Document:

EXHIBIT 10.19 

 

Engagement letter
agreement dated August 12, 2010 by and between 

Spherix Incorporated and
Rodman & Renshaw, LLC 

 

August 12, 2010 

 

CONFIDENTIAL 

 

Dr. Claire L. Kruger 

Chief Executive Officer 

Spherix Incorporated 

6430 Rockledge Drive 

Suite 503 

Bethesda, MD 20817 

 

Dear Dr. Kruger: 

 

This letter (the “Agreement”)
constitutes the agreement between Rodman & Renshaw, LLC (“Rodman”
or the “Placement Agent”) and Spherix Incorporated (the “Company”),
that Rodman shall serve as the exclusive placement agent for the Company, on a “reasonable
best efforts” basis, in connection with the proposed placement (the “Placement”)
of registered securities of the Company (the “Securities”). The terms of
such Placement and the Securities shall be mutually agreed upon by the Company
and the purchasers (each, a “Purchaser” and collectively, the “Purchasers”)
and nothing herein constitutes that Rodman would have the power or authority to
bind the Company or any Purchaser or an obligation for the Company to issue any
Securities or complete the Placement. This Agreement and the documents executed
and delivered by the Company and the Purchasers in connection with the
Placement shall be collectively referred to herein as the “Transaction  Documents.”  The date of the closing of the Placement
shall be referred to herein as the “Closing Date.”  The Company expressly acknowledges and agrees
that the execution of this Agreement does not constitute a commitment by Rodman
to purchase the Securities and does not ensure the successful placement of the
Securities or any portion thereof or the success of Rodman with respect to
securing any other financing on behalf of the Company. 

 

SECTION 1.           COMPENSATION AND OTHER FEES. 

 

As compensation for the
services provided by Rodman hereunder, the Company agrees to pay to Rodman: 

 

(A)          The fees set forth below
with respect to the Placement: 

 

1.               A cash fee payable
immediately upon the closing of the Placement and equal to 6% of the aggregate
gross proceeds raised in the Placement. 

 

2.     Such number of warrants (the
“Rodman Warrants”) to Rodman or its designees at the Closing to purchase
shares of common stock of the Company (“Shares”) equal to 3% of the aggregate
number of Shares sold in the Placement, plus any Shares underlying any convertible
Securities sold in the Placement to such purchasers.  The Rodman Warrants shall have a term of two (2) years,
and an exercise price of 125% of the public offering price.  The Rodman Warrants shall not have
antidilution protections or be transferable for six months from the date of the
Offering, except as permitted by FINRA Rule 5110, and further, the number
of Shares underlying the Rodman Warrants shall be reduced if necessary to
comply with FINRA rules or regulations. 

 

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(B)           The Company also agrees to
reimburse all of Rodman’s expenses (with supporting invoices/receipts) in
amount equal to 1.5% of the aggregate gross proceeds raised in the placement,
with a maximum payable amount of $45,000. Such reimbursement shall be payable
immediately upon (but only in the event of) the closing of the Placement. 

 

SECTION 2.           REGISTRATION STATEMENT. 

 

The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the Placement
Agent that: 

 

(A)          The Company has filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration
statement on Form S-1 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities
Act”).  At the time of such filing,
the Company  met the requirements of Form S-1
under the Securities Act.  The Company
will file with the Commission pursuant to Rules 430A and 424(b) under the
Securities Act, and the rules and regulations (the “Rules and
Regulations”) of the Commission promulgated thereunder, a final prospectus
included in such registration statement relating to the placement of the
Securities and the plan of distribution thereof and has advised the Placement
Agent of all further information (financial and other) with respect to the
Company required to be set forth therein. Such registration statement,
including the exhibits thereto, as amended at the date of this Agreement, is
hereinafter called the “Registration Statement”; such prospectus in the
form in which it appears in the Registration Statement is hereinafter called
the “Base Prospectus”; and the amended or supplemented form of
prospectus, in the form in which it will be filed with the Commission pursuant
to Rules 430A and 424(b) (including the Base Prospectus as so amended
or supplemented) is hereinafter called the “Prospectus Supplement.” Any
reference in this Agreement to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus
or the Prospectus Supplement shall be deemed to refer to and include the
documents incorporated by reference therein (the “Incorporated Documents”)
pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-1 which will be filed under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), on or before the date of
this Agreement, or the issue date of the Base Prospectus or the Prospectus
Supplement, as the case may be; and any reference in this Agreement to the
terms “amend,” “amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration
Statement, the Base Prospectus or the Prospectus Supplement shall be deemed to
refer to and include the filing of any document under the Exchange Act after
the date of this Agreement, or the issue date of the Base Prospectus or the
Prospectus Supplement, as the case may be, deemed to be incorporated therein by
reference. All references in this Agreement to financial statements and
schedules and other information that is “contained,” “included,” “described,” “referenced,”
“set forth” or “stated” in the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus or
the Prospectus Supplement (and all other references of like import) shall be
deemed to mean and include all such financial statements and schedules and
other information that is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus or the Prospectus Supplement, as
the case may be.  Following FINRA
approval of the compensation arrangements set forth in Section 1, the
Company has no reason to believe that the Registration Statement will not be
declared effective by the Commission. 

 

(B)           The Registration Statement
(and any further documents to be filed with the Commission) will contain all
exhibits and schedules as required by the Securities Act. Each of the
Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at the time it
becomes effective, will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act
and the Exchange Act and the applicable Rules and Regulations will not
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein
not misleading. The Base Prospectus, and the Prospectus Supplement, each as of
its respective date, will comply in all material respects with the Securities
Act and the Exchange Act and the applicable Rules and Regulations. Each of
the Base Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, will not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in
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circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The
Incorporated Documents, if any, will conform in all material respects to the
requirements of the Exchange Act and the applicable Rules and Regulations,
and none of such documents will contain any untrue statement of a material fact
or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein (with
respect to Incorporated Documents incorporated by reference in the Base
Prospectus or Prospectus Supplement), in light of the circumstances under which
they are made not misleading; and any further documents so filed and
incorporated by reference in the Base Prospectus or Prospectus Supplement, when
such documents are filed with the Commission, will conform in all material
respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act and the applicable Rules and
Regulations, as applicable, and will not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements
therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. There are no documents required to be filed with the Commission in
connection with the transaction contemplated hereby that (x) have not been
filed as required pursuant to the Securities Act or (y) will not be filed
within the requisite time period. 

 

(C)           The Company is eligible to
use free writing prospectuses in connection with the Placement pursuant to Rules 164
and 433 under the Securities Act.  Any
free writing prospectus that the Company is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) under
the Securities Act will be filed with the Commission in accordance with the
requirements of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and
regulations of the Commission thereunder. 
Each free writing prospectus that the Company is required to file,
pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act or that was prepared by
or behalf of or used by the Company complies or will comply in all material
respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and
regulations of the Commission thereunder. 
The Company will not, without the prior consent of the Placement Agent,
prepare, use or refer to, any free writing prospectus. 

 

(D)          The Company will, as
promptly as practicable, deliver to the Placement Agent complete conformed
copies of the Registration Statement and of each consent and certificate of
experts, as applicable, filed as a part thereof, and conformed copies of the
Registration Statement (without exhibits), the Base Prospectus, and the
Prospectus Supplement, as amended or supplemented, in such quantities and at
such places as the Placement Agent reasonably requests.  Neither the Company nor any of its directors
and officers will distribute, prior to the Closing Date, any offering material
in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities other than the Base
Prospectus, the Prospectus Supplement, the Registration Statement, copies of
the documents incorporated by reference therein and any other materials
permitted by the Securities Act. 

 

SECTION 3.           REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. 

 

Except as set forth in the
SEC Reports (as herein defined), the Registration Statement, any Propspectus
Supplement, or under the corresponding section of the Disclosure Schedules,
which shall be deemed a part hereof, the Company hereby makes the
representations and warranties set forth below to the Placement Agent. 

 

(A)          Organization and Qualification. 
All of the direct and indirect subsidiaries (individually, a “Subsidiary”)
of the Company are set forth on Schedule 3(A). 
The Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of the capital stock or
other equity interests of each Subsidiary free and clear of any “Liens” (which
for purposes of this Agreement shall mean a lien, charge, security interest,
encumbrance, right of first refusal, preemptive right or other restriction),
and all 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.  The Company and each of the Subsidiaries is
an entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in
good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or
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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 or default of any of the provisions of its
respective certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other
organizational or charter documents. 
Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified to conduct
business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in
each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property
owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be
so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not have or
reasonably be expected to result in (i) a material adverse effect on the
legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a
material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business,
prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the
Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its
obligations under any Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material
Adverse Effect”) and no “Proceeding” (which for purposes of this Agreement
shall mean any action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding (including,
without limitation, an investigation or partial proceeding, such as a
deposition), whether commenced or threatened) has been instituted in any such
jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke, limit or
curtail such power and authority or qualification. 

