UNITED STATES
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FORM
CURRENT REPORT
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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On August 16, 2026 (the “Agreement Date”), FingerMotion, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with an institutional investor (the “Investor”), pursuant to which the Company issued to the Investor a senior secured convertible note (the “Note”) with an original principal amount of $5,000,000 and an original issue discount of $700,000. The Note bears no interest (except upon an event of default) and, unless earlier converted or redeemed, will mature on the first anniversary of the closing date under the Agreement (the “Closing Date”). At closing, the Company will receive $4,300,000, of which $1.3 million will be immediately available to the Company and the remaining $3.3 million will be held in a DACA account in the name of the Company to be released upon meeting certain release conditions as set forth in the Purchase Agreement.
The Note is convertible, at any time at the Investor’s option, into shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock” and such shares issuable upon conversion, the “Conversion Shares”), at an initial fixed conversion price of $0.35 per share (the “Fixed Conversion Price”), which is subject to adjustment for stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations, recapitalizations, and other customary events. In addition, during each monthly period specified in the Note (each, a “Monthly Redemption Conversion Period”), the Investor may convert up to the remaining principal amount of the Note (plus all accrued and unpaid amounts thereon) at a “Redemption Conversion Price” equal to the lower of (i) the Fixed Conversion Price then in effect and (ii) 90% of the lowest daily volume-weighted average price of the Common Stock during the seven consecutive trading days ending on and including the applicable date of conversion or the first trading day of the applicable Monthly Redemption Conversion Period, in each case subject to a floor price (the “Floor Price”) initially set at 20% of the Nasdaq Minimum Price (as defined in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635) on the trading day prior to the date of the Purchase Agreement, which resets automatically every six months. If the Company is unable to issue Conversion Shares due to the exchange cap described below or if a Floor Price condition exists, the Investor may require the Company to satisfy the applicable monthly conversion amount in cash at a 7.5% premium.
The Note includes customary events of default, including, without limitation (and, where applicable, subject to any cure periods set forth in the Note):
| ● | suspension of trading of the Company’s Common Stock on Nasdaq; | |
| ● | the Company’s failure to timely deliver freely tradable Conversion Shares; | |
| ● | the Company’s failure to maintain the required share reserve for the Note; | |
| ● | any payment default under the Note or related transaction documents; | |
| ● | acceleration of $500,000 or more of the Company’s (or any subsidiary’s) other indebtedness; | |
| ● | the Company’s bankruptcy, insolvency, or liquidation (whether voluntary or involuntary); | |
| ● | entry of a final judgment for the payment of money in excess of $500,000 against the Company or any subsidiary; | |
| ● | breaches of representations, warranties, or covenants in the Note or any other transaction documents; | |
| ● | any failure of the resale registration statement to be timely filed, declared effective, or maintained in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement (as defined below); | |
| ● | any security document failing or ceasing to create a valid and perfected first-priority lien on the collateral; and | |
| ● | failure by the Company to maintain minimum cash covenant. |
If an event of default occurs and is continuing, the Note shall become due and payable, at the Investor’s election, in cash at an amount equal to 125% of all the outstanding principal amount of the Note, accrued and unpaid interest, and any other unpaid amounts (collectively, the “Outstanding Value”). Upon the occurrence and continuation of an event of default, default interest shall accrue at an annual rate of 12%.
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The Note also contains additional conversion, redemption, and put mechanics, including (i) an optional redemption right in favor of the Company, exercisable after 40 trading days following the effective date of the initial resale registration statement, at a price equal to 115% of the Outstanding Value of the Note, (ii) a change of control put right entitling the Investor to require redemption of the Outstanding Value under the Note at a premium upon the occurrence of a change of control transaction, and (iii) a subsequent placement redemption right entitling the Investor to require the Company to apply up to 30% of the gross proceeds of such subsequent placement to redeem at a price equal to 115% of the Outstanding Value being redeemed, in each case subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Note.
The Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties, and agreements of the Company and the Investor, and customary indemnification rights and obligations of the parties. The Company has agreed to seek stockholder approval for the issuance of Conversion Shares in excess of 19.99% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock as of the date of the Purchase Agreement. Absent such approval (or an opinion of outside counsel that stockholder approval is not required), the Company may not issue Conversion Shares in excess of 12,256,260 shares in the aggregate (the “Exchange Cap”). Conversions are also subject to a 9.99% beneficial ownership limitation.
In addition, the Company is issuing the Investor a Warrant exercisable into 4,092,993 shares of Company common stock (the “Warrant Shares”). The Warrant carries a five year term and is subject to a price adjustment should the Company issue securities below the exercise price of the warrant which is the fixed conversion price of the Note. The Warrant and the Warrant Shares will be issued in transactions exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
In connection with the Purchase Agreement, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement with the Investor (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company has agreed to file a resale registration statement to register for resale a number of shares of Common Stock equal to 150 % of the maximum number of Conversion Shares issuable upon conversion of the Note (subject to adjustment under the Registration Rights Agreement) and 100% of the number of Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrant (subject to adjustment under the Registration Rights Agreement) no later than 15 calendar days after the date of the Registration Rights Agreement, and to use best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective within the effectiveness deadlines specified thereunder.
The Company also entered into a security agreement with the Investor (the “Security Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company granted to the Investor, acting as collateral agent, a first-priority security interest in substantially all of the Company’s personal property assets, subject to customary permitted liens and excluded assets, as set forth in the Security Agreement.
The foregoing descriptions of the Purchase Agreement, the Note, the Warrant, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Security Agreement are not complete and are subject to, and qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the Purchase Agreement, the Note, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Security Agreement, copies of which are attached as Exhibits 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated herein by reference.
Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant
The disclosure set forth above under Item 1.01 with respect to the Note is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.
Item 3.02 Unregistered Sale of Equity Securities
Reference is made to the disclosure set forth under Item 1.01 supra and under Item 8.01 infra, which disclosure is incorporated herein by reference.
The Note and Warrants were, and the Conversion Shares and Warrant Shares will be, issued in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements under the U.S. Securities Act in reliance on the exemption provided by Section 4(a)(2) thereof and Rule 506(b) of Regulation D thereunder. The Investor has represented that it is an “accredited investor” as such term is defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D, and is acquiring the securities described herein for investment only and not with a view towards, or for resale in connection with, the public sale or distribution thereof.
See Section 8.01 below for the shares of Company common stock issued in the acquisition of Lyken (as defined below).
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ITEM 5.02 RESIGNATION OF AN OFFICER; APPOINTMENT OF AN OFFICER
The Company appointed Chris Polimeni as Chief Financial Officer, effective August 17, 2026. Mr. Polimeni succeeds Lee Yew Hon, whose resignation as Chief Financial Officer was accepted by the Board of Directors.
About Chris Polimeni
Chris Polimeni is an accomplished financial executive with more than 35 years of experience driving financial strategy and operational efficiency at both public and private companies across publishing, distribution, waste management, and technology. He brings deep expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital raising across debt and equity markets, SEC reporting, contract negotiations, revenue recognition, auditing, financial planning and analysis, treasury management, taxation, and ERP implementation.
A results-driven leader, Mr. Polimeni combines strong analytical skills with a proven ability to structure complex financial transactions and advance strategic growth initiatives. Most recently, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Avax One Technology Ltd. Since 2020, he has also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Polimeni & Associates, Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Management Information Systems from Hofstra University.
Compensation of Executive Officers
Both Jolie Kahn, as Chief Executive Officer, and Chris Polimeni, as Chief Financial Officer, are to be compensated at the rate of $30,000 each per month until such time as the Company’s Compensation Committee is able to meet and determine executive compensation agreements for both, which is expected to occur imminently.
ITEM 8.01 OTHER INFORMATION
The Company entered into a share purchase agreement dated August 12, 2026 (the “Agreement”) with Alset AI Ventures Inc. and Lyken AI Computing Inc., operating as Lyken.AI (“Lyken”), pursuant to which it acquired 99,000 common shares of Lyken from Alset AI, representing 9.9% of Lyken’s 1,000,000 issued and outstanding common shares immediately prior to closing, for a purchase price of $500,000 payable solely in common stock of the Company (the “Transaction”) at a price per share of $0.2990 ($0.01 per share above the closing price on August 12, 2026 of $0.2890 per share), which is 1,674,480 shares of its Common Stock. Final closing of the transaction was subject to approval of the TSXV on behalf of Alset AI, which occurred on August 14, 2026, on which date the transaction closed. The shares of common stock of the Company were issued in a transaction exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
| (d) | Exhibits |
| Exhibit | Description | |
| 10.1 | Form of Securities Purchase Agreement | |
| 10.2 | Form of Note | |
| 10.3 | Form of Warrant | |
10.4 |
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| 10.5 | Form of Security Agreement | |
| 10.6 | Lyken Purchase Agreement, dated August 12, 2026 | |
| 99.1 | Press Release dated August 17, 2026 | |
| 99.2 | Press Release dated August 17, 2026 | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the inline XBRL document) |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| FINGERMOTION, INC. | ||
| DATE: August 17, 2026 | By: | /s/ Jolie Kahn |
Jolie Kahn | ||
| CEO and Director | ||
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Exhibit 10.1
Execution Version
SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT
This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of August 16, 2026, by and between FingerMotion, Inc., a Delaware corporation, having an address at c/o FingerMotion, Inc., 111 Somerset Road, Level 3, Singapore (the “Company”), and each buyer identified on the signature pages hereto (each, including its successors and assigns, a “Buyer” and collectively, the “Buyers”).
WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and/or Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder, the Company desires to issue and sell to each Buyer, and each Buyer, 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 Buyer, severally and not jointly, hereby agree as follows:
Article I.
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Definitions. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement: (a) capitalized terms that are not otherwise defined herein have the meanings given to such terms in the Notes (as defined herein), and (b) the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.1:
“Action” shall have the meaning assigned 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.
“Agreement” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
“ATM Program” means a customary “at-the-market” offering program.
“Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee thereof.
“Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided, however, for clarification, commercial banks shall not be deemed to be authorized or required by law to remain closed due to “stay at home”, “shelter in place”, “non-essential employee” or any other similar orders or restrictions or the closure of any physical branch locations at the direction of any Governmental Authority so long as the electronic funds transfer systems (including for wire transfers) of commercial banks in The City of New York are generally open for use by customers on such day.
“Buyer” or “Buyers” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
“Buyer Party” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.8.
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“Closing” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the Notes pursuant to Section 2.1(a).
“Closing Date” means the Business Day mutually selected by the Buyers and the Company and on which all of the Transaction Documents referred to in Section 2.2(a) have been executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all conditions precedent to (i) the Buyers’ obligations to pay the Subscription Amount for the Notes, and (ii) the Company’s obligations to deliver the Notes have been satisfied or waived, but in any case no later than second (2nd) Business Day after the execution of this Agreement.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Collateral Agent” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.11.
“Collateral Agent Indemnitees” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.11.
“Commission” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Common Stock” means the shares of Common Stock of the Company with par value $0.0001 per share, and any other class of shares into which such shares may hereafter be reclassified or changed.
“Company” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
“Conversion Notice” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.
“Conversion Price” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.
“Conversion Shares” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.
“Convertible Securities” means any share or other security (other than Options) that is at any time and under any circumstances, directly or indirectly, convertible into, exercisable or exchangeable for, or which otherwise entitles the holder thereof to acquire, any shares of Common Stock.
“DACA” means a deposit account control agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Buyers, by and among the Company, the depository bank and the Collateral Agent, governing the Deposit Account.
“Deposit Account” means a deposit account maintained by the Company at Bank of America, N.A. or another banking institution acceptable to the Buyers, subject to the DACA, which DACA shall provide that the Company shall have no access to funds in such Deposit Account except pursuant to the release mechanics set forth in Section 2.4.
“Disqualification Event” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(dd).
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“Equity Conditions” means, with respect to any Release, that for each Trading Day during the Measurement Period applicable to such Release and on the applicable Release Eligibility Date: (a) the Company shall have duly and timely issued all shares of Common Stock required to be issued to any Buyer pursuant to the terms of any Transaction Document, if any; (b) the Company shall have paid all principal, interest, liquidated damages and other amounts owing to any Buyer in respect of any Note; (c) the Underlying Shares shall be Freely Tradable (as defined in the Notes) by the applicable Buyer upon issuance; (d) the Common Stock is trading on a Trading Market (as defined in the Notes) and all Underlying Shares are listed or quoted for trading on such Trading Market, and the Company believes, in good faith, that trading of the Common Stock on a Trading Market will continue uninterrupted for the foreseeable future; (e) the number of authorized but unissued and otherwise unreserved shares of Common Stock equals at least the Required Minimum; (f) there is no existing Event of Default and no existing event which, with the passage of time or the giving of notice, would constitute an Event of Default; (g) the Company shall not have failed to satisfy the current public information requirement under Rule 144(c) under the Securities Act and shall not have any pending extension of the deadline for filing a periodic report with the Commission under Rule 12b-25 under the Exchange Act; (h) the Common Stock is DWAC Eligible (as defined in the Notes); (i) the issuance of the Underlying Shares in question to the applicable Buyer would not violate the limitations set forth in the Notes or the Warrants, as applicable; (j) there has been no public announcement of a pending or proposed Fundamental Transaction (as defined in the Notes) or Change of Control Transaction (as defined in the Notes) that has not been consummated; (k) no Buyer is in possession of any information provided by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their officers, directors, employees, agents or Affiliates, that constitutes, or may constitute, material non-public information; (l) no bona fide material dispute shall exist by and between any holder of the Notes and the Company, any Trading Market and/or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority with respect to any term or provision of any Note or any other Transaction Document; (m) the Company and its Subsidiaries have complied with their respective obligations under the Transaction Documents in all material respects; (n) the Company shall not be suspended from trading in or delisted from the Principal Market; (o) the daily dollar trading volume for the Common Stock during market hours on the principal Trading Market equals or exceeds $500,000 for at least twenty-five (25) out of thirty (30) Trading Days during the Measurement Period; (p) the daily VWAP for the Common Stock is at least $0.30 (subject to adjustment for share splits, Stock Dividends (as defined in the Notes) or share combinations) for at least twenty-five (25) out of thirty (30) Trading Days during the Measurement Period; (q) the Market Value of Listed Securities (as defined under Nasdaq Rules) is at least $25,000,000, calculated for this purpose assuming the same number of shares of Common Stock outstanding as of the date of this Agreement; (r) the Company has received the Exchange Cap Stockholder Approval (or such approval is not required under the applicable rules of the Principal Market); (s) there is no breach of any covenant in any Transaction Document regardless of any applicable cure periods; (t) the Common Stock is not subject to any DTC “chill” or similar event; and (u) no event or circumstance has had or would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Evaluation Date” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(y).
“Event of Default” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Exchange Cap Stockholder Approval” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.13.
“Exchange Cap Stockholder Approval Date” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.13.
“Exchange Cap Stockholder Meeting” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.13.
“Exchange Cap Stockholder Meeting Deadline” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.13.
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“Exchange Cap Stockholder Resolutions” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.13.
“Exchange Share Cap” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.13.
“Exchange Rate” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.14.
“Excluded Securities” means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock, share options, restricted share units and performance share units to employees, officers or directors of, or consultants to the Company pursuant to any equity incentive plan or employee share purchase plan duly adopted for such purpose, (b) shares of Common Stock upon the exercise or exchange of or conversion of any of the Securities and/or other securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on the date of this Agreement, provided that such securities have not been amended since the date of this Agreement to increase the number of such securities or to decrease the exercise price, exchange price or conversion price of such securities (other than in connection with share splits or combinations) or to extend the term of such securities, and (c) securities issued pursuant to acquisitions, mergers, consolidations, purchases of the assets of a corporation or other entity, or strategic transactions approved by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Company, provided that such securities are issued as “restricted securities” (as defined in Rule 144) and provided further that any such issuance shall only be to a Person (or to the equity holders 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, which are issued as restricted securities (within the meaning of Rule 144) and are not afforded registration rights.
“Financial Statements” has the meaning given such term in Section 3.1(h).
“Governmental Authority” means any nation, state, county, city, town, village, district, or other political jurisdiction of any nature, federal, state, local, municipal, foreign, or other government, governmental or quasi-governmental authority of any nature (including any governmental agency, branch, department, official, or entity and any court or other tribunal), multi-national organization or body; or body exercising, or entitled to exercise, any administrative, executive, judicial, legislative, police, regulatory, or taxing authority or power of any nature or instrumentality of any of the foregoing, including any entity or enterprise owned or controlled by a government or a public international organization or any of the foregoing.
“Haynes and Boone” means Haynes and Boone, LLP, with offices located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 22nd Floor, New York, NY 10112.
“Holder” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.
“Indebtedness” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.
“Intellectual Property Rights” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(n).
“Issuer Covered Person” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(dd).
“IT Systems and Data” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(aa).
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“Judgment Currency” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.22(a).
“Judgment Conversion Date” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.22(a).
“Lead Investor” means Alto Opportunity Master Fund, SPC –Segregated Master Portfolio B and its Affiliates, successors and assigns regardless of whether the Lead Investor or its Affiliates, successors and assigns holds any Securities at any time of determination.
“Liens” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.
“Material Adverse Effect” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(b).
“Material Permit” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(l).
“Maturity Date” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.
“May Securities” means the Senior Secured Convertible Notes due May 13, 2027, in the original principal amount of $5,000,000, issued by the Company to the Buyers pursuant to that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 13, 2026, by and between the Company and the Buyers (the “May SPA”).
“Measurement Period” means, with respect to Release B or Release C, the thirty (30) consecutive Trading Day period immediately preceding the applicable Release Eligibility Date or, if requested by the Company and agreed in writing by the Buyers, such shorter period as so requested by the Company (and agreed to in writing by the Buyers).
“Maximum Rate” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.15.
“Money Laundering Laws” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(x).
“Notes” means the Senior Secured Convertible Notes due August 16, 2027, issued and sold by the Company to the Buyers pursuant to this Agreement at the Closing, in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.
“Notice Deadline” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.9(b)(ii).
“OFAC” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(x).
“Options” means any rights, warrants or options to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock or Convertible Securities.
“Participation Maximum” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.9(a).
“Permits” means all permits, licenses, registrations, certificates, orders, approvals, authorizations, consents, waivers, franchises, variances and similar rights issued by or obtained from any Governmental Authority.
“Permitted Liens” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.
“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.
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“Placement” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.9(a).
“Placement Notice” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.9(b)(i).
“Principal Amount” means, as to each Buyer, the amounts set forth below such Buyer’s signature block on the signature pages hereto next to the heading “Principal Amount of Notes,” which shall equal $5,000,000.
“Principal Market” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.
“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.
“Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated on or about the date hereof, among the Company and the Buyers, in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto.
“Registration Statement” means a registration statement meeting the requirements set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement and covering the resale by the Buyers of the Underlying Shares.
“Release Conditions” means, with respect to Release B and Release C, that each of the following conditions shall have been satisfied during the applicable Measurement Period and on the applicable Release Eligibility Date: (i) the Equity Conditions are satisfied; (ii) the Registration Statement remains effective and Notes may be converted pursuant to such Registration Statement; (iii) the Company is in compliance with all exchange listing and maintenance requirements and expects to be in compliance for the foreseeable future; (iv) the Buyers shall be reasonably satisfied, based on publicly available information regarding the Company’s operating and financial condition (and taking into the funds to be so released from the Deposit Account and its anticipated operating expenses), that the Company has sufficient cash runway for the immediately succeeding three (3) month period; (v) no Event of Default and no event or circumstance that, with the passage of time or the giving of notice, would constitute an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. The Buyers may waive the Release Conditions at their sole discretion; and (vi) with respect to Release Condition B, the execution and delivery of the Voting Agreements.
“Release” means each of Release A, Release B and Release C.
“Release A” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.4.
“Release B” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.4.
“Release C” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.4.
“Release Eligibility Date” means, as applicable, the Release B Eligibility Date or the Release C Eligibility Date.
“Required Approvals” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(e).
“Required Minimum” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.12.
“Required Holders” means (i) prior to the Closing Date, each Buyer entitled or required to purchase Notes at the Closing and (ii) after the Closing Date, Lead Investor.
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“Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same effect as such rule.
“SEC Reports” as defined in Section 3.1(h).
“Securities” means the Notes, the Warrants, the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares.
“Securities Act” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the recital paragraph to this Agreement.
“Security Documents” means the security agreement, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C, and any other documents and filings required thereunder in order to grant the Buyers a first priority security interest in substantially all of the assets and property of the Company.
“Selling Stockholders” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Registration Rights Agreement.
“Short Sales” means all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act (but shall not be deemed to include locating and/or borrowing shares of Common Stock).
“Standstill Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.15.
