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EXHIBIT

10.42

LOAN AGREEMENT

(CONSULTANT LOAN)

 

This Loan Agreement (the “Agreement”) is entered

into this 1st day of May, 2002 by and between TULARIK INC.

(the “Company”) and STEVEN L. MCKNIGHT, PH.D.

(“Consultant”).

 

WHEREAS, the Company has agreed to provide

Consultant with the loan in exchange for Consultant’s future consulting

services to the Company over a three year period and other valuable

consideration;

 

NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as

follows:

 

1.             Loan.  The

Company shall loan Consultant a total of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars

($200,000.00) while he is actively providing consulting services to the Company

(“Loan”).  

 

2.             Interest.  The Loan shall bear interest at a rate of

three and twenty-one hundredths percent (3.21%) per annum.

 

3.             Promissory

Note.  The Loan shall be made

pursuant to a promissory note in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A

(the “Note”).  Consultant shall execute

the Note concurrently with the execution of this Agreement.  The Loan and all repayments of principal

with respect to the Loan shall be evidenced by notations made by the Company on

the Note; provided, however, that the failure by the Company to

make such notations shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of

Consultant with respect to the repayments of principal or payments of interest

on the Loan.

 

4.             Taxes.  All taxes resulting from this Agreement are

to be the sole responsibility of Consultant, and Consultant agrees to pay to

the Company in cash or check an amount equal to any withholding obligation

imposed on the Company by reason of this Agreement.

 

5.             Repayment

of Loan.  All principal and interest

on the Loan shall become due and payable immediately upon the occurrence of any

one or more of the following:

 

(a)           Expiration Date.  May 1, 2005; or

 

(b)           Termination of Consultancy.  The thirtieth (30th) day following the date

of termination of the Consultant’s consulting services; or

 

(c)           Insolvency.  In the event of the insolvency of

Consultant, including but not limited to a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding

having been instituted by or against him, or a receiver is appointed for his

property, or if he makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors.

 

6.             Forgiveness of Loan.  Provided that no default under this

Agreement or the Note has occurred and is continuing, principal (but not the

accrued interest) on the Loan will be forgiven at a rate of:  (a) thirty percent (30%) of the original

principal amount of the Loan on

 

 

May 1, 2003; (b) thirty five percent

(35%) of the original principal amount of the Loan on May 1, 2004; and (c)

thirty five percent (35%) of the original principal amount of the Loan on May

1, 2005; if (i) the Loan has not become due and payable pursuant to Section

5(c) above and (ii) Consultant has provided continuous consulting services to

the Company since the date first above written through the date of such

forgiveness.

 

7.             Prepayment.  Consultant may prepay the unpaid principal

in whole or in part, without penalty, at any time, upon the payment of all

unpaid interest accrued to the date of such prepayment.

 

8.             Non-Transferable.  The right of Consultant to request and

receive the Loan hereunder, as well as the benefits of the interest arrangement

under this Agreement, shall not be assignable or otherwise transferable by

Consultant.

 

9.             General

Provisions.

 

(a)           This Agreement shall be governed by

the laws of the State of California applicable to contracts made and performed

in such state, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws.

 

(b)           This Agreement and its Exhibits

contains the entire agreement between Consultant and the Company, and is the

complete, final and exclusive embodiment of their agreement with regard to this

subject matter.  Consultant and the

Company each acknowledge and represent that this Agreement is entered without

reliance on any promise or representation other than those expressly contained

herein and that this Agreement cannot be modified except in a writing signed by

both parties.

 

(c)           Except as otherwise specified herein,

any notice, demand or request required or permitted to be given by either the

Company or Consultant pursuant to the terms of this Agreement shall be in

writing and shall be deemed given when delivered personally or deposited in the

U.S. Mail, First Class with postage prepaid, and addressed to the Company at

its then current principal office and to Consultant at the address listed for

him In the Company’s records.

