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise, other than (A) any shares of Common Stock and options to purchase Common Stock, shares of Common Stock underlying options granted and other securities, each pursuant to any director or employee stock incentive plan, stock ownership plan or dividend reinvestment plan of the Company in effect on the date hereof, (B) any shares of Common Stock of the Company issued upon the exercise of warrants or convertible securities of the Company outstanding on the date hereof or issued at the Closing, (C) the filing of a registration statement by the Company pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement or the BBA Registration Rights Agreement; and (D) the filing of a registration statement by the Company for the exercise of the outstanding Warrants. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if the Company obtains the written consent of stockholders of the Company sufficient to approve an increase in the number of authorized shares of Common Stock in an amount not less than the maximum amount of Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Common Warrants without giving effect to any limitation on exercise set forth therein, including, without limitation the Maximum Percentage (as defined therein), then the Company shall not be required to hold the stockholder meeting and instead shall be required to take all action necessary to effect the increase in the number of authorized shares of Common Stock by the Stockholder Meeting Deadline.

 

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4.18    Voting of Securities & Irrevocable Proxy. During the period that is one year from the date of this Agreement, in any vote of stockholders of the Company with respect to the Stockholder Resolution, each Investor covenants to the Company, severally and not jointly with any other Investors, to vote and shall cause its Affiliates to vote, with respect to all Common Stock and other voting securities of the Company held of record or with respect to which they are entitled to vote, in favor of the Stockholder Resolution. Each Investor hereby irrevocably appoints the Company and any individuals designated by the Company, and each of them individually, as the attorneys, agents and proxies, with full power of substitution and re-substitution in each of them, for such Investor, and in the name, place and stead of such Investor, to vote (or cause to be voted) or, if applicable, to give consent, in favor of the Stockholder Resolution in such manner as each such attorney, agent and proxy or his substitute shall in its, his or her sole discretion deem appropriate or desirable, all Common Stock and other voting securities of the Company held of record by such Investor or with respect to which such Investor is or may be entitled to vote at any meeting of the Company held during the period beginning on the date hereof and ending one year after the date hereof, whether annual or special and whether or not an adjourned meeting or, if applicable, to give written consent with respect thereto (the “Irrevocable Proxy”). This Irrevocable Proxy is coupled with an interest, shall be irrevocable and binding on any successor in interest of each Investor and shall not be terminated by operation of law upon the occurrence of any event. This Irrevocable Proxy shall operate to revoke and render void any proxy as to the Common Stock or any other voting securities of the Company previously granted by each Investor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Irrevocable Proxy shall be effective if, at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders of the Company (or any consent in lieu thereof) and at any adjournments or postponements of any such meetings, and in each case during the period beginning on the date hereof and ending one year after the date hereof, an Investor (A) fails to provide a proxy to the Company to cause any Common Stock or other voting securities of the Company which such Investor holds of record or may be entitled to vote to be counted as present for purposes of calculating a quorum, or (B) fails to provide a proxy to the Company authorizing the voting of any Common Stock or other voting securities of the Company in accordance with this Section 4.18, in each case at least ten (10) days prior to the date of such stockholders’ meeting (or within ten (10) days prior to the effective time of an action to be taken by written consent in lieu of such stockholders’ meeting), provided that the Company provides notice of any meeting of stockholders of the Company at least twenty (20) days prior to the date of such stockholder meeting or fifteen (15) days prior to the effective time of an action to be taken by written consent in lieu of such stockholders’ meeting, which notice requirement shall be deemed to be satisfied by the filing of a Current Report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy statement by the Company disclosing such stockholder meeting. This Irrevocable Proxy shall terminate one year from the date of this Agreement. The covenant contained in this Section 4.18 may be enforced solely by the Company and not any other party.

 

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 the fifth (5th) Trading Day following the date hereof due to failure of the Company to fulfill its obligations under this Agreement due to no fault of such Purchaser; provided, however, that no such termination will affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by any other party (or parties).

 

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5.2    Fees and Expenses. Each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement except as expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents to the contrary and except that the Company has agreed to reimburse BBA in an amount of up to $100,000 for BBA’s reasonable legal fees at the time of execution of this Agreement.  The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees (including, without limitation, any fees required for same-day processing of any instruction letter delivered by the Company and any exercise notice delivered by a Purchaser), stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Securities to the Purchasers.

 

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 thereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and schedules.

 

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 time of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number or email attachment at the email address as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto at or prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the time of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number or email attachment at the email address as 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. To the extent that any notice provided pursuant to any Transaction Document constitutes, or contains, material, non-public information regarding the Company or any Subsidiaries, the Company shall simultaneously file such notice with the Commission pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

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 Purchasers which purchased at least 75.1% in interest of the Shares and Pre-Funded Warrants based on the initial Subscription Amounts hereunder (or, prior to the Closing, the Company and each Purchaser) or, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement of any such waived provision is sought, provided that if any amendment, modification or waiver disproportionately and adversely impacts a Purchaser (or group of Purchasers), the consent of at least 75.1% in interest of such disproportionately impacted Purchaser (or group of Purchasers) shall also be required. 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. Any proposed amendment or waiver that disproportionately, materially and adversely affects the rights and obligations of any Purchaser relative to the comparable rights and obligations of the other Purchasers shall require the prior written consent of such adversely affected Purchaser. Any amendment effected in accordance with this Section 5.5 shall be binding upon each Purchaser and holder of Securities and the Company.