“Underlying Shares” means, collectively, the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares.
“Subscription Amount” means, as to each Buyer, the aggregate amount to be paid for the Notes purchased hereunder as specified below such Buyer’s name on the signature page of this Agreement and next to the heading “Subscription Amount for the Notes,” in U.S. Dollars and in immediately available funds. The aggregate “Subscription Amount” for the Notes shall be $4,300,000.
“Subsidiary” or “Subsidiaries” means, as to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity of which shares of stock or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a majority of the board of directors or other managers of such corporation, partnership or other entity are at the time owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” in the Transaction Documents shall refer to a direct or indirect Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company.
“Trading Day” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Notes.
“Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, the Notes, the Warrants, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Security Documents, the DACA, the Voting Agreements and all exhibits and schedules thereto and hereto and any other documents or agreements executed by the Company or any Subsidiary in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder.
“U.S. Dollars” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.14.
“U.S. GAAP” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.1(h).
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“Voting Agreements” means those certain voting agreements, to be executed and delivered by management, affiliates and insiders of the Company prior to the date of Release B, pursuant to which such persons agree to vote their shares of Common Stock in favor of the Exchange Cap Stockholder Approval.
“Warrant Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.
“Warrants” means the Common Stock purchase warrants issued to the Buyers at the Closing, in the form of Exhibit D attached hereto.
“Variable Rate Transaction” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.10.
Article II.
PURCHASE AND SALE
2.1 Closings.
(a) Closing. On the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, the Company agrees to sell, and each Buyer, severally and not jointly, agrees to purchase from the Company the Notes and the Warrants as set forth on such Buyer’s signature page hereto. Each Buyer shall deliver to the Company, via wire transfer, immediately available funds equal to such Buyer’s Subscription Amount for the Closing as set forth on the signature page hereto executed by such Buyer, which Subscription Amount shall be deposited into the Deposit Account (or, if applicable, an account of the Collateral Agent), and the Company shall deliver to each Buyer its respective Note and Warrant, and the Company and each Buyer shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2(a) deliverable at the Closing. Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2(a) and 2.3, the Closing shall take place remotely by electronic transfer of the Closing documentation.
2.2 Deliveries.
(a) Closing. On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to each Buyer the following:
1. this Agreement duly executed by the Company;
2. a copy of a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company: (x) approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and authorizing a specified person or persons to execute those Transaction Documents on its behalf; and (y) authorizing a specified person or persons, on its behalf, to sign and/or dispatch all documents and notices to be signed and/or dispatched by it under or in connection with those Transaction Documents;
3. an ink-original Note registered in the name of such Buyer in accordance with its Principal Amount for the Closing;
4. the Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by the Company;
5. the Security Document duly executed by the Company;
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6. the Warrants duly executed by the Company;
7. the DACA duly executed by the Company and the depository bank or, if the DACA is not available on the Closing Date, the Subscription Amount will be held in an account of the Collateral Agent as cash collateral; and
8. the Company’s wire instructions.
(b) On or prior to the Closing Date, each Buyer shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Company the following:
1. this Agreement duly executed by such Buyer;
2. the Security Documents duly executed by such Buyer and the Collateral Agent;
3. the Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by such Buyer; and
4. such Buyer’s Subscription Amount for the Closing by wire transfer to the Deposit Account (or, if applicable, an account of the Collateral Agent).
2.3 Closing Conditions.
(a) The obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:
(i) the representations and warranties made by the Company in this Agreement (i) that are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect shall be true and correct, and (ii) that are not qualified by materiality, shall be true and correct in all material respects, in each case, on and as of such date as if made on and as of such date, except to the extent any such representation and warranty expressly relates to an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall have been true and correct in all material respects (or all respects, as applicable) as of such earlier date;
(ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of each Buyer required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and
(iii) the delivery by each Buyer of the items set forth in Section 2.2(b).
(b) The respective obligations of the Buyers hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met or waived, provided, however that such conditions may be waived, modified or amended by the Buyers who have purchased at least a majority-in-interest of the Notes based on the Subscription Amounts hereunder:
(i) the accuracy in all material respects when made and on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein, except to the extent expressly made as of a specific date, in which case they shall be accurate in all material respects, as of such date;
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(ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed;
(iii) the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2(a) or Section 2.2(b), as applicable;
(iv) there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company since the date of this Agreement;
(v) there shall be no Event of Default or any event or circumstance that would with the passage of time or giving of notice become an Event of Default that shall have occurred and be continuing; and
(vi) from the date of this Agreement to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have been suspended or halted by the Principal Market or the Commission (nor shall suspension or halt be threatened by the Principal Market or the Commission, including but not limited to, receipt by the Company of any notice of non-compliance with maintenance requirements by the Principal Market) and, at any time prior to the Closing Date, trading in securities generally as reported by Bloomberg L.P. shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not have been established on securities whose trades are reported by such service nor shall a banking moratorium have been declared either by United States or New York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material adverse change in, any financial market which, in each case, in the reasonable judgment of such Buyer, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Notes at the Closing.
(vii) all remaining cash deposits of the Company shall have been repatriated to the United States and held in the Company’s accounts at Bank of America, N.A.;
(viii) the DACA shall have been duly executed and delivered by all parties thereto; and
2.4 DACA Release of Subscription Proceeds. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Subscription Amount shall be deposited into the Deposit Account (or, if applicable, the account of the Collateral Agent) on the Closing Date and disbursed to the Company pursuant to the following release schedule:
(a) $1,300,000 (“Release A”) shall be released to the Company upon the Closing Date, with the remaining $3,000,000 to be held in the Deposit Account subject to the DACA (or, if applicable, the account of the Collateral Agent);
(b) $2,000,000 (“Release B”) shall be released from the Deposit Account (or, if applicable, the account of the Collateral Agent) following the date on which the sum of the Outstanding Value of all Notes, inclusive of the May Securities, falls below $6,500,000 (the “Release B Eligibility Date”), subject to satisfaction of the Release Conditions;
(c) $1,000,000 (“Release C”) shall be released from the Deposit Account (or, if applicable, the account of the Collateral Agent) following the date on which the sum of the Outstanding Value of all Notes, inclusive of the May Securities, falls below $5,000,000 (the “Release C Eligibility Date”), subject to satisfaction of the Release Conditions.
2.5 The Buyers shall have the right to purchase up to an additional $5,000,000 in Notes in one or more subsequent closings on the terms set forth herein.
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Article III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
3.1 Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company hereby makes the following representations and warranties as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date:
(a) Subsidiaries. All of the direct and indirect Subsidiaries of the Company as of the date hereof are set forth on Schedule 3.1(a). The Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of the share capital or other equity interests of each Subsidiary free and clear of any Liens, and all of the issued and outstanding share capital of each Subsidiary are validly issued and are fully paid, non-assessable and free of preemptive and similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities.
(b) Organization and Qualification. The Company and each of the Subsidiaries is an entity duly incorporated 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 constitution, memorandum and articles of association, certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents. Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, would not have or reasonably be expected to result in: (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business, 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 or pay 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. The Company and any of its Subsidiaries (x) have not used any names (including fictitious names, d/b/as, trade names or similar names) within the past five years and (y) have not undergone any mergers or similar transactions, in each case other than those listed in Schedule 3.1(b). Schedule 3.1(b) lists the legal name, jurisdiction of formation and chief executive office (and any other office where books and records are maintained) of the Company and each direct and indirect subsidiary of the Company.
(c) Authorization; Enforcement. The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and no further authorization, approval or action is required by the Company, the Board of Directors or the Company’s shareholders in connection herewith or therewith other than in connection with the Required Approvals. This Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which it is a party has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, administration, judicial management and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies, and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.
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(d) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, the issuance and sale of the Notes and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the issuance of the Conversion Shares, do not and will not: (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s certificate of incorporation or bylaws, (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 (other than Permitted Liens) 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 receipt of the Required Approvals, conflict with or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of the Principal Market, or any court or Governmental Authority to which the Company or a Subsidiary is subject (including federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company or a Subsidiary is bound or affected; except in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as would not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(e) Filings, Consents and Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other foreign, federal, state, local or other Governmental Authority in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, other than: (i) the filing, recordation or registration of the Security Documents with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries with the appropriate recording, filing or registration office and any other filings to be made under the Security Documents, (ii) the filing with the Commission of the Registration Statement pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, (iii) the notice and/or application(s) to each applicable Principal Market for the listing of the Conversion Shares for trading thereon in the time and manner required thereby, and (iv) the filings contemplated by Section 4.5 and Section 4.17 (collectively, the “Required Approvals”).
(f) Issuance of the Securities. 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 and free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents. The Underlying Shares, when issued in accordance with the terms of the Notes or Warrants, as applicable, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and 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 Underlying Shares issuable pursuant to the terms of the Notes and Warrants.
(g) Capitalization. As of the date hereof, the Company is authorized to issue up to 200,000,000 shares of Common Stock and up to 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock. The capitalization of the Company as of the date of this Agreement is set forth on Schedule 3.1(g). 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 disclosed in the SEC Reports, there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to subscribe for or acquire any shares of Common Stock or the share capital of any subsidiary, or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any Subsidiary is or may become bound to issue additional shares of Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities or share capital of any Subsidiary. 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 Buyers) 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. There are no outstanding securities or instruments of the Company or any Subsidiary with any provision that adjusts the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price of such security or instrument upon an issuance of securities by the Company or any Subsidiary. There are no outstanding securities or instruments of the Company or any Subsidiary that contain any redemption or similar provisions, and there are no contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any Subsidiary is or may become bound to redeem a security of the Company or any such Subsidiary. The Company does not have any share appreciation rights or “phantom share” plans or agreements or any similar plan or agreement. All of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, have been issued in compliance with all applicable foreign, 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 shareholder, the Board of Directors or others is required for the issuance and sale of the Notes. Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports , there are no shareholders agreements, or other similar agreements with respect to the Company’s share capital to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the Company’s shareholders.
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(h) 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 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, for the two years preceding the date hereof (or such shorter periods as the Company was required by law or regulation to file such material) (the foregoing materials filed prior to the date hereof, 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 qualified for a valid extension of such filing. Such SEC Reports compiled 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 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, (the “Financial Statements”) comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto at the time of the filing. The Financial Statements were prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved, except as may be otherwise specified in such Financial Statements or the notes thereto and except that unaudited financial statements do not contain all footnotes required by U.S. GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its 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 most recent balance sheet included in the Financial Statements, except as disclosed in the SEC Reports: (i) there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise), (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 shareholders or purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its share capital, and (v) the Company has not issued any equity securities. No event, liability, fact, circumstance, occurrence or development has occurred or exists or is reasonably expected to occur or exist with respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective businesses, properties, operations, assets or financial condition, that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and that has not been disclosed to the Buyers in the Transaction Documents or the disclosure schedules delivered in connection herewith.
(j) Litigation. Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports, there is no action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, Proceeding or investigation of any nature pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company, any Subsidiary or any of their respective properties before or by any court, arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency, regulatory authority or self-regulatory organization (federal, state, county, local or foreign) (collectively, an “Action”) which, if there were an unfavorable decision, would individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Actions adversely affects or challenges the legality, validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents. Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports, none of the Company, any Subsidiary, or any current director or officer thereof in their capacity thereof, is or has been for the last three (3) years 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 a Governmental Authority involving the Company or any current 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) 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 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 applicable judgment, decree or order of any court, arbitrator, Principal Market, governmental or administrative agency, regulatory authority, self-regulatory organization (federal, state, county, local or foreign) or other Governmental Authority, or (iii) is in violation of any applicable statute, rule, ordinance or regulation of any Governmental Authority, including without limitation all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws relating to taxes, bribery and corruption, occupational health and safety, product quality and safety, employment and labor matters, employee benefits and laws related to the protection of the environment, except, in each case of clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to, have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(l) Regulatory Permits. The Company and the Subsidiaries possess all Permits necessary to conduct their respective businesses, except where the failure to possess such Permits would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect (a “Material Permit”) and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice of Proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such 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 and good and marketable title in all personal property owned by them that is material to the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all Liens, except for (i) Permitted Liens, (ii) 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 (iii) Liens for the payment of federal, state or other taxes, for which appropriate reserves have been made therefor in accordance with U.S GAAP and, the payment of which is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties. Any real property and facilities held under lease by the Company and the Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with which the Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance, except as would not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and/or its direct and indirect subsidiaries own, lease or occupy real property located at the addresses listed in Schedule 3.1(m) and maintain equipment, inventory or other property at such addresses.
(n) Intellectual Property. The Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have rights to use, all patents, patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names, trade secrets, inventions, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property rights and similar rights necessary or useful for the operation of their respective businesses and which the failure to so have would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively, the “Intellectual Property Rights”). Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received a written notice 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 years from the date of this Agreement. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received, since the date of the most recent balance sheet included in the Financial Statements, a written notice of a claim that the Intellectual Property Rights violate or infringe upon the rights of any Person, except as would not have or reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Company, there is no existing infringement by another Person of any of 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 Property Rights, except where failure to do so would 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 in an amount customary for a publicly-traded company of similar market float. There are no pending claims against such directors and officers insurance coverage. 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 material increase in cost.
(p) Certain Fees. No brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions are or will be payable by the Company or any Subsidiaries 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 Buyers shall have no obligation with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other Persons for fees payable by the Company or any Subsidiary of a type contemplated in this Section that may be due in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
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(q) No Registration. Assuming the accuracy of the Buyers’ representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, no registration under the Securities Act is required for the offer and sale of the Notes by Company to the Buyers as contemplated hereby. To the Company’s knowledge, the issuance and sale of the Notes hereunder does not contravene the rules and regulations of the Principal Market.
(r) No Directed Selling Efforts. Neither the Company nor any Person acting on its behalf has conducted any general solicitation, general advertising or directed selling efforts (within the meaning of the Securities Act) in connection with the offer or sale of any of the Securities.
(s) Disclosure. All of the disclosure furnished by or on behalf of the Company to the Buyers regarding the Company and its Subsidiaries, their respective businesses and the transactions contemplated hereby, is true and correct in all material respects 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 Company acknowledges and agrees that no Buyer 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. Any press releases disseminated by the Company since January 1, 2025 that have been incorporated by reference into the SEC Reports, taken as a whole with the SEC Reports, 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 materially misleading.
(t) Solvency; Seniority. Based on the consolidated financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date, after giving effect to the receipt by the Company of the proceeds from the sale of the Notes: (i) the fair saleable value of the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ tangible assets exceeds the amount that will be required to be paid on or in respect of the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ existing debts and other liabilities (including known contingent liabilities) as they mature, (ii) the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ 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 its Subsidiaries’, consolidated and projected capital requirements and capital availability thereof, and (iii) the current cash flow of the Company, together with the proceeds the Company would receive, were it to liquidate all of its assets, after taking into account all anticipated uses of the cash, would be sufficient to pay all amounts on or in respect of its liabilities when such amounts are required to be paid. The Company does not intend to incur debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they mature (taking into account the timing and amounts of cash to be payable on or in respect of its debt). The Company has no knowledge of any facts or circumstances which lead it to believe that it will file for administration, judicial management, reorganization or liquidation under the bankruptcy or reorganization laws of any jurisdiction within one year from the Closing Date. Schedule 3.1(t) discloses all outstanding secured and unsecured Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries, or for which the Company or any Subsidiary has commitments. As of the Closing Date, no Indebtedness or other claim against the Company is senior to the Notes in right of payment, whether with respect to interest or upon liquidation or dissolution, or otherwise.
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(u) Tax Status. Except for matters that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its Subsidiaries each (i) has made or filed all United States federal, state and local income and all foreign income and franchise tax returns, reports and declarations required by any jurisdiction to which it is subject, (ii) has paid all taxes and other governmental assessments and charges that are material in amount, shown or determined to be due on such returns, reports and declarations, and (iii) has set aside on its books provision reasonably adequate for the payment of all material taxes for periods subsequent to the periods to which such returns, reports or declarations apply. There are no unpaid taxes of the Company and its Subsidiaries in any material amount claimed in writing to be due by the taxing authority of any jurisdiction. The Company is not and has never been a United States real property holding corporation within the meaning of Section 897 of the Code and the Company shall so certify upon Buyer’s reasonable request at any time.
(v) Acknowledgment Regarding Buyers’ Purchase of Securities. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each of the Buyers 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 Buyer 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 Buyer or any of their respective representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the Buyers’ purchase of the Securities. The Company further represents to each Buyer 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.
(w) Acknowledgment Regarding Buyer’s Trading Activity. It is understood and acknowledged by the Company that (i) none of the Buyers have been asked by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to agree, nor has any Buyer agreed with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, to desist from effecting any transactions in or with respect to any securities of the Company, or “derivative” securities based on securities issued by the Company or to hold any of the Securities for any specified term; (ii) each Buyer shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or control over any arm’s length counterparty in any “derivative” transaction; and (iii) each Buyer may rely on the Company’s obligation to timely deliver shares of Common Stock upon conversion, exercise or exchange, as applicable, of the Notes as and when required pursuant to the Transaction Documents for purposes of effecting trading in the shares of Common Stock of the Company.
(x) Office of Foreign Assets Control; Money Laundering. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee or Affiliate of the Company or any Subsidiary, is currently subject to any United States sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Treasury Department (“OFAC”) or the equivalent law of any foreign jurisdiction. The operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial record-keeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1977, as amended, applicable money laundering statutes and applicable rules and regulations thereunder or the equivalent law of any foreign jurisdiction (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 or any Subsidiary with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company or any Subsidiary, threatened.
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(y) Sarbanes-Oxley; Internal Accounting Controls. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, the Company is in compliance in all material respects with any 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. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, the Company maintains 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 U.S. 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 effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures of the Company as of the end of the period covered by the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act (such date, the “Evaluation Date”). The Company presented in its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act the conclusions of the certifying officers about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on their evaluations as of the Evaluation Date. Since the Evaluation Date, except as set forth in the SEC Reports, there have been no changes in the internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act) that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the internal control over financial reporting of the Company.
(z) Listing and Maintenance Requirements. The shares of Common Stock are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) 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 shares of Common Stock under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration. Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports, the Company has not, in the twelve (12) months preceding the date hereof, received notice from the Principal Market to the effect that the Company is not in compliance with the listing or maintenance requirements of the Principal Market. The Company is, and, to the Company’s knowledge, 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. The shares of Common Stock are currently eligible for electronic transfer through the Depository Trust Company and the Company is current in payment of the fees to the Depository Trust Company in connection with such electronic transfer.
(aa) Cybersecurity. Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (i) there has been no security breach or other compromise of or relating to any of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s information technology and computer systems, networks, hardware, software, data (including the data of its respective customers, employees, suppliers, vendors and any third party data maintained by or on behalf of it), equipment or technology (collectively, “IT Systems and Data”); (ii) the Company and the Subsidiaries have not been notified of, and has no knowledge of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in, any security breach or other compromise to its IT Systems and Data; or (iii) the Company and the Subsidiaries are presently in compliance with all applicable laws or statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, internal policies and contractual obligations relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Data and to the protection of such IT Systems and Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification. The Company and the Subsidiaries have implemented and maintained commercially reasonable safeguards to maintain and protect its material confidential information and the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of all IT Systems and Data and the Company and the Subsidiaries have implemented commercially reasonable backup and disaster recovery technology consistent with industry standards and practices.
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(bb) Investment Company. The Company is not and immediately after receipt of payment for the Notes, will not be 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.
(cc) No-Off Balance Sheet Arrangements. There are no off-balance sheet transactions, arrangements, obligations (including contingent obligations) or liabilities of the Company or any Subsidiary.
(dd) No Disagreements with Accountants and Lawyers. There are no material disagreements of any kind presently existing, or reasonably anticipated by the Company to arise, between the Company and the accountants and lawyers formerly or presently employed by the Company and the Company is current with respect to any material fees owed to its accountants and lawyers which could adversely affect the Company’s ability to perform any of its obligations under any of the Transaction Documents.
(ee) No Disqualification Events. With respect to the Securities to be offered and sold hereunder in reliance on Rule 506 under the Securities Act, none of the Company, any of its predecessors, any affiliated issuer, any director, executive officer, other officer of the Company participating in the offering hereunder, any beneficial owner of 20% or more of the Company’s outstanding voting equity securities, calculated on the basis of voting power, nor any promoter (as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) connected with the Company in any capacity at the time of sale (each, an “Issuer Covered Person”) is subject to any of the “Bad Actor” disqualifications described in Rule 506(d)(1)(i) to (viii) under the Securities Act (a “Disqualification Event”), except for a Disqualification Event covered by Rule 506(d)(2) or (d)(3). The Company has exercised reasonable care to determine whether any Issuer Covered Person is subject to a Disqualification Event. The Company has complied, to the extent applicable, with its disclosure obligations under Rule 506(e), and has furnished to the Buyers a copy of any disclosures provided thereunder.