 

(d)           Either party’s failure to enforce any

provision or provisions of this Agreement shall not in any way be construed as

a waiver of any such provision or provisions, nor prevent that party thereafter

from enforcing each and every other provision of this Agreement.  The rights granted both parties herein are

cumulative and shall not constitute a waiver of either party’s right to assert

all other legal remedies available to it under the circumstances.

 

(e)           Consultant agrees upon request to

execute any further documents or instruments necessary or desirable to carry

out the purpose or intent of this Agreement. 

 

(f)            In the event of any litigation

concerning this Agreement, the prevailing party

 

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shall be entitled to a reasonable sum for

attorneys’ fees, costs and litigation expenses, whether or not such action is

prosecuted to judgment.  “Prevailing

Party” includes without limitation a party who agrees to dismiss an action upon

payment by the other party of sums allegedly due or performance of the

covenants allegedly breached, or who obtains substantially the relief sought by

that party.  In the event that the Company

is the prevailing Party, the Company shall also be entitled to reasonable costs

associated with the collection of the Loan. 

 

IN

WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have duly executed this Agreement as of the day

and year first set forth above.

 

 

	

  TULARIK INC.

  	

   

  	

  CONSULTANT

  
	

  a

  Delaware corporation

  	

   

  
	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  
	

  By:

  	

  /s/  William J. Rieflin

  	

   

  	

  /s/  Steven L. McKnight

  
	

   

  	

  Steven

  L. McKnight, Ph.D.

  
	

  Title:

  	

   EVP

  	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  
	

  Address:

  	

  Two

  Corporate Drive

  	

  Address:

  	

  UTSW

  
	

   

  	

  South

  San Francisco, CA  94080

  	

   

  	

  Room

  L3.124

  
	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  	

  Dallas,

  TX  75390-9152

  
								

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

PROMISSORY NOTE

(CONSULTANT LOAN)

 

	

  $200,000

  	

   

  	

  South

  San Francisco, California

  
	

   

  	

   

  	

  May

  1, 2002

  

 

For value received, I promise to pay to Tularik

Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), at its principal office at Two

Corporate Drive, South San Francisco, California 94080, or at such other place

as the Company shall designate in writing, the aggregate principal amount of

all advances made hereunder as set forth on Schedule A attached hereto

and incorporated herein by reference, as the same may from time to time be

amended, together with interest thereon at the rate of three and twenty-one

hundredths percent (3.21%) per annum, payable at the times and in the manner

set forth in that certain Loan Agreement (Consultant Loan) dated as of May 1,

2002 by and between the undersigned and the Company, the terms of which are

incorporated herein by reference.  The

undersigned hereby authorizes the holder of this Note to note on Schedule A

all advances made by the holder hereunder, which notations shall, in the

absence of manifest error, be conclusive; provided, however, that the failure to

make a notation or the inaccuracy of the notation shall not limit or otherwise

affect the obligations of Borrower under this Note.

 

Principal and interest are payable in lawful

money of the United States of America. 

THE PRIVILEGE IS RESERVED TO PREPAY ANY PORTION OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME

WITHOUT PENALTY, UPON THE PAYMENT OF ALL UNPAID INTEREST ACCRUED ON THE ENTIRE

OUTSTANDING LOAN BALANCE.  All payments under

this Note shall be credited first to accrued interest and then to principal.

 

I hereby waive presentment for payment, protest,

notice of protest and notice of non-payment of this Note.

 

The undersigned hereby represents and agrees

that the amounts due under this Note are not consumer debt and are not incurred

primarily for personal, family or household purposes, but are for business and

commercial purposes only.  

 

This Note shall be governed by, and construed

and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of California, excluding

conflict of laws principles.

 

	

   

  	

  /s/

  Steven L. McKnight

  	

   

  
	

   

  	

  Steven

  L. McKnight, Ph.D.

  

 

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Schedule

A

 

TRANSACTIONS

ON NOTE

 

	

  Date

  	

   

  	

  Advances

  	

   

  	

  Interest

  Paid To

  	

   

  	

  Interest

  Paid

  	

   

  	

  Payments

  	

   

  	

  Balance

  	

   

  
	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  
	

  5/6/02

  	

   

  	

  $

  	

  200,000

  	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  	

   

  	

  $

  	

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5EXHIBIT 10

EXHIBIT 10.43

 

TULARIK

INC.