 

(B)           Authorization; Enforcement.  The
Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to
consummate the transactions contemplated by each of the Transaction Documents
and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder.  The execution and delivery of each of the
Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the
transactions contemplated thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary
action on the part of the Company and no further action is required by the
Company, its board of directors or its stockholders in connection therewith
other than in connection with the “Required Approvals” (as defined in
subsection 3(D) below).  Each
Transaction Document 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 applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and
other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights
generally and (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of
specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies. 

 

(C)           No Conflicts.  The execution,
delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents by the Company, the
issuance and sale of the Securities and the consummation by the Company of the
other transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will not (i) conflict
with or violate any provision of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s certificate
or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter
documents, or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event
that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, result
in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Company
or any Subsidiary, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment,
acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both)
of, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a
Company or Subsidiary debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the
Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any property or asset of the
Company or any Subsidiary is bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the
Required Approvals, conflict with or result in a violation of any law, rule,
regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of any
court or governmental authority to which the Company or a Subsidiary is subject
(including federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by which any
property or asset of the Company or a Subsidiary is bound or affected; except
in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not have or
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. 

 

(D)          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 

 

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other
federal, state, local or other governmental authority or other “Person”
(defined as 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, including, without limitation, any Trading Market) in connection
with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction
Documents, other than such filings as are required to be made under applicable
Federal and state securities laws (collectively, the “Required Approvals”). 

 

(E)           Issuance of the Securities; Registration. 
The Securities will be duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in
accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly
issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by
the Company other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction
Documents.  The Company has reserved from
its duly authorized capital stock the maximum number of shares of Common Stock
issuable pursuant to the Transaction Documents. 
The issuance by the Company of the Securities will be registered under
the Securities Act and all of the Securities will be freely transferable and
tradable by the Purchasers without restriction (other than any restrictions
arising solely from an act or omission of a Purchaser).  The Securities are being issued pursuant to
the Registration Statement and the issuance of the Securities will be
registered by the Company under the Securities Act.  Prior to the Closing, the Registration
Statement will be effective and available for the issuance of the Securities
thereunder. The “Plan of Distribution” section under the Registration Statement
will permit the issuance and sale of the Securities hereunder.  Upon receipt of the Securities, the
Purchasers will have good and marketable title to such Securities and,
following conversion of the Securities in accordance with the applicable
Transaction Documents, the Shares underlying the Securities will be freely
tradable on the Nasdaq Exchange (the “Trading Market”). 

 

(F)           Capitalization.  The capitalization
of the Company will be set forth in the Registration Statement.  The Company has not issued any capital stock
since its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act, other
than pursuant to the exercise of employee stock options under the Company’s
stock option plans, the issuance of shares of Common Stock to employees
pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase plan and pursuant to the
conversion or exercise of securities exercisable, exchangeable or convertible
into Common Stock (“Common Stock Equivalents”). 
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, script rights to subscribe to, calls or
commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or
obligations convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any
Person any right to subscribe for or acquire, any shares of Common Stock, or
contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or
any Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional shares of Common
Stock or Common Stock Equivalents.  The
issuance and sale of the Securities will not obligate the Company to issue shares
of Common Stock or other securities to any Person (other than the Purchasers)
and will not result in a right of any holder of Company securities to adjust
the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price under such securities. All of
the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are validly issued,
fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with all federal
and state securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was issued in
violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or
purchase securities.  No further approval
or authorization of any stockholder, the Board of Directors of the Company 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. 

 

(G)           SEC Reports; Financial Statements. 
The Company has complied in all material respects with requirements to
file all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to
be filed 

 

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by
it 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 to file such material) (the
foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated
by reference therein, being collectively referred to herein as the “SEC Reports”)
on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and
has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such
extension.  As of their respective dates,
the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of the
Securities Act and the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the
Commission promulgated thereunder, 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 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. 

 

(H)          Material Changes; Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments.  Since the date of the latest audited
financial statements included within the SEC Reports, except as specifically
disclosed in the SEC Reports, (i) there has been no event, occurrence or
development that has had or that could reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the Company has not incurred any liabilities
(contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade payables and accrued
expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice and (B) liabilities not required to be reflected in the Company’s
financial statements pursuant to GAAP or required to be 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” (defined as 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 144 under the Securities Act), 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, no event, liability
or development has occurred or exists with respect to the Company or its
Subsidiaries or their respective business, properties, operations or financial
condition, that would be required to be disclosed by the Company under
applicable securities laws at the time this representation is made that has not
been publicly disclosed 1 Trading Day prior to the date that this
representation is made. 

 

(I)            Litigation.  There is no action,
suit, inquiry, notice of violation, Proceeding or investigation pending or, to
the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company, any
Subsidiary or any of their respective properties before or by any court,
arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency or regulatory authority
(federal, state, county, local or foreign) (collectively, an “Action”) which (i) adversely
affects or challenges the legality, validity or enforceability of any of the
Transaction Documents or the Securities or (ii) could, if there were an
unfavorable decision, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect.  Neither the Company nor
any Subsidiary, nor any director or officer thereof, is or has been the subject
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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 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.  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, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a
party to a collective bargaining agreement, and the Company and its
Subsidiaries believe that their relationships with their employees are
good.  No executive officer, to the
knowledge of the Company, is, or is now expected to be, in violation of any
material term of any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or
proprietary information agreement or non-competition agreement, or any other
contract or agreement or any restrictive covenant, 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. 

 

(J)            Labor Relations.  No material labor
dispute exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent with respect to
any of the employees of the Company which could reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect. 

 

(K)          Compliance.  Neither the Company
nor any Subsidiary (i) is in default under or in violation of (and no
event has occurred that has not been waived that, with notice or lapse of time
or both, would result in a default by the Company or any Subsidiary under), nor
has the Company or any Subsidiary received notice of a claim that it is in
default under or that it is in violation of, any indenture, loan or credit
agreement or any other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by
which it or any of its properties is bound (whether or not such default or
violation has been waived), (ii) is in violation of any order of any
court, arbitrator or governmental body, or (iii) is or has been in
violation of any statute, rule or regulation of any governmental
authority, including without limitation all foreign, federal, state and local
laws applicable to its business and all such laws that affect the environment,
except in each case as could not have a Material Adverse Effect. 

 

(L)           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
have or 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. 

 

(M)         Title
to Assets.  The Company and the
Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property
owned by them that is material to the business of the Company and the
Subsidiaries and good and marketable title in all personal property owned by
them that is material to the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries, in
each case free and clear of all Liens, except for Liens as do not materially
affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use
made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and the
Subsidiaries and Liens for the payment of federal, state or other taxes, the payment
of which is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties.  Any real property and facilities held under
lease by the Company and the Subsidiaries are held by them under valid,
subsisting and enforceable leases of which the Company and the Subsidiaries are
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(N)          Patents and Trademarks.  The
Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have rights to use, all patents, patent
applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names,
trade secrets, inventions, copyrights, licenses and other similar intellectual
property rights necessary or material 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”).  Neither the Company
nor any Subsidiary has received a notice (written or otherwise) that the
Intellectual Property Rights used by the Company or any Subsidiary violates or
infringes upon the rights of any third party. 
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 of others. 
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. 

 

(O)          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 To the
best knowledge of the Company, such insurance contracts and policies are
accurate and complete.  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. 

 

(P)           Transactions With Affiliates and Employees.  Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, none
of the officers or directors of the Company and, to the knowledge of the
Company, none of the employees of the Company is presently a party to any
transaction with the Company or any Subsidiary (other than for services as
employees, officers and directors), including any contract, agreement or other
arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for
rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments
to or from any officer, director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the
Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such employee has a
substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner, other than
(i) for payment of salary or consulting fees for services rendered, (ii) reimbursement
for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company and (iii) for other
employee benefits, including stock option agreements under any stock option plan
of the Company. 

 

(Q)          Sarbanes-Oxley.  The Company is in
material compliance with all provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 which
are applicable to it as of the date hereof and of the closing date of the
Placement. 

 

(R)           Certain Fees.  Except as otherwise
provided in this Agreement, no brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions are or
will be payable by the Company to any broker, financial advisor or consultant,
finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or other Person with respect
to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.  The Purchasers shall have no obligation with
respect to any fees or with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other
Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this Section that may be due in connection
with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. 

 

(S)           Trading Market Rules.  The issuance
and sale of the Securities hereunder does not contravene the rules and
regulations of the Trading Market. 

 

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

 

(U)          Registration Rights.  No Person has
any right to cause the Company to effect the registration under the Securities
Act of any securities of the Company. 