(ff) Notice of Disqualification Events. The Company will notify the Buyers in writing, prior to the Closing Date of (i) any Disqualification Event relating to any Issuer Covered Person and (ii) any event that would, with the passage of time, reasonably be expected to become a Disqualification Event relating to any Issuer Covered Person, in each case of which it is aware;
(gg) No Manipulation of Price. Neither the Company, its Subsidiaries, nor to the Company’s knowledge, any of its or its Subsidiaries’ employees or directors has taken or will take directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that has constituted or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act, or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any security of the Company.
(hh) 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 the State of Delaware that is or would become applicable to the Buyers as a result of the Buyers and the Company fulfilling their obligations or exercising their rights under the Transaction Documents, including as a result of the Company’s issuance of the Securities and the Buyers’ ownership of the Securities.
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3.2 Representations and Warranties of the Buyers. Each Buyer, for itself and for no other Buyer, hereby represents and warrants as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date to the Company as follows (except to the extent expressly made as of a specific date therein, in which case they shall be accurate as of such date):
(a) Organization; Authority. Such Buyer is an entity duly incorporated or formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation with full right, corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and performance by such Buyer of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar action, as applicable, on the part of such Buyer. Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been duly executed by such Buyer, and when delivered by such Buyer in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of such Buyer, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, administration, judicial management 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) Buyer Status. At the time such Buyer was offered the Securities, it was, and as of the date hereof it is, and on each date on which it converts any Notes, it will be either: (i) an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(7), (a)(8), (a)(9), (a)(12), or (a)(13) under the Securities Act or (ii) a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A(a) under the Securities Act. Such Buyer is acquiring the Securities, for its own account for investment purposes only and not with a view toward, or for sale in connection with, any distribution thereof, or with any present intention of distributing or selling the same; provided, this representation and warranty shall not be deemed to limit such Buyer’s right to sell the Securities in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws.
(c) Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. Other than consummating the transactions contemplated hereunder, such Buyer has not, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with such Buyer, directly or indirectly executed any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the securities of the Company during the period commencing as the time of the execution of the written term sheet on August 4, 2026, between such Buyer and the Company and ending immediately prior to the execution hereof. Other than to other Persons party to this Agreement or to such Buyer’s representatives, including, without limitation, its officers, directors, partners, legal and other advisors, employees, agents and Affiliates, such Buyer has maintained confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with this transaction (including the existence and terms of this transaction). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the avoidance of doubt, nothing contained herein shall constitute a representation or warranty, or preclude any actions, with respect to locating or borrowing shares in order to effect Short Sales or similar transactions in the future.
The Company acknowledges and agrees that the representations contained in Section 3.2 shall not modify, amend or affect such Buyer’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. The Buyers acknowledge and agree that neither the Company nor any Subsidiary makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other than such representations and warranties.
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Article IV.
OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES
4.1 Transfer Restrictions.
(a) The Securities may only be disposed of in compliance with state and federal securities laws. In connection with any transfer of the Securities other than pursuant to an effective registration statement or Rule 144, to the Company or to an Affiliate of a Buyer or in connection with a pledge as contemplated in Section 4.1(b), the Company may require the transferor thereof to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the form and substance of which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does not require registration of such transferred Securities under the Securities Act. As a condition of transfer, any such transferee shall agree in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement, the Notes, the Warrants and the Registration Rights Agreement, as applicable, and shall have the rights and obligations of a Buyer under this Agreement, the Notes, the Warrants and the Registration Rights Agreement, as applicable.
(b) The Buyers agree to the imprinting, so long as is required by this Section 4.1, of a legend on any of the Securities in the following form:
NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THIS SECURITY IS CONVERTIBLE OR EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS SECURITY AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OR EXERCISE OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT WITH A REGISTERED BROKER-DEALER OR OTHER LOAN WITH A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION THAT IS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.
The Company acknowledges and agrees that a Buyer may from time to time pledge pursuant to a bona fide margin agreement with a registered broker-dealer or grant a security interest in some or all of the Securities to a financial institution that is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and, if required under the terms of such arrangement, such Buyer may transfer pledged or secured Securities to the pledgees or secured parties. Such a pledge or transfer would not be subject to approval of the Company. At the appropriate Buyer’s expense, the Company will execute and deliver such reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party of Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or transfer of the Securities including, if the Underlying Shares are subject to registration pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the preparation and filing of any required prospectus supplement under Rule 424(b)(3) under the Securities Act or other applicable provision of the Securities Act to appropriately amend the list of Selling Stockholders under the Registration Rights Agreement.
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(c) Delivery of the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares shall be as set forth in the Notes and the Warrants, respectively. If all or any portion of a Note is converted, or all or any portion of a Warrant is exercised, when there is an effective registration statement (including a Registration Statement) to cover the resale of the applicable Conversion Shares or Warrant Shares, or if such Conversion Shares or Warrant Shares may be sold under Rule 144 without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions, or if such legend is not otherwise required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission), then such Conversion Shares or Warrant Shares shall be issued free of all legends. The Company shall cause counsel to the Company to deliver any standing legal opinion required by the transfer agent for the issuance of the Conversion Shares and Warrant Shares free of all legends in accordance with this Section 4.1(c).
(d) Each Buyer, severally and not jointly with the other Buyers, agrees with the Company that the Buyer will transfer the Securities only in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws, as the case may be, and: (1) with respect to the Underlying Shares, pursuant to an effective resale Registration Statement covering the Buyer’s resale of the Underlying Shares, which includes a prospectus that is current, and in the manner contemplated by such Registration Statement, including the “Plan of Distribution” contained therein, provided that the Buyer has not received oral or written notice from the Company that use of the prospectus is suspended or that the prospectus otherwise may not be used for transfers of the Underlying Shares; (2) after the six month anniversary of the date of acquisition of the applicable Notes or Warrants, as the case may be, in accordance with Rule 144, including the requirement of Rule 144(b)(1); or (3) pursuant to another exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, provided, solely with respect to this clause (3), that the Buyer provides the Company with advance notice of such transfer and an opinion of counsel that the proposed transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
4.2 Furnishing of Information. Until the time that no Buyer owns Conversion Shares the Company covenants to maintain the registration of the shares of Common Stock under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act and to timely file (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant to the Exchange Act and otherwise cause all public information requirements of Rule 144(c) to be satisfied.
4.3 Acknowledgment of Dilution. The Company acknowledges that the issuance of the Securities may result in dilution of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, which dilution may be substantial under certain market conditions. The Company further acknowledges that its obligations under the Transaction Documents, including, without limitation, its obligation to issue the Securities pursuant to the Transaction Documents, are unconditional and absolute and not subject to any right of set off, counterclaim, delay or reduction, regardless of the effect of any such dilution or any claim the Company may have against any Buyer and regardless of the dilutive effect that such issuance may have on the ownership of the other shareholders of the Company.
4.4 Redemption, Conversion and Exercise Procedures. The form of Conversion Notice included in the Notes and the form of Exercise Notice included in the Warrants set forth the totality of the procedures required of the Buyers in order to convert the Notes or exercise the Warrants, as applicable. No additional legal opinion, other information or instructions shall be required of the Buyers to convert their Notes or exercise the Warrants, except as expressly set forth in the Notes or Warrants, as applicable. The Company shall honor conversions of the Notes and exercises of the Warrants and shall deliver the Conversion Shares or Warrant Shares, as applicable, in accordance with the terms, conditions and time periods set forth in the Transaction Documents.
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4.5 Disclosure. The Company shall file a Current Report on Form 8-K, including copies of the Transaction Documents (or the forms thereof) as exhibits thereto, with the Commission within the time required by the Exchange Act. Upon the filing of such Form 8-K, the Company represents to the Buyers that it shall have publicly disclosed all “material, non-public information” delivered to any of the Buyers 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 the Buyers shall consult with each other in issuing any other public announcements or press releases with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and neither the Company nor the Buyers shall issue any such public announcement or press release nor otherwise make any such public statement or communication without the prior consent of the Company, with respect to any disclosure of the Buyers, or without the prior consent of the Required Holders, with respect to any disclosure of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, except if such disclosure is required by law, then the disclosing party shall, to the extent lawful and practicable (having regard to time and in the case of the Company, the Company’s continuous disclosure obligations), promptly provide the other party with prior notice of such public announcement, press release, public statement or communication.
4.6 Disclosure of Material Information; No Obligation of Confidentiality.
(a) From the Closing Date, the Company covenants and agrees that neither it, nor any other Person acting on its behalf including any officer, director, employee or agent of the Company or its Subsidiaries will provide any Buyer or its agents or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes “material non-public information” unless prior thereto such Buyer shall have entered into a written agreement with the Company regarding the confidentiality and use of such information. The Company understands and confirms that each Buyer shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. In the event of a breach of the foregoing covenant by the Company, or any of its Subsidiaries, or any of its or their respective officers, directors, employees and agents, in addition to any other remedy provided herein or in the Transaction Documents, the Company shall, unless otherwise agreed by the Required Holders, publicly disclose any “material non-public information” in a Form 8-K, as applicable, filed with the Commission within two (2) Business Day following the date that it discloses such information to any Buyer or such earlier time as may be required by applicable law. The Company shall provide any Form 8-K, as applicable, to be filed with the Commission pursuant to this Section 4.6(a) to the Buyer that received any “material non-public information” at least one (1) Business Day prior to the filing thereof. From and after the filing of any such Form 8-K, as applicable, pursuant to this Section 4.6(a), no Buyer shall be deemed to be in possession of any “material non-public information” regarding the Company existing as of the time of such filing. If the Company fails to file any Form 8-K, as applicable, within the time required in this Section 4.6(a), each affected Buyer may, in its sole discretion, make a public disclosure of such information that it believes in its discretion upon the advice of counsel constitutes “material non-public information” of the Company. Such affected Buyer shall provide a copy of such public disclosure pursuant to this Section 4.6(a) at least one (1) Business Day prior to the public disclosure thereof.
(b) Except pursuant to any confidentiality agreement entered into by a Buyer as described in Section 4.6(a), no Buyer shall be deemed to have any obligation of confidentiality with respect to (i) any non-public information of the Company disclosed to such Buyer in breach of Section 4.6(a) (whether or not the Company files a Form 8-K, as applicable, as provided above), (ii) the fact that any Buyer has exercised any of its rights and/or remedies under the Transaction Documents, or (iii) any information obtained by any Buyer as a result of exercising any of its rights and/or remedies under the Transaction Documents. In addition, no Buyer shall be deemed to be in breach of any duty to the Company and/or to have misappropriated any non-public information of the Company, if such Buyer engages in transactions of securities of the Company, including, without limitation, any hedging transactions or any “derivative” transactions while in possession of such non-public information.
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4.7 Use of Proceeds. The Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes hereunder for general corporate purposes, including, without limitation, the payment of the Company’s outstanding franchise tax obligations owed to the State of Delaware, and shall not use such proceeds: (a) for the repayment of any Indebtedness (other than any repayment by the Company of the Notes), or (b) in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1970, as amended or the equivalent law of any foreign jurisdiction, as applicable, or OFAC regulations or the equivalent law of any foreign jurisdiction, as applicable.
4.8 Indemnification. Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.8, the Company will indemnify and hold each Buyer 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 Buyer (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 “Buyer Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs, awards, orders, penalties and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs, interest and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such Buyer Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (i) any breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents, (ii) any action instituted against the Buyer Parties in any capacity, or any of them or their respective Affiliates by the Company, any Subsidiary, any shareholder or creditor of the Company or other third party who is not an Affiliate of such Buyer Party, arising out of or relating to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. For the avoidance of doubt, the indemnification provided herein is intended to and shall cover direct claims brought by the Company against the Buyer Parties. If any action shall be brought against any Buyer Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, such Buyer 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 Buyer Party. Any Buyer 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 Buyer Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically 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 Buyer Party, in which case the Company shall reimburse the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such separate counsel. The Company will not be liable to any Buyer Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by a Buyer 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 finally judicially determined to be attributable to any Buyer Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Buyer 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 Buyer Party against the Company or others and any liabilities the Company may be subject to pursuant to law.
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4.9 Participation in Future Financing.
(a) From the date hereof through August 16, 2028, upon any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any shares of Common Stock, Convertible Securities, Options, preferred shares, Indebtedness or entry into any Variable Rate Transaction, in each case, for cash consideration, Indebtedness or a combination of units thereof (collectively, a “Placement”), Lead Investor shall have the right to purchase up to 30% of such Placement (the “Participation Maximum”), on the same terms, conditions and price provided for in Placement.
(b) In the case of a Placement:
(i) At least five (5) Business Days prior to the closing of a Placement, the Company shall deliver to Lead Investor a written notice asking Lead Investor if it consents to the receipt of material non-public information pursuant to this Section 4.9 (“Pre-Notice”). If Lead Investor consents to the receipt of material non-public information, it shall so notify the Company within two (2) Trading Days after receipt of the Pre-Notice. If Lead Investor so consents, the Company shall promptly, but no later than one (1) Trading Day after such consent, deliver the details of such proposed Placement (the “Placement Notice”) to Lead Investor. The Placement Notice shall describe in reasonable detail the proposed terms of such Placement, the amount of proceeds intended to be raised thereunder and the Person or Persons through or with whom such Placement is proposed to be effected and shall include a term sheet or similar document relating thereto as an attachment.
(ii) If desiring to participate in such Placement, Lead Investor shall provide written notice (the “Participation Notice”) to the Company by not later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Trading Day after delivery of the Placement Notice (the “Notice Deadline”), with such Participation Notice setting forth: (i) that Lead Investor is willing to participate in the Placement and willing to execute the relevant transaction documents for the Placement on the terms and conditions set forth in such transaction documents; (ii) the amount of Lead Investor’s participation; and (iii) Lead Investor representing and warranting that Lead Investor has such funds ready, willing, and available for investment on the terms set forth in the Placement. If Lead Investor fails to deliver the Participation Notice to the Company by the Notice Deadline, Lead Investor shall forfeit its right to participate in the Placement.
(iii) If Lead Investor’s Participation Notice is for less than the Participation Maximum, then the Company may effect the remaining portion of such Placement, including the difference between the amount to be purchased by Lead Investor and the Participation Maximum, on the terms and with the Persons set forth in the Placement.
(iv) The Company and Lead Investor agree that if any Buyer elects to participate in the Placement, the transaction documents related to the Placement shall not include any term or provision that, directly or indirectly, will, or is intended to, exclude Lead Investor from participating in a Placement, including, but not limited to, provisions whereby Lead Investor shall be required to agree to any restrictions on trading as to any of the Securities purchased hereunder or be required to consent to any amendment to or termination of, or grant any waiver, release or the like under or in connection with, this Agreement, without the prior written consent of Lead Investor; provided, however, that in the event any such term or provision is included in such transaction documents, and Lead Investor executes such transaction documents, the execution thereof shall be considered Lead Investor’s prior written consent thereto.
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(v) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4.9 and unless otherwise agreed to by Lead Investor, the Company will either confirm in writing to Lead Investor that the transaction with respect to the Placement has been abandoned or will deliver a notice to Buyer of its intention to issue the securities in the Placement, in either case by the tenth (10th) Business Day following the Notice Deadline. If by such tenth (10th) Business Day following the Notice Deadline, no public disclosure regarding a transaction with respect to the Placement has been made, and no notice regarding such transaction has been received by Lead Investor, such transaction shall be deemed to have been abandoned and Lead Investor shall not be deemed to be in possession of any material, non-public information with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(vi) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Lead Investor may exchange any outstanding Notes for the securities issued in the Placement at the subscription price for such securities on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
(vii) In the event that the Company fails to notify Lead Investor of a Placement in accordance with paragraph (b) of this Section 4.9 or otherwise fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Section 4.9, then the Lead Investor shall have the right, by delivering a written notice to the Company, during the thirty (30) day calendar period commencing on the date of the first public announcement of the Placement to, at the Lead Investor’s option, participate in the Placement or subscribe for the securities offered in such Placement in a separate transaction on substantially equivalent terms as that of the Placement.
(viii) The provisions of this Section 4.9 shall not apply to: (i) the issuance of any Excluded Securities and/or (ii) any shares of Common Stock issued and sold pursuant to an ATM Program at prevailing market prices for the shares of Common Stock by a bona fide investment bank.
4.10 Variable Rate Transactions. From the date hereof and for the later of the Commitment Period (as defined below) or so long as any Notes remain outstanding, the Company shall be prohibited from, other than with the Lead Investor or one of its Affiliates, effecting or entering into an agreement to effect any issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of shares of Common Stock, Options or Convertible Securities (or a combination of units thereof) involving a Variable Rate Transaction. “Variable Rate Transaction” means a transaction in which the Company agrees to or enters into an agreement to (i) issue or sell 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 shares of Common Stock or (ii) enters into, or effects a transaction under, any agreement, including, but not limited to, an equity line of credit, whereby the Company may issue securities at a future determined price. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Variable Rate Transaction” shall not include (i) the offer and sale of shares of Common Stock by the Company pursuant to an ATM Program, and (ii) any Excluded Securities. Lead Investor shall be entitled to obtain injunctive relief against the Company to preclude any such issuance, which remedy shall be in addition to any right to collect damages. In addition, the Company and the Lead Investor shall not be prohibited from executing or entering into a Variable Rate Transaction with each other at any time. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may enter into an ATM Program. The Company shall not effect sales under an ATM Program within five (5) Trading Days of any conversion by the Lead Investor. The Company covenants and agrees that it will not enter into any agreement, undertaking or covenant with a third party that prohibits the Company or its Subsidiaries from entering into, effecting or announcing a Variable Rate Transaction or similar transaction with the Lead Investor or its Affiliates at any time. “Commitment Period” means the period from the Closing Date through the date on which all Notes issued hereunder have been repaid or converted in full.
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4.11 Collateral Agent.
(a) Each Buyer hereby (i) appoints Alto Opportunity Master Fund, SPC – Segregated Master Portfolio B, as the collateral agent hereunder and under the other Security Documents (in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”), and (ii) authorizes the Collateral Agent (and its officers, directors, employees and agents) to take such action on such Buyer’s behalf in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof. The Collateral Agent shall not have, by reason hereof or of any of the other Security Documents, a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Buyer. Neither the Collateral Agent nor any of its officers, directors, employees or agents shall have any liability to any Buyer for any action taken or omitted to be taken in connection herewith or with any other Security Document except to the extent caused by its own gross negligence or willful misconduct, and each Buyer agrees to defend, protect, indemnify and hold harmless the Collateral Agent and all of its officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, the “Collateral Agent Indemnitees”) from and against any losses, damages, liabilities, obligations, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, fees, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses) incurred by such Collateral Agent Indemnitee, whether direct, indirect or consequential, arising from or in connection with the performance by such Collateral Agent Indemnitee of the duties and obligations of Collateral Agent pursuant hereto or any of the Security Documents. The Collateral Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the instructions of the Required Holders, and such instructions shall be binding upon all holders of Notes; provided, however, that the Collateral Agent shall not be required to take any action which, in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral Agent, exposes the Collateral Agent to liability or which is contrary to this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or applicable law. The Collateral Agent shall be entitled to rely upon any written notices, statements, certificates, orders or other documents or any telephone message believed by it in good faith to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person, and with respect to all matters pertaining to this Agreement or any of the other Transaction Documents and its duties hereunder or thereunder, upon advice of counsel selected by it.
(b) The Collateral Agent may resign from the performance of all its functions and duties hereunder and under the other Transaction Documents at any time by giving at least ten (10) Business Days’ prior written notice to the Company and each holder of Notes. Such resignation shall take effect upon the acceptance by a successor Collateral Agent of appointment pursuant to clauses (c) and (d) below or as otherwise provided below. If at any time the Collateral Agent does not (together with its affiliates) beneficially own any Notes, the Required Holders may, by written consent, remove the Collateral Agent from all its functions and duties hereunder and under the other Transaction Documents.
(c) Upon any such notice of resignation or removal, the Required Holders shall appoint a successor collateral agent. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Collateral Agent hereunder by a successor agent, such successor collateral agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the collateral agent, and the Collateral Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents. After the Collateral Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder as the collateral agent, the provisions of this Section 4.11 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was the Collateral Agent under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.
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(d) If a successor Collateral Agent shall not have been so appointed within ten (10) Business Days of receipt of a written notice of resignation or removal, the Collateral Agent shall then appoint a successor collateral agent who shall serve as the Collateral Agent until such time, if any, as the Required Holders appoint a successor collateral agent as provided above.
