Document:

Exhibit
10.1 

 

SECURITIES
PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

This Securities
Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of April 6, 2020, between XpresSpa Group, 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 (i) an effective registration statement under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), 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.

 

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

 

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

 

“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.

 

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

 

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

 

“Common
Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 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.

 

“Company
Counsel” means, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., Chrysler Center, 666 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10017,
Attn: Kenneth R. Koch, Esq., email: krkoch@mintz.com.

 

“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, 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.

  

“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.

 

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

 

“Financial
Advisor” means Palladium Capital Advisors LLC.

 

“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).

 

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

 

“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).

 

“Permitted
Lien” means the individual and collective reference to the following: (a) Liens for taxes, assessments and other
governmental charges or levies not yet due or Liens for taxes, assessments and other governmental charges or levies being
contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings for which adequate reserves (in the good faith judgment of the
management of the Company) have been established in accordance with GAAP, (b) Liens imposed by law which were incurred in the
ordinary course of the Company’s business, such as carriers’, warehousemen’s and mechanics’ Liens,
statutory landlords’ Liens, and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of the Company’s business, and
which (x) do not individually or in the aggregate materially detract from the value of such property or assets or materially
impair the use thereof in the operation of the business of Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries or (y) are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, which proceedings have the effect of preventing for the foreseeable
future the forfeiture or sale of the property or asset subject to such Liens, and (c) Liens existing on the date hereof, (d)
Liens incurred in connection with the construction, development and/or remodeling of existing XpresSpa locations, provided
that such Liens only relate to the assets of the Subsidiary which owns and/or operates such location and only in the assets
of such location with respect to such construction, development and/or remodeling, (e) Liens to the extent arising solely
from the filing of protective Uniform Commercial Code financing statements in respect of equipment leased to the Company or
any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of its business under true, as opposed to finance, leases, only up to the value of such
leased equipment, (f) Liens securing the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety and
appeal bonds, performance bonds, and other obligations of like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business, (g) any interest or title of
a lessor of real property secured by a lessor’s interest in such real property under any lease, (h) easements, zoning restrictions,
rights-of-way and similar encumbrances on real property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business that do not
secure any monetary obligations and do not materially detract from the value of the affected property or interfere with the ordinary
conduct of business.

 

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“Per
Share Purchase Price” equals $0.22, 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.

 

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

 

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

 

“Prospectus”
means the final prospectus filed for the Registration Statement.

 

“Prospectus
Supplement” means the supplement to the Prospectus complying with Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act that is filed with
the Commission and delivered by the Company to each Purchaser at the Closing.

 

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

 

“Pre-Funded
Warrants” means, collectively, the Common Stock purchase warrants delivered to the Purchasers at the Closing in accordance
with Section 2.2(a) hereof, which Pre-Funded Warrants shall be exercisable immediately after their issuance, in the form of Exhibit
A attached hereto.

 

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

 

“Registration
Statement” means the effective registration statement with Commission file No. 333-232764 which registers the sale of
the Securities to the Purchasers.

 

“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.

 

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

 

“Securities”
means the Shares, the Pre-Funded Warrants and the Pre-Funded Warrant Shares.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

“Transaction
Documents” means this Agreement, the Pre-Funded Warrants, all exhibits and schedules thereto and hereto and any other
documents or agreements executed in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder.

 

“Transfer
Agent” means American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, located at 6201 15th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11219 and any
successor transfer agent of the Company.

 

“Variable
Rate Transaction” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.11(b).

 

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ARTICLE II.

PURCHASE AND SALE

 

2.1             
Closing. On the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, substantially concurrent
with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the parties hereto, the Company agrees to sell, and the Purchasers, severally
and not jointly, agree to purchase, an aggregate of up to $3,050,000 of Shares and Pre-Funded Warrants. Each Purchaser’s
Subscription Amount as set forth on the signature page hereto executed by such Purchaser shall be delivered to
the Company in immediately available funds, and the Company shall deliver to each Purchaser its respective Shares and a Pre-Funded
Warrant (if applicable), 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 such  location as the parties shall mutually agree.

 

2.2             
Deliveries.

 

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

 

(i)             
this Agreement duly executed by the Company;

  

(ii)           
subject to the last sentence of Section 2.1, the Company shall have provided each Purchaser with the Company’s wire
instructions, on Company letterhead and executed by the Chief Executive Officer or Chief Financial Officer;

 

(iii)           subject
to the last sentence of Section 2.1, a copy of the irrevocable instructions to the Transfer Agent instructing the Transfer
Agent to deliver on an expedited basis via The Depository Trust Company Deposit or Withdrawal at Custodian system
(“DWAC”) Shares equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount divided by the Per
Share Purchase Price, registered in the name of such Purchaser;

 

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(iv)           
if applicable, a Pre-Funded Warrant registered in the name of such Purchaser to purchase up to a number of shares of Common
Stock set forth in the Pre-Funded Warrants, with an exercise price equal to $0.01, subject to adjustment therein;

 

(v)            
the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement (which may be delivered in accordance with Rule 172 under the Securities Act).

 

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

 

(i)             
this Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser; and

 

(ii)            
such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount, which shall be made available for “Delivery Versus Payment” settlement
with the Company or its designee.

 

2.3             
Closing Conditions.

 

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

 

(i)              
the accuracy in all material respects (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 of the representations and warranties of the Purchasers contained
herein (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 under the Transaction Documents required to be performed at
or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and

 

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

 

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

 

(i)               
the accuracy in all material respects (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 of the representations and warranties of the Company contained
herein (unless as of a specific date therein in which case they shall be accurate as of such date);

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

(v)            
from the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the Commission or
the Company’s principal Trading Market, 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.

 

ARTICLE III.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

3.1             
Representations and Warranties of the Company. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports (other than with respect to
Sections 3.1(b), 3.1(c), 3.1(d), 3.1(e) and 3.1(g)) or the Disclosure Schedules, which Disclosure Schedules shall be deemed a part
hereof and shall qualify any representation or otherwise made herein to the extent of the disclosure contained in the corresponding
section of the Disclosure Schedules, the Company hereby makes the following representations and warranties to each Purchaser:

 

(a)              
Subsidiaries. All of the direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Company are set forth on Schedule 3.1(a).
The Company owns, directly or indirectly, all or a majority of the capital stock or other equity interests of each Subsidiary free
and clear of any Liens other than Permitted 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.

 

(b)              
Organization and Qualification. The Company and each of the Subsidiaries is an entity duly incorporated 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.

 

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(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 it is a party has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company and, when delivered in
accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against
the Company in accordance with its terms, except (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii)
as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii)
insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

 

(d)              
No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of 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, (ii) except as set forth on Schedule
3.1(d), 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 could
not have or reasonably be expected to result in (A) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any
Transaction Document, B) 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 (C) 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 (A), (B) or (C), a
 “Material Adverse Effect”).

 

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(e)               Filings,
Consents and Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any
notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority
or other Person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, other
than: (i) the filings required pursuant to Section 4.4 of this Agreement, (ii) the filing with the Commission of the
Prospectus Supplement, (iii) application(s) to each applicable Trading Market for the listing of the Shares and Pre-Funded
Warrant Shares for trading thereon in the time and manner required thereby, and (iv) 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. The Pre-Funded Warrant Shares, when issued in accordance with the terms of the Pre-Funded Warrants,
will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company. The Company has reserved
from its duly authorized capital stock the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to this Agreement. The Company
has prepared and filed the Registration Statement in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act, which became effective
on July 30, 2019, including the Prospectus, and such amendments and supplements thereto as may have been required to the date of
this Agreement. The Registration Statement is effective under the Securities Act and no stop order preventing or suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement or suspending or preventing the use of the Prospectus has been issued by the Commission
and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, are threatened by the Commission.
The Company, if required by the rules and regulations of the Commission, shall file the Prospectus with the Commission pursuant
to Rule 424(b). At the time the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto became effective, at the date of this Agreement
and at the Closing Date, the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto conformed and will conform in all material respects
to the requirements of the Securities Act and did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state
any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; and the Prospectus
and any amendments or supplements thereto, at the time the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto was issued and at
the Closing Date, conformed and will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act and did not and
will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The Company was at the time of the filing
of the Registration Statement eligible to use Form S-3. The Company is eligible to use Form S-3 under the Securities Act and it
meets the transaction requirements with respect to the aggregate market value of securities being sold pursuant to this offering
and during the twelve (12) months prior to this offering, as set forth in General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3.

 

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(g)               Capitalization.
The capitalization of the Company as of the date hereof is as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g), which Schedule 3.1(g)
shall also include the number of shares of Common Stock owned beneficially, and of record, by Affiliates of the Company as of
the date hereof. The Company has not issued any capital stock since its most recently filed periodic report under the
Exchange Act, other than (i) pursuant to the exercise of employee stock options under the Company’s stock option plans,
(ii) the issuance of shares of Common Stock to employees pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase plans, (iii)
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 and (iv) as the payment of interest with respect to outstanding indebtedness. No
Person has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Except as a result of the purchase and sale of the Securities, there
are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating
to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right
to subscribe for or acquire, any shares of Common Stock or 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). Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(g), 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 material 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. Except as contemplated by Section 3.1(e), no further approval or authorization of any stockholder, the
Board of Directors or others is required for the issuance and sale of the Securities. There are no stockholders agreements,
voting agreements or other similar agreements with respect to the Company’s capital stock to which the Company is a
party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the Company’s stockholders.