 

(V)           Listing and Maintenance Requirements. 
The Company’s Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) or
12(g) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or
which to its knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the
registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act nor has the Company
received any notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such
registration.  The Company has not, in
the 12 months preceding the date hereof, received notice from any Trading
Market on which the Common Stock is or has been listed or quoted to the effect
that the Company is not in compliance with the listing or maintenance
requirements of such Trading Market. The Company is, and has no reason to
believe that it will not in the foreseeable future continue to be, in
compliance with all such listing and maintenance requirements. 

 

(W)         Application
of Takeover Protections.  The Company and
its 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. 

 

(X)          Solvency.  Based on the financial
condition of the Company as of the Closing Date after giving effect to the
receipt by the Company of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities
hereunder, (i) the Company’s fair saleable value of its 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 for the current fiscal year as now
conducted and as proposed to be conducted including its capital needs taking
into account the particular capital requirements of the business conducted by
the Company, and projected capital requirements and capital availability
thereof; and (iii) the current cash flow of the Company, together with the
proceeds the Company would receive, were it to liquidate all of its assets,
after taking into account all anticipated uses of the cash, would be sufficient
to pay all amounts on or in respect of its debt 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 dates
thereof 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” shall mean (a) any liabilities for borrowed
money or amounts owed in excess of $50,000 (other than trade accounts payable
incurred in the ordinary course of business), (b) all guaranties,
endorsements and other contingent obligations in respect of Indebtedness of
others, whether or not the same are or should be reflected in the Company’s
balance sheet (or the notes thereto), except guaranties by endorsement of
negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the
ordinary course of business; and (c) the present value of any lease
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of
$50,000 due under leases required to be capitalized in accordance with
GAAP.  Neither the Company nor any
Subsidiary is in default with respect to any Indebtedness. 

 

(Y)           Tax Status.  Except for matters
that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and each
Subsidiary has filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and
franchise tax returns and has paid or accrued all taxes shown as due thereon,
and the Company has no knowledge of a tax deficiency which has been asserted or
threatened against the Company or any Subsidiary. 

 

(Z)           Foreign Corrupt Practices.  Neither
the Company, nor to the knowledge of the Company, any agent or other person
acting on behalf of the Company, has (i) directly or indirectly, used any
funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful
expenses related to foreign or domestic political activity, (ii) made any
unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to
any foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed
to disclose fully any contribution made by the Company (or made by any person
acting on its behalf of which the Company is aware) which is  in violation of law, or (iv) violated in
any material respect any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of
1977, as amended. 

 

(AA)       Accountants.  The Company’s accountants are named in the
Prospectus Supplement.  To the knowledge
of the Company, such accountants, who the Company expects will express their
opinion with respect to the financial statements to be included in the Company’s
next Annual Report on Form 10-K, are a registered public accounting firm
as required by the Securities Act. 

 

(BB)        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 (other than for the Placement
Agent’s placement 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. 

 

(CC)        Approvals.  The issuance and listing on the Trading
Market of the Shares requires no further approvals, including but not limited
to, the approval of shareholders. 

 

(DD)       FINRA Affiliations.  There are no affiliations with any FINRA
member firm among the Company’s officers, directors or, to the knowledge of the
Company, any five percent (5%) or greater stockholder of the Company, except as
set forth in the Base Prospectus. 

 

SECTION 4.           ENGAGEMENT TERM. 

 

Rodman’s engagement
hereunder will be for the period of 90 days. The engagement may be terminated
by either the Company or Rodman at any time upon 10 days’ written notice.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the provisions in
this Agreement concerning confidentiality, indemnification and contribution
will survive any expiration or termination of this Agreement.  Upon any termination of this Agreement, the
Company’s obligation to pay Rodman any fees actually earned on closing of the
Offering and otherwise payable under Section 1(A), shall survive any
expiration or termination of this Agreement, as permitted by FINRA Rule 5110(f)(2)(d).  Upon any termination of this Agreement, the
Company’s obligation to reimburse Rodman for out of pocket accountable expenses
actually incurred by Rodman and reimbursable upon closing of the Offering
pursuant to Section 1(B), if any are otherwise due under Section 1(B) hereof,
will survive any expiration or termination of this Agreement, as permitted by
FINRA Rule 5110(f)(2)(d). 

 

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SECTION 5.           RODMAN INFORMATION. 

 

The Company agrees that any
information or advice rendered by Rodman in connection with this engagement is
for the confidential use of the Company only in their evaluation of the
Placement and, except as otherwise required by law, the Company will not
disclose or otherwise refer to the advice or information in any manner without
Rodman’s prior written consent. 

 

SECTION 6.           NO FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIP. 

 

This Agreement does not
create, and shall not be construed as creating rights enforceable by any person
or entity not a party hereto, except those entitled hereto by virtue of the
indemnification provisions hereof.  The
Company acknowledges and agrees that Rodman is not and shall not be construed
as a fiduciary of the Company and shall have no duties or liabilities to the
equity holders or the creditors of the Company or any other person by virtue of
this Agreement or the retention of Rodman hereunder, all of which are hereby
expressly waived. 

 

SECTION 7.           CLOSING. 

 

The obligations of the
Placement Agent and the Purchasers, and the closing of the sale of the
Securities hereunder are subject to the accuracy, when made and on the Closing
Date, of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company and its
Subsidiaries contained herein, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company
and its Subsidiaries made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions
hereof, to the performance by the Company and its Subsidiaries of their
obligations hereunder, and to each of the following additional terms and
conditions: 

 

(A)          No stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no
proceedings for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the
Commission, and any request for additional information on the part of the
Commission (to be included in the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus
or the Prospectus Supplement or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Placement Agent. 

 

(B)           The Placement Agent shall
not have discovered and disclosed to the Company on or prior to the Closing
Date that the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus or the Prospectus
Supplement or any amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement
of a fact which, in the opinion of counsel for the Placement Agent, is material
or omits to state any fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material
and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading. 

 

(C)           All corporate proceedings
and other legal matters incident to the authorization, form, execution,
delivery and validity of each of this Agreement, the Securities, the
Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement and
all other legal matters relating to this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated hereby shall be reasonably satisfactory in all material respects
to counsel for the Placement Agent, and the Company shall have furnished to
such counsel all documents and information that they may reasonably request to
enable them to pass upon such matters. 

 

(D)          The Placement Agent shall
have received from outside counsel to the Company such counsel’s written
opinion, addressed to the Placement Agent and the Purchasers dated as of the
Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Placement
Agent. 

 

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(E)           Neither the Company nor any
of its Subsidiaries shall have sustained (i) since the date of the latest
audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Base
Prospectus, any loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion,
flood, terrorist act or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or
from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree,
otherwise than as set forth in or contemplated by the Base Prospectus and (ii) since
such date there shall not have been any change in the capital stock or
long-term debt of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any change, or any
development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the business,
general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity, results
of operations or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries, otherwise than
as set forth in or contemplated by the Base Prospectus, the effect of which, in
any such case described in clause (i) or (ii), is, in the judgment of the
Placement Agent, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or
inadvisable to proceed with the sale or delivery of the Securities on the terms
and in the manner contemplated by the Base Prospectus and the Prospectus
Supplement. 

 

(F)           The Shares are registered
under the Exchange Act and, as of the Closing Date, the Shares shall be listed and
admitted and authorized for trading on the Trading Market, and satisfactory
evidence of such actions shall have been provided to the Placement Agent.  The Company shall have taken no action
designed to, or likely to have the effect of terminating the registration of
the Common Stock under the Exchange Act or delisting or suspending from trading
the Common Stock from the Trading Market, nor has the Company received any
information suggesting that the Commission or the Trading Market is
contemplating terminating such registration or listing. 

 

(G)           Subsequent to the execution
and delivery of this Agreement, there shall not have occurred any of the
following: (i) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange,
the Nasdaq National Market or the NYSE Alternext US or in the over-the-counter
market, or trading in any securities of the Company on any exchange or in the
over-the-counter market, shall have been suspended or minimum or maximum prices
or maximum ranges for prices shall have been established on any such exchange
or such market by the Commission, by such exchange or by any other regulatory
body or governmental authority having jurisdiction, (ii) a banking moratorium
shall have been declared by federal or state authorities or a material disruption
has occurred in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance
services in the United States, (iii) the United States shall have become
engaged in hostilities in which it is not currently engaged, the subject of an
act of terrorism, there shall have been an escalation in hostilities involving
the United States, or there shall have been a declaration of a national
emergency or war by the United States, or (iv) there shall have occurred
any other calamity or crisis or any change in general economic, political or
financial conditions in the United States or elsewhere, if the effect of any
such event in clause (iii) or (iv) makes it, in the sole judgment of
the Placement Agent, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the sale or
delivery of the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated by the
Base Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement. 