(e) In the event that a successor Collateral Agent is appointed pursuant to the provisions of this Section 4.11 that is not a Buyer or an affiliate of any Buyer (or the Required Holders or the Collateral Agent (or its successor), as applicable, notify the Company that they or it wants to appoint such a successor Collateral Agent pursuant to the terms of this Section 4.11), the Company and each Subsidiary thereof covenants and agrees to promptly take all actions reasonably requested by the Required Holders or the Collateral Agent (or its successor), as applicable, from time to time, to secure a successor Collateral Agent satisfactory to the requesting part(y)(ies), in their sole discretion, including, without limitation, by paying all reasonable and customary fees and expenses of such successor Collateral Agent, by having the Company and each Subsidiary thereof agree to indemnify any successor Collateral Agent pursuant to reasonable and customary terms and by each of the Company and each Subsidiary thereof executing a collateral agency agreement or similar agreement and/or any amendment to the Security Documents reasonably requested or required by the successor Collateral Agent.
4.12 Reservation of Shares. The Company shall reserve from its authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock, shares of Common Stock equal to 150% of (a) the Conversion Shares issuable upon conversion of the Notes (assuming for purposes hereof that the Notes are convertible at the Redemption Conversion Price (as defined in the Notes)) as of the date hereof, plus (b) the Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants (the “Required Minimum”).
4.13 Special Meeting of Stockholders. The Company shall provide each stockholder entitled to vote at a special meeting of stockholders of the Company (the “Exchange Cap Stockholder Meeting”), which shall be promptly called and held not later than October 6, 2026 (the “Exchange Cap Stockholder Meeting Deadline”), a proxy statement, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Buyers and Haynes and Boone, LLP, at the expense of the Company, with the Company obligated to reimburse the expenses of Haynes and Boone LLP incurred in connection therewith up to a maximum of $5,000, soliciting each such stockholder’s affirmative vote at the Exchange Cap Stockholder Meeting for approval of resolutions (“Exchange Cap Stockholder Resolutions”) providing for the issuance of more than 12,256,260 shares of Common Stock (representing 19.99% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock on the date of the May SPA) (“Exchange Share Cap”) at an issue price below the “minimum price” in payment of interest, amortization, redemption and settlement of conversions of the Notes, the May Securities and exercise of the Warrants, in each case, in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635 (the “Exchange Cap Stockholder Approval” and the date the Exchange Cap Stockholder Approval is obtained, the “Exchange Cap Stockholder Approval Date”), and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to solicit its stockholders’ approval of such resolutions and to cause the Board of Directors of the Company to recommend to the stockholders that they approve such resolutions. The Company shall be obligated to seek to obtain the Exchange Cap Stockholder Approval by the Exchange Cap Stockholder Meeting Deadline. If, despite the Company’s reasonable best efforts the Exchange Cap Stockholder Approval is not obtained on or prior to the Exchange Cap Stockholder Meeting Deadline, the Company shall cause an additional Exchange Cap Stockholder Meeting to be held on or prior to the date that is four months after the Exchange Cap Stockholder Meeting Deadline. If, despite the Company’s reasonable best efforts the Exchange Cap Stockholder Approval is not obtained after such subsequent stockholder meetings, the Company shall cause an additional Exchange Cap Stockholder Meeting to be held semi-annually thereafter until such Exchange Cap Stockholder Approval is obtained.
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4.14 Principal Market Limitation. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents to the contrary, prior to the receipt of the Exchange Cap Stockholder Approval, the Company shall not issue any shares of Common Stock pursuant to the Notes, the May Securities or upon exercise of the Warrants if such issuance would cause the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to the Notes, the May Securities and upon exercise of the Warrants to exceed the Exchange Share Cap.
4.15 Standstill. From the date hereof until the date that is 90 Trading Days after the Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission (the “Standstill Period”), neither the Company nor any Subsidiary shall (i) issue, enter into any agreement to issue or announce the issuance or proposed issuance of any shares of Common Stock, Convertible Securities or Options other than Excluded Securities, or (ii) file any registration statement or any amendment or supplement thereto, other than (a) filing a registration statement on Form S-8 in connection with any employee benefit plan, (b) filing post-effective amendment on Form S-3 in connection with the existing shelf registration statement filed by the Company, and (c) the issuance of shares of Common Stock pursuant to an ATM Program established or maintained by the Company with a registered broker-dealer, provided that (i) such sales are made at prevailing market prices, (ii) such sales are conducted in the ordinary course of business and not as part of any negotiated transaction, (iii) no Variable Rate Transaction is effected in connection therewith, (iv) such ATM Program is conducted in compliance with applicable securities laws and the rules of the Trading Market, and (v) prior to the expiration of the Standstill Period, gross proceeds from sales of shares of Common Stock under the ATM Program shall be subject to the following limitations:
(A) gross proceeds from sales of shares of Common Stock under the ATM Program at a price per share at or above $1.50 but less than $2.50 shall not exceed $2,500,000 in the aggregate;
(B) gross proceeds from sales of shares of Common Stock under the ATM Program at a price per share at or above $2.50 but less than $4.00 shall not exceed an additional $2,500,000 in the aggregate (such that aggregate gross proceeds from all sales under the ATM Program at prices at or above $1.50 per share shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate); and
(C) gross proceeds from sales of shares of Common Stock under the ATM Program at a price per share at or above $4.00 shall not exceed an additional $5,000,000 in the aggregate (such that aggregate gross proceeds from all sales under the ATM Program shall not exceed $10,000,000 in the aggregate).]
4.16 Integration. The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities in a manner that would require the registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Securities or that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities for purposes of the rules and regulations of the Principal Market such that it would require stockholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless stockholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.
4.17 Form D; Blue Sky Filings. The Company agrees to timely file a Form D with respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy thereof, promptly upon request of any Buyer. The Company shall take such action as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary in order to obtain an exemption for, or to qualify the Securities for, sale to the Buyers at the Closing under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States, and shall provide evidence of such actions promptly upon request of any Buyer.
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Article V.
MISCELLANEOUS
5.1 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, provided that the Company shall pay all reasonable fees and expenses of the Buyers incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Company shall pay all stamp taxes and other similar taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Securities to the Buyers.
5.2 Entire Agreement. The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and schedules.
5.3 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 or email attachment as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto at or prior to 5:30 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 or email attachment as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Business Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Business Day, (c) the second Business Day following the date of mailing, if sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto. To the extent that any notice provided pursuant to any Transaction Document constitutes, or contains material, non-public information regarding the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, the Company shall simultaneously file such notice with the Commission pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K.
5.4 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 Required Holders 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.
5.5 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.
5.6 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 the Required Holders. Any Buyer may assign, with written notice to the Company of such assignment, any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom such Buyer assigns or transfers any Securities in compliance with the Transaction Documents, 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 “Buyers.”
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5.7 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 and this Section 5.7.
5.8 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 Proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective Affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, partners, members, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or Proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or Proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such Proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such 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.
5.9 Survival. The representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and the delivery of the Notes.
5.10 Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to each other party, it being understood that the parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery (including any electronic signature covered by the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000, Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, the Electronic Signatures and Records Act or other applicable law, e.g., www.docusign.com) or other transmission method 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.
5.11 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.
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5.12 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 and receipt of a customary lost security affidavit and indemnity. The applicant for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party costs (including customary indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Company with respect to the certificate alleged to have been mutilated, lost, stolen, or destroyed) associated with the issuance of such replacement Securities.
5.13 Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the Buyers and the Company will be entitled to seek 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. The Company acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to pay and perform its obligations under Notes in accordance with the terms thereof is absolute and unconditional. Accordingly, in no event shall any determination or allegation that a Buyer is (i) an unregistered securities dealer (within the meaning of the Exchange Act), (ii) acting as an underwriter with respect to the Company’s securities, (iii) engaged in a distribution (within the meaning of Section 2(a)(11) of the Securities Act) of the Company’s shares of Common Stock or (iv) the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or a Buyer’s trading activities violate public policy or any applicable federal or state securities laws, in any case, be a defense to the Company’s obligation to repay any amounts due and payable to a Buyer under the Notes.
5.14 Payment Set Aside; Currency. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to any Buyer hereunder or pursuant to any of the other Transaction Documents or any of the Buyers enforce or exercise their rights hereunder or 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, foreign, 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. Unless otherwise expressly indicated, all dollar amounts referred to in this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents are in United States Dollars (“U.S. Dollars”), and all amounts owing under this Agreement and all other Transaction Documents shall be paid in U.S. Dollars. All amounts denominated in other currencies (if any) shall be converted into the U.S. Dollar equivalent amount in accordance with the Exchange Rate on the date of calculation. “Exchange Rate” means, in relation to any amount of currency to be converted into U.S. Dollars pursuant to this Agreement, the U.S. Dollar exchange rate as published in the Wall Street Journal on the relevant date of calculation.
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5.15 Usury. To the extent it may lawfully do so, the Company hereby agrees not to insist upon or plead or in any manner whatsoever claim, and will resist any and all efforts to be compelled to take the benefit or advantage of, usury laws wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, in connection with any claim, action or Proceeding that may be brought by any Buyer in order to enforce any right or remedy under any Transaction Document. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in any Transaction Document, it is expressly agreed and provided that the total liability of the Company under the Transaction Documents for payments in the nature of interest shall not exceed the maximum lawful rate authorized under applicable law (the “Maximum Rate”), and, without limiting the foregoing, in no event shall any rate of interest or default interest, or both of them, when aggregated with any other sums in the nature of interest that the Company may be obligated to pay under the Transaction Documents exceed such Maximum Rate. It is agreed that if the maximum contract rate of interest allowed by law and applicable to the Transaction Documents is increased or decreased by statute or any official governmental action subsequent to the date hereof, the new maximum contract rate of interest allowed by law will be the Maximum Rate applicable to the Transaction Documents from the effective date thereof forward, unless such application is precluded by applicable law. If under any circumstances whatsoever, interest in excess of the Maximum Rate is paid by the Company to any Buyer with respect to indebtedness evidenced by the Transaction Documents, such excess shall be applied by such Buyer to the unpaid principal balance of any such indebtedness or be refunded to the Company, the manner of handling such excess to be at such Buyer’s election.
5.16 Independent Nature of Buyers’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each Buyer under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Buyer, and no Buyer shall be responsible in any way for the performance or non-performance of the obligations of any other Buyer under any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Buyer pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Buyers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Buyers 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 Buyer 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 Buyer to be joined as an additional party in any Proceeding for such purpose. The Company has elected to provide all Buyers 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 Buyers.
5.17 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.
5.18 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.
5.19 Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel have reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments thereto. In addition, each and every reference to share prices and shares of Common Stock in any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward share splits, share dividends, share combinations and other similar transactions of the shares of Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.
5.20 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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5.21 Termination. This Agreement may be terminated by any Buyer, as to such Buyer’s obligations hereunder only and without any effect whatsoever on the obligations between the Company and the other Buyers, by written notice to the other parties, if the Closing has not been consummated on or before the tenth (10th) Trading Day following the date hereof, provided, however, that no such termination will affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by any other party (or parties).
5.22 Judgment Currency.
(a) If for the purpose of obtaining or enforcing judgment against the Company in connection with this Agreement or any other Transaction Document in any court in any jurisdiction it becomes necessary to convert into any other currency (such other currency being hereinafter in this Section 5.22 referred to as the “Judgment Currency”) an amount due in U.S. Dollars under this Agreement, the conversion shall be made at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the Business Day immediately preceding:
(i) the date actual payment of the amount due, in the case of any Proceeding in the courts of New York or in the courts of any other jurisdiction that will give effect to such conversion being made on such date: or
(ii) the date on which the foreign court determines, in the case of any Proceeding in the courts of any other jurisdiction (the date as of which such conversion is made pursuant to this Section 5.22 being hereinafter referred to as the “Judgment Conversion Date”).
(b) If in the case of any Proceeding in the court of any jurisdiction referred to in Section 5.22(a), there is a change in the Exchange Rate prevailing between the Judgment Conversion Date and the date of actual payment of the amount due, the applicable party shall pay such adjusted amount as may be necessary to ensure that the amount paid in the Judgment Currency, when converted at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the date of payment, will produce the amount of U.S. Dollars which could have been purchased with the amount of Judgment Currency stipulated in the judgment or judicial order at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the Judgment Conversion Date.
(c) Any amount due from the Company under this provision shall be due as a separate debt and shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other amounts due under or in respect of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document.
5.23 Acknowledgment Regarding Relationship. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that each party hereto is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length contractual counterparty. Each party hereto further acknowledges and agrees that no Buyer is acting as a financial advisor, underwriter, broker, dealer or agent of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in any respect (whether pursuant to the transactions contemplated hereby or otherwise).
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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.
| FingerMotion, Inc. | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | Jolie Kahn | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |
| Address for Notice: | ||
| 700 S. Rosemary Avenue, Suite 204 | ||
| West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 | ||
| E-mail: | jolie.kahn@fingermotion.com | |
| With a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to: | ||
| Jolie Kahn, Esq. | ||
| 700 S. Rosemary Avenue, Suite 204 | ||
| West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 | ||
| Jolie.kahn@fingermotion.com | ||
Signature Page to Securities Purchase Agreement
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.
| Name of Buyer: Alto Opportunity Master Fund, SPC – Segregated Master Portfolio B | ||
| Signature of Authorized Signatory of Buyer:________________________ | ||
| Name of Authorized Signatory: Waqas Khatri | ||
| Title of Authorized Signatory: Managing Member | ||
| Email Address of Authorized Signatory: wk@ayrtonllc.com | ||
| Facsimile Number of Authorized Signatory: N/A | ||
| Address for Notice to Buyer: | ||
| c/o Ayrton Capital LLC | ||
| 55 Post Road West, 2nd Floor | ||
| Westport CT 06880 | ||
| Address for Delivery of Securities to Buyer: | ||
| c/o Ayrton Capital LLC | ||
| 55 Post Road West, 2nd Floor | ||
| Westport CT 06880 | ||
| Subscription Amount for the Notes: $4,300,000 | ||
| Principal Amount of Notes: $5,000,000 | ||
Signature Page to Securities Purchase Agreement
EXHIBIT A
FORM OF NOTES
[Attached.]
EXHIBIT B
FORM OF REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF SECURITY DOCUMENT
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EXHIBIT D
FORM OF WARRANT
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Exhibit 10.2
Execution Version
NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THIS SECURITY IS CONVERTIBLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS SECURITY AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT WITH A REGISTERED BROKER-DEALER OR OTHER LOAN WITH A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION THAT IS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.
Original Issue Date: August 16, 2026
Original Principal Amount: $5,000,000
SENIOR SECURED CONVERTIBLE NOTE
DUE AUGUST 16, 2027
THIS SENIOR SECURED CONVERTIBLE NOTE is one of a series of duly authorized and validly issued Senior Secured Notes of FingerMotion, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), having its principal place of business at c/o FingerMotion, Inc. 111 Somerset Road, Level 3, Singapore 238164, designated as its Senior Secured Convertible Note due August 16, 2027 (this note, the “Note” and, collectively with the other notes of such series, the “Notes”).
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the Company promises to pay to Alto Opportunity Master Fund, SPC –Segregated Master Portfolio B or its registered assigns (the “Holder”), or shall have paid pursuant to the terms hereunder, the Outstanding Value on August 16, 2027 (the “Maturity Date”) or such earlier date as this Note is required or permitted to be repaid as provided hereunder, and to pay interest to the Holder on the aggregate unconverted and then Outstanding Principal Amount of this Note in accordance with the provisions hereof. This Note is subject to the following additional provisions:
Section 1. Definitions. For the purposes hereof, in addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Note, (a) capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Purchase Agreement and (b) the following terms shall have the following meanings:
“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.
“Alternate Conversion Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8(b)(ii).
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“Alternate Conversion Price” means the lesser of (but not lower than the prevailing Floor Price): (i) the Fixed Conversion Price then in effect; (ii) 80% of the lowest daily VWAP during the seven (7) consecutive Trading Days ending on and including the applicable Alternate Conversion Date; and (iii) 80% of the lowest daily VWAP during the seven (7) consecutive Trading Days ending on and including the first Trading Day of the applicable Event of Default Redemption Right Period.
“Acquisition” means the acquisition by the Company or any Subsidiary of another Person or all or substantially all of the assets of another Person (or any business unit thereof).
“Applicable Rate” means (a) if no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, a per annum rate of zero percent (0%) and (b) if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, a per annum rate of twelve percent (12%).
“Available Cash” means, with respect to any date of determination, an amount equal to the aggregate amount of the cash and Cash Equivalents of the Company and its Subsidiaries (excluding for this purpose cash held in restricted accounts or otherwise unavailable for unrestricted use by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for any reason) as of such date of determination.
“Average Cash Burn” means, with respect to Company and its Subsidiaries as of any date in question, an amount equal to the negative change in Available Cash for the trailing three (3) month period immediately preceding such date divided by three (3).
“Bankruptcy Event” means any of the following events: (a) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof commences a case or other proceeding under any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debt, relief of debtors, dissolution, insolvency, restructuring or liquidation or similar law of any jurisdiction relating to the Company or any Subsidiary thereof, (b) there is commenced against the Company or any Subsidiary thereof any such case or proceeding that is not dismissed within 60 days after commencement, (c) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof is adjudicated insolvent or bankrupt or any order of relief or other order approving any such case or proceeding is entered, (d) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof suffers any appointment of any custodian or the like for it or any material part of its property that is not discharged or stayed within 60 calendar days after such appointment, (e) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, (f) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof calls a meeting of all of its creditors with a view to arranging a composition, adjustment or restructuring of its debts, (g) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof admits in writing that it is generally unable to pay its debts as they become due, (h) the Company or any Subsidiary thereof, by any act or failure to act, expressly indicates its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any of the foregoing.
“Beneficial Ownership Limitation” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(d).
“Business Day” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Purchase Agreement.
“Buy-In” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(c)(v).
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“Cash Equivalents” means, as at any date of determination, (a) marketable securities (i) issued or directly and unconditionally guaranteed as to interest and principal by the United States Government, or (ii) issued by any agency of the United States the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, in each case maturing within one year after such date, (b) certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances maturing within one year after such date and issued or accepted by any Holder or by any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia that (i) is at least “adequately capitalized” (as defined in the regulations of its primary Federal banking regulator), and (ii) has Tier 1 capital (as defined in such regulations) of not less than $100,000,000, and (c) shares of any money market mutual fund that (i) has substantially all of its assets invested continuously in the types of investments referred to in clause (a)above, (ii) has net assets of not less than $500,000,000, and (iii) has the highest rating obtainable from either S&P or Moody’s.
“Change of Control Put Notice” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(b).
“Change of Control Put Right” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(b).
“Change of Control Put Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(b).
“Change of Control Transaction” means the occurrence after the Original Issue Date of any of (a) an acquisition by an individual or legal entity or “group” (as described in Rule 13d-5(b)(1) promulgated under the Exchange Act) of effective control (whether through legal or beneficial ownership of shares of the Company, by contract or otherwise) of in excess of 50% of the voting shares of the Company (other than by means of conversion or exercise of the Note and the Securities issued together with the Note), (b) the Company merges into or consolidates with any other Person, or any Person merges into or consolidates with the Company and, after giving effect to such transaction, the shareholders of the Company immediately prior to such transaction (directly or indirectly) own less than 50% of the aggregate voting power of the Company or the successor entity of such transaction, or (c) the Company, directly or indirectly, sells or transfers all or substantially all of its assets to another Person other than parties to the Security Documents reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
“Closing Sale Price” means, for any security as of any date, the last closing trade price for such security on the Principal Market, as reported by Bloomberg, or, if the Principal Market begins to operate on an extended hours basis and does not designate the closing trade price then the last trade price of such security prior to 4:00:00 p.m., New York time, as reported by Bloomberg, or, if the Principal Market is not the principal securities exchange or trading market for such security, the last trade price of such security on the principal securities exchange or trading market where such security is listed or traded as reported by Bloomberg, or if the foregoing do not apply, the last trade price of such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no last trade price is reported for such security by Bloomberg, the average of the bid prices, or the ask prices, respectively, of any market makers for such security as reported in The Pink Open Market (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices). If the Closing Sale Price cannot be calculated for a security on a particular date on any of the foregoing bases, the Closing Sale Price of such security on such date shall be the fair market value as reasonably determined by the Company in good faith. Subject to Section 4(d), if the Holder shall object to any such fair market value determination by the Company, then such dispute shall be resolved in accordance with the procedures in Section 25. All such determinations shall be appropriately adjusted for any stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations, recapitalizations or other similar transactions during such period.
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“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended .
“Common Stock Equivalents” means any securities of the Company or the Subsidiaries which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time shares of Common Stock, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, right, option, warrant or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, shares of Common Stock.
“Conversion Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a).
“Conversion Failure” has the meaning set in Section 4(c)(iii).
“Conversion Notice” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a).
“Conversion Price” means, as applicable, the Fixed Conversion Price, the Redemption Conversion Price or the Alternate Conversion Price.
“Conversion Shares” means shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon any conversion of this Note.
“Cure Period” has the meaning given in Section 8(a)(ii).
“Disqualified Stock” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any equity interests of such Person that, by their terms (or by the terms of any security or other equity interests into which such equity interests are convertible or exchangeable) or upon the happening of any event or condition (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Note) (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable for cash, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, (b) is redeemable for cash at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part, (c) provides for the scheduled payments of dividends in cash, or (d) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other equity interests that would constitute Disqualified Stock, in each case, prior to the Maturity Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing: (i) any equity interests issued to any employee or to any plan for the benefit of employees of the Company or the Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees shall not constitute Disqualified Stock solely because they may be required to be repurchased by the Company in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of such employee’s termination, death or disability and (ii) any class of equity interests of such Person that by its terms provides that obligations thereunder will be satisfied by delivery of shares of Common Stock shall not be deemed to be Disqualified Stock.
“DWAC Eligible” means that (a) the shares of Common Stock are eligible at DTC for full services pursuant to DTC’s Operational Arrangements, including transfer through DTC’s DWAC system, (b) the Company has been approved (without revocation) by the DTC’s underwriting department, (c) the Transfer Agent is approved as an agent in the DTC/FAST Program, (d) the Conversion Shares are otherwise eligible for delivery via DWAC, and (e) the Transfer Agent does not have a policy prohibiting or limiting delivery of the Conversion Shares via DWAC.
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“Early Redemption Premium” means 115%
“Effectiveness Deadline” has the meaning given such term in the Registration Rights Agreement.
“Event of Default” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8(a).
“Event of Default Redemption Right Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 8(b).
“Exchange Cap” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(e).
“Exchange Cap Allocation” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(e).
“Fixed Conversion Price” means a price equal to $0.35 per share, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 5 (but not lower than the prevailing Floor Price).
“Floor Price” means 20% of the “Minimum Price” (as defined in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635) on the trading day prior to the date of the Purchase Agreement, which is initially $0.06 (subject to adjustment for stock splits, Stock Dividends or stock combinations); provided that the Floor Price shall automatically reset (a “Floor Price Reset”) on each date that is six (6) months after the date of the Purchase Agreement (and each successive 6 month anniversary thereafter) (each, a “Floor Price Reset Date”) to equal 20% of the “Minimum Price” (as defined in the rules and regulations of the Nasdaq Stock Market) on the Trading Day immediately preceding such Floor Price Reset Date. In addition, the Company may voluntarily reduce (and only reduce) the Floor Price in its sole discretion by providing written notice of such reduction to the Holder.
“Floor Price Condition” means if, at any time, the Redemption Conversion Price (disregarding, for purposes of this definition, the proviso to the definition of Redemption Conversion Price) is below the Floor Price for five (5) or more Trading Days out of any seven (7) consecutive Trading Day Period. The existence of a Floor Price condition shall only be deemed to have been cured and no longer continuing following the reduction of the Floor Price pursuant to a Floor Price Reset.
“Freely Tradable” means that the Conversion Shares (i) can be traded by a holder thereof that is not an Affiliate of the Company and has not been an Affiliate of the Company for the immediately preceding 90 days, or pursuant to an effective Registration Statement and (ii) are issued upon conversion of this Note free of restrictive legends.
“Fundamental Transaction” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.
“Holder” or “Holders” means the persons in whose name the Notes are registered on the Note Register.
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“Indebtedness” of a Person shall include (a) all obligations for borrowed money or the deferred purchase price of property or services including without limitation, merchant cash advances (excluding trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (b) all obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, or other similar instruments and all reimbursement or other obligations in respect of letters of credit, surety bonds, bankers acceptances, currency swap agreements, interest rate hedging agreements, interest rate swaps or other financial products, (c) all capital lease obligations (as determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP), (d) all obligations or liabilities secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, irrespective of whether such obligation or liability is assumed by such Person, (e) any obligation arising with respect to any other transaction that is the functional equivalent of borrowing but which does not constitute a liability on the balance sheets of such Person (excluding trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (f) Disqualified Stock, and (g) any obligation guaranteeing or intended to guarantee (whether directly or indirectly guaranteed, endorsed, co-made, discounted or sold with recourse) any of the foregoing obligations of any other Person.
“Investments” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition (including by merger) of equity interests of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, guarantee or assumption of debt of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or interest in, another Person, or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of assets of another Person that constitutes a business unit or all or a substantial part of the business of, such Person.
“Liens” means any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or other encumbrance upon or in any property or assets (including accounts and contract rights) owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Monthly Redemption Conversion Amount” means, with respect to any Monthly Redemption Conversion Period, the portion of Outstanding Value designated by the Holder for conversion.
“Monthly Redemption Conversion Period” means (i) for the initial period, the time commencing on the date that is seven (7) days following the Effectiveness Deadline and ending following the market close on the last Trading Day of such calendar month, and (ii) thereafter, each period beginning on the first Trading Day of the following calendar month and ending on the last Trading Day of such calendar month.
“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investor Services, Inc.
“New York Courts” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 9(d).
“Note Register” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b).
“Optional Redemption” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(a).
“Optional Redemption Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(a).
“Optional Redemption Notice” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(a).
“Optional Redemption Notice Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 6(a).
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“Original Issue Date” means the date of the first issuance of the Notes, regardless of any transfers of any Note and regardless of the number of instruments which may be issued to evidence such Notes.
“Outstanding Principal Amount” means, at the time of determination, the Original Principal Amount outstanding after giving effect to any conversions, redemptions or payments pursuant to the terms hereof.
“Outstanding Value”, as of any time of determination, means the Outstanding Principal Amount of this Note, accrued and unpaid interest and accrued and unpaid on such Outstanding Principal Amount, interest and any other unpaid amounts pursuant to the Transaction Documents, in each case, as of such time of determination.
“Participant Register” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b).
“Permitted Dispositions” means (a) sales of inventory and product in the ordinary course of business and (b) dispositions of worn out, obsolete, surplus or unneeded equipment or other property in the ordinary course of business.
“Permitted Indebtedness” means (a) the Indebtedness evidenced by the Note and the other Transaction Documents, (b) the Indebtedness existing on the Original Issue Date and disclosed in the SEC Reports (as defined in the Purchase Agreement), (c) unsecured Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business and not exceeding $500,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding, and (d) Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business in respect of credit cards in an amount not to exceed $50,000 at any one time in the aggregate.
“Permitted Lien” means the individual and collective reference to the following: (a) Liens in favor of Holder or the Collateral Agent, (b) any Lien for taxes not yet due or delinquent or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings for which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with U.S. GAAP, (c) any statutory Lien arising in the ordinary course of business by operation of law with respect to a liability that is not yet due or delinquent, and (d) any Lien created by operation of law, such as materialmen’s liens, mechanics’ liens and other similar liens, arising in the ordinary course of business with respect to a liability that is not yet due or delinquent or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings.
“Principal Market” means the principal Trading Market for the shares of Common Stock.
“Purchase Agreement” means the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of August 16, 2026, among the Company and the original Holders, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms.
“Redemption Conversion” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(d)(i).
“Redemption Conversion Price” means a price equal to the lesser of: (i) the Fixed Conversion Price then in effect; (ii) 90% of the lowest daily VWAP during the seven (7) consecutive Trading Days ending on and including the applicable date of the applicable Redemption Conversion; and (iii) 90% of the lowest daily VWAP during the seven (7) consecutive Trading Days ending on and including the first Trading Day of the applicable Monthly Redemption Conversion Period; provided, that the Redemption Conversion Price shall not be less than the Floor Price.
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“Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of the date of the Purchase Agreement, among the Company and the original Holders, in the form of Exhibit B attached to the Purchase Agreement.
“Registration Statement” means an effective Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) covering the resale of a number of Conversion Shares equal to the Required Reserve Amount under the Securities Act filed by the Company pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.
“Required Reserve Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 4(c)(vi).
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of The McGraw Hill Corporation.
“Share Delivery Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(c)(ii).
“Stock Dividend” means the Company’s issuance of solely shares of Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on all or substantially all shares of Common Stock.
“Successor Entity” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(a).
“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 shares of Common Stock are listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE American, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the New York Stock Exchange (or any successors to any of the foregoing).
“Trading Market Default” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8(a)(xi).
“Transfer Agent” means VStock Transfer, LLC, the current transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 18 Lafayette Place, Woodmere, New York 11590 and an email address of action@vstocktransfer.com, and any successor transfer agent of the Company.
“VWAP” means, for any security as of any date, the dollar volume-weighted average price for such security on the Principal Market (or, if the Principal Market is not the principal trading market for such security, then on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which such security is then traded), during the period beginning at 9:30 a.m., New York time, and ending at 4:00 p.m., New York time, as reported by Bloomberg through its “VAP” function (set to 09:30 start time and 16:00 end time) or, if the foregoing does not apply, the dollar volume-weighted average price of such security in the over-the-counter market on the electronic bulletin board for such security during the period beginning at 9:30 a.m., New York time, and ending at 4:00 p.m., New York time, as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no dollar volume-weighted average price is reported for such security by Bloomberg for such hours, the average of the highest closing bid price and the lowest closing ask price of any of the market makers for such security as reported in The Pink Open Market (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices). If the VWAP cannot be calculated for such security on such date on any of the foregoing bases, the VWAP of such security on such date shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company and the Holder. All such determinations shall be appropriately adjusted for any share dividend, share split, recapitalization or other similar transactions during such period.
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Section 2. Payments.
(a) Payment of Interest. The Company shall pay interest (if any) to the Holder on the aggregate unconverted and then Outstanding Principal Amount of this Note (together with any other outstanding amounts owed to the Holder pursuant to the Transaction Documents) at the Applicable Rate, due and payable monthly, on the first Business Day of each calendar month and on the Maturity Date.
(b) Note Register. The Company shall establish and maintain a record of ownership (the “Note Register”) in which it agrees to register by book entry the Holders’ and each subsequent assignee’s name and address and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of Holder’s and each subsequent assignee’s interest in the Notes. Any of the Holders that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Company, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each participant’s interest in the participated Notes (the “Participant Register”); provided that the Holders shall have no obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any participant) to the Company except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that the applicable Note is in registered form under Treasury Regulations Section 5f.103-1(c). The entries in the Note Register and the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error. This Section 2(b) shall be construed so that the Notes are at all times maintained in “registered form” within the meaning of Sections 163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Code, and any related regulations (or any successor provisions of the Code or such regulations).
(c) Interest Calculations. Interest shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed, consisting of twelve 30 calendar day periods, and shall accrue daily (but without compounding) commencing on the Original Issue Date until payment in full of the Outstanding Principal Amount of this Note, together with all accrued and unpaid interest and other amounts which may become due hereunder, has been made. Interest shall cease to accrue with respect to any principal amount converted, provided that, the Company actually delivers the Conversion Shares within the time period required by Section 4(c)(ii). Interest hereunder will be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered on the Note Register. The rates of interest under this Note are nominal rates, and not effective rates or yields. The principle of deemed reinvestment of interest does not apply to any interest calculation under this Note.
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(d) Monthly Redemption.
(i) In addition to, and not in limitation of, the Holder’s rights under Section 4 of this Note, the Holder may, during each Monthly Redemption Conversion Period, convert the applicable Monthly Redemption Conversion Amount into Freely Tradable Conversion Shares (each a “Redemption Conversion”). During each Monthly Redemption Conversion Period, the Holder may submit one or more Conversion Notices to convert all or a portion of the Monthly Redemption Conversion Amount at the Redemption Conversion Price as of the Conversion Date. All conversions under this Section 2(d)(i) shall be effected in accordance with the provisions of Section 4 but using the Redemption Conversion Price in lieu of the Fixed Conversion Price. Each Conversion Notice shall specify the amount of the Monthly Redemption Conversion Amount to be converted and the Redemption Conversion Price. Each conversion pursuant to this Section 2(d)(i) shall be applied (a) first, to pay accrued interest as of the applicable Conversion Date (if any) and (b) second, to reduce other amounts owed pursuant to the Transaction Documents, and (c) third, to reduce the Outstanding Principal Amount included in such applicable Monthly Redemption Conversion Amount.
(ii) The Holder may, at any time prior to the expiration of a Monthly Redemption Conversion Period, defer all or any portion of the applicable Monthly Redemption Conversion Amount (“Deferred” and amount Deferred a “Deferral Amount”) to a later Monthly Redemption Conversion Period at its sole discretion, evidenced in writing (which may be by e-mail) in which case, the Deferral Amount shall be added to, and become part of, such subsequent Monthly Redemption Conversion Amount. In addition, the Company may, in its sole discretion, permit the Holder to increase any Monthly Redemption Conversion Amount to a greater amount, but not in excess of the Outstanding Value.
(iii) To the extent that (x) the Company would be prohibited from issuing shares of Common Stock pursuant this Section 2(d) due to the Exchange Cap (a “Redemption Default”) or (y) there is a Floor Price Condition, the Holder may require, at the Holder’s election by delivery of a written notice to the Company (which may be e-mail), the Company to redeem a portion of the Outstanding Value per Monthly Redemption Conversion Period in cash payments equal to the sum of (x) the Monthly Redemption Conversion Amount plus (y) a 7.5% payment premium in respect of each payment of the Monthly Redemption Conversion Amount (collectively, the “Cash Redemption Price”). The Company shall make each such redemption in cash by not later than the last Trading Day of the applicable Monthly Redemption Conversion Period for which the Holder has required such redemption.
(iv) Following the 75th calendar day anniversary of the Closing Date (as defined in the Purchase Agreement), if the Company is unable to issue Freely Tradable Conversion Shares (whether due to the Exchange Cap, any limitation under the applicable rules or regulations of the Principal Market, the lack of an effective Registration Statement, or other listing issues), the Company shall make monthly redemptions of the Outstanding Value of this Note in cash equal to the lesser of (x) $1,000,000 and (y) the entire Outstanding Value plus a redemption premium equal to 107.5% of the amount being redeemed (each, a “Monthly Cash Redemption”). The Company shall make each Monthly Cash Redemption in cash by not later than the last Trading Day of the applicable calendar month.
(e) Prepayment. Except as otherwise set forth herein, including Section 6(a), the Company may not prepay all or any part of this Note.
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(f) Application of Payments. All payments made under this Note shall be applied first to the payment of any fees or charges outstanding pursuant to the Transaction Documents, second to interest to the Holder on the aggregate unconverted and then Outstanding Principal Amount of this Note in accordance with the provisions hereof, third, to other amounts due and payable hereunder other than the Outstanding Principal Amount of this Note, and fourth, to the payment of the Outstanding Principal Amount of this Note, or in such other order as determined by the Holder in its reasonable discretion.
Section 3. Registration of Transfers and Exchanges.
(a) Different Denominations. This Note is exchangeable for an equal aggregate principal amount of Notes of different authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same. No service charge will be payable for such registration of transfer or exchange.
(b) Investment Representations. This Note has been issued subject to certain investment representations of the original Holder set forth in the Purchase Agreement and may be transferred or exchanged only in compliance with the Purchase Agreement and applicable federal and state securities laws and regulations.
(c) Reliance on Note Register. Prior to due presentment for transfer to the Company of this Note, the Company and any agent of the Company may treat the Person in whose name this Note is duly registered on the Note Register as the owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment as herein provided and for all other purposes, whether or not this Note is overdue, and neither the Company nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Section 4. Conversion.
(a) Voluntary Conversion. At any time, and from time to time, until this Note is no longer outstanding, the Outstanding Value of this Note shall, at the option of the Holder (subject to the conversion limitations set forth in Section 4(c)) be convertible, in whole or in part, into shares of Common Stock at the Fixed Conversion Price. The Holder shall effect conversions by delivering to the Company a Conversion Notice, the form of which is attached hereto as Annex A (each, a “Conversion Notice”), specifying therein the Outstanding Value of this Note to be converted, or with respect to a Redemption Conversion, the Monthly Redemption Conversion Amount to be converted, the applicable Conversion Price, and the date on which such conversion shall be effected (such date, the “Conversion Date”). If no Conversion Date is specified in a Conversion Notice, the Conversion Date shall be the date that such Conversion Notice is deemed delivered hereunder. No ink-original Conversion Notice shall be required, nor shall any medallion guarantee (or other type of guarantee or notarization) of any Conversion Notice form be required. To effect conversions hereunder, the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Note to the Company unless the entire Outstanding Value of this Note has been so converted in which case the Holder shall surrender this Note as promptly as is reasonably practicable after such conversion without delaying the Company’s obligation to deliver the shares on the Share Delivery Date. Conversions hereunder shall have the effect of reducing the Outstanding Value of this Note in an amount equal to the applicable Outstanding Value converted. The Holder and the Company shall maintain records showing the Outstanding Value converted and the date of such conversion(s). In the event of any dispute or discrepancy, the records of the Holder shall be controlling and determinative in the absence of manifest error. The Holder, and any assignee by acceptance of this Note, acknowledge and agree that, by reason of the provisions of this paragraph, following conversion of a portion of this Note, the unpaid and unconverted principal amount of this Note may be less than the amount stated on the face hereof.
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(b) Intentionally Omitted.
(c) Mechanics of Conversion and Delivery of Conversion Shares.
(i) Conversion Shares Issuable Upon Conversion; Adjustment of Conversion Price. The number of Conversion Shares issuable upon a conversion pursuant to Section 2(d)(i), Section 4 and Section 8 hereunder shall be determined by the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the Outstanding Value of this Note to be converted by (y) the applicable Conversion Price. On or before the first (1st) Trading Day following the date of receipt of a Conversion Notice with respect to a Redemption Conversion and with respect to Alternate Conversions pursuant to Section 8, if the applicable Redemption Conversion Price or Alternate Conversion Price is less than the “redemption conversion price”, or “alternate conversion price”, as applicable, specified on such Conversion Notice, the Holder may deliver an updated Conversion Notice to the Company correcting the Redemption Conversion Price or Alternate Conversion Price (and aggregate number of Conversion Shares to be issued) as specified in such Conversion Notice, provided, that if such updated Conversion Notice is not delivered to the Company on or prior to 9:30am, New York time on the Trading Day immediately following the applicable Conversion Date or Alternate Conversion Date, as applicable, the applicable Share Delivery Date shall be extended by one (1) Trading Day.
(ii) Delivery of Conversion Shares Upon Conversion. Not later than the number of Trading Days comprising the Standard Settlement Period (as defined below) after each Conversion Date or Alternate Conversion Date (the “Share Delivery Date”), the Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Holder the Conversion Shares which shall be Freely Tradable and free of restrictive legends representing the number of Conversion Shares being acquired upon the conversion of this Note. The Company shall deliver any Conversion Shares required to be delivered by the Company under this Section 4(c) electronically through the Depository Trust Company or another established clearing corporation performing similar functions. As used herein, “Standard Settlement Period” means the standard settlement period, expressed in a number of Trading Days, on the Principal Market as in effect on the date of delivery of the Conversion Notice. To the extent that the delivery of Conversion Shares in connection with a Conversion Notice would result in the Holder exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, and the Holder does not elect in writing to withdraw, in whole, such Conversion Notice, the Company shall hold such Conversion Shares in abeyance for the benefit of the Holder until such time as such Conversion Notice may be satisfied without exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (with such calculations thereunder made as of the date such Conversion Notice was initially delivered to the Company).
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(iii) Failure to Deliver Conversion Shares. If, in the case of any Conversion Notice, such Conversion Shares are not delivered to or as directed by the applicable Holder by the Share Delivery Date (a “Conversion Failure”), the Holder shall be entitled to elect by written notice to the Company at any time on or before its receipt of such Conversion Shares, to rescind such Conversion Notice, in which event the Company shall promptly return to the Holder any original Note delivered to the Company and the Holder shall promptly return to the Company the Conversion Shares issued to such Holder pursuant to the rescinded Conversion Notice.