 

(h)               SEC
Reports; Financial Statements. The Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents
required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or
15(d) thereof, for the two years preceding the date hereof (or such shorter period as the Company was required by law or
regulation to file such material) (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by
reference therein, together with the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, 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 on Schedule 3.1(i), (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 material liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade payables and accrued expenses incurred in the
ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and (B) liabilities not required to be reflected in the Company’s
financial statements pursuant to GAAP or disclosed in filings made with the Commission, (iii) the Company has not altered its method
of accounting, (iv) the Company has not declared or made any dividend or distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders
or purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital stock and (v) the Company has not
issued any equity securities to any officer, director or Affiliate, except pursuant to existing Company stock option plans. The
Company does not have pending before the Commission any request for confidential treatment of information. Except for the issuance
of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement or as set forth on Schedule 3.1(i), no event, liability, 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 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) except as set forth in Schedule 3.1(j),
could, if there were an unfavorable decision, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither
the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor, to the Company’s knowledge, 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 contemplated, any
investigation by the Commission involving the Company or, to the Company’s knowledge, 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. Except as disclosed on
Section 3.1(k) of the Disclosure Schedules, 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 in violation of any material term of any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement
or non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive covenant in favor of any third party, and the
continued employment of each such executive officer does not subject the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any liability with
respect to any of the foregoing matters. The Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all U.S. federal, state, local
and foreign laws and regulations relating to employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of employment and wages
and hours, except where the failure to be in compliance could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(l)                
Compliance. To the Company’s knowledge, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary: (i) except as set forth on
Schedule 3.1(l)(i) of the Disclosure Schedules, 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
could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(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.

 

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

 

(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 (if any) 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 Permitted 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 could 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 could 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 on Schedule 3.1(r), 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 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 or any Subsidiary 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 material compliance with any and all applicable
requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that are effective as of the date hereof, and any and all applicable rules and
regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder that are effective as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date. The
Company and the Subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance
that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii)
transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain
asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific
authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at 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. Except as
set forth on Schedule 3.1(s) of the Disclosure Schedules, 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 as set forth in the Prospectus Supplement and on Schedule 3.1(t) of the Disclosure Schedules,
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. 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 is contemplating
terminating such registration. The Company has not, in the 12 months preceding the date hereof, received notice from any Trading
Market on which the Common Stock is or has been listed or quoted to the effect that the Company is not in compliance with the listing
or maintenance requirements of such Trading Market. The Company is, and has no reason to believe that it will not in the year following
the Closing continue to be, in compliance with all such listing and maintenance requirements. 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
which is not otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus Supplement. 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, when taken together as a whole, 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 press releases disseminated
by the Company during the twelve months preceding the date of this Agreement taken as a whole do not contain any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made and when made, not misleading. The Company acknowledges and
agrees that no Purchaser makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby
other than those specifically set forth in Section 3.2 hereof.

 

(z)              
No Integrated Offering. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties set forth in
Section 3.2, neither the Company, nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any of its Affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or,
to the Company’s knowledge, their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited
any offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would cause this offering of the Securities to be integrated with prior
offerings by the Company for purposes of 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.
Except as set forth on Schedule (aa), based on the consolidated financial condition of the Company as of the Closing
Date, and the Company’s good faith estimate of the fair market value of its assets, 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 required 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.
Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(aa), 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 reasonable 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 accounting firm is CohnReznick 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, 2019.

 

(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 Sections 3.2(f) and 4.13 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, 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)          
Reserved.

 

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

 

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

 

(kk)          
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.

 

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

 

(mm)     
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.

 

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(nn)          
Other Covered Persons. Other than the Financial Advisor, the Company is not aware of any person (other than any Issuer
Covered Person) that has been or will be paid (directly or indirectly) remuneration for solicitation of purchasers in connection
with the sale of any Securities.

 

(oo)          
Notice of Disqualification Events. The Company will notify the Purchasers in writing, prior to the Closing Date of
(i) any Disqualification Event relating to any Issuer Covered Person and (ii) any event that would, with the passage of time, reasonably
be expected to become a Disqualification Event relating to any Issuer Covered Person, in each case of which it is aware.

 

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.

 

(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,
either: (i) an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(7) or (a)(8) under the Securities
Act or (ii) a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A(a) under the Securities Act.

 

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(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 Financial Advisor nor any Affiliate of the Financial Advisor 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 Financial Advisor nor any Affiliate has made or makes any representation as to the Company or the quality of the Securities
and the Financial Advisor 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 Financial
Advisor nor any of its Affiliates has acted as a financial advisor or fiduciary to such Purchaser.

 

(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.

 

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

 

(h)              
No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and performance under the other Transaction
Documents and the consummation by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby or relating hereto or thereto
do not and will not (i) result in a violation of such Purchaser’s charter documents, bylaws or other organizational documents,
if applicable, (ii) conflict with nor constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become
a default) under any agreement to which such Purchaser is a party, nor (iii) result in a violation of any law, rule, or regulation,
or any order, judgment or decree of any court or governmental agency applicable to such Purchaser or its properties (except for
such conflicts, defaults and violations as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on such
Purchaser). Such Purchaser is not required to obtain any consent, authorization or order of, or make any filing or registration
with, any court or governmental agency in order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its obligations under this Agreement
or perform under the other Transaction Documents nor to purchase the Securities in accordance with the terms hereof, provided that
for purposes of the representation made in this sentence, such Purchaser is assuming and relying upon the accuracy of the relevant
representations and agreements of the Company herein.

 

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              [Reserved].

 

4.2             
Furnishing of Information. Until the earliest of the time that no Purchaser owns Securities, the Company covenants
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.

 

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4.3             
Integration. The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect
of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities
in a manner that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities for purposes of the rules and regulations of any
Trading Market such that it would require shareholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless shareholder
approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.

 

4.4             
Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall (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
or agents 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 under any agreement,
whether written or oral, between the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors, agents, employees
or Affiliates on the one hand, and any of the Purchasers or any of their Affiliates on the other hand, 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,
in which case the Company shall provide the Purchasers with prior notice of such disclosure permitted under this clause (b).

 

4.5             
Shareholder Rights Plan. No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or, with the consent of the Company, any
other Person, that any Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person” under any control share acquisition, business combination,
poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or similar anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter
adopted by the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such plan or arrangement, by virtue
of receiving Securities under the Transaction Documents or under any other agreement between the Company and the Purchasers.

 

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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 to the receipt of such information and agreed 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 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, 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. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.7 attached hereto, the Company shall use the net proceeds
from the sale of the Securities hereunder for working capital purposes and shall not use such proceeds: (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 the Purchaser Parties 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), the Company will indemnify
each Purchaser Party, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages,
liabilities, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees) and expenses, as incurred, arising out of
or relating to (i) any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in such registration statement, any prospectus
or any form of prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus, or arising out of or relating
to any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein
(in the case of any prospectus or supplement thereto, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading,
except to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statements or omissions are based solely upon information regarding
such Purchaser Party furnished in writing to the Company by such Purchaser Party expressly for use therein, or (ii) any violation
or alleged violation by the Company of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or any state securities law, or any rule or regulation
thereunder in connection therewith. 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. 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.

 

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4.9             
Reservation of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, the Company has reserved and the Company shall continue to reserve
and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling
the Company to issue Shares pursuant to this Agreement and Pre-Funded Warrant Shares pursuant to any exercise of the Pre-Funded
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, and concurrently with the Closing, the Company shall apply
to list or quote all of the Shares and Pre-Funded Warrant Shares on such Trading Market and promptly secure the listing of all
of the Shares and Pre-Funded Warrant Shares on such Trading Market. The Company further agrees, if the Company applies to have
the Common Stock traded on any other Trading Market, it will then include in such application all of the Shares and Pre-Funded
Warrant Shares, and will take such other action as is necessary to cause all of the Shares and Pre-Funded 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         
[Reserved]

  

4.12          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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4.13         
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.

 

4.14         
Exercise Procedures. The form of Notice of Exercise included in the Pre-Funded Warrants sets forth the totality of
the procedures required of the Purchasers in order to exercise the Pre-Funded Warrants. No additional legal opinion, other information
or instructions shall be required of the Purchasers to exercise their Pre-Funded 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 Pre-Funded Warrants. The Company shall honor exercises of the
Pre-Funded Warrants and shall deliver Pre-Funded Warrant Shares in accordance with the terms, conditions and time periods set forth
in the Transaction Documents.

 

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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;
provided, however, that no such termination will affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by any other
party (or parties).

 

5.2             
Fees and Expenses. Except as expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents to the contrary, each party shall pay
the fees and expenses of its advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such
party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. The Company shall pay all
Transfer Agent fees (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, the Prospectus and
the Prospectus Supplement, 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
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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 holding at least 70% in interest of the component of the
affected Securities then outstanding 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 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.