 

AMENDED

AND RESTATED

 

1997

NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS’ STOCK OPTION PLAN

 

ORIGINALLY ADOPTED ON JANUARY 30,

1997

 

ORIGINALLY

APPROVED BY SHAREHOLDERS ON APRIL 24, 1997

 

AMENDMENT

ADOPTED ON FEBRUARY 14, 2002

 

AMENDMENT

APPROVED BY STOCKHOLDERS ON APRIL 18, 2002

 

1.             PURPOSE.

 

(a)           The purpose of the 1997 Non-Employee Directors’ Stock

Option Plan (the "Plan") is to provide a means by which each director

of Tularik Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company") who is not

otherwise at the time of grant an employee of the Company or of any Affiliate

of the Company (each such person being hereafter referred to as a

"Non-Employee Director") will be given an opportunity to purchase

stock of the Company.

 

(b)           The

word "Affiliate" as used in the Plan means any parent corporation or

subsidiary corporation of the Company as those terms are defined in Sections

424(e) and (f), respectively, of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended

from time to time (the "Code").

 

(c)           The

Company, by means of the Plan, seeks to retain the services of persons now

serving as Non-Employee Directors of the Company, to secure and retain the

services of persons

 

 

capable of serving

in such capacity and to provide incentives for such persons to exert maximum

efforts for the success of the Company.

 

2.             ADMINISTRATION.

 

(a)           The

Plan shall be administered by the Board of Directors of the Company (the

"Board") unless and until the Board delegates administration to a

committee, as provided in subparagraph 2(b).

 

(b)           The

Board may delegate administration of the Plan to a committee composed of not

fewer than two (2) members of the Board (the "Committee").  If administration is delegated to a

Committee, the Committee shall have, in connection with the administration of

the Plan, the powers theretofore possessed by the Board, subject, however, to

such resolutions, not inconsistent with the provisions of the Plan, as may be

adopted from time to time by the Board. 

The Board may abolish the Committee at any time and revest in the Board

the administration of the Plan.

 

3.             SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN.

 

(a)           Subject

to the provisions of Section 10 relating to adjustments upon changes in stock,

the stock that may be sold pursuant to options granted under the Plan shall not

exceed in the aggregate Seven Hundred Thousand (700,000) shares of the

Company’s common stock.  If any option

granted under the Plan shall for any reason expire or otherwise terminate

without having been exercised in full, the stock not purchased under such

option shall again become

 

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available for

option grants under the Plan.

 

(b)           The

stock subject to the Plan may be unissued shares or reacquired shares, bought

on the market or otherwise.

 

4.             ELIGIBILITY.

 

Options shall be granted only to Non-Employee

Directors of the Company.

 

5.             NON-DISCRETIONARY GRANTS.

 

(a)           Upon

the date of the approval of the Plan by the Compensation Committee of the Board

(the "Adoption Date"), each person who is then a Non-Employee

Director, and not already a holder of one or more options granted by the

Company to purchase the Company’s common stock, automatically shall be granted

an option to purchase twenty-five thousand (25,000) shares of common stock of

the Company on the terms and conditions set forth herein.

 

(b)           Each

person who is, after the Adoption Date, elected for the first time to be a

Non-Employee Director, and not already a holder of options to purchase the

Company’s common stock, automatically shall, upon the date of his or her initial

election to be a Non-Employee Director by the Board or the shareholders of the

Company, be granted an option to purchase twenty-five thousand (25,000) shares

of common stock of the Company on the terms and conditions set forth herein.

 

(c)           On the date of the Company’s annual meeting of

shareholders in each year, commencing with the Company’s annual meeting of

shareholders occurring in 1997, each person 

 

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who is then a

Non-Employee Director and was a Non-Employee Director on the last day of the

prior calendar year automatically shall be granted an option to purchase Ten

Thousand (10,000) shares of common stock of the Company on the terms and

conditions set forth herein.