 

(H)          No action shall have been
taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted,
adopted or issued by any governmental agency or body which would, as of the
Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or materially and
adversely affect or potentially and adversely affect the business or operations
of the Company; and no injunction, restraining order or order of any other
nature by any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction shall have been
issued as of the Closing Date which would prevent the issuance or sale of the
Securities or materially and adversely affect or potentially and adversely affect
the business or operations of the Company. 

 

(I)            The Company shall have
entered into subscription agreements with each of the Purchasers and such
agreements shall be in full force and effect and shall contain representations
and warranties of the Company as agreed between the Company and the Purchasers.

 

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(J)            FINRA shall have raised no
objection to the fairness and reasonableness of the terms and arrangements of
this Agreement.  In addition, the Company
shall, if requested by the Placement Agent, make or authorize Placement Agent’s
counsel to make on the Company’s behalf, an Issuer Filing with FINRA pursuant
to FINRA Rule 5110 with respect to the Registration Statement and pay all
filing fees required in connection therewith. 

 

(K)          Prior to the Closing Date,
the Company shall have furnished to the Placement Agent such further
information, certificates and documents as the Placement Agent may reasonably
request. 

 

All opinions, letters,
evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall
be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Placement Agent. 

 

SECTION 8.           INDEMNIFICATION. 

 

(A)          To the extent permitted by
law, the Company will indemnify Rodman and its affiliates, stockholders,
directors, officers, employees and controlling persons (within the meaning of Section 15
of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act) against all losses,
claims, damages, expenses and liabilities, as the same are incurred (including
the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel), relating to or arising out of its
activities hereunder or pursuant to this engagement letter, except to the
extent that any losses, claims, damages, expenses or liabilities (or actions in
respect thereof) are found in a final judgment (not subject to appeal) by a
court of law to have resulted primarily and directly from Rodman’s willful
misconduct or gross negligence in performing the services described herein. 

 

(B)           Promptly after receipt by
Rodman of notice of any claim or the commencement of any action or proceeding
with respect to which Rodman is entitled to indemnity hereunder, Rodman will
notify the Company in writing of such claim or of the commencement of such
action or proceeding, and the Company will assume the defense of such action or
proceeding and will employ counsel reasonably satisfactory to Rodman and will
pay the fees and expenses of such counsel. 
Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, Rodman will be entitled to
employ counsel separate from counsel for the Company and from any other party
in such action if counsel for Rodman reasonably determines that it would be
inappropriate under the applicable rules of professional responsibility
for the same counsel to represent both the Company and Rodman.  In such event, the reasonable fees and
disbursements of no more than one such separate counsel will be paid by the
Company.  The Company will have the
exclusive right to settle the claim or proceeding provided that the Company
will not settle any such claim, action or proceeding without the prior written
consent of Rodman, which will not be unreasonably withheld. 

 

(C)           The Company agrees to notify
Rodman promptly of the assertion against it or any other person of any claim or
the commencement of any action or proceeding relating to a transaction
contemplated by this engagement letter. 

 

(D)          If for any reason the
foregoing indemnity is unavailable to Rodman or insufficient to hold Rodman
harmless, then the Company shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by
Rodman as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities in such
proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits received
by the Company on the one hand and Rodman on the other, but also the relative
fault of the Company on the one hand and Rodman on the other that resulted in
such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any relevant equitable
considerations.  The amounts paid or
payable by a party in respect of losses, claims, damages and liabilities
referred to above shall be deemed to include any legal or other fees and
expenses incurred in defending any litigation, proceeding or other action or
claim.  Notwithstanding the provisions
hereof, Rodman’s share of the liability hereunder shall 

 

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not be in excess of the amount of fees actually received, or to be
received, by Rodman under this engagement letter (excluding any amounts
received as reimbursement of expenses incurred by Rodman). 

 

(E)           These indemnification
provisions shall remain in full force and effect whether or not the transaction
contemplated by this engagement letter is completed and shall survive the
termination of this engagement letter, and shall be in addition to any
liability that the Company might otherwise have to any indemnified party under
this engagement letter or otherwise. 

 

SECTION 9.           GOVERNING LAW. 

 

This Agreement will be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New
York applicable to agreements made and to be performed entirely in such
State.  This Agreement may not be
assigned by either party without the prior written consent of the other
party.  This Agreement shall be binding
upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto, and their respective
successors and permitted assigns. Any right to trial by jury with respect to
any dispute arising under this Agreement or any transaction or conduct in
connection herewith is waived.  Any
dispute arising under this Agreement may be brought into the courts of the
State of New York or into the Federal Court located in New York, New York and,
by execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company hereby accepts for
itself and in respect of its property, generally and unconditionally, the
jurisdiction of aforesaid courts.  Each
party hereto hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents
to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by delivering a
copy thereof via 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 manner
permitted by law. If either party shall commence an action or proceeding to
enforce any provisions of a Transaction Document, then the prevailing party in such
action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its attorneys’
fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation
and prosecution of such action or proceeding. 

 

SECTION 10.         ENTIRE AGREEMENT/MISC. 

 

This Agreement embodies the
entire agreement and understanding between the parties hereto, and supersedes
all prior agreements and understandings, relating to the subject matter
hereof.  If any provision of this
Agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable in any respect, such
determination will not affect such provision in any other respect or any other
provision of this Agreement, which will remain in full force and effect.  This Agreement may not be amended or otherwise
modified or waived except by an instrument in writing signed by both Rodman and
the Company.  The representations,
warranties, agreements and covenants contained herein shall survive the closing
of the Placement and delivery and/or exercise of the Securities, as
applicable.  This Agreement may be
executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be
considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when
counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party,
it being understood that both parties need not sign the same counterpart.  In the event that any signature is delivered
by facsimile transmission or a .pdf format 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. 

 

SECTION 11.         NOTICES. 

 

Any and all notices or other
communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall
be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of (a) the
date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via
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on the signature pages attached hereto prior to 6:30 p.m.
(New York City time) on a business day, (b) the next business day after
the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via
facsimile at the facsimile number on the signature pages attached hereto
on a day that is not a business day or later than 6:30 p.m. (New York City
time) on any business day, (c) the business 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 hereto. 

 

Please confirm that the
foregoing correctly sets forth our agreement by signing and returning to Rodman
a copy of this Agreement. 

 

	
   

  	
   

  	
  Very
  truly yours,

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  RODMAN &
  RENSHAW, LLC

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  By:

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Name:

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  	
  Title:

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Address for notice:

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  1251 Avenue of the Americas, 20th Floor

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  New York, NY, 10020

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Fax (646) 841-1640

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
  Attention: General Counsel

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Accepted and Agreed to as of

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  the date first written above:

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  SPHERIX INCORPORATED

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  By:

  	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  Name: Dr. Claire L. Kruger

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Address for notice:

  
	
  6430 Rockledge Drive

  
	
  Suite 503

  
	
  Bethesda, MD 20817 Fax:
  (301) 897-2567 Attention: Dr. Claire L. Kruger

  

 

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SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT 

 

This Securities Purchase
Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of
                        ,
2010, between Spherix Incorporated, 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 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: 

 

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. 

 

“Certificate of
Designation” means the Certificate of Designation to be filed prior to the
Closing by the Company with the Secretary of State of Delaware, in the form of Exhibit C
attached hereto. 

 

“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 third Trading Day following the date
hereof. 

 

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

 

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“Common Stock” means the common stock of the
Company, par value $0.005 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, rights, options, warrants or other instrument that is at any
time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles
the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock. 

 

“Company Counsel” means Baxter, Baker, Sidle,
Conn & Jones, P.A., with offices located at 120 E. Baltimore Street,
Suite 2100, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

“Exempt Issuance”
means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock or options to employees,
officers or directors of the Company pursuant to any stock or option plan duly
adopted for such purpose, by a majority of the non-employee members of the
Board of Directors or a majority of the members of a committee of non-employee
directors established for such purpose, (b) securities upon the exercise
or exchange of or conversion of any Securities issued hereunder and/or other securities
exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into shares of Common Stock
issued and outstanding on the date of this Agreement, provided that such
securities have not been amended since the date of this Agreement to increase
the number of such securities or to decrease the exercise price, exchange price
or conversion price of such securities, and (c) securities issued pursuant
to acquisitions or strategic transactions approved by a majority of the
disinterested directors of the Company, provided that any such issuance shall
only be to a Person (or to the equityholders of a Person) which is, itself or
through its subsidiaries, an operating company or an owner of an asset in a
business synergistic with the business of the Company and shall provide to the
Company additional benefits in addition to the investment of funds, but shall
not include a transaction in which the Company is issuing securities primarily
for the purpose of raising capital or to an entity whose primary business is
investing in securities. 

 

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

 

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

 

“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(z). 