 

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

 

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

 

5.13         
Rescission and Withdrawal Right. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in (and without limiting any
similar provisions of) any of the other Transaction Documents, whenever any Purchaser exercises a right, election, demand or option
under a Transaction Document and the Company does not timely perform its related obligations within the periods therein provided,
then such Purchaser may rescind or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time upon written notice to the Company, any relevant
notice, demand or election in whole or in part without prejudice to its future actions and rights; provided, however,
that in the case of a rescission of an exercise of a Pre-Funded 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 Pre-Funded 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.

 

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5.15         
Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery
of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The
parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations
contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agree to waive and not to assert in any Action for specific performance of any
such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

 

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

 

5.17          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. 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.

 

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5.18         
Liquidated Damages. The Company’s obligations to pay any partial liquidated damages or other amounts owing
under the Transaction Documents is a continuing obligation of the Company and shall not terminate until all unpaid partial liquidated
damages and other amounts have been paid notwithstanding the fact that the instrument or security pursuant to which such partial
liquidated damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been canceled.

 

5.19         
Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc.If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration
of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Business Day, then such action may be taken or such right may be exercised
on the next succeeding Business Day.

 

5.20         
Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel 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 WAIVES FOREVER TRIAL BY JURY. 

 

5.22         
Equitable Adjustment. Trading volume amounts, price/volume amounts, the amount of Pre-Funded Warrants, the amount
of shares of Common Stock identified in this Agreement and similar figures in the Transaction Documents shall be equitably adjusted
(but without duplication) to offset the effect of stock splits, similar events and as otherwise described in the Transaction Documents.

 

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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.

 

 

	XpresSpa Group, inc.	 	Address for Notice:
	 	 	 
	By:	/s/ Douglas Satzman	 	 
	 	Name: Douglas Satzman	 	E-Mail:dsatzman@xpresspa.com
	 	Title: CEO	 	Fax:
	With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):	 	 

  

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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO Xpresspa
group, 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:	L1 Capital Global Opportunities Master Fund

 

	Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser:	/s/ David Feldman

 

	Name of Authorized Signatory: 	David Feldman

 

	Title of Authorized Signatory: 	Director

 

	Email Address of Authorized Signatory:	dfeldman@l1capitalglobal.com

 

	Facsimile Number of Authorized Signatory:	 

 

	Address for Notice to Purchaser:	
        

        135 East 57th St, 23rd Floor

	 	New York, NY, 10022

 

	Subscription Amount: 	$500,000

 

	Shares:	2,272,727

 

	Pre-Funded Warrant Shares:	 

  

x
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 on 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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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO Xpresspa
group, 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:	Anson Investments Master Fund LP

 

	Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser:	/s/ Amin Nathoo

 

	Name of Authorized Signatory: 	Amin Nathoo

 

	Title of Authorized Signatory: 	Director of Anson Advisors Inc., co-investment advisor of the Purchaser

 

	Email Address of Authorized Signatory:	notices@ansonfunds.com

 

	Facsimile Number of Authorized Signatory:	 416-352-1880

 

	Address for Notice to Purchaser:	
        

        c/o Anson Advisors Inc.

	 	155 University Svenue, Suite 207
	 	
        Toronto, Ontario

        M5H 3B7

        Attention: Amin Nathoo

 

	Subscription Amount: 	$750,000

 

	Shares:	3,409,091

 

	Pre-Funded Warrant Shares:	 

  

o
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 on 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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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO Xpresspa
group, 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:	Alpha Capital Anstalt

 

	Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser:	/s/ Nicola Feuerstein

 

	Name of Authorized Signatory: 	Nicola Feuerstein

 

	Title of Authorized Signatory: 	Secretary

 

	Email Address of Authorized Signatory:	feuerstein@alphacapital.li

 

	Facsimile Number of Authorized Signatory:	 

 

	Address for Notice to Purchaser:	
        

        510 Madison Avenue, 1400 New York, NY 10022

 

	Subscription Amount: 	$1,000,000

 

	Shares:	3,100,000

 

	Pre-Funded Warrant Shares:	
        

        1,445,454

  

x
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 on 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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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO Xpresspa
group, 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:	The Hewlett Fund LP

 

	Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser:	/s/ Martin Chopp

 

	Name of Authorized Signatory: 	Martin Chopp

 

	Title of Authorized Signatory: 	General Partner

 

	Email Address of Authorized Signatory:	MC@hewlettfund.com

 

	Facsimile Number of Authorized Signatory:	
        

        516-887-8990 

 

	Address for Notice to Purchaser:	
        

        100 Merrick Road, Suite 400W

        Rockville Centre, NY 11570

 

	Subscription Amount: 	$200,000

 

	Shares:	 

 

	Pre-Funded Warrant Shares:	
        

        n/a

  

x
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 on 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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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO Xpresspa
group, 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:	Intracoastal Capital, LLC

 

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

 

	Name of Authorized Signatory: 	Keith Goodman

 

	Title of Authorized Signatory: 	Authorized Signatory

 

	Email Address of Authorized Signatory:	kg@intracc.com;
    mk@intracc.com

 

	Facsimile Number of Authorized Signatory:	
        847-562-9041

 

	Address for Notice to Purchaser:	
        2211A Lakeside Drive

        Bannockburn, IL 60015

 

	Subscription Amount: 	$599,999.84

 

	Shares:	2,727,272

 

	Pre-Funded Warrant Shares:	 

  

x
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 on 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.Document

Exhibit 4.2

ROSS STORES, INC. 
OFFICERS’ CERTIFICATE

             The undersigned, Travis Marquette, Group Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Brandon Dieffenbach, Group Vice President, FP&A and Treasury, of Ross Stores, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), pursuant to resolutions (the “Resolutions”) of the Board of Directors of the Company adopted on March 30 and April 1, 2020, pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.3 of the indenture, dated as of September 18, 2014 (the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), do hereby adopt the following resolutions:

RESOLVED, that there is hereby established four series of securities under the Indenture with the following terms:

(i)         The securities are entitled 4.600% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “2025 Notes”), 4.700% Senior Notes due 2027 (the “2027 Notes”), 4.800% Senior Notes due 2030 (the “2030 Notes”) and 5.450% Senior Notes due 2050 (the “2050 Notes” and, together with the 2025 Notes, the 2027 Notes and the 2030 Notes, the “Securities”).

(ii)        The 2025 Notes are limited in aggregate principal amount to $700,000,000 (except for 2025 Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other 2025 Notes pursuant to Sections 2.8, 2.9, 2.13 or 9.5 of the Indenture). The 2027 Notes are limited in aggregate principal amount to $400,000,000 (except for 2027 Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other 2027 Notes pursuant to Sections 2.8, 2.9, 2.13 or 9.5 of the Indenture). The 2030 Notes are limited in aggregate principal amount to $400,000,000 (except for 2030 Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other 2030 Notes pursuant to Sections 2.8, 2.9, 2.13 or 9.5 of the Indenture).  The 2050 Notes are limited in aggregate principal amount to $500,000,000 (except for 2050 Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other 2050 Notes pursuant to Sections 2.8, 2.9, 2.13 or 9.5 of the Indenture); provided the Company may, without the consent of holders of any series of the Securities, issue additional debt securities having the same ranking and the same interest rate, maturity and other terms as the applicable series of Securities, which additional debt securities together with the Securities of the applicable series will constitute a single series of debt securities under the Indenture.

(iii)       The principal amount of the 2025 Notes will mature on April 15, 2025, subject to the provisions of the Indenture relating to acceleration. The principal amount of the 2027 Notes will mature on April 15, 2027, subject to the provisions of the Indenture relating to acceleration. The principal amount of the 2030 Notes will mature on April 15, 2030, subject to the provisions of the Indenture relating to acceleration. The principal amount of the 2050 Notes will mature on April 15, 2050. subject to the provisions of the Indenture relating to acceleration.  

(iv)       The Securities of each series will bear interest from April 6, 2020. The 2025 Notes will bear interest at the rate of 4.600% per annum, or as may be adjusted pursuant to the terms thereof. The 2027 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.700% per annum, or as may be adjusted pursuant to the terms thereof. The 2030 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.800% per annum, or as may be adjusted pursuant to the terms thereof. The 2050 Notes 
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will bear interest at a rate of 5.450% per annum or as may be adjusted pursuant to the terms hereof. Interest on the Securities of each series shall be payable on each April 15 and October 15, commencing October 15, 2020, to the holders of record of the Securities on the April 1 or October 1, as the case may be, preceding such April 15 or October 15.  Interest on the Securities of each series will be computed on the basis of a 360 day year of twelve 30-day months.  

(v)        The principal of and interest on the Securities of each series will be payable at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose, pursuant to the Indenture, in the United States, which shall be initially the corporate trust office of the Trustee; provided, however, that at the option of the Company, such payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the person entitled thereto as provided in the Indenture.

(vi)       The Securities of each series initially will be represented by securities registered in the name of the nominee of The Depository Trust Company.  Except as set forth in the Indenture or in the prospectus supplement dated April 2, 2020 relating to the public offering of the Securities, the Securities will not be issuable in certificated form.