 

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

 

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

 

5.8    No Third-Party Beneficiaries. The Placement Agent shall be the third party beneficiary of the representations and warranties of the Company in Section 3.1 and the representations and warranties of the Purchasers in Section 3.2. 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 and this Section 5.8.

 

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, partners, members, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, 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 Action or Proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such 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 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 any party shall commence an Action or Proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then, in addition to the obligations of the Company under Section 4.8, the prevailing party in such Action or Proceeding shall be reimbursed by the non-prevailing party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such Action or Proceeding.

 

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

 

5.11    Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument, and may be delivered by facsimile transmission or by electronic delivery of a portable document format (PDF) file (including any electronic signature covered by the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000, Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, the Electronic Signatures and Records Act or other applicable law, e.g., www.docusign.com).

 

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

 

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

 

5.14    Replacement of Securities. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction. The applicant for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party 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 agree to waive and not to assert in any Action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

 

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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 hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any Proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in its review and negotiation of the Transaction Documents. For reasons of administrative convenience only, each Purchaser and its respective counsel have chosen to communicate with the Company through the Placement Agent. The Placement Agent does not represent any of the Purchasers. The Company has elected to provide all Purchasers with the same terms and Transaction Documents for the convenience of the Company and not because it was required or requested to do so by any of the Purchasers. It is expressly understood and agreed that each provision contained in this Agreement and in each other Transaction Document is between the Company and a Purchaser, solely, and not between the Company and the Purchasers collectively and not between and among the Purchasers.

 

5.18    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.

 

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

 

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 WAIVE 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.

 

	
			ARAVIVE, INC.

				 	
			Address for Notice:

			
	 	 	 
	
			By:

				 	 	
			River Oaks Tower

			3730 Kirby Drive, Suite 1200

			Houston, Texas 77098

			
	 	
			Name: Gail McIntyre

				 	 
	 	
			Title: Chief Executive Officer

				 	
			E-mail: XXXX

			
	 	 	 	 

 

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

			 

			Blank Rome LLP

			1271 Avenue of the Americas

			New York, New York 10020

			(212) 885-5000

			Attention: Leslie Marlow, Esq.

			Fax No: (212) 885-5001

			E-mail: XXXX

				 

 

 

 

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Execution Copy

 

[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO ARAVIVE, INC.

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]

 

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

 

Name of Purchaser:                                                                                                                                                                              

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser:                                                                                                                                               

 

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Email Address of Authorized Signatory:                                                                                                                                                               

 

Address for Notice to Purchaser:                                                                                                                                                                           

 

 

Address for Delivery of Warrants to Purchaser (if not same as address for notice):

 

 

Subscription Amount: $                                  

 

Subscription Amount Applicable to Shares: $                               Shares:                                   

 

Subscription Amount Applicable to Pre-Funded Warrants: $                            

 

Pre-Funded Warrant Shares:                           Beneficial Ownership Blocker ☐ 4.99% or ☐ 9.99% or ☐ 19.99%

 

Warrant Shares underlying Common Warrants:                                      Beneficial Ownership Blocker ☐ 4.99% or ☐ 9.99% or ☐ 19.99%

 

EIN Number:                                         

 

☐ Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, by checking this box (i) the obligations of the above-signed to purchase the securities set forth in this Agreement to be purchased from the Company by the above-signed, and the obligations of the Company to sell such securities to the above-signed, shall be unconditional and all conditions to Closing shall be disregarded, (ii) the Closing shall occur by the second (2nd) Trading Day following the date of this Agreement and (iii) any condition to Closing contemplated by this Agreement (but prior to being disregarded by clause (i) above) that required delivery by the Company or the above-signed of any agreement, instrument, certificate or the like or purchase price (as applicable) shall no longer be a condition and shall instead be an unconditional obligation of the Company or the above-signed (as applicable) to deliver such agreement, instrument, certificate or the like or purchase price (as applicable) to such other party on the Closing Date.

 

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Exhibit A

 

Form of BBA Registration Rights Agreement

 

 

 

 

Exhibit B

 

Form of Pre-Funded Warrant

 

 

 

 

Exhibit C

 

Form of Registration Rights Agreement

 

 

 

 

Exhibit D

 

Form of Series A Warrant

 

 

 

 

Exhibit E

 

Form of Series B Warrant

 

 

 

 

Exhibit F

 

Form of BBA Side Letter

 

 

 

 

Exhibit G

 

Form of BVF Side Letter

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