 

“Intellectual Property Rights” shall have the
meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(o). 

 

“Liens” means a lien, charge, security interest,
encumbrance, right of first refusal, preemptive right or other restriction. 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

“Preferred Stock”
means the up to           
shares of the Company’s Series B Convertible Preferred Stock issued
hereunder having the rights, preferences and privileges set forth in the
Certificate of Designation. 

 

“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. 

 

“Registration Statement” means the effective
registration statement with Commission file No.333-167963 which registers the
sale of the Preferred Stock, the Warrants and the Underlying Shares to the
Purchasers. 

 

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

 

“Required Minimum”
means, as of any date, the maximum aggregate number of shares of Common Stock
then issued or potentially issuable in the future pursuant to the Transaction
Documents, including any Underlying Shares issuable upon exercise in full of
all Warrants or conversion in full of all shares of Preferred Stock, ignoring
any conversion or exercise limits set forth therein, and that any previously
unconverted shares of Preferred Stock are held until the third anniversary of
the Closing Date. 

 

“Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated
by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be
amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter
adopted by the Commission having substantially the same effect as such Rule. 

 

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

 

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

 

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“Securities” means
the Preferred Stock, the Warrants, the Warrant Shares and the Underlying
Shares. 

 

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

 

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

 

“Stated Value” means
$1,000 per share of Preferred Stock. 

 

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

 

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

 

“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 AMEX, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq
Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange or
the OTC Bulletin Board (or any successors to any of the foregoing). 

 

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

 

“Transfer Agent” means American Stock
Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, the current transfer agent of the
Company, with a mailing address of 59 Maiden Lane, Plaza, Level, New York, New
York 10038, and a facsimile number of 718-765-8712, and any successor transfer
agent of the Company. 

 

“Underlying Shares”
means the shares of Common Stock issued and issuable upon conversion or
redemption of the Preferred Stock and upon exercise of the Warrants. 

 

“Variable Rate Transaction” means a transaction
in which the Company (i) issues or sells any debt or equity securities
that are convertible into, exchangeable or exercisable for, or include the
right to receive, additional shares of Common Stock either (A) at a
conversion price, exercise price or exchange rate or other price that is based
upon, and/or varies with, the trading prices of or quotations for the shares of
Common Stock at any time after the initial issuance of such debt or equity
securities or (B) with a conversion, exercise or exchange price that is
subject to being reset at some future date after the initial issuance of such
debt or equity security or upon the occurrence of specified or contingent
events directly or indirectly related to the business of the Company or the
market for the Common Stock or (ii) enters into any agreement, including,
but not limited to, an equity line of credit, whereby the Company may sell
securities at a future determined price. 

 

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“Warrants” means, collectively, the Common Stock
purchase warrants delivered to the Purchasers at the Closing in accordance with
Section 2.2(a) hereof, which Warrants shall be exercisable
immediately and have a term of exercise equal to 5 years from the date of
exercise, in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto. 

 

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

 

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

 

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, up to an aggregate of
$                            of
Preferred Stock and Warrants.  Each
Purchaser shall deliver to the Company, via wire transfer or a certified check
of immediately available funds equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount as
set forth on the signature page hereto executed by such Purchaser and the
Company shall deliver to each Purchaser its respective Preferred Stock and a
Warrant as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a), and the Company and each
Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2
deliverable at the Closing.  Upon
satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3,
the Closing shall occur at the offices of WS or such other location as the
parties shall mutually agree. 

 

2.2          Deliveries. 

 

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

 

this Agreement duly executed by the Company; 

 

a legal opinion of Company Counsel,
substantially in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto; 

 

a certificate evidencing a number of shares
of Preferred Stock equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount divided by the
Stated Value, registered in the name of such Purchaser and evidence of the
filing and acceptance of the Certificate of Designation from the Secretary of
State of Delaware; 

 

a Warrant registered in the name of such
Purchaser to purchase up to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to
        % of such Purchaser’s
Subscription Amount divided by the initial Conversion Price (as defined in the
Certificate of Designation), with an exercise price equal to
$              ,
subject to adjustment therein (such Warrant certificate may be delivered within
three Trading Days of the Closing Date); and 

 

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

 

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

 

this Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser;
and

 

such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount by wire
transfer to the account as specified in writing by the Company.

 

2.3          Closing Conditions.

 

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

 

the accuracy in all material respects on the
Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Purchasers contained
herein (unless as of a specific date therein);

 

all obligations, covenants and agreements of
each Purchaser required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall
have been performed; and

 

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

 

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

 

the accuracy in all material 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);

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

from the date hereof to the Closing Date,
trading in the Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the Commission or
the Company’s principal Trading Market (except for any suspension of trading of
limited duration agreed to by the Company, which suspension shall be terminated
prior to the Closing), and, at any time prior to the Closing Date, trading in
securities generally as reported by Bloomberg L.P. shall not have been
suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not have been established on
securities whose trades are reported by such service, or on any Trading Market,
nor shall a banking moratorium have been declared either by the United States
or New York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material
outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international
calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material adverse change in,
any financial market which, in each case, in the reasonable judgment of each
Purchaser, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Securities at
the Closing.

 

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ARTICLE
III.

REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES

 

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

 

(a)           Subsidiaries.  All of the direct and indirect subsidiaries
of the Company are set forth on Schedule 3.1(a).  The Company owns, directly or indirectly, all
of the capital stock or other equity interests of each Subsidiary free and
clear of any Liens, and all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital
stock of each Subsidiary are validly issued and are fully paid, non-assessable
and free of preemptive and similar rights to subscribe for or purchase
securities.  If the Company has no
subsidiaries, all other references to the Subsidiaries or any of them in the
Transaction Documents shall be disregarded.

 

(b)           Organization
and Qualification.  The Company and
each of the Subsidiaries is an entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
incorporation or organization, with the requisite power and authority to own
and use its properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently
conducted.  Neither the Company nor any
Subsidiary is in violation nor default of any of the provisions of its
respective certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other
organizational or charter documents. 
Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified to conduct
business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in
each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property
owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be
so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not have or
reasonably be expected to result in: (i) a material adverse effect on the
legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a
material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business,
prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the
Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its
obligations under any Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material
Adverse Effect”) and no Proceeding has been instituted in any such
jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke, limit or
curtail such power and authority or qualification.

 

(c)           Authorization;
Enforcement.  The Company has the
requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to consummate the
transactions contemplated by each of the Transaction Documents and otherwise to
carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder.  The execution and delivery of each of the
Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all
necessary action on the part of the Company and no further action is required
by the Company, the Board of Directors or the Company’s stockholders in
connection therewith other than in connection with the Required Approvals.  Each Transaction Document to which it is a
party has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company
and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will
constitute the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against
the Company in accordance with its terms, except (i) as limited by general
equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the
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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 the Transaction Documents, the issuance and
sale of the Securities and the consummation by it of the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby to which it is a party do not and will not (i)
conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s
certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or
charter documents, or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event
that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, result
in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Company
or any Subsidiary, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment,
acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both)
of, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a
Company or Subsidiary debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the
Company or any Subsidiary is a party or by which any property or asset of the
Company or any Subsidiary is bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the
Required Approvals, conflict with or result in a violation of any law, rule,
regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of any
court or governmental authority to which the Company or a Subsidiary is subject
(including federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by which any
property or asset of the Company or a Subsidiary is bound or affected; except
in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not have or
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(e)           Filings,
Consents and Approvals.  The Company
is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give
any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other
federal, state, local or other governmental authority or other Person in
connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the
Transaction Documents, other than: (i) the filings required pursuant to Section
4.4 of this Agreement, (ii) the filing with the Commission of the Prospectus
Supplement, (iii) application(s) to each applicable Trading Market for the
listing of the Securities 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
Securities are duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in accordance with
the applicable Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly issued, fully
paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the
Company.  The Underlying Shares, when
issued in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents, will be
validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens
imposed by the Company.  The Company has
reserved from its duly authorized capital stock a number of shares of Common
Stock for issuance of the Underlying Shares at least equal to the Required Minimum
on the date hereof. The Company has prepared and filed the Registration
Statement in conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act, which
became effective on
                        ,
2010 (the “Effective Date”),
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, proposes
to 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 

 

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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 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 light
of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

(g)           Capitalization.  The capitalization of the Company is as set
forth on Schedule 3.1(g).  The
Company has not issued any capital stock since its most recently filed periodic
report under the Exchange Act, other than pursuant to the exercise of employee
stock options under the Company’s stock option plans, the issuance of shares of
Common Stock to employees pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase
plans and pursuant to the conversion and/or exercise of Common Stock
Equivalents outstanding as of the date of the most recently filed periodic
report under the Exchange Act.  No Person
has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or
any similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents.  Except as a
result of the purchase and sale of the Securities, there are no outstanding
options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any
character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations
convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any
right to subscribe for or acquire, any shares of Common Stock, or contracts,
commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any
Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional shares of Common Stock or
Common Stock Equivalents.  The issuance
and sale of the Securities will not obligate the Company to issue shares of
Common Stock or other securities to any Person (other than the Purchasers) and
will not result in a right of any holder of Company securities to adjust the
exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price under any of such securities. All
of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company are validly issued,
fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with all federal
and state securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was issued in
violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase
securities.  No further approval or
authorization of any stockholder, the Board of Directors or others is required
for the issuance and sale of the Securities. 
There are no stockholders agreements, voting agreements or other similar
agreements with respect to the Company’s capital stock to which the Company is
a party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the
Company’s stockholders.