(vii)      The 2025 Notes will be redeemable prior to maturity as described in Section 2 of the form of the 2025 Notes attached hereto. The 2027 Notes will be redeemable prior to maturity as described in Section 2 of the form of the 2027 Notes attached hereto. The 2030 Notes will be redeemable prior to maturity as described in Section 2 of the form of the 2030 Notes attached hereto. The 2050 Notes will be redeemable prior to maturity as described in Section 2 of the form of the 2050 Notes attached hereto. 

(viii)     The Securities of each series will be subject to repayment at the option of the holders as described in Section 3 of the form of each series of the Securities attached hereto.

(ix)       The Securities shall be issued in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

(x)        The Securities shall be defeasible pursuant to the Article VIII of the Indenture.

(xi)       The Securities shall not have the benefit of any sinking fund.

FURTHER RESOLVED, the form of the Securities attached hereto as Exhibit A is hereby approved.

All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings given such terms in the Indenture.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto signed their names this 6th day of April, 2020.

By:   /s/ Travis Marquette______________
Name: Travis Marquette  
Title: Group Senior Vice President and 
Chief Financial Officer

By:   /s/ Brandon Dieffenbach___________
Name: Brandon Dieffenbach  
Title: Group Vice President,
      FP&A and Treasury

Officers’ Certificate Establishing Series

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Exhibit A-1

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK) (THE “DEPOSITORY”) TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO., OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

REGISTERED                                                                                                      REGISTERED

ROSS STORES, INC.

4.600% Senior Notes Due 2025

CUSIP NO. 778296 AB9
ISIN NO. US778296AB92
No. R-[●]                                                                                                        US$[●]

1.ROSS STORES, INC., a Delaware corporation (herein called the “Company,” which term includes     any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] MILLION DOLLARS (US$[●]) on April 15, 2025, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, and to pay interest thereon semi-annually on each April 15 and October 15 (each an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing October 15, 2020 and at maturity on said principal sum, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, at the rate per annum specified in the title of this Security, from the April 15 and October 15, as the case may be, next preceding the date of this Security to which interest has been paid, unless the date hereof is a date to which interest has been paid, in which case from the date of this Security, or unless no interest has been paid on this Security, in which case from April 6, 2020, until payment of said principal sum has been made or duly provided for.  Payments of such principal and interest shall be made at the office or agency of the Company in United States, which, subject to the right of the Company to vary or terminate the appointment of such agency, shall initially be at the principal office of U.S. Bank National Association, One California Street, Suite 1000, San Francisco, California 94111; provided, that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Security register; provided, further that so long as CEDE & CO. or another nominee of the Depository is the registered owner of this Security payments of principal and interest will be made in immediately available funds through the Depository's Same-Day Funds Settlement System.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the date hereof is after April 1 or October 1, as the case may be, and before the following April 15 and October 15, this Security shall bear interest from such April 15 and October 15; provided, that if the Company shall default in the payment of interest due on such April 15 and October 15, then this Security shall bear interest from the next preceding April 15 and October 15, to which interest 
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has been paid or, if no interest has been paid on this Security, from April 6, 2020.  The interest payable on any April 15 and October 15 will, subject to certain exceptions provided in the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof, be paid to the person in whose name this Security is registered at the close of business on the April 1 or October 1 (each a “Record Date”), as the case may be, next preceding such April 15 and October 15, and the interest payable at maturity will be payable to the person to whom the principal hereof shall be payable.

            Reference is made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.

            This Security shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed by the Trustee under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ROSS STORES, INC. has caused this instrument to be signed by facsimile by its duly authorized representative.

Dated: April 6, 2020

ROSS STORES, INC.

By: ________________________________
       Name: Travis Marquette         
       Title: Group Senior Vice President and         
       Chief Financial Officer 

4.600% Senior Notes due 2025 R-[●]

          
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  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ROSS STORES, INC. has caused this instrument to be signed by facsimile by its duly authorized representative.

Dated: April 6, 2020

ROSS STORES, INC.

By: ________________________________
       Name: Brandon Dieffenbach
       Title: Group Vice President, FP&A and                    
                 Treasury

4.600% Senior Notes due 2025 R-[●]

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TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

            This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
      as Trustee

By: ___________________________
               Authorized Signatory

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ROSS STORES, INC.

4.600% Senior Notes Due 2025

            Section 1.  General.  This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an indenture, dated as of September 18, 2014 (the “Indenture”), between Ross Stores, Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  This Security is one of the Securities of the series designated on the face hereof.

            Section 2.  Redemption; Sinking Fund.  (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) below, the Securities are not redeemable prior to maturity.

            (b)        The Securities are redeemable, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, in either case, prior to the Par Call Date at the option of the Company at a redemption price equal to the greater of: 

(i)         100% of the principal amount of the Securities being redeemed on that redemption date; and 

(ii)        the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Securities to be redeemed on that redemption date that would be due if the Securities to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date, discounted to the date of redemption on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate (as defined below), plus 50 basis points, 

plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of redemption. 

The Securities are redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole or in part, at any time or on or after the Par Call Date at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed on that redemption date, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date.

            Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on Securities that are due and payable on interest payment dates falling on or prior to a redemption date will be payable on the Interest Payment Date to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the relevant Record Date according to this Security and the Indenture. 

            The Company shall calculate or cause the calculation of the redemption price and the Trustee shall have no duty to calculate or verify the Company’s calculations thereof.

            “Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the remaining term (as measured from the date of redemption) of the Securities to be redeemed (assuming the Securities matured on the Par Call Date) that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Securities. 

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            “Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any redemption date, (i) the average of four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations, or (iii) if only one Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation is received, such quotation. 

            “Par Call Date” means March 15, 2025.

            “Quotation Agent” means any Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by the Company. 

            “Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of BofA Securities, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (or their respective affiliates that are a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”) and (ii) two other Primary Treasury Dealers selected by the Company. 

            “Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding such redemption date. 

            “Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date. 

            (c)       The Securities will not be subject to any sinking fund.

            Section 3.  Repurchase at the Option of Holders Upon Change of Control Triggering Event 

            (a)        If a Change of Control Triggering Event (as defined below) occurs, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Securities as provided in Section 2 above, the Company will make an offer to each Holder of Securities to repurchase all or any part (in integral multiples of $1,000) of that Holder’s Securities at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on the Securities repurchased to the date of purchase.  

            (b)        Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control (as defined below), but after the public announcement of an impending Change of Control, the Company will mail a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase Securities on the payment date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed. The notice shall, if mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the offer to purchase is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the payment date specified in the notice. 

            (c)        The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder, to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Securities as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event.  To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with this Section 3, the Company will comply with the applicable 
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securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 3 by virtue of such conflict. 

            (d)       On the Change of Control Triggering Event payment date, the Company will, to the extent lawful: 

(i)         accept for payment all Securities or portions of Securities (in integral multiples of $1,000) properly tendered pursuant to the aforementioned offer; 

(ii)        deposit with the paying agent an amount equal to the aggregate purchase price in respect of all Securities or portions of Securities properly tendered; and 

(iii)       deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Securities properly accepted, together with an Officer’s Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Securities being purchased by the Company. 

            (e)        The paying agent will promptly mail to each Holder of Securities properly tendered the purchase price for the Securities, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Security equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Securities surrendered; provided, that each new Security must be in a principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. 

            (f)        The Company will not be required to make an offer to repurchase the Securities upon a Change of Control Triggering Event if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and such third party purchases all Securities properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer. 

            (g)        The following terms for purposes of this Section 3 shall have the respective meanings specified below: 

“Below Investment Grade Rating Event” means the Securities cease to be rated Investment Grade by both Rating Agencies on any date during the period (the “Trigger Period”) commencing 60 days prior to the first public announcement by the Company of any Change of Control (or pending Change of Control) and ending 60 days following consummation of such Change of Control (which Trigger Period will be extended following consummation of a Change of Control for so long as either of the Rating Agencies has publicly announced that it is considering a possible ratings change).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Change of Control Triggering Event will be deemed to have occurred in connection with any particular Change of Control unless and until such Change of Control has actually been consummated.
            
“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following: 

(1)       the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company and those of its subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” or “group” (as those terms are used for purposes of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or one or more of its subsidiaries; 

(2)       the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” or “group” (as those terms are used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the then 
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outstanding number of shares of the Company’s Voting Stock, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; 

(3)       the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any Person, or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company or such other Person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the shares of the Voting Stock of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving Person immediately after giving effect to such transaction; 

(4)       the first day on which a majority of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors cease to be Continuing Directors; or 

(5)       the adoption of a plan relating to the Company’s liquidation or dissolution. 

            “Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Rating Event. 

            “Continuing Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Company’s Board of Directors who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the date of the issuance of the Securities; or (2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of our proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director). 

            “Investment Grade” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of Moody’s) and a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of S&P) or the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company. 

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and its successors. 
            
“Rating Agency” means (1) each of Moody’s and S&P; and (2) if either of Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Securities or fails to make a rating of the Securities publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” as defined in Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act, selected by the Company as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, as the case may be. 

“S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global and its successors.
            
“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any person, capital stock of any class or kind the Holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency. 