(iv) Obligation Absolute. The Company’s obligations to issue and deliver the Conversion Shares upon conversion of this Note in accordance with the terms hereof are absolute and unconditional, irrespective of any action or inaction by the Holder to enforce the same, any waiver or consent with respect to any provision hereof, the recovery of any judgment against any Person or any action to enforce the same, or any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, limitation or termination, or any breach or alleged breach by the Holder or any other Person of any obligation to the Company or any violation or alleged violation of law by the Holder or any other Person, and irrespective of any other circumstance which might otherwise limit such obligation of the Company to the Holder in connection with the issuance of such Conversion Shares; provided, however, that such delivery shall not operate as a waiver by the Company of any such action the Company may have against the Holder. In connection with the Holder’s conversion of amounts due under this Note in accordance with the terms of the Note, the Company may not refuse conversion based on any claim that the Holder or anyone associated or affiliated with the Holder has been engaged in any violation of law, agreement or for any other reason, unless an injunction from a court, on notice to Holder, restraining and or enjoining conversion of all or part of this Note shall have been sought and obtained, and the Company posts a surety bond for the benefit of the Holder in the amount of 200% of the Outstanding Value of this Note which is subject to the injunction, which bond shall remain in effect until the completion of arbitration/litigation of the underlying dispute and the proceeds of which shall be payable to the Holder to the extent it obtains judgment. In the absence of such injunction, the Company shall issue Conversion Shares and, if applicable, cash, upon a properly noticed conversion. Nothing in this Note shall limit a Holder’s right (1) to pursue actual damages, (2) lost profit resulting from or caused by the Company’s failure to honor any duly submitted conversion notice or its repudiation of its obligation to honor conversions in accordance with the terms of this Note or (3) declare an Event of Default pursuant to Section 8 for the Company’s failure to deliver Conversion Shares within the period specified herein. Without limiting the foregoing, the Holder shall have the right to pursue all remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief. The exercise of any such rights shall not prohibit the Holder from seeking to enforce damages pursuant to any other Section hereof or under applicable law.
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(v) Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver Conversion Shares Upon Conversion. In addition to any other rights available to the Holder, if the Company fails for any reason to deliver to the Holder such Conversion Shares by the Share Delivery Date pursuant to Section 4(c)(ii), and if after such Share Delivery Date the Holder is required by its brokerage firm to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise), or the Holder’s brokerage firm otherwise purchases, shares of Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Holder of the Conversion Shares which the Holder was entitled to receive upon the conversion relating to such Share Delivery Date (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall (A) pay in cash to the Holder (in addition to any other remedies available to or elected by the Holder) the amount, if any, by which (x) the Holder’s total purchase price (including any brokerage commissions) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the product of (1) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that the Holder was entitled to receive from the conversion at issue multiplied by (2) the actual sale price at which the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed (including any brokerage commissions) and (B) at the option of the Holder, either reissue (if surrendered) this Note in a principal amount equal to the principal amount of the attempted conversion (in which case such conversion shall be deemed rescinded) or deliver to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued if the Company had timely complied with its delivery requirements under Section 4(c)(ii). For example, if the Holder purchases shares of Common Stock having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an attempted conversion of this Note with respect to which the actual sale price of the Conversion Shares (including any brokerage commissions) giving rise to such purchase obligation was a total of $10,000 under clause (A) of the immediately preceding sentence, the Company shall be required to pay the Holder $1,000. The Holder shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to the Holder in respect of the Buy-In and, upon request of the Company, evidence of the amount of such loss.
(vi) Reservation of Shares Issuable Upon Conversion. The Company covenants that it will at all times reserve and keep available out of its authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock for the sole purpose of issuance upon conversion of this Note as herein provided, free from preemptive rights or any other actual contingent purchase rights of Persons other than the Holder, an aggregate number of shares of Common Stock equal to 150% of the aggregate number of shares issuable upon conversion of this Note in full at the prevailing Redemption Conversion Price without regard to any limitations on conversion (“Required Reserve Amount”). The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock that shall be so issuable shall, upon issue, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the purpose of this Section 4(c)(vi) is to ensure that Company may issue shares of Common Stock from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and that the reservation of shares of Common Stock pursuant hereto is reasonable in light of the anticipated economic benefits expected by the Company and Holder from conversions of this Note by the Holder. The Company further understands that there are no limitations imposed by Holder on the Company’s ability to, any time, increase the number of its authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock and it is the sole responsibility of the Company to ensure that it has sufficient authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock to comply with its obligations hereunder and to take advantage of opportunities to raise capital from the sale of its securities to third parties. Accordingly, there shall be no presumption that Holder’s requirement that the Company adhere to this Section 4(c)(vi) causes Holder to have any control over the Company’s ability to dispose of authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock.
(vii) Fractional Shares. No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares shall be issued upon the conversion of this Note. As to any fraction of a share which the Holder would otherwise be entitled to purchase upon such conversion, the Company shall at its election, either pay a cash adjustment in respect of such final fraction in an amount equal to such fraction multiplied by the Conversion Price or round up to the next whole share, however, the Company shall have no obligation to pay the Holder if such fraction multiplied by the Conversion Price is less than $1.00.
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(viii) Transfer Taxes and Expenses. The issuance of Conversion Shares on conversion of this Note shall be made without charge to the Holder hereof for any documentary stamp or similar taxes that may be payable in respect of the issue or delivery of such Conversion Shares, provided that the Company shall not be required to pay any tax that may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issuance and delivery of any such Conversion Shares upon conversion in a name other than that of the Holder of this Note so converted and the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver such Conversion Shares unless or until the Person or Persons requesting the issuance thereof shall have paid to the Company the amount of such tax or shall have established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid. The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees required for same-day processing of any Conversion Notice and all fees to the Depository Trust Company (or another established clearing corporation performing similar functions) required for same-day electronic delivery of the Conversion Shares.
(d) Holder’s Conversion Limitations. The Company shall not effect any conversion of this Note, and a Holder shall not have the right to convert any portion of this Note, to the extent that after giving effect to the applicable conversion, the Holder (together with the Holder’s Affiliates, and any other Persons acting as a group together with the Holder or any of the Holder’s Affiliates (such Persons, “Attribution Parties”)) would beneficially own in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (as defined below). For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Holder and its Affiliates and Attribution Parties shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of this Note with respect to which such determination is being made, but shall exclude the number of shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (i) conversion of the remaining, unconverted principal amount of this Note beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its Affiliates or Attribution Parties and (ii) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or unconverted portion of any other securities of the Company subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein (including, without limitation, any other Notes) beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its Affiliates or Attribution Parties. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this Section 4(d), beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. In addition, a determination as to any group status as contemplated above shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. For purposes of this Section 4(d), in determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, the Holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (A) the Company’s most recent periodic or annual report filed with the Commission, as the case may be, (B) a more recent public announcement by the Company, or (C) a more recent written notice by the Company or the Transfer Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding. Upon the written or oral request of a Holder, the Company shall within one Trading Day confirm orally and in writing to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding. In any case, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of securities of the Company, including this Note, by the Holder or its Affiliates since the date as of which such number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported. The “Beneficial Ownership Limitation” shall be 9.99% of the number of shares of the shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of this Note. The Holder, upon notice to the Company, may increase or decrease the Beneficial Ownership Limitation provisions of this Section 4(d), provided that the Beneficial Ownership Limitation in no event exceeds 9.99% of the number of shares of the shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon conversion of this Note held by the Holder and the Beneficial Ownership Limitation provisions of this Section 4(d) shall continue to apply. Any increase in the Beneficial Ownership Limitation will not be effective until the 61st day after such notice is delivered to the Company. The Beneficial Ownership Limitation provisions of this paragraph shall be construed and implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of this Section 4(d) to correct this paragraph (or any portion hereof) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended Beneficial Ownership Limitation contained herein or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such limitation. The limitations contained in this paragraph shall apply to a successor holder of this Note.
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(e) Exchange Cap. The Company shall not issue any shares of Common Stock upon the conversion of this Note if the issuance of such shares of Common Stock would exceed the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock which the Company may issue upon exercise or conversion or otherwise pursuant to the terms of the Notes, the Warrants and the May Securities (each as defined in the Purchase Agreement) without breaching the Company’s obligations under the rules or regulations of the Principal Market, which number of shares is 12,256,260 shares of Common Stock (representing 19.99% of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on the date of the May SPA (as defined in the Purchase Agreement)) (the number of shares which may be issued without violating such rules and regulations, the “Exchange Cap”), except that such limitation shall not apply in the event that the Company (A) obtains the requisite approval of its stockholders to issue shares of Common Stock in excess of the Exchange Cap or (B) obtains a written opinion from outside counsel to the Company that such approval is not required, which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Holder. Until such approval or such written opinion is obtained, no Buyer shall be issued in the aggregate, upon conversion or exercise (as the case may be) of any Notes, Warrants or May Securities or otherwise pursuant to the terms thereof, shares of Common Stock in an amount greater than the product of (i) the Exchange Cap as of the Original Issue Date multiplied by (ii) the quotient of (1) the original principal amount of Notes issued to such Buyer pursuant to the Purchase Agreement on the Closing Date (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) divided by (2) the aggregate original principal amount of all Notes issued to the Buyers pursuant to the Purchase Agreement on the Closing Date (with respect to each Buyer, the “Exchange Cap Allocation”). In the event that any Buyer shall sell or otherwise transfer any of such Buyer’s Notes, the transferee shall be allocated a pro rata portion of such Buyer’s Exchange Cap Allocation with respect to such portion of such Notes so transferred, and the restrictions of the prior sentence shall apply to such transferee with respect to the portion of the Exchange Cap Allocation so allocated to such transferee. Upon conversion and exercise in full of a Buyer’s Notes, the difference (if any) between such Buyer’s Exchange Cap Allocation and the number of shares of Common Stock actually issued to such Buyer upon such Buyer’s conversion in full of such Notes shall be allocated to the respective Exchange Cap Allocations of the remaining Buyers on a pro rata basis in proportion to the shares of Common Stock underlying the Notes then held by each such Buyer.
Section 5. Adjustments.
(a) Fundamental Transaction. If, at any time while this Note is outstanding, (i) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another Person, (ii) the Company (and all of its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole), directly or indirectly, effects any sale, lease, license, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of its assets in one or a series of related transactions, (iii) any, direct or indirect, purchase offer, tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another Person) is completed pursuant to which holders of shares of Common Stock are permitted to sell, tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property and has been accepted by the holders of 50% or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iv) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any reclassification, reorganization or recapitalization of the shares of Common Stock or any compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the shares of Common Stock are effectively converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property, or (v) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions consummates a share or share purchase agreement or other business combination (including, without limitation, a reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off, merger or scheme of arrangement) with another Person or group of Persons whereby such other Person or group acquires more than 50% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (not including any shares of Common Stock held by the other Person or other Persons making or party to, or associated or affiliated with the other Persons making or party to, such share or share purchase agreement or other business combination) (each a “Fundamental Transaction”), then, upon any subsequent conversion of this Note, the Holder shall have the right to receive, for each Conversion Share (assuming conversion at the Alternate Conversion Price for the Trading Day immediately prior to the occurrence of such Fundamental Transaction) that would have been issuable upon such conversion immediately prior to the occurrence of such Fundamental Transaction (without regard to any limitation in Section 4(d) , the number of shares of Common Stock of the successor or acquiring corporation or of the Company, if it is the surviving corporation, and any additional consideration (the “Alternate Consideration”) receivable as a result of such Fundamental Transaction by a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock for which this Note is convertible immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction (without regard to any limitation in Section 4(d). For purposes of any such conversion, the determination of the Alternate Conversion Price shall be appropriately adjusted to apply to such Alternate Consideration based on the amount of Alternate Consideration issuable in respect of one (1) share of shares of Common Stock in such Fundamental Transaction, and the Company shall apportion the Alternate Conversion Price among the Alternate Consideration in a reasonable manner reflecting the relative value of any different components of the Alternate Consideration. If holders of shares of Common Stock are given any choice as to the securities, cash or property to be received in a Fundamental Transaction, then the Holder shall be given the same choice as to the Alternate Consideration it receives upon any conversion of this Note following such Fundamental Transaction. The Company shall cause any successor entity in a Fundamental Transaction in which the Company is not the survivor (the “Successor Entity”) to assume in writing all of the obligations of the Company under this Note and the other Transaction Documents (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5(a) pursuant to written agreements in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Holder and approved by the Holder (without unreasonable delay) prior to such Fundamental Transaction and shall, at the option of the holder of this Note, deliver to the Holder in exchange for this Note a security of the Successor Entity evidenced by a written instrument substantially similar in form and substance to this Note which is convertible for a corresponding number of shares of share capital of such Successor Entity (or its parent entity) equivalent to the shares of Common Stock acquirable and receivable upon conversion of this Note (without regard to any limitations on the conversion of this Note) prior to such Fundamental Transaction, and with a conversion price which applies the conversion price hereunder to such shares of share capital (but taking into account the relative value of the shares of Common Stock pursuant to such Fundamental Transaction and the value of such shares of share capital, such number of shares of share capital and such conversion price being for the purpose of protecting the economic value of this Note immediately prior to the consummation of such Fundamental Transaction), and which is reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Holder. Upon the occurrence of any such Fundamental Transaction, the Successor Entity shall succeed to, and be substituted for (so that from and after the date of such Fundamental Transaction, the provisions of this Note and the other Transaction Documents referring to the “Company” shall refer instead to the Successor Entity), and may exercise every right and power of the Company and shall assume all of the obligations of the Company under this Note and the other Transaction Documents with the same effect as if such Successor Entity had been named as the Company herein.
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(b) Stock Dividends and Stock Splits. If the Company, at any time while this Note is outstanding: (i) pays a share dividend or otherwise makes a distribution or distributions payable in shares of Common Stock on shares of Common Stock or any Common Stock Equivalents (which, for avoidance of doubt, shall not include any shares of Common Stock issued by the Company upon conversion of, or payment of interest on, the Notes), (ii) subdivides outstanding shares of Common Stock into a larger number of shares, (iii) combines (including by way of a reverse share split) outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares or (iv) issues, in the event of a reclassification of shares of the shares of Common Stock, any shares of share capital of the Company, then the Fixed Conversion Price shall be multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding any treasury shares of the Company) outstanding immediately before such event, and of which the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event. Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section shall become effective immediately after the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such dividend or distribution and shall become effective immediately after the effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or reclassification.
(c) Subsequent Equity Sales. If, at any time while this Note is outstanding, the Company or any Subsidiary, as applicable, sells or grants any option to purchase or sells or grants any right to reprice, or otherwise disposes of or issues (or announces any sale, grant or any option to purchase or other disposition), any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents entitling any Person to acquire shares of Common Stock at an effective price per share that is lower than the then the Fixed Conversion Price (such issuances, collectively, a “Dilutive Issuance”) (if the holder of the shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents so issued shall at any time, whether by operation of purchase price adjustments, reset provisions, floating conversion, exercise or exchange prices or otherwise, or due to warrants, options or rights per share which are issued in connection with such issuance, be entitled to receive shares of Common Stock at an effective price per share that is lower than the Fixed Conversion Price, such issuance shall be deemed to have occurred for less than the Fixed Conversion Price on such date of the Dilutive Issuance), then simultaneously with the consummation (or, if earlier, the announcement) of each Dilutive Issuance the Fixed Conversion Price shall be reduced (but never increased) to equal the lower of (a) the effective price per share of such Dilutive Issuance and (b) the lowest VWAP for the shares of Common Stock during the five (5) Trading Days following the consummation or announcement (if earlier) of such Dilutive Issuance (the lowest of (a) and (b), the “Base Fixed Conversion Price”). If the Company enters into a Variable Rate Transaction, despite the prohibition set forth in the Purchase Agreement, the Company shall be deemed to have issued shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents at the lowest possible conversion price at which such securities may be converted or exercised. The Company shall notify the Holder in writing, no later than the Trading Day following the issuance of any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents subject to this Section 5(c), indicating therein the applicable issuance price, or applicable reset price, exchange price, conversion price and other pricing terms (such notice, the “Dilutive Issuance Notice”). For purposes of clarification, whether or not the Company provides a Dilutive Issuance Notice pursuant to this Section 5(c), upon the occurrence of any Dilutive Issuance, the Holder is entitled to receive a number of Conversion Shares for a conversion under Section 4(a) based upon the Base Fixed Conversion Price on or after the date of such Dilutive Issuance, regardless of whether the Holder accurately refers to the Base Fixed Conversion Price in the applicable Conversion Notice.
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(d) Subsequent Rights Offerings. In addition to any adjustments pursuant to Section 5(a) above, if at any time the Company grants, issues or sells any Common Stock Equivalents or rights to purchase shares, warrants, securities or other property pro rata to the record holders of any class of shares of Common Stock (the “Purchase Rights”), then the Holder will be entitled to acquire, upon the terms applicable to such Purchase Rights, the aggregate Purchase Rights which the Holder could have acquired if the Holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon complete conversion of this Note at the Alternate Conversion Price (without regard to any limitations on exercise hereof, including without limitation, the Beneficial Ownership Limitation) immediately before the date on which a record is taken for the grant, issuance or sale of such Purchase Rights, or, if no such record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of shares of Common Stock are to be determined for the grant, issue or sale of such Purchase Rights (provided, however, that, to the extent that the Holder’s right to participate in any such Purchase Right would result in the Holder exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, then the Holder shall not be entitled to participate in such Purchase Right to such extent (or beneficial ownership of such shares of Common Stock as a result of such Purchase Right to such extent) and such Purchase Right to such extent shall be held in abeyance for the Holder until such time, if ever, as its right thereto would not result in the Holder exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation).
(e) Pro Rata Distributions. During such time as this Note is outstanding, if the Company shall declare or make any dividend or other distribution of its assets (or rights to acquire its assets) to holders of shares of Common Stock, by way of return of capital or otherwise (including, without limitation, any distribution of cash, shares or other securities, property or options by way of a dividend, spin off, reclassification, corporate rearrangement, scheme of arrangement or other similar transaction) (a “Distribution”), at any time after the issuance of this Note, then, in each such case, the Holder shall be entitled to participate in such Distribution to the same extent that the Holder would have participated therein if the Holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon complete conversion of this Note at the Alternate Conversion Price (without regard to any limitations on conversion hereof, including without limitation, the Beneficial Ownership Limitation) immediately before the date of which a record is taken for such Distribution, or, if no such record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of shares of Common Stock are to be determined for the participation in such Distribution (provided, however, that, to the extent that the Holder’s right to participate in any such Distribution would result in the Holder exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, then the Holder shall not be entitled to participate in such Distribution to such extent (or in the beneficial ownership of any shares of Common Stock as a result of such Distribution to such extent) and the portion of such Distribution shall be held in abeyance for the benefit of the Holder until such time, if ever, as its right thereto would not result in the Holder exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation).
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(f) Voluntary Adjustment by Company. The Company may at any time during the term of this Note, with the prior written consent of the Holder reduce the then current Fixed Conversion Price or Redemption Conversion Price of each of the Notes to any amount and for any period of time deemed appropriate by the board of directors of the Company.
(g) Calculations. All calculations under this Section 5 shall be made to the nearest cent or the nearest 1/100th of a share, as the case may be. For purposes of this Section 5, the number of shares of Common Stock deemed to be issued and outstanding as of a given date shall be the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding any treasury shares of the Company) issued and outstanding.
(h) Notice to the Holder.
(i) Adjustment to Fixed Conversion Price. Whenever the Fixed Conversion Price is adjusted pursuant to any provision of this Section 5, the Company shall promptly deliver to each Holder a notice setting forth the Fixed Conversion Price after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment.
(ii) Notice to Allow Conversion by Holder. If (A) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution in whatever form) on the shares of Common Stock, (B) the Company shall declare a special nonrecurring cash dividend on or a redemption of the shares of Common Stock, (C) the Company shall authorize the granting to all holders of the shares of Common Stock of rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of share capital of any class or of any rights, (D) the approval of any shareholders of the Company shall be required in connection with any reclassification of the shares of Common Stock, any consolidation or merger to which the Company(and all of its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole) is a party, any sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or any compulsory share exchange whereby the shares of Common Stock are converted into other securities, cash or property or (E) the Company shall authorize the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the affairs of the Company, then, in each case, the Company shall cause to be filed at each office or agency maintained for the purpose of conversion of this Note, and shall cause to be delivered to the Holder at its last address as it shall appear upon the Note Register, at least twenty (20) calendar days prior to the applicable record or effective date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, redemption, rights or warrants, or if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of the shares of Common Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distributions, redemption, rights or warrants are to be determined or (y) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange is expected to become effective or close, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of the shares of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of the shares of Common Stock for securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange, provided that the failure to deliver such notice or any defect therein or in the delivery thereof shall not affect the validity of the corporate action required to be specified in such notice. To the extent that any notice provided hereunder constitutes, or contains, material, non-public information regarding the Company or any of the Subsidiaries, the Company shall simultaneously file such notice with the Commission pursuant to a Current Report Form 8-K. For the avoidance of doubt, the Holder shall remain entitled to convert this Note during the 20-day period commencing on the date of such notice through the effective date of the event triggering such notice except as may otherwise be expressly set forth herein.