 

(h)           SEC
Reports; Financial Statements.  The
Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents
required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange
Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, for the two years
preceding the date hereof (or such shorter period as the Company was required
by law or regulation to file such material) (the foregoing materials, including
the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, 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
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with applicable accounting requirements and the
rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at
the time of filing.  Such financial
statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally
accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods
involved (“GAAP”), except as may be otherwise specified in such
financial statements or the notes thereto and except that unaudited financial
statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and fairly present
in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries as of and for the dates thereof and the results of
operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of
unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial, year-end audit adjustments.

 

(i)            Material
Changes; Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments.  Since the date of the latest audited
financial statements included within the SEC Reports, except as specifically
disclosed in a subsequent SEC Report filed prior to the date hereof, (i) there
has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or that could
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the Company
has not incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade
payables and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practice and (B) liabilities not required to be reflected
in the Company’s financial statements pursuant to GAAP or disclosed in filings
made with the Commission, (iii) the Company has not altered its method of
accounting, (iv) the Company has not declared or made any dividend or
distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders or purchased,
redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital
stock and (v) the Company has not issued any equity securities to any officer,
director or Affiliate, except pursuant to existing Company stock option
plans.  The Company does not have pending
before the Commission any request for confidential treatment of
information.  Except for the issuance of
the Securities contemplated by this Agreement or as set forth on Schedule
3.1(i), no event, liability, 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 business, 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) could, if there were an unfavorable
decision, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.  Neither the Company nor any
Subsidiary, nor any director or officer thereof, is or has been the subject of
any Action involving a claim of violation of or liability under federal or
state securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty.  There has not been, and to the knowledge of
the Company, there is not pending or contemplated, any investigation by the
Commission involving the Company or any current or former director or officer
of the Company.  The Commission has not
issued any stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of any
registration statement filed by the Company or any Subsidiary under the
Exchange Act or the Securities Act.

 

(k)           Labor
Relations.  No material labor dispute
exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent with respect to any of
the employees of the Company, which could reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect.  None of the
Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ employees is a member of a union that relates to
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the Company or such Subsidiary, and neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to a collective bargaining
agreement, and the Company and its Subsidiaries believe that their
relationships with their employees are good. 
No executive officer, to the knowledge of the Company, is, or is now
expected to be, in violation of any material term of any employment contract,
confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement or
non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any
restrictive covenant in favor of any third party, and the continued employment
of each such executive officer does not subject the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries to any liability with respect to any of the foregoing matters.  The Company and its Subsidiaries are in
compliance with all U.S. federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations
relating to employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of
employment and wages and hours, except where the failure to be in compliance
could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.

 

(l)            Compliance.  Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary: (i)
is in default under or in violation of (and no event has occurred that has not
been waived that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would result in a
default by the Company or any Subsidiary under), nor has the Company or any
Subsidiary received notice of a claim that it is in default under or that it is
in violation of, any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any other agreement
or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties is
bound (whether or not such default or violation has been waived), (ii) is in
violation of any judgment, decree or order of any court, arbitrator or
governmental body 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)          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.

 

(n)           Title
to Assets.  The Company and the
Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to all real property
owned by them and good and marketable title in all personal property owned by
them that is material to the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries, in
each case free and clear of all Liens, except for Liens as do not materially
affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use
made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and the
Subsidiaries and Liens for the payment of federal, state or other taxes, the
payment of which is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties.  Any real property and facilities held under
lease by the Company and the Subsidiaries are held by them under valid,
subsisting and enforceable leases with which the Company and the Subsidiaries
are in compliance.

 

(o)           Patents
and Trademarks.  The Company and the
Subsidiaries have, or have rights to use, all patents, patent applications,
trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names, trade secrets,
inventions, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property rights and
similar rights necessary or material 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
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any Subsidiary has received a notice (written or
otherwise) that any of, the Intellectual Property Rights has expired,
terminated or been abandoned, or is expected to expire or terminate or be
abandoned, within two (2) years from the date of this Agreement.  Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has
received, since the date of the latest audited financial statements included
within the SEC Reports, a written notice of a claim or otherwise has any
knowledge that the Intellectual Property Rights violate or infringe upon the
rights of any Person, except as would not have 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.

 

(p)           Insurance.  The Company and the Subsidiaries are insured
by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and
risks and in such amounts as are prudent and customary in the businesses in
which the Company and the Subsidiaries are engaged, including, but not limited
to, directors and officers insurance coverage at least equal to the aggregate
Subscription Amount.  Neither the Company
nor any Subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew
its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain
similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its
business without a significant increase in cost.

 

(q)           Transactions
With Affiliates and Employees.  Except
as set forth in the SEC Reports, none of the officers or directors of the
Company and, to the knowledge of the Company, none of the employees of the
Company is presently a party to any transaction with the Company or any
Subsidiary (other than for services as employees, officers and directors),
including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the
furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal
property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer,
director or such employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any entity in
which any officer, director, or any such employee has a substantial interest or
is an officer, director, trustee or partner, in each case in excess of $120,000
other than for (i) payment of salary or consulting fees for services rendered,
(ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company and (iii)
other employee benefits, including stock option agreements under any stock
option plan of the Company.

 

(r)            Sarbanes-Oxley;
Internal Accounting Controls.  The
Company is 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 has established disclosure controls and procedures (as
defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and
designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that information
required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports it files or submits
under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within
the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms.  The Company’s certifying officers have
evaluated the 

 

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effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls
and procedures as of the end of the period covered by the Company’s most
recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act (such date, the “Evaluation
Date”).  The Company presented in its
most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act the conclusions of
the certifying officers about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and
procedures based on their evaluations as of the Evaluation Date.  Since the Evaluation Date, there have been no
changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (as such
term is defined in the Exchange Act) that has materially affected, or is
reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting.

 

(s)            Certain
Fees.  Except as set forth in the
Prospectus Supplement, no brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions are or will
be payable by the Company to any broker, financial advisor or consultant,
finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or other Person with respect
to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.  The Purchasers shall have no obligation with
respect to any fees or with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other
Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this Section that may be due in
connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

 

(t)            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.

 

(u)           Registration
Rights.  No Person has any right to
cause the Company to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any
securities of the Company.

 

(v)           Listing
and Maintenance Requirements.  The
Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange
Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or which to its knowledge
is likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common
Stock under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any notification that
the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration.  The Company has not, in the 12 months
preceding the date hereof, received notice from any Trading Market on which the
Common Stock is or has been listed or quoted to the effect that the Company is
not in compliance with the listing or maintenance requirements of such Trading
Market. The Company is, and has no reason to believe that it will not in the
foreseeable future continue to be, in compliance with all such listing and
maintenance requirements.

 

(w)          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.

 

(x)           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
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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, its business and the
transactions contemplated hereby, including the Disclosure Schedules to this
Agreement, is true and correct and does not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the
statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading. The press releases disseminated by the Company during the
twelve months preceding the date of this Agreement taken as a whole do not
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made and when
made, not misleading.  The Company
acknowledges and agrees that no Purchaser makes or has made any representations
or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other than
those specifically set forth in Section 3.2 hereof.

 

(y)           No
Integrated Offering. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’
representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, neither the Company,
nor any of its Affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf has,
directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited
any offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would cause this
offering of the Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company
for purposes of any applicable shareholder approval provisions of any Trading
Market on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated.