            Section 4.  Events of Default.  If an Event of Default specified in clause (6) or (7) of Section 6.1 of the Indenture occurs, all then outstanding Securities will become due and payable immediately without further action or notice. If any other Event of Default for the Securities occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities may, declare all of the Securities to be due and payable immediately by notice in writing to the Company and, 
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in case of a notice by Holders, also to the Trustee specifying the respective Event of Default and that it is a notice of acceleration.

            Section 5.  Modifications and Waivers; Obligation of the Company Absolute.  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected.  The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.  Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

            No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Security at the times, places and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

            Section 6.  Authorized Denominations.  The Securities are issuable in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.  As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain limitations therein set forth and to the limitations described below, if applicable, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

            Section 7.  Registration of Transfer.  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security register upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the United States, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the securities registrar (which shall initially be the Trustee, U.S. Bank National Association, One California Street, Suite 1000, San Francisco, California 94111 (Attention:  Global Corporate Trust Services) or at such other address as it may designate as its principal corporate trust office in the United States), duly executed by the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

            This Security is exchangeable only if (x) the Depository notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository for this Security or if at any time the Depository ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (y) the Company in its sole discretion determines that this Security shall be exchangeable for certificated Securities in registered form or (z) an Event of Default, or an event which with the passage of time or the giving of notice would become an Event of Default, with respect to the Securities represented hereby has occurred and is continuing, provided that the definitive Securities so issued in exchange for this permanent Security shall be in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof and be of like aggregate principal amount and tenor as the portion of this permanent Security to be exchanged, and provided further that, unless the Company agrees otherwise, Securities of this series in certificated registered form will be issued in exchange for this permanent Security, or any portion hereof, only if such Securities in certificated 
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registered form were requested by written notice to the Trustee or the Securities Registrar by or on behalf of a person who is beneficial owner of an interest hereof given through the Holder hereof.  Except as provided above, owners of beneficial interests in this permanent Security will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Securities in certificated registered form and will not be considered the Holders thereof for any purpose under the Indenture.

            No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

            Section 8.  Owners.  Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security is overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

            Section 9.  No Recourse Against Certain Persons.  No recourse for the payment of the principal or interest on this Security, or for any claim based hereon or otherwise in respect hereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in the Indenture or any Supplemental Indenture thereto or in any Security, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation of either of them, either directly or through the Company or any successor corporation of either of them, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule or law or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being by the acceptance hereof and as a condition of and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released.

            Section 10.  Defeasance.  The Indenture with respect to any series will be discharged and cancelled except for certain Sections thereof, subject to the terms of the Indenture, upon payment of all of the Securities of such series or upon the irrevocable deposit with the Trustee of cash or U.S. Government Obligations (or a combination thereof) sufficient for such payment in accordance with Article Ten of the Indenture.

            Section 11.  Governing Law; Jurisdiction.  The Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

            Section 12.  Defined Terms.  All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

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ABBREVIATIONS

            The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM - as tenants in common
TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN  - as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - ___________________________
                                    (Minor)
                       Custodian   ___________________________
                                                            (Cust)
            Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act   ____________________________
                                                                                    (State)
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

						
		

PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS INCLUDING POSTAL ZIP CODE OF ASSIGNEE
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
the within Security and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing ______ _____________________________ attorney to transfer said Security on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:  __________________________

Signature: _______________________

NOTICE:  THE SIGNATURE TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE WITHIN INSTRUMENT IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.

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Exhibit A-2

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK) (THE “DEPOSITORY”) TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO., OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

REGISTERED                                                                                                      REGISTERED

ROSS STORES, INC.

4.700% Senior Notes Due 2027

CUSIP NO. 778296 AC7
ISIN NO. US778296AC75
No. R-1                                                                                                           US$[●]

2.ROSS STORES, INC., a Delaware corporation (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] MILLION DOLLARS (US$[●]) on April 15, 2027, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, and to pay interest thereon semi-annually on each April 15 and October 15 (each an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing October 15, 2020 and at maturity on said principal sum, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, at the rate per annum specified in the title of this Security, from the April 15 and October 15, as the case may be, next preceding the date of this Security to which interest has been paid, unless the date hereof is a date to which interest has been paid, in which case from the date of this Security, or unless no interest has been paid on this Security, in which case from April 6, 2020, until payment of said principal sum has been made or duly provided for.  Payments of such principal and interest shall be made at the office or agency of the Company in United States, which, subject to the right of the Company to vary or terminate the appointment of such agency, shall initially be at the principal office of U.S. Bank National Association, One California Street, Suite 1000, San Francisco, California 94111; provided, that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Security register; provided, further that so long as CEDE & CO. or another nominee of the Depository is the registered owner of this Security payments of principal and interest will be made in immediately available funds through the Depository's Same-Day Funds Settlement System.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the date hereof is after April 1 or October 1, as the case may be, and before the following April 15 and October 15, this Security shall bear interest from such April 15 and October 15; provided, that if the Company shall default in the payment of interest due on such April 15 and October 15, then this Security shall bear interest from the next preceding April 15 and October 15, to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid on this Security, from April 6, 2020.  The interest 
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payable on any April 15 and October 15 will, subject to certain exceptions provided in the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof, be paid to the person in whose name this Security is registered at the close of business on the April 1 or October 1 (each a “Record Date”), as the case may be, next preceding such April 15 and October 15, and the interest payable at maturity will be payable to the person to whom the principal hereof shall be payable.

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.

            This Security shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed by the Trustee under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof.

[Signatures appear on next page]

            
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ROSS STORES, INC. has caused this instrument to be signed by facsimile by its duly authorized representative.

Dated: April 6, 2020

ROSS STORES, INC.

By: ________________________________
       Name: Travis Marquette         
       Title: Group Senior Vice President and         
       Chief Financial Officer 

4.700% Senior Notes due 2027 R-[●]

            
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ROSS STORES, INC. has caused this instrument to be signed by facsimile by its duly authorized representative.
Dated: April 6, 2020

ROSS STORES, INC.

By: ________________________________
       Name: Brandon Dieffenbach
       Title: Group Vice President, FP&A and 
                 Treasury

4.700% Senior Notes due 2027 R-[●]

TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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            This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
      as Trustee

By: ___________________________
               Authorized Signatory

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ROSS STORES, INC.

4.700% Senior Notes Due 2027

            Section 1.  General.  This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an indenture, dated as of September 18, 2014 (the “Indenture”), between Ross Stores, Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  This Security is one of the Securities of the series designated on the face hereof.

            Section 2.  Redemption; Sinking Fund.  (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) below, the Securities are not redeemable prior to maturity.

            (b)        The Securities are redeemable, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, in either case, prior to the Par Call Date at the option of the Company at a redemption price equal to the greater of: 

(i)         100% of the principal amount of the Securities being redeemed on that redemption date; and 

(ii)        the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Securities to be redeemed on that redemption date that would be due if the Securities to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date, discounted to the date of redemption on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate (as defined below), plus 50 basis points, 

plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of redemption. 

The Securities are redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole or in part, at any time or on or after the Par Call Date at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed on that redemption date, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date.

            Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on Securities that are due and payable on interest payment dates falling on or prior to a redemption date will be payable on the Interest Payment Date to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the relevant Record Date according to this Security and the Indenture. 

            The Company shall calculate or cause the calculation of the redemption price and the Trustee shall have no duty to calculate or verify the Company’s calculations thereof.

            “Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the remaining term (as measured from the date of redemption) of the Securities to be redeemed (assuming the Securities matured on the Par Call Date) that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Securities. 

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            “Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any redemption date, (i) the average of four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations, or (iii) if only one Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation is received, such quotation. 

            “Par Call Date” means February 15, 2027.

            “Quotation Agent” means any Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by the Company. 

            “Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of BofA Securities, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (or their respective affiliates that are a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”) and (ii) two other Primary Treasury Dealers selected by the Company. 

            “Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding such redemption date. 

            “Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date. 

            (c)       The Securities will not be subject to any sinking fund.

            Section 3.  Repurchase at the Option of Holders Upon Change of Control Triggering Event 

            (a)        If a Change of Control Triggering Event (as defined below) occurs, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Securities as provided in Section 2 above, the Company will make an offer to each Holder of Securities to repurchase all or any part (in integral multiples of $1,000) of that Holder’s Securities at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on the Securities repurchased to the date of purchase.  

            (b)        Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control (as defined below), but after the public announcement of an impending Change of Control, the Company will mail a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase Securities on the payment date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed. The notice shall, if mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the offer to purchase is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the payment date specified in the notice. 

            (c)        The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder, to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Securities as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event.  To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with this Section 3, the Company will comply with the applicable 
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securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 3 by virtue of such conflict. 

            (d)       On the Change of Control Triggering Event payment date, the Company will, to the extent lawful: 

(i)         accept for payment all Securities or portions of Securities (in integral multiples of $1,000) properly tendered pursuant to the aforementioned offer; 

(ii)        deposit with the paying agent an amount equal to the aggregate purchase price in respect of all Securities or portions of Securities properly tendered; and 

(iii)       deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Securities properly accepted, together with an Officer’s Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Securities being purchased by the Company. 

            (e)        The paying agent will promptly mail to each Holder of Securities properly tendered the purchase price for the Securities, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Security equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Securities surrendered; provided, that each new Security must be in a principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. 