 

6.             OPTION PROVISIONS.

 

Each option shall be subject to the following terms

and conditions:

 

(a)           The

term of each option commences on the date it is granted and, unless sooner

terminated as set forth herein, expires on the date ("Expiration

Date") ten (10) years from the date of grant.  If the optionholder’s continuous service as a Non-Employee

Director or employee of or consultant to the Company or any Affiliate

terminates for any reason or for no reason, the option shall terminate on the

earlier of the Expiration Date or the date three (3) months following the

date of termination of all such service; provided, however, that if such

termination of service is due to (i) the optionholder’s death, the option shall

terminate on the earlier of the Expiration Date or six (6) months

following the date of the optionholder’s death; or (ii) the optionholder’s

disability, the option shall terminate on the earlier of the Expiration Date or

six (6) months following the date of the optionholder’s disability (for

purposes of this subparagraph 6(a), "disability" shall mean total and

permanent disability as defined in Section 22(e)(3) of the Code).  If the exercise of the option following the

termination of the optionholder’s continuous service as a Non-Employee Director

or employee of or consultant to the Company or any Affiliate (other than upon

the optionholder’s death or disability) would result in liability under Section

16(b) of 

 

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the Exchange Act,

then the option shall terminate on the earlier of (i) the expiration of the

term of the option set forth in the option agreement, or (ii) the tenth (10th)

day after the last date on which such exercise would result in such liability

under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act. 

In any and all circumstances, an option may be exercised following

termination of the optionholder’s continuous service as a Non-Employee Director

or employee of or consultant to the Company or any Affiliate only as to that

number of shares as to which it was exercisable as of the date of termination

of all such service under the provisions of subparagraph 6(e).

 

(b)           The

exercise price of each option shall be one hundred percent (100%) of the fair

market value of the stock subject to such option on the date such option is

granted.

 

(c)           Payment

of the exercise price is due in full upon any exercise.  The optionholder may elect to make payment

of the exercise price under one of the following alternatives:

 

(i)            Payment of the

exercise price per share in cash or by check at the time of exercise; or

 

(ii)           Provided that at the

time of the exercise the Company’s common stock is publicly traded and quoted

regularly in the Wall Street Journal, payment by delivery of shares of common

stock of the Company already owned by the optionholder, held for the period

required to avoid a charge to the Company’s reported earnings, and owned free

and clear of any liens, claims, encumbrances or security interest, which common

stock shall be valued at its fair market value on the date preceding the date

of exercise; or

 

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(iii)         Payment by a combination of the methods

of payment specified in subparagraphs 6(c)(i) and 6(c)(ii) above.

 

Notwithstanding

the foregoing, this option may be exercised pursuant to a program developed

under Regulation T as promulgated by the Federal Reserve Board which results in

the receipt by the Company of payment in cash or by check either prior to the

issuance of shares of the Company’s common stock or pursuant to the terms of

irrevocable instructions issued by the optionholder prior to the issuance of

shares of the Company’s common stock.

 

(d)           An option shall be transferable (1) by will, (2) by

the laws of descent and distribution, (3) to the spouse, children, lineal

ancestors and lineal descendants of the optionholder (or to a trust created

solely for the benefit of the optionholder and the foregoing persons) or to an

organization exempt from taxation pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Code or

to which tax deductible charitable contributions may be made under Section 170

of the Code (excluding such organizations classified as private foundations

under applicable regulations and rulings) in order to implement the estate

planning objectives of the optionholder or (4) to such other persons as may be

permitted by the Board and expressly provided for under the terms of the

optionholder’s option agreement. 

Nothing in this subparagraph 6(d) shall permit the transfer of some or

all of an option granted under the Plan to the spouse of an optionholder upon

the dissolution of such optionholder’s marriage without the express written

consent of the Board, which consent may be extended or withheld in the complete

and sole discretion of the Board.

 

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The optionholder may, by

delivering written notice to the Company, in a form satisfactory to the

Company, designate a third party who, in the event of the death of the

optionholder, shall thereafter be entitled to exercise the option.