 

(z)           Solvency.  Based on the consolidated financial condition
of the Company as of the Closing Date, after giving effect to the receipt by
the Company of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder, (i) the
fair saleable value of the Company’s assets exceeds the amount that will be
required to be paid on or in respect of the Company’s existing debts and other
liabilities (including known contingent liabilities) as they mature, (ii) the
Company’s assets do not constitute unreasonably small capital to carry on its
business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted including its capital
needs taking into account the particular capital requirements of the business
conducted by the Company, and projected capital requirements and capital
availability thereof, and (iii) the current cash flow of the Company, together
with the proceeds the Company would receive, were it to liquidate all of its
assets, after taking into account all anticipated uses of the cash, would be
sufficient to pay all amounts on or in respect of its liabilities when such
amounts are required to be paid.  The
Company does not intend to incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as
they mature (taking into account the timing and amounts of cash to be payable
on or in respect of its debt).  The
Company has no knowledge of any facts or circumstances which lead it to believe
that it will file for reorganization or liquidation under the bankruptcy or
reorganization laws of any jurisdiction within one year from the Closing
Date.  Schedule 3.1(z) sets forth
as of the date hereof all outstanding secured and unsecured Indebtedness of the
Company or any Subsidiary, or for which the Company or any Subsidiary has
commitments.  For the purposes of this
Agreement, “Indebtedness” means (x) any liabilities for borrowed money
or amounts owed in excess of $50,000 (other than trade accounts payable
incurred in the ordinary course of business), (y) all guaranties, endorsements
and other contingent obligations in respect of indebtedness of others, whether
or not the same are or should be reflected in the Company’s balance sheet (or
the notes thereto), except guaranties by endorsement of negotiable instruments
for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary course of
business; and (z) the present value of any lease payments in excess of $50,000
due under leases required to be capitalized in accordance with GAAP.  Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in
default with respect to any Indebtedness.

 

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(aa)         Tax
Status.  Except for matters that
would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and each Subsidiary (i) has
made or filed all United States federal and state income and all foreign income
and franchise tax returns, reports and declarations required by any
jurisdiction to which it is subject, (ii) has paid all taxes and other
governmental assessments and charges that are material in amount, shown or
determined to be due on such returns, reports and declarations and (iii) has
set aside on its books provision reasonably adequate for the payment of all material
taxes for periods subsequent to the periods to which such returns, reports or
declarations apply.  There are no unpaid
taxes in any material amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any
jurisdiction, and the officers of the Company or of any Subsidiary know of no
basis for any such claim.

 

(bb)         Foreign
Corrupt Practices.  Neither the
Company, nor to the knowledge of the Company, any agent or other person acting
on behalf of the Company, has (i) directly or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful
contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to
foreign or domestic political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to
foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to any foreign or
domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed to
disclose fully any contribution made by the Company (or made by any person
acting on its behalf of which the Company is aware) which is in violation of
law, or (iv) violated in any material respect any provision of the Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

 

(cc)         Accountants.  The Company’s accounting firm is set forth on
Schedule 3.1(cc) of the Disclosure Schedules.  To the knowledge and belief of the Company,
such accounting firm (i) is a registered public accounting firm as required by
the Exchange Act and (ii) shall express its opinion with respect to the
financial statements to be included in the Company’s Annual Report for the year
ending December 31, 2010.

 

(dd)         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.

 

(ee)         Acknowledgement
Regarding Purchaser’s Trading Activity. 
Anything in this Agreement or elsewhere herein to the contrary
notwithstanding (except for Sections 3.2(e) and 4.14 hereof), it is understood
and acknowledged by the Company that: (i) none of the Purchasers have 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
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in the Common Stock, and (iv) each Purchaser
shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or control over any arm’s
length counter-party in any “derivative” transaction.  The Company further understands and acknowledges
that (y) one or more Purchasers may engage in hedging activities at various
times during the period that the Securities are outstanding, including, without
limitation, during the periods that the value of the Underlying Shares
deliverable with respect to Securities are being determined, and (z) such
hedging activities (if any) could reduce the value of the existing
stockholders’ equity interests in the Company at and after the time that the
hedging activities are being conducted.  The Company acknowledges
that such aforementioned hedging activities do not constitute a breach of any
of the Transaction Documents.

 

(ff)          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.

 

(gg)         FDA.  As to each product subject to the jurisdiction of
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) under the Federal Food, Drug and
Cosmetic Act, as amended, and the regulations thereunder (“FDCA”) that is manufactured, packaged, labeled, tested, distributed, sold,
and/or marketed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (each such product, a
“Pharmaceutical Product”), such Pharmaceutical Product is being
manufactured, packaged, labeled, tested, distributed, sold and/or marketed by
the Company in compliance with all applicable requirements under FDCA and
similar laws, rules and regulations relating to registration, investigational
use, premarket clearance, licensure, or application approval, good
manufacturing practices, good laboratory practices, good clinical practices,
product listing, quotas, labeling, advertising, record keeping and filing of
reports, except where the failure to be in compliance would not have a Material
Adverse Effect.  There is no pending,
completed or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened, action (including any
lawsuit, arbitration, or legal or administrative or regulatory proceeding,
charge, complaint, or investigation) against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
and none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice,
warning letter or other communication from the FDA or any other governmental
entity, which (i) contests the premarket clearance, licensure, registration, or
approval of, the uses of, the distribution of, the manufacturing or packaging
of, the testing of, the sale of, or the labeling and promotion of any
Pharmaceutical Product, (ii) withdraws its approval of, requests the recall,
suspension, or seizure of, or withdraws or orders the withdrawal of advertising
or sales promotional materials relating to, any Pharmaceutical Product, (iii)
imposes a clinical hold on any clinical investigation by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries, (iv) enjoins production at any facility of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries, (v) enters or proposes to enter into a consent decree of
permanent injunction with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (vi)
otherwise alleges any violation of any laws, rules or regulations by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and which, either individually or in the
aggregate, would have a Material Adverse Effect.  The properties, business and operations of
the Company have been and are being conducted in all material respects in
accordance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations of the FDA. 
The Company has not been informed by the FDA that the FDA will prohibit the
marketing, sale, license or use in the United States of any product proposed to
be developed, produced or marketed by the Company nor has the FDA expressed any
concern as to approving or clearing for marketing any product being developed
or proposed to be developed by the Company.

 

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

 

(ii)           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.

 

(jj)           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.

 

(kk)         Money
Laundering.  The operations of the
Company 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, suit or proceeding by or
before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator
involving the Company with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or,
to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

 

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):

 

(a)           Organization; Authority.  Such Purchaser is either an individual or an
entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
the jurisdiction of its organization with full right, corporate or partnership
power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and otherwise to carry out its obligations
hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and
performance by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement 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 

 

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Statement or
otherwise in compliance with applicable federal and state securities
laws).  Such Purchaser is acquiring the
Securities hereunder in the ordinary course of its business.

 

(c)           Purchaser Status.  At the time such Purchaser was offered the
Securities, it was, and as of the date hereof it is, and on each date on which
it exercises any Warrants, it will be either: (i) an “accredited investor”
as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(7) or (a)(8) under
the Securities Act or (ii) a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in
Rule 144A(a) under the Securities Act.  Such Purchaser is not required to be
registered as a broker-dealer under Section 15 of the Exchange Act.

 

(d)           Experience of Such Purchaser.  Such Purchaser, either alone or together with
its representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in
business and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and
risks of the prospective investment in the Securities, and has so evaluated the
merits and risks of such investment. 
Such Purchaser is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the
Securities and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete loss of such
investment.

 

(e)           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) as of 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, such Purchaser has maintained the confidentiality of all disclosures
made to it in connection with this transaction (including the existence and
terms of this transaction). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for avoidance of
doubt, nothing contained herein shall constitute a representation or warranty,
or preclude any actions, with respect to the identification of the availability
of, or securing of, available shares to borrow in order to effect Short Sales
or similar transactions in the future.

 

The
Company acknowledges and agrees that the representations contained in 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 transaction contemplated hereby.

 

ARTICLE IV.

OTHER
AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES

 

4.1          Underlying Shares.  The shares of Common Stock underlying the
shares of Preferred Stock shall be issued free of legends.  If all or any portion of a Warrant is
exercised at a time when there is an effective registration statement to cover
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Warrant is
exercised via cashless exercise, the Warrant Shares issued pursuant to any such
exercise shall be issued free of all legends. 
If at any time following the date hereof the Registration Statement (or
any subsequent registration statement registering the sale or resale of the
Warrant Shares) is not effective or is not otherwise available for the sale or
resale of the Warrant Shares, the Company shall immediately notify the holders
of the Warrants in writing that such registration statement is not then
effective and thereafter shall promptly notify such holders when the
registration statement is effective again and available for the sale or resale
of the Warrant Shares (it being understood and agreed that the foregoing shall
not limit the ability of the Company to issue, or any Purchaser to sell, any of
the Warrant Shares in compliance with applicable federal and state securities
laws).  The Company shall use
commercially reasonable efforts to keep a registration statement (including the
Registration Statement) registering the issuance or resale of the Warrant
Shares effective during the term of the Warrants.