            (f)        The Company will not be required to make an offer to repurchase the Securities upon a Change of Control Triggering Event if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and such third party purchases all Securities properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer. 

            (g)        The following terms for purposes of this Section 3 shall have the respective meanings specified below: 

“Below Investment Grade Rating Event” means the Securities cease to be rated Investment Grade by both Rating Agencies on any date during the period (the “Trigger Period”) commencing 60 days prior to the first public announcement by the Company of any Change of Control (or pending Change of Control) and ending 60 days following consummation of such Change of Control (which Trigger Period will be extended following consummation of a Change of Control for so long as either of the Rating Agencies has publicly announced that it is considering a possible ratings change).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Change of Control Triggering Event will be deemed to have occurred in connection with any particular Change of Control unless and until such Change of Control has actually been consummated.
            
“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following: 

(1)       the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company and those of its subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” or “group” (as those terms are used for purposes of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or one or more of its subsidiaries; 

(2)       the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” or “group” (as those terms are used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the 
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Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the then outstanding number of shares of the Company’s Voting Stock, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; 

(3)       the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any Person, or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company or such other Person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the shares of the Voting Stock of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving Person immediately after giving effect to such transaction; 

(4)       the first day on which a majority of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors cease to be Continuing Directors; or 

(5)       the adoption of a plan relating to the Company’s liquidation or dissolution. 

            “Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Rating Event. 

            “Continuing Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Company’s Board of Directors who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the date of the issuance of the Securities; or (2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of our proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director). 

            “Investment Grade” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of Moody’s) and a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of S&P) or the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company. 

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and its successors. 
            
“Rating Agency” means (1) each of Moody’s and S&P; and (2) if either of Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Securities or fails to make a rating of the Securities publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” as defined in Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act, selected by the Company as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, as the case may be. 

“S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global and its successors.
            
“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any person, capital stock of any class or kind the Holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency. 

            Section 4.  Events of Default.  If an Event of Default specified in clause (6) or (7) of Section 6.1 of the Indenture occurs, all then outstanding Securities will become due and payable immediately without further action or notice. If any other Event of Default for the Securities occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities may, declare all of the Securities to be due and payable immediately by notice in writing to the Company and, 
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in case of a notice by Holders, also to the Trustee specifying the respective Event of Default and that it is a notice of acceleration.

            Section 5.  Modifications and Waivers; Obligation of the Company Absolute.  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected.  The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.  Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

            No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Security at the times, places and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

            Section 6.  Authorized Denominations.  The Securities are issuable in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.  As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain limitations therein set forth and to the limitations described below, if applicable, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

            Section 7.  Registration of Transfer.  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security register upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the United States, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the securities registrar (which shall initially be the Trustee, U.S. Bank National Association, One California Street, Suite 1000, San Francisco, California 94111 (Attention:  Global Corporate Trust Services) or at such other address as it may designate as its principal corporate trust office in the United States), duly executed by the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

            This Security is exchangeable only if (x) the Depository notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository for this Security or if at any time the Depository ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (y) the Company in its sole discretion determines that this Security shall be exchangeable for certificated Securities in registered form or (z) an Event of Default, or an event which with the passage of time or the giving of notice would become an Event of Default, with respect to the Securities represented hereby has occurred and is continuing, provided that the definitive Securities so issued in exchange for this permanent Security shall be in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof and be of like aggregate principal amount and tenor as the portion of this permanent Security to be exchanged, and provided further that, unless the Company agrees otherwise, Securities of this series in certificated registered form will be issued in exchange for this permanent Security, or any portion hereof, only if such Securities in certificated 
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registered form were requested by written notice to the Trustee or the Securities Registrar by or on behalf of a person who is beneficial owner of an interest hereof given through the Holder hereof.  Except as provided above, owners of beneficial interests in this permanent Security will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Securities in certificated registered form and will not be considered the Holders thereof for any purpose under the Indenture.

            No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

            Section 8.  Owners.  Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security is overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

            Section 9.  No Recourse Against Certain Persons.  No recourse for the payment of the principal or interest on this Security, or for any claim based hereon or otherwise in respect hereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in the Indenture or any Supplemental Indenture thereto or in any Security, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation of either of them, either directly or through the Company or any successor corporation of either of them, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule or law or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being by the acceptance hereof and as a condition of and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released.

            Section 10.  Defeasance.  The Indenture with respect to any series will be discharged and cancelled except for certain Sections thereof, subject to the terms of the Indenture, upon payment of all of the Securities of such series or upon the irrevocable deposit with the Trustee of cash or U.S. Government Obligations (or a combination thereof) sufficient for such payment in accordance with Article Ten of the Indenture.

            Section 11.  Governing Law; Jurisdiction.  The Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

            Section 12.  Defined Terms.  All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

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ABBREVIATIONS

            The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM - as tenants in common
TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN  - as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - ___________________________
                                    (Minor)
                       Custodian   ___________________________
                                                            (Cust)
            Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act   ____________________________
                                                                                    (State)
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

						
		

PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS INCLUDING POSTAL ZIP CODE OF ASSIGNEE
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
the within Security and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing ______ _____________________________ attorney to transfer said Security on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:  __________________________

Signature: _______________________

NOTICE:  THE SIGNATURE TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE WITHIN INSTRUMENT IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.

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Exhibit A-3

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK) (THE “DEPOSITORY”) TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO., OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

REGISTERED                                                                                                      REGISTERED

ROSS STORES, INC.

4.800% Senior Notes Due 2030

CUSIP NO. 778296 AD5
ISIN NO. US778296AD58
No. R-1                                                                                                           US$[●]

3.ROSS STORES, INC., a Delaware corporation (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] MILLION DOLLARS (US$[●]) on April 15, 2030, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, and to pay interest thereon semi-annually on each April 15 and October 15 (each an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing October 15, 2020 and at maturity on said principal sum, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, at the rate per annum specified in the title of this Security, from the April 15 and October 15, as the case may be, next preceding the date of this Security to which interest has been paid, unless the date hereof is a date to which interest has been paid, in which case from the date of this Security, or unless no interest has been paid on this Security, in which case from April 6, 2020, until payment of said principal sum has been made or duly provided for.  Payments of such principal and interest shall be made at the office or agency of the Company in United States, which, subject to the right of the Company to vary or terminate the appointment of such agency, shall initially be at the principal office of U.S. Bank National Association, One California Street, Suite 1000, San Francisco, California 94111; provided, that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Security register; provided, further that so long as CEDE & CO. or another nominee of the Depository is the registered owner of this Security payments of principal and interest will be made in immediately available funds through the Depository's Same-Day Funds Settlement System.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the date hereof is after April 1 or October 1, as the case may be, and before the following April 15 and October 15, this Security shall bear interest from such April 15 and October 15; provided, that if the Company shall default in the payment of interest due on such April 15 and October 15, then this Security shall bear interest from the next preceding April 15 and October 15, to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid on this Security, from April 6, 2020.  The interest 
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payable on any April 15 and October 15 will, subject to certain exceptions provided in the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof, be paid to the person in whose name this Security is registered at the close of business on the April 1 or October 1 (each a “Record Date”), as the case may be, next preceding such April 15 and October 15, and the interest payable at maturity will be payable to the person to whom the principal hereof shall be payable.

            Reference is made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.

            This Security shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed by the Trustee under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof.

[Signatures appear on next page]

                       
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ROSS STORES, INC. has caused this instrument to be signed by facsimile by its duly authorized representative.
Dated: April 6, 2020

ROSS STORES, INC.

By: ________________________________
       Name: Travis Marquette         
       Title: Group Senior Vice President and 
       Chief Financial Officer 

4.800% Senior Notes due 2030 R-[●]

            
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ROSS STORES, INC. has caused this instrument to be signed by facsimile by its duly authorized representative.
Dated: April 6, 2020

ROSS STORES, INC.

By: ________________________________
       Name: Brandon Dieffenbach
       Title: Group Vice President, FP&A and 
       Treasury

4.800% Senior Notes due 2030 R-[●]

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TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

            This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
      as Trustee

By: ___________________________
               Authorized Signatory

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ROSS STORES, INC.

4.800% Senior Notes Due 2030

            Section 1.  General.  This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an indenture, dated as of September 18, 2014 (the “Indenture”), between Ross Stores, Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  This Security is one of the Securities of the series designated on the face hereof.

            Section 2.  Redemption; Sinking Fund.  (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) below, the Securities are not redeemable prior to maturity.

            (b)        The Securities are redeemable, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, in either case, prior to the Par Call Date at the option of the Company at a redemption price equal to the greater of: 

(i)         100% of the principal amount of the Securities being redeemed on that redemption date; and 

(ii)        the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Securities to be redeemed on that redemption date that would be due if the Securities to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date, discounted to the date of redemption on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate (as defined below), plus 50 basis points, 

plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of redemption. 

The Securities are redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole or in part, at any time or on or after the Par Call Date at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed on that redemption date, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date.
            
Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on Securities that are due and payable on interest payment dates falling on or prior to a redemption date will be payable on the Interest Payment Date to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the relevant Record Date according to this Security and the Indenture. 

            The Company shall calculate or cause the calculation of the redemption price and the Trustee shall have no duty to calculate or verify the Company’s calculations thereof.