 

(e)           The

option shall become exercisable in installments over a period of four (4) years

from the date of grant at the rate of twenty-five percent (25%) in equal annual

installments commencing on the date one year after the date of grant of the

option, provided that the optionholder has, during the entire period prior to

such vesting date, continuously served as a Non-Employee Director or employee

of or consultant to the Company or any Affiliate of the Company, whereupon such

option shall become fully exercisable in accordance with its terms with respect

to that portion of the shares represented by that installment.

 

(f)            The

Company may require any optionholder, or any person to whom an option is

transferred under subparagraph 6(d), as a condition of exercising any such

option:  (i) to give written

assurances satisfactory to the Company as to the optionholder’s, or the

optionholder’s professional advisors (who are unaffiliated with and who are not

directly or indirectly compensated by the Company or any Affiliate), knowledge

and experience in financial and business matters; and (ii) to give written

assurances satisfactory to the Company stating that such person is acquiring

the stock subject to the option for such person’s own account, unaccompanied by

the publication of any advertisement, and not with any present intention of

selling or otherwise distributing the stock. 

These requirements, and any assurances given pursuant to such

 

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requirements, shall be

inoperative if (i) the issuance of the shares upon the exercise of the

option has been registered under a then-currently-effective registration

statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities

Act") and the shares otherwise meet the requirements for exemption under

Section 25101 of the California Corporations Code, or (ii) as to any particular

requirement, a determination is made by counsel for the Company that such

requirement need not be met in the circumstances under the then-applicable

securities laws.  The Company may

require any optionholder to provide such other representations, written

assurances or information which the Company shall determine is necessary,

desirable or appropriate to comply with applicable securities laws as a

condition of granting an option to the optionholder or permitting the

optionholder to exercise the option. 

The Company may, upon advice of counsel to the Company, place legends on

stock certificates issued under the Plan as such counsel deems necessary or

appropriate in order to comply with applicable securities laws, including, but

not limited to, legends restricting the transfer of the stock.

 

(g)           Notwithstanding

anything to the contrary contained herein, an option may not be exercised

unless the shares issuable upon exercise of such option are then registered

under the Securities Act or, if such shares are not then so registered, the

Company has determined that such exercise and issuance would be exempt from the

registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

(h)           The

Company (or a representative of the underwriters) may, in connection with the

first underwritten registration of the offering of any securities of the

Company under the

 

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Securities Act, require

that any optionholder not sell or otherwise transfer or dispose of any shares

of common stock or other securities of the Company during such period (not to

exceed one hundred eighty (180) days) following the effective date of the

registration statement of the Company filed under the Securities Act as may be

requested by the Company or the representative of the underwriters.

 

(i)            The

option may, but need not, include a provision whereby the optionholder may

elect at any time while providing continuous service as a Non-Employee Director

or employee of or consultant to the Company or any Affiliate to exercise the

option as to any part or all of the shares subject to the option prior to the

full vesting of the option.  Any

unvested shares so purchased may be subject to a repurchase right in favor of

the Company or to any other restriction the Board determines to be appropriate.

 

7.             COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY.

 

(a)           During

the terms of the options granted under the Plan, the Company shall keep

available at all times the number of shares of stock required to satisfy such

options.

 

(b)           The

Company shall seek to obtain from each regulatory commission or agency having

jurisdiction over the Plan such authority as may be required to issue and sell

shares of stock upon exercise of the options granted under the Plan; provided,

however, that this undertaking shall not require the Company to

register under the Securities Act, or any other applicable or available

securities laws, either the Plan, any option granted under the Plan or any

 

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stock issued or issuable pursuant to any such

option.  If, after reasonable efforts,

the Company is unable to obtain from any such regulatory commission or agency

the authority which counsel for the Company deems necessary for the lawful

issuance and sale of stock under the Plan, the Company shall be relieved from

any liability for failure to issue and/or sell stock upon exercise of such

options.