 

4.2          Furnishing of Information.  Until the earliest of the time that (i) no
Purchaser owns Securities or (ii) the Warrants have expired, 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.  As long as any Purchaser owns Securities, if
the Company is not required to file reports pursuant to the Exchange Act, it
will prepare and furnish to the Purchasers and make publicly available in
accordance with Rule 144(c) such information as is required for the
Purchasers to sell the Securities, including without limitation, under Rule 144.
The Company further covenants that it will take such further action as any holder
of Securities may reasonably request, to the extent required from time to time
to enable such Person to sell such Securities without registration under the
Securities Act, including without limitation, within the requirements of the
exemption provided by Rule 144.

 

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 for purposes of the rules and
regulations of any Trading Market such that it would require shareholder
approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless shareholder
approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.

 

4.4          Securities Laws Disclosure;
Publicity.  The Company shall, by
8:30 a.m. (New York City time) on the Trading Day immediately following
the date hereof, issue a press release disclosing the material terms of the
transactions contemplated hereby, and issue a Current Report on Form 8-K
disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby, and
including the Transaction Documents as exhibits thereto within the time
required by the Exchange Act.  From and
after the issuance of such press release, the Company 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. 
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 (including signature pages thereto)
with the Commission and (b) to the extent such disclosure is required by
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Market regulations, in which case the Company shall
provide the Purchasers with prior notice of such disclosure permitted under
this clause (b).

 

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

 

4.6          Non-Public Information.  Except with respect to the material terms and
conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the
Company covenants and agrees that neither it, nor any other Person acting on
its behalf will provide any Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any
information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public
information, unless prior thereto such Purchaser shall have executed a written
agreement with the Company regarding the confidentiality and use of such
information.  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 for: (a) the
satisfaction of any portion of the Company’s debt (other than payment of trade
payables in the ordinary course of the Company’s business and prior practices),
(b) the redemption of any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents, (c) the
settlement of any outstanding litigation or (d) in violation of the FCPA
or OFAC regulations.

 

4.8          Indemnification of Purchasers.   Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.8,
the Company will indemnify and hold each Purchaser and its directors, officers,
shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons
with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles
notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who
controls such Purchaser (within the meaning of Section 15 of the
Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors,
officers, shareholders, agents, members, partners or employees (and any other
Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles
notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling
persons (each, a “Purchaser Party”) harmless from any and all losses,
liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses,
including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and
reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such Purchaser
Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (a) any breach of
any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the
Company in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or (b) any
action instituted against a Purchaser in any capacity, or any of them or their
respective Affiliates, by any stockholder of the Company who is not an
Affiliate of such Purchaser, with respect to any of the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents (unless such action is based upon a
breach of such Purchaser’s representations, warranties or covenants under the
Transaction Documents or any agreements or understandings such Purchaser may
have with any such stockholder or any violations by such Purchaser of state or
federal securities laws or any conduct by such Purchaser which constitutes
fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or malfeasance).  If any action shall be brought against any
Purchaser Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this
Agreement, such Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing,
and the Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel
of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party.  Any Purchaser Party shall have the right to
employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense
thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of
such Purchaser Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof
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authorized by the Company
in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time
to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there
is, in the reasonable opinion of counsel, a material conflict on any material
issue between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser
Party, in which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees
and expenses of no more than one such separate counsel.  The Company will not be liable to any
Purchaser Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by a Purchaser
Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which shall not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the extent, but only to the
extent that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Purchaser
Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or
agreements made by such Purchaser 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 (y) any liabilities the Company may be subject to pursuant to law.

 

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 Underling Shares pursuant to this Agreement and the
Certificate of Designation and Warrant Shares pursuant to any exercise of the
Warrants.

 

4.10        Listing of Common Stock. The
Company hereby agrees to use commercially reasonable 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 Underlying Shares on such Trading Market and
promptly secure the listing of all of the Underlying 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 Underlying Shares, and will take such other action as is
necessary to cause all of the Underlying 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.

 

4.11        [RESERVED]

 

4.12        Subsequent Equity Sales.   From the date hereof until 90 days after the
Closing Date, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary shall issue, enter into
any agreement to issue or announce the issuance or proposed issuance of any
shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 4.12
shall not apply in respect of an Exempt Issuance, except that no Variable Rate
Transaction shall be an Exempt Issuance.

 

4.13        Equal Treatment of Purchasers.  No consideration (including any modification
of any Transaction Document) shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or
consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any of the Transaction
Documents unless the same consideration is also offered to all of the parties
to the Transaction Documents.  For clarification
purposes, this provision constitutes a separate right granted to each Purchaser
by the Company and negotiated separately by each Purchaser, and is intended for
the Company to treat the Purchasers as a class and shall not in any way be
construed as the Purchasers acting in concert or as a group with respect to the
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4.14        Certain Transactions and
Confidentiality. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other
Purchasers, covenants that neither it nor any Affiliate acting on its behalf or
pursuant to any understanding with it will execute any purchases or sales,
including Short Sales of any of the Company’s securities during the period
commencing with the execution of this Agreement and ending at such time that
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced
pursuant to the initial press release as described in Section 4.4.  Each
Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that
until such time as the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are publicly
disclosed by the Company pursuant to the initial press release as described in
Section 4.4, such Purchaser will maintain the confidentiality of the
existence and terms of this transaction and the information included in the
Disclosure Schedules.  Notwithstanding the foregoing and notwithstanding
anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company expressly
acknowledges and agrees that (i) no Purchaser makes any representation,
warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in effecting transactions
in any securities of the Company after the time that the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to the
initial press release as described in Section 4.4, (ii) no Purchaser
shall be restricted or prohibited from effecting any transactions in any
securities of the Company in accordance with applicable securities laws from
and after the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are
first publicly announced pursuant to the initial press release as described in
Section 4.4 and (iii) no Purchaser shall have any duty of
confidentiality to the Company or its Subsidiaries after the issuance of the
initial press release as described in Section 4.4.  Notwithstanding
the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment
vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such
Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the
investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of
such Purchaser’s assets, the covenant set forth above shall only apply with
respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the
investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement.

 

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

 

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                              ,
2010; provided, however, that no such termination will affect the right of any
party to sue for any breach by the other party (or parties).

 

5.2          Fees and Expenses.  Except as expressly set forth in the
Transaction Documents to the contrary, each party shall pay the fees and
expenses of its advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and
all other expenses incurred by such party incident to the negotiation,
preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement.  The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent
fees, stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection 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
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written, with respect to such matters, which the
parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and
schedules.

 

5.4          Notices.  Any and all notices or other communications
or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in
writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of: (a) the
date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via
facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached
hereto prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the
next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or
communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on
the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or
later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the
second (2nd) Trading Day following the date of mailing, if
sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service or (d) upon
actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given.  The address for such notices and
communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached
hereto.

 

5.5          Amendments; Waivers.  No provision of this Agreement may be waived,
modified, supplemented or amended except in a written instrument signed, in the
case of an amendment, by the Company and the Purchasers holding at least 67% in
interest of the Securities then outstanding or, in the case of a waiver, by the
party against whom enforcement of any such waived provision is sought.  No waiver of any default with respect to any
provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a
continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a
waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any
delay or omission of any party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner
impair the exercise of any such right.

 

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

 

5.7          Successors and Assigns.  This Agreement shall be binding upon and
inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted
assigns.  The Company may not assign this
Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written
consent of each Purchaser (other than by merger).  Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its
rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom such Purchaser assigns or
transfers any Securities, provided 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.  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.

 

5.9          Governing Law.  All questions concerning the construction,
validity, enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall be
governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of
the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law
thereof.  Each party agrees that all
legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Transaction
Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates,
directors, officers, shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced
exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York.
Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the
state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, borough of Manhattan
for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with
any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect
to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably
waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim
that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that
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inconvenient venue for such proceeding.  Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal
service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit,
action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail
or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address
in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service
shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice
thereof.  Nothing contained herein shall
be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner
permitted by law.  If either party shall
commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction
Documents, then, 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
other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses
incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or
proceeding.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

5.17        Independent Nature of Purchasers’
Obligations and Rights.  The
obligations of each Purchaser under any Transaction Document are several and
not joint with the obligations of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall
be responsible in any way for the performance or non-performance of the
obligations of any other Purchaser under any Transaction Document.  Nothing contained herein or in any other
Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant thereto,
shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association,
a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the
Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group 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
their review and negotiation of the Transaction Documents.  For reasons of administrative convenience
only, each Purchaser and its respective counsel have chosen to communicate with
the Company through WS.  WS does not
represent any of the Purchasers and only represents Rodman & Renshaw,
LLC, the placement agent.  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.

 

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

 

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

 

5.20        Construction. The parties agree
that each of them and/or their respective counsel has reviewed and had an
opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of
construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the
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employed in the
interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments hereto. 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.

 

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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.

 

	
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