            “Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the remaining term (as measured from the date of redemption) of the Securities to be redeemed (assuming the Securities matured on the Par Call Date) that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Securities. 

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            “Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any redemption date, (i) the average of four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations, or (iii) if only one Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation is received, such quotation. 

            “Par Call Date” means January 15, 2030.

            “Quotation Agent” means any Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by the Company. 

            “Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of BofA Securities, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (or their respective affiliates that are a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”) and (ii) two other Primary Treasury Dealers selected by the Company. 

            “Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding such redemption date. 

            “Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date. 

            (c)       The Securities will not be subject to any sinking fund.

            Section 3.  Repurchase at the Option of Holders Upon Change of Control Triggering Event 

            (a)        If a Change of Control Triggering Event (as defined below) occurs, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Securities as provided in Section 2 above, the Company will make an offer to each Holder of Securities to repurchase all or any part (in integral multiples of $1,000) of that Holder’s Securities at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on the Securities repurchased to the date of purchase.  

            (b)        Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control (as defined below), but after the public announcement of an impending Change of Control, the Company will mail a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase Securities on the payment date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed. The notice shall, if mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the offer to purchase is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the payment date specified in the notice. 

            (c)        The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder, to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Securities as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event.  To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with this Section 3, the Company will comply with the applicable 
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securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 3 by virtue of such conflict. 

            (d)       On the Change of Control Triggering Event payment date, the Company will, to the extent lawful: 

(i)         accept for payment all Securities or portions of Securities (in integral multiples of $1,000) properly tendered pursuant to the aforementioned offer; 

(ii)        deposit with the paying agent an amount equal to the aggregate purchase price in respect of all Securities or portions of Securities properly tendered; and 

(iii)       deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Securities properly accepted, together with an Officer’s Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Securities being purchased by the Company. 

            (e)        The paying agent will promptly mail to each Holder of Securities properly tendered the purchase price for the Securities, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Security equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Securities surrendered; provided, that each new Security must be in a principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. 

            (f)        The Company will not be required to make an offer to repurchase the Securities upon a Change of Control Triggering Event if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and such third party purchases all Securities properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer. 

            (g)        The following terms for purposes of this Section 3 shall have the respective meanings specified below: 

“Below Investment Grade Rating Event” means the Securities cease to be rated Investment Grade by both Rating Agencies on any date during the period (the “Trigger Period”) commencing 60 days prior to the first public announcement by the Company of any Change of Control (or pending Change of Control) and ending 60 days following consummation of such Change of Control (which Trigger Period will be extended following consummation of a Change of Control for so long as either of the Rating Agencies has publicly announced that it is considering a possible ratings change).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Change of Control Triggering Event will be deemed to have occurred in connection with any particular Change of Control unless and until such Change of Control has actually been consummated.
            
“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following: 

(1)       the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company and those of its subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” or “group” (as those terms are used for purposes of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or one or more of its subsidiaries; 

(2)       the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” or “group” (as those terms are used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the 
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Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the then outstanding number of shares of the Company’s Voting Stock, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; 

(3)       the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any Person, or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company or such other Person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the shares of the Voting Stock of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving Person immediately after giving effect to such transaction; 

(4)       the first day on which a majority of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors cease to be Continuing Directors; or 

(5)       the adoption of a plan relating to the Company’s liquidation or dissolution. 

            “Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Rating Event. 

            “Continuing Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Company’s Board of Directors who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the date of the issuance of the Securities; or (2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of our proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director). 

            “Investment Grade” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of Moody’s) and a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of S&P) or the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company. 

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and its successors. 
            
“Rating Agency” means (1) each of Moody’s and S&P; and (2) if either of Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Securities or fails to make a rating of the Securities publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” as defined in Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act, selected by the Company as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, as the case may be. 

“S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global and its successors.
            
“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any person, capital stock of any class or kind the Holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency. 

            Section 4.  Events of Default.  If an Event of Default specified in clause (6) or (7) of Section 6.1 of the Indenture occurs, all then outstanding Securities will become due and payable immediately without further action or notice. If any other Event of Default for the Securities occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities may, declare all of the Securities to be due and payable immediately by notice in writing to the Company and, 
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in case of a notice by Holders, also to the Trustee specifying the respective Event of Default and that it is a notice of acceleration.

            Section 5.  Modifications and Waivers; Obligation of the Company Absolute.  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected.  The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.  Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

            No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Security at the times, places and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

            Section 6.  Authorized Denominations.  The Securities are issuable in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.  As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain limitations therein set forth and to the limitations described below, if applicable, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

            Section 7.  Registration of Transfer.  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security register upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the United States, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the securities registrar (which shall initially be the Trustee, U.S. Bank National Association, One California Street, Suite 1000, San Francisco, California 94111 (Attention:  Global Corporate Trust Services) or at such other address as it may designate as its principal corporate trust office in the United States), duly executed by the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

            This Security is exchangeable only if (x) the Depository notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository for this Security or if at any time the Depository ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (y) the Company in its sole discretion determines that this Security shall be exchangeable for certificated Securities in registered form or (z) an Event of Default, or an event which with the passage of time or the giving of notice would become an Event of Default, with respect to the Securities represented hereby has occurred and is continuing, provided that the definitive Securities so issued in exchange for this permanent Security shall be in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof and be of like aggregate principal amount and tenor as the portion of this permanent Security to be exchanged, and provided further that, unless the Company agrees otherwise, Securities of this series in certificated registered form will be issued in exchange for this permanent Security, or any portion hereof, only if such Securities in certificated 
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registered form were requested by written notice to the Trustee or the Securities Registrar by or on behalf of a person who is beneficial owner of an interest hereof given through the Holder hereof.  Except as provided above, owners of beneficial interests in this permanent Security will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Securities in certificated registered form and will not be considered the Holders thereof for any purpose under the Indenture.

            No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

            Section 8.  Owners.  Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security is overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

            Section 9.  No Recourse Against Certain Persons.  No recourse for the payment of the principal or interest on this Security, or for any claim based hereon or otherwise in respect hereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in the Indenture or any Supplemental Indenture thereto or in any Security, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation of either of them, either directly or through the Company or any successor corporation of either of them, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule or law or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being by the acceptance hereof and as a condition of and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released.

            Section 10.  Defeasance.  The Indenture with respect to any series will be discharged and cancelled except for certain Sections thereof, subject to the terms of the Indenture, upon payment of all of the Securities of such series or upon the irrevocable deposit with the Trustee of cash or U.S. Government Obligations (or a combination thereof) sufficient for such payment in accordance with Article Ten of the Indenture.

            Section 11.  Governing Law; Jurisdiction.  The Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

            Section 12.  Defined Terms.  All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

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ABBREVIATIONS

            The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM - as tenants in common
TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN  - as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - ___________________________
                                    (Minor)
                       Custodian   ___________________________
                                                            (Cust)
            Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act   ____________________________
                                                                                    (State)
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

						
		

PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS INCLUDING POSTAL ZIP CODE OF ASSIGNEE
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
the within Security and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing ______ _____________________________ attorney to transfer said Security on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:  __________________________

Signature: _______________________

NOTICE:  THE SIGNATURE TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE WITHIN INSTRUMENT IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.

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Exhibit A-4

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK) (THE “DEPOSITORY”) TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO., OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

REGISTERED                                                                                                      REGISTERED

ROSS STORES, INC.

5.450% Senior Notes Due 2050

CUSIP NO. 778296 AE3
ISIN NO. US778296AE32
No. R-1                                                                                                           US$[●]

4.ROSS STORES, INC., a Delaware corporation (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of [●] MILLION DOLLARS (US$[●]) on April 15, 2050, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, and to pay interest thereon semi-annually on each April 15 and October 15 (each an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing October 15, 2020 and at maturity on said principal sum, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, at the rate per annum specified in the title of this Security, from the April 15 and October 15, as the case may be, next preceding the date of this Security to which interest has been paid, unless the date hereof is a date to which interest has been paid, in which case from the date of this Security, or unless no interest has been paid on this Security, in which case from April 6, 2020, until payment of said principal sum has been made or duly provided for.  Payments of such principal and interest shall be made at the office or agency of the Company in United States, which, subject to the right of the Company to vary or terminate the appointment of such agency, shall initially be at the principal office of U.S. Bank National Association, One California Street, Suite 1000, San Francisco, California 94111; provided, that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Security register; provided, further that so long as CEDE & CO. or another nominee of the Depository is the registered owner of this Security payments of principal and interest will be made in immediately available funds through the Depository's Same-Day Funds Settlement System.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the date hereof is after April 1 or October 1, as the case may be, and before the following April 15 and October 15, this Security shall bear interest from such April 15 and October 15; provided, that if the Company shall default in the payment of interest due on such April 15 and October 15, then this Security shall bear interest from the next preceding April 15 and October 15, to which interest 
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has been paid or, if no interest has been paid on this Security, from April 6, 2020.  The interest payable on any April 15 and October 15 will, subject to certain exceptions provided in the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof, be paid to the person in whose name this Security is registered at the close of business on the April 1 or October 1 (each a “Record Date”), as the case may be, next preceding such April 15 and October 15, and the interest payable at maturity will be payable to the person to whom the principal hereof shall be payable.