 

8.             USE OF PROCEEDS FROM STOCK.

 

Proceeds from the sale of

stock pursuant to options granted under the Plan shall constitute general funds

of the Company.

 

9.             MISCELLANEOUS.

 

(a)           Neither an optionholder nor any person to whom an

option is transferred under paragraph 6(d) shall be deemed to be the holder of,

or to have any of the rights of a holder with respect to, any shares subject to

such option unless and until such person has satisfied all requirements for

exercise of the option pursuant to its terms.

 

(b)           Throughout the term of any option granted pursuant to

the Plan, the Company shall make available to the holder of such option, not

later than one hundred twenty (120) days after the close of each of the

Company’s fiscal years during the option term, upon request, such financial and

other information regarding the Company as comprises the annual report to the

shareholders of the Company provided for in the bylaws of the Company and such

other information regarding the Company as the holder of such option may

reasonably request.  This

 

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paragraph 9(b) shall not apply (i) after the first

underwritten registration of the offering of any securities of the Company

under the Securities Act, or (ii) when issuance is limited to key persons whose

duties in connection with the Company assure them access to equivalent

information.

 

(c)           Nothing

in the Plan or in any instrument executed pursuant thereto shall confer upon

any Non-Employee Director any right to continue in the service of the Company

or any Affiliate in any capacity or shall affect any right of the Company, its

Board or stockholders or any Affiliate to remove any Non-Employee Director

pursuant to the Company’s bylaws and the provisions of the  California Corporations Code

(or the applicable laws of the Company’s state of incorporation if the

Company’s state of incorporation should change in the future).

 

(d)           No Non-Employee Director, individually or as a member

of a group, and no beneficiary or other person claiming under or through him,

shall have any right, title or interest in or to any option reserved for the

purposes of the Plan except as to such shares of common stock, if any, as shall

have been reserved for him pursuant to the term of an option granted to him

under the Plan.

 

(e)           In connection with each option made pursuant to the

Plan, it shall be a condition precedent to the Company’s obligation to issue or

transfer shares to a Non-Employee Director, or to evidence the removal of any

restrictions on transfer, that such Non-Employee Director make arrangements

satisfactory to the Company to insure that the amount of any federal or other

 

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withholding tax required to be withheld with respect

to such sale or transfer, or such removal or lapse, is made available to the

Company for timely payment of such tax.

 

(f)            As used in this Plan, "fair market value"

means, as of any date, the value of the common stock of the Company determined

as follows:

 

(i)            If

the common stock is listed on any established stock exchange or a national market

system, including without limitation the National Market System of the National

Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. Automated Quotation

("NASDAQ") System, the Fair Market Value of a share of common stock

shall be the closing sales price for such stock (or the closing bid, if no

sales were reported) as quoted on such system or exchange (or the exchange with

the greatest volume of trading in common stock) on the last market trading day

prior to the day of determination, as reported in the Wall Street Journal or

such other source as the Board deems reliable;

 

(ii)           If

the common stock is quoted on the NASDAQ System (but not on the National Market

System thereof) or is regularly quoted by a recognized securities dealer but

selling prices are not reported, the Fair Market Value of a share of common

stock shall be the mean between the bid and asked prices for the common stock

on the last market trading day prior to the day of determination, as reported

in the Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Board deems reliable;

 

(iii)         In

the absence of an established market for the common stock, the Fair

 

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Market Value shall be determined in good faith by the

Board.

 

10.          ADJUSTMENTS UPON CHANGES IN STOCK.

 

(a)           If

any change is made in the stock subject to the Plan, or subject to any option

granted under the Plan (through merger, consolidation, reorganization,

recapitalization, stock dividend, dividend in property other than cash, stock

split, liquidating dividend, combination of shares, exchange of shares, change

in corporate structure or other transaction not involving the receipt of

consideration by the Company), the Plan and outstanding options will be

appropriately adjusted in the class(es) and maximum number of shares subject to

the Plan and the class(es) and number of shares and price per share of stock

subject to outstanding options.  Such

adjustments shall be made by the Board, the determination of which shall be

final, binding and conclusive.  (The conversion

of any convertible securities of the Company shall not be treated as a

"transaction not involving the receipt of consideration by the

Company.")