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Section 6. Redemption.
(a) Optional Redemption at Election of Company. At any time after the date that is 40 Trading Days after the initial Registration Statement filed pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement has been declared effective, and prior to the Maturity Date, provided that (i) no Event of Default then exists, (ii) on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Optional Redemption Notice Date the Closing Sale Price was not greater than the Fixed Conversion Price, and (iii) the Company is not in possession of any material, non-public information expected to positively impact the trading price of the Common Stock, the Company may deliver a written notice to the Holder (an “Optional Redemption Notice” and the date such notice is deemed delivered hereunder, the “Optional Redemption Notice Date”) of its irrevocable election to redeem this Note for cash in an amount equal to the Outstanding Value multiplied by the Early Redemption Premium (the “Optional Redemption Amount”) on the 15th Trading Day following the Optional Redemption Notice Date (such date, the “Optional Redemption Date”, such 15 Trading Day period, the “Optional Redemption Period” and such redemption, the “Optional Redemption”). The Optional Redemption Amount is payable in full on the Optional Redemption Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock exceeds the Fixed Conversion Price on any Trading Day during the Optional Redemption Period, the Optional Redemption Notice shall be deemed automatically revoked and of no further force or effect, and the Company shall not be permitted to consummate the Optional Redemption.
(b) Notice of a Change of Control Put Right. The Holder may require the Company to redeem (the “Change of Control Put Right”) all of the Outstanding Value of this Note at any time following the earlier of (a) the Company’s consummation of a Change of Control Transaction or (b) public announcement of such Change of Control Transaction until the 20th Trading Day following the latest of (x) the consummation of such Change of Control Transaction and (y) the public announcement of such Change of Control Transaction (the “Change of Control Put Period”) at a price payable in cash equal to the greater of (the “Change of Control Redemption Price”):
(i) The applicable Outstanding Value to be redeemed multiplied by the Early Redemption Premium; and
(ii) the product of (A) the applicable Outstanding Value to be redeemed and (B) the quotient obtained by dividing (1) the aggregate per-share consideration payable to holders of Common Stock in such Change of Control Transaction (with any non-cash consideration valued, in the case of publicly traded securities, at the highest Closing Sale Price thereof during the period from the Trading Day immediately prior to the public announcement of such Change of Control Transaction through the Trading Day immediately following consummation thereof), by (2) the Alternate Conversion Price then in effect.
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The Holder may exercise the Change of Control Put Right by delivering a written notice to the Company, at any time during the Change of Control Put Period , specifying that the Note is to be redeemed, and then the applicable Change of Control Redemption Price be due and payable in cash on the 3rd Trading Day following the Company’s receipt of such notice (“Change of Control Put Notice”). The Company shall, to the extent legally permissible and within the Company’s control, publicly announce any Change of Control Transaction at least 45 Trading Days prior to the consummation thereof, but, in any case, the Company shall make such announcement no later than 30 Trading Days prior to the consummation of the applicable Change of Control Transaction. Notwithstanding the foregoing until the Change of Control Redemption Price has been paid in full, the Outstanding Value subject to such redemption may be converted, in whole or in part, at the option of the Holder in accordance with this Note.
(c) Subsequent Placement Redemption Right. At any time from and after the earlier of (x) the date of the public announcement of a Placement (the “Holder Notice Date”) and (y) the time of consummation of a Placement (in each case, other than with respect to Excluded Securities and subject to exceptions under the Purchase Agreement) (each, an “Eligible Subsequent Placement”), the Holder shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to require that the Company redeem (each an “Subsequent Placement Optional Redemption”) all, or any portion, of the Outstanding Value under this Note at a price equal to the product of (a) the Early Redemption Premium multiplied by (b) the Outstanding Value being redeemed, not to exceed thirty percent (30%) of the gross proceeds from all Eligible Subsequent Placements (the “Eligible Subsequent Placement Optional Redemption Amount”) by delivering written notice thereof (an “Subsequent Placement Optional Redemption Notice”) to the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Holder is participating in an Eligible Subsequent Placement, upon the written request of the Holder, the Company shall apply all, or any part, as set forth in such written request, of any amounts that would otherwise be payable to the Holder in such Subsequent Placement Optional Redemption, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, against the purchase price of the securities to be purchased by the Holder in such Eligible Subsequent Placement. Each Subsequent Placement Optional Redemption Notice shall indicate that all, or such applicable portion, as set forth in the applicable Subsequent Placement Optional Redemption Notice, of the Eligible Subsequent Placement Optional Redemption Amount the Holder is electing to have redeemed (the “Subsequent Placement Optional Redemption Amount”) and the date of such Subsequent Placement Optional Redemption (the “Subsequent Placement Optional Redemption Date”), which shall be the date of the consummation of such Eligible Subsequent Placement. The portion of the Outstanding Value of this Note subject to redemption pursuant to this Section 6(c) shall be redeemed by the Company in cash at a price equal to the Subsequent Placement Optional Redemption Amount (or applicable portion thereof) (the “Subsequent Placement Optional Redemption Price”). For purposes of this Section 6(c), “Placement” shall have the meaning set forth in the Purchase Agreement and shall include, without limitation, any sales of shares of Common Stock pursuant to an ATM Program (as defined in the Purchase Agreement), and the gross proceeds from any such ATM Program sales shall be included in calculating the Eligible Subsequent Placement Optional Redemption Amount.
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Section 7. Covenants.
(a) Affirmative Covenants. As long as any portion of this Note remains outstanding, the Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to:
(i) The Company shall maintain and preserve, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain and preserve (except where otherwise permitted hereunder), all of its properties which are necessary or useful in the proper conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and comply, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to comply, at all times with the provisions of all leases to which it is a party as lessee or under which it occupies property, so as to prevent any loss or forfeiture thereof or thereunder except where such failure would not individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(ii) The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, take all action necessary or advisable to maintain all of the Intellectual Property Rights of the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries that are necessary or material to the conduct of its business in full force and effect. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company shall at all times maintain directors’ and officers’ liability insurance coverage in an aggregate amount of not less than $5,000,000, with insurers of recognized financial responsibility;
(iii) The Company shall maintain, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain, insurance with responsible and reputable insurance companies or associations (including, without limitation, comprehensive general liability, hazard, rent and business interruption insurance) with respect to its properties (including all real properties leased or owned by it) and business, in such amounts and covering such risks as is required by any governmental authority having jurisdiction with respect thereto or as is carried generally in accordance with sound business practice by companies in similar businesses similarly situated (including, without limitation, and for the avoidance of doubt, director’s and officer’s insurance of ($5,000,000);
(iv) The Company and its Subsidiaries shall pay when due all taxes, fees or other charges of any nature whatsoever (together with any related interest or penalties) now or hereafter imposed or assessed against the Company and its Subsidiaries or their respective assets or upon their ownership, possession, use, operation or disposition thereof or upon their rents, receipts or earnings arising therefrom (except where the failure to pay would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries);
(v) The Company shall and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to (a) comply with all laws applicable to it and its business and its obligations under its contracts and agreements, in each case, in all material respects and (b) maintain in effect and enforce policies and procedures reasonably designed to achieve compliance in all material respects by the Company and its directors, officers, employees and agents with anti-corruption laws, anti-terrorism laws, and applicable sanctions;
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(b) Negative Covenants. As long as any portion of this Note remains outstanding, the Company shall not, and shall not permit its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly:
(i) Other than Permitted Indebtedness, except with the prior written consent of the Collateral Agent the Company shall not and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not enter into, create, incur, assume, guarantee or suffer to exist any Indebtedness of any kind.
(ii) Other than Permitted Liens, prior to all outstanding amounts under the Notes being repaid, converted or otherwise satisfied in full, the Company shall not and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not enter into, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Liens of any kind, on or with respect to any of its property or assets now owned or hereafter acquired or any interest therein or any income or profits therefrom without the prior written consent of the Holder.
(iii) The Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, redeem, defease, repurchase, repay or make any payments in respect of, by the payment of cash or Cash Equivalents (in whole or in part, whether by way of open market purchases, tender offers, private transactions or otherwise), all or any portion of any Indebtedness (other than the Note and Permitted Indebtedness) whether by way of payment in respect of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on, such Indebtedness.
(iv) The Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, redeem or repurchase any shares of Common Stock or other equity securities or declare or pay any cash dividend or distribution out of its capital;
(v) The Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not, directly or indirectly, sell, lease, license, assign, transfer, spin-off, split-off, close, convey or otherwise dispose of any assets or rights of the Company or any Subsidiary, owned or hereafter acquired whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions, other than Permitted Dispositions.
(vi) The Company shall not, and the Company shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not make or hold any Investments other than: (a) Investments existing on the date of the Purchase Agreement and that are disclosed in the Company’s financial statements included in its most recent periodic report filed with the Commission, (b) Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents, (c) Investments in Subsidiaries that have executed and delivered the Security Documents reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent to the Collateral Agent; (d) Investments (including debt obligations) received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of customers or suppliers and in settlement of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with, customers or suppliers arising in the ordinary course of the Company’s business; (e) Investments consisting of notes receivable of, or prepaid royalties and other credit extensions, to customers and suppliers in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practice, provided that this clause (e) shall not apply to Investments of the Company in any Subsidiary thereof; (f) Investments consisting of (i) loans not involving the net transfer on a substantially contemporaneous basis of cash proceeds to employees, officers or directors relating to the purchase of share capital of the Company pursuant to employee share purchase plans or other similar agreements approved by the Company’s Board of Directors and (ii) travel advances and employee relocation loans and other employee loans and advances in the ordinary course of business; provided that the aggregate of all such loans outstanding may not exceed $50,000 at any time; (g) extensions of credit to customers or advances, deposits or payment to or with suppliers, lessors or utilities or for workers’ compensation, in each case, that are incurred in the ordinary course of business; (h) other Investments that do not exceed $1,000,000 in the aggregate per calendar year; and (i) other Investments in which the Collateral Agent is given a perfected, first priority security interest.
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(vii) The Company shall not and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not enter into any transaction with any Affiliate of the Company which would be required to be disclosed in any public filing with the Commission, unless such transaction is made on an arm’s-length basis and expressly approved by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Company (even if less than a quorum otherwise required for board approval);
(viii) The Company shall not and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to not form, establish or acquire any new Subsidiary unless such new Subsidiary executes and delivers the Security Documents to the Collateral Agent in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, promptly thereupon;
(ix) The Company shall not enter into any business, directly or indirectly, except for those businesses in which the Company is engaged on the date of this Note or that are reasonably related or ancillary thereto or that provide strategic opportunity for the Company at the Company’s discretion;
(x) The Company shall not maintain any deposit account or securities account that is not subject to a perfected, first priority security interest in such account;
(xi) The Company will remain registered under Section 12(b) of Exchange Act and timely file with the Commission all reports required under the Exchange Act, the Securities Act or other applicable securities law.
(c) Minimum Cash Covenant. The Company’s Available Cash on the last day of each calendar quarter shall be greater than or equal to the product (expressed as a positive number) of (x) 1.0 and (y) the Average Cash Burn. In any case, Available Cash shall never be less than $500,000 at any time. The Company will file a Report on Form 8-K with the Commission disclosing such breach no later than four (4) Trading Day after the occurrence of such breach and provide simultaneous written notice thereof to the Holder.
Section 8. Events of Default.
(a) “Event of Default” means, wherever used herein, any of the following events (whatever the reason for such event and whether such event shall be voluntary or involuntary or effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court, or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(i) any default in the payment of all or any portion of the Outstanding Value or any other amounts owed pursuant to this Note or any other Transaction Document when the same becomes due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Note or such Transaction Document, including, without limitation, any payment pursuant to Section 2(d)(iii);
(ii) the Company or any Subsidiary shall fail to observe or perform any covenant or agreement contained in this Note or in any Transaction Document, which failure is not cured, if possible to cure, within the specified cure period and if not specified, the earlier to occur of ten (10) Trading Days after (A) notice of such failure sent by a Holder to the Company and (B) the Company has become or should have become aware of such failure (the “Cure Period”);
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(iii) any representation or warranty made in this Note, any other Transaction Documents, any written statement pursuant hereto or thereto or any other report, financial statement or certificate made or delivered to the Holder or any other Holder shall be untrue or incorrect in any material respect as of the date when made or deemed made;
(iv) the Company or any Subsidiary shall be subject to a Bankruptcy Event;
(v) the Company or any Subsidiary shall default on any of its obligations under any Indebtedness, that (a) involves an obligation greater than $500,000, whether such Indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created, and (b) results in such Indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise become due and payable;
(vi) following the earlier of (i) the Effectiveness Deadline, (ii) the date on which the Initial Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) is declared effective by the Commission, and (iii) the date the Conversion Shares can be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to Rule 144 or Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act, the Company shall fail for any reason to deliver Freely Tradable Conversion Shares prior to the 5th Trading Day after a the Share Delivery Date or, immediately, if the Company shall provide at any time notice to the Holder, including by way of public announcement, of the Company’s intention to not honor requests for conversions of any Notes in accordance with the terms hereof;
(vii) the occurrence of more than three (3) Conversion Failures;
(viii) the electronic transfer by the Company of shares of Common Stock through the Depository Trust Company or another established clearing corporation is no longer available or is subject to a “chill” and such failure remains uncured after the Cure Period;
(ix) any Transaction Document shall for any reason fail or cease to create a valid Lien on the collateral described therein in favor of the Collateral Agent, or any material provision of any Transaction Document shall at any time for any reason cease to be valid and binding on or enforceable against the Company or the applicable Subsidiary, the validity or enforceability thereof shall be contested by any party thereto, or a proceeding shall be commenced by the Company, any Subsidiary or any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Company or any such Subsidiary, seeking to establish the invalidity or unenforceability thereof, and such failure is not cured, if possible to cure, within the Cure Period;
(x) any Material Adverse Effect occurs;
(xi) (A) the suspension from trading or the failure of the shares of Common Stock to be listed on a Trading Market for a period of 5 consecutive Trading Days or (B) the threatened failure of the shares of Common Stock to be listed on a Trading Market if such failure is not cured 45 Trading Days prior to the deadline set by such Trading Market (each of (A) and (B), a “Trading Market Default”);
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(xii) one or more judgments, orders, or decrees for the payment of money in excess of $500,000 in the aggregate (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer has been notified of such judgment, order, or decree and has not disputed coverage) shall be rendered against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and remain undischarged, unvacated, unbonded, or unstayed pending appeal for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days;
(xiii) the failure of the applicable Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) to be filed with the Commission within five (5) days after the applicable Filing Date (as defined under the Registration Rights Agreement) or to be declared effective by the Commission within five (5) days after the applicable Effectiveness Deadline, in each case as set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement;
(xiv) at any time that the applicable Registration Statement is required to be maintained effective pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the effectiveness thereof lapses for any reason (including, without limitation, the issuance of a stop order) or such Registration Statement (or the prospectus contained therein) is unavailable for the resale of all Registrable Securities (as defined under the Registration Rights Agreement) by the Holder in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement, and such lapse or unavailability continues for five (5) consecutive days or more than an aggregate of ten (10) days in any 365-day period (excluding any allowable grace period under the Registration Rights Agreement); or
(xv) if Jolie Kahn, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, ceases to be the Chief Executive Officer.
(b) Remedies Upon Event of Default.
(i) Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default and until the date that is thirty (30) Trading Days following the date such Event of Default is cured (the “Event of Default Redemption Right Period”), this Note shall become, at the Required Holder’s election, immediately due and payable in cash equal to (i) the Outstanding Value of this Note to be redeemed multiplied by (ii) 125% (the “Event of Default Redemption Amount”); provided that such acceleration shall be automatic, without any notice or other action of the Required Holders, in respect of an Event of Default occurring pursuant to Section 8(a)(iv). Commencing on the occurrence and continuance of any Event of Default, the interest rate on the Outstanding Value of this Note shall be 12% per annum. Interest shall accrue daily from the occurrence of an Event of Default and shall cease upon the cure of such Event of Default and shall be calculated based on a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Interest hereunder will be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered in the Note Register. Upon the payment in full of the amount owing set forth above, the Holder shall promptly surrender this Note to or as directed by the Company. In connection with such acceleration described herein, the Holder need not provide, and the Company hereby waives, any presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, and the Holder may immediately and without expiration of any grace period enforce any and all of its rights and remedies hereunder and all other remedies available to it under applicable law and applying such funds to this Note. Such acceleration may be rescinded and annulled by Holder at any time prior to payment hereunder and the Holder shall have all rights as a holder of the Note until such time, if any, as the Holder receives full payment pursuant to this Section 8(b). No such rescission or annulment shall affect any subsequent Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon. In addition, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default pursuant to Section 8(a)(vi), the Holder shall be entitled to an amount in cash equal to the product of (a) the undelivered Freely Tradable Conversion Shares that should have been delivered to the Holder pursuant to the applicable Conversion Notice (including any Conversion Shares issuable under a Conversion Notice held in abeyance pursuant to Section 4(c)(ii)) but for such Event of Default multiplied by (b) the greatest VWAP of the shares of Common Stock on any Trading Day during the period commencing on the Conversion Date applicable to such undelivered Freely Tradable Conversion Shares and ending on the date the Company makes the entire payment required to be made under this Section 8(b). For the avoidance of doubt, during the Event of Default Redemption Right Period, the Holder may convert the Event of Default Redemption Amount into Conversion Shares, in whole or in part and from time to time, by submitting a Conversion Notice in accordance with Section 4 using the Alternate Conversion Price in lieu of the Fixed Conversion Price (each conversion an “Alternate Conversion” and each day on which the Holder effects an Alternate Conversion, an “Alternate Conversion Date”).
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(ii) Notice. Upon the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default with respect to this Note, the Company shall within two (2) Business Days of the Company becoming aware of such Event of Default deliver written notice thereof to the Holder via electronic mail to the Holder.
Section 9. Miscellaneous.
(a) Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries to be provided by the Holder hereunder, including, without limitation, any Conversion Notice, shall be in writing and delivered personally, by email attachment, or sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier service, addressed to the Company, at the address set forth above, or such other email address, or address as the Company may specify for such purposes by notice to the Holder delivered in accordance with this Section 9(a). Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries to be provided by the Company hereunder shall be in writing and delivered personally, by email attachment, or sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier service addressed to each Holder at the email address or address of the Holder appearing on the books of the Company, or if no such email attachment or address appears on the books of the Company, at the principal place of business of such Holder, as set forth in the Purchase Agreement. Any notice or other communication or deliveries hereunder shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of (i) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via email attachment to the email address set forth on the signature pages attached hereto prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any date, (ii) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via email attachment to the email address 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, (iii) the second Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service or (iv) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given.
(b) Absolute Obligation. Except as expressly provided herein, no provision of this Note shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of, liquidated damages and accrued interest, as applicable, on this Note at the time, place, and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed. This Note is a direct debt obligation of the Company. This Note ranks pari passu with all other Notes now or hereafter issued under the terms set forth herein.
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(c) Lost or Mutilated Note. If this Note shall be mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall execute and deliver, in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation of a mutilated Note, or in lieu of or in substitution for a lost, stolen or destroyed Note, a new Note for the principal amount of this Note so mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, but only upon receipt of evidence of such loss, theft or destruction of such Note, and of the ownership hereof, reasonably satisfactory to the Company.
(d) Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Note 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 conflict of laws thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretation, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by any of the Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective Affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan (the “New York Courts”). Each party hereto hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the New York Courts 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 such New York Courts, or such New York Courts are improper or 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 Note 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 applicable law. Each party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Note or the transactions contemplated hereby. If any party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of this Note, then the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its attorney’s fees and other costs and expenses incurred in the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.
(e) Waiver. Any waiver by the Company or the Required Holders of a breach of any provision of this Note shall not operate as or be construed to be a waiver of any other breach of such provision or of any breach of any other provision of this Note. The failure of the Company or the Required Holders to insist upon strict adherence to any term of this Note on one or more occasions shall not be considered a waiver or deprive that party of the right thereafter to insist upon strict adherence to that term or any other term of this Note on any other occasion. Any waiver by the Company or the Required Holders must be in writing. Any provision of this Note may be waived by the Required Holders, which waiver shall be binding on all of the Holders of the Note and their successors and assigns. Any provision of this Note may be amended by a written instrument executed by the Company and the Required Holders, which amendment shall be binding on all of the Holders of the Notes and their successors and assigns.
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(f) Severability. If any provision of this Note is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the balance of this Note shall remain in effect, and if any provision is inapplicable to any Person or circumstance, it shall nevertheless remain applicable to all other Persons and circumstances. If it shall be found that any interest or other amount deemed interest due hereunder violates the applicable law governing usury, the applicable rate of interest due hereunder shall automatically be lowered to equal the maximum rate of interest permitted under applicable law. The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or other law which would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of or interest on this Note as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Note, and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefits or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Holder, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such as though no such law has been enacted.