            Reference is made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.

            This Security shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed by the Trustee under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ROSS STORES, INC. has caused this instrument to be signed by facsimile by its duly authorized representative.
Dated: April 6, 2020

ROSS STORES, INC.

By: ________________________________
       Name: Travis Marquette         
       Title: Group Senior Vice President and 
                 Chief Financial Officer 

5.450% Senior Notes due 2050 R-[●]

            
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ROSS STORES, INC. has caused this instrument to be signed by facsimile by its duly authorized representative.
Dated: April 6, 2020

ROSS STORES, INC.

By: ________________________________
       Name: Brandon Dieffenbach
       Title: Group Vice President, FP&A and 
                 Treasury

5.450% Senior Notes due 2050 R-[●]

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TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

            This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
      as Trustee

By: ___________________________
               Authorized Signatory

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ROSS STORES, INC.

5.450% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2050

            Section 1.  General.  This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an indenture, dated as of September 18, 2014 (the “Indenture”), between Ross Stores, Inc. (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  This Security is one of the Securities of the series designated on the face hereof.

            Section 2.  Redemption; Sinking Fund.  (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) below, the Securities are not redeemable prior to maturity.

            (b)        The Securities are redeemable, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, in either case, prior to the Par Call Date at the option of the Company at a redemption price equal to the greater of: 

(i)         100% of the principal amount of the Securities being redeemed on that redemption date; and 

(ii)        the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Securities to be redeemed on that redemption date that would be due if the Securities to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date, discounted to the date of redemption on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate (as defined below), plus 50 basis points, 

plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of redemption. 

The Securities are redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole or in part, at any time or on or after the Par Call Date at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed on that redemption date, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date.
            
Notwithstanding the foregoing, installments of interest on Securities that are due and payable on interest payment dates falling on or prior to a redemption date will be payable on the Interest Payment Date to the registered Holders as of the close of business on the relevant Record Date according to this Security and the Indenture. 

            The Company shall calculate or cause the calculation of the redemption price and the Trustee shall have no duty to calculate or verify the Company’s calculations thereof.

            “Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the remaining term (as measured from the date of redemption) of the Securities to be redeemed (assuming the Securities matured on the Par Call Date) that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Securities. 

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            “Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any redemption date, (i) the average of four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations, or (iii) if only one Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation is received, such quotation. 

            “Par Call Date” means October 15, 2049.

            “Quotation Agent” means any Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by the Company. 

            “Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) each of BofA Securities, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (or their respective affiliates that are a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”) and (ii) two other Primary Treasury Dealers selected by the Company. 

            “Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding such redemption date. 

            “Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date. 

            (c)       The Securities will not be subject to any sinking fund.

            Section 3.  Repurchase at the Option of Holders Upon Change of Control Triggering Event 

            (a)        If a Change of Control Triggering Event (as defined below) occurs, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Securities as provided in Section 2 above, the Company will make an offer to each Holder of Securities to repurchase all or any part (in integral multiples of $1,000) of that Holder’s Securities at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on the Securities repurchased to the date of purchase.  

            (b)        Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control (as defined below), but after the public announcement of an impending Change of Control, the Company will mail a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase Securities on the payment date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed. The notice shall, if mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the offer to purchase is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the payment date specified in the notice. 

            (c)        The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder, to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Securities as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event.  To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with this Section 3, the Company will comply with the applicable 
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securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 3 by virtue of such conflict. 

            (d)       On the Change of Control Triggering Event payment date, the Company will, to the extent lawful: 

(i)         accept for payment all Securities or portions of Securities (in integral multiples of $1,000) properly tendered pursuant to the aforementioned offer; 

(ii)        deposit with the paying agent an amount equal to the aggregate purchase price in respect of all Securities or portions of Securities properly tendered; and 

(iii)       deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Securities properly accepted, together with an Officer’s Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Securities being purchased by the Company. 

            (e)        The paying agent will promptly mail to each Holder of Securities properly tendered the purchase price for the Securities, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Security equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Securities surrendered; provided, that each new Security must be in a principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. 

            (f)        The Company will not be required to make an offer to repurchase the Securities upon a Change of Control Triggering Event if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and such third party purchases all Securities properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer. 

            (g)        The following terms for purposes of this Section 3 shall have the respective meanings specified below: 

“Below Investment Grade Rating Event” means the Securities cease to be rated Investment Grade by both Rating Agencies on any date during the period (the “Trigger Period”) commencing 60 days prior to the first public announcement by the Company of any Change of Control (or pending Change of Control) and ending 60 days following consummation of such Change of Control (which Trigger Period will be extended following consummation of a Change of Control for so long as either of the Rating Agencies has publicly announced that it is considering a possible ratings change).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Change of Control Triggering Event will be deemed to have occurred in connection with any particular Change of Control unless and until such Change of Control has actually been consummated.
            
“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following: 

(1)       the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company and those of its subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” or “group” (as those terms are used for purposes of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or one or more of its subsidiaries; 

(2)       the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” or “group” (as those terms are used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the 
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Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the then outstanding number of shares of the Company’s Voting Stock, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; 

(3)       the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any Person, or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company or such other Person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the shares of the Voting Stock of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving Person immediately after giving effect to such transaction; 

(4)       the first day on which a majority of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors cease to be Continuing Directors; or 

(5)       the adoption of a plan relating to the Company’s liquidation or dissolution. 

            “Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Rating Event. 

            “Continuing Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Company’s Board of Directors who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the date of the issuance of the Securities; or (2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of our proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director). 

            “Investment Grade” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of Moody’s) and a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of S&P) or the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company. 

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and its successors. 
            
“Rating Agency” means (1) each of Moody’s and S&P; and (2) if either of Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Securities or fails to make a rating of the Securities publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” as defined in Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act, selected by the Company as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, as the case may be. 

“S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global and its successors.
            
“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any person, capital stock of any class or kind the Holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency. 

            Section 4.  Events of Default.  If an Event of Default specified in clause (6) or (7) of Section 6.1 of the Indenture occurs, all then outstanding Securities will become due and payable immediately without further action or notice. If any other Event of Default for the Securities occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities may, declare all of the Securities to be due and payable immediately by notice in writing to the Company and, 
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in case of a notice by Holders, also to the Trustee specifying the respective Event of Default and that it is a notice of acceleration.

            Section 5.  Modifications and Waivers; Obligation of the Company Absolute.  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected.  The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.  Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

            No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Security at the times, places and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

            Section 6.  Authorized Denominations.  The Securities are issuable in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.  As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain limitations therein set forth and to the limitations described below, if applicable, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

            Section 7.  Registration of Transfer.  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security register upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the United States, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the securities registrar (which shall initially be the Trustee, U.S. Bank National Association, One California Street, Suite 1000, San Francisco, California 94111 (Attention:  Global Corporate Trust Services) or at such other address as it may designate as its principal corporate trust office in the United States), duly executed by the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

            This Security is exchangeable only if (x) the Depository notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository for this Security or if at any time the Depository ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (y) the Company in its sole discretion determines that this Security shall be exchangeable for certificated Securities in registered form or (z) an Event of Default, or an event which with the passage of time or the giving of notice would become an Event of Default, with respect to the Securities represented hereby has occurred and is continuing, provided that the definitive Securities so issued in exchange for this permanent Security shall be in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof and be of like aggregate principal amount and tenor as the portion of this permanent Security to be exchanged, and provided further that, unless the Company agrees otherwise, Securities of this series in certificated registered form will be issued in exchange for this permanent Security, or any portion hereof, only if such Securities in certificated 
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registered form were requested by written notice to the Trustee or the Securities Registrar by or on behalf of a person who is beneficial owner of an interest hereof given through the Holder hereof.  Except as provided above, owners of beneficial interests in this permanent Security will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Securities in certificated registered form and will not be considered the Holders thereof for any purpose under the Indenture.

            No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

            Section 8.  Owners.  Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security is overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

            Section 9.  No Recourse Against Certain Persons.  No recourse for the payment of the principal or interest on this Security, or for any claim based hereon or otherwise in respect hereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in the Indenture or any Supplemental Indenture thereto or in any Security, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation of either of them, either directly or through the Company or any successor corporation of either of them, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule or law or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being by the acceptance hereof and as a condition of and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released.

            Section 10.  Defeasance.  The Indenture with respect to any series will be discharged and cancelled except for certain Sections thereof, subject to the terms of the Indenture, upon payment of all of the Securities of such series or upon the irrevocable deposit with the Trustee of cash or U.S. Government Obligations (or a combination thereof) sufficient for such payment in accordance with Article Ten of the Indenture.

            Section 11.  Governing Law; Jurisdiction.  The Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

            Section 12.  Defined Terms.  All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

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ABBREVIATIONS

            The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM - as tenants in common
TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN  - as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - ___________________________
                                    (Minor)
                       Custodian   ___________________________
                                                            (Cust)
            Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act   ____________________________
                                                                                    (State)
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto

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the within Security and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing ______ _____________________________ attorney to transfer said Security on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:  __________________________

Signature: _______________________

NOTICE:  THE SIGNATURE TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE WITHIN INSTRUMENT IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.

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