 

(b)           In

the event of: (1) a dissolution, liquidation or sale of all or substantially

all of the assets of the Company; (2) a merger or consolidation in which

the Company is not the surviving corporation; (3) a reverse merger in

which the Company is the surviving corporation but the shares of the Company’s

common stock outstanding immediately preceding the merger are converted by

virtue of the merger into other property, whether in the form of securities,

cash or otherwise; (4) the acquisition by any person, entity or group

within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of

1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") or any

 

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comparable successor provisions (excluding any

employee benefit plan, or related trust, sponsored or maintained by the Company

or any Affiliate of the Company) of the beneficial ownership (within the

meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act, or comparable

successor rule) of securities of the Company representing at least fifty

percent (50%) of the combined voting power entitled to vote in the election of

directors; or (5) at the time individuals who, as of the first date as of which

the Company has a class of equity securities which are actively traded on any

established stock exchange or a national market system (including NASDAQ),

constitute the Board (the "Incumbent Board") cease for any reason to

constitute at least a majority of the Board, provided that any person becoming

a director subsequent to such date, whose election or nomination for election

by the Company’s stockholders was approved by a vote of at least a majority of

the directors comprising the Incumbent Board (other than an election or

nomination of an individual whose initial assumption of office is in connection

with an actual or threatened election contest relating to the election of

Directors of the Company, as such terms are used in Rule 14a-11 of Regulation

14A promulgated under the Exchange Act) shall be, for purposes of the Plan,

considered as though such person were a member of the Incumbent Board, then:  (i) any surviving corporation or

acquiring corporation shall assume any options outstanding under the Plan or

shall substitute similar options (including an option to acquire the same

consideration paid to the shareholders in the transaction described in this

paragraph 10(b)) for those outstanding under the Plan, or (ii) in the

 

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event any surviving corporation or acquiring

corporation refuses to assume such options or to substitute similar options for

those outstanding under the Plan, then the vesting of such options (and, if

applicable, the time during which such options may be exercised) shall be

accelerated prior to such event and the options terminated if not exercised (if

applicable) after such acceleration and at or prior to such event.

 

11.          AMENDMENT OF THE PLAN.

 

(a)           The

Board at any time, and from time to time, may amend the Plan and/or some or all

outstanding options granted under the Plan; provided, however, that except as provided

in Section 10 relating to adjustments upon changes in stock, no amendment shall

be effective unless approved by the stockholders of the Company within twelve

(12) months before or after the adoption of the amendment, where the amendment

will:

 

(i)            Increase

the number of shares which may be issued under the Plan; or

 

(ii)           Modify

the Plan in any other way if such modification requires stockholder approval in

order for the Plan to comply with the requirements of Rule 16b-3 promulgated

under the Exchange Act.

 

(b)           Rights

and obligations under any option granted before any amendment of the Plan or an

outstanding option shall not be impaired by such amendment unless (i) the

Company requests the consent of the person to whom the option was granted and

(ii) such person consents in writing.

 

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12.          TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE PLAN.

 

(a)           The

Board may suspend or terminate the Plan at any time.  Unless sooner terminated, the Plan shall terminate at the time

that all options granted under the Plan are fully vested and either have been

fully exercised or have expired.  No

options may be granted under the Plan while the Plan is suspended or after it

is terminated.

 

(b)           Rights

and obligations under any option granted while the Plan is in effect shall not

be impaired by suspension or termination of the Plan, except with the consent

of the person to whom the option was granted, which consent shall be in

writing.

 

13.          EFFECTIVE DATE OF PLAN; CONDITIONS OF

EXERCISE.

 

(a)           The

Plan shall become effective upon adoption by the Board of Directors, subject to

the condition subsequent that the Plan is approved by the shareholders of the

Company.

 

(b)           No

option granted under the Plan shall be exercised or become exercisable unless

and until the condition of paragraph 13(a) above regarding shareholder approval

has been met.

 

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