(g) Remedies, Characterizations, Other Obligations, Breaches and Injunctive Relief. The remedies provided in this Note shall be cumulative and in addition to all other remedies available under this Note and any of the other Transaction Documents at law or in equity (including a decree of specific performance and/or other injunctive relief), and nothing herein shall limit the Holder’s right to pursue actual and consequential damages for any failure by the Company to comply with the terms of this Note. The Company covenants to the Holder that there shall be no characterization concerning this instrument other than as expressly provided herein. Amounts set forth or provided for herein with respect to payments, conversion and the like (and the computation thereof) shall be the amounts to be received by the Holder and shall not, except as expressly provided herein, be subject to any other obligation of the Company (or the performance thereof). The Company acknowledges that a breach by it of its obligations hereunder will cause irreparable harm to the Holder and that the remedy at law for any such breach may be inadequate. The Company therefore agrees that, in the event of any such breach or threatened breach, the Holder shall be entitled, in addition to all other available remedies, to an injunction restraining any such breach or any such threatened breach, without the necessity of showing economic loss and without any bond or other security being required. The Company shall provide all information and documentation to the Holder that is reasonably requested by the Holder to enable the Holder to confirm the Company’s compliance with the terms and conditions of this Note.
(h) Next Business Day. Whenever any payment or other obligation hereunder shall be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day.
(i) Headings. The headings contained herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Note and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.
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(j) Secured Obligation. The obligations of the Company under this Note are secured by the collateral pursuant to the Security Documents.
Section 10. Disclosure. Upon receipt or delivery by the Company of any notice in accordance with the terms of this Note, unless the Company has in good faith determined that the matters relating to such notice do not constitute material, nonpublic information relating to the Company or its Subsidiaries, the Company shall within the time required by the rules and regulations of Commission, but in no event within two (2) Trading Days, publicly disclose such material, nonpublic information on a Current Report 8-K or otherwise. In the event that the Company believes that a notice contains material, non-public information relating to the Company or its Subsidiaries, the Company so shall indicate to the Holder contemporaneously with delivery of such notice, and in the absence of any such indication, the Holder shall be allowed to presume that all matters relating to such notice do not constitute material, nonpublic information relating to the Company or its Subsidiaries.
Section 11. Certain Tax Matters. All payments to be made by the Company under this Note (whether in cash or in shares of Common Stock) shall be made without any Tax Deduction (as defined below) unless a Tax Deduction is required by law. The Company shall promptly upon becoming aware that it must make a Tax Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of a Tax Deduction) notify the Holder accordingly. If a Tax Deduction is required by law to be made by the Company, the amount of the payment due from the Company under this Note shall be increased to an amount which (after making any Tax Deduction) leaves an amount equal to the payment which would have been due under this Note if no Tax Deduction had been required; provided, however, no such increase is required to the extent any holder changes its residency for tax purposes or assigns or transfers its rights and obligations pursuant to this Note and such action leads to the imposition of Tax Deduction on payment that would not have been imposed in the absence of such action or an increase in such liability above the liability that would have been imposed in the absence of such action. If the Company is required to make a Tax Deduction, it shall make that Tax Deduction and any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction within the time allowed and in the minimum amount required by law. Within thirty (30) days of making either a Tax Deduction or any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction, the Company shall deliver to the Holder evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Holder that the Tax Deduction has been made and that any appropriate payment has been paid to the relevant taxing authority. For greater certainty, (i) this Section 11 applies to all payments, whether in the form of cash, shares of Common Stock or otherwise, made under this Note, and (ii) the Company is obligated to indemnify the Holder pursuant to this Section 11 in the event that a Tax Deduction is required in respect of any payment to be made to the Holder under this Note and the Company and/or its Subsidiaries fail to comply with this Section 11. For purposes of this Section 11, “Tax” means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of a similar nature (including any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same) and “Tax Deduction” means any deduction or withholding for or on account of any Tax.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be duly executed by a duly authorized officer as of the date first above indicated.
| FINGERMOTION, INC. | ||
By: |
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| Name: | Jolie Kahn | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |
ANNEX A
The undersigned hereby elects to convert $_________ of [Monthly Redemption Conversion Amount]/[Outstanding Value] under the Senior Secured Convertible Note due August 16, 2027 (the “Note”) of FingerMotion, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), into shares of Common Stock (the “Conversion Shares”) of the Company according to the conditions of the Note, as of the date written below. If Conversion Shares are to be issued in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto and is delivering herewith such certificates and opinions as reasonably requested by the Company in accordance therewith. No fee will be charged to the Holder for any conversion, except for such transfer taxes, if any.
By the delivery of this Conversion Notice, the undersigned represents and warrants to the Company that its ownership of the Common Stock does not exceed the amounts specified under Section 4(d) of the Note, as determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act.
Conversion Date: ______________
Amount of Note to be Converted (Monthly Redemption Conversion Amount or Outstanding Value): $______________
Applicable Conversion Price (Fixed Conversion Price / Redemption Conversion Price / Alternate Conversion Price): $______________
Number of Conversion Shares to be issued: ______________
Signature: ______________
Name: ______________
Address for Delivery of Common Stock Certificates:
Or
DWAC Instructions:
Broker No: ______________
Account No: ______________
Exhibit 10.3
Execution Version
COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT
fingermotion, inc.
| Warrant Shares: 4,092,993 | Initial Exercise Date: August 16, 2026 Issue Date: August 16, 2026 |
THIS COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT (the “Warrant”) certifies that, for value received, Alto Opportunity Master Fund, SPC – Segregated Master Portfolio B or its assigns (the “Holder”) is entitled, upon the terms and subject to the limitations on exercise and the conditions hereinafter set forth, at any time on or after August 16, 2026 (the “Initial Exercise Date”) and on or prior to 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on August 16, 2031 (the “Termination Date”) but not thereafter, to subscribe for and purchase from FingerMotion, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), up to 4,092,993 shares (as subject to adjustment hereunder, the “Warrant Shares”) of Common Stock. The purchase price of one share of Common Stock under this Warrant shall be equal to the Exercise Price, as defined in Section 2(b).
Section 1. Definitions. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in that certain Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”), dated August 16, 2026, among the Company and the purchasers signatory thereto.
Section 2. Exercise.
a) Exercise of Warrant. Exercise of the purchase rights represented by this Warrant may be made, in whole or in part, at any time or times on or after the Initial Exercise Date and on or before the Termination Date by delivery to the Company of a duly executed PDF copy submitted by e-mail (or e-mail attachment) of the Notice of Exercise in the form annexed hereto (the “Notice of Exercise”). Within the earlier of (i) one (1) Trading Day and (ii) the number of Trading Days comprising the Standard Settlement Period (as defined in Section 2(d)(i) herein) following the date of exercise as aforesaid, the Holder shall deliver the aggregate Exercise Price for the shares specified in the applicable Notice of Exercise by wire transfer or cashier’s check drawn on a United States bank unless the cashless exercise procedure specified in Section 2(c) below is specified in the applicable Notice of Exercise. No ink-original Notice of Exercise shall be required, nor shall any medallion guarantee (or other type of guarantee or notarization) of any Notice of Exercise be required. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Warrant to the Company until the Holder has purchased all of the Warrant Shares available hereunder and the Warrant has been exercised in full, in which case, the Holder shall surrender this Warrant to the Company for cancellation within three (3) Trading Days of the date on which the final Notice of Exercise is delivered to the Company. Partial exercises of this Warrant resulting in purchases of a portion of the total number of Warrant Shares available hereunder shall have the effect of lowering the outstanding number of Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder in an amount equal to the applicable number of Warrant Shares purchased. The Holder and the Company shall maintain records showing the number of Warrant Shares purchased and the date of such purchases. The Company shall deliver any objection to any Notice of Exercise on the Trading Day of receipt of such notice. The Holder and any assignee, by acceptance of this Warrant, acknowledge and agree that, by reason of the provisions of this paragraph, following the purchase of a portion of the Warrant Shares hereunder, the number of Warrant Shares available for purchase hereunder at any given time may be less than the amount stated on the face hereof.
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b) Exercise Price. The exercise price per share of Common Stock under this Warrant shall be $0.35, subject to adjustment hereunder (the “Exercise Price”).
c) Cashless Exercise. If at the time of exercise hereof there is no effective registration statement registering, or the prospectus contained therein is not available for the issuance of the Warrant Shares to the Holder, then this Warrant may also be exercised, in whole or in part, at such time by means of a “cashless exercise” in which the Holder shall be entitled to receive a number of Warrant Shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing [(A-B) (X)] by (A), where:
| (A) | = | as applicable: (i) the VWAP on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of the applicable Notice of Exercise if such Notice of Exercise is (1) delivered pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof on a day that is not a Trading Day or (2) delivered pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof on a Trading Day prior to the opening of “regular trading hours” (as defined in Rule 600 of Regulation NMS promulgated under the federal securities laws) on such Trading Day, (ii) the highest Bid Price of the Common Stock on the principal Trading Market as reported by Bloomberg L.P. (“Bloomberg”) within two (2) hours of the time of the Holder’s delivery of the Notice of Exercise pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof if such Notice of Exercise is delivered during “regular trading hours,” or within two (2) hours after the close of “regular trading hours” on a Trading Day or (iii) the VWAP on the date of the applicable Notice of Exercise if the date of such Notice of Exercise is a Trading Day and such Notice of Exercise is delivered pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof after two (2) hours following the close of “regular trading hours” on such Trading Day; |
| (B) | = | the Exercise Price of this Warrant, as adjusted hereunder; and |
| (X) | = | the number of Warrant Shares that would be issuable upon exercise of this Warrant in accordance with the terms of this Warrant if such exercise were by means of a cash exercise rather than a cashless exercise. |
If Warrant Shares are issued in such a cashless exercise, the parties acknowledge and agree that in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act, the Warrant Shares shall take on the registered characteristics of the Warrants being exercised. The Company agrees not to take any position contrary to this Section 2(c).
“Bid Price” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses that applies: (a) if the Common Stock is then listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the bid price of the Common Stock for the time in question (or the nearest preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted as reported by Bloomberg (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time)), (b) if OTCQB or OTCQX is not a Trading Market, the volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on OTCQB or OTCQX as applicable, (c) if the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted for trading on OTCQB or OTCQX and if prices for the Common Stock are then reported on The Pink Open Market (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share of the Common Stock so reported, or (d) in all other cases, the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the Holders of a majority in interest of the Warrants then outstanding and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be paid by the Company.
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“VWAP” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses that applies: (a) if the Common Stock is then listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the daily volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted as reported by Bloomberg (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time)), (b) if the OTCQB Venture Market (“OTCQB”) or the OTCQX Best Market (“OTCQX”) is not a Trading Market, the volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on OTCQB or OTCQX as applicable, (c) if the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted for trading on OTCQB or OTCQX and if prices for the Common Stock are then reported on the Pink Open Market (“Pink Market”) operated by the OTC Markets, Inc. (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share of the Common Stock so reported, or (d) in all other cases, the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the Purchasers of a majority in interest of the Securities then outstanding and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be paid by the Company.
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i. Delivery of Warrant Shares Upon Exercise. The Company shall cause the Warrant Shares purchased hereunder to be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the Holder by crediting the account of the Holder’s or its designee’s balance account with The Depository Trust Company through its Deposit or Withdrawal at Custodian system (“DWAC”) if the Company is then a participant in such system and either (A) there is an effective registration statement permitting the issuance of the Warrant Shares to or resale of the Warrant Shares by Holder or (B) this Warrant is being exercised via cashless exercise, and otherwise by physical delivery of a certificate, registered in the Company’s share register in the name of the Holder or its designee, for the number of Warrant Shares to which the Holder is entitled pursuant to such exercise to the address specified by the Holder in the Notice of Exercise by the date that is the earlier of (i) one (1) Trading Day after the delivery to the Company of the Notice of Exercise and (ii) the number of Trading Days comprising the Standard Settlement Period after the delivery to the Company of the Notice of Exercise (such date, the “Warrant Share Delivery Date”); provided that the Company shall not be required to deliver the Warrant Shares until payment of the Exercise Price (other than in the case of a cashless exercise) has been received. Upon delivery of the Notice of Exercise, the Holder shall be deemed for all corporate purposes to have become the holder of record of the Warrant Shares with respect to which this Warrant has been exercised, irrespective of the date of delivery of the Warrant Shares, provided that payment of the aggregate Exercise Price (other than in the case of a cashless exercise) is received within the earlier of (i) one (1) Trading Day and (ii) the number of Trading Days comprising the Standard Settlement Period following delivery of the Notice of Exercise. If the Company fails for any reason to deliver to the Holder the Warrant Shares subject to a Notice of Exercise by the Warrant Share Delivery Date, (provided that the Company shall have received payment of the Exercise Price (other than in the case of a cashless exercise) on or prior to the Warrant Share Delivery Date), the Company shall pay to the Holder, in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for each $1,000 of Warrant Shares subject to such exercise (based on the VWAP of the Common Stock on the date of the applicable Notice of Exercise), $10 per Trading Day (increasing to $20 per Trading Day on the third Trading Day after the Warrant Share Delivery Date) for each Trading Day after such Warrant Share Delivery Date until such Warrant Shares are delivered or Holder rescinds such exercise. The Company agrees to maintain a transfer agent that is a participant in the FAST program so long as this Warrant remains outstanding and exercisable. As used herein, “Standard Settlement Period” means the standard settlement period, expressed in a number of Trading Days, on the Company’s primary Trading Market with respect to the Common Stock as in effect on the date of delivery of the Notice of Exercise.
ii. Delivery of New Warrants Upon Exercise. If this Warrant shall have been exercised in part, the Company shall, at the request of a Holder and upon surrender of this Warrant certificate, at the time of delivery of the Warrant Shares, deliver to the Holder a new Warrant evidencing the rights of the Holder to purchase the unpurchased Warrant Shares called for by this Warrant, which new Warrant shall in all other respects be identical with this Warrant.
iii. Rescission Rights. If the Company fails to cause the Transfer Agent to transmit to the Holder the Warrant Shares pursuant to Section 2(d)(i) by the Warrant Share Delivery Date, then the Holder will have the right to rescind such exercise.
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iv. Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver Warrant Shares Upon Exercise. In addition to any other rights available to the Holder, if the Company fails to cause the Transfer Agent to transmit to the Holder the Warrant Shares in accordance with the provisions of Section 2(d)(i) above pursuant to an exercise on or before the Warrant Share Delivery Date, and if after such date the Holder is required by its broker to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise) or the Holder’s brokerage firm otherwise purchases, shares of Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Holder of the Warrant Shares which the Holder anticipated receiving upon such exercise (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall (A) pay in cash to the Holder the amount, if any, by which (x) the Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the amount obtained by multiplying (1) the number of Warrant Shares that the Company was required to deliver to the Holder in connection with the exercise at issue times (2) the price at which the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed, and (B) at the option of the Holder, either reinstate the portion of the Warrant and equivalent number of Warrant Shares for which such exercise was not honored (in which case such exercise shall be deemed rescinded) or deliver to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued had the Company timely complied with its exercise and delivery obligations hereunder. For example, if the Holder purchases Common Stock having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an attempted exercise of shares of Common Stock with an aggregate sale price giving rise to such purchase obligation of $10,000, under clause (A) of the immediately preceding sentence the Company shall be required to pay the Holder $1,000. The Holder shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to the Holder in respect of the Buy-In and, upon request of the Company, evidence of the amount of such loss. Nothing herein shall limit a Holder’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with respect to the Company’s failure to timely deliver shares of Common Stock upon exercise of the Warrant as required pursuant to the terms hereof.
v. No Fractional Shares or Scrip. No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares shall be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant. As to any fraction of a share which the Holder would otherwise be entitled to purchase upon such exercise, the Company shall, at its election, either pay a cash adjustment in respect of such final fraction in an amount equal to such fraction multiplied by the Exercise Price or round up to the next whole share.
vi. Charges, Taxes and Expenses. Issuance of Warrant Shares shall be made without charge to the Holder for any issue or transfer tax or other incidental expense in respect of the issuance of such Warrant Shares, all of which taxes and expenses shall be paid by the Company, and such Warrant Shares shall be issued in the name of the Holder or in such name or names as may be directed by the Holder; provided, however, that, in the event that Warrant Shares are to be issued in a name other than the name of the Holder, this Warrant when surrendered for exercise shall be accompanied by the Assignment Form attached hereto duly executed by the Holder and the Company may require, as a condition thereto, the payment of a sum sufficient to reimburse it for any transfer tax incidental thereto. The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees required for same-day processing of any Notice of Exercise and all fees to the Depository Trust Company (or another established clearing corporation performing similar functions) required for same-day electronic delivery of the Warrant Shares.
vii. Closing of Books. The Company will not close its stockholder books or records in any manner which prevents the timely exercise of this Warrant, pursuant to the terms hereof.
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| e) | Holder’s Exercise Limitations. The Company shall not effect any exercise of this Warrant, and a Holder shall not have the right to exercise any portion of this Warrant, pursuant to Section 2 or otherwise, to the extent that after giving effect to such issuance after exercise as set forth on the applicable Notice of Exercise, the Holder (together with the Holder’s Affiliates, and any other Persons acting as a group together with the Holder or any of the Holder’s Affiliates (such Persons, “Attribution Parties”)), would beneficially own in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (as defined below). For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Holder and its Affiliates and Attribution Parties shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant with respect to which such determination is being made, but shall exclude the number of shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (i) exercise of the remaining, nonexercised portion of this Warrant beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its Affiliates or Attribution Parties and (ii) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or nonconverted portion of any other securities of the Company (including, without limitation, any other Common Stock Equivalents) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its Affiliates or Attribution Parties. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this Section 2(e), beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, it being acknowledged by the Holder that the Company is not representing to the Holder that such calculation is in compliance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the Holder is solely responsible for any schedules required to be filed in accordance therewith. To the extent that the limitation contained in this Section 2(e) applies, the determination of whether this Warrant is exercisable (in relation to other securities owned by the Holder together with any Affiliates and Attribution Parties) and of which portion of this Warrant is exercisable shall be in the sole discretion of the Holder, and the submission of a Notice of Exercise shall be deemed to be the Holder’s determination of whether this Warrant is exercisable (in relation to other securities owned by the Holder together with any Affiliates and Attribution Parties) and of which portion of this Warrant is exercisable, in each case subject to the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, and the Company shall have no obligation to verify or confirm the accuracy of such determination. In addition, a determination as to any group status as contemplated above shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. For purposes of this Section 2(e), in determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, a Holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (A) the Company’s most recent periodic or annual report filed with the Commission, as the case may be, (B) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (C) a more recent written notice by the Company or the Transfer Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding. Upon the written or oral request of a Holder, the Company shall within one Trading Day confirm orally and in writing to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding. In any case, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of securities of the Company, including this Warrant, by the Holder or its Affiliates or Attribution Parties since the date as of which such number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported. The “Beneficial Ownership Limitation” shall be 4.99% of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant. The Holder, upon notice to the Company, may increase or decrease the Beneficial Ownership Limitation provisions of this Section 2(e), provided that the Beneficial Ownership Limitation in no event exceeds 9.99% of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant held by the Holder and the provisions of this Section 2(e) shall continue to apply. Any increase in the Beneficial Ownership Limitation will not be effective until the 61st day after such notice is delivered to the Company. The provisions of this paragraph shall be construed and implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of this Section 2(e) to correct this paragraph (or any portion hereof) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended Beneficial Ownership Limitation herein contained or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such limitation. The limitations contained in this paragraph shall apply to a successor holder of this Warrant. |
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| f) | Exchange Cap. The Company shall not issue any shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of this Warrant if the issuance of such shares of Common Stock would exceed the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock which the Company may issue upon exercise or conversion or otherwise pursuant to the terms of the Notes, the Warrants and the May Securities (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) without breaching the Company’s obligations under the rules or regulations of the Principal Market, which number of shares is 12,256,260 shares of Common Stock (representing 19.99% of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on the date of the May SPA (as defined in the Purchase Agreement)) (the number of shares which may be issued without violating such rules and regulations, the “Exchange Cap”), except that such limitation shall not apply in the event that the Company (A) obtains the requisite approval of its stockholders to issue shares of Common Stock in excess of the Exchange Cap or (B) obtains a written opinion from outside counsel to the Company that such approval is not required, which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Holder. Until such approval or such written opinion is obtained, no Buyer shall be issued in the aggregate, |